Thank you, Rob. That's one of
my favorite passages. It's so abasing to every sinner
and yet so glorifying a picture of our Redeemer. And that's a
comfort to God's people. Turn with me to Psalm 101. Psalm
101. Let's read this together. It
says it's the Psalm of David. And he says, I will sing of mercy
and judgment. Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing. I will behave myself wisely in
a perfect way. Oh, when wilt thou come unto
me? I will walk within my house with
a perfect heart. I will set no wicked thing before
mine eyes. I hate the work of them that
turn aside. It shall not cleave to me. A
froward heart, a perverse heart shall depart from me. I will
not know a wicked person. Whoso privily slandereth his
neighbor, whoso privately slanders, backbites his neighbor, him will
I cut off. Him that hath a high look and
a proud heart will not I suffer. Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful
of the land, that they may dwell with me. He that walketh in a
perfect way, he shall serve me. He that worketh deceit shall
not dwell within my house. He that telleth lies shall not
tarry in my sight. I will early destroy all the
wicked of the land, that I may cut off all wicked doers from
the city of the Lord. Now there is a way that carnally
religious men understand this psalm. There's a way carnal religion
understands this psalm. There's even a way in which God's
child at first understands this psalm. And then there's the way
that the Lord makes His child to know the truth of this psalm. It is a lesson only the Lord
can make us learn. And it's a lesson that it takes
a lifetime of Him teaching us for us to learn it. Verse 1 says
this is a psalm of David. And the first verse is the key.
I will sing of mercy and judgment. Unto thee, O Lord, will I sing. David penned this psalm. He wrote
this psalm. And you know when David wrote
psalms, there was some of David in writing this. I mean, he's
writing things that he feels and thinks himself. though it's
given to him from the Lord. But he wrote this psalm when
he first became the king, when he first entered the throne and
became the king of Israel. He wrote this psalm. And at the
time that David penned this psalm, I am certain of this. In fact,
I can show you this from Scripture, and I will at the end. When David
penned this psalm, he did not understand what he was writing
as he would at the end of his life. David's a child of God,
born of his spirit, and from his new heart at the time he
wrote this, David indeed sang unto the Lord of the Lord's mercy
and judgment toward him. He said, I will sing of mercy
and judgment. Mercy, you know, is God, you
know, that's God withholding from you what you deserve, but
it's here, it's including all the sure mercies of our Lord
toward his people, all the grace and gifts and mercies of our
Lord, and included in that is his judgment, his keeping, correcting,
teaching, preserving, judgment, working what is right for his
people, because it's right. He said, I'll sing unto the Lord
of His mercy and His judgment toward me. David had seen that
God had, in Christ, He had made mercy and judgment meet in harmony.
Now that's something man can't do. If we show mercy, we're not
going to pour out strict justice. If we pour out strict justice,
we're not being merciful. But God in Christ did both. He justified His people from
our sins by answering to the demands of the law, strict justice
for us, and that was mercy to us given to His people in a just
way. So that God's holy, His laws
upheld, and He saved His people. He justified His people. Now
David knew something about that. But David has no idea. how truly he would sing unto
the Lord of the Lord's mercy and the Lord's judgment toward
him, as he will towards the end. David's going to learn more and
more that the Spirit of God had given him these words. He's going
to learn this more and more. The Spirit of God gave him these
words. And here's where he's going to learn more and more.
That the words that he was given are the words of the King of
Kings. They're the words of the King
of Kings. They are the works of the King
of Kings. Christ Jesus. We just sing about
Him in a couple of songs. The Royal Son of David, Christ
Jesus, the King. These are the words of the King
and Savior Christ Jesus. These are the things the Lord
Jesus worked in perfection when He walked this earth and what
He's working right now in perfection in mercy toward His people and
in His judgment toward His people, which is mercy. Doing what's
right for His people. He laid down His life, He bore
the sin of His people, He put away our sin, He justified us,
He satisfied God for His people. Now it's not talking about judgment
in the sense of condemning. That's not what He's talking
about. He, for you who know Him, bore
the condemnation. He made it so that there's now
no condemnation to His people. So the judgment, the just thing,
the right thing for Him to work toward David and you and me and
all His people is, is to mercifully teach us and reveal Himself and
keep teaching us and correcting us and keep teaching us and preserve
us all the way to the end. That's the just thing. That's
the judgment. The mercy is Him working in us
and for us what's right. Well, it's right. And teaching
us in the process. He worked mercy and judgment
towards David. And David, in the end, he will
give the Lord all the glory for this. And sing unto Him of the
Lord's mercy and judgment toward David. Now, all God's children
will sing of the Lord's mercy and judgment. But it will be
because Christ, the King, keeps showing us mercy and keeps working
judgment in us and for us so that we behold more and more
Christ is our only King. He's our only righteousness,
our only holiness, our only Savior. You're going to behold that more
and more and more and more and more and more as you go. And
as you behold Him more and more this way, by Him working judgment
toward you, teaching you, correcting you, which is itself mercy to
you, by Him doing this to you, you're going to learn to trust
Him more and find your all in Him more. And you're going to
learn to find it in you less and less and less. John the Baptist
learned this. And John the Baptist said he
must increase. But I must decrease. This is
the way of growth in grace in God's kingdom. It's not getting
bigger and stronger and bigger, better, faster and trusting yourself
more. No. It's seeing what you are
more so that you decrease in your own estimation of yourself
and Christ increases. That's growth. That's growth.
Now this psalm was penned at the beginning of David's reign
as a king. Now you just think about this.
You take a new job, or you know, a man gets called to be a preacher.
But just go back to the beginning when the Lord called you. When
a sinner is born of the Spirit of God, we behold Christ. And
God creates a new heart in us. A new spirit is created in us.
And there is a new resolve. There is a strong resolve that
you have in your heart to honor the Lord in all we do. Do you
remember that? He gives that to you in the very
beginning and you have a strong resolve. You say, verse 2, I
will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. That is with a
whole heart, with a true heart, in a perfect way. I will walk
within my house with a perfect heart. And all these things David
wrote here is the resolve of the new heart. This is the resolve
of the new man that the Lord puts in our heart and gives us
to want to walk before Him and honor Him and behave wisely in
a perfect way all our days for His glory and His honor. and
the good of our brethren. And this is so. God's child shall
walk before God in a perfect way. You're going to behave yourself
wisely in your house. There ain't a doubt about it.
But it's not going to be how you thought. Not a doubt about
that either. It's not going to be how you
thought. The Lord gives you this resolve and you see Him and you
know everything is so new and He's so full to you and you just
see what He's done. And we're like the children of
Israel. When the Lord gave His Word,
His Law to them, and they said all that the Lord commands, we
will do it. David entered this this throne and he's fresh and
he's got a heart now that he's gone through the wilderness,
the Lord's taught him some things and he sees the Lord and he hears
this throne and he says, I will behave myself wisely. But here's the problem. In the beginning, there's just
too much I will and I resolve. I have no doubt David was writing
this, and though the Spirit of God has given it to him, David
is writing this, and David is convinced this is so of himself.
I will, I will, I will, I will. At first, when we read verse
3, I will set no wicked thing, no wicked thing of Belial before
me. I hate the work of them that
turn aside. At first, when we are saying
that, We're thinking way too much of others. I hate the work of them that
turn aside. We're thinking way too much that
the wicked are them. And in doing so, we're thinking
way too highly of ourselves. And we're thinking too little
of Christ. A froward heart, at first, verse 4, we say, a froward
heart, a froward heart shall depart from me. I will not know
a wicked person. No, we're thinking too much that
the perverse, wicked person is someone else. Now, be honest
with me. When you read this psalm, isn't
that what you thought? Isn't that the first thing that
crossed your mind? The wicked person is them. Isn't that what
you thought? We have to constantly be taught
this over and over. The Lord revealed Himself to
David. David resolved. He had this resolve given in
his heart of God. Psalm 101, 2, he says, I will
behave myself wisely in a perfect way. I will, I will, I will. And that truly was the resolve
of his heart. That is the resolve he puts in your heart. But in
a little while, the Lord is going to show David He needs mercy. And the Lord's going to work
mercy toward him by working what's best for David, what's right
and good for David. He's going to let David err.
He's going to let David see his old fleshly sinful man was still
with him. And David's going to cry out
this. Verse 2, Oh, when wilt thou come unto me? In fact, I find it interesting.
You read this Psalm, Psalm 101, and then go read the next one.
David's saying, I will, I will, I will, and the next one he's
begging God, please don't hide your face from me. I need mercy. We come out, we start out, I
will, I will, I will behave wisely, and the Lord shows us our need
of Him constantly by showing us what we are, and we start
crying, oh, when wilt thou come unto me, Lord? And then the Lord
comes in mercy and judgment, shows us He's our King, He's
our Savior, He's our Perfection, He's our Righteousness, He's
the One that's the King in all power saving us from ourselves.
And He shows us this, and each time He does this, He renews
our resolve. But it's a little different each
time He renews it. Now we're saying, O when thou
wilt come unto me, Then I will walk within my house with a perfect
heart. We start singing of His mercy
and His judgment. His mercy and His judgment. You're
going to have to need mercy. You're going to have to need
Him to be your judgment, your wise instructor to sing of His
mercy and judgment, aren't you? He brings us to say, and this
is what most of the old writers, faithful writers say, this is
not so much a question, oh, when will thou come to me, but oh,
when thou wilt come unto me, that's when I'll walk within
my house with a perfect heart. And every time he works this,
you see him a little more and trust him a little more and trust
yourself a little less each time. Let's see this in David's life.
Verse 3, David said, I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes.
I hate the work of them that turn aside. It shall not cleave
to me. A froward, perverse heart shall
depart from me. I will not know a wicked person.
That's a good resolve. That is a good resolve. Believer,
do it. Use all the power of God's grace
that He's given you to do everything that's in this psalm. But we've
got to be taught what the Lord taught David. And He'll teach
us this in mercy and in judgment. What is it David resolved not
to turn aside from? Think about it. David said, he
said, I hate the work of them that turn aside. What is it you
turn aside from? Christ, the Lord. If you turn aside, that's what
you've turned aside from is Christ. Look nowhere but to Christ. Set
Him before your eyes and cleave to Christ. No one else. Don't look at anybody else. Don't
look at anything else. Look to Christ and cleave to
Christ and then you won't turn aside. Then you won't be cleaving
to whatever this wickedness is. Look nowhere but to Him. If and
when though We start looking to our resolve and we start looking
to how we're doing. We've turned aside. We've turned
aside. We've started clinging to the
wicked person. And we're not looking to Christ.
We're looking at a thing of Belial when we start doing that. Belial
is the devil. Let me give you an illustration.
David said, I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes. I hate
to work with them that do so. A frail and perverse heart shall
depart from me. Now David is the king and he
has been a good king. His heart is a new heart given
him of God and he had this integrity of heart. All God's people do
by God's grace. And he had this. And he's determined,
I will set no wicked thing before me. A perverse heart shall depart
from me. But he's thinking too much about
somebody else as being the wicked. And then one day, no sooner as
David said, I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes. And he
looks up and there's Bathsheba. And he was fraud in his heart.
He was deceitful in his heart. He was a liar in his heart. He went into Bathsheba and then
he tried to cover the whole thing up with deception by killing
her husband. By killing her husband. David
had taken his eyes off the faithful of the land. He sat there. He said there that I will keep
my eye on the faithful of the land, him that walks in a perfect
way. Who is that? That's Christ. But David had taken his eye off
the faithful of the land. He'd taken his eye off the king.
He'd taken his eye off of him that walks in a perfect way.
But here's the thing. The king, the faithful one, the
perfect one hadn't taken his eye off David. This was mercy to David. This
was judgment to David. Oh, the sin was all David's.
The sin was all David's. But it was mercy and judgment
of the Lord to reveal to David the frowardness of his natural
heart, the deception of his natural heart. The proud man that still
dwelt within him so he could see that his old man was still
nothing but sin. He taught David that it's the
Lord. thinking in his early days as
the king, I will destroy all the wicked of the land. And he's
thinking, he's thinking too much of self and too little of Christ. And Christ comes to him and shows
him, it's the Lord our King who puts down the wicked in the land. And first and foremost, it's
your flesh and it's my flesh. We stop looking out there and
at somebody else as the wicked and we start seeing He is in
our flesh. He is in our nature. We have
to learn this or we will be the proud man. And the Lord is going
to make His child know this in mercy and judgment. He is going
to make David cry, O when wilt thou come unto me, Lord? And
He made David cry that out. David cried out and he said,
Lord, You are just. I've sinned. He said, Lord, cleanse
me. Create in me a clean heart. Mend
the bones you've broken. Then I'll teach sinners your
way. Then I'll teach sinners about you. I'll teach them you're
the King. You're the Savior. You're the
faithful one. And that's what the Lord did
for him. And all of this was the Lord showing David mercy
and judgment, working what was just and merciful to David. The
Lord is the one who works this. The Lord is the one who's speaking.
He's the one who can say, I will, and it's going to come to pass.
Because His will and the Father's are one. You can't say, I will. I can't say, I will. He can. And it's Christ who works this
in His people. Doing so, He taught David mercy
and judgment. He taught David it's the Lord
who's the righteousness and sanctification of His people. He taught David
it's the Lord who works this. Taught him this more and more.
And by this, and when you know this is so, if you're His, every
time the Lord does this for you, He renews this resolve in you
a little bit more. But the resolve, next time He
does this for you, your resolve is no more, is not as much, I
will, I will. Your resolve is, Lord, when wilt
thou come to me? That's when I will. That's when
I will. When the Lord said, I will and
thou shalt. And He has to keep teaching us,
it's by His will that you shall do what He said. You see, it
is Christ's work in all of this. He sets Himself before our eyes
and by that He puts down our wicked, froward hearts so that
we cleave only to Christ. More and more and more we are
cleaving to Him and less and less and less trusting ourselves. Let's see another illustration
in David's life. David said, Whoso privileged
slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off. Him that hath
a high look and a proud heart, I will not suffer him. And this resolve was true. It
was in David's heart. And for most of David's life,
he did these things that we're talking about. So did God's people.
But the Lord's not going to let us take any confidence in our
will. Absalom, David's son, slandered
David. David said he would walk I will
walk within my house with a perfect heart." And David tried. David
had this resolve and David tried. But his own son turned on him. And his own son slandered him
to everybody in Israel. And turned them all against David. And now David is out in the wilderness
again. And he's out there and he's hurt
and he's in the wilderness again. And I'm sure as he's going up
the hill, I'm sure he's thinking about how Absalom slandered him
to everybody. And he's thinking about his resolve,
how we'll cut off him that privately slanders his brother and speaks
deceitfully of his brother. If I was the people in Israel,
I wouldn't have given ear to that. I wouldn't have listened
to that. I wouldn't have heard it. He gets to the top of the hill.
And here comes Ziba with two asses laden down with gifts.
And David says, what are you doing, Ziba? He says, David,
this is all for you. And David, that cheered him up.
And David said, where is Mephibosheth? Remember Mephibosheth? David
showed mercy to him. That was his loyal friend. He
entered covenant with Jonathan to show mercy to Saul's house. And Mephibosheth, he showed all
that mercy to him for Jonathan's sake. Ziba said, David, you don't believe
this. Mephibosheth is in Jerusalem.
And he thinks now the whole kingdom is going to be turned back to
him and his family is going to start reigning in your stead.
And David heard that and he didn't make any inquiry about it. He
said immediately, he said, Zabba, everything that I gave to Mephibosheth
is now yours. He gave it all to him. And everything Zabba told him
was a lie. David, he just heard the slanderer
And as I gave ear to it, I believed everything here. In time, the Lord revealed to
David that Zabba had slandered Mephibosheth, and David saw what
he'd done in receiving the slanderer and doubting Mephibosheth so
quickly. And it brought David down. Not to trust his will quite so
much. And he saw Christ the King working
mercy and judgment toward him, showing him. And it's Christ
who's saving us. And if the Lord didn't teach
us this, we'd start trusting ourselves. And in trusting ourselves,
we'd be slandering the King of glory who said there's nothing
good! And He won't let us slander Him.
He's going to keep us knowing that it's our natural heart that
is deceitful and desperately wicked. We got a slanderer in
us, a desperately wicked heart. The Lord's not going to let us
forget this. Salvation's of the Lord. It's not of me and you.
It's of Him. I know men want to hear you preach
on this. They want you to hear you preach
man's will and what man ought to do and what man ought not
to do. I am telling you the most practical thing there is to know
right now. I am telling you how the Lord is going to work this
in His people. How He is going to bring you
to have this resolve and sing of His mercy and His judgment.
The Lord's going to make you see He's the one working this.
He's the one working it. Our hearts deceive us and slander
Christ in the process, but our Lord said, I'm going to cut the
slanderer off. And He comes to you and He speaks
in power into your heart and He cuts your flesh down and makes
you see. I can't boast in me. David saw he couldn't boast in
his ability to keep the slanderer from slandering. He received
it. But you know what he did for
Zabba? He had mercy on him. And he gave some to Zabba and
he gave some to Mephibosheth. God's mercy made him rejoice
in mercy. David said here, let's see one
more example. David said here in Psalm 101,
he said, He that has a high look and a proud heart will not I
suffer. I'm going to keep my eyes on
the faithful of the land and anybody with a proud heart, I
will not suffer him. Only those who walk in a perfect
way. One day, it came into David's
heart that he would number Israel. That's like a draft, sort of
like. He's going to count up how many
fighting, valiant men he has to be in his army and enlist
them in his army. His officers tried to tell him
not to do it. His officers said, The Lord thy
God, add unto the people, how many soever they be, that the
eyes of my Lord the King may see it. But why does the Lord
the King delight in this thing? Don't do this, David. Why? Why were they trying to tell
him not to do this? Because it was pride. It was trusting David's
ability to add to the army rather than the Lord's ability to add.
It was David trusting his pride of the strength of his military
rather than trusting the Lord to be the captain of his salvation. And you know, here's the amazing
thing about this. That was the Lord's mercy and
judgment toward David. Because you know what the Scripture
tells us? The Lord was angry toward Israel,
toward some of the Israelites that were not His. He was angry
toward them because they were proud and walking in a vain show. And so the Lord determined, He
purposed that He was going to cut off some people in Israel
that were not His. But in the process, the Lord
saw David's pride. This is prior to him numbering
the army. The Lord saw David's pride. And
in the process of judging those in Israel, He is going to show
David his own pride and correct him in mercy and judgment. And
so the Scripture says, the Lord moved David to number Israel. And the Scripture says, the devil
provoked David to number Israel. What is that? How did that go
about? All the Lord did was take his restraining hand off David's
old proud flesh. That's all he had to do. All
he did was take his restraining hand off the devil. And it didn't
take much provoking from the devil. And David said, I'm going
to number Israel. Why did he do that? The Lord
did it because as soon as David did it, it says David's heart
smote him after that he had numbered the people. And David said unto
the Lord, I have sinned greatly, and that I have done. And now
I beseech Thee, O Lord, take away the iniquity of Thy servant,
for I have done very foolishly. He's humble. He's not proud. By what? The Lord working this
mercy and judgment toward him? David's humble. He sat in the
dust. He's before the Lord confessing
his sin, in his pride, in his foolishness before God. What
had the Lord done? What had the real king done?
He hadn't suffered David's proud man. He cut that proud man down,
just like he said he would in this psalm. And then to show
that he had humbled David, the Lord said, David, I'm going to
give you three choices of how I'm going to pour out my judgment
on these men I'm going to destroy in Israel because of what you
did. And David said to Gad the prophet,
he said, I'm in a great strait. Let us fall now into the hand
of the Lord, for His mercies are great, and let me not fall
into the hand of man. David had fallen into the hand
of man when he, in his pride, decided he would number Israel.
And this is what he learned. Don't let me fall into the hand
of man. Lord, your mercy is great. You decide. You make the choice. And so the Lord sent a pestilence
upon Israel from the morning to the time appointed. And there
died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba 70,000 men. And then David flees and he goes
and he goes and he goes to find a place to build an altar. And
the man tried to give him the land and give him the sacrifices
and everything he needed. And David said, nope, nope, nope,
I will not sacrifice to the Lord that which cost me nothing. And
he built an altar and he offered sacrifices and he poured out
thanksgiving to God. And all that together is a picture
of the Lord humbling us, but showing us what we are all over
again, bringing us to cast ourselves on the Lord's mercy, and then
praise our Lord Jesus Christ, our altar, for working it all
for us. And not letting us fall to the
proud man that we are in our sin nature. Every man carries within him
the heart of a king. Everybody's proud. The poorest,
basest man you can find is proud. And the richest, most decadent
fellow you can find is proud. And only the Lord can save us
from that perverse, wicked, proud, deceiving man of our flesh. Everything here, in every sin
of David, everything here that he said he wouldn't tolerate
is what the Lord showed him he was. And in every case, he was brought
to sing of the Lord's mercy and judgment in saving him from him. And you know what that did in
the process? It gave David some judgment to know how to conduct
himself. And it gave him a heart to be
merciful to sinners that have fallen like he had many times
over. And it gave him the understanding
and the spiritual discernment to tell everybody to look to
Christ the King and trust Him. That's what the Lord is teaching
us. And the Lord works this over and over throughout the life
of His child. We start out thinking in our
strong resolve, I will, I will, I will. Brother Rob, you started
a new position, a new job not too long ago. You know how you
feel when you start a new job like that. You know, you've got
to resolve on how you're going to do things, and it's a good
resolve. You determine you're going to
do all this. But it doesn't take very long. People start calling
in sick, and things don't go like you thought they was going
to go. And you start seeing, I can't work what I resolved.
Well, the Lord's teaching us this spiritually in everything
in our life. Everything. Because there's just
too much I will in us in the beginning. And we're not saved
by our will, we're saved by His will. And He's the one that works
all of this. Our own fleshly heart's deceitful. But when He brings you to cry
out for Him, He comes in mercy, working judgment for you, doing
what's right and good in your heart, and He renews your resolve
in you. He keeps it in your heart. But
every time, He teaches us to depend more upon Him and less
upon ourselves. And that's truly the fulfillment
of everything that this is saying. We see a little more clearly.
We are the sinner. Christ is the King and the Savior.
Now, go with me to 2 Samuel 23. What we have seen in our psalm
is David's word that the Lord gave him to write when he first
became the king. In a sense, that is David's resolve.
He is resolved to do those things. What David was taught over and
over and over throughout his life In all his falls and the
Lord continuing to show him mercy and judgment, he was taught over
and over and over. Now these are the last words
of David. That was the first words when
he became king. Here's the last words. Verse
1, Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse
said, And the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the
God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel said..." Now get this,
David said, "...the Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and His
Word was in my tongue." You know what David's saying? He's saying,
I didn't write not one of them psalms. And I know it now. He said, when I was penning them,
because it was in my heart to do this, I was writing the Lord's
Word. That's the Lord's Word. He's the one that did it. Now
watch this. The God of Israel said, Here's what the Lord said
to him. The God of Israel said, the rock
immovable, that one who's sure. He said, the rock of Israel spake
to me. And he said, he that ruleth over
men must be just, ruling in the fear of God. And he shall be
as the light of the morning when the sun riseth, even a morning
without clouds. He'll be as the tender grass
springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain. And
when David started his reign, David said, That's right, and
that's my resolve, and I'm going to be that just King. And David
learned, Christ is that King. Christ is that rock who rules
justly in the fear of God and saves us and keeps us fearing
God. He's the light of the morning.
It's His showers of mercy and judgment coming down on His child
like rain on the tender grass by which we're saved. David penned
in Psalm 72, 6, He shall come down like rain upon the mown
grass. as showers that water the earth. In His days shall
the righteous flourish in abundance of peace so long as the moon
endureth." That's what David learned all through his life
to where he gets to the end and he says, the king must be just. Ruling in the fear of the Lord,
he'll be as the sun coming up after a shower and all the grass
is glistening and he'll cause the grass to spring forth just
like the sun. And then David said this. David
had said, I'll walk within my house with a perfect heart. I'll
walk within my house with a perfect heart. That was his resolve. That was
his vow. That was his covenant before
the Lord. And David said, although my house
be not so with God, it was not so in his kingdom,
It was not so in his family and it was not so in his bodily house. It was not by his resolve that
he was saved. It was not by his will that he
was saved. Here's how it was right here.
Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant. David was saying, I
will, I will, I will, I will, making his covenant to God. And
he said, but it ain't so with me. But, he made with me a covenant. He said, I will. He said, I will. And thou shalt. And look at what
David said. And that covenant is ordered
in all things and sure. And now at the end of his life,
David says, His resolve is better now. Look at his resolve now. He says, this is all my salvation. This is all my desire. This is
all my resolve to trust His covenant mercies. That's what the Lord is teaching
us, brethren, in every single trial. And just like I said at
the beginning, David had no idea how he would sing of God's mercy
and judgment like He would at the end. And at the end, that's
what He said, I thought the Lord, I thought it was my word, the
Lord was speaking. That's the Lord's word in Psalm
101. He's the one who works that in
His people and for His people in mercy and judgment. It's the
Lord whose covenant word, I will, I will, I will, and you shall,
that saves us. And He brings our resolve to
be not My will, my will, my will. He
lessens that, decreases you, decreases you, and decreases
you, and increases Himself, and increases Himself, and keeps
showing His faithfulness and His mercy until He makes you
say, He's all my salvation. He's all my desire. And that's
where He brings His people. All right, brethren.