Good? All right, good morning everybody. Good morning, good morning. If you would, stand with me and open your hymnals to page 361. We'll sing Sweet Hour of Prayer.

Sweet hour of prayer
Sweet hour of prayer
That calls me from a world of care
And bids me at my Father's throne
Make all my wants and wishes known.

In seasons of distress and grief
My soul has often found relief
And doth escape
The tempter's snare, by Thy return,
Sweet hour of prayer.

Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer,
Thine wings shall my petition bear,
To Him whose truth
And faithfulness engage the waiting soul to bless.

And since He bids me see His face,
Believe His word, and trust His grace,
I'll cast on Him my every care,
and wait for Thee, sweet hour of prayer.

Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer,
May I thy consolation share,
Till from my Pisgah's lofty high
I'll view my home and take my flight.

This robot flesh, I'll drop and rise.
To seize the everlasting prize
And shout, while passing through the air,
Farewell
Farewell, sweet hour of prayer.

Thank you. You may be seated.

And if you would, turn to page 355.

From every stormy wind that blows,
from every swelling tide of wars,
there is a call.

A sure retreat is found
beneath the mercy seat.

There is a place where Jesus sheds
The oil of gladness on our heads,
a place than all beside more sweet
It is the blood-bought mercy scene.

There is a scene where spirits blend
Where friend, O fellowship with friend,
Though sundered far, by faith they meet.
Around one common mercy seat,
Howither could we flee for aid?
when tempted, desolate, dismayed,
or how the hosts of hell defeat.

Had suffering saints no mercy seen?
Of their uneagled wings we soar
And sin and sense molest no more,
And heav'n comes down our souls to grieve.

While glory crowns the mercy seat.

Let's look together in Luke chapter 1. Luke chapter 1. And we'll start reading in verse 46 down to verse 55.

And Mary said,
My soul doeth magnify the Lord,
And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior,
for he hath regarded the lowest state of his handmaiden.
For behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.
For he that is mighty hath done to me great things,
and holy is his name.
And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.
He hath showed strength with his arms,
He hath scattered the proud in the imagination of the hearts.
He hath put down the mighty from their seats
and exalted them of low degree.
He hath filled the hungry with good things
and the rich he hath sent empty away.
He hath opened his servant Israel
in remembrance of his mercy
as he spake to our fathers,
to Abraham and to his seed forever.

Our great, glorious, and blessed God of heaven and earth, it's into thy holy, glorious presence we come. And we come, as we always do, with thanksgiving and praise. You are to be praised abundantly, always, whether we voice it with our voice or from the depths of our heart or from our minds, Lord, our hearts. minds and mouth ought to always praise and honor your holy name.

And Lord, we're blessed to be here today. So blessed to be here. And we're thankful. So meet with us today. Give us of your holy presence. Give us the Holy Ghost to come down among us. You come and visit us. You said wherever two or three are gathered together in your name, there you'll be. Lord, there's more than two or three here today. So come and meet with us. Come and give us your presence. Lord, we need you so. And Father, we pray for those that are traveling, that you keep them safe and see them safely back home with us. And Lord, we pray for those who are providentially hindered, their bodies are weak, they're frail. And we pray for those who we've always prayed for, Jim and Debbie, Rick and Helen, Lord, we know that you're with them, always for them, and uphold them.

And, Lord Jesus, we pray again for our lost loved ones, pray for our children, our grandchildren, and those that don't know you, and that, oh, God, with you and your sovereign mercy, would open their hearts to the truth of the need of Christ. We'll bless you, and whether you do, we'll bless you. Whether you don't, we're going to bless you. You're God, and there's no one else like you. Be with us today, for Christ's sake, amen.

All right, if you would stand with me, and we'll do the hymn of the day in your bulletin. Now may the Lord reveal His face and teach our ten ring tongues to make His sovereign reign in grace the subject of our songs, the subject of our songs. No sweeter subject can invite a sinner's heart to sing, Or more display the glorious right of our exalted King. Of our exalted King. Grace reigns to pardon crimson sins, to melt the hardest hearts. And from the work it once begins, it never once departs. It never once departs. It was grace that called our souls at first, by grace thus far we're come. And grace will help us through the worst and lead us safely home. And lead us safely home. ¶ ¶ ♪ ♪

Go back here to Luke chapter 1. Last week I preached on Mary found grace in the eyes of the Lord. That's the way God saves us. She was graciously accepted. Graciously accepted. Today I want to deal with a song. There's three songs in this chapter. Three songs. And you know a song, a psalm is a song. But the first song that was sung in the Bible was Exodus 15 when Moses and them came through the Red Sea as the first song it was ever sung in the Bible, Exodus 15. Moses and the people sang, The Lord hath overthrown the rider and his horse and hath been our salvation. And in this chapter here we have three songs, three songs. We have the Song of Elizabeth there in verse 41. And it came to pass that when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost, and she spake with a loud voice, Blessed art thou among women, blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And oh my, as soon as she, verse 44, as soon as she heard the voice of salutation sounded in her, in mine ears, the babe leaped in my joy, in my womb. God said there'd be a performance of all these things.

Then there's the song of Zacharias. Zacharias, his song starts in verse 67 and goes all the way down to verse 71. When God opened his mouth, the first thing he said in verse 68, blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people. That's the first line in his song. That's a good song when you start out that way, ain't it? Start out, you know, that, oh my, blessed the Lord God of Israel, visited and redeemed his people.

But I want to deal with Mary's song today, Mary's song, and the joy that she had in what God did for her. And I'll start out here in verse 46 and 47, 48, and go down through this, if God will. You know, when glorious things happen to the Lord's people, they often, especially, break out in song. They break out in song. When you look at the Psalms, when they were in trouble, they sang songs about God, save them out of their trouble. And when they addressed the Lord, they would address Him and ask Him to save them out of their trouble. And when they were full of joy, as these were, they would sing. and sang praises and blessed the Lord.

You know, the psalmist said in Psalm 101, he said, Bless the Lord, all my soul and all that's within me. Bless his holy name. And listen, they always said that thing. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord and all by those who have God of Jacob to be their God.

And in Mary's song, let's listen to what she sang. You know, and this is actually a song. So when she breaks out to singing, I believe she probably had a very pretty voice. I believe she probably had, you know, when the Lord Jesus Christ went out and sung Psalms with his disciples on the night before he was crucified, you know, you imagine the voice of Christ singing, singing the Psalms. And you imagine Mary, she's singing. She breaks out into song. And so when she sings out in the song, no doubt she had a very, very sweet voice. I mean, her voice, we got some good singers here, and I've met a lot of good singers. But I tell you what, I don't believe anybody could sing as good as Mary did, or as good as our Lord did.

And here's that she had a joy, a deep, holy joy, and it came from God himself. Look what she said in verse 47. And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Savior. And that's the first thing she says, my spirit hath rejoiced, not my flesh, not my flesh, not my natural man, my spirit doeth rejoice in the Lord. She had joy and peace in believing just exactly like we do. She had joy and peace in believing. And when the grace of God brought her the good news of a Savior, you're going to have a Savior. That one that's born in your womb is going to be your Savior. And when she heard about this good news of Christ being her Savior, God my Savior, she had this gift and so she began to sing.

And I tell you, when you get good news from God, you'll sing too. You know, when God brings you the good news of Christ as the Savior, and your only Savior, and the only Savior that can save you from your sins, and the gospel, and that's what it does. It reaches the spirit of man. It don't have nothing to do with the flesh. The gospel deals with the heart of man, the spirit of man. It deals with eternal issues. And the world and all of it does is deals with the flesh. Preachers deal with the flesh. They want to stir up the flesh, but God deals with the spirit. You know, he that worships God, he worship in spirit and in truth.

And so when God comes, then he brings this blessed good news and he deals with the spirit of a man. Then we began to sing too. The Lord hath put a new song in my mouth. What's the first thing? Praise even unto our God. And I tell you, the songs of the world and the hypocrite can't reach, it can't reach the spirit, but it should sure reach the flesh. And they like to have, and people, preachers love to tell sentimental stories and get people to cry. Tell old stories and, you know, get, deal with the flesh and get them all stirred up. Get them all stirred up.

But this is, you know, the way we worship is so plain, so simple. We sing a little bit, praise a little bit, and preach a lot. And we do that, we've gathered here to praise God. Our spirit rejoices in God. And that's why she done her spirit. Our spirit, our flesh don't. The flesh keeps us from rejoicing as much as we'd like to. But she rejoiced, and then looks what the second thing, her joy was in God. Look what she said again there in verse 47. My spirit hath rejoiced in God. Not just anything, God. God. Who made her know she was a sinner? Who gave her grace? God did. Who saved her? God did. Who blessed her? God did. Who gave her the good news? God did. Who sent an angel unto her? God did. And so she was rejoicing in God.

The apostle said in Philippians 4, 4, I say unto thee, rejoice. And again, I say unto thee, rejoice in the Lord. And oh my goodness, what reasons we have to rejoice in God. What reasons we have. Well, I could count the reasons, oh my goodness, over and over and over again, rejoice. Why should we rejoice? Because he's the one that saved us. He's the one that gave us grace. He's the one that loved us from eternity. He's the one that gave his son for us. He's the one who created the world and upholds it. He made us for himself. And oh my.

And when God reveals himself, He reveals Himself where at? In His Son. God only reveals Himself in His Son. And that's what she said when God came and gave her the news, the first thing He told her was, you're going to have a son. And that's where God meets His people, that is in His Son. In His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, He reveals Himself in His Son. And I've said it so many times, no man, no man can come unto me except the Father which sent me draw him. And I tell you, our Lord Jesus says, no man can come unto the Father but by me. If you're going to do business with God, you're going to have to do business with His Son. And I tell you what, God made Himself known in His Son, in the gift of His Son.

And this is what true worship is. When you want to talk about true worship, When God reaches the innermost being of a soul, innermost being of a soul, you know what it responds with? Pure, blameless, eternal joy. When God, you know, how many times has this happened to you in your life, when you would be just contemplating God, or contemplating the scriptures, or contemplating what God's done for you, thinking about it, and all of a sudden your heart just bursts out in song, or burst out in joy. And when you, that worship is most pure, when joy is spontaneous, when you think of God and it's spontaneous, but here this is, this is when God touches that soul of a man, right down deep in his soul, and I mean brings him to that place and he'll break out into pure, blessed, eternal joy.

Paul said it this way, he said, we joy in God. Why do we joy in God? Because we've received an atonement. How did we receive it at? In his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. We received an atonement. This is where and how, why we joy in God. through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord Himself says, My joy I give unto you. Not as the world gives. I give you a joy that the world can't give you. And joy has something to do with something deep inside you. It's not getting happy and clapping your hands. It's not jumping up and down. It's not giving applause to somebody. I've seen some, a preacher was preaching the other day, and we were going through the channels to come up on this preacher, and oh my goodness, what a crowd. And I tell you, he'd make some kind of a statement or something. Everybody just go to clapping like crazy. I mean, thousands of them went to clapping. Do you reckon they ever clap for the Savior? Did they clap for Christ when he raised Lazarus from the dead? Do you reckon they clap for Christ when he clears the lepers? You reckon they ever clap for Christ when he says, I come just not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance, that I'll show mercy. I'll have mercy and not sacrifice. You reckon they did that? Oh, no.

This business of worship, it comes from the heart. It comes from the soul. It comes from a deep seated joy that God gives us in Christ. And also her joy was in God, in God. And then look what else she says in verse 47. My spirit hath rejoiced in God, and listen to this, my Savior. My Savior.

You know, can you say, I rejoice in God, my Savior? Oh, my Savior. You know why Mary said my Savior? Because she needed saving. She was a sinner like everybody else. She was a descendant of Adam like everybody else. She had to have a Savior like everybody else. She had to have grace like everybody else. And my Savior, the mother of Christ herself, needed a Savior.

I know people, and they do call her blessed. I mean, you think about God choosing somebody to have her son, his son, and yet this mother, she said, I rejoice in God, my Savior. Not somebody else's Savior, my Savior. And that's where we got to come to. We got to come to the place where God's my Savior. I need saving.

People said, well, I want to wait on my husband, or I want to wait on my wife. I'm the one that needs saving. If you wait on your wife, or your son, or your daughter, you may never be saved. But here's the thing, God's my Savior. And we need a Savior. And God only has one Savior. Thou shalt call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins.

And I'll tell you something else. Everybody has to be saved individually. You know, even at 3,000 souls that were saved on the day of Pentecost, every one of those souls was saved individually. You know, every single one of them, God had to deal with their hearts individually. They all heard the gospel. And God, in his sovereign mercy, saved 3,000 at one time. But yet every single one of them had to hear the gospel for themselves.

They wasn't worried about the fellow next to them. They didn't know if he heard what they said or not. They didn't know about the people behind them. Didn't know about his cousin over here, or uncle over there, or sister over here, or brother over there. They didn't know that. All they knew was that God's speaking to me. God's dealing with me.

And oh my, This one, the one born of her womb was her savior. And you know, here's the thing, the one that's got her savior, he's the one that said, let us make man. And he's the one that called him Adam. And he's the one that made Eve and named her Eve. And now he that made woman is made of a woman.

How in the world can we call God our Savior? Well, first we call Him our Savior by election. God is our Savior in election. He is our Savior by gift. We became our Savior by gift. Became our Savior by His love. Became our Savior by His grace. Became our Savior by His power. Became our Savior by His blood that redeemed us.

And we're like Thomas. like Thomas. Everybody calls him Doubting Thomas. And he said, I'm not going to believe, I'm not going to believe that he rose from the dead unless I stick my finger in the prints of his nails and stick my hand in there. I saw him, I saw his side ripped open with a spear and except I can put my hand where that spear was. I'm not going to believe. About that time Christ stood there and said, My Lord and my God. That's what we say, my Lord and my God. He is my Savior, my Savior. And I need a Savior. And I tell you, I needed saving yesterday. And if God lets me live, I need saving tomorrow. This business of salvation is a lifelong salvation.

You know, that's, that'd be a wonderful thing to put on your tomb. Somebody, I put it in the Bulletin last week, the epitaph of a sinner. What are we going to put on it? Christ my Savior. Christ my Redeemer. Here lies a sinner saved by grace. Here lies a man saved by grace. Here lies a fellow that once lived and now he's gone, but he's saved by grace. Don't go to the tomb, go where he's at. Go up yonder in glory where he's at. Oh my, I tell you what.

Paul says, you know, Christ came to save sinners. And he said, I'm the chief. I'm the chief. And oh my, look what else he said here now. Look what she said in verse 46. Mary says, my soul doeth magnify the Lord. Oh, what a praise, praise for joy, joy she had here. My soul doeth magnify the Lord. Do you know what a magnifying glass does? Makes everything big, bigger. Makes everything bigger.

How's, uh, Tarvin Pruitt's wife, she's legally blind. And she got this great big thing that she has to, when they turn to a scripture, she got this great big thing and she holds that thing down there and it got a light on it so she could read. And I was in a place yesterday and I watched a woman, she was sitting there reading at a table and she had a big old magnifying glass so she could magnify the words, the things that she was reading so she could read it. And when she says, my soul doth magnify the Lord, that means I make him as big as I can. Can you make him big as he is? Can you present him as big as he is?

You know, people accuse us of preaching only a handful is going to be saved. Well, that's true, but it's God's hand. and he can hold a bunch. His God's hand is saved, you know, and that's what, ah, magnify the Lord. To enlarge, make bigger. And oh my, where there's joy in the Lord, oh, through Christ, oh, we magnify him, we glorify him, we bless his holy name. Oh, look with me over in Psalm 34. Keep Luke now. Look at Psalm 34 with me. Look at Psalm 34. Go over here in Psalm 34. Look at this with me. Look down at verse 2. My soul shall make her boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear thereof and be glad.

Oh, magnify the Lord with me. Let's exalt his name. Let's all get together and let's magnify God. Let's make him big and powerful, sovereign, almighty, with all got a hand that can uphold the world, hold the water in the palm of his hands. that can measure the nations in the drop of a bucket, that can raise up kings and sit down kings, raise up nations and sit down nations. Oh, let's magnify the Lord. And oh, David said it like this. He said, oh, my soul, what shall I declare for all the wonderful things that God has done for me? Oh, my. An adoration is taken up with him. It's in his glory. And you know, There's no way when it talks about us in eternity, you know, that we'll have grace given to us through eternity out of Ephesians 2. We'll never, ever, ever know God like he really is, even when we get into eternity. That's how glorious God is.

You know, they got all these You know, all these telescopes and things out there in space telling us all these back holes and how many stars there are and all that. Let me tell you something. God created that. The universe wasn't here and then God was. No, God created the universe. And the scripture says that he put all the stars in their name, in the heavens, and calls them all by name. You ever heard of Orion? Big Dipper, Little Dipper? God put them in there so we could look up there and see them. He put the stars there so back in the day when people didn't have, they traveled by the stars. So why do you think he put the stars out there for? For us just to sit and look up.

David, he did. He laid down one time and looked up at the heavens and said, oh God. And he looked up at the sky and says, what is man? Looked up at the heavens, what is man? That you're mindful of him. I see all this great glorious power out here. See all these stars. See this great heaven. See the Milky Way. And I stand back and I say, oh God, what is man? That you'd even think of him. What is he? Oh my.

And I tell you a soul will either magnify itself or magnify the Lord. Can't be both. A fellow either, men and women will either magnify themselves or they'll magnify the Lord. They'll make their selves to be bigger than they are and they'll make God to be smaller than he is. you can't make. Oh, let's, let's, let's look at the other end of the telescope. When you look the other end of it, you can't see nothing. Let's look at it at God and then turn it on ourselves and we can't see nothing. Oh, my. Oh, my. Most would rather magnify themselves as God to be magnified, and that's sad. That's sad.

Then look what else she said in verse 48. I'll tell you what, this is, And look what she said here, for he hath regarded the lowest state of his handmaiden, for behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. She has a grateful joy here. And I want you to notice this, for he hath regarded, he hath regarded the lowest state of his handmaiden. Now what does this tell us right here? That she had a true estimate of herself in the sight of God. He hath regarded the lowest state, the lowest state. In other words, she said, I got nothing. I have nothing. She was born poor. She lived most of her life poor. And here she was, she says, he has regarded the lowest state of his handmaid. And you know, she knows that she did not merit this blessing from God that he bestowed upon her. She did not merit that. She said, the lowest state, what she says is, I'm unworthy. I'm unworthy. Oh my. unworthy, too far down to even God to consider me.

And I, you know, preachers are scared to death to offend somebody, afraid they're going to hurt somebody's feelings. Her feelings wasn't hurt. God has regarded my lowest state. My lowest state. Oh, how low are we? Just how low are we? How far down was we? How low were we? How low were we? How far down were we when Christ came? And here's the thing about it. He has to be the one that does the regarding. He looked at her and regarded her and looked at her lower state. She's a handmaiden. She's a servant. That's the lowest servant they are. They're not a lower servant than a handmaiden. You remember Ruth? She was following that man around and picking up scraps that he threw down. She was a handmaiden. She was the lowest servant in there. They sent her out in the field to pick up little bitty pieces of grain so she could have something to eat when she got to the house. And finally he looked at her boy and said, listen, whose wife, whose woman is this? That's Naomi's daughter, Ruth. He looked at her and said, listen, she's just scratching for the smallest she can get her hands on. But I tell you what, when she gets real close, get you a great big handful. And I tell you what, she just, the first thing she said, why do you regard this handmade? Why do you regard me handmade? I'm so poor I'm out here scratching, picking up little bitty pieces of what I can get gleaned after these people.

And that's what God said about her, said, He has regarded the lowest state, the lowest state. That's the hardest thing for people to get, for God to do, for the most blessed thing God can do, but the hardest thing for people to get a hold of is how low they are. You know, what, what, how low were we when Christ come to save us, huh? And all my And I tell you, unworthy to fall down, to be considered. And it's only a revelation from God who would make a man have the true estimate of his self, huh?

And then look what else it says here. I want you to notice this. He hath regarded the law of state, and I like this right here, his handmaiden. It was his handmaiden. She's mine. I am my beloved's, my beloved is mine. Oh, and this is why he regarded her at all. Because it's his. It was his. Oh, to be his. To belong to him. To be his.

And then look what else happens in verse 48. And she says there, for henceforth all generations shall call me blessed. She was blessed indeed. We even now consider her blessed of God. And what made her blessed? You know what made her blessed? It was her relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ. Her son made her blessed. Made her blessed. You know, that Mary said, I mean, Elizabeth said, blessed is the fruit of thy womb. You see, the only thing that makes Anybody blessed is a relationship to the Lord Jesus Christ.

Oh, another thing that makes us blessed is that when we leave others behind, that we know Christ himself. Look with me, now keep looking. Look over in Luke chapter 9. I want you to say something. Now, you know, she said generations, because her memory, she said, for generations, people's going to call me blessed. As long as time goes on, people's going to call me blessed.

But now look what he says here in Luke chapter 9. And she has this one that people have this memory of her. Now I don't. I don't I call her blessed because she was blessed with cause she had Christ to be her son and Christ to be her savior. But now look here with me. In verse 27. Luke 9 27. Now we're talking about memories now. But I tell you of a truth, there'll be some standing here which shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God.

And it came to pass, and about eight days after these sayings, he took Peter, James, and John, and went up to a mountain to pray. And as he prayed, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment was white and glistered. So this is what salvation, this is what we're gonna see Christ to be when we get to glory. and looked there and talked with him, two men, which were Moses and Elijah. Their memories were blessed. Christ remembered them, because they is His. And you know what? Those men knew who they were.

Now I tell you what, her memory, she says, generations are going to call, and we are this morning, we're calling her blessed. God blessed her, blessed her, graced her, gave her a relationship with the Son, made, the Savior came through her. And oh, the memory of the Just as blessed. Oh, how many memories we have of so many people that's been blessed. Been gone for years, but their memories are blessed. But the wicked, their name shall rot. Just rot.

And oh, look here, let me give you another one right quick. I'm taking, I hope I'm not taking too long. Look down at verse 49. Oh, look at what she says. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things. Oh, my. For he that is mighty hath done to me great things. Has he done to you?

Where are we going to start? David said, Gather round, let me tell you what the Lord hath done for my soul. He said, what great things should we say that he has done? If we talk of his mercies, where are we going to start? If we're going to talk of his grace, where are we going to start? Where are we going to start? And he's dealt with us great things.

And oh, shall we start? Where are we going to start to tell the great things he has done for us? And he's done it for years and years and years and years and years and decades and decades and decades. Oh, my. And he's not done yet. He's not through. Oh my. I'll tell you where we're going to have to start. We got to start in eternity. Oh, look what great things he did for us from eternity. Chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. Huh? And then go down through time. And he called us by his gospel. Gave us grace. Chose us in Christ. Gave us grace. And oh my, we go down through time and then we'll go out into eternity. Oh my.

And I tell you what, these blessings that God has done for us is more than can be numbered. Where in the world would you start? Where would you start? If you was to start telling all the great things God done for you, where would you start? Oh, you know, some of y'all in here, Eleanor and her, she's got two daughters in here this morning, believers. Married to believers. Got a daughter that sits back there that's a believer, and her husband, a believer. Oh my. Now what great things has God done for you. And then some of you all got to believe in children. You got to believe in children. Oh, where you gonna start? I don't know where to start. I have to start where God did. Chose me. When? For the foundation of the world. Where? In Christ. Why? Because it's the good pleasure of His will. Huh?

All right, let me hurry on. I tell you what, let me see. Am I wearing you out? Here's another one. Oh my. Let's go down through verse 50 to 55. I've got to get through these pretty quick. And oh my, and look what she says. And he hath shown strength in his arm. He hath scattered the proud. He hath shown strength in his arm. Oh my. His arm reaches out and his arm brings salvation. His arm done it. His arm has all the power. He has to come where we are and get a hold of us. And then he took the proud and he scattered in the imagination of their hearts. Scattered Pharaoh and all his army in the imagination of their hearts. Oh, he scattered that Pharisee in the imagination of his heart, when he prayed thus with himself. That rich man who said, I've got, I've got so much stuff, I've got to tear down my barns and build some more. He scattered him. Oh, he scatters, he scatters them.

And oh, look what he says now. Scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. Oh my. And he put down the mighty from their seats. He put down kings. He took Nebuchadnezzar and turned him out and made him get out on all fours and eat like a cow and eat grass like a cattle, piece of cattle wood and a cattle wood. He got down there and stayed that way for seven years. And you know why he done that? That when he got through saying, he said, I understand this, that all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing. He doeth according to His will in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and He giveth it to whom He will." Seven years out there, that's a hard lesson to learn, but it's a good one. It's a good lesson to learn.

And then look what she says, oh my. And then He put down the mighty from the seats, and He took the low. He took the low and brought them up. Hannah says that he put the beggars out of the dunghill, set them among princes. Oh my.

And then look what else he says. The same power that has power to save also has power to destroy. And oh my, and then he has, look what he said in verse 53. He has filled the hungry with good things. Every time we come here, we come hungry. Come hungry. Does he feed us? Bread, water, light. He feels the good.

And what did he do with the rich? He said, send them away. Send them away. That rich man that's fared sumptuously every day went by that poor old beggar Lazarus. God scattered him. Sent him away empty. Didn't have nothing.

And oh, I love this right here. I used to say all the time, he hath hope in his servant. I used to say that, he is hoping me. You know, we say help back in, they said hoping. I remember when I first come down here, there's some old timers that said, he hoped me, he hoped me, H-O-L-P, he hoped me. He hath hope in his servant Israel.

And why did he do it? He remembered his mercy. He remembered, I give this man mercy. I give this nation mercy. And look what else he says. And oh, she comes down here, he says, as he spake to our fathers Abraham and his seed forever just like him.

And let me close by looking at Luke 18, 14. Let me close with this. You know, this is the story about the Pharisee that prayed thus with himself. He brought down the proud. His man was proud. I'm not, thank you, that I'm not like everybody else. And I'm certainly not like that publican over there. Talked about all the good things that he'd done.

Look what the publican said in verse 13. And the publican, standing afar off, would not so much as lift up his eyes unto heaven on his breast, talking about the heart, the soul, and saying, God, be merciful to me, the sinner. And look what Christ said about him. I tell you, this man went down to his house justified. The other one didn't. And that's the way God does. He raises up the low, brings down the high. makes us poor, and yet at the same time makes us rich. And he scatters the rich away."

Look what he said. And, oh my. And he says, for everyone that exalts himself shall be amazed. He that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

I'm going to try to deal with it again next week. I tell you, there's just too much there, ain't there? That's why I had to rush through it. It's just too much there. Too much there. But I'll tell you what, she said, if you get nothing else, he regarded the lowest state, the lowest state of his handmaiden, his handmaiden.

Our Father, in the precious, blessed, glorious name of your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, thank you for meeting with us today. Thank you for allowing me to preach the gospel again. I pray that I honored the Lord, I magnified his name, and I pray it was a blessing and encouragement and edifying to your dear people. And I pray it spoke to a heart, spoke to a soul, May the soul feel its need of Christ, feel its need of salvation.

Lord, it's up to you. You're the one that's the Savior. You're the one with the power. You're the one with the great strong arm. You're the one, oh Lord Jesus, that does the blessing, does the saving, that picks up the low, brings them up, sets them up with you. God forgive us for everything that is unlikely and again give our dear brothers and sisters traveling mercies so they can come worship with us again. We pray in Christ's name.