I often choose that hymn that
we sing, come thou fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing thy grace. That should be our prayer when
we come here. God tune my heart because if you by your blessed
operation of your Holy Spirit don't tune our hearts They won't
be tuned. We'll come in and we'll go through
the motions and we'll get up and leave. It can happen. It does happen. God forbid, but
it does happen. How can we prevent that? By asking God. Come thou fount
of every blessing, tune my heart to sing thy praise. Streams of
mercy, never ceasing, call for They demand a response. God,
who has bestowed so much mercy and grace on this sinner, deserves
a response from this sinner. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank
you, Lord, for saving my soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. You find this theme throughout
the Psalms, don't you? Throughout the Word of God. My
subject this morning is that. Worship. Worship. Oh come let us worship. If you haven't noticed, that's
the article of the bulletin. You might want to keep it. Don't
toss it in the trash can. There's a lot of work goes into
them. We don't need, they're not given just a So you'll know
what two hymns were, two or three hymns were singing. You don't
need a bulletin for that. Joe could announce those just
like he does without a bulletin. No, this could be a very helpful
tool to witness and so forth. So please, use it, use it. The articles, they may be a help
to you today, they may be a help to you next week. You know, don't
be so quick just to toss them aside. I'd like to begin by reading
a couple of, a few comments by way of introduction to our message
to sort of set the tone of the importance of what we're trying
to talk about. The first few comments are by
someone you know very well. He merits our respect, Brother
Henry Mahan. This article was written I don't
know how many years ago. It's been a while. I recall reading
it and I went online and tried to find it because I wanted to
pass it on to you again. You've probably read it. But
it needs repeating. The title of the article is The
Recovery of the Gospel. The Recovery of the Gospel. That
sounds like it's important. the recovery of the gospel. Henry
wrote, the most humbling and challenging thing we face in
this day, the great concern of our hearts ought to be a recovery
of the gospel of God's glory. Where is it gone? Where is it
gone? I'm convinced, Henry wrote, that
what men called Today, the gospel is not the gospel at all, but
is the preaching of another gospel, another Jesus, and another spirit,
my soul. Really? Really. Today's gospel
emphasizes what men should do for God, rather than what God
must do for men. That's true. That's true, isn't
it? My friends, salvation is not something you do for God,
or something you do for yourself, or something the preacher does
for you. Salvation is of the Lord. Now I'm quoting from another
article. The True God is the title of
it, again by our dear brother Henry. Concerning the character
of God, what gross mistakes men make. I believe it is a mistake
about God himself which has been the root and foundation of all
the mistakes in theology. What will your God do? How will
your God do what he does? Tell me who he is. If He is omnipotent,
omnipresent, and omniscient, and dwells in the heavens, He
will do what He pleases. Tell me who your God is. Another
article, briefly, by A.W. Pink, along this same line. Never was there a greater need
for the ministers of the gospel to proclaim the inflexible justice
of God, then in the evil days in which our lot has fallen,
not only is God himself insulted and grossly dishonored by the
perversions of his character which have been so widely spread
during the last few decades, but multitudes of people have
been fatally deceived thereby. Multitudes of people have been
fatally deceived thereby until a generation is now arisen to
whom the deity of holy writ is an unknown God. My soul, that's
pretty serious, isn't it? That's pretty serious. Here in Psalm 46 again, verse
1, God, God is our refuge. and strength, a very present
help in trouble. Our comfort is derived from our
concept of who God is. Joe, is he trustworthy? Is he trustworthy? Is He the
great and glorious, all-sufficient God? Or is He that pipsqueak
that needs my help? If He is, He's not trustworthy. But you'll never find that in
the Word of God. God describes Himself to us as
He really is. We call this God's Word that
men want to argue about the very words of God in describing Himself. Oh no, He's really not that way.
Oh no, man really is not in that bad a shape. Look again at verse
10. Here I think is a very crucial
element in true worship. Got to do this. Got to do this. Be still. Be still. And know that I am God. Be quiet. God doesn't care what
you think. God doesn't want your opinions. God says be still and know that
I am God. And child of God, If He enables
you to do that, you'll be comforted. You'll be comforted. In Psalms 50, God laid this accusation
against the children of Israel, and it's true today. It's true
today. God says, Thou thoughtest that
I was altogether such a one as yourself. You thought I was like
you. That's what Mr. Pink wrote about,
didn't he? He said there's a whole generation
that's arisen to whom the deity of Holy Writ is an unknown God. You talk to the average church
member that goes out of these places of worship, so called
today, tell them what God Himself says about Himself, and they'll
look at you like a cat looking at a new gate. How is that possible? Because they've heard all their
life about this other God. He says, be still. Be still and
know that I am God. And the sad thing is, John, these
places of worship don't even deny the fact that their God
is the unknown God. I drove by that church right
across from the burger joint, Jack's, Jack's. Out there on
their marquee, they had something along this line. Do you need
a lifeguard? Ours walks on water. Please don't
laugh at that. Please don't laugh at that. That's
sad. That's sad. Ours walks on water? Would you like a doormat into
heaven? We have one for you. His name's
Jesus. Would you like a fire escape out of hell? His name's
Jesus. Come on in and make a decision
for Him. Be still and know that I am God. God doesn't stand at the beck
and call of men. God is not a beggar at the door
of men's heart. Men are beggars before Him. They're
in His hand. It's up to Him whether He saves
or damns. Be still and know that I am God. My soul, I wholeheartedly agree
with our dear friend, Brother Henry. Oh, for a recovery of
the gospel. I'll be honest with you. I'll
be honest with you. I don't know. I really don't
know if we'll see it in our day. I don't know if God will do it
in our day. It seems to me to a large extent
he's just giving this religious world over to what they want.
Leave us to our will. God says so be it. Go on with
your will. And you see the utter nonsense
that's the result of it. People don't have a clue who
God is. But nevertheless, oh may God
enable us to pray. Lord, would you be pleased in
our day, in our dark religious day, would you be pleased to
make, bear your holy arm again, shake this world and let them
know who you are? Be still and know that I am God. True worship must begin with
the true God, Jehovah. Our Lord told the woman at the
well, lady, you know, she got a little fidgety. He was putting
his finger on the sore spot. She was an adulteress. No adulterer
shall inherit the kingdom of God whether it's your daughter
or mine or your son or mine. I mean, that's so. And our Lord said, go call your
husband. She got nervous, got nervous. He's starting to get
nosy now. She said, one of the changes,
wanted to show how religious she was. I'm not so bad. I worship
in this mountain in Samaria. I know Jerusalem, they say we
ought to worship there, but we Samaritans, we've got our temple
here. You know what Christ said to
her? He said, lady, that don't make a lick of difference. That's
not the issue. Whether you worship in Samaria
or whether you worship down in Jerusalem, you don't know what
you worship because you don't know God. You don't know God. What difference does it make
what you bow to if you're worshiping an idol? Call to worship. Look, if you will, at Psalm 95.
This is what David does in this Psalm. Indeed, this is what David
does in all the Psalms. They're not about man. They're
about God. They're about God. In our bulletin
again, in the hymn that's printed there each Sunday, usually, very
often, the heading has, Call to Worship. Call to Worship. I told you that someone called
me a week or so ago and asked me if I was the worship director
at Fairmont Grace Church. As I mentioned in the bulletin,
that was a short conversation. David directs us. He directs
us where true worship lies. And he doesn't say, look at me.
He doesn't say stand up sinner. He directs us to the Lord God
Almighty who deserves worship. Oh come, he says, verse 1. Oh
come, let us sing unto the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to
the rock of our salvation. Oh, that brings joy, doesn't
it? Christ says, upon this rock I'll build my church and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Ooh, that doesn't
make me sad. That gives me joy. Let us come
before his presence, verse 2, with thanksgiving. And make a joyful noise unto
him with psalms. Psalms, praises. For the Lord
is a great God and a great King above all gods. Be still and
know that I am God. In his hand are the deep places
of the earth, and the strength of the hills is his also. The
sea is his, and he made it. Oh, I thought it was the result
of a big bang theory. Well, let folks believe that
and go to hell believing it, but no, God in the beginning
created the heavens and the earth, and his hands formed the dry
land. Oh come, oh come, let us worship
and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord
our Maker, for He is our God, and we are the people of His
pasture, the sheep of His hand. O come let us worship in the degree of true worship
Depends upon our thoughts, our concept of who God is. Oh, the higher we see Him, the
lower in the dust we'll fall. That's just a fact. That's so.
That's so. True worship involves two things.
Who is God? Who is God? True worship begins
here. Turn if you will to Isaiah chapter
40. Isaiah chapter 40. True worship
begins with the knowledge of God. If you don't know who God
is, you might as well go out there and worship that stump.
It doesn't really matter. And if you worship a figment
of your imagination and call him Jesus. If it's not the Christ
of Scripture, you might as well worship a stump. If he's not
the great and mighty God. Who is God? Look here at verse
9 of Isaiah chapter 40. O Zion, O Zion, that bring us
good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain. O Jerusalem,
that bring us good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength. Lift
it up! Lift it up, preacher! Lift it
up, prophet! Lift it up, messenger of God!
Don't be afraid, and say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your
God. Behold You're God. Well, what about man? What about
man? Doesn't the prophet have anything
to say about man? As a matter of fact, he does.
Look what he says about man, verse 7. Are you still in Isaiah
40? The voice said, cry. And he said,
what shall I cry? All flesh is grass. Whoa, whoa,
whoa. What about the honor of man?
What about the place of man? What about the will of man? No,
God says all flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof is
as the flower of the field. And you know what becomes of
that? The grass withereth. We're withering. We're withering
people. We're dying daily. Our life's
a vapor. In a few more days, we're all
going to be gone. We'll all be ushered into the
presence of God Almighty. You're listening to a great-grandpa. I know, looking at me, that's
hard to believe. I mean, I look in the mirror
and don't see how I could be a grandfather. Well, that's not
exactly true. That's vanity. All flesh is grass. The grass withereth, verse 8.
The flower fadeth. You mean all man's glory is no
more than a fading flower? That's it? We're just grass? Man, that's not that very flattering. I think I'll go somewhere and
hear a preacher tell me how good I am, how God needs me, how God's
waiting for me to do something for Him. Man, you're telling
me I'm grass? God's telling you you're grass.
God's telling you you're grass. I'm grass, you're grass. And
all of our glory is just like that flower. I got rose bushes
at home. Here, a week or so ago, just
every time I looked out, another pretty red rose. Pretty red rose. Looked out a couple of days ago,
they're all dead. All dead. Gone. So is your life. Appears for
a little while, then vanishes away. The word of our God shall
stand forever. Behold your God. This is what
we read in Psalm 95. You know that the word Psalm,
Psalms mean praises. That's what the word means, praises.
And the word worship, you know what worship means? It means
to prostrate yourself. That's what worship means. That's
what David's calling on God's people to do. Oh, come let us
sing unto the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to
the rock of our salvation. Verse 3, for the Lord is a great
God and a great king above all gods. Oh, come, verse 6, let
us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord,
our maker, our maker. Does your concept of God sound
like that? A true concept of God does. Our
concept, our idea, our thoughts of who God is determines how
we worship Him. That's exactly right. That's
exactly right. Our concept of who He is determines
how we worship Him. It proceeds, or rather it produces
a sense of reverence a sense of his greatness. I see these
peacocks, call themselves preachers, these peacocks on television
strutting around on the platform, look at me, look at me, look
who I am. Like Brother Henry said, it's
just one worm bragging on another worm. All flesh is grass. You know what happens? You know
what truly happens? When God Almighty reveals himself
to a man or a woman. You know what happens? Standing
up and strutting and popping their suspenders is the last
thought on their mind. They come down. Isaiah was a
prophet before this happened. Before this happened, Isaiah
was a prophet of God. In chapter 6 of his, I almost
said gospel, he's been referred to as the fifth gospel, the book
of Isaiah, but he said, in the year that King Uzziah died, that
earthly king died, Isaiah said, I saw also the Lord
God, there's a king that liveth forever and ever. Earthly kings
come and go, but our king sets upon his throne forever. I saw
the Lord of glory and I saw those holy beings, those holy seraphims
flying amidst the throne and they were crying, holy, holy,
holy is the Lord God of Israel. Holy, holy, holy is our God. The whole earth is full of His
glory. Be still and know that I am God. That sounds a little different
than me and Jesus got our own thing going, doesn't it? That's
a different fella. That's a different fella. And
I know thousands are professing faith in him, and I know this
according to God's word, those same thousands that's trusting
another Jesus will hear the true Jesus say, depart from me, I
never knew you. The greatest, one of the greatest,
I would think, deceptions that the devil ever deceived our generation
by is pushing this other Jesus that can't have his way, that
needs your help. When Isaiah saw that, what did
he do? Well, look at me. Look what God
showed me. No, that's not what he did. You
know what he did, didn't he, John? He said, woe is me. Woe is me. What's the matter
with you, Isaiah? You're already a prophet. What
do you mean, woe is you? He said, I've seen the Lord.
I've seen God. I have an idea of who He is.
What are you going to do Isaiah? I'm going to shut my mouth. I'm
going to be still and know He is God. That's what everyone
that God reveals himself to does. Job and his theologian friends
have been sitting around for days and days and days trying
to figure out who God is. Why God was allowing this? Well,
Job, it's this, and it's that, and it's that. Then God, well,
imagine that. God appears on the scene. God
says, stand up, Job. Stand up. Answer me. You know
it all. Tell me, where were you when
I laid the foundation of the earth, Job? Where were you? Where
were you when I set the stars in their course? Did I ask your
help? Where were you when that took
place? And you remember what Job said? Same thing Isaiah said. Job said, I've heard of you with
the hearing of the ear. But now my eye sees you, and I abhor myself. My soul,
Louie, that sounds different, doesn't it? Look at me, I've
got all the gifts. Look at me, I'm building super
cathedrals. Look at me, I've got my own airplane. Look at me, Job said, I abhor
myself and I'm gonna shut my mouth and bow down before God
Almighty. Be still and know that I am God. That's what I would like to see
in my generation. And I may not. But God knows
also I'd like to see it right here at Fairmont Grace Church.
Let's take worship a little more serious, folks. A little more
serious. Pray that God would be pleased
to meet with us. The Lord is great in all of His
attributes, in His goodness, in His power, in His glory. Again,
verse 6 of Psalm 95, O come, O come, let us worship and bow
down. Let us kneel before the Lord,
our Maker, our Maker. Let's kneel before Him, our Creator.
He hath made us and not we ourselves. Don't kneel before a man, a statue,
a crucifix. No, those are not our makers.
They didn't make us. Man makes them. Can you imagine
that? A priest comes into some poor,
dying, deceived sinner and holds up a crucifix and says, Behold
your God. Man, man made that. You're telling
me to trust him. That's my God? That's my God? I'm sure you've heard the story
of a man who was a woodworker and made a wooden crucifix. When
he was dying, the priest came in, the village priest, and said,
Behold your God. The poor man said, My God, I
made that. I made that. Did you make the
God you profess faith in? Did you make him? Is He the figment
of your imagination? Are you trusting what the lies
men have told on God, who He really is? Or does your concept
of God do what it did to Isaiah and to Job? Does it make you
bow down in wonder and adoration? Does it make you sing, Oh my
God, how great thou art? Oh yes, that's the true God.
He's our Creator. Verse 7, He's our Redeemer. We're
His people. He's the Great Shepherd. We're
the sheep of His hand. Our keeper, our preserver, our
protector. True worship involves the heart,
doesn't it? It involves the heart. I mean,
we can walk in and sit down and say, wake me up when He's done. but we've not worshipped God.
Worship has something to do with the heart. True worship, there's
nothing in true worship that appeals to the flesh. Now think
about that. There's nothing in the true worship
of God that appeals to the flesh. Nothing. Nothing. If it appeals
to the flesh, if it pleases the flesh, it's not of God. It's
not of God. Matthew 2, John I taught about
this a few weeks ago when those wise men followed the star looking
for He that would redeem Israel. Looking for that One that was
in the world and the world was made by Him, that eternal God,
that Word, that exact expression of God Himself made flesh. They looked for Him. And when
they came and found the young child, you know what we read
in Matthew 2? What did they do? They bowed
down. They bowed down. They kneeled
before Him. They prostrated themselves. They were in the presence of
the God-man. And they gave Him gold and frankincense
and myrrh. They brought their very special
gifts to Him. Those gifts were but the expression
of their adoring heart. Before our Lord, just a few,
just days before our Lord went to Calvary, He was in the home
in Bethany. That home where lived Martha
and Mary her sister and their brother Lazarus. Shortly before
that, the Lord had raised Lazarus from the dead. And he comes back
to Bethany and they give a feast for him. And there's Lazarus,
we're told in John 1, sitting at the table. Sitting at the
table with Jesus. Merry, merry. Still waters run deep, they say. Martha is serving. She's rattling
the pots and the pans. But Mary goes and gets some ointment,
some very costly oil. She's been saving this for just
the right moment. She understands. She has some
understanding when he says he's going to lay down his life. And
she comes, we're told, and anoints his hand. And Judas, the thief,
said, well, what a waste. This could have been sold. And
we could have give the money to the poor. Yeah, sure we would
have. No. Our Lord said, be quiet. Be quiet. She's done this for me. This
is not for you. This is for me. This is for me. And we're told that the odor
of that sweet perfume filled the house. Oh, come thou fount
of every blessing. Tune our hearts to sing thy praise. May the perfume of our true worship
fill this house. Behold, your God. I've told you
I think before about visiting my granddaughter when she was
a teenager. They have less and less use for
you, John, when they get to be teenagers. So you enjoy that
young man now. But I went to see her, visit
her. She comes in and sits down next
to me on the couch. She won't even lay down her phone.
She's standing there texting, doing this. I'm trying to talk
to her. She's doing this. I said, I'll tell you what, Harley. I
didn't come in here to play second fiddle to you a cell phone. I'll
come back when you've got time to talk to me. That was rude. That's rude. I see it all the
time. That's rude. Don't you agree? But let me ask
you this. What about that careless, casual
attitude when people come to worship God? I know we live in
places they advertise. We have a traditional service
and we've got a contemporary service. Just come as you are.
You don't even have to change clothes. Just roll out of bed
and come in your PJs. You better not do it here. Contemporary
service. Just come as you are. But it
goes beyond that, children of God. We can dress up nice, but
we can come without any preparation. Did you ask God when you came
at this point? Did you ask God? Bless your word. Bless me, Lord. Prepare my heart. Tune my heart
to sing your praise. Did you? Did you? Oh God, enable
our pastor that left up our Redeemer because we're suffering and we're
hurting and we're going through trials. Help us to behold our
God, our eternal everlasting refuge. That alone will comfort
us. We come in late. I know, I know,
There are exceptions when people may do that, can't be helped.
I don't mean that. I hope you know I don't mean
that. But to come in consistently late to every service, to be
late, duh, if you're 10 minutes late, leave 10 minutes early.
That's not hard to figure out. I understand being tired. Man,
I understand being tired. People work, they come in, they're
tired. I appreciate you coming to the Wednesday night service.
Man, you've worked all day, some of you driving a distance. I
appreciate that. I'm not talking about that. But
to come in and sit down and sleep during every message? Paul said
in Romans 10, faith cometh by hearing. That requires staying
awake and hearing the Word of God. Child of God, doesn't God
our Savior deserve better than that? God forbid that we should offer
him our leftovers. You remember when David, after
God had sent the plague because of his prideful numbering of
the children of Israel, and God stayed the plague and David went
to make an offering to his God. And to free him to whom he went,
or where he was at the time, said, David, I'll give you all
the cattle you need for the offering. I'll give you the place to do
it. I'll prepare the sacrifice. David said, no, you won't. No,
you won't. He said, I'll do it. He said,
I'll pay for everything you're given. Remember what he said? I'm not going to offer to God
that which costs me nothing. I won't offer, I won't give God
my leftovers. I won't offer to God that which
cost me nothing. The Lord again our son, the God
we worship, the one we worship, the Lord our rock, a great God
above all gods. Saying God is sovereign is simply
saying God is God. Ascribe ye greatness to our God,
Moses sang. The greater we are allowed to
conceive of Him being, the greater we see of His glory, His power,
oh, the greater will be our peace and our assurance, our security,
our very sanity. Things are not out of control,
child of God. He's still on the throne. He's
still ruling in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants
of the earth. To say that God is sovereign
simply means that God rules, that He's God. I've said that
to folks and I've had them look at me sorrowful. Feel sorry for me, Lester. I
had my sister do that one time. She came in from where she was
attending school at Mr. Fotwell's. She'd heard her brother had lost
his mind. He believed in election, was preaching that God saves
his people on purpose. He's lost his mind. So she came
out to see if it was true. And I was telling her, well,
yeah, it's true. God is God over all. God doesn't
try, God does. Salvation is of the Lord in its
entirety. God saves people on purpose.
He chose to save this sinner. I said, that's glorious. That
bows me down. I've never been so bowed down
until I realized that Jesus Christ deliberately laid down his life
for me. Oh my soul, that's overwhelming.
And she looked at me and said, Not Calvinism. Falwell said,
oh, that's a, how did he describe it? That's a doctrine out of
the pit of hell. Yeah, whatever. He knows better
now. He knows better now. But she
felt sorry for me. Because I believe that our God
is great. Does how God described himself
elicit pity? Listen to just a few places,
and there are so many more we could turn to throughout the
Word of God. In the beginning, God. Does it sound like He needs
our pity? The last book, the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth. No, He deserves our worship,
our adoration, our thankfulness, our praise, our prostration.
Throughout the book of Isaiah. Listen, I even I, this is God
talking, I even I am the Lord and beside me there is no Savior.
I have declared and have saved and I have showed when there
was no strange God among you. Therefore ye are my witnesses
saith the Lord that I am God. Doesn't sound like he merits
pity. Whatever he purposed, that's what he does. God, Christ even
said, remember when he was going to the going to Calvary, after
being lacerated, spit upon, beard plucked out, crown of thorns
upon his head, trudging to Calvary. And there are some women standing
there weeping. Remember what he said? Don't weep for me. Don't feel sorry for me. He's
going to obtain our eternal redemption. Don't feel sorry. Weep for yourselves,
he said. Weep for yourselves. Yes, God
is sovereign. The Lord said concerning his
righteous servant, he shall not fail. Folks say, well, that's
just too deep. We can't understand that. God
shall not fail. If you picked it up and read
it in the newspaper, you wouldn't have a problem with it. It's
not hard to understand. See, I've had folks tell me,
well, that about God's sovereignty is of no practical benefit. Really? Really? No practical benefit? To hear something like this,
I come down from heaven not to do my own will, but the will
of Him that sent me, and this is the will of Him that sent
me of all which He had given me, I should lose none. That
doesn't sound ambiguous. No, oh, that doesn't make me
sorrowful, that gives me joy. Gives me joy. And he responded
to the Father that sent him, I come to do thy will, O my God. Sounds like he came to accomplish
something. And he did, didn't he? He did.
He entered one time into the holy place, having obtained eternal
redemption for us. When he had by himself purged
our sins, he sat down on the right hand of the majesty on
high." All our salvation, all of our hope, all of our peace
with God, all of our acceptance before God, all rest upon this,
Christ's accomplishments on our behalf. Whether this sinner goes
to heaven or hell will be determined by what Jesus Christ did for
me. And bless his name, I'm going
to draw to a close. But my soul, I believe, oh, I
should bow down before him. He deserves my worship, not my
leftovers. Oh, God forbid that I offer unto
him that which costs me nothing. Oh, but with adoring heart like
the wise men prostrate before him because of what he did, God
Almighty says, concerning this sinner, deliver his soul from
going down to the pit. I found a ransom. My ransom cried,
it is finished. It's no wonder that the angels
in glory have never gotten over that marvelous truth. He hath
redeemed us with his own blood. they're still singing about it.
With the redeemed already there, they're crying, worthy is the
Lamb. Turning to Hebrews chapter 13,
Hebrews chapter 13, the psalmist referred to God's people as being
the sheep of his pasture. We're in the hands of the great
shepherd of the sheep. God entered into a covenant with
Jesus Christ the shepherd. He didn't enter into a covenant
with the sheep. No, no. He entered into a covenant
with their shepherd. And their great shepherd honor-bound
himself to bring all of his sheep to glory. God doesn't look to
the sheep for satisfaction. He looks to the shepherd. The
shepherd is responsible for the sheep. And hear this good news,
verse 20 of Hebrews 13. Now the God of peace that brought
again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of
the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working
in you that which is well, pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ,
to whom be glory forever and forever. Oh, come, let us worship
the Lord our maker. Let us sing praises unto our
God and invite others to come with you and do the same. Perhaps
God in his mercy and grace will reveal himself to them and they
can join us in singing. To him who has loved us and washed
us from sin, to him be the glory forever. Amen. God bless you.