Psalm 130, this further song
of degrees, reads as follows. Out of the depths have I cried
unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice. Let thine
ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou,
Lord, shouldst mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But
there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. I
wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waited for the Lord more
than they that watch for the morning. I say, more than they
that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the Lord,
for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption,
and he shall redeem Israel. from all his iniquities. Verse six reads, my soul waited
for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. I say
more than they that watch for the morning. As we come to these latter Psalms,
which are called the songs of degrees, as we come to the ones
around this point, Psalm 129, 130, Psalm 132, there is much
emphasis upon the sacrifice, upon the offering up of the sacrifice
in Jerusalem. The Psalmist's speech, the Psalmist's
sentiments concern this. This Psalm, Psalm 130, speaks
of redemption. With the Lord there is plenteous
redemption and he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.
And that redemption comes through the offering up of a sacrifice. And the cries of the Psalmist
here, in type and figure, are the cries of Christ, the Lamb
of God, The sacrifice offered up for sinners, who cried out
in faith, in belief upon his God, in the midst of suffering,
out of the depths, have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear
my voice. Let thine ears be attentive to
the voice of my supplications. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark
iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? Out of the darkness, out
of the abyss, placed under the fires of God's wrath, he cries
out. And he cries out, but there is
forgiveness with thee. that thou mayst be feared. I
wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. As the children of Israel, as
they ascended towards Jerusalem, as they make their journey from
their homes up towards the city and up the mountain into the
city, approached for this cause, to offer up a sacrifice, to see
the sacrifice offered up on their behalf, to see the priest take
the sacrifice into the tabernacle, into the temple, into the Holy
of Holies, and to see that priest come out, declaring peace with
God on their behalf. This is why they came. Why have
we come to Jerusalem? Why do we come to the temple? Why have we come here this day
to the gospel? But to look on by faith and behold
the sacrifice of God. Hear the people, as it were,
come to a standstill. and look on. They're brought
to behold what God does for them, what God gives them, what God
offers for them. They're brought to behold His
redemptive grace. They look on. They're brought
to see the glory of God in redemption. They come to a standstill. Like
the Israelites of old as they were brought out of Egypt on
their journey to the Promised Land come to the Red Sea and
are brought to stand still. They can do nothing for themselves. The enemy is behind them. The
seas are before them. And Moses says unto them, stand
still. and see the salvation of the
Lord. They stand and they look at what God will do for them. Likewise, when John the Baptist
with those two disciples came and saw Jesus pass by, they stood
still. And he said unto them, Behold
the Lamb of God. And they looked and beheld He
who was both their priest and their sacrifice. He who would
set them free from all that bound them. He who would deliver them
from their sins. He who would deliver them from
captivity. He who would set them free, they
beheld. This is what the children of
Israel have come here for. This is what we come here for.
To behold the offering up of a sacrifice on our behalf. To
behold by faith the sprinkling of the blood. The priest going
into the Holy of Holies and sprinkling the blood upon the mercy seat
on our behalf. To behold him coming forth crying
out, it is finished. Peace be unto you, to receive
through that blood the forgiveness of sins. Let Israel hope in the
Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous
redemption, and he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Oh what a sight this is if God
gives us eyes, gives us the faith to behold this, to behold the
One that went into the Holy of Holies for us, to behold the
One that was slain, the Lamb of God, to behold what He suffered,
what He endured in the darkness, to behold His love for His own
that took Him there. to comprehend His grace to receive
His mercy to see something of what He did
in the darkness in delivering us from all our enemies Oh that God would bring us as
it were like Manoah and his wife when a sacrifice was offered
up and when they beheld the sacrifice and beheld what the angel of
the Lord did. In Judges 13 we read where Manoah
met with this angel of the Lord. When Manoah met with this angel
of the Lord, Manoah asked, What is thy name, that when thy sayings
come to pass, we may do thee honour? And the angel of the
Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing
it is secret? So Manoah took a kid with a meat
offering and offered it upon a rock unto the Lord and the
angel did wondrously and Manoah and his wife looked on for it
came to pass when the flame went up toward heaven from off the
altar that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the
altar and Manoah and his wife looked on it and fell on their
faces to the ground. The Lord The angel of the Lord,
Christ himself, did wondrously. So like Manoah and his wife,
we come here in this psalm to this offering up of a sacrifice
and we're brought to stand still and to behold the wonder of God's
redemptive grace. The depths to which Christ went,
the depths to which He suffered. Out of the depths have I cried
unto Thee, O Lord, He cries. Lord, hear my voice. Let Thine ears be attentive to
the voice of my supplications. Out of the depths. Oh, what a
redemption we see here. What a deliverance. What freedom
brought in from all our enemies, from all that bound us, from
all that would keep us in the grave, what deliverance from
the darkness, what a shining of the light. Out of the depths
have I cried unto thee, O Lord. If thou, Lord, shouldst mark
iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? No man. We're all corrupt. We're all
full of sin. We've all rebelled. We've all
turned aside to our own way. There is none that have sought
the Lord. There is none that seekest Him. There is none that
turnest unto Him. There's none that doeth good.
There's none that worketh righteousness. We're all dead dogs. We're all
sinners. We're all rebels at heart. We're
all full of unbelief. We don't care. We don't want
to know. We want our own way. We want
our own glory. We've gone astray. All ye like
sheep, all we like sheep have gone astray. We're dead. And if the Lord should
mark our iniquities, we cannot stand before him. But there's one that came into
this world who was without sin, who never sinned, one who is
righteous, one who is always righteous and always shall be
righteous, one who is without spot or blemish, one who came
in the place of sinners and one who went before them. ascending
to Jerusalem. As it were, with his people here,
leading them up, in the midst of his own, he comes up to Jerusalem,
up to the temple, up to the place of sacrifice, and he goes in
before them as their priest, and as their sacrifice, and he
comes before his God. and says judge me, not them. He takes their sins, he takes
their iniquities, he takes their transgressions upon himself and
he goes to the altar and is laid upon the altar. And the knife
of God's justice, the sword of His justice is brought down upon
Him and slays Him as the Lamb of God. His blood was shed, He
was slain, He died in the place of sinners. Yes, this one is
the Son of God. He who was born Jesus, for He
shall save His people from their sins. The Son of God, born a
man. just as we are yet without sin. A perfect sacrifice, a perfect
unblemished lamb, able to be offered up in our stead. He was
taken to this place, he went to this place, he went before
his people to this place as both the priest who offered up the
sacrifice and as the sacrifice itself who was offered up. And when he was slain, and when he bore the sins of
his elect, and the darkness came down upon him because of what
he bore and what he was made to be, he cried out unto his
God and his Father, out of the depths have I cried unto thee,
O Lord. Oh what depths he entered into. We cannot comprehend what it
was for the perfect, unblemished, righteous Son of God to have
to bear our sins, to have to bear our guilt, to be made sin. He who knew no sin was made sin
that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. How can we comprehend
what it meant for Him to bear that iniquity? to stand before
a holy God guilty to endure the outpouring of God's wrath upon
Him, to enter the abyss of torment in hell that we should suffer
eternally for our sins which He suffered upon the cross. That
eternity contracted to the span of those three hours in the darkness. How can we comprehend what a
depth this was to which he entered? What darkness? What horror? How his soul was moved in Gethsemane
as he saw this cup that he must drink. If it be possible Lord
Father, let this cup be taken away from me. Nevertheless not
my will but thine be done. He saw what he must endure. He
knew the depth to which he must go. Lord, hear my voice. Remember me. If thou, Lord, shouldst
mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? If I should bear these iniquities,
I cannot stand. I must die. No sinner can stand before God.
Not you, not I. None but those whose iniquities
are taken away. None but those who are righteous
in every sense, in every way, without blemish, spotless from
head to toe. Our sins must be taken away. We must be righteous before a
holy God to come into his presence. No one can be saved, no one can
enter heaven's glory except the righteous and there are none
righteous. So salvation is impossible if
it depends on us because there's none righteous. There's none who wills to be
saved. There's none who runs to be saved. There's none who stands. We're
all full of iniquity. And that iniquity must be taken
away. But how? Out of the depths. Only if one
suffers on our behalf. Only if one takes those sins
and goes to the depths with them, for us. This one went to the depths. Note here in these verses how
we read Lord in capitals regarding God the Father and Lord capital
L-O-R-D concerning Christ. Out of the depths have I cried
unto thee, O Lord. And then, Lord, hear my voice.
Let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
If thou, Lord Capital, should mark iniquities, O Lord Christ,
who shall stand? I wait for the Lord, capitals,
my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waited
for the Lord, capital L-O-R-D, more than they that watch for
the morning. The reference changes and is intermingled through the
verses. And we see both the cries of
Christ himself to his father intermingled with the believer
crying and looking by faith unto Christ. How they intertwine here. In verse 3, the believer calls
to the Father and to the Son. If thou, Lord Father, should
mark iniquities, O Lord Christ, who shall stand? O Lord Jesus, how shall I stand
before thy Father who marks iniquities? Christ says, I wait for the Lord
my Father, my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope. And
the believer follows on, my soul waited for Christ more than they
that watch for the morning. There's this intermingling of
you, the believer is wed with Christ here. He stands with him
looking both to Christ and through Christ to his Father. Christ
himself upon the cross looks up to his father by faith and
calls upon him he waits upon him Lord hear my voice out of
the depths have I cried unto thee O Lord if thou Lord should
mark iniquities O Lord Jesus who shall stand when Christ suffered upon the
cross bearing his people sins When He was crucified for them,
they were crucified with Him. He bore their iniquities. He
was made their sin. They were slain with Him. They died. They were crucified. Their sins were taken away. But
he felt the pain. Paul says, I through the law
am dead to the law that I might live unto God. I am crucified
with Christ. Nevertheless I live, yet not
I, but Christ liveth in me. And the life which I now live
in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved
me and gave himself for me. It's his union with Christ that
delivered him from his sins. He's one with Him, and as He
rises again with Christ, His sins having been delivered, it's
Christ's life within Him that cries out unto the Father. Out
of the depths have I cried unto Thee, O Lord. But because of what Christ suffered
in the darkness, He can call out, there is forgiveness
with Thee. that thou mayest be feared. There
is forgiveness. If the Lord should mark iniquities,
who shall stand? No man by nature. And yet this
is a God who delights in mercy. There is forgiveness with thee
that thou mayest be feared. How can there be forgiveness
if we're still in our sins? Because Christ took them into
the depths. He took them away. He went into
the darkness, into the abyss for his own. He took Paul's sins. Paul was crucified with him. He took that sin away. He took
the old man away. He took the old nature away.
He took all the depravity which Paul saw within and took it away
into the abyss. And because his blood was shed
and offered up and because he as the priest went into the Holy
of Holies and sprinkled it upon the mercy seat, So the Lord could
say unto Paul, thy sins be forgiven thee. And if Christ took our
sins upon him into the darkness, into the depths, if his blood
was shed for us, if his blood was shed for you, if you were
crucified with him, then he will come forth, having sprinkled
his blood upon that mercy seat, and say unto you, Thy sins be
forgiven thee. As he come unto you with his
blood, with his mercy, with his grace, with his love, and said
unto you, O sinner, you, O rebel, You, O unbelieving wretch, has
he come in the gospel and said, thy sins are forgiven, I've paid
the price, I've been to the depths, I've been in the darkness for
you. The psalmist goes on, I wait
for the Lord, my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord
more than they that watch for the morning. I say more than
they that watch for the morning. Again note here the use of Lord
and Lord. I wait for the Lord, Christ cries
out, waiting for his Father and in his word do I hope. I believe
him. We see his faith here, his trust
in his Lord and in the covenant they made from the beginning
of the world, from before the foundations of the world. He
promised, he knew that his offering here would be honoured. He knew that the depth to which
he suffered would accomplish the salvation of his own. He
hoped in the Lord, he hoped in his word and in his promise. And then we read, my soul waited
for the Lord for Christ. more than they that watch for
the morning. I say more than they that watch
for the morning. Here is Christ going into the
depths into the darkness for his people and here are his people
looking and beholding and waiting upon him. As it were the priests
offered up the sacrifice and then entered into the Holy of
Holies out of view. He went into the darkness. He
went out of sight. And the people look on and wait. And they wait for Him to return. They wait for the morning. At the cross the people looked
and beheld the Lamb of God, lifted up in the day, lifted up in the
light, lifted up on that cross to which he was cruelly nailed,
they beheld him. And all the people went by, the
priests, the scribes, the Pharisees, the common people, the Roman
soldiers, they all beheld the Son of God. they beheld the Lamb
of God crucified, slain but then the light of the sun was taken
away and darkness came upon the face of the earth and those who believed the faithful
looked through the darkness waiting for the light waiting for the
coming of the morning awaiting His rising in the morning, the
rising of the sun, the shining forth of the light. Faith waits. Like a watchman we wait through
the night for the coming of day. Isaiah chapter 21 verse 6 reads,
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go set a watchman. Let him declare what he seeth.
Watch, wait, look. Believe, wait for the morning,
wait for the light, it seems dark now, everything seems dark
now, you cannot comprehend how there can be hope, how there
can be light, how there can be salvation, everything's dark. It's black. All you can see is
the darkness of your sin. All you can see is the darkness
of this world round about. All you can see is the depravity
in your own heart. All you can sense is your unbelief,
your waywardness, your wretchedness. It's all darkness. How could
God have mercy upon one like me? Oh, you may feel the hand
of God gone out against you, you may have sensed your sin,
you may sense your guilt, the Lord may have awakened you to
something of what you are, and you see your sin, you see your
wretchedness, and you come to religion, you come to the scriptures,
you come to the law, and you try to live right, you try to
turn unto the Lord, you try to turn to God, and it's all wretched,
it's all to no avail. You don't get anywhere, you don't
get any better, you see more of your sin every day. You don't
get any closer to God. You try to pray and he never
seems to hear. There's never an answer, it's
all darkness. Isaiah says, said a watchman,
watch. Watch through the night, watch
through the darkness, wait upon the Lord. Lord, hear my voice. cry out of the depths I wait
for the Lord my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope trust
in his word wait the light will come but at the cross there was darkness
the three hours of light went by the people beheld the Son
of God the Lamb of God crucified nailed to the tree and they mocked
him, and they scoffed at him, they derided him. They said,
if thou be the Son of God, come down, send forth a legion of
angels to deliver thee. Come down, they mocked him, they
scoffed him, maybe you do. Maybe every time you come to
the Gospel you, as it were, come to it in the light and you hear
of a Christ on the cross. You hear of the Lord Jesus, you
hear of Him hanging there and you mock Him and you say, well
if you're the Son of God, do this, do that, come on, do something. And you spit upon Him in your
unbelief. You beat at Him with your hands.
You cast your words in His face. But then the darkness comes.
Then the light of the sun is taken away. Then all goes dark
and you cannot behold anymore. There's nothing you can see to
cast your words at. There's no one you can see to
deride. It's all dark. And the strangeness
of the darkness comes upon you because this was at midday. All
that you thought would carry on came to an end. You think
life will carry on endlessly. You're young. You think your
life will go endlessly into the future. But here darkness comes
upon you. A reminder to you that death
will come upon you one day as it comes upon us all. Our lives
are brief. And then we die. And sin will
plunge us into the depths. And here at the cross, the darkness
came at midday. And all the world that stood
there knew something strange, mysterious, miraculous was happening. The world was dark. And what of you? Do you know
that the darkness will be lifted? Or is that darkness for you forever? When you enter such a darkness
will you ever be brought out of it? Or will your sins plunge
you into hell for eternity? Is this the end? Have you mocked
one too many times? Have you derided Christ one too
many times? Is this the last time you'll
hear? The last time you'll see him in the light? Your last opportunity? Is this the darkness that will
come upon you forever? Or will God give you faith to
wait and to watch for the morning? To watch for the morning and
a hope in the rising of the sun. There were three hours of light
followed by three hours of darkness. When the priest slew the sacrifice
he went into the tabernacle into the holy of holies, unto the
mercy seat, hidden from view. There is that which is hidden
from view. These things are revealed to
the, to base, but they are hidden from the wise and prudent. There
are those things that are hidden from view. And here at the cross,
what happened in the darkness was hidden from view. Outside,
when the priest entered the temple, into the Holy of Holies, unto
the mercy seat, the people waited outside, waiting for his return. And here at the cross, in the
darkness, the people waited. They waited for the light to
come. They waited for the morning. They waited for the priest to
come forth unto them, pronouncing peace. Oh, the darkness. The darkness that came upon the
world. The darkness that comes upon
our souls. Should God show us what we are
outside of Christ? Oh, the darkness of sin. O the
darkness of rebellion! O the darkness of unbelief! O the darkness of our carnal
hearts! O the darkness of carnal earthly
religion! that religion that tells men
that they can climb to heaven's heights by their own works and
their own ways, their own will, that somehow they can ascend
as it were with the people of God here and not pass through
this place of sacrifice. that they can bring, as it were,
their own sacrifice and offer it up unto God like Cain did.
They can bring their own works and offer them up unto a holy
God and think that God will be pleased with them. When God requires a lamb slain
that bears their sins, God is only pleased with the sacrifice
which He took, which He offered. which he gives. Oh the darkness
of man's religion, of the works of man, the will of man, the
glory of man, the wisdom of man. the darkness and we're all in
that darkness by nature. We're either in the darkness
of sheer unbelief and corruption and carnality or we're in the
darkness of man's religion seeking to climb into glory by our own
will and our own works. We're dark, we're sinful, we're
dead, we're blind. But in this darkness upon the
cross Christ took that. He bore all of that. He bore
the darkness of sin. He bore the darkness of our rebellion. He bore the darkness of his people's
unbelief. He bore the darkness of carnal
religion. He bore the darkness of their
works and their wills and their own self-glory. He bore all the
darkness of their sin and their corruption, all their iniquities,
all their transgressions. all their unbelief he bore it
all and he bore the judgment of God against it in the darkness
for his people what we couldn't see with the natural eye he endured
three hours of eternity three hours of the wrath of God in
hell three hours of the fires of God against sin In the darkness,
out of the depths, he cried. Out of the depths. In the night watch, when the
night watchman would wait for the morning, the watchman through
the night would guard the city. and look for the enemies that
could come upon the city and the people. He would watch for
the enemies in order to sound the alarm and to send them away. And the people here as they wait
for the morning to come, watching through the night as it were,
watching for the enemies. But in the darkness, Christ met
all our enemies. and He conquered everyone. He
met our sin inward, outward and took it away. He met our rebellion
and took it away. He met our unbelief and destroyed
it. He met our carnal religion and
took it away. He met Satan and destroyed him. He met all our enemies. He delivered
us from all our captivity. He conquered everyone. in the
darkness. Only faith can see this. We can hear of it, we can read
of it, but it's darkness to us. Except God opens the eyes to
see something of who it was in the darkness that cried out and
what he did. Only faith can see this and only
God can give us faith to see this. We're not born with this
faith, we do not use our own natural faith, our own natural
understanding. God opens the eyes, we're blind
by nature. But should God come to us like
he came to Manoah and his wife, and offer up a sacrifice on our
behalf, and cause us to see, then we will see that he did
wondrously. Manoah took a kid with a meat
offering, offered it upon a rock unto the Lord, and the angel
did wondrously. And Manoah and his wife looked
on, for it came to pass when the flame went up toward heaven
from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in
the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked
on it, and fell on their faces to the ground. When Christ was
offered up, In the flames of God's wrath
upon the altar, he ascended into glory. He conquered our every enemy. He delivered us from all our
foes. He cried out at the end, it is
finished. Therefore let Israel hope in
the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous
redemption, and he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Why did Christ suffer? Why did
he go into the depths? Why was he plunged into the abyss? Why did he endure the darkness? Why did he drink the cup? Why
did he take the flames of God's wrath why was he pierced with
the sword of God's justice to redeem his people from their
sins for redemption he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities
he shall he shall and he has when Christ cried out it is finished
it was The darkness went because sin was out of sight, redemption
was accomplished, the people were set free. Oh what a thing
to hear! To have been there on that day
and to have heard Christ cry out, it is finished! What a sight
to behold for those who waited and watched in the darkness,
in the night, await in the light of the morning. Oh, to have been
there and see the light return. Oh, to have been given faith
to understand why, why the light returned. Because Christ had
accomplished everything for which he came. He brought in everlasting
righteousness. He'd brought in everlasting salvation. He'd blotted out all his people's
sins. He'd taken them away. He washed
them whiter than snow. Oh, what a salvation he wrought,
what depths to which he went. Let Israel hope in the Lord. Consider. My soul waited for
the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. I say
more than they that watch for the morning. After Christ died
upon the cross, he was taken down and laid in a tomb sealed
with a great stone. And early in the morning, while
it was yet dark, Just as the sun was about to rise, Mary Magdalene,
Mary the mother of James, the woman as it were, came unto the
tomb. Mark 16 says, when the Sabbath
was passed, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and
Salome had bought sweet spices that they might come and anoint
him. And very early in the morning, the first day of the week, they
came unto the sepulchre at the rising of the sun. They'd waited
through the darkness. They came seeking their Lord
in the morning. They'd waited for the morning.
They came, the woman, the bride. John 20 reads, The first day
of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark,
unto the sepulcher, and seeth the stone taken away from the
sepulcher. Then she runneth, and cometh
to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and
saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the sepulcher,
and we know not where they have laid him. Peter therefore went
forth and that other disciple and came to the sepulchre so
they ran both together and the other disciple did outrun Peter
and came first to the sepulchre and he stooping down and looking
in saw the linen clothes lying yet went he not in then come
if Simon Peter following him and went into the sepulchre and
see if the linen clothes lie and the napkin that was about
his head not lying with the linen clothes but wrapped together
in a place by itself Then went in also that other disciple which
came first to the sepulchre and he saw and believed. For as yet they knew not the
scripture that he must rise again from the dead. Then the disciples
went away again unto their own home. But Mary stood without
at the sepulchre weeping. And as she weeped, she stooped
down and looked into the sepulchre and see if two angels in white
sitting, the one at the head and the other at the feet, where
the body of Jesus had lain. And they say unto her, Woman,
why weepest thou? She saith unto them, Because
they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have
laid him. And when she had thus said, she turned herself back
and saw Jesus standing. and knew not that it was Jesus.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest thou? Whom seekest
thou? She, supposing him to be the
gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou have borne him hence,
tell me where thou hast laid him, and I will take him away.
Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned herself and saith
unto him, Rabboni, which is to say, Master. The woman, the bride, came to
the tomb in the morning, seeking the Lord. The stone was rolled
away. He was free. and she was free
with him. Redemption had been brought in. The people of the Lord had been
set free, redeemed. The stone could not hold them
in the grave. the law could not condemn them.
Every charge had been answered, for their sins had been blotted
out, and righteousness had been brought in. He had delivered
His people from their sins. He had set them free. The darkness
was gone, and the sun shone forth. Let Israel hope in the Lord,
for with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him is plenteous redemption,
and He shall redeem Israel, from all his iniquities, O believer,
wait upon the Lord. May he give us faith, as with
Mary, as with the woman, his bride, to look for him, and see
him, and behold him, risen in power. The depths could not hold
him. The darkness could not keep him. The grave could not keep him
down. The stone could not stay still. Christ rose in power and all
his people rose with him. Paul was crucified with Christ,
nevertheless he lives. And you believer, if you know
him, were crucified with Christ. and now live, because you waited
for the morning. God kept you, he put you in the
darkness, he gave you faith to wait, and he lifted you up with
Christ. And when Christ rose, we rose. When he ascended, we ascended.
When he entered into glory, we entered into glory with him.
And with him we live and reign today. around the throne of glory
on high the Lamb of God in the midst with the wounds in his
hands and the wounds in his side declaring unto all his people
and before all the world that he shall and he has redeemed
and redeemed Israel from all his iniquities. The morning has come. Salvation
is wrought. Salvation is of the Lord. O God,
give us grace to come with that woman to the tomb, to Christ,
in the garden, and behold the Lamb of God. Amen.