the message, He hears, He saves,
He thinks upon me. He hears, He saves, He thinks
upon me. If you'll notice the heading
is, To the Chief Musician, a Psalm of David. A Psalm like this could
not be given to anyone but the chief musician in such a psalm. Now David wrote many of the psalms
and in them we hear the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ speaking. Psalm 40 is one of those places
where we clearly, clearly hear the voice of our Lord Jesus Christ
and we also hear the voice of every believer. This is also
the voice of every believer. Now as we go through this psalm
let us hear Christ speaking in this psalm and in so doing we
will also see ourselves in Him. And we will see by the experience
of David. You know David wrote from experience. He was not someone like a poet
who sat down and just came up with poetry and wrote it. He
EXPERIENCED what he was writing. It came from EXPERIENCE. This
is the experience of a child of God, USED of God, MOVED of
God to write the Psalms. And we know the Psalms are Messianic.
They speak of Christ. It's Christ SPEAKING in the Psalms.
And so in verse 1 here, HE SAYS, I WAITED. THAT'S A HARD THING
TO DO, ISN'T IT? THAT'S A HARD THING TO DO, TO
WAIT ON THE LORD. HOW MANY TIMES DID DAVID SAY
IN THE PSALMS, I LOOKED HIM UP THIS MORNING, I WAS LOOKING AT
SOME OF THEM, AND HE SPOKE OFTEN OF WAIT ON THE LORD, AND HE'LL
STRENGTHEN THY HEART. WAIT, I SAY, ON THE LORD. WELL, I WAITED PATIENTLY. You
know, we can wait, but we can also wait with impatience. When
is he going to show up? I thought he was coming. We can
wait with impatience, but to wait patiently takes grace. That's
a work of grace in the soul to wait patiently for the Lord and
to wait patiently for Him to answer our prayers. You know,
we pray, but we pray, we pray, the Lord's children pray. But
then to wait patiently for the Lord to answer, that's a work
of grace. I waited patiently for the Lord
and He inclined unto me and heard my cry. You know, it's not hard
to wait on someone who's faithful. God's faithful, isn't He? It
should not be hard for any of us to wait on the Lord because
He's faithful and He will answer. He will show up. He will show
up. He's faithful. Our God's always
faithful. That's one of the attributes
of God is His faithfulness. It's one of the things that gives
us hope is His faithfulness. Our God is faithful. And the
Lord Jesus Christ, I can hear the Lord Jesus Christ speaking
here in this verse. In His perfect humanity, He waited
patiently for His Father. He never, never was impatient. When He prayed, He waited. He
prayed, He waited. He prayed, He waited patiently,
knowing, knowing that His prayer would be answered. He said in
one place, Father, I know that You always hear me. We ought
to be able to say the same thing, every believer here. HE ALWAYS
HEARS US IN CHRIST, DOESN'T HE? WHEN WE TRULY PRAY, SINCERELY
PRAY, HE ALWAYS HEARS US, AND WE OUGHT TO HAVE CONFIDENCE THAT
HE HEARD US, AS OUR LORD DID. AND OUR WAITING IS NEVER IN VAIN. YOU KNOW, I HAVE WAITED FOR SOME
THINGS, I'VE WAITED FOR SOME PEOPLE, ONLY TO WIND UP IN VAIN,
NOT SHOW UP. I've had business appointments
that the person didn't show up. I've had business appointments
where I had made and I showed up and they weren't there. They
had forgotten it. But our waiting on the Lord is
never in vain and He always hears our cry. The Father hears His
Son and He hears our cry also in His Son. He hears us every
bit as much as He hears the Lord Jesus Christ. He hears us. And then we get the RESULTS OF
BEING HEARD here in verse 2, and we also have the WORK OF
REDEMPTION here in verse 2 and 3. You are going to see three
things in the work of redemption. You are going to see DELIVERANCE,
you are going to see STABILITY, and you are going to see JOY.
We experience these three things. First of all, He brought me up.
You know what that says? I was down. I was down. And He tells us here where we
were down, in the miry clay, in the pit. In the pit. He brought me up also out of
a HORRIBLE pit. Do you really believe and feel
that God has saved you and brought you out of a horrible pit? THIS IS NOT JUST A CONFESSION
OF SOME DOCTRINES AND BELIEVING SOME FACTS. THERE'S A REAL EXPERIENCE
HERE. GOD BROUGHT ME UP OUT OF A HORRIBLE
PIT OF SIN AND CORRUPTION. I THOUGHT THIS MORNING WHEN I
WAS READING OVER THIS, HE BROUGHT ME UP OUT OF A HORRIBLE PIT.
I AM THE PIT. I THOUGHT I AM THE PIT. I'm the
horrible pit. I was born in sin and shaped
in iniquity. He brought me up out of a horrible
pit out of the miry clay. But now, first of all, let's
apply this to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ
so fully identified with us that He entered our pit when He was
made to be sin for us. He came into this world of sin,
He came into this cesspool of sin, And then he was made to
be sin. You know what that says? Now
I don't understand the fullness of that. He was made to be what
I am. I can't comprehend that. I cannot
comprehend that. I do know this, only God can
do that. Only God can do that. Only God
can take my sins, my sins. And I like the way David said
this. WHICH ARE MORE THAN THE HAIRS
OF MY HEAD." Now that's a way of really looking at sin. You
can't count them. That's why He said, I can't count
my sins. I have so many, they're more than the hairs of my head. That's such a multitude of sins
that I have. Can't even be counted. But our Lord came into this pit
and He was so fully identified with me that He was made to be
what I am. And He entered, listen, I thought
about this also when it says, He brought me up also out of
a horrible pit. I thought of the grave. Without
Christ, that's a horrible pit. That's six feet under over there
is a horrible pit without Christ. But when the Lord Jesus Christ
was put to death and He was buried, He was brought out of that pit.
And when God brought Him out of that pit, He brought me out
of that pit. He brought you out of that pit, you who believe. He brought us out of that pit,
that grave. Graves that I'm gonna lay, this
body's gonna be laid in a grave someday. But it's coming out. It's coming
out. But I've already been brought
out. I've got a body that's gonna come out, but I've already been
brought out of the pit. We were raised again with Christ. When
He was raised, we were raised. That's real. That's a real spiritual
resurrection. When He saved us, He raised us
from the dead. That's the experience of it.
We experienced it. When He raised us from being
dead in sin, trespasses and sins, to newness of life, to being
born again. But not only did He raise us
from the pit, He brought us out of miry clay. This is our condition. I looked up what that word miry
means. It's a troublesome or intractable
situation. Isn't that our situation? I was
in a troublesome and intractable, impossible situation. I couldn't
do anything about it. I can't get out of that pit.
I can't get out of it. There's no ladder in that pit
for me to get out of. There's no way to climb those
walls. You know, when David's speaking here out of this pit,
that's where they put prisoners back in that day. They put them
in a pit. They didn't have a motel to put
them in like they do today. They put them in a pit. And that
pit had mire and corruption was in it. The stench of that pit,
you can't even comprehend it. And he's describing our condition,
spiritual condition. This is our spiritual condition.
And he brought me up out of that. He brought me up out of that.
And someday we will experience the FULL POWER of that! The full
glory of that! In a little while, we will experience
the full glory of it. But not only did He bring me
out of the pit, out of the miry clay, He set my feet upon a rock! He gave me a stability! And that rock is Christ! And
Jesus Christ is my stability! He's my stability before God. Now I may stumble, fall, trip
all over that rock, but that rock is not going anywhere. That
rock is my stability. He's my stability. And he says
here, He set my feet. I did. He did it. This is the
work of God. Salvation is the work of God.
Faith is a gift of God. Faith and repentance, they are
gifts of God. HE SET MY FEET UPON A ROCK. HE GAVE ME A SURE AND ETERNAL
FOUNDATION IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. I HAVE IT. I HAVE A SURE
AND ETERNAL FOUNDATION THAT CANNOT BE MOVED. IT CANNOT BE MOVED. IT'S SEATED AT GOD'S RIGHT HAND. THEN HERE'S THE THIRD PART OF
THIS WORK OF REDEMPTION. HE HATH PUT A NEW SONG IN MY
MOUTH. A new song. Deliverance is the
cause of praise. He's delivered me. I know it. And he's put a new song. You
know, there's a lot of songs I have sang in the past that
was not worth singing. But boy, this song. This song, this song that the
Lord has put in my mouth, I'm going to sing forever. You see,
the new creation sings a new covenant song of grace and life
and hope. That's what we sing. And this
new song begins with the Lord Jesus Christ, doesn't it? It's the song of the redeemed.
What are they singing in heaven? What will we sing in heaven? Worthy is the Lamb that was slain. we are going to sing that that's
a new song that's a new song it'll be new every time we sing
it you know when we sing the praises of God here it ought
to be new every time we sing it even if we've sung it a thousand
times it ought to be new it ought to be new And God puts this song
in our mouths. Now if it's in our mouths, it's
also in our heart because out of the heart, the mouth speaks.
So this is also what's in the heart. And this shows that it's
all a work of God from beginning to end. He did. He brought me
out of the miry clay. He set my feet upon the rock.
He put the song in my mouth. He did it. He did it. As the psalmist said, Give unto
the Lord the glory and honor due unto His name. That's what
I'm trying to do this morning. I'm trying to give Him all the
glory and honor for saving a wretch like me and wretches like you. You know, that would offend somebody
whom the Lord hadn't saved. If the Lord hadn't saved you,
you'd be offended at being called a wretch. But the Lord saved
you, so that's right. That's right. That fits me. That
fits me. Thank God I don't live like one
anymore, but I am one. I am. And many, He says here, many
shall see it. Aren't you glad that you are
a part of the many? He's talking about here. Many
shall see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. Many
shall hear the gospel throughout this world, throughout all nations,
and they're going to hear it, and they're going to trust in
the Lord. The Holy Spirit is going to convert them. There
have been Gentiles, people converted all over the world. We have many
brothers and sisters, many. Can't even number the brothers
and sisters that I have, many. And I'm always being asked that
question. I'm always being asked the question, how many brothers
and sisters you got? I have so many I can't even count them. What does your father do? He
runs everything. He owns everything. You know
if we actually said that to somebody, we'd be telling the truth. If
I say to somebody, if somebody was to ask me, what all does
your father own? I'd say, my father owns everything. He owns it all. That's the truth. I wouldn't have got to speak
like that more often. But we don't. We'll say, well,
my father, you know, he owned a house over here. We need to
really speak the truth. Now, which father are you talking
about? That's what we ought to do. Define which one you're talking
about. I have an earthly father, which
is not here no more, but, you know, he owned a home over in
Salt Rock, West Virginia. But now, you want to talk about
my everlasting father? My true Father, He owns it all. He owns it all. And I'm on His
business this morning. I'm doing His business this morning.
I must be about my Father's business. That's what I'm doing this morning. Many shall see it in fear, a
godly fear, a fear born of God, and they'll trust the Lord. And
many shall see it, heaven is not a small gathering." Don't think of heaven as a small
gathering. It's always spoken of as a country, not a place. Not a place. Hell is spoken of
as a place. That man said to Abraham, Go
warn my brethren that they come not to this place. But heaven
is spoken of as a country. It's large. And then we see here in verse
4, the blessing of being brought
to faith in Christ, the blessing of trusting in the Lord Jesus
Christ. Blessed is that man or it really should be blessed is
THE man that maketh the Lord His trust, His confidence, His
hope, His all in all. You know, true happiness is found
in trusting the Lord. If you and I really trust the
Lord, we ought to be the happiest people on earth. We ought to
be. There's a problem if we're not.
And I know because of sin, there's nothing perfected in us as far
as that goes. Our faith is not perfect. Repentance
is not perfect. And that being so, our joy and
happiness and confidence is not perfect. But it ought to be.
We have no reason that it shouldn't be. The true happiness is found
in trusting the Lord. We trust Him for redemption.
He redeemed my soul. He bought my soul. He bought
it back. He bought it. Paid for. I am
paid for. Signed, sealed, and delivered.
Paid for. We ought to be happy in His guidance. Here I raise my Ebenezer, hither
by thy help I've come. God has guided me all these 69
years. The Lord, even when I didn't
know Him, He guided me. He guided my footsteps. I had
no intention, I had zero intention of sitting down and listening
to Henry preach the gospel the day I heard him preach. I was
not looking for the gospel. I thought I had it. I thought
I had it. And I sat down and I heard the
gospel. I wasn't even looking for it.
I was found of them that sought me not. I was made known unto
them that ask not after me. I wasn't asking about him. I
thought I knew him. I thought that was an eye opener. You know, it's one thing to repent
of sin. It's another thing when you have
to take all that you had hoped in and throw it in the trash. And all those people that you
were associated with, you have to say to them, and this is what
they were, because I dealt with this, I dealt with it. You're
saying to them, you're lost. You're lost. You're religious,
but lost. That's one of the reasons a lot
of people won't go this far. They won't go far enough to believe
THE GOSPEL because they say, You mean to tell me if that's
so then my daddy's lost or my mommy or my grandmother? You know, truth is truth no matter
what you think. It's the truth. And I had to leave the place
I was attending. It became a real problem, a real
problem. Because what I was saying and
what they were saying were two different messages. As I told a man, finally I just
told him straight up, I said, you and I don't believe on the
same God, we don't believe on the same Jesus Christ, and we
don't believe the same gospel. I said, that's the difference.
That's the difference. BLESSED IS THAT MAN THAT MAKETH
THE LORD HIS TRUST AND REDEMPTION, FORGIVENESS, GUIDANCE, AND FUTURE
GLORY." Future glory. I expect that. Do you expect
that? I expect, in a little while, to be with the Lord. Based on
His Word. Not based on my feelings. Well,
you know, when you're younger you go too much on feelings.
As you get older you learn to go on God's Word. You learn to just take him at
his word. This is it. I trust you. Lord, that's what
you said. That's what you said. You know, when he told those
to depart from me, I never knew you. They said, well, we've preached
in your name, done many mighty work. But not one of them, not
one of them took the word of God and said, Lord, this is what
you said. But you said, he that comes to
me, I'll never cast him out. But you said, Whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. You know what
they said? Well, we've done many mighty
works. Doesn't that count for something? No, not when it comes to salvation,
not when it comes to being saved. Blessed is that man that maketh
the LORD his trust. You know, our Lord never trusted
in man. He knew what was in man. He trusted
God completely and perfectly. And the proud and deceitful were
not His companions, and they should not be ours either. And then He says here in verse
5, Many, O LORD, many, O LORD my God, are Thy wonders. WONDERFUL
WORKS. You see, TRUE WORSHIP, TRUE WORSHIP
FLOWS FROM SEEING THE WONDERFUL WORK OF GOD, DOESN'T IT? DO YOU
SEE THE WONDERFUL WORK OF GOD IN A LILY? IT SAYS THAT GOD ARRAYED THOSE
LILIES MORE THAN ALL THE RICHES OF SOLOMON, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
YOU HAVE TO HAVE DIFFERENT EYES TO SEE THAT. A worldly man looks
at the riches of Solomon and he never sees that lily. He never
sees it. But boy, when God saves you,
you can see the beauty of a lily. You can see the wonder of God's
creation in a lily. You can stand at the Grand Canyon
and just stand there in awe of God's work. I'm not talking about
the Ice Age. I'm not going to stand there
and talk to somebody about the Ice Age and all that. I'm going to talk
about Heaven. Look what God did. Look what God did. When I think
of it, I think of God putting His finger down and just plowing
through there and creating that Grand Canyon. God did that. Stand at the foot of a mountain.
Stand at the foot of Mount McKinley and look at that mountain. God
did that. And then providence. Providence ought to be amazing
to us, how that God takes all this variety and makes it to
work together in such harmony. Isn't that something? And then salvation, how that
God has saved us in the way He saved us. Who would have thought
of it? If man was asked how to be saved, how God should save
them, it would come up every time. WORKS. It would come up
every time WORKS. It takes God to bring a sinner
to the place and say, God will have to do it. God will have
to save me. If I'm going to be saved, God's
going to have to do it. And His thoughts, listen, His
thoughts toward us in Christ, His thoughts of Christ, Oh, we can't even imagine that
the father's thoughts of his son, but his thoughts of us in
Christ are beyond counting. They are eternal thoughts. He
didn't, I can't comprehend this, but he didn't just start thinking
upon me one day. He's thought upon me throughout
for eternity. His thoughts upon me are personal.
He thought upon me, he thought upon me. And then His thoughts
upon me is gracious, gracious. How do I know that? Because He
showed grace to me. I have tasted of the grace of
God. Therefore, I know His thoughts
of me have been gracious. And what His thoughts to us include,
they include redemption, they include the fall. You know, the
fall didn't take God by surprise. Adam falling didn't take God
by surprise. That's why he was walking in
the garden in the cool of the day. This matter had already been
taken care of. Christ was a lamb slain from
the foundation of the world. He thought of me in the fall
and redemption and conversion, the time of my conversion, the
preacher I would hear in my conversion. there's a time to be born and
time to die and there's a time to be born of God and the time
to die to yourself self doesn't reign anymore and his thoughts were of of me
and all his children include our final glorification see i
don't know what that's going to be like he knows he knows
You know, I think I would be excited. I would be excited. God's too high for me to talk
about what He feels, and that's just too high for me. But if I were going to have my sons, if I had something really
glorious for them, and they lived somewhere else, if they lived
in a shack somewhere else, And I had a, I had a glorious, I'm
going to say mansion and I was rich and I had all this for them. I'd be, I would be excited to
bring him home and say, this is yours. This is yours. God is going to bring his children
home one day and say, this is yours. The Scripture says that He has
prepared the Kingdom for us. It is prepared for us to inherit
glory. That is what the Lord said, Come
children, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
of the world. God has prepared it for us. And
then we hear in verse 6-8, and I will get through this, maybe. We hear the the priesthood of Christ. This
speaks of His priesthood in verse 6. Look here, Our Lord is speaking
because this is applied to Christ by Paul in Hebrews 10 and verses
5 through 14. But He says here, Sacrifice and
offering thou didst not desire. You know what God desires? Obedience. OBEDIENCE, which is
something you and I can't give. We can't give it. Mine ears hast
thou opened, this is his willingness. Burnt offering and sin offering
thou hast not required. Then said I, Lo, I come in the
volume of the book it's written of me, either the book that's
in eternity, you know, the counsel in the counsel of God, you know,
it speaks of the books in heaven, the counsel of God and A covenant
of grace or just this book right here, the Holy Bible. He says,
I have come in the volume of the book it is written of me.
I delight to do thy will. That's what I've come for. He
said, My me is to do the will of Him that sent me. And I delight to do it. And the
will of Him that sent me is to bring you home spotless. And
for Him to bring me home spotless and you home spotless, He's got
to bear our sins in His body on the tree. He's got to pay
the penalty. He's got to suffer the wrath of God. He's got to
suffer my hell. That actually happened. I was
talking to somebody the other day. I was talking to him. I
said, How in the world can we be so cold when we realize that
He actually suffered the hell of God's wrath? He suffered my
hell. He suffered my hell and He took it away. I delight to do thy will, O my
God. Yea, thy law is within my heart. Thy word, thy law, every
jot and tittle of it is in my heart and it's exactly where
He kept it. He kept the law first in the heart. If you can't keep
it in your heart, you sure can't keep it outwardly because it
doesn't matter. If it's not in your heart, if
you don't love it and you don't love doing it, if you don't love
keeping it, you've already broken it. You've already broken it. If you don't love it, you've
already broken it. And then listen here in verse
9 through 10. I have preached righteousness
in the great congregation. There's five attributes here
that our Lord declares that He preached in the great congregation. First, righteousness. God's essential
righteousness and the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ that
He wrought out for us. He preached it. He made it known.
then his faithfulness to his covenant to his word to his son
to his people and then salvation he preached salvation salvations
of the lord then he preached the loving kindness of god then
he preached truth he preached truth brethren we
have the truth we have the truth He held back nothing, like Paul
said, I have not shunned to declare the whole counsel of God to you,
I have not shunned it. And then in verse 11, our Lord
intercedes here and He says, withhold not thou thy tender
mercy from me. Saying that He could, if He will,
He could, He has every right to. He said, God could withhold
his tender mercies because I sure do abuse them. I do. But he says, withhold not thy
tender mercies from me. Even in suffering, the Lord Jesus
Christ sought his father's mercy. And if that be so, how much more
ought we to seek it? How much more should we seek
it? LOVING-KINDNESS AND TRUTH WERE HIS CONSTANT MEDITATION,
AND THEY PRESERVED HIM AS HE WENT THROUGH THIS WORLD AND SUCH
TROUBLE." You know, I was thinking this in the Psalms as I was reading
this Psalm. There is so much in the Psalms
of the sufferings of Christ, of the heart of Christ, that
we don't see, that we don't see in the New Testament. You know,
David, here he says, he says here, withhold not thy tender
mercy from me, O LORD. Let thy lovingkindness and thy
truth continually preserve me, for innumerable evils have encompassed
me about. Mine iniquities, he calls, he's
calling MY iniquities HIS. Do you hear that? He's saying
MY iniquities have taken hold of me. They're in the Garden
of Gethsemane. He's sweating great drops of
blood because my iniquities have become His. They've become His. I've never, I haven't sweat one
drop of blood over anything I've ever done. I've done things like
you, we ought not to have done. A lot of things. I haven't sweat
any drops of blood over any of them. But here He is in agony. And when it says the Lord's in
agony, that's real agony. That's agony to perfection. So
much so that the pores of his skin just oozed out blood. Well it says great drops of blood.
It didn't just come out in just a little bit of red here and
there. It was drops. It was drops of
blood. I can't even imagine such agony.
Can't imagine it. innumerable evils have compassed
me." We really get an insight to the heart of Christ and the
sufferings of Christ, agony of Christ, as we read the Psalms.
That's where they really stand out. The way it was so great,
he says he couldn't even look up. He couldn't even look up. Listen, He bore not just some
of our sins, but all of them. all of them. Oh, he says in verse 13, be pleased. That word struck me this morning.
The natural man would say, I don't care how you get me out of this.
Just get me out of it. And that's the way we would naturally
say it. But He's saying here, BE PLEASED. Let this please you. Do this in a way that pleases
you. Here He is earnestly concerned
about the Father's pleasure. BE PLEASED. Oh Lord, to deliver
me. Oh Lord, make haste to help me.
I'm in trouble. Can you hear the Lord Jesus Christ
praying this? This is the experience of believers.
We've prayed like this, and when the Lord's put us in trouble,
He's let trouble come our way, brought trouble our way, and
we prayed, Lord. Well, we usually forget the be
pleased part. We just say, Lord, deliver me, don't we? Lord, save me from this trouble.
Let's do this from now on. Lord, be pleased, if it please
you. Henry wrote me a letter one time
when he was going through a very difficult trial. He said, it
seems the Lord has been pleased to send you a difficult trial.
And I'd never heard it, it never even crossed my mind to even
think of it that way until he wrote that to me. And I thought,
now wait a minute, it pleased God to do this. Now if it pleased
God to do this, then I should take it. I should take it from
my hand of a loving father. And really, I should be pleased
to go through it, if it pleased Him to give it to me. Now that
takes grace. That takes grace. Let them be
ashamed and confounded together that seek after my soul. Let
happen to them what they're seeking from me. Well, I tell you what,
now when the Lord prays something like this, It's going to happen,
isn't it? If you think about this as the
Lord interceding, and He's saying, Let them be ashamed and confounded
that seek after My soul to destroy it. Let them be driven backward
and put to shame that wish Me evil. That prayer will be answered. That prayer will be answered. Let them be desolate for a reward
of their shame, that say to Me, Aha! Aha! There are many of them not saying
that now, that used to say it. There are many of them that stood
there at that cross, riding Him, ridiculing Him. That's 2,000 years ago, and now they're dealing with
it. But He says here, and I close, He said, well, in verse 16, let
all those though, see, here's another, see, he just prayed
about his enemies. I'm telling you, I want Christ
to pray for me, not against me. He said, let all those that seek
thee rejoice. Let every one of you this morning,
this prayer is effectual if you're really seeking the Lord. If you're
really seeking the Lord, this prayer that Jesus Christ prayed
will be answered. It will be answered. Because
He said this, LET ALL THOSE THAT SEEK THEE REJOICE, AND BE GLAD
IN THEE, AND LET SUCH AS LOVE THY SALVATION. SAY CONTINUALLY,
THE LORD BE MAGNIFIED, THE LORD BE MAGNIFIED. But He says, I'm poor and needy.
It's amazing the humble position our Lord took. Which tells us
and teaches us the humble position we ought to take. Poor and needy. He's speaking here spiritually
because I don't think there's any poor and needy person here
materially in this crowd right now. But he's speaking spiritually. I'm poor and needy. Yet the Lord
thinketh upon me, his thoughts to me cannot be reckoned up in
order. You know right now, whatever situation you're in, you know
God's thoughts of you cannot be counted. You think, you know,
people get into, we believers get into a very difficult situation.
We think the Lord's clean gone. He forgot us. He's not hearing
us. His thoughts of you can't even
be counted. You are the pupil of His eye.
That's what He said over in Psalms, the pupil of His eye. He thinketh upon me, and that
means continually, Thou art my help and my deliverer. Make no
tarrying, O my God. Make no tarrying. This psalm
takes us, and I want you to notice this, this psalm takes us from
the pit to the throne, from destruction to resurrection, from sorrow
to praise. It is Christ's song, and it becomes
the believer's song. Wait patiently, He hears, He
saves, and He thinks upon you continually. All right.