Now those of us who are gathered together this morning will remember we finished off the verse in Psalm number eighteen. Will you turn back to it? Psalm number eighteen and verse number nineteen. We've been looking at that wonderful theme. A Christian is one who is a child of God, who is a nearer of God and who is redeemed. We are looking at the fact that one redeemed might, there was a ransom paid for our redemption. Christ himself was a ransom. We are still reminded of the world emancipation. We have been emancipated. We are being set free. We also remember we are being delivered. We have been elevated. We are enriched. We are marked with an eternal redemption. And we got down as fast as I did this morning. I want to continue on this word, delight. Look at verse number nineteen. He brought me forth also into a large place. The word largely means wealthy place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. Aren't you glad you're a child of God? Aren't you glad you're being delivered? His brother's angel well replaced. Why? Just because he delighted in us. Now Isaiah forty-three. Isaiah in the forty-third chapter. One or two thought there might be a real definite blessing and encouragement to us. Isaiah forty-three. Remember now the word is delight. We delight in the one who is our Redeemer. And the one who loves me, we delight in you. And it delights in me. Oh, the wonder of that delight. Now verse number one. But now thus says the Lord, that created thee, O Jacob. And hear from thee, O Israel, hear not, for I have redeemed thee. I have called thee by thy name. Thou art mine. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned. Neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Savior. I gave Egypt for thy ransom, and Ethiopia and Ziba for thee, since thou was precious in my sight. Thou have been honorable, and I have loved thee. Therefore I give men for thee, and people for thy life. Fear not, for I am with thee. Fear not, for I am with thee. Verse seven. Even every one that is called by my name, for I have created him for my glory. I have formed him, yea, I have made him. Verse ten, ye are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen, that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed. Neither shall there be after me. I am the Lord. And beside me there is no Savior. I have declared and have saved and have showed when there was no strange God among you. Therefore ye are my witnesses, says the Lord, that I am God. Now don't please the verse number twenty-one. This people have I formed from myself. Now notice they shall show forth My praise. May God show forth my praise. Now this is one of the most interesting chapters we have in the whole of the Bible. Each word is pregnant with meaning. And just notice how he starts off. Verse number one. Thus saith the Lord. Now notice the Lord himself is speaking. And he said I have created thee of Jacob. And I have formed thee of Israel. Now there is a difference. He created Jacob and he formed Israel. The creation of Jacob reminds me of that which is physical. The forming of Israel reminds me of that which is spiritual. Going back where we started the other morning, morning, all mankind and God's creation. He's the creator of all mankind. Thank God he's the father only of those who have believed on his son. the Lord Jesus Christ. He's created us all. And my friend, those who are formed, think again of Galatians four, verse nineteen. Paul said, I travel and birth again to Christ be formed in you. Now here is a new life altogether. Here is a spiritual life. Jacob reminds me of that which is physical, that which is earthly, the creation of God. But Israel reminds me of that new creation altogether. But remember the Lord said, Thou shalt be no more Jacob but Israel. No more the supplant or the twister, but the prince with God. You have prevailed with God, you have prevailed with men. You have a power with God, you have a power with men. So there you have the picture. The creation of Jacob reminds me of that which is the physical. The forming of Israel reminds me of that which is spiritual, a lie unto God. So what does it say in the very next sentence now? Fear not, for I have redeemed thee. Then he says, I call thee by name, and he comes to the road there, which says thou art mine. Now these three little phrases can keep us going for a long time. I just want to linger a little upon them. Remember it says, fear not. One of the great three hundred and sixty-five fear not of the Bible. The fear not preaching every day of the year in the Bible. I said at once in the conference, a Hebrew Christian came up and said, Mr. Boswell, you made a mistake this afternoon. Looking at my said, just one. Well, he said you made one. Well, what was that? Well, you said there are three hundred, and six of five few notes in the Bible, that's a mistake. So, well, how many are there, brother? He said there are three hundred and sixty-six. Say, well, if you found one for the leap here, we can still rejoice together. So you don't need to take yesterday for today, not today for tomorrow. You get your fear not from the Lord each morning and go out and bank upon it. And he's saying to you, you say to me, fear not, but I have redeemed me. I want to put one word against this, sir. The word is relationship. The word is relationship. He says, I have redeemed thee. Now we're redeemed not with silver nor gold. We're redeemed by the precious, efficacious blood of our adorable Lord Jesus. We know this last night. He gave himself the ransom. Remember, the life is in the blood. And his blood was poured out. He gave his life for you. He gave his life for me. I thank him. Have you? If not, will you do it tonight? Pastor, we can triumphantly look up and say, Thank you, Lord, for stealing my soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to me thy great salvation, so rich and free. He said, I have redeemed thee. Then he comes a little closer. He said, I call thee by name. Now there's something about this that fills my soul. I call thee by name. Remember in John ten, twenty seven, he says, he called his own sheep by name. I know them and they follow me. I give unto them eternal life. There's verse twenty-eight. And they shall never perish. There should any man pluck them out of my hand. My father which gave me is greater than all. And no man. The first Greek word means not even I myself. No man is able to pluck them out of my father's hand. I and my father are one. I want you to notice verse twenty-seven. We make such a lot about verses twenty-eight through thirty. And correctly, sir, that please don't neglect and don't forget verse twenty-seven. What is it saying? My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give unto my sheep, who are they? Those who are following him. If you're a sheep, you're following. I give unto my sheep, eternal life. They shall never perish. I know how true that really is. He calls them by name. I'm thinking of the fact when he called Peter, Peter. Thomas he called Thomas. Mouth he called Martha. Mary he called Mary. Philip he called Philip. He called his own sheep by name. Have you heard him calling you by your own special name? You know when we're born again it gives a new name altogether. He calls them a Christian. We're a Christian. We're a Christ one. We're the anointing. We belong to him now. We're one of his own dear children. All the wonder of it all. All the joy of him called a Christian. All the honor. All the dignity. A Christian. A child of God. And I go down to the very next phrase now. He comes to the closest that you're mine. You're mine. Little boy, it's still the one day. A nervous showing off his knife. and be given to him by his uncle for a birthday gift. Like most boys, everybody will show off. And he's showing off this very nice at school. Look, see what my uncle gave me for my birthday? One boy's, oh, isn't that beauty? He's got a silver handle. Now, yes, and he's got five blades. Now, look, he's got a corkscrew. Look, he's got a can opener. But look, he's got a screwdriver. Yes, he said, little boy, best of all, it's mine. It's mine. Those boys could see all the lights about the night, but little boys it, but best of all, it's mine. Now I may stand here all night, and I could easily do it, and try and tell you of something what the Lord Jesus means to me. All the glories and the pleasures and the joys and all the loveliness is treasured up in him. All his majesty and all his omnipotence. My friend, half of you can truthfully say that's all right, Jim, but best of all, he's mine. I know him a living reality in my life. That's what it means to be redeemed a child of God. I found a friend who said to friends, He loved me ere I knew him. He drew me with a cause of love, and thus he bowed me to him. And round my heart still closely twined those ties which not consider, for I am his. And he is mine. And you know something? It's forever and forever. I quoted this morning, Sam turned to Queen. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall walk. This is a very important finger from the left hand of a lady. Very important finger. Sometimes you see two rings in that particular finger. The diamond ring when a young man says, Your darling, I love you. and he flipped that diamond over her finger. Then that day that stood before the officiating pastor and exchanged her vows, and he flipped that wedding band over her finger, darling, your mind. Your mind. My friend the Lord loved us. He proved his love in so many ways toward us. But based upon this stage, your mind, your mind by redemption, your mind by sovereign right, your mind by eternal covenant, he said, your mind by treasure's blood. know the job in Him to say, Yes, Lord, I am mine. I'm not mine. Forever and forever. So the word tonight is relationship. And this relationship, my friend, can never be severed. Once you're born into the family of God, you're in that family forever. Aren't you glad you're related to Him by precious blood? Now the next word is responsibility in verse two. And notice now because we are redeemed in this wonderful relationship, There's a responsibility, and he takes the responsibility because we are he. It's his responsibility to care for us and look after us. Isn't that wonderful? When a child is born in a family circle, it's the responsibility as well as the privilege of the parents to care for and look after that child. So notice what it says in verse number two. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee. And through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee. When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned. Neither shall the flame kindle upon me. What do we have here? First of all, when thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee. It refers to the Red Sea, the children of Israel coming out of the land of Egypt. Remember they've been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. The blood's been applied to the suicide hoop and the upper limb of the doorway. And God says, when I see the blood, I will pass over to you. There was a point I would seek to interject here. In the very same night they applied the blood to left Egypt. Now it's a wonderful lesson for us of the children of God. Egypt is a picture of the world. Pharaoh is a picture of the old master Satan. And remember the very night the blood was applied to the lesser old sphere and the lesser old master And I want to say this and connect from Galatians chapter one, verse number four. The Lord Jesus Christ who gave himself to bear away our sin and to deliver us from this present evil world. Beloved, the very moment we're born again by God's fruit, the moment we recognize Christ bore away the penalty against our sin. but able to sing, My sin not in part but the whole. I've been nailed to the cross and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. O my soul! All my sins were laid upon him. Jesus bowled them on the tree. God, who knew them, laid them on him and believing, I am free for that very same night. I left this old tottering world. I left my friend the sphere altogether in the reckoning of God. May I repeat the verse, Jesus Christ who gave himself to bear away our sin and to deliver us, talking about redemption, and to deliver us from this present evil age. I'll qualify that now in a moment. The children of Israel, my friend, have led their sphere. They've come down now to the Red Sea. The Red Seas right before them give a sign of the mountainous rocks. Behind them there's a pursuing enemy. They're in all these muddy hills. There they are completely heavy. They can't run to the right hand or to the west. They can't turn back because the enemy is pursuing. Right before them is the Red Sea. Moses said, Remember, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. The Egyptians whom you've seen today, you'll see them again no more forever. Dear child of God, study the no more of the Scripture. They're very important, they're very precious, and they're one of them. The Egyptians whom you've seen today, you'll see them again no more forever. What did God say to them through Moses? Go forward. And as they went forward, the rents he opened before them, and the waters rolled back into great waters, walls of crystal. The waters were congealed on either side. And they stood there like great walls of beautiful shining crystals. And a heavy wind came to member and blew. And the bed of the sea was all dried up. And the children of Israel went through on dry ground. And the law went right through with them. When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee. And maybe tonight in this group there's someone here in your Red Sea experience. In your spiritual experience. And tonight you're all hemmed in. and you don't know what way to turn. You can't turn the right hand or to the left. To go back would be absolutely fickle. But my friend, there's only one way for you to go. And the word is go forward. Go forward. Oh yes, the Red Sea is there. But just as they went forward in faith what happened, the Red Sea opened before them. And you too will find your Red Sea opening before you. And you too will find the Lord going right through with you. As you're saying to some heart here tonight, go forward. They're hesitating. They're holding. They're hemmed in. The pressure is terrible. And all the time the Lord will be saying to you, go forward. And you're questioning it all, aren't you? My friend questioned no longer. Take him at his word and go forward. Whatever now. As they went forward right through the bed of the waters, they came to the other side. And then remember old Pharaoh? He said, I will pursue. I will overtake, I will destroy all that greatly personal prodal I. I will preserve, I will overtake, I will destroy. And what happened? The Lord my friend called, he called the strong wind to come again and the waters came back while they were for swing through the dry land. And the waters came back, and Pharaoh, and all his mighty horsemen, went right down into the depths of the water, and they perished. Get the picture. Mr. Pharaoh, with all this great big eagle, what happened? I will pursue, I will overtake, I will destroy, and God only blew a little puff of wind. And Pharaoh and all his mighty horsemen went down, and they drowned. Friends, you can't fight God. And you can't fight God's people. You're touching His anointed. You're touching those who are precious to Him. And it's his responsibility to look after them. What happened when the children of Israel got to the other side? Looking back upon the old sphere, Egypt. There's all enemies dead upon the seashore. And they remembered the word, the Egyptians whom you see today. Just them again, no more forever. And now notice now, the rains see a roll between them and old Egypt. Roll between them and their old enemies. And so does the crosswork of Jesus Christ stand between us and our old sphere. Glacians six, verse fourteen says, By the cross I am crucified with the world, and by the cross the world is crucified with me. And the night was standing on resurrection ground. And might what happened then? Then sang the children of Israel, the law that triumphed gloriously. The horse and the rider is cast in the dead to the sea. There is no singing in Egypt. Plenty of grumbling and grousing and complaining. Oh, but no song. But now the liberty, the redeemed by the Lamb, the blood of the Lamb, the redeemed now by the mighty power of God. Double redemption here. Redeemed by the blood and redeemed by the power of the Holy Spirit. Now he said this morning, you'll remember. When a person is born again, his sins are forgiven. And that very moment the Holy Spirit enters into your life and my life. And oh, that is rejoicing and glory is thanks. Tonight we are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb and by the power of the Holy Spirit. We can set free. Now we can sing the song of Moses. You know, my friend, listen. The very song that commenced in Exodus fifteen continues right through the Bible to Revelation fifteen. And what does it say there? They sang the song of Moses and the Lamb. Oh, this is the first song in the Bible. It's a song of glorious triumph. The song of redemption. Can you sing that song tonight, dear one? Can you sing the song of the soul set free? It's a wonderful song. Ah, yes. My friend, have you got to sing salvation? Even though the joy of the emancipating, liberating part of redemption, the joy of being a real born-again Christian, it's put a new song into your mouth, even praise unto our God. He said, Bring my soul out of prison, I may praise thee. We are liberated, we are set free, and we're set free to praise him. Are we praising people? Then it says, notice the next phrase, now the same second verse. And through the rivers they shall not overflow thee. Now here we have the Jordan. Here we have the Jordan. Just about a year ago now we were standing by the Jordan. My wife and some of them were more courageous. They went into the Jordan. I washed my hands in the Jordan. Water. And my friend is positive of the Jordan to overflow its banks. And it says, Even then I will be with thee. And they shall not overflow thee. At the Red Sea, Christ died for me. At the Jordan, I died with Christ. At the Jordan, he bore my sins away. At the Jordan, he bore Jim Boswell away. And another is no longer I, but Christ that lives in me. And coming right through on the resurrection ground again, with the glorious song of triumph. But time will allow me to develop that father. Go to the very next phrase now. And there's something very precious about this. When thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee. What is the lesson here? I think you know only too well from the book of Daniel. Three young Hebrews, fifteen years of age, brought face to face with a burning fiery furnace, ought to bow down to the king's image, and that be his decree. Remember what the old king said, is your God able to deliver you? Shadrach, Neshach, and Abednego. They say we are not careful. We are not worried. We are not perturbed. We are not disturbed about this. Our God is well able to deliver us, but if not, and thank God for the but if not of faith. But if not, we still trust him. But if not, we're not going to bow down to your image. We're going to go all the way with our God for heaven. There are three young heaven fellows, fifteen years of age, are bound by those cords. They're thrown into the burning party furnace. He is seven times more than usual now. Even my friend, when they open the door, the heat come out, my friend smoke the people standing by. Oh, the terrible heat of that furnace. There are three young fellows. They're still in the throne into the burning party furnace. The king should not sleep. He and the rest. He went down out to the door and he opened, looked in. Three? Why, there are four. There are four there. He said, You go three in there, but I can see four. I'm one like the son of God. Ah, my friend, listen. I'm one like the son of God. And he called Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego come forth. And he came walking forth through the flames. You know the only thing burnt? Well, the bands they had around them when they were thrown in. They hadn't even got the snow ascending upon them. No, not a blister upon them. Why, this is a God we've come to know, isn't it? Amen? He's a wonderful God. My friend, listen, he says, you're my responsibility. If you're called the pastor of the Red Sea, I'm going through with you. For the Jordan, the floods are not going to overflow you, I'm still with you. And if you're called the burning pastor of burning, fiery furnace exputed, I'm going right through the flame with you. Maybe you're not in the quiet of this evening hour or some dear heart here, and you're knowing something about the flames of affliction. There may be, my friend, real times of testing which is bursting in your heart now. You wonder, while the law is allowing you to go through the crucible, my friend, that fire may be very severe, don't forget, he's still going through with you, and he's going to come out, all is going to be burned away, is all the dross, all the sun-like himself, all the impurities, all the bands, my friend, you're holding your air down, they're going to be severed, and you're going to come out, my friend, purified, and his image upon you in a way you never knew him before. That's his design. to get rid of all the draws and working off the pure gold of his own blessed character. That's what he's doing in your life. In my life, I get the picture. He said, when your relationship is so vital, it's my responsibility to care for you. Remember what he says, casting all your burden upon him, he cares for you. And I'm here quoting now, Two verses really, I'm mixing two verses up. Psalm fifty-five, twenty-two says, Cast thy burden upon the Lord, he shall sustain me. One Peter five, seven says, Cast him all your care upon him, he cared for you. The word casting means unloading. Unload your burden. Unload your care upon him. Unload it. He means that unload it. All your anxiety, all your care. Bring to the mercy. Leave them there. Never a burden he cannot bear. Never a friend like Jesus. Friend, do you know him? Do you know him? Is he real to you? Is he vital to you? If not, I want you to come to know him tonight. Not theoretically, but a living vital reality in your life, movement by movement. He walks with me. He talks with me. A long life's narrow way. You ask me how I know he lives. He lives within my heart. And your heart says, Jim, mine too. Mine too. Yes, thank God tonight with glory spent. The relationship and now the responsibility. And go to the Father, shall we? Now, go down to the reason in verse number four. Another little word for you. The word is the reason for it all. Now, I love this. Oh, my heart just bubbles over tonight. I just don't know why, but the Lord is just so real, making himself so precious this evening. He always does that, you know. But look what it says here. Since thou was precious in my sight. Now, isn't that just one who? The first one is relationship in verse one. The second word is responsibility in verse number two. And the only reason for it is this. Because we're precious to him. Isn't that wonderful? Because we're precious to him. Isn't that just wonderful? We've been singing, so you believe he is precious. And I'm true. But now he brings it back and forth. But you're precious to me. You're my delight. You're my life. You're my portion. You're everything to me. And just because you're precious to me, know the very next grade now, now I'll be honorable. And notice, I have loved thee. I have loved thee. And go give men for thee. Fear not for I am with thee. Now isn't it just precious? Isn't it real to you, my friend and I? Remember, first of all, the relationship, then the responsibility, and now the reason. Just because we're precious to him. Remember the Merchman? How? He sold all over the hands that he might buy that fuel because in that fuel there was a precious treasure. a precious treasure, a wonderful gem. I remember, my friend, the field speaks of the world, speaks of the world, and in that world there's a precious gem, a precious jewel. All friends of the night, that jewel is his bride. That precious gem is the darling of his own heart. And he finds it because I delight in thee. Remember the verse I started off with the night, Sam, in verse nineteen? It's I've delivered thee. just because I delight in me. And now he says, I am my responsibility because you're precious to me. And he said, you know, you are as the apple of the eye. You are as the apple of my eye. Anything that touches you, you're still touching the apple of my eye. Oh, how precious we are to him. Oh, he finds all his delight in us, you know. The Father's delight was in the Son. The Son's delight was in the sons of man. In you and in me, oh, blessed be his name. And so there is the book of Deuteronomy. You know it kills my soul. You know what it says? I love you just because I love you. Now you think that one through. And it will bow your heart in worship. It will bow your heart in adoration and through thanksgiving. And it says, I love you just because I love you. When we were unlovable and unlovable, yet hallelujah, he loved us notwithstanding all. Aren't that just wonderful? And the nun, he says, I've got all this for you. They call you precious to me. And I love you just because I love you. And he said, my love for you knows no change. I've loved you right on to the very uttermost. Let him go to Gethsemane's garden. Let him go to Calvary's crew across. Let him, my friend, of dead dark remains. And my friend, right through into perfection. And his love will not let him rest. For his chosen all are blessed. For the all for whom he died. Live rejoicing at his side. All his longing for that day, his yearning for that day, when his blood got possession, his own precious treasure, the darling of his own heart, shall be with him in yonder glory. And he and I, in that bright glory, one deep joy shall share mine to be forever with him. Hays that I am there. And in that day the bride eyes not of garment, but our dear bridegroom's face. I will not give it glory, but on the King of Graves, not of the crown he gathers, but on his blessed face. The Lamb is all the glory in your heart tonight. Is it all the glory in your heart? Do you find in him the preciousness? Or is he real to you, my friend? Remember the first word, relationship. The second word, responsibility. And the third word, the reason. Now go to verse number seven, just for a minute. Verse number seven. Now see what it says right here. Even everyone that is called by my name, I have created him. Now just keep your finger there, but I want to read, if I may, just one or two verses from Ephesians chapter one, verses five and six and twelve. Now just you put these down on your notes, and don't turn them, I'll try and read to you correctly. Here it says, He has chosen us in him before the foundation, well, that we should behold him without blame before him, in love having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ himself according to the good pleasure of his will. Now verse six, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he have made us accepted in the Beloved. Now verse number twelve is like this, that we should be to the praise of his glory, to the first Christ. What does it say? I have created him for my glory. Friend, that's why he brought this wonderful miracle about, that we might be to his praise and to his glory. And so when I read, remember in verse twenty-one, of Isaiah forty-three, This people have I fallen from myself, that they should show forth my praise. And have we great cause, friend, to show forth his praise. Bless the Lord, O my soul. All that is within me, bless his holy name. Oh, we should be a praiseful people. Fill with his praise. And it says, remember in one Peter chapter two, verse number nine, you're a chosen generation, a royal priesthood and a holy nation to show forth, a peculiar people, to show forth the praises, the virtues, the excellencies of him, who has called us out of darkness into his marvelous light. I'll go a little slower here. The other revised version says that we might show forth him. that day. That your life and my life day by day in the office, in the home, on the campus, in the varsity, in the school as we journey around, that your life and my life might be an outshining of the indwelling Christ. That men and women may lose that of us all together, but see Him in all His glory and beauty, your life showing for His glory, showing for His praise, showing for Him. May his beauty rest upon us, as we seek the lost to win, and may they forget the channel, seeing only him. Oh, to be saved from myself, dear Lord. Oh, to be lost in me. Oh, that it may be no more I, but Christ who lives in me. Something flashed into my heart now. Don't turn to the game, but in chapter two of Ephesians, verse number ten, reads like this. I read verse seven before the chapter, in the chapter four to three. Verse seven, even everyone that is called by my name, I have created him for my glory. Yea, I have formed him. I have made him. Now listen carefully to what Ephesians two, seven through ten says. that in the age of the come ye might show the exceeding riches of his grace and his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus. For by grace are ye saved through faith. That, mother of yourselves, is the gift of God, not the works of any man she does. For we are his workmanship. We are his poem. We are his poem. We are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works. which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. Oh, children of God, do you see how precious you are to him? Do you see, my friend, the light and the light and all the precious he finds in you and in me? He said, just because you are precious to me and just because I love you, I want to understand I created you and I formed you that you might be for my praise and for my glory. Revelation four eleven says, We were created to be through His glory and for His praise. The old Presbyterian Catechism says, Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever. I always thought that as a little boy going to Sunday school in the Presbyterian church back in Scotland, so many years ago, not quite so many. But I never forget this in all my life. Man's chief end is to glorify God. And to enjoy him forever. And we can't live to his pleasure nor for his glory. Unless Christ been formed in you. You become a partaker of the divine nature. There's only one life well pleasing to him. Only one life in which he finds all his delight. Is the life of his darling son. And only in the measure. In which Christ revealed in you and in me. Are we bringing delight. And satisfaction. And praise the heart of God. May I give you five sweet pieces as I close. Chapter forty-three again. Oh, go across the verse number six of chapter forty-two for a moment. This fills my soul. So it says here, I, the Lord, have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thy hand, and will keep thee, and give thee a covenant with the people, a light for the Gentile. Now isn't that precious? Francis Redley Habakkuk And she lay, read this verse, and it's what she said. Cold, held, kept, used, well, I'll just go home on that. And she went to heaven. These were the last words. That wonderful opulence of those wonderful hymns. Take my life and let it be in many others. Now this is what she said. You've got in verse fifty to chapter forty-two. Cold, hailed, cake, youth. And this is what she said. Well, I will just go home on that. And you went home to heaven. What an entry. Here are the five pieces. Ninth and eighth. There is one purchased. There is two preserved. There is four precious. Verse seven, privilege. And verse ten, powerful. Five beautiful peas. Did you get them? May the fragrance create your heart. You know, the sweet peas, one of my favorite flowers. One of my favorite flowers, sweet pea. And there are five of them for you. You go to Ireland, use too many peas when you're preaching to call your pea shooter. But here are five of them. The first thing to remember, There is one of a word, you are purchased, then you are preserved, then you are precious, and then remember your privilege, and you become powerful. May this be your joy and mine. As we sing together, hymn number forty-one. No, hymn number fourteen. The other way around. Fourteen. A sermon of foundation is saying to the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent words. What more can he say than to you is fed to you for refuge that Jesus has fled. We're going to sing verses two and three. If you sing those two well, we'll sing the fourth one also. We'll commence verse number two. And please notice the words of this lovely old hymn. Number fourteen. Sing it now with the heart and with the understanding. Fear not, I am with you all together. Fear not that I am waiting, will be of disgrace. For I am free and thy God, I will still give thee. I'll strengthen me healthy and cause Satan's death, upheld by my grace, and I'll live without an end. Upheld by my grace, God's office, Father's hand. Tell us the words of Bethlehem, they are beautiful altogether. Wintrous, fiery fire, fire, Light, we shall lie, My grace, all thou thinkest shall be. I am the blind. The flame cannot hurt me. My heart may die. Thy cross will come to and thy birth to revive. Thy cross be constant, and thy glory be mine. Now you've done so well and had the fault, and again none of the words. Oh, by the way, maybe someone here, and you don't know this Christ I've been talking of, you don't know him. Oh, I would love to introduce you to him tonight. I would love my friend to point your fruit to the Lord Jesus, not just to become religious, but Oh, no, no, but to know the joy of this wonderful redemption by receiving Christ as Lord in your heart. If you're never yet done, so do it tonight. God bless you and give you grace to do it. The last verse now, notice what it says. The fruit of that of Jesus has played for him. I will not, I will not, Jesus. The fruit of hell shouldn't ever change. I'll never, never, never, no, never, no, never, for me. Our Father, thou gazing upon the darling of thy heart with complete delight and satisfaction. And we marvel, O God, that thou first should find thy delight in us tonight because we've earned him as our Lord and Savior. Now we pray our life from this night henceforth until we hear the rapturous shout to rise up or to meet him in the air. Our lives may be an outshining, bringing delight and pleasure to thy holy heart. God bless this assembled company. Take us to your homes, we pray, in spake ye. Give us in the hollow of thy hand, and we shall be vessels unto honour me and meet for the master of you. Should there be some one here, and who is still estranged into this lovely one, the Lord Jesus. O God, may the steel drop from their eyes tonight. They may see in him the only beauty to admire him, for may they grant him the whole heart of the Legion, and may the Spirit crown him, the Lord of all. We ask this in the name of the Lord Jesus. And from her very heart she would cry, Lord Jesus, not worthy and worthy alone.