Alright, brethren, Psalm 137.
I like it whenever the books we're
studying go together, when we're dealing with the same subject
in multiple books, and that's the case here. This goes along
with Isaiah, what we've been studying in Isaiah. Let's read
again these first six verses. By the rivers of Babylon, there
we sat down. Yea, we wept when we remembered
Zion. We hanged our harps upon the
willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us
away captive required of us a song. And they that wasted us required
of us mirth, saying, sing us one of the songs of Zion. How
shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget
thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I
do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of
my mouth. If I prefer not Jerusalem above
my chief joy. I've titled this, Our Chief Joy. This is the darkness. that God's
saints were in, that we read about, we studied in Isaiah 50. Remember when the Lord said,
who is it of you that fears the Lord and obeys his
servant and is in darkness and has no light? This is the darkness
they were in. They'd been carried away to Babylon.
We remember from Isaiah 50 why they went to Babylon. The Lord
said, for your iniquities have you sold yourself and for your
transgressions. I want you to see what they had
done. Go with me over to 2 Chronicles
36. 2 Chronicles 36. down in verse 14. Moreover, all the chief of the
priests and the people transgressed very much after all the abominations
of the heathen. Now this is in their worship
service. They had taken all the abominations
of the heathen and was bringing them into the worship service. and polluted the house of the
Lord, which He had hallowed in Jerusalem. And the Lord God of
their fathers sent to them by His messengers, He sent preachers
to them, rising up at times and sending, because He had compassion
on His people and on His dwelling place. The Lord had some saints
in there mixed in with them. And He sent His prophets, but
these that were leading, they mocked the messengers of God
and despised His words and misused His prophets until the wrath
of the Lord arose against His people till there was no remedy.
Therefore He brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, that's
Nebuchadnezzar, who slew their young men with a sword in the
house of their sanctuary. and had no compassion upon young
man or maiden, old man or him that stooped for age. He gave
them all into his hand." You see, the Lord did that. And all
the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures
of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king and
of his princes, all these Nebuchadnezzar brought to Babylon. And they
burnt the house of God. and break down the wall of Jerusalem,
and burn all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroy all the
goodly vessels thereof. And them that had escaped from
the sword carried he away to Babylon, where they were servants
to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,
to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until
the land had enjoyed her sabbaths. For as long as she lay desolate,
she kept sabbath to fulfill three score and ten years." Seventy
years, brethren. Well, that was the captivity they were
in. Well, the Lord had some people in there, Jeremiah, He had a
lot of others in there that were his saints. And that was some
great trouble for them to be carried into Babylon. And we
see our text begins, it says, By the rivers of Babylon, there
we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. The Lord
is going to keep a need in our heart for Christ. He's going
to keep a need in our heart for the preaching of the Gospel.
This is how it pleased God to save us. And so He's going to
keep this need in our heart, a need for Christ, a need for
the Gospel, the preaching of the Gospel. And He's going to keep us knowing
the privilege and the value of having the Gospel. That's what
He's going to do for His people now. That's what He's going to
do for His people. He'll make us know the value
of having a place where we can assemble and hear the gospel
preached. Well, sometimes we're like the children of Israel,
the children of Judah. The world comes in. We're brought
into captivity. We were in captivity in Adam.
We fell in Adam and came into captivity. The Lord came and
redeemed us out. We were in captivity to our sin
nature and He gave us a new heart, a new spirit to worship. But
even as believers, we can come into captivity. Paul dealt with
that in Romans 7. We can come into captivity to
our sin nature. But the Lord's going to keep
this need in our heart. He's going to use even the captivity
to teach us. and make us need Him, need His
grace, need Christ, need His gospel. He's going to use everything
in this world, everything. He's the Lord of hosts. That
means everything is under His control. And He's going to use
even the enemy to keep this need in the hearts of His people.
The other day, we were talking about how, I believe it might
have been the psalm before this, we were talking about how the
Lord is the light, He's the sun, He's the light, and He shines
and His people are the... we're the moon in the darkness.
We get our light from Christ. He shines and we get our light
from Christ. And in this dark world now, He's
gone back to glory. He said, I'm the light of the
world so long as He was in the world. He's gone back to glory,
accomplished the work. Now He's shined His light and
He enlightens us. But you know, when you look at
the moon, I used to give this illustration, and it's been years
and years since I've given this, but you know, when you look at
the moon, sometimes you see it's just as bright as it can be.
It's getting the full glow of the sun. The sun's shining on
it, unimpeded, and the light, the moon is full. Then other
times you look up there and all you see is a little sliver of
moon. What happened? The world came between the sun
and the moon and blocked the light. That's what happens to
me and you sometimes. The world comes between us and
Christ. This sin nature comes between
us and Christ. And it blocks the light. The Lord's going to use even
this captivity that we enter into. He's going to use that.
And He's going to keep a need in the heart of His children.
He'll keep a need in their heart for Christ, for His gospel. Well,
the first thing I want to show you here is the Lord chastens
His people. And He just chastens those He
loves. Now, there were some folks in Judah, when they were carried
away captive to Babylon, Babylon had everything. Babylon represents
this world. It's the mother of harlots, is
what Revelation says about Babylon. And it represents all falsehood. And Babylon, the city of Babylon,
It had everything an earthly man, a worldly man could desire.
I mean, this place was the greatest city on earth at the time. And
so for the ones that didn't really know the Lord, the ones that
were children of Judah, that they liked these abominations
of the heathen that were brought in, when they were carried to
Babylon, they were happy with Babylon. They were happy with
Babylon. But those that were truly God's
saints, when they went to Babylon, they were carried captive in
Babylon. That was great chastening to them. And the Lord was making
it effectual to them. The Lord only chastens those
he loves. And it was effectual. He made it effectual to them.
And it says, and by the rivers of Babylon there we sat down,
yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. They remembered Zion. They remembered Jerusalem. They
remembered what they had. And they wept. They wept. This world is mystery Babylon. That's what this world is. The
mother of harlots. And the Lord for His people,
everything He's doing, He's ruling all providence and the Lord is
weaning us from this world. We have a lot of this world in
our sin nature. We like the world in our sin
nature. We like the falsehoods of this world and we would perish
if the Lord left us to ourselves. But He's going to keep He's going
to keep His children and teach us in what He's doing through
everything that happens in this world that He brings to pass.
He's weaning us from this world. That's what He's doing. And whatever
comes between us and our Savior, He's going to remove that from
us. He's going to remove us from it, whatever it is. Whatever
we start setting our hearts on, He's going to remove it. He's
going to remove us from it. And if we become lukewarm, their
problem was in their worship. If we become lukewarm toward
Christ and assembling and hearing the gospel preached, if we become
lukewarm, the Lord for His people, He's going to work so as to renew
us inwardly and make us see our need of Christ like He did when
He first called us. That's what He's going to do.
He's going to keep us knowing our need. He's going to make
us long to assemble and worship Him. See, they're in Babylon
and now they realize what they had. And they're weeping because
they don't have it. He made them long to assemble
at Jerusalem. He made them long for that. They
wanted to assemble and worship the Lord. That's the need he
put in their heart. You know, they were captive in
Babylon for 70 years. That's what we just read. They
were captive in Babylon for 70 years. You know, some of the
children of Judah were born in Babylon. They were born in Babylon. They had never seen Jerusalem.
They had never seen Zion. They just heard about it. They
heard about it. They heard what the Lord had
done and how the Lord promised in Jerusalem. Here's what the
thing about Jerusalem was. This is why they wanted to get
to Zion. That's where the Lord said He'd meet with them. Between
the cherubim on the mercy seat. And that's a picture of Christ.
The Lord is... He's in heavenly Zion. Heavenly
Jerusalem. at God's right hand. And God
said, I'll meet with you in Christ. And Christ said, where I've put
my name, where I've established my gospel, where I've gathered
you together, he said, I'm there in the midst of you. So this
is what you have pictured here is somebody that They took for
granted what God gave them in assembling and hearing the gospel
preached. And so the Lord, to cure them of their lukewarmness,
the Lord made it so they couldn't assemble. And now they're weeping. They're captive. And they're
weeping because they see now what they had. The privilege
God gave them. He didn't give it to everybody.
But those that were born there, they had heard about Jerusalem.
They had heard about Zion. and heard about how the Lord
promised to meet them there. And they're just like us, brethren. We've been born again of God,
and we're in a strange land. This whole world's Babylon to
us. We're in a strange land, just like those that were born
in Babylon. We were born in this Babylon. We're strangers in pilgrims
here. That's what the Lord said. We're
strangers in pilgrims here. We're just passing through. This
is not our home. And we know that. We've never seen heavenly Jerusalem,
but we've heard of it. We have God's word concerning
it. He's given us faith to behold it, the evidence of things not
seen. And we've heard about the maker
of heavenly Jerusalem, Christ Jesus our Lord, the prophet,
priest, and king, our redeemer. We've heard about him. And He's
the purpose. He's the one we want to see.
And just like our father Abraham, we're looking for a city whose
builder and maker is God. Christ Jesus, our God, our Savior. He made this city. That's where
we're wanting to go. That's where, just like those
born in Babylon, they were looking to Jerusalem. They wanted to
be in Jerusalem. We're looking for Christ, our
Savior, our Lord. In a sense, this flesh, this
sinful flesh is Babylon. In a sense it is. We long to
be free from this body at death. We long to have a new body and
be entirely new, conformed to our Lord. We long for that. Look
over at Philippians 3. Philippians 3. Look here. Philippians 3 and verse 20. Our conversation is in heaven. That word conversation means
our citizenship. That's what the word is. Our
citizenship is in heaven. Heavenly Jerusalem. Jerusalem
which is above where Christ sits. Our prophet, priest, and king.
From whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto His glorious body, according to the working whereby He is
able even to subdue all things to Himself. Therefore, my brethren,
dearly beloved, and long for my joy and crown, stand fast
in the Lord, my dearly beloved." Now, you remember from Isaiah,
The Lord promised even before they went into captivity, He
would send Cyrus, king of Persia. And Cyrus came in and he conquered
Babylon and he brought them out of there. Carried them all across
the wilderness, all the way to Jerusalem. Well brethren, that's
what the Lord has done. The Son of God came down. Cyrus came from a far country.
Christ Jesus, the Son of God, came down from a far country.
And He went to that cross and laid down His life and He redeemed
us from the curse and condemnation of the law. Now you think about
that. Christ redeemed us. He laid down
His life, poured out His blood, and all those God chose in eternity. Christ redeemed us. He bore our
sin. He bore our curse. And He redeemed
us, and we're His. And He's called us to Himself
now. He's made us to know this good
news that we're His. He purchased us with His own
blood. And by making us hear that good news, He made us be
reconciled to God. He made us. He wrought peace
for us and He made us be reconciled to God. And now He's carrying
us through this wilderness to Jerusalem. But if we turn from
Him, or we let this world come between us and Him, He's sovereign. Our Lord is sovereign. He's present
in each of His people. He's ruling everything in this
world. And our Lord is sovereign to work whatever is necessary
to chasten us and keep us having a need for Him and a need for
His gospel. So, He's going to save us through
the preaching of this Word, brethren. When He saves, He saves in the
first hour through the Gospel of Christ. And He doesn't stop
saving us through this Gospel. We have to hear of Him the whole
way through, because this is how He gathers His His sheep
together and how He assembles His people together and how He
moves us together through this wilderness. And He's going to
keep us and save us through this Word. So He's going to keep us
knowing we have a great privilege here He's given us. We need the
Gospel. We need Christ. We need to hear
a message from Him. We need Him to speak in our heart.
So He's going to keep us needing what He's given us. And if need
be, He'll make it so that we'll have a longing. We'll see, oh,
I want to be, I want to hear from my Lord. I want to hear
from Him. This world is not our friend,
brethren. That's the second thing we see
here. Nothing about this world is our friend. Look here in verse
2. He said, We hanged our harps
upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there, they that
carried us away captive required of us a song, and they that wasted
us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's
song in a strange land? Now you note that phrase there,
the Lord's Song. The Lord's Song. This book of
Psalms is inspired by God. This is the Lord's Song right
here. This whole book of Psalms is the Lord's Song. Just like
the Word of the Lord is His Word, this is the Lord's Song. And
you know what this song is about? Everything in this book. The
whole book Bible. You know what it's about? It's
about His Son, the Lord Jesus. He spoke from heaven. He said,
this is my beloved Son in whom I'm well pleased. You hear Him.
You hear Him. And that's what we need Him to
keep speaking into our heart. Hear my Son. Assemble with my
people and hear my Son. The Lord's song is the Lord Jesus
Christ. And He's been made our song.
Listen to this from Isaiah 12. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust and not be afraid,
for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song. He also has become
my salvation. We sing of his love and his grace. We can't sing the songs of Babylon. We can't assemble with this world's
religion and sing their song, because that's the abomination
of the heathen. We're singing of God's love and
His grace, how He saves His people. We're singing of how He elected
a people by grace, because He loved us. The cause was in Him,
not in us. Our song's about the redeeming
love and grace of God. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ,
who though He was rich, Yet for our sakes He became poor that
we through His poverty might be made rich. That's our song.
That's what we sing about. We actually come in and sit down
in our hymns. We sing songs that give Him the
glory. The words is what we want to
hear because we hear songs that glorify Him. We sing about how
He sends forth the Holy Spirit, regenerates us and draws us near
to Him. We sing the song of how He preserves
us and keeps us. I'm trying to sing that song
to you tonight. I'm trying to tell you He's going to keep this
need in our heart. That's how He's going to preserve
us. We sing the song of resurrecting, glorifying love in Christ. One
day soon, He's going to resurrect us and make us conform to His
image and He's going to glorify us with Him. But God didn't give these songs
to be sung for the world's amusement. He didn't give these songs for
Babylon's mirth. And look how cruel they were
to the Lord's people, to God's saints right here. They carried
us away captive and then they required of us a song. They wasted
us and then they required of us to be happy, mirth, to sing
us one of the songs of Zion. God used Babylon. God's using
everything in this world. Our Lord is using everything
in this world to keep us, correct us, make us know we need Him. But Babylon took advantage of
that. They were cruel to the Lord's
people. And this world will be cruel
to you. They wasted them and then they required they be happy
and sing. That's what the world's religion does. That's who Babylon
represents is false religion. will worship, works religion. They bring you in and take you
captive. They bring you under the bondage
of the law. They preach grace. They claim
they preach grace. They claim they preach love.
But then they bring you under the bondage of the law and they
command of you to be happy and sing to the Lord. It's bondage. It's bondage. But Christ is using
this world. He's using everything in it.
However, It needs to be used that's best for His people and
the world doesn't even know it. Babylon didn't know what they
were being used for. The Lord's going to show Nebuchadnezzar. He's going to find out by God's
sovereign hand. I think He saved Nebuchadnezzar.
But the world doesn't know unless the Lord regenerates the man
in the heart and makes him know the Lord. The world doesn't know,
but the Lord, He's using everything. But the world's cruel to God's
people. We can't be friends with our Lord and friends of this
world. They're going to treat the Lord's people like they treated
our Savior. They're mocking the Lord's people
right here. Well, what did they do to Christ? Look over at Matthew
27. Matthew 27. Here's what they
did to our Savior. He's on the cross. Can He use
the world to accomplish His purpose? They didn't hand Him to the cross
without His permission. They did what He determined for
to be done. Anything that happens to His
people in this world, it's because He purposed it. He's going to
bless it. He's going to make us see Christ
through it. He saved His people through this cross. He was using
the world to put Him there. But look what they did when they
put Him there. They didn't know it. And here's
what they said. They said, Thou, verse 40, verse
39 says, They that pass by reviled Him, wagging their heads. They
said, Thou that destroyest the temple and buildest it in three
days, save Thyself. If Thou be the Son of God, come
down from the cross. Can't you just hear them laughing
and mocking? Look at verse 42. They said,
He saved others, Himself He cannot save. That's true, brethren. That's the gospel. If He's going
to save us, He could not come down off that cross. He laid
down His life for us. But they didn't know that. They're
just mocking. If He'd be the King of Israel, let Him now come
down from the cross and we will believe Him. They wouldn't. They didn't believe Him. They
didn't believe the gospel. They wouldn't believe if He showed
them a sign. They said, He trusted in God.
Let Him deliver Him now if He'll have Him. For He said, I'm the
Son of God. You see how they mocked Him?
Worldly men and women are going to treat you that way. They're
going to treat His people that way. That's what the Lord said.
If they've done this to the master, they're going to do it to the
servant. They love to see us fall. They love to see us in
some sort of captivity. And they mock us just like they
did our Savior. Lamentations 2. Listen to this. Lamentations 2. If you want to
look there. Lamentations 2.15. This is Jeremiah
now. He's there. He's in Babylon with
them. He's one of the God's saints
that's there. He was chastened by all this
too. Look what he said here. Lamentations 2.15, All that pass
by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head
at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that
men call the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth? All
thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee. They hiss
and gnash their teeth. They say, We've swallowed her
up. Certainly this is the day that we've looked for. We've
found it. We've seen it. They boasted they had done all
this, you know. The Lord hath done that which
he had devised. He's fulfilled his word that
he commanded in the days of old. He hath thrown down, he hath
not pitied, he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee. He
set up the horn of thine adversaries. But you see, they mock, brethren,
but our sovereign Savior, our sovereign Lord overrules the
mocking of every enemy Everything that's taking place in this world
to renew a need for Christ in our hearts. That's what He's
doing. Here was their cry in Psalm 123.3. You remember this?
Psalm 123.3? Here's the cry the Lord put in their heart. Verse 3, Have mercy upon us,
O Lord, have mercy upon us, for we are exceedingly filled with
contempt. They have just poured out contempt
on us, Lord. Our soul is exceedingly filled
with the scorning of those that are at ease and with the contempt
of the proud. even before they went into captivity,
the Lord declared the end from the beginning. He declared what
He was going to do. Right now, the world is laughing, and they're
singing, and they're enjoying themselves, and you and me suffer
a lot. God's people suffer a lot in
this world. Our Lord said you must, through
much tribulation, enter the kingdom. He's waning us from this world,
and we don't like to be waned, like a baby. We cry, we fret,
and it's painful, this chasing the Lord to it. But this is what's
going to happen. The Lord declared it in from
the beginning. One of these days, you're going
to sing. And in this world, they're going
to be mourning and full of sorrow. Look at, well, let me just give
you this. We're gonna see this coming up in Isaiah 51. Listen
to this. In Isaiah 51, 11, he said, the
redeemed of the Lord shall return and come with singing unto Zion,
and everlasting joy shall be upon their head. They shall obtain
gladness and joy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
That's what the Lord's gonna do. And you know, every time
he chastens us, that's what he brings to pass. He brings you
to rejoice. and sing unto Him every time. And one day we're going to do
it fully. We're going to do it fully. Well, third day, I want you to
see lastly, through His loving, chastening hand, He will keep
Christ preeminent in our heart. That's what He's going to do.
He's going to keep us knowing this world's not our friend.
And He's going to keep Christ preeminent in our heart. Verse
5. They said, not only will we not sing for you, for the world,
they said, verse five, if I forget thee, O Jerusalem, and you can
put, O my Lord Jesus there. Go see the significance of Jerusalem
is that's where God promised to meet with them. That's where
the mercy seat was. And so you can put here, in place
of heavenly Jerusalem, you can put the Lord Jesus, the king
of that city. If I forget Thee, O Jerusalem,
O my Lord Jesus, let my right hand forget her cunning. And
if I don't remember Thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof
of my mouth, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy. That's why I titled this Our
Chief Joy. Christ is our chief joy. Everything
about our salvation is by the Lord. And this right here, when
we're brought to cry out and say, and again be renewed so
that we say, Lord, You're our chief joy. Above everything else,
I have to have Him. I know now I need to be where
He is. And when He makes you know that
again, and makes you hear His gospel fresh, and you need Him,
and you need the preaching of His Word, when He does that,
you know this is all of His grace. And that's what He does. He keeps
renewing us inwardly, so that we do not forget Christ, so that
we prefer Him above all else. He's going to bring you to see
what Psalm 73, 25 says. Whom have I in heaven but thee,
and who on earth do I desire but thee? My flesh and my heart
faileth. My old man of sin brings me into
captivity. It fails. But God's the strength
of my heart, and He's my portion forever. God's saints still have
an old nature. I know men that like to boast
in their works and their will and their ability to subdue their
flesh. They don't like to hear that
God's people have an old sin nature. But we do. And the Scriptures
are clear on that. Romans 7. And Paul said, that
which I would do I don't do. And that which I hate, that's
what I do. And he said, and sometimes I'm brought into captivity. Just
like they were, I'm brought into captivity. Who's going to deliver
me from this body of death? I thank God through Christ Jesus,
my Lord. And all these little deliverances
the Lord's showing us, He's the only one that can deliver you.
It's all through the scripture, brethren. We may stumble and
we may fall. And we're going to. We're going
to come into captivity. Proverbs 24.16 says that. We may fall seven times in a
day. Psalm 37.23, The steps of a good
man are ordered by the Lord, and He delighteth in His way.
Though He fall, He shall not be utterly cast down, for the
Lord upholdeth Him with His hand. Well then, why even let us fall? Our Lord is teaching us through
this that we need Him every hour. He's drawing us nearer to Christ,
making us need Him more, making us see we cannot trust His flesh.
There's nothing in this world, brethren, that we need. We need
Christ. We need His gospel. We don't
need anything else in this world. And whatever need, we have some
earthly needs, but whatever you need in this world, He promised,
I'm gonna provide that for you. God said, I gave my only begotten
Son. He said, I delivered Him up for
all my people. Shall He not with Him freely
give us all things? Our Lord said, but seek ye first
the kingdom of God and His righteousness. These other things will be added
to you. He's going to keep Christ being
our chief joy. He's going to deliver us. He's
going to keep us needing Him. He's going to keep us looking
to Him alone. This is the character of God's people. looking to Christ,
praying to Christ, begging mercy from Christ, waiting on Christ.
This is the character of His people. Listen, Zacharias, you
know what he was doing? We're going through Luke now.
You know what Zacharias was doing? He was waiting for the consolation
of Israel. Here's what he was doing. You
know who that is? That's Christ. Paul called God's saints, they
that love Christ appearing. That's the character of us by
His grace. They that love Christ's appearing.
He appears right now when He delivers us out of these trials.
He appears right now in the preaching of the gospel, the singing of
His hymns and His ordinances. He's going to appear again when
He comes a second time. And we are they that love His
appearing. We're praying to Christ, we're
looking to Christ, waiting on Christ, expecting Christ, preferring
Christ above our chief joy. This is our cry, Song of Solomon,
until the day break and the shadows flee away, until this darkness
is gone. Turn, my beloved, that's what
we cry. Turn, Lord, to us and be thou like a roe. Be like a
young deer upon the mountains of Bethsa. Come to us quickly,
Lord. That's what we're praying. Do
you ever find yourself praying that, Lord? I need you. I need
you. Come quickly, Lord. I need you
right now. And He's going to keep you needing
Him and looking to Him all the way to your last breath. You
know what Jacob's dying words were? He said, I've waited for
thy salvation, O Lord. That's what his whole life consisted
of. I've waited for thy salvation. So right now, brethren, when
you find yourselves in captivity, In darkness, with no light, what
did Christ say? Trust in the name of the Lord.
Stay upon your God. Use what He's given you. Use
His Word, assemble, hear His Gospel. Use His mercy seat, go
to Him, to His throne of grace and beg Him for mercy to help
you. Prefer Him above your chief joy. He is our chief joy. We need
Him more than anything in this life. By His grace, He keeps
you needing Him. I'll wait upon the Lord that
hideth Himself from the house of Jacob. I'll look for Him even
in the darkness. That's what we say. No chastening
is pleasant, but grievous, but afterward it yields the peaceful
fruit of righteousness in them that are exercised thereby. He
keeps you knowing Christ is my holiness. He's my acceptance.
He's my righteousness. He's my chief joy. And I have
no joy like Him. I need Him. And I pray keep that
need in our heart. That's our need. That's our need. All right, brethren. Brother
Greg.