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- 0:00Turn back to the Gospel of John, chapter 11, and we want to read again at verse 40.
- 0:08! Jesus said to her, that's Martha, did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?
- 0:20Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?
- 0:26Can I ask you a question off the back of that verse?
- 0:32Would you like to see the glory of God?
- 0:37The quick answer would probably be yes, but I suppose the more we think about it,
- 0:43the more hesitant we might be to see that glory.
- 0:48The more we think about it, it probably becomes a terrifying prospect.
- 0:51But if our quick answer is yes, just to imagine if we could see, just for a moment,
- 1:00if we got a glimpse of the glory of God, if we could see that beauty, if we could behold that wonder,
- 1:07if we could see into the throne room of heaven,
- 1:09if we could see that glory, so often many say, then I would believe.
- 1:20But that's the wrong way around, isn't it?
- 1:24That's not what the verse says.
- 1:27It says, if you believe, then you will see the glory of God.
- 1:33But one comes first.
- 1:35That's believing.
- 1:39But if you read that passage there, like that verse there again,
- 1:46there's a very weighty if in it.
- 1:51A very weighty if that lands squarely on our laps this morning.
- 1:59If we believe.
- 2:04And we can deduce from it if we do not believe.
- 2:07We won't see glory.
- 2:10We won't see the glory of God.
- 2:15There's an eternal ring about this verse.
- 2:20An eternal truth in this verse.
- 2:23If we don't believe, there'll be no comfort, no grace, no mercy, no compassion.
- 2:32And in the context of the chapter that we're reading, there'll be no life.
- 2:39And the word of God is speaking to you again this morning to listen.
- 2:49Maybe it's a second time.
- 2:50Maybe it's a third time.
- 2:51Maybe he's back again, fourth, fifth, twelfth, hundred and fortieth time.
- 3:02Jesus wants you to believe.
- 3:06You can see it in verse 15.
- 3:11Jesus waited there so that you may believe.
- 3:18And it comes through again in verse 42.
- 3:21That all things were done in this account as he prays to his father.
- 3:26So that the crowd that were standing around would believe.
- 3:30Jesus wants you to believe.
- 3:37So when we think about this resurrection account of Lazarus, who's it for?
- 3:44I think it's for Lazarus.
- 3:46He got his life back.
- 3:49But it's not really.
- 3:51It's for the people.
- 3:52It's for everyone standing around.
- 3:55It's for everyone standing around.
- 3:57That they might believe.
- 4:02And it's for us, as we stand at a distance, that we might believe.
- 4:08You can imagine these people who saw this running off and telling their friends.
- 4:12Jesus brought Lazarus back to life.
- 4:16And being persuasive with them.
- 4:21And the joy bursting out of them.
- 4:23The question is, would they believe?
- 4:30And the question is, do you believe?
- 4:32So I want to hinge your thoughts on that.
- 4:39That this resurrection account, it's for you this morning.
- 4:44So that you might believe.
- 4:46And what we're going to do is we'll just really kind of throw a skimming stone over this passage.
- 4:51There's a lot in it.
- 4:52But I want to land on four points about this resurrection account, which is for each and every one of us.
- 5:00And the first point is going to be that there's a time in it for you.
- 5:05The second point is that there's going to be a promise in it for you.
- 5:08The third point is that there's sympathy in it for you.
- 5:11And the last point is that there's evidence here for you to believe.
- 5:20So there's a time for you.
- 5:23Now, Ecclesiastes tells us there's a time for everything.
- 5:29There's a good and a right time for everything.
- 5:32Now, you know that yourself.
- 5:34You can tell the simplest of jokes.
- 5:36Tell it at the wrong time.
- 5:38It doesn't land with the effect that you were maybe hoping.
- 5:41Tell it in the wrong company.
- 5:43It turns out to be terrible.
- 5:46Even the best invention in the world, if it lands at the wrong time, it's revealed in the market at the wrong time,
- 5:51it doesn't have the right effect.
- 5:55And in our passage here, Jesus' timing grabs our attention.
- 5:59You'll see Jesus' approach to time really come through in verse 6.
- 6:06When he had heard that Lazarus was ill, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was.
- 6:11He delays to act.
- 6:13The Son of God would have rightly have known the severity of Lazarus' condition.
- 6:20How ill he was waits not just one, but two days.
- 6:24And the message has come from his two sisters, Mary and Martha.
- 6:29And it's not a message that says, brother, is ill.
- 6:33Come quickly.
- 6:34It's a message that says, Lord, he whom you love is ill.
- 6:40And the love of Jesus, it kind of backdrops this whole scene.
- 6:49Because it's highlighted and emphasized in verse 5.
- 6:53It says there specifically, Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus.
- 6:59It's almost like he loved to be with them.
- 7:02And the message from his sisters that he whom you love is ill almost emphasizes that great love that was evident between them.
- 7:13And you would, well, we would expect Jesus to go straight as he could to the one he loved.
- 7:21That they might get better.
- 7:23But we see Jesus doesn't respond in the way that we would expect or the way in which Mary and Martha would expect.
- 7:33And all this is happening whilst in the conversation with the disciples.
- 7:41Jesus goes on to say that they're going to return to Judea again.
- 7:47The disciples hearing that, their ears plucked up.
- 7:54Because if they're going to go to Judea, they know that the Jews are there ready to stone Jesus.
- 8:00If we're going to go there, we're possibly going to get killed.
- 8:08For the disciples, it seems like the right time to stay put, doesn't it?
- 8:13It would be the wise thing to do.
- 8:15Stay where we are.
- 8:17Jesus responds by saying in verse 9 that, well, there's 12 hours in a day.
- 8:27He refers to time.
- 8:29And commentators will agree that, well, what he's saying here is that, well, there's a time for work to be done.
- 8:35You know, you graft your hours in the daytime and then you rest in the dark in the evening.
- 8:41Jesus is saying, what needs to be done will be done.
- 8:44And the time that I've been given, my hour has not yet come.
- 8:51These are the days to work for the glory of God.
- 8:54So for the disciples, Jesus doesn't respond the way they would expect.
- 9:05Mary and Martha want them to come.
- 9:08Disciples, they want them to stay.
- 9:09But they shall delay.
- 9:14They say, sisters are sure he can help.
- 9:19So they send that urgent cry to him, that message.
- 9:25Does he stay because he doesn't care?
- 9:28No.
- 9:29We've seen that he loves them.
- 9:30And they're dear to him.
- 9:34Why does he do it?
- 9:35Well, it tells in verse 4, at the end of it.
- 9:40It is for the glory of God.
- 9:47First thing is that this would be for the glory of God.
- 9:53And the second thing is in verse 15.
- 9:56So that those may see and believe.
- 10:02Not in someone that goes to do a healing.
- 10:07Jesus didn't want you to believe in a healer, primarily.
- 10:12But someone that could bring life.
- 10:17Willish death.
- 10:19Someone that can bring resurrection.
- 10:22Someone that has the power over death.
- 10:25To conquer that power.
- 10:30Jesus waited for the right time.
- 10:36And what is evident in our own lives is that God does not work the way we would expect him to.
- 10:42There's a time where we cry out for help.
- 10:44Nothing happens.
- 10:46There's a time where he says, get up.
- 10:50We need to go.
- 10:51And we want to say, no.
- 10:56Let's stay.
- 10:58I'm comfortable here.
- 10:59I'm safe here.
- 11:04Neither imply a lack of love.
- 11:09Times of suffering, sorrows, hardship may come to us.
- 11:12But God has it in his time.
- 11:15In his control.
- 11:18And the right response for us is to say that, well, this is a time for us.
- 11:24And a time which we must say for the glory of God.
- 11:26Today is a time for you.
- 11:32To hear this message.
- 11:36To hear the hope of the gospel.
- 11:39Maybe it's a time where he's saying, get up and follow me.
- 11:44Time to trust me.
- 11:45Stop hiding.
- 11:50With only 12 hours.
- 11:54Hear his word and listen to his voice because it comes with great promise.
- 11:58That's our second point.
- 12:01The time is ours.
- 12:03The time for us to hear.
- 12:05But to hear these words of promise that are for us today, this morning.
- 12:10Those promises give us a sense of certainty.
- 12:12When everything's uncertain.
- 12:17And promises, when it's made by someone who can fulfill it, make all the difference.
- 12:23When they're capable to do it, uphold it, keep it, makes all the difference when we're at the center of that promise.
- 12:33Where is Jesus' promise in this passage for you this morning?
- 12:37Well, you'll read it in verse 25.
- 12:42Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.
- 12:47Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live.
- 12:53What a promise.
- 12:57A promise that is made by someone who is capable, able and faithful to uphold it.
- 13:04It's a promise for you.
- 13:06But in this conversation, and in this promise that is made, firstly to Martha,
- 13:19we read in verse 23 that Jesus said to her,
- 13:25your brother will rise again.
- 13:26He puts it so simply.
- 13:27But Martha recognizes, yes, there's going to be a day of resurrection.
- 13:34She knows and she understands that everyone will rise.
- 13:40Some to eternal life.
- 13:42Some to eternal death.
- 13:44Some to heaven.
- 13:45Some to hell.
- 13:48She's got all that right.
- 13:49Jesus makes it exactly clear what the difference will make on that day.
- 14:00Whoever believes they'll live.
- 14:05They'll never die.
- 14:11Whoever believes in me will live.
- 14:14The body will die for sure.
- 14:15Nothing surer.
- 14:21But the believer, their soul will live.
- 14:27Jesus makes that promise for us.
- 14:31And he validates that he is the person who can uphold it.
- 14:35I am the resurrection and the life.
- 14:41The promise is there.
- 14:42But there's a question there too.
- 14:48For you to answer.
- 14:52A question that's set before us every time we open the word of God.
- 14:58And a question that Jesus asks by the power of his spirit this morning.
- 15:04Do you believe this?
- 15:10Do you believe it?
- 15:12Do you believe it?
- 15:15That even though the body dies, you live.
- 15:21There's a promise here of life for you.
- 15:25He can keep it.
- 15:28And he will keep it for you.
- 15:33With a very weighty if.
- 15:36Place it in your lap.
- 15:39If you believe.
- 15:40if you believe
- 15:43it's a promise
- 15:45but it's not a cold and empty promise
- 15:48it's a promise that comes with great compassion
- 15:51great sympathy
- 15:53for he knows that you need to hear it
- 15:57that's our third point
- 15:59there's a sympathy in this
- 16:02for you
- 16:04now knowing that someone has been
- 16:09through something difficult
- 16:11makes all the difference
- 16:14when we are looking for help ourselves
- 16:17we can go to that person
- 16:18there's a common ground
- 16:21there's a sympathy with one another
- 16:23although our feelings may be very different
- 16:26we can talk about things that are similar
- 16:31and we do that when we face these difficult times
- 16:36whether it's extreme suffering or sorrows
- 16:39or maybe it's even that we've made a grave mistake
- 16:43in our lives even as a Christian
- 16:45you know
- 16:47people that have made mistakes are helpful for us
- 16:51they've been through it
- 16:54and they understand it
- 16:56and to come out the other side
- 16:58should be a thing that should likewise glorify God
- 17:01there's a huge value in speaking to others
- 17:07who know it first hand
- 17:08and we see that Jesus is not detached
- 17:12from feelings and emotions
- 17:15associated with death in this passage
- 17:17he's not detached from us
- 17:20as a son of God
- 17:21he knows that experience
- 17:24amongst these experiences
- 17:28this is one of the well-known verses in the Bible
- 17:31the shortest one
- 17:33Jesus wept
- 17:35and it's an interesting verse
- 17:39because if you look at the other resurrection accounts of Jesus
- 17:43woman of name son
- 17:45he says to her do not weep
- 17:48the raising of Jairus' daughter
- 17:50he says to the mourners
- 17:52do not weep
- 17:53so it's interesting now
- 17:56when we come to this death
- 17:58we find
- 18:01these emotions
- 18:03in Jesus
- 18:04as he weeps
- 18:06for one that he loved
- 18:10but is it
- 18:14because Lazarus has died
- 18:17or is it
- 18:21because he loves the crowd
- 18:23that are full of sorrow
- 18:27that know the full effects of sin
- 18:30knowing how much that loss means
- 18:38when they lose someone they love
- 18:42the despair of losing a brother
- 18:47he sympathizes
- 18:50with that pain
- 18:53he knows what it's like
- 18:59to lose someone you love
- 19:01the son of God
- 19:04in our nature
- 19:07and the full effect of it
- 19:10we see that he has this sympathy
- 19:14with those who mourn
- 19:15with those who have the questions
- 19:19where were you
- 19:20with those who have the questions
- 19:22why
- 19:22but alongside
- 19:27this emotion
- 19:28of sadness
- 19:29and sorrow
- 19:30there's another emotion
- 19:32that comes through
- 19:32in this passage
- 19:33and
- 19:33it's maybe not the clearest
- 19:35in the English
- 19:36that we have here
- 19:37although
- 19:37your Bible might have
- 19:39a footnote
- 19:40beside the word
- 19:41deeply moved
- 19:42it's here in verse 33
- 19:45and it appears again
- 19:46in verse 35
- 19:47there's an emotion
- 19:49there
- 19:50that implies
- 19:52when it's used in the Greek
- 19:54when it's used everywhere else
- 19:55it implies an anger
- 19:56towards something
- 19:57a hostility
- 19:58towards something
- 19:59it says
- 20:02indignant
- 20:03if you have the ESV
- 20:04food note
- 20:05it's almost as if
- 20:08something's unfair
- 20:09something's wrong
- 20:10and it's not an anger
- 20:14towards Mary or Martha
- 20:15of course
- 20:16it's an anger
- 20:18a hostility
- 20:20against death
- 20:22it shouldn't be this way
- 20:25the effects of sin
- 20:29the sorrow
- 20:30that it brings
- 20:31the wages of sin
- 20:34is death
- 20:35that's what comes
- 20:36and so much
- 20:38there's this hostility
- 20:39against it
- 20:40the commentator
- 20:43Mullen says
- 20:43that
- 20:44yes his eyes
- 20:45are tears
- 20:46of sympathy
- 20:47but his soul
- 20:50is held
- 20:50by rage
- 20:51he advances
- 20:53towards the tomb
- 20:54as in words
- 20:56that Calvin says
- 20:57as a champion
- 20:58who prepares
- 20:59for conflict
- 21:00it's almost as if
- 21:03he's got that
- 21:03mind
- 21:05to defeat
- 21:06sin's devastation
- 21:08the effect of it
- 21:12the power of it
- 21:13the sorrow of it
- 21:14we can feel
- 21:20and know
- 21:22the sorrow of death
- 21:23we can sometimes
- 21:25have an anger
- 21:26in our hearts
- 21:26deep within us
- 21:28a hostility
- 21:29full of questions
- 21:32Jesus isn't detached
- 21:36from these circumstances
- 21:38that he can sympathize
- 21:40with us
- 21:40and it's not just
- 21:45knowing this
- 21:46in our heads
- 21:47it's knowing it
- 21:49in our hearts
- 21:49knowing what it means
- 21:52in that day
- 21:53it's easy to say
- 21:55in our head
- 21:56it's easy to say
- 21:58when we don't have
- 21:59these heavy
- 22:00weighty
- 22:01questions
- 22:01in our lap
- 22:02but knowing it
- 22:08in practice
- 22:08knowing what it
- 22:11means on Monday
- 22:12knowing what it
- 22:13means when these
- 22:14things meet us
- 22:15in our experience
- 22:17even when we're
- 22:21struggling to believe
- 22:23we see Martha
- 22:28walking to the tomb
- 22:31with Jesus
- 22:32standing there
- 22:34in front of it
- 22:35Jesus says
- 22:37roll away the stone
- 22:38and she's there
- 22:39saying
- 22:39what are you doing
- 22:40he's been dead
- 22:42four days
- 22:43Martha had all
- 22:48the right answers
- 22:48she knew about
- 22:50the resurrection
- 22:51she knew about
- 22:52God's power
- 22:53but when it came
- 22:57to the moment
- 22:58she couldn't help
- 23:00but doubt
- 23:00so he says
- 23:06to her
- 23:06do you not
- 23:08remember really
- 23:10did I not tell
- 23:11you
- 23:12that if you
- 23:13believed
- 23:13you would see
- 23:14the glory
- 23:15of God
- 23:16having it
- 23:22in our heads
- 23:22it's totally
- 23:25different
- 23:26believing it
- 23:28in practice
- 23:29so what I was
- 23:33saying to the
- 23:33children
- 23:34it's good to
- 23:36come to church
- 23:37to be reminded
- 23:39it's good to
- 23:43read our
- 23:43bibles
- 23:44to be reminded
- 23:45we so easily
- 23:46and quickly
- 23:47forget
- 23:48we have so
- 23:50many truths
- 23:51in our heads
- 23:52that in the
- 23:55moment
- 23:55the mist
- 23:58comes down
- 23:58and we
- 23:59forget them
- 23:59it's good to be
- 24:04reminded
- 24:05to hold on
- 24:07to these
- 24:07truths
- 24:07so that in
- 24:10these days
- 24:11and in these
- 24:12circumstances
- 24:12that are most
- 24:15difficult for us
- 24:17where we face
- 24:18the strongest
- 24:19of emotions
- 24:19in our hearts
- 24:20God the
- 24:25Father
- 24:25speaks to
- 24:27us
- 24:28great promises
- 24:29great comforts
- 24:31great assurances
- 24:32sympathizing
- 24:34with you
- 24:35in your
- 24:38need
- 24:39and it's a
- 24:43word that
- 24:43evidence
- 24:44is itself
- 24:45our last
- 24:47point
- 24:48there's been
- 24:50a time
- 24:51for you
- 24:52there's a
- 24:53promise for you
- 24:54there's a
- 24:54sympathy for you
- 24:55in this passage
- 24:56and lastly
- 24:57the evidence
- 24:57is here for
- 24:58you
- 24:59evidence
- 25:02makes all
- 25:02the difference
- 25:03when you've
- 25:04got a decision
- 25:05to make
- 25:05evidence
- 25:07makes all
- 25:07the difference
- 25:08in the
- 25:08courtroom
- 25:09when they're
- 25:11making life
- 25:11changing
- 25:12decisions
- 25:13over people's
- 25:14lives
- 25:14there's evidence
- 25:21here for you
- 25:22that'll change
- 25:24your life
- 25:25if you
- 25:27believe in it
- 25:27every
- 25:33Christian
- 25:33here is
- 25:34evidence
- 25:34of the
- 25:37life
- 25:37giving
- 25:38power
- 25:39of Jesus
- 25:41they have
- 25:43been born
- 25:43again
- 25:44taken
- 25:46from
- 25:47the death
- 25:48of sin
- 25:50freed
- 25:51from the
- 25:52effect
- 25:53of sin
- 25:54there's
- 25:56evidence
- 25:56in every
- 25:57Christian
- 25:57for you
- 25:59and maybe
- 26:01you've seen
- 26:01that change
- 26:02in someone
- 26:04as you look
- 26:08at yourself
- 26:08there's
- 26:10evidence
- 26:10of sin
- 26:11there's
- 26:15evidence
- 26:16that you
- 26:19be guilty
- 26:20before God
- 26:20if you
- 26:23are put
- 26:23face to
- 26:24face
- 26:24with his
- 26:25glory
- 26:25John
- 26:30wrote this
- 26:30gospel
- 26:31so you
- 26:31would
- 26:31believe
- 26:32Jesus
- 26:33performed
- 26:34this
- 26:34miracle
- 26:34so you
- 26:35would
- 26:35believe
- 27:06Lazarus
- 27:08come out
- 27:08in verse
- 27:0943
- 27:10he comes
- 27:14out of
- 27:15that tomb
- 27:15I don't
- 27:18know how
- 27:18he came
- 27:19out
- 27:19was he
- 27:21crawling
- 27:22shuffling
- 27:23rolling
- 27:23I don't
- 27:25suppose
- 27:26it
- 27:26matters
- 27:26but
- 27:30out
- 27:30of
- 27:31death
- 27:31he
- 27:32came
- 27:32it
- 27:41is all
- 27:41done
- 27:41for the
- 27:43crowd
- 27:44that
- 27:45stood
- 27:45by
- 27:45it
- 27:47was
- 27:47evidence
- 27:47for them
- 27:48so that
- 27:49they might
- 27:49believe
- 27:50in
- 27:51him
- 27:51that
- 27:53they may
- 27:54have
- 27:54that
- 27:55promise
- 27:55that
- 27:59they may
- 27:59have
- 28:00that
- 28:00assurance
- 28:00that
- 28:01Jesus
- 28:01is the
- 28:02one
- 28:02that has
- 28:02power
- 28:03over
- 28:03death
- 28:03and when
- 28:06death
- 28:07comes
- 28:07knocking
- 28:07at the
- 28:08door
- 28:08you know
- 28:08this in
- 28:09your head
- 28:09I'm pretty
- 28:11sure all
- 28:11of us
- 28:12know it
- 28:12in our
- 28:12head
- 28:12but when
- 28:16death
- 28:17comes knocking
- 28:17at the
- 28:18door
- 28:18when we're
- 28:19face to
- 28:20face
- 28:20do you
- 28:24believe
- 28:25that
- 28:27you'll
- 28:27have
- 28:27life
- 28:27it's a
- 28:33hard thing
- 28:34to believe
- 28:34if we're
- 28:35honest with
- 28:35ourselves
- 28:36we're often
- 28:40plagued
- 28:41with unbelief
- 28:42we have
- 28:45our doubts
- 28:45like Martha
- 28:46so we need
- 28:49to be
- 28:49reminded
- 28:49we need
- 28:51to come
- 28:52to this
- 28:52evidence
- 28:53this
- 28:53truth
- 28:53and the
- 28:57greater
- 28:57truth
- 28:58of the
- 28:58resurrection
- 28:59of Jesus
- 28:59himself
- 29:00power
- 29:09over
- 29:10death
- 29:10assurance
- 29:14for you
- 29:16this
- 29:17morning
- 29:17for the
- 29:20one who
- 29:20believes
- 29:21will see
- 29:21the glory
- 29:22of God
- 29:23in measure
- 29:25and work
- 29:26in this
- 29:26life
- 29:26the work
- 29:28of God's
- 29:29hand
- 29:30in the
- 29:32life of the
- 29:32believer
- 29:32bringing them
- 29:34from death
- 29:34to life
- 29:35but yet a
- 29:37greater sense
- 29:38with a
- 29:40believer
- 29:40in time
- 29:41when the
- 29:43twelve hours
- 29:43of their
- 29:44life have
- 29:44passed
- 29:45that they
- 29:47behold
- 29:47the glory
- 29:48of God
- 29:49in ways
- 29:51that words
- 29:51cannot
- 29:52express
- 29:53so this
- 29:56resurrection
- 29:57account of
- 29:58Lazarus
- 29:58it's actually
- 29:59it's more about
- 30:01the people
- 30:02that we're
- 30:02standing by
- 30:03isn't it
- 30:04it's a
- 30:05resurrection
- 30:06account for
- 30:06you
- 30:07and in
- 30:08God's
- 30:09timing
- 30:09we're here
- 30:10together
- 30:10twelve
- 30:13hours
- 30:14a time
- 30:17to hear
- 30:18his call
- 30:18a time
- 30:20to trust
- 30:21Jesus
- 30:21maybe it's
- 30:23a right
- 30:24time now
- 30:24for you
- 30:27to come
- 30:28to him
- 30:28he's got
- 30:32a great
- 30:32promise
- 30:33for you
- 30:34the greatest
- 30:35of all
- 30:36assurances
- 30:36if you do
- 30:37come and
- 30:37believe
- 30:38the body
- 30:41will die
- 30:42but you'll
- 30:43have eternal
- 30:43life
- 30:44and you'll
- 30:48battle with
- 30:49all the
- 30:49emotions
- 30:50in your
- 30:53experience
- 30:54all the
- 30:56difficulties
- 30:57that plague
- 30:59us
- 30:59but he's
- 31:02a sympathetic
- 31:02God that
- 31:04knows
- 31:04our
- 31:05suffering
- 31:05and so
- 31:08there's
- 31:08evidence
- 31:09here for
- 31:09you
- 31:09to believe
- 31:12in
- 31:13the
- 31:15resurrecting
- 31:16power
- 31:16of God
- 31:18that you
- 31:22may believe
- 31:23and be
- 31:25assured
- 31:26you will
- 31:31have life
- 31:31and that
- 31:33you will
- 31:34see
- 31:34the glory
- 31:35of God
- 31:37people
- 31:40that are
- 31:41dead in
- 31:42sin
- 31:42brought
- 31:44to life
- 31:45and kept
- 31:47eternally
- 31:48in
- 31:50his hand
- 31:51forever
- 31:53knowing
- 31:55the beauty
- 31:56of the
- 31:57glory of
- 31:58God
- 31:58for all
- 32:00eternity
- 32:00the
- 32:04questions
- 32:04in your
- 32:05lap
- 32:05do you
- 32:08believe
- 32:09it
- 32:09amen
- 32:12our
- 32:14Lord and
- 32:14God we
- 32:14pray that
- 32:15you would
- 32:15help us
- 32:16to believe
- 32:16give us
- 32:18years of
- 32:19understanding
- 32:20at this
- 32:22time
- 32:22as we
- 32:24stand before
- 32:25this evidence
- 32:26speak to
- 32:28us we
- 32:28pray
- 32:29you give
- 32:31us
- 32:31assurance
- 32:31of your
- 32:32great
- 32:33promises
- 32:33that we
- 32:35may come
- 32:36humbly
- 32:37before you
- 32:38and fall
- 32:39at your
- 32:39feet
- 32:39and believe
- 32:42in the
- 32:43giver
- 32:44of life
- 32:45be with
- 32:47us we
- 32:47pray
- 32:47help us
- 32:48in these
- 32:49things
- 32:49in Jesus
- 32:50name
- 32:50amen
- 32:51we'll
- 32:54conclude
- 32:55by singing
- 32:56in
- 32:56psalm
- 32:5690
- 32:57psalm
- 32:5990
- 33:00of the
- 33:00scottish
- 33:01psalter
- 33:01version
- 33:02which
- 33:02you'll
- 33:02find
- 33:02on
- 33:02page
- 33:03350
- 33:04we'll
- 33:08sing
- 33:08from
- 33:09verse
- 33:0915
- 33:09i'll
- 33:11sing
- 33:11the last
- 33:11three
- 33:12stanzas
- 33:12of the
- 33:13psalm
- 33:13psalm
- 33:1390
- 33:14psalm
- 33:21speaks
- 33:23of the
- 33:23beauty
- 33:24of the
- 33:25lord
- 33:25and yet
- 33:29in
- 33:29measure
- 33:29a
- 33:30work
- 33:31that
- 33:31is
- 33:31evident
- 33:31in
- 33:32the
- 33:33believer
- 33:33that
- 33:35even
- 33:35though
- 33:35they
- 33:35die
- 33:36they
- 33:36shall
- 33:36live
- 33:37according
- 33:40as the
- 33:41days
- 33:41have been
- 33:42wherein
- 33:42we
- 33:42grief
- 33:43have
- 33:43had
- 33:43and
- 33:44years
- 33:44wherein
- 33:45we
- 33:45ill
- 33:45have
- 33:45seen
- 33:45so
- 33:46do
- 33:46thou
- 33:46make
- 33:47us
- 33:47glad
- 33:47let
- 33:48thy
- 33:49work
- 33:49and
- 33:49power
- 33:49appear
- 33:50thy
- 33:50servants
- 33:51face
- 33:51before
- 33:52and
- 33:52show
- 33:53us
- 33:53to
- 33:54their
- 33:54children
- 33:54dear
- 33:55thy
- 33:56glory
- 33:56evermore
- 33:57and
- 33:58let
- 33:58the
- 33:58beauty
- 33:59of
- 33:59the
- 33:59Lord
- 33:59our
- 34:00God
- 34:00be
- 34:01as
- 34:01upon
- 34:01our
- 34:02handiworks
- 34:03establish
- 34:03them
- 34:04each
- 34:06one
- 34:06so we
- 34:06stand
- 34:07to
- 34:07sing
- 34:07these
- 34:07words
- 34:08to
- 34:08God's
- 34:08praise
- 34:09according
- 34:14as
- 34:15the
- 34:16days
- 34:17of
- 34:18year
- 34:19when
- 34:20we
- 34:22dream
- 34:24of
- 34:25year
- 34:26and
- 34:28year
- 34:29we
- 34:31we
- 34:32ever
- 34:33have
- 34:34seen
- 34:35so
- 34:36do
- 34:38thou
- 34:38make
- 34:40us
- 34:41glad
- 34:42oh
- 34:43let
- 34:45thy
- 34:46power
- 34:47and
- 34:48power
- 34:49appear
- 34:51thy
- 34:52servants
- 34:54face
- 34:56before
- 34:57!
- 34:59and
- 35:00show
- 35:01unto
- 35:02their
- 35:04children
- 35:06dear
- 35:07thy
- 35:09glory
- 35:10evermore
- 35:13!
- 35:14and
- 35:16let
- 35:17the
- 35:18beauty
- 35:19of
- 35:20the
- 35:22Lord
- 35:23may
- 35:40may
- 35:53Rest upon and remain with you all, now and forevermore.
- 35:58Amen.
- 36:23Amen.