A New Song of Redemption

Q: What does the Bible say about trusting God?

The Bible emphasizes that trusting God means having confidence in His promises and character. The Bible clearly instructs us to place our trust in the Lord rather than in ourselves or other men. In Numbers 23:19, it states that God is not a man that He should lie, emphasizing His unwavering truthfulness and reliability. Additionally, Hebrews 13:5 reassures believers that God will never leave nor forsake them, allowing us to boldly declare that the Lord is our helper. This confidence stems from understanding that God's promises are secure and trustworthy, leading to a firm faith amidst doubts and uncertainties.

Q: How do we know our salvation is secure?

We know our salvation is secure because it is rooted in God's sovereign choice and promise. The assurance of salvation is deeply tied to the character and promises of God rather than our subjective feelings. Ephesians 1:4-5 teaches that believers were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world, affirming God's eternal plan for our salvation. Furthermore, as stated in Hebrews 10:16, God promises to remember our iniquities no more, indicating a complete and secure remission of sins. Thus, the believer's confidence is based on God's unchanging nature and His faithful commitment to His Word, as proclaimed in 1 John 5:13, that those who believe in Christ have eternal life.

Q: Why is assurance of salvation important for Christians?

Assurance of salvation is vital as it brings joy, confidence, and a foundation for spiritual growth. Assurance of salvation is essential for Christians as it impacts how we live out our faith. It allows believers to rejoice in their relationship with God, free from the turmoil of doubt and fear, as described in Psalm 40:1 where David waited patiently on the Lord. Confidence in salvation not only leads to peace but also empowers believers to serve and witness effectively. Additionally, Romans 8:31-39 assures us that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, providing a secure foundation from which we can grow and mature in our faith, fostering spiritual transformation and a life that glorifies God.

Q: What is a new song of redemption?

A new song of redemption refers to the praise and joy that believers express as a result of their salvation. In Psalm 40:3, David refers to a new song he was given following his deliverance from despair, symbolizing the transformative power of redemption. This new song is characterized by genuine praise and gratitude to God for His grace and mercy, reflecting the believer's changed heart and perspective. As Christians, we are called to sing this new song, not only as an act of worship but as a witness to others of God's saving grace. This testimony can lead many to trust in the Lord as they witness the joy and transformed lives of those blessed by redemption.

Now there are two extremes to
be avoided. Both, both are to be avoided. Both are dangerous. And that is, number one, a state
of melancholy and doubt. It's not pleasing to God, it's
dishonoring to God. Melancholy. and doubt. That's to be avoided. I ran into
a little of that recently. I just don't know. I don't know
where I stand with God. I just don't know. My heart's
filled with doubts and fears, and I'm always down. That's to be avoided. It's not
honoring to God at all. The old Puritans were plagued
with a lot of that. They wrote a lot of it. But the other state to be avoided
is a state of presumption and indifference. Now the wise believer,
using the Word of God, will avoid both of these ditches. There
is a ditch over here and a ditch over here. Stay on the road.
And using the Word of God, using the promises of God, using the
promises of God, the wonderful, wonderful promises of God, he
does not despair. The promises of God lift him
from melancholy and lift him from depression and lift him
from death. He said it. I believe it. And then he uses the warnings
of God. And he applies them personally.
And they keep him from presumption. I'm more afraid of presumption
than I am melancholy. No question about that. I'd rather
be melancholy than presumptuous. I'm much more afraid of presumption
than I am melancholy. I'm much more afraid of cockiness
than I am of a spirit of doubt. But why do I have to choose either
one of them? Why? Somebody said, well, I'd
rather be melancholy than presumptuous. I don't want to be either one. I'll tell you, it's not presumption
to believe God. No, it's not. David said, I believe,
therefore I've spoken. And Paul took it up and said,
I'll say the same thing. Amen to Brother David. I believe,
therefore I have spoken. Paul said, I know whom I have
believed. I'm persuaded that he's able
to keep that which I've committed to him against that day. John said, we know we've passed
from death unto life. Brethren, it's not presumptuous
to trust God. He that believeth on the Son
hath life. He that believeth on the Son
hath..." H-A-T-H. What's that spell? Got it. That's what it's spelled. A possession. He that believeth on the Son
hath life. I believe on the Son. Are you
sure, preacher? Yeah, I'm sure. I'm standing up here tonight.
Are you sure? Yes, I'm sure. Don't bring some philosopher
my way and say, You don't know whether you're standing there
or not. Yes, I'm right here. Here's where I am. Not much,
but I'm here. And I believe the Son of God.
I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. What's wrong
with that? I believe it. Therefore, God says you have
eternal life. If God said it, I believe it.
Why should I put myself through a lot of so-called self-examination? I'm not looking for life here.
I'm looking for life there. There's no life here. Life's
in Christ. The fullness is in Him. If you
get me to probing around in here, you're going to fill me with
doubt. If you get me probing around trying to find a time
and a place and an experience and a feeling, then you're going
to make me doubt because it doesn't match yours. But if you'll tell me to consider
Christ Jesus, Look to Christ. I can do that. I can do that. And that's not presumption. If
He says it, you can rest on it. You can rest on it. You can rest
on it. Turn with me for a moment to
Hebrews. Hebrews chapter 13. I want you
to underline something over here. I heard a preacher read this
and speak from it. Oh, I guess 40 years ago. Long,
long time ago. But it impressed me. It really
impressed me. It made a real impact. Hebrews chapter 13, verse 5. Listen to this. Hebrews 13, 5.
Let your conversation be without covetousness. Be content with
such things as you have. For He hath said, I'll never
leave you, nor forsake you." Who said that? He did. So, that
we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper. I will not fear what
man will do unto me. Now, a fellow comes along and
says, the Lord is my helper, I'm not afraid. How can you say
that? Because he said it. That's how
come I can say it. He said it. He said it. If he
said it, I can say it. without fear, without presumption,
I can say, He is my Helper. I'm not afraid. Turn to Hebrews
10. Look over here a minute. Hebrews
10. Let me show you a few verses
here. It says in verse 16. This is what He said now. Verse
16, Hebrews 10. This is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days, sayeth the Lord. I will put my
law in their hearts, In their minds will I write them, and
their sins and iniquities will I remember no more." Now, where
remission of sin is, of these ills, there's no more offering
for sin. Having boldness, brethren, having therefore, brethren, boldness
to enter into the holiest blood, the blood of Jesus, by a new
and living way which He has consecrated for us through the veil, that
is to say His flesh, and having a high priest over the house
of God, let us draw near. Let us draw near boldly. How
can folks like you and me come boldly, not to the throne of
justice, not to the throne of glory, but to the throne of grace? How? Because He said, I will
remember their sins no more. Therefore, brethren, boldly,
Let us go worship our God. Oh, I tell you, really and truly,
really and truly, I'll turn over here and read you a scripture
from Numbers. This melancholy and this doubts and fears under
which people labor so much, it's insulting to God. It really is. It's dishonoring to the Father.
It's dishonoring because He said, I'll read it to you, you don't
need to turn to it, write down if you want to, Numbers 23, 19,
God's not a man that He should lie. Neither the Son of Man that
He should repent or change. He doesn't change. The gifts
and calling of God are without change. Hath He said, and shall
He not do it? Hath He spoken? Shall you not
make it good? Come on now. It may not be too questionable
to doubt the words of a man, but it's dishonoring to doubt
the words of God. He's not a man that He should
lie. No, the Son of Man that He should change. Hath He said,
and shall He not do it? Has he spoken? Shall he not make
it good? So with that in mind, turn to
Psalm 40, that Scripture that Brother Moore read a moment ago,
Psalm 40. And this is a new song of redemption. That's the title of this message,
the new song of redemption. A new song of redemption. I don't
believe the preacher. I know I've had a lot of friends
in the past to do this, but I don't think they're right. I don't
think they're right. I don't think the preacher's
right to keep people in a state of examination all the time and
not allow them to have confidence and assurance and joy and happiness
in Christ Jesus. Oh, we're to examine ourselves.
I know that. We are to rejoice in Christ too.
Rejoice in Christ. Rejoice in Christ. Alright, let's
look at Psalm 40 and go as far as we can in the little while
we have here. David wrote and said this, I
waited patiently for the Lord. I waited patiently for the Lord.
Somebody says, really David is saying this, waiting, I waited. Waiting on the Lord, I waited. Now, I believe this is what he's
referring to as well as other things too, but this is one of
the things. David knew he had been anointed king. He knew that. When they came out to the field
and called his name and told him that Samuel, the prophet
of God, they knew Samuel, was waiting for him down at his father's
house. And Samuel was there to anoint
a king over Israel. and that Samuel had turned down
all of his brothers. They were waiting on him. And
when he walked in the door, Samuel's face lighted up because God said
to him, there he is. David was there when that took
place. David knew he was king. He knew the time. He knew the
anointing. He knew in his heart the presence of God. Didn't he
write the Psalms? He proved that he knew God by
his encounter with Goliath and other encounters. But do you
know how long it was between the time he was anointed and
the time he became king? Years and years and years and
years. And these were years of troubles,
days and months and years of wandering, hiding, from Saul,
in the mountains, in the caves, in the foreign lands, under heavy
siege, trials, dangers, and harassment? That's when he said, Waiting,
I waited. Waiting, I waited. Waiting patiently,
I waited. He wrote again in Psalm 27, If
I had not in the goodness of the Lord, to see the goodness
of the Lord in the land of the living, I would have quit a long
time ago. I would have fainted. That's
quit. You know, my friends, time means nothing to God. I wish
it didn't mean so much to me. God will provide in His own time,
in due time, Christ died. But how many years was He incoming? In the fullness of time, God
sent His Son. I wish He would stamp on my mind
right now by the power of His Spirit that time means nothing
to God. There is no time with God. Days and hours and minutes and
months and years. It ought to mean a lot less to
me. God will provide in due time. A young man came to his teacher
in Bible school and he said, I wish you would teach me the
40th Psalm. And the teacher said, well, open
your Bible. He opened his Bible. He said,
read the first line. I waited patiently for the Lord.
He said, learn that and then we'll go on. Learn that, then we'll go. I
waited patiently. Waited. But the key is on the
Lord. I waited on Him. Look at the
next line. He inclined unto me. He inclined
unto me and heard my cry. Charles Spurgeon said this. He
bent over. If he hears my cry, it's going
to have to be a condescension. Because I'm out of the depths.
Out of the depths have I cried unto thee." And he bent over. He bent over and Spurgeon continued
and said, it's a marvel, it's a marvel that he would hear us
at all. Why shouldn't we wait? That's good, isn't it, Bob? Why
shouldn't we? Why should we ever grow impatient? Why should we
ever grow weary with waiting? It's a marvel, it's amazing grace
that he would hear me at all. But oh, marvel of marvels, he
inclined unto me and he heard my cry. He heard my cry. One of the old writers said,
you know when he heard my cry? You know when he heard my cry? He heard my cry when I was sufficiently
shut up to His grace. That's when He heard my cry. When I was sufficiently shut
up to His grace. When did He hear my cry? I'll
tell you when He heard my cry. When I'd been brought to the
place where He would get all the glory. That's when He heard
my cry. When did he hear my cry? I'll
tell you when he heard my cry. When the trial had accomplished
its purpose. That's when he heard my cry. When did he hear my cry? When
it pleased the Lord. That's when he heard my cry.
When it pleased the Lord. Oh, I think this day, we're in
this day of instant, instant everything. To find someone seeking the Lord,
waiting upon God, is unusual. In His own time, God will bless. He heard my cry. He heard my
cry. He inclined unto me and heard
my cry. And listen to this. Let's take
these next two verses together. He did. He heard my cry. And
it says, Three things here. First of all, he brought me up
out of a horrible pit. A horrible pit. You know, these pits here, these
prison pits, dungeons, back in Bible times, in the times when
the Bible was written, these pits, read it in Jeremiah and
other scriptures, these pits were horrible pits. Prisons. country club prisons like we
have today, these prisons were horrible. What they were was
a deep, deep, deep hole in the ground, and the prisoner was
lowered down into the hole, into the pit, and the rope was lifted
up and he was left. He was left there in the mud,
open at the top, way up there. The top was way up there. There
was mud down there and mire and waste and damp and cold, and
hot in the sun, and cold at night, and there was no way out, just
the slick sides. Paul described it in Ephesians
when he said, we were without help, without hope, without Christ,
and without God. Horrible pit. The pit of sin. He said, remember the pit from
which you were digged. I'll tell you a pit that's just
as bad, and that's the pit of religion. That's where he found me in the
pit of religion. I could just as well be right
where I was in the pit of religion, playing God, playing church,
and playing faith, and playing preacher. But he lifted me out
of that horrible pit, that horrible pit, horrible pit, pit of self-righteousness. He came where I was. He came
where I was. Christ became a man and came
where I was like the Holy Spirit came to us and awakened us and
gave us a desire to come out and the way to come out. Christ. Oh, He heard my cry and He brought
me up. He brought me up out of a horrible
pit. out of the miry clay down there,
the filth, all the filth, filth of it, the filth of it. And watch the second thing, and
set my feet out of the pit on a rock. He
set my feet on a rock. You know what that rock is? That
rock is Christ. That's what that rock is. I'll
show you that. 1 Corinthians 10. Don't lose Psalm 40 now,
but turn to 1 Corinthians 10. He set my feet on a rock. In 1 Corinthians chapter 10. And I know that this Scripture
talks about the smitten rock, but I'll tell you, any rock,
any rock of stability, any rock that's called a foundation, in
the Old Testament is Christ. That's right. That rock is Christ.
Look at 1 Corinthians 10, verse 4. And they did all drink that
same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock
that followed them. And that rock was Christ. He
brought me up out of a horrible pit and set my feet on a rock. You don't read about that rock.
Turn to Isaiah and we read about it. Chapter 28. Everybody doesn't know about
that rock. Some people are building on the sand, but he reveals that
rock to his people. He set my feet on a rock. He said in Isaiah 28, 14, Wherefore
hear the word of the Lord, ye scornful men, that rule this
people which is in Jerusalem. This is religious but lost people.
Because you have said, we have made a covenant with death. You
know, I read while I was going, Hebrews 10, he said, I'll make
a covenant. They said, we made the covenant.
It's not different, isn't it? We made a covenant with death.
We're not afraid to die. With hell are we at agreement.
When the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it won't
come unto us. We've made lies our refuge, and
under falsehood, when we hid ourselves, we're hiding under
something. No, you're not. We're standing on a rock. Look
at the next verse. Therefore thus saith the Lord
God, behold, I lay in Zion. You don't do it, I do it. I lay
in Zion for a foundation, a refuge, an anchor, a stone. And this stone is a tried stone.
God tried him, the devil tried him, men tried him, found no
fault in him. A precious cornerstone, a sure
foundation, he that believeth shall never be confounded. Never be washed ashore. When
I was in the Navy, we used to anchor, go into a port and not
go up to the to the, whatever those things are that
come out. But we'd anchor out in the bay or out in the water,
in an inlet or something. And what we'd do when we came
into that place where we were supposed to anchor, we'd drop
the rear anchor, just drop a big, huge anchor, huge anchor, and
it'd drop off and it would settle and set itself. And the ship
would stay right there. But now, this wind would blow
the ship, and it would turn. Sometimes our ship would be facing
east, and I would be facing west, and I would be facing south,
and I would be facing north. But it never moved from that
place. It was anchored. It moved, but it didn't move
away. And that's the way it is with
a believer. He's anchored. He's anchored
within the veil. He's anchored to Christ within
the veil. The forerunner, our Lord, has gone within the veil.
He's the anchor of our souls. I shall not be moved. That doesn't
mean I shall not be disturbed. The wind blows me. It blows me
around this way. It blows me that way. It blows
me this way. It troubles me. But I'm not moving
on the rock. Got that? He planted my feet
on a rock. And sometimes I'm looking that
way and sometimes I'm looking that way, but I'm still standing
this way, on heel. On heel. Alright, read on. And
he put a new song in my mouth. A new song in my mouth. Not moaning and groaning and
melancholy, but praise unto our God. Try it this week. put a new song. I'm going to.
How about you? He put a new song in my mouth. Even praise to our
God. I'm not talking about idle chatter,
noise and empty shouting, well hallelujah, praise the Lord,
out of character behavior. I'm talking about He put a new
song in my mouth. Praise to our God. I'm talking
about a song that has words. Doesn't a song usually have words?
unto Him who loved me, and washed me from my sins in His own precious
blood, and made me to my God King and a priest." That's words. That's words. The hymn writer
said, I was out on the broad road of sin and despair. I was
crushing at my burdens of sorrow and care. I needed a friend to
turn me about, and Jesus reached down and lifted me out. That's
the song. He lifted me out of that deep miry clay. He settled
my feet on the straight narrow way. He lifted me up to a heavenly
place. He flooded my soul each day with
His grace. So I've started for heaven. My
heart filled with psalm. My wandering is over and my sins
are all gone. Through the Lord's own blood,
cleansed within and without, praise His dear name, He lifted
me out. and established my goings and
settled my feet on the rock Christ Jesus and put a song in my heart. Thank you, Lord, for saving my
soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to me Thy great salvation so
rich and so full. Well, I don't know whether I'm
saying, yeah, I do too. I do know. I do. He brought me out of a horrible
pit. and he set my feet on the rock,
and he put a song in my heart." Now listen, and he says, many
will see it. Everybody will, many will, and
fear. Everybody will, but many will,
and some shall trust the Lord. Tell it. Tell it. Tell it. Somebody will see it. If God gives them eyes, they'll
see it. Brother Barnard said, well, we preach it. Some get
mad and some get glad. But I'm going to keep telling
it. Keep telling it. Because verse
4, listen, for blessed is that man. My, my, my. Boy, blessed is that man. Somebody
said he may be poor as Lazarus. He may be as lonely as Elijah.
He may be as bowed down as Jeremiah, his eyes rivers of tears. He
may be as persecuted as Job. He may be as hopeless as Jonah.
But if the Lord is his trust, blessed is that man. Blessed
is that man. Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord his trust. I trust him. I don't trust the
priest or the pope. Brother Walter wrote us a letter
and he said the pope came to Isamal. Tom, do you remember
Isamal where the big cathedral was? That's where we got a little
mission. I preached in Isamal a lot of times. It's kind of
the religious capital of the Yucatan. Paganism rules that
city. You can feel it. It's eerie,
creepy when you come in. That's that big cathedral. That's
where that big statue of Mary is with the moon over her shoulder
and the crown on her head. She's standing on the world.
Up in front of this big church, oh no, not church, cathedral,
building with gold, beaten gold on the front. It's like that little boy down
in Texas watched Brother Groover show the slides one day, and
he showed that huge cathedral with that gold front, and the
little boy said, you got a pretty church down there, Brother Groover. But the Pope came to Istanbul
a few weeks ago, a few days ago, weeks ago. And a lot of the people,
they make a holiday out of his coming, and a lot of people bought
bought Coca-Colas and tacos and things like that to sell along
the roadside to all the pilgrims that came. Kind of sad to tell it, kind
of glad to tell it, but they all went broke because not many
pilgrims came. They were left holding the bag.
They were left holding the tacos and the Cokes because the fellow
didn't attract very many. Hallelujah! They didn't come. They had been snowed too much,
I guess. They've had too much water thrown
in their face and too little grace in their hearts and they
quit coming. But we don't trust things like
that. We don't trust... What do we trust? We... Blessed
is the man that makes the Lord his trust. The Lord his trust. Read on. Respecteth not the proud,
nor such as turn aside the light. He doesn't cater. He doesn't
bow before the religious world. He doesn't court the support
of the proud. He doesn't follow those who turn
aside to religious lies. He doesn't cater to them, bow
down to them, or court their favor. He trusts the Lord. Come out from among them and
be yourself. Peter said on Pentecost, save
yourselves from this untoward generation. A man, a man or a woman, young
person, that has been given something better by the hand and grace
of God is not playing the game anymore with nobody. That's what he said. Blessed,
happy is the man who makes the Lord his full, total, complete
trust, and he doesn't and respecteth
not the proud and arrogant, and such as turn aside to religious
lies." He's parted company with them. That's right. He's parted company. God's given
him something better. Abraham stood in front of those
kings. Abraham had taken his men and
gone down and, by the hand of God, rescued those characters
and brought them out. from bondage. Boy, they were
happy. They had all that gold and silver
and spoils that they'd taken from those wicked kings that
had captured them. And they said to Abraham, they
said, Abraham, boy, we appreciate you helping us out, appreciate
you coming to our rescue and our aid. Now, you just take all
this spoils, all this money, you take it, Abraham. You take
it. We'll take the children, our
wives. And Abraham said, I don't want
it. I don't need it. I don't need
your influence and I don't need your support. I don't need your
help. I've lifted my hand to God. And I won't even take a leather
strap to strap my shoes for you." That's what he's talking about
here. He's trusted God. Trusted God and respected not
the proud and those that turn aside their lives. Our Lord said
to Peter, when all these people left, all of them, our Lord preached,
I'm the bread. I'm the bread from heaven. I'm
the bread of life. I'm the bread of life. They all
began to leave. He said, now if this offends
you, wait until you see the Son of Man ascend up where He was. Wait until you see Him in His
full glory. And they just kept leaving. Finally,
everybody was gone. He turned to the twelve and He
said, well, are you going too? There they go. There they go. There they go. Watch them. There they go. They're
looking for something. And here he stands. And there
they go. And he turned to the twelve and
said, you going too? And Peter said, to whom? To whom? I believe that the art
of Christ, the Son of the living God, and I don't plan to go anywhere. I've lifted my hand to God. That's
trust. We're not followers of men. We're
followers of God. We're not caterers, compromisers. Be careful. Be careful. My God will supply all your needs.
You don't need the hand of man. We don't need it. Just don't
need it. So just turn it loose. We don't
need it. He'll supply our needs. You remember
the illustration someone gave here a long time ago? I think it's so good. There's a restaurant down in
Louisiana. It has a buffet. You go through the line, you
pick up what you want. And one of the things they feature
is these little three or four inch ears of boiled corn. And it just looks beautiful.
It's in that yellow butter, and it's rolling in that yellow butter,
you know, when you go by and you come by and you pick them
up, put them on your plate. And boy, you eat them and they
run down your hand and all over your face, but they're so good.
And so these parents bought this little boy on his plate. He's three or four years old.
ear of that boiled corn. And that's about all he feasted
on during the meal. He held it in both his little
hands, eating that boiled corn. It came time to go, and his daddy
said, now we got to go. He said, we're through eating.
We got to go lay your corn down. Boy, he wasn't going to do it.
His little old slimy, butter-covered fingers wrapped around that corn.
He kept mauling it in his mouth, and his daddy threatened him. Tried to bribe him, he tried
to do everything. Lay the corn down! You're embarrassing me. Everybody's looking. He wasn't
going to do it. It's too good. And I'll tell
you, a lot of things are awful good, or they look good. And the owner of the restaurant,
whom I know, a very intelligent man, he went over to the cash
register, he pulled the thing back, the counter, Reached in
there and got something out, held it behind his back, came
walking over right up to that little boy, holding that grimy,
butter-covered ear corn. He said, I'm going to park with
you. And that restaurant owner held
out a brand-new 25-cent Hershey bar, chocolate Hershey bar. And that little boy dropped that
corn like it was hot and grabbed that Hershey bar. And out the
door they went. Something better. Something better. And I'll tell you, when a man
has come to know something better, someone better, Christ is all
I need. It's not too hard to turn loose
of something. But you've got to have something
better. He'd have never turned loose of it. He'd still been
holding it, I reckon. if it hadn't given him something
better. So, we preachers need to take a lesson here, that no
matter how much you beat folks over the head, they're going
to hold on until they learn something better. And the only one who
can reveal it is Him who is something better. Trust in the Lord. Alright, verse 5, I've got to
quit. He says, Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works
which thou hast done. I think of the works of creation,
I think of the works of providence, but I think these works here
are His works of redemption. For He said, Many, O Lord, my
God, are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done, and Thy
thoughts which are to us. He thinketh on us. Thinketh on
us. Isn't that something? O Lord,
remember me. What is man that art mindful
of Him? He thought so much of us that He sent His Son to that
horrible pit to lift us out. All these works, listen, they
cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee. If I would try to
declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise Him. All creatures
here below, praise Him. Ye heavenly hosts, praise Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost. His manifold, multiplied blessings
and mercies are more than can be known. Keep on thinking about
that. Count your many blessings. Name
them one by one. It will surprise you what God
has done. Your prayer tonight, talk about
what He's done for us, what He's done for us, what He's done for
us. That'll lift you out of melancholy. What He's done for us. You talk
about and study about what He's done for us. Oh, more than can
be known. Here's the gospel here. Sacrifice
and offering thou didst not desire. Mine ears hast thou digged. Burnt
offerings and sin offerings hast thou not required. Who's this
talking about? This is the Lord Jesus. Then
said I, then said I, lo, I come in the volume of the book that's
written of me. I delight to do Thy will, O my God, yea, Thy
law is within my heart." Brother Scott Richardson and I were down in Crossville this week preaching. I preached Wednesday night first,
and he was going to preach secondly. I said, what are you going to
preach on tonight? He said, I'm going to try to develop a thought.
found in Hebrews 10, that in order for any sinner to come
to God and be accepted of God and have fellowship with God,
somebody's got to do God's will. God's will has got to be done.
It's got to be done. Thy will beâ€”it's got to be done. It's got to be accomplished.
And that's what our Lord says here. That's the reason I can
have a song of redemption. He said, it's written of the
book concerning me. I came to do thy will. And therefore
he preached righteousness and truth and loving kindness and
mercy to the great congregation because the loving kindness and
righteousness and mercy is found in him who came to do God's will. Frank, you can have assurance
because it's done. The great transaction's done.
The Lord Jesus in our place did His will perfectly. We have a
song of redemption. All right. Frank, come lead us
in singing. 126.

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