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1 Samuel 23:15 - 29
Psalm 54
Pastor Christopher Chelpka
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[00:00:01] Our Heavenly Father, we bring our hearts before you this morning and we cry out to you from the depths of the troubles of our lives, knowing that these very troubles, even death itself, is sanctified to us and turned into blessings for your people.
[00:00:20] Lord, we thank you that you have taken the sting out of death and that you have allowed us to be confident and to see all things in the light of Jesus Christ, who has taken care of sin and taken care of the devil and taking care of all the wrath that was owed to us by taking it upon himself.
[00:00:42] Lord, we ask that you would help us to put our trust in the Anointed One, in Jesus the Christ.
[00:00:49] We ask that you would help us to walk firmly and faithfully in him, living our lives in love, in faith, and in hope of his return, and bringing all things to the final consummation.
[00:01:05] Lord, although we are but amidst, we are but like mist, as James says.
[00:01:11] You tell us that through Jesus we put on immortality so that we might glorify you and enjoy you forever.
[00:01:20] Give us a taste of that today. As we hear your word, strengthen our hearts, build up our faith so that we might see and follow Jesus. We pray this in his name. Amen.
[00:01:34] Let's remain standing and turn to First Samuel, Chapter 23.
[00:01:39] I'll be preaching from this passage and also from Psalm 54. This morning we're going to read first Samuel 23, get started a little bit, and then hear Psalm 54.
[00:02:03] All right, let's hear God's word this morning. Beginning in 1 Samuel 23:15 through the end of the chapter, David saw that Saul had come out to seek his life.
[00:02:17] David was in the wilderness of Ziph at Horesh.
[00:02:20] And Jonathan, Saul's son, rose and went to David at Horesh and strengthened his hand in God.
[00:02:27] And he said to him, do not fear for the hand of Saul. My father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul, my father also knows this, and the two of them made a covenant before the Lord. David remained at Horesh, and Jonathan went home.
[00:02:47] Then the ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is south of Jeshamon?
[00:02:58] Now come down, O king, according to all your heart's desire to come down, and our part shall be to surrender him into the king's hand.
[00:03:07] And Saul said, may you be blessed by the Lord, for you have had compassion on me.
[00:03:13] Go make yet more sure. Know and See the place where his foot is, and who has seen him there. For it is told me that he is very cunning.
[00:03:22] See therefore, and take note of all the lurking places where he hides, and come back to me with sure information.
[00:03:28] Then I will go with you. And if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah. And they arose and went as if ahead of Saul.
[00:03:37] Now David and his men were in the wilderness of Ma' on in the Arabah to the south of Jeshamon.
[00:03:43] And Saul and his men went to seek him. And David was told. So he went down to the rock and lived in the wilderness of Ma' On. And when Saul heard that, he pursued and when Saul heard that he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon, Saul went on one side of the mountain and David and his other men and his men on the other side of the mountain. And David was hurrying to get away from Saul. And Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them. And as Saul and his men were closing in on David and his men to capture them, a messenger came to Saul saying, hurry and come, for the Philistines have made a raid against the land.
[00:04:23] So Saul returned from pursuing after David and went against the Philistines. Therefore that place was called the Rock of Escape.
[00:04:31] And David went up from there and lived in the strongholds of En Gedi.
[00:04:36] You may be seated.
[00:05:02] Have you ever been chased before?
[00:05:06] I have once, I think with ill intent. I guess I should say it's kind of fun when you're playing tag or something like that, but when somebody's trying to hurt you, that's scary. I remember being, I think, in third, fourth grade, and there was some boys on the playground that wanted to get me for some reason. I don't know what was going on, but they were after me. And I can still remember that. My heart beating. I'm trying to run. I'm. I can't run fast enough. Eventually, they tripped me and kind of kicked me around a little bit.
[00:05:38] It was terrifying, right? Maybe. If you haven't experienced that in real life, probably almost all of us have experienced that in a dream, right? Being chased, not being able to get away. Your legs like stones, you cannot move them fast enough.
[00:05:57] One time, a friend of mine and I were following someone in a car, and this person was getting. We were following him home to go to a party or something like that. And the person in front of us that we were following was going faster and faster. We're like, why is our friend Going faster and faster. We were going in and out, changing lanes. We got off the freeway. We're going through these neighborhoods. And it was only finally at the end that we realized, well, we called. We're like, what are you doing? And they were already at the other house. We were following the wrong. Chasing the wrong person.
[00:06:30] I always think about this. I feel for these people who are being. Is that somebody following us? And then only they are following us and trying to get away.
[00:06:38] Meanwhile, we're not doing anything except making a big mistake.
[00:06:43] I feel bad. I felt really bad in that moment for terrifying someone that we had not intended to terrify.
[00:06:52] It's an awful feeling. And here David is in that moment. He is on the run, and not in a car, on foot in the wilderness, climbing over rocks, moving through the woods, trying to find a safe place.
[00:07:10] And meanwhile, he's being tracked by people who also know this territory, know this land. And the people in that area are selling him out.
[00:07:22] They've seen him, they've seen signs of him. They recognize that he's there. And so they tell Saul, hey, we know where David is. Let's go get him.
[00:07:33] We have kind of. We've been having. In multiple chapters, and we have it here, too. A choice being made, a kind of, which king are you going to follow?
[00:07:41] We see people making these choices in various ways. Here. The contrast is between the Ziphites who pledge their allegiance to Saul.
[00:07:50] Come down. Do as your heart desires, O King, they call him, and to Jonathan, the king's son, who comes to David and makes a covenant with him and says this.
[00:08:02] This amazing thing. He says, do not fear for the hand of Saul. My father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you. Saul, my father, also knows this.
[00:08:15] This, by the way, is the first indication that we have that as far as I can tell, that Saul knows what's going on. From this point on, we can have a lot of certainty that Saul is very understanding about what's happening.
[00:08:31] Saul knows this, and yet he is unwilling to see reality in light of what's happening, unwilling to bow to the will of the Lord that has been told to him, that's been made clear to him in all kinds of ways. He's going to chase David and he's going to capture David, and he's going to kill David. Except, of course, he won't.
[00:08:54] He can't.
[00:08:56] No matter how hard he tries, no matter how much he wants to, he can't. And why not? It's not because of his inability or bad information from the Ziphites. Saul's got everything in his court. He's got all the cards in his deck. Why cannot he? Why can't he get David?
[00:09:12] Because David's the Lord's anointed and Saul can't get God.
[00:09:17] That's what's really going on here.
[00:09:20] And David wonderfully understands this.
[00:09:25] David, now, he will have troubles and doubts along the way, but he understands this and he sees it, and he's able to put expression to it.
[00:09:35] And so if you would please turn with me now to Psalm 54.
[00:09:44] Now, as you're turning there, I want you to ask yourself, if I were in this moment, if I was on the run, if I was David, or maybe you can put yourself in a similar situation because you are in some similar situation, some similar desperate situation in this life, how would you think about the situation?
[00:10:09] What part of your understanding and of your heart would give attention to the Lord?
[00:10:17] What is God's place in it? How would you express it? What would you say?
[00:10:23] All right, here's what David says.
[00:10:26] The inscription here says of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul is not David hiding among us.
[00:10:35] Here's what David O God, save me by your name and vindicate me by your might.
[00:10:44] O God, hear my prayer. Give ear to the words of my mouth, for strangers have arisen against me. Ruthless men seek my life. They do not set God before themselves.
[00:10:57] Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the upholder of my life. He will return the evil to my enemies. In your faithfulness put an end to them with a freewill offering I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, O Lord, for it is good.
[00:11:16] For he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.
[00:11:25] Isn't that interesting?
[00:11:28] So much there, so much that David thinks and expresses in this compact way.
[00:11:35] I want to think about this psalm with you this morning in light of in 1st Samuel 23, as we think about the way we react in times of weakness, in times of pain, in times of scariness and struggle, a lot of times we don't act and react the right way.
[00:11:57] We forget that God's our helper. He's not even in our minds.
[00:12:01] It's not even that we're rejecting him. Sometimes it's just that we don't even think about him. We forget God as our helper, as if he's absent from the situation, as if he's not there.
[00:12:12] Or sometimes we assume that God is like fickle forgetful of us, unable to do things that he has said he would do. We assume that he's like us or he's like other people. When it's not true.
[00:12:30] Sometimes in our weakness and in our pain and our struggles, we assume that our enemies are stronger than us.
[00:12:37] That Satan and his temptations, or that the overpowering reality of death, or the consequences for our sins, that these things are too strong for God, we forget the one who defeated death itself, the One who rose from the dead, the One who provides for us in every way.
[00:12:59] When we forget God is our helper, when we think he's like other people, when we elevate or overestimate the strength of our enemies, we do not call on the One who can save us, on the only One who can save us. And this is a dangerous place to be.
[00:13:16] And so, as we think about these things today, I want to encourage you today that because of who the Lord is and because of what he's done, you can put your confidence in Him. And honestly, you must put your confidence in him, serving him, praying to him with confidence and gratitude.
[00:13:36] Why?
[00:13:38] Here's a first reason.
[00:13:39] The first reason is that God is your only possible Savior. There is no other.
[00:13:47] And when we're talking about penultimate things, sure, having a little bit of money or a little extra time or these kind of things are helpful, but not when it comes to anything ultimate. And even those penultimate things, even the things that just kind of everyday life sort of stuff, God is sovereign all over all of that as well.
[00:14:06] Every hair on our head, every leaf that blows, every worm that digs around in the dirt, all of it is under his governance.
[00:14:16] And so we must look to God above all things. We don't just need help, we need him.
[00:14:23] We need Him. And we need a helper like him that can do the things that he does, that is, the things that that he is is the way that he is.
[00:14:35] Consider the first verse in Psalm 54, for your name's sake, deliver me, save me by your name, and vindicate me by your might.
[00:14:45] Or when David says in verse three, they do not set themselves before God. There's something in David's theology in his mind that recognizes God is the chief end of all things, that he's the center that holds all things together, that he's the root of the tree, out of everything that flows, that comes God's glory. His Name is the cause of our salvation. Vindicate me for your name, which is the way to say, vindicate me simply because you are you.
[00:15:21] God does not need to appeal to some higher reason or higher authority to go and save his people. He is above all things.
[00:15:32] He's also, as I've said, the ruler of all things.
[00:15:35] In 1st Samuel 23, we've seen how Saul has all the cards in his hand, as I said, right? He has the armies. I guess he doesn't have Jonathan at this moment, but he has the armies, right? He has the zip fights and he's. He is the king. He's on the run and people are obeying him.
[00:15:57] And then all of a sudden, there's this Philistine thing that happens. The Philistines attack. Why did that happen?
[00:16:04] Of course it was the Lord.
[00:16:07] It was the rock of escape. David was saved in this moment because of the Lord and who he was.
[00:16:13] Sure. Saul controls his army. He thinks the Lord controls all the armies, even the Philistine ones, even the ones of the outsiders and the enemies. God controls them as well.
[00:16:29] If Goliath had known that before he fought David, he might still be alive.
[00:16:35] Not today.
[00:16:39] The Lord controls all we see later in the prophets, in the history of Israel, when Israel departs from the Lord, the Lord even uses Babylon and Assyria. We see the Lord using the Romans and. And even the unfaithful Jews to do what? Put to death Jesus.
[00:16:58] It's there.
[00:17:01] And which all is to say that God is the ruler of all things. This wasn't a random thing that David just happened to get out of this. He was rescued.
[00:17:13] He was rescued. He was saved, as the scripture says. It was called the rock of escape.
[00:17:19] So God is the chief end of all things. We must set him before ourselves. He's the ruler of all things, and we see that he's good.
[00:17:28] The events that are unfolding in David's life are not random. God is not capricious. And God is not unrighteous or unjust.
[00:17:37] He sees the evil that Saul is doing and he is reacting to it or responding to it. Of course, the Lord knew this before all time began and is working all things out according to his providence. And. And as he does so, he does all things well.
[00:17:55] And well, not just in terms of beauty or cleverness and great craft and excellence, but well, in a moral category.
[00:18:05] He does things well because he is good.
[00:18:09] He is supremely good. He is the good by which all things are to be judged as either good or not good, with him as the standard.
[00:18:20] So God is good. God is supreme. God is the chief end of all things. God rules over things. And then we add all of this, the promise that God makes to deliver his anointed.
[00:18:32] Jonathan gets this, which is why Jonathan's doing the right thing. He is aligning, even against his own Father, with the Christ, with the Messiah, with the Anointed One.
[00:18:45] Why?
[00:18:46] Because that's whom God has anointed. And God is good. And God is wise to unite himself. And to align himself with David is to align himself with God.
[00:18:58] Which is why false prophets and false preachers always say stuff like, I'm the Lord's anointed. Right? They're not, but the argument makes sense, right? They're arguing that because God's blessing is on me, because I've been anointed of God, you should follow. Follow me.
[00:19:16] And if it were true, you should.
[00:19:20] But in many cases, of course, it's not the Lord's anointing. The final Messiah, the chief prophet, priest and king, is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
[00:19:32] And we follow him above all, even when it means separating from family, even when it means choosing to be without work, even when it means giving up our own lives or our own wealth, our time, anything to be aligned with him, to follow him, to know him. Why? Because he is the Lord's anointed. And the Lord is accomplishing all good things through him.
[00:20:02] And so wonderfully, when Jonathan comes to comfort David and speak to him, we read.
[00:20:12] We read that he. I love this. He says, do not fear for the hand of the Lord. I'm sorry. Do not fear for the hand of Saul. My father shall not find you. You shall be king over Israel, and I shall be next to you.
[00:20:27] Now he says this in this way the narrator tells us in verse 16, he strengthened his hand in God.
[00:20:36] Jonathan's being something of a prophet here, isn't he?
[00:20:40] He's speaking the word of the Lord, the will of the Lord to David.
[00:20:46] He's reminding, as good friends do, the Word of God.
[00:20:52] This is what the Word says. This is what God has said. This is what is going to happen.
[00:20:59] David, of course, knows this, but it's helpful to have friends, isn't it?
[00:21:03] This is how the Lord, one of the many ways the Lord blesses us. And so Jonathan strengthens him, not just with nice words, but not just with encouraging things, but he strengthens him in God because Jonathan understands these things we've been saying. Jonathan understands that God is the only possible savior, not just of David or Saul or Jonathan, but of all Israel and of the whole world.
[00:21:29] Every other helper will let you down.
[00:21:35] Your reputation, your relationships, the various ways in which you try to control your life, various Resources that you develop, they will all let you down. Only God, only God can save us from the things, from the details of this life and the ultimate things of this life. Only the Lord can save us from death itself.
[00:22:02] So this is why we turn to him. And specifically, we turn to him through His Anointed One, which of course is Jesus Christ. Christ means Anointed One.
[00:22:16] Now, people who forget this are in great danger.
[00:22:23] When you decide, I'm not going to trust God, I'm not going to follow the Lord. You're not just opting out of a nice thing, you're plunging yourself into the wrath of God.
[00:22:38] Because, as we said, God is the chief end of all things. He's not just this option over here, which you can either choose or not choose.
[00:22:47] He is.
[00:22:48] And all of life and all of reality is lived out through and in Him. And so to reject him is to put yourself in great danger. Forgetting God isn't a neutral thing. It's a deadly thing.
[00:23:07] David describes this and talks about this in Psalm 54.
[00:23:13] Notice what he says.
[00:23:15] He says, for strangers of ribbons and against me, ruthless men seek my life. And then he puts it in a theological context. He understands they do not set God before themselves because David understands the will of the Lord and the word of the Lord. When these enemies come against him, he knows that they're coming against God.
[00:23:38] All the more so with Jesus. When they came against him, they came against God.
[00:23:46] Why? Because they do not set God before themselves.
[00:23:51] What's the result of this verse 5 and Psalm 54? He will return evil to my enemies.
[00:23:59] And then he prays, in your faithfulness, put an end to them.
[00:24:04] Put an end to them. Not just to save David. Notice what he's saying here? He's not just asking for help, although he is.
[00:24:11] But he's saying that because of God's faithfulness, because of his good faithfulness in keeping his promises, this must happen. And it will happen. And so David prays for it.
[00:24:25] In your faithfulness, put them to an end. Keep your promises. If God did not do as he did here, God would not be faithful.
[00:24:36] God would not be good. God would be a liar. But of course, none of that is true.
[00:24:42] The Lord is faithful. The Lord was faithful.
[00:24:46] But to those who go against God, those who do not set themselves before God, they are going to be put to an end. That their activities, their warring, their rebellion will be stopped, and the Lord will protect his beloved.
[00:25:04] Verse 7 is another place that that comes out.
[00:25:08] David says, he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.
[00:25:17] Notice here, he has not defeated Saul.
[00:25:21] In fact, he's still on the run.
[00:25:26] David, even if he were to write this or edit this toward the very end of his life, would still be recognizing that there were troubles around him, troubles in his own heart, troubles in his kingdom, troubles in various ways.
[00:25:44] How can David, at any point in his life, can look on.
[00:25:51] Look on things with triumph over his enemies?
[00:25:55] Because he trusts the Lord, because he knows that as the Lord is working, the battle is already won in. In both victory, obvious victories and even in defeats, even in suffering, even in running, even in hiding, the Lord is. Is at work. The Lord is being victorious and will bring all things to their proper end.
[00:26:22] When we don't recognize this, we become not the people that are being saved, but the people that are being judged.
[00:26:31] And this is why I say, those who forget to put the Lord before, set the Lord before themselves.
[00:26:37] Those who reject the Lord and his Anointed one, those who rage against the Lord and his Anointed one put themselves in great danger.
[00:26:49] If you do that, if you are given a path and a light, if you are shown the way and you go another way, it's dangerous.
[00:27:00] If your mom and dad would graze you and they tell you, okay, these are good foods, and these things under the sink are poisonous, and you choose to drink the things under the sink, you're going to get really sick.
[00:27:12] It's dangerous. The warnings are there for a reason. And these are in some ways warnings to us, as they are also messages of hope to us as we are invited and reminded to trust in the Lord.
[00:27:29] And one last way that we see this is the way we hear David's heart in the midst of all of this.
[00:27:40] What does it feel like? What does it look like? What does it sound like to live with confidence in the Lord, in his goodness, in his faithfulness, in his rule?
[00:27:51] What does that look like and what's it sound like?
[00:27:54] What does it look like and sound like to know that Jesus came into this world and was kept by God to save us, who was protected and kept until the very end. And on the and on that third day rose again from the dead, victorious over death.
[00:28:13] What does it mean to trust him and to look to him for all the things that we need?
[00:28:19] Let's take a quick look, run through of Psalm 54, and I do mean quick.
[00:28:25] First we have prayer verses 1 and 2.
[00:28:30] What is David doing? He's talking to God.
[00:28:35] He asks for rescue. He asks for justice. He looks to God's Righteousness. He looks to his name and he asks for vindication.
[00:28:46] This is what we do when we are trusting in the Lord, when we believe in who he is and we are putting our faith in him. We pray.
[00:28:54] We pray to Him.
[00:28:56] In the midst of our difficulties. We do not forget.
[00:28:59] We do not reject.
[00:29:01] We pray and ask that the Lord would be faithful to his own name.
[00:29:06] The second thing we do is we confess God's nature, God's power, God's will.
[00:29:12] In verses four and five, David says, behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the upholder of my life.
[00:29:21] When you hear this word, behold, this is how I'm doing this lately. I almost imagine walking along a path, and then someone drops something in front of the path and you look at it, right? That's what behold is right. You're not seeing something. And then someone says, look at it, right? Behold. Pay attention. Look at this thing. And that's what he says.
[00:29:42] Behold, God is my helper. The Lord is the upholder of my life. Not just in a single moment, but over his whole life. The Lord is rescuing him.
[00:29:57] The Lord is someone that David and you can lean on, rest on, trust in because of who he is. He's confessing his faith here, right? That's what David is doing. He's not just praying, he's confessing his faith and he's thanking as well. That's the third of four things, thanking. In verse six, David is not just surviving, but what does he do? He sacrifices with a freewill offering. I will sacrifice to you. I will give thanks to your name, O Lord, for it is good.
[00:30:32] And this is a song, isn't it?
[00:30:35] To the choirmaster with stringed instruments. This is a song. David is playing.
[00:30:41] David is singing. David is sacrificing. David is giving thanks to the Lord.
[00:30:47] This is what we do when we put our trust in the Messiah. We become people who pray, people who confess, people who worship, and people lastly, who have confidence, who live our lives as David does here in verse 7.
[00:31:02] For he has delivered me from every trouble, and my eye has looked in triumph on my enemies.
[00:31:13] Saul is digging his own grave, as we say.
[00:31:19] But David is going to be rescued from the grave.
[00:31:24] Why?
[00:31:26] Because Saul puts him. Saul is putting his trust in himself and in his name and in his armies and all these things and the information of the ziphites which he has to make sure is correct before he acts right. This is what Saul puts his trust in, in himself and the things of this world.
[00:31:44] You don't hear David saying this David doesn't sort of make this calculation, say, yeah, but I know this territory pretty good, or, yeah, but I have 600 men who are really faithful. Yeah, but Jonathan is by my side. This is not how David sees things. Right. Those are all true. Everything I said is just true. He could have said that.
[00:32:04] But what does he say in this moment? He praises the Lord and he recognizes that those things are things that God is using. Those things are things that are ways that God is working. And that's why he has confidence.
[00:32:19] Not because of the things and the resources that he has, but because of God.
[00:32:25] Jesus did the same thing.
[00:32:28] When Jesus. There were times when Jesus life was under threat and the Lord God his Father rescued him out of them. Because the scripture says his time had not yet come.
[00:32:41] The Lord was watching over his anointed king, this one hu, this human king who would rule over all humanity. The Lord was watching over him.
[00:32:52] There was a time when he said the Lord Jesus said that he could call on legions of angels to save him if he so desired. Because he knew who he was and at the same time he did not.
[00:33:06] He willingly gave himself over to death at the proper time. Why? Because the Lord's anointing wasn't just on Jesus, but it was on all of us as well. Through him, when we are in him, the Lord God is protecting us as much as he protected him.
[00:33:26] God protects us and keeps us. And that's why Paul says he will raise you from the dead. The Holy Spirit will raise you from the dead. Even as he raised the Lord Jesus Christ.
[00:33:39] The scripture calls you the Lord's anointed.
[00:33:44] Not because you're super SM special, really handsome, did something good back in college, right?
[00:33:52] But because by his grace, he simply loves you.
[00:33:57] Because by his goodness, he's faithful and nothing will ever change that.
[00:34:04] So in all the details of life, from this minute, all the way, even through those last few breaths that you take, you can trust that the Lord is your helper and the upholder of your life.
[00:34:20] Let's pray.
[00:34:24] Our Heavenly Father, we recognize that when we forget your works, when we forget your anointed one, when we forget the things that you have promised to do and the ways that you have promised to work, that we fall, we fall quickly. And we feel abandoned and we feel scared and we start reaching around and grasping at all kinds of ridiculous things to save ourselves.
[00:34:55] People drowning in an ocean without anything to save them, trying to hold on to water.
[00:35:02] Lord, this is such a dangerous place to be. Please open our eyes that we might not trust in our own strength, that we might not trust in ourselves, but we might trust in you and the Anointed One whom you have set over us.
[00:35:16] Lord, let us give ourselves, like Jonathan gave himself to David. And. And to recognize that in the Lord Jesus Christ there is life, that he is the promised Son of David, to establish a kingdom forever and ever, and that he is even God himself, having all that the Father had given him in himself from all eternity, worthy of all worship and glory and praise.
[00:35:44] That Jesus is not just some great human king, even the greatest human king, but a divine king, the God man who came to save us.
[00:35:56] And so, Lord, we ask that you would help us not just to call on the name of Jesus for our help, but to worship in the name of Jesus.
[00:36:07] To worship him as we worship the Father and the Spirit as well. One God in three persons who has delivered us from sin and death, and the devil.
[00:36:20] Lord, we ask that as you strengthen our faith in you, that you would help us to live as David lived, with prayer and confession and thanksgiving and confidence in every way.
[00:36:35] We praise your name and we are here today to worship you.
[00:36:40] Help us to set our eyes on you, to fix them firmly on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, that we might be comforted in this life and live forevermore.
[00:36:51] Amen.
