By Faith Moses

Now here are assurance of the gospel taken from 1 Peter 1, verses 3-5.

1 Peter 1:3–5

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead

and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil, or fade.

This inheritance is kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power

until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

Let's pray together.

Lord God, we thank you that we have an everlasting inheritance in you.

Lord, we thank you that you are faithful to your people.

And God, we recognize that we are undeserving of your favor.

There's nothing good in us apart from you.

But Lord, we thank you that you have come to us in our filthiness, in our wretchedness,

and you have lifted us up to a holy place through the blood of Jesus.

And so God, as you are faithful to us, we pray tonight that we may be faithful to you,

that you may grow our faith and our desire to follow after you.

Lord, thank you for our study in Hebrews that we've been looking at the last few weeks

to see how you have shown your faithfulness from generation to generation,

how you are a covenant-keeping God, who you desire good for your people.

And so God, may we walk closely with you.

May we cling to our faith, knowing that you are our only hope.

Lord, we pray tonight for the good of our city.

We know there are many in our city who are hurting, who are lost, who don't know you,

who outright reject you.

And so God, we ask that you will soften the hearts of those in our city,

that you will reveal the reality of your gospel,

that people may experience the love of Christ in ways that they never have.

May we see people turn from their wickedness,

turn from the idols that they have set up in their lives,

and turn and follow you.

God, we pray that you will convict each one of us of the idols that we have in our lives,

things that we have elevated to a status that only you should be placed at, Lord.

We pray that you convict us,

that you search our hearts and know us,

and that you may draw us close to you.

God, we pray that you will use us for the good of this city.

Provide us with opportunities to reach the lost in our city.

Give us a heart to see your kingdom advanced in Edinburgh and throughout this country.

Lord, we thank you for the many ministries in our city

that seek to minister to those who are without physical resources,

who are lonely, who are shut in, who don't know you, Lord.

And so as physical needs are met, Lord,

we pray that spiritual needs may also be met.

We think of the many immigrants coming to our city,

many especially from Hong Kong,

who are brought here by a new immigration path, Lord.

We pray, Lord, that you will bring many to this city,

that you may provide opportunities for our church and other churches,

Chinese churches, Lord,

to minister well to these new families and individuals,

that they may experience the hope of the gospel in ways they never have before.

Lord, we pray for the leadership of our country,

that you may bless them,

that you may be their guide,

that you may give them your wisdom.

Lord, we pray for each one of the leaders in our parliament,

that they may seek after you,

that they may know that you are sovereign over all and authority over them.

Lord, we pray for the many decisions still to be made about this pandemic and lifting restrictions.

God, we are eager for things to return to normal,

for restrictions to be lifted.

So, Lord, we pray that those will be done with all wisdom,

all proper planning.

We pray that we may not grumble and complain,

but be appreciative of the blessings of the vaccine that you have provided for us.

Lord, we do pray when we can come together as a church

to fill these pews, to be in fellowship with one another.

We look forward to that day.

We recognize the blessing of fellowship and the faith that we share with one another.

And we pray that day will come soon.

Lord, we pray for other churches in our city.

We think of St. Columbus and Cornerstone.

Think of Leith Free Church.

Think of Crubber's Church and Chalmers Church and Charlotte Chapel,

many other Bible-believing churches where the gospel is proclaimed on a weekly basis.

We pray, Lord, for the leadership at these churches,

that you may give them your wisdom,

that you may draw them close to you.

We pray for the preaching of these churches,

that it may be effective,

that it may follow closely to your message in the gospel.

And we pray for those within these churches,

that you may draw them close to you,

that they may experience great fellowship and great unity,

that they may be about your work in this city as well.

Lord, as we prepare to hear your word tonight,

to think about how you are faithful to us,

we pray that you will put away all distraction from us.

May our ears be open, may our hearts be softened,

that we may experience the truth of the gospel,

that we may desire deep, honest relationship with you,

and that you may be glorified through this process.

And we pray this in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Amen.

Now tonight we are continuing our short sprint through Hebrews 11,

and we are going to be looking at the life of Moses tonight.

But as we get started,

I want us to consider something that is all around us,

that we see on a daily basis,

that influences our lives,

but we probably give little thought to.

And that is marketing.

You know, our lives are really inundated with advertising,

whether it's the internet or TV or signs or things that we get in the mail.

There's always companies trying to convince us to buy their products.

They're vying for our loyalty and our money.

And so really, we don't think about it much,

but there's really a whole psychology about marketing.

There's companies that spend millions and millions of dollars every year

in marketing research and try to figure out

how to get us, the consumer, to buy their product.

I was reading some literature on marketing,

and it was saying that most big companies spend about 10%

of their revenue each year on advertising.

So if you think of a large international company,

a company like Microsoft,

that would mean that they're spending about $9 billion a year on marketing.

I read something recently that says that

Google generates between $15 and $20 billion every quarter

just on advertising spending alone.

And so while advertising can be of a great benefit to the company,

we always hear stories of how advertising sometimes goes wrong, right?

There's one of the biggest marketing blunders,

maybe, back in 1985 involving Coca-Cola.

You may remember when they rolled out this new formula for a new Coke,

and they called it New Coke.

And they thought they did all this marketing research.

They had people taste test this new product,

and majority of people liked this new product better than the old Coke,

so they went with it.

They put it out there, and it was just a huge disaster

because part of the problem was they hadn't asked people

what they thought about this new Coke,

not only how it tastes,

but this emotional significance that this old Coke might have with them,

how they may be drawn to this tradition of Coke

which had been around for so long.

And so as a result of this poor research and this poor marketing,

within 10 weeks' time of rolling out this new Coke,

they had to pull it back

and return to this new, their classic Coca-Cola.

That's when they started calling it Coca-Cola Classic

because they had to differentiate it

from this new Coke product that they had.

And so we see the importance of marketing is to the success of companies.

And so we have to consider,

what if Christianity was judged by those same marketing standards?

What if we brought in a marketing consultant for Christianity,

how that would go over?

I mean, can you imagine what they would try to convince us

in ways to market the church?

How we need to talk about believing in Jesus

as it being some sort of guarantee to life and to ease.

Otherwise, we're never going to get anybody to commit to this.

You know, we need to tell people

how loving Jesus can go hand in hand

with loving the things of the world

or how Christianity can be of a benefit

without causing any disruption in our life.

But we recognize that's not how Christianity operates.

That's not the message that we see told

over and over and over again in the Bible.

And that's what we're going to see tonight

in the life of Moses.

Because rather than promoting a life of success

and a life of comfort,

we see that we are purposefully,

we are purposefully called to forsake pleasure in this life

and the comfort of this life.

It's totally counterintuitive

to the way that the world thinks

that we need to strive after happiness

and pleasure in this world.

But we see through the faith of Moses tonight

that who rejects the pleasure of the world,

he chooses something better,

that everlasting joy in Christ.

And so this is going to be our passage tonight

looking at Hebrews chapter 11,

Hebrews 11:24–26

verses 24 through 26.

So let's read that together.

By faith,

Moses,

when he had grown up,

refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.

He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God

rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ

as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt

because he was looking ahead to his reward.

This is the word of God.

Now, if you've been with us just the last couple of weeks

and you know we've been looking at Hebrews 11

and we've really been looking at some of these more minor characters

or things that we may see

maybe a little more insignificant areas of faith,

but we actually see how grand it really is,

what it really tells us about these saints of old

and their faithfulness.

Well, tonight we turn to this hero,

so to speak,

of the Old Testament,

someone who would have been known of

in the New Testament church,

especially among these of Jewish background,

Moses,

the Old Testament lawgiver,

the one who is a picture of servant faithfulness

to God and to his people.

And so while we don't have the whole evening

to talk about Moses' whole life,

we're going to focus on these few verses

that we just read

and I want us to focus again

on just a few more features of faith.

We've looked at several of them

over the last couple of weeks,

but these last three features

that we see in this passage,

how faith defines our identity,

how faith disregards worldly pleasure,

and how faith desires heavenly treasure.

And so let's consider that first feature of faith,

how faith defines our identity.

identity.

Now, if we think of the world today,

identity is one of these things

that really people struggle with now.

People are having these identity crises.

And why is this?

It's because they're trying to find a way to fit in.

They're trying to find a way

to characterize themselves

and what they believe and how they feel.

And so people turn to their jobs

as a means of identity.

They may turn to their relationships

or their family.

We see people turn to their race

as a possible identity.

Even sexual orientation

is becoming a bigger deal

in our society now.

And so we see that these labels

not only define people individually,

but they also have kind of created

these different groups of people as well.

It's created an easy way

to figure out who is your friend

and who is your enemy

based on our identities.

And so oftentimes,

even within these identities,

we also look toward

elevating ourselves

within our identity.

We think of the fact that,

you know, if you're a professor,

you may think about the fact that,

oh, no, I'm not just a professor,

but I'm a leading researcher

in my field.

Right?

You think, well,

I'm not just a businessman.

My company makes X amount of dollars a year.

And so are these things

that over and over again in our life,

they direct us to this inward

searching for meaning and for purpose

rather than looking to Christ.

And so I want us to consider tonight

the fact that Moses faced that same temptation.

Moses had that same temptation

to look at his life

and to find his identity

and his purpose

in his family in Egypt

rather than recognizing

his family of his chosen people of God.

And so if we look in verse 24 again,

it says this,

that by faith,

Moses, when he'd grown up,

refused to be known

as the son of Pharaoh's daughter.

And I think we need to consider

just how significant

that refusal is

because if we recognize

when Joseph,

who we talked about this morning,

after he passed away,

these Israelites,

his family,

began to grow

and they began to multiply

and they stayed in Egypt.

And Pharaoh began to fear

that they had become

too numerous

and too mighty.

And so we see that

he decided to enslave them.

We see that very beginning

of Exodus 1.

But the problem is

this didn't stop them

from growing

and developing as a people.

So he needed another means

of controlling the population

and he did that

by deciding that

all male Israelites

needed to be killed.

They needed to be taken

and drowned

in the Nile River.

And so we know

that Moses' parents

refused to do this.

Instead,

they placed him in a basket

and put him in the Nile

and we know

that he was then discovered

by Pharaoh's daughter

who would raise him

as his own son.

And now we know

that Pharaoh's daughter

was the only child

of Pharaoh.

She was likely

childless herself.

And so by adopting Moses,

she was placing him

in the direct royal line.

He was being raised

in order to be king,

in order to be Pharaoh himself.

So he would have

been groomed

for this position

and received

the best education.

He would have been

surrounded by wealth

and comfort

that these slaves

of Israel

would have never

experienced personally.

And so by refusing

this honor,

by refusing to be called

the son of Pharaoh's daughter,

he's literally

disowning his family.

He's declining

the position

and the opportunity

to serve

as ruler of Egypt.

And so if we think about it,

Moses really could have

reasoned,

well,

I really deserve

this position

or it's really

for my interest

and the interest

of my people

to stay in this position

and kind of consider

it part of God's providence.

He's brought me here,

I just need to stay

in this spot.

He could have reasoned

in such a way

that, well,

if you look back

at the life of Joseph,

Joseph was second

in command to Pharaoh,

so I need to stay

in this position as well.

But we recognize

that through faith

he understood

that rather than

being a prince in Egypt,

he was called

to be a pilgrim.

Rather than being

a leader of Egypt,

he was called

to take the Israelites

and lead them

out of Egypt.

And so there's really

no sitting on the fence here.

Moses couldn't

both be leader in Egypt

and also be leader

of God's people.

If he was called

to be God's people,

this is automatically

going to change

how he is received

by the world

because we know

that God's people

are rejected by the world.

We are seen as enemies

of the world

because of our

association with God.

And so then

we need to ask ourselves,

where do we find

our identity?

Is our identity

wrapped up in

our work,

our success,

our family,

our friends?

Is it our social

significance

that we desire?

Maybe it can be

wrapped up in good things,

but we make them

the ultimate things

like our relationships

or our families.

Or maybe we find

our identity

in our sin.

we wallow in guilt

and self-pity

and we think

that we're not

a person

who could possibly

be accepted by God.

And so the problem is

whatever it may be

that we use

to identify ourselves,

we are identifying

ourselves

by some horizontal level

based on the opinions

of others

or based on our own opinions

rather than recognizing

we have been created

to be identified

vertically.

Our identity

is found in Christ

because we must remember

that we,

if we are believers,

we are in Christ

and as in Christ,

we are called

to be a new creation.

Those old labels

no longer define us.

We look at 1 Peter 2,

this is what it says

about believers.

It says that

we are a chosen race,

a royal priesthood,

a holy nation,

a people

for his own possession

that you may proclaim

the excellencies

of him

who called you

out of darkness

into his marvelous light.

Once you were not a people

but now you are God's people.

Once you had not received mercy

but now you have received mercy.

And so,

from a worldly perspective,

if they were to look at Moses

and see his decision

to choose to be a part

of God's people,

they'd see this

as a demotion, right?

This falling from grace.

But in these verses

we see how Moses

was elevated actually

by choosing to be associated

with God's people.

This is the same for us.

Although we may fear

the consequences

of losing our worldly status,

the opinions of others,

when we are found in Christ,

we are called a holy nation,

a royal priesthood.

We receive an eternal heritage

that is unmatched

by what can be offered

by this world.

And so that leads us

to our second point.

Not only is our identity

going to,

not only does faith

reveal our identity,

but our faith is going

to impact our actions

because who we are

dictates what we do.

And so that second point

is then that faith disregards

the pleasures of the world.

If we look back

at verse 25,

it says this,

he chose to be ill-treated

along with the people of God

rather than to enjoy

the pleasures of sin

for a short time.

And so if you remember last week,

I talked about briefly

how the author of Hebrews

wrote this book

to a primarily Jewish Christian audience

who is struggling

with their own identity,

who had this longing

to return to Judaism

because of the suffering

they were experiencing now

as Christians.

And so here,

the author of Hebrews

is encouraging them,

just as Moses did,

to persevere under hardship,

to recognize

that these worldly pleasures

are fleeting,

to follow in the faith of Moses

and stay strong in the faith.

And so we need to recognize

that Moses,

he didn't choose this life

with his Israel family,

not understanding the consequences.

He recognized that

if he left the palace of Egypt,

he was going to face suffering.

He was raised in such a way

that he would have seen

his own people

suffering on a daily basis.

And so he was,

this was the life

that he chose.

He willingly disregarded

the pleasures of the world.

He welcomed abuse

and hardship

and suffering.

And so we need to recognize

that this suffering

wasn't a surprise to God.

We talked about the promise

that God gave to Abraham

that he said,

I'm going to give you this land,

but first,

you and your people

will suffer for 400 years.

And so we recognize

that this was a part

of God's plan.

And so likewise,

we need to recognize

as believers

that we are also called

to suffer.

Just like it said

in that passage

we read in 1 Peter 2

that we are called

out of darkness,

later in that same chapter,

it uses that same language

to say we are called

to suffer.

So we shouldn't be surprised

by suffering.

Like Moses,

we should anticipate it,

that we should welcome it

in a way because we know

this is for God's glory.

And we recognize, too,

that when we suffer,

we don't suffer alone.

When I was at university,

I had a group of friends.

We'd go to this ministry

every week

that was off campus,

and we'd always go

to get dinner together beforehand.

And we'd go to this place

called Firehouse Subs.

It's kind of like a subway,

but a lot better.

And you'd go in,

and when you'd order,

on the counter display

was just this row

of hot sauces.

And they'd all be rated

from most mild

to just like insanely hot.

And of course,

we took this up

as a challenge

to be able to sample

these hot sauces.

And so we do this

on a weekly basis.

The hottest sauce

was called Da Bomb sauce.

It was just this little bottle.

And what we do

is merely take a toothpick

and stick it in the bottle

and then touch it

to our tongue,

and that was it.

Like, your meal

was just destroyed

at that point.

And so oftentimes,

especially when we brought

new guys in,

we wanted them

to suffer

by experiencing Da Bomb.

So we tried to convince them

to take this sauce.

Some would be

very willing in doing,

and others not at all.

But the best way

to convince those people

who were not willing

to try this sauce

is to say,

well, I will do it with you.

We can do it together.

And so why is that?

It's because

we don't like

to suffer alone.

Suffering is much more tolerable

when it's a shared experience.

And so that's why

we see here,

it says that Moses

suffered with God's people.

He suffered in solidarity,

recognizing that they were

sojourners together

embarked on God's mission.

And so we see this too,

that when we're called to suffer,

we don't suffer alone.

If we look down further

in Hebrews 11,

it lists all these other

Old Testament icons

and how they suffered

for the gospel.

It says in verse 36

that some faced jeers

and flogging

and even chains

and imprisonment.

They were put to death

by stoning.

They were sawn in two.

They were killed by the sword.

They went about

in sheepskins and goatskins,

destitute, persecuted,

and ill-treated.

The world was not worthy of them.

They wandered in deserts

and mountains,

living in caves

and in holes in the ground.

And so we see

that when we suffer,

we suffer with the saints

of old and present.

But more importantly,

we suffer with Christ.

Christ has not called us

to do anything

that he did not

willingly endure himself.

Because just like Moses,

if we think of Jesus

when he was tempted

in the wilderness by Satan,

he was offered

temporal security

and blessing

if he turned

from God's will

for his life

to suffer

and worship Satan.

But what did he do?

He refused

these worldly pleasures.

Instead,

he chose the cross.

He willingly suffered

to redeem his people.

And so we are invited

by Christ

to do likewise.

He tells us

to take up our cross

daily and follow him.

And so what does this

mean for us nowadays?

Most likely,

in our setting,

we are not going to

be under threat

of death

or imprisonment

for our faith.

But suffering for us

may look a little different.

It may be being mocked

by classmates,

by coworkers.

It may mean losing friends.

It may be being demonized

by our culture

that is turning

increasingly secular.

But we must remember

when we suffer,

we suffer with others.

But when we suffer,

we also don't have to worry

about missing out

on the pleasures

of the world.

This is something else

that the author talks about.

He says,

we don't have to have

the fear of missing out.

We hear that a lot today,

that FOMO,

F-O-M-O,

the fear of missing out.

We don't have to worry

about this

because he tells us

two things about

the pleasures of the world.

He says,

one,

that they're fleeting

and two,

that they amount to sin.

And certainly we know

that not all pleasures

in this world

are evil.

But the point is,

is when our pleasures

of this world

prevent us

from following God's will,

when we have elevated them

to a point of importance

in our lives

that is above God,

that is when they are sin.

And we can know

when we experience

those pleasures of sin

that they will quickly

lead to destruction

in our lives.

If we look at 1 John 2,

it says this,

do not love the world

or anything in the world.

If anyone loves the world,

the love of the Father

is not in them.

For everything in the world,

the lust of the flesh,

the lust of the eyes,

the pride of the life

comes not from the Father,

but from the world.

The world

and its desires

pass away,

but whoever does

the will of God

lives forever.

And so how often

do we see in our society

people that take good things

and elevate them

to the best things,

whether it's success

or money

or sex

or whatever it may be,

they continually

take these pleasures

and it destroys them.

And so we can look

at these pleasures

and divert our eyes

from them

because we recognize

that we have promises

of heavenly treasure.

And so that's our third

and final point here,

that faith desires

heavenly treasures.

One of my favorite

little religious writings,

it's a short discourse

written by Thomas Chalmers

called The Expulsive Power

of a New Affection.

And I read this years ago,

I think when I was

in university

before I even knew

really who Chalmers was

and that he was even Scottish.

But it's something

that stuck with me

that I like to reread often.

And so if it's nothing

that you've read yourself,

I would highly encourage you

to do so.

You can find it free

on the internet.

It's not very long

but just chock full

of wisdom and insight.

And so in this little discourse,

Chalmers is addressing

how do we deal

with the pleasures

of the world,

of this love

that we have for the world.

And he says

there's really two ways

of attempting

to rid ourselves from it.

He says,

one, we can renounce the world.

We can recognize

that it's not worthy

of our affection

since it always lets us down.

Or two, he says,

we can replace

our love for the world

with a new

and stronger affection.

And so he comments

on both.

He says the first method

of trying to just

renounce the world

really isn't an effective method

because our hearts,

much like nature,

operate like this repulsion

to a vacuum.

We hate a vacuum.

And so if we attempt

to remove a love

for the world

from our lives,

our heart will

immediately follow up,

fill it,

fill that void

with another

worldly affection.

He says this,

he says,

it's impossible

for our hearts

to cast the world

away from it

and thus reduce itself

into wilderness.

The heart is not

so constituted.

The only way

to dispossess it

of our old affections

is by the expulsive

power of a new one.

And so we don't

simply address

the temptations

of the world

by renouncing

these pleasures

of the world.

We need to develop

this deep love

for God

that expulses

all other affections.

Chalmers explains

that this can only

come through faith.

He says that

denial of the world

is not possible

to him

that descents

from the gospel

testimony

but is possible

even as all things

are possible

to him who believes.

To try this

without faith

is to work

without the right tool

or the right instrument.

But faith works

by love

and the way

of expelling

from the heart

the love

which transgresses

the law

is to admit

into its receptacles

the love

which fulfills

the law.

And so he's saying

here that faith

is our tool.

It's the only way

that we can rid

ourselves

of the love

for the world

because this true faith

it generates

a love

this powerful love

for Christ

in which nothing

else measures up.

There is no other

affection that's

going to steal us

from the love

of Christ.

And so if we look

at this last verse

in our passage again

Hebrews 11 26

it says

Moses regarded

disgrace

for the sake

of Christ

as greater value

than the treasures

of Egypt

because he was

looking ahead

to his reward.

Now there's

something really

interesting about this

if you caught it.

He says

disgrace for who?

Disgrace for the

sake of Christ.

And you may ask

well how in the world

did Moses

suffer for Christ

if he didn't know

Christ?

If Christ hasn't

come into the world

at this point?

If Moses didn't know

God's full plan

of salvation?

The answer of course

is through faith.

A faith that produced

an active love

for the coming Messiah.

And so because

of this faith

Moses willingly

gave up

the riches

of Pharaoh's palace

he chose

to suffer

for his people

in order to

lead God's people

out of the house

of slavery

and into the

promised land.

And so we can

notice how this

life and this

action of Moses

foreshadows

the work

of Jesus himself

who left

his father's

throne

who endured

suffering in this

life that culminated

in his death

in order that

he may redeem

us and bring

us into relationship

with the father.

it's that

great reward

that Moses

clung to.

And we need

to remember

it's this

reward that's

not just based

on the promise

of land

but the promise

of life

because we

remember that

Moses didn't

make it to

the promised

land

but yet God

was still

faithful in

fulfilling his

promise to

Moses.

And so we see

that by faith

Moses saw

an eternal

kingdom

an eternal

crown of glory

that never

fades away.

And so this

is the gospel

that seems

so counterintuitive

so paradoxical

to the world

that would

just drive

these marketing

experts mad

right?

That life

comes through

death

that peace

comes through

suffering

that reward

only comes

through self

denial.

But this

is the message

that's offered

to all of us

through the

blood of Jesus.

this is the

faith

that we are

called to

a faith

that delivers

us from the

tyranny of this

world.

A faith

that calls

the Holy Spirit

to pour

into our

lives a new

affection

that far

surpasses

anything of

this world.

It's a faith

that spurs

us on

to obedience

toward an

eternal reward

that's communion

with God

forever.

forever.

And that's

good news.

Let's pray

together.

Oh God

we thank you

that you

keep your

promises to

your people.

That the

treasures of

heaven so

far outweigh

the pleasures

of this

world.

And so

may we

turn from

them.

May we

find our

identity in

you.

May we

treasure the

things that

you treasure

recognizing the

good things

that you

have in

store for

your people.

Lord may we

be willing to

suffer with the

saints of old.

May we be

willing to

follow in the

steps of

Christ.

To partake in

his suffering in

order to

partake in

his salvation.

We thank you

for the love

of Jesus.

How his

blood covers

our sins.

And so may

we continue in

faith walking

with God each

day.

In

present Jesus

name.

Amen.

Now we're

going to sing

our last

hymn or

listen to our

last hymn being

sung,

Great is thy

faithfulness.

Great is thy

faithfulness.

O God my

Father.

There is no

shadow of

turning with

thee.

Thou

changest not,

thy compassions

they fail

not.

As thou

hast been,

thou forever

ever will

be.

Great is thy

faithfulness,

great is thy

faithfulness,

morning by

morning through

mercies I see.

All I have

needed, thy hand

hath provided.

great is thy

faithfulness,

Lord, unto

thee.

Summer and winter

and springtime

and harvest,

sun, moon, and

stars in their

courses above.

Join with all

nature in

manifold

witness to

thy

great

faithfulness,

mercy,

and love.

Great is

thy

faithfulness,

great is

thy

faithfulness,

thy

faithfulness,

morning by

morning new

mercies I see.

All I have

needed, thy

hand hath provided.

Great is

thy

faithfulness,

Lord, unto

me.

Great is

thy

faithfulness,

Lord, unto

me.

God,

pardon for

sin and

a peace

that

endureth,

thine

own deep

presence

to cheer

and to

guide,

strength

for

today and

pride,

hope for

tomorrow.

Blessings

are

mine with

and

thousand beside.

Great is

thy

faithfulness,

great is

thy

faithfulness,

morning by

morning new

mercies I

see.

All I have

needed,

thy hand hath

provided.

great is

thy

faithfulness,

Lord, unto

me.

Now will you

stand for our

benediction?

now to him

who is able to

keep you from

stumbling and

to present you

blameless before

the presence of

his glory with

great joy, to

the only God

our Savior,

through Jesus

Christ our

Lord, be

glory,

majesty,

dominion,

and authority

before all

time, now

and forever

more.

Amen.

Go in

peace.

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