Psalm 103 Bless the Lord O My Soul — Psalms 103

0:00 Psalm one zero three. The lord has led the assembly to study, to look at, to enjoy the book of Psalms and the book of Psalms if I didn't have the book of Psalms, I would be dead. The Psalms is such an incredible book. It's perhaps the whole Bible is obviously the word of god but seems like the book of Psalms is just such a deep book on theology. Study of God, that's what theology means.

0:33 God, who He is, His person. And as we go through all the different Psalms, they're prayers unto God, songs unto God, and yet God had these men who were like us, sinners, as we looked at last week. King David, how he fell into horrible sin, murder, and adultery. And these men cried out to God for mercy and praised God for the forgiveness as we're going to look at today. Another Psalm that David wrote.

1:08 And Psalm 103, I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't doubt we get to heaven and find out that Paul and Silas were perhaps singing this when they were in the jail. The book of Psalms is a great book if you're discouraged or if you're in the battle or if you're downcast. Talks about every aspect of the human emotions and our relationship with God. When we've sinned, how to be forgiven, we are forgiven, praising, crying out to God. How long?

1:49 How long, oh Lord? Where are you God? You went with us before, but now look at the king and the armies. We're distraught. We're being ransacked.

1:58 The temple is being chopped up with axes. Lord, where are you in my life? Attacked by all the enemies, David and the other men, usually physical men that were their enemies, but in our life, of course, sometimes there are humans. There are our enemies, but usually we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, the scriptures say, but it's the enemies of our soul, the demons of hell and Satan himself. And so I encourage you.

2:22 Get in the book of Psalms. It will change your life. It will encourage you. You will grow so close to the Lord. You will learn of the Lord.

2:31 You'll gaze upon the Lord. You'll see who He is. You'll learn how to... That's the whole scripture, the whole Bible, obviously. But the book of Psalms is just an incredible, incredible book.

2:43 I encourage you to find Psalms that are really on your heart. Even, brother Scott said earlier, this week, we were mentioning Psalm one zero three, and he he said he's he's reading with the family beforehand the week ahead. And I... He thought it would be a great one to memorize. It is a great one to memorize, To just have in your heart.

3:01 One day we might not have these scriptures at our hand. Very soon. Many nations don't have that. Right? Taken away, imprisoned, hunted down.

3:08 Could be in our lifetime. Probably will be. And it'd be great to just know these scriptures. Let's pray. Father, we praise your name.

3:18 You are God. Thank you for leaving us your holy writ, the bible. Lord, even in Psalm one zero three, it says that your word is your very voice. So when we open it, you speak. Wow.

3:33 How you did that, Lord, is amazing. Thank you for your holy spirit. He's the one, the interpreter, the teacher. Lord, teach us as we look at this beautiful hymn of praise and adoration and worship about you and to you because of who you are and because of what you've done. Speak, Lord.

3:53 Change our hearts. Lord, let the goodness of God bring each and every person who hears this message, bring us to repentance as your word says. In Jesus' name. Amen. Bless the Lord, o my soul, and to all that is within me, bless his holy name.

4:32 And so when we bless somebody, we're wishing them to be happy. We're trying to make them happy. When God blesses us, he's making us happy. He loves us. He's trying to make us happy.

4:42 When we want to bless the Lord, we want to make Him happy. Go to Psalm 34. We're going to be running through lots of Psalms here, and I'm not going to wait for you all to get there, so if you wanna listen, that's fine. But Psalm thirty four one to three gives us some good idea what it means to bless the lord. I have the greatest book, if anybody wants to borrow it, to help you understand the scriptures.

5:04 I'm not a great preacher or anything, but I know at the end of today's message, you're gonna go, wow. Because God speaks. And it's our duty as men who stand behind the pulpit here or around the table or women whenever we're teaching the word to do that. Teach the word. My name, yeah, Chuck Smith from Calvary Chapel has a great statement.

5:26 Simply teach the word, simply. That's all we have to do. Simply teach the word. God will speak. And the greatest book, and I have it, again, could borrow it if they want, that you have to help you understand the Bible is the Bible.

5:44 Cross references. The Bible is the best book in the universe to help you understand the Bible. Psalm 34 verses one through three says this, I will bless the lord at all times. What's it mean to bless the lord? Well, look at the context and look what's around it and he always constantly gives you synonyms as it were.

6:03 Well, I'm going to bless the lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make us boast in the lord. The humble shall hear it and rejoice. Oh, magnify the lord with me and let us exalt his name together.

6:19 It's not exactly the same word in the Hebrew as praise but there are a lot of similarities to exalt, to magnify, to lift him up, to want to bless him, and we're going to do that. David is writing this, and he writes, bless the lord, oh my soul. All that is within me. Blesses... He also wrote Psalm 34, and bless his holy name.

6:40 All that he is, I bless him, and forget none of his benefits. David is going to remind us through this. It's a continuation of our communion service that we just had. It's all that the Lord has done primarily, the climax of it all, is he forgave my sins. We're forgiven.

7:00 Bless the Lord all my soul, none of his benefits, who pardons all your iniquities. He begins to list a few of these. And of course, the climactic one is he pardons all your iniquities. We're going to talk more in-depth about this as we go through. But I'm pardoned.

7:15 I'm forgiven. I used to be on the street selling drugs. I used to be cursing and lying and stealing. I was a rebel toward god. My sins are pardoned.

7:25 They're gone. You can say the same if you were raised from Sunday school and maybe received the Lord as a little child. Some I know I've heard as children in a Christian home receive the Lord at four and five years old, six years old, seven years old. Praise the Lord. You are going to the same place I was headed without Christ, to a burning lake of fire, but your sins are pardoned when you come to Christ.

7:47 He heals all your diseases. Does he? Ultimately, yeah. We're gonna be healed one day completely. And anytime you've been healed in this life, whether it was a pumping gas the other day, man, ripped my finger open.

8:03 Want to just take the nozzle in, it was ice cold. And... But who's healing that? The Lord heals that. He designed the body, and He can heal us.

8:14 We can pray for healing. We can ask the elders to anoint us with oil and pray. They can pray. We can pray for healing. As God sees fit, He heals us.

8:24 My mother was healed. I prayed so hard for her to be healed from her pneumonia, and God healed her. She didn't have pneumonia anymore. She's in glory. She's in heaven.

8:38 He redeems our life from the pit. This is twofold. The pit of destruction, the pit of hell, again, being saved, but daily. I had, called and left message for Don Thursday night and just asked him to be praying for me as even Denzel said this morning. Just have been in the pit of destruction.

9:01 There are demons that really just discourage and oppress. And of course, our fallen nature, we believe the lies sometimes, and we don't follow the word of God. We don't believe the word of God. We're not just the oppression and attacks from the evil one, the world, from my own sinful flesh, but God redeems my life from the pit. And again, I'm going to bless him because of this.

9:43 And it was just... Sometimes it would take me an hour, two hours to go through this Psalm on my knees. And I would just think it and cry and thank him and meditate. And then I would think about the next part. And he crowns me.

9:56 When I'm on my knees, I just picture the Lord Jesus because we're his children. He just literally comes and He crowns me. With what? Doesn't say righteousness there. Loving kindness and compassion.

10:10 He does all that He does because of who He is. Even as a child of God, even when we are at our worst, and we can get there, can't we? Some of the stuff that even slips out of our mouth, surely the thoughts that come into our mind, the things we don't do, the things we do do, and yet God crowns us with loving kindness and compassion. He satisfies your years with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle. Some translations say your mouths.

10:39 It's more than just your mouths, just your physical sustenance. He satisfies us as we draw close to Him, as we spend time looking at Him, focusing on Him, worshiping Him, praising Him, exalting Him, blessing Him, praying, gathering, doing what He wants us to do, serving Him. He satisfies. He satisfies our life with good things. What did Paul say?

11:04 He says, even though my outer man is decaying, that doesn't sound too satisfying. Yeah. My inner man is being renewed day by day. Renewed. As we're getting closer to the finish line, as some of us are getting older, we're seeing the finish line in sight.

11:23 And even, I won't say who poked their wife right then. As we're getting closer to that finish line, the reality of it is, there comes to an end this time here on earth. But he satisfies our inner man. Our inner man is being renewed day by day so that these momentary light afflictions are producing for us an eternal weight of glory. We're going to be renewed like the eagle.

11:52 The eagle renews himself, and it can fly like an eagle. And as we spend time in the word, listen, again, if you're discouraged, if you're under attack, if your world's falling apart, if you're afraid of death in yourself or your loved ones, if you're not looking forward to just the pain and suffering of sickness and death and this life and not happy with the way the world is and the way your children are, maybe astray or loved ones are not with you and not walking with the Lord, whatever it might be. Life is falling apart, jobs are falling apart, sickness and all these things. Spend time in the book of Psalms and the rest of the scriptures, and God will renew you like the eagle. The Lord performs righteous deeds and judgments for all who are oppressed.

12:43 Oppressed means under harsh rule, Means weighed down with problems and worries, etcetera, etcetera. He performs righteous deeds and judgments for all who are oppressed. Now wait a minute. You mean he delivers us all the time from all the oppressions? Not always in this life.

13:06 But ultimately, every wrong that's been done against the Lord, done against us, oppression against us, one day we're going to see. We're going to have the joy of seeing the devil, Satan himself, and all of his legion of angels, one third of all the fallen... Of the angels who are now called demons. We're going to have the joy of looking into the pit where they're at in the Lake Of fire and saying, that's it? Just that one angel did all that?

13:34 Deceived all the nations and caused all that quote unquote hell on earth? All the pain and suffering will be over. One day, all the wrongs will be made right. Every sin, every evil, every oppression will be punished. And God can deliver us now and he does.

13:51 Again, as we seek him, it doesn't matter. Paul and Silas are in prison. The pain didn't go away. They've just been beaten with rods. Legs spread as far as they could apart apart from each other, chained in the stocks.

14:07 Rejected. They didn't know the next verse. They didn't know if they were going to get their heads chucked off. Seriously. But they began.

14:30 Brothers and sisters, we need to make that choice. He made known his ways to Moses and his deeds to the sons of Israel if you go to Exodus 33. Exodus 33. Verse 13, Moses praying, now therefore, Lord, I pray, I pray to you, God Almighty, if I found favor in your sight, let me know your ways that I might know you so that I might find more favor in your sight. Moses so close to the lord, so intimate with the lord, forty days, no food, no water, seeking the lord, being with the lord, comes down, finds havoc, goes back up for another forty days, no food, no water, seeking the Lord.

15:21 Now we couldn't do that. No human can do that. They die in a couple days without water. It was a miracle. But the point is his heart was set on just seeking the Lord, just being with the Lord, just listening to the Lord.

15:35 And Moses prays his prayer, I want to know your ways. I want to know your ways. That's what Psalm 103 just said. He revealed his ways to Moses. Look down at verse 15.

15:46 Then he said to God, Moses said to God, if your presence does not go with us, don't lead us up from here. I don't want to be out of your presence. I don't want to be away from you for a moment. Lord, if you're not going with me, don't let us go here. Some of the trouble, much of the trouble that I get into, that you get into is because we make our own decisions without really doing what the Lord wants, going which way the Lord wants.

16:13 Verse 18, the third request he has, Lord, I pray, show me your glory. So God says, okay, verse 19, I myself will make all my goodness. Wait a minute. Your glory is his goodness. Look at what it says.

16:30 Let all... I will make all my goodness pass before you. I'll proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be... What's his name?

16:38 He's not talking righteousness and judgment here and holiness and those things are just as important and just as true but here he's saying I'm going to show you my glory. I'll be gracious to whom I'll be gracious. I'll show compassion on whom I'll show compassion. Verse 18. And 20, but he said, you cannot see my face for no man can see me and live.

17:09 And then I'm going to put you in the cleft of the rock, my hand will pass over you, and when I take my hand away, then you won't see me because nobody can see me face to face, but you'll see my backside, the afterglow of my glory, I guess it is. I don't know what that means. See the backside of God? Know that nobody can see God and live. He's so holy and so awesome.

17:30 But if you check-in chapter 34, if you just continue there, down in verse five. So Moses is up on the mountain, and he gets to see. Now we're going see what happens when he sees the glory of the Lord. And the Lord descended in the cloud and stood there with him as he called upon the name of the Lord. Moses calling upon the name of the Lord.

17:54 And god's going to answer this prayer and show him his glory. Then the lord passed by in front of him and proclaimed the lord, the lord god, compassionate, gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness and truth who keeps loving kindness for thousands, who forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin, yet he will by no means leave. The original says he will by no means leave unpunished. The English translation, New American New American Standard says, he will by no means leave the guilty unpunished. No sin is going to go unpunished.

18:32 Somebody is going to be punished. But because he is who he is, what he's revealing to Moses and what we're going to see in the rest of the psalm and the rest of the scriptures, the Lord's Supper, somebody has received our punishment. Wow. Not one sin is going to go unpunished. It can't.

18:51 Then He wouldn't be just. Then He wouldn't be perfect. Then He wouldn't be God. Wow. What a great God.

18:59 And I love Moses' response. And Moses made haste, you better believe he did, to bow low before toward the earth and worship. Wow. Verse 14. Verse 13.

19:16 But rather you are to tear down their altars. He's saying besides all this, he's telling them to go into the land and don't partake of their religion and their ways, but rather you're to tear down their altars and smash their sacred pillars, cut down their ashram, for you shall not worship any other god. Why? For the Lord whose name is jealous is a jealous god. Wouldn't be true love if there wasn't jealousy.

19:44 I mean, how would it be if we didn't... If spouses didn't care that their spouses were committing adultery? How much more God is jealous when we commit adultery with the things of the world, the cares of the world. Back to Psalm 103. Verse seven, So the Lord has made known His ways to Moses.

20:26 And he made way in the end of verse seven, he made known his deeds or his acts to the sons of Israel. Moses got to know his ways. Children of Israel got to observe the actions of god. They could have been drawn closer to the lord as Moses did. It was a choice.

20:49 We had the choice to spend that extra time seeking the Lord. The Lord, verse eight, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving kindness. He will not always strive with us, nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. Hallelujah.

21:14 What would we get if He did deal with us according to our sins? The reason that we're not as thankful as we ought to be is because we don't understand what God would give us if He dealt with us according to our sins. The reason we don't understand what He would give us if he dealt with us according to our sins is we don't understand truly how holy and perfect and pure God is. So I'd like us to look at a few verses, and some are just going be from memory here at the beginning. But you can remember, the Lord when he gave one commandment to Adam and Eve.

21:53 One commandment. And he warned them what disobedience would cost. If God dealt with Adam and Eve according to their sins, disobedience, death. You eat the fruit, you'll die. Well, they ate the fruit, and they did die.

22:11 Instantly afraid, instantly separated from God. Instantly, God turns his face away. Still loved them. Still was gonna seek after them. Still was gonna be gracious to them, compassionate, slow to anger.

22:28 But if he was just righteous, just holy, and just

22:32 pure without being this gracious, compassionate, loving kindness,

22:39 slow to anger, we wouldn't be here. They'd be dead. But one day we'll meet them in heaven because His grace. Somebody's got to be punished for their sins. It's got to be innocent.

22:55 It's got to be the shedding of blood. It's got to be a life taken. God's holiness must be meted out, His justice must be meted out, and it was. God covers them with skins after God obviously shed the blood of those innocent lambs. Wow.

23:18 What a shadow, foreshadowing, what a picture what God would do one day for us as He allows His Son to be slain for our sins. Romans six twenty three, the wages of sin, death. John three sixteen, God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son, whoever believes in Him will not what? What do our sins deserve? Death?

23:43 Perish? John three eighteen, two verses later. Whoever does not believe on the son of God is condemned already. We're already condemned. The moment we're born, we're condemned.

23:55 God must have us perish. God must cause us to die. And John three thirty six, he who does not believe in the son of God, the wrath of God abides in him. If God dealt with us according to our sins, we'd have death, we'd perish, we'd be condemned, we'd have wrath. Second Thessalonians chapter one verses eight and nine.

24:14 When Christ comes back in flaming fire, taking vengeance on those who don't know God and who obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, they shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power. That's where I would be. That's what I would get. The lake of fire, punished, vengeance, everlasting destruction. Revelation 20 verse 10, God throws the devil into the lake of fire.

24:40 20 verse 15, whoever's name is not found written in the book of life will be cast into the lake of fire. Yes, in one sense, we take ourselves there because we reject Christ, but it's God who casts these people, his enemies, into the eternal lake of fire, and such were we. Habakkuk one thirteen. Why is God so... I mean, doesn't that...

25:10 Am I the only one that... Doesn't that seem hellfire because of one lie? For eternity in the lake of fire? For not honoring your parents one time? For putting God second one time?

25:23 For saying God when you weren't really talking to God, exalting God's name and just using his name as a common word or a curse word? For looking at someone with a perverted thought, an immoral thought, adultery? For lying, for coveting, for just wanting the nice things in his life what everybody else has? Doesn't that seem extreme to put that person in the lake of fire forever and ever? That's what God's going to do.

26:08 Everyone turn to Psalm five. Psalm five:four. For thou art not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, no evil dwells with thee. No evil dwells with Thee. Every selfish, every time I've said no to the Lord, said just for me, again, whatever commandment I've broken, somebody was punished for that or else I would have to be punished forever.

26:43 Verse five, the boastful shall not stand before your eyes. You do hate all who do iniquity. You do destroy those who speak falsehood. The Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit. Why?

26:59 Because God is holy. God is righteous. God is pure, Habakkuk says. First John chapter one verse five, God is light. In Him there is no darkness.

27:12 When I'm sharing the Gospel with people, it's great practical way to make people just think it through the logic of this. Is God holy? Does God have any sin? Everyone knows. Of course not.

27:27 God has no sin. Okay, where does God live? Heaven. Okay. Can heaven have any sin?

27:35 No. Not if God's going to be there. Then how are you and I ever going to get there? Because even one sin is cannot be. Our God is a consuming fire.

27:46 It would be instantly incinerated in His presence with His holiness. But let's go back to our Psalm 103. Why are we blessing the Lord? Because God has not dealt with us according to our sins. God has not rewarded me according to my iniquities.

28:06 Why? Why not? Because as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His, what, loving kindness toward those who fear Him. Not toward everyone, but those who fear Him. We'll talk about fear in a short while because it comes up a couple more time.

28:27 But lovingkindness, that word's come up a few times. It's the word hessid in the Hebrew. It appears some three thirty times, I believe. And it means you can't describe it with one English word. That's why it doesn't say just love.

28:43 Loving kindness. Some of your Bibles might say mercy. Some might say compassion. But the original word is strong, steadfast, devoted love. Strong, steadfast, devoted love.

29:01 God is so devoted to those whom He wants to set His love upon. And because His love is His loving kindness is as high as the heavens above the earth, how high is that? Well, the first closest star to planet Earth is the sun, 93,000,000 miles away. The second closest star is Alpha Centaura. I don't know how many miles, but I can help us under...

29:22 Get a little picture here. This is just number one and two. And god says there's innumerable stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Outside of our galaxy, there's other innumerable galaxies with innumerable more suns in them stars. The sun, if it were the size of an orange, the earth would be comparable in in comparison the size of a grain of sand 30 feet away.

29:51 Put an orange on that side of the wall, put a grain of sand over there. That's just the earth and the sun. 93,000,000 miles away, traveling at the speed of the light, it takes, what is it, eight minutes to get there? A 186,000 miles per second? Yeah.

30:08 You probably know Joel. Oh, okay. It's approximately eight minutes, eight and a half minutes, something like that. Speed, 186,000 miles every second, every second, every second, every second, every second, every second for four or eight minutes, you'll get to the closest star. Next closest star, same speed, 186,000 miles, four minutes, four days, four weeks, four and a half years.

30:35 Numero two, number two. As far as the farthest star is above the earth, so great is His loving kindness toward you as you fear Him.

31:12 While we were still sinners, He gave His Son to die for us. Friends, don't let this sound mundane to you. I know it's repetition because we heard it all in the first service, and we've heard it all in every day of our life. We're Christians. We think about the Lord's sacrifice often, But this is it.

31:28 This is the heart of everything. All truth and reality, how much God loves us. His awesome sacrifice. Turn with me to Romans chapter eight. Why is David blessing the Lord?

31:46 He murdered a man innocently, brutally after he raped his wife and she got pregnant. Probably raped him. Her, adultery. She had to obey the king or she'd lose her head. There's nowhere in the scriptures that says that she gave in, that she was promoting it.

32:03 She might have. We don't know. Either way, adultery, murder, but David can say there is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Why? Because the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set us free from the law of sin and of death.

32:19 For what the law could not do, I broke the law, David says, Christian says, you say, I broke that law, David says, adultery and murder. Weak as it was through the flesh, God did. The law couldn't redeem me, the law couldn't make me holy and without sin. God did it. How did he do it?

32:36 Sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh. For six hours, Christ hung on the cross, brothers and sisters. And then again, I know I'm speaking to mostly the saints. Please hear this. Remember, Jesus hung on the cross for only six hours.

32:58 And I say only because if I would have to be punished for my sins, how long would I have

33:02 to suffer? Forever.

33:05 In a lake of fire, God condensed it like a laser beam. And that's just for my sins. Put all the sin of every believer who would ever believe, all the sins of the people that Christ died for, all the sins of the world put into the body of Christ. And God condemned his son. God condemned his son.

33:29 He who knew no sin became sin so that we can become the righteousness of God. Go if you will to the right to the book of Galatians chapter three. Galatians chapter three. After two Corinthians verses 10 through 13. For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse.

33:59 We're all under the works of the law. God gave the law to us. It's written on every man's heart. We can't keep it. We don't keep it.

34:06 So we're under God's curse, which will eventually lead to what we've we've been thinking about, the wrath of God, the lake of fire, but we're not going there. Because it's written, Cursed is everyone who does not abide in all things written in the book. Break one of God's laws, you're cursed. Verse 11, Now that no one is justified by the law before God is evident, for the righteous man shall live by faith. However, the law is not of faith.

34:30 On the contrary, he who practices them shall live by them. If you keep the law perfectly, you'll live. None of us have. Verse 13, Christ Jesus our Lord redeemed us from the curse of the law. How did he do it?

34:47 He became the curse. He drank the cup of God's wrath. And that's why David says, Bless the Lord, O my soul. All that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget none of his benefits.

35:01 He pardons all my iniquities. He removes my transgressions from me because Christ absorbed them all. God can take a repentant sinner who comes and believes on Christ and remove his sins as far as the east to the west. East on planet Earth, if you walk around the equator, never ends. West, on the equator, never ends.

35:26 He didn't say north to south, that ends. North to south, then you're going north again. Infinity. Infinity. Your sins have been removed.

35:37 That's what we're talking about the first service. That's why Christ can come and live in us. The sins are gone. They've been removed from us. We're not condemned.

35:45 We can't be condemned because Jesus Christ became the curse for us because it is written, cursed is everyone who hangs on the tree. Colossians chapter one. Go to the right a few more books. Colossians chapter one verse 20. And though and through him, through Christ, God would reconcile all things to himself having made peace through the blood of his cross.

36:19 Through him I say whether things on earth or things in heaven, although you were formerly alienated, hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, if God dealt with us according to our sins, that's what we would get. Yet he has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death in order to present you before him holy and blameless and beyond reproach if you just continue in believing in the faith. Chapter two, turn the page, verse thirteen and fourteen. And when you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, god made you alive together with him having forgiven us all our transgressions, having cancelled out the certificate of debt. The law condemned us.

37:05 It was written down every time I sinned, but god canceled it out consisting of the decrees against us which was hostile to us. God's taken it out of the way. He's removed it from us, having nailed it to the cross. Praise the Lord. I'm going to show a short song video right now.

37:40 Some of the scenes are from the passion of Christ. For what Jesus Christ suffered and died for you and for me, because his loving kindness is as far as the East is as high as the heavens are above the earth. I'm just going to sit down and I'll come back up after the... It's over. You can start that through.

38:00 It's

41:32 Let's pray. Father,

41:41 It's just a movie Lord, your word says it was even worse than that. Lord, thank you so much for giving up your son. Jesus, thank you for what you went through for us, Lord. Redeeming sacrifice. Lord, we are so sorry that we forget about you.

42:06 Forget how much you love us. Forget what you did for us. So quickly, so often. But Lord, we're so grateful that you don't deal with us according to our sins. Thank you for your amazing indescribable gift, your precious sacrifice.

42:27 Praise you in Jesus name. Amen. Just a thought or two here.

42:35 In Psalm 103, I just want to send you home to go through it yourself We're going to pass out a handout sheet talking about the fear of the lord. So much more I could have said, wanted to say. But the lord has said enough.

43:00 The lord oh my soul and all that is within me bless his holy name.

43:21 and all that is within me bless his holy name. He has done great things. He has done great things. He has done great things. Bless his holy name.

43:54 Make a choice and bless him.

43:57 God bless you, you're dismissed.