these things. Amen. It's good to have Brother Kevin
with us. I think he ought to preach for
us while he's here, don't you? I think maybe if y'all talk to
him real sweet, maybe. Maybe we can talk him into preaching
while he's here. Psalm 142. The heading tells us this is
a Mascal of David. Mascal means instruction, to
teach, to give understanding. That means this psalm is going
to lead us to Christ. That's what the instruction is
all about, Christ. It's going to declare to us what
He did and what the Lord taught Him. A Mascal of David. It says this
was a prayer when He was in the cave. This was either when He
was in the cave of Dullam or when He was in the cave in Jedi
or however you pronounce that. one of those two caves, but he
was in a cave. Could have been another time,
but he was in great distress, great distress. It's usually
times of great distress, great distress, that the Lord instructs
us most. Or at least it's the time of
great distress when we're made to hear the Lord's instruction. We're brought to the end of ourselves,
brought to the end of our strength, end of our wisdom, the wind of
our trying to work out things for ourselves. We're brought
to the end and brought down to Christ's feet so that we're just
pouring out our heart to Him. That's when we hear His instruction.
That's when He gives you understanding. So this is the Lord's instruction. That's what I've titled this.
And we're gonna see, we're gonna hear David's prayer. and then
we're gonna hear the instruction the Lord gave him, and then we're
gonna hear more instruction for us, for you and me. First of
all, let's hear David describe his prayer. Verse one, I cried
unto the Lord with my voice. With my voice unto the Lord did
I make supplication. I poured out my complaint before
him. I showed before him my trouble. David said down there in verse
three, when my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest
my path. This crying of David here, I said I wasn't gonna say this,
but I'm gonna just touch on it just a minute. It seems to me, and I won't be
dogmatic on this, but as this psalm applies to David, like
everybody God saves, everybody's been born again. David had an
old man and a new man. And it sounds like the first
phrase, he's describing what was coming from his old man.
The second phrase, what was coming from his new man. I cried just
to, Like a baby, I cried unto the Lord with my voice. With
my voice, same voice, one voice, but two different kinds of crying.
With my voice unto the Lord did I make supplication. That's a
more ordered, humble pleading for mercy and grace. Then he
said, I poured out my complaint before him. Poured it out like
you just pour out water. My complaint, one definition
of that word is babble, babble. The second, though, he said,
I showed before him my trouble. Is there not, whether this so
of David or not, is it not so that when we pray, especially
when we're in distress, sin is mixed with our prayer? There's
an old man and a new man. And in all of this, David was
overwhelmed. The new spirit the Lord had created
in him was overwhelmed, was overwhelmed. He said, I cried unto the Lord
with my voice, with my voice unto the Lord did I make supplication.
This could have been audible, could have been audible that
he cried out, but several commentaries point out that this was more
than likely the voice of his heart because There was times
when, you remember that one time when David was in the cave, him
and 600 men, Saul came in not knowing David was there. A big
cave, he came in with his army and they went, laid down and
went to sleep. And David and his men just hugged up against
the wall in the dark. But you know David was praying.
His enemy, the man that was relentless, trying to kill him and setting
traps for him but he wouldn't have been praying with an audible
voice. But I say that because the voice of our heart is audible
to the Lord the same as the voice that we cry out loud. The Lord
hears us in the heart. In fact, it's more important
to pray with the heart than it is with the audible voice. You
know, a person can pray audibly with the voice and yet not pray
with the heart. You remember our Lord's parable
of the Pharisee. He stood and prayed with himself. Jeremiah said, the Lord of hosts
tries the righteous, and he sees the reins and the heart. The
Lord knows the heart. He sees our heart. He hears our
prayer, even if it's not audible. He looked at the Pharisees, directly
looked at them, and he told them, He said, this people, he said,
Isaiah prophesied correctly of you. You draw near me with your
mouth and you honor me with your lips, but your heart's far from
me. So it's far better to cry to
the Lord with the heart and no audible voice than it is to cry
with the audible voice and no heart. But the Lord hears. He hears the voice of his people.
Now, whether audible or not, this is what's important. David
prayed unto the Lord. He prayed unto the Lord. Verse
one, he said, unto the Lord did I make my supplication. I cried
unto the Lord with my voice, with my voice unto the Lord did
I make my supplication. I poured out my complaint before
him. I showed before him my trouble. God's saints have one high priest.
We just have one high priest. He's seated at God's right hand.
And there are no priests in this earth. There are no priests in
this earth. Here's the command of our Savior
to His redeemed. This is His command. This is
the good news. He says, come to me. He says,
come boldly. Come knowing you're welcome.
Come by faith knowing that you're welcomed by the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Look with me over to Hebrews
chapter 4. I think we looked at this Sunday. Hebrews chapter 4. Verse 14, seeing them, we have
a high priest, a great high priest that is passed into the heavens,
Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not a high priest
which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities.
We're gonna see that, we're gonna see that in this psalm. He was
in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let
us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace. Welcome,
welcome, having liberty to approach holy God by the blood of Christ. Come to the throne of grace that
we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need. Now, he's the only priest. Christ
is the only priest. Earthly priests were only given
for a time, and they were given to picture the Lord Jesus. You
go back sometime and read Hebrews. The writer does such a good job
of showing us how that earthly priest typified the Lord Jesus
Christ. But it was only for a time, and
when Christ came, he did away with that office. He fulfilled
everything in the Law and the Prophets, and he's the high priest. He's seated at God's right hand,
and he put an end to that office. Now there's men who call themselves
priests, the Pope, and a bunch of others, and sadly, a lot of
preachers, real worshiping preachers want people to treat them like
a priest and want you to come to them. The Pope and priests, they claim
they can absolve sins, Only the Lord can do that. Only the Lord
put away the sins of His people. Only He can pardon. But that's
what men do. And there's one high priest,
and he is the only one. He put an end to that office.
I'm saying that because this is what we need. This is what
the trials are for. This is what good times are for. This is whatever the Lord works
in our life in this world, it's for us to go to Him. and pour
out our heart to Him, draw near to Him. That's who we need to
go to. So David says here, he said,
I made supplication unto the Lord. Unto the Lord did I make
my supplication. Supplication is from a broken
and a contrite heart, the Lord has made a humbled heart, and
you go to Him begging for grace and for mercy to help you. We always have to beg for mercy
because there's always sin that we need mercy for. We always
need the Lord to withhold from us what we deserve. And we go
begging grace, unmerited, free favor of God, grace for him to
supply all our need. We just read it, come boldly
to the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find grace
to help in time of need. David's call to the Lord poured
out like water. You know, they would pour water
out, and that was a symbol signifying they were helpless. They were
helpless. When our Lord was on the cross,
Psalm 22, He said, I'm poured out like water. He was totally
submitted to the Father. He was totally trusting the Father. And David's in a place like that.
He said, I poured out my complaint before Him. I showed before Him
my trouble. Now he knew God is sovereign. He knew God was ruling Saul and
all his men. And he knew the Lord had put
him right where he was. The Lord had worked everything
in providence. Providence is the Lord working
His will. And he knew everything that had
come to pass in his life. The Lord had put him right where
he was. He knew that. That's why he went to the Lord
and poured out his complaint to the Lord. David poured out
to the Lord the trouble. He showed the trouble the Lord
was in. So that's David's cry. That's
his supplication. That's his complaint. That's
where he's at. He's in great distress. Now you see here, prayer
is not to turn the Lord. Prayer is not to change the Lord
at all. The Lord does not change. He's
unchangeable. He's the same yesterday, today,
and forever. The prayer is to turn God's child. Prayer is to turn me and you.
Prayer is to turn us to him, to bring us down to his feet,
to bring us to submit to his will, to depend on him to provide
everything for us. That's what prayer is for. It's
for us to be brought to the place where we're asking the Lord to
undertake for our cause. In prayer, when he has, we go
through it, even when we supplicate him. We do it with thanksgiving,
because he's already done so much for us. When we're asking
him to meet our needs, he's already done so much for us. And so we're
thanking him while we supplicate him. Now, secondly, let's hear
the mascal. Let's hear the instruction. Let's
hear what the Lord instructed David. One, David was given an
understanding, or at least a better understanding. He knew this,
but he's given a better understanding that the Lord knew David's path. He said here in verse three,
when my spirit was overwhelmed within me, that's what we heard
in those first verses. That was David overwhelmed, overwhelmed. His spirit was overwhelmed. He
said, when my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest
my path. In the way wherein I walk have
they privately, privately, secretly laid a snare for me. And the
Lord already knew it. Now, when did the Lord teach
David this? When was this instruction given
to David? He said, when my spirit was overwhelmed
within me. Then. Thou knewest my path. Did the Lord not know David's
path before David's spirit was overwhelmed within him? Of course
he did. The Lord knew everything about
David. He knows everything about you.
He knows everything about me. He knows things about you and
me that we don't know about us. But what it is is when he was
brought to the place where it was the end of David, he brought
to the end of David, he brought to the end of of his own strength
and his own wisdom and his own trying to save himself and work
things out when his spirit was overwhelmed within him, that's
when the Lord made him to know the Lord knew his path. The Lord
knew his path. The Lord always knows the path
of his people. Now, the Lord knows our path
because our Savior already tread it. He already walked where you
walk. Whatever you're going through,
The Lord has walked right where you're walking. I've yet to find
one thing that I've gone through that the Lord did not go through.
The Lord has suffered what his people suffer. He's endured it. As we read this psalm, we hear
Christ. We see the troubles that he went
through as he served God. He did this to make his people
righteous and holy, and as he did that, he suffered greatly. Christ could say, verse 3, in
the way wherein I walked have they privately laid a snare for
me. The Pharisees were, they just would not stop trying to
find something with which to accuse the Lord Jesus Christ.
They tried secretly, connivingly, every way they could to find
something they could charge him with. They finally got false
witnesses to come in and speak against him. They were constantly
trying to ensnare him. He already tread that path. If
you find that happening to you, the Lord already tread that path.
That's how he knows your path. He's already walked it. But listen,
as we just saw in the psalm, He walked it without sin. You
and me can't say that. He walked it without sin. He
walked it in perfect faith, perfect fidelity to His Father. But He
did that for a people. He did that for every elect child
God gave Him. And brethren, He is the Holy
One. When we get to glory, the only
one that's gonna be praised for being holy is the one man, the
God-man, Christ Jesus. He's the holy one. And he's the
righteous one. What he did, he did for his people,
and it's by his obedience that we're made righteous. But he
suffered all of that going through great trouble as men privately
tried to ensnare him, constantly trying to ensnare him. You remember
that first message he preached? He got up and he preached and
he declared, there were many widows in Israel, but the Lord
went to a widow and surreptitied. He said that to a bunch of Israelites. They thought they were elect
because of where they were born and who their mother and their
father was. He said there was a whole bunch of widows, but
the Lord passed them all by and went to a Gentile widow. There
was many lepers in Israel. The Lord passed them by. He went
to a Gentile leper. You know what their reaction
was? They tried to throw him off a cliff. And it didn't stop there. On
and on it went. On and on. You find yourself
with no man to help you. You ever find yourself and you
don't seem like there's any man to help you? Listen, even if
you have somebody to help you bodily, Physically, temporally
speaking, you don't have somebody to help you like we need it.
Look here, verse 4, I looked on my right hand and beheld,
but there was no man that would know me. Use picture of the Lord. Look to his right hand. There's
Peter over there standing by a fire. And this little damsel
says three times now, we know we saw you with him. Peter cussed
and said, I don't know him. I don't know him. I looked on
my right hand and beheld there was no man that would know me.
Refuge failed me. No man cared for my soul. The apostles fled that night.
He told them they would. They fled. There was no man,
no man cared for our Savior. He said, I've tread the winepress
alone. I've tread the winepress alone.
And of the people, there was none with me. Our Lord Jesus
came to do a work that nobody but he could do. Nobody else
could do the work he came to do. It took the God-man to bring
God and man together in one. This was a work only the Lord
Jesus Christ could do. He tread the winepress of God's
fury all by himself. There was nobody to help him.
But we also see our Savior's perfect faith in God right here.
Look, even while he suffered the cross, verse five, even while
he suffered the cross all along, he said, verse five, I cried
unto thee, O Lord. I said, thou art my refuge and
my portion in the land of the living. Oh, the perfect faith
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, the perfect faith of the
Lord Jesus. in the worst suffering, in the worst isolation, being
left alone, betrayed, men spitting on him, cursing him, hurting
his body, all the things he endured physically, and then God having
turned his back on him when he was bearing the sin of his people,
he's suffering that second death of being cast out of God's presence,
He's suffering that in the place of a people. He didn't commit
the transgression. He didn't offend God. He's come
to restore that which he took not away. And as he did that,
he looked nowhere but to God the Father. He trusted God the
Father, even when the Lord was not speaking to him. There's
no other refuge I have, no other portion I have. There he is,
he's bearing the sin of his people, he's bearing the curse and condemnation
that we deserve. You talk about alone now. He
was alone, nobody's ever been alone like him. Yet he never wavered, not any,
he didn't waver, not even a nothing. In his heart, he looked in perfect
faith to the Father. Scripture says, who in the days
of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplication with
strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him
from death, he was heard in that he feared. Boy, nobody's ever
reverenced God like our Savior. There's a perfect reverence,
a perfect heart toward the Father. And then having declared God
just, having declared, how did he declare God's just? Because
when he bore the sin of his people on that cross, God spared not
his own son. Christ bore the curse God poured
out on him, the curse that divine justice demanded, and that showed
God is just. He will not clear the guilty.
He will not clear the guilty, but he declared him just, he
declared him the justifier, because that's God hanging on that cross.
And he's the justifier of all his people. And he perfected
his people by that offering. He perfected his people. When
he said it's finished, brethren, that was our salvation he was
talking about. It's finished. Our salvation
is finished. The righteousness and the holiness
and the wisdom and the redemption is finished. by Christ Jesus
alone. And having done that, God the
Father delivered him. Look here in verse 6. Verse 6
said, He said, attending to my cry from brought very low, deliver
me from my persecutors. God delivered him from his persecutors.
He said in verse 7, bring my soul out of prison that I may
praise thy name. God brought him out of the prison
of the grave. Our Lord arose, they sat there
and watched him ascend up into the clouds, out of sight. And
he's coming again that same way. And he went and sat down on the
right hand of the Father because he pleased God. Brethren, when
you see Christ arise and sit down at the right hand of God,
really, I pray God give us faith to really understand. We arose
and we sat down at God's right hand. We have already been accepted
of God. We're already there with Him
in Christ. That's how finished our salvation
is. We are there with Him. We're
seated there with Him. But look, this is what He promised
the Father, verse 7. He said, Bring my soul out of
prison that I may praise thy name. The righteous shall come
past me about, for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. He
sends the gospel now. And by his grace, he comes to
us and he praises God's name in the congregation. If you're
hearing the word of God tonight, as it is in truth, this is what
Paul said, if you're hearing it as it is in truth, like the
Thessalonians did, you're hearing the word of God. You're hearing
Christ speak. He said, I will praise you. in the great congregation. Look at Hebrews 2. Hebrews 2. Hebrews 2 verse 11. For both he that sanctifyeth
and they who are sanctified are all of one, for which cause? He is not ashamed to call them
brethren, saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren in
the midst of the church, while I sing praise unto thee. Christ's
been doing that ever since he arose. At the day of Pentecost,
when they heard Peter preach, they heard Christ preach. They
heard Christ praising the name of God that day. And some, 3,000
heard him in their hearts. because he made it effectual.
A little while later, over 2,000 heard him. And he's been singing
praise to God in the congregation every time the gospel is preached
ever since that day. It's Christ who's preaching the
gospel to the hearts of his people. It is in truth the word of God
that you hear. And look, he said, and the righteous
shall come past me about, And that's what he does. He takes
us and gives us faith and robes us in his righteousness. And
we are the righteous in Christ and by Christ we're the righteous.
And he brings us to compass him about. We gather around Christ
every time. I love the picture when we're
gathered here to worship. And on a Sunday morning when
all over the U.S. people are gathered together
to worship. I know it's different times, but bear with me. We all
gather together to worship, other side of the world, gather together
to worship. And in heaven, they're gathered together to hear Christ
speak. And brethren, that's, so everybody on earth and everybody
in heaven are all gathered at the feet of Christ, listening
to Christ preach. That's how it is. He's speaking
the gospel to his people. He's our great Savior, our great
high priest. He knows our path because He's
already ran the race. He already ran it. And He's our
righteousness. He's our holiness so that we're
accepted of God. All the spiritual sacrifices
He works in your heart are acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. He's
the one who set us free from our sin nature by giving us faith.
He's the one who set us free from the curse of the law. He's
the one who bids you and me come to Him. And look with me at Hebrews
12. Here's what he says to us, Hebrews
12. Here's what he bids us to do. He says, Wherefore, seeing we
also are compassed about, Hebrews 12, verse 1, seeing we are compassed
about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight, and the sin which is so easily beset us, and let us
run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto
Jesus the author, and finisher of faith, who for the joy that
was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider
him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest
you be wearied and fain in your minds. You've not resisted under
blood striving against sin. And you forgot the exhortation
which speaketh unto you as unto children. My son despised not
thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou rebuked of
him. For whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth and scourgeth every
son whom he receiveth. Now, lastly, let's hear the instruction
for us. When did the Lord give David
instruction? When did he give him a better understanding? Verse
3, when my spirit was overwhelmed within me. and thou knewest my
path. You see, while we're trying to
put away our sins, make ourselves acceptable to come to Christ,
or for us who believe, while we're trying to fix our problems,
while we're trying to fix others' problems, whatever the trouble
may be, while we're doing that, we're unteachable. We're unteachable. The Lord has to put us in a place
where we're at the end of ourself. We have no other, no other to
go to but Him. Go with me to Isaiah 30. I just,
I love this. I know I preached it to you many
times, but the Lord's, when we're in that place, the Lord's just
gonna wait. He's just gonna wait till our
spirits overwhelm within us. We have nowhere else to go. And
then he'll give us instruction. Look here. Look here. Verse 15. Isaiah 30 verse 15. Thus saith
the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel. Now this is him. Listen
now. Listen to what he says. In returning,
turning to me, returning to me, and resting in me shall you be
saved. In quietness, and in confidence,
quietness, knowing the Lord's ruling it, confidence, knowing
He's got you, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength."
In other words, He's your strength. He says, and you would not, wouldn't
do it. But she said, no, for we'll flee
upon horses, therefore shall you flee. And we'll ride upon
the swift, therefore shall they that pursue you be swift. One
thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one, and at the rebuke of
five shall you flee. Now watch, till ye be left as
a beacon upon the top of a mountain, as an ensign on a hill, like
an old tattered flag just drooping on a pole up on a hill, or like
a tree that's got all the branches broke off, or like a mast on
a sailboat that's just been stripped. The Lord said, I'm going to wait
until your spirit's overwhelmed within you. Look, why would He do that? Verse 18,
and therefore will the Lord wait that He may be gracious unto
you. And therefore will He be exalted.
that He may have mercy upon you, for the Lord is a God of judgment. Blessed are all they that wait
for Him. You know, I'm not going to have
you turn, if you want to, to Isaiah 40. You're there. Go to
Isaiah 40. But look here. Here's where we
get. Oh, the Lord just doesn't see
me. He doesn't understand my situation. He just doesn't know
how bad my condition is. He's forgotten about me. Look
here. Why sayest thou, verse 27, Why
sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest thou of Israel, My way is hid
from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? Why
do you think he's just not paying attention? Hast thou not known,
hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the
Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary?
There's no searching of his understanding. But notice who he gives power
to. He gives power to the faint. To them that have no might, He
increases strength. He'll wait till He's brought
you to where your spirit's overwhelmed within you and you have no strength,
no might, no wisdom, no righteousness, no holiness, nothing. And then
He'll make you to know, I know you, I know your path, I know
everything about you. Now, back to our text. Second
thing to learn is this. Here's the instructive thing
he's teached us. We have but one refuge, and we have but one
portion, is Christ the Lord. Him alone. Verse four. I looked
on my right hand, beheld, but there was no man that would know
me. Refuge failed me. No man cared for my soul. I cried unto thee, O Lord. I
said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the
living. I know We always want to help
our brethren. I know that. I do and you do
too. But sometimes we do brethren
a great disservice by trying to save them out of the trial. You know, when you preach the
gospel, Paul said, I don't use enticing words of man's wisdom.
You know, word things just so I can get you to get out of that
sin and death and come to Christ. I don't do that. Why? I want
your faith to stand in the power of God. It's the same in trials,
brethren. We want our brethren to stand
in faith by the power of God. And sometimes you do a disservice
trying to get them out of the fire. Every trial is the Lord giving
us instruction and understanding that there's no man that careth
for my soul. Now, we can help each other temporally. We can help each other fleshly-wise
and, you know, earthly-wise, giving carnal things. But only
the Lord can care for your soul. I'm here preaching to you because
I do care for your soul. I want you to know, Lord, but
I can't do anything for your soul. As much as I want the ones
that don't know Him to know Him, I can't make you know Him. But
the Lord cares for the soul of His people. He cares for the
soul of His people. The Lord is the refuge of His
people. We run to Him and into Him and
we're safe in Him. He's the refuge. He's the fortress
that's protecting His people. And He's gonna keep His child
knowing it in our heart. He's gonna have you saying what
the psalmist said in Psalm 62, 6, He only is my rock and my
salvation. He only. That's what we're learning
more and more and more as we go through faith. He only is
my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. I shall not
be moved. In God is my salvation and my
glory. The rock of my strength and my
refuge is in God. Nowhere else. And He's our portion. He provides everything for us. He does it. Right now and forever. He is our portion. I want to
see you. I want to see all of His people
brought to this place. Here's where we want to be. Like
Psalm 73, 25. We want to be brought to where we say, Whom have I
in heaven but Thee? And there's none upon earth I
desire beside Thee. Now you think about that statement.
None on earth I desire besides thee. My flesh and my heart faileth,
but God's the strength of my heart and my portion forever. That's what he's teaching. That's
the instruction. That's the understanding he's given us. All our persecutors
are stronger than us, and especially our old man of sin. Only the
Lord can save. Only he can bring our soul out
of prison. You can't worship when your spirit's
overwhelmed. Only He can bring us out of that
prison. Verse 6, attending to my cry for I'm brought very low,
deliver me from my persecutors for they're stronger than I.
Bring my soul out of prison that I may praise thy name. And that's
what the Lord's going to do for His people. He's going to bring
your soul out of prison. Everyone that He redeemed and
He's going to keep bringing you out of that prison because the
Lord hath redeemed Jacob. Ransomed him from the hand of
Him that was stronger than He. Here's the last thing. When your
spirit's overwhelmed and you find out again that the Lord
knows your path, know this, He knows your path because He set
your path. Go back there again to Hebrews
12. He set your path. He said there, let us run with
patience the race that is set before us. Brethren, when he
chose his people in Christ, he set the path for us because he
predestinated us to the adoption of children so that Christ comes
at the set time, and that's when we start the race, right at the
time he appointed. Not late. Not early, right at
the time he appointed, he set that race. And then as we're
running this race, every hill, every valley, every curve, every
straightway, it's all set by the Lord, the sovereign hand
of our God, and everything he's working is set that path right
before you. He set the path before us. So when we suffer and things
aren't going our way, remember, this is the path that the Lord
set for me. Paul said, let us thank God for
this is the will of God concerning you. Whatever it is, whatever
you're going through, the Lord set that path for you. But he
knows that path, and he knows his child, and he knows what
he will do. He's gonna save his people. He's
gonna save his people. Look at verse seven. Know this
of Christ. Christ the righteous shall come
past me about. Christ the righteous shall compass
me about, for thou shalt deal bountifully with me. That's what
every believer can say. Christ the righteous is going
to compass me all about. He's going to deal, you have
dealt bountifully with me. At the end of every trial, that's
what we're going to say. Lord, you have dealt so bountifully
with me. You have taught me instruction
I couldn't have been taught any other way. Brought me to the
end of me. and I heard you. For the first
time, I heard you. And you and me that know him,
he'll bring you there again, and it feels like it's the first
time you ever heard him. Lord, now I know you for the
first time. You've dealt so bountifully.
It's good for me that I've been afflicted, but I might not learn
your statutes. They're not real hard statutes.
Believe on me and love one another. Believe on me, love one another.
All right, brethren. Brother Adam.