Latest / Stornoway Free Church of Scotland - Sermons / Hope Overflowing
Transcript
- 0:00We can turn back together to our reading in Romans chapter 15. Romans chapter 15.
- 0:20!
- 0:30Hope for a time and try and whet your appetite to either come along yourself or to invite others to come along to encourage us to learn more just about how precious a thing this hope is that we find in the scriptures.
- 0:47What do you think of when you think of the word hope?
- 0:51We use it in many different ways, many different contexts.
- 0:57But when we use it, so often there's an element of doubt.
- 1:01We say, for example, I hope it doesn't rain or I hope the ferry sails.
- 1:10But when we use it in that kind of context, we've always got an element of doubt in the back of our mind because we know the reality is that it's going to rain or there will be days that the ferry doesn't sail.
- 1:23So that hope isn't always certain.
- 1:26It's not always guaranteed.
- 1:28But that is not the kind of hope that the Bible speaks about.
- 1:34When the word hope is used as it is here in Romans 15, it's a very certain hope and a hope that is secure because it's got a foundation that is Jesus Christ and God who has given us this great hope.
- 1:54If you read, for example, in Hebrews 11, verse 1, it speaks there of hope.
- 2:02Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.
- 2:09That hope is not maybe it will come to be, but it is a certainty.
- 2:16It is a hope, an assurance, even in the things that we do not see just now.
- 2:21It is still a certain and a sure hope that we have through faith because that hope is fixed on an object, on a person, on Jesus and what will come through him.
- 2:36And that's the hope that the Bible speaks to us about.
- 2:41As one writer put it, hope puts something glorious on the far horizon that is worth striving for.
- 2:51Something glorious on the far horizon.
- 2:55We know it's there and we find it through Jesus Christ.
- 3:00And let's read verse 13 together.
- 3:03See what it says there.
- 3:04May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
- 3:16It's just a short verse, but it says so much to us.
- 3:22But when you read a verse like this, you ask yourself, does that verse come close to describing me?
- 3:29Does it come close to describing what my life is like just now?
- 3:34Can I say that my life is filled with all joy and peace in believing?
- 3:41And that I am abounding in hope, overflowing with hope.
- 3:47We would love to be able to describe ourselves like that.
- 3:50And to varying degrees, we want to be able to.
- 3:54And sometimes we do.
- 3:55We can say, yeah, I've got joy, I've got peace, I've got hope.
- 4:00But there's always a time when we all fall short of experiencing what this verse speaks about.
- 4:06And it's not just speaking to those who haven't come to believe in Jesus yet or who aren't members in the church as yet.
- 4:14It's speaking to every one of us.
- 4:16Even those who have been Christians for many, many years, this verse speaks to every one of us.
- 4:23Asking that question, are we filled with joy and peace in believing?
- 4:29Are we abounding in this hope?
- 4:33We should be when we look to Jesus.
- 4:36But there's things that rob us of that joy and peace and hope.
- 4:40And so it's important for us to always come back and look, well, where is this hope found?
- 4:47I can't imagine anybody here, anybody in life really saying, I'm not interested in having joy and peace.
- 4:54I don't want to abound in hope.
- 4:57We all want, we all need these things.
- 5:01Everybody is looking for it in this world, that joy, that peace, that hope.
- 5:05But the question is, where is it found?
- 5:11How can we know it?
- 5:14There's a hymn that starts with a question.
- 5:18What is your hope in life and death?
- 5:22It's a great question.
- 5:24It's an important question for us as we come to look at this word.
- 5:28What is your hope in life and death?
- 5:33How do you answer that?
- 5:34What is your hope in both these scenarios?
- 5:38As we live our lives and as we know the reality of death, what is your hope?
- 5:45Well, the hymn answers the question for us.
- 5:49But do we know it?
- 5:52What is your hope in life and death?
- 5:55Christ alone.
- 5:57Christ alone, the hymn says.
- 6:00Is that your hope in life and death?
- 6:05Well, as Paul concludes this section in Romans 15 at verse 13,
- 6:10he is doing so in this verse with what is really a prayer.
- 6:15A prayer that we would know this joy, this peace, this hope in Christ.
- 6:23So I want us to focus on the word hope.
- 6:30What we're going to do is break it down into its individual letters.
- 6:34H-O-P-E.
- 6:37And look at hope from four different perspectives.
- 6:41And where we can find this hope.
- 6:44So the first letter, H, help.
- 6:50The opposite of hope is hopeless.
- 6:55Like we're thinking of those who had leprosy in Jesus' day.
- 6:59They didn't have hope.
- 7:00They felt hopeless.
- 7:01Because there was nothing that could help them.
- 7:05And that's the way we are in our sin.
- 7:08We are hopeless.
- 7:11And so the word hope reminds us that we have a great need.
- 7:19Think of the question, what is my hope in life and death?
- 7:22Is your answer one where it's an uncertain hope that this world offers?
- 7:30Where you're not sure and certain of what lies ahead?
- 7:35Of what's going to help you in your time of need?
- 7:39Or is it the certain hope that the Bible speaks about found in Jesus Christ?
- 7:46We need help.
- 7:48And the word hope reminds us that there is help.
- 7:52Because God has come to help us.
- 7:56And so we see that help and hope has a history.
- 8:02It has a past.
- 8:04When you look at this chapter and verse 4, what does it say there?
- 8:09Romans 13 verse 4.
- 8:11For whatever was written in former days was written for you our instruction,
- 8:15that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures,
- 8:20we might have hope.
- 8:22So hope has a history.
- 8:26And it's a history that speaks to us of the help that God has given to us.
- 8:32That's what it was saying here as Paul was writing to them
- 8:36and saying to ourselves as well,
- 8:39that the Scriptures, what was written in the past,
- 8:41was written for our instruction and our encouragement,
- 8:46that we might have hope.
- 8:49And so God is one who has come to give us help, to give us hope.
- 8:55The foundation of our hope is God,
- 9:00as verse 13 makes very clear for us.
- 9:02May the God of hope.
- 9:05He is the God of hope.
- 9:08And it is the God who has come to help us.
- 9:14So there's a foundation to this hope.
- 9:17There's a history to this hope.
- 9:19And it is God who has made all things,
- 9:22who has created the heavens and the earth.
- 9:26And although sin has come in,
- 9:28he came to give help to his people.
- 9:32And so, as verse 13 says,
- 9:34may the God of hope fill you.
- 9:37Well, if you are to be filled with something,
- 9:39the obvious question is,
- 9:41where is it going to come from?
- 9:44If you are to be fed when you're hungry,
- 9:46you need a source of food.
- 9:47You need to find food.
- 9:48If you are going to go on a journey in your car,
- 9:51you need fuel.
- 9:52So you have to go and fuel up before you go on that journey.
- 9:56And so for ourselves,
- 9:57if we're asking this question,
- 9:59if I am going to be filled with joy and peace and hope,
- 10:03we have to ask,
- 10:04are we going to the source?
- 10:06Are we looking in the right place for it?
- 10:10Well, if we're looking around us,
- 10:12we see so many things that offer hope,
- 10:15but it's always temporary.
- 10:17It's always uncertain.
- 10:20But when we look to the scriptures,
- 10:22we find the God of hope
- 10:24who is able to fill you.
- 10:28God is already described in verse 5
- 10:30as the God of endurance
- 10:32and the God of encouragement.
- 10:34He is the source of all of these things.
- 10:37And here we see He is the source of joy and peace
- 10:41and hope abounding,
- 10:43the help that He gives.
- 10:46Because when you look through the Old Testament,
- 10:48that verse 4 speaks about
- 10:50the scriptures that were written.
- 10:52You go to Isaiah 41, verse 10.
- 10:54And there in the midst of a people who felt hopeless,
- 10:58God's people who were captured by a foreign nation,
- 11:03taken into captivity,
- 11:05God speaks to them and says,
- 11:07Fear not, for I am with you.
- 11:09Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
- 11:11I will strengthen you.
- 11:13I will help you.
- 11:14I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
- 11:19He is one who is able to help.
- 11:25And so He is the source of hope.
- 11:27And we are to come to that source.
- 11:29As Hebrews 4, verse 16 makes clear to us,
- 11:33Let us then with confidence
- 11:35draw near to the throne of grace
- 11:37that we may receive mercy
- 11:39and find grace to help in time of need.
- 11:43Hope reminds us that there is help for us.
- 11:50The second thing is the letter O.
- 11:54And this speaks to us of opportunity.
- 11:59And two ways we see opportunity here
- 12:01is that God is speaking
- 12:03and He is speaking to all, to everybody.
- 12:09As you read through the book of Romans,
- 12:11you find, and as you read through the scriptures,
- 12:14you find very often that there are two groups of people mentioned
- 12:18that this world is made up of.
- 12:21There are Jews and there are Gentiles.
- 12:25That's what the Bible makes very clear to us.
- 12:27There are Jews and there are Gentiles.
- 12:29Jews are directly descended from Israel,
- 12:32from the people of God,
- 12:34and all other nations, all other people are Gentiles.
- 12:37And so we therefore fall into the category of Gentiles,
- 12:40Gentiles, at least most of us will anyway.
- 12:44And what God is saying to us
- 12:46is that it is for everyone.
- 12:50You look in the Old Testament,
- 12:51God was looking after His own people.
- 12:54But here you see in the book of Romans
- 12:56that the word is going out to all.
- 12:59And you see it in how often it is quoted
- 13:02in these verses from 9 through to verse 12
- 13:06where scripture is quoted.
- 13:07You see the word Gentiles used in each of these verses.
- 13:12And it's reminding us that this is an opportunity for us all.
- 13:17So when you look at Romans 15 verse 12,
- 13:20the root of Jesse will come,
- 13:23even he who arises to rule the Gentiles.
- 13:27In him the Gentiles hope.
- 13:30It is speaking of Jesus,
- 13:33the root of Jesse,
- 13:35and it's speaking to us as a people,
- 13:38the Gentiles,
- 13:39that our hope is to be found in him.
- 13:43So God is speaking.
- 13:46And he is speaking to all.
- 13:48So that none of us need feel
- 13:50that we are far away from him,
- 13:52that we are not
- 13:53welcome to know this hope,
- 13:56that we are undeserving.
- 13:58There is no way we can have this hope.
- 14:00He is speaking to us all
- 14:03that we might find in him this hope.
- 14:08So there's an opportunity for all.
- 14:10But the opportunity also speaks about time.
- 14:14Everyone lives,
- 14:16but only for a time.
- 14:17And it is this time to find this hope in Jesus.
- 14:23And now is our time.
- 14:25Now is our opportunity.
- 14:27Now is your opportunity.
- 14:30If you don't know this hope,
- 14:31or you feel you've lost this hope,
- 14:34it is your opportunity to know it again,
- 14:37or to know it for the first time.
- 14:39Psalm 95 verse 7 to 8 says that to us.
- 14:42Today if you hear his voice,
- 14:45do not harden your hearts.
- 14:47Today.
- 14:49But so often we're living in view
- 14:51that this life
- 14:52is just for us to live as we want.
- 14:55And there's nothing afterwards.
- 14:58Living day by day,
- 15:00as the phrase goes,
- 15:01you only live once.
- 15:04Or as 1 Corinthians 15, 32 puts it,
- 15:07let us eat and drink,
- 15:09for tomorrow we die.
- 15:11But there's no thought of eternity.
- 15:13There's no concern for our soul.
- 15:15Our hope is just for this life.
- 15:20Nothing else.
- 15:22But the scripture hope is so different.
- 15:26Because the scriptures tell us
- 15:28that there is an eternity.
- 15:30That there is a day of judgment.
- 15:32That death is not the end.
- 15:35But that the Lord will come again.
- 15:37And so this life is our opportunity,
- 15:40our only opportunity,
- 15:42to prepare for eternity.
- 15:45As C.T. Studd said,
- 15:47only one life,
- 15:48it will soon be past.
- 15:50Only what's done,
- 15:52for Christ will last.
- 15:55So we have opportunity.
- 15:57And again,
- 15:59what is your hope
- 16:01in life
- 16:03and death?
- 16:06There was a man called
- 16:08John Harper.
- 16:10He was a minister in Glasgow,
- 16:12and then laterally
- 16:12in the city of London.
- 16:15He was a great evangelist.
- 16:17He was known as a great evangelist.
- 16:19And he was invited to preach
- 16:20on a couple of occasions
- 16:21in America
- 16:22to go to Chicago,
- 16:24where Dwight Moody was ministering.
- 16:27And the second time he was going,
- 16:29he traveled to Southampton
- 16:31to board a ship
- 16:32to make his way to America.
- 16:34He was a widow,
- 16:35but he had his six-year-old daughter,
- 16:37Annie, with him.
- 16:39And so together,
- 16:40they boarded the ship
- 16:42to cross the Atlantic.
- 16:43The name of the ship,
- 16:45Titanic.
- 16:45And it is recorded for us
- 16:50afterwards
- 16:51what happened in his life
- 16:54by others,
- 16:56because he never survived.
- 16:59But his daughter did.
- 17:01And she was able to recall
- 17:03how she was woken urgently
- 17:05by her father at midnight
- 17:06and how he took her to a lifeboat
- 17:09to make sure that she was saved.
- 17:12But he went back on board.
- 17:14And what he did
- 17:15was speak to others
- 17:17about their need of Christ.
- 17:22And several months
- 17:24after the sinking of the Titanic,
- 17:27there was a man
- 17:28who stood in a prayer meeting
- 17:30in Ontario, in Canada.
- 17:33And in tears,
- 17:35he recounted his story
- 17:37because he had been on board
- 17:38Titanic that night as well.
- 17:40And he had ended up in the water
- 17:43clinging to a piece of the wreckage.
- 17:46And he said that on two occasions,
- 17:50a wave brought a man close to him.
- 17:54And this man was John Harper.
- 17:56And the first thing he said,
- 17:58John Harper said to this man was,
- 18:00man, are you saved?
- 18:03And the man replied,
- 18:04no, I am not.
- 18:06And John Harper said to him,
- 18:08believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
- 18:10and you shall be saved.
- 18:12And then the waves
- 18:13took him away again.
- 18:15Short time later,
- 18:16the waves brought him back
- 18:18near this man.
- 18:19And he said to him,
- 18:19are you saved now?
- 18:22And he called out,
- 18:23no.
- 18:24And John Harper said to him,
- 18:26believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
- 18:28and you will be saved.
- 18:30And then just moments later,
- 18:32the cold got to John Harper.
- 18:35He let go of the piece of wreckage
- 18:37and he slipped under the water.
- 18:41Well, in those moments,
- 18:44this man looked to Christ
- 18:46and was saved.
- 18:48And a lifeboat came near,
- 18:50plucked him out of the water.
- 18:52And not just was he saved physically,
- 18:55but he was saved eternally.
- 18:57And this was him months later,
- 19:00recalling this night.
- 19:02And he said,
- 19:02I am John Harper's last convert.
- 19:06With his last breath,
- 19:08this man was pleading with others
- 19:10to be saved
- 19:11because the opportunity was then.
- 19:15Today is your opportunity.
- 19:19Today is the time that you are given.
- 19:22But are you making the opportunity count?
- 19:26Are you listening?
- 19:26Are you finding this God of hope
- 19:29who will fill you with joy and peace
- 19:31in believing?
- 19:34In believing in him
- 19:36that you might abound in hope.
- 19:39There is opportunity.
- 19:41There is thirdly, peace.
- 19:45P is for peace.
- 19:47If you don't have this hope,
- 19:50you cannot have peace
- 19:52because there is no peace
- 19:54apart from Jesus Christ.
- 19:56And you will find in this life
- 19:58when you maybe feel
- 19:59that you have peace,
- 20:00that you are going on
- 20:02and everything is fine,
- 20:03that your peace will be interrupted.
- 20:05It will be interrupted by things
- 20:07that will come your way.
- 20:09Sadness and sorrow and illness
- 20:11and uncertainty and fears.
- 20:13All of these things.
- 20:14And then you have to face up to death.
- 20:19And what then?
- 20:20What is your hope in life and death?
- 20:27We have to know the source of hope and peace.
- 20:32As G.K. Chesserton once said,
- 20:35it's only when everything is hopeless
- 20:37that hope begins to be a strength.
- 20:41And it's so often true for us.
- 20:44Sometimes God has to bring us down
- 20:46to our lowest point,
- 20:47to feel that hopelessness.
- 20:49When we've tried everything else in this world,
- 20:52but to see that hope and peace
- 20:55is not found apart from Christ.
- 21:00So is your hope today in finding peace
- 21:03based on your own thoughts,
- 21:06your own ways,
- 21:07or is it based on Christ alone?
- 21:11If we are to be filled,
- 21:16we think of it in this way,
- 21:17as we may be filled with joy and peace
- 21:20and hope and believing.
- 21:22When does it end?
- 21:25The hope of this world,
- 21:27it may make us feel full for a time,
- 21:31but ultimately it leaves us empty.
- 21:36When you're thinking of eating food
- 21:38or filling the car,
- 21:39there's always a point where you're saying,
- 21:42oh, I'm just full.
- 21:43I can't eat anything else.
- 21:45Or when you're filling your fuel tank,
- 21:47it will always stop.
- 21:49It won't overflow.
- 21:51But when we see Paul's prayer here,
- 21:54it's not just that we will have
- 21:55a little joy and peace,
- 21:57like a little trickle into our life.
- 22:01It's that we will be filled.
- 22:03May he fill you with all joy and peace,
- 22:06abounding in hope.
- 22:09This is overflowing.
- 22:13And this is the kind of peace
- 22:15that God is able to give
- 22:17through hope,
- 22:19and hope that is found in him.
- 22:24God is the God of hope.
- 22:28But do you have peace in him today?
- 22:31So often we fall short.
- 22:32We settle for the little things in this world,
- 22:36just a partially full life.
- 22:40But God offers a peace
- 22:42that abounds,
- 22:44that overflows in hope
- 22:47by believing in him.
- 22:50The fourth letter is E.
- 22:58And E speaks of the eternal nature
- 23:02of this hope.
- 23:05There is an eternity before us,
- 23:08but this hope is eternal.
- 23:12This hope has a history,
- 23:14as we see in the beginning.
- 23:16It goes back,
- 23:16the foundations of God speaking to us.
- 23:19It has a present
- 23:20where it speaks to us
- 23:22for this life,
- 23:23what is our hope in life.
- 23:25But what is our hope in death
- 23:27and beyond?
- 23:30The phrase is used,
- 23:31hope springs eternal.
- 23:34People use that
- 23:35because they want to have
- 23:36an optimistic outlook in life.
- 23:38There's always a hope
- 23:40that things will be better.
- 23:43But this worldly hope
- 23:44is always uncertain.
- 23:47But this hope,
- 23:50the biblical hope,
- 23:51abounding in hope,
- 23:52is eternal.
- 23:54There's no end to it.
- 23:57There is this hope
- 23:59on the horizon,
- 24:00as one writer puts it
- 24:02when he's looking at the Bible
- 24:04and how it concludes.
- 24:05The Bible concludes
- 24:07with a stunning vision
- 24:08of a far horizon
- 24:10that lies ahead of us.
- 24:12is that where our hope
- 24:14is focused,
- 24:16on the eternal nature of it
- 24:18through faith in Jesus.
- 24:20And he's speaking there
- 24:21about the book of Revelation
- 24:22and how it speaks
- 24:24about this hope fulfilled.
- 24:26And especially the last two chapters
- 24:28of the book of Revelation
- 24:29where all things are made new.
- 24:32Where everything is,
- 24:34that was wrong and hurtful
- 24:36and painful in this world
- 24:37is gone.
- 24:38And where Jesus makes
- 24:41all things new.
- 24:43Peter puts it
- 24:45so wonderfully
- 24:46in his first letter,
- 24:471 Peter chapter 1,
- 24:49where it speaks
- 24:50of this eternal nature
- 24:51of hope.
- 24:52Blessed be the God
- 24:53and Father
- 24:54of our Lord Jesus Christ.
- 24:56According to his great mercy,
- 24:59he has caused us
- 25:00to be born again
- 25:01to a living hope.
- 25:03It's a living hope.
- 25:04through the resurrection
- 25:07of Jesus Christ
- 25:08from the dead
- 25:09to an inheritance
- 25:10that is imperishable,
- 25:12undefiled,
- 25:14unfading,
- 25:15kept in heaven
- 25:16for you.
- 25:17This hope
- 25:18is eternal.
- 25:20This hope
- 25:21will not let you down.
- 25:23This hope
- 25:23will not fail you
- 25:25because it is secure
- 25:26in Jesus Christ.
- 25:30But what horizon
- 25:31are you looking to?
- 25:34There was a question
- 25:37asked of people
- 25:38in Scotland.
- 25:40What is closer to us,
- 25:42America
- 25:42or the moon?
- 25:46And the answer
- 25:47is obvious
- 25:48to most,
- 25:49but one person
- 25:50replied
- 25:50and answered,
- 25:52the moon.
- 25:54And so the person
- 25:55asked,
- 25:56well,
- 25:56how do you conclude
- 25:57that?
- 25:58How can you say
- 25:58the moon
- 25:59is closer than America?
- 26:01And he said,
- 26:02well,
- 26:02I can see the moon
- 26:03from here.
- 26:04I can't see America.
- 26:08But the moon
- 26:09is 240,000 miles away.
- 26:14America
- 26:14is 4,000 miles away.
- 26:18The difference
- 26:18in his mind
- 26:19was,
- 26:20I cannot see it.
- 26:23And for many,
- 26:24that's the way
- 26:25they live
- 26:26in looking for hope
- 26:27in this world.
- 26:29the things
- 26:30that we can see
- 26:31are what our hope
- 26:33is based on.
- 26:35But Hebrews 11,
- 26:36verse 1,
- 26:38says to us,
- 26:38now faith
- 26:39is the assurance
- 26:40of things hoped for,
- 26:42the conviction
- 26:43of things
- 26:44not seen.
- 26:46Just because
- 26:47we can't see America
- 26:48doesn't mean
- 26:50it's not there.
- 26:52Ships
- 26:52and planes
- 26:53set off
- 26:54every day
- 26:54knowing
- 26:55it is there
- 26:56over the horizon.
- 26:57and knowing
- 26:59that they can
- 27:00reach it.
- 27:02And that's the life
- 27:03of faith.
- 27:05It is knowing
- 27:06that the hope
- 27:07is there,
- 27:09that eternity
- 27:10is before us,
- 27:11that blessings
- 27:12are ours
- 27:12from Christ.
- 27:13We don't fully
- 27:14see it,
- 27:16but faith
- 27:17is the assurance
- 27:18of things
- 27:19hoped for.
- 27:21So what horizon
- 27:24are you looking
- 27:25to today?
- 27:26The things
- 27:27of this world
- 27:28that you can see
- 27:29are the hope
- 27:30that is on
- 27:31a glorious horizon
- 27:33for all
- 27:33of God's people.
- 27:36This hope
- 27:38is what reminds us
- 27:40of the help
- 27:41that God
- 27:41has given.
- 27:43It reminds us
- 27:44of the opportunity
- 27:45that we have today.
- 27:46It reminds us
- 27:47of the peace
- 27:48that he can give
- 27:50and it reminds us
- 27:51that this hope
- 27:53is eternal.
- 27:55So again I ask,
- 27:57what is your hope
- 27:59in life
- 28:00and death?
- 28:04The answer
- 28:05is Christ
- 28:07alone.
- 28:10Do you have
- 28:11him as your hope?
- 28:13Let us pray.
- 28:14Lord,
- 28:18our gracious
- 28:19God,
- 28:19we thank you
- 28:20for all
- 28:20that you reveal
- 28:21to us
- 28:22through your word,
- 28:23even the things
- 28:24that are at times
- 28:25hidden from us
- 28:26that we cannot see,
- 28:28even as we think
- 28:29of Jesus
- 28:29in our lives
- 28:30and how at times
- 28:32or in times
- 28:33in our own experience
- 28:34where he has
- 28:35been unseen
- 28:36and unthought of,
- 28:38we thank you
- 28:38for your spirit
- 28:39that helps us
- 28:40to have our eyes
- 28:41opened
- 28:42to understand
- 28:43our need of him
- 28:44and we thank you
- 28:45that he is there
- 28:46for us
- 28:47even in times
- 28:48where we feel
- 28:49he's not
- 28:50or that he cannot
- 28:50be seen.
- 28:52Broaden our horizons,
- 28:53Lord,
- 28:53and help us
- 28:54to know
- 28:54through faith
- 28:56that hope
- 28:57of Christ alone.
- 28:59Hear our prayers
- 28:59and pardon our sins
- 29:01in Jesus' name.
- 29:03Amen.
- 29:03Amen.
- 29:08We're going to conclude
- 29:09by singing
- 29:10in Psalm 130,
- 29:12the Singed Psalms
- 29:13version of it.
- 29:15The tune is
- 29:15Martyrdom.
- 29:18Psalm 130,
- 29:21page 173.
- 29:26Psalm that reminds us
- 29:28and speaks of
- 29:29the hope
- 29:30that we have in God.
- 29:31Lord,
- 29:32from the depths
- 29:32I call to you,
- 29:33Lord,
- 29:34hear me from on high
- 29:35and give attention
- 29:36to my voice
- 29:36when I for mercy
- 29:38cry.
- 29:39And then the last verse,
- 29:40O Israel,
- 29:41put your hope in God
- 29:42for mercy is with him
- 29:44and full redemption
- 29:45from their sins.
- 29:47His people
- 29:48he'll redeem.
- 29:49We'll sing the whole
- 29:49of this psalm
- 29:50to God's praise.
- 29:51Amen.
- 29:55Lord,
- 29:56from the depths
- 29:58I call to you,
- 30:04Lord,
- 30:05hear me from the night
- 30:11and give attention
- 30:17to thy voice
- 30:21when I for mercy
- 30:27cry.
- 30:29Lord,
- 30:31in your presence
- 30:35you have stopped
- 30:40if you are
- 30:43sinned
- 30:45to be part
- 30:47but yet
- 30:50forgiveness
- 30:53is with you
- 30:57that we may fear you,
- 31:04Lord.
- 31:05I wait,
- 31:08my soul
- 31:11waits for the Lord
- 31:16My hope is in his word
- 31:24More than the Lord
- 31:29I wait for God
- 31:34My soul
- 31:36waits for the Lord
- 31:42O Israel
- 31:46good
- 31:48your
- 31:49broken God
- 31:53For mercy
- 31:56is with him
- 32:01And full
- 32:03And full
- 32:04redemption
- 32:05From
- 32:09their sins
- 32:11Let
- 32:12be
- 32:13the
- 32:14Lord
- 32:15Heal
- 32:16Greetings
- 32:18After the benediction
- 32:21I'll go to the door
- 32:22to my right
- 32:23We'll close with the benediction
- 32:24Now may grace
- 32:26mercy
- 32:26and peace
- 32:27from God
- 32:28Father
- 32:28Son
- 32:29and Holy Spirit
- 32:30rest upon
- 32:31and abide with you all
- 32:33now and forevermore
- 32:34Amen
- 32:35Amen
- 33:01Thank you.