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… Once I did, the trajectory of my life totally shifted. So let's read these two verses, Psalm 67, verses 1 and 2. If you're taking notes, I want to show you the twofold reason you exist. So the twofold reason you and I have breath right now. So let's start with the text, Psalm 67, verse 1. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. Let's read it one more time. And can we read it together? I think it's up on the screen. Let's read it all out loud together. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us that your way may be known on earth, your saving power among all nations. All right, let's hear what is God saying to us right now through this text. well one you exist to enjoy God's grace in a relationship with him this is the first part of the reason you exist not talking to the person beside you in front of you behind you like you right where you're sitting you exist to enjoy God's grace in a relationship with him this is verse 1. May God be gracious to us, bless us, make his face to shine upon us. If you'll notice in your Bible, there's a word after that, salah, this musical term that signifies a pause as if to say, …
… So here we go. I'm going to look at Psalm 67, verse 1. It says, may God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face shine on us. If you know me, I've got the honor to work with Zoe Cares. And all the ZST and everybody here, familiar faces, we have been serving this city. I've been serving this city for the past year. Zoe has been serving this city for the past 10 years. But a common theme in all of our rallies is we always say, may your light shine through us and so that your love may be encountered by everybody that we come across. We want to have his light shine through us. So those little small acts of kindness is God's doing. That's God coming down with his face on us to say, hey, we're here for you. I'm going to be here for you. I'm going to share that little act of kindness. And my first point is kindness towards your crowd. …
I could not help thinking what a blessing and a privilege it has been to have had one's choice fixed on Jesus so many years ago! Why, it is some 18 years ago since Jesus won my heart and I am not yet old! That is much the biggest half of my life and I bless Him for it. Would I have had it postponed? Would to God I had known my Lord before I was fifteen, and loved Him while still younger—while still a child! But what has been our experience since then? Very checkered, many ups and downs, a world of ingratitude and forgetfulness on our part, but a Heaven of faithfulness and loving kindness on His part! We can sing of His love tonight, His immutability, His long-suffering, His forgiving Grace—and every note in that song seems to say to us, "Then bring yourselves and offer yourselves afresh." By every sin forgiven, by every Grace received, by every prayer answered, by every trial from which you have been delivered, by every conflict in which you have obtained the victory, by every act of mercy vouchsafed to you, I beseech you, bring yourselves as living sacrifices unto God! Oh, if you have never got to the dignity of being sacrificed for Christ, strive after it! An ordinary Christianity is not worth the picking up, but the true Christianity that wraps a man up and envelopes him as the bush was enveloped in the fire and was not consumed—that will make you happy—that will make the eyes to flash and the soul to beat high with a more than earth-born joy! I tell you solemnly, I believe that half the professors do not know what true religion means. They have never got to it. They have got to the skimmed milk, the scum and the froth, but they have not got down into the depths! The more you give up self, the more you dare and do for Christ, the more fully Jesus sits on the throne of your heart and the more Divinely blessed will this life become to you! But the farther you keep from Christ and the more content you are with a half-hearted religion, the more will you find it to be a weariness, a mere burden to be borne, a custom to be endured—not a banquet to be enjoyed, nor a thing Divine to be loved and to be grasped with all your mind and heart! …