Rather before we get started.
I forgot to put in the bulletin the Whoever it is scheduled to
do the grass this week, but so just look at the schedule. I
mailed out but I If the cans are full with new gas and everything's
running well, you may have a little bit of problem with the gas line
on the weed or it slipped off at one point and I had to put
it back on, so kind of watch that. But everything else is
good, so just want you to know that. Psalm 119, Psalm 119. Verse 97, oh how love I thy law. It is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments
has made me wiser than mine enemies. For they are ever with me. I
have more understanding than all my teachers. For thy testimonies
are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients
because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from
every evil way that I might keep thy word. I have not departed
from thy judgments, for thou has taught me. Oh, how sweet
are thy words unto my taste, a sweeter than honey to my mouth.
Through thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false
way. This psalm begins, O how love
I thy law. It is my meditation all the day. It's speaking of all of scripture,
as it's used often in this psalm, doctrine, precepts, promises,
all of the word of God, the whole word of God. exclaims here his love for God's
Word. Oh, how love I thy law. Strong affection and admiration
for God's law. It's my meditation all the day.
He thought on God's Word often throughout the day. He was in
it, reading it, thought on it, meditate on it, was serious and
prayerful about the things he read and heard. The Spirit of
God gives His saints spiritual understanding and a true love
for the Word of God. He gives you a love for the Word
of God. This is the Word of our Heavenly Father. This is the
Word of our Heavenly Father. This is the Word of our Great
Redeemer. This book tells us of the greatness of His person,
just how holy He is and unlike There's none to compare to Him.
He declares the redemption accomplished by our Redeemer and how He came
and saved His people from our sin. This word is the word of
truth, the gospel of your salvation. It's profitable for doctrine.
It's profitable for reproof, for correction, for instruction
in righteousness. It throughly furnishes us unto
all good works. So read it daily and it's not
the amount you read. Read if it's just a small portion. Read it and really think on what
you read and ask God for understanding and go with it throughout the
day. But read it looking for the Lord
Jesus Christ because He's everything in salvation. Read it looking
for Him. He is the light. of this Word. If we're going to have understanding,
it's going to be from Him, it's going to be beholding Him, and
it's going to be Him giving you that light. So read it looking
for Christ. I want to do that now. You remember
when Peter preached on the day of Pentecost, he said David was
a prophet, and he said his words were Christ's words, and he quoted
some of David's writings from the Psalms and said, but that
was the word of Christ. So hear our Lord Jesus speak
here. When our Lord said this, it's not hyperbole. When David
said it, a little bit exaggerated, but not with our Lord. He loved
the word of God in perfection. It was his meditation all the
day in perfection and all the night too. Back up there in verse
62, at midnight I will rise to give thanks unto thee because
of thy righteous judgment. We're often interrupted by our
jobs and busy schedules and things we're doing and you'd be doing
those things and you couldn't very well say you're meditating
on the word of the Lord all the day long. Our Lord Jesus, when
he was working as a young person in Joseph's carpenter shop, he
was able to meditate on God's Word all day. He's perfect in
his meditation of the Word and his love of the Word. We find him in the mount praying
all night to the Father. If we study the Word of God,
and learn from the Word of God and meditate in it. Go to Christ
just like He went to the Father. Go to the Lord Jesus Christ and
ask for spiritual understanding just like He depended on the
Father for spiritual understanding. We learn everything from Christ.
We learn everything looking to Christ and how He did everything.
We learn He's our salvation and how He accomplished everything
for His people perfectly. and we're taught by Him. So look
for Christ and ask Christ for the wisdom and the understanding.
The Lord Jesus is wisdom. He is wisdom. Hear Him right
here in verse 98. Thou through thy commandments
has made me wiser than mine enemies for they are ever with me. As
our Lord walked this earth as a servant of God the Father representing
us, his people, he submitted to God to be taught by the Father.
Now, his enemies were ever with him. His enemies were all about
him, always trying to entrap him, accuse him, reproach him,
scorn him. But his Father's commandments
were ever with him. Hear Christ speak in this psalm,
look at verse 23. Princes also did sit and speak
against me, but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes. The
proud have had me greatly in derision, yet I have not declined
from thy law, from thy word. Verse 61, the bands of the wicked
have robbed me, but I've not forgotten thy law. Verse 69,
the proud have forged a lie against me, but I'll keep thy precepts
with my whole heart. Their hearts fat as grease, but
I will delight not long. The Lord Jesus is wisdom. He
is the wisdom of God. He's the wisdom for his people.
If you face enemies and enemies pursue you, child of God, go
to the Lord Jesus Christ. Go to his word and ask him to
help you and ask him to instruct you Go to Him. He will instruct you in His Word.
He'll instruct you to love your enemies. He'll instruct you to
bless them that curse you, to do good to them that hate you,
to pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you. And
He'll delight your heart in Him as He gives you grace to do so. Our Savior is the Word. He is
the Word. He gave David these words. And when he walked this earth,
the word that the teachers taught from the scriptures, the word
the scribes were inscribing from the scriptures, that's his word.
He gave it. He gave it. And he submitted
to the Father to be taught and obviously using teachers. He
would go to the synagogue and in the temple, but he had more
understanding than vain false teachers and of the true teachers,
even of the ancient. He's the Ancient of Days. It
all originated with him. Look here at verse 99. I have
more understanding than all my teachers for thy testimonies
are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients
because I keep thy precepts. When he was 12 years old, Joseph
and Mary had, you know, been up to the temple and they were
going home and they went three days before they realized he
wasn't with them. Did you imagine going three days
and then realizing, I don't have my child with me? They went three
days and realized they didn't have him with them. And they
went back, and it says, Luke 2, 46 says, it came to pass that
after three days, they found him in the temple, sitting in
the midst of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them
questions. He's 12 years old. And all that
heard him were astonished at his understanding and his answers. You can picture him, can't you
picture him trying to preach from the Old Testament and not
seeing the shadow, not seeing the type, and just getting some
historical lesson out of it or whatever, and there he sits,
who is the express image of everything he's teaching. The Lord Jesus is the wisdom
of God. It's the spirit of our Lord that gives us the mind,
the spiritual discernment, and the understanding that makes
us wise unto salvation. He comes to us and he answers
the question in our hearts, the age-old question. How can a man
be justified with God? How can he be clean as born of
a woman? How can God satisfy his justice,
manifest his righteousness, honor and establish his law upon guilty
sinners like all his people are, and yet be merciful to them and
save us from our sin? Justifies. How can he do both? How can a spiritually dead sinner
How can he that's clean, that's born of a woman, how can a spiritually
corrupt sinner be clean before the all-knowing God? How can he be reconciled to God,
brought into communion with God, have fellowship with God in spirit?
How can this be? How can this happen? Peter said,
being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by
the Word of God. O how I love thy law, by the
word of God which liveth and abideth forever. For all flesh
is grass, and the glory of man is as the flower of grass. The
grass withereth, the flower falleth away, but the word of the Lord
endureth forever. And this is the word by which
the gospel is preached to you. We're born of the word, the living
word. So it lives and abides forever. He lives and abides forever.
So those born of him are going to live and abide forever. Uncorruptible. He gave us the revelation of
His Son. He revealed Christ in our hearts. He commanded us to live, and
to repent, and to believe on Him. And with that command you
lived, and you repented, and you believed on Him. And He keeps
quickening you with the same word, giving you the same command,
and He keeps making you leave all false refuges and believe
on His Son. That's how He made you clean without using this dirty, unclean
thing we are. Paul said, the law of the spirit
of life in Christ Jesus. Oh, how I love that law. The
gospel of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free
from the law of sin and death that condemn me. For what the
law could not do, and that he was weak through the flesh, God
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin condemned
sin in the flesh. He condemned what was condemning
us. that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in
us who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. Christ
Jesus fulfilled all righteousness for his people and when he creates
you new and he makes you believe him, it's his righteousness that
justifies you from all your sin. This is the good news. This is
what brings you to cry and say, oh, how I love thy law. It makes
you want to, I want to hear it. I want to meditate it. And I
want to hear more of this one who's done this for me. Christ
has made us wiser. You sitting here right now that
he saved, he made you wiser than every enemy you have. He's made
you wiser than all the teachers and philosophers and ancients
of this world in every religion and all the books. Made you wiser. I'm talking about he'll take
a man who never formally educated, who's poor, unknown, and by revealing
Christ our wisdom and these unsearchable riches of Christ, he makes him
wiser than all the wisest men that ever lived on this earth.
wise unto salvation, because Christ is his wisdom. Timothy,
Paul told Timothy, the Holy Scriptures are able to make thee wise unto
salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. Go over to
1 Corinthians 2, talking about wisdom. We have a lot of books
and a lot of things we look into, but I tell you what, this book
right here holds all the wisdom. This book holds all the wisdom. And what we're preaching and
the world thinks is foolishness, this is the wisdom of God. Listen
to 1 Corinthians 2 and verse 6. We speak wisdom among them that
are perfect, among them that have been given understanding,
yet not the wisdom of God, not the wisdom of this world, I'm
sorry, nor the princes of this world that come to nothing, but
we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery. Even the hidden wisdom
which God ordained before the world unto our glory, which none
of the princes of this world knew, for had they known, they
would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But, watch this
word now, as it's written, I hath not seen nor ear heard, neither
have entered into the heart of man the things which God hath
prepared for them that love him, those he brings to love him.
It hadn't entered into our mind and entered into the ear, anything. But it doesn't end there. Look
at what it says next. But God hath revealed them unto
us by his Spirit. He's shown these things to you.
For the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things
of a man, save the spirit of a man which is in him? Even so,
the things of God knows no man but the Spirit of God. And now
we've received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit
which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God. He's revealed the mystery to
you. He's given you the key of knowledge.
He's given you the key to this book, and that's Christ. He's made you see. It's all about
Him. It's all about God's salvation
in Christ and what He's done for His people. And these are
the things we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches. God's preacher is not going to
preach like the world preaches. He's not preaching the same message
and he's not preaching it the same way. Here's what we're doing.
We're preaching which the Holy Ghost teaches, the wisdom He
teaches. Comparing spiritual things with spiritual. We started
in Psalm 119, now we're over here in 1 Corinthians 2. We're
looking at these things in the Word of God. The natural man
won't receive the things of the Spirit. For their foolishness
neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
But he that's spiritual, you that are born of him, you discern
all things. Yet you're not discerned of any
man. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct
him? But we have the mind of Christ. He's given you the mind
of Christ. He made Christ's wisdom to you.
Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by what? The Word of God. This
is why we love the Word of God. He's brought you to know Christ
in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. That's
what's made you wise. We have the mind of Christ. His
commandments are ever with us. He said, when the spirit of truth
come, he will guide you into all truth. He will take the things
of mine and he'll speak them to you. He'll bring them to your
remembrance. He can keep doing that for you. In every trial,
we've got God's testimony. We hear his word concerning his
son, and he tells you not only what to do in the trial, he tells
you what to hope for. He tells you, Christ said, be
wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Trust him. He's going to bring a good end
out of whatever he's working in the midst of his people. So
we look to Christ. We ask Christ to help us as he
commanded us to. We depend upon his strength as
he commanded us. We pray for one another as he
commanded, we go in the way that he instructs us as he commanded
us, and we wait on the Lord to work as he commanded us. This
is what makes you wise. You have Christ for your wisdom.
You are looking to him and know he is able and he will, as he's
promised, work good for his people. Now, as the Father taught our
Savior, As he trusted the Father and the Father taught him, the
Lord's going to teach us. He's going to teach his people.
Look at verse 101. I have refrained my feet from
every evil way that I might keep thy word. I have not departed
from thy judgments, for thou hast taught me. Our Lord Jesus
refrained his feet from every evil way. Absolutely. He refrained
his feet from every evil way all the time in perfection and
in perfect righteousness. He kept God's Word perfectly. That's why He is our righteousness
and He is our holiness in whose blood and through whose blood
we've been born again and justified and made holy and righteous and
accepted of God. Because He did this in perfection. But look how the Lord taught
David. Because he was David's surety, He taught David. And
God our father and his son will teach each one of his redeemed
and he will continue to teach you. This was David's way in
the main. I mean, as far as a child of
God is concerned, this was his usual course and it is ours too.
But only our righteous redeemer did this in perfection. Only
the righteous redeemer could say, I have refrained my feet
from every evil way that I might keep thy word. I have not departed
from thy judgments, not in any variableness, neither shadow
of turning. That's what we have to have.
That's who Christ is. That's why we have to come through
faith in him. Now, David, nor us, can say that
absolutely every moment of our life. We can't say, I have refrained
my feet from every evil. We'd be lying. We've heard David
confess to God in this psalm. In verse 25, he said, my soul
cleaveth unto the dust, quicken thou me according to thy word.
He said, I've declared my ways and thou heard me teach me thy
statute. He said in verse 36, incline
my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness. Turn
away mine eyes from beholding vanity and quicken thou me in
the way. But now, as a loving father,
because David was his child, the Lord chastened David. He
chastened David, he quickened him, he corrected him, he answered
that petition that David asked for. And he turned David and
he brought David to Christ and he brought David to give all
the praise for this. to the Lord. That's what David's
doing. He's not praising himself. He's praising the Lord for what
the Lord's done for him. In verse 67, he said, Before
I was afflicted, I went astray, but now I've kept thy word. And
that's what he's saying right here in verse 101. This is the
peaceable fruit God worked in David after afflicting, after
chastening. I've refrained my feet from every
evil way, that I might keep your word. Though he had gone astray,
he didn't utterly fall away. The Lord kept him. I've not departed
from thy judgments. That's a great blessing that
you can stumble and fall and yet not depart from Christ and
his judgments and his gospel. Verse 58, I entreated thy favor,
your grace with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to
your word. I thought on my ways, and I turned
my feet unto thy testimonies. I made haste into late night
to keep thy commandments." And God worked repentance in him
and faith in him. That's the chastening of God.
Always prophets in this way. God made David lay aside the
sin that beset him, and he made him make straight paths for his
feet to Christ, his righteousness. And he put him back in, turned
his feet back into God's testimony, back into the way, and made him
run the race, sit before him, look into Christ Jesus, the author
and finisher of our faith. And that's what God does. And
when he's brought you through that and just worked that in
you and renewed you in it, you exclaim with all your heart,
oh, how I love your gospel. It's my meditation. It's all
I can think about because of what you've done for me, because
of what you did for me. Brethren, you know, Obey every
word of our Lord, and it's better to obey Him no matter what it
costs you, because it's costly not to obey Him. It'll cost more
for not obeying Him. But you're not going to obey
Him. You can just bank on that. You're probably not obeying Him
now. But you know He will keep you. He will bring you. to Him,
and He will bring you to ask mercy of Him and ask favor just
like David did, and He'll quicken you, and He'll turn you, and
He'll keep you. And when your brethren sin, this
is what we were looking at this morning, when your brethren sin,
flee the lust of the flesh to exalt yourself. That is a lust
of our flesh, to exalt ourselves, to murmur, to dispute, instead
of going to Christ and trusting Christ and His judgment and being
quiet and minding our own business. Flee the lust to use gospel precepts
to whip one another. This is just, this is just, I
need this, you need this, we need this. We need to be taught
this, brethren. Instead, go to Christ and ask
for mercy. Go to Christ and ask mercy for
his sake. Ask the Lord to quicken you and
teach you just like David did. Here's what we're asking him
to keep us remembering. Colossians 3.11, Christ is all
and he's in all. He's all and he's in all our
brethren. He's in our brother. He's in
our brother. He's in our sister. He's all
and in all. So put on therefore as the elect
of God, as one he's already chosen. One he's made holy, one that
he's beloved from eternity and everlastingly loved. Put on therefore
bowels of mercies. This is what David's asking for. This is what we're asking for.
rather than the lust of our flesh. Put on bowels of mercy, kindness,
humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, forbearing one
another and forgiving one another. If any man have a quarrel against
any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. I mean, we came
into the world with our hearts enmity against God, and that's
the same as murdering Him. And He forgave you. He forgave
you. Knowing what all He's forgiven
us, seeing our sin and knowing what all He's forgiven us, surely
that'll constrain us by His grace and mercy to forgive freely,
like He forgave us freely. You didn't have to come to Him
and ask Him to forgive you. He already did it for you. He
drew you to Him. He drew you to Him and gave you
faith to ask forgiveness. So you forgive as He's forgiven
you. And above all these, put on charity,
which is the bond of perfectness. And let the peace of God rule
in your hearts. to which also you are called
in one body, be ye thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell
in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one
another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with
grace in your hearts to the Lord. The best admonishment is the
gospel of God's grace. It's the goodness of God that
leads you to repentance. And whatsoever you do in word
or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks
to God and the Father by Him. That's what David's doing in
our psalm. I want you to see this. Go back there to Psalm
119. This is what he did. He gave God the Father all the
praise and all the glory in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
In verse 102, he said, I have not departed from thy judgments,
for you taught me. That's what I titled it, for
you have taught me. God has taught me. That's the
only reason he said I didn't depart. See, he's not glorying
in what he did. He's not saying, oh, I've been
mighty doing this. He's saying, Lord, you did this.
You taught me. I was cleaving to the dust. Now,
in closing, The Word of God, brethren, is food for our souls. It's food for the new man, food
for the spirit. And by God's grace, this is where
he brought David all over again in verse 103. He said, How sweet
are thy words unto my taste, yea, sweeter than honey to my
mouth. Jeremiah said, Thy words were
found, and I did eat them, and thy word was unto me the joy
and rejoicing of my heart. Peter said, as newborn babes
desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby.
If so be you've tasted the Lord's gracious, to whom coming? Come to him. As to a living stone,
disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God and precious. Job
said, I have esteemed thy words, the words of your mouth, more
than my necessary food. I esteem the words of your mouth
more than the food on my dinner table. It is more necessary for
our souls than the food on our dinner table. Christ nourishes
our souls. Why would we go anywhere else?
Listen, Colossians 2.19 says, Christ is the head from which
all the body, that's me and you, by joints and bands, having nourishment
ministered and knit together, increaseth with the increase
of God. And the nourishment Christ is
ministering to us is the gospel. The gospel of his person and
his work and his ongoing continued salvation that he's accomplishing.
That's how he establishes our heart and holiness. He's increasing
his love in our hearts. He's establishing us in faith
in Christ. He's growing us in his grace
and his knowledge making us know how he's gracious and how he
and his perfect knowledge is saving us the whole way. And
so, as Isaiah 26.8 said, he makes him to be the desire of our soul. He said, the desire of our souls
to thy name, Lord, and to the remembrance of thee. That's what
David said in verse 27. Make me to understand the way
of thy precepts, so shall I talk of thy wondrous works. That's
what David's doing through this whole psalm. He's talking about
what the Lord did for him. See, the word, this word right
here, holds the cure for every sickness we have. It doesn't
matter what it is. And it's Christ, the balm of
Gilead, who is applied to us by Christ, the great physician.
That's the cure for every problem. That's why his chief command,
and it's the command that's in every other command in this book,
is come unto me. Come unto me. I'll give you rest. I'll save you. I'll save you.
That's the command. And that's every single time
we just get it all complicated, what we're going to do, how we're
going to fix it. You're not. I'm not. But what
Christ will tell you personally and command you personally has
come to Him. That's who's the head. That's who's going to nourish
to you and minister to you and feed you. And that's who's going
to do it in each of his saints. And he's the only one that's
going to work it. We love the word because when
he makes the commandment come, when he speaks and corrects and
chastens, sin revives. We see our sin. And it kills
our flesh. We die. Our goodness dies. We
see the end of all perfection in us and men. We die. We die. but he's renewing
our inward man to see to the end. We see to the end of all
perfection. We see that broad commandment,
exceeding broad, but we see Christ who's the end of the law, who
is righteous enough to, as broad as that exceeding broad command
of God. And his righteousness covers
us, and his righteousness saves us, and we cry out. When we're
so shown our sin, and show him Christ in the light
of Christ and his grace and righteousness freely given to us. We say like
what Paul said, Paul said, wherefore the law is holy and the commandment
is holy and it's just and it's good. He said, if then I do that
which I would not, I consent to the law, it's good. He taught
me. You taught me, Lord. You taught
me. And so we glorify God then, verse
104, through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate
every false way. Christ is the way. The way. He's the truth. He's the life. And every other
way is a lie. Every other way is false. The
moment we looked to ourselves, the moment we commend ourselves
for our wisdom, our righteousness, our sanctification, our redemption,
we've gone out of the way. Gone out of the way. But the
Spirit making us behold Him and bringing us back to see Him,
turning our feet back to God's testimonies to hear His Son,
that's where He brings you, just like He did Job. And Job said,
I abhor myself. I abhor myself. I abhor myself. And I repent in dust and ashes.
What does that mean? It means I'm nothing but dust
and ashes. I repent of any good, all good
in me. There is none. Not any. Not any. Christ alone. Christ alone. is my way, and
every other way is false. And we don't hate every false
way. We can't say that like Christ could say that either. There
is a sin nature in you that loves every false way. There's a sin
nature in you that loves sin and hates righteousness. But
He keeps in that new man, He's going to keep your new man hating
every false way, beginning with you. Beginning with you. But
he promises in his covenant he'll never forsake his blood-bought
child and he'll freely provide all our need and he proves it
over and over and over to us. He'll never leave us, he'll never
forsake us, he's going to provide for us. Even when he's doing
this and afflicting you and showing you to heed his word and believe
him and follow him, he's doing what's needful for you. And so
he brings you to be content. You stop murmuring and disputing
about his providence and trying to get out from under it. And
you're content because it's working good for you. Paul said, I've
learned, he wrote this from prison. I've learned in whatsoever state
I am therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased
and I know how to abound everywhere and in all things. I'm instructed
both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer
need. I can do all things through Christ
which strengtheneth me. But my God shall supply all your
need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. What
we need more than anything else is what David prayed there in
verse 18. Open thou mine eyes that I may
behold wondrous things out of thy law. There's no better way,
brethren, to spend our days than in this book right here. Turn
off the internet, turn off Facebook, turn off the movies, the news,
all the junk, and get in this book right here. And go to God. You know, I'm the world's worst. You know, you start reading the
word and you start looking at old dead preachers and try to
see what they said about it. Go to the one that wrote it.
Go to the one that wrote it. Go to the one whose word it is
and ask him to give you an understanding on it. He will. He will. And then, you know, when you
hear the gospel, go study it. Go study what you heard. I'm nobody, I'm nothing, I'm
nobody. I'm a clay pot that my mama named
Clay. But I know this, God's gonna
bless you through the ministry he's given to minister to you. He gave those dead preachers
to the people in their day, and many of them rejected him for
the dead ones before him. He's gonna teach you through
the ministry he gives you. I'm nobody, and I'm not trying
to exalt myself, but I'm saying that's what he's going to do.
And I've tried to post everything I've preached. I've tried to
encourage you to go online and read the notes. I send them to
you. Much of you get them, and I send them to you. Study it. Study it. Meditate on God's holy person,
on his son, on the redemption he's accomplished. And look at
the word and everything that he says in his word, do it. Do
it. Do it. That includes long-suffering
and mercifulness when your brethren don't do it. You know, I have
a brother down in Missouri just had to have his leg amputated
from the knee down. My dad not long ago had his big
toe amputated. You know, that was the very last
procedure that they resorted to. They didn't cut off right off
the bat. A went a long time before they cut it, cut off, cut that
member off. When your body's suffering, and
just about every member of your body's gonna suffer at some point,
you don't just right away just cut it off. Might have nothing
to do with it anymore. You put more abundant honor on
it, and you, yeah. give it more attention. And that's
what we're to do for one another. He'll keep us from forsaking
His judgment. He'll build us up into Him in
all things. And He'll make you comfortable.
He'll comfort you. That's what we're to do. Speak
comfortably to God's people. Speak to their heart. Speak to
their heart. They got enough of this world
and their own shameful sin and the things going on. They got
enough of that. Bring them down to the dust. Be comfortably to
them. David said, this is my comfort in my affliction. Your
words quicken me. They quicken me. Why? Why all this? How do you know
that the Lord will do all this? For those little words right
there, David said, for thou hast taught me. God will teach his
child. Amen.