Instead of reading the text again,
I'm going to just go through it verse by verse. I want you
to go with me as we go through here. Psalm 12 verse 1 begins,
Help, Lord, and it could be translated, Save, Lord. This is King David
speaking. He's writing this. Help, Lord,
for the godly man ceaseth, for the faithful fail from among
the children of men. David was betrayed repeatedly
by men. At Keola, he fought against the
Philistines and delivered the inhabitants of that city. And
no sooner had he delivered the inhabitants of that city than
they went to Saul and told Saul, the Lord said, they are going
to betray you to Saul. And then in the wilderness of Ziph, he
hid himself from Saul, and the Ziphites went up to Saul and
said to him, they said of David, our part shall be to deliver
him into the king's hand. And then at Nob, Elimelech, the
priest, gave David food, and he gave him a sword. And Doeg
was standing there and saw it happen. And Doeg went straight
to Saul and told him everything that happened. He was betrayed
many times. But David's a type of Christ
and he wasn't forsaken nearly like the Lord Jesus Christ was
forsaken. The Lord Jesus Christ was betrayed
by Judas. He had men continually coming
up to him and flattering him with their words, all of which
were to justify themselves from not hearing him and to try to
defend their own works. Everything that they said to
the Lord was for that case. And then finally, the faithful
men that he had called out left him. And he tread the wide press
of the fury of God all by himself. He knows what it is to be totally
left alone. Truly godly men, truly faithful
men do help us. They help us greatly. They strengthen
us with their advice. They cheer us up by their example. They delight us with their fellowship.
They teach us patience by their endurance. And they excite us
with their zeal for the work of the Lord. I was working on
this message Brother Don called last night. asked about the trip
to Virginia, and he asked, did we spend the night on Sunday
or drive back? And I said, well, we drove back
Sunday. And he said, man, I can't believe we drove all the way
back on Sunday. I said, yeah. And I said, you know, I've driven
40 hours this month with the kids. And I said, where are you
headed? And he said, well, I'm headed
down to Sylacauga right now." And he said, as soon as I leave
there, me and Sheba are going to England and then to Ireland.
And then I fly right back into town and I preach at our place.
And I head straight from there down to College Grove and preach
down there. And I said, well, I'll start complaining about
how tired I am when you slow down. But they do cheer us. Faithful men cheer us. They do. They set a good example for us. But godly faithful men are only
men. They're only men. And when we
read Hebrews 11, of all those faithful men, this is what we
read about all of them. These all died in faith. And that's our loss. We mourn
their loss with bittersweet tears because it's our loss. It's their
gain to be with the Lord, but it's our loss. And it does cause
us bittersweet tears, but even in that, the Lord teaches us
to keep our eye fixed on Him that never fails, to look to
Him. This is what Psalm 11 back there
said, if the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Well,
here's what the righteous can do. Here's what the believer
can do. He can draw near to our high priest and ask, help Lord,
help Lord. That's what we can do. Let's
look first of all at three or four things about this prayer.
First of all, look how short it is. It's just two words, really
just one word. Help is the word, Lord is the
object to whom he's praying. So it's really just a one word
prayer, help, save. We're living in a busy time,
and we get real, real busy, but we have time to ask that prayer,
don't we? Help, Lord. Help, Lord. Notice how to the point it is.
He just said what he needed. Help, Lord. When our children
come to us and they start stammering and hem-hawing around and wanting
something from us, we tell them, just spit it out. Just tell me
what you want from me. Well, we come to the Lord a lot
of times when we're praying before men, we like to pray a lot of
doctrine. God knows His doctrine. He don't
need us to tell us His doctrine. And He knows, we know the doctrine.
He taught it to us in our heart. The prayer's short and to the
point. Ask Him for what you need. And
notice here, too, that how importunate and how full of faith it is.
These two words help. Lord. He expresses his utter
weakness by saying, help, save Lord. He's saying, I can't do
anything, help. And by saying Lord, he's saying
that he believes, he trusts that God's able, that he's able to
help him. So that's where we flee to. The
Lord Jesus Christ, he walked where we walked, where we walked.
He's been surrounded by ungodly, unfaithful men. He was betrayed. He tread the winepress alone.
And when he walked as the faithful servant of God, he committed
himself unto God that judges righteously. And his father heard
him. And he raised him and he's seated
with him now. And this is what he says to us
over in Hebrews 4. In Hebrews chapter 4, he tells
us this. He says, seeing then that we
have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus,
the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not
a high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our
infirmities, but was in all points tempted like as we are yet without
sin. Let us therefore come boldly
unto the throne of grace that we may obtain mercy and find
grace to help, grace to help in time of need. All right, let's
go back now. Secondly, let's look at the characteristics
of unfaithful men that he's talking about. Verse 2, they speak vanity,
every one with his neighbor. With flattering lips and with
a double heart do they speak. Look over at Jeremiah chapter
9. Now this is the case of all men,
unless God create us anew in heart. This is the case of all
men by nature. Every man by nature is treacherous,
and he's a truthless cheat. And that's what a man is by nature.
Listen to this description from God, speaking about man in Jeremiah's
day, and tell me if it doesn't sound just exactly like a description
of our day. Jeremiah 9 verse 2, Oh, that
I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, that
I might leave my people and go from them, for they be all adulterers. an assembly of treacherous men,
and they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they
are not valiant for the truth upon the earth, for they perceive
from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord. Take
ye heed every one of his neighbor." You hear what he's saying? Be
careful of your neighbor. This is the Lord God speaking.
Take heed every one of his neighbor. Trust ye not in any brother,
not just any brother. For every brother will utterly
supplant, and every neighbor will walk with slanders, and
they will deceive every one his neighbor and will not speak the
truth. They've taught their tongue to speak lies. and weary themselves
to commit iniquity. Work hard at it. Thine habitation
is in the midst of deceit. That's where we live. That's
our habitation, in the midst of deceit. Through deceit they
refuse to know me, saith the Lord. Their tongue is an arrow
shot out. It speaketh deceit. One speaketh
peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he's
laying in wait. He's laying a snare. Godly men
don't speak that way. Turn over to 1 Thessalonians
chapter 2. 1 Thessalonians chapter 2. Godly
men don't speak that way. Look here with me. 1 Thessalonians
chapter 2. Paul is speaking here of the
Thessalonians and he says, for yourselves, brethren, know our
entrance in unto you that it was not in vain. Those that speak
these flattering lips, they use vanity. Paul said, ours wasn't
in vain. He says, but even after that
we had suffered before and were shamefully entreated, as you
know at Philippi, They were beaten and smitten and had all kinds
thrown in prison at Philippi. That's where the Philippian jailer
was saved. And yet he still went forth and
preached the gospel to these people. Even after that, men
in our day won't do it having no danger of being thrown in
prison. And he said, we were bold in
our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention,
in the face of much contention. For our exhortation was not of
deceit, it wasn't of uncleanness, nor in guile, but as we were
allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak. Not as pleasing men, but God,
which trieth our hearts. For neither at any time use we
flattering words, as you know, nor do we use a cloak of covetousness. God is witness. Nor of men sought
we glory. We weren't seeking the praise
of men, nor of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been
burdensome as the apostles of Christ. This was a true preacher
of the gospel. He said, I spoke plainly to you.
I didn't speak with flattering words. So let me speak plainly
to you. Let me speak plainly to you without
flattering words. Sinners are dead. They're not
damaged. Sinners are dead. They're not
damaged. All men by nature are God-haters,
not God-lovers. All men by nature hate the true
and living God. They'll choose their own life
and protect their own life, but not choose life, the life, who
is Christ Jesus. And none can make a man willing
but God. None can make a man. Men don't
get saved by walking an aisle. Men don't get saved by walking
the Romans' road. Men don't get saved by repeating
what some flattering false prophet tells them to repeat. by mom
and dad baptizing you, or because your mom and daddy are believers.
Sinners aren't saved for those reasons. Where the grace of God
is absent, where it's not present, where there's not any grace of
God working in the heart, men will be insincere in everything
they say. That means impure. Impurity will
prevail. The natural heart is a double
heart. It's teaching one thing with another intent. It's a double
heart. It's a selfish motive. I'll give
you an example of that over in Matthew 15. Matthew 15. What happened there was that
men were teaching commandments of men, making it sound like
God had said it. Teaching commandments of men,
which made sinners to think that they could keep the commandments
of God, and that by doing what these men said to do, they were
keeping the commandments of God. Christ here is not telling men,
you can keep the commandments of God. That's not what He's
doing. What He's saying here is by using that kind of deceit,
they made the law of God of none effect. They weren't using the
law lawfully to declare men guilty. They weren't using the law lawfully
to shut men's mouths and drive them to Christ for mercy. They
were turning men to the law, to their works, by their own
hand, and not shutting them up to the work of Christ. In verse
Matthew 15, 6, he says, And thus have you made the commandment
of God of none effect by your tradition. And he said, Ye hypocrites,
well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, This people draw nigh
unto me with their mouth. They appear to be speaking truth
and honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
That's the double heart. They draw near outwardly, but
the heart doesn't draw near. And he says, but in vain do they
worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. And
he called the multitude and he said to them, hear and understand,
not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man, but that
which comes out of the mouth, that's what defiles a man. See,
the Lord used the law lawfully. He turned around and said, look,
It's not you're abstaining for something you eat or drink that's
going to defile you. That's not what's going to defile
you. What's defiling you is your own deceitful, wicked heart. That's what the law is teaching
us. The deceit's in here. The deceit's in the heart. And
what's at the bottom of all these flattering lips? Self is at the
bottom of it. That's what every me, mine, mine
is exactly what the flattering lips are out to gain. Unregenerate sinners are seeking
one thing. They're seeking to protect their
own life. And that life may be money. that
life may be preeminence, honor, praise, position in a church,
and that life may be some ungodly false religion. Profession of
faith, but that's what that's what these flattering lips are
trying to protect their life what they've built what they've
accomplished The natural man cannot deny himself and will
not deny himself until God puts him face down in the dirt It
makes him own who he is. That's just true. Now that's
being plain with you. Here's the truth of the matter
Sinners are born of God without the help of men Sinners are born
of God. Christ the truth said this, it's
the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are
life. In John 1, this is a good illustration, John 1, John chapter
1, verse 10 says he was in the world
and the world was made by him and the world knew him not. He
came to his own, and his own received him not. He came to
his own countrymen, and his own countrymen didn't receive him.
But as many as received him, here's why they received him.
To them gave He the power, the privilege to become the sons
of God, even to them that believe on His name, which were born,
not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will
of man, but of God." Do you see that? They were born of God.
Look to the right there at Romans 2. Look at Romans 2. The Jews were making their boast
in the law, and Paul throughout the whole book of Romans is dealing
with this particular sin. The particular sin he's dealing
with in the book of Romans is the sin of trying to come to
God by your works under the law. That's the sin he's dealing with.
That's the exact sin he's dealing with from beginning to end in
Romans. And he begins there by showing them in Romans 1 this
awful, awful pollution and filth of homosexuals and bestiality
and all these vile things of sinners. And then he turned right
around to the Jews that he was writing to and he said, and do
you think you're any different? That make you boast in the law,
that claim to be keeping the law? He said, do you think you're
any different? You do the very same thing. They're saying, we're
Jews because this is what we've done. We're Jews, we're children
of God because this is what we did. And this is where Paul ends
up with them in Romans 2.28. He said, he's not a Jew which
is one outwardly. Neither is that circumcision
which is outward in the flesh. But he's a Jew which is one inwardly. And circumcision is that of the
heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter. You see that? Whose praise is not of men, but
of God. It's of God. God does this work.
God creates in a sinner life and makes him to see who God
is. The Lord was talking to Peter
one day, and He said, who do men say I am? And Peter said,
well, some say you're this one, and some say you're that one,
and some say you're Elias and different. And He said, but who
do you say I am? See, it doesn't matter who your
sister says he is, or your mama says he is, or your daddy says
he is, or your neighbor says he is, who do you say he is?
That's what matters. And Simon answered, and he said,
Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And the Lord
said to him, You're blessed, Simon Bar-Jonah, because flesh
and blood didn't reveal that to you. You didn't get that from
yourself or your mama or daddy or neighbor or anybody else.
He said, My Father which is in heaven revealed that to you.
He revealed that to you. And when that sinner is born
of God, look at Romans chapter 9, when that sinner is born of
God and given eyes to see by God, we're made to see that salvation
is of God and not of man. This is why God elected whom
He would. Because if he didn't, none of us would have been saved.
No man would have been saved. Man makes his boast of his will.
I can do what I want to. I have a will. My will's free.
Believe on God then. You can't do it. You can't make
yourself do it. You can't make yourself the light
in these glorious, exceeding great, precious promises of God. A man can't make himself admit
he's a sinner, a vile maggot, unworthy of the least of God's
mercies. A man can't make himself say those things about himself.
A man can't deny himself until God makes him see who he is and
makes him see who God is. And when He does, He's going
to make you to see that God elected whom He would because a dead
God-hating sinner will not choose God. Romans 9.15, He said to
Moses, I'll have mercy on whom I'll have mercy, and I'll have
compassion on whom I'll have compassion. So then it's not
of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that
shows mercy. And this elect that was given to Him, Christ came
into this earth for this purpose. He said, I came to lay down my
life for the sheep. Not everybody. He didn't say,
come to lay down my life for everybody. He said, I came to
lay down my life for the sheep. You see, what was taking place
at the cross was a transaction, a divine transaction wherein
this spotless one was being made the sin of a particular people. and the wrath of God was poured
out on this one for that particular people. So that when he answered
to justice for that particular people, they were justified from
all their sins from which they could not be justified by the
law of Moses. He did that. He accomplished
that. He hath obtained eternal redemption
for us. That's what he did. That means
everyone for whom he died have their sins put away, they're
justified before God, and they have to be brought by faith to
lay hold of this one who has justified them because for them
to perish and God to pour out wrath upon them a second time
when justice has already been poured out on them would be double
jeopardy. And God's righteous and He's
not unjust. And that's why we preach particular
redemption. That's why we don't talk out
of both sides of our mouths and tell folks, well, Christ died
for the elect, but his grace is sufficient to save everybody. That's just more free will works
religion, trying to shave the edges off, shave the coin down
and make it into a counterfeit so that men will take it and
receive it as the truth when it's not the truth. Any message that makes Christ's
blood to be effectual by the work of the sinner is free will
works religion. It flatters the sinner into thinking
that by something the sinner does, he makes Christ a success. We need Christ's salvation. He
don't need us. He don't need us. We preach particular
redemption because God saves through the gospel, which declares
the successful accomplishment of redemption by Christ, not
through that message which declares Christ a failure without the
sinner's help. You see, if you go come to God
trusting that Jesus, that other Jesus, who had done everything
he can, he's just begging you, pretty please let me save you,
please let me do something for you. What you've done is you've
stepped out of the world into the church. And now you're patting
yourself on the back about what you've done. And you might as
well be a harlot and an adulterer or a pimp out in the back alley
somewhere because now you're just bringing God into it and
making yourself a spiritual adulterer before God Almighty. We're not saved by our will.
We're not saved by our works. And I understand flattering lips
will say, well, we're all sinners. We're all sinners. But they won't
tell you that the natural man receiveth not the things of God. He can't know them. He can't
know them. The natural man is alienated
from the life of God because of the blindness of the heart.
The flattering lip will tell you this. I want you to see this. I asked some of our young people
this a while ago. John 3.16. Look at John 3.16. Our Lord is speaking right here,
and He's telling Nicodemus that Nicodemus is blind as a bat.
That's what He told him. And told him he can't know God
unless he's born of the Spirit. Now the flattering man will quote
this verse right here, John 3, 16. And I delight in this verse. I love it. For God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish but have everlasting life. And the
flattering lips won't fill you in on the fact that he's talking
to a Jew. He's talking to a Jew who thought
he was a child of God because of what he had done, what he'd
accomplished in religion. And to stain his pride, he's
telling him, I gotta elect people that are outside of Israel. They're
in the world that you call the world. That's what Jews called
them. They called them the world. And he said, for God so loved
the world. He's going to elect people among
Jew and Gentile that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever
believeth on him should not perish but have everlasting life. The
flattering lips will tell you that first. But the flattering
lips won't go on and tell you what else the Savior said down
in verse 19. He said, but this is the condemnation.
Light's coming to the world. And men love darkness rather
than light because their deeds are evil. You know what's keeping
you from God? You don't want to come to God
and say, I'm wrong and God, you're right. That's what it is. Everyone
that doeth evil hates the light. Neither comes to the light lest
his deeds should be reproved. The flattering lips will say,
well, Jesus will save you if you'll put your trust in Him.
He will. No doubt about that. But the
sinner's got to be shut up to the fact that what the Lord said,
that no man can come to me except the Father which has sent me,
draw him. You see, without preaching, preaching the truth of how God
saves sinners, and shutting sinners up to the fact that I'm totally,
utterly dependent upon God to do it. We flatter, men flatter
with the lips, so that the liar leaves the choice up to the man. It makes the man to feel like,
okay, so this, the ball's in my court now. Whatever move I
make, this whole thing hinges on what I do. And that's not
so. That's not so. And men don't
preach it because men don't believe that God's able to make you willing
in His power just simply through the preaching of the gospel.
Men believe they got to use hook and crook and nets and all kinds
of baits and lures to try to get you in some other way. I
don't want you got in some other way. You come in some other way
other than God drawing you by His power and His grace and making
you come to God begging for mercy. You're twice dead now. You're worse off than you was
in the beginning. Here's why we don't preach it.
The Lord said, without me you can do nothing. And if we tell
sinners they can do something, here's what happens. If we tell
a man he's got an ability to change his natural condition,
then spiritual life will be by man. Ask a man. Ask the majority. Ask men. Ninety-nine
percent of the men you talk to will begin with the word, I.
I did this. I did so. I did so and so and
so and so. They'll think wisdom and repentance
and faith were all by man, by them, by their will. They'll
think it was a man who put himself in Christ by his choice. They'll
think it's a man who makes Christ's blood effectual. They'll think
it's a man who keeps himself by his own power. And all that's
false. All that's untrue. Then the Lord
Jesus Christ ceases to be the way, the truth, and the life.
And man has put himself in the place of God. That's why we don't
preach that message. Peter came to the Lord after
he told him that about, it's not that which goes into a man
that defiles him, it's that which comes out of his heart. Peter
said, did you know that offended him? And the Lord said, I don't
care. I don't care if it offended him
or not. Do you realize how much better
off we'd be to be offended in this life right now? To be sweetly
forced by the grace of God to bow to Christ right now in this
life. Do you know how much better off it would be for man to have
that to happen than to meet God without Christ? You want to talk
about being offended? Christ is God's Son and God sent
forth His Son because it pleased Him to save His elect through
His Son, not by the sinner's doing. It pleased God that His
Son have the preeminence, not those He saves. It pleased God
that salvation be by Christ's obedience because we're just
disobedience is all we are. And unless His obedience is imputed
to us, we have no righteousness, period. Faith and repentance
are God's gift to us, not something we muster up in ourselves. Some
time ago, I don't know how long ago it was now, but after one
of the messages, Art came up to me and he said, I sure do
thank you for telling us the truth. And I think, I don't remember
exactly what I said to him, but it was something like this. Well,
we've been lied to enough. It's time somebody say the truth.
Tell the truth about how God saves sinners. Well, why are
you so serious and dogmatic about this? Why do you preach that
this has to be what has to be declared? Well, look at verse
3. Here's why. Verse 3, Psalm 12, 3. The Lord shall cut off all flattering
lips and the tongue that speaks proud things, who have said,
with our tongue will we prevail, our lips are our own, whose Lord
over us. That's why I'm so dogmatic about
it. Because you and I are going to meet God very, very soon. We're going to meet God. And
I don't want you to stand before God and expect God to receive
you in your pride. That's why I preach this. He
said there's going to be many, many who will say to me in that
day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name? And
in thy name cast out devils, and in thy name done many wonderful
works? and then will I profess unto them, I never knew you.
Depart from me, ye that work iniquity." Oh, can you imagine
hearing those words spoken to you? Talk no more so exceedingly
proud. Let not arrogance come out of
your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions
are weighed. Self-will, self-love, self-righteousness,
self-sufficiency. Preach it, and the wicked will
walk on every side. Look at verse 8. The wicked walk
on every side when the vilest of men are exalted. When I was
younger, we used to go long ways to go to church, and we passed
a bunch of big buildings. And wicked men have flocked to
hear the message of free will. They'll flock to hear the message
of works religion. They'll flock if you just tell
them there's something they can do. They'll flock to hear that
message. And listen, I'll be the first
one to tell you, God saves the people zealous of good works.
Be careful to maintain good works. Honest in your job, honest in
your community, honest in your home. Be careful to maintain
good works, good works. But I will not tell you that
and without making sure you understand our salvation's in Christ. And
most of what I hear about good works is good stuff that's said,
but it's not telling sinners the truth. And when I preach
to you, I told you the first time I ever preached to you,
I'm gonna preach the same thing to you every time. I'm gonna
preach to you God's sovereign electing grace. I'm going to
preach to you the necessity of Christ's particular redemption
for His people. I'm going to preach to you the
necessity of the regenerating of the Holy Spirit of God, of
Him giving us faith and repentance. I'm going to preach to you Him
preserving us and keeping us. I'm going to preach to you that
salvation is of the Lord. I'm going to preach to you because
we're helpless dead sinners without Him. That's why. So that from
the first time I preach to you, you heard everything I'm going
to say to you. And we used to go over to a place
that didn't have many more people than this right here. And on
the way over there, my uncle sat in the back seat one time
and he asked my grandfather, he said, we passed bigger and
better churches all the way over here. Why do we come all the
way over here? And that's what the natural thought
is. Look how much bigger those buildings are. Look how much
nicer they are. Look how much more contemporary
they are. I feel so good when I go to that church, it's almost
like going to a movie. Well, why don't you just go to
a movie then? Get God out of it. The Lord answers the prayer of
the needy. That's the fourth thing we see here, verse 5. He
says, for the oppression of the poor, or the sighing of the needy,
now will I arise, saith the Lord. I'll set him in safety from him
that puffeth at him. The words of the Lord are pure
words. Man's words are deceitful and
cunning and wicked, flattering words, but the Lord's words are
pure words. A silver trout in a furnace of
earth purified seven times. That's pure. Christ hears us
because Christ the Word came to where we are. And Christ the
Word walked this earth oppressed by wicked religious men. He walked this earth and He had
His godly faithful men forsake Him when He went to that cross.
Peter denied Him, denied Him. Flattering tongues betrayed Him
on every side. They were constantly coming to
Him and saying, Good Master, Good Master, when the whole objective
was to try to entangle Him in something He said so they could
charge Him with sin. They never did. They never could.
But it was going on constantly around Him. But He remained faithful,
even right up to the obedience of the cross. And He went to
that cross and He went and He laid down His life for His sheep
just like He promised the Father He would. And the Word, who spoke
the words of God, who fulfilled the words of God, committed himself
to him that judges righteously. And he cried, Help, Lord! And
the Father heard him. The Father heard him because
he trusted the Father. He believed the Father. He committed
himself unto him that judges righteously. And when He had
purged our sins, when He had obtained eternal redemption for
His people, when eternal justice was satisfied for all the elect
of God, when He cried out and said, It is finished! Sins put away! It's done. I brought an end to transgressions.
It's done. It's over with. God the Father
answered. And He said, Now will I arise,
saith the Lord, and I'll set him in safety from him that puffeth
at him. because His children are one
with Him. Whenever some vain, flattering
tongues start walking on every side, and when He hears our cry
for help, according to His faithful Word, this is what He does. Verse
7, Thou shalt keep them, O Lord. Thou shalt preserve them from
this generation forever. This generation is not just David's
generation. It's not just our generation.
It's not just the generation to come. It's the generation
of the wicked. That's who it is. And the Lord's
going to keep His people from the generation of the wicked
forever. Read it again and rest right here, brethren. Thou shalt
keep them, O Lord. Thou shalt preserve them from
this generation forever. Mmm, that makes me so happy.
That makes me, that makes me so, that just chases away all
my doubts and all my fears and all my cares. When I listen to
the candidates talk about what they're going to do for this
country, talking out of both sides of their mouth, and both
of them are doing it, don't think they're not. Somebody a long time ago said
the key to being a good politician is promise them everything and
don't do a thing. I'm so glad he's going to preserve
us from the generation of the wicked. That's what he says he'll
do. And his words are sure words. They're sure words. They've been
tried in the furnace. He's born. The word that fulfilled
the words has come and he's made his words sure for us so that
every word he speaks, every word of promise he speaks to his child
is yes and amen in him. He's going to keep His children.
He will keep the feet of His saints, and the wicked shall
be silent in darkness, for by strength shall no man prevail."
Well, our Redeemer is the great Redeemer. He's going to keep
every one of His poor, needy saints, and He's going to keep
every one of us safe. We're going to live forever,
and none are going to be corrupted, and none are going to be intimidated
by them. Now, there's only two things
to do. For the sinner without Christ, flee to Him. And for
the believer, cry to Him. That's it. That's it. Our Savior
is the mighty God of heaven and earth, and He shall lose none
who put their trust in Him. Absolutely none. Amen.