Let's find our seats. A couple
of announcements and I hate doing this because I know everybody
already knows but Lauren gave birth to her twin boys Friday. Cam, C-A-M, was the first one
born. And five minutes later, Mac,
M-A-C, was the second one born. So we had an easy time with their
names, Cam and Mac. And mother and babies are doing
very well. So we're just so thankful, been
praying for her. And I think they're going home
today. We will have services this coming
Wednesday, but the next Wednesday is Christmas Day, so we won't
have anything that night. The next Wednesday is January
the 1st, and most of the stuff that happens on that day happens
the night before. So I thought it'd be a very appropriate
time for us to have a Wednesday night service on the first day
of the year. So January the 1st we will meet.
Hope you're able to be a part of that. Conference will be here
before you know it, so don't forget to continue to be in prayer
for that time. Henry and Trish are from Canada,
and they've been listening to us for some time now. And they're
here visiting with us this morning, And they covet your prayers. They're trying to, they've had
to leave the church that they've been a part of, their family's
been a part of for years because of the gospel. And now they are
on their own and have a couple other people meeting with them,
but trying to decide, trying to figure out what the Lord would
have them to do. And so, I know they would appreciate you praying
for them. They'll be back. They're just
passing through today, but they'll be back in January for our conference.
So if you get a chance to meet them this morning, I would encourage
you to do that. Henry and Trish Vandercoff. Did I get that right? Close. OK. Close. All right. Number 33 in your spiral hymnal,
Tom's gonna come and lead us. Behold, I come. Let's stand. ["Behold, I Come"] Behold, I come, our Savior said,
the Savior promised long. I come to do thy will, O God,
and thus our hope was born. Behold, the virgin has conceived
and born a son of flesh. His name is called Emmanuel. God dwells in human flesh. The angels left their high abode
to see this mystery. The great almighty sovereign
God, a babe of feeble clay. ? Mortals beheld his lovely face
? The Father's only Son ? How full of truth, how full of grace
? Christ came to save his own ? His spotless life of righteousness
? And sin atoning death ? Fulfilled his father's holy will ? And
satisfied his wrath ? Our glad Hosannas, Prince of Peace ? Your
glory shall proclaim ? And thrown in heaven as our king ? We love
to praise your name Please be seated, John. Good morning, everyone. Could
we turn to Micah chapter seven for our scripture reading this
morning? Micah chapter seven. I've often thought that the best
way to teach is by asking questions, but how much more blessed is
that teaching when it's God teaching and when the answer is so obvious. Micah chapter seven, verse 18. Who is a God like unto thee that
pardoneth iniquity and passeth by the transgression of the remnant
of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger forever
because he delighteth in mercy. He will turn again. He will have
compassion upon us. He will subdue our iniquities
and thou will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Thou will perform the truth to
Jacob and the mercy to Abraham, which thou has sworn unto our
fathers from the days of old. Let's pray. Our gracious God,
our heavenly father, Lord, you are perfect. Ways are truth and
your works are righteousness, Lord. There is no darkness in
you. There's no turning or change,
only light and love and perfection, Lord. And you are worthy of our
worship. And God, we ask today that you
would be with Henry and Trish, that you would fulfill, Lord,
that desire that you've put in their hearts, God, to give them
fellowship with the gospel church Lord, we pray for Adam and Lauren,
that you would minister grace to them, Lord, that you would
be their strength and that you would use this to remind them
that by childbearing they are saved by sending your son into
this world to be born. Lord, remember your word unto
your servants that you've caused us to hope by. Lord, remember
the word to your son that you would not let him see corruption.
that you would give the nations to him to rule with the rod of
iron, that he should give eternal life to us, Lord. Remember your
promise to us, Lord, that we're kept by your power through faith,
God, and that when we pass through the waters, you'll be with us,
that when we walk through the fire, we'll not be burned and
the flame won't even touch us, Lord. God, please forgive our
sins, Lord. Forgive us by the blood of your
son and give us an understanding of your word today, God, that
we be not ashamed. Please, Lord, remember your word
unto us, God, and have mercy on us and on our children. Open
our eyes, Lord, and establish your gospel witness here in this
place. It's in your son's name we ask these things, Lord, and
we believe that you do delight in mercy. Amen. Number 224 from the hardbacked
hymnal, number 224. Let's all stand together again.
224. I know not why God's wondrous
grace to me he hath made known, nor why unworthy Christ in love
redeemed me for his own. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed
unto him against that day. I know not how this saving me
he did impart nor how believing in his word brought peace within
my heart But I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that
he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him against
that day. ? I know not how the spirit moves
? Convincing man of sin ? Revealing Jesus through the word ? Creating
faith in him But I know whom I have believed and am persuaded
that he is able to keep that which I've committed unto him
against that day. I know not what of good or ill
may be reserved for me. Of weary ways or golden days
before his face I see. But I know whom I have believed
and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I've committed
unto him against that day. ? I know not when my Lord may
come ? At night or noonday fair ? Nor if I'll walk the veil with
Him ? Or meet Him in the air ? But I know whom I have believed
Please be seated. I love that hymn. Of course, that's a verse of scripture that we just
sang and I like the word committed in that verse. We normally think
of a commitment as a work, something that we do, pull ourselves up
and really be committed. It means to make a deposit, that's
what it means. We've committed to Him everything. All the hope of our salvation
is in Him. Christ is all and He is in all. And when the Lord Jesus Christ
is all you have, then you find out He's all you need. He's all
you need when He's all you have. He's all God requires. Second Samuel chapter 16, if
you'd like to open your Bibles with me there, I've titled this
message Refreshed in the Way. Refreshed in the Way. The Lord healed one man. He told him, he said, go thy
way. And the next verse says, and he followed Jesus. The way
of the believer is Christ. He is our way. He doesn't just
show us the way, he is the way. He said, I am the way, the truth,
and the life. No man can come to the Father
but by me. And in our text this morning, we find David in a very,
very difficult place in his life. And the end of the trial, or
at least the part of it that we're going to be looking at
this morning, the scripture says that David refreshed himself
in the way. He comforted his heart in his
God. In spite of his trials, in spite
of his circumstances, in spite of his troubles, he knew that
everything had been committed to the Lord and that the Lord
was in control of all things. and that his God could be trusted
to bring all things together for his good and for God's glory. And that's our hope this morning. The Lord often, like he did here
with David, sends difficult trials to drive us to Christ. to bring
us as in another place David says in Psalm 107, to our wits
end. My mother used to accuse me and
my brothers of bringing her to her wits end. That word wits,
look it up, look up this verse in Psalm 107. Psalm 107. Let's read it together, we'll
begin in verse 24. These see the works of the Lord
and his wonders in the deep. For he commandeth and riseth
the stormy wind which lifteth up the waves thereof. The way of the Lord in another
place, he tells us, is through the seas. And when we get to
the book of Revelation and John gets that vision of heaven, the
scripture says there is no more sea, no more turbulence, no more
trials, no more troubles, no more separation between us and
our God. But in this world, it is the
Lord that stirs up the trials and troubles. They mount up to
the heavens These seas, these waves, they go down again to
the depths. Their soul is melted because
of trouble. These seas carry us like a boat
up and down emotionally. Often our circumstances are such
that we're brought to great heights and then we're brought to great
lows and in our trouble. Look what he says, verse 27,
they reel to and fro and stagger like drunken men and are at their
wits end. That word translated wits in
our Bible is the same word translated wisdom in over 600 places in
the Old Testament. It means simply they don't know
what to do. They're at the end of themselves. God has brought
them there through their troubles. They have no wisdom. They have
no understanding. They don't know what to do. What do we do when we're at our
wit's end? What do we do when, as we're
going to see in our story, insult comes on the heels of great injury. What do we do when everything
seems to be against us? God brought us to that place.
That's what the Lord's telling us. I brought them there. I caused them to be at their
wits end. Look at the next verse. Then they cry unto the Lord in
their trouble and he bringeth them out of their distresses.
If God didn't bring us to our wits end, we'd never cry. James put it like this, count
it all joy, my brethren, when you fall into divers temptations,
knowing that the trying of your faith work at patience. And patience,
when it is complete, makes you perfect and entire lacking nothing. When are believers perfect and
entire lacking nothing? Only when they're in Christ.
When they're able to rest in Christ. When they're able to
look to Christ. When they're able to believe
on Him in the midst of their most difficult circumstances. God says, these trials and troubles
work at patience. What is patience? Waiting on
God. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength
And I love that word in Isaiah chapter 40 verse 31, they that
wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. That word renew
is the word change. It doesn't mean that they're
going to refresh their strength. It doesn't mean they're gonna
pull themselves up and become more committed. It means they're
going to exchange their strength for his strength. And his strength
is made perfect in my weakness. And they that wait upon the Lord
shall renew or change their strength. They shall mount up with wings
as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. The Lord in Revelation tells
us that he sent his church out into the wilderness to a place
that he's prepared for her. And he's made for her to be a
two-winged eagle. Now the two wings of the eagle
that sustain us in this wilderness in which you and I live is the
Spirit of God and the Word of God. And that's the place that
he's prepared for us. And we are meeting in that place
now. And we've asked the Spirit of God to come and bless the
Word of God to our hearts because God often brings I like what Brother Scott Richardson
used to say, God keeps his children in trouble, going in trouble,
or coming out of trouble all the time. If you're coming out
of it, thank God, but mark this, if the Lord tarries and doesn't
take you home, you're gonna be going back into it. Isn't that
the way it is? Why? He brings us to our wit's
end, then, Then they cried unto him and he delivered them. Now,
does that mean that he changed our circumstances so that we're
no longer in trouble? No, it means that he met with
us in our circumstances and he gave us his presence and his
peace and his grace to sustain us in the midst of our trials. Turn with me to 1 Peter 1. Verse six. Oh, we have to back up to verse
four, I'm sorry. To whom, speaking of his children,
we have an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and fadeth not
away reserved in heaven for you. The Lord Jesus, just before he
ascended into glory, I go and prepare a place for you. And
if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive
you unto myself that where I am there you may be also. Don't
be afraid. And when the Lord Jesus took
his rightful place at the right hand of the majesty on high,
everything required for this inheritance, which is incorruptible,
was made complete in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He's seated in the heavenlies and we are seated in him. And
so that's, Reserved, it is reserved in heaven for you. In the meantime,
we are kept, verse five, by the power of God through faith unto
salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time, wherein you
greatly rejoice. That is our rejoicing, isn't
it? That is our hope. Though now for a season. David wrote Psalm 23 as a result,
we haven't gotten to our text yet, and we will in a moment,
but David wrote Psalm 23 as a result of that experience that he's
gonna have in 2 Samuel 16. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall
not want. I shall not be in lack of anything.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He prepares the table
before me in the presence of my enemies, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death. And that's what we are. You're
not just talking about, I know we quote Psalm 23 at funerals
a lot, but believer, this is where we are right now. We're
walking through the valley of the shadow of death. And David
said, I'll fear no evil for thou art with me, thy rod and thy
staff, they do comfort me. Verse 6, though now for a season,
if need be. Solomon said, Lord, feed me with
the bread that is convenient for me. Give me, and that word convenient
means necessary, if need be, or give me the portion of your
mercy that I need, whatever it is. You know my needs. I don't
know my needs. We think we know what we need.
We don't know what we need. We know what we want. Only God
knows what we need. And here's faith. Sometimes the Lord sends great
trials and affliction to try our faith. Sometimes he sends
affluence and comforts. You know, we've seen, I've seen
it. Pastoring, people get in trouble and all of a sudden they've
got a heightened interest in God. And eventually that trouble
passes and you don't see much of them anymore. that which is
born in a storm often dies in a calm. Now that doesn't mean
that God doesn't use the storms of life to cause us to need him. But if when that calm comes, we don't
have, you see, God tries, what I'm trying to say is that God
will try our faith through affluence and through comforts as much
as he will through trials and troubles. If need be, you are in heaviness
through manifold temptations, that the trial of your faith,
being much more precious than gold that perisheth, though it
be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and
glory at the appearing of the Lord Jesus Christ, whom having
not seen you love and in whom though now yet See him not, yet
believing, you rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory,
receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.
Oh, for the child of God, this is a lifelong, this is a lifelong
thing. He raises up the storms and he
brings the waves down and he brings us to our wit's end and
then we cry unto him. Lord save me, Lord save me. Turn with me to Psalm 33, Psalm
33. Look at verse 16 in Psalm 33. There is no king saved by the multitude of
host The size of the army is not going
to save a nation. A mighty man is not delivered
by much strength. You ask Goliath about that. A
horse is a vain thing for safety. Neither shall he deliver any
by his great strength. Behold, the eye of the Lord is
upon them that fear him. upon them that hope in his mercy,
to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.
Our soul waiteth for the Lord. He is our help and our shield,
for our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in
his holy name. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon
us according as we hope We've all heard someone say,
God won't put more on you than you can bear. If he doesn't,
then you won't need him. Sometimes our circumstances are
more than we can bear. Always our sin is more than we
can bear. We cannot stand in the presence
of a holy God and bear the burden of our sin. And so the Lord Jesus
said, all ye that are burdened and heavy laden, come unto me,
I'll give you rest. Come to me. He bore that burden
for us. He said, my burden is light.
I've already bore the weight of that sin. My yoke is easy,
learn of me. Lord, feed me with the bread
that's convenient for me. Whatever is required according
to your wisdom to bring me to Christ, make me
dependent upon him. And when everything seems against
me and when insult is added to injury, when I feel like the
dog that's been kicked while he's down, Lord, give me wings to fly to
Thee. Give me the wing of Your Spirit
and cause Your Word to become alive in my heart and enable
me to come into Thy presence and find in Thee mine all and
all. When Christ is all you have,
and what a sweet thing it is when the Lord in his mercy brings
us to that place where he's all we've got, then and only then
do we make the great discovery that he's all we need. He's all
we need. All right, let's go to our text
in 2 Samuel 16. By worldly circumstances, David's
glory days are behind him. He's had some great military
campaigns. He's established Israel as the
greatest nation in the world. God has, but through him. He's
been hailed and praised by men. And now the Lord is going to
bring trouble into his life towards the end of his life. He's an
old man now. And we read out, we're going to be looking at
the rest of the chapters in 2 Samuel. And when we go to the end of
David's life, we find that, oh, they're just full of trouble. And the reason I say that his
glory days are behind him in terms of circumstances, the troubles that he's going
to face now are his real glory days. Because most of the Psalms
that speak to our hearts, David wrote now at the end of his life. In the midst of these trials,
in the midst of these troubles, we saw last Sunday that he wrote
Psalm 51 as a result of what happened with Bathsheba and Uriah. And he writes Psalm 23 and he
writes Psalm 33. And so many of the Psalms David's
gonna write now as a result of these difficult, dark days that
he's going to face before he dies. One of his sons has assaulted
his daughter. Her brother, his half-brother,
out of revenge, killed him. So within his family, among his
children, he's got children raping, killing, murdering. Absalom,
his favored son, Absalom whom he loved has been banished now
for five years. Absalom has come home and he's
reconciled outwardly, kissed his father like Judas's kiss
on the Lord Jesus. And yet behind, while he's kissing
his father, he's stabbing him in the back with a knife. And
he steals the hearts of the people of Israel away from David. And
now Absalom amasses an army against his father and overthrows the
throne. David is now fleeing Israel. in the depths of the sadness
and sorrow of all of these things that happens to David, a man
by the name of Shimei. As David's leaving with Joab,
the commander of his army and Abishai and all these people,
they've crossed over the Brook Kidron and Abishai, A descendant of
Saul hurls curses at David and starts throwing stones at David
and at his men. And what he says of David is
true. You know, that's the hard thing about accusations, isn't
it? Oftentimes, accusations are mean. Oftentimes, they're very
hurtful. But what hurts the most about
when someone accuses us is the amount of truth that's in them. That's the part that really stings.
The things that aren't true, we can let that water on a duck's
back. But the things that are true,
that pierces the heart. And Abishai is gonna say some
things about David. Look in verse eight. I'm sorry, not Abishai, Shimei. Verse eight, the Lord hath returned
upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul in whose stead
thou hast reigned and the Lord hath delivered the kingdom under
the hand of Absalom thy son. And behold, thou art taken in
thy mischief because thou art a bloody man. These things that
were happening to David were the chastisement of his heavenly
father. He knew they were coming. And Abishai, Abishai and Joab
were brothers and they are the nephews of King David. They are
the commanders of his army. David's sister's children. And Abishai says, the son of
Zariah unto the king. Why should this dead dog curse
my Lord the king? Let me go over, I pray thee,
and take off his head." One man throwing rocks and cursing David,
Abishai says, I'll go over there and just get rid of him. And
King David said, what have I to do with you, you sons of Zariah? Now, Zariah was David's sister. So this wasn't just Abishai,
this was Joab. And the two men together were
saying, we're gonna take care of this guy, this dead dog. And
David says, I'm not with you on this. Let him curse. This is important,
look at this. Let him curse. Because the Lord
hath said unto him, curse David. Who shall then say, wherefore
thou hast done this? God put these curses in Shimei's
mouth. God's the one who sent him here
to curse me. This trouble, this trial that's making what I've
already gone through much worse is sent of the hand of my loving
heavenly father. Oh, that God would give us such
grace. And David said to Abishai, Verse
11, and to all his servants, they all wanted to go after this
Shimei. Behold, my son, which came forth
of my bowels, seeketh my life. How much more now may this Benjamite
do it? Let him alone and let him curse,
for the Lord hath bidden him. This trial is of God. David is saying the same thing
to Abishai that Eli said to Samuel. When Samuel came to Eli with
a word from God and Samuel didn't want to tell Eli what it was
because it was a judgment against Eli and his family. And Eli forced
him, he said, you tell me everything that God said. And Samuel told
him the whole thing. It was the death of his children,
the judgment of his family, And Eli's response in hearing what
God was gonna do said, it's the Lord, it's the Lord. Let him do what seemeth to him
good. What do we do? when insult is added to injury,
when everything seems to be against us, when we're brought to our
wits end and we have no place to go. The Lord brought us there. The Lord put us in that place. Because if we've got any place
else that we can go to find comfort and hope and wisdom and instruction
and understanding, we'll go there. You see, coming to Christ, not
only for for the initial work of grace and salvation is not
a choice. We don't just decide, well, I'm
gonna let God, I'm gonna let go and let God. No, God's gonna
bring us to the end of ourselves so that we don't have any choice.
Coming to Christ is never a choice. I've got to have Him. Will you
lead me? And what the Lord said to the
disciples, Lord, where are we gonna go? If we had someplace
else to go, we would go. You alone have the words of eternal
life. We know and are sure that thou
art the son of God, the Christ. You've shut us up to yourself.
We don't have any place else to go. The Lord hath bidden him. God
sent him. Let him curse. Look at verse
12. It may be that the Lord will
look on mine affliction and that the Lord will requite me good
for his cursing this day. It's my only hope is that God
will use this for my good and for his glory. That's my hope.
And if that happens, then it's all good. It's all well. If God uses this to bring me
to Christ, It's good. Let the world whistle through
the graveyard. Let them believe in the power
of positive thinking. Let them try to lift themselves
up. I don't want to be around negative
person, but my point is that we're not lifting ourselves up.
We're looking in faith and knowing that our God reigns And he works
all things together for his glory, for our good. Look at verse 13. And as David
and his men went by the way. In the book of Acts, the believers
were called the way because they kept pointing to Christ. He's
the way. He's the only way, he is the
way. David of his men went by the
way, Shimei went along the hillside over against him and cursed as
he went and threw stones at him and cast dust and the king and
all the people that were with him came weary. And I looked up that word weary
and it doesn't mean just tired, it means worn out. Completely exhausted, got no
strength, can't put another step, one foot in front of the other.
I'm done. I've got to sit down. I can't
fight this fight anymore. And the king And all the people
that were with him came weary and they refreshed themselves
there. Where was there? The way. They
refreshed themselves in Christ. Oh, so many of the Psalms. We
have to look at one. Look at Psalm 3. David wrote
this during this time. Perhaps right now as he's refreshing
himself in the way, he's comforting himself
in his God. Perhaps this was the scene in
which he wrote Psalm 3. Lord, how are they increased
that trouble me? Many are they that rise up against
me. Many there be which say to my soul, there is no help for
him in God. God's cursed him. Isn't that
what Job's friends, miserable comforters said of Job? Job,
God's punishing you. That's what Shimei said to David.
God's punishing you. David knew better. This isn't
punitive. God's chastisements and God's
trials and God's troubles and the things that God sends are
never punitive for his children. That's been paid for at Calvary. The punishment for sin is satisfied. It's finished. Does God correct his children? Yes, he does. David knew that. The Lord's got my good in this.
And here he's crying out from his heart. Look at verse three. But thou, O Lord, art a shield
for me, my glory and the lifter up of my head. Lord, if my head's
going to be lifted up, you're going to have to lift it up.
Abraham, I am thy shield. I am thy exceeding great reward. His person and his presence,
his peace, Oh, how we think, well, if my
circumstances could change, I would be comfortable. I'd be at ease
if I could just be relieved of this. I cried unto the Lord with my
voice and he heard me out of his holy hill, Sila. I laid down and slept. I rested in my God. I awakened for the Lord sustained
me. I was refreshed. He restrained
me. He sustained me. He kept me. He enabled me. What comfort! What joy! What grace there is
when we're brought to our wit's end to find Him to be all of
our comfort and all of our strength. I will not be afraid. of what
10,000 of people that have set themselves against me round about.
Arise, O Lord, you save me. Oh my God, thou hast smitten
all mine enemies upon the cheekbone. Thou hast broken the teeth of
the ungodly. Salvation belongeth unto the
Lord. Thy blessing is upon thy people. Lord, you've all of God. You've
all I've got. And you're all I need. Job put it like this, naked,
I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord taketh
away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Shall we receive good of the Lord's hand and not evil? And his wife said to him, why
don't you just curse God and die? And the Lord said, you're
a foolish woman speaking like that. David said in Psalm 139, I was
dumb. I opened not my mouth because
thou did it. Leave him alone, the Lord sent
him. God will requite me good for
this evil. He'll use this for my good. And
my good, my greatest good, in the end of the day my only good
is the good that the Lord commended Mary for when he rebuked Martha,
Mary. hath chosen that one thing needful."
One thing needful, sit at my feet and hear my words. Christ is all we have in salvation
and what a blessing it is when he brings us to the end of ourselves
and we come to this conclusion. All of my righteousnesses are
as filthy rags before Him. If He did not bear all my sin,
there's no way I could relieve the burden of my sin. If He did
not pay all my debt, I cannot be reconciled to God. If he's
not all my righteousness, I have no way of establishing any righteousness
before God. If he's not my hiding place,
I've got no place to hide. If he's not all my wisdom, I
have no place else to go to know the truth. If he's not my way, I'm lost. If he's not all my acceptance
before God, I'll not be able to stand in the presence of a
holy God. Christ is all I have. My sin is ever before me. Paul said, I die daily. This
death of self and dependence upon him is a daily exercise
of faith. Peter put it like this, to whom
coming, always coming to him, always needing him. He's all
the light of my life. Without him I walk in darkness. He's all my peace. Without him
I'll raise my fist to God and rage war against God, and I'll
lose that battle. I need a commander who's fought
the fight and gotten the victory. He's all my rest. Without him,
I'll be restless. I'll be in trouble. He's all
my hope. Without him, I'm hopeless. I
was hopeless. I'll be filled with nothing but
sorrow and sadness, but that he fill my heart with the joy
of the Lord. If the Lord Jesus Christ is not
the original cause of all of my trials, if he does not measure
the circumstances of my trials, If I can't find, as David did
in this terrible time, the hand of God, the hand of God. David said, it's the Lord, leave
him alone. If I can't find the hand of God, then I'm gonna be
running to and fro trying to figure out some way to fix it. I don't know that he's bringing
me to himself. I'll end up somewhere else. And in death, oh, that's when
it's gonna become most clear to us, isn't it brethren? In that moment, when possessions,
people, promises, accomplishments, failures will mean nothing. What does it profit a man if
he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Oh, in that
moment of truth, we will know that Christ is all. He's all
I've got. And because He's all I've got,
He's all I need. All I need. Everything that God
requires for me to enter into glory is in Him. Shimei was son of God. He did curse David. The things
that he said were true. David was already down. You would think as low as he
could get with everything that Absalom was doing and everything
that had happened. No, David, I got one more thing
for you. You got to get a dead dog to
curse you and throw dark rocks at you. It's the Lord. Perhaps he'll
requite me for this evil. And he refreshed himself in the
way. Tom? 256, let's stand together,
number 256. When peace like a river attendeth
my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll, Whatever my lot,
Thou hast taught me to say, It is well, it is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul, with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. Though Satan should buffet, though
trials should come, let this blessed assurance control that
Christ hath regarded my helpless estate. and hath shed his own
blood for my soul. It is well, it is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. My sin, O the bliss of this glorious
thought! My sin, not in part, but the
whole, is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
O my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. And Lord, haste the day when
my faith shall be signed. The clouds be rolled back as
a scroll. The trump shall resound. shall descend, even so it is
well with my soul. It is well, it is well. With my soul, it is well, it
is well with my soul. Oh, well, happy birthday.