Okay, Lord willing this evening
we'll look at the hiding place that God has provided for us
I'm entitling the message just that Christ our hiding place
Notice verse 2 and a man shall be a hiding place from the wind
This is no ordinary man. I And a covert from the tempest,
this man here is also the king, God the king. As rivers of water
in a dry place, as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Now there's much in that verse. But let me ask you this question.
How can a man be our hiding place, be our refuge? Be as David said,
the Lord is my light and my salvation. How can a man be our place of
safety, a refuge from the storm? It is because of who this man
is. He's not just merely a man, but
rather the man here that's mentioned in Isaiah 32 too, rather the
man that's mentioned here is the god-man mediator he is god
almighty and this text as all scripture to him give all the
prophets witness isaiah and all of them They tell us of the beauty
and glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and the salvation that is in
Him. This text, like all Old Testament
scripture, tells us about the blessed Redeemer, the Lord Jesus
Christ. He is Almighty God, and He is,
yet, a real man. He is the God-man mediator. One God, one mediator between
God and men, and that is the God-man, the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is the
only one from all eternity, purposed, designed to be our refuge, our
hiding place. In the storms of life, and from
the storm of God's holy anger, and wrath. Christ is our hiding
place. Now, it is not that God's elect
are free and exempt from the tempest, as it mentioned there,
from the howling wind, and from the tempest, and from dry places,
and the weary land. It's not that God's elect are
free and exempt from troubles, sorrows, heartaches in this life. This text, as many scriptures
tell us about the heartache and sorrows and the reality of our
life in the flesh. Job put it this way, man is born
of woman, few days and full of trouble, trouble. The apostle
Paul told those believers in Lystra, after he had been stoned
for preaching the gospel, to continue in the faith that we,
through much tribulation, we must, through much tribulation,
enter into the kingdom of God. Believers know something of heartache,
sorrows, grief, pain, agony of body, agony of mind, and agony
of soul. Mentions here the wind, the tempest,
the storm, the dry places, the deadness, and the weary land. Well, that just describes this
life, does it not? What we have in the flesh. Peter
writes, think it not a strange thing when fiery trials come
your way. And then Paul, in many places,
talks about the afflictions we have, but he calls them light
afflictions, which don't work against us, but rather work for
us. But let us never despair. We can always be confident that
God is working all things. All the storms, the wind, the
tempest, the dry places, the weary land, they all work not
against us, but for our eternal good. HE SAID, THESE WORDS I'VE SPOKEN
UNTO YOU THAT IN ME YOU MIGHT HAVE PEACE. IN THIS WORLD YOU
SHALL HAVE TRIBULATION, BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER, I HAVE OVERCOME. OUR GOD IS ON THE THRONE OF ABSOLUTE
HOLY SOVEREIGNTY AND BRINGS THINGS TO PASS IN OUR LIFE FOR OUR ETERNAL
GOOD. ALL THINGS HAPPEN IN THE BELIEVER'S
LIFE, NOT BY LADY LUCK, OR CHANCE, OR MOTHER NATURE, OR FATE, BUT
BY GOD'S HOLY AND ETERNAL PURPOSE. IT'S NOT MISFORTUNE. IT'S GOD
ALMIGHTY WHO BRINGS THESE THINGS TO PASS IN OUR LIFE. HE WORKETH
ALL THINGS AFTER THE COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL. The Lord says,
even in trouble, he said, I'm with you. I'll never leave you. I will never forsake you. Lo, I'm with you always. And
then he has also promised us grace for the trial. Now trials
are coming. They don't produce faith, but
they certainly reveal whether faith is real or not. Now let's go back to verse one,
Isaiah 32, verse one for just a moment. And then we'll move
on to verse two. Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness. Now, a king who is a king, who
is the absolute king in a country, he reigns, undisputedly, he reigns
over all the affairs of all the men. But this is talking about
God who is our King. Now, if that's true among men,
that a King among men reigns, how much more when we talk about
God Almighty who is called the King of all the earth. Behold,
the King shall reign. Now, you know the word sovereignty.
We use that word all the time, sovereignty. You know the word's not in the
Bible. NOT A BIBLE WORD, IT'S A BIBLE TRUTH. BUT THE ROOT WORD
OF SOVEREIGNTY IS RIGHT HERE, REIGN. GOD REIGNS OVER ALL THINGS. HE HAS SOBBED REIGN OVER ALL
THINGS. AND THIS KING, WHO IS THE KING
OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, THIS KING SHALL REIGN IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. NOW THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, OFTEN
TIMES, THEY DON'T REIGN THAT WAY, DO THEY? I mean, you take
a dictator of a country and he's an evil man who does evil things,
but this king, this king, the Lord Jesus Christ, who is king
of kings, Lord of lords, his reign is an absolute reign in
righteousness, in holiness, in justice. And because the king
reigns, look what it says next, princes, SHALL RULE IN JUDGEMENT. WHY? BECAUSE THE KING REIGNS.
THE KING REIGNS. NOW, LET'S WORK ON THAT FOR JUST
A MINUTE. OUR KING, OUR GOD DOES REIGN
IN RIGHTEOUSNESS IN ALL THINGS. WHATEVER HE DOES IS RIGHT. AND
WE BOW TO THAT. TURN TO ISAIAH 45. LET ME SHOW
YOU. ISAIAH 45. I AM THE LORD, VERSE
5. Isaiah 45, I am the Lord, there
is none else. There is no God beside me. I
girded thee, though thou hast not known me, that they may know
from the rising of the sun from the west that there is none beside
me. I am the Lord. There's none else. I'm the king. My reign is absolute. I form the light. I create darkness. I make peace, I create evil,
I, the Lord, do all these things. Turn one page over, Isaiah 46,
turn over there, verse nine, Isaiah 46, nine. Remember the
former things of old, for I am God, there is none else. I am
God, there is none like me. Isaiah 46, verse 10, declaring
the end from the beginning, from ancient times to things that
are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand. I'll do
all my pleasure. Whatsoever the Lord please, that
did he in heaven, earth, sea, and all deep places. You remember
Psalm 135? Calling a ravenous bird from
the east, the man that executes my counsel from a far country.
I have spoken it. I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it. I will also do it. Our King reigns
supremely, absolutely, in all things, over all people, in creation,
providence, and in salvation. Look at Isaiah 33, Isaiah 33,
17. Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty, And they shall behold the land
that is afar off the king in his beauty. Look at Isaiah 33,
22. For the Lord is our judge and the
Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us. He's the only one who can. May
we be blessed of God to see the King in His glory, the King in
His beauty, the King who reigns in righteousness, and see Him
as God my Savior, God my salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ is King
indeed, not by democratic process. You don't make him Lord, you
don't make him king. God from eternity decreed him
to be king in salvation. Pilate said to the vicious bloodthirsty
crowd, remember that day when he brought forth the Lord Jesus
and presented him before that howling mob and said, behold
your king. Remember what they said? They
said, away with him. We have no king. We have no king
but Caesar. Crucify him. We don't need him. We don't want him. We don't want
him to reign over us. We don't want him to be our king.
We want Caesar to reign over us. The same religious crowd
in our day, like those people in that day, full of religion
and lost, full of religion and self-righteous before God, the
same religious crowd had the same opinion of the Lord Jesus
Christ and his righteous reign. When faced with the fact that
Christ is King and salvation, that he will have mercy upon
whom he will have mercy, IT'S NOT OF HIM THAT WILLETH, NOR
OF HIM THAT RUNNETH, BUT OF GOD THAT SHOWETH MERCY. WHEN THE
SAME RELIGIOUS CROWD IN OUR DAY IS FAITHFUL TO THE FACT THAT
CHRIST IS KING IN SALVATION, WHAT DO THEY SAY? APART FROM
THE GRACE OF GOD GIVING US A BROKEN HEART TO BOW. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY
SAY? AWAY WITH HIM. WE HAVE NO KING BUT CAESAR. I REMEMBER ONE TIME YEARS AGO
WHEN BROTHER MAYHAN HAD PREACHED IN A PARTICULAR CHURCH. and he
preached particular redemption, death and atonement. And the
preacher, for some reason, was out of town. When he got back
in town, he told the people that that's not so. And he made this
statement, if Jesus Christ died only for the elect, he's no savior
of mine. Now you think about that. When
faced with the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is king in
salvation, that he laid down his life for the sheep, religious
men will not have that because they defend their religious pride. When faced, the same religious
crowd was aced with the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is
king in providence, that nothing comes to pass in this life apart
from his sovereign decree of him and through him and to him
are all things to whom be glory both now and forever. And this
same religious crowd will yell out, away with him. Crucify him,
we don't want anything to do with God who is absolute. This
is a God with whom we have to do, with whom we have to face,
to whom we will answer. And this same religious crowd,
when faced with the fact that Christ is King in redemption,
that he obtained eternal redemption for us with his own blood, that
the creature merits and works of the flesh have nothing to
do with salvation. They will say away with that
savior. We want to be our own savior. They say things like
God's done all he can do, now it's up to you. It really depends
on you, what you do with it. How you, what's your attitude
toward the atonement of Christ, whether it's effectual or not.
You mean the greatest of God redeeming work, whether it's
successful or it's a failure, depends upon the will of the
creature? That's pitiful. THAT'S NOT THE GOD OF THE BIBLE.
THIS KING REIGNS IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, REIGNS IN PROVIDENCE, CREATION,
AND SALVATION. HE REIGNS IN ALL THINGS. OUR
BLESSED SAVIOR IS KNOWN BY MANY NAMES IN SCRIPTURE. HE'S CALLED
THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN. HE'S CALLED THE LION OF THE TRIBE
OF JUDAH. He's called the Lord of Lords. He's called the Good Shepherd.
He's called the Captain of our Salvation. But one of the best
descriptive titles of the Lord Jesus Christ is that He is King. He is King. Hold your place there.
Maybe you want to mark these in your Bible, but look back
at Psalm 44, Psalm 44, Psalm 44. Verse four, Psalm 44, four. Thou
art my king, O God, command deliverances for Jacob. If God doesn't command
deliverance, if he doesn't command salvation, we won't be saved. And here's another scripture,
Psalm 47, look at verse seven. Psalm 47, seven, for God is the
king of all the earth. Sing praises with understanding.
God reigneth over the heathen. God sitteth upon the throne. It's a throne. This king sits
upon the throne. God said, you remember Psalm
two, I've set my king upon my holy hill, Zion. GOD HAS MADE
HIM KING. GOD REIGNETH OVER THE HEATHEN.
GOD SETTETH ON THE THRONE OF HIS HOLINESS. ISAIAH SAID, MINE
EYES HAVE SEEN THE KING. WOE IS ME. MINE EYES HAVE SEEN
THE KING. YOU REMEMBER? ISAIAH 6, VERSE
5. HE IS CALLED IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION
KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. When the Lord Jesus Christ, God
Almighty incarnate, manifest in the flesh, when the shepherds
came, when the wise men came, rather, they asked this question,
where is he that born king? He was king when he got here.
When he was that babe, God Almighty, manifest in the flesh, just even
as an infant of days, he's still king. He was king when he got
here. He was born king because he is
the eternal God. In his birth, we see his lordship. In his life, they said, Hosanna,
blessed is the king of Israel. He demonstrated throughout his
life that he's king. IN SALVATION. HE HEALED HOW MANY
PEOPLE, FED HOW MANY PEOPLE, RAISED THE DEAD, CONTROLLED THE
WEATHER, THE WIND THAT WAS RAGING, SINKING THE SHIP, AND THE DISCIPLES
SAID, LORD, WAKE UP, DON'T YOU CARE THAT WE'RE GOING DOWN? AND
HE ROSE UP AND REBUKED THE WIND. NOW HE'S KING IN ALL THINGS,
OVER ALL THINGS, AND THIS IS A GOD with whom we worship. And notice this, this king reigns
over all things, but his reign is a righteous reign. He reigns
in holiness. Jeremiah writes of it this way
in Jeremiah 23. Behold, the days come, saith
the Lord, that I will raise unto David a righteous branch. and
a king shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and
justice in the earth. He reigns in righteousness, and
princes shall rule in judgment. The Lord Jesus Christ, who accomplished
our salvation, did so in a righteous manner, honoring his own holy
law. He did, really did. I love this
scripture here in Isaiah 42. Turn over there. He did so in a righteous, righteous
way. He honored the law of God. God
didn't bypass the law of God that we have violated. God had
to honor his own holy law. to save us justly. He is a just
God and Savior. Isaiah 42, 21, the Lord is well
pleased for his righteousness sake. He will magnify the law
and make it honorable for us. And that's exactly what he did. Isaiah 44, turn there, excuse
me, Isaiah 45. THE LAST PART OF VERSE 21, HE
SAYS, I AM THE LORD, THERE IS NO GOD ELSE BESIDE ME, YET JUST
GOD AND SAVIOR. THERE IS NONE BESIDE ME. GOD
SAVES SINNERS IN A JUST WAY THAT HONORS HIS HOLY LAW. LOOK UNTO
ME, AND BE YOU SAVED ALL THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. FOR I AM GOD,
AND THERE IS NONE ELSE. I HAVE SWORN BY MYSELF THE WORDS
GONE OUT OF MY MOUTH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. and shall not return. That unto
me every knee shall bow and every tongue shall swear. Surely shall
one say, in the Lord I have righteousness and strength. Even to him shall
men come and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed.
In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified. was justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. He
reigns in righteousness. Now, the second part of verse
one, because the king reigns sovereignly in a righteous and
just way, that he is the just and the justifier of God's people,
and because he reigns in righteousness, princes rule in judgment. Now, some of the old writers
think that this is referring to God's servants who are preachers
of the gospel, and they rule in judgment as they preach the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. But I think this has a better
reference to the Lord Jesus Christ himself. He is the prince of
the kings of the earth. He's not only the king of righteousness,
but he's called, in Isaiah 9, six, the prince of peace. HE
IS THE PRINCE OF PEACE. HE MADE PEACE WITH GOD FOR HIS
ELECT WITH HIS OWN BLOOD. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE EFFECT
OF THAT PEACE IS? THAT HE HAS WROUGHT OUT FOR US. THE EFFECT
OF THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS WROUGHT OUT. IN ISAIAH 32, LOOK AT VERSE
17. and the work of righteousness
shall be peace. Now whose righteousness we're
talking about? We're talking about the king who reigned in
righteousness, and the work of his righteousness shall be peace. And the effect of his righteousness,
quietness and assurance forever. My people shall dwell in a peaceable
habitation, in sure dwelling places, in a quiet resting place. He is our peace with God. He made peace for us with his
own blood. Paul writes in Romans that we
are, he made peace for us that we're justified by the Lord Jesus
Christ, and through his justification, through his blood atonement,
we have peace with God. Being justified by faith, we
have peace with God. Now, let's take a look at verse
two for a few minutes, and we'll be through. A man Now remember,
this is the same one who we just talked about, who's the king,
who reigned in righteousness, and he rules in judgment. And
a man shall be a hiding place from the wind, a covert from
the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow
of a great rock in a weary land. how this is all about the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the one that God has provided for
our salvation and our shelter. He is the God-man mediator, both
the eternal God and yet a real man, bone of our bone and flesh
of our flesh. We take, as believers, we take
great comfort in the deity of the Lord Jesus Christ. Is the
Lord Jesus Christ God? Absolutely so. The eternal God. He said, I, my father, am one.
He said, you've seen me, you've seen my father. Without controversy,
great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. If he's not God, the God-man,
he could not save us from our sin, could he? If he's not the
God-man without sin, he could not save us from our sin. He is God Almighty in every way
that we can possibly think, and yet it's equally true He is God
Almighty, and yet he is a real man, a holy man, a sinless man
who had no sin, knew no sin, and did no sin, but was made
sin for us. John writes about it this way,
in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God, capital W, Word, and the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Only as the God-man could he
establish righteousness for us, right? He says, I didn't come
to destroy the law, I came to honor it. Only as the God-man
mediator could he suffer for our sins, bear our sins in his
own body on the tree. God cannot suffer, but the God-man
mediator did. Only as the God-man could he
be the mediator between God and men. Only as a God-man mediator
could he be our advocate with the Father. Who is called? He said, when you sin, preacher, you don't sin, do you?
Yep. When you sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus
Christ the righteous, the same one we just read about, the king
who reigns in righteousness. We have the advocate with the
father, Jesus Christ the righteous. Only as man could he be advocate,
intercessor, and mediator for us as the God-man. He ever lived
to intercede for us. Now think about this. God alone
could not suffer And man alone could not satisfy, but the God-man
mediator did both, suffered and satisfied. That's the gospel. That's the beauty of the gospel,
is it not? He shall see of the travail of
his soul and shall be satisfied. Brother Mahan used to say, learn
two words and learn the gospel, you remember? Substitution, what's
the other one? Satisfaction. I knew you knew
that. Substitution satisfaction. God made him to be sin for us,
who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of
God in him. As a substitute, the Lord Jesus
Christ is our hiding place. He took the storm of God's wrath
for us. Think about that. All the sin
of God's elect was laid upon the Lord Jesus Christ, and the
holy wrath of God fell upon him without any mixture of mercy.
And because the Lord Jesus Christ fully put away our sin, satisfied
the holy justice of God, there is therefore us right now, no
condemnation to those who are in the Lord Jesus Christ. As
the ever-living and interceding Savior, He is our hiding place. Because He lives, the Lord said,
because I live, you live. He said, I am He that liveth
and was dead. Behold, I'm alive forevermore. As the coming and
conquering God-man mediator, Christ is our hiding place. He
is the Lion of the tribe of Judah who has prevailed. You remember
our study from the Revelation, and I said that, I believe this
is the key verse. He went forth conquering and
to conquer all things. He's the Lamb, but he's the Lion,
and he's the King of all the earth. All judgment is relative
to the Lord Jesus Christ. God's appointed a day in which
he will judge the world in righteousness by that man, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, he is our hiding place,
he is our refuge from the storm, but also a man shall be a hiding
place from the wind, But also as mentioned there in the last
part of that text, a covering, a cover from a tempest has rivers
of water in a dry place. the shadow of a great rock. Now,
let's look at those things briefly, and I'll be through. A covering
from the tempest. Christ is our righteousness. Did you get that? Christ is our
covering. We're not going about to establish
a righteousness by the deeds of our hands. ISAIAH SAID THE
BEST WE HAVE IS FILTHY RAGS. CHRIST IS OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. LET ME SEE IF I CAN FIND THAT
HERE. TURN TO ISAIAH 61 10. ISAIAH 61 10. THIS GIVES US CENTER
PEACE. CHRIST IS MY RIGHTEOUSNESS. HE'S
THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOM THE LORD
IMPUTETH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT WORKS. HE'S OUR COVERING FROM
THE TEMPEST. Christ is our righteousness. We rest in Christ who provides
righteousness for us. Isaiah 61 10. I will greatly
rejoice in the Lord. My soul shall be joyful in my
God. For he hath clothed me with the
garments of salvation. He hath covered me with the robe
of righteousness. As a bride decketh himself with
ornaments, as a bride adorneth herself with jewels. We have
the very righteousness of God in Christ. So he is our covering. Secondly, he's called here rivers
of water. Rivers of water in a dry place. Now, we went through a little
bit of a dry spell back in September, didn't we? Didn't rain for how
many months? Pretty devastating, wasn't it?
A dry place here is typical of our sinful nature, like a dried,
parched desert. No spiritual life, no spiritual
water, like dry, dead, bleached bones, like Ezekiel's Valley
of Bones, no life. in a dry place. That dry place
is our sinful nature. But the Lord Jesus Christ is
the rivers of water. Our sinful condition does not
hinder Christ from coming into our soul and giving us the abundance
of the river of the waters of life, and he does so freely. freely, freely, freely. Let's see if we can find a few
scriptures here close in Isaiah. Turn to Isaiah 41, 17. Isaiah
41, 17, first of all. Isaiah 41, 17. When the poor and needy
seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for
thirst, I, the Lord, will hear them. I, the God of Israel, will
not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places,
fountains in the midst of valleys. I will make the wilderness a
pool of water and the dry land springs of water." Christ is
the water of life. There's another reference I've
got jotted down, Isaiah 44, verse one, turn there, Isaiah 44, one. Yet now here, O Jacob, my servant,
Israel, whom I've chosen, thus saith the Lord, that made thee
and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee, fear not,
O Jacob, my servant, and thou, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen,
I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the
dry ground. I will pour my spirit upon the
seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring, and they shall spring
up as among the grass, as willows by water courses. And of course,
you know this one, Isaiah 55, you could quote this one, couldn't
you? Oh, everyone that's thirsty,
Isaiah 55 one, come, To the waters, he that hath no money, come by,
yea, eat. Come by wine, milk without money
and without price. The Lord Jesus Christ identifies
himself as a water of life. In John chapter seven, let me
read this to you. In the last day, that great day
of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, if any man thirst, let
him come to me and drink. He that believeth on me, as the
scripture had said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living
water. You remember what he said to
that woman at the well? He said, if you drink of that natural
water, you're going to thirst again, but if you drink of that
water that I give you, will be a well of water springing up
into everlasting life. Remember what she said? Oh, give
me that water. Give me that water. Here's the
last thing, Christ is the shadow of a great rock in a weary land,
a shadow of a great rock. Everything about the gospel of
God concerning Christ is great, great salvation. We have great
mercy, great forgiveness. He's the great rock, the rock
of ages. In many ways, this life can be
considered a weary land. You ever get weary? Ah, you don't get weary. We all
get weary, don't we? We endure many heartaches, sickness
of body, trouble of mind, and when sin is finished with his
body, it's back to the dust. But in the midst of weariness,
Christ is our rest. He said, come unto me, all ye
that labor heavy laden, I'll give you rest. In the midst of
weakness, Christ is our strength. We read a moment ago, the Lord
is my light. in my salvation. Whom shall I
fear? The Lord is the strength of my
life. Of whom shall I be afraid? In
the midst of weariness, Christ is our rest. In the midst of
weakness, he is our strength. In the midst of trouble, Christ
is our peace. In the midst of sickness, Christ
is our healer. He's a wise physician who didn't
come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. And with
his stripes, we are healed. In the midst of death, Christ
is our great resurrection. He's a resurrection and a life.
One day we're gonna put this old body in the ground. One day he's gonna make a new
body. like unto His glorious body, will be raised up just
like the Lord Jesus Christ to be with Him forever. He is our
resurrection and He is our life. Christ is the great foundation
upon which we rest. We rest upon this foundation. One scripture, I'll let you go,
Psalm 62. God said, behold, I lay in Zion
for foundation, a stone, a tritone, a precious cornerstone. He that
believes on him shall not make haste. He is that one refuge,
that one foundation. Psalm 62, verse six. He only is my rock, my salvation,
he's my defense. I shall not be moved, and God
is my salvation. and my glory, the rock of my
strength and my refuge is in God. Trust in Him at all times,
ye people, for at your heart before Him, God is a refuge for
us. A man shall be a hiding place
from the wind, a covering from the tempest, as rivers of water
in a dry place, as a shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Is the Lord Jesus Christ your
hiding place? Be sure that you take shelter
and refuge in him. We often sing, on Christ the
solid rock I stand, all of the ground is sinking sand. And I thought about this song.
THAT DANIEL PARKS OFTEN SINGS, HAIL SOVEREIGN LOVE THAT FIRST
BEGAN, A SCHEME TO RESCUE FALLEN MAN, HAIL MATCHLESS FREE ETERNAL
GRACE THAT GAVE MY SOUL A HIDING PLACE. HE'S OUR HIDING PLACE. HE'S A KING, HE REIGNS, BUT HE'S
A GOD-MAN MEDIATOR WHO CAME TO SAVE SINNERS, OF WHOM I AM THE
CHIEF ONE. OKAY, LORD BLESS HIS WORD.