Someone said many years ago, if I could understand God, then
God he would not be. If I could understand God, then
God he would not be. Only God can comprehend God. in the fullest manner of understanding. Job said something like that
in the 11th chapter of Job, verse 7. Job 11, 7. He said, Can you
by searching find out God? Can you find out the Almighty
unto perfection? It's as high as heaven. What
can you do? It's deeper than hell. What can
you know? The measure thereof is longer
than the earth and broader than the sea. And then Paul said something
like this in Romans 11 verse 33. Oh the depth of the riches both
of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments
and his ways past finding out. For who hath known the mind of
the Lord? Who hath known the mind of the
Lord? Or who hath been his counselor? And yet I hear men speak today
of the Lord God in such familiar terms. It's disturbing, greatly disturbing
to me that men speak of the Lord God in such familiar terms as
if He were altogether such a one as ourselves, as if they had
some kind of private telephone line to the councils of eternity
or the personal throne of God. And yet I hear
the beloved disciples say, show us the Father. After three and
a half years with Christ, our Lord said, I've been so long
time with you and yet you haven't known me. And here they are,
show us the Father, show us the Father. All the religious people
I know today know the Father. God wouldn't do that, or God
would do this, or God's not like that, or God's like this. They're
on such familiar terms with Him, and yet here are those men of
the past. It's higher than heaven, it's
deeper than hell. What can you know? And I hear
the Apostle Paul, Paul himself, the writer of Scripture, the
Apostle, personally taught the gospel by the God Himself on
the sands of Arabia's desert, saying, Oh, that I may know Him. Oh, that I may know Him. And then I hear Moses over here
in our text in Exodus 33. Moses. Moses, who left Egypt's
riches and power Choosing rather to suffer the afflictions of
God's people, Moses, 90 years old, face lined with years of
service and devotion, and consecration, dedication, saying, Lord, show
me your glory. Show me your glory. Show me your glory." And yet
here we are in our familiarity. We know God. You know, God's
like this. Now you want to know God, I'll
tell you all about God. God's like this. And here Moses
was out there in the tent of meeting, speaking with God face
to face as a man speaks with a friend, pleading, if I found
mercy, if I found grace in your sight, Lord, Reveal to me your
glory." Well, thank God our master gave
us some encouragement. He said this is eternal life
that they might know God. It's intended. It is purposed. It is meant that the people of
God should know God and Jesus Christ whom he had sent, all
perhaps not to the same degree. but at least should know God.
And so laying aside all of my preconceived notions, if that's
possible, laying aside all my religious heritage, if that's
possible, it's one of the most difficult things that anybody
ever tried to do. Paul, in Philippians 3, said,
Those things which were gained to me, I counted loss for the
excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, my Lord. Even my heritage and my personal
morality and my attainments and accomplishments, I count but
rubbish that I may win Christ and be found in Him. So laying
aside my tradition, and that's difficult. This is the way we
do it. This is the way we think it ought
to be done. This is the way we've always done it. This is the way
they do it in our circles. Well, this is just acceptable.
So therefore, it's got to be true, not necessarily. Laying
aside my traditions and my own thoughts, I'd like to go with
Moses to that tent of meeting. and being able of the Spirit
of God to pray that prayer, Lord, oh Lord, show me your glory. Show me your glory. I don't want
to be an idolater. I don't want to worship a God
of my imagination. I want to know the living God.
My heart, my soul panteth for thee for the living God in a
dry and thirsty land where no moisture is. Like a thirsty deer
panted for the water brooks, my soul panted for thee, O God.
When shall I come before the Lord? Well, this is the prayer
of all prayers. I know men pray for healing,
and some are satisfied therewith. I know men pray for prosperity,
and when they attain it, they've attained what they sought. I
know that men pray for long life. They'd like to live here a long
time. But this is the prayer of all prayers. This is the greatest
petition any man ever offered to God. This is the most important
request any man ever made. This is the loftiest height that
faith ever climbed. Lord, show me your glory. Show me the glory of God. And I'll tell you this, and I
would like to have your attention, most especially right here. This prayer will only be prayed
when all other glory has faded away. Because God will not share his
glory. If you look right across the
page at Exodus 34 verse 14, Thou shalt worship no other God,
for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a Jealous God. I say this
prayer, Show Me Thy Glory, is the greatest prayer ever prayed.
But this prayer will never be prayed in earnest, in sincerity,
until all other glory has faded away. For Moses, the glory of
Egypt, was a thing of the past. Not to Israel now. Why didn't
you leave us in Egypt? Why don't you let us go back
to Egypt? They couldn't pray this prayer because they still
had Egypt on their mind, not Moses. All of the glories of
Egypt. He had reached the point that
Solomon reached when he wrote, Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. And a man cannot pray this prayer,
Lord, show me thy glory, as long as that glory is going to be
rivaled by some of this glory. The glory of Caesar, the glory
of Egypt, the glory of Rome, the glory of America, the glory
of history, the glory of man. We won't pray this prayer till,
like Moses, all of that glory has faded away. We've tasted
and it's been bitter. There's nothing about it that
appeals to us. We want to see His glory. And then we're not going to pray
this prayer until the glory of the flesh leaves nothing but despair. Let
not the wise man glory in his wisdom. Let not the strong man
glory in his strength. Let not the rich man glory in
his riches. But let him that gloryeth, glory
in this, I've seen the Lord. I've seen the Lord. He's just
not the glory of the flesh, whereas it possesses, and as it holds
us, we cannot pray for the glory of the Lord to be revealed, because
God's not going to, He's not going to put His glory on display
with a background of flesh. He's not going to do it. We're
not going to be led to pray that prayer until there's no glory. And then the glory of self-righteousness
has proven to be filthy rag. Man at his best state. Heard
somebody say one time, well I'm doing the best I can. Well man
at his best state is altogether vanity. The best state. And Isaiah said, we all do fade
as the leaf, and our iniquities have taken us away, and our righteousness
is our filthy rags, the glory of self-righteousness. Got to
fade away. And then the glory of ceremonial
religion gives no satisfaction. They wandered in the wilderness
in a lonely way. Then, finding no city in which
to dwell, then, Their hearts were bowed down. Then, they felt
no appetite for meat or drink. Then, they cried unto the Lord
in their trouble. Then, Lord show me your glory. Show me God. Show me your glory. This is the greatest prayer,
this is the loftiest request, this is the most commendable
petition ever prayed. It eclipses all others, but it
can't be prayed, it won't be prayed by any man until the glory
of this world has faded. Now when that'll be, I don't
know. I don't know. But His glory is
all-consuming. The presence of the Lord is all-consuming. And let me tell you this, not
many men have prayed this prayer. A lot of men have said this prayer,
not many men have prayed this prayer. A lot of men have thought
this prayer, not many men have prayed this prayer. Because most have other priorities. Not many men have prayed this
prayer in sincerity. They have other priorities. Turn
to Luke chapter 9. I want you to listen to this.
In Luke 9, Lord, show me your glory. I want to see your glory. I'm
not saying that a man can't be saved who has not prayed this
prayer. That's not what I'm saying. I
believe Moses knew God. I believe Moses had walked with
God in other days. I believe Moses walked with God
now. But he says, Lord, show me your glory. Your glory. I want to see the glory of the
Lord. I want my heart to behold the glory of God. But not many men have prayed
this prayer because men have other priorities. And I can say
the glory of the flesh, the glory of self-righteousness, the glory
of the world, the glory of the family, The glory of ceremonial
religion, the glory of tradition, all of this has to fade and a
man come to the place where he wants to see the glory of God. Luke 9 verse 57, it came to pass
as he went his way a certain man said, Lord I'll follow you
whether so ever you go. Jesus said, foxes have holes,
birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man hath not where
to lay his head. He said to another, follow me.
But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. And
Jesus said unto him, let the dead bury their dead. Go thou
and preach the kingdom of God. Another said, Lord, I'll follow
you, but let me first go bid them farewell, which at home
at my house. That's a reasonable request, isn't it? not what it
says first and Jesus said unto him no man
having put his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the
kingdom of God let me tell you this and it'll take you a moment
or two don't pass judgment on this till you hear it and think
about it when the redemptive glory of
God is revealed when God's glory is revealed Now we're plagued
with a disease that we inherited from our father of seeking the
honor that comes from men, the glory that comes from men, the
glory of the flesh. We live in a world of flesh. But when the redemptive glory
of the Lord, when it happens to us, as it happened here to
Moses, when God shows us his glory, If we're ever brought
to pray this prayer, if we ever are brought to this place that
we want to see above all things the glory of God, when the redemptive
glory of God is revealed, living the ordinary life becomes difficult. I've heard people talk about
living the Christian life is difficult, not when you see the
glory of God. Living the ordinary life is difficult.
You won't find worshiping God to be difficult. You'll find
going to work to be difficult. You won't find studying the word
of God and discussing the things of God and seeking out the fellowship
of God's people a burden, difficult, or a responsibility, or a duty
that you dread. You'll find that even associating
with your family members who are unbelievers to be difficult.
That's right. the difficulties taking care
of the natural relationships and natural responsibilities.
I know there are some professing Christians, maybe there are Christians,
I don't know, who find it difficult to take care of their spiritual
responsibilities, relationships, to enjoy them, whereas they enjoy
it the fleshly, they enjoy the natural. Well, I say when you
see the glory of God, now listen, I'll prove this in the Scripture,
when you see the glory of God, you'll find living a normal life
in relationship to natural people to be the hardest thing you have
set out to do. Simeon tells us that when he
saw the Lord, what did he say? I want to die. I don't have any
reason, he said, to hang around here anymore. I don't have anything
in common with anybody anymore. I'm peculiar. I'm odd. I'm different. Lord, let thy
servant depart in peace. I've seen thy glory, thy salvation. There's nothing here for me. Paul, the apostle, I'm in a strait
betwixt the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ,
which is far better. For you, he said, it's expedient
that I remain. But I've got nothing in common
with very many people. Martha, standing in the kitchen. Lord, make Mary come in here
and help me. Mary's sitting there at the feet
of the Lord. She had lost interest in pots and pans and lost interest
in the natural responsibility. Now, don't misunderstand what
I'm saying. Not that a person shuns his responsibilities, not
that he shuns his responsibilities and his relations. He says, well,
let me tell you something. One day our Lord was preaching
and his mother and brothers and sisters stood outside and they
wanted to see him. And they came in and told him,
said, your mother's outside. Now, most of us would have interrupted
the discussion and gone out to see what she wanted. We'd have
left these people. But he sent word that his mother and brothers
and sisters were those who did the will of God. They were his
mother's brothers and sisters. His normal, natural relationship,
earthly relationship, was superseded by his spiritual relationship.
Root. Entreat me not to leave thee,
nor to return from following after thee. For where you go,
I will go. Where you lodge, I will lodge.
Your people will be my people. Your God will be my God. Where
you die, I die. Where you are buried, that's
where I'll be buried. I'm talking about when you've seen the glory
of the Lord. I'm not talking about when you become a Calvinist,
I'm not talking about when you've studied some doctrine, when you've
learned a little bit about the Bible, when you've seen the glory
of the Lord. It becomes difficult to stay
where you are. It becomes difficult. I heard a woman say one time
about her husband, all he wants to do is attend church and Bible
conferences and hear preaching and play tapes and talk about
the gospel. I understand that. Well, I understand
that perfectly. He's seen something of the glory
of the Lord. He can't get enough of it. He
can't get enough of it. Mark chapter 5, verse 18, the
man who had been The man in the Gadarenes, the land of the Gadarenes.
Turn over there a minute. Mark chapter 5, verse 18. Mark 5, verse 18. Listen to this. This fellow had been healed
by the Lord and the demons had been cast out of him. And it
says in verse 18, when he was come to the ship, he that had
been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might go with
him. I won't go with you, Lord. I don't want to stay here with
these heathens. I want to go with you. Howbeit
the Lord suffered him not, but said, you go home to your friends
and tell them how great things the Lord has done for you and
hath had compassion on you. I understand that. Don't you? You understand, John, don't you? When you see, show me thy glory. Show me thy glory. It's the greatest. Don't pray it until you can pray
it. And you won't pray it until the
glories of this world, like Solomon, have proven to be vanity. How long will it take us to see
that there's nothing here? Build the biggest home you can
build, and you'll just enable God to have a bigger bonfire
someday. Accumulate all the gold you can,
and the rest of it will speak against you at the judgment. Win all the fame that this world
can give you. Have your name on the lips of
every heathen son of Adam. Win all the trophies you can
win. And you'll find it to be just so many burdens about your
neck at the judgment. But if you ever come to see the
glory of the Lord, to even desire it, and you will when the glories
of this world when all of the riches and materialism and physical
attractions and relationships and who is my mother? Who is my sister? Who are my
brethren? These heathen that hate my God? These heathen that despise the
gospel are my brothers and sisters? Not on your life. My brothers
and sisters are those who love and adore the Lord Jesus Christ. And it's time we came to realize
that. But I say we won't pray that prayer. We're not going
to see His glory until we see some more things. And I'll tell
you this, when you do, if He ever is pleased to reveal His
glory, the things of this world will grow strangely dim. And you talk about difficulty,
you talk about problems, and burden. It won't be trying to
walk with God. It won't be trying to worship
God. It won't be trying to cultivate spiritual interest. It won't
be trying to decide whether you want to hear the gospel or not.
Your difficulty will be to leave it. You just want to stay there. Let me tell you something. When
Peter and James and John saw the glory of Christ on the Mount
of Transfiguration, what did they want to do, Charlie? They
wanted to stay right there. You mean go back down into that mess,
Lord, after we've seen your glory? Go back down into that confusion? Let's stay right here and build
three tabernacles. One for you, and one for Moses,
and one for Elijah. I'd like to stay here. I'd like to stay here. Most folks
want to get out as quick as they can. I wish the preacher would
hurry up. What time does he start? Oh, I tell you. Well, three things and I'll quit.
I hope somebody, I do, I pray somebody, along the line, somewhere,
will be interested in his glory. Here's a great revelation, a
great revelation. Moses says, show me your glory,
verse 18. And the Lord said in verse 19,
you want to look at it a minute? I'll make my goodness pass before
you. God's glory is His goodness. Why do we picture, why do we
form an idea of God as being unforgiving, strict, harsh, cruel? I guess it's because that's our
nature. That God's glory is His goodness. Lord, show me your
glory. What will the Lord show him?
His justice? His wrath? His power? His omniscience? Uh-uh. His mercy. I will be merciful. I will be
merciful. That's the name of the Lord.
The Lord, verse 6, and the Lord passed before Moses and proclaimed
the Lord, the Lord God, merciful, gracious, long-suffering, abundant
in goodness. God will be merciful. I'll be
merciful in Christ. The Lord's plenteous in mercy.
He delights to show mercy. He has mercy for the ungodly.
He has mercy for sinners. He has mercy for me. Mercy. Not censorship. Not exclusion. Not condemnation. Not judgment. Thank God He has
mercy, and grace, and forgiveness, and pardon. All of it's in Christ.
I don't deserve it, but Christ earned it. I don't merit it,
but He did. And if I can look to Him and
believe in Him, I can find for the chief of sinners the greatest
mercy. My Lord loves sinners. The Lord
Jesus Christ came to die for sinners. He said, I came to seek
and to save the lost. Christ died for the ungodly.
God committed His love toward us in that while we were yet
sinners, Christ died for us. And He's able to save to the
uttermost them that come to God by Him. There is no sin that
my Lord does not forgive through the blood of His Son. That's
His mercy. He said, you be merciful as your
father is merciful. I don't care what it is. There's
only one sin with which I don't want to be charged. And I don't
care about the others. That's the sin of self-righteousness.
I don't want to stand before God and be charged with the sin
of self-righteousness, thinking myself to be good, thinking myself
to be holy, thinking myself to be righteous, thinking myself
to be deserving of anything but God's wrath. But oh, how merciful. There came to him one day a harlot,
and he said, thy faith hath made thee whole. And at that same
instant there was a religious preacher, a teacher of theology,
a ruler of the synagogue that our Lord condemned. That same
moment. Where are you? Our Lord Jesus
Christ said two men went to the temple to pray. One of them was
a publican, the worst type of person to the Jew that existed
in those days. And God justified him, forgave
him, accepted him. At that same moment there was
a man praying over in the next room, close to the altar, who
was a leader, a ruler of the Jews, a moral, upstanding, righteous
man and God said he went home condemned. Which one are you?
You see, you can go through scripture that way. Our Lord is merciful.
That's his glory. His mercy. This world is not
merciful. That world out there is not merciful.
Its glory is based on merit. Intellectual attainments and
and superiority, and power, and influence, and what you can do and give,
and the strength of your weapons, and the height of your stature,
and the weight of your body, and the strength. That's the
world's philosophy. Our God's merciful. When you
get sick of that mess, come in here to His mercy. Mercy for
the guilty. I will be merciful. I wish I
could get that across. I wish believers could see the
glory of God. What do you think about most
in reference to the Lord? What do you think about most
when you think of God? What do you think of? Strictness.
Yeah. Punishment for sin. Yeah. Being high Way up yonder than
me way down here. Yep, that's normal. But that's not His glory. His
glory is His mercy. His mercy. He showed us that
in Christ. They said, show us the Father.
He said, you've seen me, you've seen the Father. Where is He?
Down there on the ground, lifting the fallen. Holding the little
children in His lap. Loving sinners. eating with publicans
and harlots, a friend of sinners, down here identified with them.
That's His glory! Show me Thy glory. I want to say this morning to
everybody here that's good and holy and righteous and clean
and moral and upstanding and religious, you've missed Christ. I want to say to everybody here
this morning that is lowly and humble and grieving over your
sins and mourning over your iniquities and despairing over your corruption. Christ died for you. Trust Him. Trust Him. Believe on Him. Receive His mercy. It's a credit
to the Lord to receive His mercy. It's praise to the Lord to receive
His mercy. That's his glory. But watch this
verse 20, and I've got to quit. We saw a great revelation. God
will be merciful. Merciful. Secondly, we see here
a gracious reservation. He said, but Moses, you can't
see my face. No man can see me and live. Now God manifested, listen to
me, and this will help us some. God manifested his glory to Moses,
but there will be some things that God conceals from Moses,
even Moses. When God is pleased to keep some
things from us, there's as much grace in his keeping things from
us as his revealing things to us. Now stay with me. You're
not going to know all about God. Like I said when I started out,
if a man could understand God, he wouldn't be God. Only God
can comprehend God. God says, you can't see my face
and live. A full revelation of anything
about God would be too much for any man. Let's be satisfied with
what he's pleased to show us when he's pleased to show it.
He says, now we see through a glass dimly. Now we know in part. Now we prophesy in part. Now
we understand in part. And that's the way it'll always
be. A full revelation of your sins would be too much for you,
Cecil. Too much. A full revelation of God's holiness
would be too much for you, Dick. You couldn't stand it. God said,
Moses, you can't see me and live. A full revelation of God's holiness
and God's glory. Well, John heard his voice and
felt like a dead man. Isaiah saw the Lord and cried,
woe is me, the cherubims cover their faces. A full revelation of His power
and His sovereignty would be too much for us. The secret things
belong to the Lord. They reveal things to us. So
let me tell you something. Have a patience of hope and wait
upon the Lord. Lord, show me your glory as it
pleases you. I don't want to see any more
than you're willing to show me. I don't want to know any more
than you're willing to reveal. But Lord, I'm willing to be taught."
And here's what he said thirdly. Here's a God-given refuge. He
said, all right, I'm going to show you my glory. I'm going
to cause my goodness to pass before you. But Moses, behold,
verse 21, there's a place by me and you'll stand on a rock
and it'll come to pass when my glory comes by, I'll put you
in the cleft of the rock and cover you. Here's a refuge. There was a rock in the wilderness.
Moses smoked that rock and water came out and Paul said that rock
was Christ. I believe it. I believe this
rock's Christ too, right here. Rock of ages, cleft for me, open
up for me, let me hide myself in thee. God said, Moses, Moses
says, Lord, I'm sick and tired and fed up with this world, Egypt,
everything, the desert. I want to see your glory. God
said, I'll cause my glory, my goodness, my mercy to pass before
you. But listen to me, Moses, you
can't see God and exist. You can't see God and live. A
full revelation of God's glory, a full revelation of God's sovereignty,
a full revelation of God's holiness, even a full revelation of your
sins would burn you to a cinder. It'd destroy you. It'd destroy
your mind. Don't delve into things it's
not lawful for you to get mixed up in. Let God reveal Himself to you
as He will, but in this whole thing, Christ is our hiding place. Christ is our refuge. In Christ
I'm sheltered from the awesomeness and the holiness and the righteousness
of that law. I've seen a little bit of that
law, and I want nothing to do with it. I heard a man say one
time, the Ten Commandments are enough religion for me. It's
too much for me. I don't want any personal dealing
with that holy, awesome, immaculate law. So I hide in the rock. I hide in the rock, Christ Jesus.
And Christ, I'm sheltered from the justice of God. Look over
here across the page. Verse 7. God will by no means
clear the guilty, vesting the iniquity of the fathers upon
the children, upon the children's children, the third and fourth
generation. Yes, sin must be punished. Wait
a minute. My sin has been punished. You
say, well man, if I do a certain, certain thing, will God punish
me? No. No. Our sins have been punished in
Christ. God doesn't punish our sins twice. My sin has been paid for. Now
God chastens His people and God corrects His people. But God
may chasten you without having sinned. God corrects every son
whom he loves, but not because of sin and as a means of punishment. God corrects us and chastens
us to make us what he wants us to be. We don't avoid sin because
we're afraid we'll get whipped. We avoid sin because we love
Christ. If I thought every day when I
got up, God would be waiting for me at supper time with a
whip, I wouldn't want to wake up. No, that's not the way God works.
And I'll tell you this, if you being evil know how to give good
things to your children, how much more shall your Heavenly
Father give good things to them that ask Him? If one of my children,
when they were little fellows standing out in the yard, picks
up a rock and throws it through the window, I'm not going to
charge in the house and get my whip and come out and lay it
on his back. He looks at me and says, Dad, I shouldn't have done
that, and I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that, and
I'm sorry. What will I do, whip him? No. But I'll tell you this,
I might say, now, son, I want you to go to work and get a job
and earn enough money to pay for that window. And next time
you think about throwing a rock through the window, you won't
do it because you've learned something. But I didn't do that to punish
him for breaking the window. He apologized. He confessed.
He said, I'm sorry. And I forgave him. But I gave
him something to do, to learn a lesson. And this is the way
in God's dealing with his children. I need to learn patience, and
I need to learn pity, and I need to learn love, and I need to
learn compassion, and I need to learn all of these things.
And God puts me through different things that I might learn these
things. He's not whipping me. He's not beating on me. God's
not beating up on His children. If God punished us for all our
sins, He'd beat us all day long. And the thought of foolishness
is sin. I never live a minute without
some kind of sin. My nature's sin. My flesh is
sin. But we've got sin cataloged.
This sin greater than this sin, this sin greater than some other
sin, so this deserves a worse whipping than that. Who determines
which is the greatest sin? Huh? You don't, that's for sure,
and I don't. It may be that that your indifference
to the things of God is a greater sin than adultery. That's right. It may be that your indifference
to the people of God, your failure to love one another like you
ought to, is a greater sin than stealing something. Oh, you wouldn't
dare. You wouldn't dare. You wouldn't
dare reach behind the counter and pick up something and put
it in your pocket in the store, would you? Did you pray for one
another this week? No, I didn't do that. That's
a greater sin. Samuel said that. He said, God
forbid that I should sin against God and cease Him to pray for
you. I don't know who determines which sin is greater. We've got
sin cataloged, but that which is highly esteemed among men
is an abomination to God. God despises it. And this person steals something,
you say, well God's going to sure whip him. I bet you I know
who gets the worst whipping if any whipping's going on. It ain't
going to be him. It's not going to be him. It's
going to be that thought of envy and that thought of hate and
that thought of maliciousness and that thought of jealousy
and that thought of... You know what I'm talking about.
God looks on the heart. God doesn't look on the outward
countenance. He looks on the heart. Show me your glory. I will be merciful. Merciful
so I don't think we understand a great deal about chastisement.
I don't claim to but I know it's not punishment because the whole
day would be spent in nothing but beatings and Then I know
these people came to that fellow that was blind They said now
who's seeing this fellow his parents that he was born blind
the Lord Jesus said neither one But that the purpose of God might
be accomplished We've got the wrong concept of
our living God. That's the reason we don't delight
in His presence. Oh, how delightful it is to be
in the presence of the merciful, gracious, kind, forgiving, loving
Heavenly Father. And how dreadful it is to be
in the presence of the God of this day. In Christ I'm sheltered from
the justice of God, from the fear of death. I don't fear death. from the fear of trial, trials
are sent for my good and God's glory. Paul said, count it joy
when you go through these trials. It's for your good. It's for
the growth of your faith. I'm sheltered in that day of
judgment, safe to the rock that's higher than I. My soul in its
conflicts and sorrows would fly, so sinful, so weary. thine, thine would I be, thou
blessed rock of ages, I'm hiding in thee." I'll hide you, he said,
in the cleft of the rock as my glory passes by. Hide me in the
Savior. Lord, hide me in the Savior.
I wish that I was able And I know folks in religious circles want
you to bring God down here so they can understand Him, so they
can get it all figured out, you know. But you thought I was altogether,
God said, one such as one as yourself. But oh, the glory of
His mercy, the glory of His mercy.