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Subject: Lord's Day Blessings
Date: Sunday, January 25, 1998 9:51 AM

"It is good to give thanks to the Lord,
 And to sing praises to Thy name, O Most High;
 To declare Thy lovingkindness in the morning,
 And Thy faithfulness by night,
 With the ten-stringed lute, and with the harp;
 With resounding music upon the lyre.
 For Thou, O Lord, hast made me glad by what Thou has  done,
 I will sing for joy at the works of Thy hands."   Psalm 92:1-4

Loving, merciful, gracious and faithful is our Lord.  For it is He who has
made the way for us, by His death and resurrection, to come to the Father. 
Scripture tells very simply and plainly in 1 Timothy 2:5-6a:

"For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man
Christ Jesus, who gave Himself as a ransom for all..."

In 1 John 14-6, Jesus Himself said, "I am the way, and the truth, and the
life; no one comes to the Father, but through Me."  

These verses of Scripture then are strong encouragements for us to press on
to KNOW HIM ever in a greater measure.  This brings us to another 'these
things I have spoken unto you' (John 14:25).  I'd like to quote one:

John 14:16-17: "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another
Helper, that He may be with you forever; that is the Spirit of truth, whom
the world cannot receive, because it does not behold Him or know Him, but
you know Him because He abides with you, and will be in you."  

And Jesus says, "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send
in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all
that I said to you."  John 14:26

So here is God's wonderful loving provision for our coming to know Christ
Jesus more perfectly, the Holy Spirit.

Can we do anything else, but join the Psalmist in saying,
"It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to Thy name, O
Most High..."?  Hallelujah!