Alright, brethren, let's go to
Psalm 117. Psalm 117. In the last psalm, we saw a believer. He was brought by God to say
this in verse 17. Psalm 116, 17. He said, I will offer to thee the sacrifice,
I'm sorry, verse, yeah, 116, 117. I will offer to thee the
sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the
Lord. And then right here, verse one,
he says, oh, praise the Lord, all ye nations, praise Him, all
ye people. That's how the last Psalm ended,
praise ye the Lord. And he says here, O praise the
Lord, all ye nations. Praise him, all ye people. For
his merciful kindness is great toward us. And the truth of the
Lord endureth forever. Praise ye the Lord. You know,
some translations divide Psalm 116 at verse 10. They make it
two Psalms. I'm a little more inclined to
think that It's one psalm, and that this psalm should go with
that psalm. We saw how that he was brought to praise the Lord
in that last psalm, and now he breaks out and says, oh, praise
the Lord, all you nations. Praise him, all you people. All
you people, not you only, but Gentiles. all you nations, all
you people. And what do we praise Him for?
Look at verse 2. For His merciful kindness is
great toward us. Isn't it? And His merciful kindness
is great toward us. Those words merciful and kindness
are translated from the same word. It means His goodness,
His favor, giving us what we don't deserve, withholding what
we do deserve, even giving us, giving us grace that we demerit
and withholding all that we've earned. His merciful kindness
is so great toward us. It really is great toward us. His merciful kindness. And why else do we praise Him?
He said, In the truth of the Lord endureth forever. The truth
of the Lord means His faithfulness, His firmness, His stability,
His reliability. Turn over to Lamentations 3.
Lamentations 3. Lamentations 3.19. He said, remembering my affliction
and my misery, the wormwood and the gall, my soul hath them still
in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind,
therefore have I hope. It is of the Lord's mercies that
we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning. Great
is thy faithfulness. That word faithfulness is translated
from the same word as translated truth in our text. It's a little
different form, but it's the same root word. We praise Him
because the truth of the Lord, His faithfulness, His firmness,
His stability, His reliability, endureth forever. Endureth forever,
from generation to generation. Now first of all, notice this
word's to all people. This word is to all people. Oh,
praise the Lord, all ye nations. Praise Him, all ye people. We
preach the gospel to all people. We don't have one gospel for
some and another gospel for another. We preach the same gospel and
we preach it to all people. To all people. God sent the gospel
forth into all the world. He sent it to all people in all
nations. Mark 16, 15, the Lord said, Go
ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.
He said, This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the
world for a witness to all nations. John saw an angel fly in the
midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel. There you go. His truth
endures forever. It's the everlasting gospel.
He had the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell
on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and
people. Every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people. Saying
with a loud voice, fear God, give glory to Him for the hour
of His judgment has come. Worship Him that made heaven,
and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters. But do all
people in all nations worship Him and praise Him? All should. All should. Every breath we take,
he gave it. Every moment we have on this
earth, he gave it. All should praise him. We should
all praise him. But not everybody does. But here's
the good news. Here's the good news, and this
is what the text means. There are all kinds of people
in all nations who God shall bring to praise Him. All kinds
of people in all nations who God shall bring to praise Him.
John saw them sing this song, this new song, and you remember
what they said. They sang and they said, Worthy,
thou art worthy to take the book. They're singing to our Lord.
Thou art worthy to take the book, to open the seals thereof, for
thou was slain and has redeemed us to God by thy blood out of
every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. And has made
us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth.
Every kindred, tongue, and people, and nation. God has a people.
He has a people. And Christ redeemed these people,
and so they're going to be brought to praise Him. Justice of God
demands that they must be given life and brought to praise Him.
God cannot let them perish in their sins because Christ has
redeemed them. So they will be brought to praise Him. You remember
when Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost, Acts 2 tells us
there was dwelling there people out of every nation under heaven. There was a lot of different
kinds of people there. And he preached the gospel and
the Holy Spirit pricked them in their heart and they were
brought to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you know what
they did? Scripture says, they continuing
daily with one accord in the temple and breaking bread from
house to house did eat their meat with gladness and singleness
of heart, praising God. Praise in God. Everybody God
saves gives Him the praise. Everybody He saved. This is how
you know somebody's been saved. He gets all the praise. He gets
all the glory. He gets it all. And it's not
a small number either. We're not talking about just
a little small number that He brings to praise Him. When John
looked, he said the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000
and thousands of thousands. saying with a loud voice, worthy
is the lamb that was slain. Praising the lamb. Worthy is
the lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and
strength and honor and glory and blessing. Worthy is the lamb
to receive all the praise. All the praise. This is a people,
a great multitude of people. They are going to be every kindred,
every tribe, every tongue, all nations, from all nations, all
kinds of people, rich, poor, from the from the least to the
greatest, people you never thought would be there, be there praising
Him. All will be brought to praise Him. And why do we praise Him? Why do we praise the Lord? Why
is it we praise Him? Verse 2, he says, Because His
merciful kindness is great toward us, and the truth of the Lord
endureth forever. That's why. His merciful kindness
is great toward us, and His truth endureth forever. The very fact
that we praise Him for His merciful kindness, for it being so great
toward us, you know what that declares? It declares who praises
Him. He declares who praises Him.
Only those who are made to see, they are real sinners. Real sinners. Because we see
we need mercy. We see we need mercy. We see
we're saved by mercy. That's who's going to praise
Him. Real sinners. Through and through sinners.
Sinners who are real, true sinners that know, been made to know
by God that we are sinners. Merciful kindness and God's enduring
faithfulness. His merciful kindness and His
enduring faithfulness in everything that God gives us and everything
He does. That's our salvation. Merciful
kindness and enduring truth, enduring faithfulness is in everything
He's doing for us and He's doing everything for His people in
our salvation. Absolutely everything. Everything. It has to be by God's
mercy and truth because we are sinners. Isn't that so? Isn't
that right? Doesn't salvation have to be
by God's mercy and truth because we are sinners? We are sinners. We don't merit anything or it
wouldn't be mercy. It wouldn't be mercy if we earned
it. It wouldn't be mercy. Salvation
is entirely due to God's merciful kindness. It's entirely due to
His enduring truth, His enduring faithfulness. Everything a believer
has, now listen, everything you have and everything you do not
have. Anybody here that there's some
things you'd like to have that you don't have? Anything you
have and anything you don't have. As a child of God, you know what
that is? That's God's merciful kindness
to you. And that's His enduring truth
to you. That's His enduring faithfulness to you. Everything you have and
everything you don't have. And so every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of
lights with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. And
every gift He gives is good. Sometimes it's a gift of withholding
from us something that would be harmful to us. And every good
gift He gives you is from Him. There's no variableness. There's
neither shadow of turning. It's all from Him. Romans 11.35
says, Who's first given to Him and it'll be recompensed to Him
again. For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things
to whom be glory forever. Amen. The merciful kindness and
the enduring truth of our Lord. The merciful kindness, the enduring
truth of our Lord. That's a boundless subject. That's an endless subject. We just can't get to the bottom
of this. So great. Well, you think about
election. Wasn't that God's merciful kindness?
Wasn't that His truth, His enduring faithfulness to choose His people
in Christ before this world was made? Think about his faithfulness. Isaiah, he said through Isaiah,
he declared the end from the beginning. The things that were
not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand. That's his faithfulness.
My counsel shall stand. I will do all my pleasure. Never been one thing that God
didn't bring to pass. And never will be one thing that
God purposed that he does not bring to pass. And it's all merciful
kindness. It's all his enduring truth. What about being preserved in
the fall? When Adam sinned and he disobeyed
God and plunged all his race into sin, wasn't that merciful
kindness for God to not destroy mankind right then? Wasn't that
His enduring truth not to destroy? He had promised to save a people
before He made anything, and His truth endured, didn't it?
He didn't destroy mankind when Adam sinned. That was His merciful
kindness. What about the Scriptures? From
the beginning, God has been speaking into the hearts of sinners, that
He's called to Him and made to pen the Scriptures. He's given
them a heart to know Him. He's made them holy in heart
and He's given them the Scriptures and they pen the Scriptures as
God moved them. And He's recorded those Scriptures
and He's preserved those Scriptures. The reason we have the Bible
today and men don't want to argue about it, men don't want to,
you know, say, well, you can't depend on it. Yes, you can. If
you know Him, you know this Word is true because you see it's
got one solid, continuous message from beginning to end. That's
Christ and the salvation of God in Him. And it all just fits
right together. And you see that when you know
Him. When people tell you, they say, prove to me that's the Word
of God. You tell them this. You prove to me it's not. I don't
have to prove to you it's His Word. Faith He gives you believes
it's His Word. And no man can prove it's not.
Preservation of Judah. You think about this. Think about
all the nations that were surrounding Israel. And the ten tribes and
the two and a half of Judah. Judah and the half tribe of Benjamin.
They even divided and split. And yet God preserved Judah.
You know why? Because he said Christ was coming
through Judah. And He kept Judah, He kept that tribe, and our Lord
Jesus came through that tribe. He came into this earth because
of God's merciful kindnesses and His enduring faithfulness.
Don't tell me God doesn't rule everything. Look at how He protected
that tribe from beginning all the way to the end. You just
look at history and you can see God's hand in it. You can see
Him doing it for the sake of glorifying His Son. You can see
Him doing it for the salvation of His people. That's His merciful
kindness. That's His truth enduring from
age to age to save His people, just like He promised. And through
Judah, the Son of God came down and came to this earth to save
His people. That's merciful kindness. That's
enduring truth. God said He would. God's been
promising from the garden that Christ would come. He came. Just
like God said He would. At the time God appointed, He
came. And He came into this world and
was made under the law to redeem His people that were under the
law. To redeem us from the curse and to save us from ourselves.
And to give us an understanding of who God is and how God saves
sinners. That's why He came. God said,
I'm going to make myself known in Him. I'm going to reveal myself
in Him. I'm going to make the fullness
of the Godhead known in my Son. And He's one of my people we're
going to be gathered to because He's the righteousness of my
people. He's the redemption of my people. He's the peace of
my people. He's the reconciliation with
God for my people. He's the one in whom God's love
is toward His people that we can't be separated from. He is
the one in whom we have forgiveness. He is everything to His people
and He came and He satisfied God's law for us and He made
His people righteous because God promised it. He promised
it. And in Christ Jesus we see mercy
and truth meet together. We see God's mercy toward His
people in Christ and we see His truth meet together with His
mercy. God satisfied his own law. God
honored his own character. And put every one of his people to
death in Christ. Saved us from death. Condemned
death in his flesh. saved us from death, saved us
from our sin by what Christ did, made us the righteousness of
God in Him. Mercy and truth are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. What more
could our Lord Jesus have done than He's done for His people
in redemption? There was no other way we could
be saved. Absolutely no other way we could be saved. And He
has made... There's nothing more He could
have done for His people than what He's done. The great God, our
Lord Jesus Christ, He is full salvation. He's full salvation. He is salvation. Pardon is by
His precious blood. The robe that He gives you is
the robe of righteousness that He made. Top to bottom, without
seams in it. It's perfect. It's a perfect
righteousness. That was merciful kindness. That
was the truth of God enduring. What about Him sending you the
Gospel? What about Him sending you the Gospel? Think of the
multitudes in this world that's never heard the Gospel. Think
of all the people in this world that's never heard the Gospel. Our Lord Jesus Christ sent you
the Gospel. He brought the Gospel to you.
And He not only brought the Gospel to you, He did what was absolutely
necessary to make you hear it with spiritual profit. He gave
you a new heart to hear. the scripture and hear the gospel. That word entered in. That Living
Word entered in. By the Living Word, He entered
in. And the Spirit of God gave you
life of the incorruptible seed. A new baby was born, conceived
inside you. In these old bodies of death,
there was a baby conceived of incorruptible seed. The first
man was corrupt, and he was sinful, and he couldn't know God, and
didn't want to know God. This new man is all of God. Incorruptible. Incorruptible. born of the seed
of God. And He taught you the gospel.
Sanctification is all of God. He separated you from your flesh. He separated you from your false
idols. He separated you from your thinking
we were saved by something we had done. He separated us from
a love for the world and for sin. And He gave us a hatred
for it. And He gave us a desire to be like Him and to know Him.
And He keeps on renewing you. He keeps making you want to know
Him more. Follow Him more and more and more and more. This is merciful kindness. This
is His truth enduring toward His people. Creation and providence. Everything in creation around
us is declaring His holy name. Everything. Everything. You hear the thunder. God speaks
of the thunder being His voice. The lightning. When a storm comes,
who's controlling the storm? He is. When an earthquake comes
and the earth trembles and it quakes and you think it's going
to just split open and everything's just going to fall in a chasm,
who does that? The Lord does it. Everything
that's ever come to pass in this world, our Lord's been moving
it by His sovereign power and doing it all by His sovereign
will according to His good pleasure. He's God. There's nothing above
Him. There's nothing questioning Him. There's nothing that's going
to oppose Him and make Him fail in His purpose. Nothing. Nothing. If it could, that thing would
be God. Nothing's going to oppose Him
and frustrate Him in His purpose. Absolutely nothing. And what
He's been doing from the beginning, what He's been doing from the
beginning is merciful kindness toward His people. When it says,
all things work together for good to them that love God, to
them who are called according to His purpose, it means what
it says, all things. All things. And they don't just
work together, magically work together. He's working them all
together. on purpose, according to the
purpose that he ordained from eternity. Everything that's happening
is for his people. Every war that's ever taken place,
every king that's been put on a throne, every king that's been
removed. And you know, when you think about it like this, you
go back there to Adam and you go from Abel and Cain. Cain kills Abel. God worked that
together. Everything that happened after
that, after that, after that, all the way through time. He worked every bit of it together.
And this is how real it is. He worked it all together to
bring the gospel to you. Every bit of it. And reveal Christ
in you. We ought not worry about anything
that is coming to pass in this world because the Lord is doing
it in merciful kindness and enduring truth for the sake of His people.
everything, everything. We have a good hope Christ is
going to return. He's going to raise us up entirely
new, so we're going to praise him forever. We have a good hope,
brethren, a good hope. He's promised us. His truth endures. He promised us. And He made an
oath. He promised us and He gave us
the oath that He was going to do it. Two immutable things in
which God cannot lie. We have a good hope. Christ has
entered into the veil. Do you really believe Christ
is risen? Do you believe He's entered in? Has He proved it
to you by His power working in your heart? You know, when he's
working in your heart powerfully, you can stand up to anything
and anybody. And if he withdraws just a little
bit, you find out real fast how weak you are because you can't
stand up to anybody. You can't even, you can't find
any peace in your heart. You can't do anything. And then
he can, he can enter in. And you don't notice anything's
even happened. He just did it. It's spirit.
He did it in spirit and made it happen. It was God's merciful kindness.
It was His truth enduring from eternity. Yesterday, today, and it will
be tomorrow. Never changing, no variableness
to it. Salvation entirely by His merciful kindness. Salvation
entirely according to the truth He declared from the beginning.
Salvation entirely of His grace and of His mercy and of His love.
And it's overflowing to us, brethren. It is overflowing to us. Overflowing to us. Our Lord doesn't
give a little bit. He gives in abundance. The promises of the covenant
are yes and amen in Christ. He couldn't give any more than
that. Yes and amen. Now, how does He keep us praising
Him? He tells us to praise Him. How
does He keep us praising Him? Well, for you who believe, do
you remember how He first made you praise Him? Do you remember
how He first made you praise Him? When He first revealed to
you that you were a real sinner. Do you remember that? Do you
remember that? Don't ever forget. He won't let
you forget that. He won't let you. that you were
a real sinner. I mean, it quit being about church,
going to church. It became serious between you
and God. It became a matter of, I am the
sinner. I am perishing. I need mercy. You were like that Pharisee who
smote upon his breast and wouldn't even as much as lift his eyes
up to heaven and said, Lord, have mercy on me, the sinner. You were the only sinner in the
world. Do you remember that? Well, when
that happened, do you remember this? When he gave you faith
to believe on Christ. And for the first time, you saw
yourself, and it just was too good to be
true to you. You mean to say He put away all
my sin? You mean to say I'm complete
in Him? You mean to say I'm righteous
in Him? You mean to say I'm risen and seated at God's right hand
in Him? And you remember how your heart
was overflowing? Now remember this. You didn't
have one single good work to look to, did you? He made you
see all your good works that you thought was good was vanity.
You didn't have one good thing to look to. Nothing. Not a thing. And you didn't have anybody you
could look to. He made you go long enough under
that burden of sin to see that there ain't nobody that can help
you. He made you see you were such a sinner. You were like
Isaiah. You were saying, woe is me. I'm undone. I'm a man
of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean
lips. There's nobody that can help me. And He made you see Christ is
all. Christ is all. Did you need anything
else? Were you looking to anything
else? What made you have peace with God? You saw Christ was
all. You believed God. You believed
the Lord Jesus Christ was all your salvation. Well, brethren,
He is going to continue to do this for you and He has continued
to do this for us over and over. Has He not? He keeps doing this. We get to going along and we
get to being troubled about our sin. And we see some awful thing
we've done or said or thought or what have you. And what do
we do? We do just what we did in the
beginning. We start trying to look to some work. And now we
got some good works we can look to. He's not going to let you
look to them. He's not going to let you look
to them. He keeps showing you, you don't have any more works
that you can look to right now to make you accept with God than
you did that very first moment you believed in. That's not what
we're trusting in. Whatever you did, you just did
what you're supposed to do, and He worked it. So there's no way
we can put any confidence in that. And He's going to keep
you knowing that. He's going to keep us knowing
that. And He's going to keep us knowing, too, that in ourselves,
we're a sinner. But then He shows you. And all
of that, doing that, is His merciful kindness to us. And then He shows
you His merciful kindness. The Spirit just turns you to
Christ and we don't know. We can't say what's happened.
It's just that He's turned you to Him again
and you see and you know all is well. It's of His tender mercies
that we're not consumed. Great is His faithfulness. His
merciful kindness and His truth endures forever. That last psalm,
this is what He did. In verse 1, He said, I love the
Lord because He heard my voice, my supplication. He inclined
His ear to me. Therefore, I'll call upon Him
as long as I live. The sorrows of death come past
me. The pains of hell got hold of me. I found trouble and sorrow.
Gracious is the Lord and righteous. Yea, our God is merciful. What
made Him say that? The Lord preserveth the simple.
I was brought low and He helped me. That's what He keeps doing. That's what He keeps doing. And
then not only that, but He keeps giving you so much good in our
lives. Don't He give us so much good in our lives? He makes you
see what all you have in Christ, and that's everything. That is everything. what we are
in Christ and seeing that we're His and He's keeping us and He
hasn't let us go back and look to something we've done and He
hasn't let us fall away in our sin. He's kept us looking to
Christ and we have everything we need in Him. That right there
is everything to you. But even on top of that, He keeps
giving you so much in this world. Everything we have He's given
it, and everything that we don't have that would harm us, He's
taken it away. And He's kept you right where you need to be
providentially by His grace. He won't let you get too exalted,
and He won't let you get too low. He keeps you right where
you need to be, and where we need to be is looking to Him
the whole time. And what does that do every time
He does it? Just what it did to the psalmist. What shall I
render to the Lord for all His benefits to me? That's what we
did in the first hour. What shall I render to Him for
all His benefits to me? I want to do something for Him
because of everything He's done for me. He said, I'll take the cup of
salvation. I'll take this cup. I'll own Him to be all my salvation. I'll call upon the name of the
Lord. He said in Psalm 116 and 117, I'll offer to thee sacrifice
of thanksgiving. Don't we have so much to thank
Him for? I'll call upon the name of the
Lord. I'll pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all
His people, in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst
of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord. He's going
to keep us. walking before Him and trusting
Him. That's what He's going to do.
Is that too simple? What else do you want? What else
do you want, really? Knowing it's His mercy, knowing
it's His faithfulness by which He does this. You know the Apostle
Paul quotes this psalm. He quotes from this psalm. And
the context in which he quotes from this psalm He's exhorting
the church at Rome to be merciful to one another. He's exhorting
believers to be merciful to one another. To trust Christ to make
one another stand. And the Spirit shows us that
when the Psalm says here, all you nations, and it says all
you people, he's talking about his elect Gentiles. Just like
he saved his elect Jews, he saves his elect Gentiles. And what
Paul's declaring here, there was Jewish believers in the church
at Rome, and there was Gentile believers in the church at Rome.
Just like we all hear from different backgrounds, we all are at different
points in the life of faith, we all have different measures
of grace, whatever God's working, everybody's different. Well,
this was the big difference. There was Jews and Gentiles.
Some were weak in faith, some were strong in faith. Some understood
they had liberty, some didn't understand they had liberty.
And they were doubting one another and they were disputing with
one another. And you know it's this psalm that the Lord moved
Paul to quote to make them receive one another and be merciful to
one another. Go over with me to Romans 15.
I want you to see this. Romans 15. Let's go to Romans 15 and verse
1. You can read Romans 14 to see how they were doubting and
disputing. Romans 15.1, this is his conclusion. He says, we
then, that are strong, now I know that we all like to entertain
the thought that that's, he's talking to us. Okay, if he is,
then here's what he says to do. Bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
Let every one of us please his neighbor for his good to edification. For even Christ pleased not himself,
but as it is written, the reproaches of them that reproach thee fell
on me. Have you been reproached? Not
anything like Christ has. Not anything like Christ has.
He bore the reproaches of his people. He bore the cross for
us. Whatsoever things that were written aforetime were written
for our learning that we through patience, what is that? That's waiting on God. That's
enduring whatever God puts you through. And comfort of the scriptures
that we might have hope. Now the God of patience and consolation
grant you The God of Patience and the God of Consolation. We
don't just get this Patience and Consolation. We don't just
muster it up ourselves. It's from the God of Patience
and the God of Consolation. And may He grant you to be like-minded
one toward another according to Christ Jesus. That you may
with one mind and one mouth glorify God, even the Father of our Lord
Jesus Christ. That's what He's going to keep
His people doing. with one mind and one mouth,
glorifying God, even the Father, our Lord Jesus Christ. Wherefore,
receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory
of God." How did Christ receive you? Think back to the beginning.
How did He receive you? You didn't have anything to bring
to the table, did you? You didn't have a thing to bring
to Him. You came a sinner in need of mercy, and He received
you by grace. He said, now receive your brother
that way. The one you're doubting, not the one you're confident
in, the one you're doubting. Not the one you're at peace with,
the one you're disputing with. Receive him as Christ received
you. To the glory of God. Want to
glorify God? That's what he's saying. Want
to glorify God? That's how to do it. Now our
Psalm praises God for His mercy and His truth, for His mercy
and His faithfulness, His firmness, His dependability. And so Paul
speaks of both of those right here. He says, Now I say that
Jesus Christ was a minister of the circumcision of His elect
Jews for the truth of God to confirm the promises made to
the Father. He came and fulfilled every promise
He made to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. That's what He came for. He came
and did it. His truth endures forever. It's ordered and sure
in all things, yea and amen in Christ. And that the Gentiles,
that's me and you, might glorify God for His mercy. We didn't have the scriptures.
We didn't have the law. How are we going to fulfill the
righteousness of it? By His mercy through faith. through
faith, as it's written. Now here we go. We're going to
quote some scripts. This is what's for our learning. For this cause
I'll confess to thee among the Gentiles and sing unto thy name.
He's talking about Christ, Christ coming. and confessing of God
in our heart, making us know him. I'll confess to thee among
the Gentiles and sing unto thy name. And again, he said, rejoice,
ye Gentiles, with his people. And again, here's our psalm.
Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles, and laud him, all ye people. That's our psalm right there.
And again Isaiah said, there shall be a root of Jesse and
he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles. In him shall the
Gentiles trust. Now the God of hope fill you
with all joy and peace in believing. All joy and peace in believing
that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Ghost. What can you do without the power
of the Holy Ghost? What can you do without the power
of the Holy Spirit? Nothing. Nothing. They needed the power
of the Holy Spirit to make them believe, to make them repent. You know, you can have your own
problems and your own sin that just trouble you and trouble
you and trouble you. You can, you know, try to put it away
and you try to do this or that and then when the Lord does it
though, it's done. Done. You can just have all these
doubts and all these disputings in your heart when the Lord comes
and settles your heart, it's done. You have peace in believing. Peace in believing. That's what He prays for. That's
what we need. And when He's done that, I'll
tell you what He'll do. He'll make you say, oh, praise the
Lord. Oh, praise the Lord. All you
nations and all you people. He'll send us forth preaching
this gospel to everybody. Praise Him. His merciful kindness
is great toward us. When do you see it's great? When
you see you're a great sinner. The greater a sinner you are,
the greater you're gonna see His merciful kindness. and the
truth of the Lord endureth forever. Praise ye the Lord. Let's remember
our Redeemer at His table. Brother Ravi, Brother Adam.