Psalm 128 reads as follows, the
Song of Degrees. Blessed is everyone that feareth
the Lord, that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the
labour of thine hands. Happy shalt thou be, and it shall
be well with thee. Thy wife shall be as a fruitful
vine by the sides of thine house. Thy children like olive plants
round about thy table. Behold, that thus shall the man
be blessed that feareth the Lord. The Lord shall bless thee out
of Zion, and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days
of thy life. Yea, thou shalt see thy children's
children, and peace upon Israel. Blessed is every one that feareth
the Lord, that walketh in his ways, for thou shalt eat the
labour of thine hands. Happy shalt thou be, and it shall
be well. with thee. It shall be well. This song of degrees, this psalm
is a very positive psalm. In contrast to many others, contrast
to some of the ones preceding it on this journey up towards
Zion, we read nothing in this psalm of the Lord's enemies. Nothing of their trials, nothing
of their persecution on the way, nothing of the warfare that they
experience between the flesh and the spirit, between the enemies
of God and his people. The entire view is taken up with
the blessing of God upon his own. With the blessing that God
bestows upon his people. through His Son, the Lord Jesus
Christ. It's an immensely positive psalm. It stands as a pool of light
in the darkness of this world. There's no mention, in a sense,
of any of the darkness around, though that is patently obvious,
that that is outside. But here the view is of that
which is of God in the light, that which comes of God to His
people, His blessing upon them. This is a view to be seen by
faith. One cannot enter into this psalm
or its blessings or its experience except God opens the eyes. By
nature all we see is the darkness here below. All we see is sin
and its consequences. All we see are the enemies of
God and all we hear are their voices raging. But here in Nisar, all we see
is the light of God set forth in His blessings. through
that man that fears the Lord. In the earlier songs of degrees
or songs of ascent, the view was much more centered upon the
trials below and on our enemies, within and without, and on being
delivered from them, on the cry unto God to be delivered from
them. But as we progress on this journey and come closer to the
final songs of degrees, the view becomes increasingly taken up
with Zion, with that which is above, and with the blessings
that come down from God upon his people and his church and
its unity. By the time you come to the final
Psalms, like Psalm 133, we read, Psalm 134, Behold, bless ye the
Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in
the house of the Lord. Lift up your hands in the sanctuary
and bless the Lord, the Lord that made heavens and earth.
Bless the outer Zion. The view gets lifted up. But
at the beginning of the journey, the view is much more upon the
trials, the difficulties of the way. and upon the enemies of
God's people. And if you consider the actual
journey that the Israelites would have taken up towards Jerusalem,
up towards Zion, up towards the Temple. When they left their
towns and villages in the distance, Zion was simply something on
the horizon. They looked across to it. And
in between was everything on the way. The towns, the villages,
the countryside through which they journeyed. So the view is
quite low. And spiritually the view is set
low at the beginning and we see the obstacles in the way. The
view is clouded by what is between us and Zion, the here and the
now. But when the traveler reaches
the foothills of the city and begins to climb up to the city,
the view becomes increasingly elevated. The traveler looks
up. He looks upwards. And he sees
the city, and he sees the temple, and he sees the sky above it.
And so it is with the psalmist here. So it is with these songs
of degrees. As we come to the end, we look
up. And in this psalm, Psalm 128,
we're looking up to that man who fears the Lord. and we see
the blessing of God coming down upon him and upon his people
in him. Blessed is everyone that feareth
the Lord, that walketh in his ways. For thou shalt eat the
labour of thine hands, happy shalt thou be, and it shall be
well with thee. Who is this that fears the Lord? Who truly fears the Lord and
walks in his ways? None do fully, but those who
are in Christ, and they only do because of Christ, who is
their righteousness. There is no man of himself who
fears God. There is no man of himself who
walks in God's ways. Even the believer continues to
have the flesh and continues to turn like a sheep to the left
hand and the right hand. He stumbles and he falls, he
doubts and he fears, he falls into sin. He is increasingly
aware of the conflict within, the flesh warring against the
Spirit, such that the things he would do he cannot do, and
the things he would not do that he does. He loathes himself. And though there is that which
is sown in his heart, though there is that which is born within
of God, the Spirit, which loves God and wants to serve Him, which
loves God and fears Him and walks in His ways, yet he is That new
man of grace within, that new birth within, is surrounded by
flesh, is surrounded by an old nature of sin which pulls him
down. So even the believer cannot be
said in himself to truly fear the Lord and truly walk in all
His ways. But the believer is seen in his
Saviour, in Christ. And in God's eyes, everyone that
is in His Son is perfect, is righteous, is holy. is separated unto Him, is sanctified
and set apart unto God. God looks upon His own in His
Son, and everyone in Christ fears God and walks in His ways. Everyone in Christ shall see
the labour of their hands, of their hands, of His hands, and
happy shalt they be, and it shall be well with them. For the view
herein speaking of those that fear the Lord truly is of those
chosen in Christ, one with Christ. The view is of Christ. He's the man that fears the Lord. He's the man that walks in his
ways. He's the man that shall see the
labor of his hands. He's the man who shall be happy
all his days. His wife shall be as a fruitful
vine by the sides of his house. His children shall be like olive
plants round about his table. He's the one who is blessed. And all his people looking unto
him are blessed in him. The man here is Christ. Blessed is everyone that feareth
the Lord and that walketh in his ways. Oh, what blessing there
is if we know Christ and his salvation. If God has opened
our eyes and given us faith to look and to see him, to see him
for who he is, to know Him, to behold Him, to see what He has
done to deliver us from our sin, to see what He has done out of
love for His people, to see the man, the man that fears the Lord,
that feared the Lord and that walked in all His ways. When
Christ came into this world, when He was born of Mary, when
He grew as a child, serving as a carpenter in Joseph's household,
when he grew up and went forth to preach the word of God, to
preach the gospel of the kingdom, when he went about in his ministry healing the sick, making the
blind to see, making the deaf to hear and the lame to walk,
when He taught as no man taught, when He spake as no man spake,
throughout His was a life of faith, a life of complete union
with His Father. A life in which he feared the
Lord. He honored him in all things.
He walked before him. He walked in his ways. He gave
up all his own will, as it were. All his own gain. He did everything,
sacrificially, unselfishly, for his father. He walked in the
Lord's ways. He feared God. He did everything
for others. He did everything for His people.
He gave up heaven's glory to be made a man, made a little
lower than the angels, to come into this world as amongst sinners
in the darkness, to be rejected by all men, you and I included,
to be despised and cast out, to be spat upon and rebuked,
to have all men turn against Him. He came into this world
to suffer because He feared the Lord and walked in His ways. He suffered because He feared
the Lord and walked in His ways. Those who love the darkness hate
the light. We as sinners despise and hate
God and all his ways. We hate the light when it comes
amongst us because it exposes us. We hate to hear of God and
his ways. We hate to hear of Christ and
his righteousness because it exposes us. Why do we turn from
the Gospel? Why do we reject it by nature? Why do we mock it? Why do we
pour scorn on it? Because the Gospel comes to where
we are and exposes us as we are. It comes and sets forth the righteousness
and the holiness of God, the purity of God. And we who love
the darkness feel exposed by it, we feel condemned by it,
we know it's true, and we recoil from it, we want to run back
into the darkness, we want this light to be turned off, to go
away. Like those who sit in a dark
room and someone comes in shining a bright light in their eyes,
we turn our faces from it, we don't want it there. But Christ came as the light
in the darkness, as one that feared the Lord and walked in
his ways, as the only one that feared God and walked in his
ways. And because He did, He brought
light to those in darkness. He brought hope to the hopeless.
He brought salvation to those who are lost. He brought blessing
to those who have nothing. He brought hope to those who
are dead. He brought righteousness to those
who know nothing but sin. Through the labour of His hands,
He brought life to the dead. He came, walking in God's ways,
living by faith, He trusted His God, He believed, He loved God,
He was righteous in all His ways, and He looked past all the outward
circumstances, though men reviled Him. He knew the end from the
beginning, though all men turned against Him. He knew that His
way would bring salvation for a multitude, though His own rejected
Him, though those whom He came to save hated Him, though all
men despised Him. He knew. that in spite of all
the circumstances and all the appearance, even though they
cried out to crucify Him, this very act would bring about their
salvation. The culmination of men's hatred
of Christ and hatred of God and His Gospel was to take His Son
and crucify Him, was to put Him to death, to silence Him forever,
and to bring an end to this Gospel, bring an end to this God. Put
Him away so that we might never have to hear Him or see Him again.
This will silence Him. But what they did to silence
Him brought about their salvation what God's people did in piercing
the Son of God the Prince of Life brought about their own
salvation it brought about the judgment
of their sin the putting away of their sin and the manifestation
of the righteousness of God for when Christ took their sins upon
Him when he bore those sins as he was nailed to the cross, and
entered the darkness, when God poured out his wrath upon those
sins, he took them away. And through that act, through
that death, through that crucifixion, Christ delivered his people. from all their sins and all their
enemies in order that God might bless them with a blessing which
is everlasting, eternal, unmeasurable, with a love that cannot be quenched,
with a love that cannot be measured. All the blessings of this psalm
come because Christ laid down His life for his own. We took him, we rejected him,
we spat upon him, we nailed him to a tree, we said, away with
this man, crucify him. But through that death, God delivered
his people from their sins. And through the labor of his
hands, those hands that were nailed to the tree, Those hands
that touched sinners, touched their eyes and made them to see. Those hands that touched the
ears of the deaf and made them hear. Those hands that took the
little children that came under him and blessed them. Through
those hands that touched the sick and the lame, the blind
and the deaf, the dead and made them to live. Through those hands
mighty works were wrought. Says in Mark chapter 6 verse
2, When people heard of Christ and saw what He did, they spake
of the mighty works which were wrought by His hands. They saw
Him, they heard Him, they saw what He did. But mightier works
were wrought by those hands than what they saw. It wasn't just
the physical healing of the blind, the deaf, the lame. Those hands,
when they were nailed to the tree, when they felt the outpouring
of God's wrath against sin, were stretched out for the salvation
of His people. Those hands which laboured upon
the cross in agony, those hands which laboured as the faith of
Christ was tested as he hung and looked up to his father and
cried out in the darkness as he hung there and felt the pain
of his body hanging upon his hands which were pierced those
hands lifted up under heaven were stretched out to heal his
own When he cried out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? Those hands laboured by faith
to save every one whose sins he bore. Every one whose sins
pierced those hands and his feet and his side. Was it your sins? that nailed
him to the tree? Was it your hatred of Christ
that fixed him to the stake? Was it your rejection of the
gospel, your rejection of the truth, your rejection of God
that put him there? I shall see the labour of thine
hands, happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee. What
labour this is, the work of faith, the laying down of his life for
his people. We saw earlier in the psalm how
he feared God and walked in His ways. His feet walked, he journeyed
to that cross. He walked to the cross, he would
not be turned from it. His face was set like a flint
towards Jerusalem all his days. That's where he was going. His
feet took him there and then he was nailed to the tree. And
those hands which had touched and healed so many were stretched
out to heal a multitude. through the shedding of His blood.
Oh, what blessing came through the hands and the feet of Jesus
Christ. Have you felt the touch of His
hands in the Gospel? Believer, have you felt Christ
taking you as a little child? Suffer the little children to
come unto me. Has God brought you as a child,
brought down low, brought down to know you're nothing, brought
down to know you're small before God? You have no strength, you
have no wisdom, you have no ability. You're like a child, you're in
need. Has God brought you like a child
under His Son? And has He touched you with His
blood-soaked hands? and taken you up, and wrapped
them around you with His love, and said, Thy sins be forgiven
thee. Happy shalt thou be, it shall be well with thee. For
I have blotted out all thy sins and all thy transgressions. The
wrath of God shall never demand judgment from you again. I've
paid the price in total. And all there is now is the righteousness
of God poured out upon you. There is no sin. I've taken it
away, it's gone. There is no judgment, it's been
quenched. There is nothing but My love
for thee. Nothing but righteousness, nothing
but everlasting life. Has He taken you up as a child
and taken you into His arms and brought you into His everlasting
kingdom? This is the view of the psalmist.
The psalmist comes as one of those children taken up by Christ. Taken up in his arms. Who knew
in him that it shall be well. No matter what the circumstances
of this world may be, no matter what trials may come our way,
no matter what difficulties, no matter how unfairly our enemies
may rise up against Him, they hated Christ without a cause,
and they will hate His people without a cause, but no matter
what comes our way, If we're in Christ, this is the only view
that matters. All the sin, all the judgment,
all our enemies have been dealt with. We're in Christ. We're
in the one that fears the Lord and walks in His ways, whose
hands have saved us. It shall be well. It shall be
well today. It shall be well tomorrow, believer. It shall be well the rest of
thy days. It shall be well for eternity. For Christ has finished the work. He's made an end of transgression.
He's blotted out every sin. He's brought in righteousness.
He's manifested the righteousness of God and manifested the love
of God for His own. It shall be well. The psalmist goes on, thy wife
shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house, thy
children like olive plants round about thy table. Here we see
Christ united with his wife and the children which are brought
forth in his household. Here we see the church in all
her glory. his wife the Bride of Christ
the Church, she whom he gave his life for, she who in him
is without spot or blemish, washed from head to toe in his blood,
made to live forever. How Eve was taken out of Adam's
side at the beginning, the first woman taken out of the man's
side whilst he slept. and brought forth before him
when he awoke and he saw her and he loved her. And how fruitful she was, the
mother of all. A picture of the church, the
bride of Christ, who was taken out of his side as he slept in
death, as he went into the darkness. The church was poured forth out
of his side, pictured by the blood and the water which came
forth when his side was pierced. That blood that washed her clean,
that water of the Spirit of God which brings everlasting life,
which quickens dead sinners to life. Here the bride comes forth
from her husband as he slept upon the cross, and how fruitful
she is! How fruitful the Church is, the
Bride of Christ! She shall bring forth children, and they shall be like olive
plants round about thy table. She's fruitful because the gospel's
fruitful. Because Christ is fruitful. Because
His gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Because He died,
life shall come. There shall be fruit. God's work
will multiply. She shall be as a fruitful vine
by the side of thine house. Oh, what treasures there are
in just this one verse. This vine by the side of the
house, the bride, the children like olive plants round about
the table. Christ said in John 15 that he
is the vine and ye are the branches he spake unto his own. that in
Him they are as a fruitful vine. They're one with Him. They're
the branches of His vine. He's the one from whence the
life comes forth, but the life pours forth into them and causes
them to grow and to be fruitful. They are His wife, wed to Him
as a vine, a fruitful vine, by the side of the house. We see
this union of the vine with the picture of the church, the house
of God. Wherever the house of God is,
wherever God's people are gathered, wherever God raises up his gospel
and preaches his gospel by the power of his spirit, whenever
Christ speaks from on high and sends forth the gospel through
his servants, through his church, that gospel brings forth fruit.
That church, the bride, the church brings forth fruit, brings forth
children, there's blessing. There cannot be any other way
because the gospel declares the work of God and all that God
has done in Christ will come forth. Everyone for whom he died
will hear the gospel and will be saved. It's inconceivable
that anything else could be, it cannot. Every one for whom
he died will hear. God will send the gospel. He
will send it forth in power. He will add to the church daily
such as should be saved. And that church, that bride,
shall be as a fruitful vine, which brings forth children like
olive plants round about the table. Like olive plants. Why olive plants? Because the
olive throughout the scriptures is constantly pictured as that
plant, that precious plant which brings forth precious ointment
through the crushing of the fruit. That ointment that they used
to anoint the priests. That ointment which pictures
the outpouring of the Spirit of God and His power upon His
own. Christ constantly went up to the Mount of Olives to pray
under his God. He went up high to that Mount,
to that place where there were olive plants, olive trees, which
spake of this anointing, this precious ointment of the olive,
which spake of the crushing of the olive plant, the fruit. Christ's gaze was never far away
from where he was headed. He knew that the day would come
when he, the vine, the tree of life, the one of whom the olive was
a picture, would be crushed. He knew the day approached when
he would be taken and slain. and would be crushed for his
people as the olives were crushed underfoot. He knew the day would
come when through his being crushed, life would come forth for his
own. When his side would be pierced
and blood and water would pour forth, when that water a picture
of the Spirit of God would come forth and anoint his people and
be poured out upon them. As it was poured out upon the
priesthoods, as the anointing of the olive oil was poured onto
the head of the priests, so his blood must be shed and so the
Spirit must come forth as he's crushed, as it were, to bring
forth the oil to pour down upon his people. and what it took for Christ to
take his children's sin away. He was crushed as the olives. The oil came forth, the oil which
was poured out upon the priesthead. It came forth from Christ himself
to be poured upon his people, uniting them as one in him. This picture of the oil, as seen
in Psalm 133 as we approach the end of the Songs of Degrees when
David speaks of the unity of his people. Behold how good and
how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. It
is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon
the beard, even Aaron's beard that went down to the skirts
of his garments. as the dew of Hermon, and as
the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion. For there
the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore. God commands
the blessing to his own from Zion and that blessing comes
when the olive is crushed and the oil is poured forth and poured
forth upon the priest and poured forth upon all his people in
him. Christ is the head of his church
and we are his members. The oil is poured out upon him
as he's crushed and it's poured down upon us. That's what unites
us. That's what brings the blessing
and that is what God commanded out of Zion even life forevermore. Why are the children like olive
plants? Because each and every one is a picture of that which
they are in Christ as olives amongst whom he went When he
went, as it were, and prayed in the Mount of Olives, he prayed,
as it were, surrounded by his children. spiritually pictured,
surrounded by those for whom he came to suffer. He went to
that Mount of Olives, he went up as it were with these olive
children, these children all around about him, looking up
under heaven, praying under his father, entering into his father's
presence by faith. He comes and was surrounded by
them, knowing that he must be crushed. in order that they should
be one and anointed with him by the crushing of the olive. Thy children are like olive plants
round about thy table. Not only does he come amongst
his children in a mount of olives, but he comes with them to a table
and they're gathered around about his table. On the night when
Jesus was betrayed, he sat at a table with his disciples. He
knew what was coming. That night, those hours when
he'd be in the Mount of Olives, those hours when he'd be in the
Garden of Gethsemane, those hours when he'd be taken to the cross,
those hours when he sat at a table with his own and spake of that
which was to come upon him. He sat at a table and his disciples,
his children sat at the table with him. That table at which
he broke bread and gave wine and spake of the New Testament
in his blood and his body which is broken for sinners, he sat
with them. And he took the bread and he
break it and he gave them to eat and he said, this is my body
which is broken for you, take eat. And he took the wine and
said, this is the blood of my New Testament which is shed for
you. Drink ye all of it. This is his table around which
his children sit. Forever they see the blessing
of God as they sit at his table. and behold their Saviour crucified
for them. This blessing comes at a price. The blessings of God which He
gives freely to us, undeserving sinners, who are chosen by grace,
brought under the sound of the Gospel, quickened by God's Spirit,
given faith to believe that we had once hated Him, These blessings
which he gives unto us came at a price. Christ's blood was shed. His body was broken. He was bruised. He was crucified. He was crushed
as an olive. But we sit constantly, now and
in eternity, as it were around his table, beholding the Saviour
crucified for us. Behold in the blood. Behold in
the wine. Behold in the body. Behold in
the bread. We see in Him all our salvation. Behold that thus shall the man
be blessed that feareth the Lord. Thus shall the man be blessed
that feareth the Lord. Our blessing comes this way.
It can come no other way. God cannot bless a sinner, he
cannot forgive us our sins, he cannot justify us, he cannot
bring us into heaven's glory, except our sins be taken away. Except they be judged, except
they be answered. We will either pay for them in
eternity ourselves if we know not Christ, we will either enter
into eternal darkness if we reject him and reject his gospel and
turn from him. or if by His grace He calls us
and leads us unto His Son, then our blessing will come through
a Son offered up for us, through a Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world. This blessing comes through the
Gospel and the Gospel alone, the work of Christ alone, the
faith of Christ alone, His death and His resurrection alone. He died that his people might
live. Oh dead sinner, do you need life? Where are you looking for life? Where are you looking for peace?
Where are you looking for happiness? In Christ, his people shall be
happy. It shall be well with them forever. Outside of Christ, there is no
happiness. There is nothing but torment
and destruction. No matter what this world may
promise, no matter how things may appear here for a moment,
soon this world is gone and eternity awaits. But in Christ, there
is nothing but life and glory Nothing but blessing, nothing
but righteousness, nothing but the love of God made known in
him forevermore. The Lord shall bless the outer
Zion and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of
thy life. Yea, thou shalt see thy children's
children and peace upon Israel. What a view there is in this
psalm, how positive, how uplifting. This is Zion. That city, that
house built by God. Pictured by Zion, by Jerusalem
below. But a picture of that which is
eternal and everlasting to come. As we saw in the last song. Psalm 127, where we read, Except
the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.
As we saw there, David had wanted to build a house for the Lord.
He'd wanted to build a place upon this earth where the people
of God could come and worship God. He wanted to build the temple. But God would not have David
build that temple. He told David, because of his
transgressions, that he would have his son build it. God would
have David's son Solomon build the house. So it was David's
son who built it. And that King Solomon, that son,
was a son who wished for wisdom and God granted him wisdom. He was a wise king like none
has ever been. He was known for his wisdom,
unlike any other man's. It is that wise king, that man
of wisdom, David's son, who built the earthly temple. But that
king, that son, that man of wisdom was simply a picture of David's
greater son. And when God said to David that
thy son will build the temple, He was speaking through Solomon,
through David, of that greater son, the Lord Jesus Christ to
come. That man, that son, that king,
that personification of wisdom, Christ himself, that son builds
the house. He's the temple, he's Zion, he's
Jerusalem and all that dwell therein in him are found in him. He's the one who builds the house. Oh what a king he is, what a
son, what wisdom there is in Christ. The Lord shall bless
thee out of Zion. Because Christ builds the house,
because he gave up his life, because the temple was brought
down and he rebuilt it in three days, because he builds the house,
he builds it to perfection, the Lord shall bless the outer side. Thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem
all the days of thy life. This will come to pass and nothing
will prevail against it. The gates of hell cannot prevail
against it. God will build his church and
the gates of Hades cannot prevail against it. He is saving his
own. He is preaching his gospel. Christ
has finished the work and God is sending forth that gospel
from on high today to the four corners of the earth to gather
in all his people and all who are gathered into that that city,
all who are gathered into that house, all who are gathered into
that temple, all who are gathered into Jerusalem, into Zion, shall
see its prosperity all the days of thy life. Oh how powerful
the gospel is. Yea thou shalt see thy children's
children and peace upon Israel. Oh the blessing that comes. The
children shall go forth with the gospel. You will see thy
children's children. Those who are begat by the gospel
will declare the gospel and they will bring forth children. The
gospel continues through the generations and ages, even down
to us and even to the end of the world. It continues to be
preached. It will bring forth all whom
God has chosen to be saved will hear and will be brought unto
life. It's powerful. It's effective.
It cannot be stopped. Thou shalt see thy children's
children. Christ shall see the travail
of his soul. Everyone for whom he laid down
his life will hear. and will be saved and will be
brought in, no matter how difficult the day we live in may appear
to be, no matter how Satan may seem to prevail against God's
kingdom, no matter how sin may multiply in the world, no matter
how great the enemies of God may seem to appear, God is building
His house, Christ is preaching His gospel and everyone for whom
He suffered will and is being saved. And the consequence of
that is the peace which comes upon Israel, peace which was
purchased, peace which was brought in by the faith of Christ, peace
which His blood bought. There cannot be but peace in
his kingdom. Yes, the enemies gather all around
it, but they're conquered, they're destroyed, and it is but a moment
until God divides the darkness from the light, heaven from the
earth, his kingdom from all that is around, the sheep from the
goats. For all that are in Christ, all
that are locked in that ark, all who are brought safely through
the tempest and the storms of judgment, all who are in him,
there is nothing but blessing. It shall be well with thee. O believer, no matter what circumstances
you may be facing today, No matter what may come upon you in this
coming week, month, year, or the rest of your life, no matter
how hard the way may appear to be, no matter how hated you may
feel, no matter what the trials, no matter how puzzling the circumstances,
it shall be well with thee. Satan cannot touch you, the enemies
of God cannot touch you, Christ has done it all, he's finished
the work, we're one in him. And his wife shall be a fruitful
vine, his children shall be olive plants round about his table,
The man that fears the Lord shall be blessed. We will be blessed
in Christ. The Lord will bless us out of
Zion. We will see the good of Jerusalem
all our days. We will see our children's children
and we will see peace upon Israel. Oh may God give you May God give
us grace to look up beyond what we can see with the natural eye,
to look by faith unto Christ, to see him crucified for us,
to see his table, to see the bread and the wine, to see the
blessing out of Zion. Oh, may we know in our hearts
with a certainty that it shall be well with thee. Amen.