Good evening. Let's open tonight's service
with hymn number 58 from your hardback hymnal. Number 58, Jesus,
the very thought of thee. Let's all stand together. Jesus, the very thought of thee With sweetness fills my breast,
But sweeter for thy face to see, And in thy presence rest. Nor voice can sing, nor heart
can frame, Nor can the memory find A sweeter sound than thy
blessed name, O Savior of mankind. O hope of every contrite heart
O joy of all the meek To those who fall, how kind thou art How
good to those who seek But what to those who find? Ah, this nor tongue nor pen can
show The love of Jesus, what it is None but his loved ones
know Jesus, our only joy, be thou as thou our prize wilt be. Jesus, be thou our glory now
and through eternity. Good evening. Let's open our
Bibles together to Psalm 56 for our scripture reading tonight.
Psalm 56. Be merciful unto me, O God, for
man would swallow me up. He fighting daily oppresses me. The man that would swallow us
up quicker than any other man is the man of our old flesh,
isn't it? Mine enemies would daily swallow
me up, for they be many that fight against me, O Thou Most
High. What time I am afraid, I will
trust in Thee. In God, I will praise His Word. In God, I have put my trust. I will not fear what flesh can
do unto me. Every day they rest my words. All their thoughts are against
me for evil. They gather themselves together, they hide themselves,
they mark my steps, and when they wait for my soul, shall
they escape by iniquity? In thine anger cast down the
people, O God. Thou tellest my wanderings, put
thou my tears in thy bottle. Are they not in thy book? When
I cry unto thee, then shall my enemies turn back. This I know,
for God is for me. In God will I praise his word.
In the Lord will I praise his word. In God I put my trust. I will not be afraid what man
can do unto me. Thy vows are upon me, O God. I will render praises unto thee. For thou hast delivered my soul
from death. Wilt not thy deliver my feet
from sin, that I may walk before God in the light of the living? Lord, if you can save my soul,
you can save my life here in this world. Let's pray together. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we come before Thee pleading the name and the righteousness
of Thy dear Son for all our acceptance before Thee. Lord, we have nothing in ourselves
to lay before Thee but our sin. What great hope You've given
us in knowing that The Lord Jesus Christ has successfully satisfied
all your demands for righteousness and for justice, and that in
him we have no sin. Lord, we pray that you would
enable us in this hour to find our rest in Christ. For truly,
Lord, the enemies are all about us and how desperate we are that
you save us by thy name and by thy strength and for thy glory. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Let's stand together once again.
We'll sing hymn number 13 from the Spiral hymn book, Gospel
Hymns hymn book. We're gonna sing this to the
tune of What a Friend We Have with Jesus. We will not sing
the refrain, so just sing right through the four verses. Let's
all stand. Dark the stain that soiled man's
nature, Long the distance that he fell, Far removed from hope
and heaven, into deep despair and hell. But there was a fountain
opened, and the blood of God's own Son purifies the soul and
reaches deeper than the stain has gone. Conscience of the deep
pollution, sinners wander in the night. Though they hear the shepherd
calling, they still fear to face the light. This the blessed consolation
That can melt the heart of stone That sweet balm of Gilead reaches
Deeper than the stain has gone All unworthy we who've wandered
And our eyes are wet with tears As we think of love that sought
us Through the weary wasted years Yet we walk the holy highway
Walking by God's grace alone Knowing Calvary's fountain reaches
Deeper than the stain has gone When with holy choirs we're standing
In the presence of the King And our souls are lost in wonder
While the white-robed choirs sing Then we'll praise the name
of Jesus with the millions round the throne. Praise him for the power that
reaches deeper than the stain has gone. Please be seated. Deeper than the stain has gone. Open your Bibles with me please
to Psalm 55. Psalm 55. I've titled this message,
No Place Else to Go. No Place Else
to Go. Men make salvation a choice, a decision. Truth is that if you and I have
a choice between God or anything else, we will choose something
else. God has to shut us up so that we have no place else to
go. It is not of him that willeth.
nor of him that runneth, it is of God that showeth mercy." And
the Lord invited the disciples to follow those 5,000 that left. He said, aren't you going to
lead me also? Lord, where should we go? Where can we go? You alone
have the words of eternal life. We know and are sure that thou
art the Christ, the Son of the living God. You have shut us
up to yourself. We've got no place else to go.
That's not only true in The first time we're brought by God's grace
into fellowship with Christ, but it's true of every time we're
brought by God's grace into the fellowship of Christ. This matter
of having to have Christ, being put in a place where, Lord, I
have a need, nothing else will meet this need. I've got no place
else to go, no place else. I mentioned last Sunday that
prayer is always the last resort. True prayer is. Lord, we can't
do anything for ourselves. We've planted, we've watered,
but Lord, if you don't give the increase, all that we've done
will be in vain. If the Lord doesn't build the
house, the laborers labor in vain. If the Lord doesn't do
it, it won't get done. And that's the spirit behind
this prayer in Psalm 55. And I pray the Lord will make
it our spirit. Now, David, you remember in 2
Samuel chapter 15, David's son Absalom, the scripture says,
stole the hearts of the people. And there was a, a strong conspiracy
that he led against his father. And David was forced to flee
Jerusalem. And Absalom and his men came
in and took over the city. And there's a passage of scripture
that I want you to turn to, because this is the context of what Psalm
55 is. This is David's prayer. When
David begins Psalm 55 and he says, Give ear to my prayer,
O God, and hide not thyself from my supplications. Lord, if you
don't hear my prayer, if you don't meet my need, I've got
no place else to go. David is fleeing his own son. I can imagine the heartache that
he's experiencing. And the scripture says in verse
30 of 2 Samuel chapter 15, and David went up by the ascent of
Mount of Olivet and wept as he went up and had his head covered
and he went barefoot. And all the people that were
with him covered every man's head and they went up weeping,
weeping as they went up. Now, these things happened to
David prophetically because this psalm expresses the need that
David had for God to deliver him from this cruel conspiracy
of his own son. But more than that, it expresses
our Lord's prayer as he is being brought to Mount Olivet through
the Kidron Valley. Scripture says in Psalm 110 verse
7 that the Lord drank from the brook. Now, as I've understood
it, this brook that went through the Kidron Valley ended up in
the city dump. And all the sludge that came
from the temple and from the city went down through this brook.
into the city dump. And when the scripture says in
Psalm 110 that the Lord drank from the brook, it's not speaking
of something that he did literally, but it is speaking of what he
actually did spiritually. When he drank the bitter dregs
of our sin and suffered the judgment of God for the sins of his people,
he was drinking from the sludge that had come. particularly the
sludge of religion. When our Lord went into the tabernacle
and cleansed the temple, you remember what he said? He said,
you've turned the house of prayer, a place where men are to come
and bow in submission with no place else to go, seeking the
mercy and grace of God, which is what prayer always is. and
you've turned it into a den of thieves. You've made religion
something that can be merchandised. You've made it something that
can be bought and sold and you've merchandised men's souls by robbing
them of the truth of the gospel. And the Lord Jesus Christ drank
from that brook. And so David's experience with
Absalom which happened a thousand years before our Lord went through
the Kidron Valley and up on the Mount of Olives, weeping and
bearing his soul to his father, crying out for him to deliver
him is prophetic of our salvation. Now, this prayer is our prayer. I mean, it's our experience.
It is our experience. But we understand the Psalms
at their highest degree. Now, David, when we understand
them in light of Christ, David is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. And everything he prays in Psalm
55 is typical of our Lord crying out and bearing his soul to his
father to be delivered from this, well, Conspiracy. The conspiracy
of man and man-made religion against him. David had a trusted friend and
counselor whose name was Ahithophel and as David was leaving he encouraged
Ahithophel to go back and and serve, no Ahithophel actually,
Hushki is the one that he encouraged to go back and spy on Ahithophel. Ahithophel was his trusted friend
and counselor that sided with Absalom and became his enemy. And so David sends spies back
to Jerusalem and Zadok the priest is still on David's side and
David's encouraging his friends to to spy out the plot that's
against him and to help him to be delivered from this conspiracy. And so those things are gonna
be mentioned in Psalm 55. And it's a picture of the Lord Jesus
Christ being forsaken by Judas, being denied by Peter, being
abandoned by his disciples, It's appropriate that we should look
at Psalm 55 at the same time that we're looking at our Lord's
experience in the Garden of Gethsemane in Mark chapter 14, because this
is his experience in the Garden of Gethsemane, where he's, sweating
drops of blood and bearing his soul to his father and crying,
father, if there be any way this cup can pass from me, let it
be nevertheless not my will, but thy will be done. And the
truth is that there was no other way. No other way for sinners
to be saved. No other way for righteousness
to be established. No other way for justice to be
served. There was no other way. The Lord
Jesus Christ, just as David had to be taken out of Jerusalem,
so the Lord Jesus Christ had to suffer. He had to bear the
sins of his people in order for sinners to be saved. Give ear to my prayer, oh God.
We're in Psalm 55, now verse one. Lord, if you don't hear
me, I've got no hope. I've got no place else to go. I'm stuck. I'm between a rock
and a hard place. If you don't provide for me,
my supplications, the supply of grace that I need from you,
I've got no place else to go for it. This is what prayer always
is. This is how David prayed as he
was being deceived and taken over by his
own son. This is how the Lord Jesus Christ
prayed and this is how every believer ever prays. Hide not thyself from my supplications,
attend unto me and hear me. I mourn in my complaint and make
a noise. Scripture says that when we pray,
the spirit of God utters things for us that we're not able to,
we're not able to understand. We're not able to put them into
words. And here, here's the groanings of the, of the spirit that cries
out. In agony, Lord, you're going
to have to help me. You're going to have to deliver
me. You're going to have to save
me. What am I going to do? Where else am I going to go?
Verse 3, because of the voice of the enemy, because of the
oppression of the wicked, for they cast iniquity upon me, and
in wrath, they hate me. They hate me. Absalom hated his father. The
suffering that that caused David in his heart could not be. But
here's the hatred that all men have for Christ. And the Lord
Jesus Christ is pleading his cause before his father and saying,
Father, they hate me. They hate me without a cause.
I've come to save them. I've come to do everything necessary
for their salvation and all they have from me All they have for
me is hatred. Why did they hate him? Why did
they hate him? Because he robbed them of their
glory. He robbed them of their righteousness.
He robbed them of their pride and of their self-righteousness.
He exposed their sin for what it was. This is the same reason
why men hate Christ today. It's why they hate the gospel
and it's why you would hate it and I would hate it. Had the
Lord not made us to differ. Had he not, had he not revealed
to us the glory of Christ and caused us not to hate him, but
to hate ourselves. To hate ourselves. That's the
truth. The truth is you either hate
Christ or you hate yourself. Isn't that true? Verse four, my heart is sore
pained within me and the terrors of death are fallen upon me. Or this a life or death thing.
David's heart's broken. He, as soon as he heard that
there was a conspiracy led by his son Absalom, he knew what
was how he got, he gathered his men. He said, we've got to go.
We've got to go. The tears of death are falling
upon me. The Lord Jesus Christ hanging
on Calvary's cross. Oh my God, my God, why's thou
forsaken me? The terror, the terror that gripped
his heart when he, as the sin bearer, was separated from his
father. For the first time in all eternity,
we're so accustomed to sin We're so accustomed to being out of
fellowship with God. Doesn't bother us too much, does
it? Oh, but the effect that it had on him. Here he's experiencing
the darkness of separation, the terror of death. Fearfulness and trembling are
come upon me and horror hath overwhelmed me. It hath overwhelmed
me. These are, I wrote an article
that's gonna be in your bulletin this Sunday. I said, what comes
first, understanding or believing? Most men would say, well, you
can't believe that which you don't understand. And the problem
with that position is that it puts man in judgment of God. And it takes us right back to
the garden, man wanting to be God. We'll take into consideration
what God says, and when we're able to understand it, then we'll
believe it. And the truth is just the opposite,
isn't it? It's just the opposite. Lord,
first of all, I don't understand anything I believe, but whatever
understanding I have, it's not gonna come. It's not gonna come
until you give me faith to believe. And here's something that we
believe that we can't enter into. We can't understand the agony
that the Lord Jesus Christ experienced on Calvary's cross. All we can
do is believe it. Turn to me to Isaiah chapter
7. Isaiah chapter 7, I think it is. Yes. Isaiah chapter 7, look at
verse 9. Well, we'll just go down to the
latter part of verse 9. If you will not believe, surely
you shall not be established. Now, that word be established
is the word understand. As a matter of fact, in the Greek
translation of the Old Testament Hebrew, that's how it's translated,
understand. If you do not believe, you cannot
understand. Faith comes before understanding.
Believing God, Lord, I just believe you. We're not going to stand
in judgment of God and hold God on trial and say, well, I'm not
going to believe something I can't understand. That's what he saw. They've rested my word. They've
twisted my words. Go back with me to Psalm 55. They've cast iniquity upon me,
verse 3. We don't understand anything
we believe. We believe that we're sinners.
What does that mean? What does that mean? It means
there's no righteousness within us. It means that everything
about us is sinful. But what does sin mean? Only
God has a full understanding of what sin means. We believe
that the Lord Jesus Christ is holy. We believe that He's God,
but what does that mean? How do we understand the concept
of God? We believe that God was made
flesh and dwelt among us and that the Lord Jesus Christ is
the fullness of the Godhead bodily, but what does that mean? How
could the eternal, infinite, glorious, omnipotent, immutable
God be made flesh? You see, we believe things, but
to say, I'm not going to believe it unless I can understand it.
That's the pride of man holding God in question and standing
in judgment of God. Now the Lord does give us some
understanding, but he only gives us understanding after he bows
the heart in faith to believe. So believing always comes before
understanding. I've met even, we're not talking
about just those who are fools, who say no God. The fool has
said in his heart, there is no God. And they said, well, I'm
not gonna believe something I can't understand. But I've met reformed Calvinist
who say, well, you can't expect somebody to believe something
they don't understand. God hasn't called his preachers to argue
with men or to persuade men or to try to convince men of something,
he's called his preachers to proclaim, to declare, to say,
thus saith the Lord. And God's sheep hear his voice. In Isaiah chapter 54 it says,
the potsherds of the earth always contend with their maker. Now a potsherd is a broken piece
of pottery and the Lord takes the pride
of man and he just makes them potsherds and here's the potsherds
contending with their maker. And then that passage goes on
to say, but, but he's the potter, we're the clay. God's people
are always pliable clay in his hands being fashioned into vessels
of honor as he sees fit. So when the Lord says, fearfulness
and trembling are come upon me and horror hath overwhelmed me.
And when we hear the Lord Jesus Christ praying in the garden,
Father, if there be any way, and rebuking the disciples because
they could not stand with him for one hour. And when we hear
him praying from the cross, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? We know that Christ was made sin, the one who knew no sin,
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. And we believe,
we just believe, without being able to understand or comprehend
what it all means. Verse six, and I said, oh, that
I had wings like a dove for them when I fly away and be at rest. Don't you know that David, when
he's walking through the sludge of the Brook Kidron up to the
Mount of Olives, he's got his head covered, his feet are bare,
he's weeping and the people that are with him are weeping. And
he's thinking, oh, if I could just fly away. You ever felt
that way? If I could just escape. Sometimes
we just want to go to heaven just to get finished with this
existence, don't we? And then sometimes when things
are going well, that's, oh, that motivation ought to be to see
him as he is and be made like him. But sometimes we just want
to fly away. We just want to escape. The Lord
Jesus Christ knew that feeling. There's not a single, there's
not a single temptation or feeling that you and I have that he didn't
have. He knew it better than we do. Oh, that I could just
fly away. Father, if there'd be any way
this cup can be, can't we find out, can't we just, and when
Peter took off the, ear of Malchus the Lord said put away your sword
Peter don't you know that I could call twelve legions of angels
from heaven to come deliver me? How many times we read of one
angel in the Bible wiping out tens of thousands of the enemies
of God and the Lord Jesus Christ said I could call twelve legions
of angels. A legion is a few thousand, six
thousand I think is a legion. So how many Well, how much damage
would those angels have done? The Lord, oh, I could fly away. They'd come get me. They're standing
on the portals of heaven right now with their swords drawn,
just waiting for me to cry out for them to come and they'll
come and I could fly away. But I'm not, I'm not. For God so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son. I've laid down my life for the
sheep. As horrible as this experience
is for me, I'm doing it willingly, willingly to save my people. Oh, that I had wings like a dove,
for them would I fly away and be at rest. Oh, we get in the
midst of conflict and turmoil, we just want to be at rest. Now,
here's the truth, brethren. God sends those turmoils and
conflicts in order to give us the grace to fly away, to fly
to his nest and to get under his wings and to find rest for
our souls in spite of our circumstances. Lo, verse seven, then would I
wander far off and remain in the wilderness Oh, that I could
just get alone with God, be in the wilderness all by myself.
I would hasten my escape from the windy storm and the tempest. Well, there is an escape. There
is an escape from the windy storm and from the tempest. For there
hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man. And God is faithful. He's faithful. He will not suffer you to be
tempted above that which you are able, but will with the temptation,
with the temptation, not put an end to the temptation, but
with the temptation provide a way of escape that you might be able
to bear it. The Lord Jesus Christ found his
escape in the Father. He was able to do what the Father
sent him to do because he believed his Father and rested in his
Father. And in his heart, he flew away. He went into the world. David
did the same thing. David trusted God. Look what
David is going to say. In case we don't get to verse
22, look at verse 22. Cast thy burden upon the Lord
and he shall sustain thee and he shall never suffer the righteous
to be moved. I've never seen the righteous
forsaken, David said. I've never seen their seed begging
for bread. Cast thy care upon him for he
careth for thee. That's what this psalm's about.
Lord, I've got no place else to go. I'm stuck. All I can do is call upon you
to hear my prayer. And to listen to my supplications
and to provide me, provide for me that which I can't get anywhere
else. I'm in the midst of a windy storm. Look at verse 9. This is the confusion of Babylonian
religion. Listen what the Lord says. Destroy,
O Lord, and divide their tongues. For I have seen violence and
strife in the city. Day and night they go about it,
upon the walls thereof. Mischief also and sorrow are
in the midst of it. Wickedness is in the midst thereof.
Deceit and guile depart not from her streets. When Man tried to build the city
of Babel. What is that symbolic of? He
was trying to save himself. He was trying to reach up into
the heavens and get to God. And the scripture says that he
had slime for mortar and brick for stone. And that word slime is the same
word for pitch that was used by Noah to pitch the ark on the
inside and the outside to waterproof that ark. And it's a word for
atonement or covering. And so what the Lord's complaining
here to the father is, father, they've wrested my word. They've
twisted the gospel. They're bringing, they're trying
to put together the works of their hands, bricks that they
fashioned with their own hands and they're putting it together.
with the truth of the atonement. And the Lord says there's violence. They're adding works to grace.
That's what they're doing. And that's exactly what man-made
religion is. They say it's grace, but if you listen to their definition
of grace, it depends upon you doing a work in order for grace
to happen, doesn't it? They say that Jesus is God, But
then they confuse the message by saying, well, he's dependent
upon man. He's dependent upon his creature
in order for him to be able to have his way. They say that God
is sovereign and that he's all powerful, but he's not able to
save unless man gives him permission. You see, that's what the Lord
is saying here. They've, wickedness is in the midst of the city,
deceit and guile. They've perverted the truth of
the gospel. They've gone back to Babel. They
say that God loves everybody and that Christ died for everybody,
but most of the people that God loves and most of the people
that Christ died for are going to go to hell and suffer the
wrath of God for all eternity. This is Babylonia. It's just
Babel, isn't it? The scripture says the Lord confused
their speech and that's the And that's the truth of religion
today. It's just confusion of speech.
One group saying this, another group saying that, and you can't
make sense of it. You can't make sense of it. How clear and simple is the gospel? The simplicity of Christ. The
salvation is of the Lord. That God did everything necessary
and that everything that God requires from me and you, God
must provide. And the only thing he accepts
is that which he provides and everything that he provides,
he provides in the person of his dear son. And we look to
Christ and rest in Christ and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
who bore all the sins of all of God's people in his body on
Calvary's cross and satisfied God's justice as the sinner's
substitute, making a sacrifice of himself to the Father. It's
a simple message, but it strips men of his glory. It takes away
all his pride and all of his ability and all of his works
and all of his will and gives all the glory to Christ. Look at verse 12. The agony of the sufferings of
David were aggravated and multiplied by the fact that it was his son.
It was his own son. And that's what he's crying out
to God here for. And what causes a parent's heart
to ache more than when they're estranged from their own children?
or when they're bearing the burden of the salvation of their own
children. God, I can't do anything about it. I can't fix it. I can't
save them. Verse 12, for it was not an enemy
that reproached me, then could I have done it. Neither was it
he that hated me that did magnify himself against me, then would
I have hid myself from him. It wasn't an enemy that did this.
And here's the Lord Jesus Christ, not only bearing the agony of having one that he went into,
well, he's gonna say he went into the temple with him. He
worshiped with him. He gave him everything that he
could want. But here also, is a picture of
the Lord bearing the sins of His people. What I did, I'm not
doing this for, it wasn't a stranger that did this to me, it was my
own people that did this to me. Verse 13, but it was thou, a
man mine equal, and that word God is friend, My friend and
mine acquaintance, we took sweet counsel together and walked under
the house of God in company. Lord, we worshiped you together. We did all these things and he's
turned on me. Let death seize upon them and
let them go down quickly into hell. for wickedness is in their
dwelling and among them. As for me, you know, once again,
there's no salvation apart from judgment. If God doesn't judge
the reprobate, then there's no hope that the elect have of being
saved. As for me, I will call upon God. Now I want you to notice how
many times the word shall is used in the next several verses.
and the Lord shall save me. I'm going to call upon him. Lord,
save me. Save me. You remember Sunday
in chapter, in Psalm 54, save me, O God, by thy name and judge
me by thy strength. Don't save me by anything else.
Save me by the integrity of your name and save me by your strength
to save. I have no other way to be saved. Now David says, I'm gonna call
upon God and the Lord shall save me. Evening and morning and at
noon while I pray and cry aloud and he shall hear my voice. The
Lord has shut me up to himself. I've got no place else to go
and I've got nobody else to believe but him. He hath delivered my soul in
peace from the battle that was against me. For there were many
with me. The Lord Jesus Christ, in his
dying breath, said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit.
Perfect faith, trusting God for his salvation and for the salvation
of all that were with him. For there were many with me,
many with me. Everyone that God chose in the
covenant of grace was in Christ on Calvary's cross. I am crucified
with Christ. Every child of God was with him.
We're his seed. And God saw the travail of his
soul and was satisfied and prolonged his seed. The seed of Christ is God's elect. And here he says, he hath delivered
my soul in peace from the battle that was against me, and there
were many with me." There were many with me. God shall hear
and afflict them, even he that abideth of old, Selah, because
they have no changes, therefore they fear not God. They've not
been brought to repentance. They have no fear of God. They're
not trusting Christ. He had put forth his hands against
such as be at peace with him. He, now he's talking about Judas
here. He's broken his covenant. He's
perverted his promises. The words of his mouth were smoother
than butter, but war was in his heart. His words were softer
than oil. yet were they drawn swords. Oh, and you listen to the religious
today, the enemies of God in religion, those who hate Christ. Oh, they'll say, they'll say
soft things, won't they? They'll say flowery things. But
if you listen to what they say, it's a sword. It's a dagger going
into the very heart of Christ, denying him his glory and salvation. Cast thy burden upon the Lord.
Here's the conclusion of the whole psalm. My brothers and
sisters cast thy burden upon the Lord for he cares for thee.
Put all your hope on him. All your eggs in one basket.
Paul said I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which
I've committed unto him. I've committed everything unto
him. I've got no place else to go. No place else to go. And He shall sustain thee. He
shall. And He shall never suffer the
righteous to be moved. You see, if I cast my care upon
Him, if I'm in Christ, then I can't be moved. No man can separate me from the
love of Christ, the love of God which is in Christ. No man can
pluck me out of His hand. Can't even pluck myself out of
His hand coming. Can't send myself out of Christ.
And I can't work my way into Christ. I can't do anything to
earn salvation. I can't do anything to lose it.
It's all His work. He shall never suffer the righteous
to be moved. But thou, O God, shall bring
them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall
not live out half their lives. Judas didn't live out half his
life. But I will trust in thee. I will trust in thee. I've got
no place else to go. The only time The only time that
save me, oh God, is heard. The only time that we have any
hope that our supplications are heard is when God shuts us up
to have no place else to go. Lord, if you don't make it grow,
it's not going to grow. If you don't save me, I'm not
going to be saved. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we're thankful for the words of David. We grieve with him
as we can relate to some of his experiences of being rejected
of friends and being in a hard place. But oh Lord, what hope
we have of knowing that thy dear son suffered the truth of this
psalm to its fullest degree. and that we can fly away with
him and have the hope of knowing that when we're brought to trust
you for all our salvation, that there's a place of rest and a
place of hope of knowing that thou shalt save us by thy name
and by thy strength. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. 290. Let's stand together. Be still, my soul, the Lord is
on thy side. Bear patiently the cross of grief
or pain. Leave to thy God to order and
provide. In every change, ye faithful
will remain. Be still, my soul, thy best,
thy heavenly friend. Through thorny ways leads to
a joyful end. Be still, my soul, thy God doth
undertake to guide the future as He has the past. Thy hope, thy confidence, let
nothing shake. All now mysterious shall be bright
at last. Be still, my soul, the waves
and winds still know His voice who ruled them while He dwelt
below. Be still, my soul, the hour is
hasting on. when we shall be forever with
the Lord. When disappointment, grief, and
fear are gone, sorrow forgot, Love's purest joys restored. Be still, my soul, when change
and tears are past. All safe and blessed, we shall
meet at last. th th