Now back to Isaiah chapter 45. Isaiah 45. It says in verse 17 of Isaiah
45, but Israel, but Israel shall be saved in
the Lord with an everlasting salvation. Now, the word Israel is used
in the Bible over 2,500 times, almost 3,000 times. If you'll
get a concordance, you'll check up on that. It's used almost
3,000 times. And I know that in many, in many
places where the word Israel is used, according to its application. It's talking about the nation
Israel. I realize that. Talking about
the little nation of Israel. You're familiar with the Jews
and the nation Israel. And I know in its literal application,
most of the time, most of the 2,500 times that that word is
used in the Bible, it's talking about these typical people of
God. Now you can bank on that, that's But in its spiritual application,
for example, in this scripture right here, "...but Israel shall
be saved." Now, we know that all that nation, Israel, has
not been saved, is not saved, and will not be saved. That's
obvious. The Bible says, "...but all Israel
shall be saved." All Israel shall be saved. That's what God's Word
says. And it says here, Israel is going to be saved in the Lord
with an everlasting salvation. Most of Israel, back then, now,
has always been, is now in blind unbelief, judicial unbelief. God has hardened their hearts.
Out of that whole crowd that left Egypt, we don't know how
many there were, two or three million of them, but there were
over 600,000 men, not counting the women and children. Out of
that whole crowd, only two entered the promised land, two, Caleb
and Joshua, that were over 20 years of age when they left Egypt.
That's right. So all Israel doesn't know God. God said their carcasses perished
in the wilderness in unbelief. They didn't believe God. They
could not enter in because of unbelief. So in this reference here, and in many other
spiritual and figurative applications, the word Israel in the Bible
refers to the true people of God. The true people of God. That's who the word Israel is
talking about. That's what it's talking about
here. When it says all Israel shall be saved, it's talking
about the people that God gave to the Son in an everlasting
covenant. It's talking about the sheep
of Christ, it's talking about the jewels of God. He'll gather
his jewels together. It's talking about the sons of
God. It's talking about those sanctified
by the Father and sanctified in Christ Jesus and called by
the Holy Spirit. It's talking about those who
are the seed of Abraham, true believers, and I'm telling What
about the origin of the name Israel? Let's go back to Genesis
32. Here's the origin of the name
Israel. God gave it to Jacob, the name
Israel. In Genesis 32, verse 28, you
see it there? Genesis 32, 28, and he said,
verse 27, what is your name? He said, Jacob, chief supplanter. And he said, Thy name shall be
called no more Jacob, but Israel. What does it mean? A prince of
God. That's what's got in the center
reference there. You got in the center reference there. A prince
of God. The name Israel means a prince of God. A lot of those
Israelites were not prince. A prince of God. He said, you
have your father the devil. That's what he told those Jews.
You have your father the devil. You're not a prince of God. So
the name Israel was given to Jacob have I loved. Esau never
wore that name. Jacob have I loved, a prince
of God, a son of God. A prince is a son. There's King
so-and-so and Prince Edward, and he's the son. And Israel
is a prince of God, that's what it says. A prince of God, for
as a prince, verse 28, hast thou power with God." You've got power
with God, your Prince, your Son of God. All right? Then there are other verses that
will clearly define Israel. Let me take you to the New Testament
and turn with me to Romans chapter 9. Israel, we're talking about
Israel, but he says, Israel shall be saved. Israel shall all be
saved. All Israel shall be saved. Just
like my sheep, they'll all be saved. Every son of God will
be saved in the Lord with an everlasting salvation. In Romans
9, verse 6, talking about the Jews here, that is Israelites,
verse 4, who are Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption
and so forth. Verse 6 now, but they didn't
believe. Not as though the word of God
hath taken none effect, for they are not all Israel which are
of Israel. They are not all spiritual Israel
who are of national Israel. They are not all princes of God
who claim to be. They are not all Israel who are
of Israel. Neither because, read on, neither
because they are the seed of Abraham are their children. Ishmael
was the seed of Abraham. But in Isaac shall thy seed be
called," who's Isaac? In Christ. Abraham's seed is
Christ. "...in Isaac shall thy seed be
called." That is, read, this is so clear, "...they which are
the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God."
Now, can anything be any plainer than that? Just because you're
a Jew or an Israelite, or you can trace your Ancestry back
to Abram, you're not a child of God, but the children of the
promise. What promise? The promise made
to Christ. The promise made to Abram. They're
the children. That's Israel. It's so clear
in verse 6, they're not all Israel, which are of Israel. But in Isaac,
shalt thou cease to be called, all right, Roman 9. Turn to Romans
9. I'm talking about Israel now.
Romans 9, verse 27. Isaiah also cried concerning
Israel, though the number of the children of Israel be as
the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved, just a handful
shall be saved, though they are the sand of the sea. That's the
nation Israel. Turn to Romans 4.16. Now watch this, "...therefore this
thing of salvation is a faith, that it might be by grace to
the end, that the promise might be sure to all the seed," all
the seed, all of Israel, "...not to that only which is of the
law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who
is the father of us all. Who are the children of Abraham?
Turn to Galatians 3, and let's see. Galatians 3. Galatians,
the 3rd chapter, verse 7. Galatians 3, 7. Who is Israel? All Israel shall
be saved. Galatians 3, 7. Know ye therefore
that they which are of faith the same of the children of Abraham?
That's Israel. Look at verse 27. For as many
of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free,
there is neither male nor female, for you are one in Christ. And
if you be Christ's possessive, you belong to him. Are you Abraham's
seed? And then are you heirs according
to promise? Have I been on that enough? Now,
let's go back to Isaiah 45, verse 17. So this is sure and certain. All Israel shall be saved. They
shall be delivered, they shall be redeemed, they shall be saved
in the Lord, not in the law, in the Lord, not in their in
the Lord with an everlasting salvation.
It's not a six-month deal. It's not saved today and lost
tomorrow. It's an everlasting salvation. All right, verse 18. And this is no idle promise.
Oh, my soul, what a promise! My friends, we're not, as Barnaby
used to say, not playing tiddlywinks. We're dealing with eternal matters.
What a promise! They shall be saved. They shall
be saved. They shall be delivered in the
Lord with an everlasting salvation. They'll never be ashamed, never
be confounded. For thus saith the Lord that
created the heavens, God himself. This is no Baptist promise, this
is God's promise. This is no ten-cent store preacher
talking, this is God himself had formed the earth and made
it. He had established it. He created
it not in vain. God didn't create this world
in vain. The new heaven and the new earth. He formed it to be
inhabited. God's creation is not in vain. He created it not in vain. Out
of it will come a new heaven and a new earth to be inhabited
forever with a people created in the image of Christ. I am
the Lord, he said. There's none else. In verse 19,
he said, this is no secret plan. I've not spoken it in secret. I have not spoken it in secret.
I didn't slip around and whisper it. I didn't speak it in the
dark places of the earth. I didn't say to the seed of Jacob,
the seed of Israel, seek ye me in vain. When I said for them
to seek the Lord, it will not be in vain. Seek ye the Lord
when you search for me with all your hearts, I'll be found of
you. He said, I speak righteously. I speak truthfully. I declare
things that are right. And then verse 20, he sounds
a warning. Assemble yourselves and come,
draw near together, you that are escaped to the nations."
People have no knowledge to set up the wood of their graven image
and pray unto a God they can't save, a powerless God. Is this the one to whom Paul
refers over here in 2 Corinthians 11? No, let me just read it to
you. He's talking here in Isaiah about
people who who form an image of God, their thoughts of God,
a God that cannot say, a God that's powerless. Is this the one to whom Paul
refers when he said, I fear, I fear talking to the New Testament
church, Corinthian church, I fear lest by any means as the serpent
beguiled Eve through his craftiness and subtlety, that your mind
should be corrupted. See, image is a mental thing,
imagination, imagining God, forming an image of God, a God that's
weak and helpless and cannot save. And your minds, by the
subtlety of Satan, should be twisted and perverted and corrupted
from the oneness of Christ, the simplicity that's in Christ Jesus. Or if he that cometh preacheth
another Jesus, whom we have not preached. Or if you receive another
spirit, another spirit. There are many spirits gone out
into the world, as Scripture says. But if you receive another
spirit, which is not that Holy Spirit, that Spirit of the Living
God, that Sovereign Spirit, or another A gospel which is not the gospel
of grace, of free grace, of God's grace in Christ, but another
gospel, a gospel of either of all works or a combination of
works and grace, or a gospel, a combination of grace, law and
works, or a combination of denominationalism or sectarianism or allegiance
to some organization, another gospel which is not the gospel
of the glory of God, and the gospel of the grace of God, and
the gospel concerning the Son of God. Is this what he's talking
about here? I think maybe it is. In Isaiah
45, they are ignorant and set up a graven image, and they call
on a God who cannot save. They pray to a God who wills
but who can't. who desires but cannot fulfill
his desire." Well, verse 21, he says, "...tell ye, and bring
them near." Bring them all together, he said. Declare and bring forth
all your arguments about the worship of other gods, gods that
cannot save. Let all them take counsel together. Let all men assemble together. Let all pagans and heathens and
religious rebels convene together. Let all of them come together,
and I've got something there. Who hath declared this from the
beginning? Who hath announced this from
the beginning? Who hath told it from that time?
Who announced the rise and conquest of Cyrus? Go back to Isaiah 44,
the last verse. Isaiah 44, the last verse. Now
here's the Lord speaking. He said, Thus saith that saith
of Cyrus. He is my shepherd, and shall
perform all my pleasure, even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt
be built, and to the temple, Thou foundation shalt be laid."
Now God is announcing 200 years prior to the deliverance of Israel
out of Babylon. That's what this is, that Cyrus,
King Cyrus, God raised up King Cyrus. And King Cyrus led Israel
out of captivity, out of bondage, miraculously, powerfully. And
God announced it 200 years before it happened, that King Cyrus,
who didn't even exist then, would come in as his shepherd, his
victorious one, and his anointed king, and lead Israel out of
bondage. Some of you preachers may want
to work this up and make it a type of Christ. I don't know whether
it be. whether it be violating the scripture or not, but it's
good. He says, verse 28, I'll break in pieces the gates
of brass, I'll cut and sunder the bars of iron, I'll give thee
the treasures of darkness, and the hidden riches of secret places,
that thou mayest know that I, the Lord which called thee by
thy name, am the God of Israel." And what he's doing in Isaiah
45, 21, what the Lord's doing here, he's saying that we're
talking about the Sovereign Lord, the one God of heaven and earth. Almighty, majestic, immutable,
infinite, powerful. You cannot, you cannot exalt
the Lord God too much. You can't give him too much glory,
or too much praise, or too much awe, too much reference, too
much worship. Our only fear is to make God
less than he is, not more than he is. That's my only fear. And he's saying here to us, all
Israel shall be saved. In the Lord, with an everlasting
salvation, my sheep, hear my voice, all that my Father giveth
me will come to me, and him that cometh to me I'll in no wise
cast out. I came down from heaven, not to do my will, but the will
of him that sent me, and this is the will of him that sent
me, that all he hath given me I'll lose nothing. Israel shall
be saved. Every blessed one of us. Not
a hook will be left behind in Egypt, not one. Satan shall not
have one, not one, not one. And then he says here, I tell
you who's saying this, the Lord who created the heaven and the
earth. That's who's saying this. The Lord God who created it,
and I didn't create it in vain, he says. I've done nothing in
vain. I, the Lord, have purposed it,
and I'll bring it to pass. And he said, I didn't whisper
this in secret, and I didn't whisper it in the dark places.
I've shouted it from the mountaintop. And he said, you're foolish,
you're foolish. He said, you're ignorant, you
have no knowledge. Let's set up any other God, or
call on any other God, or worship any other God, or preach any
other God. Or he said, let them all come
together, let all these worshipers of other gods and advocates of
other gods and those who've raised up, bring them together, assemble
them together. I got a question there. Who announced
all of this from the beginning? Even the rise of Cyrus, 200 years
before it happened. Even the deliverance out of Babylon,
200 years before it happened. Even the people delivered from
slavery 200 years, God said, I announced it. Your faults,
God knows nothing. I know the end from the beginning
and from ancient times the things that are not yet done. That's
who I am. Have not I the Lord? I told it
from that time. God declares the end from the
beginning. the end from the beginning. We
go through this Old Testament, start at Genesis 3.15, he talks
about the seed of woman. All the way through the Old Testament
he talks about the things that shall be. And I'll tell you how
to know whether he's God or not, if the things he says shall be
are. And they are. He says, there's no God beside
me. Now look at verse 20, 21, in the middle right there. And he said, watch this, I'm
a just God and a Savior. A just God and a Savior. Our
God has purposed to redeem a people. He has created this earth and
that heaven and all principalities and powers and angels and even
those who became demons. And all of this with a grand
design to have a new heaven and a new earth, which will be populated
by a holy people, a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. It shall be populated. Heaven
and earth shall pass away. They are melt with a fervent
heat. But God will have a new heaven and a new earth wherein
dwelleth righteousness. In all things, contrary to God,
shall be Destroyed and the last enemy that shall be destroyed
there But he's purposed all this and he's purposed it in Christ
And our God will have that he'll have that new heaven new earth
He'll have that new nation that new creation that new people
like Christ And you'll have it all in such a way that he won't
violate a one of his attributes He won't violate his character You see, our God is holy, unchangeably
holy, perfectly holy, absolutely holy. Now being, if he were only,
if he were holy, having no mercy, having no grace, having no love,
compassion. But he wouldn't be holy if he
had no compassion. But if he had no design for the
redemption of sinners, then we'd have to flee from his presence.
Just like when God revealed himself from Sinai, the lightning, the
thunder, the law, and the people just left. They removed themselves. So an
absolutely, essentially holy God cannot be approached. He cannot be approached. You
just have to go to hell. But God is love. God is grace
and God is mercy. But a God that's all love and
grace has no holiness, therefore he's not a God. He's not God
at all. And that's a false God. But God
is holy and God is just. He will punish sin, all sin,
not one sin shall go unpunished. Every debt shall be fully discharged. Every transgression shall be
fully punished. Well, how can God be holy and
just and be righteous and be grace and be truth and be love? How can he give expression to
all those attributes in Christ? In Christ. Why send his Son into
this world? That's what I'm trying to preach.
I'm trying to declare, he said, I am the everlasting God, I am
the selfless God, I am a just God, and I'm a holy God, but
I'm a Savior. I'm a Savior. And there's none beside me. And that tells us in verse 22,
therefore look to me. Look to me. And they say, look
to me. to provide your redemption. Look
to me to provide your deliverance. Look to me to provide your righteousness. Look to me to provide your justification. I'm the only one who can do it. You see, Israel, and when I think
of a verse like this, look to me, I think of Israel in the
wilderness. People murmured against God, murmured and complained
and grumbled, and God sent fiery serpents in the camp to bit the
people, and the people were dying. And Moses went to God and prayed,
and God said, Moses, make a serpent of brass, a serpent of brass,
just like the serpents had bitten the people, and raise it up on
a post, and whosoever shall look shall live. And it came to pass
that Moses made a serpent of brass and put it on a pole, and
whosoever looked, they lived. Now, those people weren't instructed
to look to Moses, look to the serpent. Isn't that right? Didn't say look to Moses, said
look to the serpent. Those people weren't instructed. Now, y'all
help one another. Help those that are bitten, relieve
the pain. Relieve the distress, feed the
hungry. If you do all this, you'll be healed. No. No, you can do
all that, and I'm glad you're doing it. You're going to die
anyway. Just look to the circle. They were not told to fight the
circle. What we got to do is organize and get rid of the circle. We got to put the drunks out
of business and all these other people out of business. We put
all them out of business, we'll be... No, you're still going
to die. Just look to the circle. They were not told to make an
image of the serpent and wear it around their necks like you
girls do. And the more pagan people are, the bigger their
cross is. Have you ever noticed that? I see even the TV entertainers. I think I saw the other day on
television a wrestler had a cross around his neck. The more pagan,
the bigger the cross. You see, this was a symbol. It was a means. It wasn't a Savior. Christ is the Savior. And they
were not told to call a counselor. They were told to look. They
were not told to go to an inquiry room. They were told to look.
They were not told the kind of prayer to pray. They didn't say
pray at all. They said look. Moses didn't say pray at all.
He said look. And my friends, look is believing.
It's believing on Christ. So look unto me. Look unto Christ. For a preacher,
how do we look to Christ? Well, let me give you several
things briefly and quickly. First of all, you see, look is
not to see him in the flesh, a vision, or anything like that.
It's eyes of faith. It's to see him as he's revealed
in the record God has given, in the word God has written.
So we look to Christ for salvation. God has said, I am the Lord,
there's none else. Now you look to me, I'm a just
God and a saint. My justice has been fulfilled
by my Son, my righteousness has been fully obeyed and provided
by my Son. Now you look to him. And I look
to Christ. the covenant Christ to redeem
me. He's my surety. Now, when the
angels fell, God didn't provide them with a redeemer. They were
plunged into hell. But when Adam fell, God provided
a surety, a surety. And I consider Christ as he is
from all eternity, the surety of an everlasting covenant, the eternal Christ. His blood
is the blood of the eternal covenant. And that's what David was saying
when he came to die. David said, although it be not
so with my house, God hath made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and sure, and this is my salvation, all
of it, and this is my desire. So my friends, I'm saying to
you now, it's not just walking down an aisle and accepting Jesus,
it's looking to him. in truth, in faith, in committal,
in confidence and assurance, who he is, the covenant Christ,
the eternal Christ. See what I'm saying? And not
only that, but looking to him as the incarnate Christ in the
flesh. Jesus Christ is a name, but not
just a name. He came into this world. John
said the word was made flesh and dwelt among us. By one man's disobedience we
were made sinners, by another man's obedience we were made
righteous. And our Lord Jesus Christ came into this world and
I looked to him. as having been bone of my bone
and flesh of my flesh. I look to him, when I see the
law, I say it's fulfilled in Christ. I look to him in his
life. And not only that, thirdly, but
I look to Christ in death. I see him, and I don't have a
crucifix in my home, don't intend to. Because it's not just Christ
on the cross that's saved. It's Christ in the covenant,
and Christ in the flesh, and Christ on the cross, and Christ
in the tomb, and Christ on the throne. It's all of the person
and work of Christ. And I don't tell people, just
trust the finished work. You're not going to be saved
by trusting any work. You're going to be saved by believing
a person. and not just in one part of his
work. Christ had to justify us, but
he had to make us righteous, too. But we wouldn't have been
around to be righteous or justified if he hadn't stood for us in
eternity. And we wouldn't stay justified
if he didn't pray for us. See what I'm talking about? So
it's the whole Christ, prophet, priest, and king. I'm trying
to make clear To whom are you to look? If you look to the wrong
God, you'll miss Christ. If you look to the wrong Christ,
you'll miss the Christ. So I looked to him in his death.
He bore my sins in his body, and now wait a minute, I looked
to him in the tomb as my scapegoat. The priest prayed over the scapegoat
and confessed the sins of Israel, and the scapegoat was led out
into the wilderness, beyond the sight of human eye, and he never
came back. and buried, he carried my sins far away. Casts them
into the depths of the sea, remembers them no more. When Christ was
buried, that's this old natural flesh that someday will be buried.
But he didn't stay buried, he arose. And I looked to Christ
in the resurrection, and what does that resurrection declare
about him? He's who he said he was. What
does that resurrection declare about his work? Well, it was
completed and accepted by the Father. What does that resurrection
declare about me? If he arose, I arose. I will
rise. See what I'm saying? I look to Christ, my risen Lord. And I look to Christ, the Ascended
Lord, who's seated on the right hand of God. There's one God
and one Mediator between God and men. Not between God and
man as a whole, but man individually. Quote the scripture right. There's
one God and one Mediator between God and man. The man, Jesus Christ. I look to him as my Mediator,
whoever liveth to make intercession for me. I look for him to return. He's the conquering Christ. I'm looking for him to stand
for me at the judgment. And Paul said in Hebrews, if
he wrote Hebrews, he said, looking unto Jesus every day. So here in our text, the Lord
God says, somebody is going to be saved. Somebody is going to
be saved in the Lord eternally. And that somebody is Israel.
And they're not over there in a little nation making war on
the Arabs. Israel is all Israel. Israel is Jew and Gentile, male
and female, bond and pray, who believe, who know God. Here's
Israel, Prince of God. And he said, I can lie about
this. I speak the truth. They're going
to be saved. I can create this world in vain. I haven't even turned it loose,
he said. It's all under my control. That hurricane messing around
down there off the shore of Florida, God's got control of that. That's
exactly right. He uses second and third causes,
but he's God. He says, only if God has anything
to do with it, then he's not God. He reigneth in the armies of
heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. I'm telling you
this, I'm seriously telling you this. Anybody who ascribes anything
that happens in this world Concerning creatures and all the events
and everything else if he does not ascribe to God the chief
glory and The workings of it according to his will and purpose
using the means he's pleased to use second or third causes
He's got an idol. He's not worshiping the Living
God The exact God is God, the very word God means God, and
He's total, absolutely sovereign. That's exactly right, that's
what I'm saying, and that's what the Scripture teaches. And He's
a God who can do what He will, when He will, with whom He will,
or He's not God. None can stay my hand, He said,
or say unto me, what doest thou? Can I not do with my own what
I will? He took Jeremiah down to the
potter's house and he said, as the clay is in the hands of the
potter, so are you in my hands. Cannot God of the same lump make
one vessel under honor and another under dishonor? Let's quit playing
games. If God be God, worship him. And don't make excuses for God. Like that preacher said one time,
now listen to this. Let's call an Armenian professor,
preacher, in a so-called Christian school. And the young student
said to him, he said, does God want everybody to be healthy?
Does God want the world to be without any storms or famine
or wars or pestilence? He said, yes. He said, does God
want everybody to be saved? The teacher said, yes, that's
what God wills, that's what God wants. Well, he said, is God
Almighty? The professor said, well, yes.
He said, well, why doesn't He do it? Why doesn't He do it? If He wants
everybody saved, He's Almighty, won't He save them? And the professor said, well,
I don't know. Sure you don't know, because you've got a helpless
God there. You've got a contradiction of
terms. You're having an almighty desiring what he can't accomplish.
You've got one, you say, with all power who will something
he can't perform because somebody's stopping him. And I'm just bold
enough to say that's a peanut God. It's a phony God, and the
world's laughing at him. I'm laughing at him. Any time
you say God wills or wants to do anything he can't do or somebody
won't let him do or prevents him from doing, you're saying
somebody's more God than God. But you can't out-God God. He's
God. That's right. That's what he's
saying in these verses. I'm God. There is none else.
There's nothing else. There's no other power. There's
no other resistance. I'm God, but I'm a just God and
a saint in Christ. If you want life, you come to
me. You look to me. Don't you work
now. Don't you try to bring something. You look. Anybody can look. You know, even a blind man can
look. This kind of look. This is something that anybody
with life can do. He can look. And that's all that's
required, because he paid it all. Now I'm telling you, I'm
telling you what, this is what this says. If you make anything
else out of it, I'd like to hear it. I'd like to hear it. I'd like to hear you make anything
else out of it. And he said in verse 23, I've
sworn by myself, the word's gone out of my mouth in righteousness
and will not return. That doesn't sound like that
little helpless God I'm hearing about. I've said every knee is
going to bow. I've said every tongue is going
to confess. That doesn't sound like that
little peanut guy. And he said in verse 25, In the
Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and they're going
to glory. It'll be done. It shall be done. Now, that God I can worship. That God I can, in weakness and
helplessness, just fall down. That God I can bow my head. Tom, that God I can trust. That
God I can believe. That God, oh, I can believe,
I can believe. I can live by him and die by
him. That God, in him. I can trust
him. I can trust my little ones in
his hand. I can get in an airplane and
fly and not be concerned. I can get in a car and drive
and not be concerned. I can lie down in sickness and
not be concerned. That God. That God, Jim. Can you? That God. He'll meet my every
need. I'm going to talk about him now. He's my shepherd. That Lord's my shepherd. I shall not want. Our Father, O great God and our Father, because
of your justice and righteousness and mercy in Christ, little old worthless grains of
dust, thy worm Jacob, sinners by birth, choice, and practice,
yet we can Open these mouths, these unclean lips, and call
your name, and bow before you because you're just God the Savior,
because in Christ you're gracious and merciful. Thou art all and
in all. We look to thee and trust thee
and believe thee, knowing thy word is sure. And you haven't
spoken this in secret nor in vain, but you've spoken in righteousness
and truth, and it shall be done. We believe, we believe, and we
look to Thee. Lord, reveal Thy greatness and
Thy word and promises to us more effectually. Give us joy in our
hearts, in our spirits, and reveal it to others. We pray for Christ's
sake, in His name, Amen.