update on the work in Mexico.
It's an update on what the Lord is doing all over the world,
what the Lord is doing here. We're so thankful for his faithfulness
to his word, to call out his people in his time by the preaching
of the gospel. The church in Merida is doing
well. We have a problem We're going
to have to knock out one of the back walls. So the Lord is adding
to this church in Merida. But we're so thankful for the
privilege to be there and go and preach where the Lord opens
the doors to preach. We're going every two weeks to
the mission in Cancun, Mexico. And this is the city of Cancun. and we're also broadcasting live
the services that are held in Mérida so that we've gotten response
from many places and all over the world where people are watching
the broadcast and we're thankful for that door the Lord has opened
and we're going Saturday nights and preaching in the town of
Vío Báin, the pastor there is 82. Pastor Rutilio has lost his
voice so for the last four years we've been going there preaching
on Saturday night and Brother Elio, pastor from Zitzantun has
been going there Sunday afternoon at 6 and then he leaves there
after the service and goes back to his village and has the service
in Zitzantun. The preacher school is meeting
Of course, we're on break right now, but we're meeting still,
and all the pastors come in, and several students come in,
and we study the Word every Monday, and that's a real blessing to
everyone, to myself in particular, and we're so thankful for what
the Lord has called us to do there. The church there is the same
as the church here. It's no different church. We're preaching the gospel. You're the ministry of this church
here. You're a pastor going to different
places and preaching and going out over the internet. And the
Lord blesses it in His time. So we're thankful for this. We're waiting for the Lord to
come. In the meantime, we're just,
as it says here, we're the church is the pillar and ground of the
truth to hold fast, preach the same gospel and go where the
Lord leads us to preach. We're thankful for your fellowship
in the gospel for all these many years. And your pastor has been
there many times. Last time he was delayed or could
not come down. So we're looking forward to having
him this year. And so that's what I believe
the Lord is doing there. And my mom and dad are doing
well. Several of the men asked how
they were doing in the study. They're doing well. They're healthy.
And my dad is preaching for me tonight. And he's slowed down
a little bit, but he's he's doing well. And my mother as well. She's healthy. And he wants me
to get back soon. He thinks I'm on vacation. So
we're looking forward to getting back. But we appreciate this
church and your support and your prayers for us. And not only
in Mexico, but what the Lord is doing through this church
in many, many different places. We're in this work together,
and it's no different here as it is in Mexico. We're just co-laborers
in this work. Thank you, brother. Well, it's a delight to be here
with you tonight. I'm looking forward to getting
back to Mexico next week. I've been visiting several churches,
and so now we go back next week. And it's
a real joy to be here with you tonight, see your faces, and
we give thanks to the Lord for His faithfulness to keep us.
I want you to open your Bibles with me to Psalm chapter 130.
Psalm chapter 130. The scriptures, the scriptures revealed to us tell us that by nature all men
are dead in trespasses and sins. That's how we come into this
world. Enemies to God in our mind, by our works, by our deeds. Enemies to God. All man by nature. Without God, as it says in Ephesians
chapter two, at that time, you're without God, strangers to the
covenant. without God, without hope, without
Christ. All men by nature, without Christ,
there is no hope. Christ Jesus is the hope. He
is the hope. But that's how everybody is by
nature. Men by nature are without hope.
But I want us to see tonight in this Psalm 130, who has a
reason for hope? Do you have a reason for hope? Who is it that has reason for
hope? You see there in verse one it
says, out of the depths have I cried unto thee. Here's the
first thing about those who have hope. Those who have hope are
true sinners. True sinners. Out of the depths
have I cried unto thee. All men are sinners, but not
all men know it. Not all men know it. Only those
who the Holy Spirit reveals their condition. We see our condition
in the light of the gospel, in the light of Jesus Christ, is
who we see, how we see who we are. Man by nature compares himself
with other men. And when you compare yourself
and I compare myself with other men, we're always going to find
somebody we could stand up to. But when the gospel is preached
and the power of the Holy Spirit, when the light, when the Lord
lights the light and we see who we are by nature, we see who
we are by choice and by practice. And we see by the Holy Spirit
that we have not believed in God. This is how the Holy Spirit
convinces men of sin in that they have not believed on me. That is the sin that condemns
a man. We're all sinners, but this is
the sin that condemns man, unbelief. And it's this inability. I can't do anything to save myself. No man can do anything. No man
can come to God out of the depths. This is the depths, the condition
we We are shown by the Holy Spirit in the preaching of the gospel.
True sinners. True sinners. In the preaching
of the gospel, we see ourselves as true sinners. You know, you
can't offend a sinner by calling him a sinner. A true sinner. I have a... My dad has a dog.
Some of you have seen him. He's as dumb as a box of rocks.
A dumb dog. He's a dumb dog. But you know,
my dad loves that dog. And... I call him a dog every
time I see him, but I have yet to fend that dog. I have yet
to fend him. And it's the same with God's
people. You remember that woman, that
Saraphanician woman, the Lord said to her, it's not right to
take the children's bread and cast it to dogs. You know what
that woman said? She said, truth Lord, I'm your
dog. But even the dogs eat the crumbs
at the master's table. They fall from the master's table.
True sinners. And the psalmist saying here,
out of the depths. What are these depths? Depths
of sin, inability. No man can come to me except
the Father which sent me. Draw him. The psalmist in Psalm
40 is speaking. These are the words of our Lord
Jesus Christ when he was made sin for us. It says, innumerable
evils have compassed me. And it's also the experience
of a believer who knows that everything I do is sin. I am
sin and everything I do is sin. It's like a sponge. If you were
to put a sponge in a bucket of water, take it out and set it
on the table, there's not a place on that sponge you could touch
and not get wet. That same thing is true of every
man by nature. There's not a place you could
touch in his life and not find sin. Our righteousness are as
filthy rags. Innumerable evils have compassed
me about. I'm not able to look up. My sins
are more than the hairs of my head. Therefore, my heart faileth
me. Oh, Lord, be pleased to deliver
me. When we come to this condition that we know that there is no
hope in us, out of the depths have I cried unto thee. This
is the person. This is the person who has hope. Why? Because the Lord Jesus Christ
came to save sinners from their sins. The Lord Jesus Christ came. He did not come to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance. So it says here, out of the depths, Not a sinner in name only. Everybody will agree that I've
done some bad things. I'm a sinner. I'm a sinner, you're
a sinner. This is what religion tries to convince men, you know,
corner them and say, well, you've done this wrong, you've done
that wrong, you're a sinner. Don't you agree? Yeah, I agree.
That's not the conviction of the Holy Spirit. Out of the depths. Not a sinner in name only, but
true. I'm nothing but sin. See, so
long as a person has some goodness, wherewith he may think he could
come before God, that's what he trusts in. That's what he
trusts in. In the Old Testament, the leper
that would come before the priest would come and show himself to
the priest. If there was He might come and
say, look, I've got leprosy all over me, but there's got this
one spot that's good. The priest would say, unclean. What if he said, well, I've only
got this one little spot. I had this one man come to me.
This was recently. After service, he wanted to talk
to me. And he said he was very torn up. And he wanted to talk
to me about this one sin. I don't like when people tell
me about their one sin. I got enough trash of my own. But they
wanted to talk to me about this one sin. He was torn up about
it. And crying, and I said, is that all? He said, that's it. I said, well, you've arrived,
haven't you? Is that the only problem you have? And that's
bad. It was bad, but that's not it. If that's your only problem,
you've pretty much arrived. You don't know what your problem
is. I said, keep coming, keep coming.
So long as a person has something good, the Apostle Paul said,
we are the circumcision who worship God in spirit. We rejoice in
Christ Jesus. We glory in his person, in his
work, and we have no confidence in ourself, in the flesh. Our
confidence is only in the Lord Jesus Christ. Can you hear blind
Bartimaeus cry out out of the depths of his darkness and his
inability? He heard, he heard that there
was a man called Jesus of Nazareth going about doing all kinds of
healings. And one day he heard a commotion
and he said, what's that? What's going on? And they said,
it's Jesus of Nazareth. He's walking by. And you know
what he said? He said, Jesus, thou son of David,
have mercy on me. Jesus, thou son of David, have
mercy on me. They told him, be quiet. He kept
crying out the louder. Have mercy on me. This is the
person who the Lord hears, the one who cries to the Lord. Notice, here's the second thing.
The person who has hope. is the one who cries to the Lord. The one who cries to the one
who has authority to say. The one who has power to say.
Our Lord says this, they have no knowledge who set up the wood
of their grave and image and pray to a God that cannot say.
There are many false Jesus being preached all over this nation,
all over the world. They call him Jesus. They say
he's God. They say he's sovereign. They
say he died for sinners. And now, won't you let him save
you? Won't you let him save you? They
have no knowledge who set up the wood of their graven image,
their idols, their imaginations of who God is. He's a God that
cannot save. If he doesn't have the, if he's
not God, if it's not the only true God, he has the authority
to save. or the power to save. Unto Thee,
O Lord. Jehovah. Jehovah manifests in
the flesh. Unto Thee, O Lord, do I cry. He has the authority and the
power to save His people. One day, some man brought this
man that had the palsy. Palsy. Did I say it right? Palsy?
He was paralyzed, and they brought him on a stretcher. This is in
Mark chapter 9. They brought him on a stretcher
and brought him before the Lord, and the Lord said, Be of good
cheer, be of good comfort, your sins are forgiven you. And the
men that were sitting around, they thought, hmm, this man's
blaspheming. They didn't say it out loud, they just thought,
this man's blaspheming. They said, no man can forgive
sins but God only. That's true. He's the only one
that can forgive. All sin is committed against
God. And He's the only one that has the right to forgive. And
only by the blood of Jesus Christ. Only through the sacrifice of
the Lord Jesus Christ. It's easy to illustrate. If I
offend Brother Larry, if I offend him, if I offend you, Brother
Larry, I'm offending you, and you're offended. But what would
you think? What would you think? Brother
Pontius said, well, don't worry about it, I forgive you. He'd
say, wait a minute, you don't have the right to do that. You
don't have the right to do that. But this is what's happening
all over the world today when people go into these little boxes
and they confess, they feel guilty about something and they confess
it to another man. And the man says, well, say,
repeat so many prayers and you're absolved. That's blasphemy. They have no right to do so.
Only the Lord Jesus Christ. He said to those men, he said,
what's easier to say? He said, thy sins are forgiven
you or take up your bed and walk. What's easier to say? Well, it's
easier to say your sins are forgiven you. That's easy. But is it done? But is it done? All over the
world, people are saying, your sins are forgiven you. Don't
worry about it. God's not angry with you. God will forgive you. Just do
what you can, do the best you can, and God will accept you.
Is that it? Only God can forgive sins. He
said, what's easier to say? Your sins are forgiven you or
take up your bed and walk? He said, but that you may know
that the Son of Man, the Lord Jesus Christ, God manifest in
the flesh, has authority, has right to forgive sins right now. Right now. Why? How could he
forgive his sins? Because he was going to bear
the sins of his people in his own body and pay the price. That's
how God can forgive sin, through the sacrifice of the Lord Jesus
Christ. He said that you may know that
I have power to forgive sins on the earth. He said to the
man, take up your bed and walk. And the man got up and took up
his bed and walked out. Pray to the one who can say.
This is why we preach Christ Jesus and him crucified. We preach
the truth, who he is, what he came to do. There is no salvation
in any other. but the Lord Jesus Christ. Unto
thee, O Lord, unto the Lord, not unto a man, not unto a church,
not unto some doctrine, not unto the Virgin
Mary, but unto the Lord Jesus Christ. Unto thee do I cry. Call
on the name of the Lord. Romans chapter 10, if you will
look over there with me. Romans chapter 10 says, Whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now that's
not a recipe. That's not a recipe on how to
be saved. That's what religion says. Well, there you go. Call
on the name of the Lord and he's going to save you. They got it
backwards. That's not a recipe on how to
be saved. A person calls on the name of
the Lord because the Lord already worked in his heart. A baby doesn't
cry to get life, a baby cries because he is alive. When a baby
cries when he's born, He cries because he has life. Now, in
Romans chapter 10, verse 11, For the scripture saith, Whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed. For there is no difference
between Jew and Greek. For the same Lord over all is
rich in mercy. Rich unto all that call upon
him. What a promise. He's rich. For
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now
watch this. How then shall they call on him of whom they have
not believed? How shall they call on him of
whom they not believe? Is belief the cause of your salvation? It's the effect. It's the effect
of God working a work of grace in a man's heart. It's the evidence. God gives life. When a person
has life, he believes. It's the new man that believes.
It's the new nature that believes God. Whosoever shall call on
the name of the Lord shall be saved. How shall they call on
him of whom they've not believed? And how shall they believe on
him of whom they've not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher, and how shall they preach except they be sent? As
it is written, how beautiful are the feet of them that preach
the gospel of peace, the peace that Christ made by the blood
of his sacrifice, and bring glad tidings of good things. A person
must call on the name of the Lord. That's the person who has
good hope. It's a person who knows he's
a sinner. Go back to the text. Who is the
person who has good hope? The person who is a sinner, out
of the depths of our cry unto thee. Depths of sin. It's the
person who cries unto the Lord. The one who has right, the authority,
and the power to save. Lord, verse 2 says, Lord, hear
my voice. Let thine ears be attentive to
the voice of my supplication. Here's a person who has hope,
the person who comes to the Lord Jesus Christ as a beggar. It's
the voice of my supplication. There's no hope for somebody
that comes haughty and high and going to let Jesus do something. You don't find it anywhere in
the scriptures. The person who comes to the Lord comes to him
as a beggar, a mercy beggar. Lord, if you will, you can make
me whole. It's not a doing deals, not a
doing deals. That's the person who has hope,
who comes as a supplicant. Let thy ears be attentive to
the voice of my supplication. Mercy is for the guilty. And it says here in verse three,
Lord, if thou should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?" There's
a person who has hope, the person who judges himself guilty before
God. If we should judge ourselves,
the Lord said, we'll not be judged. If we should judge ourselves,
we should not be judged. We read it back in the study,
Psalm 51. I'm going to go over there because
I took note of that when it was being read. In Psalm 51, a person has hope who judges
himself guilty before God. Take the place of God against
yourself. In other words, what God says
of me is right. Not making excuses. Not making
excuses. The psalmist said, I have mercy
on me, O God, according to thy loving kindness, according to
the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgression, wash
me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For
I acknowledge my transgression. I am the sinner. I acknowledge
it's me. It's not my environment. It's
not my parents. I am the one that is guilty. I acknowledge my transgression
and my sin is ever before me. Against thee and thee only have
I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mayest be
justified when thou speakest and clear when thou judgest.
What you say of me is right. I am a sinner. I have, I'm undone. Enemies by nature. Enemies in
my actions. The natural mind is enmity against
God. You say that to a person and
he says, well, I've never been an enemy of God. I've never been
an enemy of God. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. By nature, all men are enemies
in their mind to God. It's a personal judgment. Notice
what he says in our text. If thou shouldest mark iniquities,
O Lord, who shall stand? If you call, This is an acknowledgment
that if God calls us to give an answer for our best deeds,
the scriptures reveal that our righteousnesses before God are
as filthy rags. The only righteousness which
God will accept is the righteousness of his son, the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ and his righteousness. We are righteous. He who knew no sin was made sin
for us, that we may be made the righteousness of God in Him. The Apostle Paul said this. The
Apostle Paul said this in Philippians chapter 3. In Philippians chapter
3, he said, before the Lord revealed Himself
to him, he said, Verse 7, But what things were gained to me,
all that a man counts as good in himself, God will acknowledge
this. God will acknowledge that other.
But what things were gained unto me, those I counted for loss
for Christ, yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss for
the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for
whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them
but done, that I may win Christ, and be found in him, not having
mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which
is through the faith of Christ." I don't want to be found in anything,
not even in his preaching. The apostle Paul said, I don't
trust in my preaching. I don't trust in my faith. I
don't trust the fact that I'm an apostle. My trust is only
in the Lord Jesus Christ. I want to be found in his righteousness,
in his obedience. When the Son of God, the eternal
Son of God, one with God the Father, came into the world and
was made flesh, he took on a body, and in that body, in that humanity,
he obeyed God's holy law. He established righteousness
here on the earth as a man. And it's that righteousness that
all the people of God are dressed in. All the people, that's the
only righteousness God accepts. It's His righteousness. He is
Jehovah Tsidkenu, the Lord, our righteous. I don't want to be
found in that righteousness of the law, but that which is through
the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by the faithfulness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We believe in Christ to be saved
by the faith of Christ. We don't believe in our faith.
Our faith never died for anybody. Our faith didn't save us. It's
the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, look over here at Psalm
130 again. It's a person who judges himself. Number four, verse four. Here's a person who has hope,
a person who believes God's word. A person who believes God's word.
You see what it says here? But there is forgiveness with
thee. There's forgiveness. Where did
he come up with that? Where did he come up with that?
We don't have a right to say anything of God that God doesn't
say first of himself. But he's saying here, there is
forgiveness with thee. Belief. He believed God's word. There is forgiveness. There is
forgiveness with God through the Lord Jesus Christ. Where
did he get this? Well, God said that of himself.
Look at Exodus chapter 34 with me. Moses had seen the miracles that
God performed in the wilderness, but Moses
He said, Lord, show me your glory. I beseech you, show me your glory.
That's a strange request, seeing all those miracles that the Lord
performed in the land of Egypt. But he knows that there is a
principal glory, a principal glory of God. And this is what
God said, I'll show you my glory. He said, verse 18, of chapter
33. And he said, I beseech thee,
show me thy glory. And he said to them, I will make
all my goodness before thee and will proclaim the name of the
Lord before thee. And I will be gracious to whom
I'll be gracious. And I will show mercy to whom
I'll show mercy. And he said, thou canst not see
my face for there shall no man see my face, see me and live.
And the Lord said, behold, there's a place by me and thou shalt
stand upon a rock and it shall be and it shall come to pass
while my glory passes by that I will put thee in the cliff
of the rock and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by
and I will take away my hand and thou shalt see my back parts
but my face shall not be seen. The only place we see, only one
we see the glory of God and it's in the face of Jesus Christ. But in chapter 34, it says, And
the Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and
proclaimed the name of the Lord. This is his chief glory. How
that God can be merciful, how that God can be much merciful
and still be just. And the Lord passed by before
him and proclaimed, The Lord, the Lord, Jehovah God, Merciful
and gracious. You see that? God says he's merciful. He's going to show mercy. It's
his nature. It's one of his principal attributes. He's merciful. And he's gracious,
long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy
for thousands. Look at this. Forgiving iniquity
and transgressions and sins, and that will by no means clear
the guilty. visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children and upon the children's children
under the third and the fourth generation. Being merciful, being
merciful, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and
that will by no means clear the guilty. How is that? Only in
the Lord Jesus Christ. When God made him to be sin,
who knew no sin, And when he was made sin for us, the justice
of God, the right, the justice of God fell upon him, the substitute. And he died in the room instead
of his people. He died the death that we deserve. And we are made the righteousness
of God in him. Well, that's the only way. That's
the only way a person that believes God concerning the Lord Jesus
Christ. Where is there forgiveness? There
is forgiveness with thee. That's the person who has hope,
the one who believes God. If a person doesn't believe God,
I don't care what they believe. They don't have hope. If a person
doesn't believe God concerning his word and his word, the Lord
Jesus Christ, they don't have hope. They have a false hope,
perhaps, but they don't have a hope. A person has hope who
believes God's word But there is forgiveness with thee that
thou mayest be worshiped. Thou mayest be feared. Here's
the next thing. The person has hope who waits
on the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. He
is sovereign. He is sovereign. Waiting on the
Lord is trusting in the Lord. Fainting in the arms of the Lord. Lord, if I'm going to be saved,
you're going to save me. I can't I can't do anything to
contribute anything. Waiting on the Lord is trusting
in the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. From beginning to end, those
who wait on the Lord. I wait on the Lord, my soul doth
wait, and in his word do I hope. Waiting on the Lord is trusting
in his word. The scriptures say in Psalm 138,
verse two, that he has magnified his word above his name. In thy word I put my hope. My
hope is in what God has revealed in this word concerning his son,
the Lord Jesus Christ. I have no knowledge of God apart
what's revealed. This book is a book, a hymn book,
a book of the Lord Jesus Christ. Revelation of God. No man has
seen God ever. The only begotten Son, which
is in the bosom of the Father, He has revealed Him, and He reveals
Himself in His Word. In His Word do I hope. I hope
in His Word, which is a sure foundation. I hope in the Word,
the incarnate Word, My trust is in, my hope is in the Lord
Jesus Christ. This is what the Psalm is. A
person has hope who has his trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. People,
one time, somebody came to me one time. I'm trying to pick
this up. Somebody came to me one time. They brought this little
certificate. It was their certificate of baptism. The people do that. They have
their certificate, diploma. And that's supposed to impress
somebody. That's their diploma of baptism.
But people all over the world are hanging on to their membership
in their church, are hanging on to some baptism that they
were done when they were little. Listen, our hope is the Lord
Jesus Christ. A person may better have more
than a piece of paper when he comes before the throne. at that
last day. Christ in you is the hope of
glory. A new creation, a new creature. There's no other hope but Christ
in you, the hope of glory. My hope, I hope, I wait for the
Lord, my soul doth wait and in his word, in his son, in the
incarnate word, in the word written is my hope. I have no knowledge
of God apart from what he's revealed in his word. Here's the next
thing. A person has hope who continues
to hope. You know this. Salvation is not
an experience in the past. Salvation is coming to the Lord
Jesus Christ. To whom? Coming. It says in the
book of Hebrews, these all died in faith. That's how you know
someone really believes. They die, believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ. They keep coming. They keep coming
until the Lord comes for them. My soul doth wait. My soul waiteth
for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. I say
more than they that watch for the morning. One day that morning
is going to come. That morning when the Lord Jesus Christ comes
for his people. That's the person who has hope,
who continues to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. Alright, look
at verse 7. Let Israel, all of God's chosen
people, have reason to hope. Lord Jesus Christ, the Israel
of God, those whom he chose. Who is Israel? He's Jacob. He's Jacob by nature. Surplanter. But this is what God said of
Jacob. Jacob have I loved, and Israel
have I I mean, excuse me, Esau have I hated. All those who are
chosen of God, chosen before the foundation of the world,
because God has set his love on his people, they have hope,
a sure hope, a blessed hope. Let Israel hope in the Lord.
And here's the reason. For with the Lord, there is mercy. God is going to show mercy to
his people. all lost in Adam, all sinners,
dead in trespass and sin, but he's going to show mercy. He's
going to bring honor and glory to his name and the saving of
his people. He's going to, if you read Ephesians
chapter one, talks about the work of God, the father and the
salvation of his people, that the work of God, the son and
the salvation of his people. And it's all to the praise of
the glory of his grace. Let all Israel hope in the Lord,
for with the Lord there is mercy, and with Him is plenteous redemption."
There's plenteous redemption. Salvation, plenteous. You know,
God's people are not going to get into heaven as they say,
barely make it there. Nobody's barely making it there.
Those who are saved, those who are in the presence of God are
saved. by the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ that put away all their sins. They're dressed in the
righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ, the righteousness of
God. There's plenty of redemption.
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, the Lord said. Tell them, speak
comfortably to their heart. Tell them their warfare is over.
Tell them they receive double for all their sins. Not only
a payment, not only a payment to put away the sins, but also
righteousness. You know, it's not like, here's
the zero line, if you think about a math, everything below is minus
and everything above is positive, but you got the zero line there.
It's not like, we need a positive righteousness to stand before
God. Not only just our sins paid and we got the zero line, But
we must have a positive righteousness. And that is the work of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That is, He is our life. The life of the Lord Jesus Christ
is the life of His people. There's plenteous redemption.
He shall save His people from their sins. How many? The blood
of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. All sin. Let Israel hope in the Lord,
for with the Lord there is mercy. and with him is plenteous redemption.
And notice there, and he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. When God says he shall, then
we have hope. Then we have a sure hope. So
all Israel, God's chosen people from before the foundation of
the world, sinners by nature, by practice and choice, who by
the word of God and the Holy Spirit are made to know their
desperate condition, call on the name of the Lord. Who as
Jehovah says, call on the name of the Lord, the Son of God,
the Son of David, have mercy on me. They come humbly calling
for mercy, owning his sovereign right to do with them as he pleases,
judging themselves guilty and waiting on him. You see, all
the Israel that is described here in verse 7, the Israel that
is described here is described in verses 1 through 6. Everyone
that is Israel is in this same condition. Calls on the name
of the Lord. Out of the depths they call. They're called, they're
made to know their condition before God and call unto Him. Do you have hope tonight? The Lord reveals himself to his
people and gives us hope. May the Lord bless this work.