[0:00] Good evening. A warm welcome to your evening service.! A warm welcome to any other visiting with us.! We pray that God would bless us in our time together.
[0:12] ! Notices have been on the screen scrolling. Just one more to add to it. If there's anyone that would like to profess their faith and meet with the Kirk session this week, please get in touch with David.
[0:28] And they'd be glad to meet with you if you're of that mind. So please bear that in mind. And please be praying for the communion service next Lord's Day.
[0:41] So we'll begin our time of worship together by singing in Gaelic in Psalm 92. We'll sing the first two verses of this psalm.
[0:51] And after singing this psalm, Donald McSwain, Dolceet, will come up and lead us in a Gaelic prayer. So Psalm 92 from the beginning. To render thanks unto the Lord.
[1:04] It is a comely thing. And to thy name, O thou most high, do praise aloud to sing. Thy loving kindness to show forth when shines the morning light and to declare thy faithfulness with pleasure every night.
[1:26] Psalm is there coming in worship to his God and thankfulness for all that he has received in the morning hour and in the evening hour, declaring God's faithfulness with pleasure in his heart.
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[17:00] We'll continue our praise by singing in Mission Praise 1086. Light of the world. Light of the world, you step down into darkness.
[17:17] Open my eyes, let me see. Beauty that made this heart adore you. Hope of a life spent with you. So we'll stand in a moment to sing these words to God's praise.
[17:30] Light of the world, you step down into darkness.
[17:58] Open my eyes, let me see The beauty that made His heart adore you Hope all the life spent with you So here I am to worship Here I am to bow down Here I am to say that You're my God We're altogether lovely Altogether worthy Altogether wonderful to me Came off all days so brightly exalted
[19:03] Glorious in heaven above Only You came to the earth You created All for love's sake became good Here I am to worship Here I am to bow down Here I am to say that You're my God You're altogether lovely Altogether worthy Altogether wonderful to me All together wonderful to me Here I am to worship
[20:06] Here I am to say that You're my God Altogether lovely Altogether worthy Altogether wonderful to me I'll never know how much it costs To see my sin upon the cross Altogether worthy Altogether worthy Here I am to worship Here I am to worship Here I am to bow down Here I am to say that you're my God
[21:12] You're altogether lovely Altogether worthy Altogether wonderful to me We'll now read together if you have a Bible Please turn to Paul's letter to the Romans chapter 12 We'll read the whole of this chapter And then we'll also read in Psalm 133 afterwards So we'll read in Romans chapter 12 first And then we'll turn to Psalm 133 So let us hear God's word I appeal to you therefore brothers By the mercies of God to present your bodies As a living sacrifice
[22:12] Holy and acceptable to God Which is your spiritual worship Do not be conformed to this world But be transformed by the renewal of your mind But by testing you may discern What is the will of God What is good and acceptable and perfect For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you Not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think But to think with sober judgment Each according to the measure of faith That God has assigned For as in one body we have many members And the members do not all have the same function So we though many are one body in Christ And individually members one of another Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us Let us use them If prophecy in proportion to our faith
[23:13] If service in our serving The one who teaches in his teaching The one who exhorts in his exhortation The one who contributes in his generosity The one who leads with zeal The one who does acts of mercy with cheerfulness Let love be genuine Abhor what is evil Hold fast to what is good Love one another with brotherly affection Outdo one another in showing honour Do not be slothful in zeal Be fervent in spirit Serve the Lord Rejoice in hope Be patient in tribulation Be constant in prayer Contribute to the needs of the saints And seek to show hospitality Bless those who persecute you Bless and do not curse them Rejoice with those who rejoice Weep with those who weep Live in harmony with one another Do not be haughty But associate with the lowly Never be wise in your own sight
[24:15] Repay no one evil for evil But give thought to do What is honourable in the sight of all If possible, so far as it depends on you Live peaceably with all Beloved, never avenge yourselves But leave it to the wrath of God For it is written Vengeance is mine I will repay, says the Lord To the contrary If your enemy is hungry Feed him If he is thirsty Give him something to drink For by doing so By so doing You will heap burning coals On his head Do not be overcome by evil But overcome evil with good We'll turn now to Psalm 133 We'll think about these words Of the psalm in our service The words there are Behold how good and pleasant it is
[25:17] When brothers dwell in unity It is like the precious oil on the head Running down the beard On the beard of Aaron Running down on the collar of his robes It is like the dew of Hermon Which falls on the mountains of Zion For there the Lord has commanded The blessing Life forevermore Amen Pray God's blessing over these words And those who have heard it been read Before coming to this passage We'll sing once more Mission praise 1164 Come O fount of every blessing Tune my heart To sing your grace Streams of mercy Never ceasing Call for songs Of loudest praise We'll stand in a moment To sing these words To God's praise O fount of every blessing
[26:29] Tune my heart To sing your grace Saints of mercy Never ceasing Call for songs Of loudest praise Songs of God's abundant treasure Sung by angels Tongues above Songs that tell The bloodless measure Of my Lord's unchanging love Remember God's great mercy By his help I've safely come And I know He will not fail me But will surely Bring me home Jesus sought me When a stranger Wandering far away from God
[27:33] And to rescue me From danger Shed for me His precious blood Through God's grace I am his debtor Daily I this thought renew Let that grace Like a fetter Find my wandering heart To you Prone to wonder Lord I feel it Prone to leave the God I love Take my heart Take my heart Oh take and seal it Seal it from your course above Let us briefly pray before we come to this passage
[28:36] Father in heaven We pray that you would Open our eyes and ears To understand From the riches of your word What it speaks to us And what a joy it is To come together And worship you Lord may your spirit Be over us May you bless us May you ever keep us And may we find Our eternal security In you So be with us now As we turn to your word Be it a blessing to us We ask In Jesus name Amen I said we want to Turn to Psalm 133 And what I want to do is Just look through this Psalm with you This little Gem of a psalm That we have That I love I love all the more For understanding What it says To us Now boys and girls
[29:37] If you're Going to go to A special event If you're going to Have a birthday party Or something like that It would be great If lots of people came And you would maybe Think about that party Afterwards And think about How much fun it was To have all your friends With you And it's the same For any event That could be Announced to us Or an event An event that's Advertised But many people Would come And it can be A special thing Afterwards When you think about Being there And you think about Maybe how good it was To be there And maybe you go away Back to your friends And say Ah it was brilliant It was a really great time And you might not Think it But where you are Tonight In church To sing To pray To hear God's word
[30:38] Is the best place That we can be It's the greatest place That we can come It's the most special thing That we can do In our lives To come and worship God And that's what Psalm 133 Is all about It's all about Just how special It is To the believer When everyone Gathers together To worship God This psalm You might notice At the top It says A song of ascent Of David And when it says It's a song of ascent That means it was a psalm That they would sing As they would travel To Jerusalem At festival time They would You can imagine All the tribes Coming together From different parts Of the country Meeting together And ascending up The hills That would take them Into Jerusalem And you had all
[31:39] These different groups Meeting And singing These psalms And songs of ascent As they Longingly Desired To reach Jerusalem To be With one another And worship God But surely As it would have been A song that they would have sung As they all gathered And went there I believe And surely It would have been A song That would have Reminded them After they had Returned home Of how much Of a blessing It would have been Being there In Jerusalem Being with all The Lord's people Being in the courts Of the temple And worshipping God When they would come back To these songs of ascent Surely It would remind them Just how good And how amazing It was To be there And maybe That's the same
[32:40] For you Maybe you can Sing or read This psalm With thankfulness In your heart Because you Know The blessing It is Or the blessing It has been To you To join together With God's people To be in church To feel The presence Of the spirit Moving Maybe Even As you sit here You're recalling Days gone by We experience Special Blessing That provokes Our memory Whether it be In church Or in fellowship With one another In someone's home And maybe it's only now You're thinking back And realising You know That was a blessing And I didn't really Realise how much Of a blessing It was to me To be With the Lord's people In that home
[33:40] In that church At that moment J.C. Ryle Who we heard of In the morning He says About the Lord's people When they gather That we should Always regard The communion With other believers As an eminent Means of grace An eminent thing So it's The most important Thing In our lives That the believer Should regard it as To meet together It's something That should be Lifted up And placed In a prominent Place in our lives In our thoughts In our desires It's a great thing It's an important thing To join together Like this To worship God And in many ways For the believer It should be A natural thing To join together Paul When you read Through his letters Had an earnest Desire To be With the Lord's people The writer To the Hebrew Exhorts
[34:41] The Reader Of his letter Not to neglect Meeting together And ultimately That's not what Jesus will do He's going to Gather all his People together To the eternal Enjoyment of God In heaven So if this is What will happen In heaven This is the Blessing That the Believer Will receive When he dies Or she dies To be with The Lord's people Not just for an hour But for all Eternity Worshipping God And knowing The blessing of it So when we come Together like this It's almost as if It's a taste Of what we Shall receive In glory Or certainly What the believer Shall receive Even though
[35:42] It is laced With the sinfulness Of our hearts And the distractions That come in To our minds And the likes During these times But the church And its people It's maybe something That we know We don't value As we should To be able to Come together And join like this To have this Opportunity What a blessing It is For us We don't know How long This may last How long We have the Opportunity To come To a place Like this Maybe The unity Of the church Is maybe Something that Isn't maintained As we would Desire it to be As we hope It would be That everyone Would gather Together In many ways It's impossible Because of the Differences
[36:43] In our Understanding But what a Blessing it is When we come Together That's what God seeks To do Ultimately To gather All his People Together But as God seeks To gather Us The devil Surely Endeavors To divide Us And it would Be foolish Of me To say That the Church Has never Been under Threat Of division It always Has been It's always Been a Threat To scatter The people To keep Them apart To separate Them The devil Will play On anything He can Get Opportunity To stir Division Between His people Who should Be wise To how He works And be Mindful Of how Or what He is Trying to Do That we
[37:45] Would have A desire In our Hearts To be Together To place This as An important Thing in Our lives Beyond All other Things An eminent Thing To be Coming to Church Together Worshiping God What a Privilege We have Tonight And have Had today To come Together like This And worship Him Now that's Not to say That everyone Can come It's not to Say everyone's Comfortable coming To great Gatherings But the Lord will Bless Where His People Meet Together In His Name It can Be an Equal Blessing For us To Sit in Fellowship With one Another In someone's Home Where two Or three Gather That can Be a Great Blessing To the
[38:45] Believer And that Can be a Moment that They can Go back To again And again In their Lives So as We look At psalm 133 And we We have This idea That it's About The people Of god Remaining In unity And dwelling In unity I just want To take Each verse In turn Verse 1 2 And 3 And really Just go Through it And understand It And it says There in Verse 1 Behold How good And how Pleasant It is When brothers Dwell In unity It's a Great thing To dwell Together And he says There First word Behold Now that's An important Word And David Took us to An art Gallery This morning He walked Us round This gallery And He had Pictured himself Standing in Front of a Painting And just Spending five Minutes at It and Walking on
[39:46] And if the Psalms were Like a Gallery You'd be Walking through This art Gallery You'd be Walking through The rooms With all the Psalms in It And you'd Have one of The smallest Of pictures On the Wall But there's A big Light Shining Right on It A small Picture That you may Walk past But this Light Is saying Look At it Pay attention To what This painting Is telling You Look at The details Of it Don't walk By it That's what He's saying Here Behold Listen to This Short Psalm Pay attention To it Look at The details Of it And I Believe That out Of the Whole Psalms Psalm 133 And 134 Are the Only two That begin Like this Call Attention To The believer Behold Listen There's Something Important Here I believe
[40:49] That's Psalm 133 Some Understand It To be A Calling To the Lord's People To come In the Morning And 134 Is Of the Lord's People Departing From one Another In the Evening I don't Know if That's Clarified But the Idea Is There When you Look at The Two Psalms But what He says Here is Behold How good And pleasant It is In the Hebrew It says And King James Version It says How good And how Pleasant It is He's Emphasizing How good And how Pleasant It is And that's What we Would say To one Another If we Had been Somewhere If we Had Experienced Somewhere How good That was To be There But he's Saying here How good And how Pleasant It is Because he's
[41:50] Saying It's almost Like an Inexplicable Quality To being In the Lord's House With the Lord's People There's Something Different About This Meeting That you Don't Find Anywhere Else There's A voice Speaking To you Certainly In this Meeting That you Won't Find Anywhere Else He's Saying How good And how Pleasant It is It's Like He's Asking For all The Believers To join With him How good It is Isn't It How good It is To be In this Place With The Lord's People And it's Almost An Inexplainable Quality Going on Here as Well And he Can't Just Quite Put The Words That he Feels When he's In this Place With the Lord's People He Just Can't Quite Put Them Together To know The peace To know
[42:50] That voice Restoring Him To know That word Reviving His heart And his Soul To have Experienced The spirit Of God Speaking Right into His situation Into his Heart And convicting Him There's no Place like It And in Many ways You can't Express it Fully What goes On When the Lord's People Gather To worship Him And his Word is Preached How good And how Pleasant To do Is When the Brothers Dwell In unity That's The Lord's People So he Says Then It is Like Two Things It's Like He Can't Explain It So he Says It is Like Two Things And that's Where we Jump to Verse Two And he Says First of All It is Like The Precious Oil On The Head Running Down The Beard On The Beard Of Aaron Running Down The Colour Of His Robes Now That's
[43:51] Probably Not the First Image That we Would Have Used If we Were Going To Think About How Special It Is To Come And Worship God So what We Have Here Is Aaron Being Anointed Aaron Who Was The First High Priest Appointed By God To Lead The People As They Came Before Him To Worship Him You can Read About Exodus 29 Leviticus 8 So then The Question Arises How Is Aaron's Anointing Similar To Or Special Or Particular To The Gathered Church Well I suppose We must First Ask What Is Anointing And When Did Anointing Take Place The First Time Anything Was Anointed Which Is The Pouring Of Oil On Something Is When Jacob Slept We Recently Looked At That In The Morning Jacob Slept On This Stone
[44:51] He Used It As A Pillow And While He Slept There He Had This Dream Of Angels Ascending And Descending On This Staircase And When He Woke Up In The Morning He Said Surely God Is In This Place And I Did Not Know It This Is The House Of God The Gate Of Heaven And This Pillow This Stone He Stood Up Right And Poured Oil On It And It Would Seem That When Anything Is Anointed When Oil Is Poured On Anything It Is Symbolising A Bridge Between Heaven And Earth Where Heaven Meets Earth Comes Down To Earth It Marks Something Or Someone With A Heavenly Significance Or A Holy Significance That's Very Clear When We Think About The Temple And
[45:52] Moses When He Built The Temple He Built The Temple He Built All The Instruments To Be Used By The Temple As God Directed Him And When He Built It All He Anointed Everything Everything Was To Be Anointed Including The Priest He Was Anointed To Which We Have Here Because They Are All Set Apart To Be Used!
[46:15] For God's Purposes And All Of What Is Set For In The Temple Is An Imagery Of Heaven It's All Symbolic Of Heaven And All These Things Are Anointed With Oil Because They're Markers That Represent Heaven On Earth And Even The Oil Was Not Any Old Oil When Moses Was Up On The Mountain Getting Instructions For The Temple He Got The Recipe For This Oil As Well With A Strict Order That It's Not To Be Used For Anything Else Nothing Else It's Not To Be Replicated Or Composed For Any Other Purpose Which Means That When This Oil Was Used It Gave Off A Fragrance That Was Peculiar To Anointing A Heavenly Thing
[47:15] On Earth That's Why He Says It Is A Precious Oil In Verse Two It's An Oil Like No Other So When This Oil Was Poured Out Which We Understand Was Not Just A Dribble Or A Couple Of Dribbs Because When You Read It It Says That This Oil Ran Down The Beard The Beard Of Aaron Ran Down The Colour Of His Robes Ran Down The Colour Of His Robes Could Be The Colour Or The Surrounding Bottom Edge Of His Garments Either Way There's A Lot Of Oil Been Poured To Anoint Aaron Here But See When You See When You Picture This You have Aaron Being Anointed
[48:15] With This Oil Now Aaron Wore A Breast Piece With Stones Engraved On It And On The Shoulders He Had The Six Tribes Of Israel On Each Side On His Breast Plate He Had Six Stones!
[49:05] You Have Aaron As This Anointed One The Bridge Of Heaven Coming To Earth Bridges Connect One Side To The Other Simplest Of Terms This Man That Is Anointed Connects Heaven And Earth And He Represents Communication Between Heaven And Earth He Is The One That Would Approach God Going To The Holy Of Holies For Them On Behalf Of Them He Was The One That Would Enter Into The Presence Of God As If It Was To Enter Into Heaven For Them And He Would Come Back And Take The Sins Of The People So They Would Be Anointed He Was The Communication He Was The Bridge He Was Receiving Heaven And The Blessings Of God
[50:05] Upon Them What You Have Here Is Heaven Coming Down To The People The Blessings Of God Coming Down To The People And All This Is Written Before Jesus Christ That's Exactly What Jesus Has Done For Us He Is The Anointed One He Is Our Great High Priest We Are Anointed Through Him All The Blessings Come Through Jesus Christ He Is Our Bridge He Is Our Access Into Glory Through Him And No One Else Can We Come The Blessings Of Heaven Pour Down Like
[51:06] The Oil On Aaron When The Lord's People Meet Together And They Receive This Heavenly Blessing As If The Oil Came Down Through This Priest But We Have It Through Christ These Great Blessings Which Are Innumerable And In Abundance For The People Who Christ Went For And Represented The Meeting The Meeting Of The Meeting Of Lord's People Is Like The Anointing Of Aaron But It's Also Like Something Else!
[51:50] Which Takes Us To Verse Three It Is Like The Jew Of Hermon Which Falls On The Mountains Of Zion For There The Lord Has Commanded The Blessing Life Evermore Again It's The Canaan Obscure Image What's The Jew Of Hermon Got To Do With The Blessing Of The Lord's People How do We Understand This Today When We Sing It That Was Why I Looked At This Passage To Begin With I Sung This So Often I Didn't Know Why The Anointing Of Aaron And The Jew Of Hermon Meant Anything To Me Or Why It Was Significant And There's A Bit Of Background To This Phrase It's Not Just A Romantic Idea Even That Someone's Written Or Conjured Up In His Own Mind Apparently
[52:50] Jew In Is A Common Thing As A Warm Air Comes In Off The Mediterranean Regularly And Apparently It's Like Clockwork Every Afternoon From Spring Into Autumn This Wind Distills Itself As Jew Across The Land Across The Whole Of Israel But In Particular Round Mount Hermon Which Is The Highest Peak In The North Of Israel 9000 Foot High Or Over 9000 Foot And They Say Around Mount Hermon There Is A Remarkable Jew It's A Heavy Heavy Dew They Say And It Saturates The Ground And Soaks It It's Remarkable Soaks It For At Six Months Of The Year So The Result Is That The Ground Around Mount Hermon Is Very Fertile There's Apple Orchards And Many Vines Growing Around Mount Hermon I Believe
[53:50] I Have Never Been Just In Passing You May Remember Gideon He Had His Fleece He Put It Out For Jew He Knew They Be Jew The Regularity Of The Jew Coming Doesn't Seem To Be In Question There And You Can Go To That Passage And Read!
[54:07] Through It Your So The Jew Is A That's A Big Difference Because This Jew Isn't Falling On Mount Hermon It's Falling Around Mount Zion And While Mount Zion Would Have Experienced A Jew It Wouldn't Have Been So Heavy But Mount Zion Is A Special Place Mount Zion Is The Mountains Of Zion Are The Mountains That Surrounded Jerusalem You can Imagine These Great Mountains Surrounding Jerusalem That They Would Have Had To Come Up To And They Would Imagine That This They Believed That This Place Was Almost Like The Seat Of Authority Where God's Presence Was On Mount Zion Looking Over The People The Seat Of Authority Where The
[55:07] King Would Dwell On Mount Zion It's Almost Like It's Got A Heavenly Reference To It So When You Put These Two Things Together You've Actually Got A Wonderful Image Again You've Got This Heavy Jew Not Coming On Mount Hermon But Coming On Mount Zion Which Is A Really Significant Place The Benefit Which Is Known On Mount Hermon Coming Down Is Also The Same If You Think About It To Mount Zion It Comes Down To Jerusalem To The People Of God They Are The One That Receives The Blessing So The So So That Is Dry Becomes Watered The Ground That Was Barren Becomes Fertile Where There Was No Life Life Starts To Spring Up And When Life Springs Up It
[56:08] Bears Much Fruit We All Know That You Have The Perfect Combination Here The Blessings Of God Pouring Down Like This Heavy Jew Restoring And Reviving The People Of God In Jerusalem When They Meet Together God From His Throne Pouring Down Blessings On His People Isn't That A Thought This Is What It Is When We Meet Together And Worship God This Is What God Said He Would Be In Another Passage In Hosea God Described Himself As a Jew That Would Fall On Israel And Again It's A Wonderful Passage When This Jew Of God Falls On The People God Says I Will Be Like Jew To Israel He Israel Therefore
[57:08] When The Jew Come Shall Blossom Like The Lily He Shall Take Root Like The Trees Of Lebanon Trees Of Lebanon Were Renowned Like No Other Trees His Shoes Shall Spread Out His Beauty Shall Be Like The Olive His Fragrance Shall Be Like Lebanon That Wood That Cedar Wood Smell Like No Other Place And They Shall Return And Dwell Beneath My Shadow They Shall Flourish Like The Grain They Shall Blossom Like The Vine And Their Fame Shall Be Like The Wine Of Lebanon When The Jew Of God Comes Down On The Lord's People They Flourish They Blossom They Shall Grow Strong Like No Other They Shall Take Root Deep In Their Lives But
[58:10] Jew When It Comes It's Often Unseen It Comes Really Quietly And So The Spirit When It Comes On The Lord's People Can Come Quietly And Silently In The Hearts Of Each And Every One Of Doing Its Work Where No One Else Sees It Refreshing The Soul Strengthening The Person That Feels Weak Finding Your Roots A Source Of Fruitfulness In Your Life To Be Revived In Your Heart The People Of God Together Coming To Worship Him Truly Is An Eminent Special Thing That We Should Value With The Oil Of God's Blessing
[59:10] Pushed Down Through Jesus Christ On Us Where His Refreshing And Life Giving Jew Falls Down On Those Who Hear The Gospel He Brings Life Fruit And Blessing And What Is The Blessing Where Is The Blessing End Of Verse Three For There The Lord Has Commanded The Blessing Back To Verse One When The People Gather There Is The Blessing Life Forever More The Blessing Is On The Gathered Church The People That Come To Worship Him The
[60:10] Brethren That Dwell In Unity Will Receive The Blessing Of Life Forever More Do you think Church Is Important Do you Think It's Good To Be Here It's The Greatest Thing That You Can Do But Are You Part Of The Lord's People Maybe The Body As We Read In Romans With All Its Different Functions Is Missing Some Parts Maybe You Know The Gospel You Heard The Call This Morning To Receive Jesus Christ And Maybe That Spirit Is At Work In Your Heart Speaking To You And Convicting You That You Need To Come And
[61:12] I Know When I Came We Heard David Tell A bit Of His Testament But When I Came Being With The Lord's People Was Radically Different It Was A Wonderful Place To Be Being In Fellowship With Others I Think Back About It And What A Blessing It Was To Be There Like Nothing Else When The Voice Of God Speaks To Your Heart And Your Soul But It's All Through Jesus All These Blessings Come Just Through Jesus Through The Anointed One Through Jesus Christ The Blessings Of God Pouring Down Through Him On Us Like
[62:15] The Jew That Gives Life In The Surrounding Regions The Life Comes Down On The Lord's People That Gather To Worship Him Do You Desire Life Forever More I've Come To Church For Starter Be Here Morning Evening Whenever You Get The Chance Because You Don't Know When That Chance Is Going To Be Taken From Us To Receive The Blessing Of God Pouring Down On On Us Nothing!
[63:09] It Be Nothing Like It Eternally When The Brothers Shall Dwell In Unity There Be Nothing Like It What A Thought What A Blessing Will You Come To Join The Church To Dwell With The Brothers To Know The Blessing Of God Pouring Down And To Know Life Forever More I Pray That We Do And I Pray It Be A Blessing To Us It's Good To It's Good To Think About The Psalms It's Good To Come To The Psalms It's Good To Know What We Sing When We Sing The Psalms So We'll Sing Now In Conclusion This Psalm Which I Hope We Understand All The More The Blessings And Importance!
[64:06] Of Being Together! Good A Thing It Is And How Be Coming Well Together Such As Brethren In Unity To Dwell We'll Stand To Sing These Words To God's Praise Behold How Good And Being And Be Coming Well Together Together Such As Brethren Are In Unity To Help Like Precious Point!
[65:01] To To To The Peer Did Flow He Made A Spear And To The Scourge Did Off His Carmen Flow As Heavens Jude That Jude That On Zion's Hells Descend For There The Blessing God Commands Life Shall Ever End Conclude
[66:02] With Prayer Our Father in Heaven We pray That Our Eyes Would Be Opened To See The Beauty Of Being With The Lord's People In The Lord's House To Be Part Of The Brethren And To Receive The Blessings From Your Hand And The Blessings Of Life Forever More Be With Us We Pray In Jesus Name Amen