1 Thessalonians

Redhill - Station Road - Part 13

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Feb. 7, 2007

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[0:00] Chapter 3 and verse 2 and the last clause. First Epistle of Thessalonians, Chapter 3 and verse 2 and the last clause.

[0:20] To establish you and to comfort you concerning your face.

[0:33] To establish you and to comfort you concerning your face.

[0:45] Viewing the year that we've entered upon. Viewing the state of the nation.

[0:58] The solemn state of our own country. Viewing the sun in a low place for the most part.

[1:09] Oh my dear friends we know not what may be before us in this year. But our eyes are up unto our heart.

[1:25] And may hell be given to rest by faith. On the precious words of Lord God. Of nepotent awareness.

[1:37] And this is our comfort. But we feel and we need now. There is preparation for what may be said upon this nation.

[1:54] Upon Zion. In the future days. That we may be established. And comforted concerning our faith.

[2:06] And be prepared by the grace of God. And furnished with a spiritual knowledge. Of divine truth.

[2:18] And a real Holy Ghost religion. Precious faith. And resting in the faithfulness of our God.

[2:29] And a real world. And a real world. And a real world. A real world of the background. It is profitable. When you come to the epistles.

[2:42] To examine the background. As often revealed in the Acts of the Apostles. As you may well know, the apostles had been called to preach at Philippi, seeing their vision come over and help us, and there in obedience to their vision, and though it first all seemed to be so dark, yet the work of God's grace by the Spirit of the Gospel was manifest in time in the heart of Lydia and her dear ones, whose arms were open when they were baptized, and then later in a wonderful way, the Philippian trainer, and who was converted and brought to my hand.

[3:38] And what must I do to be saved? And he brought upon with his, with that time. But then they had to leave Philippi, and they traveled on to Bethlehem of Ica.

[3:55] And I just bring before you the short description of their visit there, that when they had passed through amphibolus, and upon their life, they came to Thessalonica, and told as his man of war went in unto them, and three Sabbath days, bring reason with them out of the scriptures, opening and alleging that Christ must be of Sabbath, and risen from the dead, and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ. That was the ministry. That was the preaching.

[4:39] And that caused opposition to boys, that eventually dead, that the apostles had to have made from that country, and told himself traveled on to Korea, and on to Athens.

[4:59] But now, Paul is in Athens. This is the first letter historically, that the apostle wrote to the festival at Phila Thessalonians.

[5:13] And he's greatly concerned. And he's greatly concerned. We might ask, why are you so anxious, Paul? He could testify, and did, that the entrance upon them was under God's blessing.

[5:33] And he said, the power of the Spirit, the power of the Spirit, there were true conversions, true believers. Our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and with much assurance.

[5:54] And they could say also how they had received the word of God, and how they would force them to turn to God, and turn to idols, and turn to the Lord God, and to serve the true God.

[6:15] And to waver his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the Lord to come.

[6:26] He speaks with clear certainty, that we give thanks to God always for you, and all making mention of you in our prayers.

[6:37] Remembering without ceasing, as he says, your worth of faith, your labor of love, and your patience of hope, in the sight of God and our Father.

[6:52] Knowing, according to God, your election of God. Now, God, and I speak reverently, what is it that burdens your spirit?

[7:04] What is this anxiety that you have concerning these Thessalonian believers? You have expressed clearly the evidence of God's mighty work and power through the gospel, but now you are concerned.

[7:26] He is concerned, now we come to chapter 3, of which a text is found. And five times in this short chapter, you come across these two words, your faith.

[7:46] Now we know that faith is indestructible, and that it gains the victory.

[7:57] So why is Paul concerned? So why is Paul concerned? Knowing, as I would view it, in a possibly short time of his ministry, they would not be grounded firmly yet, yet of those true believers, and he was concerned about these believers in the youth of their experience.

[8:27] Not youth in age, but in their experience. And he was concerned, and he was very concerned, lest they should be led away, lest they should be overcome at the time of temptation and tribulation.

[8:45] So he sends Timothy to inquire, to search out how matters are with these Thessalonian believers.

[9:01] I'll just go back a moment or two again to his visit there. He says, for you, brethren, know that entrance in us, you, was not in vain.

[9:15] How he spelled this out, tenderness. How that he could say our entultation was not of deceit, or uncleanness, or in guile.

[9:27] And he says this, we were allowed for my brethren in the ministry. Listen, what a word this is. We are allowed to be of God to be put in trust with the gospel.

[9:41] Even so we speak. What a trust. What a responsibility. What a burden. Never-dying souls put in trust with the gospel and the preaching.

[9:55] Not as pleasing men, but God, who tried their arms. And a day, he speaks of how they dealt in the ministry. We were gentle among you.

[10:07] And he says, even as a nurse, a nursing mother, cherishes her children. How deeply fond he was for the believers.

[10:18] And would be designed to impart that they're not the gospel of God only, but even their own souls. And with how he had prayed for their blessing and spiritual prosperity.

[10:35] Now, Timothy is sent to examine how matters standing on this. Paul himself was not able to go at this time.

[10:47] He died. But all he could not rest. It was a prayerful concern. It was like a father or a mother.

[10:58] Parents, loving, praying parents, concerned to keep an eye upon their children. Or a pastor and ministers upon the hearers.

[11:13] As to how they are standing on. To the tribulations through which they may be called to pass through. And so, he sends Timothy to examine the matter.

[11:28] And so, we come to these words. He says here, send to Moses, our brother, minister of gospel, and fellow laborer in the gospel of Christ, Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith.

[11:44] Now, before we go much further, surely, we must examine this word and the vital words they are, Your faith.

[11:56] Your faith. You see, that historical faith, which is not the true faith of God.

[12:08] We believe, for example, that when the congregation came in 1066, people can have a belief in the head of the word of God without the true faith of God in the soul.

[12:27] Again, we have what is called a temporary faith. When I say that, not a real faith. Faith where it is begun by God in a sinner's heart will never be destroyed.

[12:44] It's indestructible. It will stand. It will be attacked. It will vary, sometimes in a very low state, sometimes in large, and so forth.

[12:57] We may name it they too. But here, as I say, here is this concern, and here is this faith, and there is this temple.

[13:10] The opening up of a temple faith is the parable of the sower and the seed for it on stony ground.

[13:23] Remember the description of this, as they heard it, and with great joy they received it. And it looked like a great work begun.

[13:36] But oh, how sad, oh, how sorrow. But when that work is trolling, when there is tribulation, when there is a time of testing, it all came to nothing.

[13:50] Why? There was no growth. Therefore, no growth. Therefore, no growth. Therefore, no growth.

[14:04] So, without it, examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith. I do not say that. To encourage doubts and fears.

[14:16] I say it. To exhort you. To examine yourself for the evidence of the possession of this real faith of God in your soul.

[14:31] And this faith is brought by the Spirit. It's not, as people say, all you've got to do is believe.

[14:43] As though we can do it. As though we can start it. As though we can bring ourselves into faith. My friend, I believe firmly.

[14:56] It is the work of the Holy Spirit. He which begins that work. And he that convinces a sinner of sin.

[15:07] He that breathes into that soul the breath of life. Blesses that sinner with the gift of precious faith in the Lord himself.

[15:22] Oh, what a precious faith it is. And my friend, it is a faith that if we want to speak of it, it is an active race.

[15:34] So the apostle here is speaking of your faith. Your faith.

[15:46] We have just quoted those words as we have them. Remembering without ceasing your breath of faith.

[15:58] Faith is a grace. It is an active grace. And my friend, it is a powerful grace. But let me just go back a bit.

[16:09] A work of grace to God. Spiritual life. And that spiritual life is the evidence of the light of life.

[16:27] And that is the evidence of the gift of the Holy Spirit of precious faith. For we read in the Word of God.

[16:41] For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[16:57] Now this here is spiritual life. Spiritual life. Spiritual life. Spiritual life. And precious faith.

[17:08] And this is a faith that will stand, though it will be sorely tried and deeply tested.

[17:20] But now, as I look at faith, I am glad to examine this pattern that it can fluctuate.

[17:35] It will destroy. I think it is built on that describes it. There is the upgrade in a thermometer. And given quantity there, but that can shrink or can expand accordingly.

[17:53] And so we have, in the Word of God, we have this, I spoke it of, as little faith, we have great faith.

[18:10] I remember reading once, little faith will take a soul to heaven. It will. Great faith brings heaven into that soul.

[18:23] Now, it was, for example, let's give an example. The disciples had been bitten by their Lord to get in the boat, to go to the other side.

[18:40] And he went with them. And they obeyed. And the storm arose. And the wind blew. And the waves rose high.

[18:53] And they, in fear, went to the Lord. And God said, That those to perish, they'll not that we perish.

[19:04] Remember, I believe, there was the exercise of faith in a small degree that they even went to the Lord Jesus. The master carries their love.

[19:16] And are we ashamed of ourselves? And God would not himself repute us at times. And the Lord said, Wherefore didst thou doubt, O thou of little faith, that little faith trusteth the great God, the great God that is able to do exceeding upon them, of all that we could ask for, even think, look at him.

[19:45] Little faith of a now great faith. And for this we take another example. There was a woman from the coast of Tyre and Sidon.

[19:59] And she came to the Lord. Because she had a daughter. And was possessed of evil spirits and so forth. And she came, but we read that he was there.

[20:17] And she came, and they treated him. And she came, and they treated him. And he would have no man knowing, but he could not take it.

[20:36] And she said. himself will have no enemies. And when you ever see heaven with your art, and forever کرgado comes, and that power of the King . Oh, let me put palavras in the heart, castrated percent.

[20:50] And we put a sacrifice into everything. You had the success. He became it, but John. What the grace is so to bring that. The grace is so to bless you up to us. the light of the light to shine in our hearts to give the light of the moment of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ, the God we can. And so the dear woman we read now says she ventured forth to come to the Lord Jesus Christ. She heard of him and she ventured to him to plead for her daughter and then he just turned to the scripture to the light. And they may have more accurately in your hearing. And she came and this is her desire to she find a place in your heart.

[21:41] Have mercy on me, O Lord. Thou son of David, my daughter is grievously fed to the devil.

[21:53] It may be your own soul who come concerning your own case. and at times come with cases of others. But looking at it in this she says, Thou son of David didn't say of Nazareth because can any good thing come out of Nazareth?

[22:18] The son of David meant the Messiah. This woman from far sees by faith this is the Messiah and she comes with her petition and she comes to plead for mercy.

[22:34] The mark of spiritual might in the soul is where of course sinners' eyes are open seeing his lost state, his ruined condition, the holiness and majesty of Almighty God and feeling that there can there be hope that this word mercy is so attractive.

[23:02] It gives hope and it leaves that mercy by the public and God be merciful to make us that mercy.

[23:14] Oh, have any of you been tried by Satan on that point? That you keep praying the same prayer and the devil says it's vain repetition.

[23:26] my dear friend let me use a word here that was accounted to me in my early days I was sorely trying about it and I couldn't stop trying to pray for mercy and still it is so I still pray for mercy but in the Lord through that prayer and the snare and it came in the word of God the mercy is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that they're in and the mercy of the Lord endurance forever as much as the same poor sinner you can plead it and plead it and plead it and draw from it and you seem inexhaustible look at it so poor sinner keep at it you say I can't do anything else blessed be God that mercy will come let thy mercy come also unto me oh Lord even thy salvation according to thy word let it crumble and so have it yes I pray and have mercy and surely this mercy will flow but he answered not a word now

[24:45] I have no idea why I should refer to this to my this was in my meditation of truth not a word not a word not a word not a word not a word oh my she curled she curled and here and here we notice this and she the devil said the disciples then came to the sword that he was sent her of me he said but I'm not sent under the lost shame of the house of Israel allá she there they have Пол тво개 of Ou divine tiếng audio who knew he good trouble about these that all do знаешь about mortals or escapes how to overcome or see nor hell may.

[25:58] Strange that question. I think most of you who are with Hope Wardoff would say, I know what that is.

[26:10] There are water and not to think of it, but not in heaven, there are never done one, but in the world, that poor thing down there on the earth, struggling, overwhelmed, overcome, can't cope with it, burdenless sin, trouble coming, lonely world, testing line, hell, hell, and my friend, that's the life line of hope and help coming from heaven, in heaven for your help.

[26:48] And she worsened, and then he said, it is not made to take the children's bread, and it caused it to dogs. Truth, Lord. She bows under it.

[26:59] And just going back that point, when he said, it is not not sin, but the lost sheep in the house, do you know what I feel sometimes? That dear soul, in faith, it took hold of that woman, and said, Lord, I'm one of those lost sheep.

[27:13] I'm lost too. Oh, take me, oh good shepherd of mine, and show me that I'm one of thy, that I may be to say, Jesus saw me when a stranger, wandering from the fold of the dark, he to save my soul from danger, interposed his precious blood.

[27:35] Lord, Lord, say it, and every ear she says here, truth not yet, that God is hope, and that truth not yet.

[27:46] Some of you may know, that that number word, yet, means so much of this poor man, is that my life, is that one that keeps hope alive in the darkest hours, yet, truth not yet.

[28:10] Truth not, yes, I'm that lost sinner, truth not, I don't deserve any mercy, truth not, no good in me at all, yet.

[28:23] For example, like the psalmist says, while thou passed down, O my soul, while thou disquieted within me, hope thou in God for I shall, yet.

[28:40] Great. Blessed be. Oh, my friend, what about Habakkuk? I just think of that, that comes suddenly, when he says, all is gone, and no cattle in the stores, and so, no fruit, nothing, but, yet, that the Lord, will appear for him, all I call him.

[29:03] And he said, I will rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of my soul, which I think of you, and I will rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of my soul, which I think of you, and I will rejoice in the Lord, and joy in the God of my soul, and joy in the God of my soul, which I think of you, that yet, yet I will, though the outward man perish, yet the inward man, every new day by day, though he slay me, yet how dead Job speaks, the later I know that my redeemer lives, this or the yet, this is faith, my friend, walking, this is faith, I'm the load, this is faith, being tested, this is the trial of faith, I'm trying to bring for you in my somewhat confused mind at the moment, but I hope it is clear, faith isn't something easy, it isn't a wise belief, and that's it, my friend is going through the fire, and you're going through the fire, but not all the time, no,

[30:18] I should try and turn straight the other side of it in a moment, but as we may be held, and she said, Drew will give the donkey to the cross, which more than the last will be saved, and the last will be saved, oh, what a stench in them, of an utter unworthiness, and that's the way to come to the throne of grace, as a poor sinner, an utter unworthy sinner, and she says, here again, and he says, the Lord says, oh, great is thy faith, be it under thee, even as thou art.

[30:55] So friends are a trial, and we wonder, where is our faith? Or times when, yes, the Lord does enlarge our faith, when in the darkest hour, we're able to look up, and trust in him, and believe in him, that he will appear, and will help us, and will stand by us, by both sides of the matter, sometimes, I think of the time in great trouble, which I will not enlarge upon, but, oh, and, oh, the precious of God, and the trial of your faith, be much more precious, than the gold that perisheth, though it be tried with thy body, what?

[31:40] Destroyed? No. I be found, of the praise, of honor, the glory, that is appearing, oh, the wonder of it, oh, the preciousness of it.

[31:54] So, marjoring, here is faith, great, and here is faith, small, here is faith, that is sorely tried, but here is faith, that is exceedingly precious, and now, I said that faith, if I may put it this way, is like a hungry grace, it needs feeding, and God gives faith something to feed on, that's the mercy.

[32:25] You see, what would, I say this very reverently, what would faith be, if there was nothing to us, believe in, feed on, trust in, rest in, plead before the throne of grace.

[32:39] So, as I look at this, as they had not want to receive, than the finish of the grace, the precious blood of grace, the blood of grace, the bruised blood, broken by grace, and the gracious blood of Jesus Christ, is full of faith.

[33:03] You see, my faith in fact, to see the burden that was there, when I came on the interceded tree, that helps my God.

[33:14] If faith has great business to do, at the throne of grace, at the, at Calvary, at the precious blood, of the Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, that fountain of, for sin, and for my pain.

[33:34] And, am I right? You believers, I'm sure, will tell me, is fine. Because, you feed on it, if not, and, just as you need food daily, I won't say that you have a portion of it, every day, but, it won't go long, when you feel, I need another blessing in my soul, I need another confirming, I need another help, Satan's tempting me, my sin condemns me, my heart goes astray, I'm boldly, and look at the pride of my heart, and look at the ruin that I make of my profession sometimes, I need that cleansing God, and I need that help.

[34:20] And my friend, when you first came in those seeking days, when in the early days of your faith, wasn't that an act of grace at that time?

[34:31] Wasn't it an act of, didn't it move out after Christ? Wasn't it drawn to the Saviour? Jesus Christ says, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me.

[34:42] Oh, how precious that is. Drawn to the Saviour, and to find in Him, and that blessing that you need. Now, I know I have to oppose it, and I can't help it, because I love it, so it's so dear to me, and you see, it's not stale food to my soul, it's ever living food.

[35:04] And I think another character in the pronounce book, I think of a woman that were the issue of love, who said, I know what I do, my sin, and I think, and at first when she thought, well, I can prove, I'll do better.

[35:25] And, the more you struggle, nobody, you weren't going to do better, trying to be better, but, we need to move back. And my friend, this poor woman, twelve years, spent all she had on physicians, and grew horses of the better, nothing, but what did she have left?

[35:49] Nothing to find? She's still got the issue of love, sin, an end-to-pulence, an elk, and Margaret, as she, and she, as she heard, as she heard, as Jesus.

[36:08] Could it be, just like if I made one of the day, lying by her ears, and then he heard of Jesus, and when that noise of the multitude passing by, what else do you want to do?

[36:21] What's happening? He did, once soon he heard of Jesus, cry for mercy, just like that woman did. Just like you and I, you see the same part, the same way, same work, same place, same precious Christ.

[36:36] And here this woman, she heard of it, and there he is, and she sees her, his own, his own neighbor, touch, that heaven, it's gone, and I shall be on, it's in him.

[36:49] No one else, it's no one going to Peter, no one going to John, no one going to them, no, it must be this Jesus, oh, my strength is nearly gone, my hope is there, but oh, shall I get there, will I reach him?

[37:06] Yes, she ventures, she presses through, and there she's strooped, right down to touch, that heaven for God, and the virtue goes out of the lodges, and she's immediately, oh, but oh, wait a minute, and I've told you this before, surely, but may I tell you today, oh, there's a wonderful woman, I've been once told about, dear old Deacon, he asked me, did I ever think much of that word, somebody, try to think very hard, when it comes in this, doesn't it, and who touched my clothes?

[37:41] They said, Master, everybody's touching me, then, Jesus said, somebody, did you see it? I'm being proud, that there's just somebody, there's a poor soul, are you that, not somebody, like, or high and mighty, like the prophecy helper, a poor vile sinner, pleading for Christ, reaching forth at the blood, laying hold upon the finished work of Christ, and oh, that that virtue could go forth, oh, for that blessing to be known and felt, and do here, the sea, and she had come, and fearing and trembling, fell down the woman, and told him before the people, all the truth, and what did she say?

[38:29] She said, if I may, what did the Lord say? Daughter, go in peace, thy faith hath made thee whole. Do know this, it wasn't her faith, that laid, that brought the healing, it was the virtue in Christ, but the faith was in her hand, as she laid upon the head of his God, and that was it.

[38:55] So here we have, the testing of the faith, the trauma of faith, and here we have in her words of her text, to establish it, to seek much to attack of it, the devil will, as he attacked the Lord Jesus said, he is now the Son of God, and all the ifs and the bumps by the devil, and my friend, all the unbelief in our heart, all the trial of the way, and my friend, you fear you're going to fall right away sometimes, I do know what it is, and yet, you see, here it is, to establish you, it is a statue, to ground you firm, your feet firm, on that one foundation, built on the rock, pleading the promises, exceeding great and precious promises, of Almighty God, to establish you, and that's what I feel we need in this Zion today, we need to be established, we don't know what we should face yet, in open persecution, we want to be established in the truth, established in the Word of God, know what we're talking about, know who we have believed, and that persuaded, says the one, that I am, is able to keep that, which I have committed unto Him, at days that day, and so, beloved friend, pray on, look on, be able to be done in anything, to comfort you, there's something very precious there, and isn't there comfort, and don't you need comfort sometimes, and the sorrow fills your heart, and the many tears,

[40:34] I will not leave you comfort, and look, God is the God of comfort, comfort you, comfort you my people, say to your God, speak ye comfort me to Jerusalem, and tell her all warfare is accomplished, and their iniquity and power, and look, the Lord Jesus says, I will not leave you comfort, as I will comfort you, and look, He said, I will give you another comforter, spirit of truth, look at it, and look, there's even the word of God, that breathes out comfort for your soul, so look at this, that heritage, concerning this precious faith, that establishes you, and to comfort you, concerning our faith, that is, one or two thoughts, and I must hasten, but, the painter you know, one thing said, he would, and the Lord said to Peter, as Saint Simon, Simon, Satan had desired to have you, they may secretly, but I am bravely, that thy faith failed not, he failed not, utterly failed, but, well, my friend, there, did the Lord cast him off, and say, no, eternal, not upon Peter, that broke his heart, that's what we want, when I say, when we're burdened with that sin, and confessing our sin, oh, for a broken heart, oh, for a contrite spirit, oh, for a wet heart, and then, another thought in this way of faith, and that is this, that, you know others, that are so strong in faith, that you're not, that you, they have, they don't seem to have trouble, like you have trouble, these things, they get tempted, like you're tempted, well, we don't always know, people that may have, no outside difficulty, may have much inward conflict, so we have to leave that, but,

[42:31] I'm also welcome, in the 11th of Hebrews, that, the central of faith, of that great number, that, that we read, that, they escaped the edge of the sword, and that, the demons were made strong, and so forth, and, and, escaped that far, and so forth, and yet, they were, they were victorious, they were, they were slain, they were slain, they were slain with the edge of the sword, but the others would, they escaped the edge of the sword, these were slain, but then, was, there was something wrong with us, I think now, yet, that was enduring, faith, enduring, and, put it this way, Herod, called James, be, well, it was, Herod, I think I've got it right, Herod, called James, to be, be, Peter, was there.

[43:32] You see, nothing lacking with James, there was enduring faith, and those that suffered even to death, that faith endured, and they endured through that faith, endured a sin, who is invisible.

[43:55] but now, let's hasten to explain to you, that is this, what did happen, what was the answer to this, when, Janet went off to see, how these, were fair, we read here, that, they told you before, that you suffered, you suffered, you, who, they, they, they said to know you, if I wanted them, how would you speak to you?

[44:25] A pastor, and ministers, and those who travel for souls, those who, carry souls in their, in their heart, will watch their souls, just like the mother, and the father, will watch the health, and well being, of the calm that they daily have.

[44:44] You will, and here it is, and this is what he said, I know you have been blessed, by some means, that they have kept up to you. He said, now when Timothy came with you, and brought us, good tidings of your faith, and charity, faith and love, and that you have good remembrance of us, always desired, greatly to see us, as we also, to see you.

[45:06] He said, therefore, we will comfort it over you, in all our affection, and he said, like, your faith, it's standing up, it's standing up, and they said, we live if you stand fast, in the night, is that being seen now, that, that horses are, nothing they're going to do.

[45:28] But we still got one more reference, your faith, and you'll find that in, verse 10, night and day, praying exceedingly, that we may see your face, and my perfect life, which is lacking, in your faith.

[45:48] And always, they're going on to know more, and, one of the things, of course, are lacking, that they had a misty, view of the coming of the Lord Jesus, they thought it would be, any minute they need to go to work, how the apostles could have put that right, and then also, to speak of the coming again, the Lord Jesus.

[46:09] Well, friend, I've rambled on, what a precious gift they have, there will only be believers in heaven, you won't find a believer in heaven, a true believer, they'll all get home, and if they try, the devil attacking, their own fallen angel attacking, the world will attack him, and everything seems to go against it.

[46:40] But my faith, lays hold on that precious Jesus, oh, nothing in my hand I bring, but simply to that cross, it's that, it gives me quite sorrows, I can't let go Lord, and I believe thou will not let me go.

[46:59] Oh, help me Lord, may I be a true believer, oh, do help me, teach me, ground me in that true faith, the true knowledge of these truths, and I may know them for myself, be assured Lord, and rest upon them, find divine comfort in them.

[47:19] Oh, bless us Lord, with this precious faith. Now, may the Lord come, all of us, and place this world, and bring you a mind where I find.

[47:34] God be with you. Amen. Amen. M1114 Cool, and the tune is 203.

[48:08] Now, gracious Lord, thy arm reveal and make thy glory known.

[48:25] Hear whilst we plead the Saviour's name and venture near the throne. 11.14 O gracious Lord, thy arm reveal and make thy glory known.

[49:02] Hear whilst we plead the Saviour's name.

[49:15] Christmas, proclaim the Saviour's name.

[49:27] And I pray to Jesus Christ.

[50:07] Hear whilst we plead the Saviour's name.

[50:19] The Saviour's name.