Psalm 34, and the title of the
message this morning is, The Salvation and Call of Christ. The Salvation and Call of Christ. And I want to begin by reading
this introduction at the very top before verse 1. Gives us
a description of the time in which this psalm was written.
The Scripture says, "...a psalm of David, when he changed his
behavior before Abimelech, who drove him away, and he departed." Now as I read this psalm, it
is a psalm of blessing. It is a psalm in which David
pronounces blessing on the Lord. I will bless the Lord at all
times. His praise shall be continually
in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast
in the Lord. The humble shall hear thereof
and be glad. Throughout his psalm, he is calling
others to magnify the Lord and to praise Him. And as I thought
of this, I had a very unsettling thing appear in my mind. How
could these two things be related? One, David is, he's actually,
it is his sin. I mean, his sin is to go in to
this evil, wicked king. It was his sin of unbelief that
caused him to feign to be mad, and I couldn't reconcile the
two. But I believe there is a very
simple reconciliation. Both of these things have little
to do with David and much to do with Jesus Christ. Remember
the scripture that our Lord Jesus Christ said. Search the scriptures,
for in them you think you have eternal life, but they are they. that testify of me. And so I want us to first of
all go back, go back in your Bibles to 1st Samuel 21. 1st Samuel 21
and let's read this account and see how we reconcile these two
things by showing that this is Christ. 1st Samuel 21 And let's begin reading in verse
10. And David arose and fled that
day for fear of Saul, and went to Achash the king of Gath. And the servants of Achash said
unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not
sing one to another of him in dances, saying, Saul has slain
his thousands, and David his ten thousands? And David laid
up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish,
the king of Gath. And he changed his behavior before
him, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scribbled
on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down his
beard. Then Achish said unto his servants,
Lo, you see the man is mad, wherefore have you brought him to me? Have
I need of madmen, that you brought this fellow to play the madman
in my presence? Shall this fellow come into my
house? And verse 1 of chapter 22, David therefore departed
thence, and escaped to the cave of Dulem. And when his brethren
in all his father's house heard it, they went down thither to
him, And everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was
in debt, and everyone that was discontented gathered themselves
unto him, and he became a captain over them. And there were with
him about four hundred men. The title of this psalm gives
the occasion of the psalm. In this passage we just read
David foolishly for fear of Saul, Failing to trust God for his
deliverance goes to his enemies. And when he realizes what he
has done, he pretends to go crazy. He pretends, he scribbles on
the wall, he lets dribble fall down his mouth. And the king
of Gath, they heard these songs of David. Imagine their surprise.
They heard these songs that, hey, this is the king. This is
the one that God chose. This is the one they sang those
songs about. And look at him. He's mad. He's
crazy. What do I have to need this king? Obviously, he wanted to use David
against Israel. But now he sees David's mad.
He said, how can I use this man? I have no use for this man. He's
mad. And what does he do? He casts
him out. And notice where David goes. He goes to a cave. And it's there at this cave,
listen, his father's house is gathered to him. And those who
are in debt, those who are Discomforted, that means bitter in soul. Those who were distressed, they
came to him and they made him their captain. Their captain. Now let us see by the grace of
God that this that is recorded in Holy Scripture is testifying
of Jesus Christ. Now how could this testify of
Christ? How? How is this David's sin? Now
get this, it's David's sin to not trust God and surrender himself
to his enemies. And then when he finds out what
he's done, he starts to act crazy, not trusting God for deliverance.
He relies upon his acting ability to get him out of this. How does
this show forth Christ? Now the Lord God here uses the
sin of David, his unbelief, and going to Achash, his foolish
behavior, in order to witness of His Son and His salvation.
Now listen, the Lord Jesus Christ is not reflected in David's sin.
By no means is He ever reflected in David's sin. Our Lord never
sinned. He never mistrust God. Our Lord Jesus never played the
fool, did He? in any of his discourses. He was always wise and good. But look at those things in this
that do picture the Savior. That's what I want us to focus
on, what the things that do picture. First of all, behold, as David
went down to his enemies, even so Jesus Christ condescended
to come into this world and dwell among His enemies. He condescended
to come down to earth and live among the foes of God and His
people. This one Jesus, God, has ordained
to be King. To be king. Isn't that what they
said of David? They said, is not this the one
that was to be king? Listen, this one that we're talking
about was ordained of God to be king. To be king. Isn't that what it said in Psalm
110 verse 1? The Lord said unto my Lord, sit
thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies thy footstool. This one who is Lord, Lord God,
the Almighty in battle throughout all the scriptures, isn't that
how the Messiah is described? A mighty Savior? He's described
as the Lord mighty in battle. Matter of fact, in that same
chapter in Psalm 110, it says this, The Lord shall send the
rod of thy strength out of Zion. Rule thou in the midst of thine
enemies. So when the Messiah was spoken
of in the Old Testament, how was He spoken? He was spoken
as a triumphant ruler. He was spoken of as a king and
a conqueror. These songs of the Messiah, prophecies
of Scripture, were songs of strength and might and victory over the
enemies of Israel. But listen, how did He come? How did Christ come into the
world? Did He come as a king? Now He was a king, but by appearance
He was not a king. How did our Lord come into the
world? Did He come as a mighty conqueror, a warrior? Did He
come to establish an earthly kingdom? You know what He told
Pilate? He said, My kingdom is not of
this world. He said, Are you a king? He said,
Yep, you said it. I am a king. For this purpose
I was born. I was ordained to be king. But
my kingdom is not of this world. So when He came, He didn't come
to conquer this world. Now all the lost men of Christ's
day, what did they expect of the Messiah? They expected a
mighty conqueror, didn't they? But when he came, how did he
come? Meek and lowly in heart. The lost men of this world expected
Him to be a mighty conqueror, but like Achash, the king of
the Philistines, when Jesus came meek and lowly in heart, when
He came as the Lamb of God, the suffering servant, when He chose
His disciples from fishermen instead of among the elite, what
did they think of Him? You listen. They thought He was
mad. Didn't they? They thought he
was crazy. He was crazy. Matter of fact,
that's what they said in John chapter 8 and verse 49. This
man hath a devil and is mad. Now do you see the relationship
between this and Christ? Christ came down for the salvation
of his people among his enemies. And they thought him to be crazy,
to be mad. When Jesus, in John 10, He displayed
that He was the Christ, He said, I am the Shepherd. I am the Good
Shepherd. I am the Great Shepherd. He declares
that I, as the Good Shepherd, lay down my life for the sheep. He is the Great Shepherd who
calls His sheep by name. And the perfect result of His
death and calling is this, My sheep hear My voice, and I know
them, and they follow Me. and I give unto them eternal
life and they shall never perish neither shall any man pluck them
out of my hand for the father which gave them me is greater
than all and they shall not pluck them out of my father's hand
I and my father are one and what did they think this man's crazy
this man's crazy Behold, this One who has come
in the flesh is the Son of God, equal with the Father and the
Holy Ghost. Yet He, being found in fashion as a man, humbled
Himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross. And there, on the cross, as He suffered, as He died, do
you suppose that they looked up and said, ah, the Lamb of
God that taketh away the sin of the world. Is that what they
said? No! They said, a madman. That's what they thought of Him
as He hung upon the tree. Ridiculous! That sin should be
taken out by a substitute. Ridiculous! came to die and suffer on the
cross for our sins. And He bore our sins, the sins
of all His people. He died for His sheep. His sheep,
therefore, will hear His voice and believe on Him. But what of those who do not
believe? What did Jesus say about those? He said this, they believe
not because they are not of My sheep. Isn't that what he said? In John
chapter 10, verse 26, you believe not. Why? Because you are not
of my sheep. Why did Achash, why did Achash
believe David to be mad? He wasn't his. He wasn't his. Why do people believe Christ
to be mad? Why do people reject the idea,
the doctrine of God's sovereign election and Christ's perfect
redemption? Because they think he's mad. And why do they think
that? Because they're not His sheep.
If they were His sheep, they would believe. What do the religious and self-righteous
men say to the sovereign election of God in Christ's perfect humility
and death to redeem His elect? What do they say to the effectual
power of the Holy Spirit to call and keep His sheep forever? They
say, this man is mad and hath a devil. to the self-righteous freewill
workmonger who sees Jesus as somebody to assist him to glory,
that supposes like Achash to be some help to conquer Israel. Christ and his gospel are nothing
more than vain babblings and scribbles on the wall of some
fool. Believer, make no mistake, they
thought our Savior was a fool. What do they think of you? They
think we're fools. They think we're mad. And so Jesus, like David, was
cast out. Now what happened to David? He
came among his enemies, he was thought a fool, and what did
they do? They cast David out. What did
they do to our Lord? They cast him out. They took him outside of the
city and they crucified him. I crucified Him. And it was there. And this is what the world saw
as foolishness, we see as the wisdom of God. I see the wisdom
of God in the cross, don't you? I see the glory of God in the
cross. I see the justice of God in the cross. I see my sins being
punished in the cross. I see my only hope of acceptance
with God in the cross. What does the world see in the
cross? They see nothing more than a wooden statue. They see
nothing more than a symbol or a good luck charm that they put
on their neck. That's all they see about the
cross. I see the Christ of the cross. I see where He died for
my sins. That's wisdom to me. To the world,
what is it? Foolishness. That's what they
said. The preaching of the cross of
Christ is what? Foolishness to them that believe
not. But to us, It is the power of
God and the salvation to everyone that believeth. So as David was
cast out, we see him being a picture of our Lord who was cast out
and bore our sins in His own body on the tree. Over in Isaiah
chapter 53, this being the gospel according to Isaiah, it says
in verse 6, We all like sheep have gone astray. We turned everyone
to his own way. And listen, here's our hope.
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Isn't that something? Substitution
is the gospel. Christ was seen as a vain babbler
for a reason, so that He might suffer and die in our stead,
that He should bear our sins. And yet, verse 10, it pleased
the Lord to bruise Him. Why was He crucified? It pleased
the Lord to bruise Him. He hath put into grief, when
thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin. He shall see His seed. He shall prolong His days, and
the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand. He shall
see of the travail of His soul, and what? Be satisfied. You see, when my Savior was cast
out as a vain babbler, He was cast out on Calvary's tree, and
He suffered in my stead. He died in my place. He bore my sins in His own body
on the tree. and when he was done when he was finished what did
he say it is finished it is finished and then they took his body and where do they put it in a cave Look back at your text. Where did David go? Chapter 22
and verse 10. Therefore he departed thence
and escaped to the cave. When my Savior had died for my
sins and sins were gone, there were no more sins left to suffer
for. He rested. He went to the cave
and he rested for three days. And then God, seeing there was
no more sin to redeem, God raised him from the dead. And then what
happened? He said, if I be lifted up, I
shall what? Draw all men unto me. What happened when David escaped
to the cave? What happened? Men were drawn to him. Isn't
that a picture of Christ after he was raised from the dead?
Listen, men were drawn to him. Who was drawn to him? Who was
drawn to David? Look at that. And when his brethren
and all his father's house heard it, they went down to him. Isn't that right of us? When
we heard it, we went to him. When we heard of His death, of
His humiliation, of His being cast out and crucified, when
we heard of His tomb, when we heard of His resurrection, what
did we do? We went down. Who? All the Father's
house. All His Father's house. So who's
coming to Christ? All His Father's house. All His Father's house will come
to Christ. How do we know this? Well, Jesus
told us this. Jesus told us this. He said,
These words spake Jesus as he lifted up his eyes to heaven.
Father, the hour has come. Glorify the Son, that the Son
may glorify Thee. As Thou hast given Him power
over all flesh, listen, that He should give eternal life to
as many as Thou hast given Him. So what is Christ doing on the
throne? He is calling His people to Himself. Jesus Christ, who
is King, who condescended to save His elect, is now seated
on the throne of glory, and all His Father's house will come
to Him. Now, who is His Father's house?
Well, look at your text. Who will come to Christ? Isn't
that a question? Who will come to Christ? You
want to know who's going to come to Christ? God reveals who comes to Christ.
Look who comes to David. This is who comes to Christ.
Everyone that is in distress. You know what that word means? It means in a narrow place. I like thinking of when I was
a kid, go and see the hogs. My grandpa would take me to see
the hogs and how they herded them down there to the slaughter.
You know, they put them in this little narrow fence that they
just couldn't move. They just couldn't turn around.
They had to just go one direction. That's what it means to be distressed.
Are you distressed about your sin? That you can't turn to the
right or left. You have nowhere to go. These are the ones who come to
Christ. Those who have no place else to go. I've got nowhere else to go.
I can by no means merit God's favor. I am under the justice
of God. I am as a lamb for the slaughter. I have no hope. Those are the
ones who come to Christ, who are distressed. Listen, those who are in debt.
Sinner, our sins are a debt that we owe to the justice of God.
Our rebellion and hatred of God's law is a crime against the eternally
holy God and must be punished. Do you have a debt that you cannot
pay? A debt of sin that you cannot pay? For thus saith the Lord,
you have sold yourselves for nothing. Well, how then could we be redeemed?
We have sold ourselves in sin. How could a man be redeemed?
Here it is. And you shall be redeemed without
money. Are you in debt? Then come to
Christ. These are the ones who come to
Christ. See, the wages of sin is death. Do you see your debt? Do you see you have nothing to
pay? that I'm telling you of one who's paid it all. I tell
you of one who's paid for sin. Go to him! Go to Him if you're
in debt. These are the ones that go to
God. Am I not talking to God's people? We all know what these
are like. We all understand our distress
and our debt. But not only this, those who
are discontented come to Him. This means bitter in soul. Are you made to see the vanity
of this world and the vexation of spirit? Tell me one thing in this world
that is completely satisfied you forever. Tell me one thing. There's nothing. Vanity of vanities
all is vanity. What does this cause a man to
do? It causes us to be bitter in our souls. There's no hope
here. There's no life here. There's
no goodness here. There's only sorrow and grief.
Where do I go? Go to Christ. Go to Christ. Have you seen the broken cisterns
of sin cannot satisfy the thirst for righteousness? Then go to
the fountain of living water and drink and live. Drink and live. Come now to Christ. For God hath made him to be the
captain of our salvation." Look at your text again. He says,
and he became what? A captain. Captain isn't that
what Christ had become over in Hebrews chapter 2 Hebrews chapter
2 and verse 9 The apostle says this about Christ,
he says, But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than
the angels, listen, for the suffering of death, crowned with glory
and honor, that He by the grace of God should taste death for
every man. For it became Him. for whom are all things, and
by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory." Listen,
to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. Can you not see now Christ in
this text? Can you not see Him who came
down to His enemies, how He was rejected of them, crucified by
them, cast out by them, put in a cave, and rose again, and now
who comes to Him? Sinners. Sinners. And what is
He to them? He is our Captain. Now then, go back to your text.
Now you've seen Christ in the history. Now see Christ in the
text. Look at this. I will bless the Lord at all
times. His praise shall continually
be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast
in the Lord. Now believer, no doubt this is
a heartfelt desire of David who is upon escape of his enemies.
He desires to praise God for his deliverance. He doesn't give
any credit to his foolish behavior. He doesn't even mention his sin.
He praises God for his deliverance. Now, I'll tell you, it is good
for us to have this same determination, isn't it? I will praise the Lord
all at all times. Now, is that not a good determination?
Is that not worthy of our determination, that we should praise God at
all times? In sickness, in health, in poverty's
veil, or abounding in wealth, let us praise God at all times.
All times. When? All times. Now I know you want to. But have you praised God at all
times? Well then tell me who's speaking
here. If it's not you, and it's not me, and we sure know it wasn't
David, who is it? This is Christ speaking. I will
praise God at all times. The Lord Jesus Christ praised
God at all times. Behold, he who is our representative
man has praised the Lord and blessed the Lord at all times. The Lord Jesus Christ did always
honor the Father and always continually praise Him with His mouth. Our
Lord said this in John 8, 49 when they called Him crazy. He
said, I honor my Father. And this honor and blessing toward
God was not in word only, but in every deed and thought always
continually before Him." He said this in that same chapter in
verse 29, "...I do always the things that please the Father." This was surely prophesied to
us in Isaiah, in Isaiah's gospel. Isaiah said this, hear you deaf
and look you blind." Now, who is he talking to? He's talking
to you and me. We were born, how? Deaf and blind to righteousness. Do you still have a concept of
what righteousness is? I mean, I got an idea. But have
you ever performed righteousness? We were deaf and blind as to
how to perform righteousness. But listen, who is blind as my
servant and deaf as my messenger? Now he's talking about somebody
else. He's talking about Christ. You see, what you and I were
blind to was righteousness. What he was blind to was sin.
What he was deaf to was sin. Who is he that is perfect and
blind as the Lord's servant, seeing many things, and observeth
not, opening the ears, but heareth not? The Lord is well pleased
for His righteousness. He will magnify the law and make
it honorable. This was always the purpose of
our Savior, to magnify the Lord, to praise the Lord, to bless
the Lord. And his soul made his boast in
God. Why? Because you and I didn't. We could not bless the Lord enough
to ever be accepted. Therefore, our Savior in our
stead came and did this for us. See, as the man, Jesus Christ,
who is omnipotent, Fortified in strength, he trusted in God
all the days of his life. You believe this? He actually
became a man in every way. So that he gave up all of his
rights and trusted God for everything. Isn't it praising God to trust
Him? Isn't that praising God? When Satan tempted him for food,
what did he say? He said, look, I'm trusting God
for my food. I can make that bread, but I'm going to trust
God for my food and not depend on myself. He said, hey, offer
yourself, if you're the son of God, cast yourself down, and
I'll give you the people. Oh, no. No, that's not how God
would have his people. He said, I know this, that I'm
going to die for my people, not your way, but God's. He trusted
God. He said, worship God. He depended totally on God. He
made his boast in God, in everything. Rejoice then, for Jesus' soul
alone has made his boast in God and has offered up his soul for
our sins. In that passage in Isaiah it
says this, Thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin. Now notice he says this, The humble shall hear thereof
and be glad. The humble shall hear thereof
and be glad." Here the psalmist speaks of another group of people. You see how he's changing? He's
saying, I will and the humble shall hear. Christ says, I will
perform righteousness. I will praise God. I will offer
my soul unto God as an offering for sin. And listen, what's going
to happen is the other group, the humble, There's another group. They shall hear about this. And
what's their response? They'll be glad. They'll be glad. Sinner, are you brought so low
to see your inability to praise and please God? Then I tell you
of one who's done it. I tell you of one who's accomplished
it. Have you been brought so lowed
by the Holy Ghost as to see that in your flesh dwelleth no good
thing, no righteousness, no understanding, by no means to merit or be accepted
of God? Then hear what Jesus said, I
have done it. What are you missing? I have
done it. I have done it. So come to Him and be glad. Do you want to be happy? That's
a question, isn't it? Do you want to be happy? I'm not talking about frivolous
happiness. I'm talking about real happiness. Do you want to
be really glad? Then you should know something
about Christ praising God. You should really understand
that all the hope of the sinner rests in his praising God. And not in our praising God. Remember, when have you ever
praised God at all times? You haven't. But see, I am able
to praise God in Him. In a substitute. Paul says this in Romans 322,
even the righteousness of God which is by the faith of Jesus
Christ. Now how is righteousness obtained?
By the faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that
believe. How do I get this righteousness?
Through faith in Him. He earned it, but I get it through
faith in Him. Through faith in Him. And who will hear this voice?
Only the humble. Only the humble. They shall hear
the voice of Christ. Do you believe on Christ? What
think you of Christ? It's the only question that really
matters. It's the only question of eternal
significance. Do you believe on the Son of
God alone? Have you personally come to Christ
by faith? If you have, be glad. Be glad. Why? He says, I've done it. I've
praised God in your stead. I've done what you could not
do. And how should the humble come? They should come with nothing
but their sin. Nothing but your sin. and He will give all His righteousness
to you. Is that not the greatest exchange
ever? Look at verse 4. He says, I sought
the Lord and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears. and they..." Notice the switch. "...they looked unto him, and
were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed." I and they. I sought, he heard me, and they
looked. Here's these two people again.
Who is it that sought the Lord? Now listen, you seek the Lord,
don't you? Believer, you seek the Lord. Isn't that what he
tells us? Seek my face. And my heart saith unto thee,
Thy face, Lord, will I seek." But really, who ever sought the
Lord naturally? Isn't that what the Scripture
says in Romans 3? It says that none sought after
God. None of us sought after God.
So who is this? I sought after the Lord. It was
Christ. It was Christ who sought after
the Lord. and He heard me." Do you not
understand when Christ was made sin for us on that cross, He
cried unto God. He cried unto God. He bore our
sins in His own body on the tree and He cried unto God. He sought
deliverance from God. What was he doing there? He was
reconciling us to himself. Isn't that what it is? Go to
2 Corinthians. Go to 2 Corinthians chapter 5.
2 Corinthians chapter 5. Read this carefully with me.
Verse 19, "...to wit that God was in Christ, or by Christ,
reconciling the world unto Himself." What is this reconciliation?
How is this? What does that mean? Not imputing
their trespasses to them. That's reconciliation. How is
it that we could be reconciled if we have sin? We couldn't.
God was not willing to impute our sins to us. In order to reconcile
us, what did He do with our sins? Look at verse 21. For He hath
made Him to be sin for us who knew no sin. That sin He was
not willing to impute to you, He imputed to His Son. For what? Reconciliation. Reconciliation. You see, reconciliation could
not be made without an atonement. Reconciliation could not be made
except sin be punished. Therefore, look in your Savior
and you see where your sin went. It didn't just disappear. God
imposed it to His Son. He imputed it to His Son, so
much so that it became His own. Now I want you to pay close attention.
When Christ was made sin, He never felt sinful. You feel sinful
all the time. I know you do. You lie, you cheat,
you steal, you think evil thoughts, you adultery, fornication, murder,
theft, all of this. bubbles up within us and spews
out of us constantly. We despise it as Christians.
We hate it. We don't want it anymore. It
is a dead corpse about our neck, but we know what it's like. We
know what it feels like to sin. I tell you this, he never felt
sin. He never thought sin. He never
did sin, even though he was made sin. And yet the Scriptures say this,
that it was so much His own. He said, Save me, O God, for
the waters, the judgment is coming to my soul. I sink deep in the
mire where there is no standing. I am coming to deep waters where
the floods overflow me. I am weary of crying, my throat
is dry, my eyes fail, and I wait for my God. They that hate Me
without a cause are more than the hairs of Mine head. They
that would destroy Me are Mine enemies, wrongfully are mighty."
Then, listen, I restored that which I took not away. What did
He restore? Righteousness. Did He take it
away? No. We did. Sin. It was our fault that took away
righteousness. But see, He restored righteousness.
How did He do that? O God, Thou knowest, listen,
my foolishness and my sins are not hid from Thee. How do you
explain that? Not going to. Do you hear me? I'm not going to.
To explain that, I'm sure that I would be in error or heresy
to try to. So what do I do? Declare it. Believe it. And rejoice in it. Because that's
the only way I can be reconciled to God. It's a great transaction
between God and His Son. And listen what happens. He says
this. Go back to your text. Let me
go back over there. He says this, I sought the Lord
and He heard me and delivered me from all my fears. Isn't that what happened with
Christ? God delivered Him from the grave, ascended, and sits
on the throne of glory right now. He heard Him. I'm glad He
heard Him, don't you? I'm glad He heard Him and He
put away my sin. And listen, they looked unto
Him and were lightened. Isn't this the experience of
everyone who believes in Christ? We heard and we're glad. And
when we heard of his suffering, we looked. We looked. It's like Moses, when
he made that brazen serpent. Put it on a pole. He said, look and live. Even so was Christ lifted up
on the cross and what does he say? Look and live. Now let me ask you, how hard
is it to look? It's only impossible to look
if you're blind. But if God ever give you sight,
you look and what? You are lightened. You're lightened. Believer in
Christ, don't you know this? You know all things. Don't pocket that. To deny it is to deny the Word
of God. You know all things. Why? You're enlightened. You're
enlightened. Now you may not know the height
of them, the depth of them, the breadth of them. You may not
know the extent of them, but you know them. Why? You know
Him. For God hath commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts and given
us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. Where? In
the face of Jesus Christ. And now your Savior says this,
magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His name together. So believer, what is it that
you lack? In that last part of that it says this, the young
lion shall lack, but those who are servants of
God, saints of God, you shall not lack one good thing. You
shall not lack good in anything. Why? Because in Christ you have
all things. Forgiveness of sins, pardon of
sins, righteousness. I ask you, does not the whole
book testify of Him then? Is that not the testimony of
the whole book of God? Can you not see it everywhere
you go? If you don't see it, ask God to open it to you. I
pray that He will. Let's stand and be dismissed
in prayer.