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 to nations then let's begin our worship this evening and we're going to sing first of all

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 from psalm 65 psalm 65 using the traditional scottish psalter version page 299 the tune is

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 harris field we're singing verses 1 to 5 all lands to god and joyful sounds aloft your voices raise

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 sing forth the honor of his name and glorious make his praise say unto god how terrible in

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 all thy works art thou through thy great power thy foes to thee shall be constrained to bow so through

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 to verse 5 come and the works that god has done with admiration see in his working to the sons of men

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 most terrible is he and of course terrible in these verses is used in the old sense of awesome

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 the awesomeness of god as he declares himself and shows himself through his work so these verses

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 all lands to god

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 six

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 uh it's psalm 65

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 so it's verses 1 to 5 of psalm 65 thank you to the presenter who's alert more than i am

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 um so praise waits for thee in zion lord to thee vows paid shall be without that here at art of prayer

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 all flesh shall come to thee so it's page 297 and it's psalm 65 praise waits for thee in zion lord

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 in zion lord to thee vows paid shall be with which for thee in zion lord to thee vows paid shall be

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 o love that here at art of prayer all flesh shall come to thee

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 jiffel

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 In the Christ Jesus I must confess,

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 Reveal against me too,

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 But us for our transgressions

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 Then perch away shall flow.

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 He blessed the man whom love us choose,

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 And is supposed to be,

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 That he within thy courts, O Lord,

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 May still and forever be.

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 We surely shall be satisfied

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 With thy abundant grace,

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 And with the goodness of thy heart,

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 In all thy holy grace.

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 God of our salvation,

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 Thou live in thy righteousness,

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 Thy fearful words unto our faith,

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 Thy answer does justice.

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 For the ends of all the earth,

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 And those that are not free,

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 Upon the sea their consequences,

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 O Lord will bless them thee.

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 Now let's once more call upon the Lord in prayer.

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 Let's join together in prayer.

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 Our gracious and blessed God,

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 As we give thanks for these great words we have sung,

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 We give thanks for the many truths contained in them,

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 And for the way that they bear upon the experience

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 Of your believing people.

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 And we thank you, Lord,

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 That our salvation is in your hand.

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 We thank you for the way that it contains so much

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 That we ourselves appreciate and benefit from,

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 From day to day.

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 We thank you especially for the emphasis in these words

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 Of your forgiveness of sin,

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 And for the way that you hear those who come

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 With their cry in repentance,

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 Seeking that you would forgive their sin

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 And cover their sin from your sight.

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 And we, Lord, confess as a congregation

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 That this is an important element

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 In our congregational worship too,

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 As well as in our own private confession of sin.

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 And so, Lord,

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 Tonight we pray that you would forgive and pardon our iniquity.

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 For we bring our transgressions to you,

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 Confessing, O Lord,

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 That they exceed our ability to number them or describe them.

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 But we give thanks that they are all known to thee.

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 And we give thanks that they are all known to the God

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 Who has made such provision for them,

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 Against them,

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 In the Lord Jesus Christ.

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 And so we give thanks, Lord,

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 Tonight that we can come to you,

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 That we can draw near to you,

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 That we are not in a position where our sin

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 Is marked against us

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 For our everlasting condemnation.

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 We give thanks that as we come,

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 We are confident

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 That you will receive us in the Lord Jesus Christ

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 And for his sake.

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 We thank you for all that

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 We experienced already today

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 On this Lord's day.

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 And especially we give thanks

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 For seeing a baptism

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 And partaking of the Lord's Supper

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 And being witnesses of it.

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 And we pray that that will be blessed to us

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 As we continue to dwell our mind

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 Upon the great realities

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 That are set out therein.

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 Our being washed from our sin.

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 Our communion with Christ.

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 Our partaking of the benefits

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 Of his atoning death.

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 O Lord, our God,

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 Make us thankful increasingly

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 That we have such privileges given to us.

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 Make us thankful that you did not leave us

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 In the darkness of our own minds.

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 That you gave us to be

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 Recipients of such grace

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 And of such benefits.

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 We pray tonight again, Lord,

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 For your Holy Spirit to work among us.

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 And we give thanks, O Lord,

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 For the evidences we have

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 From time to time

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 That you are actively working

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 In people's hearts.

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 That you are bringing them

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 To know yourself.

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 And bringing them to confess this

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 Before their fellow human beings.

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 We give thanks that you are active

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 In adding to the number

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 Of your confessing church.

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 And we pray, Lord,

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 That as we have witnessed that

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 Already in these past few days.

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 So we give thanks

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 And give thanks for the encouragement

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 That this gives us.

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 That your word

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 Does not return to you empty.

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 But that as you send it forth

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 With the power of your spirit.

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 And so you come

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 To change people inwardly.

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 And you come

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 To draw them to yourself.

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 And you come

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 To constrain them

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 And to persuade them.

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 To make it known

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 To others as well

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 That they are your people.

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 That you are their God.

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 We pray, Lord,

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 For those

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 Who were first-time

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 Recipients

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 Of the Lord's Supper

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 Today.

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 We ask, O Lord,

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 Your blessing

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 For each and all of them.

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 We pray for Catherine

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 And Yendon

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 And Myrdo

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 We thank you

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 For the encouragement

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 It gives us

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 To see them

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 Taking this step.

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 We pray that you

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 Would keep them

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 That you would guide them

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 That they may know

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 Your protective care.

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 And when the evil one

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 Comes at times

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 To attack them

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 To seek to draw them

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 Aside and away

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 From being obedient

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 To you

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 And following you.

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 Lord, grant them

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 The strength

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 To resist and overcome.

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 And help them

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 To continue

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 To depend

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 Upon the Lord

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 Who is faithful

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 To all his people.

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 And we thank you

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 That as they have

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 Shown their faith

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 And their hope

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 In action,

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 Lord, so that you

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 Would continue

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 To watch over them

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 And graciously bless

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 Them from day to day.

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 Bless all others,

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 O Lord,

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 Who also sat

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 At your table today.

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 We ask that you

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 Would continue

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 To bless us

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 Through these means

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 Of grace

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 In word and sacrament.

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 We ask, O God,

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 That it may prove

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 To be for our

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 Furtherance

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 As a congregation

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 That you would

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 Grant your blessing

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 To us as a people

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 In whatever ways,

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 O Lord,

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 You have gifted us

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 And we thank you

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 For the many gifts

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 That are found

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 Within this congregation

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 And for the way

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 That you persuade

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 So many people

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 To use them

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 To the furtherance

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 Of your great name

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 Of your great name

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 And cause.

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 And we pray

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 That you bless

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 All the work

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 That is done

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 From week to week

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 And throughout each week

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 Along with the worship

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 Services of the congregation.

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 And Lord,

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 Bless them,

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 We pray,

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 And continue

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 To bless those

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 Who give of their time

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 So freely

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 And do so

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 So selflessly

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 In particular

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 In regard to the teaching

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 Of our young people

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 And their care

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 And their welfare

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 To those who arrange

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 Other meetings

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 Throughout each week

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 From time to time

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 We pray,

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 O Lord,

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 That all of these

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 May prove to be

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 A further blessing

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 To us as a people.

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 We pray too,

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 Lord,

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 For those others

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 Tonight

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 Who meet as we do

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 Throughout this town

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 Throughout our islands

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 Throughout our nation

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 And we pray

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 That your people

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 May be encouraged

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 And that we may see

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 Movements of your Holy Spirit

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 Bringing many others

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 To know you

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 And to follow you

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 And to testify for you

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 And we pray

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 For those today

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 In places of influence

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 And importance

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 In our land

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 And Lord,

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 When we face another

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 General election

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 To elect a government

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 Over us

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 We pray

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 That you would guide us

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 We pray

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 That we may have

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 The light

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 Of your truth

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 As we come to choose

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 The government

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 And we pray

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 That you would

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 Direct us,

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 Lord,

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 As to who to choose

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 And where to cast

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 Our votes

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 We thank you

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 For the liberty

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 We have in doing this

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 Help us,

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 Lord,

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 Whatever temptations

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 We may have

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 To withdraw

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 From that process

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 Even if we find

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 That those who

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 May not be

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 To our liking

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 Are brought before us

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 As candidates

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 Nevertheless,

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 Lord,

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 Help us,

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 We pray,

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 To exercise

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 Our great privilege

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 And freedom

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 In coming to

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 Elect those

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 Who would be

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 In government

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 Over us

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 We pray

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 That you would

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 Grant your blessing

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 To us

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 As we seek

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 Your guidance

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 As your people

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 During this time

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 We pray your blessing

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 Tonight for

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 All who can't be

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 With us

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 Especially those

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 Who are ill

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 Be near to them

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 Lord,

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 We pray

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 And those who

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 Mourn

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 The passing

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 Of loved ones

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 We commend them

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 To you

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 Asking your comfort

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 Lord,

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 To be their portion

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 Asking that you

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 Would draw near

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 To them

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 And that you

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 Would give them

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 That stillness

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 Of mind

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 That would reflect

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 Upon matters

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 And bring them

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 To yourself

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 Remember,

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 We pray

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 All today

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 Throughout the world

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 Who have

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 Such different

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 Circumstances to ours

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 Oh Lord

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 We think of the

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 Many places

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 In the world

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 Where war

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 Continues to

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 Blight the experience

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 Of people

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 Where many people

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 Continue to

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 Lose their lives

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 And homes

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 And other goods

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 As well

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 We pray

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 For the situation

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 Ongoing in Ukraine

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 And for the dangers

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 That exist there

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 And for the further

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 Encroachment

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 Of oppression

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 Upon the Ukrainian people

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 Oh Lord

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 We pray

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 That you would

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 Grant your own

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 Intervention

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 Grant that you would

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 Stay the hands

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 Of the aggressor

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 We pray such as well

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 In other parts

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 Of the world

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 Where violence

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 Whether in the

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 Middle East

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 Or in other places

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 Where violence

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 Blights the lives

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 Of so many people

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 Lord send forth

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 Your light

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 And your truth

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 Bring people

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 To peace

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 With one another

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 And especially

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 Bring them

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 The peace

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 Of the gospel

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 And we ask

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 That that may be so

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 To the furtherance

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 Of your own kingdom

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 Be with us then

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 Now we pray

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 As we wait upon you

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 Be with us later

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 In the fellowship

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 To grant us there

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 The sense of your presence

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 And the blessing

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 Of your spirit

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 Hear us

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 We pray now

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 In Jesus name

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 And for his sake

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 Amen

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 Well we'll sing again

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 To God's praise

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 This time we're singing

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 From Psalm 9

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 Psalm number 9

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 9a

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 That's on page

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 Number 9

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 And we'll sing

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 Verses 7 to 12

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 And we're singing

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 To a tune

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 Martyrs

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 The Lord forever reigns

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 On high

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 His throne

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 For judgment

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 Stands

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 He'll judge

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 The world

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 In righteousness

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 With justice

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 Rule the lands

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 The Lord will be

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 A hiding place

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 For those

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 Who are oppressed

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 And he will be

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 A strong defense

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 For those

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 Who are distressed

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 All those

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 Who know your name

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 O Lord

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 In you

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 Their trust

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 Will place

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 For you do not

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 Abandon those

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 Who seek

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 Your gracious face

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 So on to verse 12

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 From verse 7

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 The Lord forever

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 Reigns on high

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 His throne

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 For justice

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 He'll judge

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 The world

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 In righteousness

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 Let justice

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 Rule the lands

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 Of course

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 The Lord

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 Will be

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 A hiding place

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 For those

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 Who are oppressed

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 And he will be

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 For those

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 Who are oppressed

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 For those

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 For those

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 For those

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Who are oppressed

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 Procure what he has done

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 In avenger Roman's blood

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 Remember haste evermore

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 I cry, O Thee Ungrated One, Thee never will be more.

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 Now we turn to read God's Word in the Gospel of John.

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 The Gospel according to John, reading chapter 19, and beginning at verse 17.

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 So we'll read from 17 right through down to verse 42.

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 So John 19 at verse 17.

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 So they took Jesus and he went out bearing his own cross to the place called the place of a skull,

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 which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

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 There they crucified him and with him two others, one on either side and Jesus between them.

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 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross.

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 It read, Jesus of Nazareth, the king of the Jews.

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 Many of the Jews read this inscription for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city

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 and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin and in Greek.

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 So the chief priest of the Jews said to Pilate, do not write the king of the Jews,

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 but rather this man said, I am king of the Jews.

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 Pilate answered, what I have written, I have written.

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 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts,

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 one part for each soldier, also his tunic.

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 But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom.

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 So they said to one another, let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be.

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 This was to fulfill the scripture which says, they divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots.

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 So the soldiers did these things, but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister,

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 Mary, the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

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 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby,

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 he said to his mother, woman, behold your son.

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 Then he said to the disciple, behold your mother.

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 And from that hour, the disciple took her into his own home.

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 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said, to fulfill the scripture, I thirst.

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 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.

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 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, it is finished.

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 And he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.

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 Since it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath,

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 for the Sabbath was a high day,

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 the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken,

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 and that they might be taken away.

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 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and of the other who had been crucified with him.

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 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead,

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 they did not break his legs.

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 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear,

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 and at once there came out blood and water.

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 He who saw it has borne witness.

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 His testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth.

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 That you also may believe.

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 For these things took place, that the scripture might be fulfilled.

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 Not one of his bones will be broken.

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 And again another scripture says,

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 They will look on him whom they have pierced.

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 After these things, Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus,

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 but secretly for fear of the Jews,

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 asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus,

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 and Pilate gave him permission.

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 So he came and took away his body.

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 Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night,

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 came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes,

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 about 75 pounds in weight.

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 So they took the body of Jesus,

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 and bound it in linen cloths with the spices,

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 as is the burial custom of the Jews.

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 Now in the place where he was crucified,

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 there was a garden,

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 and in the garden a new tomb,

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 in which no one had yet been laid.

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 So because of the Jewish day of preparation,

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 since the tomb was close at hand,

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 they laid Jesus there.

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 Amen again.

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 May God bless to us reading that portion of his word.

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 Let's now sing from Psalm 25.

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 That's on page 29.

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 Psalm 25 and verses 8 to 15.

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 Let's sing into a tune this time as Finart.

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 Psalm 25 and verse 8.

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 And so on down to verse 15.

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 Because the Lord is just and good.

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 He shows his heart to all his game.

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 He guides the weak in what is right,

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 and teaches them this holy way.

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 And so to keep his calm and loss,

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 he shows his love consistently.

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 For he is so and good.

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 For he is so and good.

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 For he is so and good.

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 For he is so and good.

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 Oh, Lord, my God,

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 forgive my gate in equity.

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 Then not those to fear the Lord,

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 he'll teach to them the choice.

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 Thank you.

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 Thank you.

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 Thank you.

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 This morning we looked at those who sat down in the vicinity of the cross and kept watch,

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 and we considered some of the things that they would have seen, some of the things that

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 they would have heard as they passed the time there while Jesus was being crucified up

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 to the time that he died.

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 And tonight we're going to look at love in relation to the cross.

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 Because what you find happening here in the care that's taken over the body of Jesus by

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 Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea is indicative of the love that they had for him.

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 And love indeed that showed itself in going to Pilate, asking that he would release the

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 body of Jesus now that they knew that Jesus was dead.

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 And so they carefully took the body from the cross.

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 They carefully treated it in the manner of the Jews for burial.

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 And they dealt with it in a way that showed great love and affection for these remains

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 of Jesus, humanly speaking.

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 And so that love in relation to the cross is another important aspect of how that cross

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 bears upon our own experience, how the death of Jesus relates to our love for him, and how

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 that is something which we also seek to commend to others from time to time.

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 And we need to consider something of the background to these verses, something of the background indeed

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 to these two people as they came here to take the body of Jesus and treat it with respect

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 and with love.

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 And we call that love becoming public.

00:27:29.259 --> 00:27:31.680
 Love becoming public.

00:27:32.240 --> 00:27:39.220
 Because both of these men were disciples of Jesus, but up to now they were that secretly.

00:27:40.259 --> 00:27:45.440
 They hadn't made it known that they were actually believers in Christ.

00:27:45.960 --> 00:27:48.380
 That they were trusting in Christ.

00:27:48.660 --> 00:27:51.880
 That they were actually disciples of Jesus.

00:27:52.579 --> 00:27:56.480
 You can see the reason secretly for fear of the Jews.

00:27:56.900 --> 00:27:59.620
 That's why they had kept it previously hidden.

00:28:00.600 --> 00:28:05.519
 Nobody knew apart from themselves that they were, as far as we can see, that they were actually

00:28:05.519 --> 00:28:06.740
 disciples of Jesus.

00:28:06.740 --> 00:28:13.660
 And you can understand that because the persecution they would face from the members of the Sanhedrin

00:28:13.660 --> 00:28:16.539
 that they belonged to would have been intense.

00:28:17.900 --> 00:28:23.240
 And that had been made known even to other people as time went on, as they followed Jesus,

00:28:23.940 --> 00:28:27.160
 that anybody who came to confess them would be thrown out of the synagogue.

00:28:27.160 --> 00:28:36.040
 And so you see that the way in which they kept that hidden is, in fact, very understandable.

00:28:37.080 --> 00:28:40.380
 Very understandable because of the situation that they were in.

00:28:40.860 --> 00:28:45.620
 And because of the relative danger as well that would come from making known that they

00:28:45.620 --> 00:28:50.440
 were disciples of this Jesus that the scribes and Pharisees wanted to be rid of.

00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:57.140
 And as far as they were concerned was an imposter who blasphemed and took to himself the title

00:28:57.140 --> 00:29:01.380
 of the Son of God, which they did not see he was entitled to.

00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:09.000
 And although you understand where they were coming from and understand the reference that

00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:14.500
 they were doing this secretly for fear of the Jews, there's nothing at all in any of the

00:29:14.500 --> 00:29:19.279
 passages dealing with this that suggest for a moment that this really actually was quite

00:29:19.279 --> 00:29:20.440
 a commendable thing.

00:29:20.799 --> 00:29:24.379
 It's understandable, but it's not actually commendable.

00:29:24.639 --> 00:29:30.599
 Because nowhere in the Bible do you find anything to suggest that when we come to know the Lord,

00:29:30.759 --> 00:29:35.819
 we really should just keep that to ourselves and go about our own business and not make it

00:29:35.819 --> 00:29:41.660
 public and not actually have to face whatever we need to face in coming out publicly to say

00:29:41.660 --> 00:29:44.279
 that he's our savior, that we are his people.

00:29:44.279 --> 00:29:52.700
 And so here is love that previously was real, but didn't come into public light because they

00:29:52.700 --> 00:29:56.000
 were afraid of the Jews, afraid of the ruling authorities.

00:29:56.359 --> 00:30:01.599
 Both of these men were in the ruling council of the temple, members of the Sanhedrin.

00:30:02.879 --> 00:30:07.200
 And so they were afraid of their fellow council members that this would really make trouble

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:10.359
 for them if it became known that they were disciples of Jesus.

00:30:10.359 --> 00:30:15.119
 But nowhere do you find that that's actually something commendable.

00:30:15.219 --> 00:30:20.759
 God doesn't praise that, although it's understandable why they were like that.

00:30:21.799 --> 00:30:25.719
 And so tonight, you may be a secret disciple of Jesus.

00:30:27.059 --> 00:30:29.279
 You may be a true believer in Christ.

00:30:30.259 --> 00:30:35.919
 But for whatever reason, you've not yet made it known, such as those today who came and sat

00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:42.400
 at the table, some for the first time have made it known, this is my Lord, this is my savior.

00:30:42.820 --> 00:30:44.019
 I want to serve him.

00:30:44.360 --> 00:30:47.420
 I want to make it clear that I am his, that he is mine.

00:30:48.120 --> 00:30:54.980
 So if you are here tonight and your trust is in Jesus, but you haven't yet made that known,

00:30:55.640 --> 00:30:57.420
 think about what that means to him.

00:30:58.820 --> 00:31:04.460
 Think about all that he's done for you so as to save you from your sins.

00:31:04.460 --> 00:31:11.579
 Think of the love that has gone towards the death that he died as we saw this morning.

00:31:12.299 --> 00:31:18.180
 Think of his commitment as we saw it to his death, despite everything that was tempting him

00:31:18.180 --> 00:31:21.880
 to draw aside from that, to turn back from that.

00:31:22.620 --> 00:31:27.100
 And as you think of the commitment of Jesus, the love of Jesus,

00:31:27.799 --> 00:31:30.620
 the way that Jesus saw it through right to the end,

00:31:30.619 --> 00:31:34.459
 even refusing what might indeed have dulled his pain.

00:31:36.379 --> 00:31:41.799
 Think tonight if you're here and you're not yet openly following Christ.

00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:44.819
 Think of how he sees that.

00:31:46.000 --> 00:31:49.859
 Why should you keep it hidden when he did all this for you?

00:31:51.039 --> 00:31:52.819
 Why should you not make it known?

00:31:52.819 --> 00:31:56.899
 Why should you not be at the next communion, God willing,

00:31:57.679 --> 00:32:00.899
 and sitting with the Lord's people at his table?

00:32:01.879 --> 00:32:04.339
 Love needs to be made known.

00:32:04.659 --> 00:32:07.000
 Love indeed will at some point make itself known.

00:32:07.819 --> 00:32:10.859
 And for whatever good reason they had to keep it hidden,

00:32:11.359 --> 00:32:14.819
 there's nothing there that would say this is actually a good thing.

00:32:14.819 --> 00:32:21.159
 And so for all of you today who are here and have not yet come to take communion

00:32:21.159 --> 00:32:25.000
 or taken the step of making known that you are Christ's,

00:32:25.939 --> 00:32:28.639
 please consider what that means.

00:32:29.599 --> 00:32:32.399
 And if you're here tonight and you've not yet accepted Jesus,

00:32:33.439 --> 00:32:35.240
 if you know the gospel as you do,

00:32:35.619 --> 00:32:40.279
 and I've heard many times of Jesus actually being offered to us in the gospel,

00:32:40.619 --> 00:32:42.819
 offering himself to us in the gospel,

00:32:42.819 --> 00:32:47.019
 why should you be amongst those who have not accepted him?

00:32:47.740 --> 00:32:51.779
 Why should you be left out of salvation through Jesus and in Jesus?

00:32:52.799 --> 00:32:56.939
 Why should you go on to live and go on living without him

00:32:56.939 --> 00:33:01.039
 when you know that God in his word commends him

00:33:01.039 --> 00:33:05.899
 as one to love, one to serve, one to trust in,

00:33:06.480 --> 00:33:09.259
 one to look forward to meeting in heaven?

00:33:09.259 --> 00:33:14.700
 This is love previously hidden and love actually now revealed.

00:33:15.220 --> 00:33:19.640
 And when you go to Mark's gospel, Mark chapter 15 and verse 43,

00:33:20.180 --> 00:33:23.259
 you read there that they took courage.

00:33:24.539 --> 00:33:31.160
 He actually went and took courage to demand or to request really of Pontius Pilate,

00:33:31.259 --> 00:33:34.660
 the governor, that he would release the body of Jesus.

00:33:34.660 --> 00:33:37.720
 Joseph himself, a respected member of the council,

00:33:38.360 --> 00:33:41.420
 who was himself looking for the kingdom of God, as Mark puts it,

00:33:41.800 --> 00:33:46.640
 he took courage and went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.

00:33:47.259 --> 00:33:49.980
 Now, there's one thing that's going to give you courage,

00:33:49.980 --> 00:33:54.660
 is to actually contemplate the death of Jesus, the cross of Jesus,

00:33:54.660 --> 00:33:58.540
 and to contemplate for yourself what that means to you,

00:33:58.660 --> 00:33:59.900
 what he's done for you.

00:34:00.200 --> 00:34:04.080
 And that really surely brings courage to the fore

00:34:04.080 --> 00:34:05.880
 so that you come out as well,

00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:08.980
 even if you would not say of yourself,

00:34:09.119 --> 00:34:10.920
 well, this is a very courageous thing to do.

00:34:11.240 --> 00:34:12.619
 It's the right thing to do.

00:34:12.619 --> 00:34:16.920
 And certainly in that context, it was a courageous thing to do

00:34:16.920 --> 00:34:21.960
 because it was difficult for them knowing what might result in consequence.

00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:24.380
 And there are many people tonight in the world

00:34:24.380 --> 00:34:28.480
 who have far more difficult circumstances than any of us have,

00:34:28.519 --> 00:34:30.240
 or most of us at least have.

00:34:30.619 --> 00:34:34.460
 Places in the world where coming out on the side of Christ

00:34:34.460 --> 00:34:37.000
 will almost inevitably lead to your death,

00:34:38.159 --> 00:34:43.019
 especially where there are authorities that have either

00:34:43.019 --> 00:34:47.280
 an antipathy to the gospel one way or the other,

00:34:47.280 --> 00:34:50.720
 or follow other different religions that are in antipathy

00:34:50.720 --> 00:34:54.620
 and indeed at times a hatred of the gospel and a hatred of Jesus.

00:34:55.280 --> 00:34:58.080
 These people actually have to come as they believe in Christ

00:34:58.080 --> 00:35:01.080
 and come to make it known that they are Christ's people

00:35:01.080 --> 00:35:03.180
 and make it known that they follow him,

00:35:03.280 --> 00:35:05.960
 that they are indeed disciples of Christ.

00:35:06.400 --> 00:35:09.240
 We have the privilege of the freedoms that we have

00:35:09.240 --> 00:35:12.040
 and our difficulties are relatively small

00:35:12.040 --> 00:35:15.600
 compared to the difficulties of other disciples in the world

00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:16.920
 who have come out and said,

00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:18.139
 no, this is where we stand.

00:35:18.559 --> 00:35:19.420
 We love him.

00:35:19.779 --> 00:35:20.940
 We want to serve him.

00:35:21.339 --> 00:35:22.299
 He is our Lord.

00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:24.819
 And we want to make it plain

00:35:24.819 --> 00:35:27.079
 that we are a believing people

00:35:27.079 --> 00:35:30.179
 who follow the Lord Jesus Christ.

00:35:31.360 --> 00:35:35.839
 Faith takes courage from the death of Christ,

00:35:35.980 --> 00:35:38.940
 from contemplating what that death has meant

00:35:38.940 --> 00:35:41.299
 to the person who is a disciple.

00:35:41.300 --> 00:35:45.360
 You can go to chapter 12 here, for example,

00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:47.780
 and find another example of that,

00:35:48.060 --> 00:35:50.280
 a real difficulty outwardly.

00:35:50.740 --> 00:35:52.760
 And for this woman, in chapter 12,

00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:55.180
 Mary, who anointed Jesus at Bethany.

00:35:55.980 --> 00:35:57.200
 This is how the chapter begins,

00:35:57.320 --> 00:35:58.620
 six days before the Passover.

00:35:59.340 --> 00:36:01.400
 He came to Bethany where Lazarus was,

00:36:01.560 --> 00:36:03.640
 whom Jesus had raised from the dead.

00:36:04.120 --> 00:36:05.820
 And they gave a dinner for him there.

00:36:06.460 --> 00:36:07.260
 Martha served.

00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:11.260
 Lazarus was one of those reclining at a table with him.

00:36:11.940 --> 00:36:13.280
 Now just think of the context.

00:36:13.760 --> 00:36:15.060
 Very, very public thing.

00:36:15.840 --> 00:36:18.280
 Here was Lazarus, who'd been raised from the dead,

00:36:19.600 --> 00:36:21.700
 gathering, grabbing the notice, if you like,

00:36:21.720 --> 00:36:22.880
 of so many people around

00:36:22.880 --> 00:36:24.600
 who knew that he had been buried,

00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:26.400
 that he had in fact died.

00:36:26.840 --> 00:36:27.860
 And yet here he was,

00:36:28.200 --> 00:36:30.880
 sharing a table with the Lord, with Jesus.

00:36:32.220 --> 00:36:33.140
 Mary, therefore,

00:36:33.740 --> 00:36:35.940
 took a pound of expensive ointment

00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:37.680
 made from pure nard

00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:39.859
 and anointed the feet of Jesus

00:36:39.859 --> 00:36:41.699
 and wiped his feet with her hair.

00:36:42.699 --> 00:36:44.000
 And she's saying about him,

00:36:44.579 --> 00:36:46.500
 I can't let this opportunity go

00:36:46.500 --> 00:36:49.059
 without showing my love for him,

00:36:49.659 --> 00:36:51.539
 without showing what he means to me,

00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:54.500
 without showing that he is just so special,

00:36:55.139 --> 00:36:57.859
 that although this is a very costly ointment,

00:36:57.860 --> 00:36:59.820
 I have to use it

00:36:59.820 --> 00:37:01.340
 and I have to spend it

00:37:01.340 --> 00:37:03.420
 and I have to pour it out for him.

00:37:04.940 --> 00:37:07.280
 And of course, Judas Iscariot said,

00:37:07.380 --> 00:37:10.240
 why was this ointment not sold for 300 denarii

00:37:10.240 --> 00:37:11.500
 and given to the poor?

00:37:12.220 --> 00:37:14.420
 He said this not because he cared about the poor,

00:37:14.740 --> 00:37:15.980
 but because he was a thief

00:37:15.980 --> 00:37:18.099
 and having charge of the money bag.

00:37:18.180 --> 00:37:20.059
 He used to help himself to what was put in it.

00:37:20.059 --> 00:37:21.239
 And Jesus said,

00:37:21.799 --> 00:37:23.079
 leave her alone

00:37:23.079 --> 00:37:25.000
 so that she may keep it

00:37:25.000 --> 00:37:26.099
 or she has kept it

00:37:26.099 --> 00:37:28.940
 for the day of my burial.

00:37:29.619 --> 00:37:31.699
 You see, she saw in Jesus

00:37:31.699 --> 00:37:35.400
 the one who was going to die for her sins.

00:37:35.900 --> 00:37:38.119
 And here she is showing her affection

00:37:38.119 --> 00:37:39.019
 for the cross,

00:37:39.279 --> 00:37:40.360
 for the death of Jesus,

00:37:40.559 --> 00:37:42.659
 for the Jesus who is about to die.

00:37:43.799 --> 00:37:44.960
 And this is what she does.

00:37:45.380 --> 00:37:47.039
 It's not too costly for her

00:37:47.039 --> 00:37:48.820
 to spend this on him,

00:37:48.820 --> 00:37:50.760
 to pour this out on him.

00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:53.360
 You know, sometimes we think about

00:37:53.360 --> 00:37:55.780
 the cost of following Jesus.

00:37:56.280 --> 00:37:57.320
 And in a sense, of course,

00:37:57.380 --> 00:37:59.880
 there is a cost to following Jesus.

00:38:00.559 --> 00:38:01.720
 You attract attention.

00:38:02.820 --> 00:38:04.340
 There's difficulties and challenges

00:38:04.340 --> 00:38:07.420
 facing you in confessing your faith in Christ

00:38:07.420 --> 00:38:10.260
 in a world that largely doesn't want to know him.

00:38:11.420 --> 00:38:12.920
 But what is cost

00:38:12.920 --> 00:38:15.260
 compared to the cost for him?

00:38:15.260 --> 00:38:19.580
 What is the cost of this very expensive ointment

00:38:19.580 --> 00:38:21.980
 compared to the Jesus

00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:25.900
 on whose body this was poured out?

00:38:26.360 --> 00:38:27.620
 You see, for Mary,

00:38:28.380 --> 00:38:29.760
 it's not costly at all.

00:38:30.220 --> 00:38:31.500
 It's the least she can do.

00:38:31.940 --> 00:38:33.100
 For Judas Iscariot,

00:38:33.200 --> 00:38:34.300
 hypocrite as he was,

00:38:34.680 --> 00:38:36.840
 this is far too much to spend on Jesus.

00:38:37.240 --> 00:38:38.940
 And you'll find so many people in the world

00:38:38.940 --> 00:38:40.120
 that will say to you tonight,

00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:42.480
 you surely don't want to give your life to him.

00:38:42.480 --> 00:38:45.740
 You surely don't want to spend that much of time with him

00:38:45.740 --> 00:38:47.039
 or energy for him.

00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:49.079
 Surely that's just a bit of a waste, really.

00:38:49.179 --> 00:38:50.880
 Think of all else you could do with your life

00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:53.860
 instead of coming openly to be one of Jesus' disciples.

00:38:56.820 --> 00:38:58.179
 Well, it's not too much

00:38:58.179 --> 00:39:01.179
 when you consider what he has done for his people.

00:39:02.539 --> 00:39:05.420
 And we've come from the Lord's table today.

00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:08.559
 And now here at the cross,

00:39:08.700 --> 00:39:13.079
 we find Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus

00:39:13.079 --> 00:39:15.400
 coming into the open,

00:39:15.920 --> 00:39:17.320
 showing their love for Jesus

00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:19.059
 and love for his body now,

00:39:19.460 --> 00:39:20.460
 hanging on the cross.

00:39:21.780 --> 00:39:22.780
 Surely you're saying,

00:39:23.180 --> 00:39:24.440
 I have to do that as well.

00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:27.400
 I can't let this moment pass

00:39:27.400 --> 00:39:29.820
 and just let the world go on

00:39:29.820 --> 00:39:31.400
 thinking that I don't belong to him.

00:39:31.400 --> 00:39:33.840
 I will do what they did.

00:39:34.700 --> 00:39:35.700
 I'll come out

00:39:35.700 --> 00:39:37.360
 and I'll show

00:39:37.360 --> 00:39:39.360
 that I love him

00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:41.820
 and I love what he's done for me.

00:39:42.740 --> 00:39:44.860
 So there's love becoming public.

00:39:46.019 --> 00:39:47.200
 But secondly, let's look at

00:39:47.200 --> 00:39:48.780
 love's action

00:39:48.780 --> 00:39:50.780
 towards this Jesus.

00:39:51.639 --> 00:39:52.780
 And the first thing you notice here

00:39:52.780 --> 00:39:54.200
 is that Joseph

00:39:54.200 --> 00:39:55.900
 had a tomb,

00:39:56.119 --> 00:39:57.860
 which actually was his own tomb.

00:39:57.960 --> 00:39:58.400
 It was taken

00:39:58.400 --> 00:40:00.400
 and created for himself

00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:01.980
 a garden,

00:40:02.059 --> 00:40:02.460
 in the garden,

00:40:02.539 --> 00:40:03.180
 a new tomb

00:40:03.180 --> 00:40:05.360
 in which no one had yet been laid.

00:40:05.460 --> 00:40:06.860
 And from Matthew's Gospel,

00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:07.900
 chapter 27

00:40:07.900 --> 00:40:09.519
 and verse 60,

00:40:09.559 --> 00:40:10.780
 you find this was actually

00:40:10.780 --> 00:40:12.619
 for Joseph himself.

00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:14.280
 He had prepared this tomb

00:40:14.280 --> 00:40:15.539
 for himself

00:40:15.539 --> 00:40:16.740
 long before this

00:40:16.740 --> 00:40:17.220
 or sometime

00:40:17.220 --> 00:40:18.400
 before this,

00:40:18.500 --> 00:40:20.220
 before he ever came

00:40:20.220 --> 00:40:23.280
 to carry the body of Jesus

00:40:23.280 --> 00:40:24.280
 and place it there.

00:40:24.280 --> 00:40:26.620
 And so,

00:40:26.860 --> 00:40:28.100
 that was for himself

00:40:28.100 --> 00:40:29.620
 to begin with.

00:40:30.540 --> 00:40:31.600
 But here he is saying,

00:40:31.680 --> 00:40:31.760
 no,

00:40:32.120 --> 00:40:33.640
 actually I'm going to give this

00:40:33.640 --> 00:40:34.280
 to Christ.

00:40:35.200 --> 00:40:36.260
 I'm going to give this

00:40:36.260 --> 00:40:38.080
 for his body.

00:40:39.060 --> 00:40:40.040
 This is not going to be

00:40:40.040 --> 00:40:41.180
 for me after all.

00:40:41.860 --> 00:40:43.019
 It'll be for him.

00:40:43.940 --> 00:40:44.740
 It'll be for him

00:40:44.740 --> 00:40:45.180
 who did

00:40:45.180 --> 00:40:46.500
 this for me

00:40:46.500 --> 00:40:47.460
 to die the death

00:40:47.460 --> 00:40:49.019
 that he died on the cross.

00:40:49.660 --> 00:40:50.640
 And it was a new tomb.

00:40:50.720 --> 00:40:51.420
 It was significant

00:40:51.420 --> 00:40:53.260
 that nobody had ever been

00:40:53.260 --> 00:40:54.519
 an occupant

00:40:54.519 --> 00:40:55.539
 of that chamber.

00:40:56.340 --> 00:40:57.139
 Nobody had ever been

00:40:57.139 --> 00:40:57.720
 in that tomb.

00:40:57.780 --> 00:40:59.019
 It was for Joseph himself.

00:40:59.500 --> 00:41:00.700
 And that's significant too

00:41:00.700 --> 00:41:01.900
 because it's set apart

00:41:01.900 --> 00:41:02.780
 exclusively

00:41:02.780 --> 00:41:04.579
 for Jesus himself.

00:41:05.619 --> 00:41:05.760
 Now,

00:41:05.780 --> 00:41:06.480
 when you think of that

00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:06.980
 and go to

00:41:06.980 --> 00:41:08.000
 the Old Testament,

00:41:08.500 --> 00:41:09.000
 let me just

00:41:09.000 --> 00:41:10.619
 turn your minds

00:41:10.619 --> 00:41:11.860
 to Psalm 45.

00:41:12.680 --> 00:41:13.240
 Psalm 45

00:41:13.240 --> 00:41:14.579
 is a royal psalm.

00:41:15.300 --> 00:41:15.740
 A psalm

00:41:15.740 --> 00:41:17.019
 that anticipates Jesus.

00:41:17.240 --> 00:41:17.559
 A psalm

00:41:17.559 --> 00:41:18.760
 that's prophetic

00:41:18.760 --> 00:41:19.539
 of Jesus.

00:41:19.539 --> 00:41:21.659
 And all the way

00:41:21.659 --> 00:41:23.039
 through that wonderful psalm,

00:41:23.539 --> 00:41:24.559
 you'll find the psalmist

00:41:24.559 --> 00:41:26.099
 expressing his love.

00:41:26.420 --> 00:41:27.880
 My heart overflows

00:41:27.880 --> 00:41:29.420
 with a pleasing thing.

00:41:29.500 --> 00:41:30.139
 My address,

00:41:30.279 --> 00:41:30.779
 my verses

00:41:30.779 --> 00:41:31.779
 to the king.

00:41:32.460 --> 00:41:33.579
 You are the most handsome

00:41:33.579 --> 00:41:34.800
 of the sons of men.

00:41:35.340 --> 00:41:36.400
 Grace is poured

00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:37.699
 upon your lips.

00:41:38.559 --> 00:41:39.739
 And then he appeals

00:41:39.739 --> 00:41:40.259
 to him

00:41:40.259 --> 00:41:41.199
 to ride out

00:41:41.199 --> 00:41:42.099
 victoriously

00:41:42.099 --> 00:41:43.320
 to conquer

00:41:43.320 --> 00:41:43.900
 his enemies.

00:41:44.599 --> 00:41:45.099
 And then he comes

00:41:45.099 --> 00:41:45.840
 to verse 6.

00:41:45.840 --> 00:41:46.639
 Your throne,

00:41:47.139 --> 00:41:47.659
 O God,

00:41:47.719 --> 00:41:49.019
 is forever and ever.

00:41:49.019 --> 00:41:50.179
 The scepter

00:41:50.179 --> 00:41:51.579
 of your kingdom

00:41:51.579 --> 00:41:52.960
 is a scepter

00:41:52.960 --> 00:41:53.739
 of righteousness.

00:41:53.980 --> 00:41:54.659
 The kingliness

00:41:54.659 --> 00:41:55.259
 of Jesus.

00:41:55.679 --> 00:41:56.940
 Remember this tomb

00:41:56.940 --> 00:41:58.880
 that Joseph had,

00:41:58.980 --> 00:41:59.800
 which was for himself

00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:00.380
 originally,

00:42:00.860 --> 00:42:01.519
 is now coming

00:42:01.519 --> 00:42:02.500
 to be provided

00:42:02.500 --> 00:42:03.219
 for Jesus,

00:42:03.480 --> 00:42:04.219
 who is,

00:42:04.259 --> 00:42:05.159
 as we saw this morning,

00:42:05.280 --> 00:42:05.780
 the king,

00:42:06.420 --> 00:42:07.259
 despite the fact

00:42:07.259 --> 00:42:08.400
 that he was mocked

00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:09.300
 for claiming

00:42:09.300 --> 00:42:10.099
 to be such.

00:42:11.059 --> 00:42:11.440
 Therefore,

00:42:11.639 --> 00:42:11.960
 God,

00:42:12.039 --> 00:42:12.659
 your God,

00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:13.860
 has anointed you.

00:42:13.940 --> 00:42:14.679
 You have loved

00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:15.659
 righteousness

00:42:15.659 --> 00:42:17.159
 and hated wickedness.

00:42:17.159 --> 00:42:18.279
 Your robes

00:42:18.279 --> 00:42:19.219
 are all fragrant

00:42:19.219 --> 00:42:20.440
 with myrrh

00:42:20.440 --> 00:42:21.179
 and aloes.

00:42:21.219 --> 00:42:21.879
 Who would have thought

00:42:21.879 --> 00:42:23.719
 that these items

00:42:23.719 --> 00:42:24.679
 would have been seen

00:42:24.679 --> 00:42:25.819
 in the anointing

00:42:25.819 --> 00:42:27.259
 of Jesus' dead body

00:42:27.259 --> 00:42:29.179
 prior to his burial?

00:42:29.619 --> 00:42:30.099
 How wonderful

00:42:30.099 --> 00:42:31.199
 the scripture is,

00:42:31.420 --> 00:42:32.379
 just as we find

00:42:32.379 --> 00:42:33.279
 in Psalm 22,

00:42:33.899 --> 00:42:35.000
 such a reference

00:42:35.000 --> 00:42:36.000
 minutely to

00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:37.379
 the way that his body

00:42:37.379 --> 00:42:38.199
 was pierced

00:42:38.199 --> 00:42:39.440
 and his hands

00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:40.099
 and his feet.

00:42:41.079 --> 00:42:42.119
 So here you find

00:42:42.119 --> 00:42:43.099
 a reference

00:42:43.099 --> 00:42:43.899
 to the kingliness

00:42:43.899 --> 00:42:44.579
 of Jesus.

00:42:44.579 --> 00:42:46.119
 And all the way

00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:46.360
 through,

00:42:46.500 --> 00:42:47.400
 you follow it

00:42:47.400 --> 00:42:48.799
 through,

00:42:49.000 --> 00:42:50.079
 and you can see

00:42:50.079 --> 00:42:50.699
 that it says

00:42:50.699 --> 00:42:52.420
 that all glorious

00:42:52.420 --> 00:42:53.299
 is the princess

00:42:53.299 --> 00:42:54.360
 in her chamber.

00:42:54.900 --> 00:42:55.980
 You can take that

00:42:55.980 --> 00:42:57.099
 as an emblem

00:42:57.099 --> 00:42:57.679
 or a picture

00:42:57.679 --> 00:42:58.860
 of God's people

00:42:58.860 --> 00:42:59.579
 as the church

00:42:59.579 --> 00:43:00.319
 that are married

00:43:00.319 --> 00:43:00.920
 to Jesus.

00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:02.039
 What does he say?

00:43:02.319 --> 00:43:03.179
 With joy

00:43:03.179 --> 00:43:04.340
 and gladness

00:43:04.340 --> 00:43:06.119
 they are led along

00:43:06.119 --> 00:43:07.199
 as they enter

00:43:07.199 --> 00:43:07.920
 the palace

00:43:07.920 --> 00:43:09.039
 of the king

00:43:09.039 --> 00:43:09.779
 and so on.

00:43:10.099 --> 00:43:10.719
 But what I'm saying

00:43:10.719 --> 00:43:11.559
 is that here

00:43:11.559 --> 00:43:12.219
 is an example

00:43:12.219 --> 00:43:12.960
 of Jesus,

00:43:13.099 --> 00:43:14.340
 the royal king,

00:43:14.340 --> 00:43:15.100
 that he is.

00:43:15.820 --> 00:43:16.440
 And you go to

00:43:16.440 --> 00:43:17.539
 John's gospel there

00:43:17.539 --> 00:43:18.800
 and you'll find

00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:21.420
 that this tomb

00:43:21.420 --> 00:43:21.980
 that's given

00:43:21.980 --> 00:43:23.260
 specially for him

00:43:23.260 --> 00:43:25.320
 is really amounting

00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:26.680
 to a royal burial.

00:43:27.660 --> 00:43:28.240
 It amounts to

00:43:28.240 --> 00:43:28.820
 the burial

00:43:28.820 --> 00:43:29.519
 of a king.

00:43:30.519 --> 00:43:31.320
 It's the least

00:43:31.320 --> 00:43:32.220
 he deserves

00:43:32.220 --> 00:43:33.760
 to have a tomb

00:43:33.760 --> 00:43:34.559
 in which no one

00:43:34.559 --> 00:43:36.180
 was ever yet laid.

00:43:37.500 --> 00:43:38.760
 And there

00:43:38.760 --> 00:43:39.559
 they laid

00:43:39.559 --> 00:43:41.200
 Jesus.

00:43:41.780 --> 00:43:42.519
 Now notice that.

00:43:42.519 --> 00:43:44.539
 Since the tomb

00:43:44.539 --> 00:43:45.280
 was at hand

00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:46.480
 because of the

00:43:46.480 --> 00:43:47.659
 Jewish day of preparation,

00:43:48.159 --> 00:43:48.780
 since the tomb

00:43:48.780 --> 00:43:49.780
 was close at hand,

00:43:50.340 --> 00:43:51.079
 they laid

00:43:51.079 --> 00:43:52.960
 Jesus there.

00:43:53.880 --> 00:43:54.360
 Now you go to

00:43:54.360 --> 00:43:55.179
 the other gospels

00:43:55.179 --> 00:43:56.360
 that speak mostly

00:43:56.360 --> 00:43:57.400
 about his body.

00:43:57.780 --> 00:43:58.539
 That's not absent

00:43:58.539 --> 00:43:59.860
 obviously from this passage.

00:44:00.280 --> 00:44:01.280
 But why does it say

00:44:01.280 --> 00:44:02.599
 here in the final words

00:44:02.599 --> 00:44:03.880
 they laid

00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:05.639
 Jesus there?

00:44:06.159 --> 00:44:07.019
 It doesn't say

00:44:07.019 --> 00:44:08.300
 they laid his body there

00:44:08.300 --> 00:44:09.519
 although that of course

00:44:09.519 --> 00:44:10.280
 is what was happening.

00:44:10.280 --> 00:44:11.920
 but John saw fit

00:44:11.920 --> 00:44:12.320
 to say

00:44:12.320 --> 00:44:13.240
 they laid

00:44:13.240 --> 00:44:14.380
 Jesus there.

00:44:14.500 --> 00:44:15.240
 Why is that?

00:44:16.080 --> 00:44:17.040
 What makes the difference?

00:44:17.140 --> 00:44:18.040
 Why is he saying this?

00:44:18.400 --> 00:44:19.320
 Well because I think

00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:20.720
 we're led into

00:44:20.720 --> 00:44:22.220
 how

00:44:22.220 --> 00:44:23.820
 the burial

00:44:23.820 --> 00:44:24.600
 of the body

00:44:24.600 --> 00:44:25.240
 of Jesus

00:44:25.240 --> 00:44:26.700
 was something

00:44:26.700 --> 00:44:27.200
 that was

00:44:27.200 --> 00:44:27.920
 attached

00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:29.240
 so closely

00:44:29.240 --> 00:44:29.840
 so intimately

00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:30.860
 to his person.

00:44:31.320 --> 00:44:32.160
 Remember when you think

00:44:32.160 --> 00:44:33.220
 of the person

00:44:33.220 --> 00:44:33.800
 of Jesus

00:44:33.800 --> 00:44:35.260
 who is this Jesus?

00:44:36.160 --> 00:44:36.720
 You don't think

00:44:36.720 --> 00:44:37.880
 of his human nature

00:44:37.880 --> 00:44:39.280
 to answer the question

00:44:39.280 --> 00:44:40.320
 who is he?

00:44:41.140 --> 00:44:42.539
 You go to his divine nature

00:44:42.539 --> 00:44:43.619
 as the son of God.

00:44:43.980 --> 00:44:44.599
 He is

00:44:44.599 --> 00:44:45.740
 the son of God.

00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:46.940
 That's his identity.

00:44:47.320 --> 00:44:48.039
 The son of God

00:44:48.039 --> 00:44:48.820
 who has taken

00:44:48.820 --> 00:44:49.519
 human nature

00:44:49.519 --> 00:44:50.260
 to himself

00:44:50.260 --> 00:44:51.980
 but he is

00:44:51.980 --> 00:44:52.840
 the son of God

00:44:52.840 --> 00:44:53.800
 and that's what

00:44:53.800 --> 00:44:54.860
 identifies him.

00:44:55.440 --> 00:44:56.220
 And when it says here

00:44:56.220 --> 00:44:57.220
 that they laid

00:44:57.220 --> 00:44:58.220
 Jesus there

00:44:58.220 --> 00:44:59.740
 the experience

00:44:59.740 --> 00:45:00.539
 of death

00:45:00.539 --> 00:45:01.500
 the experience

00:45:01.500 --> 00:45:02.820
 of being buried

00:45:02.820 --> 00:45:04.059
 was something

00:45:04.059 --> 00:45:05.079
 that was experienced

00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:07.299
 by the son of God.

00:45:07.460 --> 00:45:08.319
 We're not saying

00:45:08.319 --> 00:45:09.460
 that God

00:45:09.460 --> 00:45:10.460
 in his divine nature

00:45:10.460 --> 00:45:11.219
 died

00:45:11.219 --> 00:45:13.059
 which could not be

00:45:13.059 --> 00:45:15.199
 but it is the son of God

00:45:15.199 --> 00:45:16.819
 the divine son of God

00:45:16.819 --> 00:45:18.139
 the second person

00:45:18.139 --> 00:45:18.920
 of the Trinity

00:45:18.920 --> 00:45:19.920
 that God is

00:45:19.920 --> 00:45:21.360
 who comes here

00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:22.279
 to experience

00:45:22.279 --> 00:45:24.380
 his being buried

00:45:24.380 --> 00:45:25.079
 bodily.

00:45:26.420 --> 00:45:27.739
 And that's so important

00:45:27.739 --> 00:45:28.400
 too for us

00:45:28.400 --> 00:45:28.759
 because

00:45:28.759 --> 00:45:29.779
 Jesus

00:45:29.779 --> 00:45:31.340
 experienced

00:45:31.340 --> 00:45:33.259
 every aspect

00:45:33.260 --> 00:45:34.160
 of death

00:45:34.160 --> 00:45:35.440
 that belongs

00:45:35.440 --> 00:45:36.120
 to death.

00:45:36.640 --> 00:45:37.300
 We saw this morning

00:45:37.300 --> 00:45:39.040
 spiritual death

00:45:39.040 --> 00:45:40.140
 the death he experienced

00:45:40.140 --> 00:45:40.920
 in his soul

00:45:40.920 --> 00:45:42.640
 which was

00:45:42.640 --> 00:45:44.160
 something

00:45:44.160 --> 00:45:46.100
 of the greatest

00:45:46.100 --> 00:45:47.320
 possible pain

00:45:47.320 --> 00:45:49.000
 separation

00:45:49.000 --> 00:45:50.620
 from God.

00:45:51.900 --> 00:45:52.560
 And if you go to

00:45:52.560 --> 00:45:53.040
 the likes of

00:45:53.040 --> 00:45:54.340
 1 Corinthians 15

00:45:54.340 --> 00:45:55.600
 and verse 4

00:45:55.600 --> 00:45:56.380
 where Paul says

00:45:56.380 --> 00:45:57.720
 I delivered to you

00:45:57.720 --> 00:45:58.780
 what I received

00:45:58.780 --> 00:45:59.900
 from the Lord.

00:46:00.400 --> 00:46:01.400
 It's so significant

00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:02.800
 that in terms

00:46:02.800 --> 00:46:03.740
 of that summary

00:46:03.740 --> 00:46:04.780
 of the gospel

00:46:04.780 --> 00:46:05.440
 what Jesus

00:46:05.440 --> 00:46:08.119
 had given to Paul

00:46:08.119 --> 00:46:09.200
 to then deliver

00:46:09.200 --> 00:46:10.280
 in the message

00:46:10.280 --> 00:46:10.980
 of the gospel

00:46:10.980 --> 00:46:12.039
 it actually

00:46:12.039 --> 00:46:12.960
 involves

00:46:12.960 --> 00:46:14.079
 also includes

00:46:14.079 --> 00:46:15.380
 that he was

00:46:15.380 --> 00:46:16.059
 buried

00:46:16.059 --> 00:46:18.039
 because the apostles

00:46:18.039 --> 00:46:18.680
 saw this

00:46:18.680 --> 00:46:19.840
 as an important

00:46:19.840 --> 00:46:20.599
 emphasis

00:46:20.599 --> 00:46:21.340
 and element

00:46:21.340 --> 00:46:22.619
 in thinking

00:46:22.619 --> 00:46:23.420
 about the death

00:46:23.420 --> 00:46:23.840
 of Jesus

00:46:23.840 --> 00:46:24.780
 and what followed.

00:46:26.079 --> 00:46:26.900
 They specifically

00:46:26.900 --> 00:46:27.519
 mentioned

00:46:27.519 --> 00:46:29.019
 that he was buried

00:46:29.019 --> 00:46:30.300
 and in our own

00:46:30.300 --> 00:46:31.000
 catechism

00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:32.780
 in our own

00:46:32.780 --> 00:46:34.500
 confession

00:46:34.500 --> 00:46:35.079
 of faith

00:46:35.079 --> 00:46:35.440
 as well

00:46:35.440 --> 00:46:36.280
 these documents

00:46:36.280 --> 00:46:37.739
 those who drew up

00:46:37.739 --> 00:46:38.099
 these

00:46:38.099 --> 00:46:39.719
 followed the scriptures

00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:41.019
 which referred

00:46:41.019 --> 00:46:42.099
 to him being

00:46:42.099 --> 00:46:42.880
 buried

00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:44.159
 that that was part

00:46:44.159 --> 00:46:45.079
 of his humiliation

00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:46.800
 he died on the cross

00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:48.239
 and he was

00:46:48.239 --> 00:46:48.639
 buried.

00:46:53.079 --> 00:46:53.759
 And

00:46:53.759 --> 00:46:54.940
 in other words

00:46:54.940 --> 00:46:56.420
 it's part of what

00:46:56.420 --> 00:46:57.920
 1 Corinthians 15

00:46:57.920 --> 00:46:59.099
 puts of first

00:46:59.099 --> 00:46:59.800
 importance

00:46:59.800 --> 00:47:00.380
 Paul says

00:47:00.380 --> 00:47:01.500
 that's what I

00:47:01.500 --> 00:47:02.500
 delivered to you

00:47:02.500 --> 00:47:03.539
 that which is of

00:47:03.539 --> 00:47:04.500
 first importance

00:47:04.500 --> 00:47:05.880
 how that Jesus

00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:07.539
 died for our sins

00:47:07.539 --> 00:47:08.340
 according to the

00:47:08.340 --> 00:47:08.639
 scripture

00:47:08.639 --> 00:47:10.119
 that he was buried

00:47:10.119 --> 00:47:11.559
 that he was raised

00:47:11.559 --> 00:47:12.440
 again the third

00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:13.079
 day.

00:47:15.680 --> 00:47:16.680
 Now there's

00:47:16.680 --> 00:47:17.840
 understandably

00:47:17.840 --> 00:47:18.400
 a fear

00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:19.139
 on our part

00:47:19.139 --> 00:47:19.820
 to some extent

00:47:19.820 --> 00:47:20.280
 at least

00:47:20.280 --> 00:47:21.980
 of the grave

00:47:21.980 --> 00:47:24.500
 when you stand

00:47:24.500 --> 00:47:25.639
 at an open

00:47:25.639 --> 00:47:26.400
 graveside

00:47:26.400 --> 00:47:27.920
 a dot

00:47:27.920 --> 00:47:28.420
 to give us

00:47:28.420 --> 00:47:28.960
 a chill

00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:31.160
 I've done that

00:47:31.160 --> 00:47:32.360
 nearly 300 times

00:47:32.360 --> 00:47:33.740
 even since I came

00:47:33.740 --> 00:47:34.619
 here to Stornoway

00:47:34.619 --> 00:47:36.880
 and every time

00:47:36.880 --> 00:47:37.800
 you stand there

00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:39.660
 which should

00:47:39.660 --> 00:47:40.220
 actually have

00:47:40.220 --> 00:47:40.820
 that impact

00:47:40.820 --> 00:47:41.519
 upon us

00:47:41.519 --> 00:47:43.280
 you're seeing

00:47:43.280 --> 00:47:44.720
 death

00:47:44.720 --> 00:47:45.720
 in that body

00:47:45.720 --> 00:47:46.360
 being laid

00:47:46.360 --> 00:47:46.920
 to rest

00:47:46.920 --> 00:47:47.579
 in the tomb

00:47:47.579 --> 00:47:49.260
 separated from

00:47:49.260 --> 00:47:49.800
 the soul

00:47:49.800 --> 00:47:50.280
 that has gone

00:47:50.280 --> 00:47:50.960
 to eternity

00:47:50.960 --> 00:47:53.579
 very solemn

00:47:53.579 --> 00:47:54.139
 sight

00:47:54.139 --> 00:47:55.740
 something that

00:47:55.740 --> 00:47:56.059
 really

00:47:56.059 --> 00:47:57.260
 in some sense

00:47:57.260 --> 00:47:57.860
 fills us

00:47:57.860 --> 00:47:58.679
 with a sense

00:47:58.679 --> 00:47:59.280
 of dread

00:47:59.280 --> 00:48:01.039
 and it's

00:48:01.039 --> 00:48:01.659
 understandable

00:48:01.659 --> 00:48:02.840
 that we would

00:48:02.840 --> 00:48:04.199
 fear the grave

00:48:04.199 --> 00:48:05.380
 but you know

00:48:05.380 --> 00:48:06.099
 as a believer

00:48:06.099 --> 00:48:06.699
 in Christ

00:48:06.699 --> 00:48:07.199
 if you're

00:48:07.199 --> 00:48:07.760
 tonight

00:48:07.760 --> 00:48:08.340
 a believer

00:48:08.340 --> 00:48:08.900
 in Christ

00:48:08.900 --> 00:48:09.800
 you need

00:48:09.800 --> 00:48:10.480
 not fear

00:48:10.480 --> 00:48:11.079
 the grave

00:48:11.079 --> 00:48:11.699
 you need

00:48:11.699 --> 00:48:12.320
 not fear

00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:12.940
 your body

00:48:12.940 --> 00:48:13.599
 being laid

00:48:13.599 --> 00:48:14.400
 into the earth

00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:15.139
 and returning

00:48:15.139 --> 00:48:15.780
 to dust

00:48:15.780 --> 00:48:16.260
 why?

00:48:16.720 --> 00:48:17.600
 because he's

00:48:17.600 --> 00:48:18.040
 been there

00:48:18.040 --> 00:48:18.780
 before you

00:48:18.780 --> 00:48:20.820
 because he

00:48:20.820 --> 00:48:21.520
 the pioneer

00:48:21.520 --> 00:48:22.460
 who has

00:48:22.460 --> 00:48:23.540
 defeated death

00:48:23.540 --> 00:48:24.540
 has actually

00:48:24.540 --> 00:48:25.260
 experienced

00:48:25.260 --> 00:48:26.180
 even that

00:48:26.180 --> 00:48:27.300
 aspect of death

00:48:27.300 --> 00:48:28.740
 so that as he

00:48:28.740 --> 00:48:29.200
 comes to be

00:48:29.200 --> 00:48:29.800
 raised from

00:48:29.800 --> 00:48:30.220
 the dead

00:48:30.220 --> 00:48:30.700
 bodily

00:48:30.700 --> 00:48:32.540
 so that says

00:48:32.540 --> 00:48:32.960
 to you

00:48:32.960 --> 00:48:33.480
 and to me

00:48:33.480 --> 00:48:34.720
 I can see

00:48:34.720 --> 00:48:35.680
 now that death

00:48:35.680 --> 00:48:37.180
 in all its

00:48:37.180 --> 00:48:38.100
 completeness

00:48:38.100 --> 00:48:38.960
 has been

00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:39.600
 completely

00:48:39.600 --> 00:48:40.380
 vanquished

00:48:40.380 --> 00:48:42.020
 that spiritually

00:48:42.020 --> 00:48:43.220
 and physically

00:48:43.220 --> 00:48:44.780
 death is

00:48:44.780 --> 00:48:45.420
 swallowed up

00:48:45.420 --> 00:48:45.960
 by him

00:48:45.960 --> 00:48:47.519
 and therefore

00:48:47.519 --> 00:48:48.139
 why should I

00:48:48.139 --> 00:48:48.619
 fear

00:48:48.619 --> 00:48:50.900
 what happens

00:48:50.900 --> 00:48:51.639
 to my body

00:48:51.639 --> 00:48:53.119
 when I know

00:48:53.119 --> 00:48:53.840
 that Jesus

00:48:53.840 --> 00:48:55.380
 in terms of

00:48:55.380 --> 00:48:55.900
 his body

00:48:55.900 --> 00:48:56.559
 was laid

00:48:56.559 --> 00:48:58.360
 in the tomb

00:48:58.360 --> 00:48:59.079
 there

00:48:59.079 --> 00:49:00.820
 they laid

00:49:00.820 --> 00:49:01.920
 Jesus

00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:04.380
 he's been

00:49:04.380 --> 00:49:04.679
 there

00:49:04.679 --> 00:49:06.139
 ahead of us

00:49:06.139 --> 00:49:06.780
 already

00:49:06.780 --> 00:49:08.639
 so love's

00:49:08.639 --> 00:49:09.059
 action

00:49:09.059 --> 00:49:10.960
 in providing

00:49:10.960 --> 00:49:11.659
 this new

00:49:11.659 --> 00:49:11.960
 tomb

00:49:11.960 --> 00:49:13.619
 love's

00:49:13.619 --> 00:49:14.039
 action

00:49:14.039 --> 00:49:15.519
 in taking

00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:16.079
 the body

00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:16.820
 of Jesus

00:49:16.820 --> 00:49:17.699
 lovingly

00:49:17.699 --> 00:49:18.360
 and carefully

00:49:18.360 --> 00:49:19.920
 and laying

00:49:19.920 --> 00:49:20.759
 Jesus

00:49:20.759 --> 00:49:21.500
 in that

00:49:21.500 --> 00:49:21.780
 tomb

00:49:21.780 --> 00:49:23.460
 and love's

00:49:23.460 --> 00:49:23.719
 action

00:49:23.719 --> 00:49:24.259
 finally

00:49:24.259 --> 00:49:25.500
 in the fact

00:49:25.500 --> 00:49:26.019
 that here

00:49:26.019 --> 00:49:26.519
 you have

00:49:26.519 --> 00:49:27.559
 a garden

00:49:27.559 --> 00:49:29.800
 and it's

00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:30.500
 interesting how

00:49:30.500 --> 00:49:31.219
 the Bible

00:49:31.219 --> 00:49:32.380
 sometimes presents

00:49:32.380 --> 00:49:32.739
 us

00:49:32.739 --> 00:49:34.659
 with certain

00:49:34.659 --> 00:49:35.219
 teachings

00:49:35.219 --> 00:49:35.860
 involving

00:49:35.860 --> 00:49:36.980
 a garden

00:49:36.980 --> 00:49:38.719
 when God

00:49:38.719 --> 00:49:39.619
 created us

00:49:39.619 --> 00:49:40.240
 in the beginning

00:49:40.240 --> 00:49:41.260
 as you find

00:49:41.260 --> 00:49:41.740
 in the opening

00:49:41.740 --> 00:49:42.400
 chapters of

00:49:42.400 --> 00:49:42.760
 Genesis

00:49:42.760 --> 00:49:44.099
 he placed

00:49:44.099 --> 00:49:44.559
 Adam

00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:45.400
 and Eve

00:49:45.400 --> 00:49:46.260
 our first

00:49:46.260 --> 00:49:46.719
 parents

00:49:46.719 --> 00:49:47.619
 in the

00:49:47.619 --> 00:49:48.000
 garden

00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:48.639
 of Eden

00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:49.900
 they were

00:49:49.900 --> 00:49:50.320
 surrounded

00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:51.320
 by plenty

00:49:51.320 --> 00:49:52.420
 they were

00:49:52.420 --> 00:49:52.780
 surrounded

00:49:52.780 --> 00:49:53.699
 by everything

00:49:53.699 --> 00:49:54.460
 that was good

00:49:54.460 --> 00:49:54.960
 to see

00:49:54.960 --> 00:49:55.960
 and good

00:49:55.960 --> 00:49:56.519
 for them

00:49:56.519 --> 00:49:57.639
 they were

00:49:57.639 --> 00:49:57.980
 surrounded

00:49:57.980 --> 00:49:58.699
 by God's

00:49:58.699 --> 00:49:59.179
 provision

00:49:59.179 --> 00:50:01.000
 they had

00:50:01.000 --> 00:50:01.559
 access

00:50:01.559 --> 00:50:02.579
 to everything

00:50:02.579 --> 00:50:03.240
 there except

00:50:03.240 --> 00:50:03.719
 the one

00:50:03.719 --> 00:50:04.059
 tree

00:50:04.059 --> 00:50:05.340
 that God

00:50:05.340 --> 00:50:05.980
 had forbidden

00:50:05.980 --> 00:50:07.480
 which of course

00:50:07.480 --> 00:50:08.400
 sadly they came

00:50:08.400 --> 00:50:10.000
 to partake of

00:50:10.000 --> 00:50:10.840
 with devastating

00:50:10.840 --> 00:50:11.639
 results

00:50:11.639 --> 00:50:13.380
 and in each

00:50:13.380 --> 00:50:14.219
 of these gardens

00:50:14.219 --> 00:50:14.940
 here's a garden

00:50:14.940 --> 00:50:15.460
 as well

00:50:15.460 --> 00:50:16.539
 verse 41

00:50:16.539 --> 00:50:17.099
 in the place

00:50:17.099 --> 00:50:17.519
 where he was

00:50:17.519 --> 00:50:17.920
 crucified

00:50:17.920 --> 00:50:19.119
 there was a

00:50:19.119 --> 00:50:19.460
 garden

00:50:19.460 --> 00:50:19.960
 and in the

00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:20.259
 garden

00:50:20.259 --> 00:50:20.639
 a new

00:50:20.639 --> 00:50:20.960
 tomb

00:50:20.960 --> 00:50:22.639
 in the

00:50:22.639 --> 00:50:22.860
 garden

00:50:22.860 --> 00:50:23.400
 of Eden

00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:25.460
 sin

00:50:25.460 --> 00:50:26.480
 led

00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:27.340
 to death

00:50:27.340 --> 00:50:29.239
 and death

00:50:29.239 --> 00:50:30.219
 always involves

00:50:30.219 --> 00:50:31.279
 a grave

00:50:31.279 --> 00:50:32.119
 or most of

00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:32.579
 the time

00:50:32.579 --> 00:50:33.440
 apart from

00:50:33.440 --> 00:50:34.320
 those who

00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:35.179
 were taken

00:50:35.179 --> 00:50:35.679
 away from

00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:36.139
 this world

00:50:36.139 --> 00:50:36.760
 without seeing

00:50:36.760 --> 00:50:37.079
 death

00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:38.860
 such as

00:50:38.860 --> 00:50:39.720
 in the

00:50:39.720 --> 00:50:40.320
 Old Testament

00:50:40.320 --> 00:50:40.780
 you find

00:50:40.780 --> 00:50:41.200
 Enoch

00:50:41.200 --> 00:50:42.980
 but here is

00:50:42.980 --> 00:50:43.820
 by and large

00:50:43.820 --> 00:50:44.380
 what happens

00:50:44.380 --> 00:50:44.780
 to every

00:50:44.780 --> 00:50:45.539
 human being

00:50:45.539 --> 00:50:47.340
 we die

00:50:47.340 --> 00:50:49.240
 our body

00:50:49.240 --> 00:50:49.679
 is then

00:50:49.679 --> 00:50:50.059
 laid

00:50:50.059 --> 00:50:51.260
 into the

00:50:51.260 --> 00:50:51.679
 dust

00:50:51.679 --> 00:50:52.220
 in our

00:50:52.220 --> 00:50:52.980
 tradition

00:50:52.980 --> 00:50:53.800
 and practice

00:50:53.800 --> 00:50:58.539
 that happened

00:50:58.539 --> 00:50:58.780
 in the

00:50:58.780 --> 00:50:59.200
 garden of

00:50:59.200 --> 00:50:59.500
 Eden

00:50:59.500 --> 00:51:01.980
 what led

00:51:01.980 --> 00:51:02.420
 to that

00:51:02.420 --> 00:51:02.920
 grave

00:51:02.920 --> 00:51:03.380
 you could

00:51:03.380 --> 00:51:03.740
 say that

00:51:03.740 --> 00:51:04.900
 the grave

00:51:04.900 --> 00:51:05.380
 for human

00:51:05.380 --> 00:51:05.680
 beings

00:51:05.680 --> 00:51:06.519
 was created

00:51:06.519 --> 00:51:07.300
 in the

00:51:07.300 --> 00:51:07.800
 garden of

00:51:07.800 --> 00:51:08.000
 Eden

00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:08.980
 in consequence

00:51:08.980 --> 00:51:10.159
 of human

00:51:10.159 --> 00:51:10.599
 sin

00:51:10.599 --> 00:51:11.480
 a rebellion

00:51:11.480 --> 00:51:12.420
 against God

00:51:12.420 --> 00:51:13.139
 in the day

00:51:13.139 --> 00:51:13.659
 in which he

00:51:13.659 --> 00:51:14.240
 said to Adam

00:51:14.240 --> 00:51:15.039
 in the day

00:51:15.039 --> 00:51:15.700
 in which you

00:51:15.700 --> 00:51:16.260
 eat of it

00:51:16.260 --> 00:51:17.099
 you shall

00:51:17.099 --> 00:51:18.480
 surely die

00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:20.340
 that's what

00:51:20.340 --> 00:51:20.920
 happened

00:51:20.920 --> 00:51:22.840
 and here is

00:51:22.840 --> 00:51:23.559
 another garden

00:51:23.559 --> 00:51:25.740
 and while it is

00:51:25.740 --> 00:51:26.579
 indeed the case

00:51:26.579 --> 00:51:27.860
 that the grave

00:51:27.860 --> 00:51:29.039
 was created

00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:30.659
 in Eden

00:51:30.659 --> 00:51:31.980
 the grave

00:51:31.980 --> 00:51:33.159
 was consecrated

00:51:33.159 --> 00:51:34.400
 in this

00:51:34.400 --> 00:51:34.900
 garden

00:51:34.900 --> 00:51:36.000
 near the

00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:36.500
 cross

00:51:36.500 --> 00:51:38.159
 Jesus

00:51:38.159 --> 00:51:39.840
 his body

00:51:39.840 --> 00:51:40.639
 laid there

00:51:40.639 --> 00:51:42.239
 went into

00:51:42.239 --> 00:51:42.599
 death

00:51:42.599 --> 00:51:43.059
 went into

00:51:43.059 --> 00:51:43.619
 the tomb

00:51:43.619 --> 00:51:44.860
 you might

00:51:44.860 --> 00:51:45.179
 say

00:51:45.179 --> 00:51:46.500
 to prepare

00:51:46.500 --> 00:51:46.960
 it for

00:51:46.960 --> 00:51:47.519
 his people

00:51:47.519 --> 00:51:49.500
 because every

00:51:49.500 --> 00:51:50.239
 Christian can

00:51:50.239 --> 00:51:51.159
 say as

00:51:51.159 --> 00:51:51.659
 they come to

00:51:51.659 --> 00:51:52.259
 lay down

00:51:52.259 --> 00:51:52.880
 their life

00:51:52.880 --> 00:51:53.219
 as their

00:51:53.219 --> 00:51:54.559
 life ebbs

00:51:54.559 --> 00:51:54.880
 away

00:51:54.880 --> 00:51:55.420
 in whatever

00:51:55.420 --> 00:51:56.639
 circumstances

00:51:56.639 --> 00:51:57.380
 as they think

00:51:57.380 --> 00:51:57.980
 of dying

00:51:57.980 --> 00:51:58.360
 in this

00:51:58.360 --> 00:51:58.619
 world

00:51:58.619 --> 00:51:59.739
 every Christian

00:51:59.739 --> 00:52:00.440
 can say

00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:00.880
 and has the

00:52:00.880 --> 00:52:01.420
 right to

00:52:01.420 --> 00:52:01.860
 say

00:52:01.860 --> 00:52:03.039
 though my

00:52:03.039 --> 00:52:03.739
 body is

00:52:03.739 --> 00:52:04.199
 going to be

00:52:04.199 --> 00:52:04.739
 laid into

00:52:04.739 --> 00:52:05.320
 the grave

00:52:05.320 --> 00:52:06.099
 though my

00:52:06.099 --> 00:52:06.920
 body maybe

00:52:06.920 --> 00:52:07.460
 for many

00:52:07.460 --> 00:52:08.179
 many years

00:52:08.179 --> 00:52:08.539
 will be

00:52:08.539 --> 00:52:09.099
 laid there

00:52:09.099 --> 00:52:09.940
 and return

00:52:09.940 --> 00:52:10.460
 to the

00:52:10.460 --> 00:52:10.799
 dust

00:52:10.799 --> 00:52:11.420
 from which

00:52:11.420 --> 00:52:11.719
 I was

00:52:11.719 --> 00:52:12.159
 created

00:52:12.159 --> 00:52:12.460
 in the

00:52:12.460 --> 00:52:12.860
 beginning

00:52:12.860 --> 00:52:16.320
 that grave

00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:16.699
 has been

00:52:16.699 --> 00:52:17.239
 prepared

00:52:17.239 --> 00:52:19.159
 by the

00:52:19.159 --> 00:52:19.739
 Lord Jesus

00:52:19.739 --> 00:52:20.320
 Christ

00:52:20.320 --> 00:52:22.039
 and I

00:52:22.039 --> 00:52:22.719
 shall arise

00:52:22.719 --> 00:52:23.380
 out of that

00:52:23.380 --> 00:52:23.719
 grave

00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:24.539
 triumphantly

00:52:24.539 --> 00:52:26.179
 because he's

00:52:26.179 --> 00:52:26.579
 done that

00:52:26.579 --> 00:52:27.000
 for me

00:52:27.000 --> 00:52:27.400
 and before

00:52:27.400 --> 00:52:27.779
 me

00:52:27.779 --> 00:52:29.480
 so why

00:52:29.480 --> 00:52:29.900
 should we

00:52:29.900 --> 00:52:30.400
 fear the

00:52:30.400 --> 00:52:30.820
 grave

00:52:30.820 --> 00:52:32.219
 here's the

00:52:32.219 --> 00:52:32.539
 wonderful

00:52:32.539 --> 00:52:33.000
 emphasis

00:52:33.000 --> 00:52:33.820
 in the

00:52:33.820 --> 00:52:34.179
 gospel

00:52:34.179 --> 00:52:34.759
 that Jesus

00:52:34.759 --> 00:52:35.779
 has been

00:52:35.779 --> 00:52:36.460
 through every

00:52:36.460 --> 00:52:37.259
 phase of

00:52:37.259 --> 00:52:37.820
 life and

00:52:37.820 --> 00:52:38.219
 even of

00:52:38.219 --> 00:52:38.500
 death

00:52:38.500 --> 00:52:39.000
 itself

00:52:39.000 --> 00:52:40.380
 and every

00:52:40.380 --> 00:52:40.800
 single

00:52:40.800 --> 00:52:41.259
 aspect

00:52:41.259 --> 00:52:42.199
 of that

00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:42.800
 process

00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:43.440
 of that

00:52:43.440 --> 00:52:43.880
 journey

00:52:43.880 --> 00:52:44.840
 has actually

00:52:44.840 --> 00:52:45.679
 been prepared

00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:46.400
 by him

00:52:46.400 --> 00:52:47.599
 for his

00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:48.019
 people

00:52:48.019 --> 00:52:50.119
 and when

00:52:50.119 --> 00:52:50.460
 you come

00:52:50.460 --> 00:52:50.779
 to

00:52:50.779 --> 00:52:51.699
 Revelation

00:52:51.699 --> 00:52:52.639
 chapter 21

00:52:52.639 --> 00:52:53.019
 let me

00:52:53.019 --> 00:52:53.420
 just read

00:52:53.420 --> 00:52:53.860
 these four

00:52:53.860 --> 00:52:54.179
 verses

00:52:54.179 --> 00:52:55.480
 as we

00:52:55.480 --> 00:52:55.980
 come towards

00:52:55.980 --> 00:52:56.279
 the end

00:52:56.279 --> 00:52:56.519
 of our

00:52:56.519 --> 00:52:56.779
 study

00:52:56.779 --> 00:52:57.000
 this

00:52:57.000 --> 00:52:57.279
 evening

00:52:57.279 --> 00:52:59.000
 Revelation

00:52:59.000 --> 00:53:00.019
 chapter 21

00:53:00.019 --> 00:53:01.359
 which really

00:53:01.359 --> 00:53:01.940
 brings us

00:53:01.940 --> 00:53:02.579
 the account

00:53:02.579 --> 00:53:02.919
 we have

00:53:02.919 --> 00:53:03.299
 there of

00:53:03.299 --> 00:53:03.579
 heaven

00:53:03.579 --> 00:53:04.719
 heaven

00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:05.359
 after all

00:53:05.359 --> 00:53:05.819
 things have

00:53:05.819 --> 00:53:06.259
 been dealt

00:53:06.259 --> 00:53:06.480
 with

00:53:06.480 --> 00:53:07.259
 the judgment

00:53:07.259 --> 00:53:07.899
 is passed

00:53:07.899 --> 00:53:08.319
 he says

00:53:08.319 --> 00:53:08.819
 I saw

00:53:08.819 --> 00:53:09.559
 a new

00:53:09.559 --> 00:53:09.899
 heaven

00:53:09.899 --> 00:53:10.339
 and a new

00:53:10.339 --> 00:53:10.679
 earth

00:53:10.679 --> 00:53:11.399
 for the

00:53:11.399 --> 00:53:11.899
 first heaven

00:53:11.899 --> 00:53:12.139
 and the

00:53:12.139 --> 00:53:12.599
 first earth

00:53:12.599 --> 00:53:13.019
 had passed

00:53:13.019 --> 00:53:13.359
 away

00:53:13.359 --> 00:53:14.359
 and the

00:53:14.359 --> 00:53:14.779
 sea was

00:53:14.779 --> 00:53:15.359
 no more

00:53:15.359 --> 00:53:16.319
 and I

00:53:16.319 --> 00:53:16.639
 saw the

00:53:16.639 --> 00:53:17.440
 holy city

00:53:17.440 --> 00:53:17.839
 the new

00:53:17.839 --> 00:53:18.259
 Jerusalem

00:53:18.259 --> 00:53:18.879
 coming down

00:53:18.879 --> 00:53:19.359
 out of heaven

00:53:19.359 --> 00:53:19.980
 from God

00:53:19.980 --> 00:53:21.079
 prepared as a

00:53:21.079 --> 00:53:21.859
 bride adorned

00:53:21.859 --> 00:53:22.399
 for her husband

00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:23.240
 and I heard

00:53:23.240 --> 00:53:23.940
 a loud voice

00:53:23.940 --> 00:53:24.300
 from the

00:53:24.300 --> 00:53:24.639
 throne

00:53:24.639 --> 00:53:25.119
 saying

00:53:25.119 --> 00:53:26.039
 behold the

00:53:26.039 --> 00:53:26.760
 dwelling place

00:53:26.760 --> 00:53:27.220
 of God

00:53:27.220 --> 00:53:27.599
 is with

00:53:27.599 --> 00:53:27.980
 man

00:53:27.980 --> 00:53:28.880
 he will

00:53:28.880 --> 00:53:29.440
 dwell with

00:53:29.440 --> 00:53:29.680
 them

00:53:29.680 --> 00:53:30.360
 and they

00:53:30.360 --> 00:53:30.680
 will be

00:53:30.680 --> 00:53:31.280
 his people

00:53:31.280 --> 00:53:32.240
 and God

00:53:32.240 --> 00:53:32.840
 himself will

00:53:32.840 --> 00:53:33.220
 be with

00:53:33.220 --> 00:53:33.559
 them as

00:53:33.559 --> 00:53:34.160
 their God

00:53:34.160 --> 00:53:35.039
 he will

00:53:35.039 --> 00:53:35.599
 wipe away

00:53:35.599 --> 00:53:36.420
 every tear

00:53:36.420 --> 00:53:36.860
 from their

00:53:36.860 --> 00:53:37.300
 eyes

00:53:37.300 --> 00:53:38.980
 and death

00:53:38.980 --> 00:53:39.660
 shall be

00:53:39.660 --> 00:53:40.420
 no more

00:53:40.420 --> 00:53:41.820
 neither

00:53:41.820 --> 00:53:42.280
 shall there

00:53:42.280 --> 00:53:42.820
 be mourning

00:53:42.820 --> 00:53:44.180
 nor crying

00:53:44.180 --> 00:53:44.820
 nor pain

00:53:44.820 --> 00:53:45.300
 anymore

00:53:45.300 --> 00:53:46.380
 for the

00:53:46.380 --> 00:53:47.320
 former things

00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:48.599
 have passed

00:53:48.599 --> 00:53:49.039
 away

00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:52.259
 and as

00:53:52.259 --> 00:53:52.920
 you describe

00:53:52.920 --> 00:53:53.839
 as you

00:53:53.839 --> 00:53:54.199
 find the

00:53:54.199 --> 00:53:54.380
 new

00:53:54.380 --> 00:53:54.739
 Jerusalem

00:53:54.739 --> 00:53:55.299
 described

00:53:55.299 --> 00:53:55.599
 in the

00:53:55.599 --> 00:53:55.940
 following

00:53:55.940 --> 00:53:56.860
 parts

00:53:56.860 --> 00:53:57.179
 of the

00:53:57.179 --> 00:53:57.579
 chapter

00:53:57.579 --> 00:53:59.460
 the one

00:53:59.460 --> 00:53:59.699
 thing

00:53:59.699 --> 00:54:00.539
 that's

00:54:00.539 --> 00:54:01.380
 prominently

00:54:01.380 --> 00:54:02.059
 noticeable

00:54:02.059 --> 00:54:02.539
 is

00:54:02.539 --> 00:54:03.699
 there is

00:54:03.699 --> 00:54:04.299
 no reference

00:54:04.299 --> 00:54:04.699
 to a

00:54:04.699 --> 00:54:05.159
 cemetery

00:54:05.159 --> 00:54:07.319
 no reference

00:54:07.319 --> 00:54:07.699
 to a

00:54:07.699 --> 00:54:08.219
 grave

00:54:08.219 --> 00:54:09.659
 there are

00:54:09.659 --> 00:54:10.440
 no graves

00:54:10.440 --> 00:54:11.539
 there is

00:54:11.539 --> 00:54:12.179
 no death

00:54:12.179 --> 00:54:12.920
 there is

00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:13.579
 no cemetery

00:54:13.579 --> 00:54:14.579
 in the city

00:54:14.579 --> 00:54:14.920
 of the

00:54:14.920 --> 00:54:15.159
 new

00:54:15.159 --> 00:54:15.699
 Jerusalem

00:54:15.699 --> 00:54:17.199
 the death

00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:17.599
 has been

00:54:17.599 --> 00:54:18.159
 overcome

00:54:18.159 --> 00:54:19.500
 death

00:54:19.500 --> 00:54:20.199
 stands

00:54:20.199 --> 00:54:20.699
 defeated

00:54:20.699 --> 00:54:21.039
 beneath

00:54:21.039 --> 00:54:21.539
 the feet

00:54:21.539 --> 00:54:22.059
 of God's

00:54:22.059 --> 00:54:22.440
 people

00:54:22.440 --> 00:54:23.679
 in Christ

00:54:23.679 --> 00:54:24.440
 they have

00:54:24.440 --> 00:54:24.980
 overcome

00:54:24.980 --> 00:54:25.859
 in him

00:54:25.859 --> 00:54:27.179
 what a

00:54:27.179 --> 00:54:27.679
 prospect

00:54:27.679 --> 00:54:29.899
 what a

00:54:29.899 --> 00:54:30.399
 glorious

00:54:30.399 --> 00:54:31.159
 outlook

00:54:31.159 --> 00:54:31.859
 you have

00:54:31.859 --> 00:54:32.179
 as a

00:54:32.179 --> 00:54:32.519
 Christian

00:54:32.519 --> 00:54:32.960
 in this

00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:33.379
 world

00:54:33.379 --> 00:54:34.899
 that this

00:54:34.899 --> 00:54:35.339
 is actually

00:54:35.339 --> 00:54:35.960
 what lies

00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:36.480
 ahead of

00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:36.759
 you

00:54:36.759 --> 00:54:37.559
 and that

00:54:37.559 --> 00:54:37.899
 even though

00:54:37.899 --> 00:54:38.440
 the grave

00:54:38.440 --> 00:54:39.019
 lies in

00:54:39.019 --> 00:54:39.379
 between

00:54:39.379 --> 00:54:40.059
 it's a

00:54:40.059 --> 00:54:40.539
 defeated

00:54:40.539 --> 00:54:41.079
 grave

00:54:41.079 --> 00:54:41.639
 it's a

00:54:41.639 --> 00:54:42.239
 prepared

00:54:42.239 --> 00:54:42.739
 grave

00:54:42.739 --> 00:54:43.379
 it's a

00:54:43.379 --> 00:54:43.659
 grave

00:54:43.659 --> 00:54:43.980
 in which

00:54:43.980 --> 00:54:44.379
 the Lord

00:54:44.379 --> 00:54:44.839
 has already

00:54:44.839 --> 00:54:45.699
 been laid

00:54:45.699 --> 00:54:46.460
 it's a

00:54:46.460 --> 00:54:46.819
 grave that

00:54:46.819 --> 00:54:47.779
 he occupied

00:54:47.780 --> 00:54:48.720
 it's a

00:54:48.720 --> 00:54:49.019
 grave that

00:54:49.019 --> 00:54:49.540
 he rose

00:54:49.540 --> 00:54:50.300
 out of

00:54:50.300 --> 00:54:50.900
 it's a

00:54:50.900 --> 00:54:51.280
 grave that

00:54:51.280 --> 00:54:51.900
 he defeated

00:54:51.900 --> 00:54:52.360
 for his

00:54:52.360 --> 00:54:52.740
 people

00:54:52.740 --> 00:54:53.620
 and it's

00:54:53.620 --> 00:54:54.280
 a grave

00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:55.660
 therefore that

00:54:55.660 --> 00:54:56.019
 you need

00:54:56.019 --> 00:54:56.660
 not fear

00:54:56.660 --> 00:54:59.340
 there is

00:54:59.340 --> 00:54:59.840
 no more

00:54:59.840 --> 00:55:00.260
 death

00:55:00.260 --> 00:55:01.660
 it's gone

00:55:01.660 --> 00:55:02.880
 forever

00:55:02.880 --> 00:55:04.560
 my friend

00:55:04.560 --> 00:55:04.900
 tonight

00:55:04.900 --> 00:55:05.340
 is your

00:55:05.340 --> 00:55:06.900
 trust in

00:55:06.900 --> 00:55:07.380
 Christ

00:55:07.380 --> 00:55:11.000
 are you

00:55:11.000 --> 00:55:11.560
 looking forward

00:55:11.560 --> 00:55:12.240
 to a life

00:55:12.240 --> 00:55:13.160
 with no

00:55:13.160 --> 00:55:13.700
 death

00:55:13.699 --> 00:55:13.759
 death

00:55:13.759 --> 00:55:16.599
 because

00:55:16.599 --> 00:55:17.039
 remember

00:55:17.039 --> 00:55:17.539
 the opposite

00:55:17.539 --> 00:55:18.099
 is also

00:55:18.099 --> 00:55:18.559
 true

00:55:18.559 --> 00:55:20.759
 there is

00:55:20.759 --> 00:55:21.379
 nothing in

00:55:21.379 --> 00:55:21.980
 hell but

00:55:21.980 --> 00:55:22.480
 death

00:55:22.480 --> 00:55:24.399
 there is

00:55:24.399 --> 00:55:25.099
 no prospect

00:55:25.099 --> 00:55:26.480
 of being

00:55:26.480 --> 00:55:27.299
 delivered from

00:55:27.299 --> 00:55:27.619
 death

00:55:27.619 --> 00:55:28.139
 eternal

00:55:28.139 --> 00:55:28.619
 death

00:55:28.619 --> 00:55:29.539
 lasting

00:55:29.539 --> 00:55:30.079
 death

00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:32.159
 there is

00:55:32.159 --> 00:55:32.639
 no voice

00:55:32.639 --> 00:55:33.359
 that says

00:55:33.359 --> 00:55:34.219
 come to

00:55:34.219 --> 00:55:34.539
 me and

00:55:34.539 --> 00:55:34.859
 I will

00:55:34.859 --> 00:55:35.259
 give you

00:55:35.259 --> 00:55:35.719
 rest

00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:37.339
 there is

00:55:37.339 --> 00:55:37.980
 no assurance

00:55:37.980 --> 00:55:38.419
 that will

00:55:38.419 --> 00:55:39.059
 say this

00:55:39.059 --> 00:55:39.579
 is only for

00:55:39.579 --> 00:55:40.019
 a short

00:55:40.019 --> 00:55:40.480
 time and

00:55:40.480 --> 00:55:40.779
 it will

00:55:40.779 --> 00:55:41.219
 end

00:55:41.219 --> 00:55:42.039
 just put

00:55:42.039 --> 00:55:42.439
 up with

00:55:42.439 --> 00:55:42.619
 it

00:55:42.619 --> 00:55:43.239
 and it

00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:43.419
 will be

00:55:43.419 --> 00:55:43.819
 alright

00:55:43.819 --> 00:55:44.119
 in the

00:55:44.119 --> 00:55:44.599
 end

00:55:44.599 --> 00:55:46.839
 remember

00:55:46.839 --> 00:55:47.379
 the opposite

00:55:47.379 --> 00:55:47.939
 of heaven

00:55:47.939 --> 00:55:48.719
 is hell

00:55:48.719 --> 00:55:49.059
 in every

00:55:49.059 --> 00:55:49.659
 sense

00:55:49.659 --> 00:55:52.779
 and you

00:55:52.779 --> 00:55:53.099
 don't want

00:55:53.099 --> 00:55:53.339
 to go

00:55:53.339 --> 00:55:53.679
 there

00:55:53.679 --> 00:55:56.459
 that's not

00:55:56.459 --> 00:55:56.719
 what you

00:55:56.719 --> 00:55:57.059
 want your

00:55:57.059 --> 00:55:57.439
 eternity

00:55:57.439 --> 00:55:58.019
 to be

00:55:58.019 --> 00:56:00.179
 you want

00:56:00.179 --> 00:56:00.619
 your eternity

00:56:00.619 --> 00:56:00.939
 to be

00:56:00.939 --> 00:56:01.199
 without

00:56:01.199 --> 00:56:01.819
 death

00:56:01.819 --> 00:56:03.019
 without

00:56:03.019 --> 00:56:03.739
 a grave

00:56:03.739 --> 00:56:05.759
 without

00:56:05.759 --> 00:56:06.199
 anything

00:56:06.199 --> 00:56:06.759
 associated

00:56:06.759 --> 00:56:07.379
 with death

00:56:07.379 --> 00:56:07.679
 you want

00:56:07.679 --> 00:56:08.039
 it to be

00:56:08.039 --> 00:56:08.419
 gone

00:56:08.419 --> 00:56:10.259
 how does

00:56:10.259 --> 00:56:10.719
 that come

00:56:10.719 --> 00:56:11.159
 about

00:56:11.159 --> 00:56:13.139
 comes

00:56:13.139 --> 00:56:13.519
 about

00:56:13.519 --> 00:56:14.119
 by giving

00:56:14.119 --> 00:56:14.719
 your life

00:56:14.719 --> 00:56:15.440
 to Jesus

00:56:15.440 --> 00:56:17.139
 by trusting

00:56:17.139 --> 00:56:17.699
 in the one

00:56:17.699 --> 00:56:18.219
 who has

00:56:18.219 --> 00:56:18.759
 overcome

00:56:18.759 --> 00:56:19.299
 death

00:56:19.299 --> 00:56:21.079
 if you

00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:21.379
 like

00:56:21.379 --> 00:56:22.359
 being

00:56:22.359 --> 00:56:22.899
 like

00:56:22.899 --> 00:56:23.699
 Nicodemus

00:56:23.699 --> 00:56:24.440
 and Joseph

00:56:24.440 --> 00:56:25.199
 of Arimathea

00:56:25.199 --> 00:56:26.579
 they went

00:56:26.579 --> 00:56:27.359
 and asked

00:56:27.359 --> 00:56:27.879
 Pilate

00:56:27.879 --> 00:56:28.799
 boldly

00:56:28.799 --> 00:56:29.139
 for the

00:56:29.139 --> 00:56:29.399
 body

00:56:29.399 --> 00:56:29.940
 of Jesus

00:56:29.940 --> 00:56:30.859
 what did

00:56:30.859 --> 00:56:31.219
 they then

00:56:31.219 --> 00:56:31.619
 do with

00:56:31.619 --> 00:56:31.759
 it

00:56:31.759 --> 00:56:32.359
 they took

00:56:32.359 --> 00:56:32.659
 it down

00:56:32.659 --> 00:56:33.000
 from the

00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:33.399
 cross

00:56:33.399 --> 00:56:34.239
 they treated

00:56:34.239 --> 00:56:35.139
 it respectfully

00:56:35.139 --> 00:56:36.440
 they covered

00:56:36.440 --> 00:56:36.899
 it with a

00:56:36.899 --> 00:56:37.599
 linen shroud

00:56:37.599 --> 00:56:39.279
 they then

00:56:39.279 --> 00:56:40.420
 buried

00:56:40.420 --> 00:56:40.980
 Jesus

00:56:40.980 --> 00:56:42.280
 in this

00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:42.539
 new

00:56:42.539 --> 00:56:42.880
 tomb

00:56:42.880 --> 00:56:45.400
 and

00:56:45.400 --> 00:56:46.240
 figuratively

00:56:46.240 --> 00:56:48.380
 is that

00:56:48.380 --> 00:56:48.960
 not something

00:56:48.960 --> 00:56:49.420
 for you

00:56:49.420 --> 00:56:49.920
 as well

00:56:49.920 --> 00:56:51.480
 do you

00:56:51.480 --> 00:56:52.039
 not want

00:56:52.039 --> 00:56:52.400
 tonight

00:56:52.400 --> 00:56:53.000
 to take

00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:53.659
 this

00:56:53.659 --> 00:56:54.019
 Jesus

00:56:54.019 --> 00:56:54.619
 into your

00:56:54.619 --> 00:56:55.219
 arms

00:56:55.219 --> 00:56:56.619
 to take

00:56:56.619 --> 00:56:56.840
 this

00:56:56.840 --> 00:56:57.360
 death

00:56:57.360 --> 00:56:58.219
 of Jesus

00:56:58.219 --> 00:56:59.179
 the Jesus

00:56:59.179 --> 00:56:59.659
 who now

00:56:59.659 --> 00:57:00.280
 lives

00:57:00.280 --> 00:57:02.019
 and make

00:57:02.019 --> 00:57:02.480
 that the

00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:02.860
 basis

00:57:02.860 --> 00:57:04.159
 of your

00:57:04.159 --> 00:57:04.699
 hopes

00:57:04.699 --> 00:57:05.699
 love

00:57:05.699 --> 00:57:07.359
 so that

00:57:07.359 --> 00:57:07.839
 your love

00:57:07.839 --> 00:57:08.199
 too

00:57:08.199 --> 00:57:08.779
 will come

00:57:08.779 --> 00:57:09.099
 to be

00:57:09.099 --> 00:57:09.419
 seen

00:57:09.419 --> 00:57:10.980
 as a

00:57:10.980 --> 00:57:11.199
 love

00:57:11.199 --> 00:57:11.419
 that

00:57:11.419 --> 00:57:11.939
 comes

00:57:11.939 --> 00:57:12.899
 into

00:57:12.899 --> 00:57:13.099
 the

00:57:13.099 --> 00:57:13.439
 open

00:57:13.439 --> 00:57:13.639
 and

00:57:13.639 --> 00:57:14.099
 public

00:57:14.099 --> 00:57:15.859
 a love

00:57:15.859 --> 00:57:16.159
 whose

00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:16.739
 action

00:57:16.739 --> 00:57:17.739
 towards

00:57:17.739 --> 00:57:17.960
 the

00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:18.359
 Lord

00:57:18.359 --> 00:57:19.799
 is made

00:57:19.799 --> 00:57:20.139
 known

00:57:20.139 --> 00:57:20.559
 to those

00:57:20.559 --> 00:57:20.899
 around

00:57:20.899 --> 00:57:21.259
 you

00:57:21.259 --> 00:57:23.119
 so that

00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:23.659
 you value

00:57:23.659 --> 00:57:24.059
 him

00:57:24.059 --> 00:57:25.399
 and in

00:57:25.399 --> 00:57:25.879
 valuing

00:57:25.879 --> 00:57:26.199
 him

00:57:26.199 --> 00:57:27.480
 you give

00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:27.980
 him in

00:57:27.980 --> 00:57:28.639
 your heart

00:57:28.639 --> 00:57:30.319
 the reception

00:57:30.319 --> 00:57:31.719
 that they

00:57:31.719 --> 00:57:32.199
 gave to

00:57:32.199 --> 00:57:32.799
 his body

00:57:32.799 --> 00:57:34.159
 as they

00:57:34.159 --> 00:57:34.539
 came to

00:57:34.539 --> 00:57:35.079
 treat it

00:57:35.079 --> 00:57:36.679
 with respect

00:57:36.679 --> 00:57:38.500
 after all

00:57:38.500 --> 00:57:39.039
 he said

00:57:39.039 --> 00:57:41.679
 in contrast

00:57:41.679 --> 00:57:42.079
 to the

00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:42.339
 false

00:57:42.339 --> 00:57:42.900
 shepherds

00:57:42.900 --> 00:57:43.639
 in John

00:57:43.639 --> 00:57:44.359
 chapter 10

00:57:44.359 --> 00:57:46.579
 I have

00:57:46.579 --> 00:57:46.980
 come

00:57:46.980 --> 00:57:48.719
 that they

00:57:48.719 --> 00:57:49.139
 might have

00:57:49.139 --> 00:57:49.619
 life

00:57:49.619 --> 00:57:51.359
 and have

00:57:51.359 --> 00:57:51.619
 it

00:57:51.619 --> 00:57:52.900
 the more

00:57:52.900 --> 00:57:54.299
 abundantly

00:57:54.299 --> 00:57:56.440
 that's the

00:57:56.440 --> 00:57:57.039
 life that

00:57:57.039 --> 00:57:57.559
 you want

00:57:57.559 --> 00:57:58.379
 the life

00:57:58.380 --> 00:57:58.740
 that you

00:57:58.740 --> 00:57:59.119
 need

00:57:59.119 --> 00:57:59.619
 the

00:57:59.619 --> 00:57:59.960
 spiritual

00:57:59.960 --> 00:58:00.660
 life

00:58:00.660 --> 00:58:02.380
 you have

00:58:02.380 --> 00:58:02.980
 it in

00:58:02.980 --> 00:58:03.340
 Jesus

00:58:03.340 --> 00:58:04.800
 and in

00:58:04.800 --> 00:58:05.660
 receiving

00:58:05.660 --> 00:58:06.160
 him as

00:58:06.160 --> 00:58:06.380
 your

00:58:06.380 --> 00:58:06.720
 savior

00:58:06.720 --> 00:58:08.500
 and you

00:58:08.500 --> 00:58:08.800
 cannot

00:58:08.800 --> 00:58:09.400
 have it

00:58:09.400 --> 00:58:10.420
 and you

00:58:10.420 --> 00:58:10.860
 will not

00:58:10.860 --> 00:58:11.320
 have it

00:58:11.320 --> 00:58:12.700
 any other

00:58:12.700 --> 00:58:13.079
 way

00:58:13.079 --> 00:58:14.240
 let's

00:58:14.240 --> 00:58:14.500
 pray

00:58:14.500 --> 00:58:18.099
 oh

00:58:18.099 --> 00:58:18.420
 gracious

00:58:18.420 --> 00:58:19.039
 and eternal

00:58:19.039 --> 00:58:19.559
 God

00:58:19.559 --> 00:58:21.220
 we marvel

00:58:21.220 --> 00:58:21.760
 at what

00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:22.000
 you

00:58:22.000 --> 00:58:22.579
 willingly

00:58:22.579 --> 00:58:24.320
 took to

00:58:24.320 --> 00:58:24.880
 yourself

00:58:24.880 --> 00:58:25.700
 in the

00:58:25.700 --> 00:58:26.119
 place of

00:58:26.119 --> 00:58:26.640
 your people

00:58:26.639 --> 00:58:28.460
 we marvel

00:58:28.460 --> 00:58:28.799
 that you

00:58:28.799 --> 00:58:29.259
 took even

00:58:29.259 --> 00:58:29.659
 the death

00:58:29.659 --> 00:58:30.440
 we deserved

00:58:30.440 --> 00:58:31.920
 even though

00:58:31.920 --> 00:58:32.259
 it was

00:58:32.259 --> 00:58:32.920
 something that

00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:33.440
 took you

00:58:33.440 --> 00:58:34.960
 into the

00:58:34.960 --> 00:58:36.139
 depths and

00:58:36.139 --> 00:58:36.739
 the darkness

00:58:36.739 --> 00:58:38.519
 of Calvary's

00:58:38.519 --> 00:58:38.960
 cry

00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:39.879
 in the

00:58:39.879 --> 00:58:40.779
 forsakenness

00:58:40.779 --> 00:58:41.119
 that you

00:58:41.119 --> 00:58:41.799
 experienced

00:58:41.799 --> 00:58:42.420
 we thank you

00:58:42.420 --> 00:58:42.779
 tonight

00:58:42.779 --> 00:58:43.960
 that you are

00:58:43.960 --> 00:58:44.359
 risen from

00:58:44.359 --> 00:58:44.779
 the dead

00:58:44.779 --> 00:58:45.139
 that you have

00:58:45.139 --> 00:58:45.739
 been exalted

00:58:45.739 --> 00:58:46.379
 to glory

00:58:46.379 --> 00:58:47.799
 we thank you

00:58:47.799 --> 00:58:48.500
 gracious and

00:58:48.500 --> 00:58:49.379
 glorious Lord

00:58:49.379 --> 00:58:50.400
 that you

00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:51.119
 stand over

00:58:51.119 --> 00:58:51.440
 death

00:58:51.440 --> 00:58:52.239
 triumphantly

00:58:52.239 --> 00:58:53.039
 that you

00:58:53.039 --> 00:58:53.599
 invite your

00:58:53.599 --> 00:58:54.039
 people to

00:58:54.039 --> 00:58:54.639
 share with

00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:55.500
 you in

00:58:55.500 --> 00:58:56.159
 that glorious

00:58:56.159 --> 00:58:57.039
 victory over

00:58:57.039 --> 00:58:57.479
 death

00:58:57.479 --> 00:58:58.199
 that you

00:58:58.199 --> 00:58:58.919
 call upon us

00:58:58.919 --> 00:58:59.399
 tonight through

00:58:59.399 --> 00:58:59.939
 the gospel

00:58:59.939 --> 00:59:01.419
 to come to

00:59:01.419 --> 00:59:01.839
 you and to

00:59:01.839 --> 00:59:02.459
 give ourselves

00:59:02.459 --> 00:59:03.059
 to you

00:59:03.059 --> 00:59:04.299
 to trust in

00:59:04.299 --> 00:59:05.279
 you and to

00:59:05.279 --> 00:59:05.939
 realize oh

00:59:05.939 --> 00:59:06.500
 Lord that

00:59:06.500 --> 00:59:07.639
 this indeed is

00:59:07.639 --> 00:59:08.419
 the way the

00:59:08.419 --> 00:59:09.639
 truth and

00:59:09.639 --> 00:59:10.179
 the life

00:59:10.179 --> 00:59:11.539
 and we ask

00:59:11.539 --> 00:59:11.759
 that you

00:59:11.759 --> 00:59:12.279
 bless your

00:59:12.279 --> 00:59:12.799
 word to us

00:59:12.799 --> 00:59:13.399
 once again

00:59:13.399 --> 00:59:14.679
 be pleased to

00:59:14.679 --> 00:59:15.319
 bless us in

00:59:15.319 --> 00:59:15.799
 the fellowship

00:59:15.799 --> 00:59:16.459
 bless to us

00:59:16.459 --> 00:59:16.779
 the food

00:59:16.779 --> 00:59:18.079
 prepared also

00:59:18.079 --> 00:59:18.819
 for us there

00:59:18.819 --> 00:59:19.919
 in all of

00:59:19.919 --> 00:59:20.619
 these ways oh

00:59:20.619 --> 00:59:21.759
 Lord we pray

00:59:21.759 --> 00:59:22.339
 your blessing

00:59:22.339 --> 00:59:23.339
 for Jesus

00:59:23.339 --> 00:59:24.440
 sake amen

00:59:24.440 --> 00:59:28.339
 our final

00:59:28.339 --> 00:59:28.900
 singing tonight

00:59:28.900 --> 00:59:29.259
 is Psalm

00:59:29.259 --> 00:59:29.900
 22

00:59:29.900 --> 00:59:31.799
 Psalm 22

00:59:31.799 --> 00:59:32.420
 we associate

00:59:32.420 --> 00:59:33.219
 the first part

00:59:33.219 --> 00:59:34.339
 of the psalm

00:59:34.339 --> 00:59:34.940
 very often

00:59:34.940 --> 00:59:35.619
 with what we

00:59:35.619 --> 00:59:35.900
 do in

00:59:35.900 --> 00:59:36.259
 remembering

00:59:36.259 --> 00:59:36.739
 the Lord's

00:59:36.739 --> 00:59:37.099
 death and

00:59:37.099 --> 00:59:37.519
 the Lord's

00:59:37.519 --> 00:59:37.739
 supper

00:59:37.739 --> 00:59:38.819
 indeed we

00:59:38.819 --> 00:59:39.699
 almost always

00:59:39.699 --> 00:59:40.719
 sing from

00:59:40.719 --> 00:59:41.400
 this psalm

00:59:41.400 --> 00:59:42.279
 in that

00:59:42.279 --> 00:59:43.199
 context but

00:59:43.199 --> 00:59:43.599
 tonight we're

00:59:43.599 --> 00:59:44.559
 singing verses

00:59:44.559 --> 00:59:45.940
 28 to 31

00:59:45.940 --> 00:59:47.940
 and that's on

00:59:47.940 --> 00:59:48.880
 page 229

00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:49.359
 the tune is

00:59:49.359 --> 00:59:49.980
 Bethesda

00:59:49.980 --> 00:59:52.360
 which speaks

00:59:52.360 --> 00:59:52.960
 about the

00:59:52.960 --> 00:59:53.800
 way in which

00:59:53.800 --> 00:59:54.159
 the Lord

00:59:54.159 --> 00:59:54.880
 will have a

00:59:54.880 --> 00:59:55.340
 people to

00:59:55.340 --> 00:59:55.900
 serve him

00:59:55.900 --> 00:59:56.980
 as the

00:59:56.980 --> 00:59:57.599
 result and

00:59:57.599 --> 00:59:58.079
 the fruit

00:59:58.079 --> 00:59:59.199
 of his

00:59:59.199 --> 00:59:59.980
 labor for

00:59:59.980 --> 01:00:00.460
 them because

01:00:00.460 --> 01:00:01.139
 the kingdom

01:00:01.139 --> 01:00:01.900
 to the Lord

01:00:01.900 --> 01:00:03.139
 doth appertain

01:00:03.139 --> 01:00:03.800
 as his

01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:05.199
 likewise among

01:00:05.199 --> 01:00:05.840
 the nations

01:00:05.840 --> 01:00:06.920
 the governor

01:00:06.920 --> 01:00:07.920
 he is

01:00:07.920 --> 01:00:08.719
 and verse 31

01:00:08.719 --> 01:00:09.219
 they shall

01:00:09.219 --> 01:00:10.340
 come and

01:00:10.340 --> 01:00:10.740
 they shall

01:00:10.740 --> 01:00:11.420
 declare his

01:00:11.420 --> 01:00:12.039
 truth and

01:00:12.039 --> 01:00:12.639
 righteousness

01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:14.119
 unto a

01:00:14.119 --> 01:00:15.039
 people yet

01:00:15.039 --> 01:00:15.800
 unborn

01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:17.400
 and that he

01:00:17.400 --> 01:00:18.740
 hath done

01:00:18.739 --> 01:00:19.799
 this

01:00:19.799 --> 01:00:20.879
 so these

01:00:20.879 --> 01:00:21.419
 verses then

01:00:21.419 --> 01:00:21.839
 to God's

01:00:21.839 --> 01:00:22.279
 praise and

01:00:22.279 --> 01:00:22.819
 conclusion

01:00:22.820 --> 01:00:24.059
 well

01:00:24.059 --> 01:00:25.820
 God

01:00:25.820 --> 01:00:28.280
 means

01:00:28.280 --> 01:00:28.880
 come and

01:00:28.880 --> 01:00:29.720
 come and

01:00:29.720 --> 01:00:30.620
 he

01:00:30.620 --> 01:00:31.480
망ed

01:00:31.480 --> 01:00:31.720
 us

01:00:31.720 --> 01:00:32.920
 in

01:00:32.920 --> 01:00:33.200
 the

01:00:33.260 --> 01:00:43.940
 trag dismissal

01:00:43.940 --> 01:00:50.940
 Writes among the nations

01:00:50.940 --> 01:00:59.300
 That gather on the is

01:00:59.300 --> 01:01:03.940
 That that one's deep

01:01:04.579 --> 01:01:09.179
 That worship shall

01:01:09.179 --> 01:01:16.179
 All who do us descend

01:01:16.179 --> 01:01:21.179
 Shall walk to them

01:01:21.179 --> 01:01:26.179
 One of them come

01:01:26.179 --> 01:01:34.179
 Restore from the end of the end

01:01:34.179 --> 01:01:39.179
 As he shall serve

01:01:39.179 --> 01:01:44.179
 This true to him

01:01:44.179 --> 01:01:49.179
 Unto the Lord

01:01:49.179 --> 01:01:52.179
 Is shall

01:01:52.179 --> 01:02:01.179
 Before a tender nation

01:02:01.179 --> 01:02:07.179
 Reckoned in ages

01:02:07.179 --> 01:02:08.179
 To the Lord

01:02:08.179 --> 01:02:09.179
 Is shall

01:02:09.179 --> 01:02:10.179
 Is shall

01:02:10.179 --> 01:02:14.179
 Come out

01:02:14.179 --> 01:02:16.179
 They shall

01:02:16.179 --> 01:02:19.179
 Declare

01:02:19.179 --> 01:02:21.179
 This truth

01:02:21.179 --> 01:02:25.179
 And righteousness

01:02:25.179 --> 01:02:32.179
 And to a people

01:02:32.179 --> 01:02:35.179
 Yet am

01:02:35.179 --> 01:02:37.179
 Born

01:02:37.179 --> 01:02:41.179
 And that he

01:02:41.179 --> 01:02:43.179
 Have done

01:02:43.179 --> 01:02:45.179
 Is

01:02:45.179 --> 01:02:47.179
 Well

01:02:47.179 --> 01:02:48.179
 Colin Mordor and myself

01:02:48.179 --> 01:02:49.179
 Will take the front doors again

01:02:49.179 --> 01:02:51.179
 This evening I'll go to the door to my left

01:02:51.179 --> 01:02:53.179
 And he can go to the other side

01:02:53.179 --> 01:02:55.179
 Let's conclude now with a benediction

01:02:56.179 --> 01:02:58.179
 Now may grace and mercy and peace

01:02:58.179 --> 01:03:00.179
 From God the Father

01:03:00.179 --> 01:03:02.179
 The Son and the Holy Spirit

01:03:02.179 --> 01:03:05.179
 Rest and abide with you now and evermore

01:03:05.179 --> 01:03:06.179
 Amen

01:03:11.179 --> 01:03:13.179
 Thank you

01:03:41.179 --> 01:03:42.179
 Thank you

01:03:48.460 --> 01:03:54.879
!