WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:13.580 We can turn back now to our reading in Isaiah chapter 51. We're going to look at verse 9 down to chapter 52 there as we go into that chapter. 00:00:13.580 --> 00:00:15.380 Reading again at verse 9, 00:00:15.380 --> 00:00:24.859 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord. Awake, as in the days of old, the generations of long ago. 00:00:27.100 --> 00:00:37.060 What woke you up this morning? Was it just a natural stirring as you'd had a good sleep and just came round when it was time to wake up? 00:00:37.060 --> 00:00:51.060 Or was it an alarm clock perhaps that woke you up? Or maybe it was the noise of maybe people, children or other people around or even animals outside or inside barking or other noises. 00:00:51.500 --> 00:00:56.900 There's so many things that can wake us up in the morning or indeed through the night as well. 00:00:58.180 --> 00:01:00.859 But did the Word of God wake you up this morning? 00:01:00.859 --> 00:01:11.379 Have you read God's Word today and has it had that impact on you where it's like an alarm clock going off, where it has woken you up? 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:16.260 It's spoken to you in a way that maybe you've never seen before. 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.939 A word or a passage or something that you've never noticed. 00:01:21.079 --> 00:01:27.439 It's had that impact on you of just stirring you, giving you a bit of a shock, waking you up. 00:01:27.439 --> 00:01:32.480 God's Word is powerful and it can have that effect. 00:01:33.060 --> 00:01:48.239 And as we read here in chapter 51 and into chapter 52, there are three verses in this reading and maybe they stood out for you when you notice the title of the sermon today being Wakey Wakey. 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:52.000 You think, well, where do we see that in this passage? 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:54.760 Well, we see it in three places. 00:01:54.879 --> 00:01:57.299 The verse that we read there, verse 9, 00:01:57.400 --> 00:02:04.760 There's a wake-up call there. 00:02:05.359 --> 00:02:07.420 Then in verse 17, you see it again. 00:02:07.560 --> 00:02:11.180 Wake yourself, wake yourself, stand up, O Jerusalem. 00:02:11.360 --> 00:02:13.599 Another wake-up call there. 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:16.879 And then in chapter 52, verse 1, 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:21.599 Awake, awake, put on your strength, O Zion. 00:02:21.799 --> 00:02:24.799 Three times you see it there. 00:02:25.139 --> 00:02:28.079 Wake up, awake, awake. 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:32.939 And you see it as you read through God's Word. 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:35.759 That's what God's Word does to us. 00:02:36.539 --> 00:02:37.560 It wakes us up. 00:02:37.620 --> 00:02:39.900 It's always speaking to us. 00:02:39.900 --> 00:02:43.080 Sometimes it speaks gently to us. 00:02:43.539 --> 00:02:50.819 Other times loudly, but always with a purpose to get our attention, to get us to listen. 00:02:51.700 --> 00:02:53.200 But the question is, are we listening? 00:02:53.939 --> 00:02:57.800 Are we listening to what the Word of God is saying to us? 00:02:57.939 --> 00:03:01.080 Are we listening to it in the days in which we're living? 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:06.200 Well, in Isaiah's days, he was speaking to the people then. 00:03:07.180 --> 00:03:10.640 And he was asking for them to respond, to wake up. 00:03:11.460 --> 00:03:14.700 Because they were in the midst of great trials. 00:03:15.820 --> 00:03:19.300 They were in the midst of times of despair in many ways. 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:23.360 There were so many things going on that was leaving them feeling downcast. 00:03:24.300 --> 00:03:27.480 And they were being given this wake-up call. 00:03:27.479 --> 00:03:31.039 And if we have a wake-up call, what does that mean? 00:03:31.919 --> 00:03:35.259 Well, it's something that's kind of bringing us to our attention. 00:03:35.939 --> 00:03:38.719 Bringing us to realize that there's something important. 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:40.819 Something that requires action. 00:03:40.939 --> 00:03:44.439 For example, you can have wake-up calls in different ways. 00:03:44.579 --> 00:03:45.979 If you're staying in a hotel. 00:03:46.479 --> 00:03:48.019 Maybe you're staying at an airport. 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.519 You're catching a flight the next morning. 00:03:50.539 --> 00:03:52.299 And you ask for a wake-up call. 00:03:52.299 --> 00:03:56.799 So you get a call early in the morning to make sure that you're up. 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:59.340 It's up to you what you do with it. 00:03:59.780 --> 00:04:01.079 Do you listen to it? 00:04:01.099 --> 00:04:03.399 Or do you ignore it and just go back to sleep? 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:05.159 Well, there's consequences. 00:04:05.519 --> 00:04:08.560 If you ignore it, you maybe miss your flight. 00:04:09.699 --> 00:04:14.319 Other times, we can get a wake-up call in life by something happening to us. 00:04:14.799 --> 00:04:17.620 Perhaps you're someone who likes to drive fast. 00:04:17.620 --> 00:04:22.959 Many of us, when we first pass our test, you enjoy that sense of freedom. 00:04:22.959 --> 00:04:26.019 Going out in the car, driving at speed. 00:04:26.759 --> 00:04:28.100 Feeling indestructible. 00:04:28.899 --> 00:04:30.660 But a wake-up call comes. 00:04:30.759 --> 00:04:33.240 When you lose control, you crash the car. 00:04:33.819 --> 00:04:35.420 That should be a wake-up call. 00:04:35.500 --> 00:04:36.840 You need to slow down. 00:04:36.959 --> 00:04:38.980 You need to pay more attention. 00:04:40.180 --> 00:04:43.240 And surely that's what God does to us again and again. 00:04:43.240 --> 00:04:48.460 Whether it's through his word or whether it's through what happens around us. 00:04:48.500 --> 00:04:50.280 His works of providence to us. 00:04:50.600 --> 00:04:54.579 Again and again, God gives us a wake-up call. 00:04:54.699 --> 00:04:57.879 He speaks to us in a powerful way. 00:04:58.540 --> 00:05:00.319 And we need to take action. 00:05:00.460 --> 00:05:03.500 We need to listen for things to change. 00:05:04.660 --> 00:05:06.220 What is our action to be? 00:05:06.740 --> 00:05:08.000 What can make a difference? 00:05:08.079 --> 00:05:09.480 Or who can make a difference? 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.240 Do we need to wake up? 00:05:12.819 --> 00:05:14.340 Who needs to wake up? 00:05:14.700 --> 00:05:19.480 These are the kinds of questions that we see in Isaiah 51 and 52 here. 00:05:19.560 --> 00:05:22.300 And that we're going to look at together this morning. 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.819 These wake-up calls that shout out loudly to us. 00:05:28.020 --> 00:05:28.819 Three of them. 00:05:29.360 --> 00:05:34.740 In the verses I mentioned, verse 9, 17, and verse 1 of chapter 52. 00:05:35.420 --> 00:05:37.240 We're going to look at each of these and think, 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:38.939 well, what is it saying to us? 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:41.580 Well, verse 9 there, first of all. 00:05:41.700 --> 00:05:42.500 Awake, awake. 00:05:42.620 --> 00:05:46.939 Put on strength, O arm of the Lord. 00:05:47.460 --> 00:05:51.100 This first wake-up call is a challenge to faith. 00:05:52.939 --> 00:05:56.180 Who is being challenged to wake up here in verse 9? 00:05:56.939 --> 00:05:57.620 Read it again. 00:05:58.620 --> 00:05:59.800 Awake, awake. 00:05:59.900 --> 00:06:02.480 Put on strength, O arm of the Lord. 00:06:02.560 --> 00:06:05.680 Awake as in the days of old. 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:11.019 It's not God saying to the people to wake up here first. 00:06:11.519 --> 00:06:15.500 It's the people saying to God, God, why are you asleep? 00:06:16.060 --> 00:06:18.000 Is it not time that you woke up? 00:06:18.100 --> 00:06:19.120 Awake, awake. 00:06:19.699 --> 00:06:22.040 Put on strength, O arm of the Lord. 00:06:22.139 --> 00:06:25.720 Awake as in the days of old. 00:06:26.139 --> 00:06:27.740 What are they saying here? 00:06:27.740 --> 00:06:32.019 They're saying, God, why are you sleeping? 00:06:33.079 --> 00:06:35.699 Are you not seeing the great need that we are in? 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:39.800 Are you not seeing the devastation that is all around us? 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:42.000 Why are you asleep in it all? 00:06:43.139 --> 00:06:48.360 Have you ever said that in your own life, in your own experience, in our own day? 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.280 Where is God in the midst of everything? 00:06:51.979 --> 00:06:53.379 Is God sleeping? 00:06:54.119 --> 00:06:57.759 Or even as some would say, well, God, if he was real, God is gone. 00:06:57.879 --> 00:06:58.699 God is dead. 00:06:59.819 --> 00:07:00.899 God is not dead. 00:07:01.979 --> 00:07:03.779 And God is not sleeping. 00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:08.639 But that's the way we can so often feel and so often see him. 00:07:09.500 --> 00:07:14.079 What we have to remember here is that in Isaiah's time, as I mentioned earlier, 00:07:14.079 --> 00:07:19.759 in the book of Isaiah, you see it, a warning of disaster coming up to chapter 39. 00:07:20.379 --> 00:07:25.240 And then from chapter 40 onwards, that sense of the Lord is going to comfort. 00:07:25.379 --> 00:07:29.659 The Lord will comfort if the people will return to him. 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:34.439 Isaiah 40, these wonderful words of the beginning of the chapter. 00:07:35.079 --> 00:07:38.979 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 00:07:39.019 --> 00:07:42.699 And yet, there seems to be no comfort. 00:07:42.699 --> 00:07:47.579 Comfort. Comfort seems so far removed. 00:07:48.579 --> 00:07:54.439 Because the people that are being spoken about here are in disarray. 00:07:54.599 --> 00:07:56.659 They're in a terrible plight. 00:07:56.779 --> 00:08:00.039 You see that as you read on in chapter 51. 00:08:00.939 --> 00:08:02.599 Just look at verse 19 there. 00:08:03.159 --> 00:08:05.019 These two things have happened to you. 00:08:05.139 --> 00:08:06.219 Who will console you? 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:08.519 Devastation and destruction. 00:08:08.919 --> 00:08:10.480 Famine and sword. 00:08:10.699 --> 00:08:12.219 Who will comfort you? 00:08:12.699 --> 00:08:15.519 So these things have happened in their midst. 00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:16.579 There is desolation. 00:08:17.379 --> 00:08:18.839 There is destruction. 00:08:19.579 --> 00:08:20.659 And the people are saying, 00:08:20.860 --> 00:08:25.779 God, why are you sleeping in the midst of all of this? 00:08:26.839 --> 00:08:28.579 There is no response. 00:08:29.360 --> 00:08:32.799 God is seeing as if he doesn't care for them. 00:08:32.799 --> 00:08:38.500 And the people are then finding themselves in the situation of doubt. 00:08:38.500 --> 00:08:40.379 And that's why they're saying, 00:08:40.379 --> 00:08:41.379 they're afraid. 00:08:41.379 --> 00:08:46.059 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord. 00:08:46.379 --> 00:08:47.600 They're afraid. 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:50.240 They're mourning. 00:08:50.899 --> 00:08:52.399 They're devastated. 00:08:52.580 --> 00:08:54.000 There's so much going on. 00:08:54.320 --> 00:08:57.019 And they think God doesn't care. 00:08:57.879 --> 00:08:59.340 Are you like that today? 00:08:59.340 --> 00:09:03.519 Do you feel that sense of fear? 00:09:04.019 --> 00:09:06.000 That sense of sorrow? 00:09:06.460 --> 00:09:07.980 That sense of doubt? 00:09:08.139 --> 00:09:09.720 That sense of despair? 00:09:10.500 --> 00:09:12.000 And God isn't interested. 00:09:12.240 --> 00:09:13.759 God doesn't care about me. 00:09:14.320 --> 00:09:17.300 God doesn't care about our nation or the world. 00:09:17.299 --> 00:09:19.899 Do you think that is true? 00:09:21.679 --> 00:09:24.579 Is this how we are to come to God? 00:09:26.099 --> 00:09:29.319 Have you forgotten us, O Lord? 00:09:30.699 --> 00:09:32.740 Well, surely not. 00:09:33.879 --> 00:09:36.539 We could easily allow doubts to creep in. 00:09:37.199 --> 00:09:40.199 We could easily allow fear to overwhelm us. 00:09:40.919 --> 00:09:43.539 But God has not forgotten. 00:09:43.539 --> 00:09:48.379 And you see that in his response in verse 12 to verse 16. 00:09:49.019 --> 00:09:52.500 I, I am he who comforts you. 00:09:53.199 --> 00:09:54.079 In verse 13, 00:09:54.319 --> 00:09:57.500 and have, you have forgotten the Lord, 00:09:57.620 --> 00:09:59.919 your maker who stretched out the heavens, 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:01.959 laid the foundations of the earth. 00:10:02.019 --> 00:10:05.299 You have forgotten just who God is. 00:10:06.659 --> 00:10:08.779 How he is able to comfort. 00:10:09.259 --> 00:10:13.079 How he is able to remind us he has made all things. 00:10:14.339 --> 00:10:15.179 But they are saying, 00:10:15.639 --> 00:10:18.099 yes, Lord, but you did it in the days of old. 00:10:18.379 --> 00:10:19.959 Then you go back to verse 9. 00:10:20.779 --> 00:10:22.319 Awake as in the days of old, 00:10:22.379 --> 00:10:24.120 the generations of long ago. 00:10:24.579 --> 00:10:27.139 Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces 00:10:27.139 --> 00:10:28.599 and pierced the dragon? 00:10:29.240 --> 00:10:32.679 Rahab and the dragon there are looking probably to Egypt, 00:10:32.939 --> 00:10:35.279 that powerful nation that overwhelmed 00:10:35.279 --> 00:10:37.139 the people in the past. 00:10:37.139 --> 00:10:39.099 And yet God took care of them, 00:10:39.599 --> 00:10:41.240 brought them out of Egypt. 00:10:41.240 --> 00:10:42.680 You see in verse 10, 00:10:42.779 --> 00:10:44.279 the one who dried up the sea, 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:45.860 they crossed the Red Sea. 00:10:46.340 --> 00:10:48.500 By the power of God divided it. 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:51.480 So God had done great things in the past. 00:10:52.899 --> 00:10:54.200 We can look at ourselves and say, 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.960 well, God did great things in the past for us. 00:10:58.019 --> 00:11:00.060 But now has he forgotten us? 00:11:01.019 --> 00:11:04.159 Well, God doesn't sleep. 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:09.159 And we have to remember who God is. 00:11:10.539 --> 00:11:13.059 That he has power to do all these things 00:11:13.059 --> 00:11:15.100 that he has done in the past. 00:11:15.500 --> 00:11:16.939 It's the same power today. 00:11:17.480 --> 00:11:19.860 He is still the one who we forget 00:11:19.860 --> 00:11:22.259 is the maker who stretched out the heavens, 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.339 who laid the foundation of the earth. 00:11:25.459 --> 00:11:28.659 He has all of these things in his hand. 00:11:28.659 --> 00:11:30.679 Does God sleep? 00:11:31.579 --> 00:11:33.399 Can we accuse him today saying, 00:11:33.779 --> 00:11:35.100 wake up, Lord, wake up. 00:11:35.419 --> 00:11:36.419 Do you not care? 00:11:37.419 --> 00:11:39.620 Well, look at Psalm 121. 00:11:39.899 --> 00:11:41.279 What does it say there? 00:11:42.199 --> 00:11:44.100 He will not let your foot be moved. 00:11:44.559 --> 00:11:47.000 He who keeps you will not slumber. 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:49.079 Behold, he who keeps Israel 00:11:49.079 --> 00:11:51.379 will neither slumber nor sleep. 00:11:51.500 --> 00:11:52.839 He does not sleep. 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:57.700 So we don't have to cry to him to wake up. 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:01.000 Have you ever been driving your car? 00:12:02.060 --> 00:12:03.340 You've been on a long journey 00:12:03.340 --> 00:12:04.800 or driving late at night 00:12:04.800 --> 00:12:06.460 and you start to feel drowsy. 00:12:06.540 --> 00:12:08.480 You start to feel sleepy. 00:12:09.019 --> 00:12:10.139 It's a dangerous thing 00:12:10.139 --> 00:12:12.780 when you start falling asleep at the wheel, 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:14.860 when your eyes start just closing. 00:12:15.800 --> 00:12:17.220 It's a fearful thing. 00:12:18.139 --> 00:12:18.960 That's the kind of thing 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:20.379 that the people are saying here. 00:12:20.780 --> 00:12:22.500 But God, God, you're asleep at the wheel. 00:12:22.840 --> 00:12:25.060 You're not interested in the direction we're going. 00:12:25.300 --> 00:12:26.960 You're not interested in our safety. 00:12:28.080 --> 00:12:30.840 But God is never asleep at the wheel. 00:12:32.100 --> 00:12:34.740 He's always there in control, 00:12:34.800 --> 00:12:37.180 even when it seems beyond us. 00:12:37.580 --> 00:12:39.980 Just like the disciples in Mark chapter 4 00:12:39.980 --> 00:12:42.280 when they were caught in that storm. 00:12:43.019 --> 00:12:44.100 They were out in the boat 00:12:44.100 --> 00:12:46.860 and Jesus was asleep in the stern, 00:12:47.560 --> 00:12:48.560 asleep on a cushion. 00:12:49.840 --> 00:12:50.580 And they said to him, 00:12:50.580 --> 00:12:52.700 Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing? 00:12:53.720 --> 00:12:54.660 But he woke. 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:57.259 He rebuked the wind and the waves. 00:12:57.340 --> 00:12:58.220 It was a great calm. 00:12:58.259 --> 00:12:58.620 And he said, 00:12:58.720 --> 00:12:59.960 Why are you so afraid? 00:13:00.320 --> 00:13:02.200 Have you still no faith? 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:06.240 That's the challenge of this wake-up call here. 00:13:07.060 --> 00:13:08.399 Awake, awake, O Lord. 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:09.740 It's not to wake him up. 00:13:10.899 --> 00:13:11.460 He was asking, 00:13:11.600 --> 00:13:12.600 Do we have faith? 00:13:13.340 --> 00:13:16.180 Do you have faith in him today? 00:13:16.179 --> 00:13:18.599 Do you believe? 00:13:18.599 --> 00:13:18.659 Do you believe? 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:22.899 Have you still no faith? 00:13:24.059 --> 00:13:26.899 Yes, we can look around and see so much disarray. 00:13:27.019 --> 00:13:29.699 We can look at ourselves and see our own hearts, 00:13:29.799 --> 00:13:30.579 our own sin. 00:13:30.580 --> 00:13:33.639 We cannot say to God, 00:13:33.759 --> 00:13:34.520 You awake. 00:13:35.520 --> 00:13:36.780 Do you not care? 00:13:37.580 --> 00:13:38.180 He does. 00:13:38.300 --> 00:13:39.680 Because as he says in verse 12, 00:13:39.900 --> 00:13:43.160 I, I am he who comforts you. 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:44.860 That is as true for us today 00:13:44.860 --> 00:13:47.000 as it was then. 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:50.400 Then we have to move on to our second 00:13:50.400 --> 00:13:52.820 wake-up call in verse 17. 00:13:53.460 --> 00:13:54.680 Wake yourself. 00:13:55.140 --> 00:13:56.000 Wake yourself. 00:13:56.259 --> 00:13:58.300 Stand up, O Jerusalem. 00:13:58.299 --> 00:14:00.939 Here we see a wake-up call 00:14:00.939 --> 00:14:02.459 a challenge to listen. 00:14:04.740 --> 00:14:07.899 It's who it is that needs to wake up. 00:14:08.740 --> 00:14:10.219 Well, it's not God. 00:14:11.979 --> 00:14:13.919 So God is saying here in this verse, 00:14:14.019 --> 00:14:14.599 it is you. 00:14:15.699 --> 00:14:16.839 It's you, my people, 00:14:16.919 --> 00:14:18.219 who need to wake up. 00:14:18.359 --> 00:14:19.139 Wake yourself. 00:14:19.740 --> 00:14:20.459 Wake yourself. 00:14:20.699 --> 00:14:22.500 Stand up, O Jerusalem. 00:14:24.419 --> 00:14:27.319 The reason God gives for their failure here 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.160 is that they were not trusting in him. 00:14:31.600 --> 00:14:32.400 In verse 18, 00:14:32.480 --> 00:14:34.379 there is none to guide her 00:14:34.379 --> 00:14:36.379 among all the sons she has borne. 00:14:36.460 --> 00:14:38.580 There is none to take her by the hand 00:14:38.580 --> 00:14:40.960 among all the sons that she has brought up. 00:14:41.420 --> 00:14:42.680 There is no one to help. 00:14:42.760 --> 00:14:44.760 They've been trying to find their help, 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:47.440 to find their trust in people around them, 00:14:47.500 --> 00:14:48.020 their leaders. 00:14:48.840 --> 00:14:49.840 But there's none. 00:14:50.860 --> 00:14:51.820 There's no one. 00:14:51.820 --> 00:14:56.020 So the Lord is waking them up, 00:14:56.100 --> 00:14:56.220 saying, 00:14:56.379 --> 00:14:57.080 Wake yourself. 00:14:57.320 --> 00:14:58.000 Wake yourself. 00:14:58.280 --> 00:15:00.260 Stand up, O Jerusalem. 00:15:01.040 --> 00:15:03.860 You cannot go on trusting in those 00:15:03.860 --> 00:15:05.300 who are unable to help you, 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:07.860 those who are leading you into confusion, 00:15:08.080 --> 00:15:08.760 destruction, 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:10.660 away from the Lord. 00:15:11.660 --> 00:15:13.700 There is no point to that. 00:15:13.700 --> 00:15:16.400 Earlier in this, 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:18.379 I say in chapter 43, 00:15:18.900 --> 00:15:21.520 you see there how the people have responded. 00:15:21.680 --> 00:15:23.920 They have turned away from God. 00:15:24.220 --> 00:15:26.460 In chapter 43, verse 22, 00:15:26.920 --> 00:15:29.340 Yet you did not call upon me, O Jacob, 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:32.620 but you have been weary of me, O Israel. 00:15:33.400 --> 00:15:35.320 And then in verse 26, it says, 00:15:35.480 --> 00:15:37.640 Put me in remembrance. 00:15:37.639 --> 00:15:41.259 You did not call upon me. 00:15:41.659 --> 00:15:43.460 You have been weary of me. 00:15:43.980 --> 00:15:45.259 Put me in remembrance. 00:15:46.199 --> 00:15:47.340 Wake up, he's saying. 00:15:47.699 --> 00:15:48.460 Wake up. 00:15:48.799 --> 00:15:50.100 Who are you trusting in? 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:51.879 What is going to help you? 00:15:51.980 --> 00:15:53.399 Who is going to help you? 00:15:54.740 --> 00:15:56.299 Are we trusting in the Lord who says, 00:15:56.460 --> 00:15:59.080 I, I am he who comforts you? 00:16:00.720 --> 00:16:02.659 When we go on by ourselves, 00:16:02.779 --> 00:16:05.100 when we lose sight of who God is, 00:16:05.100 --> 00:16:08.639 we fall away from him more and more into sin. 00:16:09.940 --> 00:16:12.200 It happens so easily. 00:16:13.120 --> 00:16:14.800 And what happens when we do that 00:16:14.800 --> 00:16:16.980 is when we lose sight of God, 00:16:17.060 --> 00:16:18.680 our sin overwhelms us. 00:16:19.139 --> 00:16:21.519 You see in verse 17 there, 00:16:21.639 --> 00:16:24.180 You have drunk from the hand of the Lord 00:16:24.180 --> 00:16:26.000 the cup of his wrath, 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:28.000 who have been drunk to the dregs, 00:16:28.680 --> 00:16:31.300 the bowl, the cup of staggering. 00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:34.740 What is this cup that he's talking about? 00:16:35.100 --> 00:16:37.379 It's a cup of God's judgment. 00:16:38.740 --> 00:16:41.639 This is what sin brings upon us. 00:16:42.420 --> 00:16:44.240 Drunk it to the dregs. 00:16:44.279 --> 00:16:44.659 In other words, 00:16:44.879 --> 00:16:48.259 every last drop has been drunk out of it 00:16:48.259 --> 00:16:50.500 and it leaves us staggering. 00:16:50.700 --> 00:16:52.800 It's that image of being drunk. 00:16:54.879 --> 00:16:56.680 And that's what happens here 00:16:56.680 --> 00:16:58.320 when there's no comfort. 00:16:58.500 --> 00:17:00.040 You're found, as it were, 00:17:00.100 --> 00:17:02.180 lying on the ground almost. 00:17:02.179 --> 00:17:04.379 In verse 21, 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:05.700 Therefore hear this, 00:17:05.819 --> 00:17:06.940 you who are afflicted, 00:17:07.139 --> 00:17:09.379 who are drunk but not with wine. 00:17:10.899 --> 00:17:13.759 We are drunk with the wrath of God. 00:17:14.819 --> 00:17:17.039 We are lost in our sin. 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:20.399 That cup of wrath is upon us. 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:22.859 And the comfort of God 00:17:22.859 --> 00:17:26.980 seems a million miles away from us. 00:17:26.980 --> 00:17:30.220 And we look at our world 00:17:30.220 --> 00:17:32.059 and we see the condition, 00:17:32.180 --> 00:17:33.380 the state that it's in. 00:17:33.900 --> 00:17:35.500 The world is overrun 00:17:35.500 --> 00:17:36.740 with war, 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:37.599 with hatred, 00:17:37.839 --> 00:17:38.500 with famine, 00:17:38.680 --> 00:17:39.380 with anger, 00:17:39.539 --> 00:17:40.559 with trouble. 00:17:41.099 --> 00:17:43.240 There is all of these things going on. 00:17:43.460 --> 00:17:45.579 We are seeing this cup of wrath. 00:17:45.579 --> 00:17:49.460 We are seeing nations 00:17:49.460 --> 00:17:52.399 trying to overwhelm other nations. 00:17:54.839 --> 00:17:56.359 We look at the church 00:17:56.359 --> 00:17:59.099 or the churches around the world. 00:17:59.599 --> 00:18:01.599 We see empty pews. 00:18:01.699 --> 00:18:03.559 We see a discouraged people. 00:18:03.720 --> 00:18:06.619 We see a lack of people involved in the church. 00:18:06.740 --> 00:18:08.699 We look at our own denomination. 00:18:08.919 --> 00:18:09.859 We see vacancies, 00:18:10.059 --> 00:18:10.879 lack of ministers. 00:18:11.099 --> 00:18:12.699 We see all of these things. 00:18:13.099 --> 00:18:13.980 We could go on. 00:18:13.980 --> 00:18:14.880 We could go on. 00:18:16.259 --> 00:18:17.180 And is it for us to say, 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:18.860 God, why are you sleeping? 00:18:20.620 --> 00:18:22.420 Or is it for God to say to us, 00:18:22.579 --> 00:18:23.720 wake up yourselves. 00:18:24.299 --> 00:18:25.599 Wake up yourselves. 00:18:26.680 --> 00:18:28.599 Stand up, O Jerusalem. 00:18:29.700 --> 00:18:31.440 Take heed of my word. 00:18:32.059 --> 00:18:34.599 Take heed of my call to you. 00:18:35.339 --> 00:18:36.039 Wake up. 00:18:39.019 --> 00:18:40.799 It's not God who is sleeping. 00:18:40.960 --> 00:18:41.680 It is us. 00:18:41.680 --> 00:18:44.580 He is crying out to us 00:18:44.580 --> 00:18:47.259 to wake up and put on his power. 00:18:48.460 --> 00:18:51.160 To put on his strength. 00:18:52.600 --> 00:18:55.460 We can feel helpless just now. 00:18:56.259 --> 00:18:57.640 We can look to God. 00:18:58.840 --> 00:19:01.940 To God and all that he has done for us. 00:19:02.740 --> 00:19:04.080 And to remember him, 00:19:04.420 --> 00:19:06.880 who he is and what he has done for us. 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:11.980 The letter to the Ephesians says in chapter 5, verse 14, 00:19:12.580 --> 00:19:15.160 Awake, O sleeper, and rise from the dead, 00:19:15.220 --> 00:19:18.020 and Christ will shine in you. 00:19:19.700 --> 00:19:23.180 We need to wake up and look to Christ. 00:19:24.460 --> 00:19:29.140 And as we do, he can shine in us and on us and through us. 00:19:29.140 --> 00:19:34.940 But we need to take heed of what he is saying. 00:19:35.240 --> 00:19:35.900 Wake up. 00:19:36.800 --> 00:19:39.900 Do you want Christ to shine in you today? 00:19:40.860 --> 00:19:43.340 What difference does it make? 00:19:43.339 --> 00:19:47.179 Well, as you look at this section, 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:48.899 you go into verse 22. 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:50.980 Thus says your Lord, 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:52.559 the Lord your God, 00:19:52.639 --> 00:19:54.519 who pleads the cause of his people. 00:19:54.759 --> 00:19:57.480 Behold, I have taken from your hand 00:19:57.480 --> 00:19:58.639 the cup of staggering, 00:19:59.179 --> 00:20:00.399 the bowl of my wrath. 00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:02.339 You shall drink no more. 00:20:02.419 --> 00:20:04.379 He is able to remove it. 00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:08.639 And it's the same as he is able to do with our sin. 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:11.880 As we come and confess it before him, 00:20:12.300 --> 00:20:13.660 as we heed his word, 00:20:13.720 --> 00:20:15.500 as we look to ourselves and think, 00:20:15.900 --> 00:20:17.860 I am but a sinner before God. 00:20:18.259 --> 00:20:20.620 Well, how can I be right? 00:20:21.740 --> 00:20:23.120 It's to look to Christ. 00:20:23.300 --> 00:20:24.840 And as we think of coming, 00:20:25.040 --> 00:20:26.420 approaching a communion weekend, 00:20:26.560 --> 00:20:27.780 God willing next weekend, 00:20:28.300 --> 00:20:30.840 we come to do this in remembrance of him. 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:32.800 What has he done for us? 00:20:34.080 --> 00:20:35.960 Well, this cup of wrath, 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:38.060 he has drunk. 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:41.740 He has taken it for us 00:20:41.740 --> 00:20:44.380 so that we might take 00:20:44.380 --> 00:20:46.500 of the cup of his grace, 00:20:47.180 --> 00:20:48.820 of the cup of his love, 00:20:49.840 --> 00:20:51.660 the cup that is life 00:20:51.660 --> 00:20:54.120 through faith in him. 00:20:54.860 --> 00:20:55.700 He takes it, 00:20:56.140 --> 00:20:56.940 the cup of wrath, 00:20:57.160 --> 00:20:57.620 away 00:20:57.620 --> 00:21:00.780 so we can have that cup 00:21:00.780 --> 00:21:02.140 of salvation. 00:21:03.300 --> 00:21:04.980 Are you awake to that? 00:21:06.160 --> 00:21:07.360 Are you awake to the need 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:08.839 that you have of this Christ 00:21:08.839 --> 00:21:11.679 who takes away your sin, 00:21:12.539 --> 00:21:12.959 who says, 00:21:13.099 --> 00:21:14.959 awake, awake, stand up. 00:21:15.619 --> 00:21:18.219 It is time to take heed. 00:21:18.220 --> 00:21:23.539 Well, the third and final wake-up call 00:21:23.539 --> 00:21:26.480 we see here is a challenge to trust. 00:21:27.539 --> 00:21:31.160 And we see this in verse 1 of chapter 52. 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:33.300 Awake, awake, awake. 00:21:33.300 --> 00:21:35.759 Put on your strength, O Zion. 00:21:35.840 --> 00:21:39.279 Put on your beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, 00:21:39.880 --> 00:21:41.519 the holy city. 00:21:43.460 --> 00:21:46.279 Put on your strength, O Zion. 00:21:46.400 --> 00:21:49.560 Put on your beautiful garments. 00:21:49.559 --> 00:21:53.299 He calls to their attention 00:21:53.299 --> 00:21:54.159 the fact that 00:21:54.159 --> 00:21:57.039 trouble is not that he is asleep, 00:21:57.159 --> 00:21:58.599 but that they are asleep again. 00:22:02.159 --> 00:22:03.639 They have not put on 00:22:03.639 --> 00:22:06.519 the power which he has to offer. 00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:11.259 Put on your strength, O Zion. 00:22:11.259 --> 00:22:14.819 If a wake-up call should make us realize 00:22:14.819 --> 00:22:16.900 that we need to take action, 00:22:18.119 --> 00:22:19.819 well, what is the action that we need? 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:24.640 It's to see that he is our only help. 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:28.279 He is the only one that we need. 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:30.900 Put on your strength, O Zion. 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:32.140 What is that strength? 00:22:32.220 --> 00:22:34.440 That is the strength of the Lord. 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:36.460 God is saying, 00:22:36.620 --> 00:22:37.320 I have power. 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:38.420 I am not asleep, 00:22:38.820 --> 00:22:41.380 but you have not sought my power. 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:43.580 You have not sought me. 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:45.480 You have not looked for me. 00:22:46.039 --> 00:22:47.620 You have underestimated me. 00:22:48.600 --> 00:22:50.100 You have not believed me. 00:22:51.039 --> 00:22:53.019 You have not understood who I am. 00:22:53.080 --> 00:22:54.400 Is that true of you today? 00:22:54.799 --> 00:22:55.920 All of these things. 00:22:56.019 --> 00:22:56.980 You have not sought him. 00:22:57.880 --> 00:22:59.200 You have not understood him. 00:22:59.980 --> 00:23:00.840 You have doubted him. 00:23:00.900 --> 00:23:02.140 You have disbelieved him. 00:23:02.140 --> 00:23:04.960 Well, again, it's this cry, 00:23:05.440 --> 00:23:07.140 awake, awake. 00:23:07.300 --> 00:23:08.759 Put on your strength. 00:23:08.880 --> 00:23:11.180 Put on what is that on offer to you. 00:23:12.920 --> 00:23:14.620 Imagine waking up in the morning 00:23:14.620 --> 00:23:17.340 and you find your clothes 00:23:17.340 --> 00:23:19.140 laid out for you to wear. 00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:20.360 Maybe you're one of these people 00:23:20.360 --> 00:23:22.120 who before you go to sleep at night, 00:23:22.340 --> 00:23:23.940 you want to have everything ready 00:23:23.940 --> 00:23:24.980 to put on in the morning. 00:23:26.040 --> 00:23:27.640 Or maybe you're one of those people 00:23:27.640 --> 00:23:29.860 who just first thing you see in the morning, 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:31.800 you'll grab it and put it on. 00:23:32.140 --> 00:23:35.680 But imagine waking up in the morning 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:38.800 and you find that there's clothes there 00:23:38.800 --> 00:23:39.940 for you to put on, 00:23:40.860 --> 00:23:42.640 but you've never seen them before. 00:23:43.900 --> 00:23:45.220 They're not yours. 00:23:46.480 --> 00:23:49.280 They're much better quality. 00:23:49.520 --> 00:23:50.220 They're the best, 00:23:50.340 --> 00:23:51.720 the most beautiful clothes 00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:53.320 you've ever seen. 00:23:53.740 --> 00:23:54.980 Where did they come from? 00:23:55.400 --> 00:23:57.020 Who has put them out for you? 00:23:57.320 --> 00:23:58.360 You don't understand, 00:23:58.700 --> 00:24:00.680 but they're there for you to wear. 00:24:00.680 --> 00:24:05.539 Well, this is what God is saying to us here. 00:24:06.220 --> 00:24:07.539 Awake, awake. 00:24:08.019 --> 00:24:10.680 Put on your beautiful garments. 00:24:11.840 --> 00:24:15.500 Put on what I have prepared for you. 00:24:16.660 --> 00:24:19.060 God has laid out clothes for us 00:24:19.060 --> 00:24:20.220 to wake up to 00:24:20.220 --> 00:24:22.840 and to put on for ourselves. 00:24:22.839 --> 00:24:26.639 So instead of our filthy rags, 00:24:28.379 --> 00:24:30.519 the rags of our sin, 00:24:30.679 --> 00:24:31.339 of our doubt, 00:24:31.480 --> 00:24:32.259 of our fears, 00:24:32.379 --> 00:24:33.099 of our anger, 00:24:33.559 --> 00:24:34.539 of our disbelief, 00:24:34.619 --> 00:24:36.119 of our questioning God, 00:24:36.339 --> 00:24:37.480 all of these things 00:24:37.480 --> 00:24:39.639 that we are continually putting on, 00:24:40.679 --> 00:24:41.220 he is saying, 00:24:41.419 --> 00:24:43.480 I have these beautiful garments 00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:45.500 prepared for you. 00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:47.879 Beautiful garments 00:24:47.880 --> 00:24:50.540 of the righteousness of Christ. 00:24:51.820 --> 00:24:53.640 That robe that he gives 00:24:53.640 --> 00:24:54.640 to his people 00:24:54.640 --> 00:24:55.600 to put on, 00:24:55.720 --> 00:24:57.760 to know the forgiveness of sin, 00:24:59.040 --> 00:25:00.120 that salvation, 00:25:00.700 --> 00:25:01.860 that comfort, 00:25:02.320 --> 00:25:03.260 that forgiveness. 00:25:04.120 --> 00:25:05.340 We have all of these 00:25:05.340 --> 00:25:06.520 beautiful garments 00:25:06.520 --> 00:25:07.420 to put on 00:25:07.420 --> 00:25:09.260 when we awake and see 00:25:09.260 --> 00:25:11.360 that Christ is our Savior, 00:25:12.080 --> 00:25:14.080 a Savior for us. 00:25:14.079 --> 00:25:16.899 And he offers us 00:25:16.899 --> 00:25:18.759 so much to put on. 00:25:19.960 --> 00:25:21.240 So we can go on 00:25:21.240 --> 00:25:22.119 in his strength. 00:25:22.199 --> 00:25:23.679 You think of that great passage 00:25:23.679 --> 00:25:25.679 in Ephesians 6. 00:25:26.859 --> 00:25:30.359 Put on the whole armor of God. 00:25:31.159 --> 00:25:32.720 Those beautiful garments 00:25:32.720 --> 00:25:34.240 that he speaks of there. 00:25:35.079 --> 00:25:36.859 Put on the whole armor of God 00:25:36.859 --> 00:25:38.699 for the days in which we live our evil 00:25:38.699 --> 00:25:40.500 and stand firm. 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:43.379 He offers us the belt of truth, 00:25:43.380 --> 00:25:45.660 the breastplate of righteousness, 00:25:45.920 --> 00:25:47.300 the shoes on your feet, 00:25:47.900 --> 00:25:50.180 the readiness of the gospel of peace, 00:25:50.440 --> 00:25:52.600 the shield of faith, 00:25:53.600 --> 00:25:54.920 the helmet of salvation, 00:25:55.080 --> 00:25:57.000 the sword of the Spirit. 00:25:57.080 --> 00:25:58.260 We have all of these 00:25:58.260 --> 00:25:59.560 beautiful garments 00:25:59.560 --> 00:26:00.900 to put on. 00:26:02.440 --> 00:26:03.680 They are all available 00:26:03.680 --> 00:26:05.880 if we wake up to him. 00:26:07.300 --> 00:26:08.700 To wake up 00:26:08.700 --> 00:26:11.160 and see that he is calling us. 00:26:11.160 --> 00:26:14.640 We doubt so much. 00:26:15.600 --> 00:26:17.060 We fear so much. 00:26:17.620 --> 00:26:19.160 But he is calling us 00:26:19.160 --> 00:26:20.500 to faith. 00:26:22.080 --> 00:26:23.759 Have you still no faith? 00:26:24.180 --> 00:26:26.259 As Jesus said to the disciples, 00:26:26.420 --> 00:26:27.400 have you today 00:26:27.400 --> 00:26:29.300 still no faith? 00:26:31.800 --> 00:26:32.840 Wake up. 00:26:33.800 --> 00:26:35.900 Put on your strength, O Zion. 00:26:35.900 --> 00:26:39.540 Put on your beautiful garments, 00:26:40.300 --> 00:26:42.140 the clothes that are ready 00:26:42.140 --> 00:26:44.420 for his people to put on, 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:46.660 to do away with the rags 00:26:46.660 --> 00:26:49.040 that we so often cling to, 00:26:50.019 --> 00:26:52.660 and to put on his salvation, 00:26:53.500 --> 00:26:54.620 his righteousness. 00:26:56.400 --> 00:26:57.480 Doubt and faith 00:26:57.480 --> 00:26:59.519 are poles apart. 00:27:00.519 --> 00:27:01.960 It's a little poem once said, 00:27:02.120 --> 00:27:03.620 Doubt sees the obstacles 00:27:03.619 --> 00:27:05.359 while faith sees the way. 00:27:06.039 --> 00:27:07.879 Doubt sees the darkest night 00:27:07.879 --> 00:27:09.719 while faith sees the day. 00:27:10.500 --> 00:27:12.139 Doubt fears to take a step 00:27:12.139 --> 00:27:14.379 while faith soars on high. 00:27:15.439 --> 00:27:16.439 Doubt asks, 00:27:16.779 --> 00:27:17.599 Who believes? 00:27:18.359 --> 00:27:19.839 Faith answers, 00:27:20.379 --> 00:27:20.679 I. 00:27:21.839 --> 00:27:23.799 Doubt and faith. 00:27:24.659 --> 00:27:25.359 That's what we see 00:27:25.359 --> 00:27:26.359 in this passage. 00:27:26.979 --> 00:27:28.079 As the people began 00:27:28.079 --> 00:27:28.819 in verse 9 00:27:28.819 --> 00:27:29.279 to say, 00:27:29.359 --> 00:27:30.359 Awake, awake, 00:27:30.979 --> 00:27:32.059 calling to the Lord 00:27:32.059 --> 00:27:32.700 to wake, 00:27:33.440 --> 00:27:34.819 as if he was asleep. 00:27:35.980 --> 00:27:37.079 But it is God 00:27:37.079 --> 00:27:37.639 who is saying, 00:27:37.799 --> 00:27:37.980 No, 00:27:38.740 --> 00:27:39.639 it is not me 00:27:39.639 --> 00:27:40.259 who is sleeping. 00:27:40.460 --> 00:27:40.779 I, 00:27:40.940 --> 00:27:43.019 I am he who comforts you. 00:27:43.799 --> 00:27:44.659 And then he says, 00:27:44.740 --> 00:27:45.480 No, you, 00:27:46.099 --> 00:27:46.980 wake yourself. 00:27:47.220 --> 00:27:48.079 Wake yourself. 00:27:49.220 --> 00:27:49.940 Stand up, 00:27:50.019 --> 00:27:50.599 O Jerusalem. 00:27:51.599 --> 00:27:52.619 See the sin 00:27:52.619 --> 00:27:53.500 that you are in, 00:27:53.899 --> 00:27:55.039 and see the salvation 00:27:55.039 --> 00:27:56.240 that there is on offer. 00:27:57.440 --> 00:27:58.500 And then awake, 00:27:59.059 --> 00:27:59.639 awake, 00:27:59.640 --> 00:28:02.400 put on the beautiful garments 00:28:02.400 --> 00:28:04.259 that he has prepared 00:28:04.259 --> 00:28:05.500 for you. 00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:07.560 Will you wake? 00:28:09.020 --> 00:28:11.080 Awake to your sin. 00:28:12.259 --> 00:28:13.420 Awake to a God 00:28:13.420 --> 00:28:14.660 who is wide awake, 00:28:15.060 --> 00:28:16.759 who is in control. 00:28:17.759 --> 00:28:19.300 And awake to the garments 00:28:19.300 --> 00:28:21.140 that he has prepared 00:28:21.140 --> 00:28:22.300 for his people. 00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:23.820 That salvation 00:28:23.820 --> 00:28:26.000 that is in Jesus Christ. 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:28.120 May we wake up. 00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:29.359 Let us pray. 00:28:32.239 --> 00:28:32.719 Lord, 00:28:32.799 --> 00:28:33.939 our gracious God, 00:28:34.019 --> 00:28:34.639 we thank you 00:28:34.639 --> 00:28:35.939 that your word 00:28:35.939 --> 00:28:37.500 stirs us in our hearts, 00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:39.739 that it speaks to us, 00:28:39.819 --> 00:28:40.259 O Lord, 00:28:40.379 --> 00:28:41.199 of reminders 00:28:41.199 --> 00:28:42.439 of who you are 00:28:42.439 --> 00:28:43.319 and who we are, 00:28:43.919 --> 00:28:45.099 that you are not a God 00:28:45.099 --> 00:28:46.000 who is asleep. 00:28:46.719 --> 00:28:48.259 For even as the psalmist says, 00:28:48.359 --> 00:28:49.399 you never slumber 00:28:49.399 --> 00:28:50.279 nor sleep. 00:28:50.899 --> 00:28:51.539 And help us 00:28:51.539 --> 00:28:52.500 to remember that, 00:28:52.559 --> 00:28:53.539 that you are the one 00:28:53.539 --> 00:28:55.039 who is awake 00:28:55.039 --> 00:28:57.019 with your eyes upon us. 00:28:57.019 --> 00:28:58.019 But you are one 00:28:58.019 --> 00:28:58.980 who says to us 00:28:58.980 --> 00:28:59.720 as your people, 00:28:59.879 --> 00:29:00.500 wake up, 00:29:01.139 --> 00:29:01.799 wake up. 00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:03.339 See where we are. 00:29:03.539 --> 00:29:04.259 See our need. 00:29:04.960 --> 00:29:05.940 But see Christ 00:29:05.940 --> 00:29:08.139 who has done all for us. 00:29:08.660 --> 00:29:10.259 And see these beautiful garments 00:29:10.259 --> 00:29:11.940 that are prepared for us. 00:29:12.660 --> 00:29:13.480 The righteousness, 00:29:14.440 --> 00:29:15.200 the salvation, 00:29:15.920 --> 00:29:16.599 the forgiveness, 00:29:16.599 --> 00:29:18.079 the comfort 00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:19.339 that is ours 00:29:19.339 --> 00:29:20.099 through him. 00:29:20.579 --> 00:29:20.879 So, 00:29:21.019 --> 00:29:21.179 Lord, 00:29:21.279 --> 00:29:22.359 help us to hear 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:23.719 and to wake 00:29:23.719 --> 00:29:25.119 and to rise 00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:26.480 even from here today 00:29:26.480 --> 00:29:27.819 with that hope 00:29:27.819 --> 00:29:28.319 in you 00:29:28.319 --> 00:29:29.719 as we ask all 00:29:29.719 --> 00:29:30.379 with the forgiveness 00:29:30.379 --> 00:29:31.299 of our sin. 00:29:31.379 --> 00:29:32.339 In Jesus' name. 00:29:32.839 --> 00:29:33.219 Amen. 00:29:33.220 --> 00:29:33.339 Amen. 00:29:41.339 --> 00:29:42.900 We're going to conclude 00:29:42.900 --> 00:29:45.100 by singing in Psalm 30 again, 00:29:45.220 --> 00:29:46.480 the Sing Psalms version, 00:29:47.500 --> 00:29:49.079 page 35. 00:29:49.079 --> 00:29:49.839 We're going to sing 00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:51.579 the last three stanzas there, 00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:53.880 verse 10 to 12. 00:29:57.380 --> 00:29:59.079 Psalm 30 at verse 10. 00:29:59.079 --> 00:30:00.240 Hear as I cry, 00:30:00.339 --> 00:30:01.319 O Lord my God, 00:30:01.759 --> 00:30:03.199 and listen to my plea. 00:30:03.639 --> 00:30:04.480 Come to my aid 00:30:04.480 --> 00:30:05.319 and my distress 00:30:05.319 --> 00:30:06.119 have mercy, 00:30:06.339 --> 00:30:06.619 Lord, 00:30:07.179 --> 00:30:07.699 on me. 00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:08.839 You turned my wailing 00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:09.619 into dance. 00:30:09.720 --> 00:30:11.179 No longer was I sad. 00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:12.799 My sackcloth gone. 00:30:12.879 --> 00:30:13.919 You gave me clothes 00:30:13.919 --> 00:30:14.619 of joy 00:30:14.619 --> 00:30:16.220 and I was glad. 00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:16.879 We'll sing from 00:30:16.879 --> 00:30:18.119 verse 10 to 12 00:30:18.119 --> 00:30:19.379 to God's praise. 00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:20.319 The tune is Wallace. 00:30:26.319 --> 00:30:29.059 Hear as I cry, 00:30:29.079 --> 00:30:35.259 O Lord my God, 00:30:35.259 --> 00:30:42.399 and listen to my plea. 00:30:43.679 --> 00:30:48.559 Come to my aid 00:30:48.559 --> 00:30:52.319 in my distress. 00:30:53.919 --> 00:30:58.519 Have mercy, Lord, 00:30:58.519 --> 00:31:00.519 Lord, on me. 00:31:00.519 --> 00:31:05.519 Have mercy, Lord, 00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:05.519 00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:07.519 Have mercy, Lord, 00:31:07.519 --> 00:31:09.519 on me. 00:31:09.519 --> 00:31:14.519 You turned my wailing 00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:20.519 into dance. 00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:27.519 No longer was I sad. 00:31:27.519 --> 00:31:35.859 My sackcloth gone. 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:41.200 You gave me clothes 00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:43.519 of joy 00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:49.519 of joy and I was glad. 00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:49.519 00:31:49.519 --> 00:31:50.519 Of joy and I was glad. 00:31:50.519 --> 00:31:52.519 Of joy and I was glad. 00:31:52.519 --> 00:31:58.519 Of joy and I was glad. 00:31:58.519 --> 00:32:08.519 Therefore my heart will sing to you, 00:32:08.519 --> 00:32:29.839 you and never cease to praise to your great name, O Lord my God. 00:32:29.839 --> 00:32:45.079 I will give thanks always. I will give thanks always. 00:32:48.220 --> 00:32:51.740 After the benediction, I'll go to the main door. We'll close with the benediction. 00:32:52.740 --> 00:32:57.599 Now may grace, mercy and peace from God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit 00:32:57.599 --> 00:33:02.379 rest upon and abide with you all now and forevermore. Amen. 00:33:02.379 --> 00:33:02.439 Amen. 00:33:27.599 --> 00:33:28.599 Amen. 00:33:28.599 --> 00:33:58.579 Thank you.