Our bio is again to Psalm 6. There are seven psalms we call
psalms of repentance. This is the first one that we've
come to in our study throughout the psalms. But as I read this
psalm, I clearly see Christ speaking. If you want to find the true
meaning of any scripture, first thing you've got to do is find
Christ. even in these Psalms, the Psalms
of repentance. So the question I ask myself
is how can our Lord Jesus Christ be speaking in this Psalm of
repentance? He doesn't have anything to repent
of. How can he be speaking? Well, the answer is this. It's
through his union with his people. Christ's union with his people
is so real. It's so close. That he says the
same thing his people say. That's how close their union
is. So let's see if we don't see
that as we go through each verse of this psalm. Verse one, Psalm
six. O Lord, rebuke me not in thine
anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. At first,
this is Christ speaking. He's speaking as a substitute
for his people. And as a substitute, you'll notice
he doesn't say, Father, don't rebuke me in your anger because
I don't deserve it. He doesn't say that. Now we know that the
Lord Jesus was perfect. Everything he did deserved his
father's love and favor, didn't it? But Christ here is speaking
as a substitute for his people. So he doesn't say I don't deserve
to be under the wrath of God because he was made sin for his
people. So he knows full well he does
deserve the wrath of God because he was made sin. The Savior made
this same cry in Gethsemane's garden. He said, oh, my father,
if it be possible, let this cup pass from you. Nevertheless,
not as I will, but as thou will. As a man, the Lord Jesus dreaded
the untold suffering of the cross. But God, our Savior, went there
willingly to put away the sin of his people. And because he
did put away the sin of his people by a sacrifice, his people can
cry, oh, Lord, Repute me not in thine anger, neither chasten
me with thy hot displeasure. You notice we don't say we don't
deserve God's anger, do we? Everything we've ever done deserves
God's anger. But what we pray is, Father,
don't pour out your anger upon me. I know you must discipline
me. I know you must chasten me. But
do it with the love of a father, not in the anger of a holy God.
You know, our children, Our children must be disciplined. And I remember
when my girls were little, I didn't like it. I did not like the discipline. Because that discipline's got
to hurt if it's going to teach them a lesson. And I just never
found any pleasure in that. But it's got to be done. But
it's got to be done in love if it's going to be effective. You know God's children are the
exact same way. I know I need to be corrected. I don't like
it, but I understand I need to be corrected. But my plea is,
Father, do it in love. Do it in the love of a father,
not in the anger of a holy God. And because of our Lord Jesus
Christ, no believer ever has to worry about the anger of God. We never have to fear the hot
displeasure of God's wrath against our sin, because Christ our Savior
took it all. He took it all. The father poured
out all of his fury, all of his anger against sin upon Christ
our substitute. So that God himself said, there's
no fury left in him. There's no fury left in him for
his people. It was all poured out upon Christ our substitute.
Here's the thing about the gospel, about salvation. Christ who knew
no sin knows full well the punishment of sin. But we, his people, who
know sin all too well, will never know the punishment of that sin
because of Christ our substitute. See, we pray the same thing he
did. Now, verse two, have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak. O Lord, heal me, for my bones
are vexed. At first, this is the Savior
crying from the cross. He said he's weak. How can the
son of God be weak? He was made weak because he's
made what we are. Look over at Psalm 22. Here's
the psalm of the cross. They say this, our Lord recited
this psalm as he hung there on the cross and Psalm 22 verse
15. He says, my strength is dried
up like a pot shirt. I'm made weak because my strength
is dried up. My tongue cleaveth to my jaws.
Thou hast brought me into the dust of death. That's how weak
I've become. And he says his bones, he was
made weak because he was made what we are, made to suffer what
we deserve. He says his bones are vexed,
his innermost being is vexed with sin. He says in verse 14,
I'm poured out like water. All my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax, it's melted in the midst of my bowels. In
verse 17 he says, I may tell all my bones, they look and stare
upon me. Savior suffered for sin in His
bones, in His heart, in His innermost being. I tell you, that was seen
physically as He hung there on the cross. His body stretched
out as it hung there. They could tell all of His bones.
His bones all became out of joint. Just the physical pain you could
see He was suffering. It's just a glimpse of what He
was suffering in His innermost being, how He suffered for sin.
And he cried out to his father for mercy. Look at verse one
of Psalm 22. My God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping
me? For the words of my roaring. Oh my God, I cry in the daytime,
but thou hearest not. And in the night season, I am
not silent. I cry to you in the darkness
and all I get is silence. The Savior cried, but there was
no mercy to be found. The father had no mercy upon
him. Christ the Savior could receive no mercy as he suffered
for sin. He couldn't be healed of his
suffering. He had to bear every last drop of it. And he did. And because he did, his people
could cry for mercy and receive it. God's merciful to his people. He doesn't give them what they
deserve because he gave Christ our substitute what we deserve.
He gave him all the punishment, all the death our sin deserves,
so that if Christ died for you, you'll never even taste of it.
So cry for mercy. Cry for mercy. Don't come to
God and talk about your goodness, because there isn't any. Don't
come to God and talk about everything you've done for the Lord. You
know, whatever it is we think we've done for the Lord, David
had his beat, didn't he? We haven't gone out and fought
a giant. We haven't gone out and fought the Philistines and
the Amorites and driven these people out. We haven't stood
in the face of all this adversity that David stood in. David didn't
talk about any of that, did he? He didn't talk about not one
thing he did in the service of the Lord. He cries out for mercy. Just cry for mercy. Mercy is
the only plea a guilty sinner can have anyway, isn't it? Mercy.
And mercy is a good plea because of Christ, our substitute. And
when our sin makes us weak, when the suffering of the trials and
tribulations that we suffer in this world, when it makes us
weak, we can cry to the Savior to be strengthened. We cry, Lord,
I'm weak. Don't crush me. You said you
wouldn't quench the smoking flax, and I'm so weak. Save me. and strengthen me when my infirmities
buffet me so that I'm so weak that I cannot stand up. The believer
has a place to turn. Christ had to suffer alone. No
one could help him. But the believer has a place
to turn. We can turn to the Lord. Trials reveal to me if I as if
I would need to be reminded, I tell you what trials reveal
to me. How weak I am in myself. so that I am forced to rely upon
Christ to be my everything. He's got to be my strength, and
that's when I'm strong. When I rely upon Christ to be
my everything, that's when I'm strong. Christ our Savior, as
He suffered, He cried out, but could not be heard, could not
be healed. But we can, because He did that, we can cry to our
God and be healed. of all of our sin sicknesses.
We cry, Lord, don't just overlook my sin. Heal me of it. Make me whole again. And when
we cry for healing, what we're pleading is pleading Christ crucified
by His stripes. We can cry for healing because
of the sacrifice of Christ. So cry out for mercy. Ask God
for mercy. Now, if you need mercy, I have
a piece of advice. Lay all of your need out there. If you need mercy, don't hide
anything back. Don't make yourself look a little better than you
are, you know, for appearances sake. If you need mercy, display
your need as clearly as you possibly can. Don't hide anything. I saw
an example of this one time in Mexico. We were going into the
outside of the Catholic Cathedral there and there was a a beggar,
a woman, sitting out there begging. And she had a foot cut off, just
had a stump down there about halfway down her shin. And she had that stump wrapped
in a bandage that looked like it had blood seeping through
it. Now, Brother Cody felt like this was kind of a trick, you
know, that blood's there every day. That's what he felt like,
I don't know. I don't know whether it was real
or not. But I want to tell you what. The sight of that drew
sympathy. That's what I'm saying. Don't
cover up your need. Lay it out there open. God hears
the cry of the sin sick. Make all of your need, all of
your sin sickness, all of your weakness known. God heals sinners
like that. Because of Christ. All right,
verse three. My soul is sore vexed. But thou, O Lord, how long? In this prayer, it's just like
David doesn't even know what to say. He just says, O Lord,
how long? Now, first, this is the Savior
speaking. He says his soul is sore, Baxter. You and I can't imagine the sufferings
of Christ on the cross. We can't imagine what his sufferings
were really like. He knew what they'd be. When
he was in the garden at Gethsemane, he prayed to his father. Just
the thought of being made sin made him groan in spirit. He
said, Father, you've got to come help me. If you don't, I'm going
to die right here, right now. I'm going to die at just the
thought of going to the cross. Father sent those angels to strengthen
him. He went to the cross. And how his soul suffered as
he bore the sin of his people. Christ was made sin for his people.
He suffered sin. He suffered the guilt of sin.
He suffered the punishment that sin deserves. He suffered the
death that sin demands. He suffered for sin. He knew
the agony of sin, even though he was never acquainted with
it. He suffered that as a substitute
for his people. And he says, how long? How long
will this suffering last? How long will I have to endure
this suffering? And the answer comes, until all of that sin
laid upon you has been put away by your sacrifice. How long will
you suffer? Until justice is completely satisfied. So He didn't come down from the
cross. He willingly hung there and suffered under the wrath
of His Father until it was finished. and he gave up the ghost. So
now, when the soul of his people is sore vexed, we can cry out
to God and have the sweet balm of Gilead applied to our hearts.
What is that sweet balm of Gilead? It's the blood of Christ. This
is a psalm of repentance. Nothing, absolutely nothing will
satisfy the repentant heart except the blood of Christ. If you think
you're repenting and anything will satisfy you, anything will
calm you except the blood of Christ. It's not true repentance.
The repentant sinner can be satisfied with nothing except the blood
of Christ. Sullivan said everything a man
does under the sun is vanity and vexation of spirit. That's
all we receive to ourselves. But everything Christ does for
his people It's joy and happiness of spirit that we enjoy even
when our body's troubled. Even when the body's troubled,
there's happiness and joy in Christ. Now that's true. Every believer in here knows
that's true. But this is equally true. There
are times in the trial when we say, I can't take another step. I can't draw another breath under
this weight. And we cry with David. Oh, Lord,
how long? We don't even know what else
to say. We say, oh, Lord, how long? When you reach that dark place,
I want you to remember this. There's comfort for God's people.
Because Christ already suffered for our sin, There is a definite
end to the trial. I don't know when it's coming,
but there's a definite end to it. I know that so. If we would
suffer for our sin, there'd be no end to our suffering, would
there? We'd suffer eternally. But we only suffer the effects
of sin in this body for a short time. And when we do, our Father
will help us and He'll strengthen us, just as surely as He helped
and strengthened Christ our Savior in Gethsemane's garden. And He'll
help us until the trial ends. And the trial, I promise you,
has an exact end that was appointed before time began by our Father.
Our bodies are going to suffer. Their bodies have sinned. We
ought not to be surprised when they suffer. But our souls will
never suffer because Christ, our substitute, already suffered
for us. So we cry, how long? I don't know. I mean, nobody
knows. Nobody but the Father knows.
I don't know how long, but I do know this. It won't be eternally.
Not if Christ died for you. You see, our suffering is going
to last just a little while. Just a little while. Because
Christ, by his sacrifice, made an end of sin. He made an end
of sin. And when Christ made an end of
sin, he brought an end to the consequences of sin, too. Now
right now, yes, we do feel, we still feel the effects of sin.
But one day, the believer's relationship with sin will be over forever
because Christ made an end to it. He'll bring an end to the
consequences of it too, eventually. I don't know how long, but he'll
bring an end to it because of Christ, our substitute. All right,
verse four. Return, O Lord, deliver my soul. Oh, save me for thy mercy sake. This is first the Savior speaking.
He asked his father to return to him. Again, this is something you
and I can't fully understand. But the greatest suffering that
Christ endured at the cross was the absence of his father's presence.
His father took his presence away from him. We can't even
understand how he can do that. How God can take his presence
from God? We can't understand that. But he did it, and that
was our Savior's greatest suffering at the cross. As he hung there
on the cross, I can tell you a couple things he did not cry.
He did not cry, why have my people, the Jews, forsaken me and rejected
me and nailed me to a cross? He didn't ask that, did he? He
didn't say, why am I here all alone and all my friends have
deserted me? Where's Peter who promised he'd
die with me? He didn't say that, did he? The agony of his soul
made him cry, my God, my God, why has thou forsaken me? That was his greatest suffering.
And the father would not return to him until the sin that was
laid on him was put away. The holy father could not do
it. And Christ did put the sin of his people away. And because
he did, his people can cry, Oh God, would you return to me? And we all cried that at one
point or another. And you know what we'll find?
We'll find he's never left us in the first place. He will never
leave nor forsake his people because he already forsook our
substitute at Calvary. But yet, again, that's one of
those things doctrinally we know is true. But there are times
in this flesh when the night is so dark, the valley is so
deep that we can't see God. We feel... I don't know what
the word is. Is it alone? So that we cannot
perceive. We feel dead, so we can't perceive
His love. Christ died for you, I promise
you. He's still there. The Father
didn't suddenly take His presence away from His people because
of their sin. He already did that to our substitute at Calvary.
He didn't quit loving His people and suddenly decide to start
pouring out His wrath upon them. God said, there's no fury left
in me. He's already poured it all out upon our substitute.
But yet there are times, even though that's true, there are
times we can't perceive His presence, can't perceive His love. Nothing
will vex the soul of a believer more than that. Nothing will
vex a child of God more than not being able to perceive his
presence and perceive his love for me. Are you listening? That won't
last forever. It won't last long. The Lord
will return and he will deliver the souls of his people. He'll
refresh the hearts of his people with his presence again, and
I know he'll do it for his mercy's sake. Where is mercy sitting? Where is mercy sitting? David
said, his mercy endureth forever. It'll never run out. My strength's
going to run out. God's mercy never will. My faith,
it's going to run out. I mean, the strength of it's
going to get down where it seems like it's zero, but God's mercy
will never run out. My patience is going to run out.
God's mercy will never run out. My health is gonna run out and
I'm gonna die, but God's mercy will never run out. My days on
this earth are gonna run out, but His mercy endureth forever. You call on Him, He'll come to
you for His mercy's sake. God's mercy's His greatest glory.
His mercy to sinners. Sovereign mercy to sinners is
God's greatest glory. You cry out to Him for His mercy's
sake, He'll come to you. And when your trials got you
so confused, it hurts, it's confused, you can't see a way out, you
can't see any way that there's an answer to this problem. Just
cry out, God be merciful. God be merciful. And leave it
there. Just leave it there. Isn't that
a good cry? I don't care what situation you're
in. God be merciful. That's what David's crying here,
God be merciful. The Lord will answer for his
mercy's sake. All right, verse five. For in
death there's no remembrance of thee, in the grave who should
give thee thanks? Now this is Christ speaking.
He's speaking as one who knows he's got to die as a sacrifice
for sin. He's willingly going to go die
for the sins of his people. And he knows his body's gonna
be taken down from the tree and put in a tomb. But his prayer
is, Father, don't leave me in the grave. If you leave me in
the grave, your greatest glory and the salvation of sinners
will never be seen. Don't leave me in the grave.
Father, don't leave my soul in the grave because my sacrifice
has paid for the sin of my people. My sacrifice is effectual. So
he says, I must be raised again as the proof, the evidence that
I've justified my people. And since Christ did arise from
the grave, his people have the comfort and assurance of justification. Remember, justified is to be
made so that I have never sinned. Well, the only way that's possible
is I've got to be born again. God's got to give life to the
dead. He's got to cause me to be born again. The assurance
that I'll be born again, that I have new spiritual life, that
there's life from the dead, is Christ arose from the grave.
Christ was delivered for our offenses and raised again for
our justification. So since Christ suffered and
he died and he rose again, his people who are dead can ask God
to give me life. Lord, I can't remember you and
I can't thank you because I'm spiritually dead. I'm dead in
trespasses and sins. But would you give me life for
Christ's sake? Would you give me life so I can praise you,
so I can thank you? Or would you save me? Would you
give me life? It's true. Your justice would
be exalted if you damned me. It absolutely would. That's exactly
what I deserve. But Lord, every one of your attributes
would be glorified if you saved me and washed me in the blood
of Christ. Saving me in Christ, that exalts
your justice too. Because my sin has been punished
to my substitute. Saving me in Christ through his
obedience, through his blood, through his sacrifice, that exalts
your wisdom. That shows you found a way to
be both just and justifier. You found a way to save a sinner
like me and still be God, still be holy. Lord, would you save
me for your mercy's sake? Would you save me for your love's
sake? Would you save me for your grace's sake? If you save me
in Christ, it exalts all of your attributes. Lord, would you get
glory to yourself in saving somebody like me? I'd sure like to praise
you and thank you if you would. I promise you I would. Back here
in the study, Brother Cecil will read for us and pray. He often
prays, he said, and Father, we'll give you all the thanks and the
praise for it. David prayed the same way. Lord, if you give me
life, I'll give you all the thanks and the praise for it. See, the
believer, Doesn't have to fear the grave. Dave here is talking
about the grave. What's going to happen when I
die? Who's going to praise the Lord then? You know, a believer
does not have to fear the grave. Somebody's going to take our
body to it someday. And the believer does not have
to fear the grave. Because Christ our Savior already went there.
And he conquered the grave by coming out of it. So we don't
have to fear it. We'll come out of it someday. Years ago, I don't
remember who I read this from, but it's good. He said Christ
made even the grave a pleasant place to wait because he conquered
it by coming out of it. So there's no need to fear it.
Don't fear the grave. Don't fear death. You're coming
out of it. Christ arose victorious over
it and he'll bring his people out of it too. All right, verse
six. I'm weary with my groaning. All
the night make I my bed to swim. I water my couch with tears.
Mine eye is consumed because of grief. It waxeth old because
of all mine enemies." At first, this is the Savior speaking.
And he says he's tired out from crying all night long. He's cried
so much his vision is affected. His eyes are red and full of
tears. And that redness and those tears
has made his vision cloudy like an old person would be if they'd
lost their glasses. He's cried so long. Not only
is my pillow wet with tears, he's cried so many tears he's
afraid his bed's going to float away in him. Now look over to
Hebrews chapter 5. I'll show you what this is referring
to. It's referring to those times that our Lord went alone away
from his disciples and he prayed all night long. He went and all
night long he cried to his father as our great high priest. Hebrews
5 verse 6. As he saith also in another place,
Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek, who
in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and
supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able
to save him from death, he was heard in that he feared. Though
he were a son, yet learned he obedience by the things which
he suffered, and being made perfect, he became the author of eternal
salvation unto all them that obey him. The father heard the
crying and the supplication of Christ our high priest for his
people. And because of that, the believer, every child of
God, is heard when we cry to our father. We're heard in Christ
our high priest, Christ our intercessor. Don't ever be afraid to cry out
to your father. You'll always hear his people
in Christ. And here's our comfort. We will
cry and we'll weep and our vision will be affected by red, tear-filled
eyes. We'll cry so many tears we think
our bed's going to float away on. But our Father will hear
our cries and He will comfort. That's what David says in the
rest of this psalm. This psalm ends with confident
assurance in Christ. Verse 8. Depart from me, all
ye workers of iniquity. For the Lord hath heard the voice
of my weeping. The Lord hath heard my supplication. The Lord
will receive my prayer. Let all mine enemies be ashamed
and sore vexed. Let them return and be ashamed
suddenly. Now you notice the tone of this
psalm has changed 180 degrees all of a sudden, hadn't it? All
the vexation and the fears and the tears, they're all gone,
aren't they? And they're replaced with confidence
in the Lord. The voice of weeping ends in
Christ. It absolutely ends in Christ. And one day, all of our tears
are going to end. They're going to end where we
feel. But now again, first, this is Christ speaking. He's speaking
in holy confidence. He never had a doubt His sacrifice
would get the job done. He always knew He'd save His
people from their sins. He's not weeping and crying and
begging anybody to do anything. He knows his people should be
saved. He's not worried. He's not worried about his enemies.
He knows they're destroyed. He is the mighty conqueror. That's who the Savior is. He's
the mighty conqueror. He's not a crying, begging, ineffective
reformer. He's the successful, victorious
Savior. That enables him to speak in
holy confidence. And you know after everything
he's done for his people, he still has enemies. He still has
enemies. And that just shows you how hard
and fallen in sin our nature is that we would be enemies of
God if it weren't for His grace. And those enemies, I want you
to look over Matthew 25. They cause us a lot of trouble
and a lot of heartache now. But the Savior's going to take
care of them one day. Just leave them to Him. Matthew 25, verse
41, this is after he's put the sheep on his right hand and the
goats on his left. Then shall he say also unto them
on the left hand, depart from me. He cursed into everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was in
hunger and you gave me no meat. I was thirsty and you gave me
no drink. I was a stranger, you took me not in. Naked and you
clothed me not. Sick and in prison and you visited
me not. Now listen to how they trusted in their words. Then
shall they also answer him saying, Lord, when saw we thee a hungered
or a thirst or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and
did not minister unto thee? We've done all these words. Then
shall he answer them saying, Verily I say unto you, inasmuch
as ye did it not unto one of the least of these, ye did it
not to me. These should go away into everlasting
punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. See, these
people, they're our enemies now, but they ain't gonna last long.
The Lord's gonna take care of them. And we can, in the face
of these enemies, who cause us so much trouble, mistreat you
and misunderstand you, in standing in their face, we
can have holy confidence in our Lord Jesus Christ. He'll take
care of them. And in the midst of our trouble,
and our trials, and our anxiety, and our worry, and our pain,
the believer can go to our God in holy confidence, knowing we'll
be heard and we'll be comforted. Davis says here, this is our
confidence, the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. The
voice of my weeping. Spurgeon made a great statement
on that. He says weeping is a universal language. that's known and understood
in all the earth and even in heaven above. When there's no
words and all there is is weeping, the Lord understands that language.
I got an illustration for you. On our very first trip to Mexico,
Dan Morgan and I attended the funeral service of a sister,
a dear sister of Zitzan too. We never met her, but she, the
Lord blessed this woman She'd been one of the first members
there. Brother Walter preached to her for years and years and
years. The Lord saved many of her family. And she died while
we were visiting there in Mexico. This woman was the pastor's sister-in-law. He called Brother Cody. He wanted
Cody to come preach the funeral. He was afraid his emotions would
make it difficult for him to preach the funeral. And so Cody
was going to drive out there in the morning and preach that
funeral. And Dan and I went with him. We didn't want him to have
to go there, you know, as long as we rode with him. I don't know
how much good we thought we were going to be. We needed an interpreter
everywhere we went. I mean, everywhere we went. We
went to a store and we learned to say, buenos dias. And that was wrong. That was
saying good morning. It was afternoon. She couldn't even tell us how
to say good afternoon. I mean, we needed an interpreter for
everything. And we got to that funeral, sat
down, and I saw that woman's dear family. Saw her husband,
saw her daughters, saw her husband. They were heartbroken. They were
in such grief. They understood it. Grief doesn't
need an interpreter. Those tears did not need an interpreter. But I tell you, I didn't need
an interpreter for this, too. Brother Cody preached. We kind
of figured out he was preaching from the Gospel of John. I didn't
know. Dan may have figured it out. I couldn't figure it out. I saw something going on while
Cody preached. I couldn't understand what he
was saying, but they could. I watched those children, those sisters
who were believers, I watched them be comforted by God's Word. That didn't need an interpreter.
That's heartline The Lord heard the voice of their weeping. He
heard the words of their weeping, and He comforted their hearts
with pride. He comforted them with the Word of God. We didn't
need interpreters for that either, did we? We understood it. It's
heart language. So you cry out to the Lord. You
don't even have to put it into words. He understands the voice
of your weeping. And you take confidence in this.
One day the Lord's going to destroy every enemy. He's going to cast
them out of his presence forever. And he's going to cast them out
of our presence, too. Now, that includes our enemies, people
who are enemies. That includes Satan. That includes
all the powers of darkness. That also includes our sins and
our sinful nature cast out forever. The Lord's going to take his
people to be with him face to face with eternal bliss and joy
forever. In that moment, we'll finally
understand what the songwriter was writing when he wrote How
Much I Owe. When I stand before the throne,
dressed in beauty not my own, when I see thee as thou art,
love thee with unsinning heart, then, Lord, shall I fully know,
but not till then, how much I owe. When I hear the wicked call on
the rocks and hills to fall, When I see them start and shrink
on the fiery day of his brain, then, Lord, shall I fully know.
But not till then. Not till then. I won't understand
how much I owe and how much I don't owe because he paid it. He paid
it. Let's bow in prayer. Our Father, how we thank you
for this psalm of repentance that ends in such holy confidence
in Christ our Savior. Father, we freely admit in your
presence how sinful, how vile, how wretched, how weak we are. Father, how we beg you for your
mercy. Deal with us in your mercy. Don't deal with us in your hot
displeasure and your wrath against our sin, but deal with us in
mercy in Christ. See us and hear us only. Let
us be accepted in the blood. Not in anything we've done, because
nothing we've done is worthy of anything but your wrath. But
Father, hear us. See us. Accept us in your Son. Comfort our hearts. Speak to
the hearts of your people. Speak life. Speak grace. Speak peace. Speak salvation
to the hearts of your people for Christ's sake. Because of
what he's accomplished for his people. Father, cause us to learn
more. of our Lord Jesus Christ, to
rest more in Him, to find more peace and joy and satisfaction
in His salvation that He's so freely given to His people that
we would be less worried about the things going on here on earth. They're all under your control
anyway. Cause us to rest and find our joy and our peace in
our Lord Jesus Christ. Father, get glory to Your name.
Comfort your people through your word this evening, we pray. First,
in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, for the glory of his
name, we pray.