Psalm 34 now. Psalm 34. You remember, I'm sure, why David wrote this psalm if you heard the message Sunday. He acted in a way that was so unbecoming to a believer. He was so ashamed of himself. So ashamed. And he wrote this psalm when he was in that cave. And quite a few men came to him. Here's the wonderful thing, and it blessed me to think about this, and you know that story, 1 Samuel 22. What a wonderful story that is.

All who were in debt and in distress and discontented came to David and became a captain over them. That literally happened. It's a picture of Christ. But the thing that blessed me thinking about was although David acted in that way and brought reproach upon his Lord and sinned greatly so ashamed of himself, and you know, he thought, I'm not fit to be a king or anything like that. And yet, these men who loved him, came to him. And they were loyal to him. He didn't go down in their eyes, did he? Not at all. In fact, I'm sure they all thought, Well, he's just a sinner like us, isn't he? And it gives me hope. They knew he was a man after God's own heart.

Our faults and our failures, our sins, though we don't want it to happen, though we're ashamed, it's good for us. It's good for us. Not good for others. But somehow or another, it all works out for good. He said in verse 4, I sought the Lord, he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. He was afraid, wasn't he? He talks about the angel of the Lord and camping around about them that fear him. In other places he said, though 10,000 people gather against me, I'm not going to be afraid. Well, he was, wasn't he? So he said, what time I am afraid, I won't trust in the Lord. See, we do get afraid. We just do. We're flesh. We're flesh.

But he said in verse 6, I love this, this is where we ended up. This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him. Saved him out of all his troubles. This poor man. I think what he's saying is this poor excuse for a man. You ever feel that way about your sin? What a poor excuse for a man, a woman, a father, a mother, a husband, a wife, a son, a daughter, a member of God's church, a believer, a disciple of Christ. I'm a poor excuse for a member of Christ's body. Poor disciple. That's what Simon Peter thought, didn't he? You reckon Simon Peter read Psalm 34? This poor man tried. He esteemed David so highly, you know he did, but David was just a sinner saved by grace just like Simon Peter.

This poor man cried, the Lord heard. That's who he hears. Verse 18, the Lord's an eye unto them that have a broken heart, saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. The righteous cry, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. All of them. How many troubles have you got yourself into? How many troubles have the Lord brought you into for his purpose, his will? Has he delivered you out of them? How many? All of them? Reckon you'll get back in trouble? I reckon so. Reckon he'll deliver you? I reckon it so. I reckon so. That's not an old, that's not a southern state saying. That's a Bible word.

Verse 7, the angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. This is so good. So good. Scripture says He gives His angels charge over us to keep us from even stubbing our toe. But the angel of the Lord, who is this? Who is this angel of the Lord? Well, oftentimes it's Christ Himself. In Genesis, I believe it was Christ that spoke to Hagar and told her, I've heard your son. I've heard him. I've heard him. Anytime the angel speaks like God, he is. Right? Angel means messenger. But often the angel of the Lord has to be Christ because he says things in the first person. And Abraham on Mount Moriah that the Lord called him. How about Moses in the burning bush? Who was that? That's Christ. Judges, Gideon, the angel of the Lord stood under that oak with a sword drawn. Who was that? I think that's Christ. Manoah and his wife. Who do you reckon that is? The angel descended in that, ascended in that flame on that altar. No angel would dare get near that altar. But this one did. Ascended up. That's Christ. He is the burnt offering. He is the angel of the Lord. He is the angel of the covenant, Malachi 3. The messenger, it says, of John. that the Lord would send John, a messenger, before the face of the Lord, and then the, I don't want to misquote it, in Malachi 4, verse 3, it says, Then the messenger of the covenant, whom you delight in, behold, he shall come. That's Christ, isn't it? Angel means messenger. So often that's Christ. Our Lord is with us always, isn't it? Camp at the Roundabout. Hedges us about. Camp. And it talks about when you encamp back then, the children of Israel pitched tents. Well, the Lord tabernacled among us, didn't He? He literally did. Pitched His tent with God's people. And He's with us always. He said, I'll never leave you forsaken. So, this is often the Lord Himself. And it's often a man. Gabriel, Michael, the archangel. An unknown angel spoke to John in the Revelation, didn't he? And John was so thankful and such a God-fearing man that he He bowed down before the angel, and I'm so thankful. And the angel said, don't do that. Don't worship God. I said, I'm one of your brethren, the prophets. Who was it? That's not important. But he was an angel of the Lord, a messenger. And that's so. It's often men, pastor, preachers in the Revelation are called the angel. Angel of the church at Ephesus and so forth. It's often the Holy Spirit, the angel of the Lord. Let me just read this to you. And one of the brethren preached on the angel of the Lord recently. I've been wanting to hear it. But anyway, it says of the angel of the Lord, I send an angel, capital A, before thee, to keep thee in the way. That's what the Holy Spirit does. I'm convinced this is the Holy Spirit. To bring thee into the place which I have prepared, beware of him. Paul wrote, don't quench the Spirit. Don't grieve the Spirit. Obey his voice. Provoke him not. He will not pardon your transgression. My name's in it. Our pardon's in the name of Christ. But obey His voice, and I'll be an enemy unto thine enemies and adversaries. So that's the Holy Spirit. And I could go on and on about the angels of the Lord, but it says, He campeth round about His saints, campeth round about them that fear Him, and deliver them, them that fear Him. It talks about those that fear the Lord. It talks about those who are humble and broken, contrite hearted. Is this you? I want to know that these promises are for me, don't you? I want to know that this applies to me. Alright? It says things like that. shall hear the poor and the brokenhearted, the poor and needy, those who say like David, I share no poor excuse for a man or a believer. Is that you? You say that? Do your sins keep you poor and needy? Does not the Lord through His Word humble you? Not nearly as much as we need, but He does. There was a time it didn't, it didn't. A time it didn't touch us. A time it had no effect on us, right? When we were dead, but now you've been quickened. Is that you? Look, it says, the brokenhearted, verse 17, the righteous cry. Who are the righteous? Surely you can tell me that by now. After all these years. Yes, you can. Say to the righteous, it shall be well with their soul. You know this, Christ has made unto us righteousness. These are righteousness. In Jeremiah 23, verse 6, you know that, don't you? This is his name whereby he shall be called Jehovah's Security, the Lord our God. Righteousness. This is His name. Our righteousness. Surely shall one say, and the Lord have our righteousness and strength. Is there one in here? I'd say everybody in here, raise your hand. That's Jeremiah 23. What about Jeremiah 32.16? This is her name. Where about she shall be called? The Lord our righteousness. Jehovah's seeking her. You know what that means, don't you? That's just not some mystical or mysterious thing that we know nobody else knows. No, we really know and believe, and that's our hope and trust, is that Christ, that we're holy and unblameable and unapprovable in God's sight, that our sins are forgiven. He said, I'll remember them no more. And God sees us in Christ, and He sees us righteous. Say to the righteous, what makes us righteous? Faith. Cut it? Yeah. Faith in Christ, I read. Amen. Believe God, and it was counted what? Say it. Righteousness. And everyone that believes Christ, believe God, is righteous. Right? Is that your hope? Do you have any righteousness in yourself? Do you trust in Him? Huh. Well, this is for you. Do you realize how few people know this and understand this or even care? So this is for you. This is for you. I'm talking to you. I'm not. The Lord can hear you. So, it came up with Roundabout. They fear Him. Do you fear the Lord? Over and over it says this, doesn't it? Fear Him. Verse 9, O fear the Lord, ye his saints, for there is no want to them that fear him. You know how many times in scriptures it talks about fearing the Lord? Fear the Lord. Eternal life is to know the only true God in Christ. And the first thing, this saving knowledge, the first thing, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Knowledge of the Holy. The beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy is understanding. This fear of the Lord is a profound, a deep sense of His holiness and His justice and His righteousness and His purity. His justice. The fear of the Lord. What Lord? The Lord Jesus Christ. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. The world didn't fear Jesus back then, did they? They don't fear Him now. All of God's people feared the Lord Jesus. The disciples, when they saw Christ for who He really was, and they heard His voice, and they saw Him do things, and when He spoke to them, it says they feared Him exceedingly, John. These men that he loved and were with him every day, but when they saw and heard, they feared exceedingly. Simon Peter, a big rough fisherman, when he really found out who Christ was, he hid his knees. He said, depart from me, Lord. I'm a sinful man. You can read my thoughts. He's afraid. This is the paradox. And I've never been able to preach this as I wanted to. Never heard a man do it. I've heard some good ones. But the half hadn't been told. But they feared him exceedingly, but they weren't afraid of him. Does that make sense? It does in a spiritual sense. They feared him, but they weren't afraid of him. You know, my dad, I had such deep respect for my dad. And you did, didn't you? We talked about that. And I just wasn't on a first-name basis with him. I treated him with respect. I feared him. I wasn't afraid of him. I was never afraid he was going to disown me or kick me out or do me any harm. I knew he loved me. Everything he said, it meant well for me, but I feared him. You fear your dad, brother? That's a pretty good illustration, isn't it? How much more, haven't they thought? Fear the Lord. This fear keeps God's people humble. One time, I was at home, a teenager. I was in the living room. We had a stereo in the living room. Dad and Mom played the Ink Spots and the Lennon Sisters and Lawrence Welk and all that. Well, I wasn't playing that. They were gone, I thought. I wouldn't play in Lawrence Welk. And my friend was there with me. I hadn't had it on too loud. My friend's standing right there, and I'm playing this, and I'm, you know, air guitar. And he, a frightened look came over his face. And I turned around, and my dad's standing there. Steven, he took that album, I just bought that album, and I look back on it and it is bad. He took it like a frisbee. Went outside like a frisbee. It needed that. But it wasn't a parade, was it? Had no reason to be. Perfect love cast out that slavish fear. You understand what I mean. You fear the Lord? Fear keeps God's people humble. Keeps them thankful. Keeps them worshipful. Now, right across the page, Psalm 33, look at verse 6. The Word of the Lord, the heavens were made. This is a God who made everything with the Word. Verse 7, He gathers the waters of the sea together. My, my, there's nothing more powerful on the earth than the sea. Nothing. Nothing more powerful in the heavens than lightning. That's the Lord. He's to be feared in it. Read on. Verse 8, Let all the earth fear the Lord. Psalm 33, 8. Let all the earth fear the Lord. They should, shouldn't. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. He spake and it was done. That's all He has to do. Do you fear the Lord? The Lord Jesus Christ I'm talking about. So, verse 8. Now look at this. Verse 8. Talks about the fear of the Lord. In light of such a fearful Lord, a dreadful God, says terrible God, the Scriptures call it. Oh taste and see if the Lord's good. He's good. To all those who fear Him. He's good. Blessed is the man that trusts in Him. Oh, taste. This great Lord is good. He's so good. His goodness. His tender mercy over all His work. He says taste and see that the Lord is good. This is good. Why does He say taste? And Scripture uses this a few times. Those who have tasted the Lord's grace. The Lord gave us five senses, didn't he? Five physical senses. Sight, hearing, smell, touch, or feeling, and taste. Now if you're dead, you don't have any of those. A dead man doesn't see, a dead man can't hear, a dead man can't smell, a dead man can't feel anything, and a dead man can't taste. And such were some of you. Such were all of you. Such were some of you. Such still are some. Until the Lord came and quickened you, you couldn't see His glory. You couldn't see yourself. You couldn't hear His voice. You couldn't. There was no sweet-smelling savor in the Gospel, was there? No message could touch you, could it? And this, you know, there's lots of other things that had a better taste to you. But God quickened you, opened your eyes, opened your ears. Open your sense of smell. Well, this gospel has a sweet smell and savor to it. It touches you. And taste. God gives you a taste for His grace. Oh, my. Listen to Ezekiel. The Lord came to Ezekiel and He said, Don't be like this rebellious house. Open your mouth and eat what I give you. And those are the hands of the Lord that gave me a roll, a roll of a book. He said, son of man, eat that. Eat this roll. Now listen to this. It was full of lamentations and mourning and woe. But he ate it. And he said, I ate it. He caused me to eat the roll. And he said, eat this. Let it go down into your belly. Fill your bowels with this roll. And I did. And it was in my mouth, sweet as honey. Lone, mourning, lamentation. Is all of God's Word sweet to you? The conviction, as well as the comfort, is it sweet to you? You know, there's comfort to be had in chastening, the chastening of the Lord. Despise not the chastening of the Lord, for whom the Lord loveth, he chastens. Oh, taste and see. Have you got a taste to see how good the Lord is? Nancy, I remember when you were working at that floral shop out there on 220, and that lady said to you, Lord ain't done nothing for me. You remember that? Nancy said, oh, he's done everything for me. He's been so good to me. Too good to me. He hath not dealt with me. That's what we all say. He hasn't dealt with me according to my sin. He hasn't given me what I deserve. He's been good to me through Christ because of Christ. Read on. Blessed is the man, the woman that trusts in Him. The young person, blessed. You're so blessed if you trust in Him. You're so blessed. You're saved. You're a child of God. You're righteous. Oh, fear the Lord, ye His saints. There's no want. to them that fear him, no lack. Remember that? No want. We just looked at that. Psalm 23, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. No lack to them that fear him. Verse 10, young lions may lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing. A young lion, is there anything stronger and more powerful and independent than a young lion? He's king of the jungle. He can down an elephant. No, he gets everything from the hand of the Lord. No, he's not independent. Listen to Psalm 104. He's not independent at all. He doesn't get that meat by his strength. He gets it from the Lord. And it says, listen to Psalm 104. This is great. A whole song about his creation. Young lions roar after their meat, and they seek their meat from God. Listen. They all wait on this. Talks about the lion, talks about the leviathan, the whale. It's a ton of fish a day. A ton. Where they get that much fish? The Lord. Said, That thou givest them, they gather. And you open your hand, they're filled with good. You hide their face, they're troubled. You take away their bread, they die. They return to death. In the Lord's good, He feeds everything, everyone, even the wicked. Saints bless Him. They bless Him for everything. The day that seek the Lord shall not end. Youth and strength are nothing. Nothing. Those that are poor and needy, they'll never want for anything. They'll never want for anything. Surely these verses speak that all we want and all we need

we find in Christ. Of His fullness have all we receive. The Lord is good. He said to Moses, I'm going to make all my goodness pass before you. Where is all the goodness of God? It's incredible. He said, Moses, there's a place by me, I'm going to stamp you, I'm going to stand on that rock. He said, better yet, I'm going to put you in a cleft of the rock. That's where David was when he was a kid. You know he's thinking of that. That all this speaks of all that we have in Christ. Remember, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. All I need, I have in Christ. Rest, peace, forgiveness, righteousness, fellowship, comfort, provision. Christ is all. He's all I need. Right? Go taste and see. The Lord is so good. No want, no lack does it fear Him. They that seek the Lord shall not want any good. Now, it doesn't say you're not It does not say that you'll get everything you want or desire, but it says you'll never lack for what's good for you. In fact, it's good for us if the Lord takes some things from us. My parents didn't, well, I was the fourth child, I was a baby, and I did pretty much get most everything. The Lord's not going to give us what's not good for us. If He does, it teaches a lesson. But we shall not want that which is good, because all things work together for good. Come, children. He talks about the fear of the Lord. Can I call you children? I better be able to. That's what John said. Oh, little children. Little children, these things I write unto you. Come, you little children. Hearken unto me, I'll teach you the fear of the Lord. Teach us, what is the fear of the Lord? What is it? Now notice, this is to God's children. Right? This is not written to the world. This is written to the righteous. Isn't it? He talks about the righteous, talks about the wicked. Who's he talking to? Come on my children, God said. My little ones. Those that are born of God. Those that are in Christ, right? That's who he's talking to. And the things he's talking about are not to obtain eternal life, but because you already have it. You with me? Okay. I'm going to teach you the fear of the Lord, David said. And Peter quoted all of these verses. Come, you children, I'll teach you. What man or woman is it, verse 12, that desires life and loveth many days that he may see good? Huh? Let's read all that. Verse 13. Keep your tongue from evil, your lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace. Pursue it. Eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous. His ears are open unto their cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil. Cut off the remembrance. of them from there. Go to 1 Peter. You need to know where this is. Simon Peter took this to heart, and he quoted it. He repeated it to God's people. The whole letter of 1 Peter is to the strangers, to the elect, those blessed of God, those who are born of God, those who are kept by the power of God, the angel of the Lord campeth round about them. This is Peter's talking to God's people. Look at 1 Peter 3, verse 9. Don't render evil for evil, or railing for railing. Contrarywise, blessing, knowing that thereunto are you called to what? To bless, and that you should inherit a blessing. For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, his lips that speak no guile, and stew evil, and do good, and seek peace, and ensue it. The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, his ears are open unto their prayers. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil. And who is he that will harm you if you be followers of that which is good?" See that? We'll go back to the text and we'll look at it in the psalm, this very same thing. He's saying here, you want to live a good life and see some good days? But we don't have many left. Many days on earth, we don't have many left. He says in verse 13, here's the first thing, keep your tongue. Keep your tongue. How much does the scripture talk about death? Death and life are in the power of the tongue.
That's what it says. You can slay or you can heal. Something in it. You need this? Little children, you need to listen to Proverbs. I'm trying to find it. Proverbs is after Psalms. All right, listen to this. Proverbs 13. You know how many, you've read these scriptures. Proverbs 13, 3. He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life. There's a direct connection. Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. So, an evil man out of an evil heart just spews out. That's not what we're called to do. Listen to Proverbs 21. This is a powerful scripture, y'all. Proverbs 21. We need this. I need this. We all do. Proverbs 21, 23 says it. Whoso keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from troubles. His soul. Isn't that something? So David says, you want to see some good days? Huh? Keep your tongue. Keep your mouth shut. I like Brother, excuse me, Brother Shanks. Brother Jack Shanks said, take every opportunity to shut up. That's good advice. That's good counsel. Or you're going to get in trouble. You're going to hurt somebody. You're going to hurt yourself. Keep your lips from speaking guile. Speak the truth. And we talked about God's people and their lips are no guile. No guile. Lies. Hypocrisy. Flattery. Be gone. Truth. Let's speak the truth. How? In love. In love. Verse 14. Depart from evil. What's that mean? It means exactly what it says. Why would we even question that? Huh? The face of the Lord is against them to do evil. Evil company, evil companions, evil things, evil thoughts, evil words, evil intentions. Avoid even the appearance of evil. Isn't that what the Scripture says? The face of the Lord says, can I have some good day? Depart from evil. The Lord said of Job, and he said it twice, He said, do you consider my servant Job? He said, there's none like him in here. He said, he's a perfect man. Upright. He eschews, he fears God. And this is how you know. He eschews evil. You've read that. He said it twice. He feared God, so the fear of the Lord is to fear spouting off. I fear speaking that which is evil. It's too evil. Do good. Do good. What's that mean? Isn't it a shame that we have to break this down and explain it away? Do good. Titus chapter 3. Go with me to Titus 3. You know, my conscience is so clear about preaching. I've said things I wish I hadn't said. I've said them in a way I wish I hadn't said it. But I've spoken the truth and haven't departed from it. By God's grace. And I want to say what God's word says exactly like God says. And look at Titus 3. You love this, don't you? You love this. And chapter 2 talks about what the grace of God teaches us, but in verse 4, chapter 3, this is so good. Verse 2. Speak evil of no man. Don't be brawlers. Gentle. So in all meekness unto all men. We ourselves also were like that. We're foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving diverse lusts, pleasure, living in malice, envy, hateful, hating one another. God, after the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, you know it's not my works of righteousness, don't you? You know it's not my works. You know that, don't you? Read on. It's according to His mercy He saved us by the washing of regeneration, renewing of the Holy Ghost, which He shed on us abundantly through Christ Jesus our Savior, being justified by His grace, made heir according to the hope of eternal life. Do you believe that? That's your salvation.

Well, don't quit reading. This is a faithful saying, he says to young Titus, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works." Do good. Tell them to, Titus, Timothy. These things are good and profitable.

What did our Lord go about doing? What does it say? He went about doing what? Good. Good. And we've been predestined to be conformed to that image. I want to be a do-gooder. And I don't care if people make fun. I want to be a do-gooder. Lord knows as I do better. Way too long. I want to do good.

What is good works? Let me just sum it up by saying that. The people of the world don't do good works. The Lord causes people to do works of benevolence and charity and so forth, but that's not a good work to God. The plowing of the wicked is evil, God alone. Once there was not a faith in Christ, it's sin. You understand? But any child of God, by faith in Christ, anything that person does for the glory of God, in the name of Christ, in faith and love, For the service of anyone is a good work, even a cup of water. You know that?

Here's the thing. So it's just do good. Do it. Okay. But none of God's people take credit for or acknowledge their works. When the Lord commended them for doing these things, I was naked and he clothed me, and he prisoned me, and he came to visit. They said, we didn't do anything. And if we've done all that's required of us, we're still unprofitable servants. But the Lord said, no, well done.

Do good. Don't explain that way. Do it. Seek peace. Verse 14. Seek peace. That's the other peacemaker. Pursue it. Don't just take peace and forgiveness. Pursue it.

The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous. His ears are open unto their cry. Isn't that wonderful? Don't you love that verse? The eyes of the Lord are open. They're on the righteous. His eyes are always upon His people. His ears are always opened unto their cry. Isn't that wonderful?

And that produces two things. Two things. Comfort and fear. Can you be fearful and comfortable? Yes. You understand that, don't you? Yeah, you do. Only God's people know that. Fear and comfort.

The eyes of the Lord, the ears of the Lord, the face of the Lord against them that do evil. God's not smiling on this earth. He's frowning. He's going to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

The righteous cry, though, verse 17, those who leave His Son. The Lord hears them. He delivers them out of all their trouble. He keeps saying that. We need to hear it. That comforts me. The Lord is nigh unto them, near unto them that have a broken heart. He's nigh unto that.

Draw nigh unto God, James said. He'll draw nigh unto you. How do you draw nigh unto God? With a broken heart and humility. Humble yourself in the sight of the Lord. He'll exalt you. Approach Him not with... You can come boldly, but you come humbly. You can come freely, but you come humbly. You can come ask for forgiveness, but ask Him to keep you back from presumptuous sins.

The Lord is nigh unto them that are brokenhearted. He saith unto such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous. The Lord delivereth him out of them all.

Now listen to this. Do you know what the title and the subject of this was to begin with? Him and them. Right? Him and them.

Now who is the righteous? Who are the righteous? Well, it talks about them. Look at verse 17. The righteous cry, the Lord hear it and delivereth them. They're righteous. Well, look at verse 19. Many are the afflictions are righteous that the Lord delivers him. Who's it talking about? Him or them? Yes. They're one. All right? They're righteous in him. In Christ. And they are in him. And he is in them. Okay? Righteous.

And our Lord came and was afflicted, wasn't he? He was afflicted in all our afflictions. That's the angel of the Lord in all their afflictions. He was afflicted, and he saved them. That's Christ. The children were takers of flesh and blood. He, like us, took part of the same. In all this, he was afflicted, but the Lord delivered him out of them all. He'd keep with all his bones. Not one of them is broken.

Now who can that be talking about? Other than the Lord Jesus Christ. Not one of them is broken. You know, Christ is the head and we're the body, aren't we? That's the reason that lamb was not, not a bone of the lamb was to be broken because not one member of Christ's body will be separated from Christ our head. And he keeps all his bones, not one of them is broken. What about the little toe? Not even a little toe. Not even a little toe.

Evil shall slay the wicked. Yes, it will. The Lord will, but evil itself will be the destruction. Psalm 103, I love that, where he says, He delivered our soul from destruction. Redeemeth thy life from destruction. They that hate the righteous, those that hate Christ and His people, are going to be guilty, aren't they? They're going to be desolate. They're going to be cut off.

This is why Paul wrote the last thing he said, I believe it is 2 Corinthians, it said, Amen, love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema maranatha. That's what it said. And his people, because they're one. The Lord, and it closes with this, him and them.

The Lord redeemeth the soul of his servants. None of them, that trust in him shall be desperate. None, he redeemed his people from all sin, and none of them, not one of them, that trust in him, not one, will be guilty or cut off in that day. They're righteous in Christ. Is that good news?

Now depart from evil. Do good. This is what John wrote in 1 John 2. He said, little children, I write unto you that you sin not. Didn't it? And it ended in sin. We have no advocate. Isn't that good news? Good counsel and good news.

All right, stand with me.