The 70th Psalm reads as follows. To the chief musician, a Psalm
of David to bring to remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver
me. Make haste to help me, O Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded
that seek after my soul. Let them be turned backward and
put to confusion that desire my hurt. Let them be turned back
for a reward of their shame that say, Aha! Aha! Let all those
that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee. And let such as
love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. But I am poor and needy. Make
haste unto me, O God. Thou art my help and my deliverer. O Lord, make no tarrying. Make haste, O God, to deliver
me. Make haste to help me, O Lord. The Psalms cover the many, many
experiences of life. The ups and downs, the trials,
the desperation, the poverty, persecution, famine, death, bereavement,
rejoicing in God and His salvation. They cover the cries of the child
of God, the trials the child of God is brought through, and
the answer, the continual answer, that the child of God has to
every trial, to every trouble, to every concern, for every sorrow. The answer is always in God,
in Christ, and in His Gospel. Above all, the Psalms present
the Gospel to us. in all its depths and in all
its riches. Christ is the author of these
Psalms. He's the subject, the object,
the author, the voice behind them all. But how often the believer, when
brought to the lowest place, the hardest place, turns to these
Psalms for comfort. How often we turn to them when
life brings us into those places where we despair, where we're
in trouble, where we feel alone, where we wonder how we will cope,
where we wonder where we are heading, where we feel helpless,
without strength. So often we turn to the Psalms. Because in so many Psalms, we
find those cries and those experiences with which our own heart echoes. And here in Psalm 70 is a wonderful
example. How often have you, O child of
God, been brought into those places where you would cry out,
make haste, O God, to deliver me. Make haste to help me, O
Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded
that seek after my soul. Let them be turned backward and
put to confusion that desire my hurt. Let them be turned back
for a reward of their shame that say, aha, aha. Often we're brought into that
place. Because the child of God, he
who has tasted the grace of God, he who has been shown what he
is before God, that he is a sinner, that the judgment of God rings
down from heaven against the sins of men. That sin must be
judged and must be answered for. And that left to himself by nature. Should he die, he will have to
answer for them in his own body and soul in eternity to come. The child of God who's been shown
these things and has been brought to cry out to God for help, to
deliver him from his sin, to deliver him from the wrath of
God which rings out from heaven against the unrighteousnesses
of men and against his sin. The child of God that's been
brought there to cry out and who has been heard and who has
been answered and who has been led to the foot of the cross
and led to a saviour who came to save him from his sins. led
to hear of the Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ, who came into
this world for sinners, came to save sinners, came to save
his people from their sins, when he's led there and led to see
what Christ did upon the cross in dying for his people, in dying
for a sinner such as he. in taking his sins upon himself
and washing them away in his own blood, and making that sinner
to be the righteousness of God in him, when the child of God
has seen that and has been brought to faith to believe on that,
when the Spirit of God has quickened him unto life and brought him
to see Christ for who he is, as a mighty Saviour, a mighty
Deliverer. When the child of God is brought
out of his sins, out of his darkness, and has a new heart put into
him, and is brought to follow the shepherd, who comes unto
him and says, follow me. Depart from your sin and follow
me. Follow me to the cross. Follow
me to the place where I died for you. Follow me to that place
where I washed you clean. Follow me to the place of execution. Follow me to the grave where
I lay for you. Follow me to the tomb where I
was incarcerated for you. Follow me to that garden where
the tomb the stone of the tomb was opened and where I came forth
for you, having taken away your sin, having conquered death,
having risen again. Follow me to that place from
whence I ascended unto glory. Follow me to the Father. Follow
me to glory. When He calls you to follow Him,
the inevitable consequence of turning from sin, of hearing
the Gospel, of following the Saviour, of being led forth through
this world by that Saviour by the right way, the inevitable
consequence is that men will rise up in hatred against you. The world will rise up in hatred
against the child of God. They will persecute. They will
despise. They will scoff. They will cast
you out. They will say, who are you? Who
do you think you are? Who do you think you are? To
speak of righteousness and of sin. To say that we are sinners. We don't want your God, we don't
want your gospel. We don't want your religion.
Keep it to yourself and keep quiet. They hate the truth as we hated
the truth. They hate to hear of sin as we
hated to hear of sin. They hate to hear of judgment
to come as we hated to hear of judgment to come. And they hate
to hear the name of the Saviour. As we, the children of God, once
hated to hear the name of Jesus Christ. We despised Him, we cast
Him out in our hearts. We had no time for Him. And they
have no time for Him. And having no time for Him, they
have no time and no love and no care for those who follow
Him. because he has made known in this world through his people
and that people as they walk through this world of darkness
as they shine forth a light upon the wicked deeds of darkness
inevitably expose the sin of those around him and stir up
the enmity and the anger and the hatred of others so these
others Seek after the soul, the life of those that love Christ. They desire their hurt. They
cry out unto them, ah-ha, ah-ha, when trouble comes their way.
Whenever the child of God is brought into trouble, when things
don't go his way, when the world looks on, the world scoffs and
laughs. When the child of God knows trouble
of any kind, financial, health, bereavement, the world does not
come with compassion, but looks and thinks that they've got their
just reward, and they scoff and mock. How often the child of God stands
alone, How often he feels alone in this world. He longs for the
company of other believers but so often he finds them few and
far between. And even when he goes to the
congregations which gather, so often he can feel alone amongst
others. He can meet other believers and
find that his experience and his troubles and trials are not always the experiences
that they are going through. They don't always seem to understand. And so often he finds himself
alone. And so often he's brought to
this sort of place as David was brought. To cry out unto the
one who hears him. The only one to whom he can go. The only one who can send help.
The only one who can truly help him. His God. His deliverer. His saviour. Make
haste, O God, to deliver me. Make haste to help me, O Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded
that seek after my soul. Let them be turned backward and
put to confusion that desire my hurt. Let them be turned back
for a reward of their shame that say, ah-ha, ah-ha. Lord, deliver
me from it. Their constant They constantly
mock, they constantly scoff, and the troubles and the trials
don't seem to go away. The suffering we are so often
caused to be brought through, the suffering that the believer
so often has to undertake, the trials that are brought into
his pathway, so often appear relentless. Relentless, they
never stop. Day in, day out. Week in, week
out. Month in, month out. The circumstances
seem the same. We hope that they will pass. We hope that we will be spared. And so often, rather than getting
better, in a physical sense, they seem to get worse. We have
some friend, some colleague, someone we know, some acquaintance,
who opposes us, opposes our stand for the truth, argues and scoffs
and mocks, treats us with contempt and hatred, and we pray that
they might be turned away, we pray that they might be silenced,
we pray that there might be relief, and yet so often, We find that
it gets worse. We know trouble in the workplace
and rather than getting better it seems to get worse. We know
ill health and we hope to be delivered from it and yet we
seem to get worse. We know opposition and instead
of the numbers who oppose us getting fewer they seem to increase
in number. We go to this one and that one
for help and some give this counsel and that counsel. But the council
comes to nothing and rather than making it better it makes it
worse. The trials we're brought in so often seem to go on and
on and on. It feels like nothing changes,
there's no way out and no escape. And the worst of it so often
is that we feel alone within it. And we cry out to God, make
haste, O God, to deliver me. Make haste to help me, O Lord. And so often we feel like He's
forgotten us. We feel like He's forgotten us. We look for help in this and
help in that. We have what we perceive to be
the answer. We would like this to happen
or that to happen. We pray for this to happen or
that to happen. And nothing changes. We feel alone. We can soon think
and get into a state that we have done some great sin and
God has judged us for it and has withdrawn from us and perhaps
he'll never show his favour unto us again. Perhaps we've committed
that great sin for which there is no forgiveness. Perhaps we were deceived in our
understanding of the Gospel. Perhaps we thought we believed
that we never did. Our assurance of salvation is
tested to the limit. We believed on a saviour who
washed us in his blood, but perhaps we presumed. Perhaps we were
wrong. Where is he? We get into this
sort of state, we doubt. We wonder, we look back upon
our experiences and wonder whether they were true. Well, we do sin. We have sinned,
we sin continually. If we were rewarded according
to our iniquity, we would be destroyed. There's no doubt that
we sin. And God does chastise his people. But if we are his, we are never
alone. If we are His, He never fails
to hear. However it may seem, however
great the opposition may be, it is only for a time. It is only for a period. He has
not forgotten His own. He has not forgotten. Are these
things sent to crush us? Or are these things sent for
our good? Are these things sent because
God is working out His eternal and everlasting purposes? Is
He bringing forth the work of His glory in our souls? Is He
putting us as gold in the fire to be refined for the dross to
be burnt off? Is He continually bringing us
to the remembrance of His goodness and grace toward us in Christ
and in His Gospel. Because so often, when trouble
and trial comes our way, we seek to walk through it in our own
strength. We soldier on, we act according
to our own wisdom and intellect and instinct, We feel like God
is perhaps angry with us so he's left us alone so we're on our
own and we can only face it on our own. We are so slow in reality. to fall upon our knees before
Him and to cry out to Him for help and grace and to say unto
Him that we are nothing and can do nothing and are helpless and
are lost without Him and to own and to know that all is in His
strength and by His grace and we can do nothing and all of
our doing is simply making matters worse. But should he speak one
word, should he do one thing, then all can be transformed. How we need to be brought back
to a remembrance of the Gospel. Not just now and then, but every
day, every morning, when we wake from sleep, we need to be brought
to look upon Christ. When we go to bed, we need to
go to bed thanking God for His goodness towards us in the day,
praying for His help in the coming day. Continually we need to walk
before Him. Continually we need to be one
with Christ. Continually we need to walk by
faith, not by sight. And yet so often our walk is
by sight. And as we walk in our own strength,
our enemies gather, and they circle, and they cry, aha, aha. But David had an answer, and
his God never left him. Though he felt alone, though
he knew the opposition, though he knew the persecution, though
he knew that he was poor and needy, though he knew he needed
a deliverer, David's Saviour, David's God, was never far away. Note the heading of the psalm.
To the chief musician, The Psalm of David to bring to remembrance. To the chief musician, who's
the chief musician? Why is it addressed to him to
bring to remembrance? Christ is the chief musician.
God in Christ is the chief musician. His people are the instruments
upon which he plays, through which he brings forth the melody.
The melody of the Psalms, here in which we read. The melody
is the cries before Him, O Lord, help us and deliver us. The melody
is the rejoicing in the Gospel. Let all those that seek Thee
rejoice and be glad in Thee, and let such as love Thy salvation
say continually, let God be magnified. The melody. the psalms, the cries,
the praise, the glory brought forth through the child of God,
the children of God, the people of God, as the chief musician
leads them in their walk and in their worship. And here David's
psalm is addressed to the chief musician. To bring to remembrance. Make haste, O God, to deliver
me. Make haste to help me, O Lord.
O Lord, forget not thy servant before thee. Here I am, Lord. I'm walking before Thee. And
the world hates and despises me because of what Thou has done
for me and because I love Thee and speak of Thee. I'm brought
into this state because I will not go in the counsel of the
wicked. I will not walk in their ways. I will walk in Your ways. And
they hate me and here I am. Lord, forget not me. Don't forget
me! Blessed is the man that walketh
not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of the
sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful, but his delight
is in the law, the word of the Lord, and it is law doth he meditate
day and night. This is the man whom the world
hates and scorns and scoffs, and David in such a state cries
out, don't forget me, O Lord, remember me. Because in such
a state, so often he can feel forgotten. God has never left
him. God has never forgotten him.
But he, in the fires of the furnace, feels like he's forgotten. Do
you know what he's speaking of? Have you been there? Are you
there? Do you feel alone? Do you feel forgotten? You know
what the Word of God says. You know that the Scriptures
say that Christ has said under his own, I will never leave thee
nor forsake thee, but so often you feel forsaken, you feel left,
you feel alone, and you long for God to remember you in such
a state. Make haste, O God, to deliver
me. Make haste to help me, O Lord. Mine enemies are increased, they
gather round. They cry out unto me, Ahar, Ahar. They desire my hurt. They seek
after my soul's death. Help. You don't get to the point
of crying like that in a moment. It's deep trials that bring forth
deep cries. But those deep trials and those
deep cries are not sent to break us. But they're sent to bring
forth the glory of God's grace in our souls. We only really
know God's help when he sends it at the hardest of times. That's
when we know His hand upon us. That's when we know that He is
a great Saviour. He's there for us every day.
He helps us in the small things as well as the great things.
But when we're brought into the deepest of trouble and we see
His hand of salvation upon us, how we feel His hand, how we
feel His help, how we rejoice in His salvation, how we see and prove that however
desperate the state, however hard the way, he has not forgotten. He never forsakes his own. I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee. To the Chief Musician, to bring
to remembrance, to bring our state to the remembrance of our
God and Saviour, but also to bring our God and Saviour and
His Gospel to our remembrance. Because our salvation and our
hope and our joy are in His Gospel, in Him alone. The only one who
can help us is our great Deliverer. The only one who can help the
poor and needy is the one with the strength to help. Men may
promise help, but men are fickle and frail and weak. They are
sinners just as we are, and their help so often brings no help. The only one who can truly help
the only one who can help with our soul the only one who can
help with our soul's greatest need to be delivered from it's
sin is God you may turn to this man and turn to that man but
they can do nothing for your soul but there is one who can
save to the uttermost There is one who can deal with the greatest
of trouble, the greatest trial. There is one who can conquer
every enemy and every foe and all opposition. When you're surrounded
by thousands of soldiers, armed with spears and knives and you've
nothing to defend yourself in and you feel like you face certain
death, there is one who can cast them all aside. and deliver you
and spare you, and bring you into a great place, a wondrous
place. He can conquer all enemies. So
David, reminded of this, cries out, let all those that seek
Thee, O Lord, rejoice and be glad in Thee, and let such as
love Thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. Let God be magnified. For He's a mighty Savior. He is God. He rules over all. He made this world. He made you and I. He put us
upon the face of this world. He causes all things to pass. He causes the sun to shine, the
moon to rise, the rain to fall, the crops to grow. He brings
forth the fruit and the food and the crops. And he withholds
them when he is pleased to. He controls the weather. He controls
the nations. He controls who is raised up
to power, who leads, who guides. He moves and it is done. He speaks
and it happens. He is the one behind all things. He is the only one who can help. Let God be magnified. Let God be magnified. But most
of all, He is the one who can help sinners sold under sin.
He is the one who can save the heart which is dead in trespasses
and sins. He is the one who can deliver
us from death and judgement to come. He is the one who can wash
away our sins. He is the one who can cleanse
us. We are poor and needy. Poor because we have no money,
no riches, no strength, no wisdom, no ability to pay to deliver
ourselves, to deliver ourselves from death, to deliver ourselves
from the judgment of God against our sins. We've got nothing to
pay, no merits within us. We are poor, poor and needy. But he is a great deliverer. Let God be magnified because
man is nothing and God is greater than all. Oh, what a saviour
we have in Christ. What a saviour, a deliverer we
have in the Lord. He can deliver us from every
state. What state are you in today?
Are you cast down? Are you broken? Are you in trouble
and trial? Are you alone? Do you feel poor
and needy? Do you cry out to God, make haste
to help me, O Lord? Do you wonder when that help
will come? Do you feel like your state and
situation is so bad that nobody understands? Well, let me tell
you of one. who's been in a worse state than
any. Worse state than you. One who's
been hated by more people than you, with a venom and a hatred
and a ferocity greater than any hatred that you might experience. One who's been despised by more
people than you will ever be despised by. One who's known
trouble and trial greater than you will ever go through. One
who's known sorrow greater than any sorrow that you will taste.
There is One, the Son of God, who came into this world, leaving
behind the riches of the glory in which He dwelt with His Father.
leaving behind the glories of perfection, the love of his father,
the bosom in which he dwelt, leaving behind the riches of
his estate, and came and humbled himself to be made a man, made
lower than the angels. He came into this world. He entered
a world of darkness, he who is the light of God. He who is righteousness
without one spot or blemish in him entered into a world of darkness
and evil. He walked among men and men despised
and rejected him. He came unto his own and his
own received him not. He had sorrow in his heart and
none understood. He came and He called those to
follow Him, His disciples. And He made known the wonders
of His grace and gospel unto them. And yet when He was brought
into sorrow and trial, there was none who could help Him,
none who understood. He lived His life with His gaze
set upon the cross. He came into this world for one
purpose. To suffer and to die for sinners. To head for a place called Golgotha. To head to a place. of suffering
and death, a place of execution, a place where the whole world
would reject him and cast him out, a place where the world,
a mob, would cry out, crucify him, crucify him away with this
man, we will not have this man to reign over us. He went to
head to a place where he would be spat upon, where he would
be beaten, where he would be struck, where the brute soldiers
would strike his back and flog him and cause blood to pour forth
from the wounds. He went to a place where he would
be forced to wear a crown of thorns upon his head and be mocked
and jeered by all. he went to a place where he would
be nailed to a cross and lifted up to die and to suffer in the
heat of the midday sun during which men would pass by of all
classes and types from the chief priests and scribes and Pharisees
to the lowest classes, the soldiers, the working men and they would
pass by and they would cry out of him Who is he? He claimed to be the son of God
and let him call forth angels to deliver him. Look at him now. Look at the state into which
he's brought now. Aha! Aha! They desired his hurt. They sought
after his soul. They sought after his death.
They said, we will put this man who likens himself to God to
shame to death. We will destroy him, we will
cast him out. There were those who did it to
him physically then, and there are generations upon generations
upon generations to this very day, all men, you and I included,
who have said in our hearts of that one, crucify him. We have rejected him. We have
despised him. We have cast him out, we have
put him to death in our hearts. This man, the son of God, God
made man, came to suffer that. He knew what it was for enemies
to be gathered around him and to desire his heart. He knew
what it was like David to cry out in such a state, O God deliver
me, make haste to help me, O Lord. Oh his cries, his suffering.
But just before he went there, when he went to Gethsemane's
garden, he went knowing what he would truly suffer upon that
cross. For the suffering was not the
pain, not the agony, not the physical death that he would
suffer. The suffering was not just the hatred of all men. But
he knew there was a cup he must take and he must drink. A cup of God's anger. A cup of
God's fury. A cup of God's wrath, his judgment. against the sins and the sin
of his people for whom Christ would die Christ knew that he
went to that cross not to die alone as a man as a criminal
might die for his own sins but that he would go to that cross
as innocent of any crime but he would be charged with the
crimes, with the sins, with the iniquity of a multitude. He knew that he would be judged
not just for the sins of one man, not just for the sins of
one woman, not just for the sins of ten men or ten women, but
the sins of thousands upon thousands upon millions. all His people. He would be judged for all their
sins in entirety and all their sin. He would be looked upon
by His own Father God Almighty as the greatest of sinners, charged
with the greatest number of sins, and He would be judged and beaten
and bruised and destroyed for all those sins. If you believe
on Him, if He died for you then He was judged and crucified and
slain for your sins and your sin, your hatred, your selfishness,
your despising of Him. He died for it. He suffered more
than any could suffer, and in Gethsemane, when he looked upon
what he should suffer, when he knew it was coming, he travailed
in prayer with his father. He went into a dark place, O
Lord, if this cup could pass from me, may it do so. And there was none who could
help him, his disciples slept. Those who should love him, those
who should be his friends upon this earth, were nowhere. They
slept at his hardest moment, his darkest hour. They were not
there. None could help him. So he could
only cry to the only one, the only one who could help him.
Make haste, O God, to deliver me. Make haste to help me, O
Lord. For I am poor and needy. But not my will, O Lord, but
thine be done. In the end he knew that his God,
his Father, could not spare him that judgment. Because the only
way that he could spare his people, the only way that he could at
one time send help, send deliverance to that people who would cry
unto him, make haste to help me O Lord. The only way that
he could be their salvation and deliver them from their iniquity
was if his God, his Father, should judge him. should put him to
death for their sin. Oh the sorrow, the suffering,
the trial, the pain that he felt in the garden as he anticipated
it, at the cross when he was made sin and bore the sins of
his own people upon the tree, when the wrath and the fire of
God poured down from heaven above upon him, he felt the pain in
a way that no one can feel, no one can understand or comprehend. Whatever our sorrows, they are
as a drop in the bucket, a drop in the ocean compared to this.
They are nothing in comparison. He felt this pain, but did he
deserve it? No. He was pure and innocent
and perfect. The just suffering for the unjust. His pain, his trial, his sorrow,
his suffering was because of us. We caused his death. We desired his soul to be cut
off. We desired his death. We sought
his hurt. We cried out of him, ah ha, ah
ha. And yet because he died, though
we hated him, though we hurt him, though we caused his death,
though we pierced him, because he died, he could make us to
live. Because He died, He could send
forth deliverance and help to us. Because He died, He could
take away our sorrow and our trouble and our trial. Because
He died, He could bring us from darkness into life. Because He
died, He could bring us from death into everlasting life.
Because He died, He could wash our sins away in His blood and
make us to be righteous, pure, perfect, one at peace with His
Father. Because he died, he could send
help fast. Because he died, he could no
longer tarry but deliver his people from all their sins and
all their trial and all their trouble. Because he died, he
could be a great and mighty deliverer of his people. Because he died,
they with one voice and one heart can cry out, Let God be magnified. Let God be magnified. Thou, O Lord, art my help and
my deliverer. O let all those that seek Thee
rejoice and be glad in Thee, and let such as love Thy salvation
say continually, continually, let God be magnified. What a God we have, who loved
the unlovely, who loved us whilst we hated him, who never turned
his heart away from us, who never turned away from those upon whom
he'd set his love before the foundation of this world. We
deserve nothing from his hand, yet in Christ he has given us
everything. In Christ he has given unto his
people all riches and all glory. In Christ he saves them from
all opposition, from every foe, from every enemy. He washes them
clean, he makes them perfect. O let all those that seek thee
rejoice and be glad in thee. Let such as love thy salvation
say continually, let God be magnified. Do you love His salvation? Has He made His salvation? Has
He made the Saviour's name? Has He made Christ known unto
you as your Saviour? Has God made Christ your Saviour
known unto you? Has He said He is the Saviour
of sinners? But has He said unto you in particular
He is the Saviour of your soul? Do you love His salvation? Do
you love Him who first loved you? Can you say that there is
One who loved me when I hated Him, who loved me and gave Himself
for me? Has the Spirit of God drawn you
to Him, shown you your need of Him, shown you that you are poor
and needy and set you before Him? Has He lifted up a crucified
Saviour before your gaze? And as he put a cry in your heart,
a cry of faith, let God be magnified. We cannot say it by nature. By
nature, our cry is ah-ha, ah-ha. By nature, our cry is away with
him. By nature, our cry is crucify
him. And continually we cry it as
we seek our own ends and shun his will and his pleasure. We
turn our backs upon Him, we will go this way, we won't go His
way. By nature our hearts are stony
and dead. Yet if the Spirit of God bring
His Gospel to our ears in power and breaks us and melts our heart,
gives us a new heart, a new spirit within us and causes us to cry
out unto Him for help and causes us to rejoice in Him and in His
salvation, then we will own. that we are poor and needy. Then we will love His salvation,
and then we will cry out continually, let God be magnified. We can't do it, but faith can,
but the Spirit of God can within. When He works within, when He
puts faith in the heart, faith cries out, salvation is of the
Lord. let God be magnified. Faith cries
out, haste, O God, to deliver me, make haste to help me, O
Lord, and it knows His help, and it knows His deliverance,
and it rejoices in it. Even whilst suffering, even whilst
alone, even when the enemy rages, in the inner parts of the heart,
in the inward heart, In the inward life, the believer, though his
outer man is perishing, as Paul says, though he perishes daily,
though he dies daily, though the outer man is perishing and
dying, though everyone is railing against him and seeking his hurt
and seeking his pain in the midst of his suffering, His heart of
faith can look up, can look up by faith to a Saviour, seated
on high in glory, a crucified Saviour, a risen Saviour, a glorified
Saviour. It can look up and see His salvation
on high and know that all is well, know that there is one
who intercedes for Him, know that there is one who hears His
cry, know that there is one who will answer. and it can cry out
and rejoice in his salvation and it can cry out in the midst
of suffering let God be magnified because the Spirit daily sends
the Gospel to the ears of the child of God to bring to remembrance
what Christ has done for them. And it takes their cries and
their complaints and brings their cries up to glory to the chief
musician to bring to his remembrance that children, those people,
that sheep, that flock who suffer for his sake. And as they walk
together, they walk as one, united by faith. And that Saviour sends help when
it's needed. He delivers, He does not tarry. And those children, those sheep
cry out by faith, let God, let God be magnified. Because I know
that whatever men may do unto me, that I am His and that my
soul has been washed clean by the blood of the Lamb. And though
I perish, though I should die, though men should put me to death,
I will simply rise again to live and reign with Christ my Saviour.
What can man do unto me? Nothing. What sorrow can I taste
that compares to the sorrow of my Saviour? It's nothing compared
to His, and it's but for a fleeting moment, and when it's gone, when
it's passed, I will live and reign with Him forevermore. What a Saviour! What a hope! What a salvation! Can you cry
it? Is that faith in your heart?
Does it cry out continually? Not just now and then, not just
when it's raised up at the best times, but does God kindle that
faith within you that even in the midst of suffering, you can
still say, nevertheless, though men may slay me, yet will I praise
him. Though he slay me, yet will I
praise him. He is my God and my Saviour. I will rejoice in Him, for I
love His salvation, and my heart, by faith, by the Spirit of God,
by His strength, will say continually, let God be magnified. Let God be magnified. Oh may God put that grace in
your heart to know that salvation, to know He's your Saviour and
in the midst of trouble when you cry out for help, when you
cry out for deliverance may you know that your cry is heard,
may you know that your Saviour loves you and will deliver you
and may you be able to say in the midst of it continually,
let God be magnified. Let God be magnified. Amen.