I want to pick up right where
I left off this morning with God's tabernacle. And tonight
we're going to go inside into the most holy place behind the
veil and behold things set before us in the ark. I printed them,
I didn't make them. I printed off these pictures
of the tabernacle. Brother Mike Walker is borrowing
my model of the tabernacle for a while while he's preaching
through the tabernacle up in Cottageville. But I would recommend you get
these every now and then. You might want to take it out
and look at it. The cutaway on the back is pretty explanatory.
But the important thing is not to know the physical feature. and all the various physical
aspects of the tabernacle. The important thing is to understand
the message of the tabernacle. What was God's purpose in giving
this tabernacle? The purpose of the Holy Spirit
in the ninth chapter of the book of Hebrews is threefold. First,
his purpose is to show the preeminence of Christ over the tabernacle,
its furniture, its priesthood, and its sacrifices. They all
foreshadowed Christ, and they were all fulfilled by the Lord
Jesus Christ. One key word throughout the book
of Hebrews is the word better. Christ is better than the angels,
better than Melchizedek, better than the priests, better than
Moses, and he is a better tabernacle. And the purpose of the Spirit
of God here in Hebrews 9 is to show how all the ceremonies All
the services of the Levitical covenant were typical and were
pictures of the Lord Jesus. Our only sin atoning sacrifice,
our only sin atoning high priest, those sacrifices ordained by
God, we're told plainly in Hebrews 10, could never take away sin. Though the sacrifices were offered
upon God's altar at God's commandment in the precise way God ordered
by God's priest, those sacrifices could never take away sin. Having said that, if those sacrifices
could never take away sin, certainly no other could. It is not possible
for man to put away sin. Sin can only be put away by him
who is the God-man, our mediator of the Lord Jesus. The third
purpose of God the Spirit in this ninth chapter of Hebrews
is to show that all the Levitical ceremonies, all the sacrifices,
all the services of the first covenant, all things pertaining
to the law were to come to an end. They never were intended
to be permanent. All things pertaining to the
law were temporary. They were forever. They were
everlasting only in their fulfillment. Everything regarding the law
finds its fulfillment, its culmination, and its finishing in the death
and resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. Let's go over to
just chapter 10 for just a moment in verse nine. The Lord Jesus
speaks. Then said he, lo, I come to do
thy will, O God. Now watch what he said. He taketh
away the first, that he may establish the second. Now, if you read
commentaries and listen to preachers, especially folks who like to
keep folks under the law, they'll refer to our Lord's words, I
came not to destroy the law, but to fulfill the law. And they
say, there, you see, the Lord Jesus did not take away the law.
That is not what he meant. He did not destroy the law. He
did not tear down the law. He fulfilled the law. And the law being fulfilled is
taken away so that the law has nothing to do with God's people
and the worship of God in this gospel age. We worship God in
spirit and in truth. For Christ is the end. You know what that word end is?
It's the very same word that our Lord Jesus used when he said,
it is finished. Christ is the terminating point
of the law. Christ is the end of the law. Christ is the full stop of the
law. After him, there is no law. Now tonight, I want us to look
at Hebrews 9, one through five, and look at the Ark of the Covenant. That's my subject, the Ark of
the Covenant. This Ark was the most important,
most sacred, all things in the worship of God's people in the
Old Testament Scriptures. If you could find the Ark of
the Covenant, and you can't, thank God, it's been gone for
a long time. If you could find the Ark of
the Covenant, what would you find? Now remember, when Nebuchadnezzar
took away all the furnishings of the temple in the days when
they raided Jerusalem and took Jerusalem and Israel into captivity,
he took all those furnishings and they never were recovered.
that never were recovered. My suspicions are he melted them. I don't care what he did with
them. Thank God they're gone. But inside that ark were very
instructive, wonderful pictures for our soul's edification. Hebrews
chapter nine, verse one. Then verily, the first covenant
also had ordinances of divine service and a worldly sanctuary,
a carnal, earthly material sanctuary. For there was a tabernacle made.
The first wherein was the candlestick and the table and the showbread,
which is called the sanctuary. And after that, the second, after
the second veil, the tabernacle, which is called the holiest of
all. The priest would come in to the
holy place, entering in by the curtain that separated the holy
place from the courtyard. And in there is the altar of
incense and the table of showbread and the golden candlestick. But
back behind that's another curtain. And behind that second veil,
go back there, that goes into the holy of holies, the holiest
of all. which had the golden censer and
the Ark of the Covenant laid round about with gold, wherein
was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron's rod that budded,
and the tables of the covenant, and over it the cherubims of
glory, shadowing the mercy seat of which we cannot now speak
particularly. Here the apostle tells us that
the Ark of the Covenant in the tabernacle had in it the golden
pot that had manna. God commanded Moses to make a
pot of gold and take manna and put it in that pot and set that
in the tabernacle. And it had Aaron's rod that budded,
the rod that Aaron used by which God performed wonders in the
days of Israel's deliverance out of Egypt and while they wandered
in the wilderness. And it had in it the tables of
the covenant, those ten commandments written on tables of stone by
the finger of God. And it had the cherubims of glory
and the mercy seat. Now I repeat, I repeat, thank
God no one has ever found that ark. If anybody did, foolish
religious men and women would make an idol of it and they would
make pilgrimages to go to some holy place and visit that place
annually, charge a good fee, make a lot of money, and they
would worship the idol. The Ark of the Covenant and those
ordinances of divine service connected with it pictured Christ. and redemption and grace and
salvation by Jesus Christ the Lord. Turn to Revelation chapter
11. Let me show you. Revelation chapter 11 and verse
19. I recall years ago, friend of mine,
bless his heart, he just didn't know anybody, an older man, and
I didn't correct him, but I kind of wanted to find a seam in the
carpet and crawl through the seam out of the church building
so I wouldn't have to talk to anybody. He stood in the pulpit, had a
look out, and he said, did you ever wonder what happened to
the Ark of the Covenant? He said it was raptured to Heaven. And
it turned to Revelation chapter 11 verse 19 to show that it was
raptured to Heaven. Well, doesn't need an Ark of
the Covenant in Heaven. We don't worship God by material
things. Let's see what he said, Revelation
11 verse 19, And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and
there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament. and
there were lightnings and voices and thunderings and an earthquake
and great hail. Well, it's written right there.
Yes, it is. But don't be so foolish as to
interpret words literally that are obviously intended to teach
something spiritual. we know that John's words in
Revelation 11, 19 are intended to be allegorical, intended to
be understood spiritually because he speaks of it in Revelation
21. Look at that. He tells us plainly
that he's not talking about a literal temple or a literal ark. Revelation 21, verse 22, And
I saw no temple therein. Well back in chapter 11 the temple
of God was open. He said, I saw no temple. For
the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it. Christ is our temple. Christ is our altar. Christ is the Ark of God's Testament. All right, let's go back to Hebrews
9. I want to stir up our hearts to seek him of whom the Ark speaks,
our Lord Jesus Christ. And I'll do that by endeavoring
by God the Spirit to show you that which is found in Jesus
Christ the Lord. Now, I remind you again, you
will never understand Old Testament scripture until you understand
our Lord's words to those disciples on the Emmaus Road in Luke 24.
He opened to them the scriptures and opened their understanding. and showed them that all things
in the law, in the Psalms and in the prophets spoke of Him. Everything in the Old Testament
came to pass and was recorded by inspiration. Those things
involved in ceremonies and services recorded and ordained of God
specifically to show us the Lord Jesus Christ. In this text here
in Hebrews 9, God the Holy Ghost uses the tabernacle and its furnishings
to show us Christ's excellence, preeminence, and glory as our
Redeemer. The tabernacle, all glorious
within and very modest and humble without, is Christ our Redeemer. The brazen altar is Christ, our
suffering substitute. The laver is Christ, our fountain
open for cleansing. The candlestick is Christ, the
light of the world. The table of showbread is Christ,
the bread of life. The altar of incense is Christ,
our intercessor. The veil is Christ, the door
of access to God. And the ark, the ark of the covenant
is Christ, our reconciliation. Christ is the place. where God and man come together
with nothing between. Christ is the place, the only
place, where God and man come together in perfect reconciliation. Let's go into the holiest of
all and look at this ark, which is a type of Christ. It was made
of shidom wood. Just ordinary, plain wood. I
don't have any idea what shidom wood is. I just don't have a
clue. I've looked up everything I can. I don't have a clue what
it is. Everybody says anything about it is guessing, because
nobody really knows what the shidom tree was. But it was just
plain, ordinary wood. Wood that was encased in pure
gold. Overlaid within and without with
pure gold. representing both the incorruptible
humanity of our Lord Jesus and his glorious deity, God our Savior. The Ark was the symbol of God's
holiness, his power, and his glory. The Ark of the Covenant
sitting in the Holy of Holies symbolized God's power, his glory,
and his holiness. Israel's enemies, thought that
Ark was their God. You remember in 1 Samuel 5, 6,
and 7, they took captive the Ark of the Lord. And they brought
it into the house of Dagon. And when the Ark of God was in
the house of Dagon, Dagon fell over. And they picked him up
and set him back on his shelf. And they left him, he fell over
again, broke his hands, and they set him up again, and he fell
again. He fell before the ark of God, constantly falling, because
Dagon could not stand before him who's represented in the
ark. But the foolish Philistines thought the ark must be God.
And they said, we gotta do something. We gotta do something. And so
they said, we gotta send this thing back to Israel. And God
is so gracious and good in his providence. Israel had, by their
rebellion and ungodliness, been sent of God again with harsh,
harsh treatment by the Philistines. And they were, in their acts
of idolatry, they had betrayed the Lord God. And the Philistines
had them in bondage. And the Philistines got that
ark and they sent it back. They said, we gotta put something
in it. While the ark was in their presence, God caused them all
to have severe cases of hemorrhoids. So they said, this is what God
did. Tell you what, let's make some
hemorrhoids. And they made images of hemorrhoids
out of pure gold. and they made mice out of pure
gold and stuck them in the ark and said, let's send it back.
And the Israelites came and they saw God sending back his ark
after the men of Beshemesh were killed, peeking into the ark
and God enriched his people. And God caused his people to
repent of their sins. And the Lord God delivered his
people from their bondage as they turned to him. But the ark
only represented the God we worship. It was not magical. It had no
magical power. It was just an ark. The ark was
the symbol though of our God. And the ark was carried from
place to place. Wherever Israel went, there were
a group of specific men who shoved sticks, staves, through rings
on the side of the ark. It's covered over with a covering,
so nobody could see it. It's covered over with skins,
but it was, had those sticks shoved through it. And God's
priest laid those sticks on their shoulders and carried that ark
through the wilderness. So Christ, our Redeemer, our
crucified Savior, is carried through the earth on the shoulders
of mere men like the one talking to you. Christ is carried through
the earth by the preaching of the gospel. Now, let me show
you five or six things here. Number one, if you could go behind
the veil with the high priest on the day of atonement into
the Holy of Holies, first thing that would strike your eyes would
have to be those cherubims of glory shadowing the mercy seat. These cherubs, what are they? What are they? These cherubs.
I am confident that the cherubs do not represent angelic creatures. I'm confident that's not the
case. I know I have lots of friends past and present who say they
represent angels. That's all right. Sometimes preachers
have a different understanding of things that doesn't really
make any difference as far as the doctrine of scripture is
concerned. Brother Lindsey and I were talking
about this a couple of weeks ago. Brother Todd and I just yesterday,
I told Lindsey a few weeks ago, I said, Some of my friends say
that Melchizedek, of whom he just read, was Jesus Christ himself. And others say, no, he was a
type of Christ. I said, I've been right a lot
of times on Melchizedek. He's one or the other, and I
just can't make up my mind which. And some of my friends think
that Cornelius was a lost, self-righteous Pharisee before he heard the
word of God from Peter. And others say, no, no, no, he
was a devout man and the Lord heard his alms and his prayers
and they came up as a memorial to God. He must be saved. I've
been right about Cornelius a lot of times. One of the two is right.
One of the two is right. But it really doesn't make any
difference. But I am convinced myself, these cherubims do not
represent angelic creatures for one specific reason. Exodus 20
verse 4, God forbade the making of any such images or the likeness
of any such. He forbade that. Well what do
they represent? The cherubim made the with the
mercy seat, one piece with the mercy seat, are formed and they
are bowed over with their faces toward the mercy seat where the
blood was. So that their eyes are always
on the blood. You can read about them in Exodus
25. Those cherubims had With two
they covered their face. With two they covered their feet.
With two they flew. They cried continually, holy,
holy, holy is the Lord God of Sabaoth, the Lord of hosts. He who is our triune Jehovah,
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, he alone is God, and he being
God is God like none other. O shepherd of Israel, thou that
leadest Joseph like a flock, thou that dwellest between the
cherubims, shine forth. These cherubs are the same thing
that Isaiah saw in Isaiah six. He saw the cherubim. He saw them
with their faces looking down toward the mercy seat, facing
one another. He heard their cry. And one of
the cherubim took a tongue and took a piece of coal. a live
hot coal from off the altar and came and touched Isaiah's lips
and said, lo, thine iniquity is purged. The cherubim represent
gospel preachers. The cherubim represent men preaching
the gospel of God's grace. Revelation chapter four confirms
it. Those four living creatures seen by John around the throne
of God. But pastor, those four living
creatures are four, not two. That's because John is showing
us that the gospel of God's grace was not just for the Jews, but
goes into the four corners of the earth, north, south, east,
and west, so that God calls out his elect by the preaching of
the gospel. And I said all that to say this,
it is not possible, it is not possible for a sinner to find,
know, or come to God apart from the instrumentality of gospel
preaching. Now that's some statement. That's
some statement. Does the book back it up? Faith
cometh by hearing, hearing by the Word of God. We're born again,
not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the word
of God, which liveth and abideth forever. And this is the word
which by the gospel is preached unto you. It pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. But we believe
in sovereignty. I don't take a back seat to anybody
in the world who believe in God's sovereignty. We believe in predestination. I don't take a backseat to anybody
in the world in preaching it. We believe God will save his
elect. We fully do. And God ordained the means by
which he would save them as well as their salvation. And the means
is the preaching of the word. God takes earthen vessels. I can't begin to adequately set
before you the fullness of that term, earthen vessels, broken
clay pots, earthen vessels, broken clay pots, pots of dirt full
of cracks and broken. and he put the treasure of his
grace in earthen vessels like you and me to be carried through
the world. I'm often asked how I came to
know that God had called me to preach. He put me in the business. First time I preached, I didn't
have, I had no thought about preaching. Folks asked me if
I'd preach. First asked me if I'd take some,
preach for a group of young people. And then asked me to take a Bible
class in high school. And then, Shelby and I hadn't
been dating any time, the fellow asked me to go out and preach
at a mission that he had out in Tanglewood, just outside of
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. And when I first started to preach,
I couldn't read. I'd never read anything in my
life. I bluffed my way through school. I'd never even read a
comic book. My daughter could read better when she was six
than I could read when I was 17 years old. I couldn't read. It took
me long to read the text as did preach from it. But how could
you do that? David, how on this earth could
I say no to somebody that asked me to tell folks what God had
done for me? How could I say no? I couldn't say no, oh no,
I couldn't say no, but you weren't equipped, no, not in my opinion,
not in the opinions of men. But you weren't prepared, no,
not by any means. But God opened the door and God
put me in the work. I keep praying that God will
be pleased in this generation to raise up men and put them
in the work. Men who lay aside everything
else and give themselves to this. And I'm confident with many,
with many, and if they're gods, he'll take care of it. They refuse
to do the work because they refuse to put everything else aside.
And I'm telling you, you who are older sitting in front of
me, if you refuse to put everything else aside, just keep right on
what you're doing, because you can't do this work. You can't
do both. You just piddle at both. And
the preaching is the most part of the piddling. But God puts
man in the work, and he puts the treasure of his glory in
the man, and he carries the gospel of Christ to the four corners
of the earth. And by the foolishness of preaching,
calls out his elect. Oh, what an honor, what a privilege
to carry this word through the world. But if we could step into
the Holy of Holies, we wouldn't look very long at the cherubim.
They wouldn't want you to. The cherubim are like this. If
you can bear the sight, just pretend there's another one just
like me standing right there. The cherubim are like this. They're looking down there. Did
you ever get in a crowd and decided to fool folks? You go, you get
on a busy sidewalk sometimes and just start to look up. Nothing
there, just start to look up. Everybody around you, first thing
you know, they're all looking up. You get about 15, 20 folks,
what you looking at? Nothing, I'm just looking up.
But you're looking up, so they do. God's servants focus their
hearts and their minds on Jesus Christ and Him crucified, the
propitiatory sacrifice of the Son of God. They look always
on the mercy seat, always on the blood. They always direct
the attention. Now listen to me, listen to me.
By this, you can judge everything I preach. By this, you can judge
everything any man preaches. By this, you can judge whether
or not a man speaks for God. God's servants always, always
direct the attention of those who hear them to the propitiatory
sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The word mercy seat means propitiatory
or propitiation. His blood is that by which the
justice of God is satisfied on our behalf. And the Lord God
says, there will I meet with thee, and I will commune with
thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim. The Lord God Almighty meets sinners
only in Christ by whom propitiation is made and sinners are reconciled
to God. Number three, standing in the
holiest of all with Christ, our Aaron, our great high priest,
suddenly we realize that we're standing before the mercy seat,
which is the symbol of God's presence. God is there. God is there. The mercy seat,
the Lord God told his people would be the symbol of his presence.
with blood on the mercy seat, covering the broken tables of
the law, the glory of God is set before us in the pardon of
sin by the sacrifice of our Savior. Turn over to that very familiar
Psalm, Psalm 85. I want you to see it. Psalm 85. Moses and Ares went into the
tabernacle of the congregation, came out and blessed the people,
and the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people. Now look at
Psalm 85, verse nine. Surely his salvation is nigh
them that fear him, that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy
and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other. Now watch this. Truth shall spring
out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven.
This is what the psalmist's telling us. When Christ crucified, ascends
up into heaven after his resurrection. Truth. God's truth, the soul
that sinneth, it shall die. I will forgive iniquity, transgression,
and sin. Truth, Jesus Christ who is truth,
springs out of the earth, declaring how that God can be just and
yet justify the ungodly. And righteousness, righteousness
looks down from heaven and God saves sinners in perfect righteousness
by the sacrifice of his darling son. Jesus Christ is that one
through whom God's presence, by whom God's presence, in whom
God's presence is revealed. But it's not just in that physical
place. No, no, no. That physical holy
of holies where the mercy seat and the presence of God are symbolized. was a picture of his promise.
I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. So that wherever you are,
if you're in Christ, wherever you are, if you're in Christ,
wherever you are, if you're in Christ, day and night, darkness
and light, pain and pleasure, sorrow and joy wherever you are,
the name of that place for God's people is Jehovah Shabbat. The Lord is there. The Lord is
there. The angel of the Lord, what does
the scripture say? Campeth round about them that
fear him. My dear friend, Brother Elmer
Harrell was a great, great man, great deacon. He didn't have
much education. His parents died when he was
seven years old and he made the best living he could for himself,
picking cotton most of the time. But he was a deacon in church
at lookout. Dear, dear friend, he's with the Lord now, has been
for a long time. I remember the first time I heard
him pray. I love to hear men pray with honesty and not pretend. He said, He said, Lord, come
now and camp round about us. And I was 21 years old. That
sounds strange. Camp round about us. And the
next day I read the song. The angel of the Lord campeth
round about them that fear him. Wherever you are, that's where
God is. Child of God. Wherever you are. wherever you are, whatever your
circumstance, the Lord God says, I will never leave thee nor forsake
thee. Now let's do by faith what no
mortal man could ever do. The men of Beshamesh, you remember,
said, we gotta peek in that ark. I remember, I didn't watch much
of it, I watched a little bit of that movie, I just somehow
got in right in the middle of it, I reckon, I don't know, but
the Ark of the Covenant, I guess I was flipping through channels,
because I don't like movies like that, but I remember the thing
I saw was those fellas lifting that ark. Any of y'all see that
movie? Man alive, that superstitious
piece of idolatry. And God killed all those thousands
of men of Bethshemes, I think 50,000 of them. Well, those men
were not allowed to look in the ark. Uzzah put his hand on the
ark to steady it as if God needs his help in saving his people
and God killed him, God killed him. But we come now by the writing
of divine inspiration and lift the lid, we lift up the mercy
seat. And underneath that mercy seat,
inside the ark are the tables of God's law,
written in stone, representing the hardness of our hearts, and
the inflexibility of God's law. God said, the soul that sinneth,
it shall die. God said, I will by no means
clear the guilty. And yet he declares, I'll be
gracious to whom I will be gracious. How can both be done only when
the law is fully satisfied? The law represents our curse
and our condemnation by reason of sin. We are justly condemned
by nature. And this law was always kept
in the ark under the mercy seat. Under the mercy seat. Because
God said to Israel, my law is satisfied and my people redeemed
and saved by the blood of my darling son. So that you look
on the mercy seat and you can't see the law. You know it's there.
You know it's there, but you can't see it. You look on the
mercy seat, and on the mercy seat's nothing but blood, blood
atoning for sin. And God says, this is my purpose. This is the purpose that's purposed
in all the earth. God works all things together
for good to them that love God, to them who are thee called according
to his purpose. His purpose is the saving of
his people. and the law being perfectly fulfilled
and satisfied by Christ, now cries as loudly as his grace
for the salvation of his people, because in Christ, we are free
from the law. I hear folks say sometimes, I
want grace, not justice. You won't get grace apart from
justice. It won't happen. I want mercy,
not justice. You won't get mercy apart from
justice. God will not be gracious, except
he be just. He will not be merciful, except
he be just. Now, look again, there's something
else in the ark. Aaron's rod that budded. Aaron's
rod that budded is the gospel of Christ portrayed. The man
whom God has chosen goes through the world by the power of his
gospel. By Aaron's rod, the rebels were humbled before God and his
people. Christ, you remember, was smitten
by Moses' rod, the law. Moses smoked the rock and the
waters gushed out. And the water of life continually
flowed out to sinners, not by Moses' rod, but by Aaron's rod
represented in the gospel. You see, the Gospel of Christ
is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. The
power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth. Nothing
else is. The Gospel. In this place, we
do nothing to manipulate, to Con folks into religion. Nothing. Nothing. I don't try
to pressure folks by anything except the pressure of the gospel
to make a profession of faith on purpose. Aren't you concerned? I give
my life to this business. Yes, I'm concerned. More concerned
than I can ever express. I've often said to you, if I
could, I'd preach every day in July, I'll almost get it. Shelby
informed me last night, said, you'll be home 12 days in July. But God opens the doors and we
preach the gospel and we wait. We wait. We wait. Well, what else you gonna do?
Nothing. You wait. Wait for God to work. The gospel
is the power of God. The word translated power, if
you could transliterate it, if you were to just take the Greek
letters and write them out in English, like they did the word
baptize, you'd spell it this way, dynamite. That's the word,
dynamite. I love the Clint Eastwood movies
when he's using dynamite. I used to be a pretty good shot.
I'm not anymore, don't have any vision. But with dynamite, it's
hard to miss. What do you do? You light it.
Throw it and get out of the way. That's what we do with the gospel.
We preach the word and get out of the way. And God uses his
gospel as he will in his time to bring sinners to life and
faith in the Savior. This is God's ordained means
of work. One more thing. Inside that ark
was a golden pot. that had manna. It was a big
pot. It contained a whole armor of
manna. That's it, always inside that
ark, always under the mercy seat, always under the blood, a golden
pot that had manna, telling us that Jesus Christ, Christ crucified,
is bread for our souls. Everything we need. Everything we need. All our souls
need Jesus Christ is. He is bred for your soul day
after day after day. And we feast upon Him day after
day after day. We come to God by Jesus Christ
the Lord. He is the sacrifice God has accepted. He is the sacrifice by whom God
supplies our needs. His name is Jehovah Jireh. The Lord will provide. And He,
who is God our Savior, provides everything for us all the time,
even when we don't know it. He provides, and He nourishes,
and He feeds, and He protects, and He directs, and He orders
all affairs for us, and He intercedes for us. He is that one who's
described in the book as our wisdom and our righteousness
and our sanctification and our redemption. In other words, get
Christ and you get enough. I love the way I heard years
ago, This little girl was called on to recite the 23rd Psalm,
and she misquoted it, quoted it exactly right. She said, the
Lord is my shepherd, he's all I want. God make him yours, for
Christ's sake, amen.