So in this passage, verses 15
through 24 of Psalm 71, four times David mentions righteousness. I'm sure you noticed that, and
in every case, it's God's righteousness to which he refers, and that's
what we'll talk about tonight, God's righteousness. And the
way that he mentions God's righteousness in each of these places is instructive.
First, he says, I'm going to talk about it. You saw that in
verse 15. My mouth shall show forth thy
righteousness. Then he says in verse 16, he
gives an exclusiveness to it. He says, I'm not going to talk
about any other imagined righteousness or so-called righteousness. I'm
just going to talk about your righteousness because there ain't
nothing but your righteousness. That's all the righteousness
there is. And then thirdly, He talks about how high the righteousness
of God is. And in the context of what great
things God has done in his righteousness, verse 19, you see that there.
And then, of course, in the final verse, verse 24, he says, I'm
just not going to quit talking about your righteousness because
when it comes right down to it, there's not much else to talk
about. Righteousness is an attribute. It's a character trait, but it
is an active one. And this is the first point I
want us to understand. Righteousness is a state of being.
You are either righteous or you are not righteous as a person.
But as an attribute, it's an active attribute. You have to
be righteous to perform righteousness. But if you don't perform righteousness,
then righteousness has no real meaning. It's defined in action. It's to be just, to be perfectly
just. The word has that definition,
just. It means to do the right thing.
And true righteousness in character means always doing the right
thing. Like love is defined in 1 Corinthians
13, we've seen many times, by what it does and what it doesn't
do. Righteousness is like that. That chapter in the scripture
says that love is kind. It deals in kindness. But it's
not just saying that love is incidentally kind, that love
is this and then it just happens to be kind. No, love is essentially
kind. That's what defines it among
the other things that do. Righteousness Is right and true
and good and perfect and as David said it's high But none of these
things have any real meaning without action but also Consider
this as Paul is careful to point out in first Corinthians 13 the
actions that are generally associated with love are Such as, for example,
he says, though I give all my goods to the poor. That would
be an action that's associated generally with, oh, look how
much he loves his fellow man. He's given so much to the poor.
That action is worthless without a true heart of love. He said, though I do give all
my goods to the poor, I do that action, but I have not the love
of God in my heart. and the action itself is meaningless. So we need to understand both
aspects here. It's concerning only Christ is
righteous, but his righteousness is his person and his work. Both,
they're inseparable. It's true of righteousness also,
as far as the actions go, that we may perform what we consider
to be a righteous act But God may, as in Matthew chapter seven
in that well-known passage, he may know that act to be, and
call it, iniquity. They said, look how many wonderful
works we've done. He said, you're just workers
of iniquity. So there again, what do we say? Let's sum it
all up. Righteousness is what you are,
but it is defined in action. God is righteous. What does that
mean? What does it mean that he's righteous?
Everything he does is right. That's what it means. Everything
he does. Just because he does it. Everything
he says is right. Just because he says it. The
actions don't define him. He defines the actions. But without
the actions, how do we know God is righteous? Unless he deals
with us in righteousness. It's just a, everything he says
is right just because he says it. His will is right. His ways
are right. His requirements are right. And
God does require righteousness. He requires it. He's not only
himself righteous in person and in work, but he requires it. And that's the next thing I want
to talk about. Righteousness that God requires he said to
his disciples in Matthew 520 for us saying to you that except
your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes
and Pharisees You shall in no case enter into the kingdom of
heaven And he's teaching the very important truth there He
uses there the example of what men considered to be the most
righteous of all men the Pharisees nobody could compare to them
as far as in the eyes of men with regard to their outward
righteousness, their adherence to the outward ceremonies and
letter of the law. Okay, so he uses them as an example
to teach his disciples today as well as then, that even the
very highest of what men consider to be righteousness ain't gonna
cut it with God. Just to put it as plain as I
can put it, it's not gonna cut it with God. The very height
of man's righteousness, what men considers righteous, it's
not gonna cut it. You got to have a better righteousness
than that. And what he's clearly teaching
there is in order to be accepted with God, in order to enter into
his kingdom and have communion and fellowship and be in his
presence, you've got to be as righteous as God is. You've got
to be perfect. You've got to be holy. You've
got to be what our Lord said we are, without spot, without
blemish, or any such thing. That's why He made us that way,
so He could bring us to God. He died the just for the unjust,
that He might bring us to God. Because He can't bring us to
God as we are in this flesh, in ourselves, in our sin. David talks about how high God's
righteousness is, and that's what we're talking about right
now. In Psalm 71 verse 19, thy righteousness also, O God, is
very high. Who has done great things? O God, who is like unto thee? Now, a couple of things are dealt
with here. See in that verse 19 how integral to his righteousness
are the things that he's done. How high is your righteousness?
Look at the great things you've done. You see that righteousness
as love, as we said, is defined by what it does, what it doesn't
do. But also, how high is it? Who is like unto thee? There's
no comparison in his righteousness. There's no one to compare to
God. And this righteousness is unattainable
by any creature in themselves. That's why there's nobody else.
That's why the question is asked, who is like unto thee? It's a
rhetorical question. Nobody. Because nobody can attain. Even the angels, they're chosen
of God and upheld by Him or they would have fallen just like the
other angels did. They are the elect angels. The reason he elected
them is so that they wouldn't fall. That's one of the reasons. Because in and of themselves
no creature is pure before God and holy and
upright. Man fell and all of mankind was
affected by our fall. Some of the angels were never
affected at all by that fall. They were elect and never fell.
But we all fell. And the way that God in his perfect
righteousness can yet have fellowship with man who is fallen is pictured
from the very beginning by God. When he covered the nakedness
of Adam and Eve with the skins of animals, We're banished from
perfect communion with God. We're not living in paradise
anymore, but we can still worship God. We're not in hell, and we
would be now, being sinful and fallen and wretched and vile.
We would be in hell, but God slew animals and covered their
nakedness, and that symbolizes the way by which we have still
fallen creatures or again, I should say Or still in God's eyes. We never we've always been in
Christ in God's eye, but we are aware of it and Enjoy it And
have it by what's pictured right there the skins that covered
them though they were in their earthly lifetime banished from
perfect communion with God and yet they were still able to worship
and commune with God and would ultimately be in perfect communion
with Him again. Because of what is pictured by
that covering of them with the animal skins in Genesis 3.21,
blood had to be shed for them to be able to stand before God
with a covering for their shame. You see the nakedness, they were
naked before and didn't bother them, didn't think anything of
it. But after their sin, their nakedness is a symbol of their
shame. We're uncovered before God. We're vile and we have nothing
to cover that up. But I want you to notice down
in Genesis 3 20. I'll read it to you. Just one
verse unto Adam also and to his wife Did the Lord God make coats
of skins? And clothed them Now you'll remember
from from that context that Adam I suppose Adam and Eve both they
tried to to cover their nakedness with fig leaves, with the leaves
of trees. But that didn't do it. That didn't do it. Before God,
they were still naked. Though they had a covering of
their own devising, they were still naked before God. It wasn't
until God clothed them, not with leaves, not with fabric, but
with coats of skins. This is significant. This is
Christ in Him crucified whom we preach. We stand before God
in ourselves naked and fallen and condemned, cursed under the
curse of God. He pronounced the curse upon
them. But Christ became a curse for us. In Galatians 3.13 it
says, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being
made a curse for us. For it is written, cursed is
everyone that hangeth on a tree. He hung on Calvary's tree and
bled and died, taking our place under the curse and wrath of
God, paying our sin debt, and when he became something, a curse,
we became something also. The righteousness of God in him.
Like in the garden, when that innocent blood Was shed for our
sins we get something to wear as a result of that Pictured
in the garden, but also on Calvary when he died I get something
to wear He became something but I became something to the righteousness
of God in him and that's what that covering pictures Clothing
in which we can stand before God we stand in Christ's skin
before God we stand in him and Figuratively speaking and like
in the garden. This is all God's doing it says
The Lord God made coats of skin and clothed them He did the blood-shedding and
he did the clothing What they did was worthless It didn't get
the job done Turn to 1 Corinthians 1 verse 26 For you see your calling, brethren, How that not many wise men after
the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called, but God
hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the
wise. And God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things which are mighty,
and base things of the world, and things which are despised
hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not to bring to naught
Things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence
But of him are ye In Christ Jesus Now now get the gist of what's
being said here your base You're foolish. You're despised. You're
weak. You're nothing. You are a thing
that is not Okay in yourself by nature But God put you in
His Son, who is made of His wisdom. You see that in the context?
You're a foolish thing, but God put you in Christ, and in Christ
you're wise, because He's your wisdom. You're base in yourself, but
God put you in Christ, and He's made Him to be your righteousness. Sanctification, holiness. redemption
of God are you in Christ Jesus of God they had something to
cover their nakedness he made the coats of skin he shed the
blood he said nobody takes my life from me I lay it down of
myself he handed him a cup and said this is my blood which I
shed for you he he shed the blood and he covered him he clothed
them He paid for their sins and he is their righteousness. Negative
and positive. Sin all washed away and positive
holiness because we stand in him. We stand clothed in him,
so to speak. Of God are you in Christ Jesus. Just like in the picture, it's
God that did it. And in him, we're wise, righteous,
holy, and redeemed. That according as it is written,
this is why God did all that. If you're going to glory, it
better be in Him. It better be in Him. Let Him
that gloryeth. God put the skins on Adam and
Eve and He put you in His Son. with God. Figuratively in the
garden, in Christ. Actual acceptance with God. David
said in verse 16 of our text that he was going to speak of
God's righteousness only. And we've already alluded to
the reason for that. That's because there is only
God's righteousness. There's no other righteousness.
We're fallen and sinful. In my flesh dwells no good thing
now. What we call righteousness by
nature, God calls iniquity. What we call wonderful works,
He calls works of iniquity. That's why Paul said what he
did now and he reveals this to his people This is why paul said
what he did in philippians 3 8. He said yea doubtless that I
call all things but lost For the excellency of the knowledge
of christ jesus my lord For whom I have suffered the loss of all
things And do count them but dung and if you look in the context
the all things that he's talking about there is all of his righteousnesses
His heritage his outward law keeping all of it everything
he trusted in before everything I Count them all but that I may
win Christ and be found in him not having my own righteousness
Which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of
Christ through his doing through his dying the righteousness which
is of God by faith I Paul is just simply saying, I would not,
for anything in this world, by His grace now I'm this way, I
wouldn't stand before God having anything that I produced. But
I want to be found in Him. I want to stand before God in
Him. I want to be accepted in Him,
because I know that's the only way God can accept me, is in
Christ Jesus my Lord. There is only one righteousness
that God will accept. There is only one righteousness
that is worthy of the name righteousness. There is only one righteousness
in which a sinner can stand accepted before God. The righteousness
of God which is Christ Jesus. He is the Lord our righteousness. He has made unto us righteousness
like we just read. We are made the righteousness
of God in Him. Now man doesn't like to hear
this. that there is only the righteousness
of Christ and no other righteousness. Man in his sin, as he is in his
nature, he doesn't like to hear that. Man loves for his own works,
his own so-called righteousness to be acknowledged and recognized
and praised. Cain came, you know, with that
stuff that he labored and toiled over and produced himself. Even though, without God, he
couldn't have even done that. But he brought that fruit of
his labor. And boy, he was mad when God wouldn't accept that.
And sinners still are. They don't like it. That's why
man does what he does to be seen of men. You remember what our
Lord said about the Pharisees? They pray to be seen of men.
They give and make sure everybody knows. They jump up in church
and say, I pledge this much. You know why? To be seen of men.
You know why? Because men fall for that. Men
are gullible. Men will brag on them for it.
But God's not fool. God's not buying it. And God reveals to his people
what our best works amount to. And so we know better by his
grace now. That's why Paul called all of
his religious heritage and all of his self-righteousness, his
outward keeping of the law, dung in Philippians chapter 3. That's
why Isaiah said in Isaiah 64 6, we all are as an unclean thing
and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. And we all do
fade as a leaf, and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away.
That's why he said that, because God reveals to us that what we
call our righteousness is our very best deed. My prayer, my
best prayer, if I had to stand before God with nothing but that,
I'd go to hell forever for it. Everything, my repentance, my
faith is sin in itself. My hope is the object of my faith,
not my faith. This is why Job said, behold. Listen up and look here. I am
vile. God has opened my eyes. And everybody
might as well know it. Behold, I am vile. I've seen God. And that's the
key now to being vile. And it's important to be vile.
It's important to be dead. It's important to be blind. The
Lord said to the Pharisees in John 9, if you were blind, you
wouldn't have any sin. If you knew what you are, you'd
be forgiven, because you'd cry out to me for mercy. If you knew,
If you were blind, you'd say, Lord, that I may receive my sight.
That's what blind people say when they realize there's only
one that can give them sight. That's what blind Bartimaeus
said, Lord, thou son of David, Jesus, thou son of David, have
mercy on me. If you were like that, you'd have no sin. It's important to be vile. If
you wanna be vile before God, you need to see Him. Job saw
God. He said, now might I see you.
See, I've heard of you before, but now I see you. And I'm wretched
and vile and I'm gonna shut up. That's what he said. We get a glimpse of the Lord
Jesus Christ as He is. We see ourselves for who we are. And that's the only way now.
You'll never see it looking at yourself. As a believer now,
you can look within and see your evil because you have eyes of
faith, but you're still not gonna see the evil of your evil. Sin's
not gonna become exceeding sinful until you know Him. And here's the thing, we do,
by His grace, get a glimpse of Him. And we do see ourselves
for what we are, and we hunger and thirst to be what He is.
And He said, blessed are they which hunger and thirst after
righteousness, as they shall be filled. Everyone that's blind is made
to see now. That's what He said to the Pharisees.
If you were blind, I'd make you see. And the spiritual equivalent
of that is no sin. If you were guilty, I would justify
you. If you were dead, I'd raise you.
If you were hungry, I'd feed you. If you knocked, I'd open.
If you ask, I'll give it. And that's where the Lord brings
us. I must have Christ. I hunger and I thirst after him.
That's a need now. Hunger's not a luxury. We may
be luxuriously rich, but that's a need. That's a basic need,
and so is Christ. to the soul. We must have him. I must be found in him. Do you
hear the hunger in Paul's language in Philippians 3 there? Oh, that
I may win Christ and be found in him. I count everything but
loss that I may win him. I press toward the mark for the
prize of the high calling of God. Because it's in Christ Jesus. I must have His righteousness,
not mine. I don't want mine. And it all
begins with a revelation of Him. It begins with an eye of faith
that can see the Savior as He is. And that faith comes by hearing,
and hearing by the Word of God. And that's why David said what
he did in verse 15 and in verse 24. I'm going to talk about His
righteousness. Because that's how sinners are
made righteous, isn't it? It starts by somebody talking
about it. In our experience, anyway. Started in eternity with
God, of course. But in our experience now, it's
gonna begin with somebody talking about it. Because you're not
gonna be able to believe on him and who you've not heard. And
somebody's gonna have to preach it if you're gonna hear it. And
if somebody's gonna preach it, God's gotta send them. And so,
that's why David said, I'm gonna talk my mouth so speak of his
righteousness because God gives that Desire he gives that Paul
said it's a necessity. I must preach Necessity is laid
upon me. Where'd that come from from God?
Somebody's gonna preach because God's make it gonna make it so
that they've got to because his sheep have to hear and faith
comes by hearing and faith sees Christ and And faith bows to
Christ, and faith hungers for Christ, and faith receives Christ. And there's righteousness, the
experience of it by faith, by grace through faith. I'm gonna talk about the righteousness
of God. I'm gonna talk about how God
requires righteousness. You can't enter his kingdom until
you're righteous now. And you're going to have to experience
it. You're not ever going to be righteous in yourself. There's
just one righteousness. You're going to be in Christ
or you're going to be unrighteous like you already are. You're
going to remain unrighteous. And you're not ever going to
become righteous. You're either righteous in Christ or you're
not. And if you are, you're going to know it sooner or later because
God's going to reveal it to you. I'm going to talk about how he
requires it. Got to be as holy as God himself. I'm going to
talk about how God reveals righteousness. Romans chapter 3. Now we've got
to turn there. We've got to look at this. Romans
chapter 3. Let's look at it. Because God reveals righteousness.
He does it for a reason now. This is salvation. This is our
hope. Romans 3.21. But now the righteousness
of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and
the prophets. Righteousness without the law
is witnessed by the law? Of course, the law never was
a way of salvation. The law never presumed or claimed
to be able to make a sinner righteous, it just reveals unrighteousness.
And it points us to Christ, all of the law. But the righteousness
of God without the law, that's what we have to have because
we're not going to keep the law. We've got to be righteous without
keeping the law. And God's always had a witness
that's been talking about it. David said, I'm going to talk
about it. And he did. Even the righteousness of God.
That's the only righteousness there is. We don't talk about
his alone. the righteousness of God which is by the faithfulness
of Jesus Christ by the power, the ability, the obedience, the
faithfulness of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that
believe if you want to see who they are it's the ones that believe
but what happened that you can't see is God put them in his son
from eternity For all have sinned, verse 23, there is no difference,
last part of 22, there's no difference. God's got to make the difference
because there's no difference in sinners. God's got to make
the difference. For all have sinned and come
short of the glory of God, being justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. You see how
all of this has to do with righteousness? Justified means not guilty. Positively
righteous whom God verse 25 hath set forth to be a sin offering
through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness. To reveal it. God revealed his
righteousness when he set forth his son to be our sin offering.
You're not going to see God's righteousness anywhere else like
you're going to see it there. Christ himself is the righteousness
of God, and his righteousness as an attribute is on display
at Calvary through the sin offering, through Christ offering himself,
his soul, and offering for sin like nowhere else. You've got
to look to the cross. You've got to look to Christ
crucified to see the righteousness of God. And that's why God set
him forth, to reveal his righteousness For the remission of sins that
are passed through the forbearance of God, to declare, I say at
this time, His righteousness, so that God might be righteous,
just. That's what the word is in the
Old Testament, means just. And declare you just too. Just
and the justifier. That's only possible through
the sin offering, through the propitiation, who declares it,
who reveals that. In his person, in his gospel,
in his work, Christ and everything he ever said or did reveals God's
righteousness in saving sinners. And that's what he's talking
about there, that's what David said, he said, I'm going to talk
about it. I'm going to talk about how Christ
Himself is our righteousness. Romans chapter 10. Look at that
and we'll be through. Romans 10. We're going to talk about the
fact that God requires righteousness, that He reveals righteousness,
and that He is our righteousness. Romans chapter 10 and verse 1.
This is familiar now, and I know that makes it hard to get it,
doesn't it? It kind of tends to go in one
ear and out the other if it's familiar to you. But listen to
what's being said here. May I be able to do that? Brethren,
he establishes in the beginning here a premise of his desire
to see his countrymen saved. Brethren, my heart's desire and
prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. And there's
a reason why he looks at them and says, look, God saved them. He looks at them and he mourns
and says, oh, that God would save them. Why? Well, I bear
them record that they're zealous for God. They're talking about
God. They're using the name Jehovah.
They say God is our Father. They said that right to the face
of the Son of God himself. But they don't know God. They don't know God. And here's
how I know that. Here's how that's manifested
in them. They're ignorant of God's righteousness.
They don't understand what God requires now. Do you see what
he's saying here? They're ignorant of God's righteousness.
They think that by doing the ceremonies of the law, they can
stand righteous before God. They think that by their own
deeds of the law, their own works, their own rituals, and their
own keeping of the law outwardly, that they can stand righteous
before God. Oh, that God would save them. They're ignorant of God's righteousness,
and because they are, they're going about to establish their
own righteousness. If they weren't ignorant of God's
righteousness, they wouldn't do that. Do you see that? If
you know something, if God has revealed his righteousness to
you in Christ, as we read there in chapter three, then you'd
quit going around trying to keep the law in order to please God.
You'd quit talking about your wonderful works. But they don't know him, they're
ignorant of his righteousness, and so they're trying to be righteous
on their own, and they haven't submitted themselves unto the
righteousness of God. How do you do that? Christ. The
very next word now for Christ. Here's what they don't know.
Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believeth. Now there's two ways to understand
that and both are perfectly scriptural and absolutely consistent with
the gospel. Christ is the termination of
the law for righteousness. God's law never goes away, but
his law for righteousness, his law for the purpose of being
righteous before God, is terminated when you meet Christ. And I'll
tell you what else that says. Christ is the goal of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believeth. In other words,
the law was given in order To send you to christ to bring you
to christ to show you your need of christ for righteousness And
he is that to everybody that believes on him You see that
For moses describeth verse 5 the righteousness which is of the
law. Here's here's here's how that works If you're going to
be righteous by the law, you got to do it Those that do those
things shall live by them putting them up on your living room wall
ain't gonna cut it You gotta do them. And you haven't. And you're not. And you're not gonna. But the
righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise. It's not about you doing. It
has something to do with something going on in the heart here. You
say in your heart, don't say in your heart this, and then
what you will say comes next. Who shall ascend into heaven?
That is to bring Christ down from above. Christ already came
down. Don't say that. He's already came down, come
down, and done what was required of his people to be holy before
God and paid for what they did do. Or who shall descend into
the deep, that is, to bring Christ again from the dead? Quit saying
that, he's already risen. But what does it say? The word
is nigh thee, even in thy mouth and in thy heart, that is, the
word of faith which we preach, the gospel. Quit saying those
things and say this. Say what the gospel says, Christ
is all. Christ is my righteousness. Christ
is the termination and the goal of the law for righteousness. The word of faith which we preach
and here it is. Here's what you say in your heart
and with your mouth You believe in it in your heart that's saying
it in your heart and then you confess it with your mouth you
not some doctrine Not a creed not a sinner's prayer a Person The Lord Jesus the Sovereign
Savior And you say that with faith in
your heart that he is who he said he was that God raised him
from the dead You'll be saved For with the heart man believeth
unto righteousness Abraham believed God and it was counted to him
for righteousness and In the eyes of God himself, we're righteous
from eternity. There's never a time. Time doesn't
affect you. Salvation is eternal in Christ
from God's perspective, but we experience it like this, through
faith, by grace through faith. And with the mouth, confession
is made unto salvation. I experience His salvation that
way. And then David said in that last
verse now, look at this. He said in that last verse, verse
24 in our text, he said, I'm going to declare His righteousness
all day long. I'm not going to talk about His
righteousness because God's salvation through the righteousness of
His Son Now look at the rest of it. Are you still there? I'm
in Romans, but if you if you look at our text now, here's
what he said All of my enemies are confounded. They're ashamed
because of his righteousness Because of God's salvation through
the righteousness of his son All my enemies are ashamed and
confounded and they can't hurt me. Did you see that in that
book? They can't hurt me They that
try are put to shame You know what that's saying? If Christ
is my righteousness, how are they going to hurt me? How are
they going to condemn me? That's what their desire is,
to see me condemned and fallen. And I'm not going to fall. I'm
not going to be condemned. There's therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus. And we've already seen how that
of God, we are in Christ Jesus, who has made unto us righteousness. So because I'm going to talk
about his righteousness all day, because if he's my righteousness,
my enemies can do me no harm. Physical enemies, spiritual enemies,
whatever enemies. They're going to be put to shame
if they try anything against me. They can't even speak a word
against me. Who is he that can condemn me? And David said, I'm going to
talk about this from now on, because there's no better news
than that a sinner can stand in Christ righteous and accepted
of God without the law, without keeping the law, because he kept
it for me. And he honored it and redeemed
me from it by his sin-atoning death. Salvation is not about
you accepting God. It's about God accepting you.
And that can only happen if Christ is your life. We're gonna keep talking about
it. I have sinned. I am sinning, and I shall sin. But Christ is my righteousness. Ah, but listen to this. It's
just as important, if not more so, to understand this. I wanna
be good. God calls me good in his word. I wanna be a good father. I want
to be a good husband. I want to be a good pastor. I
want to be a good citizen. I want to do good. I strive to
do good. But Christ is my righteousness. My goodness is no more my righteousness
than my sin is. Because my goodness is sin. But
Christ is my righteousness. There's just one. And it's mine. He's mine. Because God put me
in Him from the beginning. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ according as He has chosen us in the beginning
in Christ Jesus. Who is made unto us. Wisdom. We have the mind of Christ,
Paul said. We understand all things worth
understanding. Righteousness. Holiness. Redemption. Christ is everything
I need. And you see why David said, I'm
going to talk about that. I'm going to talk about that. And
he said, Lord, while I'm here, Well, while there's still time,
while it's day, I'm gonna talk about that. And I pray that'll
be true of us. Let's pray together.