All right, brethren, in Psalm
91, that's where we'll be, Psalm 91. And when our Lord was in the
wilderness, he had fasted for 40 days and 40 nights, and he
was very weak, he was hungry. And you remember the devil came
to him and the scripture says that he took him into the holy
city and set him up on a pinnacle of the temple. On a high place
on the temple. And he said to him, if thou be
the son of God. This is how the devil often tempts,
questions whether you be the son of God. He said, if thou
be the son of God, prove it to me. That's what he's saying to
him. Prove it to me. If thou be the Son of God, cast
thyself down, for it's written. Now listen, he's going to quote
scripture. For it's written, he shall give his angels charge
concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up,
lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. verse that he quoted is in Psalm
91 right here in verses 11 and 12. He shall give his angels
charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear
thee up in their hands lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Our Lord didn't deny that that was speaking of him. This is
God the Father's promise to Christ his Son and this Psalm here,
Psalm 91, is Christ communing with his own heart, reminding
himself of the promises of the Father, and staying himself upon God
the Father, his covenant promises. And since these are God's promises
to our Lord, these are God's promises to you and I who believe
him. We're going to see here God's
promises to his son and his faithfulness to his son. And in that we see
God's faithfulness to you and I who believe him. Now, I like to begin each message
with a proposition. Just one statement that sums
up the whole message. Well, our Lord does that. Christ
speaking here does that in verse 1. This is the general proposition
of this whole psalm. This is the summary of it right
here. He that dwelleth in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the
Almighty. That means two things. The whole
first part of this psalm all the way down to verse 13, we
hear Christ having God's covenant promise, communion with his heart,
reminding himself of those promises, he abode under the Lord's shadow. He believed God and he abode
under his shadow, looking only to him in faith. Now that's one
thing it means. Those that have these promises
and know our Redeemer, they're going to consciously strive to
abide in him. They want to believe him and
be found in him and be under the shadow of his mighty hand. And then secondly, God shall
keep us dwelling in the secret place. He shall keep us dwelling
in Him. The last verses from verse 14
to verse 16 God gives promises that He fulfills to those who
trust Him. So that's the two-fold meaning
of that statement. Those that believe will abide
trusting Christ to the end. And God will keep us abiding
in Him to the end. The secret place of the Most
High. He says there, He that dwelleth
in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow
of the Almighty. The secret place of the Most
High is not a place separate from Him. It's not some place
separate from Him. It is Him. Read it again. It's the secret place of the
Most High. It's Him. And he that dwells
in him shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty himself. He's El Shaddai. He is the Almighty. And when he brings you to dwell
in him, you dwell under his shadow. Psalm 3120 says, Thou shalt hide
them in the secret of thy presence. And the secret of thy presence
from the pride of man. Thou shalt keep them secretly
in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. That secret place,
he's saying here, is the presence of God. You remember in the tabernacle,
God's presence was in the holiest of holies in the tabernacle.
That's where his presence was. Over the mercy seat. Over the
mercy seat. That was the secret place. The
psalmist said, in the time of trouble, he shall hide me in
his pavilion, in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide
me. He shall set me upon a rock.
God put his people in Christ, in his son, before the world
was made by divine election. Of God are you in Christ. How
did that happen? Before we, he made anything. God chose his people in Christ,
put us in Christ. In the secret place, in Christ.
In him. And in time, when he calls us
in regeneration, he gives us an experience of this union.
He brings you to see that you're one with him. You were in him
when he walked this earth and laid down his life under the
law and died. You were in him when he arose
to the right hand of the Father and sat down. And he brings you
into an experimental union with Him. We've always been in union
with Him since He put us in Christ but He brings you into that union
by faith. So by faith we dwell in Christ. He's the secret place. We dwell
in Him and Christ dwells at God's right hand in that holiest of
holies. He's the mercy seat and we're
in Him. And He's there in God's presence
and we're there in God's presence. That's a double safety, that's
a double security for his people. Listen to Colossians 3, 3. You
are dead, your old man's dead, your sin nature, your body of
sin, the you that we are in Adam died. You died. And your life
is hid, he said it's a secret place, it's a hidden place. That's
what it means. Your life is hid with Christ in God. You see that double security?
You're in Christ, the secret place. in God's presence, in
the holiest of holies, seated with him. So the Most High God's
going to keep us under his protection continually. He's going to keep
us in Christ, keep us under his protection. Whatever we suffer,
whatever difficulties we go through, whatever the trial may be, however
perplexing it may be to you, God is going to keep his child
under the shadow of the Almighty. under His protection. And those
that know this are going to consciously abide in Him. We're going to
believe Him. We're going to trust Him. We're going to follow Him.
And He's going to keep following Him. Now I want to look at this
and I just mainly want to focus on these first 13 verses. But I want you to hear Christ
speaking here. This is Christ speaking and He's
communing with His own heart and He's reminding himself of
God's promises to him, and he's trusting the Lord. And so because
he did this perfectly, this is our salvation. But we also see
in this what he's teaching us to do, to remember his promises,
to abide in him, to follow him, to believe on him, never give
up. Now listen, first of all, hear
Christ speaking to himself. He's got God's covenant promise.
And this is his resolve to abide in the Most High. He's looking
only to his Father. Verse 2, I will say of the Lord,
he is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in him will I trust. Whenever the Son of God took
flesh and he walked this earth, you just think of the enemies
that he came in contact with. Everybody who was unregenerate
was an enemy. The devil was after him, there
was all kind of wicked wicked fallen angels that were against
him. Every kind of evil was against
him. But when he walked this earth,
he was still in the secret place. He was still in the bosom of
the Father. Even when he walked this earth, he was in the bosom
of the Father. And as he served the Lord as
the head of his people, as he came working out a righteousness
for his people, he was faithful to trust his Father He is God. He says there in verse 2, I will
say of the Lord. I will say of the Lord. He is
my refuge and my fortress. My God. In him will I trust. He's the one who speaks in Psalm
32, 7. Thou art my hiding place. Thou
shalt preserve me from trouble. See, you and I don't believe perfectly. There's sin with that. with our
belief, we're so full of unbelief, but really the righteousness
by which we're saved is Christ's faith. It is the faith of Christ,
his perfect obedience to the Father, perfect trust in the
Father. So as a man saving his people,
he's saying, I will say of the Lord, I'll remind myself, I showed
you that this is the Psalm that the devil quoted when he tempted
Christ to jump off that tavern, off the temple. And this farewell
could be what our Lord was communing, how he was communing with his
own heart through that whole temptation in the wilderness.
And not only that, but through his whole walk in this world,
trusting the Father, in the Garden of Gethsemane, when he went to
the cross, and he's teaching us the same thing. I will say
of the Lord, he is my refuge. He's my fortress, my God. In him I will trust, in him will
I trust. If you're born of God, you're
inseparably united to Christ. If we're born of God and we believe
him, he has inseparably united us to Christ. He did so in eternity
and he's done so by giving you life and bringing you to him. And knowing this, let us do what
Christ did. We don't just believe Christ.
You have to believe Christ in the first hour. We do. But even
when you're surrounded by enemies, even when you have no strength
in yourself, even when you see there's nothing you can do to
save yourself, we keep coming to Him. We keep believing Him.
And here's how our Lord Strengthen himself. This is how he, scripture
says, keep thy heart, for out of it are the issues of life.
Keep it, how? Keep it stayed on Christ. Keep
your heart on Christ. And this is how he's gonna, how
he's gonna strengthen us. At all times, keep your heart
stayed on Christ. And this faith is personal. I
will say of the Lord, he's my refuge. He's my refuge. He's my fortress. He's my fortress. He's my God. In Him will I trust. Not trusting myself and trusting
Him. In Him will I trust. A man shall be as a hiding place
from the wind. That's the God-man. A man should
be a hiding place, a secret place, a refuge, a fortress, a covert
from the storm and from the tempest. As rivers of water in a dry place,
as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. He's that shadow. He's that refuge, that fortress,
that secret place. So you see how the Lord is communing
with his own heart, you see how he's saying, He reminded himself,
this is my Lord, my refuge. This is faith, perfect faith
of our Redeemer. I want to show you secondly here,
our confidence in Christ is that Christ was tempted in all points
like we are, but he didn't sin. He didn't sin. He perfected faith
for his people. He's the author and finisher
of our faith. That means his obedience is our
righteousness. And him alone. He speaks to himself
of God's promise to him right here again. Verse 3. Surely he
shall deliver thee. He's speaking to himself. He's
speaking of himself. Surely he shall deliver thee
from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence.
The fowler is the devil. The fowler is the devil. He's
described here as a bird hunter. Scripture speaks of the snare
of the devil. They would trap birds. Snare birds. Scripture speaks of the snare
of the devil. We're gonna see him here shooting
his arrows. Fiery darts of the wicked were
spoken of in scripture. The devil has wows, great wows
of the devil. Devices far beyond anything you
and I can, are any match for. But when our Lord walked this
earth, our Lord and his people are compared to doves in the
scripture, to doves. A dove's the most helpless, I
guess the most helpless bird there is. And that's what he describes
us as, a harmless dove. That's who Christ was when he
walked this earth. And as doves, we're hunted by
the devil, hunted by his seed. as a hunter, as a fowler. The
noisome pestilence here, this word noisome means engulfing
destructive wickedness and that pestilence is disease. He's talking
about the engulfing destructive wicked disease of sin. That's
exactly what he's talking about. The devil hunted Adam. He came
hunting Adam in the beginning and he set a trap. He ensnared
Eve in that trap. He beguiled her. He tricked her.
And Adam sinned with his eyes wide open. And when he did, he
plunged the whole human race into sin and death. The noisome
pestilence. What do we see? Since Adam, up
till now, in all the world right now, all around us right now,
what you hear is a noisome pestilence. Sin. Everywhere, you know. All are engulfed with the destructive,
wicked disease of sin. And the devil goes about hunting.
He's hunting. He's seeking whom he may devour.
Like a fowler hunting a bird. That's what he's doing. But when
the devil hunted our Lord, when he tempted our Savior, he came
there into that wilderness and he tempted the Lord. This was
Christ's word to himself. This is his perfect faith In
God his Father, surely he, the Most High, the Almighty, shall
deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome
pestilence. Now he describes here the devil
as a hunter, like a bird hunter, the fowler. But then look how
he says God's gonna save him. He shall cover thee with his
feathers, and under his wing shalt thou trust. His truth,
God's faithfulness is what it means. God's covenant promise
shall be thy shield and buckler. As a harmless dove, Christ, he
was hunted by the fowler. The devil came there into the
wilderness and he's trying to tempt our Lord, but in perfect
faith, Christ trusted the father to cover him like a mother eagle
protects her chicks under her wing. To cover him. He's a bird hunter, but he's
describing here the father as having feathers so impenetrable
that he can't penetrate those feathers and get to his son. And when you think on God's faithfulness,
and this was Christ Buckler, thinking on God's faithfulness,
thinking on God's covenant promise, The truth of God. That's God's
covenant promise to Christ. That's His faithfulness to our
Redeemer. He thought on that, and that
was His buckler. That was His shield. Christ is
the truth. He said, I am the truth. And
for you who believe Him, Thinking on what Christ has done, what
Christ has accomplished, when you're hunted by the devil and
temptation and wickedness in the world, this is where we ought
to keep our heart. Speaking to ourselves and remembering
his promises. Ask for the Lord. He's my refuge.
He's my fortress. He's my God. I will trust in
him. And remember here, Yes, that
fowler's chasing me, he's after me, but he shall deliver me from
the fowler. He shall deliver me from the
fowler. Did he deliver Peter? Yeah. He didn't let the fowler
destroy Peter. He taught Peter through it, but
he didn't let him destroy him. He'll deliver you from the fowler.
And it's thinking on his faithfulness, thinking on his covenant promises,
thinking on what he's accomplished for his people. Christ, in whom
those promises are fulfilled, is the shield of our faith. When
he says to you, take the shield of faith, it doesn't mean faith
is your shield. It's who faith lays hold of.
He told Abraham, I am thy shield. He's the shield. That's what
he describes the father as right here. I'm trusting you, father,
you're going to be a shield. Like a hen covering her chicks,
you're going to be my shield. And Christ is that shield for
his people. His obedience. We were hunted by the fowler,
but by His obedience, by His death on the cross, He has delivered
us from the fowler. He delivered His people from
the snare of the fowler by putting away our sin. Listen to Psalm
124, 7. Our soul is escaped as a bird
out of the snare of the fowler. The snare is broken and we're
escaped. That's what Christ did on the
cross. So He promises you and me, He's going to cover us in
His wings. All these promises that Christ
trusted the Father for, these are the covenant promises we
have in Christ. It's already been fulfilled in
Christ. We're with Him, seated in His secret place in the holies
of holies. This is why these promises are
sure to us. He that abides in Christ in the
secret place shall surely abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
He gonna deliver you, keep delivering you. He's our shield, He's the
truth and the promises of God in Him are yes and amen. So continually,
constantly, we come here, Paul's told Timothy, put them in remembrance.
We come here to remember these things. What Christ has done,
how we're safe in Christ, how he's our fortress, how he's our
refuge. And he teaches us, commune with
your own heart, remember these things, rehearse these things.
This is the only strength we have, is Christ. The only strength
we have against our flesh is when the Spirit of God sets your
affection on Christ and he comes in his power and in spirit you just bow to him and you believe
him and you have the strength then to follow him and walk after
him. And when our mind's not on him,
when our minds are on other things and we're out in the world, how
often does he turn your thoughts to him and immediately make you
realize, I'm not trusting him. He turns you from whatever it
is and makes you trust him and then you Didn't you walk after
him? He's telling us here, this was Christ's perfect faithfulness.
He communed with the Father continually. He trusted the Father. He looked
to the Father. Now this is how the fiery darts of the wicked
shall not harm us, right here. It's by Christ our shield. Christ
experienced it and he stayed on God's sure promises. This
is what he said to himself, verse 5. Thou shalt not be afraid of
the terror by night. nor for the arrow that flyeth
by day, nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor
for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. A thousand shall
fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand, but it shall
not come nigh thee. Only with thine eyes shalt thou
behold and see the reward of the wicked." Christ says this
to you, believer. Believing on Christ, trusting
Christ, we have no reason to fear the devil's terror by night
or by day. Trust in Christ, believe in Christ,
safe in him. The pestilence, the plague of
sin that destroys by night and by day, he says you have no reason
to fear. Trust him, believe him. And we
see Christ take the shield of faith. That's what He's doing
here. Christ is taking the shield of faith. That's what He's repeating
throughout this psalm. He keeps repeating God's promises,
what He's going to do for our Lord, what our Father's going
to do for His Son as He walked this earth. And setting His heart
on God's covenant promises to Him, that's what we do. We take this Christ, our shield,
and know all these promises are sure in Him. He said in Ephesians
6, 16, above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you
shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. That's
the only way. You ever, you ever, you ever
get to thinking on everything in the world and your sin and,
and you know, all your weakness and all your, You have money
issues and all the different things in the world and you just
become so bombarded with it and you can't already look up. But
when you behold Christ and you're looking to Him and you know all
these promises are sure in Him, those things don't even affect
you. You're not afraid of the terror
at night. We shouldn't be afraid of the
terror at night. Whatever it is that would make
you afraid at night, God's people shouldn't be afraid. Our Lord
sees in the darkness just like in the daytime and he's protecting
his people. He says here, the arrow that
flyeth by day, faith, taking the shield of faith, believe
in Christ and look into Christ. That's how the fiery darts of
the wicked are quenched. He said, the devil is a roaring
lion, goes about seeking whom he may devour. How do we resist
him? Steadfast in the faith. Looking to Christ. Believing
on Christ. Knowing that the same afflictions
are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. Trust
in him. And knowing he's working the
same thing in our brethren. Look at this. How did he defeat
the fowler? How did he tread him down, the
devil? Christ is speaking to himself.
Look at verse 9. Because thou hast made the Lord
thy refuge, even the Most High thy habitation. Reminding himself,
because you've made the Lord your habitation, he's your refuge,
even the most high, because you've made him your habitation, there
shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy
dwelling. Now, these are literal things.
We've been talking about this terror and the arrows. These
are literal things that convey spiritual meaning. You know,
we've had the coronavirus, and we've had brethren that's died
of that. So he doesn't mean that we're all gonna die, and you're
gonna die of sin. That's what's gonna cause us
to die. We're gonna die. So he's not
talking about that as the pestilence. The pestilence is sin. It is
the curse. He's talking about here about
not being able to be separated from Christ. He's talking about
here about never coming under the curse and condemnation of
the law because of what Christ has done. And the devil and sin
never being able to separate us from Christ because of the
finished work of redemption that he's accomplished. Now it's interesting
to me that the devil quoted this psalm when he's tempting our
Redeemer and applied it to Christ. He tried to get him to throw
himself off that temple and he said, because it's written, verse
11, he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee
in all thy ways, they shall bear thee up in their hands lest thou
dash thy foot against a stone. The devil knew that applied to
Christ and he said that. Christ is himself the stone. He's the rock. against whom many
dash their foot, many stumble and are snared and are taken.
But the devil didn't quote verses 9 and 10. Why was this, verse
11 and 12, true of our Redeemer? Why is that true? Why is that
so of Him? Because, verses 9 and 10, because
Christ made the Lord His refuge, even the Most High, His habitation,
no evil could befall Him, nor any plague come near His dwelling.
No evil could befall him and no plague come upon his dwelling. Now be sure to get this. Where
is Christ dwelling? Christ's dwelling is His Father
and His people, His church. His Father and His people, His
church. God came in human flesh, took
flesh to declare God just and to justify His people. That's
why He came here. And by His obedience unto the
death of the cross, neither God, His Father, in whom he habitates,
in whom he dwells, nor his people, his church in whom he dwells.
Neither one shall ever be charged with anything but perfect righteousness."
Because of what Christ accomplished. Both of them. If the evil of
the curse and separation of sin comes on his people, it comes
on Christ, because they're his dwelling. That can't be. He said
there, Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge,
even the most high thy habitation, there shall no evil befall thee,
neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. He shall give his angels charge
over thee to keep thee in all thy ways. And that's what he
did. The angel announced our Lord's birth. He announced our
Lord's birth when he was there in Garden of Gethsemane and he
was so weak in his flesh, he was striving against sin, he
trusted his father, he was so weak in his flesh, the father
sent an angel to strengthen him. The angel came, angels came and
rolled back the stone on the tomb. Angels announced, he's
not here, he's risen. Angels were about him the whole
time he walked this earth, just like they are any other believer
that trusts God. Because you trust him and he's
yours and he's going to keep you trusting him and keep you
protected. Yes, that was so of our Redeemer.
But God's covenant promise to our mediator was if Christ trusted
the Father perfectly, if he went and he bore the sin and the curse
of his people and was cut off from God to the full satisfaction
of God's justice, no evil. No plague of the curse whatsoever
would ever again befall His people, nor come near His dwelling, His
church. It wouldn't happen. He wouldn't
let us be separated from God. He wouldn't let us be cut off.
Christ bore that for us. And because He trusted the Father
perfectly and went to the cross, God's going to let nothing happen
to His people. He's not going to let anything
separate us from our Lord. Christ won't let that happen.
And the devil sure didn't quote verse 13 when he was trying to
tempt Christ not to believe the Father and to just throw away
all those promises and all the promises that Christ has been
rehearsing to himself right here for our benefit. He was trying
to get him to throw all those away. Christ wouldn't do it. Because he trusted the Father,
he could not fail to trust the Father. He could not sin against
the Father. He could not cast himself off
of that temple and obey the devil. He couldn't do it because he's
saving his people and declaring God just as he did it. And by
going to that cross, here's what he accomplished. The devil quoted
this trying to tempt Christ not to believe the Father, but he
didn't quote the first part of it, which is why the Lord was
protecting him, because he trusted the Father perfectly. And he
didn't quote this second part either. This is how Christ destroyed
the devil, verse 13. Now, speaking to Christ, thou
shalt tread upon the lion and adder, the serpent, the young
lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet. That's the
devil. The devil's the lion, the serpent,
the dragon. He bruised Christ's heel on the
cross, but Christ, by taking away all the sin of his people,
by satisfying divine justice for his people, our Lord Jesus
Christ crushed the devil's head. He trampled him underfoot. That's
what he came to do. And by that he came to deliver
his people from that bondage that the devil kept us in by
keeping us fearing death due to our sin, constantly accusing
us constantly of our sin. That's what Christ came to deliver
us from, and that's what he did. Christ is a stone of stumbling.
He said the angel is going to keep you from dashing your foot
against the stone. There are many in this world
for whom Christ is a stone of stumbling. He is that stone they
dash their foot against and stumble and fall. But Christ sends His angels,
His preachers and gives His people faith. And by His Spirit we will
never dash our foot against that stone. Not against Christ. Christ keeps us laying down on
the rock. He keeps us planted on that one
foundation, looking nowhere but to Christ, not trusting our works,
not trusting in anything we've ever done, trusting Christ. He alone is going to save us
through this whole walk that we're on, going to the end. And
it's by His holy angels He protects us daily so that we never fall
away. And when the devil charges his
child, The shield is the truth of our Lord, Christ the truth.
The way, the truth, and the life. And the way the devil is going
to, when he charges God's child, the spirit guides us into the
truth of Christ our shield. And here's what he says to it.
Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect, it's God
that justifies. Who is he that condemneth? It's
Christ that died, yea rather, that's risen again, who's even
at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for
us. This is that pestilence, this is that plague that won't
come near you. This is what he's talking about.
He's saying there that there's nothing that's ever going to
separate God's child from Christ. Nothing. Who shall separate us
from the love of God in Christ Jesus? Nothing. So tribulation, or distress,
or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword.
Paul said, I persuaded neither death, nor life, nor angels,
nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things
to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall
be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ
Jesus. Now there, that first half, he
that believes on the Lord, he's going to abide under the shadow
of the Almighty. You see Christ's perfect faithfulness. Continually thinking of those
promises to Him. And now I'm going to end with
this. I'm just going to read these promises of God. They're
saying He's going to keep you abiding. Next time, Lord willing,
we'll look at these. Listen to these. I think there's
six or seven promises here. Listen to these. Verse 14. Now
it changes. Now the Father is speaking to
Christ. And He says, because He has set His love upon me. This promise is not for everybody.
It's just for those whose love is set on Christ. Those who have
received the love of the truth. Don't want to hear anybody but
Him exalted. Want Him to get all the glory.
Who received the love of the truth. And that was Christ's
perfect love to the Father. Because he set his love upon
me, therefore I will deliver him, God said. That's his promise.
I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. He shall
call upon me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him, and I will honor him. That's God the Father's
promise to Christ and to all his people who he brought to
trust Christ. And let's say it, with long life. Oh, he's going
to give me 70 or 80 or 90 years. If he does, that's a vapor. That
ain't long life. No, he's talking about eternal
life. I will give him with long life,
eternal life, will I satisfy him and I will show him my salvation. Remember what he said? He said
we're risen with Christ that in the ages to come, in that
long life of eternity, he might show us the exceeding riches
of his grace to us and his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
So when you come into any kind of trouble, Do what our Savior
did right here. I will say of the Lord, He's
my refuge, He's my fortress, my God, in Him will I trust. Surely He shall deliver thee
from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence.
He'll deliver thee. Speak that to your own heart.
He'll deliver thee. He'll cover thee with his feathers.
Under his wings shalt thou trust. His troops shall be thy shield
and thy buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for
the terror by night, nor for the error that flyeth by day,
nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction
that wastes at noonday. A thousand shall fall at thy
side and ten thousand at thy right hand. It's gonna come near
you. There's gonna be many that's
gonna fall away in apostasy and fall away in rebellion and fall
away going after their own works, but it's not coming near you.
Those that he's given faith, they're gonna be kept under his
shadow. Because thou hast made the Lord,
which is my refuge, the most high of thy habitation. Say that
within your own heart. Because you have made the Lord
my refuge, the most high of thy habitation, there shall be no
evil before thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
Christ is saying that to his people. He's telling you and
me that. He'll give the angels charge over there. He'll keep
thee and all that way. He'll bear thee up. They'll bear
thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a
stone. And one day, real soon, you're going to tread upon the
lion, the adder, the young lion, the dragon under your feet. He
told Christ, sit here till I make your enemies your footstool.
And he said in Romans, he said that God Our God, our God of
all grace, he's gonna trample Satan under your feet shortly.
And that's what our God's gonna do. He's already overcome him. And he's gonna keep his people
trusting him and deliver us to the end. And he'll get all the
glory and we want him to have it. We want him to have it. Amen.