Very often we come into trials and hard times
and conflicts in our life that make it difficult to hold your
head up. The Apostle Paul wrote this letter
to the Philippians from prison when he was in Rome. I don't think we would have expected someone to write such
an encouraging letter if we could have seen the condition that
he was in, where he was. He had some leniency in that
folks could come and he was able to preach the gospel to them.
But any time your freedom is taken away, It's difficult. But yet he writes
this letter, and I think, in my opinion, it's one of the most
encouraging letters in all of Scripture. And he begins here
in Philippians 1. Paul and Timotheus, the servants
of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at
Philippi with the bishops and deacons, Grace be unto you and
peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I thank
my God upon every remembrance of you. I like how he puts that
because, you know, I'd rather somebody
tell me that I pray for you every time I think about you. They
tell me, you're always in my prayer. Well, don't lie to me.
But when I think of you, I pray for you. There's nothing wrong
with that, to be honest. I thank my God upon every remembrance
of you, always in every prayer of mine for you all, making requests
with joy. And I like that. I like the certainty
of that statement. When he thought of them, he said,
always. in every prayer for you all,
making requests with joy. And he says, and I'm thankful
for your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now. And here's our text, being confident
of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you
will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. being confident of this very
thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform
it. You'll finish it until the day
of Jesus Christ. I have some confidence myself, just
as Paul had some confidence, that the Lord's people here are
going to to persevere in the Gospel. And when you hear that word perseverance, what do you think of? I know
what Paul didn't mean. I know what he didn't mean. Turn
over to Philippians 3 and look at verse 3. Paul says, we are
the circumcision. This is a true believer, a true
Israelite, spiritual Israel, which worship God in the Spirit
and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh. So I know when Paul says here
that he's persuaded, he's confident of this thing, He's not talking
about any power that resides in you and I, in our flesh. And you know that. You know that. But He says here, but I'm confident. I'm confident. I have five divisions
for you this morning. And don't get alarmed by that. They're going to go by quickly.
The first one is, He which hath begun. The second point is, a
good work. The third point is, in you. The fourth point is, we'll perform
it. We'll finish it. And the last
point is, until the day of Jesus Christ. Let's begin here with
the first one. Here's what Paul's confidence
was. It was not in the flesh, it was
a He. Verse Philippians 1, 6 says,
being confident of this very thing, that He, God the Father, God the Son,
and God the Holy Spirit, this One who is holy and mighty to
save, and whom righteousness and peace have kissed each other,
this One who works irresistibly as He pleases upon the hearts
of His people. He is the believer's every reason
to be confident and have full assurance. I like what Pete read
there. All things work together for
good to them that love God. That's where most folks stop.
But it's to them who are the called according to His purpose,
according to what He's determined before to be done. It's His purpose
that's being carried out in all things. And so Paul says, I'm
confident. I have every confidence that
He which hath begun a good work, He'll finish it. And he says
here, this One that he's talking of, all glory must be given to
Him because He's the beginning. He's the first. He's the Alpha
of all things. He's the One that will receive
the glory in everything, including, and most of all, our salvation.
If you want a verse of Scripture that will help you when you're
going to any Scripture you're looking at studying this Bible, if you want a verse of Scripture
that will help you, you can read first before you go to any verse
in this Bible. Let me give you one. Turn with
me to Genesis chapter 1. Now here's a phrase. Anywhere you go in the Bible,
anything you study in the Bible, go to this phrase and use this
phrase when you're looking at it if you want to see who's going
to get the glory in the context of what you're studying. In the
beginning, God. Isn't that simple? Wherever you
are, whether you're looking at how a sinner begins to understand
Christ, in the beginning, God. If you're looking at how God
brings glory to Himself, in the beginning, God. If you want to
look to how a sinner is preserved by grace, it begins with God. You want to know who's going
to get the praise and the recognition and glory? It's going to all
begin with God. God is the Alpha. He's the beginning. All things begin with Him. And
you can set that for your guide whenever you're studying this
Scripture to know that who's going to get the glory in this?
If you're studying the epistles and you're studying things that
that seem to be much more practical, remember, it begins with God. His acting in us and upon us
and moving everything that is in this world to bring to pass
exactly what He's purposed to bring to pass. We love Him. Why? Because He first loved us,
John said. the Lord do in the beginning.
He created the heavens and the earth. He created everything
that was in it. But there was no light in the
world. The absence of light is darkness. Just darkness. But He said, He spoke and said,
Let there be light. And you know what happened? There
was light. Look at 2 Corinthians chapter
4 with me. in verse 6. Here's how Paul describes
what happened to him when he was born of God. He said, for
God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness. What's
he talking about? He's talking about Genesis chapter
1. In the same manner that God said, let there be light. That
darkness that covered the face of the deep The earth being without
form and void. Paul said, that's me. That was
me. But God said, let there be light. And He shined. This One who,
in the same manner that He shined, commanded the light to shine
out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. This is the One we're talking
about. He begins the work. God our Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ, the Holy Spirit is the one who begins the work. He begins
it. Well, what is the work? What
is the work? Paul said, He which hath begun
a good work. It's a good work. It's a good
work. You know, when Paul said, in
me, And then in parenthesis he said
that is in my flesh. Dwells no good thing? He had
to say in my flesh because he had to separate that which was
natural and a product of Adam from that which God had begun
in him. Because that which God had begun
in him we find here is good work. It's something good. But in our
flesh, nothing good. That which is of us is just evil. Nothing good about it. So Paul
said, he said, I know in me, wait a minute now, that is in
my flesh dwells nothing good. But God hath begun a good work
in his people. Now let me show you here something
about this good work. It begins in regeneration. It's not the first thing that
happens. this good work. It's not the first point of this
good work, but as Robert Hawker said, this work of regeneration
by the Holy Ghost, though in fact is the last in point of
order among the persons of the Godhead. It's the last of the good work
that takes place, but it's the first in point of our apprehension
to the knowledge of the love of God. A lot happened before
we were given life to understand these things. God put a people
in Christ Jesus way before He ever even spoke the world into
existence. The Lord Jesus Christ entered
into a covenant with Him to redeem this people. The Spirit of Grace
entered into covenant to raise Him from the dead, to raise these
people from the dead, to comfort His people. And in time All over
the ages of time, God has done a good work in providing us shadows
and types. What did Peter say? These things
that are written in the Scriptures, they're written for our admonition.
In our day, we have the benefit of hindsight. In 2020, we can
look back and see everything that took place. And then in time, the Lord Jesus
Christ came. We weren't around when that happened.
He came and earned a righteousness and went to the cross and laid
down His life and redeemed His people, purchased them, put away
their sin completely, justified them. And all along the way, God worked
a good work all along the way to where He moved everything
in time and purposed everything with your great-grandparents
and your grandparents and your parents and brought you to where
you are now. And then in time, He speaks His
Word in a season, in season. And He gives you a heart. And
all of a sudden, light shines where there was no light. And
we see and we behold all that God has done in this world to
bring everything through the channel that He purposed it to
go to bring us right here to where we are today. And we realize
that He began the good work. The good work is all His good
work. More and more I study the Scripture
and I read about good works. I tell you, the good work is
what He did. The good work is what He did.
What He's doing and what He'll continue to do until He brings
all His people home. That's the good work. And this good work whenever the
Lord was talking to Nicodemus, and He made that statement, except
a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into
the Kingdom of God. We can't enter into, even reasonably
enter into, with our minds we can't even enter into, the kingdom
of God. You enter into the things which
God has prepared before for them that love. We can't even enter
into these things unless we be born of God. And then we see
as through a glass, just a dim, just a flicker here and there,
we see of these things. We can't behold them in their
fullness, even now. Once God begins this good work,
we behold three chief things we behold when God begins this
work. I'll tell you what the first
one is. If you'll look over at Isaiah 30. Down there in verse
22. You should defile also the covering
of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten
images of gold. Thou shalt cast them away as
a minstrel's cloth. Thou shalt say unto it, Get thee
hence. The first thing that's going
to happen brethren when God shines the light, is we're going to
see that our works are pollution. We're going to see that everything
that we put our trust in, our confidence in, Nothing. But we
got to have that light to see it. I think I told you this before
as an illustration, but I'll tell it to you again. I was,
when I was working in Tennessee, I was inspecting a house. And
I went in, it was an apartment building, and there were folks,
folks were, a lot of times we'd go to the door, I was going around
with the apartment manager, and folks wouldn't be there. But
I'd go in with him and he'd go with me so I could go around
and inspect these rooms in this apartment. And I went into this
room in this apartment and the lights were off in the room.
And I couldn't see a thing in there. And I always liked to
keep the lights off because I could use my flashlight and I could
focus in right on where I'm looking. With the light on, you can't
see as well trying to highlight the spotlight thing. So I had
the light off and I was walking around spotlighting in that room,
you know, and I was just doing my job at peace. I was comfortable,
nothing was wrong. And every time it would happen
this way, whoever was with you, if somebody was with you, they'd
walk in and think you were crazy for not turning the light on.
Well, why don't you turn the light on, you know? Well, the landlord walked in
behind me and he said, dear, turn the light on. He turned
the light on. And I was standing beside a bed right here like
this. And I looked down and there was
a Komodo dragon, one of those big ugly lizards, sitting there. And I mean he was perched up
giving me the eye, you know. And you talk, say, get the hints. I jumped away from that thing.
It scared me. But that's what I'm talking about
here. When God turns on the light, Those things, we were in peace,
we were in safety, we were walking along. We didn't know we were
in darkness. We didn't know. We thought our works were good
works. And God turns on that light. And we see that awful,
and it's ugly. And we don't want to have anything
to do with it anymore. That's what's got to take place. And
then, we'll behold our Redeemer. We behold our Redeemer. And from
that day forward, we grow more and more and more in love with
our Redeemer. Look over at Song of Solomon
with me. Chapter 5. This is the description of the
Lord's church gifts to Him. She says, verse 10, My beloved
is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. Our Lord's
holy. He's faithful. He's pure. Everything He does is for the
benefit of His people. His head is as the most fine
gold. His locks are bushy and black
as a raven. You remember Solomon's strength
was in his hair? You remember that? Solomon writing
this under the inspiration of God gives some so he says his
head is as the most fine gold The head's where wisdom is he's
wise and the strength of wisdom is with our Lord His eyes are
as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters washed with milk and
fitly set I've challenged you Try to sneak up on a dove Try
to sneak up on a dove A dove drinks water like a cow drinks
water. They'll walk up to a river and
bend down in a river and drink from it. But their eyes are always
watching because they don't have any defenses. Their eyes are
always watching. And he says here, their milk,
they're like washed with milk, fitly set. A dove not doing any
harm to anybody, not trying to harm anybody. And it says, his cheeks are as
a bed of spices, as sweet flowers, his lips like lilies, dropping
sweet-smelling myrrh. His hands are as gold rings set
with a barrel. His belly is as bright ivory
overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble
set upon sockets of fine gold. His countenance is as Lebanon,
excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet. Yea,
he's altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this
is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem. This one is described
here as a sweet smell. You ever walk through the mall
and you come across one of those Cinnabon stores, you know, that
makes those? Man, I can't hardly pass it.
It just smells good. You're just drawn into it, aren't
you? You've got to turn around. That's our Lord Jesus Christ.
When He's turned on this light and He's revealed Himself in
us, He becomes so sweet. You're drawn to Him. You've got
to come hear the gospel priest. You want to read His Word. You
want to know more about Him. You want to be set upon Him to
know more of Him. That young person that's in that
crowded hallway, They had their eye on that girl, you know, for
so long, and she comes up one day and says something sweet
to you. She got you. She got you then,
don't she? He captures us with his goodness. And it says that his hands are
as gold rings set with beryl, his belly as bright ivory overlaid
with sapphire, legs as pillars of marble. These are immovable
things. These are things that are very
valuable and can't be moved and that we hold dear and that holds
us. But that's our Lord. And then
thirdly, whenever He begins this work in us, He continues this
work in us so that we have all abundance of gifts. Look with
me at 1 Corinthians 1. Verse 4, Paul says, I thank my
God always on your behalf for the grace of God which is given
you by Jesus Christ, that in everything Now get that, in everything
you're enriched by Him. In all utterance, and in all knowledge. And that's
the same way the testimony of Christ was confirmed in you by
Him. So that you come behind in no
gift. You lack nothing. And you're
waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall also
confirm you unto the end so that you lack nothing. that you may
be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful
by whom you were called and to the fellowship of His Son Jesus
Christ our Lord. This is that good work. You see,
brethren, if grace was by chance, folks want it to be by chance.
I don't believe that's fair. Everybody ought to have a chance.
Well, if it was by chance, if God gave everybody a chance,
then He could just as well turn away from you and say, well,
I decided I'm not going to give you a chance. But if it's by
grace, by an unchanging God who does not change, then your salvation
is secure. It's done. And I don't know. I like things that are sure things.
I like sure things. Well, it says here, too, that
this is third list. This is a work that's done in
you. He which hath begun a good work in you. You know, we looked last week
at the shepherd and the sheepfold and how that he says he comes
to the sheepfold and his sheep hear his voice. And, you know,
in towns, in that day when the Lord walked this earth, there
would be a place you could take your sheep. And that was the
sheepfold, and you could put your sheep in that sheepfold.
And there was a porter there, and he guarded that door. There
was one way in, one way out, unless you climbed up over the
walls or something to get in some other way. And he would
come. He said, I come to that sheepfold.
And I knock, and the porter opens the door, and I enter in. And
I call my sheep, and my sheep hear my voice. And they know
my voice, and they follow me. And I was reading this week,
one of the writers said that that porter is like the Holy
Spirit. When Christ is determined to
call one of His sheep, He comes to the sheepfold where His sheep
are, where He's gathered them together. calls and the porter
opens the door, opens the heart and Christ enters in and calls
His sheep and we hear Him and follow Him. And that's the hope of glory,
brethren. Christ in you is the hope of
glory. The Kingdom of God, the Scripture
says, within you. Remember when Nicodemus came
to him and Nicodemus said, he told Nicodemus, you can't
see the kingdom of God unless you're born from above. He's
the kingdom of God. The essence of the kingdom is
Him. It's wrapped up in Him. We can't
see Him. But when he says the kingdom
of God is in you, it's Christ in you. Christ in you. And we know, Brethren, when we
read Romans 8, He says, you're not in the flesh,
but in the Spirit. If so, be that the Spirit of
God dwell in you. He dwells in us by Spirit. And
if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he's none of His.
If Christ be in you, the body's dead because of sin, but the
Spirit's life because of righteousness. And John told them, he said,
you're of God, little children. You've overcome the world because
greater is He that's in you than he that's in the world. That's
what has to be. Our God has to take up residence
within us. And then His church as He brings
us here together. Paul here is not speaking, he's
also not speaking just of individuals. He's talking about the whole
church at Philippi. He that has begun a good work
in your midst will perform it to the day of Jesus Christ. But
this work has to be begun in us to bring us together and He
thereby holds us together and in our midst He gives to each
one what we need and works His work that's pleasing in His sight,
that accomplishes His purpose and brings to pass that which
is best for us. I wish There's going to be AJ, for instance. AJ's going to be, he'd be gone
before long, off to college. And I was thinking, I was thinking
about him this week. I was thinking about some of the older kids
this week. And I was thinking of how, when
I was their age, I was just trying to think, you know, what can
I, how can I simplify this thing to where they can understand
the importance of it. And I know I can't make anybody
understand this, but I know when I was younger, I just didn't
care about these things. It just seemed so crazy to think
that this is real, that this is real. Everything else seems
real. Everything else seemed like what
was real. And I'd leave from service and think, man, these
old folks just, what's wrong with them? Why are they so always
wanting to come over here and hear this same old message? And
man, I'm glad to get away from that bunch of folks. They're
just so uppity. You think that, don't you, AJ? I don't want to get him in trouble.
I know what he's thinking. I know what he's thinking. I
thought the same thing. But, oh, when Christ enters in, it's all the difference. It is
all the difference. When the Scriptures say, who
makes thee differ? It's true. He makes us to differ. And, you know, when you're young,
especially until you have those thoughts that, man, I've got
all my life for this. You know, it's no big deal. Your life may be over today. I was watching this week on the
TV about how the, all the, all the cost of college now. You know, they're showing that
kids protesting because college costs so much. And they're just
going to be up to their ears in debt by the time they get
out and start working. And it makes me think that we've
been so trained in our minds to think that everybody's got
to go to college. And I'm not against that. I went. But what I'm saying is when we
start out in life on a treadmill, a slave to this world, it's hard
to get off of it. I'll tell you, if a parent raised a child Seek
the Lord first. Seek Him first. I really wouldn't care what my
child's doing if they know the Lord. I really wouldn't. I wouldn't
care what they're doing. I'm hesitant to say that because
I know parents sit here, you want your kids to go to school.
I tell you, this is what's important. This is what's important. And
then Paul says here, he that has begun this good work in you,
he'll finish it. He'll finish it. What God has
begun, God will finish. He'll finish it. Scripture tells
us we've got to suffer a little while, but after we've suffered
a little while, He'll make you perfect. He'll establish you.
He'll strengthen you. He'll settle you. That happens
throughout trials, but that's where we're headed. He's going
to establish us when He calls us home in glory. He's going
to finish this thing. God's character ensures He's
going to finish it because He's holy. He made a promise, and
His promise is He's going to save a people for Himself. He
promised His Son a people, and He's holy. His Son's going to
have that people. And because Christ died for them,
He's not going to punish that people twice. Because Christ's
righteousness is charged to them, He's not going to let them fall
away. Not only is He holy, but He's
unchangeable. He's immutable. He changes not.
That's why we're not consumed already, because God doesn't
change. Because He's got a people He's going to save. And He's
faithful. He promised. He's true. You know what you got? You know
what the only thing is you got in this world? The only thing
you got in this world is your word. That's it. When your word
becomes mud, to where it's not worth anything, you got nothing. You got nothing. What I mean
is, is when you say you're gonna do something, do it. And when
God says He's going to do something, He does it. He's faithful. He changes not. He's given us an earnest, those
that know Him. He's given you the Spirit of
God in earnest to let you know He's coming back. He's coming
back. This assurance is not founded
on the flesh. It's not founded on the will
of man. It's not founded on our background or our merit. It's
by divine, free, and sovereign grace that it might be sure to
everyone that believes. And everybody's sure. It's sure. When you go out and get a car, you think, well, the newer I
buy, probably more likely it is to last me longer. Not if a man put it together.
Especially if it was a Friday afternoon when it got put together
or a Monday morning. We go to college and we think,
well, boy, I'll get this degree. I'll be set. Not as long as we're
in the world. That doesn't mean anything. I thought all that time I was
striving to get to a place where I could get a staff writing job. Be a songwriter, you know. Thought,
boy, if I could just get that, I'll be set then. I got it. Walked out of there thinking,
just one of the proudest days of my life. Walked out of there,
just, load was lifted off of me, you know. The next day I
came in, they did everything they could to load me up 10 times
more than when I went in there the first time. And it was a treadmill. Boy,
I mean, I was running. That carrot was always a little
further and a little further out there, and I couldn't ever
quite get it, you know. Always running, running, running. I thought about this week. I
thought this week about the... We have this thought that the
higher we can get in life, in a job or what have you, the more
people we have under us, you know, and all that, the more
easy our job will be. That's kind of what you think
when you're younger. But you know it never ends up being that
way because the more people you have under, the more people you
have to depend on. And you quickly realize that
we can't be depended on. We can't be depended on. And
you realize, and the headache gets harder and harder and harder
when you got more folks to depend on. And you know what that ought
to bring us to think? It ought to bring us to realize,
if I can't depend on anybody else, God's not depending on
me either. But there's somebody He is depending
on. There's somebody that He's put all His trust in, and that's
His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And I tell you what, we can trust
Him. That's what we want. That's what
we want in this life. We want somebody we can trust. That's what a man looks for in
a wife. That's what we try to make, we try to raise our children
and teach them they can trust us. That's what we want in an
occupation. We want an employer that we can
trust. And after all is said and done,
there's one, there's one we can trust. When my mother and father forsake
me, he'll take me up. We got one that sticks closer
than a brother. Well, let's look here at this
last point. And He'll keep us until the day
of Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is going
to be exalted for the work that He finished. And the Lord Jesus
Christ is going to have every person whom He loved and gave
Himself for. He's going to have every one
of them. You see, this thing about salvation, it's not about
me and you. It's not. The world's doing all
they can to pump men and women up to thinking they're so important
that God can't have, heaven won't exist without you. You see these
sad church, there's no church without you. You can't spell
church without you. Yes you can. God's the one that's going to
get all the glory. The Lord Jesus Christ is the one that's going
to get all the glory. This thing's being done for Him. That's why
this world was created, was for Him. All things are by Him and
for Him. And while the world's busy building
men up, His preachers are busy trying to tear them down so that
they can look up to Him and see He's the One that's worthy of
all praise and honor and glory. Satan wants to build men up. God says, You've got to come
down. We've got to come down. Well, look over there with me
at Genesis 12. Oh, I tell you what, look over...
Yeah, go to Genesis 12. When the Lord found Abraham,
he was in unbelief. He was dead in trespasses and
in sins. He had absolutely nothing and
thought he had everything. And God told him to leave his
country, leave his father's house, leave his kindred, and go out
into a foreign land that he didn't know, never been to, didn't have
any relatives in, didn't know anybody in. He told him to leave
everything, forsake everything, and go. That's what you're talking about,
trusting Him. Trusting Him. He told Abraham, trust Me. Trust
Me. And that's what He said there
in verse 1. He said, And I'll make of thee
a great nation, and I'll bless thee, and make thy name great. And thou shalt be a blessing.
And I'll bless them that bless thee, and curse him that cursed
thee. And in thee shall all families
of the earth be blessed. So Abraham departed as the Lord
had spoken unto him. Well, was God faithful? Look over at Genesis 24. Genesis 24. After all Abraham's
wandering and stumbling and going through everything he went through,
we come to Genesis 24.1. And it says, And Abraham was
old, Well stricken in age. Now look at this next phrase.
And the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things. He said He would. He said He
would. He blessed him in all things. You see, The day of Jesus Christ
is not just the day when Christ returns. That will be the day
of Jesus Christ. But it's going to be that day
when you're brought to Him by God. And if God has promised
you, as He promised Abraham here, to leave everything you got,
drop everything you put any trust in, Anything that's of any value
to you leave it behind and God said I'll bless you and I'll
curse them that curse you and all those years later Abraham
was blessed in all things Because God's faithful he promised it
and he did it for this reason because he's he promised his
son a day A day in which He'd be glorified. A day every single
soul that's ever been born into this world, Christ is going to have His day
before every single eye. Every single person on this earth,
He's going to have His day before every one of them. They're going
to be made to bow before Him and confess He's Lord of lords
and King of kings. Every one of them, whether they
know Him or not, whether they believe Him or not, everyone
is going to have their day. And God promised him his day. He's going to have his day. And He said concerning His people,
He said, I've begun a work in them, and I'm going to continue
that work in them, and I'm going to bring them to My Son, and
I'm going to keep them until that day. And in that day, his
people are going to confess, he's altogether lovely. He's
the only reason, when we enter into glory, we're going to say
the only reason I'm here is because of you. It's because of you. You watch these people get up
on these award shows, and they thank everybody, you know, and
they thank somebody. They always thank the man upstairs,
you know. Well, let me tell you something. In that day, there's going to
be one that's going to be thanked. One. And it's going to be Him.
Nobody else. They always give all these...
If it wasn't for so-and-so, I would have never been discovered. If
it wasn't for this one, I'd have never... He opened so many doors
for me. In that day, we're going to say,
I was lost and He found me. I stumbled and he held me up.
I wandered and he directed me in the right path. He opened
every door, closed every door, hedged me about, kept me, all
because I'm his, all because he bought me with his own blood,
justified me before God's law, brought me to himself. I got
one to thank. It's him. It's him. Look over,
I'll close with this passage. Psalm 37.5. Well, what are we going to do
then? Psalm 37.5. Commit thy way unto the Lord. Trust also in Him. And He shall bring it to pass. And He shall bring forth Thy
righteousness as the light. The righteousness that He's saying
is Yours, that He'll bring forth as the light, is the righteousness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. And Thy judgment as the noonday,
You'll know. You'll have peace. You'll know.
Just like can you see better at noon in the middle of the
daytime or at night, at midnight? You see better at noonday, don't
you? He said, Thy judgment will be as the noonday. Verse 28, For the Lord loveth judgment. He loveth that which is right,
equal, fair. and forsaketh not his saints.
They are preserved forever, forever. But the seed of the wicked shall
be cut off. I hope I hope that the Lord Jesus Christ
will become all to you. I pray that the Lord Jesus Christ
will make Himself all to you. They went to the top of the rock.
What's it, 84 flights up, something like that? It's way up there,
anyway. And the elevator opened, and they've got glass, you know,
like this. And on the other side of the
glass, there's just these little ornamental-type things that go
around it. And beyond that is air. It's
nothing. And that elevator door opened
and Will just took off running out of the elevator. And didn't see the glass. And
just took off running and banged his head into the glass and fell
back and just about knocked him out. Melinda was telling me about
it. It scared me to death to hear.
I'm scared of heights. It scared me to hear about it.
I guess if the glass wouldn't have been there, He told me something
about Spider-Man, so I guess if the glass hadn't have been
there, the boy would have just jumped off. 84 flights up. And it scared me to death to
think that he ran into that glass and all that was between him
and that giant fall was a piece of glass. I know. What's between you and
eternity? And it's one breath. That scares me to death for you. One breath. I pray God will give you a heart
to use the next one to seek Him. If He does, you'll use the rest
of them to seek Him. That's all we can ask. That's
all we can ask.