Thank you. I like the line that says, Even
me, even me, with all my sin. Yes, he does. This man receiveth
such, and eateth with This psalm, Psalm 32, as I pointed
out, at the top of the psalm there, it has a title, Psalm
of David Maskell, which is also in front of Psalm 51 and a few
others, I believe. You'll notice it says, a psalm
giving instruction. That's what Maskell means, a
psalm to give instruction. Turn with me to keep that and
go back to Psalm 51. Psalm 51. You could mark it.
I'm going to quote it. Part of it. Come back to it.
But David wrote Psalm 32 just a little short while after Psalm
51. Most of you know Psalm 51. Nathan came to David after his
great sin. He was convicted of his sin.
poured out his heart to God for mercy. And this is what he said
in Psalm 51. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness,
according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercy. Blot out
my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin, where
I acknowledge my transgressions. My sin is ever before me, but
it is Thee The only have I sinned, done this evil in thy sight,
that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear
when thou judgest." Behold, he said, I was shapen in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me. And down in verse 12, he
was mourning over his sin and crying out for mercy, and he
begs the Lord See, he didn't have any rest. He didn't have
any peace. He was distraught, convicted,
guilty. No joy. He used to have some
joy, but he lost that. Verse 12, he says, Restore unto
me the joy of thy salvation. Uphold me or pick me up by thy
free Spirit. Then will I teach transgressors
thy ways that are not our ways. And sinners shall be converted
unto death. When they hear my story, how
God had such mercy to this sinner, then they'll be converted. And
he says, I want to rejoice again. Well, he did. And he wrote Psalm
32, okay? Just a little while after that,
Psalm 32. Now, this psalm was for sinners. Like Psalm 51. Do you know that
most of the martyrs, the ones who were going to their grave,
claimed this to be their favorite psalm? And many, if not most
of them, quoted this psalm on the way to be burned at the stake
or beheaded or something. Psalm 51. Quoted that. Have mercy
on me. I remember at either Silas Nichols'
or Ruth Nichols' funeral, gravesite, I forget which one, reading this
Psalm, Psalm 51, reading the Psalm 51. And standing beside
me was a Southern Baptist preacher, so-called. of a pretty large
place whose one of his members was related to Ruth. And I started
reading that psalm at the grave. We love that psalm, don't we?
Have mercy on me, O God, according to Thy loving kindness. Blot
out my transgressions. And I remember distinctly looking
over at him, and he was looking at me with the most puzzled look
on his face. As if to say, why on earth are
you reading that? That's what his look told me.
Why are you reading that? How could that comfort anybody?
Sinners devil. He got me a sinner. This message this morning will
mean nothing to you if you're not a sinner. This is a faithful saying. Am
I about to quote your favorite verse, Senator? This is a faithful
saying. And worthy of all acceptation.
Why? Because all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. Well, this is a faithful saying.
It's a true saying. God who cannot lie. That Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners. See, I laughed. That's me. Spurgeon used to say, I'm glad
my name's not in the Bible. Christ came to save Spurgeon.
He said, I know it's got to be another Spurgeon. But if he says
sinners, I know that's me. He says even the chief. The chief
of sinners. The worst. And he revealed that
by that old thief on the cross. The last sinner he saved while
on this earth. If you're not a sinner, Christ
didn't come for you, and His message is not for you. And in
horror, I say this, He's not coming back for you. This psalm will mean nothing
to you if you're not a sinner, but if you're a sinner, it will
mean everything to you. It will mean more than the world to you. It will be good news to you.
It will be glad tidings of great joy to you. You know what this
says? Blessed is he whose transgression
is forgiven. Whose sin is covered. Covered. Blotted out. Hidden. Never to be brought up
again. Transgressions. Forgiven. All of it. Completely. Whoever
he or she is. Whatever he or she has done.
Whatever they have done. Whatever they are doing. Whatever
they shall do. Gone. Covered. They're not going to be found.
Or remembered. Never again. Never be brought
up. Forgiven. Who in here has something in
your past that you're so ashamed of that you would never want
anyone to find out about? Not even your closest friend.
Not even your husband or wife. Your mother or your father, your
son or your daughter. Who in here has something in
their past who wishes it never had happened. It causes great guilt and shame
and fear that it's going to be your undoing someday. Who in
here wishes that they could block that out? Completely remove it
as if it never happened. Completely undo it. Take it back. But you can't. Or for that matter, who in here
would like for the Lord this morning to reveal what you have
thought this very day? What has gone through your mind
even as you've sat in the worship service? The Lord knows. The Lord knows. Blessed is he whose transgression,
no matter what it is, is forgiven. Whose sin is covered, covered,
covered. Isn't that good news? It is to a sinner. It is to a
sinner who can't undo it. And the Lord says, I have. And I will. You know, the world
says you must forgive yourselves. I hear modern psychologists and
preachers who, they're nothing more than want to be psychologists,
you know, sociologists. I hear them say, you must forgive
yourselves. Don't they? You ever heard that?
You must forgive yourselves before you can be forgiven. You must
forgive yourselves. Well, I don't think the world
has any problem doing that. I don't think unbelievers have
any problem forgiving themselves. That's their problem. Guilt. When the Lord sends guilt,
He keeps you guilty until He says you're forgiven. That's
a good thing. That's a good thing. But the
believer can never forgive themselves. I've tried. And I can't do it. David did. He said, my sin is
ever before me. Isn't it? At times I forget it,
but my sin... Now he's not just talking about
one isolated incident at all. He's talking about his whole
life, his attitude, his person, that indwelling sin. What made
him do what he did and continue to do and think and say, what
he does and says, that nature in him, that's what he's talking
about. And those who are like David, or man after God's own
heart, woman whom God has dealt with, they all know what David
is talking about. My sin, what I am, is ever before
me. My attitude, my actions, my motive,
my thoughts, my words, my deeds, the deeds and thoughts and motives
and attitude and action of my past, my present, and I don't
see any end in sight. ever before me. It's unforgivable.
You know, no one will cry unto the Lord for forgiveness of sins
until their sin is unforgivable. And what I am and do is unforgivable. There's only one. Did you read
the article in the Bulletin? Sin is so great. Sin is so deep,
the pollution of it, that nothing but the blood of Jesus Christ
can cleanse it. That's what it took. That's what
it takes. But our Lord said this. He said,
All manner of sin shall be forgiven. All manner. It doesn't matter
what it was, what it is, who it is, or how much it is. Forgiven. All manner. All manner. Forgiven. Covered. Look at verse
2. He said, blessed is the man.
And I'm going to tell you how it's covered here in a minute.
Blessed is the man or woman unto whom the Lord imputeth not, chargeth
not iniquity. There's no charge against sin.
No charges. No condemnation. Blessed is the
man or the woman, the young person whom God does not charge with
foolishness. God does not charge with sin,
iniquity, there's no charges held against them, no sin imputed
to them. And whose spirit, that verse
may give you some trouble, in whose spirit there's no guile.
What that means is that the opposite of guile is sincerity. This is
for people who know they're sinners and who sincerely need forgiveness
of sin. This is not people that say,
oh, I know we're all sinners. Like Pharisees say, yes, we'd
be sinners. No, no, no, no, no. That's not what David said. David
said, my sin. David didn't say, yes, we're
all a bunch of sinners and Lord, be merciful to me. The publican in the temple said,
he'd beat on his breast and said, be merciful to me, the sinner. David said, my iniquity has gone
over my head like a flood. He said, I'm bowed down greatly,
I'm troubled all the time. My loins, he said, are filled
with a loathsome disease. Anybody know what that's about?
To cry with the Apostle Paul, O wretched man that I am. Not
was. Before, when Paul was religious,
he thought he was blameless. He didn't have any trouble with
sin. But when Paul was religious, when Paul was a lost religionist,
a self-righteous Pharisee, sin didn't bother him. He thought
he was over that. But when the Lord saved him,
then he said, O wretched man that I am, am right now, who
shall deliver me from this body of death? Now, our Lord said
this is a blessed condition to be in. You've been blessed of
God if you know that you're poor. and needy, that if you mourn
over your sin, you've been blessed of God. This is the greatest
blessing that God can do to a human being is reveal to them that
they're a sinner. One of the old writers said that.
I remember a preacher came in one time, and I know the man,
and I don't have much confidence in his message at all. Kind of
legalistic reform. He came in and sat down one time
here And I quoted this hymn when he was there. I remember the
look on his face. Joseph Hart, one of the old writers,
said, A sinner is a sacred thing, the Holy Ghost hath made him
so. And I remember that man looking at me with horror, like, how
could you say such, how could you quote that? A sinner is a
sacred thing, meaning that there aren't many of them. that the
Holy Spirit is the one who has to convict somebody of their
sin. When the Spirit comes, Christ said, He'll convince the world,
that is, the people out of every tribe, kindred, nation, and tongue,
religious people. Hardest thing you have to do,
impossible, to convict a religious person. They're a sinner. I mean
worse, as bad as a harlot. But that's what the Holy Spirit
does to every single person that God Saves. He convinces them of sin. Not
somebody else's. Not in the world. In here, I'm
the sinner. Your circumstances are not the
problem. The things you do are not the problem. You're the problem. Sin is what you are, what I am.
This is the problem. And nothing and no one can do
anything about it but Jesus Christ. And that's why he says, blessed,
blessed, blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not. Who can forgive sins but God?
Right! And Christ... I'm getting way
ahead of myself. I need to get to it fast, don't
I? But Christ frankly and freely forgave everyone that came to
Him. He's the only one that can. And
He did, buddy, He did. Blessed are those that mourn
over the sin. They'll be comforted. And this
Gospel is a Gospel of comfort. Who for? Sinners. Not good people. This first must be a sorrow and
a mourning over sin before there's any gladness and rejoicing in
the Lord and the Gospel. Sin. Look at verse 3. Now, David
says this. Right after Nathan came to him,
and he was so convicted, so deeply, deeply convicted. You know, he
dwelt a long time without remorse, without conviction, without repentance
for a long time. Nine or ten months or a year,
he was in a bad, bad state, dead. And then Nathan, the gospel preacher,
came to him and convicted him of his sin. And I don't know
how long he stayed in this state. But it
says here in verse 3, he said, I kept silence. See, when God
convicts you of sin, you shut your mouth. Whatsoever things
the law saith, it saith to them that are under the law. Every
mouth may be stopped. That's why I think religion is
so full of it. I did say this. Just so empty
of the Spirit of God, they talk too much. Everybody's so full
of talk. Everybody's got something to
say. Everybody's got something to say. Sinners don't have much
to say. The people, the Israelites said
to Moses, you speak to God for us. Don't let God speak to you.
You speak to us. We've got nothing to say. We
need a mediator. We need someone to tell them,
speak to them. He said, I kept silence. I had
nothing to say for myself. What have you got to say for
yourself? I remember my dad coming to me. I found out. I was called. I did something.
I remember him saying that to me. What have you got to say
for yourself, son? I could just stand there and hang
my head. And that's what the sinner does before God. So I kept silent. He said, my
bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. You know, sin,
guilt, kept in, unconfessed to the Lord, will destroy you. It will make you decay within.
It will age you. He said, my roaring all the day. There's a rage that goes on within
you. You want to scream. You want
to holler. He said, day and night, thy hand
was heavy upon them. A hand like the hand of God pressing
him down. Pressing him down. I remember
also my father putting his hand on me, that big hand. There were
times when I did well and he put his hand on me and it made
me feel good. It made my shoulders go, well
done, son. But then there's times, son,
I know that hand felt so heavy. And the hand of God is His Word.
The hand of God is His providence, His trials, His things He puts
you under, His affliction, His conviction of sin. He says, Your
hand, the hand of the Lord, the Word of the Lord was heavy upon
me. He said, My moisture turned into
the drought of summer. If you're guilty, your mouth
will dry. Or nervous, your mouth will dry. No moisture. Or I tell you what, if you cry
long enough, you won't have any more tears to cry. Dried up. If you're so full of sorrow and
guilt and trouble and all that until you cry, David said, I
watered my couch with my tears, they cried till they could cry
no more, and then there's no feeling at all. Let me reach
a point where you have no feeling at all. You're just dead. Just
dead. Just dry. Anybody. Anybody. That's why it says Selah. And then he said, alright, I'm
going to teach you. This is a song of instruction, okay? And he started out with the good
news. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven. Blessed, oh how
blessed, is he whose sin is covered under the blood. Blessed is the
man And the Lord imputeth not iniquity. He doesn't charge with
iniquity. And whose spirit? Who's really
a sinner? Who's a sincere mercy seeker? You know, most religion just
wants some society. Most people just want to have
some programs and want to be a part of things and part of
some kind of fellowship and be included with some people. And
they want to find a mate. Or they want some, you know,
good things to happen in their life. They want to clean up their
act and all of that. That's religion, okay? Sinners. Sinners need to hear the Gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Me and Annie and I were talking
about that the other day. We were both approached by someone
that goes, different people that go to a big place here in town. Here's a good question to ask.
Those people, this would be a good question to ask people. When
they ask you, you're talking to them, ask them, why do you
go there? Why do you go where you go? Be a good question to
ask you. Why do you come here? And the
first thing, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speak.
The first thing out of a person's mouth reveals, generally reveals,
what is in their heart. Why they go, what they do, what
they come. Like the Lord said to those people that came to
Him, He said, what seek ye? Why are you here? What are you
looking for? Ask those people, why do you go there? Why do you
come here? Well, I would hope, and I do
believe, that most everyone in here, your answer would be, To
hear the gospel praise. To hear Christ praise. To hear
from the Lord. Not, oh, to be with my friends,
or so my children can have programs. That's religion. David said,
I'm going to teach you something here. He said, here's what I
did. Here's what a man with no guile,
a sinner, says. Verse 5. He said, I acknowledged
my sin. Unto who? The Lord. In my iniquity have I not hid?
In my iniquity have I not hid? You know, the Scripture says,
He that covereth his sins shall not prosper. Whoso confesseth
and forsaketh them shall find mercy. Confesseth to the Lord,
that is. Don't go to a group session.
Don't go to a priest. Don't go to a counselor. Does
not the Scripture say that he's the counselor? Huh? What will
you say but a multitude of counselors are safety? David said, Thy word
hath been my counselor's. And in a multitude of words from
the Lord is safety. Oh, my. I acknowledge my sin
unto Him. He's the one we need to tell
our sins, and He knows it anyway. Mine and Nick, what they have
on out here, don't cover it, come naked. Adam, take those
pick leaves off. Eve, take those pick leaves off.
You don't think I can see through that? Get out from behind that
bush. Who are you trying to hide from?
I saw it. There's not a word in your tongue
I don't know altogether. There's not a thought in your
mind that I don't know before you thought it. There's not a
thing you have done that I don't know, hadn't seen, a thing you
are doing, a thing you ever will do. You come clean before me. You come naked before me. You
come naked and here's what I'll do. I acknowledge my sin. I said
I will confess my transgressions under the Lord. It doesn't do
any good. It won't do any good to confess
our sins to men and women. In fact, it will do worse. You've
just laid on them a burden that they can't bear anymore. Something
they can never forget about you. Don't do that. Go to the Lord
and lay it on Him. I said, I will confess my transgressions
unto the Lord. And you know what He did? He forgave them. He forgave them
all. The Savior said, I held this
in. Needed somebody to talk to, didn't he? We all do. We all
need a shoulder to cry on. We need somebody to talk to,
don't we? Don't make the mistake of making it the arm of the flesh. Go to the Lord, everlasting arm. He'll make bare that arm that
you can lean on, you can hang on, the weight of your sin, your
troubles, your life, your children, everything. Hang on Him. Go to
him. David said, That's what I did.
And you know what he did? I went to him and I confessed
all my sins. And he wrote Psalm 51 and said,
Against thee it be only of my sin that I have done this evil,
and thyself, that you might be clear when you judge me. And
you know what the Lord did? Forgave him. Forgave him. Oh, my. I was going to have you
turn to Luke 7. The story of that woman, it says
in Luke 7 that he was in the house of a Pharisee and sat down
to meet and says, Behold, a woman in the city, a street walker. You know what she was. It says
she was a sinner. It says it twice. It says she was a sinner. And she knew that Jesus Christ
was in that house. Do you know why she went in that
house? She's a sinner. And it turns out she's the only
one in there. And she's the only one that heard Him say this.
So she went in that house. And she, by His feet, began to
weep. profusely, just covered his feet. Finally, she fell down at his
feet. She had long hair, you know. And she wept over his feet. Why was she weeping over his
feet? Why was she washing his feet? Because she heard somewhere,
blessed, how beautiful are the feet of Him that bringeth glad
tidings of great joy. She read that in Isaiah. She needed to hear some joy,
like David said. Restore unto me the joy. And
she's lying on his feet, weeping over his feet, and then washing
her beauty. It's nothing. His feet were more
beautiful than her head, she said. And she wiped his feet
with the hair of her head, and our blessed Lord turned to her
and nobody else and said, Woman, thy sins be forgiven thee. Frankly, freely, forever, without,
gone. Forever. Because I said so. Blessed is he whose transgressions
are forgiven. Buddy, I bet you read this Psalm
with great joy. Psalm 32. She understood what
that meant. Oh, how blessed. Sin is covered. It says here in verse 5, verse
6, For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee. Everyone that is godly. We think
of godly. Men and women think of godly
as someone who dresses a certain way. Someone who speaks, puts
on, has this religious talk. dresses in black or something.
We don't think that, but the world thinks that, that somebody
is godly. You know who God describes? They that are godly are sinners,
saved by grace and know it that they're sinners. And what the
godly want and need more than anything else is mercy. Mercy. For this, this is what the godly
pray unto thee. How often? Without ceasing. They pray without ceasing. David
said, My sin is ever before me. And so that's what he ever prayed,
brought before the Lord. His prayer for forgiveness. For
this shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee in a time when
thou mayest be found. In a time when thou mayest be
found. The Scripture says, Seek the Lord Well, he may be found. Today, this is that. Today is
the day. Well, he may be found. I know
that. I know that right now. I know right now. The gospel
is being preached. The Word of God is being proclaimed. And
there is forgiveness with the Lord. There is forgiveness for
the chief of sinners. All who call, whosoever shall
call on the name of the Lord. And no guile, but from the heart.
Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Right
now. Right now. Today is a day of
salvation. If somebody, from their heart,
cried unto the Lord for forgiveness of sin, you have God's Word on
it. He will, right now, forgive you completely and cover all
your sin under the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Right now,
he may be found. Tomorrow? I don't know. I don't
know. It may not be tomorrow. Right?
You see how this is urgent? Well, I'll put it off when I
have a more convenient season, but that's what, as Felix said,
you know, you never found them. You never found them. A time
when you may be found. But our Lord said this in verse
6, oh, he says through David, he says, if you pray, if you
call, if you confess, oh my, If we confess our sins, He's
faithful and just to forgive us our sin. And the blood of
Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all unrighteousness. It says in verse 6, when the
floods of great waters come, and they will. The flood of your
iniquity and sin. That's what David wrote in Psalm
38. He wrote all these psalms at the same time. He wrote most
of his psalms after 51. Only a sinner knows anything
about the gospel, about the grace of God, about the mercy of God,
about the character of God, about God's greatest glory. Only a
sinner knows. But when the flood of iniquity... David said, my
sins have gone over my head. The Lord said, nope, it won't
come down to you. When troubles and trials, because
of your sin, will go over your head. Nope, you won't drown. When tribulation... He said,
in the world you shall have tribulation. No, your head is above water. When a flood of the ungodly comes
around, when the whole world is full of iniquity, you won't
drown with them. Why? Because it says in verse
7, Thou art my hiding place. Thou shalt preserve me from trouble. And I couldn't help but think
about the ark. Noah's Ark, which is Christ. I could not help but
think about them in all that time. Don't you know, they were
sitting in that ark for a year. They sat in that ark for a year.
But especially in the beginning, at the first. When the Lord first
had mercy upon them, shut that door upon them, and they heard
the rain fall, and that lightning crash, and that boat was rocking,
and they were scared to death, and they heard the cries and
the screams of those that were lost. And they all, to a man
and to a woman, Shem's wife, and Ham, and Jacob's wife, and
Noah's wife, and Noah himself, were all saying, Thank you, Lord,
why us? Why us? Why did He do this for
us? Shem's wife's thinking, my mother and dad are out there.
My brother and sister are out there. Jake was thinking, my
mother's out there. She didn't know them. Why did
he choose me? Why am I in here? I'm no better than they are.
But the Lord had mercy upon me. Look at me. Look at me. I'm in this ark safe. The Lord
has given me a refuge. Oh, praise the Lord. He preserved them. Thou shalt
preserve them from evil. And then after all that, they
began to sing, didn't they? You reckon? Verse 7, Thou shalt
encompass me about with songs of deliverance. They started singing, didn't
they? Oh, Noah said, let's sing. Everybody,
let's sing. Well, the lightning was crashing,
and the thunder was rolling, and the rain was falling, and
the boat was tossing. And not a drop was coming in
on them, and they felt safe together. There weren't many of them, but
they were together. No strength in numbers, but there is strength
in the church with these people, in the refuge where the Lord
said He promised to be. Yes, there is. Let's sing a hymn,
shall we? Oh, how merciful. They could
all sing that, couldn't they? How merciful! We sing the same
songs over and over again, don't we? The same old songs. Songs
of deliverance. I never get tired of those. I
told John, didn't I, John? Right before we sang, Come, Thou
Fount, I said, let's just sing that at every service. Come,
Thou Fount of every blessing. To my heart, not just my lip,
but my heart this same night, streams of mercy never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise. Oh, to grace how great a debtor,
daily I'm constrained to be, let thy goodness like a fetter
bind my wandering heart today. Huh? Songs of deliverance. Not about Mama, but our Lord
and Savior, the Deliverer. That's why we sing these old
songs over and over again about the Deliverer and His great deliverance. Well, I've got the clue. Look
at it. It says, You're my hiding place. And He says, I'll instruct thee.
The Lord, through David, verse 8, says, I'll instruct thee and
teach thee in the way which thou should go. What way is that? What way is that? Christ said,
I'm the way, I'm the truth, I'm the life. That's the way. Look
to Him. Look to no one else. Look to
Him. Look to Him. Look to His blood. That's how
He covers us. You know, the Lord, that God
might be just and justifier, God will by no means clear the
guilty. God forgives us, but He didn't forgive His Son. God
forgives us all our iniquity, but He laid upon Christ the iniquity
of us all. He didn't forgive Christ. Christ
was made sin for us. That's how God can by no means
clear the guilty. He made Christ guilty. He laid
on Him the iniquity of us all. He made Him to be sin for us
who knew no sin. And He charged Him, Blessed is
the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. He imputed that
to Christ. He imparted that. Yes, he made
him to be sin, but he imputed his righteousness to us. So that's how he is. Our sin is covered because it's
under the blood. Our sin is forgiven because it's
gone. Christ put it away by the sacrifice
of himself. So keep looking to him. In verse
8, he says, I'll instruct thee and teach thee in the way which
thou shalt go. That's the way. Christ is the
way. I'll guide thee with mine eye. The Lord says, I have my
eye on you, and you follow me. I have my eye on you. And he
says in verse 9, don't be like the horse or the mule which have
no understanding. You know, modern horse lovers
and animal lovers think You know, well, he said they have no understanding. They're dumb beasts. They're
just dumb beasts. It doesn't matter what a modern
man says about them. They'll walk all over you. They'll
trample you if you don't put a bit in their mouth and a brine
on them. It doesn't matter how much you whisper to them. Right,
Kelly? They're going to walk all over
you. They will kill you if they could. They will crush you. And that's our nature. That's
our nature. Don't be, he said, like that.
You must put a bit in the bridle, in your mouth. That's the wicked. Verse 10, many sorrows shall
be to the wicked. Wicked. But he that trusteth
in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about, surrounded with mercy. Even the trials, even the trouble,
even the tribulation, even the sorrow, even the pain, even the
whatever. Whatever it is, it's mercy. Mercy. Didn't he say that in his Psalm
of the Shepherd? Surely, goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life. That's what the Lord said.
That's what David the Shepherd said. He knows it. Encompass
me about it. Surround you with mercy. Be glad
in the Lord. Be glad in the Lord. Rejoice,
Paul said. And again I say, rejoice in what? In the Lord. You see? You see why we're here? Who we're
here for? Who we're here to hear from? Who we're here to worship?
Who we're here to praise? Who we're here to see? Him. Be
glad in the Lord. The Lord, your righteousness.
The Lord, your shepherd. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice,
ye righteous. Those who have been made righteous
by Him. Shout. Shout for joy. Those who are sincere. Those
who truly need forgiveness of sins. Those who are truly sinners. Shout for joy. Be glad. We come
in here and we hear the message that brings conviction of sin
and brings us down. You've got to hear the bad news
first. You've got to be convicted of sin first. You've got to lay a black cloth
down before you show the diamond, the pearl of great pride to see
its beauty, to see it in all its beauty, and it's a black
backdrop. So we've got to be convicted
of our sin and mourn over our sin and confess our sin. So those who do, the Lord said,
there is forgiveness. Full, free, final, eternal forgiveness
of sin. Oh, how blessed. Alright, let's
sing in closing number 201. John, if you'll come. 201. When by sin oppressed, go to
Him for rest. Our God is able to deliver them. Stand with me. His grandest theme through the
ages... you.