Good morning, everyone. Welcome to our morning service. Good to have you here this morning. Good to have Pastor Brad and the family as well. Good to see you this morning. For our call to worship this morning, please turn to Psalm 61. Psalm 61. Hear my cry, O God, attend unto my prayer. From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee. When my heart is overwhelmed, Lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong tower from the enemy. I will abide in thy tabernacle forever. I will trust in the covert of thy wings, Selah. For thou, O God, hast heard my vows. Thou hast given me the heritage of those that fear thy name. Thou wilt prolong the king's life and his years as many generations. He shall abide before God forever. O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve him. So will I sing praise unto thy name forever, that I may daily perform my vows. Thank you. Pastor Brad, would you come? Let's come to the Lord and pray together. Let's pray. Our Father, we are grateful that we have the opportunity to come before you You, O Lord, are the one who opened the way through the Lord Jesus Christ. We can come, Lord God, because you have made the way open. You have dealt with our sins that separated us from God at the cross. And we thank you, Lord God, that we can be confident as we come, when we come through the Lord Jesus Christ. We thank you, Holy Father, that you are the God who has given us the invitation to come. You tell us to come to you when we are weak and heavy laden and find rest. You urge us to pray, make our requests known to God, and your peace will guard our hearts. We thank you, Lord God, for this privilege because we are a needy people. We think particularly, if you get this morning, we know, Lord God, that there are many who are suffering all kinds of afflictions, Your Word has told us to expect this, and yet You have also told us that You are able to supply all our need according to Your riches in glory by Christ Jesus. And so, Father, we pray for those who are facing particular times of trial and ask that You would draw near to them and lift them up and give them strength. And we pray, Holy Father, that You would continue to strengthen those who are doubting, those who are afraid, those who have as yet to see that Christ is the Savior. Christ is the one whom the Lord has sent so that we might come to the Father through Him. O Lord, our God, we pray for understanding. We pray for confident assurance. We pray that our faith would not be shaken. We pray, Father, that you would bind us together, that there would be a firm and solid fellowship of the saints. And I pray, Lord God, that that would lift up and encourage each heart. Thank you, Lord God, that you hear and answer prayer. Thank you for the opportunity Rael had yesterday to share the gospel. And we pray that even today that word would be echoing in the hearts of those who heard. We pray that you would drive it home to them. We ask, Lord God, that you would continue to work in our hearts. Draw us ever closer to Christ. Help us to long for the things that matter. Help us to long for eternity. Help us to set our affection on things above, not on things on the earth. And we pray, Father, that according to your plan and purpose of our redemption, we would become more and more like the Lord Jesus Christ. So may we be a people of prayer. May we long to know you and delight in drawing close to you. And we ask, Lord God, that you would continue to give strength to our heart. And as we think about the great privileges that are ours in Jesus Christ, we thank Lord God of those who know nothing of those privileges because they haven't believed on Him. Some, Lord God, are of a rebellious heart, and we pray that You might lift the scales from their eyes and break that hard heart with the hammer of Your Word. But there are some, Lord God, who have not heard, and we pray, Lord God, that You would equip us to share the gospel with family and friends and neighbors and to support those who are able to take the gospel to other places where we might not be able to go. And we ask, Lord God, that you would strengthen the mission enterprises that this church supports. And we ask, Lord God, that you would use them mightily. May great things be accomplished. Lord, our God, we thank you that we can come together in worship. We can be reminded that you are God and there is no other, that you are the Savior. Besides you, there is no other. O Lord, our God, thank you that you are worthy of praise. There is a reason to be here and a reason to exalt your name because of who you are. So please help us to understand. Please apply this in our lives. In everything, Lord God, may your name be glorified and may Jesus Christ have the preeminence. We thank you for your mercy and grace in his name. Amen. Would you turn in your Bible, please, to the gospel of John chapter one, the gospel of John chapter one. All right, John chapter one, and I'll read the first 18 verses of John chapter one. In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him. Without him was not anything made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light that all men through him might believe. He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light. That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by Him, and the world knew Him not. He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. But as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name, which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory. The glory is of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. John bare witness of Him and cried, saying, This was He of whom I spake. He that cometh after me is preferred before me, for He was before me, and of His fullness of all we received, and grace for grace. For the law was given by Moses, But grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. No man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. May the Lord glorify His name through the reading of His word. Again, Pastor Brad, we welcome you. It's always a joy to have you with us. The text I want to look at this morning is in Proverbs 18, verse 10, and I suspect many of you are quite familiar with it, but that's no hindrance to looking at it. So Proverbs 18, verse 10 says, the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous runneth into it and is safe. Let's pray together. Our Father, we thank you that we have your word, we thank you for its promises, and we pray, Lord God, that you would help us to embrace them. May we be like Abraham, who received the promise of God and believed it, and it was counted to him for righteousness. O Lord, our God, we pray that we would embrace the Lord Jesus Christ, that we would be those who believe on his name, and may we know the safety that is found in Christ alone. So please help us, Lord, as we look into your word. May your spirit use it to teach us, to minister, to strengthen us. As you see fit, Lord God, have mercy upon us. For Jesus' name's sake. Amen. Jesus once declared that he did not come to destroy the Old Testament. He came to fulfill it. After His resurrection, He taught the disciples that all that the Law, the Prophets, and the Psalms, or the writings, said was about Him. It was pointing to Christ. The Old Testament points us to the Lord Jesus. It prepares us for the Lord Jesus. Properly read, it leads us. to the Lord Jesus. Now sometimes it does that very directly. If you remember the Christmas season perhaps you heard a quote from the prophet Micah that he would be born in Bethlehem and indeed he was. The Lord Jesus fulfills the promise. Sometimes an event of the Old Testament can be said to teach us something about Jesus. The Exodus, for example, in Matthew's gospel, he quotes, well, a much later prophet, Hosea, but the prophet wrote, out of Egypt have I called my son. And Matthew says, this is teaching us about Jesus. What happened 1400 years earlier under Moses was leading us to Christ. Some passages, like the one I just read to you, are not quoted in the New Testament explicitly as being fulfilled in the Lord Jesus Christ, but they come with clues. They come with evidence that points us in that direction. Proverbs 18 verse 10 is a proverb, obviously, that is designed in order to teach us what it means to trust God. Sometimes we use words like faith and many other salvation words, and you may be scratching your head and saying, what exactly does that mean? Now, Kirk helped us a little bit in Sunday school when he said that some theologians refer to faith as the instrumental cause of our salvation. Now, that was helpful. We know what he means, right? It's the instrument, that by which we take hold of that salvation. But there are these pictures in scripture that help us understand. We know we are called to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ in order to be saved. And that's exactly the language of Proverbs 18 verse 10. And so this helps us understand a little bit what it means when we embrace Christ as our Savior. This is one of those verses that does half the preacher's work for him because it falls neatly into four phrases. So lo and behold, four points to our message today. The name of the Lord, that's your first phrase, is a strong tower, that's your second one, the righteous run into it, that's your third phrase, and finally, they are safe. Those are our points. So the first thing, I want you to think about that first phrase, the name of the Lord, as the truth being revealed. If you recall when I was here, you know that I love to quote Exodus 34, six and seven. In fact, once when we were doing memory verses, that was one of them. I think it's an extremely important statement because it not only tells us or uses the phrase, the name of the Lord, but it defines it for us. In Exodus 33, 19, this is all around the incident of the golden calf, of course. And Moses is asking God to restore the people. He's praying for them. God is angry enough to destroy them. And Moses wants to see the glory of the Lord. In verse 18 of chapter 33, he asks for that. Show me your glory. God says to Moses, I'll make all my goodness pass before you. I'll proclaim the name of the Lord before you and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. And then in chapter 34, verse six, the Lord does what he just said he was going to do. He stands before Moses and proclaims the name of the Lord. The Lord passed by before him and proclaimed, this is what he said, proclaiming the name of the Lord, the Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the children's children, unto the third and fourth generation. Moses made haste, bowed his head toward the earth and worshiped. Why does Proverbs 18 verse 10 say, the name of the Lord is a strong tower? The meaning of the verse would not change significantly if he just said, God is a strong tower. It would mean the same thing because that's what the phrase, the name of the Lord means. But I think there's a very good reason why he says that. He wants us to know that it is this God who has revealed himself, who is our strong tower. Sometimes the word God itself is one of those words that we think is an open word. We can put whatever meaning we want into it. There's even an organization who uses the phrase, God as you understand him, as if I have the freedom to define God. But God defines God. In fact, all of scripture is God defining God. That's what it's about. It's God making himself known. And so he uses the phrase, the name of the Lord, in case you worship some other God, in case you have some idol, in case you have some strange notion about God. It's not just God as you understand Him, it's this God, this God who is gracious and merciful and long suffering and abundant in goodness and truth. That God is a strong tower, not just any God, but this God. One of the reasons why we fail to believe the gospel is that we do not know who God is. When God revealed himself in the Exodus, Moses goes to Pharaoh and says, the Lord says, let my people go. Pharaoh's response is, who is the Lord that I should obey him? He didn't know God and therefore would not obey God. We don't know who God is, and so we see no need of obeying the gospel. Who is God to issue a command to me? If we knew that he was holy and just, that we give an answer to him, like Exodus 34 says, the iniquity has to be dealt with, there is judgment upon sin. If we knew that, we would see the need for the gospel. Sometimes we see no help in the gospel because we don't see that God is good, that God delights in mercy. And so even if we see the need, we don't see God as the answer. In order to bring all of this into focus then, Proverbs 18 says, the name of the Lord is a strong tower. This God, this God who revealed himself in the Exodus, this God who makes himself known, that God, That's the one who is a strong tower for us. Scripture is a rule for our life, but before that we must see it as God's self-revelation. So how does that lead us to Christ? Earlier, I read to you from John chapter 1, and I read John chapter 1 particularly that you would notice verse 12. As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name. How do we know who this God is? The writer of Proverbs had Exodus 34 and many other scriptures. We have that too, but we have something more. We have Christ. Christ has come. How do we know God? Particularly, as John 1.14 puts it, we beheld His glory. The glory is of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Ever hear those words before? Five minutes ago, right? Exodus 34, full of goodness and truth. The name of the Lord is proclaimed. Goodness, truth. Jesus Christ comes, and we behold His glory full of goodness and truth. Hebrews 12 talks about coming to that mountain that shook the earthquake, the darkness, the flaming mountain, the smoke-covered mountain. You don't come to that, Hebrews 12 says. You come to Mount Zion, the city of the living God. You come to Jesus Christ. The glory of God is revealed in that earthquake and darkness and flaming mountain. But now that glory of God is all the sharper, all the brighter, because it's revealed in Bethlehem's manger. What condescension, what goodness and grace that He would come down. and dwell among us. The miraculous signs that He did. The sayings that are the words of the Father. This is all things that John will spell out. A cross outside of Jerusalem. It's a display of His glory. I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men to Me. And of course, the eyewitness testimony of an empty tomb. Why is this significant? Well, in the Old Testament, God made himself known so that everyone would know that he is the Lord. Exodus repeats that again and again in its opening chapters. They had no excuse not to know God with the revelation of the Old Testament. Surely there's no excuse now that we have Christ. We need to know the truth about God, and if we don't, according to Romans 1, it's because we have suppressed it. The author of Proverbs 18 verse 10 refers to the name of the Lord. And while I'm not saying he would have realized this to its full extent, he really was directing his readers to Jesus because he is the revelation of the name of the Lord. Here is the culmination, how we know God. And so what Proverbs 18 verse 10 is saying, when it urges us To run to the name of the Lord is to run to none other than Jesus. That leads us to the second phrase. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. Now, this I realize may just be me, you being brilliant and insightful, probably figured this out long ago. But when I hear the name tower, I think of a certain communications tower that stood at the end of our farm when I was a kid. You know, those red and white things sticking up into the air. And how to be safe in a tower like that confused me a little bit. Or a little bit later on in the late 70s, I remember the building of the CN Tower. But still, this image isn't quite what was being spoken of here. I was actually taken by surprise a few years ago, three or four years ago, I saw a documentary on the Tower of London. And again, this is the image that comes into my mind, you know? So if you're imprisoned in the Tower of London, I picture, you know, Rapunzel, whatever. But it's this idea of this narrow confines. And I was shocked to discover that the Tower of London was actually a king's palace at one time. Was it Anne Boleyn? Was she one of the ones that King Henry beheaded? My history is a little rough. She spent the night before her wedding to the king there and she spent the night before her beheading there. The Tower of London was a useful place and only recently I discovered that there's 29 What do they call them? Guards. I can't remember the official name now, but guards. And they live in the Tower of London with their family. Now I'm picturing them all crunched up in the observation deck of the CN Tower, but it's nothing like that, right? It's a palace. So when you read the word tower, the name of the Lord is a strong tower, read fortress. I think that gets at the idea. A fortress, a refuge, a place where you run and are safe. There is a deep desire for safety for most of us. You go into any large hardware store and a good deal of space is devoted to the latest in security, doorknobs and deadbolts to security cameras and alarm systems. We want to be safe. Now, Some of the pessimists among us say that if someone wants in, they'll get in and not bother to lock the door. The optimists amongst us say, well, I'm not going to bother to lock the door because nobody wants in. I'm sure everything is fine. But the rest of us long for safety. We want something that will help us to be secure. Psalm 142 is interesting to me. In the title, it says, this was a prayer of David when he was in the cave. Why was David in a cave? Well, he's in a cave because he's running for his life. Because King Saul, with his armies, is seeking to kill them. He's being hunted like a dog in the mountains, he says. That's how he felt. He's surrounded, as he says in another Psalms, by lions and so on. That's what he was feeling like. And he comes before the Lord and he says, when my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then you knew my path. And the way wherein I walked, they have privilegedly laid a snare for me. I looked on my right hand, behold, no one, who would know me. Refuge failed me. No one cared for my soul. I cried to you, O Lord. I said, you are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. Now think about this. David is running for his life. A cave looks like a safe place. Now, This is just my picture of him. I know the south of Judah is a desert, so it may not be an accurate picture. But any cave I've been in is always wet. They're always dripping from the ceiling. And I picture David miserable, hunched up in a corner of a dark cave, can't go out because Saul's armies are prowling the area, water dripping down his neck. And he starts to wonder, is a cave such a good refuge place? Is this safe? And he begins to realize that no, the cave isn't safe. But then, the cave isn't his refuge, really. He's hiding in the cave. The cave is a means to an end. But as he's sitting there miserable and scared, no one cares for my soul, he cries out to the Lord, you are my refuge. Not the cave, the Lord. He might use a cave, he might use a providential invasion, and Saul had to take his army and go fight a border battle, or any number of things. But as David acknowledges, it's not the cave, it's the Lord who keeps me safe. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. That's where my safety is. How does this point to Christ? Well here, The name of the Lord is a strong tower. Here is the sufficient Savior. Are you one of those who longs for security? Maybe it's security for eternity if you're facing the fear of death. Maybe it's security in a trial or something like that. Luke opens his gospel with a record of the birth of Jesus. In the days when Jesus was born, life under Caesar was hard for the Israelites. The Romans dominated them. They appointed brutal and paranoid strongmen like Herod the Great, who would think nothing of murdering newborns in order to protect his throne. The ancient promises of God to Abraham, as glorious as those promises were, seem forgotten, and for good reason, since the people had turned their backs on him. And then outside on the hills, just outside of Bethlehem, an angel appears to some shepherds. Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. There it is. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. Here is the Savior. Here is the one who truly saves. The way Hebrews puts it, such a high priest became us, exactly the Savior we needed, fitting for us. There's a refuge that's not like wealth that takes wings and flies away. It's not like our secure home fortress where thieves break through and steal anyway. I just identified myself as a pessimist. It's not in politics or democratic institutions which prove far too futile. It's in Christ. A Savior is born. God's wrath turned aside. The Lord lays our sins on Jesus who makes all things new. He lays down His life for the sheep, this Good Shepherd, and those who are in Him are protected. No one plucks His sheep out of His hands. In a world where death reigns, here is the one who has the words of eternal life, a Savior. The name of the Lord is a strong tower, a Savior, a refuge. So if you are in danger and you see a strong tower, what do you do? Phrase number three, the righteous run into it. Now, the righteous, those who are right with God. On the surface, the meaning seems pretty straightforward, those who do what is right. But in our more honest moments, we all admit, I'm excluded from that list. I am guilty. So you just built up my hopes that the name of the Lord is a strong tower and then slam the door shut before I could go in because I'm not righteous. But even in the Old Testament, that difficulty is acknowledged. Those of you who are able to be in the Sunday school class here heard about Abraham in Romans chapter four. And the quote comes from Genesis 15 verse six. Abraham believed God. and it was counted to him for righteousness." Who is righteous? The one who believes God. The one who puts their faith in the Lord. The one who lays hold of the promises and won't let it go. They are justified by faith. There are those who, like in Psalm 1, delight in the law of the Lord. An interesting example is Psalm 32. The psalm ends this way, that the righteous should be glad in the Lord and rejoice. But how did it begin? Blessed is the man, this is from Romans four also of course, blessed is the man whose iniquity is forgiven, whose sin is covered. There's a place in the psalm where David is saying, I sinned against God. My bones were waxing old. I was so pressed down by my guilt and by my conscience working against me and knowing the wrath of God. It was crushing me. It was destroying me. Then I cried to the Lord. Heard my voice. I know the blessedness of sin forgiven. The righteous person, even in the Old Testament, is not the person who's never sinned. It's the person who has laid hold of the promise of God, who has confessed and forsaken his sin. Be glad in the Lord, you righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart. And David, you can hear the joy in his voice as he writes it, because now I'm one of them. I wasn't, but now I am. We are justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. That's the way Paul puts it in Romans 3. So what do the righteous do? They run. The righteous run. I think I've probably told you, I was here long enough, I told you every story from my life, but I think I told you at one time about our canoe trip that we took on Bass Lake when Caitlin was just a toddler. I was in the back, Lori Lynn in the front, Caitlin in the middle. And we paddled lazily along the shoreline, maybe looking at this strange tree hanging out over the water, and this or that, as you do on such a trip, just kind of aimlessly paddling along, until we were a little over a mile away from our car. 1.6 kilometers. Suddenly, the winds picked up. The sky grows dark. And immediately, we turned around, and now we were paddling with purpose. as the raindrops started to fall on us and we feared the potential for lightning as we saw the dark clouds. We didn't stop to fish. We didn't notice any strange trees along the shoreline. We didn't pause for a snack. We paddled. We paddled with all our might. We lived, by the way. The righteous run into it. They run. There's no dawdling about this. I'm not exactly certain why, but as I was preparing this, the thought that came to my mind was Paul's message in Athens. He's faced with the professional philosophers there who loved to debate. New ideas in the Areopagus of Athens were like fresh meat tossed into a lion's den. But they didn't do anything with it. They loved to debate, but that's as far as it ever got. And so they try to drag Paul into this, and they want Paul to do that, to join in the debate. And he won't do it. Paul says, I didn't come to debate. I came to declare. I came to cure your ignorance, not share it. They're saying, what does this babbler have to say? Well, this babbler had a message from the Lord for them. You can read all about that in the second half of Acts 17. And Paul's point is that there was a danger that they did not acknowledge that one day God would judge the world. They had a refuge, so they thought. Their safety was in their wisdom. We are people of Athens. We are philosophers. Paul mentions the resurrection and they break out in laughter. Paul mentions the command of God to repent and they mock him to scorn. In other words, they did not run. They saw no need of that Savior of whom Paul spoke. Also in Acts 17, towards the beginning of the chapter, you read of the Thessalonians. Paul writes in 1 Thessalonians 1 that they turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God. They turned to God. They ran. They found a refuge, a strong tower in Christ to them. The Word came with power, Paul says. We're not righteous by nature, but Christ has made unto us righteousness. Believe in Him, be justified by faith, and run. What does faith mean? Faith means being caught out in a thunderstorm in a canoe on the lake, and you paddle for your life to Christ. Faith means being chased by Saul and his army, and you see the name of the Lord, your strong tower, and you run into it. And that leads us to the last phrase, the triumphant result. They are safe. The prophet Isaiah is sometimes referred to as the evangelical prophet, because he's quoted so often in the New Testament concerning the gospel. This is what he wrote, recording the words of the Lord, of course, in Isaiah 45. There is no God else beside me, a just God and a Savior. There is none other. Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I am God and there is none else. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. the righteous run into it, they are safe. Running in for safety reminded me of some well-known examples. Remember Noah and his family? Probably the most well-known of all of them. Where were they safe? In the ark. Anyone who would have believed that message of which there were none other than Noah's family, but anyone who would have believed that message would have been running up the gangplank, pushing animals aside in order to get in. The righteous run into it and are safe. I thought also of the Passover. Those who were in the house on which was the blood of the lamb were safe. In another house, no. Out of the house, no. But under the blood, safe. I thought of Rahab's family in Jericho. Not exactly the ones you would consider to be righteous, but there they were. If they were in the marked house with the scarlet cord, they'd be safe when the judgment fell on the city. What do all of these have in common? Well, a couple of things came to my mind beyond what I just said. In each case, what was the danger? The danger was God. The danger was the wrath of God. These are all pictures of the final judgment. We read these accounts of judgment in the scriptures and we're troubled by it. We're troubled by it because we think it's this expression and justification of man's inhumanity to man. That's not what it is. It's God dealing with sinners. That's what happens when sinners stand before the Holy God. These are pictures of that final judgment. We will all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, we are told. We are in danger because of that. And you know what the second thing is that these all have in common? The one who provided the safety was God himself. God provided the means to escape. Isaiah, like all prophets, contains large swaths of judgment. And then it says, but look to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth. Starting at chapter 13, nation after nation is dealt with chapter after chapter under God's judgment. Wrath is coming for this reason, for that reason. It's all spelled out in great detail. And then all the ends of the earth looked to me. Our real danger is the wrath of God. And our safety is the means of escape God himself has provided. And what is that? Sirs, what must I do to be saved? You leave. on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved. The name of the Lord is a strong tower. The righteous run into it and are safe. Why? Because God delights in mercy. You see, the Old Testament here in a proverb is shaping the language of the New Testament. It is trusting God. It is running to Him for refuge and finding safety in the Lord, the God-appointed Savior, the long-promised One. In Him, there is this confident assurance, and it can only be found in Christ alone. Now, many see no need to ask the question, what must I do to be saved? But you should. not only because we need a refuge from the judgment of God, but because we need the God-given answer. And that's in the name of the Lord. As many as received him, to them he gave authority to be called the children of God, even to those who believe on his name. That is a strong tower. Trust the promise. Trust the name of the Lord. And don't dawdle. Run. Let's pray. Lord, our God, we thank you for the goodness of the gospel. The Lord Jesus Christ, of grace and truth, a strong tower. We need a strong tower, Lord God. Our sins have piled up against us. What would be our hope except the grace of God that much more about it? Oh, Lord, our God, I pray that if we are among those who see no point to all of this, please make us see the point. Please convict us of our sin. Please shine a light on our hearts through the scriptures that will cause us to see ourselves as you see us. And when we recognize the danger, then show us the Savior. And Lord, our God, so work in our hearts that we see in Jesus Christ all we need, exactly the Savior we need. And then, Lord God, through that gracious work of the Spirit, may we run. Oh, Lord God, have mercy and lead us to the refuge. Lead us to the rock higher than I. Thank you, Lord, that you see us, you know our need, and you've provided. Help us, Lord, for Jesus' name's sake, amen.