Well I'd like you to turn with
me to Psalm 9, the psalm that we just read before, Psalm 9. And I want to look at a couple
of verses in this psalm this morning. In our Bible class earlier,
we looked at the second half of Romans chapter 1, and what
a dreadful charge list, a dreadful indictment against mankind, against
the sin that is in the flesh, that's in the heart of all of
us by nature, that sin that is there and God's judgment upon
it. And it's an indictment of the
sinful world in which we live. And we see all around us the
effects of that sin, of that godless philosophy. That's what's
at the root of it. They did not like to retain God
in their knowledge. And we see the effects of it
in society. And it oppresses us. It oppresses
us. It causes us anxiety. Do you know there's certain things
that I will now not watch question time on the television. You know,
it's a good intellect, I won't watch it. Do you know why? My
wife gets upset that I get so angry at what I'm hearing on
the television. It's just better for you if you just don't watch
it. Just, and now I know, I'm not going to watch it because
within two minutes Someone will light the blue touch paper and
that will be me angry inside and feeling that my philosophy
of life is 180 degrees opposed to the philosophy of so much
in this society today. And it oppresses us. It doesn't
just make us angry, it oppresses us. And so you think, oh, we
live in this terrible world that causes us so much oppression.
But let's not get too self-righteous. Think of our own hearts. our
own hearts, this constant anguish, a constant struggle, isn't there,
with the flesh? The flesh versus the spirit.
These two, this is the believer's experience. The flesh and the
spirit. They're contrary to one another. Where am I going to find comfort
and safety from this anguish, this oppression that I feel within? Oppression without in society,
and oppression that I feel within. Because as we read again in Romans
chapter 1 that the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
sin, against all ungodliness of men. The wrath of God, where
are we going to find comfort and safety from the oppression
that is all around us, outside of us and within us? We know
that in that same chapter, Romans 1, we read in the first half,
in verse 17, the righteousness of God is revealed in the gospel
of our Lord Jesus Christ. The righteousness of God is revealed
there, but the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against
all that ungodliness that's all around us. Now in this Psalm,
Psalm 9, It's a psalm of David. David wrote it. When did he write
it? Some think he might have written it after the incident
with Goliath. It certainly talks about the
enemy there, and overcoming the enemy, and maybe it was that
that was the case. But it isn't certain. But it
certainly speaks of the enemy. And the enemy that it speaks
of that applies to us, and to people, God's people in all times,
is the spirit of Antichrist, that which is abroad in society,
that which is in our flesh, the spirit of Antichrist, all that
is contrary to the Gospel of Christ. In the face of the uncertainty
and the doubts and the fears and the trials and the problems,
the Gospel of Christ assures us, it assures God's people of
their preservation and of their eternal destiny. Look at verses
9 and 10, this is where I want to focus and concentrate. The
Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times
of trouble, and they that know thy name will put their trust
in thee, for thou, Lord, has not forsaken them that seek thee. Four clauses to these two verses. A refuge for the oppressed, in
times of trouble, trusting the Lord whose name they know, and
confidence in the Lord's keeping. These are the four points that
I want to look at this morning. Against this backdrop of the
society around us that is such an oppression to the child of
God, so oppressive so contrary to the spirit of the child of
God. You know, the anguish that you
feel when you look, when you read your newspaper, you watch
your television, the anguish that you feel, it's this society
that is oppressing from without. And then, within, we have those
oppressions. But here, the Lord also will
be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.
And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee, for
thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek thee. A refuge
for the oppressed, then. When things generally seem to
attack us, we seek a refuge. We seek a refuge. What is a refuge? Well, it's amazing how the British
weather changes. This week, if you're seeking
a refuge from the weather, it's shelter from the rain and put
something warm on because it suddenly has gone back to the
temperatures you might expect in late February or early March.
But a week ago, we were basking in very, very hot temperatures
and clear blue skies. And last week, what you wanted
to find was some shade from the hot sun. You wanted to find somewhere
where you didn't have the hot sun beating down on your head.
In storms, You want to find shelter from the storm. You watch these
programs about survival in the wilds and the first thing you
must do is build some sort of a shelter so that you're not
exposed to the storms. You want a refuge. This is the
idea of a refuge. You want protection. A refuge
is protection. You know, if the enemy is coming,
if there's some form of attack, You want protection. Your house
is a refuge to you. You put locks on your doors.
You set the locks and the alarms and these things because you
want a refuge. You want protection by these
things, strong defenses. In a storm at sea, the ships
all run for shelter in bays and harbors to get out of the worst
battering, the strength of the wind. This oppression is all
around us. This is talking about oppression,
a refuge for the oppressed. And people in general suffer
oppression. Let's be in no doubt about it.
Many people, not believers, feel very oppressed. Many people in
our society today, especially in the economic conditions that
we are, they experience financial constraint. Many are experiencing
that. People who are not believers,
many are experiencing severe financial constraint. They're
experiencing worry and uncertainty about their jobs. They're feeling
fragile regarding their housing and the roof over their head.
They've got family trials in all of the turmoils. I know many
of you know this firsthand from experience with close family.
You're aware of this, that many people who are not believers
feel very oppressed in these days. And life for many can be
a constant trial. And you often wonder, the politicians
always try and get us to vote for them because they've got
the answer. And you wonder, are any politicians of any colour
or party making any progress whatsoever? When you think back
how 30, 40, 50 years ago, oh, the next election was going to
solve everything and we were going to enter this wonderful
utopia of a society in which all oppression of the poor had
been taken away, and are we any better off today? Politicians
are always trying to do things like this. It's not wrong to
try, but it's bound to fail. Jesus said, the poor you will
always have with you. this is this is a general oppression
and believers and unbelievers alike suffer oppression in this
world and I must say in these days even though things are constrained
it's nothing like as bad as it has been for people in times
past if you read the accounts of poverty of the likes that
John Warburton and William Huntingdon experienced at times in their
lives we've never known anything like that they suffered extreme
grinding poverty they really did But you see, believers have
another form of oppression to deal with, that the world doesn't
have to deal with. Believers have a consciousness
of sin and its effects. You know that Romans 7 experience,
Romans chapter 7? The good that I would do, I do
not. and the evil that I would not
do, I don't want to do it, that I find I do. I find there's a
constant warfare, and he ends up that chapter saying, who shall
deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God, through Christ
Jesus my Lord. There's a consciousness of sin,
a consciousness of sin, and of the depravity that's in the flesh. And as we grow in grace, which
Peter encourages us to do, as you go on in the Christian life
believing, he exhorts us to grow in grace and the knowledge of
our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As we grow in that grace, do
you know what happens to that consciousness of sin? Now there
are many who teach progressive sanctification, and they say
the more sanctified you become, And the better you become at
obeying the law of Moses, then the more conscious you are of
holiness within. And you gradually start to walk
on a higher and higher plane. That's not the testimony of the
Scriptures. Not at all. The testimony of the Scriptures
is the testimony of Paul. That the more he grew in grace
and the knowledge of God, the more he was conscious that he
was the chief of sinners. Oh, but you're the apostle to
the Gentiles, Paul. Chief of sinners. chief of sinners. He knew what he was. We have
this consciousness of sin, and it's an oppressing consciousness
of sin. And we also have internal attacks,
as well as all of this external oppression in this godless society,
from its philosophy, to its economics, to its selfishness, to its greed,
all of these things. We have these internal attacks,
consciousness of sin, internal attacks from Satan. in the quietness
of your heart, the temptations that come, physical temptations,
temptations in the flesh that come, doubts that rise up. Confusion that rises up. One
day, it's like the British weather. Clear and bright and sunny and
warm one day, and cold and drizzly and grey another day. One day,
in your mind, in your inner being, all is settled and clear. You
know the presence of God, the gospel is sweet, the scriptures
are such a wonderful assurance. And another day, Not long afterwards,
doubts and confusion. They're attacks from Satan, and
they well up inside. There are the daily struggles
that the natural man doesn't experience, the daily struggles
with the flesh and its lusts. And the natural man, in his oppression,
of society seeks refuge. They do. They all seek refuge.
But you know, the scriptures call the refuge that they seek
a refuge of lies. That's Isaiah 28, 17. A refuge
of lies. False philosophies, godless philosophies,
is where they seek for refuge. Stoicism, stoical reaction to
poverty. Oh well, just take it as it comes.
Stoical reaction to ill health. You know, people with no knowledge
of God or the Gospel of Christ, often they display a stoical
reaction to ill health. Some horrible disease comes upon
them, stoical reaction to it. Stoical reaction to the inevitability
of death. A family member dies, and what
do we do? We make a good excuse for a family
reunion out of it, and that's the best that comes out of it.
But for his children, God's children, experiencing oppression in this
life, the Lord himself promises to be their refuge. The Lord
also will be a refuge for the oppressed. For the oppressed. Oppressed in this world, with
everything about it, with the experience of being a believer
in the flesh. the oppressed. Oppressed with
all of those things that we experience inside. Those, that consciousness
of sin, those internal attacks from Satan, those daily struggles
with the flesh and its lusts. God says he will be a refuge
for the oppressed. a refuge, a place of safety,
a shelter from the burning sun, a shelter from the rain and the
wind, as it were, of spiritual oppression. He will be a shelter,
a refuge for the oppressed. And refuge speaks of comfort,
that in the Lord you will find comfort, you will find safety,
you will find that He is dependable when everything else is so uncertain
and so unsure. We have no idea what's going
to happen with the world economy. We put so much trust in riches,
none of us have any idea whether it's all practically going to
evaporate in a few years. Do you know the world economy
is in a teetering condition of fragility. It really is. You
know, nobody dares say it publicly out loud because that in itself
would harm confidence and harming of confidence would then, you
know, our bank balances would suddenly not be worth the paper
they're written on. It really is like that. So uncertain and
yet the Lord is such a dependable refuge. He's so true when we
don't know what's true. How many times are you called
per day? We find that we put a stop to
them for a while by phoning the right agency and then Before
too long, I don't know what happens. Somehow, you give your information
to somebody who promises never to share it with anybody else,
and guess what? They've told a lie, and they've gone and shared
it with somebody else, and you find the phone starts ringing.
I found that in recent days. The phone rings three or four
times a day now from somebody that is always telling me a lie
about something I need to buy. I was told the other day, did
I realise that my washing machine warranty had run out? I said
to him, number one, what business do you think it is of yours?
And number two, I haven't got the slightest interest in what
you're selling. I just put the phone down on him. But we get
that, because the world is full of lies. untruth. It just seems to be out there
everywhere. But the Lord is a refuge for
the oppressed. Because he's true. He's always
true. He's never untrue. He never changes. He's real. When other things
seem real and solid, he is the only thing that is real and solid. His salvation is effectual salvation. It's not a whim and a hope and
a possibility if you've asked Him to come into your heart in
the right way. It's absolutely certain when you know the truth
of the Gospel, when you know that Christ has died for His
people, those the Father gave to Him before the beginning of
time, when you know the truth of the Scripture and the Gospel
revealed therein, He's a refuge for the oppressed. He is a refuge
for the oppressed. And he's unchanging. Jesus Christ,
the same, yesterday, today, and forever. And absolutely rock
solid. We have an anchor that keeps
the soul, said Paul. Steadfast and sure while the
billows roll. The storms of life, the uncertainties,
he is a refuge for the oppressed. But then secondly, it's in times
of trouble, Notice, it's times, plural, times of trouble, because
times of trouble are the lifelong experience of the believer. Be
in no doubt, it's not a rose garden, it's not rose-coloured
spectacles, it's not health, wealth and happiness. The believing
experience isn't like that. If any religion tells you that
that's the way it is, whether it call itself Christian or what,
it's a lie, it's not true. We live through times of trouble
as believers. We live through times of trouble.
It's our lifelong experience. You read the book of Ecclesiastes,
and what it says is absolutely true about the human experience.
Vanity of vanities. All is vanity. Futility, futility. All is futility. I go to work,
I do everything right. Some of you are being encouraged
to pass all your exams, and I must say that is a very, very good
thing. But the writer of Ecclesiastes, Solomon, says that it all comes
to nothing, because at the end of it, you build your life, you
gather your possessions, and what happens? You die and you
leave it to another to look after them after you. Oh, pursue knowledge,
get wisdom, get education. It's all a good thing, but don't
make it your eternal salvation, because it isn't. It isn't. It's
fragile. It's passing away. It won't last
forever. But these trials that come, these
times of trouble that come, where do they come from? We were seeing
in Hebrews chapter 12 just a couple of weeks ago. They all come from
God Himself. To you, believer, child of God,
the times of trouble that He takes you through are all from
Him Himself for the purpose of chastisement. There's a verse
in Amos chapter 3 and verse 6 that few who claim to know God know
anything of. It says this, This is the word
of God. Amos chapter 3 and verse 6. Shall
there be evil in a city and the Lord hath not done it? Misprint. Must be a misprint. No, read
it again. That's what it says. Shall there be evil in a city
and the Lord hath not done it? God orders all things. He orders
all things. the catastrophe that comes, the
natural disaster, the banking crisis, whatever it is, all things,
and it's such a complicated tapestry of life in this world, but yet,
know this, for the child of God, he causes all things to work
together for good to those who love God, who are the called
according to his purpose. You see, why does he do it, I've
said, for our chastisement, that all things might work together
for our good, to teach us, to restrain us, to keep us close
to him? When all is easy, we don't need
God. Isn't that the way it seems?
Sounds shocking to say it, but it's true. Think of the truth
of your own heart. When everything is going easily,
I don't need God, I can get by quite nicely, but when the billows
and the storms and the tempest and the scorching sun comes,
Lord help me. Lord help me. You know your need
of God in those situations. The troubles that arise, the
blows that fall, as we say, out of the blue, like Job's troubles,
everything fine, his family all getting together, having their
parties, enjoying one another's company, wonderful, wonderful
stuff, and then in a day, all of it taken away from him. How
do we cope? How do we cope? How does the
world cope? Many are driven to despair. A
lot just adopt this stoical attitude. Some are tragically driven to
suicide. Martin was telling me about a
guy in the Hatfield office that just a few weeks ago was made
redundant from his job and two or three days later committed
suicide. because of the anguish of the troubles that came out
of the blue on him he wasn't expecting it and he's got debts
to pay and a family to keep and the burden just crushed him and
he went out and killed himself and people do that they're driven
to despair but what do God's people do in times of trouble?
God's people go to God Jesus said, come unto me for refuge. Come to me, all you that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. The troubles that
we experience are like waves. Someone has said that for God's
people, the waves of trouble of this life wash them up safe
on the beach of God's kingdom. We go through tempest and you
get tossed around all over the place, but you know what? He
just washes you up. That wave just lands you on that
beach and that's where you are, on the beach of God's kingdom. But for those who reject God,
the waves drive them onto the rocks of eternal shipwreck. And that's right. That's the
way it is. We all live with the waves of
oppression of this life. But for the child of God, the
children of God, those waves carry us onto the beach of God's
kingdom, that safe beach, that eternal beach. But for those
who reject him, the waves drive them onto the rocks of eternal
shipwreck. Now the trials of life should
drive us to seek God. When we were looking at the chastisement
of God, you know, one of the lessons was that when the strokes
of the rod are coming down, the best place to be is snuggled
up as close as you can to Him. Snuggle up close to Him. The severity of the stroke seem
less as you get closer to him. Get close to God. Come to him. And in spiritual trials, we find
the answer to the situation in God's truth. Explain this to
me, Lord, I don't understand what I'm going through. We find
the answer to all things in his truth because knowing his truth,
we rise above the immediate effects of those troubles. knowing His
mercy to us in the Lord Jesus Christ, knowing His faithfulness
to us in promising to never forsake us, to keep us, knowing the power
of His forgiveness of our sins, that He is able to forgive us
our sins because of what He has done and what He has completed
and what He has finished, to know the love of God. These things
in these times of trouble These are the answer. This is how we
find refuge in the Lord. The Lord also will be a refuge
for the oppressed. A refuge in times of trouble. Then verse 10. And they that
know thy name will put their trust in thee. Trusting in the
Lord whose name they know. That's the key. The name. What does the name of God mean?
You know, they know thy name. What is it to know the name of
God? is to know something of all the
revealed attributes of God. His name is all the revealed
attributes of God in Scripture. His holiness, that God is holy,
of purer eyes than to behold iniquity. His justice, that God
must be just. His truth, in a world of error
and lies, with the father of lies seeking to deceive us, He
is truth. Knowing his sovereignty, that
he is sovereign over all, and that he's omnipotent, he's able
to do everything that he must do. Knowing something of his
electing love is to know his name. They that know his name,
his electing love, We know that His salvation is His salvation,
His choice, it's His mercy, it's His particular redemption of
the particular people that He chose in Christ from before the
foundation of the world, for whom Christ came to live and
die as their representative, for whom Christ was made sin
that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. knowing His justification,
how He raised Christ, having paid the penalty of our sins,
He raised Him from the dead for our justification. And all of
this is in the Son of His love. It's all in the Lord Jesus Christ. It's all in the gospel of His
grace. This is what it is to know something
of the name of God, it's to know the gospel of His grace. And
if you know His name, if you know His name, you will put your
trust in Him. They that know his name put their
trust in him. If you know his name you will
put your trust in him. Paul said that I may know him
and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings
being conformable, made conformable to his death. It's not just knowing
about him, it's knowing him. And what does that mean? It's
a felt acquaintance, that which you experience in your soul.
That experience in your soul of God, as revealed in the scriptures,
you know him. They that know his name, you
know his saving power, you know his sovereignty in your soul,
you experience it, you feel it inside. You know something. of his covenant faithfulness
to save his people, the people of his choice, by the satisfaction
of his justice in the person of his son. Is that not what
gives you comfort? They that know his name, I know
the one who is my God is the one who has satisfied the justice
of God. on my behalf, in the person of
His Son. I know that when His Son went
to the cross, in the justice of God, I went to that cross,
and my sins were punished in Him. This is what it is, that
felt acquaintance, that knowledge of Him, in His covenant faithfulness. And you feel it in your soul,
you know it. You know His tender mercy in
your soul. You know it. Hereby we perceive. Think, this is the language of
John in 1 John 3, 16. Hereby we perceive the love of
God. Because why? I know his name,
he's laid down his life for me. He's laid down his life for us.
This is his name, the one who laid down his life for us. I
know this, and by it, I perceive the love of God. For God commends
his love to us, in that while we were yet sinners, So vile,
Christ died for us. So unlovely, Christ died for
us. And his wisdom, his wisdom, knowing his name is to rest in
his wise guidance and ordering of every step of our way. He
does this for his people. We rest in it. His wise guidance
and ordering of every step of our way. And it's personal and
individual. And how he deals with one is
not the way he deals with another. that different circumstances,
all in the truth of the gospel but different circumstances.
We mustn't say this is my experience therefore I look at you and I
judge you whether you're experiencing the same set of circumstances.
Not at all. But God in his wisdom leads and
guides his people and directs their way. He says in Isaiah
42 verse 16, he brought the blind by a way they knew not. If you
know God, and you've got some experience, you'll say, that's
my experience. I was blind regarding where I
was to go. He brought the blind by a way
that they knew not. And in many different circumstances,
even when it affects family members close to us, we trust and rest
in the wisdom of God. Trusting the Lord whose name
they know. We rest in that wisdom. In Leviticus
chapter 10, Aaron was the high priest, appointed by God, anointed
by Moses at the command of God, and he had his two sons, Nadab
and Abihu, who brought strange fire. They sought to worship
God off their own bat, as it were, in a way that God hadn't
ordained, and God burned them up. And in Leviticus 10, verse
3, we read these words, Aaron held his peace. And so it was
with Eli. Eli had some very wicked sons,
Hophni and Phineas, who Although they tried to walk in the priest's
way, they were utterly immoral, evil characters. And Eli hadn't
restrained them. And the judgment of God came
via Samuel, the little boy in the temple, when God spoke to
him. And he said, Lord, your servant hears. And he told him
what he would do with Eli. And Eli said at the end of that,
it is the Lord let him do what seemeth him good. The wisdom
of God, knowing his name is to rest in his wise guidance every
step of the way, even when it affects situations very close
to us. It's trusting the angel that
God promised to his people in their wilderness wanderings.
Exodus 23 and verse 20, God said to Moses, behold, I send an angel,
and that's a capital A, that's Christ. the messenger of the
covenant. Behold, I send an angel before
thee to keep thee in the way, to bring thee every step of the
way into the place which I have prepared. This is the Lord whose
name they know. And those who know God's name
in this way are those for whom the Lord also will be a refuge. They're those oppressed for whom
the Lord will be a refuge in times of trouble. They that know
thy name will put their trust in thee, for finally thou, Lord,
thou, Lord, has not forsaken them that seek thee. This is
confidence in the Lord's keeping. How are you going to stay as
a believer till the end of your life? How are you going to stay
resting in the salvation that God has promised for his people?
How are you going to keep on believing so that you have a
good hope when you pass into eternity? How are you going to
do that? Confidence of the Lord's keeping. He will keep you. He's
not forsaken them that seek him. The Lord has not forsaken them,
all of them, however weak. However weak they might be, there
are those who are strong in the faith and those who are weaker
in the faith. But if it's true faith, the Lord has not forsaken
them that seek thee. Remember when Israel in Egypt
when Moses and Aaron went to see Pharaoh to say, we want to
go out and worship God and sacrifice to God, we want to go three days
journey into the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, well, all right,
some of you can go, but you can leave your possessions behind,
that'll be absolutely fine, off you go, you know, compromise,
compromise, no, God won't have compromise. And Moses said, not
a hoof will be left behind. Not a hoof. Not one hoof of one
of the animals will be left behind. Never mind one of the people
and their children. They're all coming. They're all
coming. Not a hoof will be left behind. Who does the Lord promise
to keep? Look, he says there, the Lord
has not forsaken them that seek Him. Who does the Lord promise
to keep? Those that seek Him. Oh, I don't seek Him very strongly.
However feebly, if the true heart's desire is to seek and find God
in Christ, and to know Him, and the justifying power of His resurrection,
the Lord will keep you. He promised it. How do we seek
Him? However feebly, how do we seek
Him? We seek Him by prayer. Seek him by prayer. God, be merciful
to me. Seek him by prayer. Reveal your
glory to me. We seek him by prayer. Show me
your truth. The constant prayer. Did you
see, I put on the bulletin this piece by Charles Spurgeon, where
he's saying it's a constant prayer. Forsake me not, Psalm 38, 21.
A constant prayer of the children of God. Forsake me not. in the
good times, the bad times, in every situation. Read that piece
for yourself. Father, forsake not thy child,
lest he fall by the hand of the enemy. Shepherd, forsake not
thy lamb, lest he wander from the safety of the fold. He says,
forsake me not in the day of repentance, lest I lose the hope
of pardon and fall into despair. Forsake me not in the day of
my strongest faith, lest faith degenerate into presumption.
Forsake me not, for without thee I am weak, but with thee I am
strong. Forsake me not, for my path is
dangerous and full of snares. This is seeking the Lord. seeking
the them that seek thee the lord has not forsaken those that seek
him seek him in the scriptures seek him in the gospel that you
find in the scriptures, the Christ that you find in the scriptures.
Make time to attend the preaching of his word. Take opportunities
to listen. We've got no excuse these days.
We can't say it's not there. It's there in abundance, like
it's never been before. He's promised to all his people,
all of them. Remember, not a hoof left behind. He said this, we read it in Hebrews
13 verse 5. just a week or so ago. I will
never leave you. Five times in the scripture from
the Old Testament into right the way through to Hebrews chapter
13 verse 5. I will never leave you nor forsake
you. He gave that as the reason for
us not to covet. Don't be covetous, he said. Why? Because the 10th commandment
says thou shalt not covet. No, because I have said I will
never leave you nor forsake you. That's the promise of God. The
confidence that the people who know his name, who trust him,
have in his keeping. Are you oppressed with this world?
If you're a believer, I know you are. I certainly am. With
your flesh? Oh, every day. Chief of sinners. No hope there. It will never
ever gradually get better and better until it's fit for heaven.
My flesh will always be fallen flesh. There's a new man by the
grace of God, implanted by the Spirit of God, but this flesh
is never ever in itself going to become Christian flesh. It's
flesh, and it always will be. Your trials, your temptations,
your problems, are you oppressed in this world? I know you are.
Well, do you know his name? Do you trust him? Do you seek
him, however weakly? Well, God, in Christ, has promised
to be a refuge in your troubles, in your troubles, all of them,
and to never, ever forsake you. The Lord also will be a refuge
for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble, and they that
know thy name will put their trust in thee, for thou, Lord,
hast not forsaken them that seek thee.