All right, Psalm 37. I want to focus on one verse here. Psalm
37, verse 25. I've been young and now am old. Yet have I not seen the righteous
forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Tuesday night in Danville,
I preached from verses 32 and 33. And I commented on several
verses in this psalm, but I didn't refer to verse 25. And this verse has been on my
heart since then, and I want to try to bring a message from
it tonight. I pray the Lord to give you I
pray you'll listen to the messages at Danville, and felt like the
Lord blessed the services. There were quite a few visitors
there, and Tuesday night, Brother John Reeves was there from California,
and Brother Todd, Brother Angus came down. And there were quite
a few visitors Tuesday night, and I felt like both services
were just special. They seemed like the Lord really
met with us and blessed us, and I pray you'll listen to those
messages. David was used by the Spirit of God to write this psalm
when he was old. He said, I've been young and
now I'm old. And we do well to take heed to God's older saints
because God has taught them the truth of the gospel by experience. David had learned the truth of
this psalm and the truth of this verse by much painful trial and
experience. God had taught him these things.
He said, I've been young and now I'm old. Yet have I not seen
the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. This verse speaks of far more
than physical bread. This verse is speaking of the
true bread, the hidden manna, our Lord Jesus Christ. There
have been times, and we find it in the scriptures, where there
are times when the Lord's saints have been in dire straits concerning
physical bread. Now, the Lord will provide our
physical bread. But more needful than that, man
doesn't live by bread alone. We live by every word that proceeds
out of the mouth of our God. And more than anything else,
we need the living bread. We need Christ the bread. And
that's what God promises. We will never, never be without
Christ the bread. Never be without Christ the bread.
That's more needful for our souls than physical bread is for our
physical body. Now, turn with me over to John
6, 32. Our Lord Jesus plainly declared,
He is the bread. He is the bread. He said in John
6, in verse 32, Jesus said to them, verily, verily,
I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but
my father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread
of God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life into
the world. He said there in verse 35, I'm
the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall never
hunger. He that believeth on me shall
never thirst. That's what our text is declaring. will never be found begging or
wanting for Christ the bread. He will meet our hunger and our
thirst. He's the bread. The true bread
is Christ the Lord, the Son of God. He came down from heaven
to give life to all his elect scattered throughout all the
world. In Adam, we sin and we're born dead in sins. Sin equals
death. When sin entered, death entered.
Righteousness is life. Where there is no sin, where
there's righteousness, there is life. And the Lord Jesus Christ
is that righteousness. He is that life within every
believer. That's what it is for him to
be the bread. He's the life because he's the righteousness of his
people. Paul said in Romans 8, if Christ
be in you, the body is dead because of sin. Our body, our sin nature,
is dead because of sin, and it's dying because of sin, and will
one day go back to the dust because of sin. But if Christ be in you,
the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Then that righteousness
is Christ. He's the bread of life. God declares
in the law. He declares that it must be perfect
to be accepted of God. God requires absolute perfect
righteousness from a perfectly holy heart. And no sinner, not
me, not you, not any sinner born of Adam, can give to God that
perfect righteousness that God requires. We can't give ourselves
life. There's just no possibility we
can, because we're sinners. We come into this world dead.
But in perfect obedience, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of
God, came down and took flesh. And in perfect obedience, He
submitted to the Father, who made Him sin for us, who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
For particular sinners, for chosen sinners, God took all our sin
and laid it on Christ. And Christ Jesus bore the curse,
the wrath, the justice of God in the place of those chosen
sinners. And the Lord Jesus Christ perfected
those chosen sinners. He put away the sin of those
chosen sinners, and He redeemed those chosen sinners, and He
made those chosen sinners the righteousness of God in Him.
And so each one that he's done this for shall be given life. They asked the Lord there in
John 6. They said, what shall we do that we might work the
works of God? That's what every man is trying
to do. Every sinner born in sin is trying
to work the works of God to give ourselves life, to make ourselves
righteous, to try to come to God with something we've done.
And the Lord Jesus said, this is the work of God. that you
believe on Him whom He has sent. That's the work of God. But the
problem is we're so dead in sin, we can't even believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ. We can't even submit to Him and
trust Him to do the saving. That's how dead and ruined we
are in our sins. He said there in John 6, 41,
the Jews then murmured at Him because He said, I'm the bread
which came down from heaven. That's our response. They murmured.
Verse 43, Jesus therefore answered, said to them, murmur not among
yourselves. No man can come to me except
the Father which has sent me. Draw him and I'll raise him up
at the last day. Verse 51, he said, I'm the living
bread which came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread,
he shall live forever. And the bread that I will give
is my flesh. In verse 52, the Jews therefore
strove among themselves saying, how can this man give us his
flesh to eat? Then Jesus said to them, Verily,
verily, I say unto you, except you eat the flesh of the Son
of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Verse 56,
He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelleth in me and I
in him. That's how you're given life,
to believe him, to eat his flesh and drink his blood. He dwells
in you and makes you dwell in him. As the Living Father has
sent me, and I live by the Father, so he that eateth me, even he
shall live by me. In verse 60 they said, this is
a hard saying, who can hear it? Verse 61, the Lord knew they
murmured. And he said, did this offend
you? Verse 63, it's the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth
nothing. The words that I speak unto you,
they are spirit and they are life. But there's some of you
that believe not. Verse 65, therefore said I unto
you that no man can come to me except he were given unto him
of my father. And from that time, many of those
that had followed him, they went back and they walked no more
with him. Can you leave him? Can you leave the bread of life? Can you do without his gospel?
Can you do without these words of eternal life? He makes his
people to be like Peter and the other apostles. He makes us to
know He has the words of eternal life. We must hear Christ speak. We must have the bread of life.
We need Christ the bread more than we need our ordinary everyday
physical bread. Christ is the bread that David's
speaking of. Those that are given life by
Christ, they'll never be forsaken by God, and they will never be
found begging for Christ the bread. He will feed you the bread. That's his promise. That's the
promise of God. And so back in our text now,
Psalm 37, The reason we'll never be forsaken
is because Christ has made us to be the righteous. If you've
been born of Him and you've been given faith to trust Christ and
rest in Christ, bless God because He has made you to be the righteous. I've been young and now old,
yet I've not seen the righteous forsaken. nor his seed begging
bread. The righteous, you see there,
I've not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread. The righteous are those Christ
has made righteous. They are God's elect. They're
his seed, his children. and He'll never forsake us because
He made us the righteousness of God in Christ. When there
was nothing but God in eternity, God blessed His people with all
spiritual blessings according as He chose us in Christ. And
by choosing us in Christ, Christ has been the surety of His people
from before time. And so whenever we sinned in
Adam, God didn't forsake us. He didn't forsake us then. because
Christ was our righteousness. God has only ever looked to the
Lord Jesus Christ to be the righteousness He demands and the righteousness
He requires. And so He didn't forsake us when
we sinned in Adam. God in Christ settled judgment
for His people on the cross. He put away our sin and He brought
in everlasting righteousness, making His people the righteousness
of God. He settled judgment for us at
Calvary. and therefore God will not forsake
those Christ has made righteous in him. The seed of the wicked,
he said there, the Lord, in verse 28, the Lord loveth judgment
and forsaketh not his saints. They're preserved forever, but
the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. The seed of the wicked
are the children of the devil. They're the children of the wicked
one, the seed of the wicked one. That's the devil and his seed. Notice what the wicked do. In
verse 12, the wicked plotteth against the just and gnasheth
upon him with his teeth. That's what the wicked did to
our Lord Jesus when he walked this earth. He's the just. They
plotted against him. They gnashed upon him with their
teeth, and they do the same to his people. Verse 32, the wicked
watcheth the righteous and seeks to slay him. The Lord will not
leave him in his hand nor condemn him when he's judged. Now brethren,
this is the psalm from which the Lord gave that third beatitude. Brother Adam, he just read the
beatitude. This is the psalm from which
he gave the third beatitude. It's the psalm from which he
gave the beatitude where he said he'll never leave us nor forsake
us. Look there at verse 9. He said,
the third beatitude is, blessed are the meek, for they shall
inherit the earth. Now look at verse 9, evildoers
shall be cut off, but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall
inherit the earth. That's what it is to be meek,
is to wait on the Lord. forget a little while, and the
wicked shall not be. Yea, thou shalt diligently consider
his place, and it shall not be. But the meek shall inherit the
earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. Look
at verse 18. The Lord knoweth the days of
the upright. That's what he's made you and
me who've been born of him, he's made you the upright in that
new man where Christ abides. And He knows our days. And it
says, and their inheritance shall be forever. They shall not be
ashamed in the evil time, and in the days of famine they shall
be satisfied. They won't go hungry in the days
of famine. They'll be satisfied. When the
Spirit makes you to know. What's meekness? What really
is meekness? Moses was called the meekest
man in the earth. Why? What is meekness? If you
read this psalm and you hear what the Lord says to you and
me to do, you'll see what meekness is. When he's made you to know
that Christ Jesus is your righteousness, So God will not condemn you.
He will save you. He will not forsake you. When
He makes you to know you've been made a joint heir with Christ,
and everything that God's given to His Son, He's given to you.
When He makes you to know all things are yours, that everything
God's working in providence is for you, and that everything
He's doing is to teach you Christ is your salvation, and He will
keep you and save you. When He's made you to know that
He'll never leave you, He'll never forsake you, but you'll
have Christ the bread, you'll have the life, and it's sure,
and it's certain, and He's made this promise to you, and you
know this, then you can trust Him. You can wait on Him. And you know he's working. He's
working in your heart. He's working in the hearts of
your brethren. He's working in the midst of his church, both
the will and the do of his good pleasure. And you know you don't
have to turn to the works of your hand. You don't have to
take matters into your own hand. You don't have to fret yourself
to work evil by looking to yourself and trying to make things happen.
You can trust the Lord Jesus. He's bringing it to pass. And
so in the days of famine and in the evil day, you'll never
hunger, you'll never thirst. Christ will be your bread. He
will be the one who feeds you so that you never hunger and
you never thirst. You'll have Christ the bread.
That creates meekness in us. When you know that, it makes
you have meekness. Whenever Moses was opposed, You
think of the millions of people Moses is leading through the
wilderness. And when he was opposed, where did you find Moses? You
find him on his face, praying to God, casting all his care
into the hand of the Lord, casting all the care of his brethren
into the Lord's hand, and trusting the Lord to save him and to save
all his people. That's what meekness is. It's
trusting the Lord, waiting on the Lord. rather than fearing
man and trying to save ourselves. This is what Hebrews 13 5 says,
let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with
such things as you have. For he has said I will never
leave thee nor forsake thee. That's what David said, I've
been young and now I'm old. I've never seen the righteous
forsaken. The Lord said, I'll never leave
thee nor forsake thee so that we may boldly say, the Lord is
my helper. I will not fear what man shall
do to me. That's meekness, brethren. That's meekness. It doesn't come
across as meekness to the wicked, but that's meekness in his child.
To be able to boldly say, I will not fear what man shall do to
me. I know the Lord has promised me that he'll never leave me,
he'll never forsake me. Whatever I have, He's given me.
Every blessing I have, everything spiritual, everything temporal,
it's of the Lord's hand. He's given it to me. If I needed
more right now, He'd give me more right now. But I don't need
it, so He hasn't given it. And you can have contentment.
Paul said, I've learned in whatsoever state I am, I'm in therewith
to be content. He wrote that from prison. And
he said, I've learned how to abound and I've learned how to
be abased. And he said, and I can do all
things through Christ who strengthens me. That's the emphasis, Christ
who strengthens me. By Christ being the righteousness
of his seed, this is the Lord's covenant promise to us, brethren.
This is his word to us. It's the same as it was to Joshua. He said in Joshua 1 5, there
shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days
of thy life. As I was with Moses, so I will
be with thee. I will not fail thee nor forsake
thee. That's what gave Moses a meekness
to trust the Lord. He had that promise from the
Lord. That's what made Joshua be able to lead the brethren
into the land of promise. Because he had that promise.
And that's what's going to keep you and me meek, trusting the
Lord. Because you know he's promised,
I will be with thee. I will not fail thee, nor forsake
thee. Now, being righteous in Christ,
that does not mean You know this, I know this, and everybody who
God's made honest will confess this. It does not mean that we
are without sin. It does not mean that we do not
fall. We shall fall. We do sin and
we shall fall. But believing these sure promises
of our Lord Jesus, brethren, trusting Christ, we have God's
promise that we are more than conquerors through Christ that
loved us. Look there in verse 23. I said
this in the message Tuesday. I've never seen this before.
In verse 23, it says, 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. That word good is in italics. It was not in the text, and it's
put there by the translators. But when you read this word,
the steps of a man, The word from which that's translated
is the steps of a conqueror. The steps of a conqueror. It's
not that we're conquerors in ourselves. It's not that we're
strong. We're more than conquerors through
Christ that loved us. And so that's what Romans 8 says. So when you read this, read it
this way. The steps of the believer, the
steps of the man that's been made to be more than a conqueror
through Christ that loved us, his steps are ordered by the
Lord, and he delighteth in his way. And though he fall, he shall
not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his
hand. That's how he's a conqueror.
Due to our sin nature, we fall. We sin. We say things and do
things that we shouldn't. We don't want to. We strive against
sin. But though we fall, we shall
not fall away. The paradox here is the Lord
says there, though we fall, he shall not be utterly cast down.
He says in another verse there, his steps shall not slide. Yes, you'll fall. The righteous
man falls seven times in a day, but the Lord upholds him. And
the Lord's going to keep upholding his people so that though we
fall, we won't be utterly cast down. We will not fall away.
The Lord won't forsake his child. He won't leave his child in the
hand of the devil. He won't leave us in the hand
of the devil's seed who condemn us, and God won't condemn us.
He's already condemned his son in a room instead of his people.
That's why he won't. You've given faith in our Redeemer,
and you're the righteous by the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh
but after the spirit. Now, we see this illustrated.
I want you to go to 1 Samuel chapter 12. We see this illustrated
when the children of Israel sinned so greatly against the Lord by
rejecting Samuel and asking for a king. They sinned greatly against
the Lord. God chastened His elect among
them, and brought them to Samuel, and asked Samuel to intercede
with God for them. And that's what the Lord will
do for you. He will chasten you, make you see our sin, and He'll
bring you to Christ, and beg of Christ to intercede on our
behalf. Now listen to what they said,
and listen to what Samuel said to them. First Samuel 12, 19. And all the people said to Samuel,
1 Samuel 12 verse 19. And all the people said to Samuel,
pray for thy servants unto the Lord thy God that we die not. For we have added unto all our
sins this evil to ask us a king. And Samuel said unto the people,
fear not. You have done all this wickedness,
yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord
with all your heart. And turn ye not aside, for then
should ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver
for their vain. For the Lord will not forsake
his people for his great name's sake, because it hath pleased
the Lord to make you his people. This is why that even though
God's saints fall, this is why we won't fall away. It's not
anything in us. It's not due to any strength
in us. God will not condemn us and God won't leave us to be
condemned because He's upholding us with the right hand of His
righteousness, the one who is our righteousness. The one who's
made us the righteous is upholding us with the right hand of his
righteousness. And so what he will do is he will chasten us. What he will do is he'll turn
us again to Christ to intercede for us. He'll bring you to Christ. This is always the purpose in
God's chastening is to turn us from vain things the vain things
being our own selves and our own will and our own works and
our own way to turn us to Christ the way and bring us to Him. And He makes you know, He renews
you in your heart to know that He has promised that He'll never
leave us nor forsake us. He renews you inwardly to know
it's not anything due to you, it's due to God's good pleasure. It pleased God to make you His
people. He makes you know this promise
is sure for God's great namesake. He's attached His name to the
salvation of His people. He's going to save us because
His holy name is attached to our salvation. He's doing it
for His great namesake. His promise is sure because it's
by God's free and sovereign electing grace that He made us His people.
It wasn't anything in us. And the promise is sure because
our righteousness is the Lord Jesus. That's what makes the
promise sure. That's what Samuel told them.
So thirdly now, go back to our text. This is why David declares
that not only had he never seen the righteous forsaken, he'd
never seen his seed begging bread. When we sin and the wicked condemn
us, it's the evil time. It's the days of famine, like
the Lord said here in this psalm. That's the evil time. That's
the days of famine. But he said there, this is God's
promise. He said, verse 18, the Lord knoweth
the days of the upright, and their inheritance shall be forever.
They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, and in the days
of famine, they shall be satisfied. God's going to feed us with Christ
the living bread. He's going to feed us. He's going
to give us rest in Christ, our righteousness, and our life.
That's what He promises. So, in all our trouble, in all
our distress, go over to 2 Corinthians 4. 2 Corinthians 4. Christ is
the bread. He's the life within His people.
And so, in all our distress, in all our trouble, in all our
persecution, we have God's yet not and His but nots. in His
Word. Look here at 2 Corinthians 4.
Look at verse 8. Paul said, this is right after
he said, we have this treasure in earth and vessels that the
excellency of the power may be of God, not of us. So he said
this in verse 8, we're troubled on every side, yet not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in
despair. Persecuted, but not forsaken. Cast down, but not destroyed. Why? It's all due to the bread
of life. It's due to Christ being the
life within us and being our life at God's right hand. Look,
we're always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord
Jesus that the life also of Jesus might be manifest in our body. That's the bread, the life of
Christ Jesus, the bread. It's manifest. He's the one who
sustains you. He's the one who keeps you trusting
the Lord. He's the one who keeps you walking
by faith. He's the one who keeps you turned from the vanity of
our flesh and looking to Him. The life of Christ manifests
in our flesh. The bread that fills us, brethren,
and sustains us and comforts us is the bread of the gospel,
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. That's our comfort. Look
at Psalm 94 and verse 12. Psalm 94 and verse 12. This is the bread. This is the
comfort in our soul that sustains us, the life within us. Psalm
94 verse 12. He said, Blessed is the man whom
thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law,
out of your word. That's the bread, the word of
the Lord. My soul had almost dwelt in silence. When I said, My foot slippeth,
thy mercy, O Lord, held me up. He's the bread. He's that hidden
manna that ceases not to be given to his saints. And look at verse
19. In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight
my soul. Thy comforts are or working in
my soul, to comfort my soul. The wicked gather themselves
together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the
innocent blood. But the Lord is my defense, and
my God is the rock of my refuge. Now look at that word there in
verse 19. In the multitude of my thoughts
within me, thy comforts delight my soul. I'm trying to show you
here that Christ is the bread, and it's the word of the gospel
of Christ and his finished redemption that he's accomplished, the word
that declares that he's sustaining us and keeping us. This is what
comforts our soul. This is what feeds our soul and
strengthens us in the midst of all adversity. The Lord comforts
us. He told his preacher in Isaiah
40, comfort ye, comfort ye my people. What comforts you? What
is the message that feeds your soul that comforts you? He said,
the warfare is accomplished. That's the comfort of our soul.
Hearing again and again how Christ has accomplished our warfare.
The food, the bread, the life that sustains us in the inner
man is hearing that the Lord has rewarded us double for all
our sin. Christ Jesus has put all our
sin away, and he's made us everlastingly righteous, and he promises, I'll
never leave you nor forsake you. I will constantly give you the
bread, and that's the bread of the gospel that's constantly
feeding our soul. That's what we have to have.
That's the message that comforts our soul. Christ said, I have
meat to eat that you know not of. Remember that when he said
that? They brought him food and they said, you need to eat. He
said, I have meat to eat you know not of. Well, child of God,
that's so of me and you. You know, a true fast is when
the Lord has so afflicted you that you just can't eat physical
bread. It's not this thing of putting
on a show that, oh, I'm fasting or whatever. It's when the Lord
has so worked in your heart, you just can't eat physical bread. And you gotta have Christ. You're
hungering and you're thirsting for Christ. And in the midst
of that, he feeds you. And you have meat to eat that
this world does not know about. You have Christ to bread. He's
given his saints a hunger and a thirst for Christ. What did
he say in the Beatitude? They shall be filled. they shall
be filled. We don't have a righteousness.
We can't produce a righteousness. When He says we hunger and thirst
after righteousness, we'd like to be righteous in all we do.
And for the most part, God's people are righteous in their
dealings with men. But that's not our righteousness.
That's not the righteousness we're hunger and thirsting for.
The righteousness we hunger and thirst for is the Lord our righteousness,
Christ Jesus. And He's the one that fills us,
and it's Him that He fills us with. Blessed are they which
do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled. This
is what he said in Luke 1.53. Mary declared this. He hath filled
the hungry with good things. He's filled the hungry with good
things. And the rich he sent empty away. The rich are those that they
don't need Christ to be all their righteousness. They don't need
Christ to be their holiness. They don't need Him to be their
wisdom and their redemption. And He sent them away empty.
But those that are hungering, that need Christ to be your all
and all your acceptance with God, He fills you with all these
good things. He's helped his servant Israel
in remembrance of his mercy. He spake to our fathers, to Abraham,
and to his seed forever, and that's what he promised to do.
I'll feed you with food convenient for you. I'll feed you with Christ
the bread. Look there in Psalm 37, verse
26. After David says this, it's God
he's talking about right here. God is ever merciful and lendeth,
and his seed is blessed. It's because God's merciful.
Lamentations 3.22 says, it's of the Lord's mercies that we're
not concerned, because his compassions fail not. They are new every
morning. Great is thy faithfulness. The
Lord's my portion, saith my soul, therefore will I hope in him.
The Lord's good to them that wait for Him, to the soul that
seeketh Him. It's a good that a man should
both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Whatever we encounter in this
life, brethren, we get so cumbered about with this world and the
cares of this life, and we get focused on all these things that
we think are so very important that we have to have and we have
to do. And if we don't work this out,
everything's just going to fall to pieces. And when the Lord
chastens and turns and turns you back to Christ. It is so
that He makes you to hunger and to thirst for Christ because
He's showing us over and over and over, Christ is the one thing
needful. He's life. He's life. He's righteousness. He's life
to his people. We have to have Christ. I don't care what you do in this
world. I don't care what you do in the
church and whatever you might accomplish and great things you
might accomplish. If you do not have Christ the
life, if you do not have Christ your righteousness, you don't
have salvation. He is all. So here's the Lord's
word to us. This is His promise. Now look
here in Psalm 37, 27. Here's what He's teaching us
constantly all the time. Depart from evil and do good. Depart from evil. Don't look
to yourself. Don't look to the work of your
hands. Don't go after vain things. Depart from evil and do good. Do good, look to Christ, call
on Christ, trust Christ, speak to one another of Christ. Give
him the glory and the honor and the praise, and wait on him. Depart from evil and do good,
and dwell forevermore. For the Lord loveth judgment,
and forsaketh not his sayings. He's satisfied judgment for us,
that's why he won't forsake us. They are preserved forever, but
the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. The righteous shall
inherit the land and dwell therein forever. The mouth of the righteous
speaketh wisdom and his tongue talks of judgment. That's what
I've been talking to you about since I opened my mouth tonight.
I've been talking to you about Christ who is our wisdom. I've
been talking to you about Christ who settled judgment for us and
who is our life, our righteousness. That's what God's saints talk
about. When he said up there that the wicked borroweth and
he returns not again, he doesn't pay again, The wicked are takers,
brethren. They take what God's given in
natural things and never return praise and glory to God to whom
it's due. If they come in and hear the
gospel preached, maybe they take some consolation from the messages
preached just naturally speaking. But when a child of God falls,
they don't return the mercy they've received and speak of Christ
and what he's accomplished and comfort your soul with the good
news of the gospel. They're takers, they're not givers.
But the Lord's people, he makes his people speak wisdom and talk
of judgment. Why? Because he's put the law
of God in your heart. He's put the good news of this
gospel in your heart and he's made you know none of your step
shall slide. Isn't that a paradox? You fall. David said, my steps were well
now slipped. But God says, none of your steps
will slide. That's in our flesh, we fall. But in the new man, by Christ
being your bread and your righteousness and upholding you, none of your
steps will slide. That's the promise of our God.
That's the good news that comforts and feeds us and sustains us
all our days. I pray God will bless that to
you, brethren. Brother Greg.