All right, brethren, let's turn
back to Psalm 9. Psalm 9. We were walking a lot this past
week. I had plenty of time to think about things. I thought
we'd been walking together for a little while. This Tuesday
will be three years since I've come out to first meet you. It goes by quick, doesn't it?
I didn't mention that this morning, but people always talk about
Paul running a good race. Walking with the Lord is a slow
process. It's all day, every day. But just like we age, them
years go by quick. That was a race, wasn't it? It
went by quick, by fast. Psalm 9, my title is, My Earnest
Resolution. Several years ago, Brother Don
Fortner was going to preach for us up in Alaska. And before he
got there to the place we were assembling, I was talking to
one of the brethren, and I said, the FA is in December, towards
the end of the year. And I said, oh, I got some New
Year's resolutions. drink more water, and eat less
sugar, and read more books, or whatever people come up with.
And then Don showed up. He wasn't there when I said that.
And he got up and he said, you know, for man to declare what
he's going to be resolute in the coming year is a fool. And
I just shrunk, you know. It was the Lord speaking to me
is what it was. Show me what I am. David here
in Psalm 9 is declaring his resolve. He's declaring His true determination,
His earnest desire from that new heart. We'll notice here
as we read through these verses, David says multiple times, I
will. I will. I will. I will praise
Thee. I will sing to Thee. And then he gives the reason
for thou hast. Isn't that salvation? Isn't that
our walk in this world? I will. for thou hast, because
you have Lord. Christ, our greater David, this
is him speaking throughout this psalm. It's David that wrote
it. David earnestly said these things. He wasn't a robot. He wasn't
a puppet. He lived this. He experienced
it. And for the believer in our day, nothing's changed. We can
say this in our new creation with earnest, truly. This is
our determination. This is our resolution. Things
we desire. It says there in Psalm 9 verse
1, I will praise Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart. My pastor
read this line one time, and I will praise thee, O Lord, with
my whole heart, that verse. And he said, you know, that's
not always easy, is it? I'm glad he said that. I don't think I've experienced
that fully with the whole of me, all of me. I have an old
man with me. I'm living in him right now.
It's not easy to praise the Lord with your whole heart, especially
when you're in darkness, when you're in pain, when you're in
heavy trial, to praise Him in all things. That's a difficult
thing, isn't it? It's hard to praise Him in times
of ease, when things are going great, things are comfortable.
It's hard to praise God with your whole heart in those things.
But when I first read this psalm a couple of weeks ago and dwelt
on it, I was down. I was down. I said, I wish I
could do that. I wish I could praise you with my whole heart.
And David's writing here and he seems to be just singing from
the mountaintops, doesn't he? Oh, he's happy. He's been delivered
from his enemies and he's singing. And that made me even lower. There wasn't time to preach from
Psalm 9. I was sad. But David's not recalling what
he did in the past. He didn't say, I have sang your
praises. I have worshipped you and praised
you with my whole heart." He said, I will. I will. He's telling
his resolve for the future. And that's the determination.
That's the resolve. The resolution of the new heart.
The new creation born in us of God. That old heart, it cannot
and it will not praise God. Doesn't know how to. Doesn't
have any interest in it. It's in darkness. It's death. And that
new man desires to praise Him. And all it does is praise Him.
That's its nature. That's its instinct. And as we
grow in grace, as the Lord keeps us on this earth longer, walking
with Him, guiding us, we desire to praise Him more. I praise Him. I want to praise
Him more. And in all things, in all things, in all things
giving thanks, And that's my desire. If something bad happens,
what the world would call horrible, that's terrible, I hate that
to happen to you. I want to praise my God, dear." He said, and this
is personal, This is to the believer and it's personal to our Lord.
This is a one-on-one. We'll see this towards the end.
It's what David will do and what Christ our Lord did. He says,
verse 1, I will, I will praise Thee. I will praise Thee, O Lord,
with my whole heart. This is one-on-one. It's personal.
We praise a person. That's who we praise. We don't
praise a doctrine. I love unconditional election. I'm thankful for that. That's
hope for sinners. I love effectual, irresistible
grace. I love the truth of preserving
and perseverance of the saints. The Lord keeps us forever. I
love that. Of my saving from hell. what I earned, the net
I laid for myself. But my heart's not in love with
a doctrine. My heart's not in love with the
truth. My heart's in love with a person. Christ the truth. That's
who it desires. That's who it praises. With a
whole heart. Whole heart of that new creation.
And that person's the Lord of Lords. Lord Jehovah. It's not some unknown God. Like
they made a statue of. Or on Mars Hill. This is to THE
God. be God. Sometimes a part of the
meal, you ever got a nice meal and have a dessert and the dessert
ain't that big. And I'm going to tell them, I
didn't order the kids meal, have you seen that? Give me a bigger dessert. But boy, that's savory, isn't
it? That's special, that's sweet. Maurice Montgomery once said
to me, he said, our God is God. That's plain, simple. Boy, that's something to savor.
It's like a piece of candy you can just nurse on for a while
and it won't last. Those simple small things are
precious. That's who we praise. And that's who we praise with
the whole heart that the Lord has given us, that new creation
is. Turn over to Matthew 22. Matthew chapter 22. Matthew 22, look in verse 34. But when the Pharisees had heard
that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered
together. Then one of them, which was a
lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, saying, Master,
which is the greatest commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him,
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart. If you love someone, you praise
them, don't you? You say good things about them
because you know them, you love them. Thou shalt love the Lord
God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy
mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it.
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments
hang all the law and the prophets. This is what David was speaking
of. That was his desire. Do you have that desire? I want
to love the Lord God, THE God, not a God. I want to love Him
with all my heart, all my soul, all my mind, and my neighbor
as myself. That's my desire. David was a
man after God's own heart. Because he was given the Spirit
of Christ. That incorruptible seed was put in him. and that
new creation in Him. We too delight in His law. That's
what all the Law and the Prophets is, huh? Don't you delight in
that? That's wonderful, isn't it? That's my desire is to do
that. We desire it with our whole heart,
with our new heart. Paul said there in Romans 7, he said, for
I delight in the law of God after the inward man. I want to love
Him. I want to love my neighbor as
myself. But I see another law in my members. Paul didn't see
that before. I didn't see that before. Nobody
else saw that before. That other law, I thought I was
doing fine. My inward man desires his law,
delights in the law, but I see another law of my members warring
against the law of my mind, bringing me into captivity to the law
of sin which is in my members. Oh, wretched man that I am, not
that I was, that I am. Who shall deliver me from this
body of death? And then He gives us the answer.
I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So with the mind, I
myself serve the law of God. This pure mind stirred up inside
of me. That new man in us, that new
heart. It serves the Lord. It praises Him, sings Him, worships
Him. But with the flesh, the law of
sin. That's what David was continuing
here. Turn back in our text here in Psalm 9. We'll see a semicolon. He says in verse 1, I will praise
Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart. I will show forth all Thy marvelous
works. This is our greater David speaking.
This is Christ our Lord speaking. He's the only one that ever praised
the Father with the whole of Him. Completely, fully, all of
Him. And Christ the God-man is the
only person that ever lived that knew all of the triune God's
works. All of His marvelous works. But like David, you and I see
in part, don't we? I don't know all His works. I
know some of them. He's revealed some of them to
me. And we show forth all that we know. We declare from our
heart what's been taught in it. We just tell the truth. Tell
the truth from the Lord's Word, what He's revealed in it. We
walk in the life that He's given us, don't we? His marvelous works
and creation. Walk outside, people say, where
do you think that big old rock of granite up in Yosemite came
from? The Lord put it there. Ain't no question about that.
What about the stars and the moon? How does the moon stay
in orbit around this earth? Ain't nothing up there holding
on. The Lord keeps it there. He made it. He sustained it.
And we don't argue those things about creation. Don't get in
an argument about creation with somebody. You just declare that the Lord
made it and go on. Leave it alone. We declare His marvelous works
in providence. All the things that happen in
our lives. Good, bad, and ugly. I broke my leg. The Lord broke
my leg. It was good. We've had some hard
trials in our family. The Lord sent them, and they're
good. It's His providence. His governing hand on all things.
And as we grow in grace, and we grow in understanding and
knowledge, we declare that too. We don't argue it. People say,
you're crazy. You can think what you want.
The Lord did it. He made it rain. He made the
sun shine. He did it. And His marvelous works and salvation.
That's the most marvelous thing to a child of God. This is a
beautiful world we live in. There's some beautiful creatures
in it. Providence is a beautiful thing to look back on time and
see how the Lord brought us exactly where He wanted us. That's a
beautiful thing. But the salvation that's His, His marvelous work
and salvation, oh, that's precious. That's precious. It's the most
marvelous thing to us. How can the Lord remain just? He's not a God that looks at
sin and squints His eyes and turns from it. He's a just and
holy God. How can He remain just and justify
sinners? Make them righteous. He will
by no means clear the guilty. How can that be? It's through
His Son. That's how sinful men and women
are made holy. He provided Himself as the Lamb
slain before the foundation of the world. That new heart that
the Lord has given His people, we praise Him with it. We say,
Amen. That's right. We agree with Him
and praise Him for it. That new heart worships in spirit
and in truth. Heart worship is true worship.
That physical exercise, outward show and anything else, raising
hands and anything on the whiting this outward sepulcher, that
does no good, heart worship. And the Lord has to give that
heart back. When I was down, when I read this a couple of
weeks ago, I wasn't on a mountaintop. And I dwelt on those things.
I thought of the marvelous works He's revealed to me. I walked
a whole lot of miles thinking about that. And you know what?
I rejoiced. I was glad. I was lifted from
that pit, from that valley and sat on a mountaintop. He says
there in verse 2, I will be glad and rejoice In that wonderful
resolution, you make a New Year's resolution, isn't that good?
I will praise the Lord with all my heart. That's a good thing.
I will declare His marvelous works. He's revealed to me, I'll
just tell you what He did. Here's another one good. I will
determine. I will be resolute in being glad. An old man said one time, he
goes, I sit up on the edge of the bed every morning, I clap
my hands and I say, today's going to be a great day. That's a good
way to start your day off. I'm going to be glad. We have
a lot to be glad of. Wake up in the morning desiring to walk
with the Lord and be glad because of who He is. Because of His
marvelous works. They're accomplished. It's finished. There's nothing left to do. His
marvelous creation that we live in and on. and His marvelous
intercession He makes for His people. He ever lives to make
intercession for them. I pray sometimes and I'm ashamed
of myself. He makes intercession for His
people. I sing sometimes and I can't remember the words and
I'm out of tune. He makes intercession for us. We beg Him. We approach Him right,
He makes intercession for us. That's something to be glad over,
isn't it? Something to rejoice in. Our
gladness and our rejoicing, it says there, is in Thee. All of
our contentment, all of a believer's contentment is encrusted in Him
alone. Not happiness. Happiness is too. As I said before,
happiness comes from happenstance. That's what modern dictionaries
say, fate and luck or something like that. And it's every now
and then. It's sometimes. But contentment. Peace, rest,
it's in Him and Him alone. It's in Thee. All of our rejoicing
is in Him. We don't rejoice in the flesh,
we don't rejoice in this world, but in a person. The Lord Jesus
Christ, in Thee will I be glad and rejoice. He says, I will
be glad and rejoice in Thee. I will sing praise to Thy Name. O Thou Most High. Whenever you're
trying to remember something, you're going through school,
and you always try to put it to a jingle. I'll remember that. If it's a song, I can remember
a song from 20 years ago I've heard in almost every word. It's
good to put them to a tune. We have our hymnals here with
us, and the songs that we sing, it's to the praise of His name,
His holy name, of our Lord and our God. And these are man's
words that we sing. Sometimes we'll sing some psalms,
and I enjoy that, but we have man's words in our hymnals. And
it can be worded better sometimes. Sometimes we can say something
more accurate. But it's the heart that sings. It's not just the
voice box. It's not the words that come
out. It's the heart. And it's hard not to be glad
when you're singing from the heart. I hum all the time, whistle. I probably annoy a lot of people
in the store or wherever I go. But sometimes the heart's just
glad. And it sings, doesn't it? Sing a hymn. Sing a song of praise
to our Lord. Sing, oh, sing of my Redeemer.
With His blood, He purchased me. That's something to sing
about, isn't it? On the cross, He sealed my pardon. It's done. Nothing left to do.
It's sealed. He paid the debt. He set me free. That's worth
whistling. It's worth humming, isn't it?
Singing from the heart. The gladness, the contentment that we have
in Christ. The rejoicing we have is in Him. And we sing praises
to His holy name, that name that's above every name. Someone that's
worthy to be sang to. He says, I will be glad and rejoice
in thee. I will sing praise to thy name, O thou most high. Because we know Him. He's revealed
Himself to us. That's part of the character
of a believer. That's not our full character.
We wish it was. We pray the Lord grows us. But we know who we
sing to. We know our Redeemer. And we
rejoice in Him. Paul wrote to the church there
at Philippi and he said, rejoice in the Lord always. And again
I say, rejoice. Rejoice in Him. We've had a bad
day sometimes. Things just look like they're
turning south. Today's already, it's burnt. It's bad. And it's
getting worse. I've had a bunch of those days.
Rejoice. Be glad. Be of good cheer. Why? We're still His children. I may
look on this day and what's going on in the news, what's going
on in my life, be sad, be down trodden. Nothing's going to separate
me from the love of Christ. I'm still His child. He's still
sitting on His throne, isn't He? He sent this day. This day
is the Lord's day. That's what He's given. Because
the end already has been determined from the beginning. He's already
determined what the end will be from before the beginning,
wasn't He? Rest. Be content. Be glad. Rejoice. Sing. Sing praises to it. You ever seen the picture of
those presidents whenever they take office? They take a picture
of them when they first get in office and then they take a picture
of them that last year when they're getting out of office. Boy, they
age, don't they? They get gray hair and wrinkles
and they're quick, too. Takes a toll on them. Wouldn't
that be something if we had a president that was glad in Christ? that
rejoiced in Him, that sang His praises, that knew Him and was
known of Him. Wouldn't that be something? Someone
that would get up there and say, you know what, let's pray. How
are we going to handle this? How are we going to handle economy?
All these things we're worried about, you know, health care.
Let's pray about it and let's do whatever the Lord lays on
our hearts and then let's go take a nap, go eat a ham sandwich,
go rest, go have some comfort. That's what we ought to do. We have a Lord and King that
always rejoices in the Father. We have a King, a mighty King,
that always sings His praises. We have a King that's always
glad in His Father. Isn't that something? That's
who rules and reigns. There's been something set underneath David.
David had his drawbacks, didn't he? And we read these things
now and look back on them because we know the end of it. But if
we were in that day, And David was our king. He was preaching
to us. We might have some issues with
what was going on in his daily life, wouldn't we? Not Christ our king. Not him. It says in verse 3,
When mine enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish
at thy presence. You know it doesn't say if my
enemies are turned back. It says when. When. How can you and I have
confidence like that to our true enemies? to our earthly enemies
too. David was speaking of his earthly
enemies, but he's talking about our true enemies. Our enemies
like sin, death, hell, Satan. How can we have that assurance?
Paul wrote to us in Ephesians 6, he said, For we wrestle not
against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against
powers, against rulers of the darkness of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places. We have enemies on this
earth, but they can only kill the body, can't they? That's
the worst they can do to us. Christ said, fear not them which
kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul, but rather
fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. All of our true enemies, our
true enemies, there's things we think's real, thinks big trouble. Our true enemies, they've all
been defeated by our Redeemer. Serpent's head's been crushed.
It's finished. It's done. Turn over 2 Chronicles
20. This will be of good comfort
to people. You've got 1 and 2 Samuel, 1
and 2 Kings, and then the Chronicles. 2 Chronicles 20. It was a great company. Great
army was coming against Jehoshaphat and Judah. They couldn't win
against them. They had no might against them.
just as we have no might against death. We have no might against
sin, internally or externally for that matter. We have no might
against the wiles of the devil. But all of Judah, they were standing
before the Lord. They were calling to Him, praying
to Him, fasting. The men, the children, the wives,
all of them, the King and the Spirit of the Lord came upon
Jehazel. And here's what the Lord used
him to tell his people. We're in 2 Chronicles 20, verse
15. And he said, Harken ye, all Judah,
and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou, King Jehoshaphat, thus
saith the Lord unto you, thus saith the Lord unto you, be not
afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude. And
that's what the Lord speaks to His people when He comes to us.
Fear not, I'm with thee. Be not afraid nor dismayed by
reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours,
but God's. Tomorrow, go ye down against
them. Behold, they come up by the cliff
of Zeez, and ye shall find them at the end of the brook before
the wilderness of Jeruel. Ye shall not need to fight in
this battle. Set yourselves, stand ye still,
and see the salvation of the Lord with you. O Judah and Jerusalem,
fear not, nor be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them,
for the Lord will be with you." You know, this was the next verses
before tomorrow came. This is how effectual the Word
of the Lord is to His people, when He commands them, just like
Bonpartum is. He called on Him, and He came
when He was commanded to come. Verse 18, And Jehoshaphat bowed
his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the Lord, worshiping the
Lord. When he said it, they worshipped
him. When he said it, they fell before him. They believed him,
didn't they? They trusted him. That's who
they trusted. And our text says, because they shall fall and perish
at thy presence. All of our enemies, sin, death,
hell, grave, Satan, accuser of the brethren. It's all going
to fall at His presence, not ours, not our doing, His presence.
Just like Enoch, the Lord's people, they'll never see that eternal
death, that second death. It won't happen. We'll be changed.
We'll be different than now. But when we awaken His likeness,
what's that going to be like? I don't know, but I can tell
you this, we'll be satisfied. We'll be satisfied when we awaken
His likeness, won't we? The wars on this earth, the wars
that are inside of ourselves, the battle, we might have on
our deathbed, the Lord may give us. What do we do with all that?
Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there. Stand still
and see the salvation of the Lord with you. Be glad in Christ. Rejoice in Him. Sing His praises. That's all we have to do, isn't
it? And that's the believer's natural response. That's the
instinct of the new man in us. Sing His praises. Rejoice in
Him. Be glad in Him. I'm back in our text. This victory
of our Lord, it goes beyond just not going to hell. It's not just
a clean slate, a reset button. Well, I'm spared from hell. Having
sin defeated. It's also being given an eternal
righteousness. The righteousness of Christ.
A holy nature that cannot sin, that will not sin. I have the
possibility of it. Look here in verse 4. For thou
hast maintained my right and my cause." That's the verdict
and my cause. What's the verdict of the Lord
to His people? He looks on them, sees Christ who they put them
in, and says, righteous. Well done. Who maintains that?
He says, for thou hast maintained my right and my cause. Thou settest
in the throne, judging right. Paul said this to the church
at Rome, he said, "...to declare, I say at this time, His righteousness,
that He might be just and the justifier of him which believeth
in Jesus." That's worthy of praise. That's worthy of singing. That's
worthy of rejoicing in. Here's a word to those that don't
believe, to those that dug their own pit, cast their own net,
hate God, want nothing to do with Him. It says in verse 5,
Thou hast rebuked the heathen, Thou hast destroyed the wicked,
Thou hast put out their name for ever and ever. O Thou enemy,
destructions are come to a perpetual end. There will be no more tears.
There will be no more pain. There will be no more sorrows.
It's come to perpetual, forever end. And speaking of the Lord,
He says, And Thou hast destroyed cities, and their memorial is
perished with them. We have a lot of memorials around
this country. People spend a lot of money and time and make them
out of granite. Something that's going to last
a long time. Etch into them. Don't paint on
it. You've got to dig into it. It's going to last long. All
that's going to perish. It's all going to burn. It's
all going to be gone. That legacy won't stand. The Lord's will.
He says in verse 7, But the Lord shall endure forever. He hath
prepared His throne for judgment. That's both edges of the sword.
Our infinite God, who does not change, who loved His people
with an everlasting love, He endures forever. He changes not. He's worthy of worship, worthy
of praise, and He hath prepared His throne for judgment. He's not a white-bearded grandpa
that's got some rules, but it's alright if you break them. His
throne is prepared for judgment. He will judge the world, all
of us. Look here in verse 8, Psalm 9, verse 8. And He shall
judge the world in righteousness. He shall minister judgment to
the people in uprightness. What He does in that final judgment,
those that He declares when He separates the goats and the sheep
from His right hand and from His left hand, when He says,
well done, my good and faithful servant, and when He says, depart
from me, I never knew you. That is right. That is just. No one can lay the charge of
the Lord doing wrong. He's right. His judgments are
right. David's been singing praises to the Lord this whole time.
Does this seem out of place to you? Did you know that when we're
nothing but His likeness, and this whole flesh has gone away,
I see that dimly. I get small glimmers of that,
of the Lord's justice. What He does is right. We know
that. But boy, we still have an old
flesh that fights against us, don't we? Turn over to Revelation
19. There will come a day when we
will wholeheartedly praise the Lord in all things and in judgment. Revelation 19, verse 1. It says, And after these things
I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying, Alleluia,
salvation and glory and honor and power unto the Lord our God. For true and righteous are His
judgments. For He hath judged the great
whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and He
hath avenged the blood of His servants at her hand. And again
they said, Alleluia. And her smoke rose up forever
and ever. The victory of that defeat we
will see. There will be smoke rising up. There won't be nothing left of
it. It will be completely destroyed. But we'll know He won the victory
forever and ever. And the four and twenty elders
and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on
the throne saying, Amen. Alleluia. I have loved ones,
and in this earth I pray for. I wish the Lord would reveal
Himself to them, showing they ain't nothing but just men, and
who He is. And in that day, when I awaken
His likeness, that judgment comes. Anything He says, I'll say, Amen.
That's right. That'll be something. We'll sing
His praises. We'll rejoice in His righteousness,
His holiness, and thank Him for it, and sing to Him for eternity.
Turn over just one page there in Revelation 20 verse 11. Verse 11 says, And I saw a great
white throne, and him that sat on it. From whose face the earth
and the heaven fled away, and there was found no place for
them." What did the Lord tell His disciples there in John?
He said, I go to prepare a place for you. How am I going to have
a place in heaven? He's going to have to prepare
it. It's going to have to be His doing it. Salvation is going
to have to be of the Lord. Look down at verse 15. And whosoever
was not found written in the book of life, was cast into the
lake of fire. Who will it be that sings his
praises in that final judgment day? How is it we were put in
that Lamb's book of life? Turn back in our text here in
Psalm 9. Psalm 9, verse 9. The Lord also
will be a refuge for the oppressed. A refuge in times of trouble. And that judgment I just read,
we read there in Revelation 19-20. What's the refuge to someone
that's oppressed? A refuge of a needy sinner. Crossed
our refuge. He's our city of refuge. Being
in Him, being one with Him, the hope we have. He's our hope.
He's our glory. Brother Henry used to tell a
story. You all probably heard it. There's a family traveling across the
Western Plains heading west. Fire broke out. It was coming
across the hill. And so they stopped the stagecoach
and the driver got out and he burned a big old ring around
that stagecoach and the fire went out. He backburned, if you're
a firefighter, he backburned the area. And that little girl
sat in her daddy's lap and she was scared to death. Daddy, what
are we going to do? That fire's coming. What are
we going to do? Because this fire's coming, we're going to die. And
he said, honey, what's burnt can't burn twice. The fire of the Lord's wrath.
for His people was set on His Son, our refuge. He absorbed
it. He satisfied it, all of it. Divine justice, being forsaken,
God forsaking God for His people. And what He's burned once, He
cannot burn again. It's gone. It's extinguished
forever. Christ is our city of refuge and we run to Him. That
road's been cleared. Those crews went out. They took
all the stumps out of the way, all the rocks out of the way.
Signposts are up. Here He is. Go to Him. Run. That's
our high place. That's the high ground. Get to
Him. Run to Him. It says in verse 10, And they
that know thy name will We will be made willing in the day of
His power, won't we? They that know thy name will
put their trust in thee, for thou, Lord, hast not forsaken
them that seek thee." We know His name and we put our trust
in Him as He reveals Himself to us. I was thinking about the
names of the Lord. Jehovah-Jireh, the Lord will
provide. He teaches that all the time,
physically. How are we going to get groceries?
The Lord is going to provide. How are we going to have a job?
How are we going to do anything? Breathe. The Lord's got to provide.
Spiritually, what's needed, the Lord must provide it. Jehovah
Rapha, the Lord that healeth thee. You ever got a paper cut
that just would not heal? You can't make it heal. Physically,
He has to heal us. Spiritually, we were dead. He
must give us life. He must heal us. That great physician
must come to us. That's a name we know, isn't
it? Jehovah Salome, the Lord our peace. Jehovah Rea, the Lord
my shepherd. Jehovah Sipkenu, the Lord my
righteousness. How are we going to have a righteousness
to stand before a holy God? Christ, our city refuge. He must do it for us. David started
out in this psalm, we'll wrap it up. He said, I will for thou
hast. I will for thou hast. That's
personal. Now he tells the whole congregation. Now he tells everybody. Verse 11. Sing praises to the
Lord. which dwelleth in Zion, declare
among the people his doings." Praise Him. Tell people what
He did. You know, that's a privilege,
an honor, and it's a duty we have that know Him. Those who
He has revealed His name to, who He is. We get to tell people
what He's done. Why are you happy all the time?
How can you make it through these trials? You know what God did
for sinners? Run to Him. That's a city refuge. Go to Him.
That's where we need to be. The text may be different. Every service that we have, but
the message is the same. Remember where we turn. Christ
and Him crucified. That doesn't change. That's what
I want to hear. I want to hear what He's done
for sinners. know what His promises are to His people. Stand on rest. Tell me one more time. I've read
that 75 times. Read it 76 times. I want to see
it one more time.