Okay, go back to Psalm 116 with
me. Oh, might I hear that heavenly
tongue. He would raise my voice. Ours. I want to try to keep this simple. I hope the Lord makes it sweet.
Try to make it short. I remember Dad told us preachers
years ago, he said, write this at the top of your notes. K-I-S-S. Keep it simple. Stupid. There are three things in one
verse here that really, really struck me and have been with
me for weeks now. Verse 8, David says of the Lord,
He has delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and
my feet from falling. He delivered my soul from death,
my eyes from tears, and my feet from Father. At first, he gives a short prayer
before this. In verse 3, he said, sorrows
of death encompassed me. Pains of hell got hold on me. Sorrows of death. Whether he's
thinking about the death of others, we all go through that. We all
experience the death of loved ones. Great sorrow, isn't it? Maybe
he's thinking about his own. Maybe he's worried about his
own death. We are subject to that, Scripture
said, subject to fear until it's time. And then he says, the pains
of hell got cold on me. Maybe he was thinking, as we
sometimes do, that that's where I'm going. And if you know anything
about your sinfulness, sometimes that crosses your mind that the
Lord just might send me to hell. And that disturbs him. He said, I found trouble and
sorrow. You know, trouble is not hard to find, is it? He finds
this man that is born a woman a few days and full of trouble. I find myself in trouble more
than out of it. Troubles of my own making. Troubles,
David said, of my heart are enlarged all the time. I have such trouble
with this man, this evil fellow inside of me. My chief trouble
and my adversary and others. He said troubles and sorrow. I find myself more sorrowful
than joyful. And it shouldn't be that way,
I know. And I try to encourage all of us, but I find that to
be true of myself. And you know, these things are
troubles, soul troubles and sorrows that only God's people experience.
God's people, the only ones that go through this. Stan and I love
Psalm 73, and everybody knows it. that he said of the people
of this world, he said, they're not in trouble. They're just
not in trouble like I am. He said, the waters of a full
cup are wrung out on God's people. Trouble. And that's the experience
of God's people. Trouble. Sorrow. In verse 4 he said, So I called
upon the name of the Lord. Called upon the name of the Lord.
You know, the Lord said, Whosoever shall call on the name of the
Lord shall be saved. Whatever you need saving from,
oh yes, our sin, that's our greatest need and that's the great salvation,
is to save us from sin. But we get into all sorts of
trouble and sorrow and things get hold of us. Hell in our hearts
and so forth. We need saving. We need saving
from our adversary. David says, So I called on the
name of the Lord. And here's his prayer. A short
prayer. Eight words. Very simple. Oh Lord, I beseech
Thee, deliver my soul. That's it. Eight words. You know, the Scripture says
we're not heard for our much speaking. He said the Pharisees loved to,
for a show, make long prayers. You remember the Pharisee and
the publican went into the temple. And the Pharisee just went on
and on in there. Prayed thus with himself. And the publican
prayed seven words, even shorter than that. God be merciful to
me, the sinner. What a prayer. And I'll tell
you whose prayer was answered. The publican. We are not heard
for our much speaking. We are heard, though, for whose
name we call upon. We are heard for whom we call
upon and whose name we call upon. Our Lord said, you ask the Father
anything My name. And He'll hear you. He'll hear
you. I wasn't going to tell this,
but I think I will. I went on Sermon Audio and out of curiosity, I looked up
a man that we used to know in Michigan. And he was a preacher
and still claims to be. But anyway, he has gotten quite
famous now. At any rate, he was called upon
to pray before the Senate, the House of Senate in Michigan,
which was a big deal. He was called to pray, lead the
opening prayer. They call upon dignitaries to
do those things, you know, whether it's in the Capitol in Washington
or the Capitol And so he did, and I just happened to look at
it and watch it. It was on video, and he read
it. He had it all in a notebook.
He read his prayer. It sounded good to the average
person. It was sincere, seemingly. It was patriotic. It was a call
for national repentance. It was reproofs and rebukes for
all of the wickedness of our nation and forgetting God. and
abortion and many things like that. And there was a comment
afterwards. Someone commented on the prayer
and said, it's a powerful prayer. And I heard it and I was greatly
disappointed, knowing the man and having heard him preach in
the past. He didn't mention Jesus Christ's name. He didn't mention it. So that prayer didn't get out
of that Senate chamber, guaranteed. God didn't hear it, no matter
how eloquent it seemed. David says, O Lord, who's His
Lord? Who does David call upon? The Lord God? Jehovah? Christ? The Lord said unto my Lord. David
knew. Christ, O Lord, Jesus His name. Jesus means Jehovah saves, doesn't
it? Joshua, O Lord, I beseech Thee,
I beg You, I have one thing I need, one thing. Deliver my soul. You're the great Deliverer. Deliver
my soul. Bartimaeus. Bartimaeus cried
nine words. Jesus, Thou Son of David, have
mercy on me. Did he? He stopped everything. The Lord of Glory stops everything.
Oh, Lord, I beseech Thee. When we call upon the Lord, we
call upon Him because He's the only one who can deliver us. He's the only one. Salvation
of our souls, our daily lives, everything is in His hands. Salvation
is of the Lord. If you need saving from whatever
it is, it's of the Lord. So we call upon Him. Deliver
our soul. Children's souls. Lord, this
is the one thing we need to deliver our souls. Then in verse 5, he
says, The gracious is the Lord, and righteous, just. Our God is merciful. God is gracious. By grace you are saved. God is gracious. By grace you
are saved. Free unearned gifts. Whoever
calls on the name of the Lord, Lord, save me. That's how gracious He is. Whoever
calls, it's freely and abundantly given. Do you remember this? To the woman at the well? Remember
what He said to her? Remember those simple words?
He said, If you knew, you would have asked, and He would have
given. If you knew who it is that saith
unto you, you would have asked, and He would have given. Ask,
and you shall receive. The Lord is gracious, the Lord
is righteous, he's just, he's the just and justifier of all
of them that believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Yes, he's righteous
to deliver us by crying. And yea, the Lord is merciful.
Yea! Our God is merciful. Yea! I'm going to say it like that.
Yea! Yea! Our God is merciful, full
of mercy. Our greatest need, God is most
full of mercy. And His mercy endures forever. He delights to show mercy, to
take pleasure, and then to fear Him and hope in His mercy. Gracious
is the Lord, righteous, and yet, yea, our God is merciful. Look at verse 6. I'm getting
to one verse here. The Lord preserved it, the simple. The Lord preserved it, the simple. David said, I was brought low,
raised low, raised from a low estate, and brought low again. Whoever is exalted shall be abased. The Lord knows how, and we need
to be. He said, the Lord preserved it,
the simple. I was brought low, and he helped
me. He preserved it. He saveth. He keepeth the simple. Not the wise, not the mighty,
not the noble, but the simple. Simple, common, common people. David was a simple man. You know
that's why we can relate to him. He was just a simple man. He
had a very humble beginning. He never left that. He never forgot about that. He
never forgot where he came from. That's what made him a good ruler.
He never forgot where the Lord found him. He never rose above
that. The Lord reminded him often. especially through the prophet
Nathan one time. And this is the sheer mercies
of David. He talks about how prophet Nathan came to David,
and the Lord said through him, He reminded him, He said, I took
you from the sheep coat, from following sheep, to be a ruler
over Israel. He said, I took you from following
sheep. You're talking about a humble
beginning. I took you from the sheep coats, from the hog pens,
took me from down here, but from following sheep to be the ruler
over Israel." They were men. Do you see your calling, brother?
Do you see your calling? Not many wise men of the flesh.
Not many mighty. Not many noble are called. Oh,
God hath chosen. We didn't choose Him to. God
hath chosen the foolish things. Yeah, things that are weak. Not
strong, but weak. Base things. Things that are
despised. Look down upon. Ridicule. People, that is. Things that
are not. Nobody's. Nothing's. From nowhere. That no flesh should glory in
His presence. That's who the Lord chose to
save because that's who's going to give Him the glory for. Those
that have nothing, know nothing, can do nothing, if He does it
all, They know it, don't they? That's who the Lord chose as
his companion. That's who the Lord chose to give this great
gift, those who had nothing. A bunch of commoners, like me. I felt like I could fit right
in here. Simple. Common. I used to ask your dad,
how are you, Joe? And without fail, what would
he say? Common. Common. Well, that's good. And so many
in here, so little education, such meager, common upbringing
of the Lord. Preserving the simple. That's
what he said. Aren't you glad? David said,
I was brought low and he helped me. I came from humble beginnings.
He helped me. Verse 7, he says, Return unto
thy rest, O my soul. Now he's talking to himself.
He's reminding himself. We all need to remind ourselves.
David said, Commune with thine heart on thy bed. Have a little
talk with yourself. Speak to the Lord, yes, but talk
to yourself. He said, Return unto thy rest,
O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee.
Return unto thy rest. You know, when we get in trouble,
it's just as soon as we walk out of these doors and go out
in that world. No. That's when our troubles
start. We come in here as a repose,
as a refuge, as an oasis in a dry land, a shelter in the time of
storm, a place where we can get some comfort and some peace. But as soon as we go out in that
world, a world full of hellions, Sons of Esau. Sons of Cain. When we go out there, that's
when we get in trouble. And that's when the world starts
to get a hold of us. Like David said, death, hell, and trouble
and sorrow got a hold of me. Here's good counsel. Here's good
advice for everyone like the lot that vexed with the conversation
of the wicked. Return unto your rest. Go with me to Isaiah 30. Isaiah
30. If you don't know where this
is found, mark it. Dog ear the page. Mark it with
ink. Because these sayings need to
sink down deep in our ear. Return unto your rest. Go back
where you found rest for your soul. Return to the place where
you found rest. The first place you found peace
for a guilty soul. Guilt from sin. The first place
you found beauty for ashes. Joy from mourning. praise for
a spirit of heaviness, scripture says. Come to where Christ says
to his people through the preaching of the gospel, come unto me and
I will give you rest. Let not your heart be troubled. And there's a place he has chosen
to put his name there, Mount Zion, the church where Christ
has promised to be to give bread. He has promised that. It's not
a figure of speech. He said, where two or three are
gathered in my name, I am right there. And if you need bread,
he'll speak to you, and you'll get it. And this place, if Christ meets
with us and speaks to us, is a little bit of heaven on earth.
Look at Isaiah 30, verse 7. Let these sayings sink down deep
in your ear. Verse 7. It says, The Egyptians'
help is vain. That is, the people of this world.
It's no purpose. Don't go there. They won't help
you. Therefore have I cried concerning this. That is, you need help. Their strength is to sit still. How many times does the Lord
say, be still and know that I'm God? And this is one of the few
times in our busy days, in our lives, that we come and we sit
down. We're forced to. We're forced to sit down and
shut up and listen. And hopefully a man is going
to bring us a message from the Word of God that will still our
souls. He'll lead us beside the still
waters and restore our souls. And we'll hear this message by
God reigneth. Be still, my soul. The Lord is
on thy side. Bear patiently the cross of grief
and pain. Be still, my soul. Be still. Look at verse 15. Thus saith
the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, in returning, that is,
keep coming back, In returning and rest, even if you go away,
if you stay gone a while, come back, prodigal, and rest. In returning and rest shall you
be saved. You'll be saved. One of the brethren
used to say, every time I hear the gospel, he said, I feel like
the Lord saved me all over again. In returning and rest, you'll
be saved. In quietness and in confidence, Quietness, that is,
being not hasty to utter anything before God, but listen, ready
to hear. We have ears and we don't hear. If we hear what He says, it will
give us confidence. It will give us rest. It will be your strength. We
need the strength of this need to go on for days out there in
the world, don't we? You get weak, you need to chew
on it. It would be like a cow. It would
be like a cow. Chews on its cud. Chews on the
Word. So he says in returning. So go
back to the text. He said, Return unto thy rest,
O my soul. Return to the Lord. David loved
to gather with the people of God. One time he was on the run from Absalom. That's
when he wrote That wonderful Psalm 84, he said, oh, I envy
the sparrow that's up in the rooftop of the tabernacle. He said, I wish I could just
be a sparrow up there listening to the Word be read. But he was
an outcast. He was away from that. Oh, he loved to gather
with the saints to hear the Word preached. He says, return to
your rest and think about how the Lord has dealt bountifully The Lord has dealt bountifully
with things, and I bountiful care. What tongue can recite? It breathes in the air, shines
in the light. Our blessings far outnumber our
troubles, don't they? But the reason we only think
of our troubles is because they just seem to be harder, and we
take blessings for granted. We take them for granted. We
take them all for granted. water. We take it for granted.
Food. We've got so much of it. Clothes.
We take it all for granted. That's why we're not more thankful,
more joyful. That's why I'm not. I take it
for granted. I'm in trouble like a child.
Like Psalm 107. As soon as we get in trouble,
we start crying. But He delivers. Scripture says
He hears us. He hears them, and He delivers
them out of all their trouble. That's because who He is. Because
He's gracious. He's righteous. Yeah, He's merciful.
He's dealt bountifully with us according to His abundant riches
and glory, His bountiful supply of mercy and grace and pardon.
He has dealt bountifully with us and will continue to do so.
Now here's the verse. And here's the Lord's great great
dealings with his people. He says in verse 8, Thou hast
delivered my soul from death. Up there he prayed, deliver my
soul, and here he says he has. He has. He stops thinking about
it, and he says, well, he has delivered my soul. He delivered
my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from Let's work on that a little bit.
My dad used to always say, let's work on that. Let's camp right
here just a little bit. He has delivered my soul, the
souls of his people, all that have called upon him, all that
trust him, all that believe him, all that look to Christ, he has
delivered their souls from death. He has, not shall, he has. Isaiah said this, and this is
why he's the Lord deliberate. Isaiah said, Behold, all of God's
people went through troubles and was killed, martyred. But he said, For peace I had
great bitterness, but thou in love to my soul, has delivered
it from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins
behind thy back." He said, in love to my soul,
you've delivered my soul from the pit of corruption. You've
cast all my sins behind thy back. I thought about Ezekiel's child. Cast out in the field. One of
you have asked me to preach on this many times in the last year
or so, and here's a short message. Ezekiel's child, you know, in
chapter 16, was cast out in an open field. That's us. We're born and we're cast out
in an open field into the world. You go out in the world and you
become polluted. in your blood, that is, that
nature. You're polluted in your blood, what comes out of your nature,
until you're found to be loathsome, a child, corrupt. None eye pitied
you. Not worth pitying, too simple.
Then the Lord said, I pass by. The good Samaritan He said, and
when I passed by thee, you didn't see me, but I saw you. And he
said, when I passed by thee and saw you polluted in your blood,
polluted in your blood, I said, here's what I said, because I'm
gracious, because I'm righteous, because I'm merciful, I said
unto you, when I saw you polluted in your blood, yea, I said unto
you, polluted in your blood, I said, live. And he said, your time, this
time when I passed by, was a time of love and love to your soul. I said, Leo, how did he deliver
our souls from death? That's why out of his great love
wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead and trespassed and
sinned, how does the Lord deliver our souls from death? You know,
the scripture says the soul that sinneth must surely die. How does He deliver our soul
from death? Here it is. Substitution, that's why. Because
it pleased the Lord to bruise His Son. Because He spared not
His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all. It pleased the
Lord to bruise Him. He put Him to grief. When He
made His soul an offering for sin, He saw His seed. Me. And he prolongs his days, and
the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand, that is,
my salvation. He shall see the travail of his
soul, and shall be satisfied, and by his knowledge shall my
righteous servant justify many. For he shall bear their iniquity. Therefore, God says, I will divide
him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the small
with the strong, because he hath poured out his soul unto death."
That's why. That's how. He delivers our souls
from death because He spared not His own Son. He delivered
Him up for all His people. That's how. There's only one
way. Only one way. Unto Him that loved us and washed
us from our sin, O mine, love to my soul, you've cast my sin
behind your back. O rather, put them on the head
of Christ your Son. Thank you, Lord. You've dealt
bammothly with me. O how gracious! And how righteous
and how merciful is our Lord through the Lord Jesus Christ.
He delivers our soul from death. And the only deliverance from
the pangs of hell and the troubles we get into and the sin troubles
and the sorrows and all that, the only deliverance is the same
as the deliverance from sin, is to look unto Me. Look to Me.
Look to Me. And then look at this. He said,
He has delivered my soul from death, and He has delivered my
feet from falling. I mean, my eyes from tears. He
has delivered my eyes from tears. We walk through a valley of the
shadow of death. David said, the sorrows of death
just overwhelm me. We go through what is called
a veil of tears. Baca's veil. We live in a world
of sin and sorrow and trouble. And because we're in this world,
because we're not of this world, this world is a place of sorrow
for us. David in one psalm says, by the
rivers of Babylon, talking about his people in captivity. By the
rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered
Zion, thinking about Zion. I can't help but think about
David when he came back to Ziklag and found his wives and children
captives and says all of them wept until they had no more power
to weep. David said, when we were there by the rivers of Babylon,
we wept and we hung our harps on the willows. There are times
when you can't sing the Psalms of Zion. There are times when
you're so sorrowful you can't do it. David spoke often of tears, didn't
he? He said, my tears have been my
meat day and night. Well, they say, they mock me
and say, where's your God? He probably said that when his
son died. He said that to my father, cruelly, meanly. He said, I've watered my couch
with my tears. Our sins cause us great sorrow,
don't they? Troubles of this life give us
great sorrow, afflictions, persecutions. And the only one who can deliver
us, our eyes from tears, is the only one who can deliver our
souls from death. And returning to our rest, like
he said, it all comes back to this. Return to hear about our
hope. Our hope is in the Lord. You
see, we sorrow not as those who have no hope. We come back to
our Lord who says, in this world, you shy of tribulation. He reminds
us of that. He said that right before he
was going to leave his disciples. And they were worried, they were
troubled, they were sorrowful. And the next three days were
the most sorrowful times of their life. Can you imagine? When he
was taken and then killed. That was the most sorrowful time
of their life. They slept while he prayed, but I bet they didn't
sleep the next few nights. I couldn't help but think about
Weeping may endure for a night, two nights, three nights, but
all joy comes in the morning. Our Lord said, your sorrow will
return to joy when you see me. He is the only one that can wipe
away these tears. That's why he says, come back
to me, come where I am. Maybe you've never seen this.
Ezekiel 34. Go over there to Ezekiel 24. Maybe you've never seen this.
If you haven't, look at it. This is a powerful verse of Scripture. Ezekiel 24. All of God's people
go through great sorrow, and they water their cats with tears.
You know, the Scripture says that God has our tears in His
bottle. You know that? My tears are in your bottle."
David said that. He knows everyone's fault. Yes,
he does. Yes, he does. Aren't you aware
of your children's crying? Very sensitive to it? He's the
only one that can wipe away our tears. Man can't. There's no
comforter. Job, you know, his friends tried
to comfort him and said, sorry comforters are you. They tried. They did better when
they didn't say anything. But look at Ezekiel 24. Look
at this. Verse 15. You may have never
seen it. The Word of the Lord came unto
me, that Ezekiel, saying, Son of man, behold, I take away from
thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke. What's he talking
about? He's talking about his wife. That woman. They love so much. Read on. With a stroke. Yet neither
shalt thou mourn nor weep, neither shall thy tears run down. Forbear
to cry, be silent, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of
your hat upon your head, put your shoes on your feet, cover
not thy lips, that is, your hands over your lips, eat not the bread
of men, So I spake unto the people in the morning, and in the evening,
my wife died. Just like the Lord said. And
I did in the morning what He commanded me. And it's going to happen to all
of us, isn't it? It has happened to some of us. What dries our
tears? Our brotherhood. One of the most
sorrowful times of your life, isn't it? Eli, when they came
to him about his only two sons, and said, both your boys are
going to die. What did he say? How could he
bear it? How could he go through that?
What did he say? What was his answer? It's the Lord. That's it. Job, they came to
him. Not just his sons, but his daughters. All his worldly possessions.
What did Job say? And this was a peace that passed
with understanding. His wife couldn't understand
it. He said, the Lord gave. And the Lord took it away. Blessed
be the name of the Lord. We've been through some funerals.
Lost some dear loved ones. Very, very precious. And we thought
we were irreplaceable. We are irreplaceable. We didn't
think we could live without. The Lord's grace is sufficient.
I remember my mother-in-law's funeral. I remember it well. Mindy was 24 years old when her
mother passed away. That's young, isn't it? She had a child right after that. And a young mother needs her
mother more than anybody else on earth. That's a tough time. That's a tough thing to go through,
to lose your mother at a young age like that. And we had her funeral. And Mindy
said at her funeral, she said, I looked at her, I was sitting
right beside her, and I never saw a tear flow from her face.
She was smiling the whole time. And she said afterward, because
of the joy she was getting, the comfort and the peace that she
was getting from what she was hearing, her pastor preached
God on the throne and her mother in his arms, that she said her
face hurt from smiling. The world cannot understand that. The world cannot understand that.
My sister's funeral, who was... a vital, vital, irreplaceable
part of the church, of her family. She had two teenagers at home,
two teenagers, both in high school. And, you know, Dad and I performed
that. And I didn't want to do that.
I know Dad didn't want to do it. We wanted to sit there and
mourn like other people do and let somebody else do that. But
we did anyway. And I remember thinking, I can't
do this. But the Lord's grace is sufficient.
And there were no tears. My father's only daughter, no
tears. And afterward, I remember your
dad came up to me and said, you know, the Lord just wiped away
all the tears today, didn't He? That's what he said. Yes, he
did, and he's the only one that can. He has. Tears return, but he'll do it
again. He'll wipe them away until someday. Someday, he says, there's
going to be no more tears. David, one more illustration. Remember David, when his child
was sick, they didn't want to lose that child. And he fasted,
and he wept, and he prayed all night long. He fell on the hearth.
He laid on his face all night long and prayed that the Lord
would save that child. And the Lord didn't. Well, He
did. He did save the child. He took him home. He took him
to glory. Well, they were afraid to tell
David then. They said, if David is weeping like that while the
child is sick, just imagine what he's going to be like when we
tell him he's dead. But you know what? It was just the opposite.
When they came to David and said, the child's dead, he got up and said, fix me something
to eat. He sat at the table, thanked
the Lord for his food and ate that food. And they said, we
don't understand. And he said, he can't come back to us, but
we can go to him. So that's my hope. And you wouldn't
bring him back, would you? Would you bring him back as much
as you love him? As much as you need him? As much
as you need him? How many times have we said,
boy, your mother would love you? Boy, wouldn't your mother love
Hannah? Wouldn't she have loved Hannah? But you wouldn't bring
them back, would you? You wouldn't do it. And he's going to wipe out all
tears someday. And look at the last line. He
hath delivered, and doth deliver, and shall deliver our feet from
falling. That's good news, isn't it? Our
feet from falling. How many times has he delivered
your feet from falling? David said, I'm ready to halt.
Ready to quit. And we do fall, don't we? And
he said, though a righteous man falls seven times, what did he
say? The Lord will pick him up. He hath, he doth, he shall. It reminded me of a passage in
1 Corinthians, I believe it is, chapter 2. He said, we trust
in the living Lord who hath delivered us. who doth deliver us and shall
yet deliver us from so great a death. He hath delivered our
feet from fallen people. We don't know how many snares,
how many pits, how many traps, how many trials, how many temptations
He's delivered us from. We go through many, don't we? We fall into snares and traps. We have trials, we have tribulations,
and we have temptations, but we don't realize how many He's
delivered us from. They're all around us. And He's
delivered us. Our feet from falling. He'll
not let us fall except what's good for us. And He doth deliver
us from falling. And will yet deliver us from
falling. Our Lord said, I give unto them eternal life, and they
shall never perish. Some went away. Remember? Some
left. This is a hard saying. He turned
to His disciples and said, will you also go away? What did they
say? They couldn't. They couldn't follow that. Why? Why? Them? Their decision? Their resolve? Their strength?
Their faith? Peter? Peter's faith? He's going to deny it a little
bit later. The Lord's not going to deny himself. Why? What's their hope? Because
our Lord said, you didn't choose me. I chose you. And he prayed
that great priestly prayer to his father here in John 17. He
says, those you've given me, I've kept. None of them is lost. That's our Lord's gracious and
righteous, full of mercy. Oh boy. He says, saying to my
soul, I am thy salvation. He says, deliver him. The Lord
hath delivered our souls from death. Yes, because He said,
deliver him from going down in the pit. I found a ransom. The Lord has delivered our eyes
from tears because He came and said, be of good cheer. I've
overcome the world. And it's all good. And He delivers
our feet from falling. because he shod us with good
shoes. The next line, David said, I
will walk before the Lord and the Lamb of the living. I will.
I'm ready to fall, but no, the Lord has delivered me and will
yet deliver me, and I will walk before the Lord and the Lamb
of the living. I would have fainted if I hadn't believed to see the
goodness of the Lord. So just wait, he said. Wait.
You'll see. You'll see. How bountifully the
Lord has dealt with you. Okay, stand with me. Brother Sammy, would you dismiss
this? Thank you.