I'm going to read from Psalm
110. Psalm 110. Verse 1, a Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my LORD, Sit
thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. The LORD shall send the rod of
thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness, from the
womb of the morning thou hast the due of thy youth. The Lord
hath sworn and will not repent. Thou art a priest forever, after
the order of Melchizedek. The Lord at thy right hand shall
strike through the kings in the day of his wrath. He shall judge
among the heathen. He shall fill the places with
the dead bodies. He shall wound the heads over
many countries. He shall drink of the brook in
the way, therefore shall he lift up the head." Let's go to the
Lord in prayer. Our gracious Lord, we thank you. Lord, we thank you. For you are
our King and our God. And Lord, you are sovereign,
almighty God over all things. And Lord, you are pleased to
hear our prayer, and to show us that you hear our prayer,
and answering our prayer, and instructing our hearts, and teaching
us of Christ, of teaching us who our God is, and how we approach
unto Him, and how you have made it so that we may approach unto
you boldly, in righteousness, being received of our God. Lord,
we thank you for this. Lord, we thank you for your grace
and your mercy toward us and remembering us. We thank you
for remembering your people around this area. Those that are looking,
seeking, searching to know the true and living God, to hear
His voice, to know the salvation of God and how sinners are justified
with God. Lord, we pray that you would
be pleased to draw your sheep here and that we might minister
to them the gospel and in love and faithfulness as you've taught
our hearts. Lord, we pray that you would
indeed bless us and fill us with your spirit, a spirit of hope,
a spirit of faith, and a spirit of love. that looks to the Lord
Jesus Christ in all things and glorifies Him before others. Lord, we thank you for this grace.
We thank you for this hour. We thank you for this place to
meet. We pray that you would indeed bless and prosper them,
and Lord, please bless and prosper us and direct us, Lord, to where
you would have us to meet permanently. others would be more inclined
to come and hear the gospel. Lord, you know all things. You
know the weakness of the flesh and how people think. And we
pray that you would indeed make it so that you would establish
us here in this part of the country. It's in Christ's name we pray
and give thanks. Amen. Our hymn will be number 70, holy,
holy, holy, 70. Lord God Almighty early in the
morning our song shall rise to thee holy holy holy merciful and mighty, God in three
persons, blessed Trinity. All the saints adore thee, Casting
down their golden crowns Around the glassy sea. Cupid and Seraphim falling down
before thee, God in good heart and evermore shall be. Though the darkness hide thee,
Though the eye of sinful man thy glory may not see, Only Thou art holy, there is
none beside Thee, perfect in power, in love, and purity. Lord God Almighty, all thy works
shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea. holy, merciful and mighty, God
in three persons, blessed Trinity. Thank you. Good evening, brethren. We're
going to be in Psalm 5 this evening. Psalm 5. The title of this psalm is, To
the Chief Musician Upon Nehiloth. And that word is believed to
be a flute-like instrument. although some say this might
be a well-known melody to sing this psalm to. And it's not necessarily
known. Some of these words in the titles
are not necessarily known by us. It testifies to how ancient
these psalms are, how long ago they were written, and how the
language has changed. It is a psalm of David. And King
David is an eminent type of our Lord Jesus Christ. We know that
David wrote many of the psalms. Not all, but many of the psalms. And we know, we're familiar with
some psalms as being written in the voice of Christ Himself. We see this especially when we
see his cries as the mediator from the cross. We know this
is a messianic psalm, but the reality is they're all messianic
psalms. They're all in the voice of Christ. We don't limit it to just a few,
just to those well-known psalms, but we recognize his voice in
all the psalms. And this is a psalm of prayer. It's rather instructive to us
in how we are to pray to the Lord, or especially how we are
led in the spirit of prayer to come to our God. Now, thankfully,
the prayers of believers are sanctified by the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's our sanctification, and
He takes our feeble words. He takes even our careless words,
and He's able to form that prayer to supplicate the Father on our
behalf. and He's our faithful Lord, our
faithful High Priest. And so, in this prayer, in this
psalm, we see how that prayer is formed in us by our High Priest,
how our High Priest leads His sheep his people in prayer. And that's a comfort. That's
a comfort to me. And I believe that's a comfort
to you, my brethren, to know that your high priest loves you
and takes your words and your meditations and the thoughts
of your heart and he brings them before our faithful God, our
faithful Savior. We read in Hebrews 10, I'll read
it for you, 19-22, having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into
the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which
he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say his
flesh, and having an high priest over the house of God. let us
draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith, having
our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies
washed with pure water." He's gone before us, he's opened the
door, he's led the way, and he leads us and teaches us and brings
us into the presence of our God and teaches us how to pray and
teaches us how to come to the Father and why, why we are able
to come to the Father. So direct your eye to our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. He's the one by whom we see. He's the one in whom we have
entrance into heaven, right? When John, the Apostle John,
was writing Revelation in chapter 4, he said, I looked, and behold,
a door opened in heaven. And that door is Christ. And
he opened the door and brings his people into heaven. And then John said, the first
voice I heard, the first voice you and I hear is Christ's voice. That's the first voice that we
hear, and we live. We rise and live. And that voice
said, come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be
hereafter. And so the Lord does that. He
brings us. He raises us up. He sanctifies his people and
leads us into the presence of our God. Now concerning prayer,
the disciples one time asked Christ, they said, Lord, teach
us to pray. Teach us to pray. And that's
a blessed thing to learn. Lord, we need to be taught of
you. We need to be taught of you and we need to be taught
of you how to pray. Because we don't know how to
pray. We don't know how to enter into
the presence of our God. A lot of people think they do
it. A lot of people try to do it. A lot of people come through
very religious means and they think that is how to pray to
God. But we don't know how to pray
to God. We don't know how to enter into the presence of God
by ourselves. We're broken. Our hearts are
broken by nature. Our thoughts are broken by nature.
Our ways are corrupt before the true and living God. We need
a high priest. We need a savior. Spurgeon said
on this psalm, he said, let us cultivate the spirit of prayer,
which is even better than the habit of prayer. I was thinking
on that, and I realized most of us lack the discipline even
for a habit. of prayer. But if we are in the
habit of prayer, we see our need for the Spirit. We need that
Spirit-led prayer. Because even in our habits, even
in our good, quote-unquote good habits, we can become dry and
vacant and unattached and distant from what we're even saying. But We're thankful for Christ. What a mercy. What a mercy. We
have Christ to know our need of God's grace, to know that
he's our savior, to know that he is the one that leads us into
the presence of our God. He knows what he's doing. He
knows how to pray to the Father. It says in another place in Hebrews
that in the days of His flesh when He had offered up prayers
and supplications with strong crying and tears unto Him that
was able to save Him from death, He was heard. He was heard in
that He feared. And because He was heard, you
who come to the Father in Jesus Christ, you are heard by the
Father. you're heard by the Father. So
think with me for a moment in this hour what a wonderful privilege
we have to pray to holy God who created the heaven and the earth,
who takes thought of us We're just a pinch of dust put together. We're a speck of dust on a speck
of a dust of a planet in the infinite universe as we understand
it. We're just a small, tiny thing.
And I quoted this psalm on Sunday from this psalm, but I'll just
quote it again, adding verse three. David said, when I consider
thy heavens and the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars
which thou hast ordained, What is man that thou art mindful
of him, and the son of man that thou dost take thought, or thou
dost visitest him? Our God hears our prayers. So
the God who opened the door in heaven for a way for us to approach
unto God has brought us near to our God, and we may speak
to him, our King, and make our requests known to him. Paul said
to the Philippians, be careful for nothing, meaning don't carry
your burden around. We do that. We do that. Don't
carry your burden around. Don't be full of care for no
reason. Go to the Lord in prayer. Go to the Lord in prayer. You're
not impressing anyone by carrying that burden, least of all the
Lord. But in everything, Paul said,
in prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests
be made known unto God. And the peace of God. That peace that rules in your
heart, that remains with you because you've left that burden
with the Lord. You've cast all your care upon
Him, for He careth for you. And so all that's left is peace.
Trusting and knowing, my God has heard my prayer. and He'll
do what is right. He'll do what is right. The peace of God which passeth
all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through
Christ Jesus. Alright, so beginning in verse
1, Psalm 5 verse 1. He says, Give ear to my words,
O Lord. Consider my meditation. Now here's something that we
would skip over pretty easily. We see our words and our meditation
are different things. They're different things. Our
words are often expressive of what's in our heart. They put
a form. They help us to say what's in
our heart. It helps us to get that out so
others know what we're thinking. Sometimes there's a disconnect,
right? Sometimes we say one thing and we're feeling another. How
are you today? I'm fine and we're not fine.
We do that a lot. We know that. But oftentimes
our words do help give expression to what we're feeling. and what
we're thinking, and what's troubling us, or what we're just dealing
with at that time. And our words give expression
to it. And it's a blessing. It's a blessing when we pray,
and our words are true, and sincere, and not contrived, but they just
flow out of us. And they flow, and they come,
and we praise the Lord, and we give Him thanks, and we lay our
cares before Him, sincerely and truly. And I think from the scriptures
when you read it, it seems that most prayed out loud. Most spoke out loud in their
prayers with spoken words. But the Lord does show us that
he's able to hear the thoughts of your heart. He's able to hear
your prayers that are spoken even in silence. That which we
meditate upon. In fact, in 1 Samuel 1.13 regarding
Hannah who had no child and was burdened by that fact that she
had no child. She took that care to the Lord. She had meditated on that for
a long time, I'm sure. And she went up to Jerusalem,
or up to Shiloh, where the temple was, and she laid her care before
the Lord. But it says that she spake in
her heart, and only her lips moved, but her voice was not
heard. But the Lord heard her prayer,
and he answered her prayer. So the Lord knows our thoughts.
He sees the secrets of our hearts. He knows what's in our heart,
what's in our mind, what's in our thoughts. He knows all things,
and nothing is hid from the Lord. He told Isaiah, this is, this
is, well, he told Isaiah, it shall come to pass that before
they call, I will answer. And while they are yet speaking,
I will here. And so he knows the meditations
of your heart. And he knows them because your
God is the one that stirs you up. He stirs your heart. He brings you into the issues
of life according to purpose. And he brings those meditations
into your heart and causes you to think upon these things. Think
upon them in the light of your God, to consider Him, to consider
who you are, who He is, and your need of Him. He gives you these
meditations of the heart. And He causes us, He moves us
according to His purpose that we would cry out to Him and pray
to Him concerning His Kingdom. He brings us to pray, He brings
us to feel that need, to feel that burden, and to pray to the
Lord. And I would say, I would encourage
you that in those hours and days when you are burdened to pray,
pray. Even if you can't kneel down,
pray. Raise up a prayer to the Lord.
You don't even have to say it out loud, but be in prayer always. Always, Paul said. Always be
in prayer. Always be mindful of what's going
on and the needs of others. And remember them. Be mindful
of that. Always be praying. Even if you
can't stop or stoop to meditate anymore on it, just pray as you're
walking, wherever you are. But there's times when we're
not able to express what the meditation is in our heart. There's
times when we're not able to form even words about it, but
our heart overflows. And David says it this way in
verse 2, hearken unto the voice of my cry. And in the next Psalm,
Psalm 6 verse 8, David said, he calls it the voice of my weeping. There are times when we cry and
weep before the Lord. When we're so full, our hearts
are so full of emotion or thoughts or whatever it is. Our hearts become full and we
cry. We cry before the Lord because we can't express what's in our
heart. But David even addresses this.
He said, Thou tellest my wanderings. Put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in thy book? The
Lord knows all our tears. He knows our tears. In fact,
he says in that day, that resurrection day, when we stand before him,
he'll wipe every tear from our eye. And there will be no more
need. to cry, there will be no more
tears, there will be no more sorrow because hope and faith
will become sight and all that remains is love and the peace
of God and the joy of God and the fellowship of our God with
the saints in light. But whether we cry aloud or we
weep in silence, our God hears our cry. David adds, When I cry
unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back. This I know, for God
is for me. God is for me. And that's a comfort. I want you to know your God is
for you. And the way we know that God
is for us is because He's revealed faith in our hearts that believes
the Lord Jesus Christ is all my righteousness, all my acceptance
with God. You whom the Lord knows and that
God is for, He's given to you, your hope is the Lord Jesus Christ
alone. You're not looking to your works.
You're not looking to the good works or the evil works. Look
to the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe Him. He is the salvation
whom the Father has sent to save His people from their sins. And all those who believe the
Son, who have the Son, have life, and God is for them. He's for
them. The reason is because Christ
has reconciled us to our Heavenly Father. He's given to us all
the covenant blessings which He established for us with His
own blood. He laid down His life to obtain
life for you. for his people. Likewise he gives
us the spirit, and likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities,
for we know not what we should pray for as we ought, but the
spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot
be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts
knoweth what is the mind of the spirit, because he maketh intercession
for the saints according to the will of God. And so we see here
the form of prayer is communicated through different ways, through
words, meditation, through cries and weeping. It comes in different
forms, but all of them are sanctified of Christ. He's the one that
carries these prayers to His Father. He's the one that supplicates
the Father and intercedes for His children and we're heard
by our God for Christ's sake. Give ear to my words. And hear
Christ saying these words. Give ear to my words, O Lord.
Consider my meditation. Hearken unto the voice of my
cry, my King and my God. for unto Thee will I pray." And
our Savior here, what He's doing is He's teaching us how we are
to come to Him, our God and our Savior, our King. He's teaching
us how to approach Himself, Jehovah God, the Lord who created us,
the Lord who saved us, the Lord who supplies all our need. He's teaching us how to approach
unto Him. He rules and He reigns over us
and in us in covenant blessings established in His blood. My
King, my God, unto Thee will I pray. We've noted this before. We're
not familiar with what it is to serve a king. This country hasn't had a king
for many years, according to the flesh. And even now, the
kings in the earth, I don't know how much they're like kings of
old. They have parliaments and other
people that that lead and make laws for them but but back in
the day you would go to a king you would go into his court when
it was open and you would plead your case if you had some need
for judgment if you needed him to decide a matter and you would
supplicate him for your needs and you would approach if he
allowed you to approach and and you prayed for judgment you sought
for a righteous judgment from the king. And if you had an evil
king, you might get an evil judgment. But thanks be to God that he
is good and right and righteous and holy. And he does what is
right with perfect wisdom, perfect understanding, perfect knowledge,
according to his perfect will and purpose, with perfect power,
ruling over all. There's nowhere that we can go
that God's dominion does not extend to. He's Lord over all
things, everything, in businesses, in schools, in locations, wherever
it is, the Lord is the true and living God there. He's the true
and living God. Now, if we could trouble God,
and we can, if we could trouble Him, I would say the Lord delights
to hear from His people. We're not going to trouble the
Lord by coming to Him and laying our cares, even each day, laying
our cares until the Lord answers those prayers. But if we could
trouble Him, would it not be more troubling if we didn't come
to the Lord? If we didn't come to Him and
pray to Him and lay these things, wouldn't that be the more troubling
thing or the more concerning thing if we didn't come to Him?
and kept these things to ourselves and handled these things our
own way according to the flesh. The Lord in mercy breaks us of
that. He brings us to see our need
of Him. And that's why a lot of times
trouble comes to stop us, to prevent us from going on in our
mad dash in the flesh, in this world, and to bring us to an
end in ourselves to see, Lord, I need you. I need your grace.
I need your salvation. Lord, help me. Save me, Lord. And He does that for His people. And so, in verse 3, Psalm 5,
3, My voice shalt thou hear in the morning. O Lord, in the morning
will I direct my prayer unto Thee, and will look up. You know, it's for Christ's sake
that we're not consumed. It's for Christ's sake that we're
not consumed. But whenever I read this verse,
I can't help but hear it spoken by Christ, or hear it in the
voice of my Savior who prays for me, who goes to the presence
of the Father and prays for His children. He goes before us and
before our Father and to His presence with our request, saying,
My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord. What it's saying
there is this is the voice of Him who rose from the dead. This is the voice of Him who
satisfied the will of the Father perfectly for His people, to
reconcile His people to the Father. His is the voice of that new
morning of the resurrection day whose voice the Father hears,
whose voice the Father loves and receives. Let me show you
this over in Psalm 110, over there earlier, Psalm 110, and
I just want to read first verses 3 and 4, verses 3 and 4. And he says, thy people shall
be willing in the day of thy power. Our God does that for
us in the day of salvation, at the first, and he does it in
every hour after that. as he moves us to meditate in
our hearts, brings thoughts to our hearts of our God, of our
need, of the kingdom. He brings these things to us,
to our minds, so that in everything, God makes us willing in the day
of his power. But there's one who sanctifies
and justifies his people. Look at the rest of verse three.
In the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning, Thou
hast the due of thy youth." When we come to supplicate our God,
when we come before our God to pray to Him, it's Christ whose
voice he hears. It's Christ who he looks upon
and sees his wounds. It's Christ who he looks upon
and loves and receives us for Christ's sake. Christ is the
one who rose from the dead, and his people are heard because
he intercedes for us with the Father. The Lord, verse 4, hath
sworn and will not repent, thou art a priest forever after the
order of Melchizedek. He is our eternal High Priest. He is our High Priest who leads
us into the presence of God. He's our high priest who instructs
us how to pray, what we should pray for. He's the high priest
who goes before us, having made a sacrifice for us, and who himself
is the sacrifice for us, by whom we are made righteous and justified
by our God. And so, I want to show you verse
7, but before I read verse 7, back in verse 3 it said, In the
morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up. And I was thinking of that when
I read this psalm earlier today, and I saw that in verse 7 where
it says, He shall drink of the brook in the way, Therefore shall
he lift up the head." And what that's saying to us is because
Christ went forth willingly to do that work of salvation, to
accomplish our redemption, to redeem and to justify his people,
the Father is well pleased. That brook that he crosses there,
that it speaks of there, that's the brook Kidron. That's the
Brook Kidron. When I was looking at that back
in John 18, the commentators were saying that, but I didn't
see much to it. But now I see it and what they're
saying there. And what it speaks to my heart
there is that he crossed that brook. When they finished that
last supper together and left Jerusalem and went into the Garden
of Gethsemane, they crossed over the Brook Kidron. And it's a
black running brook. It's a filthy brook because of
that olive oil press that's there in that garden, Gethsemane. And
it flows with the refuse of those rotting fruits and things like
that. And it's black. And he crossed that filthy brook. And it's a picture of what our
Savior did for us. when the Father made Him to be
sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness
of God in Him. And remember, when we looked
at that in John 18, it says, He went forth, your King, boldly,
triumphantly, gloriously went forth. stepped over that brook,
knowing what waited for him on the other side, didn't hide himself,
went and faced the enemy, faced Judas the betrayer, faced those
that were come out to arrest him, and he said, if it's me
you seek, let these go. And he delivered all his sheep,
every one of them, present, and you to this day and as many as
shall come, that the Lord our God saves. all of us were delivered,
and He went willingly to the cross by Himself and obtained
eternal redemption for us. And because of that, the promise
of the Father to raise Him from the dead, He did it, to lift
up the head. Christ is the head of his body. That is the head that was lifted
up and exalted and raised to the right hand of the throne
of God who sits on God's right hand and intercedes for us. He intercedes for us, brethren,
and your God loves you and receives you and hears your prayers and
answers your prayers for Christ's sake, our king and our God who
triumphed over all our enemies gloriously. Gloriously. And so he's accomplished this
for us. When he saw Mary Magdalene and
she touched him and he said, I have an errand for you to go
tell my brethren. He said, you tell them I ascend
unto my father and your father, unto my God and your God. He's speaking as our mediator,
as our high priest. And He brings us into the presence
to address Him as Jehovah God. And He receives our worry, receives
our prayer, and answers our prayers. So, He did this. He says in Hebrews
12, But ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the
living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company
of angels. to the General Assembly and Church
of the Firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge
of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to
Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of
sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel. And
so, brethren, our God has provided for us. He's given to us his
precious son. He's the chief cornerstone. He's
the head of the corner who makes the foundation and the chief
stone for the building. He's upon whom that building
is founded. Without him, there's no foundation.
Without him, there's no building. Without Christ, there's no salvation. We have nothing. But because
of Christ, we have everything. The temple has been raised up
in three days. He's built it again, and he's
adding to it such as should be saved as it pleases him, as it
pleases him. And so, our God receives us for
Christ's sake. And for Christ's sake, he hears
you that are poor, you that are broken, you that are sinful,
you that have nothing, you that have no righteousness, you that
are troubled, you that are weak, lame, blind, ignorant, broken,
the Lord receives his people who are base and cast off by
this world. and God delights in us for Christ's
sake. Christ's sake. So don't keep
your prayer bottled up to yourself. Breathe it out to your God. Breathe
it out to Him. Pray to Him. Seek Him. He hears
your prayer in Christ and He proves that He hears your prayer. It isn't always answered the
way we think it should be answered, but we pray, Lord, not my will
be done, but thy will be done. But he delights to show us that
he hears prayer. Pray to him. When he stirs your
heart, pray to him, because he brings it to pass and he shows
you how he's done that. He gave it to you and brought
you into it in fellowship, and he brings it to pass to show
you, to bless your heart, to show you he's the God who hears
your prayers. Now, in closing, David contrasts
what we have in Christ from what the wicked have. Now, this is
important. I want you to understand this
because these verses used to trouble me greatly, greatly. In verse four, back in Psalm
5, four, for thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness,
neither shall evil dwell with thee. What he's saying there,
because I used to look at this and I was troubled because I
could see sin in me and I was very, very troubled as we should
be. We shouldn't delight with sin in our members, but it is
present there and we do see the weakness of this flesh because
we're saved in hope. In hope that maketh not ashamed.
And so, what he's saying there is those who try to worship God
outside of Christ, those who would come to God without Christ,
in their own works, according to their own ways, they are wicked. That's what God is saying here.
That's what the Spirit is teaching us. They are Workers of wickedness,
and God despises the workers of wickedness. Paul would call
them enemies in their own mind by wicked works. And that's what we were. We were
workers of wickedness until Christ saved us and delivered us and
turned our hearts, our minds, our thoughts upon Him. who leads
us into the presence of our God. And so God has no pleasure in
man's sinful, vain ways that he works to try to come into
the presence of God by his righteousness. And then he goes on to describe
these workers of wickedness as foolish. Verse five and six,
the foolish shall not stand in thy sight. They can't stand because
they have no anchor of the soul. They don't have the anchor which
is Christ. So they can't stand in God's
sight. Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. Thou hatest all
those who would dare come into your presence outside of Christ,
without Christ as their Savior. thinking that they could just
waltz on in there, despising Christ, thinking lightly of him,
and just waltz on into the presence of God according to their good
works. If you remember Esther, the king
would not put out the scepter for them to approach onto his
throne. They'd be put to death. because
they try to come in their own works. Thou shalt destroy them
that speak leasing. The Lord will abhor the bloody
and deceitful man. And what he's saying there is
when they pray to God, they speak leasing. Leasing means lies,
falsehood. Everything coming out of the
mouth of those who think they can please God by their own works
are liars, and they're speaking falsehood. That's what he's,
this is exactly what he's emphasizing to us. It's not because we see
sin in our members. We come in Christ and all who
come in Christ, God receives you. You're his child. You're blessed of God, received
of him. He hears you. He hears you. Everyone else is coming in filthy,
rags filthy rags that are not righteousness at all but that's
not you that believe verse 7 last verse here but as for me I will
come into the house into thy house in the multitude of thy
mercy and in thy fear will I worship toward thy holy temple We're
coming in Christ. We come in the Savior whom the
Father hath sent, whom the Father delights in. Him who is the way,
the truth, and the life. That's how we come to the Father.
Apart from Him, no man cometh to the Father. No man cometh. So we're going to stop in verse
7 because really you can read the rest of this psalm home and
it's just a repetition where it's just emphasizing again and
again of those who come in Christ versus those who don't come in
Christ and those that come in Christ are received of the father
and heard of the father and they that don't are not heard of the
father and so here's the clear outcome I'll quote it to you
first John 5 12 he that hath the son hath life he that hath
not the son hath not life. It's that simple. That's what's
being taught to us here by our High Priest here in this psalm. That's what he's showing you.
So rejoice, brethren, you have a High Priest who will lead you
into the presence of Jehovah God, who hears your words, who
considers your meditations, and who hearkens to the voice of
your cry. Amen. I'm going to let you close us
in a hymn, brother, and then close us in prayer, too. Thank
you. Our closing hymn will be 354. What a friend we have in Jesus,
354. What a friend we have in Jesus,
all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything
to God in prayer. O what peace we often forfeit,
O what needless pain we bear, O because we do not carry Everything
to God in prayer. Have we trials and temptations,
Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged. Take it to the Lord in prayer. Can we find a friend so faithful? Who will all our sorrows share? Jesus knows our every weakness. Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy laden? Cumbered with a load of care,
Precious Savior, still our refuge, Take it to the Lord in prayer. Do thy friends despise forsake
thee? Take it to the Lord in prayer. In his arms he'll take and shield
thee, Thou wilt find us all this day. Thank you. Our Heavenly Father, we
thank you for allowing us to assemble together and to hear
your precious word declared again unto us, Lord. Thank you, Lord,
for your full and free salvation. And Lord, what a comfort it is
that the Lord Jesus Christ intercedes for us. He stands between us
and the Father. And Father, we thank you for
giving us prayer in our heart, but also presenting it to the
Father without sin. Father, remember us in mercy
as we leave this place. Keep us safe. Continue, Lord,
to give us health that we may continue to live as we are and
to assemble here. Remember those, Lord, that are
struggling and suffering in various ways, whether it's health for
their health or other reasons. Father, remember us in mercy
and give us all that we need. We think of Brother Gary also
that had cataract surgery and hopes to have his other eye done
also. Lord, remember him. And Father, remember us all in
mercy and our loved ones. Bring us together again at the
appointed time. For Jesus' sake alone, amen.