If you would, now open your Bibles
with me to Exodus chapter five. Exodus chapter five, we'll just
read the first three verses, which will serve as our text
this evening. And afterward, Moses and Aaron
went in and told Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord God of Israel,
let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.
And Pharaoh said, who is the Lord, that I should obey his
voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither
will I let Israel go. And they said, the God of the
Hebrews hath met with us. Let us go, we pray thee, three
days journey into the desert and sacrifice unto the Lord our
God, lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword. Thank God for his word. Let's
bow together. our holy, sovereign, gracious
Heavenly Father. Lord, we come into your courts
this evening with joy and thanksgiving. How we thank you for this gospel
that you've given to us that declares the Lord Jesus Christ
our Savior. Father, how we thank you. How
we thank you for your mercy and grace to sinners. How we thank
you that you've given to your people a message of grace to
preach to believe. It causes our hearts to be thrilled
at the sound of the name of Christ our Savior. His name that tells
us who He is and what He's accomplished for His people. Father, we're
so thankful for Him. We're so thankful for Your mercy
and Your grace, Your electing, calling, redeeming, preserving
grace. Father, how we thank You. Father,
we're so thankful that You've given us one more opportunity
to meet together with our brothers and our sisters and to worship
you. And Father, I beg of you that
you'd send your spirit upon us this evening, that you would
enable us to truly worship thee in spirit and in truth, that
we would be delivered from just going through the form, the motion,
the ceremonies of religion, and that you might be pleased to
speak to us through your word and enable us with ears of faith
to hear, and in awe and wonder to fall at your feet and worship
you. Don't let us take this blessed, blessed privilege for granted,
of hearing your gospel, publicly being able to worship you. And Father, we ask a blessing
for those who are in the path of this big hurricane, especially
our brethren down there who humanly speaking, appear to be
in some danger because of this storm, but we know you have your
way in the wind and the storm. Father, we pray that you'd protect
them and preserve them according to your mercy and grace. And
Father, others that need you, they're going through sickness,
they're worried about loved ones, they're deep, deep waters. Father, we pray for them. We
pray that you give them a fulfillment of your promise that your grace
is sufficient. And Lord, you use these events
when it's so obvious that you have stooped down and touched
us, that it might make us seek thee. And Lord, in seeking you,
that we may find you. And Father, all these things
we ask in that name which is above every name, the name of
our Lord Jesus Christ, amen. Now, I've titled the message
this evening, Why Should I Obey God? That's the question Pharaoh
asked in verse two. Who is the Lord that I should
obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither
will I let Israel go. Who is the Lord that I should
obey his voice? Now that's an answer I want us
to find out for ourselves this evening. Pharaoh, in the next
10 chapters, he's gonna find out who the Lord is and why he
should obey him when he's gonna be destroyed at the Red Sea But
I want us, by God's grace, to find out that answer tonight.
I want us to find out tonight before we come to our version
of the Red Sea, when the Lord may destroy us. You know, Pharaoh
asked this question. He's mocking God, since he's
so puffed up and arrogant, mocking God. And my prayer is that the
Lord will answer this question for us tonight. Who is the Lord
God, that I should obey his voice? so that we're brought down, brought
down to the dust at his feet so that we'll beg him for mercy
and grace. If the Lord's ever pleased to
reveal himself to us in that way, we will. We'll fall at his
feet, begging him for mercy and grace. Who is the Lord God that
I should obey his voice? I'm telling you, it is vitally
important that we know the answer to that question. Vitally important. Knowing God. is life eternal. Our Lord said in his great high
priestly prayer, John 17 verse three, this is life eternal,
that they may know thee the only true God and Jesus Christ whom
thou hast sent. Life eternal is to know God.
And oh, I pray that the Lord will reveal himself to us tonight
so that we'll obey him. Now God's commandment to Pharaoh
was let Israel go free. Now that's not God's command.
We're not just going to look at a story and how this affects
Pharaoh. God has a commandment to you
and me, and it is to believe on his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. God's commandment to us is to
quit trusting in our religious works, quit trying to work out
our own righteousness, and trust Christ to do all of the saving
for us. That is the commandment of scripture. It's the theme of the whole Bible.
You know, even the commandments of the Old Testament law that
God gave to Moses, all of those commandments were given with
one point, that we trust Christ. You know, God gave the law, not
so that we could keep it and earn our righteousness, you know
better than that. God gave us the law to show us we can't keep
it. God gave us the law to show us how sinful we are, how desperately
we need Christ to come and do for us what we can't do for ourselves.
to quit trying to keep the law that we can't keep anyway and
trust Christ. That's the commandment of all
of the scriptures. So the Lord sent Moses and Aaron
to go tell Pharaoh what God's commandment was to him. Pharaoh,
God says, let my people go. Well, the Lord has sent something
to you and me better than Aaron and Moses. He sent us his word
to tell us what his commandment is to us. God has sent his servants
to open up God's word and tell us what is the commandment of
God to you and me. It's to believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ. And that's vitally important,
I mean vitally. If you believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ, the word of God says thou shalt be saved. And if not,
you'll be damned. Now that's how serious this matter
is. So who is the Lord that we should obey him? Well, I think
this is worth pointing out. God's not who we think he is.
You know, people like to sit around and say, well, God is
this and God is this. God's not who we think he is. God is who
he says he is, who he says he is in his word. This whole book
is written to tell us who God is, who the Lord Jesus Christ
is, and why we should trust him for our righteousness, for our
salvation. That's the theme of this whole book. Now, I can't
cover obviously this whole book in one sitting or in a lifetime,
but let me confine myself to these three verses tonight and
give you three things about the Lord, about his character, about
who he is that should make us obey him and trust the Lord Jesus
Christ. Number one is this, the Lord
is to be obeyed because he's the king who gives commands. Verse one says, and afterward,
Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord
God of Israel, let my people go that we may hold a feast,
that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Moses
and Aaron came to Pharaoh with the message of all of God's prophets,
thus saith the Lord. Thus saith the Lord. I love how
when our Lord Jesus was in his earthly ministry, He would tell
the Pharisees, you know, well, you all think this and you do
this and you, but I say unto thee, with such authority, I
say unto thee, thus saith the Lord. Now you and me, we need
to hear what God says, what God has to say to us. We don't need
to hear the thoughts of men, the logic of men, the emotional
pull of men. We need to hear what God says. If we're going to hear what God
says, we need to understand this. Everything that God says, everything
is said with divine royal authority. God's commandment to Pharaoh. He wasn't negotiating with Pharaoh.
He wasn't saying, yo, let's do this. No, his commandment to
Pharaoh, let my people go. Now, you know, that was a shocked
old Pharaoh, wasn't it? I mean, nobody commanded this
guy to do anything. They thought he was deity. They
thought he was God. Pharaoh thought the same thing
about himself. I mean, you imagine thinking
that about yourself. This guy was large and in charge,
wasn't he? Nobody commanded him to do anything.
And here come these sons of slaves telling him, God says, let my
people go. Now, Pharaoh is going to obey
God. Sooner or later, Pharaoh is going
to obey God. Willingly or unwillingly, he's
going to obey God. Same thing's true about you and
me. Every knee, Paul said, every knee shall bow to King Jesus. Every knee, whether it's willingly
or unwillingly, every knee is gonna bow to Christ. And Pharaoh's
gonna find that out. Now, like I said earlier, God,
He's the King. In His royal power, He's issued
a commandment to you and me. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. God's commandment to us is come
to Christ. Right now, right where you sit,
you come to Christ. Come to Him believing Him. Come
to Him trusting Him. That's not an invitation. That's
not a real good idea, something that'll make your life better.
This is a commandment from God. But what a gracious commandment.
Our Lord says, anybody thirsty? Come and drink. Come to Christ
and drink of the water of life freely. If you're thirsty, come
to me. Come to me, I'll give you rivers
of living water. Isn't that a kind and gracious
commandment? Come drink. What a gracious commandment
to guilty dead sinners. Come to Christ and be saved from
all of your sin. Come to Christ and be saved from
God. Come to Christ and be saved from
the justice of God against your sin. All you've ever done is
sin against God. In thought, word, and deed, and
motive, everything we've ever done is sin against God. And
you know what God's commandment to us sinners is? Come to Christ
and be forgiven. What a commandment. God's commandment
to us is quit. Just quit it. Quit trusting in
all of your religious works. Quit trying to go about to establish
your own righteousness by your morality and get people to say
what a good Christian you are. Just quit it and rest in Christ. Quit trying and failing to obey
God's law. Doesn't that make you tired?
Doesn't that make you weary? If that makes you weary, you
know what the commandment of God is to us? Come to Christ
and rest. Now that commandment to rest
is not grievous. It's not grievous. My doctors,
not just one, but two, but three, have told me, Frank, you've got
to exercise practically every day. You've got to get out and
walk. You've got to get your heart rate. You've got to do
it every day. This is a commandment from the doctors. And let me
tell you, it's grievous. And I was out walking yesterday
evening with Janet. And this car pulls up. They're
like, what is this guy doing? And he just stares at us for
a long time. I'm thinking, I mean, what is going on here? And he
said, how do you do that? You know, I went, what? He said,
get out and walk like this. He said, all I can think about
is getting on my easy chair. In every instance, if somebody
tells us just quit and rest and you have it for free, we'll gladly
do it, won't we? Accept salvation. So God commands
us. It's such a gracious, kind commandment. Come to Christ and rest. I love
what Brother Don Fortner said years ago. Now that's a commandment,
but sure sounds like a sweet invitation to a sinner, doesn't
it? Oh, that's sweet. You know what? The commandment
of God that we preach, we're not beating people over the head
with it. We're not threatening them with hell over this. This
is not a grievous commandment. This is not a do it or else commandment.
It's an altogether sweet and gracious commandment. Come to
Christ and rest. And if you think about it, this
commandment is just like all of God's other commandments.
None of them are grievous. God's commandment to his people
is see that you love one another. Now, love is sweet. It's not
grievous. I mean, it's a whole lot better
than hating and fighting and seeking revenge, isn't it? God's
commandment to his people is dwell together in unity. Strive,
strive. Put some effort into this thing
to keep the unity of the spirit. Now unity and peace are not grievous. They're sweet. It's a whole lot
better than division. If you've never tried it, you
know what I'm talking about. God's commandment to his people. Now
this is not just a good idea to make your life go better if
you do this. God's commandment to his people is you forgive
one another, as God, for Christ's sake, has forgiven you. Now that's
not grievous, it's sweet. Forgiveness is a whole lot sweeter
than carrying a grudge around against somebody forever and
ever, isn't it? It's sweet. God's commandment to husbands
is you love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself
for it. Now that is not a grievous duty to a loving husband, it's
sweet. Husbands, if we'd all follow
this commandment, it'll lead to happier homes. Smoother running,
happier homes. It absolutely would. God's commandment
to wives is to be in submission to your husband as unto the Lord. That's God's commandment. And
that submission is not grievous when it says unto the Lord, is
it? Not at all. And that gives wives the opportunity
to be the picture of Christ. in our home, who submitted himself
to his father, even though he's equal with his father, he submitted
himself to his father, that gives wives an opportunity to be a
picture of Christ in the home. Now that's sweet. Even God's
commandments of all the law, the 10 commandments. Our lives
would be better if we obeyed them. They would. Now as I say
that, I have to say this, We do not look to the law. The law
of God is our rule of life. Don't ever look to the law to
find out how you're doing. Don't do that because all it'll
do is depress you and leave you full of fear. The believer's
rule of life is Christ. You look to him and you follow
him. But the believer, now we're not
under the law, we're not obligated to the law, the law has no claim
on us, yet the believer still loves the law of God, don't we?
I love the law of God. It's for our good. All of the
law is good. I mean, think about it. You're
a whole lot better off not worshiping idols and only worshiping the
true and living God, aren't you? You're a whole lot better off.
If you worship an idol, you'll be damned. You're a whole lot
better off worshiping the true and living God. All of our lives
would be better if we didn't lie and kill and commit adultery. We'd have a whole lot more peace
of heart if we didn't spend so much time coveting what God hadn't
given us. None of God's commandments are grievous, not one of them. And that's certainly true of
the commandment of God, to quit trusting in ourselves and trust
Christ alone. Now, when you think that all
we've ever done is sin against God and his commandment to us
is trust Christ and be forgiven, what a gracious commandment.
Isn't that a gracious commandment? That makes me want to cry, Lord,
give me faith. Give me faith to trust you. All
right, number two. The Lord is to be obeyed because
he is the God of electing love. In verse one, he identifies himself
as the Lord God of Israel. In verse three, he says he identifies
himself as the God of the Hebrews. God is not the God of the Egyptians.
Moses and Aaron didn't come to Pharaoh and said, now the God
of the Egyptians. He's not the God of the Egyptians. He's not
the God of the Philistines. He's not the God of the Amorites.
He's not. He's the God of Israel. He's not the God of anyone who
will make a decision for Jesus. He's not the God of anyone who
will make the decision to let Jesus into their heart. God is
the God of Israel. He's the God of the Hebrews.
Those are the people that he chose to make his nation to be
pictures spiritual is true. Now that means that God is the
God of election. He chooses who he will save. Now if God chooses who he will
save, you know what that makes me cry? Lord save me. Lord save me. The Lord doesn't
save folks who can do something for Him. If He did, that would
leave me out. The Lord doesn't save good people who have done
a pretty good job establishing their own righteousness, and
then He finishes up for them. If He did, that would leave me
out. God saves whom He will. That
makes me cry, Lord, save me. He's the God of a people that
He chose to save. Now, understand, God's the God
over all of nature, all human beings. The human race is all
under the rule of God and all answers to God. He is all our
God in that sense of the word. But that's not what the Lord
is talking about here. He's talking about a special relationship
with his people where he is their God. Look first at Jeremiah chapter
24. The Lord here is talking about
a people that he loves and who love him and they are united
together. They're united together in love. Jeremiah 24, verse four. Again, the word of the Lord came
unto me, saying, thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel, like
these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive
of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of
Chaldeans for their good. The Lord had sent them out to
the land of the Chaldeans to be slaves in Chaldeans, for their
good. And I will set my eyes upon them
for good. And I will bring them again to
this land and I will build them and not pull them down. And I
will plant them and not pluck them up. And I will give them
in heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They shall be my people
and I will be their God. For they shall return unto me
with their whole heart." God says, I'm gonna give them a heart
that knows me, that loves me, and they'll be my people and
I'll be their God. God is our God. If we trust Him, if we trust
Christ, He's our God. We're His people and we will
return to Him with our whole heart. Our whole heart is after
Him because He's given us that heart. Now look over 2 Corinthians
6. 2 Corinthians 6. beginning in verse 16. And what agreement hath the temple
of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the
living God, as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk
in them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Wherefore, come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith
the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing, and I will receive you,
and will be a father unto you. and you should be my sons and
daughters, saith the Lord Almighty. The Lord Almighty says, I will
dwell in my people. I will walk in my people. We're
gonna be one and I'll be their father and they will be my children. Now that is a special, loving
relationship. A relationship that the Almighty
has condescended to have with his people. that he'll be our
father, that he'll take care of us as his children, that he'll
dwell in us and live in us and walk in us. This is the special
relationship. This is the God of Israel, the
God of spiritual Israel, the God of the Hebrews. And the way
that God describes himself in our text is the God who chose
his people, the God who saves his people, delivers his people,
and the God who keeps his people. And he is the God who meets with
his people, Did you see that back in, let's see, what verse
is that? Yeah, verse three. And they said
the God of the Hebrews hath met with us. Now that word met is
a special word. It means that God came to us
and he met us unexpectedly. Now that's the God of grace.
He met us unexpectedly. The people, that God chose to
save, that he chose to make his people, to make his children,
he'll be their God, they'll be my people. They're a sinful people. I mean, they are a weak, pitiful,
shameful lot. But that's who God chose to be
his people. God didn't choose mighty Egypt to be his people.
I mean, Egypt at this time was so mighty. We still marvel at
the stuff they built, the pyramids and the sphinx and all that.
I mean, we still marvel at what they did, but God didn't choose
those mighty people to be his people. God chose Israel to be
his people, a nation of slaves. They're helpless. Their lives
depend completely upon the whims of the Egyptians. I mean, they
are just as helpless as anybody could ever be. And Moses said,
God met us. He met us. He made us his in
unexpected grace. Now I ask you, has God met you? If he has, it sure was unexpected,
wasn't it? It was unexpected that he would
be so merciful and gracious to the likes of us. It's unexpected
to us, but not to God. God chose a people from all eternity. He always knew those people.
He knew them by name. He always loved those people.
And all he was doing in human time, all he was doing was just
waited for his appointed time, the time that he had before ordained
to meet his people, to meet them in unexpected grace, and reveal
himself to them. That's the God of election. That
is so tender and gracious. You know, if somebody preaches
the God of election or the doctrine of election and they come off
as mean and hard and somebody doing something wrong. The God
of election is a God of electing love who is tender and gracious
to his people. That's who God is. Sean, I want
that God to be my God. He said, I'll be their God and
they'll be my people. Lord, make me your people. Lord,
be my God. Lord, be merciful to me. Lord,
would you meet me in some unexpected way? Would you meet me and your
mercy and grace and make me one of your people? Oh, that's the
God I want to be my God. Then number three, the Lord is
to be obeyed because he's the God to be worshiped. Verse three
says, and they said, the God of the Hebrews have met with
us. Let us go, we pray thee, three days journey into the desert
and sacrifice unto the Lord our God, lest he fall upon us with
pestilence or with a sword. Now this was God's commandment
to his people. You leave Egypt, you go out into the wilderness
and you worship God. Not in some way you want to.
If they did it the way they wanted to, it'd be like those fellas
on Mars Hill, wouldn't it? It's hard to tell what we'd get.
No, you go worship me the way I say I'm to be worshiped. It's
with a sacrifice, a bloody sacrifice. Here God's going all the way
back to the beginning, all the way back to Abel. How did Abel
come and worship God? He offered a lame. He offered
a blood sacrifice just the way God told him to do it. Now, nothing's
changed. From the time of Abel, to the
time of Israel, to our time today, the only way God can be worshipped,
the only way he can be approached, is through a blood sacrifice.
Now, in the Old Testament days, that was through an animal sacrifice.
The high priest offered that animal sacrifice, and that animal
sacrifice was a picture of Christ. At that time, they could come
to God through this picture of Christ. But now it had to be
by the blood, didn't it? Had to be. That high priest had
better not, on the Day of Atonement, go into the Holy of Holies without
blood. He better not do it. If he did, they'd be dragging
him out by his heels, weren't they? At the time of the Passover,
you better not be in a house where the blood hadn't been shed
and the blood hadn't been put on the door. Where you're at,
the blood better have been applied. If the blood's been applied,
God'll pass over you. If not, he's gonna kill your
firstborn. He's gonna kill you. But that's still true today.
We better be found under the blood, under the blood of Christ. Still yet today, even after Christ
has died, the only way God could be worshiped is with a blood
sacrifice. Now we don't have to, you know,
somebody have to appoint somebody every week, you know, bring a
lamb or bring a goat or bring a bullock, you know, we'll have
an animal sacrifice every week. We don't need that picture anymore.
We have something so much better than those old Israelites had.
All they had was the picture. We have the real thing. We have
the Savior. We worship God today by preaching
Christ and Him crucified, by preaching Christ our Passover
slain for us. We worship God today by preaching
what Christ accomplished, not just Christ died. That's an historical
fact. We worship God by preaching what
Christ accomplished by His bloody sacrifice for His people. We worship God today by trusting
Christ. Trusting Him to be the sacrifice
for our sin. Now that's playing all throughout
the Word of God. God can only be worshiped with
a blood sacrifice. God will only accept sinners
through the precious, perfect, sin-atoning blood of His Son.
But again, this is the way God has ordained he's to be worshiped.
No other way. But that's not grievous, is it?
Worshiping God, the way that God has commanded us to worship
him, is not grievous. You know what Moses called it?
A feast. Did you see that at the end of
verse one? Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto
me in the wilderness. When we preach the blood of Christ's
sacrifice, you know what we're doing? We're laying out a feast. We're laying out a feast for
sinners, a feast of spiritual blessings. The blood of Christ
gives us a feast of grace. Feast. A feast of mercy, a feast
of forgiveness of sin, a feast of justification, a feast of
peace with God through the blood of Christ. I want you to turn
to just one scripture, and then I'll quote several of them for
you for time's sake. But look at Hebrews chapter nine. I want us to look at some of
the items, if that's what you want to call them. They're on
this feast, the feast of Christ's blood. Hebrews nine, verse 12. The blood of Christ doesn't just
give redemption, it gives eternal redemption. Hebrews 9 verse 12,
neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood. He entered in once into the holy
place. He took his blood once before
the father, having obtained eternal redemption for us. You don't
have to worry about God running out of redemption for his people.
Well, this world has been going on so long, you know, the power
of the blood is diminished and there's not enough power to save
me. The blood of Christ gives his
people eternal redemption. In verse 22, the blood of Christ
gives complete remission of sins. And almost all things are by
the law purged with blood. And without the shedding of blood
is no remission. Now you can trust Christ. He
shed his blood and the sin of his people has been forgiven.
It's been put away. Now just listen to the rest of
these verses. to hear what a feast we have in the blood of Christ.
There is complete remission of all the sin of all of God's elect
because of the blood of Christ. In Matthew 26, verse 28, the
Savior's instituting the Lord's table. This is the first Lord's
table. They just ate the last Passover. Now the Lord's instituting
the Lord's table, the first Lord's table. And he held that wine
up and he told them, this is my blood in the New Testament,
which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Now, the way
the Savior said that, He left no room for doubt. It's not,
well, we're gonna try to have this for the remission of sins. We're gonna see if somebody will
accept it. This is shed for the remission
of sins. And His blood got the job done.
Complete remission of all of the sin of His people so that
it is no more. With his blood, Christ bought
his people, stock and barrel. He said, they'll be my people
because I bought them. I bought them with my blood.
In Acts 20, verse 28, the apostle Paul giving his final instruction
to the Ephesian elders before he leaves, before he leaves them. He told them, you take heed therefore
unto yourselves and unto all the flock over which the Holy
Ghost hath made you overseers. You be sure to feed the church
of God. which He hath purchased with His own blood." What a joy it is to think about
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God loving you so much that
He shed His blood to purchase you. I mean, you're already His
by creation, aren't you? You already belong to Him. I
mean, we get our life from Him, but He bought you that He might
have you as His. in glory forever. The blood of
Christ justified his people, made them without any sin, made
their sin to not exist. Romans 5, 9, much more than being
now justified by his blood. We should be saved from wrath
through him. All of God's people are saved
from wrath because his blood justified them. His blood made
them so they don't have any sin. There's no reason God's wrath
would ever fall on them. They already fell on Christ,
our substitute. Now you try to imagine that the son of God did
that for you. You want to obey him by trusting
him? I do. Ephesians 1 verse 7, in whom
we have redemption. Through his blood, the forgiveness
of sins according to the riches of his grace, the blood of Christ
redeemed his people from the curse of the law. Ephesians 2,
13. You think how far Adam has separated
us from God. God thrust Adam out of the garden,
and from that time till today, there is a gulf fixed between
God and men, and we cannot cross it. Nobody can cross it. But
now, in Christ Jesus, you, sometimes we're far off, are made nigh,
brought right up to the bosom of God. How? By the blood of Christ. Colossians 1 verse 20. We have
peace, peace, peace with God. Man has declared war on God,
but God made peace. He made peace between him and
his people. How'd he do it? By the blood of Christ. Having
made peace through the blood of his cross to reconcile all
things unto himself. By him I say, whether they be
things in earth or things in heaven, even you and me, Even
you. He gave us peace with God by
the blood of his son. You think about how filthy we
are in our sin. The wretchedness of it, the filthiness
of it. But the blood of Christ took
care of that. 1 John 1 verse 7. The blood of Jesus Christ,
his son, cleanseth us from all sin. Makes us clean and holy
and fit to enter directly into the presence of God. Now, that's
a feast. That's a feast in the blood of
Christ. And I don't know about you, but that makes me want to
obey God. Oh, I want to trust Him. Oh,
I want to trust Him. Lord, I believe. Help thou mine
unbelief. Oh, I pray, Lord, give us faith
to do that, to obey Him and trust Christ. There's nothing better. There's nothing better. All right,
let's bow together. Our Father, how we thank you
for your word. How we thank you that you've taken it, and as
you always do, pointed us to our Lord Jesus Christ. How we
thank you there is forgiveness of our sin found in him, through
his sacrifice, by his blood. How we thank you that there's
peace with God through his blood. How we thank you that we're justified,
brought back to God by the blood of Christ. Father, I pray that
you give each and every one of us here this evening, as we leave
here, the faith to obey you and trust in and rest in Christ our
Savior. Father, if you do such a, such an amazing, such an awesome
thing for us, Surely, we give you all the praise, all the glory,
and all the thanksgiving for it. Father, it's in Christ's
name, for his sake and his glory, we pray, amen. All right, Sean.