Now here are assurance of the gospel taken from 1 Peter 1, verses 3-5.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead
and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade.
This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power
until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Let's pray together.
Lord God, we thank you that we have an everlasting inheritance in you.
Lord, we thank you that you are faithful to your people.
And God, we recognize that we are undeserving of your favor.
There's nothing good in us apart from you.
But Lord, we thank you that you have come to us in our filthiness, in our wretchedness,
and you have lifted us up to a holy place through the blood of Jesus.
And so God, as you are faithful to us, we pray tonight that we may be faithful to you,
that you may grow our faith and our desire to follow after you.
Lord, thank you for our study in Hebrews that we've been looking at the last few weeks
to see how you have shown your faithfulness from generation to generation,
how you are a covenant-keeping God, who you desire good for your people.
And so God, may we walk closely with you.
May we cling to our faith, knowing that you are our only hope.
Lord, we pray tonight for the good of our city.
We know there are many in our city who are hurting, who are lost, who don't know you,
who outright reject you.
And so God, we ask that you will soften the hearts of those in our city,
that you will reveal the reality of your gospel,
that people may experience the love of Christ in ways that they never have.
May we see people turn from their wickedness,
turn from the idols that they have set up in their lives,
and turn and follow you.
God, we pray that you will convict each one of us of the idols that we have in our lives,
things that we have elevated to a status that only you should be placed at, Lord.
We pray that you convict us,
that you search our hearts and know us,
and that you may draw us close to you.
God, we pray that you will use us for the good of this city.
Provide us with opportunities to reach the lost in our city.
Give us a heart to see your kingdom advanced in Edinburgh and throughout this country.
Lord, we thank you for the many ministries in our city
that seek to minister to those who are without physical resources,
who are lonely, who are shut in, who don't know you, Lord.
And so as physical needs are met, Lord,
we pray that spiritual needs may also be met.
We think of the many immigrants coming to our city,
many especially from Hong Kong,
who are brought here by a new immigration path, Lord.
We pray, Lord, that you will bring many to this city,
that you may provide opportunities for our church and other churches,
Chinese churches, Lord,
to minister well to these new families and individuals,
that they may experience the hope of the gospel in ways they never have before.
Lord, we pray for the leadership of our country,
that you may bless them,
that you may be their guide,
that you may give them your wisdom.
Lord, we pray for each one of the leaders in our parliament,
that they may seek after you,
that they may know that you are sovereign over all and authority over them.
Lord, we pray for the many decisions still to be made about this pandemic and lifting restrictions.
God, we are eager for things to return to normal,
for restrictions to be lifted.
So, Lord, we pray that those will be done with all wisdom,
all proper planning.
We pray that we may not grumble and complain,
but be appreciative of the blessings of the vaccine that you have provided for us.
Lord, we do pray when we can come together as a church
to fill these pews, to be in fellowship with one another.
We look forward to that day.
We recognize the blessing of fellowship and the faith that we share with one another.
And we pray that day will come soon.
Lord, we pray for other churches in our city.
We think of St. Columbus and Cornerstone.
Think of Leith Free Church.
Think of Crubber's Church and Chalmers Church and Charlotte Chapel,
many other Bible-believing churches where the gospel is proclaimed on a weekly basis.
We pray, Lord, for the leadership at these churches,
that you may give them your wisdom,
that you may draw them close to you.
We pray for the preaching of these churches,
that it may be effective,
that it may follow closely to your message in the gospel.
And we pray for those within these churches,
that you may draw them close to you,
that they may experience great fellowship and great unity,
that they may be about your work in this city as well.
Lord, as we prepare to hear your word tonight,
to think about how you are faithful to us,
we pray that you will put away all distraction from us.
May our ears be open, may our hearts be softened,
that we may experience the truth of the gospel,
that we may desire deep, honest relationship with you,
and that you may be glorified through this process.
And we pray this in Jesus' name.
Amen.
Now tonight we are continuing our short sprint through Hebrews 11,
and we are going to be looking at the life of Moses tonight.
But as we get started,
I want us to consider something that is all around us,
that we see on a daily basis,
that influences our lives,
but we probably give little thought to.
And that is marketing.
You know, our lives are really inundated with advertising,
whether it's the internet or TV or signs or things that we get in the mail.
There's always companies trying to convince us to buy their products.
They're vying for our loyalty and our money.
And so really, we don't think about it much,
but there's really a whole psychology about marketing.
There's companies that spend millions and millions of dollars every year
in marketing research and try to figure out
how to get us, the consumer, to buy their product.
I was reading some literature on marketing,
and it was saying that most big companies spend about 10%
of their revenue each year on advertising.
So if you think of a large international company,
a company like Microsoft,
that would mean that they're spending about $9 billion a year on marketing.
I read something recently that says that
Google generates between $15 and $20 billion every quarter
just on advertising spending alone.
And so while advertising can be of a great benefit to the company,
we always hear stories of how advertising sometimes goes wrong, right?
There's one of the biggest marketing blunders,
maybe, back in 1985 involving Coca-Cola.
You may remember when they rolled out this new formula for a new Coke,
and they called it New Coke.
And they thought they did all this marketing research.
They had people taste test this new product,
and majority of people liked this new product better than the old Coke,
so they went with it.
They put it out there, and it was just a huge disaster
because part of the problem was they hadn't asked people
what they thought about this new Coke,
not only how it tastes,
but this emotional significance that this old Coke might have with them,
how they may be drawn to this tradition of Coke
which had been around for so long.
And so as a result of this poor research and this poor marketing,
within 10 weeks' time of rolling out this new Coke,
they had to pull it back
and return to this new, their classic Coca-Cola.
That's when they started calling it Coca-Cola Classic
because they had to differentiate it
from this new Coke product that they had.
And so we see the importance of marketing is to the success of companies.
And so we have to consider,
what if Christianity was judged by those same marketing standards?
What if we brought in a marketing consultant for Christianity,
how that would go over?
I mean, can you imagine what they would try to convince us
in ways to market the church?
How we need to talk about believing in Jesus
as it being some sort of guarantee to life and to ease.
Otherwise, we're never going to get anybody to commit to this.
You know, we need to tell people
how loving Jesus can go hand in hand
with loving the things of the world
or how Christianity can be of a benefit
without causing any disruption in our life.
But we recognize that's not how Christianity operates.
That's not the message that we see told
over and over and over again in the Bible.
And that's what we're going to see tonight
in the life of Moses.
Because rather than promoting a life of success
and a life of comfort,
we see that we are purposefully,
we are purposefully called to forsake pleasure in this life
and the comfort of this life.
It's totally counterintuitive
to the way that the world thinks
that we need to strive after happiness
and pleasure in this world.
But we see through the faith of Moses tonight
that who rejects the pleasure of the world,
he chooses something better,
that everlasting joy in Christ.
And so this is going to be our passage tonight
looking at Hebrews chapter 11,
verses 24 through 26.
So let's read that together.
By faith,
Moses,
when he had grown up,
refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God
rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.
He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ
as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt
because he was looking ahead to his reward.
This is the word of God.
Now, if you've been with us just the last couple of weeks
and you know we've been looking at Hebrews 11
and we've really been looking at some of these more minor characters
or things that we may see
maybe a little more insignificant areas of faith,
but we actually see how grand it really is,
what it really tells us about these saints of old
and their faithfulness.
Well, tonight we turn to this hero,
so to speak,
of the Old Testament,
someone who would have been known of
in the New Testament church,
especially among these of Jewish background,
Moses,
the Old Testament lawgiver,
the one who is a picture of servant faithfulness
to God and to his people.
And so while we don't have the whole evening
to talk about Moses' whole life,
we're going to focus on these few verses
that we just read
and I want us to focus again
on just a few more features of faith.
We've looked at several of them
over the last couple of weeks,
but these last three features
that we see in this passage,
how faith defines our identity,
how faith disregards worldly pleasure,
and how faith desires heavenly treasure.
And so let's consider that first feature of faith,
how faith defines our identity.
identity.
Now, if we think of the world today,
identity is one of these things
that really people struggle with now.
People are having these identity crises.
And why is this?
It's because they're trying to find a way to fit in.
They're trying to find a way
to characterize themselves
and what they believe and how they feel.
And so people turn to their jobs
as a means of identity.
They may turn to their relationships
or their family.
We see people turn to their race
as a possible identity.
Even sexual orientation
is becoming a bigger deal
in our society now.
And so we see that these labels
not only define people individually,
but they also have kind of created
these different groups of people as well.
It's created an easy way
to figure out who is your friend
and who is your enemy
based on our identities.
And so oftentimes,
even within these identities,
we also look toward
elevating ourselves
within our identity.
We think of the fact that,
you know, if you're a professor,
you may think about the fact that,
oh, no, I'm not just a professor,
but I'm a leading researcher
in my field.
Right?
You think, well,
I'm not just a businessman.
My company makes X amount of dollars a year.
And so are these things
that over and over again in our life,
they direct us to this inward
searching for meaning and for purpose
rather than looking to Christ.
And so I want us to consider tonight
the fact that Moses faced that same temptation.
Moses had that same temptation
to look at his life
and to find his identity
and his purpose
in his family in Egypt
rather than recognizing
his family of his chosen people of God.
And so if we look in verse 24 again,
it says this,
that by faith,
Moses, when he'd grown up,
refused to be known
as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
And I think we need to consider
just how significant
that refusal is
because if we recognize
when Joseph,
who we talked about this morning,
after he passed away,
these Israelites,
his family,
began to grow
and they began to multiply
and they stayed in Egypt.
And Pharaoh began to fear
that they had become
too numerous
and too mighty.
And so we see that
he decided to enslave them.
We see that very beginning
of Exodus 1.
But the problem is
this didn't stop them
from growing
and developing as a people.
So he needed another means
of controlling the population
and he did that
by deciding that
all male Israelites
needed to be killed.
They needed to be taken
and drowned
in the Nile River.
And so we know
that Moses' parents
refused to do this.
Instead,
they placed him in a basket
and put him in the Nile
and we know
that he was then discovered
by Pharaoh's daughter
who would raise him
as his own son.
And now we know
that Pharaoh's daughter
was the only child
of Pharaoh.
She was likely
childless herself.
And so by adopting Moses,
she was placing him
in the direct royal line.
He was being raised
in order to be king,
in order to be Pharaoh himself.
So he would have
been groomed
for this position
and received
the best education.
He would have been
surrounded by wealth
and comfort
that these slaves
of Israel
would have never
experienced personally.
And so by refusing
this honor,
by refusing to be called
the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
he's literally
disowning his family.
He's declining
the position
and the opportunity
to serve
as ruler of Egypt.
And so if we think about it,
Moses really could have
reasoned,
well,
I really deserve
this position
or it's really
for my interest
and the interest
of my people
to stay in this position
and kind of consider
it part of God's providence.
He's brought me here,
I just need to stay
in this spot.
He could have reasoned
in such a way
that, well,
if you look back
at the life of Joseph,
Joseph was second
in command to Pharaoh,
so I need to stay
in this position as well.
But we recognize
that through faith
he understood
that rather than
being a prince in Egypt,
he was called
to be a pilgrim.
Rather than being
a leader of Egypt,
he was called
to take the Israelites
and lead them
out of Egypt.
And so there's really
no sitting on the fence here.
Moses couldn't
both be leader in Egypt
and also be leader
of God's people.
If he was called
to be God's people,
this is automatically
going to change
how he is received
by the world
because we know
that God's people
are rejected by the world.
We are seen as enemies
of the world
because of our
association with God.
And so then
we need to ask ourselves,
where do we find
our identity?
Is our identity
wrapped up in
our work,
our success,
our family,
our friends?
Is it our social
significance
that we desire?
Maybe it can be
wrapped up in good things,
but we make them
the ultimate things
like our relationships
or our families.
Or maybe we find
our identity
in our sin.
we wallow in guilt
and self-pity
and we think
that we're not
a person
who could possibly
be accepted by God.
And so the problem is
whatever it may be
that we use
to identify ourselves,
we are identifying
ourselves
by some horizontal level
based on the opinions
of others
or based on our own opinions
rather than recognizing
we have been created
to be identified
vertically.
Our identity
is found in Christ
because we must remember
that we,
if we are believers,
we are in Christ
and as in Christ,
we are called
to be a new creation.
Those old labels
no longer define us.
We look at 1 Peter 2,
this is what it says
about believers.
It says that
we are a chosen race,
a royal priesthood,
a holy nation,
a people
for his own possession
that you may proclaim
the excellencies
of him
who called you
out of darkness
into his marvelous light.
Once you were not a people
but now you are God's people.
Once you had not received mercy
but now you have received mercy.
And so,
from a worldly perspective,
if they were to look at Moses
and see his decision
to choose to be a part
of God's people,
they'd see this
as a demotion, right?
This falling from grace.
But in these verses
we see how Moses
was elevated actually
by choosing to be associated
with God's people.
This is the same for us.
Although we may fear
the consequences
of losing our worldly status,
the opinions of others,
when we are found in Christ,
we are called a holy nation,
a royal priesthood.
We receive an eternal heritage
that is unmatched
by what can be offered
by this world.
And so that leads us
to our second point.
Not only is our identity
going to,
not only does faith
reveal our identity,
but our faith is going
to impact our actions
because who we are
dictates what we do.
And so that second point
is then that faith disregards
the pleasures of the world.
If we look back
at verse 25,
it says this,
he chose to be ill-treated
along with the people of God
rather than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin
for a short time.
And so if you remember last week,
I talked about briefly
how the author of Hebrews
wrote this book
to a primarily Jewish Christian audience
who is struggling
with their own identity,
who had this longing
to return to Judaism
because of the suffering
they were experiencing now
as Christians.
And so here,
the author of Hebrews
is encouraging them,
just as Moses did,
to persevere under hardship,
to recognize
that these worldly pleasures
are fleeting,
to follow in the faith of Moses
and stay strong in the faith.
And so we need to recognize
that Moses,
he didn't choose this life
with his Israel family,
not understanding the consequences.
He recognized that
if he left the palace of Egypt,
he was going to face suffering.
He was raised in such a way
that he would have seen
his own people
suffering on a daily basis.
And so he was,
this was the life
that he chose.
He willingly disregarded
the pleasures of the world.
He welcomed abuse
and hardship
and suffering.
And so we need to recognize
that this suffering
wasn't a surprise to God.
We talked about the promise
that God gave to Abraham
that he said,
I'm going to give you this land,
but first,
you and your people
will suffer for 400 years.
And so we recognize
that this was a part
of God's plan.
And so likewise,
we need to recognize
as believers
that we are also called
to suffer.
Just like it said
in that passage
we read in 1 Peter 2
that we are called
out of darkness,
later in that same chapter,
it uses that same language
to say we are called
to suffer.
So we shouldn't be surprised
by suffering.
Like Moses,
we should anticipate it,
that we should welcome it
in a way because we know
this is for God's glory.
And we recognize, too,
that when we suffer,
we don't suffer alone.
When I was at university,
I had a group of friends.
We'd go to this ministry
every week
that was off campus,
and we'd always go
to get dinner together beforehand.
And we'd go to this place
called Firehouse Subs.
It's kind of like a subway,
but a lot better.
And you'd go in,
and when you'd order,
on the counter display
was just this row
of hot sauces.
And they'd all be rated
from most mild
to just like insanely hot.
And of course,
we took this up
as a challenge
to be able to sample
these hot sauces.
And so we do this
on a weekly basis.
The hottest sauce
was called Da Bomb sauce.
It was just this little bottle.
And what we do
is merely take a toothpick
and stick it in the bottle
and then touch it
to our tongue,
and that was it.
Like, your meal
was just destroyed
at that point.
And so oftentimes,
especially when we brought
new guys in,
we wanted them
to suffer
by experiencing Da Bomb.
So we tried to convince them
to take this sauce.
Some would be
very willing in doing,
and others not at all.
But the best way
to convince those people
who were not willing
to try this sauce
is to say,
well, I will do it with you.
We can do it together.
And so why is that?
It's because
we don't like
to suffer alone.
Suffering is much more tolerable
when it's a shared experience.
And so that's why
we see here,
it says that Moses
suffered with God's people.
He suffered in solidarity,
recognizing that they were
sojourners together
embarked on God's mission.
And so we see this too,
that when we're called to suffer,
we don't suffer alone.
If we look down further
in Hebrews 11,
it lists all these other
Old Testament icons
and how they suffered
for the gospel.
It says in verse 36
that some faced jeers
and flogging
and even chains
and imprisonment.
They were put to death
by stoning.
They were sawn in two.
They were killed by the sword.
They went about
in sheepskins and goatskins,
destitute, persecuted,
and ill-treated.
The world was not worthy of them.
They wandered in deserts
and mountains,
living in caves
and in holes in the ground.
And so we see
that when we suffer,
we suffer with the saints
of old and present.
But more importantly,
we suffer with Christ.
Christ has not called us
to do anything
that he did not
willingly endure himself.
Because just like Moses,
if we think of Jesus
when he was tempted
in the wilderness by Satan,
he was offered
temporal security
and blessing
if he turned
from God's will
for his life
to suffer
and worship Satan.
But what did he do?
He refused
these worldly pleasures.
Instead,
he chose the cross.
He willingly suffered
to redeem his people.
And so we are invited
by Christ
to do likewise.
He tells us
to take up our cross
daily and follow him.
And so what does this
mean for us nowadays?
Most likely,
in our setting,
we are not going to
be under threat
of death
or imprisonment
for our faith.
But suffering for us
may look a little different.
It may be being mocked
by classmates,
by coworkers.
It may mean losing friends.
It may be being demonized
by our culture
that is turning
increasingly secular.
But we must remember
when we suffer,
we suffer with others.
But when we suffer,
we also don't have to worry
about missing out
on the pleasures
of the world.
This is something else
that the author talks about.
He says,
we don't have to have
the fear of missing out.
We hear that a lot today,
that FOMO,
F-O-M-O,
the fear of missing out.
We don't have to worry
about this
because he tells us
two things about
the pleasures of the world.
He says,
one,
that they're fleeting
and two,
that they amount to sin.
And certainly we know
that not all pleasures
in this world
are evil.
But the point is,
is when our pleasures
of this world
prevent us
from following God's will,
when we have elevated them
to a point of importance
in our lives
that is above God,
that is when they are sin.
And we can know
when we experience
those pleasures of sin
that they will quickly
lead to destruction
in our lives.
If we look at 1 John 2,
it says this,
do not love the world
or anything in the world.
If anyone loves the world,
the love of the Father
is not in them.
For everything in the world,
the lust of the flesh,
the lust of the eyes,
the pride of the life
comes not from the Father,
but from the world.
The world
and its desires
pass away,
but whoever does
the will of God
lives forever.
And so how often
do we see in our society
people that take good things
and elevate them
to the best things,
whether it's success
or money
or sex
or whatever it may be,
they continually
take these pleasures
and it destroys them.
And so we can look
at these pleasures
and divert our eyes
from them
because we recognize
that we have promises
of heavenly treasure.
And so that's our third
and final point here,
that faith desires
heavenly treasures.
One of my favorite
little religious writings,
it's a short discourse
written by Thomas Chalmers
called The Expulsive Power
of a New Affection.
And I read this years ago,
I think when I was
in university
before I even knew
really who Chalmers was
and that he was even Scottish.
But it's something
that stuck with me
that I like to reread often.
And so if it's nothing
that you've read yourself,
I would highly encourage you
to do so.
You can find it free
on the internet.
It's not very long
but just chock full
of wisdom and insight.
And so in this little discourse,
Chalmers is addressing
how do we deal
with the pleasures
of the world,
of this love
that we have for the world.
And he says
there's really two ways
of attempting
to rid ourselves from it.
He says,
one, we can renounce the world.
We can recognize
that it's not worthy
of our affection
since it always lets us down.
Or two, he says,
we can replace
our love for the world
with a new
and stronger affection.
And so he comments
on both.
He says the first method
of trying to just
renounce the world
really isn't an effective method
because our hearts,
much like nature,
operate like this repulsion
to a vacuum.
We hate a vacuum.
And so if we attempt
to remove a love
for the world
from our lives,
our heart will
immediately follow up,
fill it,
fill that void
with another
worldly affection.
He says this,
he says,
it's impossible
for our hearts
to cast the world
away from it
and thus reduce itself
into wilderness.
The heart is not
so constituted.
The only way
to dispossess it
of our old affections
is by the expulsive
power of a new one.
And so we don't
simply address
the temptations
of the world
by renouncing
these pleasures
of the world.
We need to develop
this deep love
for God
that expulses
all other affections.
Chalmers explains
that this can only
come through faith.
He says that
denial of the world
is not possible
to him
that descents
from the gospel
testimony
but is possible
even as all things
are possible
to him who believes.
To try this
without faith
is to work
without the right tool
or the right instrument.
But faith works
by love
and the way
of expelling
from the heart
the love
which transgresses
the law
is to admit
into its receptacles
the love
which fulfills
the law.
And so he's saying
here that faith
is our tool.
It's the only way
that we can rid
ourselves
of the love
for the world
because this true faith
it generates
a love
this powerful love
for Christ
in which nothing
else measures up.
There is no other
affection that's
going to steal us
from the love
of Christ.
And so if we look
at this last verse
in our passage again
Hebrews 11 26
it says
Moses regarded
disgrace
for the sake
of Christ
as greater value
than the treasures
of Egypt
because he was
looking ahead
to his reward.
Now there's
something really
interesting about this
if you caught it.
He says
disgrace for who?
Disgrace for the
sake of Christ.
And you may ask
well how in the world
did Moses
suffer for Christ
if he didn't know
Christ?
If Christ hasn't
come into the world
at this point?
If Moses didn't know
God's full plan
of salvation?
The answer of course
is through faith.
A faith that produced
an active love
for the coming Messiah.
And so because
of this faith
Moses willingly
gave up
the riches
of Pharaoh's palace
he chose
to suffer
for his people
in order to
lead God's people
out of the house
of slavery
and into the
promised land.
And so we can
notice how this
life and this
action of Moses
foreshadows
the work
of Jesus himself
who left
his father's
throne
who endured
suffering in this
life that culminated
in his death
in order that
he may redeem
us and bring
us into relationship
with the father.
it's that
great reward
that Moses
clung to.
And we need
to remember
it's this
reward that's
not just based
on the promise
of land
but the promise
of life
because we
remember that
Moses didn't
make it to
the promised
land
but yet God
was still
faithful in
fulfilling his
promise to
Moses.
And so we see
that by faith
Moses saw
an eternal
kingdom
an eternal
crown of glory
that never
fades away.
And so this
is the gospel
that seems
so counterintuitive
so paradoxical
to the world
that would
just drive
these marketing
experts mad
right?
That life
comes through
death
that peace
comes through
suffering
that reward
only comes
through self
denial.
But this
is the message
that's offered
to all of us
through the
blood of Jesus.
this is the
faith
that we are
called to
a faith
that delivers
us from the
tyranny of this
world.
A faith
that calls
the Holy Spirit
to pour
into our
lives a new
affection
that far
surpasses
anything of
this world.
It's a faith
that spurs
us on
to obedience
toward an
eternal reward
that's communion
with God
forever.
And that's
good news.
Let's pray
together.
Oh God
we thank you
that you
keep your
promises to
your people.
That the
treasures of
heaven so
far outweigh
the pleasures
of this
world.
And so
may we
turn from
them.
May we
find our
identity in
you.
May we
treasure the
things that
you treasure
recognizing the
good things
that you
have in
store for
your people.
Lord may we
be willing to
suffer with the
saints of old.
May we be
willing to
follow in the
steps of
Christ.
To partake in
his suffering in
order to
partake in
his salvation.
We thank you
for the love
of Jesus.
How his
blood covers
our sins.
And so may
we continue in
faith walking
with God each
day.
In
present Jesus
name.
Amen.
Now we're
going to sing
our last
hymn or
listen to our
last hymn being
sung,
Great is thy
faithfulness.
Great is thy
faithfulness.
O God my
Father.
There is no
shadow of
turning with
thee.
Thou
changest not,
thy compassions
they fail
not.
As thou
hast been,
thou forever
ever will
be.
Great is thy
faithfulness,
great is thy
faithfulness,
morning by
morning through
mercies I see.
All I have
needed, thy hand
hath provided.
great is thy
faithfulness,
Lord, unto
thee.
Summer and winter
and springtime
and harvest,
sun, moon, and
stars in their
courses above.
Join with all
nature in
manifold
witness to
thy
great
faithfulness,
mercy,
and love.
Great is
thy
faithfulness,
great is
thy
faithfulness,
thy
faithfulness,
morning by
morning new
mercies I see.
All I have
needed, thy
hand hath provided.
Great is
thy
faithfulness,
Lord, unto
me.
Great is
thy
faithfulness,
Lord, unto
me.
God,
pardon for
sin and
a peace
that
endureth,
thine
own deep
presence
to cheer
and to
guide,
strength
for
today and
pride,
hope for
tomorrow.
Blessings
are
mine with
and
thousand beside.
Great is
thy
faithfulness,
great is
thy
faithfulness,
morning by
morning new
mercies I
see.
All I have
needed,
thy hand hath
provided.
great is
thy
faithfulness,
Lord, unto
me.
Now will you
stand for our
benediction?
now to him
who is able to
keep you from
stumbling and
to present you
blameless before
the presence of
his glory with
great joy, to
the only God
our Savior,
through Jesus
Christ our
Lord, be
glory,
majesty,
dominion,
and authority
before all
time, now
and forever
more.
Amen.
Go in
peace.
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