Did you notice anything wrong
with that second hymn that we sang? We both meant to say something,
didn't we, John? But you have permission to change
the words. These hymns are not inspired,
and there's some error in them, but it speaks of He gave His
Son for man to die that He might man redeem. No. Our Lord gave
His God gave his son for his people, for the transgression
of my people, was he smitten. Christ said, I lay down my life
for the sheep. And the last, let's see, second,
third verse, you devise salvation's plan for you to have died for
all. It's not so, is it? But we still
bless his name, don't we? Psalm 1, go back there. Number
one, studying through the Psalms, we had to begin where God began,
didn't we? We're not going to do all the
Psalms, but just a couple of dozen or more. This is, as someone said, maybe
the preface to the rest of the Psalms. This is where God chose
to begin the Psalms. sets the course or tells us what
the rest of the Psalms are. And it can be no doubt who this
is speaking of first. Is it the blessed man? The first
Psalm, blessed is the man, must speak of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We must speak of Him first, mustn't we? And then we're going to look
at our blessings in Him, the blessed man. Remember, Brother
David Edmondson preached from Psalm 72, verse 17. They that are blessed in him.
All nations are blessed in him. So we're going to look at this
as we should. Christ first. Verse 1 says, Blessed
is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful. Our Lord Jesus Christ is most
assuredly that blessed man. The word blessed means happy. Most of the time, here, it means
happy. It also means highly favored. Our Lord Jesus Christ, blessed
of God and blessed by His people, and we bless His holy name. Happy. Our Lord was happy. Proverbs
8 says, His delights were with the sons of men. Happy. The Father,
when they made that covenant agreement for Christ to come
to earth as a man and live for and die for His people, Scripture
says He was just happy to do that. His delights were with
the sons of men. And since He was delighted to
do that and happy, God is Very happy with Him. Very happy. Very pleased for His righteousness
sake. Happy to come here. Happy to
do the Father's will. Happy means content. Joyful. Joyful. Our Lord, who was a man
of sorrows, acquainted with grief. But He wasn't sorrowful in the
Lord. He was joyful in His God. The
sorrows and the griefs he bore were ours. And the great responsibility
or heavy weight that was to be laid on him, the iniquity of
us all, to be made sin, to go to the cross, which he delighted
to do for the joy set before him, yet he would endure hell
a cast out of God's presence, forsaken by God for us, that
must surely have weighed on his mind from the beginning. He was
always with the Father, and then he came here, and he was still
with the Father while here, with the thoughts of being forsaken
by his Father, and being made sin, which his holy nature recoiled
at. He was a man of sorrow. and acquainted
with grief. He took our sins and our sorrows
and our grief. He bore our griefs. But now he
himself was happy, content. He was what he tells us to be.
He was constantly telling the disciples to be of good cheer.
So you know he was. He was content. He was happy.
Though a man of sorrows. It's a paradox really, isn't
it? But you know, because God's people,
as He is, so are we. We are sorrowful. We go through griefs and heartaches
and troubles and trials and afflictions and we're cast down. And David
said it. I love Psalm 42. Nobody requested
that. Oh yes, somebody did request
that. Psalm 42, I forget who. But David said, why art thou
cast down, O thyself? Hope in God. He was encouraging
But then he admitted to God, I am cast down. I am. But happy, blessed is the man. And our Lord was truly happy
to do the Father's will. His delight was to do the Father's
will and come here for his people and be with us. Blessed is the
man, verse 1, who walketh not in the counsel of ungodliness,
standeth in the way of sinners, nor sit in the seat of the scornful. It goes without saying that our
Lord did not walk in the counsel of the ungodly. He is the counselor. He is the wisdom of God. He is the Word of God made flesh. His counsel, His wisdom brought
to nothing the counsel of the ungodly. He was constantly rebuking,
reproving, correcting all the counsel of the ungodly, which
we're going to see is not just the people in the gutters and
all of that, but in the pew and the Jews of religion, the counsel
of the ungodly. But verse 2 says, His delight
is in the law of the Lord. His delight is in the law of
the Lord. I just quoted to you partially
Psalm Psalm 40, where he said this, let me go over there and
read it to you so it's not misquoted. Psalm 40, verses 7 and 8 says,
Then said Ilo, I come, in the volume of the book, it is written
of me, I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is within
my heart. His delight is in the law of
the Lord. He delighted in God's Word. Perfect
joy. We just sang that hymn. I quoted
Isaiah 26.3 to you. Thou wilt keep him in perfect
peace. His mind has stayed on thee,
our Lord. He was ever always one with the
Father in communion with the Father, wasn't he? Even though
enemies surrounded him. Even though he's oppressed and
afflicted always. So he was in perfect peace with
me. Went one with the Lord, knowing
his God reigned and would take care of him, take care of him
and his people. Blessed is that person, that
one, and Christ is the blessed one who delighted in the law
of the Lord and his law. Doth he meditate day and night. I want you to turn with me to
the book of Joshua. You've got to see this. The book
of Joshua, chapter 1. His delights. is in the law of
the Lord. Now, know this, that when the
scripture speaks of the law, sometimes it could mean the moral
law, the Ten Commandments. Sometimes it could mean the Levitical
law. But just know this, that throughout
the Psalms, David is speaking of all of God's Word. David didn't
have much of God's Word, did he? Probably the five books of
Moses, and maybe Joshua, maybe this book, maybe Judges, maybe
Ruth. Maybe Ruth. His great-grandfather
Boaz told him the story of his great-grandmother Ruth. Maybe.
But he didn't have much. But what he had, he delighted
in it. Joshua, right after the five
books of Moses. Look at that. Joshua 1, verse
2. The Lord says to Joshua, Moses,
my servant, is dead. And we looked at some of this
before. What a picture of Christ this
is, and we're dead to the law. Moses, my servant, is dead, thou
therefore arise. Go over this Jordan, thou and
all this people, in the land which I do give to them, to the
children of Israel. Every place, God speaking to
Joshua. Now you know that's Christ's
name, don't you, Jesus? God our Savior. Verse 3, every
place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I
given unto you. As I said unto Moses, and he
goes on to say, from the going down of the sun and the rising
of the sun. Verse 5, there shall not be any man able to stand
before thee all the days of thy life. Who's this speaking of,
Joshua? Well, yes, but a greater than
Joshua, like Solomon. Verse 6, be strong. And of good
courage unto this people shalt thou divide, for in inheritance
the land." Look at verse 7, "...be strong and courageous, that thou
mayest observe to do according to all the law which Moses my
servant commanded thee. Turn not from it the right hand
to the left, that thou mayest prosper with us wherever thou
goest. The book of the law shall not
depart out of thy mouth." But thou shalt meditate therein day
and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is
written therein. For then thou shalt make thy
way prosperous. Then thou shalt have good success. Had not I commanded thee, be
strong and of good courage, be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed. The Lord thy God is with thee,
whithersoever thou goest." Who's that speaking of? The Lord Jesus
Christ. His delight was in the law of
the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night. I hope you are glad that I'm
giving you scripture verses to remember. You seem to be responding
to these. It's a good thing, isn't it?
This is what he told a man named Joshua. He told a man named Joshua
to do it. David, I'm quite sure. read and
committed to memory much of God's Word in it. Why? For his own
peace and comfort. Remember the Word upon which
thou hast caused me to hope. That's what he said then. That
is, bring it to my remembrance. Make me to know it. Write it
on the tables of my heart. Thy Word have I hid in my heart,
David says. He knew it. I hope you like this
and I hope you want Just lay those verses aside, but we'll
commit them to memory for your good and the good of others that
you'll be able to speak to about this time. So the Word of God
is such a blessing that we need to meditate in. Brother Chapman,
I listened to three messages on this psalm today. I've had
a three-hour drive or more, there and back. So I listened to three
messages, one by my pastor, of course, on this. Great message. And then by two of his pupils,
one John Chapman, I wrote him again, I said, John, I'm tempted
to just play it over the PA, it's just so good, so good. He said, in his message, he said,
if we would just saturate ourselves in the scripture, just saturate
ourselves in the scripture, We would know the way to take. We
would know how to think, how to act, how to walk, how to talk,
where to go, what not to do, what to do. We would know to
just saturate ourselves in the Scripture. Oh, may the Lord make
it so. May we meditate. Our Lord did,
didn't He? For us. Though He didn't have
to. He is the Word. He wrote the
book. And yet He did. And all through
the Psalms, Psalm 119, I told a sister one time, if you don't
know where to read in the Psalm, you can always turn to Psalm
119 and something will bless you greatly. Because it's all
about the Word. It's all about the Word of God. This is what we turn to. This
is where we go to for help in time of need. This is how the
Lord speaks to us. The Lord does not speak out loud.
He does not speak out loud. He doesn't speak in dreams and
visions. He doesn't speak that way. He speaks through His Word. Okay? If you want a word from
the Lord, you want wisdom from above, go to His Word. And again I say, ask Him to speak
to you. Because most of the time we just
read it and it's just words on paper. But sometimes He speaks
to us. He really blesses us. So that's
what we need to ask Him. Our Lord meditated day and night,
and so should we. Verse 3, He shall be like a tree. You know, there was a tree in
the Garden of Eden. In the beginning, God made a
tree called the Tree of Life. The last chapter in the book,
Revelation 22, there is a tree. You know that? The same tree
that was in the beginning. And it says the leaves of that
tree are for the healing of the nation. It talks about a river,
a tree planted by the river. There was a river in the garden,
wasn't there? With four heads. That river is
the river of God's mercy, the river of God's love, the river
of God's grace. Four heads, what's that? The
four Gospels are perhaps those four heads that represent Christ
our Lord. They all speak of Him. There's
a river in the beginning, there's a river in the end. It all comes
from and through the Lord Jesus Christ. He is that tree, tree
of life. And we're in Him. He is the Father's
family tree. That's the tree we want to be
found in, don't we? I've got a family tree. You know,
one time there was a special on that, what's the name of it?
something.com or ancestry.com. So I wanted to find out I was
Irish, you know, or Scottish, and I found out. So what? That doesn't mean a thing, does
it? This is the tree that I want to be found in, don't you? Christ
said, I am the vine, and you're the branches. The Lord Himself,
Christ said, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed. The smallest of the seed. Planted, though, it grows up
into a tree. Spread where the fowls of the
air can lodge in the branches. That's Christ. He is this tree
of life. By the rib planted. Planted. Our Lord God planted His Son. The vine, the choice vine, this
tree of life, planted. The root is in Him. The root of the matter. He planted. Planted means that somebody took
that tree or that seedling, that sapling, and put it in the ground
on purpose. For a purpose. That's Christ. He shall grow up. He was planted,
as it were, the seed in a woman's womb. and grew up as a tender
plant, a root out of dry ground, and he is that tree of life. He is planted. And nobody is
going to uproot him. He's firm. He's there. He's always
there. He's seated at the right hand
of the Majesty on high, verse 3. And he brings forth his fruit. Righteousness. What is the fruit?
The fruit of righteousness, James wrote. is sown in peace by them
that make peace. Well, that could not speak any
more clearly of anybody but Christ. The fruit, His fruit is righteousness
and peace that He obtained for us by the blood of His cross.
His fruit and His season and His leaf shall not wither. Adam and Eve, you know, sowed
together some fig leaves. And they didn't cover. The Lord
immediately took them away and said, that won't cover you. And
we've always thought about the fact that man likes to turn over
a new leaf. Where did that saying come from?
Probably the garden. You can turn over a new leaf,
but it won't cover your sin. The only thing that will is Christ's
righteousness. His leaf shall not wither. He's an evergreen tree. The dew of youth on his brow.
And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. There's an old religious
saying, everything in heaven and earth shall pass, but only
what's done for Christ will last. You remember that old saying? That's not true. Only what's
done by Christ shall last. He, whatever He doeth, shall
prosper. The pleasure of the Lord, Isaiah
53 says, shall prosper in His hand. Isaiah said in chapter
42, He shall not fail or be discouraged. And it pleased the Lord. The
pleasure of the Lord, what is it? It pleased the Lord to make
you His people. And God gave you to Christ. You
trust in Him. He gave you to Christ. And when
he went to that cross, he put away our sin. The pleasure of
the Lord was to make you his people and to send his son to
die for our sin, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself,
and he accomplished it. He said so. He prospered. And he said, you'll be with me
forever, behold my glory. So that clearly speaks of the
Lord Jesus Christ, doesn't it? He must have the preeminence.
He must, so we must begin with Him. All right. Now, Scripture
says if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. Old things
pass away, old things become new. Christ in you, the hope
of God. There's a new man created in
the image of Christ in all of God's people. Though we don't
always see Him, He's there. A new man created in His image. John said, as He is, So are we,
right now, in this world. Alright? Now, let's look at it
as it speaks about us. Blessed is the man or the woman. You know, whenever Scripture
talks about the man, it speaks of men and women. In Christ,
there is no male or female. Right? No Jew or Greek, no barbarian,
Scythian bond or free, but Christ is all. Blessed is the man, blessed
is the woman, blessed is the young person, boy or the girl,
who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. By the way, my
pastor, he dwelled on this point, blessed
is the man. That God blesses just men and
women, human beings, sinners. How blessed we are. We're not
angels, we're not super-human, we're just sinners. Fickle, finite,
fallible, falling sinners. Imperfect, sinful creatures,
okay? But God has highly favored and
blessed some among the sons of men. Psalm 60, I didn't know
it by heart, but I forgot it. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest, and causes to approach unto thee. We're going to look
at Ephesians 1 Sunday, by request, Ephesians 1. And in that, he
speaks of the blessing, spiritual blessings in heavenly things
or places that are in Christ. And the first thing he says is,
according as he chose us in Christ. Blessed is the man, 65, I know
it. I can quote it. Blessed is the
man whom thou choosest. If you're here tonight and you
delight in what you're hearing, the law of the Word of the Lord,
and you love to read it like this, oh, you're so blessed.
This is the blessing. This is the blessing. And did
our Lord say in Revelation 1, Oh, blessed are they that read
the words of this book, that hear it, and that keep it. Oh,
how blessed we are that we be but men. God has highly favored
us. That walketh not in the counsel
of the ungodly. The wisdom, the philosophy, so-called
wisdom. Can you not say with absolute
certainty, That God hath made foolish the wisdom of this world.
Do you listen to anything, anybody that says to that? Not much.
David said this, I said in my haste, all men are liars. In
his haste, all men aren't liars. Nathan wasn't a liar. And David
would go sit and listen to him. Why? Because Nathan preached
the Word of God. And Barbara today has said, Barbara,
we're going to worship tonight. I'm going to preach. You know
what I'm going to preach?" He said, the Word of God. That's
right. Preach the Word, Timothy. End
season, out of season. It's out of season today. Oh,
not for God's people. You're not going to walk in the
Council of the Ungodly. You're not going to listen to
it. Blessed is the man, the woman, the young person who doesn't
stand in the way of sinners. Does it stand in the way of sinners? Go over to Psalm 26. I meant
to quote this in reference to our Lord. He certainly said all
of this, but so can we. Blessed is the man or woman who
does not stand in the way of sinners. What this is speaking
of is, the people of this world are not the companions of God's
people. We don't stand with them. We
don't stand for the same things. We have nothing in common. Nothing. There was a time when we were
just like everybody else. And that's all we thought about
was the things of this world. But not now. Not God's people. I have nothing to talk about.
Weather? Well, they're going to be complaining
about it, and we're going to be thanking God for it. Politics? I sure
don't want to talk about that. Our Lord never did. The apostles
never did. What are we going to talk about? I'm not going to stand with people
that don't love my Lord, that blaspheme His name. I can't stand
them. Look at this, Psalm 26. He says,
verse 4, I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I
go in with dissenters. I have hated the congregation
of evil doers. I will not sit with the wicked. People get together and make
some kind of stance. Somebody invited Mindy and I
to a political rally, a neighbor of ours, and we kind of thought,
well, you know, maybe we can make friends with them, maybe.
But I thought, I'm not going to go there. There's nothing
I stand for in this world except the gospel, the truth. In Lynchburg, you know, at Liberty,
got a big sign up there. We're champions that are going
to change the world. Well, we're preachers of righteousness
that condemn the world. We're not out to change the world.
You can't change this world. God's going to destroy this world.
We're preaching a gospel that's able to bring people out of this
world. This world is not going to change. It's getting worse. We're preaching a gospel that
the world desperately needs. We're not going to vary from
that. We're not going to be sidetracked from that. This is it. Look at verse 8. The habitation
of thy house, the place where thine honor dwelleth, where your
name is, where your glory is, where your son is preached, where
your people really do worship God in spirit and rejoice in
Christ Jesus and there's no flesh in it. Isn't that where you want
to be? That's where we are. That's what we do. By God's right. And I'm going to stand with them.
Look at verse Now, gather not my soul with sinners, nor my
life with bloody men. Verse 12, My foot standeth in
an even place. In the congregation will I bless
the Lord. David said, I am a companion
of them that fear thee. And they that love thee, he said,
will be glad when they see me. David and Jonathan. So we'll go back to our text.
Blessed is the man who doesn't stand with. Nor sitteth in the
seat of the scornful." You know who the scornful are, don't you?
They're the experts. They're the critics, the judges
that sit in judgment of everything and everyone. Scorners, and scoffers,
and mockers, and think they know everything. They don't know anything. Listen to St. Peter. But listen to him. He
said, in the last days, scoffers walking after their own love.
Where is the promise of His coming? It ain't nothing to any of this.
They're ignorant. They're ignorant. Willingly ignorant
of the flood and creation. He said, Beloved, don't you be
ignorant. God just puts up with them. God
hears every word that's being said. He hears all the blasphemy. Proud boasters and talkers and
all that. Scoffers. He hears the scorners.
He hears what they're saying. That's why I'm glad you requested
Psalm 2. The next Psalm says, He that
sitteth in the heavens laughs. Scoffs. He's going to scoff. Proverbs
1. You ever read that? It said that sitting in the heavens. That's your calamity. You laughed
at me. You scorned at me. You scoffed
at me. You would none of my reproof.
Now I'm going to laugh. So, Peter said, we see all these
things going to be dissolved. So what manner of persons ought
we to be in holy conversation? That is, a conversation in heaven? Looking for? Hasting? That is, come quickly. The coming
of the day of God wherein the heavens being on fire shall be
dissolved and elements shall melt with the fervent heat. We,
according to His promise, look for new heavens and new earth
wherein dwelleth righteousness. What are we doing? Waiting. Waiting. What's your last memory
verse? Psalm 37. Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage,
and He shall strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say. Wait on the
Lord. Wait. That's what we're doing.
Blessed is that man, that woman, whom the Lord, when He comes,
shall find waiting. We have waited today. And He
came back, just like He said He would. Well, let the world
scoff. Let the world scoff. And our
God is going to scoff at them. Go on here. It says now, we don't
sit with the scornful. Our delight is in the law of
the Lord and His law that we meditate day and night. Can you
say these things? Psalm 119. Let's turn real quickly. Psalm 119. I know you'll love
it. Psalm 119. Oh, this is one I... I memorized years ago Psalm 119,
165. This might be our next one. Psalm 119, 165. Great peace have
they which love thy law, and nothing shall offend them. Wouldn't that be a good one to
remember? Great peace have they who love thy law, and nothing,
no matter what anybody says, no matter what happens, Come
what may, no matter the trials, the afflictions, the trouble,
the persecution, no matter what the whole world is saying, nothing
shall offend them. Nothing. Look at verse 128. Therefore,
I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right. And I
hate every false weapon. I hate it. Look at, oh, I had
so much. Verse 92. Psalm 119, 92. Unless thy law had been my delights,
I should have perished in my vision. Can you say that? If it wasn't for God's word,
the afflictions and the troubles and the trials we go through,
we would have perished. But God's law, God's word undergirded
us. Look at verse 97. Oh, how I love
thy law. It's my meditation all the day. 103. How sweet are thy words
to my taste, yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. 105. Thy word
is a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path. 111. Thy testimonies
are my heritage forever. They're the rejoicing of my heart. Can you say that? Can you? Not like you want to. But you
can say that. You're blessed. You're a blessed
man, blessed woman. And he says, you'll be like a
tree. That person is like a tree. He
doesn't say they ought to be. He says they are. Like in Matthew
5. Blessed is. Blessed are the poor. Blessed are they that mourn.
Blessed are the meek. God's people are. They're like
a tree. This reminds me of Isaiah 61. It says that the people of God... Isaiah 61, he said, there will be trees of
righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified.
Oh, where is that psalm that says it will be planted in the
house of the Lord and won't be uprooted? The root of the matter
is in you. You see, every tree that my Heavenly Father has not
planted will be rooted up. But not those he put in Christ. They'll never be rid of them.
Because Christ didn't. It says, there'll be like trees
planted by the rivers of water. What you're looking at right
now is the water of life. The Word of God that speaks of
Christ. Bring forth His fruit. Whose fruit? His fruit. His fruit. Through the Spirit.
Love, joy, peace. In His season. whenever we need
it. You see, you don't need patience
until you're going through trouble. It's easy to say you have patience
when you don't need it. But this is in season. It's easy
to say you have joy in the Lord and everything's going well.
But then when you go through a trial or trouble, then if you
can rejoice, that's in season. That's when you need it. And
that's of the Lord. His leaf. His leaf. Whose leaf?
His leaf. That covers us. Shall not wither.
And whatever he doeth shall prosper. Now, people, you know that's
not talking about health and wealth. Spiritual prosperity. Because
Job, when the Lord took everything away from him, it was good for
him. But his soul prospered through all that. All right, verses 4 through 6,
and we'll close. The ungodly are not so. And again,
the ungodly are not just openly immoral and wildly wicked, but
these are those our Lord called workers of iniquity and religion.
People, you know this, the Jews killed all the prophets. They
killed our Lord. They killed the apostles. Religious
people. Saturday go to meet and lynch
mob. Good, moral, law-loving, law-keeping,
God-worshipping people. No, they were not. Our Lord said
they were workers of iniquity. Ungodly. Paul knows, didn't he? Ungodly means they don't know
God. The ungodly are not so. And there's
a small chapter, book, Jude, right before the Revelation.
Read it sometime. Much is said about the ungodly.
You're like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Isn't that
religion today that goes after every wind of doctrine? And our
Lord separates the chaff from the wheat. What separates? Right
here. The Spirit of God is the wind. He
takes this Word and He separates the wheat from the chaff. This
is how He separates. This is how He sanctifies, sets
His people apart from the world. The truth. Sanctify them through
thy truth, our Lord said. Thy word is true. He said, I
am the truth. The ungodly, not so. They're like a chaff. They're
going after this, going after that, by every wind that follows
along. Not us. What are we after? What are you after? Christ. Can you say that? Verse 5, the
ungodly shall not stand in the judgment. You know, if the Lord should
mark iniquity, who should stand? But there is forgiveness for
this. We know that. And someday all human beings
are going to stand before God to be judged, Revelation 20,
19, going to be judged by God for their worth. Not God's people.
Where are they? Seated. Seated. Didn't our Lord say, remember
Revelation 3? He said, He that overcometh will
I grant to sit with me in my throne. What's that? As we see
Him judge the world. This is the mystery. But it's
so. As we see them judge, and what
we're going to say is, Amen. True and righteous are down. They won't stand there. Sinners
in the congregation of the righteous. God's people are righteous. If
I would ask you to stand up and tell us what it means to be righteous,
could you do that? Sure you could. You better be
able to. Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to thy mercy have thou saved
us. Titus 3. Our righteousnesses
are filthy righteous, right? How are God's people righteous?
They are made righteous. 1 Corinthians 1.30. Of God is made unto us wisdom
and righteousness. Surely, surely, shall one say,
in the Lord have I righteousness. Anybody else? Jehovah Sidkenu. I gave that name to some Jehovah's
Witnesses one day who came and I said, do you know that name?
They said, no. I said, I'm a Jehovah's Witness, you're not. Jehovah
said, Kenneth, the Lord, our righteousness. That's Christ,
isn't it? That's how we're righteous. We're
not righteous in and of ourselves. We don't have any righteousness
of ourselves. Our righteousness is Christ.
Doctrine? It's a testimony of our hearts. The Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous. One of the brethren one time,
a couple of Jehovah's Witnesses came to his door. And he said to them wisely, he
said to them, Fellas, if you were to Go before God, and He
will ask you, why should I let you into my heaven? Why should
I let you into my heaven? What would you say? And one of
those Jehovah's Witnesses said to him, because we've served
you all our days. Because we've testified to you
and witnessed of you. And my brother said, really? Would you really say that? That's what the Lord said in
Matthew 7 that some would say right before he cast them out.
We've done many wonderful works in your name. Depart from me,
you workers of iniquity. Well, what would you say? One
way. All of God's people know there's
one way. Cut into the heart and the mind
of all of God's people. You ask them, what's the way?
How are you going to get to God? How are you going to be accepted
by God? Why would God receive you? You say, for Christ's sake. He said, I'm the way. He knows the way. You know why
He knows? Because He put him in the way. But the way of the ungodly, there
is a way that seemeth right to man. And it's going to end in
destruction. That which is highly esteemed
among men. There's an abomination to God in there. We know, oh, how blessed we are
to know the Son of God has come and given us an understanding.
I know Him that is true. We're in Him that is true. This
is true life. This is eternal life. True God. Jesus Christ. The way of the
ungodly shall perish. Everything. But nothing about
God's people. They won't perish. Because Christ
is our life. Okay, stand with me. Father in
heaven, thank you for your blessed Psalms. We began where you began,
and we hope, we pray that we've glorified you in some way. Our feeble attempts, words and
speaking and hearing. But oh Lord, we do know. We do know that Christ is the
what? That we are blessed in Him. We are blessed in Him. All those
spiritual blessings and heavenly places are in Christ. We know
that, so we are most blessed. We thank You, Lord, for giving
us an understanding. We pray You would do this for
others. That You would give this faith in Christ. It's in His name we pray and
ask this thing. Amen.