Fetching Grace

Samuel 8, 15, and David reigned
over all Israel. Now Saul had been rejected by
God because of disobedience. God rejected him from reigning
over Israel. God dethroned him. He was dead.
And David was now king, king over all Israel. One of the first
acts which David performed as king of Israel was to inquire
if there was any left of Saul's household. When he took the throne
of Israel and sat down on the throne and things quieted down
just a bit after all of the battles, David sent for his servants and
they gathered about him and he inquired in this manner. He said
in verse 1 of chapter 9, Is there yet any that is left of the house
of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? Now there was a servant there
who had been a servant of Jonathan, a servant of Saul, by the name
of Ziba, and he stepped forward and he said, Yes, yes, Saul has
a grandson, the son of Jonathan. And his name is Mephibosheth.
And he now lives in the house of Maker in Lodibar, the place
of no pasture. And he's a cripple. He's lame
on both his feet. And the Scripture says that David
sent and fetched him. That's an old southern word.
You go and fetch a bucket of water or you fetch something
down at the store. David sent and fetched him. That's
what the Scripture says in verse 5. Then King David sent and fetched
him out of the house of Macher, down in Lodibar, and they brought
poor, crippled, I'm sure ragged, Mephibosheth up there to David's
grand and glorious palace. And he fell on his face in front
of David in fear. Scripture said he was afraid
and he fell on his face and did reverence and he said What is
our servant that you should show such mercy to a dead dog and
David said to him? I'm giving you everything that
pertained to the house of your grandfather 15 farmers 20 servants
and all the acreage and I'm gonna let you sit at my table and and
be one of the King's sons." And he said, "'What is thy servant
that you should show such kindness to such a dead dog?' And David
said, "'Don't be afraid, for I am going to show you kindness
or mercy for the sake of your daddy, Jonathan, whom I loved
very much.'" Now this is a beautiful story of God's grace toward you
and me. I am Mephibosheth. The King is
the Lord, and the mercy that He showed is the mercy of His
grace. And I want to take this story
and preach it with eight points with your patience and prayers,
eight words. I'll just deal briefly with each
one, but there are eight words here that tell the whole story
of grace, the whole story of mercy. And the first word is
found in verse 3. Look at it. What would you say
it is? The first word, where this whole
thing starts. Well, it starts with the king,
K-I-N-G. David was king. That's the reason
I read that verse over in chapter 8, and David reigned. David was
the sovereign. David was the king. And it says
in verse 3, and the king said, God's word says this, where the
word of the king is, there's power. When David said something
as king of Israel, he said it with authority. with power, with
total sovereignty, everybody kept their mouths shut, and David
spoke. He was sitting on a throne. There
was no council here. He didn't call a council. There
was no cooperation here. There was no bargain here. David
just said he spoke. He spoke from a sovereign throne,
and he said, I want to know, anywhere in this kingdom, if
there's anybody left of the house of Saul, I'm going to show him
kindness. Not we, I'm going to. He didn't
ask anybody's permission. He said, I want to know if there's
anybody out there of the house of Saul that's left, David's
going to show kindness to him. Now our God is absolutely sovereign. I preach from this pulpit, have
preached, will preach, God willing, that God Almighty is sovereign
in all of creation. In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth. There was no counsel, there was
no cooperation, there was no bargain. God created all things. He created it as it pleased him. In him we live and move and have
our being. He spoke the worlds out of nothing.
He did it according to his own sovereign will. We preach that
God is not only absolutely sovereign in all of providence, in creation,
but in providence. He worketh all things after the
counsel of his own will. There may be second causes, there
may be third causes, there may be fourth causes, there may be
numerous causes, but Almighty God is the first cause. And everything
that happens to me and in me, and everything that happens for
me, is either in God's directive or permissive will. He's the
King. Turn with me, hold 2 Samuel 9,
but let's just turn over here to the book of Isaiah, chapter
45. In Isaiah 45, reading verses
6 and 7, Isaiah 45, it says, verse 5, I am the Lord. Isaiah 45, verse 5, I am the
Lord. There's none else. No God beside
me. I girded thee, though thou hast
not known me, that they may know from the rising of the sun and
from the west there's none beside me. I am the Lord. There's none
else. I form the light. I create darkness. I make peace. I create evil.
How the Lord do all these things? Turn to chapter 46, verse 9 and
10. We need to learn this. Isaiah
chapter 46 verse 9, remember the former things of old. I'm
God. And there's none else. I'm God.
There's none like me. I declare the end from the beginning. And from ancient times are things
that are not yet done, saying my counsel shall stand. I'll
do all my good pleasure. God's sovereign in creation.
You believe that. You know that. He made all things
as it pleases Him. Adam named the animals, but God
made them. And God is sovereign in providence. And my friends, God is absolutely
sovereign in mercy. David said, Is there any left
of the house of Saul that I might show him mercy? Mercy is sovereign. Moses said, Lord, show me your
glory. And God said, I'll show you my glory, I'll make all my
goodness pass before you. I will be merciful to whom I
will be merciful. I will be gracious to whom I
will be gracious. Where the King speaks, there's
power. And all mercy is sovereign. Great
God, how infinite art thou. What worthless worms are we. Let the whole human race bow
and give their praise to thee. Thy eternal throne has stood
ere seas and stars were made. Thou art the ever-living, sovereign
God, where all the nations dead. Eternity with all its years stands
present in Thy view. To Thee there's nothing old appears,
great God, there's nothing new." And everybody was standing out
in front of David, and here he sat on his sovereign throne,
and David spoke, and David said, Is there any left of the house
of Saul? They waited for the word of the King. And that's
where you and I are, and we'd better learn that. We wait before
the throne of God for God to speak. God is in His holy temple,
let all the earth keep silent. Wait on the word of the King.
All right, the second word is found in verse 3. The first word
is king, and the king said, Is there not yet any of the house
of Saul that I may show kindness? I did a little research on that
word, that word in the Hebrew is mercy, that's what it is,
pity. David said, Is there any of the
house of Saul left that David, that David in whose power it
lay? Not anybody out there could do
anything for Saul's family but David. Not anybody out there
had any say-so but David. And he said, is there any left?
David is going to show mercy. God says, I will be merciful
to whom I will be merciful, I will be gracious. Let Israel hope
in the Lord, for with the Lord there's mercy. He delights to
show mercy. Now, we're living in a day when
there's a lot of talk about serving God. This is the language of
today, laboring in the kingdom. working for rewards, gone to
our rewards. A lot of language like that,
serving God, entering the service of the Lord. But my friends,
the language of real salvation, the language of Bible redemption,
is always mercy. That's right. Paul said, I obtained
mercy. The publicans said, Lord, be
merciful. The Canaanite woman came and
said, Lord, have mercy. Paul wrote about Onesiphus and
said the Lord grant mercy to him in that day. He was a faithful
servant. He was a faithful friend. He
was a man preaching the gospel and all Paul could pray for him
was what? Mercy. The Lord grant mercy to
his house. He says it's not by works of
righteousness which we've done, but according to his mercy, he
saved us. Mercy. And I want you to turn
to Hebrews 4, 16. You turn over there just a minute.
Hebrews 4, 16. And I want you to listen to this.
You hear this verse quoted all the time, but did you ever really
look at it? Let us therefore come boldly
to the throne of grace." That's right. You and I have an influence
into God's presence by the blood of Christ. Whether Charlie Payne
could stand here tonight, he's not a high priest. Christ is
the high priest. But he has a right to come into
the presence of God, something only the high priest had back
in the Old Testament days. He could come boldly before the
throne of grace, boldly, a sinner, a human being, clothed in rags,
as we all are, could come boldly into the presence of God. We
can do that. But now look at the next line,
that we may obtain what? That I may obtain my reward for
all I've done this way. That I may obtain a pat on my
head and God Almighty says, well done son. That I might get another
star in my crown. Nelson says that I may obtain
what? Mercy. Under God we need it. And anybody here that don't need
it, you better not come. God never did, he does not now,
and never will be indebted to any sinner. I always tremble
when I hear people bargaining with God. I've gone into sick
rooms and I've had parents say to me, Preacher, if God will
make our little daughter well, we'll be in church every Sunday.
Don't say that. I tremble when people say that.
You know, that's driving a bargain with God. And God Almighty won't
bargain with a sinner. God Almighty lays down His terms,
and His terms are absolute, unconditional, ultimate surrender. Whether He
kills you or lets you live, whether He strips you or clothes you,
whether He cuts you off or takes you in, He's the King, and He
deals only in mercy. Mercy. I will show mercy! David
didn't owe Saul's house anything. Saul's house was the house of
enemies. Saul's house had done everything
to destroy David. Saul's house had done everything
to block his ascension to the throne. He owed Saul's house
nothing. God owes Adam's house nothing. Adam's household and Adam's race,
they're the enemies of God, sworn enemies in their minds and in
their deeds. They tried to throw God off His
throne in the Garden of Eden. He sent prophets to them, servants
to them, priests to them. They killed all those, and sent
His Son to them, and they crucified Him. God doesn't owe you anything. And David didn't owe Saul anything,
and he didn't owe Saul's house anything. And he said, Is there
any left of the house of Saul that I might show mercy? Mercy. All right, the servant stepped
up. What's the next word in verse
3? It's the word L-A-M-E, Lane. There's the next clue, Lane. The servant stepped up and described
this boy. He said, King David, he said
Saul has a grandson, the son of Jonathan, Saul's son. His
name is Mephibosheth, and he's a cripple. It's back yonder in
2 Samuel chapter 4. If you want to turn over and
find out what happened to him, 2 Samuel chapter 4. He was crippled
as a result of a fall. It says in 2 Samuel 4 verse 4,
and Jonathan, Saul's son, had a son that was lame on his feet. He was five years old. When the
tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, his nurse took
him up and fled, came to pass that she made haste to flee,
she dropped him. Something happened, he fell, and it must have crushed
his legs, and his name was Mephibosheth. Lame through the fall. That's
what happened to you and me. We're lame because of somebody's
fall. It says over in Romans 5, verse
12, as in Adam, all died. In Romans chapter 5 verse 12,
turn over there and look at it. It says, by one man's sin, by
one man's fall, by one man's sin entered into this world and
death by sin and that death passed upon all men. What happened to
you and me? All our faculties are lame. Now
when he picked up Mephibosheth and started to run with him and
dropped him and broke his legs and he couldn't walk, couldn't
use his legs anymore. They were useless. Well, when
Adam fell, all of our faculties were rendered useless. God said
every imagination of the thoughts of man's heart is evil continually. God says the poison of snakes
is under our lips. God says we're without natural
affection. God says we have eyes full of
adultery and we cannot cease from sin. God says we love darkness
rather than light. God says our tongues are set
on fire with hell. He says our feet are swift to
run to mischief. He says our thoughts are not
His thoughts. He says our ways are not His
ways. And He says our wills are so
twisted that we will not come to Him. lame, lame. The king said, the
sovereign said, is there any of the house of Saul still alive? And the servant said, yes, sir.
There's one. But he's lame. He's crippled. And he's living down there in
the house of Lodibar, which is no pasture. And that's where
we are. We're on the dunghill. That's
where God found us. Turn back to 1 Samuel, chapter
2. I want you to look at this. 1
Samuel, chapter 2, verse 6. Listen to this. The Lord killeth
and maketh alive. He bringeth down to the grave,
and he bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor and maketh
rich. He bringeth low and lifteth up.
He raiseth the poor out of the dust. He lifteth up the beggar
from the dunghill. and sets him among princes to
make them inherit the throne of glory, for the pillars of
the earth are the Lord's, and he hath set the world upon them.
That's his business. And he chooses to show mercy
to the undeserving, to the ill-deserving, to the ill-deserving. He finds
us in the house of no bread, no pasture. He finds us lame.
Not only on our feet, but laying in our minds and hearts and affections
and wills and thoughts. What's the next word? Verse 5.
David sent and fetched him. I know we hear a lot of talk
today about God will meet you halfway, you take the first step,
God will take the rest of them. But that's not the language of
grace either. David said, I'm going to show
mercy. to Mephibosheth, and he called
his servant, and he said, You go get him. And the servant went
down to the house of no bread. He went down to the place where
Mephibosheth was, lame on both his feet, and he fetched him,
and he brought him to David. Now the Lord of glory has determined
to show mercy, for God is love. Now let me clear up something
here. I've heard preachers stand in the pulpit and say, God could
have either saved everybody or damned everybody. But I don't
know a whole lot about whether God could have saved everybody
or not. That may be so. If he's able
to save one, he can save ten billion. But I do know that God
Almighty could not damn everybody, not in be God. God Almighty is
love, that's what Scripture says. He is love, not He's a God of
love. I hear folks say, well, God's
a God of love. No, He's not. He is love. Love is not God. God is love. And love demands
an object. Love demands expression. And
Almighty God's love must be expressed. And that's the reason He determined
to show mercy. And the more unworthy the object,
the more glory for his love. The more unworthy the object,
the more glorious his love. Let me show you that in Romans
5 verse 7. The more unworthy the object,
the more glorious his love. And the more glory his love receives. Look at Romans 5 beginning with
verse 7. for scarcely for a righteous
man would one die, yet peradventure for a good man some would even
dare to die. You'd die for your children,
wouldn't you? Die for your wife. You might die for Cecil Roach. And there's a possibility, though
remote, that you might die For a man down the street, but there
ain't no possibility of your dying for your worst enemy. No
possibility of your going down there and wherever that man is
going to be shot next week and taking his place. But God, verse
8, look, commended his love toward us in that while we were yet
sinners, enemies, Christ died for us. You see the glory of
His love, the beauty of His grace. Christ didn't die for His friends,
He died for His enemies. God set His affections on you
and me and sent His Son down here to fetch us. His Son came
into this world to be our Savior. He came as the servant of David,
came where Mephibosheth was. Our Lord came where we are. And
he became what we are, and he worked out a suitable redemption.
He made a way for us back to God. And God sent his Holy Spirit. David called a servant. He said,
there's a son of Jonathan down in Lodivar, and he's crippled
on both his feet, and David said, go get him. Brother, I'm telling
you, when God Almighty directs the Holy Spirit to call on you,
He'll call on you. When God Almighty directs the
Holy Spirit to go and fetch you, He'll fetch you. When God the
Holy Spirit comes your way and visits you, you'll come. You'll come. David is powerful,
but God's all-powerful. David is mighty, but God's all-mighty. When David gave an order in those
early days of the kingdom, that order was carried out. When David
sent for somebody, they came. But I'm telling you, infinitely
more powerful, infinitely more sovereign is the Lord of Heaven
who directs His Holy Spirit and sends Him to fetch His people,
to fetch Him. All right, look at the next word.
I don't know whether you'll agree with me here or not, but verse
7, I believe the next word in verse 7 is fear. And here was
Mephibosheth in front of David. I'm just sure he's scared to
death. Now the custom was, according to what I can read, the custom
was in that day when a new king took the throne. If there was
conflict between his household and the other household, well
usually it was father and son, father and son, right on down
the line. But here was a new household, the house of Jesse. And the thing that the new king
did was just wipe out the other king's household. He destroyed,
especially his sons and grandsons, because this Mephibosheth, Charlie,
was the rightful heir to that throne. He was Saul's grandson. He's on one leg. And David was
occupying that throne that he could legally have claimed. And
David, usually the The present king just killed the rest of
them. Ephibosheth had that in his mind. He was the household
of David's enemy. He was the other kingdom, the
kingdom of evil. And he was scared to death. He
was scared to death. What is thy servant that thou
shouldest look upon such a dead dog? It says in verse 5, verse
6, he came and he fell on his face. Now brethren, have you
ever really been there? I believe I have been there.
Have you ever, have you ever fallen on your face before God
in real fear? I know the fear of the Lord is
not being preached today, but I'm saying this, if we'll get
acquainted with the Bible, we'll learn something about fear. Did you know that when the Bible
talks about people who love God, Believed God that they were described
as people who feared the Lord Have you sometimes when you've
got some time to really look into it? You take a concordance
and look up the word if EA are fair and you go through the Old
Testament. He'll say Jacob feared the Lord
David feared the Lord Abraham feared the law When it talks
about Jeremiah, he was one who feared the Lord. It's always
through the Bible Fear and worship are the same in regard to God. And in the New Testament, when
it describes the rebels, in Romans 3, it says they don't fear God. Has the fear of God ever gripped
your heart? His wrath against your family,
Adam's family, His wrath against your rebellion, His wrath against
your sin, has it ever gripped your heart? But I'll tell you
when it does, you'll hear him say, when genuine fear of God
comes in, you'll hear him say, fear not. But now listen to me,
if you don't hear anything else I say on this point, hear this,
God never says fear not to those who fear not. God never says fear not to those
who fear not. They have every reason to fear.
God only says fear not when he detects genuine fear and genuine
reverence. You'll never hear fear not until
your heart knows the fear of God, and then you'll hear fear
not. And the next word is the word
S-A-K-E, verse 7, sake. He said there was that broken,
lame, crippled sinner lying on his face, shaking, I'm sure,
like a leaf. Here he was surrounded by the
splendor and the glory. Oh, the glory of David's throne! Oh, the glory of David's court! Here they brought in all of his
big, strong soldiers, standing around, generals and captains,
And all of the beautiful court of David and the people, David
was always surrounded by all these people right in the freshness
of his glory. And here they bring in this little
old lame crippled fellow, drag him in on a blanket or something.
They didn't have wheelchairs then. Brought him in on some
kind of litter and put him down there in the floor. And how he
looked around, he didn't belong here and he knew it. He looked
up there on that throne, and there sat the mightiest king
on earth. And on his right and left hand,
the mightiest soldiers. And over here, these generals
that he'd run from back when he was a child. He's crippled,
running from these fellows. And he looked around, and he
saw all that, and he's scared to death. And David said, Don't
you be afraid now. Don't you be afraid. For I'm
going to show you mercy. I'm going to show you mercy.
And I'm going to show you mercy for Jonathan's sake. I want to
read you something beautiful. Now this story really doesn't
begin here. It doesn't begin here. It begins
over in 1 Samuel 18. That's where this story begins.
You know this story really begins before Mephibosheth was ever
born? That's right. This mercy, which
David is showing to him, is the result of a covenant that was
made before he was ever born. David was just carrying out here
what David determined to do before that boy was ever heard of, before
he was ever formed in the womb, before he was ever born. It says,
this is back when David had just killed Goliath. It wasn't just
a little while, he was just a young lad. This long before he became
king. And it says in chapter 18 of
1 Samuel 1, it came to pass when he had made an end of speaking
to Saul, Saul said, Who are you, son? He just killed Goliath.
He brought Goliath's head. I can just see him there. He
came before Saul and standing there holding Goliath's head
in his hand, this stripling of a boy. And Saul said, Who are
you, son? And back there in verse 58 of
chapter 17, he said, I'm the son of Jesse. I'm from Bethlehem. There he stood in his shepherd's
outfit holding the head of that giant. And it said it came to
pass, chapter 18, verse 1, when he finished speaking to Saul
that the soul of Jonathan, that was Saul's boy, he was standing
there, was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved
him as his own soul. And Saul took him that day and
would not let him go back home to his daddy's house, and Jonathan
and David made a covenant because he loved him as his own soul.
What was the covenant? Well, turn to 1 Samuel 20 and
you'll find it. 1 Samuel 20, verse 13. Now, Saul tried to kill David. They got jealous of him. They
tried to kill him, but Saul's son, Jonathan, loved David, took
him out in the field one day. In verse 13, verse 12 of 1 Samuel
20, Jonathan said, David, O Lord God of Israel, whom I have sounded
my father, when I assigned it to my father, about tomorrow,
any time, or the third day, and behold, if there be good towards
David, and I then send not unto thee, and show it to thee, the
Lord do so, and much more to Jonathan." In other words, I'll
let you know what my father plans. And if I don't let you know,
God will do the same thing to me. And I'll show it to you. And it pleased my father to do
evil, I'll show it to you and send you away, that you may go
in peace, and the Lord be with you. as he had been with my father.
And verse 14, And thou shalt not only while yet I live show
me the kindness of the Lord. Here David's word, I'll show
him the kindness of the Lord, that I die not. But also, now
listen to verse 15. Thou shalt not cut off thy kindness
from my house forever. No, not when the Lord hath cut
off the enemies of David, every one of them, from the face of
the earth. And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of
David, saying, Let the Lord require it at the hand of David's enemy."
Here were these two boys out in the field, back before Mephibosheth
was ever born, and they shook hands or whatever they did. And
Jonathan said, David, you're going to be king someday. And
God's going to destroy my father and his house. He's rebelled
against the Lord. I love you, David. And I want
you to make a covenant with me right now that whatever happens
to me and to my house, that you won't cut off your kindness,
your mercy from my house forever. Will you agree? And they shook
hands. And when David became king and
sat on his invincible throne, his sovereign throne, first thing
he said, I'm going to show mercy to the household of Jonathan.
And when that boy was brought in, crippled, twisted, lame,
hungry, a beggar, and he said, I'm afraid. And David said, don't
be afraid. I'm going to show you mercy,
not for your sake. God, I don't need you, Mephibosh.
What do I need with a crippled beggar? There are plenty of those
out on the street. I don't need one in my house.
What can you add to my glory? What can you contribute to my
kingdom? What can you bring in that I don't have? I've got God
and everything else. But I'm going to show you mercy
and pity for Jonathan's sake. And I'll tell you, my friend,
my story. God Almighty spoke to me one
day, and He spoke to this old beggar in peace. He spoke to
this old crippled sinner in peace. He spoke to this old undeserving
dog in peace. He said, I don't owe you anything,
and you needn't try to make bargains with me. You can't add anything
to my kingdom. You can't bring in anything I
don't have. What I need is you. I can raise up from the rocks
children of Abraham. But I'm going to show mercy to
you for Jesus' sake. I made a covenant before you
was ever born, and I gave you to my Son. And my Son agreed
to come and take your place and die your death and assume your
guilt. And I gave Him to you, and now
I'm going to show you mercy. I sent and fetched you for His
sake. And you don't need to be afraid
now. You don't need to be afraid. Look at the next word, it's in
verse 9, the word given. I have given. It's a give. It's a give. Now you just figure
out how Mephibosheth could lay there in his inability and start
telling David, now tell you what I'll do, David, now that you're
going to do this to me, I'm going to serve you. David said, I've
given it to you. Everything that you lost, Mephibosheth,
everything they took away from you. See these 15 farmers, sons
of Ziba? They're yours. They belong to
your daddy. Now they're yours. See these 20 servants? They belong
to your daddy. Now they're yours. You see that
field out there that your daddy saw, your granddaddy saw lost?
That's yours. That house on the hill, that's
yours. God Almighty says to these sinners today, you know what
your daddy Adam lost? He lost paradise. I won't give
back to you. He lost all these things. All
that pertained to the house of Adam is restored for Christ's
sake. It's all yours. Enter into the
joys of my kingdom. It's all yours. And he said down
in verse 13, the last word, and I'll close, is the word And Mephibosheth
dwelt in Jerusalem and did eat continually at the king's table. He remained the son of David
and nobody could change it. David said, Mephibosheth is going
to sit at my table and be one of my sons all the days of his
life. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life. And I'll dwell in the house
of the Lord forever and forever and for continually. That's the
word, continually. The soul that on Jesus hath leaned
for repose, I will not, I will not desert to its foes, that
soul though all hail. I'll tell you this, some of those
generals might have been killed. and some of those fair ladies
in the court and some of those lieutenants, but I guarantee
you this, nobody come in and take Mephibosheth out. He was
the object of David's love for Jonathan See. Scripture tells us that David
loved Jonathan more than the love of woman. They loved one
another. They were friends. And when David
took that throne, he said, I'm going to show mercy for Jonathan's
sake, and I'll guarantee you Mephibosheth would have been
the last person that could have ever got out of David's bosom.
Because every time he saw Mephibosheth, he saw Jonathan. Every time he
dealt with Mephibosheth, he remembered Jonathan. Every time he passed
by and put his hand on the head of Mephibosheth, I know a tear
came in his eyes, because he remembered Jonathan. And I'll
tell you, you'd have got a fight out of David before you got that
boy, that crippled boy, because he was David's pet. And I'll
tell you this, our Lord said, My Father which gave them me
is greater than all, and no man is going to pluck them out of
my hand. No, out of my Father's hand. Ain't no way you can get
to me. Satan, who can lay anything to
the charge of God's elect. I was chosen in Christ. And when
the Father sees me, He sees Christ. When the Father passes by me,
He sees Christ. When He pats me on the head,
it's Christ. And I'm a special person. And
you are too. Our Father blessed the Word.
How grateful. We don't show it. We don't show it like we should,
but how grateful we are for Thy mercy. It's mercy, mercy, mercy,
mercy. That's what we need, mercy. We're
not asking for anything. We don't deserve anything. When
we've done all that we should do, we're still unprofitable
servants. But we come to Thy throne of grace that we may obtain
mercy and grace to help us in our times of need, which is 24
hours a day. We thank Thee for Thy grace and
mercy in Christ. For Christ's sake, Thou hast
forgiven us. taken us into the kingdom and
made us sons of God. Use the message for thy glory.
God bless us and help us to manifest the glory of Christ, to preach
the gospel like we ought to, to love one another. In his name
we pray, amen.

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