Hark! The Voice Of Love And Mercy!

Hark! the voice of love and mercy
sounds aloud from Calvary;
see, it rends the rocks asunder,
shakes the earth, and veils the sky:
'It is finished! 'It is finished!'
hear the dying Savior cry.

'It is finished! O what pleasure
do the wondrous words afford!
heavenly blessings without measure
flow to us from Christ the Lord:
'It is finished! 'It is finished!'
saints the dying words record.

Finished all the types and shadows
of the law that went before,
Finished all that God had promised;
death and hell no more shall awe;
'It is finished! 'It is finished!'
Saints, from hence your comfort draw.

Tune your harps anew, ye seraphs,
Join to sing the pleasing theme,
his great finished work proclaim;
Saints on earth and all in heaven
Join to praise Immanuel's name:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Glory to the bleeding Lamb!

Words: Jonathan Evans

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Trust In The Lord Forever, He Is An Everlasting Rock (3)

So because of who He is and what He has done and will do, let us trust in His promises for the present.

He will not cast away any who come to Him. He will build His church. He will save sinners from every tribe, tongue and people. He will strengthen the weak; He will not quench a smoking wick, nor break a bruised reed. He will be Bread, Living Water, Life, Light, Truth, the Way, Grace, Peace, Joy, Hope, and Strength to His people. He will not slumber nor sleep as He watches over us. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He will not let us lack anything we need. He will not let us be tempted beyond what we can bear. He does care for us, and thus we can cast our anxieties on Him.

He will meet all our needs from His glorious riches. He will change us from one degree of glory into another. He will cause our righteousness to shine as the midday sun. He will will and work in us what is pleasing to Him. He has poured His Spirit out upon us, to remind us of Him, lead us to Him, unite us to Him, seal us for Him and in Him and make us like Him. He will eternally plead His blood for us, the blood of His eternal covenant with which He has bought us. He is a Solid Rock for us to stand upon. He is the Groom who is preparing for Himself a spotless Church. He is the Shepherd who loves His sheep.

He is the King who rules His people. He is our Healer. He is our Serpent-Crusher. He is the Alpha and Omega. He does uphold everything in the universe from the smallest nano-molecule to the largest galaxy with the word of His power. He does rule over men’s hearts and kings’ plans. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is hope’s Anchor. He is working every single thing, be it sin or sanctity, pain or pleasure, the mediocre and the miracles, frustration or fear, for our eternal good. He will never cease loving us. He is an everlasting Rock for us.

Trust In The Lord Forever, He Is An Everlasting Rock (2)

Because of His person and His work in the past, let’s trust in His work in the future.

He will come again and in the twinkling of an eye His bride shall rise to meet Him in the sky. He will come to judge the living and the dead, He will be glorified in the just judgement of sinners and saints. For all who have believed in Him, He will welcome into the new Jerusalem; the city of perfect peace; the city where there is no sun, because the Lamb will be our light. He will right every wrong.

He will make us like Him for we shall see Him as He is. He will open our eyes to see Himself as King of Kings, Lord of Lords, and the Lamb that was slain. We will spend eternity increasing our knowledge and love of Him and His love to us. He will be our constant eternal Delight. In revealing Himself to us we shall know our joy to eternally increase, accelerate, sharpen, heighten, deepen, quicken and intensify.

So because of who He is and what He has and will do, let us trust in His promises for the present.

He will not cast away any who come to Him. He will build His church. He will save sinners from every tribe, tongue and people. He will strengthen the weak; He will not quench a smoking wick, nor break a bruised reed. He will be Bread, Living Water, Life, Light, Truth, the Way, Grace, Peace, Joy, Hope, and Strength to His people. He will not slumber nor sleep as He watches over us. He will never leave us nor forsake us. He will not let us lack anything we need. He will not let us be tempted beyond what we can bear. He does care for us, and thus we can cast our anxieties on Him.

He will meet all our needs from His glorious riches. He will change us from one degree of glory into another. He will cause our righteousness to shine as the midday sun. He will will and work in us what is pleasing to Him. He has poured His Spirit out upon us, to remind us of Him, lead us to Him, unite us to Him, seal us for Him and in Him and make us like Him. He will eternally plead His blood for us, the blood of His eternal covenant with which He has bought us. He is a Solid Rock for us to stand upon. He is the Groom who is preparing for Himself a spotless Church. He is the Shepherd who loves His sheep.

He is the King who rules His people. He is our Healer. He is our Serpent-Crusher. He is the Alpha and Omega. He does uphold everything in the universe from the smallest nano-molecule to the largest galaxy with the word of His power. He does rule over men’s hearts and kings’ plans. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. He is hope’s Anchor. He is working every single thing, be it sin or sanctity, pain or pleasure, the mediocre and the miracles, frustration or fear, for our eternal good. He will never cease loving us. He is an everlasting Rock for us.

Trust In The Lord Forever, He Is An Everlasting Rock

Isaiah 26: 3-4 “You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You. Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.“

We all have plenty of things that make us stressed and lose our peace, and they are as effective as they are in doing this because they cause us to not "stay our minds" on Christ. We forget what Christ has done and who He is. The Bible says that faith comes by hearing the word of Christ So I want to just share some of what the Bible says about Jesus' person, His work in the past and future, and His promises for the present to help us refocus our hearts and minds upon Jesus in the sure hope that the Holy Spirit will give us deeper faith in Christ. My prayer is that this would not only lead us to greater trust of Christ, but greater worship of Him too.

Let’s trust in Jesus’ person

Jesus is the Son of God. He did live a sinless perfect life. He was perfectly righteous from His very conception and because of His righteousness He has fulfilled all the demands of God’s law. He has ticked every box we have filled with sin. He never fell short of the glory of God. He was tempted in every way, but remained without sin. He is fully man and fully God. He does know all our needs, desires and temptations. He knows what life is like on earth. He was the Man of sorrows. He knew more grief than we will ever know. He is Lord of all.

Because of His person let’s trust in His work in the past.

Let’s trust in His perfect obedience even unto death, even death on a cross. He was the propitiation that the Father put forward. He was made a curse for us, for cursed is the man who is hung on a tree. He has given His life as a ransom for many. He has bought us at a price, even the price of His own body. There is no wrath to bear, price to pay, shame to wear or debt to owe; He has borne them all. He has made us His fellow heirs, as we are adopted by the Father through Christ. He was crushed at Calvary that the Holy Spirit might flow from Him into us, to bring us life and life to the full.

He has loved us and given Himself up for us, bringing us through judgement and from death to live. Let us trust that He has been raised from the dead, and that with Him we are raised. We are seated in the heavenly realms with Him and that in Him we have every spiritual blessing.

YES!

JESUS IS ALIVE.


(It might be basic but it's not boring. It might be simple but it's life changing.)