One thing right off the bat when
you begin reading this chapter, you have a phrase that keeps
popping up. Verse 3, Zechariah 12, and in
that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people. Verse four. In that day, saith
the Lord, I will smite every horse with astonishment and his
rider with madness, and I will open mine eyes upon the house
of Judah and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
Verse six. In that day will I, this is the
Lord speaking to his prophet Zechariah, In that day will I
make the governors of Judah like a hearth of fire among the wood. Verse 8, in that day shall the
Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. Verse 9, and it shall come to
pass in that day that I will seek to destroy all nations that
come against Jerusalem. Verse 11, in that day there shall
be a great morning in Jerusalem." So needless to say, I thought,
well, I'm not going to improve and I cannot improve upon the
Word of God simply entitled, in that day. This phrase is reiterated
time and time again specifically in this chapter. It is used,
Zechariah uses it in several other chapters but not to the
extent that he does in this chapter. And what it does, it seems to
underscore all that God will most certainly do for his chosen
bride, the church. It also states the unchangeable
quest that will befall the elect of God. It also indicates just
how it is that all selected sinners shall be made to see the Redeemer
and see themselves as they are. They brought as they are once
brought into the kingdom of light. So my prayer for myself and for
each one here today will be that we are allowed to see Christ. In this day. In this day. Generally speaking, we see in
the first eight verses promises given to the Lord's people. In verse 3, he says, In that
day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people. All that
burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all
the people of the earth be gathered together against it. He's indicating
here that the promise that he has in that day, whether it was
the day that Zechariah specifically prophesied of or the gospel days
as of now, promises, these promises are tried and true for his people,
for the church, that we are a stone, a burdensome stone for all people. Though they try to come against
the Church of God, the church will stand. There's not going
to be the Church of Christ in this day and age, and I don't
mean that literally the denomination of Church of Christ, I mean his
church, though the enemies oppose it, the promise here in verse
3 is that they're going to stand. They're going to be able to stand.
Verses 4 and 5, we see that the world sees Us as powerful that which
the world sees as powerful and high of a high value doesn't
mean it means absolutely nothing to the church Verses four and
five in that day saith the Lord I will smite every horse with
astonishment and his rider with madness and I will open mine
eyes Upon the house of Judah and will smite every horse of
the people with blindness and the governors of Judah Shall
say in their heart the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength
in the Lord of hosts, their God. So that which is highly esteemed,
in that day and age, it was horse and rider. If you had horses
in your army and you were on those, you had a distinct advantage,
and governors. But that which is seen as powerful
and of high value in this world, the Lord can easily throw those
down and mean nothing. In verse six, we see that the
promise given to the church that no one is going to stand successfully
to oppose the truth and the truth bearer, that is, would be the
ground and pillar of the truth, the Lord's church and the Lord's
people. And verse eight, I like this one. He says, in that day,
shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. So he's our defense. But look at how this is worded
here. And this, I find myself in this
verse, I find very much comfort in here, and I hope you find
comfort as well. He that is feeble in that day
shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem. He's talking about
the Lord's people who make up His church universal. individually
and collectively. He's going to defend Jerusalem.
He's going to defend his church collectively. But look at this
individually. And like I said, I hope this
helps you because this comforted me last night when I was looking
it over. I'd looked this over all week,
but I didn't see this till last night. He's going to defend Jerusalem
and also the specific person, the specific sinner saved by
the grace of God that is feeble. Now, I know you younger folks
say, well, you know, I'm not feeble by any means. You know,
I'm strong and I have my mind and I have my hair and I have
all this other stuff. So, you know, think about this.
But as age creeps in and the trials of this world seem to
just consistently bombard you, maybe you can find comfort in
here. And he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as
David." First thing that came to my mind, you have this young, inexperienced shepherd boy called David, who
with one smooth creek stone and one handmade sling, took out a giant of a man, a
warrior like none other, called Goliath. So, are you feeble here
this morning? Struggle with sin? Struggle within? Struggle without? Here's the
promise. Feeble as you and I are, if you're
one of His, you'll be as David. Because you see, that which is
highly esteemed in the world is an abomination to God. And
that which is the world calls strong, our Lord just laughs
at, it's weak. But I just like the way this
analogy, he that is feeble among them. You think, well, I don't
seem like I have very many gifts. And that's a good thing, because
if we saw our own gifts, we would get swelled up with pride. But
you think, well, you know, what have I done for the gospel of
God's grace? What have I done for the Lord? What have I, who
have I spoken with? I can't, my tongue is this, and
I seem like I have the fear of man, and I seem like I always
struggle, and all these different things. Hey, feeble, that's all
right. Because at that day, in the day of the
Lord's power and His choosing, you'll be as David. And the house
of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before
them. And like I say, my mind went
instantly to that little, that shepherd boy who the world wanted
to put, Saul wanted to put armor on him. If you're going to go
out and battle, you got to at least look like you're a soldier.
And remember, he put that on and it was just, he goes, I can't
wear this, doesn't fit. It's not tried. I haven't proved
it. And he went and he went to war. He went to battle. You know,
I don't know what the size difference was, but you got a veteran of
war and a rookie, a kid. But what was the difference?
David says, I'm coming to you in the strength, in the name
of the Lord. Feeble. That youth conquered Goliath.
So there's the promise. In that day shall the Lord defend
the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and he that is feeble among them
at that day shall be his David. So take heart, and I hope that
that comforts you. But what I really want to get
to is these next verses. Because in these next verses,
in that day, We see the sweet gospel message, as far as I'm
concerned, about as clear as anywhere else you can find it.
And in continuation of these promises to his church, the continuation
of the promises to his people, we have the blessings that the
church is to receive. We come across this passage here
in verses 9 to the end of the chapter, and we will peek into
the next chapter in the first verse. We come across yours and
mine, our chief blessing, and that is our salvation, our awakening,
or the time of the enlightenment of our souls to our Redeemer,
to our God, to ourselves, and to the full and free forgiveness
that's in Christ Jesus, who is the true and living fountain
of waters. Let's look how wonderfully the
way God deals with sinner is laid out before us in these next
verses. It's simple, it's straightforward,
and what a comfort these words can be and are from our brother
Zachariah to every saint throughout all ages. May we read them again
and again and learn how great and how sovereign and how glorious
is the salvation of our souls as it singularly glorifies our
Savior without question. Look in verse 9. And it shall
come to pass in that day, the day that the Lord begins to arouse
you from your maybe religious stupor, maybe begins to arouse
you that there's something more in this life than what you see
when you wake up. There's something more in this
life than money. There's something more in this
life than employment. There's something more in this
life than anything in this life or what this world has to offer.
In that day, I will seek to destroy all the
nations that come against Jerusalem. And here's what I'm going to
do for my people. Verse 10. I will pour upon the house of
David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace
and supplication. Do you notice how he says in
verse 9, in that day, it's one that's picked out from before
time that he has determined to be merciful to whom he will be
merciful. And we know that because he is merciful, that he shall
be. It's his day. It's his choice. It's God's election
according to grace. It's not man's decided by man's
will or decision or cooperation. He says in verse 10, I will pour
upon the house of David. This is a specific group of people.
I will do it. I will pour grace and supplication. And then until God does a work,
there'll be no work done. That's what he's saying, I will
pour. And he's doing specific things,
grace and supplications. Turn to Galatians chapter one. Turn with me to Galatians chapter
one. Paul says the same thing concerning
his own salvation. And in Galatians 1, starting
in verse 11, Paul says, as he's writing to the Galatians, But
I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached
of me is not after man. For I neither received it of
man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus
Christ. For you have heard of my conversation
in time past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted
the church of God and wasted it, and profited in the Jews'
religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more
exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. What he's saying
is that he was a very religious man. And when you looked at him,
you knew he was religious because he had the outfit, he had the
collar, he had the hat, he had all the things. Today, they would
have the crosses bouncing around or they would have the beads
or they would have all these things that when you see that
person, you would say, I don't know if he's religious or not,
but because of what he's wearing, He must be a religious man. He
must be a holy man. He must be somebody. And that's what Paul was. Paul
was somebody in the Jews' religion. But as I said before, there's
something more in this world than religion. There's Christianity,
there's being found in Christ. And yes, that's religion and
all that, but not the way man twists it. Because Paul was that
way. He profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals.
He compared himself with other men and said, I've been in the
ministry longer, or I went to seminary longer than you did.
I've got more degrees than you do. I've been teaching Bible
class longer than you have. I tried to talk to a lady one
time, and she informed me that she'd been teaching Bible class
for 20-something years, so I didn't have anything to tell her. And
you know what? I didn't. I just stopped. I didn't
say a thing. Cast my pearls before swine.
I wasn't going to do it. I just stopped. And sometimes I would
continue. Sometimes you answer a fool according to their follies.
What Scripture says, sometimes you don't answer a fool according
to folly. I'm not going to tell you how to do it because I don't
know how to do it. As God gives you grace, you speak. If He doesn't
give you grace, sometimes it's not saying anything. Let's say,
well, we're not saying the same thing. But I couldn't get a word
in edgeways and I couldn't tell her anything. She couldn't be
taught. Paul says, yeah, I was above
many my equals. But then look at verse 15. In
that day of grace and supplication, but when it pleased God who separated
me from my mother's womb and called me by his grace to reveal
his son in me. that I might preach him among
the heathen. Immediately I conferred not with
flesh and blood." So Paul, he thought he'd have something to
do with his salvation, but God said, no, when it pleased me,
and I called you, and I'm gonna give you grace, and when I give
you grace, I'm gonna reveal my son to you. You can't, somebody
says, no, I've been a believer for a long time. Well, how'd
you, this one gentleman, what happened? He wanted to tell me
his experience. And it was with a medicine man in a teepee somewhere
out west. Well, he had an experience. Don't
deny that they have experiences because people have religious
experiences all the time. When it rains, when it thunders, when this country wants to do
a draft, people get religious. When a couple of planes hit buildings
in New York, the survey was that this country got very religious.
and it goes back to the way it was. So people have religious
experiences all the time. But if it's not concerning the
truth, and not concerning grace, and not concerning Christ, this
Christ, not of our own imagination, that's all it is, is a religious
experience. Paul says, when it pleased God. When it pleased
God, grace Like back in our text, in that day I'll pour upon the
house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace
and supplications. Grace, such free favor that is
initiated and culminated in and by Him alone. And look at the
very next verse, very next passage in that verse 10. I give them
the spirit of grace and supplications. And what do they do? They shall
look upon Me whom they have pierced." Now, that is unquestionably speaking
about the Lord Jesus Christ as He's pierced by our sins. That's why I don't believe you
can't scare people to heaven by preaching hell. You can't
scare people to heaven. You can't chase anybody into
heaven. by any of the means that most
modern religion, when the spirit of grace and supplication comes,
according to this passage and according to this book, they
shall look upon Me, whom they have pierced. Now, I want to
be very clear about this because you're like me for the most part.
I was raised religious and raised in religion and I had experiences
and I had things that I could even reiterate that were real
to me, but it wasn't of God. When the grace of God begins
to do a work in a sinner, He gives them the spirit of grace
and supplications, and they look, they see that Christ is revealed. Christ is revealed. He's not
what many people say. He's not a doormat to wipe our
emotions and our feet on, and He's not a fire escape named
Jesus. Grace and they look upon me whom
they pierced." Obviously, directly pointing to the crucified one
who hung between those two thieves is meant here. You see, when
grace comes by the free hand of God to the sinner, they are
made to see and to look upon Christ, whom, look at how it's
worded here, look at, again, I'm not going to deviate from
this at all, whom they have pierced. Personally, you, if you're one
of His, and He brings you to the point that you see you're
one of His, you killed Christ. Did He take your sins upon Him
on the tree, if you say you're a believer? Yes. Then it was
your sins that nailed Him to the cross. I remember reading
this, reading the author years ago, and I was going through
it, and he finally came to the conclusion, and I was sitting
there reading it and was kind of disagreeing and agreeing with some stuff,
and then he made a statement that made me so mad I threw the
book down. But it haunted me until God God did a work in me. He said, Reader, you killed Christ. And boy, that made me mad. Because
I wanted the benefit, but without the responsibility. I wanted
the benefit of glory and crowns and all those things that I had
been taught without the finger pointing of the law of God saying,
you're guilty. You're guilty. And if that doesn't
happen, there's no entrance in the Kingdom of God. God will
reveal to us by His grace, the spirit of grace and supplications,
and we'll look upon Him whom we pierced. We pierced. That's why, and I pray, if I
start doing this, please tell me. Now, it's not that I'm not
concerned about you. If you don't come in a couple
weeks or a month and I get a phone call from you, hopefully we're
close enough now that I'm genuinely concerned how you're doing or
whatever. Say, I don't believe what you're preaching anymore,
preacher, so I'm not coming back. Fine. Believe me, I've had those phone
calls before. But what I'm saying is if I preach and try to start
putting you, brow-beating you and put you under bondage and
start doing all these things, tell me I'm doing that because
that's why I don't. Because if you ever get a look
at the Lord Jesus Christ whom you and who I crucified, that
just tears you up. That's why the love of Christ
constrains us. We realize what we have done A crime that's more horrible
than anything anybody could tell us we ever did before. And if
I browbeat you and try to make you come and your heart is not
in it, you'll just come for a while and then you'll leave. But the
gospel takes care of its own people. God who is sovereign,
the Holy Spirit who is sovereign, Christ who is sovereign, if you're
His, And you hear that sound, my sheep hear my voice, and they
say, I don't want to hear anything else. I want to be where Christ
is preached, I want to hear about Christ, and I have to own up
to the fact of the awfulness of my sins, put Him on the cross.
But you know what? We're not done yet. We're not
done yet. But they look upon me, whom they
have pierced, And look at the next section. Just read on. And they shall mourn for him
as one that mourns for his only son, and shall be in bitterness
for him as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn. And in that
day, verse 11, there shall be great mourning in Jerusalem as
the mourning of Hadad and Rimon in the valley of Midegon. And
the land shall mourn every family apart. You see, it's personal.
The family, the house of David apart, the wives apart, the family,
the house of Nathan apart and their wives apart, the family,
the house of Levi apart and their wives apart and of Shema apart
and their wives apart and the families that remain every family
apart and their wives apart. Every family, the grace of God,
the elect of God, specific personal mourning over what they personally
have done to Christ. And as a parent, I can tell you
this, we want the best for our children. But in the matter of
salvation, keep your hands off. Don't... When they ask questions, answer
those questions according to the Scripture. When there's an
interest in the things of God, tell them of Christ. But by the
grace of God, don't try to coerce a decision out of them. If they're
God's, this has got to happen. I'm telling you as a parent,
I know what I'm talking about. And even as your bride or your
spouse, you want to just, you want to comfort, you want to
help. A pastor that I know, and have
known well, years ago, he was invited to preach at a conference.
It's one of the Sovereign Grace Conferences, it's one of the
conferences we go to. These men that I know, that I've had in
here, they are solid gospel preachers, nothing else. Now, this man preached,
and there's about four or five other preachers, and his wife,
pastor's wife, sat there like everybody else, listening to
the messages. And about the second to last
message, She said, I don't know the gospel.
She said, I'm lost. And she went to her husband and
she said, honey, she says, I've known it, I've been raised it,
we've studied, we've taught it, but I don't know if I know. What
do I do? Well, the husband, the pastor, he was a sovereign grace pastor. We're all sinful flesh. He was
trying to... Now, honey, now you think about
it. Now, we've done it with this. Wisely, the man that preached the message,
he came over and he said, leave her alone. Leave her alone. God is doing
something and that's always a good thing. Well, salvation was had in that
day. But the tendency, as parents,
as husbands and wives, is to... Well, now, I remember when I
was going under conviction, I read... It's so hard. Let's just walk away and ask
God to give the spirit of grace and supplication. This thing of salvation is all by Him alone. And you're going to have struggles,
and I'm going to have struggles. You would not want to hear some
of the prayers that I pray. Lord, if I've never preached
the gospel, I pray that I preach the gospel to these folks this morning.
Because things come up and things happen, and we get our eyes off
Christ like that, and we look within, and you're going to find
a mess there. But what I'm saying is that this is a promise to
his people, this is a promise to his church, and look at what
he's doing for his people. In that day, I pour upon the
house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace
and supplication, and I'm going to cause them to look upon me
that they have personally pierced and they shall personally mourn
for him, for Christ. We look upon him and mourn over Him and what we've
done upon Him. We are made to see the utter
horror of our ruin and our sin as it was placed upon the dying
kinsman redeemer. We look upon Him, not the disappointments
of mom and dad. We look upon Him, not the brow-beating
looks of some preacher. We look upon Him, not inward
or what others experiences have been. I've been around people
where somebody will give an experience, an older saint will be talking,
you know, talking about different things. I've seen this time and
time again, an older saint, well, this is not what the Lord did
with me. And then as they walk away, then there's a young believer.
So that's, that's not how it happened with me. And then they
start getting, they start questioning their salvation. My experience
is not your experience. Your experience is not my experience.
But it all better be within this book. That's the only thing. Not a false gospel, but according
to this book. But I've seen it many, many times.
We look to Him. And alas, true conviction, of
and over our sin begins with a pure, simple, and direct look
by the grace of God upon the one that you and I pierce, the
Son of God. And I'm telling you, until God
brings you to this point, don't think that you have any interest
in the gospel. Because grace points away from
us to behold Christ, and as we behold Him, we see many things
clearly. We see Him, we see His majesty,
His perfections, our ruin, and our inability. And this is why we read on in
the latter part of this chapter, they shall mourn for Him about
what our sins did to Him. And then it says they're in bitterness.
And you know that there must be bitterness before the soul
can understand the sweetness. There must be that darkness before
we can understand the light. Verses 11 through 14, this is
head, heart and soul anguish. Every family mourns a part. And
again, some people, You know, if you read about Martin Luther,
if you read about some of these old Puritans, man, they mourned for
months. Well, then, okay, so then, you know, or Jonathan Edwards,
you read these guys, and I'm not saying not to read them,
but again, be careful what does this book say and your experience
as it relates to this book. Because I used to read those
books all the time, and I'd think, man, I didn't cry over my sins
for two months. And then you read another one,
and there was hardly any conviction. I mean, there's always conviction
and repentance, but there wasn't, it was like, they're sitting
there reading, it's like, oh, I'm full of sin. Lord, be merciful
to me, the sinner. And then there was instant peace.
In some, the peace came at a little bit of time. He'll give peace in His time.
Look to Him. Look to Him. It's personal and we own it. It's ours. We've sinned. And
nobody else can, you know, they say, I feel for you. I know what
you're going through. And sometimes we do a little bit, but not completely. It's you and the Lord. And pray for his grace. Let me
give you an example. Turn to Isaiah chapter 5. Let
me see if I can't give you an example. I hope I'm clear. But
let me read you out of scripture what I'm trying to say about
this personal conviction over sin. You got this prophet named
Isaiah. Well, he was somebody. We know he was somebody. Beautiful
writings under inspiration of God. But for the first five chapters,
He's sitting there just preaching at everybody. He's just sitting
there preaching at everybody. He's pointing, he's got those
fingers pointing out like this. Look at chapter 5, look at verse
8. Woe unto them that join house to house. Look at verse 11. Woe unto them that rise up early
in the morning, that they may follow strong drink. Verse 18. Woe unto them that draw iniquity
with cords of vanity. Sounds like a street preacher.
Look at verse 20. Woe unto them that call evil
good and good evil. Look at verse 21. Woe unto them
that are wise in their own eyes. Verse 22. Woe unto them that
are mighty to drink wine and men of strong, of strength to
mingle strong drink. And all these things are correct.
Woe unto them. We don't condone drunkenness. We don't condone people calling
good that's evil. We don't condone that. But He's
woe unto them, woe unto them. Now look at chapter 6. Then we
get to the right place, the right place in a man. We get to the
same place that Zechariah is talking about. And in the year
that King Uzziah died, Isaiah said, I saw the Lord. sitting
on a throne high and lifted up and his train filled the temple.
Well, you sovereign gracers, I've never heard of you before. I saw the Lord sitting on a throne. Ron, I'd say that's sovereign.
I'd say that you see somebody that you've never seen before
and he is in control. Well, we can call it and define
it whatever you want to. God is God. He's sovereign, He's
majestic. I saw Him sitting on a throne,
high and lifted up. And in verse 2, above it stood
seraphims, and each one had six wings. With twain, He covered
His face. They couldn't even look on God.
These are angelic beings, and they couldn't even look upon
God face to face because He's so holy. And verse three, and
one cried unto another and said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord
of hosts. The whole earth is full of his
glory. Now I probably said this a hundred
times, but this book is called the holy Bible. It's not called
the loving Bible. It's not called the living. It's
called the holy Bible. And this, that attribute holiness
is used more than any other of God's attributes in this book
than any other. His holiness. And when God pours the Spirit
of grace and supplication, we look upon Him whom we pierce
because of our sins, but because God is holy. He has to have a
sacrifice. And look at the difference now.
Verse 5, Then Isaiah said, Woe is me. You're not so much concerned
about the drunk and the gutter as you are the heathen behind
the pulpit. the heathen sitting in the pew
that you're sitting in. You're more concerned about yourself,
not in a selfish way, but, Lord, I've got the problem and I need
to take care of. He says, woe is me. Look what he says. For
I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips and I dwell in
the midst of people of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen
the king, the Lord of hosts. Now, the first five chapters,
he's the Lord's prophet. He's preaching. He's telling
the truth. But he says, My lips are unclean. And I will tell
you this, everything I've said here this morning, I believe
to be true and in accordance to the scripture. But without
the blood of Christ, it's just pretty sad. It's just words of
a man. They can't save you. So back to our text. We see this
Isaiah, the finger is now pointing in the correct direction. And he's mourning, right? The
spirit of grace and supplication came. We can go down and put
your name in there, put Isaiah's name in there. The spirit of
grace and supplication came in. He looked upon him whom he pierced
with his sin. I'm a man of unclean lips. And
those Old Testament saints are saved the same way we are, by
looking to Christ. And he mourned as one that mourned
for his only son. And he was in bitterness. But I can't stop here and I can't
end here. Alas, as with God's these convictions
and with this bitterness. comes the sweet mercies. Turn to Zechariah chapter 13
and verse 1. Because really in the original,
there's no chapter breaks anyway. But as we're talking about what
God does for sinners, as He pours out the Spirit of grace and supplication,
and as He causes us to look upon Christ whom we pierce, and He
causes us to be in mourning and bitterness, He's not going to
leave you there. And that's what I tell myself
and that's what I tell the parents. If God's doing something, He's
not going to leave your kid, He's not going to leave them
there to despair of life. Look at chapter 13 and verse
1. In that day, that same day, that God ordained before the
fullness of time, that day that it pleased God to reveal Christ
in you. Look at that. In that day, There
shall be a fountain opened. Oh, for everybody. No, it's it's
all in harmony to the house of David and to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem for just exactly what we need. Sin and uncleanness. Taken away. The gospel does always
tell the truth about our sins and its consequences. Yet the
gospel also tells the good news, nay, the great news of full pardon
and free forgiveness to all the elect in Christ Jesus, our precious
fountain. In that day, grace given, sins
revealed, the substitute is seen, mourning is expected. However,
there's a fountain open. There's a fountain open. Water is given to wash away sin. Water is given to purify the
unclean. We used to sing a course. It's
not in this course book, it's in the old course book. We used
to say, did you hear what Jesus said to me? They're all taken
away. My sins are pardoned and I am
free. They're all taken away. Did you
hear what Jesus said to me? Sometimes somebody comes up to
you and they ask you all these questions. All's I know, is one
day I was corrupt and vile and a sinner deserving hell, and
then He saved me. Did you hear what Jesus said
to me? They're all taken away. Your sins are pardoned and you
are clean. They're all taken away. What
a fountain! What a Savior! come today and
be made clean and whole through the blood of Christ. And in that
day there shall be a fountain open to the house of David and to
the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness."
Now this is a, we'll close, I'll just read this, and I love this
hymn, by William Cowper. There is a fountain filled with
blood, drawn from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunge beneath
that flood, lose all their guilty stains. lose all their guilty
stains, and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty
stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see
that fountain in his day, and there may I, though vile as he,
wash all my sins away. Dear dying lamb, thy precious
blood shall never lose its power till all the ransomed church
of God be saved to sin no more. Ere since by faith I saw that
stream, thy flowing wounds supply. Redeeming love has been my theme
and shall be till I die. When this poor lisping, stammering
tongue lies silent in the grave, then in a nobler, sweeter song,
I'll sing thy power to save. His power because it's His day,
it's His grace, His supplication, and we are just the benefactors. That is the most amazing story
ever told, and it is the most wondrous truth to be believed. May God give us grace to do so. Ron, would you close this, please?