Worthy is the land that was slain to
receive power.
Yesterday we were speaking about the omnipotence of
the Lord.
Question, how can he receive any more power
than he already has?
Don't tell me now.
Worthy is the land that was slain to
receive riches.
Riches?
He owns the cattle in a thousand hills.
The universe is his.
Tell me, how can he receive more riches
than he already has?
Worthy is the land that was slain to
receive wisdom.
He's the fountainhead of all wisdom.
All the secrets of wisdom and knowledge are
found in him.
How could he possibly get any more wisdom
than he already has?
Worthy is the land that was slain to
receive strength.
There's a difference there between power and strength.
One speaks of authority and the other would
speak more of physical strength.
But the question is still the same.
How could the Lord have any more strength
than he already has?
Now, I can understand the last part, honor,
glory, blessings.
Yes, I can understand how he can receive
more of them.
But how can he receive more of those
first things?
Think it over.
Talk it over among yourselves.
And I'd be interested to hear what answer
you come up with.
Now, this morning, we want to take up
another attribute of God, first of all.
And that is known as the immutability of
God.
The immutability of God.
And that says that God does not change
in his being, his attributes, or his purposes.
The Lord is the unchanging one.
First of all, let us read some scriptures
that deal with this.
And first of all, I'd like to read
from the book of Psalms, Psalm 102.
Psalm 102 and verses 24 through 27.
Incidentally, if you'd like to revel in the
attributes of God, live deep in the book
of Psalms.
The book of Psalms is full of the
study of the attributes of God.
That's really what made David a worshipper.
He meditated, I suppose, out there in the
fields with the sheep.
He was contemplating the Lord in all his
greatness.
And he began to sing and to praise
and to worship.
Psalm 102, verses 24 through 27.
I said, oh my God, take me not
away in the midst of my days.
Actually, perhaps I should just stop here and
explain.
This is a dialogue between the Lord Jesus
and God the Father at the cross.
The Lord Jesus said, I said, oh my
God, take me not away in the midst
of my years.
And God the Father answers, thy years are
throughout all generations.
There's a change in the speaker in the
middle of that verse.
Of old thou hast laid the foundation of
the earth and the heavens are the work
of thy hands.
They shall perish, but thou shalt endure.
Yea, all of them shall wax old like
a garment.
As a vesture shalt thou change them and
they shall be changed.
But thou art the same and thy years
shall have no end.
The immutability of our Lord.
He does not change.
Malachi chapter 3, verse 6.
There we read these lovely words.
I am the Lord.
I change not.
I am the Lord.
I change not.
And in James chapter 1, verse 17.
Speaks of God as the Father of lights.
With whom is no variableness, neither shadow of
turning.
And so when we think of the immutability
of God, we're saying that he does not
change in his being, his attributes, or his
purposes.
Now, he does change in his methods.
In the history of mankind, there have been
various dispensations.
In which God tests men under various circumstances.
Whether under promise, or conscience, or law, or
grace, or whatever it might be.
God's methods do change, but he himself does
not change.
And this is a wonderful thing for us
to contemplate.
Because we live in a world of change,
don't we?
It's really wonderful to have to cling to
someone who doesn't change.
Change and decay in all about I see.
O thou who changes not, abide with me.
We change, he changes not.
His love can never die.
His truth, not ours, the resting place.
We on his truth rely.
It's really surprising how many of our hymns
and choruses deal with this.
With the changelessness of our Lord.
Now, a problem arises in connection with the
immutability of God.
And that problem has to do with verses
in the scripture that says the Lord repents.
The Lord repents.
Genesis chapter 6, verse 6.
You remember it says, it repented the Lord
that he had made men.
And in 1 Samuel 15, it says, it
repented, it repented me that I have set
up Saul to be king.
Now, how can God be immutable and yet
repent?
Well, the repentance of God does not deny
his immutability.
When the Bible speaks of the repentance of
God, it means there has been a change
in his creatures and therefore a necessary change
in his dealings with his creatures.
Let me explain it this way.
God by his very nature must reward obedience
and he must punish sin and disobedience, right?
That's his nature.
He's righteous and he's holy and he's just
and he's good.
He must reward obedience and he must punish
sin and disobedience, all right?
When man is obedient to him, he rewards
man.
When man is disobedient, he punishes man.
But he hasn't changed.
He's still true to his own character.
And that someone has put it this way.
God is said to repent when a change
in the character and conduct of those with
whom he is dealing leads to a corresponding
change in his plans and purposes toward them.
His repentance is not to be understood as
his regretting his action, nor is it a
sign of changeableness.
His promises and threats are often conditional.
And that satisfies my mind when I read
that it repented the Lord that he had
made man as a change in his creature
that necessitates a consequent change in himself.
What seems to be repentance to us is
God adapting himself to change conditions in his
creatures.
And so there's no conflict with a verse
like Numbers 23, 19, that says God is
not a man that he should lie, neither
the son of man that he should repent
the strength of Israel will not lie nor
repent that has to do with his own
innate changelessness.
But if you and I change, then his
dealings with us have to change as well.
Well, the immutability of God is a great
comfort to the child of God.
In fact, you and I as believers here
today don't realize how much we pillow our
heads in his immutability.
For instance, we say his love in times
past forbids me to think he'll leave me
at last in darkness to think he's unchangeable
and faithful to us.
And I was thinking of that yesterday.
We were talking about how God influenced the
enemies of Israel so that when the men
of Israel went up to worship at Jerusalem,
God so influenced their desires that they didn't
even want to pounce upon the property of
the Israelites.
You know, God's just the same today.
A brother came up to me after the
meeting and gave me an illustration from today.
And I said, of course, God's immutable.
He's the same today.
And he's just as faithful to his promise
today.
He's still the God of Daniel.
The immutability of God also is not only
a comfort, but it teaches me that I
should be true to my word, even if
it costs me something.
I often think of that verse in Psalm
15, 4.
It says that the man that pleases God,
among other things, is the man who swears
to his own hurt and changes none.
Swears to his own hurt and changes.
What does that mean?
Well, it means he gives a verbal agreement
to sell his house for $50,000, and
somebody comes along later and offers him $60
,000, and he sells it for $50,000
because he made the verbal agreement.
You say, but it wasn't written in the
contract.
It doesn't make any difference.
He swore to his own hurt, and he
changes none.
Means when you accept an invitation to supper,
and then someone comes along with a better
menu, you go to the first place.
He swears to his own hurt and changes
not.
And God wants these characteristics to be found
in his people.
What a wonderful thing to contemplate, the immutability
of God.
In a scene like ours, where even our
own earthen vessels break and the world itself
grows old.
Wonderful to know the Lord who changes none.
Now, another subject that's very closely related to
his immutability is his faithfulness.
And his faithfulness tells us, or this is
also called, in the study of the attributes
of God, it's called his truth.
His faithfulness or his truth.
He's absolutely trustworthy in every way.
Absolutely true to his word.
No promise of his can ever fail.
Well, I don't have to remind you that
the Bible is filled with verses that speak
of the faithfulness of God.
Just let me give you a few.
Deuteronomy chapter 7, verse 9, I'll read it.
Know, therefore, that the Lord, thy God, he
is God, the faithful God.
Isn't that beautiful?
The faithful God.
Psalm 119, 90, thy faithfulness is unto all
generations.
Lamentations, chapter three, verses 22 and 23, his
compassions fail not.
They are new every morning.
Great is thy faithfulness.
And you have that expression in the New
Testament so often.
God is faithful by whom you were called
into the fellowship of his son.
God is faithful, who will not suffer you
to be tempted above that you're able.
It's a refrain in the word of God.
He is absolutely trustworthy in every way.
Absolutely true to his word.
No promise of his can ever fail.
What confidence this gives us today in the
word of God.
I go to the word of God.
I find a promise there to my heart.
I accept the promise and I'm absolutely sure.
There is no risk involved in believing God.
I don't remember who it was that said
that faith is like a leap in the
dark.
You take the leap in the dark and
you find the solid rock underneath.
I don't believe that's true at all.
Faith demands the surest evidence and finds it
in the word of God.
The word of God is the surest thing
in all the universe.
That's why faith is not a meritorious work.
No merit attaches to me for believing in
the Lord.
I'd be a fool not to believe in
the Lord.
If I can't believe the Lord, whom can
I believe?
God's word is true.
It's wonderfully true, living and vital, eternal and
pure.
We have tremendous confidence when we come to
the word of God, knowing that his word
can never fail and that God will do
as he has promised.
That's why those who have the brand mark
of redemption upon them are as sure of
heaven as if they were already there.
That's why we can sing more happy, but
not more secure, the souls of the blessed
in heaven.
No question about it, those who have already
arrived are happier than we are, but they're
not more sure of heaven than we are.
Because God has said it and we believe
it and that settles it.
The Lord Jesus said, my sheep hear my
voice and I know them and they follow
me and I give unto them eternal life
and they shall never perish.
Neither shall any man pluck them out of
my hand.
My father which gave them me is greater
than all and no man is able to
pluck them out of my father's hand.
So it's a wonderful thing to have the
word of God, to know the faithful God,
to have utter assurance of salvation today.
Do you have utter assurance of salvation?
How do you know you're saved?
Well, I know I'm saved first and foremost
through the word of God.
I went through an awful time of testing
in my life on this whole subject.
For many years I fought against the Lord
and fought against the idea of being saved,
but when I finally yielded, I expected something
very dramatic and emotional and sensational to happen
and it didn't happen.
I trusted the Lord but the bells didn't
ring, the lights didn't go on and I
didn't feel any tingling in my nervous system.
And so I was plunged into the deepest
despair.
I said I've done all I can do
and I'm still not saved.
And I went on for months and months
and months longing for assurance of salvation and
expecting to find assurance through my feelings, but
I couldn't find it.
And then I read George Cutting's book, Light
for Anxious Souls, and he showed very clearly
that assurance of salvation comes through the word
of God and not through your feelings.
And when I saw that, the clouds drifted
away and they've never come back since because
the word of God is the same today
as it was then.
God's word is the same.
My feelings are up and down, but God's
word never changes.
I've often quoted Dr. Ironside in that regard.
He said, I don't know I'm saved because
I feel happy, but I feel happy because
I know I'm saved.
And somebody said to Martin Luther, Mr. Luther,
do you feel that your sins have been
forgiven?
And he said, no, but I'm as sure
of it as that there's a God in
heaven.
For feelings come and feelings go and feelings
are deceiving.
My warrant is the word of God, not
else is worth believing.
But that's where we stand today.
Just think of the blessing we have, assurance
of salvation, eternal security and the provision of
all our needs.
My God shall supply.
Do you believe that?
Do you take seriously this verse of scripture,
but seek ye first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness and all these things shall
be added unto you.
Promise of the word of God.
You know, God would have to come off
his throne in heaven before that verse could
ever fall to the ground.
Wonderful thing to just take God at his
word.
Well, we should also want to be conformed
to the Lord in this matter of faithfulness.
We should be faithful.
We should be faithful in our dealings with
one another.
We should be dependable, for instance, in keeping
appointments.
We should not be given to lies or
exaggeration.
Faithful in keeping promises, faithful in keeping promises.
To marriage vows, faithful in the local assembly.
Tell me, can the Lord depend on you?
He wants us to be faithful in all
our ways.
Another wonderful attribute of God is his wisdom,
the wisdom of God, and the wisdom of
God teaches us that God always produces the
best result by the best possible means.
That's wonderful, isn't it?
Just to think about that.
God always produces the best possible results by
the best possible means.
First of all, let us go to some
scriptures to back this up.
Let's speak of the wisdom of God.
Psalm 104, verse 24.
I'll read it to you.
Psalm 104, verse 24.
O Lord, how manifold are thy works!
In wisdom hast thou made them all.
The earth is full of thy riches.
Job chapter 12, verses 13 and 16.
Job 12, 13 and 16.
With him is wisdom and strength.
He hath counsel and understanding.
With him is strength and wisdom.
The deceived and the deceiver are his.
And one more reference.
Proverbs chapter 3, verses 19 and 20.
Proverbs 3, verses 19 and 20.
Says the Lord by wisdom hath founded the
earth.
By understanding hath he established the heaven.
My, you could talk the rest of the
day in the wisdom of God and you'd
never have exhausted the subject.
First morning I was here, I went down
by the lake and I watched two seagulls.
What do you have seagulls in Minnesota for?
Would you please tell me?
But I watched two seagulls flying over Corona.
You know, I was reminded of something very
wonderful.
Think of the wisdom of God.
One of the great problems that man has
to face today is how to take salt
water and make fresh water out of it.
And really, if we could do that on
the West Coast now, we wouldn't be bothered
by the drought because we got plenty of
salt water, but we can't do a thing
with it.
In other words, to convert it, we can
convert it to fresh water, but it's too
expensive.
Use too much power and power is scared.
But there are those seagulls, if you cross
the Atlantic or the Pacific, you'll find the
seagulls way out in the middle.
Please tell me, what do they drink?
They drink that salt water?
It's enough to kill a seagull.
Well, one of our brothers out there on
the West Coast is in the membrane business.
His business is to make membranes for industry,
filter membranes and all the rest.
And I was traveling with him one day
and he was telling me about the seagull.
He's telling me the seagull drinks salt water,
takes salt water into its system.
That salt water goes through a membrane.
After it passes through the membrane, it goes
down into its gullet as fresh water and
the salt comes out as a teardrop from
the seagull's eyes.
The wisdom of God.
If you can believe that happened by evolution,
you're welcome to believe it.
Frankly, I'd rather get down on my knees
and worship the God of the seagull.
We take so much for granted.
We take the human body for granted.
What a wonderful thing the human body is.
How do we see?
The light comes through our eyes, but where's
the projection machine?
And where is the screen on which the
image...
I don't even know how to express it.
How does that work?
And tell me who has put understanding in
the mind of man?
How did he do that?
Supposing I could create a brain, which I
can't do, of course, but supposing I could
with all the component parts, how could I
put understanding in it?
Think of the wisdom of God in designing
the human hand.
Think of all the things you can do
with the human hand.
You know, I believe that if you were
to feed that information into a computer and
say, now that we want a device that'll
do all of these things and then push
the button and say, what would it be
like?
They come out just like that.
The wisdom of God.
This whole universe that we're living in has
to be filled with evidences of God's wisdom.
And we see it in his providence with
us as well.
Now, this is a tremendous comfort to our
hearts.
The wisdom of God.
The wisdom of God, first of all, teaches
me this.
He's too wise to make a mistake.
You know, there are things that happen in
life.
Have you ever had this happen?
And I don't mean to be irreverent, but
something happens in your life sometimes in an
ephetic depression.
You say, well, God has made his first
mistake.
But you wait 10 years and you say,
Lord, I wouldn't have wanted it any other
way.
The wisdom of God, he's too wise to
make a mistake.
The wisdom of God, he's too wise to
make a mistake.
Comfort.
Not only comfort, but confidence.
What confidence this should give us in the
Lord.
When I think of the wisdom of the
Lord, and I think of my own ignorance,
I say this to myself, McDonald, you can
trust his leading.
He knows what's best.
I don't even know what's best for me.
Oh, Lord, I know that the way of
man is not in him.
It is not in man that walketh to
direct his steps.
That's a good lesson for us all to
learn.
Too often, you and I take matters in
our own hands.
We say, I'm going to do this.
I'm going to do it.
This is the thing that I want to
do.
Really, if we were wise, we'd get down
before the Lord and say, Lord, I don't
know.
I don't even know how to come in
out of the rain, really.
And I just want to turn my life
over to you.
I want an exchange of wills to take
place every morning in my life and turn
my will over to you and accept your
will in my life because you are absolutely
wise.
You never make a mistake and you just
plot the course for me, then all will
be well.
I've had this experience in life where you're
tempted to take action by yourself and then
you think, no, I won't do it.
I'll just leave it with the Lord.
I tell you, the Lord comes through every
time.
Comfort, confidence.
Third thing is conformity.
We should be wise too.
We should be wise in obeying the word
of God.
The path of wisdom is to bow to
the authority of the Holy Scriptures.
I was speaking to some of the young
people the other night and on that verse,
a wise man will hear.
The difference between a wise man and a
fool in the book of Proverbs is that
the wise man is teachable and the fool
isn't.
You can't tell a fool anything.
You're going to get scorned if you try.
Now that isn't true in the book of
Psalms.
The fool in the book of Psalms is
the man who says there is no God.
But the fool in the book of Proverbs
is the man who is unteachable.
He's going to make, he's going to learn
by his own stupid errors.
He won't listen to the Lord.
God wants us to be wise in listening
to the godly counsel of elder brothers and
sisters, knowing that there's safety in the multitude
of counselors.
And God also wants us to be wise
in accepting what he has made us physically
and mentally and what he allows to come
into our life.
I think that's one of the greatest lessons
that you learn in life.
And that's this, there's peace in accepting what
can't be changed.
I'm sure in everybody's life here today, there's
something that comes into your life you wish
in a way you wish you could have
it differently.
But what a wonderful thing to know that
God has planned the ingredients of our lives.
And he has planned them in absolute and
perfect wisdom.
Whether it's your appearance, whether it's your height,
whatever it might be, God had a purpose
in it all.
His way is best.
And he wants us to accept.
The Lord Jesus did that.
He said, even so, father, for so it
seemed good in thy sight.
He accepted what couldn't be changed.
Paul accepted what couldn't be changed.
He had some physical thorn and cried to
the Lord three times to have it removed.
And the Lord said, my grace is sufficient
for thee.
Paul rose to the height of spiritual maturity.
He said, most gladly, therefore, will I rather
glory in my infirmities that the power of
Christ might rest upon me.
As brother Dan was saying yesterday, you take
these things and you dedicate them to the
Lord.
And thank him for them too.
Thank him for them too.
So God wants us to be wise in
these ways and obeying and listening to advice
and in accepting what cannot be changed.
That brings us to the next attribute of
God.
And that is the love of God.
This is very difficult, incidentally, to define the
love of God.
God has strong and tender affection for us.
And he gives freely, actively and sacrificially.
The love of God, God has strong and
tender affection for us and he gives freely,
actively and sacrificially.
Well, we hardly have to read verses on
the love of God, but here are a
few.
Jeremiah 31, 3.
I have loved thee with an everlasting love.
John 3, 16.
God so loved the world that he gave.
Romans 5, 8.
God commended his love toward us and that
while we were yet sinners, Christ died for
us.
The verse that Ted quoted last night, Ephesians
2, 4, 5.
But God, who is rich in mercy for
his great love, wherewith he loved.
When we say, when it says in the
Bible that God is love, that's not a
definition of God.
We don't worship love.
We worship God, who is love.
But I don't think I have to labor
the point of the love of God because
every Christian here today, every person today is
a recipient of the love of God.
But it's a subject that really can't be
exhausted.
What has the poet said?
Know that if the whole ocean were ink,
and the sky were just one enormous parchment,
and every blade of grass were a pen,
and every man was a scribe by trade,
to write the love of God above would
drain the ocean dry.
With the scroll contain the whole, though stretched
from sky to sky.
The love of God is a boundless deep
that can't be filled.
No human mind in time or eternity will
ever be able to fathom or comprehend.
And the love of God should inspire great
thoughts of worship in our hearts.
How thou canst love me as thou dost,
and be the God thou art, is darkness
to my intellect, but sunshine to my heart.
I don't know anything that should provoke more
worship from my heart to God than his
wonderful love to me.
And not only so, but love to all
the brethren.
And really, this is something else, isn't it?
This is something of love to all the
brethren.
Dear friends, do we love all the brethren?
God wants his love to be manifest in
our hearts.
And I really believe that the Lord would
speak to us during these days that in
our holding of the truth of God, we
must not neglect to love those who disagree
with us.
Let me give an example.
Our Pentecostal brethren, do we really love them?
Or are we harsh and judgmental upon them?
It's good for us to remember that every
true believer is a member of the body
of Christ, and there's no believer that I
can't learn something from.
I might not agree with them.
I might not be able to do the
things they do, but I can love them
just the same.
If they belong to Christ, I tell you,
I have a deep and abiding obligation to
love them.
Some of us can get very excited about
the whole subject of tongues.
I've never spoken in tongues.
I've never heard anybody speak in tongues.
But I want to tell you this, there's
something worse than the so-called unknown tongues.
That's a backbiting and a gossiping tongue.
It really is.
And we can be so clear doctrinally on
the subject of tongues in 1 Corinthians 12,
13, and 14, we can be very careless
about the other.
Sometimes the English tongue can be worse than
an unknown tongue.
And you know, it's a sad thing to
me that we draw the line so harsh.
A person can be a backbiter and a
gossip and be accepted in full fellowship in
an assembly.
But if he disagrees with me on the
baptism of the spirit, he's out just like
that.
I'm not saying that we should allow men
to come in and divide the assembly.
I don't think we should.
Because division is not of the Lord.
But I feel that we all need a
fresh baptism of the love of God in
our lives and the day in which we
live a revolution of love.
We really need it.
And not only love for our brethren, but
love for the world as well.
Poets have let me look on the crowd
as my savior did till my eyes with
tears grow dim.
Let me, let me love with pity the
wandering ones and love them for love of
him.
Let's think about the love of God.
God's love had no beginning and it can
have no end.
God's love had no beginning and it can
have no end.
And God's love has no limit.
Boundless.
God's love is like an ocean without any
shores.
God's love is absolutely pure.
No human love is absolutely pure.
Everything we do, including our love, is stained
with sin.
The selfishness in it and all the rest.
But think of the love of the Lord.
It's absolutely pure.
God's love is sacrificial, never minding the cost.
That was never more manifest than at the
cross of Calvary when he gave himself the
Lord Jesus gave himself for us.
Love manifests itself in giving.
God's love manifests itself in giving.
God so loved the world that he gave.
Christ also loved the church and gave himself
for it.
And you get that refrain all through the
scriptures as well.
Love, God's love seeks the welfare of others.
But what makes it truly unique to me
is God's love goes out to the unlovely
as well as to the lovely.
And it goes out to his enemies as
well as to his friends.
God's love is not drawn out by any
virtue in its objects.
But only by the goodness of the donor.
Why did God ever love me?
Well, the only explanation I've ever found is
in the book of Isaiah.
It says, I've loved thee because I've loved
thee.
Well, that's good enough.
That's plenty adequate.
Not drawn out by any virtue in me,
but only by the goodness of the donor.
God's love is unselfish, not looking for anything
in return.
God's love doesn't keep a count of wrongs.
And it repays every discourtesy with a kindness.
But that's the way he wants us to
be.
I like to give some illustrations, especially when
I'm talking to young people about what love
really is, because people have such sickly sentimental
ideas of love today.
And Hollywood has accounted for most of that.
But when we speak of love in this
sense, it's not the love of sexual passion.
It's not the love of friendship.
It's not the love of affection.
It's a divine love, the love of God.
What is love like today in a practical
way with you and me?
Well, the plate is passed and it has
bananas on it, and one of the bananas
has a bad spot.
Love takes that banana, so nobody else will
get it.
And when love goes in the washroom and
the paper towels are all exhausted, love sees
that they're replaced before love leaves.
You say, do you have to be so
practical?
Well, that's the way love is.
Love puts out the lights when they're not
in use.
You know, sometimes I go into places today
and people talk about love.
They go into a church, let's say, and
the people hug one another and kiss one
another.
They say, boy, that place is full of
love.
Really?
Look, there was a crumpled Kleenex in the
lobby and they all walked over it.
Love would have picked up the Kleenex.
Love empties the garbage without being asked.
It replaces gas and oil in a car
that has been borrowed when the car is
returned.
Love doesn't keep people waiting.
It serves others before so.
Love speaks loudly for the deaf to hear.
How we try to drill that into our
fellows in the discipleship intern training program.
They might as well be speaking in tongues
if they don't speak loud.
They should have an interpretive president in such
a case.
Love speaks loudly so that the deaf can
hear.
And in Ephesians four, we find out that
love works in order to have to give
to those who are in any need.
That's revolutionary.
Most of us think working to provide for
our own needs, but Christianity goes beyond that
and says love works.
Let him that stole steel no more, but
rather let him labor, working with his hands
the thing that is good that he may
have to give to anyone that has need.
That's love in the New Testament sense.
Love is supernatural.
The love that the Lord wants to see
manifest in our lives is a supernatural love.
It's impossible for an unbeliever to do it
at all.
It's impossible for a believer to do it
except as energized by the spirit of God.
But after all, if our lives aren't different
from the lives of people around us, what
good are they?
If we can't be living supernatural lives in
the midst of a rubbing earthly world, what
impact are we ever going to have?
So God wants his love to be manifest
in our hearts today.
The love that is strong and tender affection
for us, which he gives freely, actively, and
sacrificially.
Shall we look to him in prayer?
Father, once again, we come to you and
we thank you for your word.
We thank you for how it speaks to
us even here in the 20th century.
We thank you how it convicts us, how
it exposes us to ourselves, how as we
stand before the mirror of the word, we
see ourselves as we actually are.
And Father, we would confess to you our
sin and our failure this morning.
Lord, how we must grieve your heart over
and over.
We wander from you and yet your faithful
love constraining abideth with us still.
We just bless and praise you for all
your glorious attributes today.
Lord, if men and women seeing us and
meeting us might just see more of the
Lord Jesus in us, if when we go
from Coronus, we might be better testimonies for
him, living epistles known and read of all
men.
We ask that it might be so for
your glory in Jesus name.