<TITLE>02. Par 9-10</TITLE>L-9 Now, in Psalms 22, we shall read.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me,... from the words of my roaring?
... my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Israel.
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted and thou did deliver them.
They cried unto thee, and were delivered: they trusted in thee, and were not confounded.
But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men,... despised of the people.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, and they shake the head, saying,
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighteth in him.
But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly.
Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to help.
Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me around.
They gaped upon me with their mouth, as a ravening and... roaring lion.
I am poured out like water,... all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd;... my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me unto the dust of the earth.
For dogs have compassed me: the assemblies of the wicked have closed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones: that they look and stare upon me.
They parted my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
But be thou not far from me, O LORD:... my strength, hasten thee to help me.
Deliver my soul from the sword; and my darling from the power of the dogs.
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorn.
I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation I will praise thee. Yea.
Ye that fear the LORD, praise him; all ye seeds of Jacob, glorify him; and fear him, all ye seeds of Israel.
For he has not despised nor abhorred the afflictions... neither has he hid his face from him; but when he cried unto him, he heard.
My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.
The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.
All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the LORD: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him.
For the kingdom is of the LORD: and he is the governor among the nations.
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.
A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.
They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people and shall... that shall be born, that he has done this.

L-10 May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word. I want to take for this occasion this morning, five words, and around those five words try to express what's on my heart to you worshippers this morning. I want these five words: "Living, Dying, Buried, Rising, Coming."
And I think the poet well expressed it in the song of what I would want to say, when he wrote this song.
Living, He loved me. Dying, He saved me.
Buried, He carried my sins far away.
Rising, He justified freely forever.
Someday He's coming, oh, glorious day!


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