I'm going to look to the Book of Acts tonight and to continue thinking about this message that Paul preached.
! The first sermon of the Apostle Paul during his ministry in the first of his three great missionary journeys that are recorded in the Book of Acts.
I mentioned this morning that he was in the company of Barnabas who came from the island of Crete.
And when they visited that island together at the beginning of this missionary journey sent out from Antioch in Syria,
I suppose the leading apostle was Barnabas.
But after leaving the island and going to the mainland of Asia Minor and going to Pisidian Antioch,
they came to see Paul becoming the main spokesman of the mission.
He became the more gifted of the two and the more used by the Lord to spread the message that would one day win the whole world.
The first missionary journey covers Acts chapter 13 and 14.
The narrative begins in Antioch in Syria.
It ends in Antioch in Syria with a report back to the sending church.
And all of that took around about a year and a half, under two years of traveling around 18 to 24 months.
And they visited the islands of the Mediterranean and they visited cities like Perga,
this city where this sermon was in Antioch, in Pisidia, Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe.
The message was one of hope.
It was full of the resurrection.
Just to stand back from this particular chapter, this particular passage that we're going to look at tonight,
just to remind you of what Acts is in the Word of God.
John Piper has helpfully commented that Acts is fairly unique in the Scriptures.
It's a book that's in the canon of Scripture to help prevent the church from coasting to a standstill.
It's really easy for that to happen to the Christian church,
especially if things are going quite well or if there are decent numbers or there's plenty money around or something like that.
We can simply think maintenance is all that we need.
We'll just keep going, keep the wheels turning, but to complete Piper's quote,
to prevent the church from coasting to a standstill and entering a maintenance mode
with all the inner wheels turning, working, but going nowhere.
There have been many moments in the history of the global church
where a particular local expression of the Christian faith starts to coast, to plateau and to decline
or comes under the judgment of the Lord.
And I'm pretty convinced that the book of Acts contains the answer to avoid that danger.
This book is saturated in prayer and in the fear of the Lord
and it is driven by the heartbeat of a missionary concern.
Wanting to see outsiders becoming insiders,
wanting to see people who are far away being brought near.
If we lose that prayerful concern and that missionary concern,
we're not really walking in the footsteps of the apostles.
We're not really living like a book of Acts kind of church.
And yet the book of Acts is there in the New Testament to say,
this is what life looks like between the first and second comings of Jesus.
We want to see witness from Jerusalem in ever expanding circles of effect,
like ripples in a pond.
You throw a stone in a pond and the ripples travel to the other side of the pond.
If you stand by a loch or something like that,
you've probably all done this.
You've thrown a stone and you see the little wave that it creates.
Well, the death and the resurrection of Jesus
are a moment at the center of the history of the universe,
sending out ripples.
And depending on how we hear that story and respond to it,
we will either be drawing nearer or drawing further away from life and hope and peace with God.
The church was born in Pisidian Antioch over the course of eight days of ministry.
Two Sabbaths, two Jewish Sabbaths.
Paul and Barnabas witnessing to a little group there.
And on the eighth day, they were thrown out and they had to flee.
But eight days was long enough to establish a living church that continued in that place
and that continued to glorify God for years and years and years to come.
This book of Acts is full of fuel for our prayers and wisdom.
If we want strategies, if we want an idea of who we should be and what we should be doing,
we don't need to look any further.
Title for my message tonight is the gospel goes viral.
It spreads like a contagion.
You see these things sometimes in the news or on social media or something like that,
that a story will be ignored for a long time and then suddenly everyone's talking about it.
It's mentioned, it's discussed, it's gossiped, it spreads all around the world.
And Jesus and his death and resurrection becomes the talking point in Pisidian Antioch.
The church is born and the church grows.
Two things about how this message came and about how it was reacted to tonight.
The first thing is that there is good news for those who break God's law.
The gospel, by definition, is good news.
And the gospel is to be shared with those who are in the wrong before Almighty God.
The gospel is for sinners.
The gospel exposes the fact that we are sinners in need of Christ, in need of grace.
The reason I broke the reading this morning at verse 37 and took it up again tonight at verse 38
is that Paul seems here to be moving to application mode.
He gives us his teaching, his doctrine, in his sermon, lots of Old Testament quotation
in the verses recorded between 13 and 37.
But from verse 38 onwards, he's really bringing the plane down to land with his listeners in that synagogue.
He's giving them the application.
So what?
What should you do with this message of Jesus who's been raised?
And so he says in verse 38,
Let it be known to you therefore.
I want you to take this on board.
I want you to know this, understand it and act upon it, brothers.
That through this man, through Jesus, what do you get through Jesus?
What is the good news of Jesus?
It is that forgiveness is preached, is offered.
Forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you and by him.
Everyone who believes is freed from everything from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
He was speaking to Jews.
He was speaking to people who were scrupulous in their Sabbath observance.
They went to the synagogue.
They did the things that Jewish people were supposed to do according to the law of Moses.
They would be circumcising their little boys.
They would be thinking about how they paid into the costs of the temple back in Jerusalem.
They would be thinking about the year and how at different stages in the year they obeyed the requirements of the law.
Their home life, even their kitchen, would be governed by the law of Moses.
And Paul says that's fine as far as it goes.
But it does not free you from sin.
The law of Moses actually teaches you how bad your problem of sin is.
The moral law applies to all human beings.
The Ten Commandments.
It applies to me.
It applies to you.
It doesn't matter in what era of world history we live.
It doesn't matter if we live in the Old Covenant or the New Covenant.
It doesn't matter if we're young or old.
The same Ten Commandments are binding on me, binding on my heart, binding on you.
And no amount of temple visiting or synagogue visiting or attempts at keeping the law can fix you.
Because every one of those Ten Commandments has been broken by every human being who ever lived except one.
Only Jesus kept this law.
Only Jesus pleased God at all times.
And this problem that we have sinned and we have offended against God, we're in a deep hole and we are digging it even more deeply.
We cannot climb out of the hole.
Jesus is the good news of forgiveness.
I want to put it to you that if you have religion without a living faith in Jesus,
you are trying to solve a guilt and shame and sin problem with something that will let you down.
Religion isn't going to cut it.
Even versions that are Christianized of religion are just so much self-help.
I was talking to a lad not so many days ago who grew up as a Jehovah's Witness.
And in his early 20s he has turned his back on all of that and he has embraced Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.
And as far as I can see, a true and growing Christian disciple.
And he talked about what it was like to be a boy in that particular sect.
That they would do the mission things that they were told they had to do.
To be on side with God.
To be on side with the Kingdom Hall.
They would have to visit people or give out literature or approach doors.
But they would do it as slowly as possible.
It was usually a Saturday morning that he was involved in that as a boy.
As slowly as possible.
Not like Paul wanting the whole city to hear of Jesus.
Not like someone with the joy of salvation that wants everyone to know.
But getting off with as little as possible.
Because it's a drudge.
It's a trial.
It's not a joy.
It's not a pleasure.
It's just ticking a box.
My religion requires me to do this so I'll try and do it.
But my heart isn't in it.
And I suspect if we talk to religious people.
Whether they follow non-Christian paths.
Or versions of Christianity that don't have Christ and the cross at the center.
It's just a burden.
We're trying to carry something.
Paul quotes the book of Habakkuk to his listeners in the synagogue.
And he warns them.
He talks about freedom from these burdens.
Freedom from the law of Moses that they couldn't keep by themselves through Christ and his resurrection.
But in verse 40.
Beware therefore lest what is said and the prophet should come about.
Look you scoffers.
Be astounded and perish for I am doing a work in your days.
A work that you will not believe even if one tells it to you.
Now the background to that was that Habakkuk had a message of invasion.
Of the Babylonians coming to judge the nation.
Because they were just going through the motions.
They were just religious.
There was violence and there was destruction and strife and conflict.
They weren't really repenting of these real sins.
They weren't addressing the root problem of the human heart.
And so Habakkuk says in Habakkuk 1.4
Therefore the law is paralyzed and justice never prevails.
That's why you scoff.
That's why you don't believe.
Even though someone explains it to you.
You won't believe it.
Because you don't deal with the root of your sin problem.
Well here's good news for a world with a sin problem.
Here's good news for a world that cannot climb its way up to God by itself.
God has come down.
God has come into the pit and the miry clay where we are.
God has come down in Jesus Christ.
And God has come under the load that we cannot carry.
And God has saved us through the cross and through the resurrection.
And all that we need to do is repent and believe and put our trust in Jesus.
Now those who opposed Paul and Barnabas in the synagogue at Pisidian Antioch.
They shook the dust off their feet when they left that city.
They were rejecting Jesus and his death and resurrection.
And that meant they were condemning themselves.
And just as Jesus told his church to do in Matthew 10 and Mark 6 and Luke 9 and Luke 10.
Jesus said if they won't receive my peace and my word.
Shake the dust off your feet and go to the next town.
And go to the next town.
So that folk have the opportunity to hear the good news.
There is a way for lawbreakers to be saved.
But it's not through human effort.
It's not through human religion.
It's through faith.
That's all very well, isn't it?
But I suspect the easy thing to do is to just nod and say,
Yeah, I've heard that since I was a child.
I think that's right.
And not ask the question,
Am I doing this very thing that Jesus warned his compatriots in Israel about?
That Paul was warning the people in the synagogue about?
Am I doing this?
Are you doing this?
That we think,
My problem with sin and my problem with the things that I don't get quite right,
It's quite a small problem.
It's one I'm going to somehow muddle through and fix.
I don't really need God to come down and dramatically save me.
I don't need the Son of God to take my load.
I'm better than a lot of other people.
If there's a piece of your heart that thinks like that,
Talk to God about it and admit that that is a grievous deception and a foolish sin.
To minimize your need, to minimize your sin, to minimize your guilt.
And maybe to say,
I don't need the medicine that maybe some other people need.
We all need the medicine.
We all need the gospel.
We all need Christ.
What Paul says in the synagogue on the second Sabbath when he was there,
Is that he's going to turn to the Gentiles.
He's going to turn to the non-Jews.
Because so many of the Jews are hardening their hearts against the message of the prophets.
And the message of Jesus.
And the message of the apostles.
Not everybody.
But some hardened their hearts.
Be so careful that you don't go home tonight saying,
I can listen to this gospel next week, next month, next year.
It's not important tonight.
It is important tonight.
If you have unconfessed, unforgiving sin in your life,
It separates you from God and eternal life.
And I would not want to leave this building, let alone fall asleep at home tonight,
Without crying out to God,
Deal with my sin.
Give me eternal life.
Be merciful to me.
So there is good news for those who break God's law.
And that's what the verses 38 to 41 are all about.
Don't be like those who are mentioned in the prophet Habakkuk's book,
Who will not believe,
Even if one tells it to you.
But the second thing tonight,
As well as the good news for those who break God's law,
Is the right response to God's gospel.
Verse 42 to the end of the chapter shows us those who responded correctly,
And those who did not respond correctly.
Verse 42,
As they went out,
Went out of the synagogue on the first of the two Sabbaths,
The people begged them that these things might be told them the next Sabbath.
But they didn't wait till the next Sabbath.
Verse 43,
They haven't really left the vicinity of the gathering in the events in verse 43.
After the meeting of the synagogue broke up,
Many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas.
Isn't that interesting?
They heard the gospel,
And some of them became convinced,
There's something here that's real and necessary and true,
And I want to find out more about it.
Maybe that's where you are in your life before God tonight.
Well, they weren't happy to just say,
Well, we'll see what happens.
We'll see if we feel like coming along next week.
They followed Paul and Barnabas.
They wanted to know.
Because it was a big deal to know God,
To know peace with God.
It was a big deal.
And so they spoke with Paul and Barnabas,
And they urged them to continue in the grace of God.
To continue in the way of peace with God through the cross.
Verse 44,
So what has happened in Pisidian Antioch?
The whole city wasn't in the Jewish synagogue on the first Sabbath.
Something has happened in that city
Between one Friday and the next Friday.
The Sabbath was Friday night, Saturday morning.
What happened between the synagogue service breaking up
On the first Sabbath,
And then the following week, seven days later.
What happened to bring the whole city out?
People were talking.
The news of Jesus as the God who became a man,
The God who as a man suffered and tasted death,
The God who took shame onto himself,
And suffered and died on the tree,
On the cross,
That was being talked about in Pisidian Antioch all week.
And the whole city came out to the synagogue
To hear what was going on.
That's why I say the good news of the gospel went viral.
People were talking about it.
I can remember seasons in my own life
Where this seemed to be happening
And people were talking about the gospel
And who's being converted
And who's coming to church
And who's reading the Bible
And who's praying
And who's coming to Bible studies
And prayer meetings.
And sometimes that tide comes in
And sometimes it goes out a bit
And then it comes in again.
But are you looking for that?
Are you praying for that?
Are you expecting that God can do again
What he has done many times before?
Alistair Begg at a conference a while ago
I heard him say the following words
Talking about the local church
And how important it is
In God's work in the world.
Alistair Begg said
The authentic local church
Contains the DNA
Of a remade world.
I like that.
Where you get a few people
There might only be 20, 30, 50, 80, 100
There might be hundreds
There might be thousands
But if it's a real gospel church
That gathers around the word
Gathers around prayer
Gathers around the sacraments
There's something going on there
That has got the seeds of a new creation in it.
It's got the DNA of a remade world.
It's got the power
To make a dead place come alive.
I once came across a photograph
Taken in Chile
In the Atacama Desert
Which is the driest desert on earth.
Some polar regions can be classed as deserts
But outside of the poles
The Atacama in Chile
It's got mountains on one side
That stops clouds bearing rain
It's got the Pacific Ocean on the other side
That takes the wind away from the land
So that there's no chance of rain falling on the ground.
Very different from our dear Hebrides.
It doesn't rain a lot in the Atacama Desert
It's the driest place on earth.
And yet
In the 1970s
It rained heavily there.
And the thing that happened in that desert
That surprised people
And caused thousands of people
To travel there
With their cameras
And take photos of the place
Was that that dry wilderness
That had had no recorded rain
For maybe 300 years
When the rain came
It turned pink
And purple
With a bloom of flowers
A floral bloom
The seed was there
And the life was in the seed
Wherever God's word goes
Wherever God's gospel goes
It has the DNA
Of the new creation
Of the age that is to come
Within it.
And that means
If you are praying
For your children
For your spouse
For your Sunday school group
That you look after
For your youth fellowship
The seed has the life
Of the kingdom in it
And you are praying
That God would water it
And cause it to come alive
A super bloom
When dormant seeds
Burst into life
That is glorious and wonderful
When the word comes in power
Now there is resistance
In verse 45
When the Jews saw the crowds
They were filled with jealousy
Pure envy
Don't like to see
The success
Of the Christian missionaries
And so they began to contradict
What was spoken by Paul
Reviling him
And Paul and Barnabas
Don't shut up
They speak with boldness
It is necessary
That the word of God
Be spoken first to you
Since you thrust it aside
Judge for yourselves
Since you judge yourselves
Unworthy of eternal life
We are turning to the Gentiles
This is fulfilling prophecy actually
This is the role of the Messiah
And the role of the witnesses
Of the Messiah
I have made you a light
For the Gentiles
That you may bring salvation
To the ends of the earth
And the Gentiles rejoiced
And the word of the Lord
Was blessed to them
And many believed
And the word of the Lord
Spread through the region
Verse 49
And despite the opposition
They are filled with joy
And with the Holy Spirit
There is a bloom
There are flowers
There is life
The word of God was honoured
The word of God was shared
And God's sovereignty
Is at work in all of this
And a little bit of persecution
Didn't halt the power of the word
A bit of hassle
Didn't halt the power of the word
What about the islands?
What about Stornoway?
What about our schools?
What about our community?
What about people
With deep, deep hatred
Towards the things of Christ?
They may be being burnt
They may be had a bad experience
They may be being let down badly
By a Christian
Or by a church
And they don't want to touch
This Christianity
With a long, long, long barge pole
While prayer
And love
And gentleness
And the word
Can get through
Because the seed
Has life in it
The word
Has life in it
I want to finish
By giving you three signs
Of a healthy response
To the gospel
I think this will be true
At all times
And in all places
That where God is working
These three signs
Will mark God working
And God's word getting through
And these three signs
Are a hunger for the words
And an active witness
And an overcoming
Of opposition
Through grace
Hunger for the word
Active witness
Overcoming
Opposition
There is hunger
All through this chapter
And indeed all through
Many parts of the book of Acts
There is hunger for the word
Paul's sermon
Quotes Psalm 2
Psalm 16
Isaiah 55
Isaiah 49
Habakkuk chapter 1
It's full of the word
Paul is a word of God
Man
And God's grace
Is falling
On the word
If you find it hard to pray
Read through
A psalm
And ask God to help you
To turn that psalm
Into your stumbling
Halting prayers
It's the word
That will disciple you
And will help you
To grow spiritually
And to be fruitful
Spiritually
I've hidden your word
In my heart
That I might not
Sin against you
A few chapters on
In chapter 17
We read about
The Bereans
The people there
In chapter 17
Verse 11
Received the message
In Berea
With great eagerness
And examined the scriptures
Every day
To see if what Paul said
Was true
Many of them believed
They searched the scriptures
If you're not sure
If you've got questions
Search the scriptures
It's a sign
Of a healthy response
To the gospel
That we read
And that we
Carefully read
The word of God
The second sign
Is active witness
Again
This passage
Is full of it
Verse 44
The next Sabbath
Almost the whole city
Gathered to hear
The word of the Lord
Verse 49
The word of the Lord
Was spreading
Throughout the whole
Region
I mentioned this morning
That a team
Of three missionaries
Had been reduced
To a team
Of two missionaries
That did not stop
The word spreading
Mark
John Mark
Had left
But the blessing
Of God
Had not left
And so Barnabas
And Paul
See blessing
And their witness
And the witness
Of others
Makes the gospel
Credible
I know
There is live stream
And things like that
And that sometimes
We maybe think
Well
Do I really need
To go out tonight
Nobody will miss me
And I can always
Catch up with the service
Or I can watch it live
And that's true
But if you walk
Into a building
And there are
Hundreds of empty seats
That could be filled
It makes the word
Less credible
To any visitor
Who comes in
Off the street
And I think
This is something
That has happened
Across Europe
In the last
Centuries actually
That many people
Have concluded
That Christianity
Is irrelevant
Because it doesn't
Seem
To affect
People
Doesn't seem
To be precious
To them
Well the gatherings
Of God's people
Should be well
Supported
And the mission
Of God's church
Should be well
Supported
Prayerfully
Financially
And every other way
To show
That we really
Do believe this
And we do
Love and serve
This God
And we want
To be committed
And it may be
That there's a cup
Final on the TV
It may be
That we've had
A hard week
It may be
That we have
A lot of work
To do
In the next few days
But if God
Is great
In our thinking
We will not
Be minimizing
!
Our desire
To honor him
In active
Witness
Romans 1
Verse 16
For I am not
Ashamed of the gospel
I fear that
Many Christians
Seem to be ashamed
I wonder how often
I'm tongue tied
And I'm ashamed
But that gospel
Is God's power
For salvation
For Jew
For Gentile
So when I meet
People
And they ask me
What I do
For a living
When I meet people
And they ask me
What I did
At the weekend
Or what I did
At New Year
Or at Christmas
I want to give them
An answer
That glorifies God
Not to sort of
Show off
Or to
Sort of
You know
Be a
A kind of
Pretend-y
Holy person
But to think
How can I
Answer this
Casual question
With a way
That says
I had a great
Weekend
I spent time
With a family
We ate together
And we got to
Go and worship
Jesus Christ
Together
And that's the
Highlight of our
Week
So important
To us
As a family
Hunger for the
Word
An active
Witness
Matthew Henry
Once said
The spirit of
Christ
Is the spirit
Mission
Do you believe
That
If we have
The spirit
We have
The spirit
To equip us
To be
Missionaries
To be
Witnesses
A hunger for the
Word
An active
Witness
And then
Overcoming
Opposition
And I guess
That sometimes
Just looks like
You keep
Going
Even when
You're tired
Or even
When
It's not
Easy
Verse 45
When the
Jews saw
The crowds
They were
Filled with
Jealousy
They began
To contradict
What was
Spoken by
Paul
Reviling
Him
Reviling
Is a
Strong
Word
My
Colleague
Chris Davidson
At
Merkinj
At the
Church
Plant
In one
Of the
Poorest
Parts
Of the
Highlands
In one
Of the
Most
Economically
Deprived
Postcodes
In
Scotland
Chris
Says
And I
Think he's
Right
If you
Want to
Be a
Gospel
Minister
In
Contemporary
Scotland
You need
A heart
That is
Soft
And gentle
Like
Jesus
And you
Need a
Hide
That is
Tough
Like a
Rhinoceros
It's not
Going to
Be easy
It's not
Going to
Be easy
To be
A deacon
Or an
Elder
It's
Going to
Cost
You
But we
Are called
As disciples
To take
Up the
Cross
It's not
Going to
Be easy
If you
Give up
A career
That's
A good
Career
To take
The wage
Of a
Church
Worker
And go
And spread
The news
Of Jesus
But it's
Worth it
Don't do
It
For earthly
Reward
You overcome
Difficulty
Cost
Opposition
You keep
Going
Verse 50
The Jews
Incited the
Devout
Woman of
High
Standing
And the
Leading
Men of
The city
And stirred
Up
Persecution
Is that
Really
What's
Stopping
Us
Are we
Being
Persecuted
Not
Much
Maybe
Sometimes
People
Have a
We
Laugh
At
Our
Expense
But we're
Not going
To be
Rounded
Up
And put
In jail
Are we
But we
Have brothers
And sisters
Who face
That
In Sudan
And where
Islam is
Sweeping
Through parts
Of Africa
And making
It so hard
To be a
Christian
In parts
Of India
In parts
Of Asia
Hinduism
And buddhism
Can be very
Militant
Atheism
Secular
Can be
Very
Militant
In your
Workplace
Maybe
It's not
Easy
To take
A
Respectful
Gentle
Christian
Stand
But do
It
Commit
Yourself
To God
And do
It
I don't
Think we
Will face
The risk
Of stoning
Paul faced
That in
Chapter
14
And verse
19
Because the
Jews from
Antioch
Travelled
80 miles
To the
Next town
That he
Was in
And stirred
Up trouble
Against him
And tried
To have him
Killed
That's a
Different order
Of difficulty
But he
Overcame it
By grace
By faith
Now what's
The worst
Thing
That's going
To happen
To us
If we
Look to
The Lord
And desire
To respond
To the
Gospel
As a
Christian
Who wants
To be a
Witness
To be a
Sin
What's
The worst
That will
Happen
To you
If you
Are ready
To follow
Jesus
But you're
Thinking
Some of
My friends
Will tease
Me
Tease you
Isn't it
Worth it
That the
Son of
God
Hung
Naked
On a
Tree
And died
For you
Isn't it
Worth it
That you
Might be
Teased
By someone
Nail your
Colors
To the
Mast
Follow
Jesus
He's
Worth it
Overcome
Opposition
I'm just
Amazed
By this
Chapter
That there
Were
Eight
Days
That Paul
And Barnabas
Spent in
That city
But when
They left
It
They left
A church
Free
Church of
Scotland
Has been
Around
Since
1843
We're
Heading
For another
Big
Anniversary
2043
Will have
Been
Around
For two
Centuries
I fear
That we
Are not
As tough
As Paul
And his
Companions
Were
That we
Give up
Too
Quickly
That we
Quit
Too
Easily
And so
I encourage
You to
Find your
Strength
And find
Your joy
And find
Your encouragement
In the
Gospel
The good
News
For those
Who break
God's law
Come to
The cross
And the
Good news
That all
Who come
With the
Right
Response
To the
Gospel
Will be
Saved
And will
Then have
News to
Share
There is
Encouragement
Here
I wonder
If Scotland
Is a dry
Spiritual
Desert
More arid
Than the
Atacama
I wonder
If prayer
And fasting
Are needed
So that the
Rain begins
And the
Seed
Comes alive
Father
In heaven
We bless
You for
Being together
Under the
Word today
For being
Together under
The Word
This evening
And for
The pictures
That we
Have of
The growth
Of the
Early
Church
Despite
Persecution
There was
Response
!
There was
Harvest
Grant
Harvest
And response
Tonight
And in
Our hearts
And in
This gathering
And in
The weeks
And the
Months
And in
The years
To come
Bless
Your servant
Callum
Smith
As he
Ministers
Here
And all
Who are
Part of
The team
Here
And all
Who preach
Here regularly
In English
And Gaelic
Bless the
Coming weekend
And the
Visit of
Colin
Macleod
Next Sunday
And bless
The work
And the
Witness
Of all
Who serve
You
Across
This land
Of ours
Bless every
Gospel
Church
And grant
That the
Arid
Days
The dry
Days
The wilderness
Desert
Days
Will be
Replaced
With super
Bloom
With life
With glory
With many
Many
Stories
Of salvation
Hear our
Prayers
Amen
Shall we
Close
With the
Lovely
Words
Of psalm
84
From the
Scottish
Psalter
Psalm
84
We'll
Sing
From the
Beginning
Of the
Psalm
In the
Scottish
Psalter
Psalm
84
How
Lovely
Is thy
Dwelling
Place
O Lord
Of hosts
To me
The
Tabernacles
Of thy
Grace
How
Pleasant
Lord
They
Be
We'll
Sing
Verse 1
And 2
And then
We'll go
Down to
Verse 8
Lord
God
Of hosts
My
Prayer
Here
The
First
Two
Verses
And the
Final
Four
Stanzas
Of
Psalm
84
To
God's
Glory
The
Tune
Is
The
Homes
Of
Donegal
Paul
How lovely is thy place, O Lord, of hosts to thee.
The tavern outcomes of thy gifts have blessed longed me.
My thirsty soul of timidly, yet face thy horns to see.
My heavy heart and flesh I urge, O living not for thee.
Lord God, of hosts my prayer here, O Jacob's gardener.
He guard her shield, look on the face of thine and ironed deal.
For in thy courts on me excels a thousand rather than.
My thoughts I dwell like deep and warm, and dwell in tents of sin.
What of the Lord's house sun and shield, give peace and glory there.
And dwell with hope no good on end, and other need to live.
O thou that art the Lord of hosts, and man is to thee blessed.
With my assured confidence, on thee alone thou best.
Receive God's blessing.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion and fellowship of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, be upon you,
and on the whole Israel of God, today and forevermore.
Amen.
Go in peace.
Thank you.