I titled this message, A Psalm
of Comfort. This is a real psalm of comfort.
If you need comfort, you can find it in this psalm. Everyone
whom the Lord saves, they know they are sinners. They know that
through and through. They don't know it like God knows
it, but they know it. And they know that God knows
they're sinners. Nothing's hid from the Almighty.
Nothing. I will not do anything in my
life that will take him by surprise. You know, a brother or a sister
can fall and it surprises us. We just say, it didn't take God
by surprise. God knows my, as we'll see here,
my down sitting and my uprising, all of it. My whole life and
your life is before God from beginning to end, from eternity
to eternity. Our whole life is before Him.
And I tell you this, our whole life is before Him as if you
and I were the only ones existed, as if I was the only one existed. I can't comprehend that. As David
says here, it's too wonderful for me. But there's a comfort in knowing
that God knows all about us. Do you find comfort in that?
You say, but I'm so sinful. God knows that. You're more sinful
than you realize, and I am too. Far more sinful than I realize. But Peter said this, Lord, you
know all things. You know I love you. You know
I love you. And that's comforting. In our
failures and our stumblings, we can say with Peter, Lord,
I have fallen, I have stumbled, I have sinned, but Lord, you
know all things. You know my heart. You know I
love you. Not like I ought to, but more than I ever did before. Because I used to, I didn't. And also in God knowing, and
this is, listen, this doesn't belong. This Psalm does not belong
to everyone. This is to the believer. This,
this Psalm is to God's children. It's to you. It's written to
you. This is our father's letter to
us. And he lets us know how intimately
He knows us and involved with us. He lets us know that and
in knowing all about us, He knows our need. He knows our need, especially in salvation. Therefore,
He's provided all that we need in the Lord Jesus Christ and
it's evident David knew God by his description of God. If you
want to have a good idea that somebody knows God, ask them
to tell you about Him. If someone says that the Lord
saved them, well, tell me about the Lord. Tell me about Him.
It's a good opportunity, really, to witness to them, to take the
Word of God into witness if they got it wrong. If they got it
right, it'll be a blessing to you. Their witness to you will
be a blessing. So David described God, he describes
him and his attributes, and no idol ever had these type or kind
of attributes. Now verses one through five,
we have God's omniscience. It says, to the chief musician,
this is something to sing about. This is really something to sing
about. Psalm of David, O LORD, thou hast searched me and known
me. Now this can be said of Christ. God searched Him and knew Him
and found no fault in Him. This is God's perfect Lamb. But
in reference to us, how this relates to us, I want you to
know this. Thou hast searched me, past tense. You know, God
searched me out before creation. He knew me before creation. He
knew all about me before creation. Every one of His children. Thou
has searched. You know that word has the meaning
of dig. Thou has dig into me. You searched me. You know everything.
You know, we ever think you didn't know somebody and I've seen this
two people get married or in love, you know, then all of a
sudden Somebody shows up that wasn't there in the beginning.
I thought I knew her. She thought she knew him. God does know us. God knows us. And you know what's amazing?
Thou hast searched me. Thou hast known me. And he loved
me anyway. He loved me anyway. The wretched
rebel I am by nature, He loved me anyway. That's amazing to
me, it is. And I'll tell you something else,
this kind of knowledge, this kind of knowledge will keep pretense
down. If you understand, if you really
understand that God knows you, as we go along here, He knows
my thoughts, my words, He knows everything. He knows me intimately. That'll keep pretense down. You
won't pretend before God because you know God knows. You know
He knows. And His knowledge, listen, His
knowledge of me is perfect. My knowledge of God's not perfect,
but His knowledge of me is. He knows everything about me.
He knows my, we'll see this here, He knows my movements, my thought,
what you're thinking right now. God knows why you're thinking
it. You don't even know why you're thinking it. He does. He knows
exactly every thought and why you're thinking it. He knows my movements, my thoughts,
and He knows my actions, why I do what I do. He knows, God
knows the motive behind everything I do. Everything. I mean, to take a step, He knows it.
I don't, we don't know much, do we? We don't know much. We start out the day, we don't
know how the day's going to turn out. We start one direction,
end up in another. God knows. This is comforting. God knows. Thou knowest my down
sitting. What are you doing right now?
You're down sitting, you're sitting right here. God knows this. He
knows exactly why you're here. He knows exactly the worship
that's being given to Him. He knows exactly what's going
through my mind. He knows. He knows. Thou knowest my down sitting
and my up rising. You know when I'm sitting down
and when I'm up and working, playing, whatever it is I'm doing.
You know it and you know why. You know why. Even what seems so insignificant
to us, God knows it intimately. What's just so insignificant? And thou understandest my thought. One thought at a time. He understands
what thoughts I have, one thought at a time, He understands the
thought. I tell you there's such deep
meaning in this we can't even begin to comprehend our own thoughts.
We can't do it. But God does. He can search it
out. He can search it out and He does
search it out. And thou compassed, you know that word means windowless.
My path and my lying down. When I even lie down, you know
everything about me. You know, I've got, I mean, I
don't, when Jason goes home and Jeremy's at home, I don't know
when they lie down. I have no idea. They may stay up till midnight,
one o'clock. God knows when I lie down. He
knows. He puts me to bed. The Lord puts
every one of His children to bed at night. He may put you
to bed rejoicing. He may put you to bed weeping.
But he'll put you to bed. He'll put you to bed. The winnowers. You know what?
Here's what this means. You separate the wheat from the
chaff. That's separating the wheat from the chaff. He's constantly
separating the chaff from us. He's constantly winnowing us.
Trials. He's constantly winnowing us.
And He's acquainted with all my ways, all my actions. He's
acquainted with it. He knows me. Turn over to John
1. John 1. Let's see here. Let me see where I
want to start reading. Verse 44, And now Philip was
of Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. And Philip findeth
Nathanael, said to him, We have found him, of whom Moses in the
law and the prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of
Joseph. And Nathanael said unto him,
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip said
to him, Come and see. Jesus saw Nathanael coming to
him and saith of him behold an Israelite indeed in whom is no
guile. He knew that. The Lord knew that. Nathanael said to him whence
knowest thou me? How do you know this? And Jesus
answered and said unto him, Before that Philip called thee when
thou wast under the fig tree, I saw you, I saw your sitting
down, and the thoughts you had. I see you, I see you. And Nathanael answered and said
unto him, Rabbi, thou art the Son of God, thou art the King
of Israel. The Lord knew him. He knew his sitting down, he
knew his thought, and he knew his actions. He knew him, just
like he knows all his children. And he says here, for there's
not a word in verse four, there's not a word in my tongue or on
my tongue before it rolls out of my mouth. But lo, O Lord,
thou knowest it all together. You ever say something and say,
I didn't mean that? Well maybe I did, maybe I didn't,
but God knows exactly what I meant. He knows exactly what I meant.
You ever take something wrong, somebody says, you got offended
by it and you just took it wrong? Because you didn't know what
they meant by it. God knows. There's not a word, not words,
word, one word at a time, just like one thought at a time. That's
how my new God is connected to us, intimately connected to us. But Lord, thou knowest it all
together. In Ecclesiastes, Solomon said
this, in Ecclesiastes 5, be not rash with thy mouth, let not
thine heart be hasty to utter anything before God. Don't run
off with the mouth. Well, God's in heaven and thou
upon earth, therefore let thy words be few. You know, if you
haven't thought about it, don't talk about it. Let your words be few. He knows
the word on my tongue. And thou hast beset me, he said
there in verse five, thou hast beset me. You know that word
means lay siege of. God has laid siege of me. He
has seized. It's like taking a city. It's
like the strong man. Remember in the scripture, the
strong man taking over the house. He comes in and takes over the
house. The stronger man comes in and takes it over. That's
our Lord. He besieged us. He took over.
That's what he did. He took over. Well, just like
the example, a good example is Paul on the road to Damascus.
Here he was making havoc of the church. And God cut him down,
the Lord Jesus Christ cut him down and besieged him, took him
over. And he became a flaming witness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. But thou hast laid siege of me
behind him before. You've hedged me about and you've
laid your hand upon me. And for Psalm 32, David speaks
about God's hand laid upon him heavy. Thou hast laid thy hand
upon me. And it said, my emotions dried
up like the drought of summer. Now it could be a hand of chastening
or it could be a hand of comfort. You know that? God's hand. What a hand! By His hand He leadeth
me. You know, you take a child, a
father or mother takes a child and when they lead the child,
what do they do? They take it by the hand and they just walk
with it. And the child walks where they walk. They go where
they go. He's got us by the hand and he's
leading us. And we don't even recognize it
most of the time. Most of the time, did you recognize
God leading you today? Did you recognize it? He was,
He did. And he's leading you now and
he'll lead you home and he'll lead you all the way home one day
to glory. He'll take you by the hand and
lead you right into heaven. In a little while, in a little
while. I think of that leper when the
Lord laid his hand on him, he touched him. He touched him,
what a hand, what a hand. Such knowledge of what I have
just read to you and David is saying such knowledge of God
is too wonderful for me there's a point where I can't go beyond
it's secret that's what that word means secret there's a point
where I God's revealed himself but there's also the point where
I have to stop it's just too wonderful for me it's secret
I don't have a mind that can comprehend that. We have to wait
until we have the mind of Christ before we can even begin to know
what we're even talking about here. Such knowledge is just too wonderful
for me. It's over my head. It's HIGH! I don't need a God that's on
my level. Don't give me a God that's on my level. I need one
that's high, the high lofty one. I cannot attain to, I can't search
it out. Who by searching can find that
God? Nobody. God must reveal Himself. If He does not reveal Himself,
we will not know Him. He is high, He is unattainable.
The omnipotence of God The omniscience of God, the omnipresence of God
is too wonderful for me, is too high for me. Is this our God? I've never heard any idol explained
like this. This man knows God. And then
listen, whither shall I flee from thy presence? When I think
of God's grace or God's justice, where can I go from God? Where
can I go that God is not? You know, when I thought of that,
you know what I thought of? I mean, the first thing that
hit my mind was air. You know how you walk in air? It surrounds you, it just, it's
in you. You breathe air, it surrounds
you. It just, you just, that's God. In Him, we live and move
and have our being. The universe, the galaxies, is
in God. He's not a part of it, it's in
Him. You say, well, man, the heavens
are such, they're so big, and the galaxies, and the universe,
it's just expanding, you know, we just can't comprehend it.
That's in God. That's a very small part, too. I tell you what, now, we need to study God. We need
to study Him. I find myself more and more asking
God this, let me know you. Seriously, I ask God, I ask the
Lord Jesus Christ, make yourself known to me more and more. I
don't know you like I think I know you. And there's so much more
to be known. Such a relationship. such a relationship
to be had with Almighty God in Christ. Whither shall I go from
thy Spirit? God is SPIRIT! Or whither shall I FLEE? It's
like you're running from somebody. You know, people think they're
going to escape God, Like I said, it's either grace or justice. You ain't going to get away from
Him. You're not going to do it. Whither shall I flee from thy
presence? No place. God is omnipresent. If I ascend,
IF I ascend up into heaven, thou
art there. IF I MAKE MY BED IN HELL, IN
THE GRAVE, BEHOLD, THOU ART THERE, IT'S EITHER GRACE IN HEAVEN OR
JUSTICE IN HELL. HE'S THERE, HE'S EXECUTING JUSTICE
OR HE'S EXECUTING GRACE, IT'S ONE OR THE OTHER. IF I TAKE THE
WINGS OF THE MORNING AND DWELL IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE
SEA, THAT'S THE UTTERMOST PART OF THIS EARTH, OR THE DEEPEST
PART OF THE SEA, AND DWELL IN THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE SEA. Even there, even there where
I think God is not, shall thy hand lead me." Yeah,
you didn't get there by accident. You're not here by accident.
God led you here. God led you here. Even there, he's never far off. Don't ever think of God as being
way out there somewhere. No, He's in you. Christ in you. The hope of glory. Even there shall thy hand lead
me, and thy right hand shall hold me. Who's that right hand?
The Lord Jesus Christ. He said, I will not lose one
of the sheep. Not one of them. That's the reason
I wanted to sing that song, HE LEADETH ME. Those two songs just
stood out. HE LEADETH ME! The Lord leads His children along. And He'll lead us all the way
home. He's our Shepherd. We have a
Shepherd. And He's God. If I say, Surely
the darkness shall cover me, Even the night shall be light
about me. He'll light my path. Listen to
this, Proverbs 4, 18. But the path of the just is as
the shining light that shineth more and more into the perfect
day. We may be walking in darkness, but our path is light. God is
light. You know where there's light,
there's no darkness. You know, when we turned the
lights on, what did it do? it drove out the darkness. God is
light and in Him is no darkness. And the night is the same as
light before him. Think about the animals. I was
thinking about this. I was watching some kind of,
some biology, deer, he was a biologist on deer, of course. But anyway,
he was talking about how deer can see. And he's talking about
how they can run at nighttime, full blast, through the forest,
and not slam into trees. Now if God can make an animal
to do that, how much more God on an infinite level? The night
is as light before Him. You know, I look out there and
all I see is pitch black. I'll stumble over every tombstone
out there, but a deer can go through there, a dog can go through
there, an animal can go through there and not hit a one of them.
Isn't that amazing? Everything is light before God
because He is light. He is light. He comes on the
scene, it's light. It's light. The darkness hideth, and I put
it in there, the darkness hideth me not from thee. No, but the
night shineth as the day. The darkness and the light are
both alike to him. They're both alike. FOR THOU
HAST POSSESSED MY RANGE, KIDNEYS, MY INNER MOTIONS, THAT'S WHAT
THEY CALLED THE RANGE BACK THEN, KIDNEYS. THEY THOUGHT THAT'S
WHERE THE EMOTIONS AND THE INTELLECT AND ALL THAT WAS SEATED AT. I
DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT THEY THOUGHT IT WAS IN THE KIDNEYS. BUT THOU
HAST POSSESSED ME, POSSESSED MY RANGE. YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU'VE
TAKEN ME OVER. CHRIST REIGNS IN US. NOT THAT
OLD NATURE, SINCE YOU DON'T HAVE DOMINION OVER YOU, CHRIST HAS
DOMINION OVER YOU. I'm His and He's mine. Thou has
covered me in my mother's womb. Now this is speaking here, this
is having reference to Christ and His incarnation, but it has
reference to us also. Whatever has reference to Him
has reference to us for the most part. Thou has covered me in
my mother's womb. He's our shield and buckler even
in the womb. You know how easy it would be
to hurt, to be aborted, not come to a birth? You know how easy
that would be? Really? God said, I'm your shield
and I'm your buckler even in the womb. I cover you. I possess
you. Jeremiah said, I ordained you
to be a prophet from the womb. I knew you before you were born
in the womb. I protected you, I took care
of you, and He did the same thing for every one of His children,
every one of them. Our Lord was formed, listen in
verse 14, I will praise thee for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made. Our Lord was formed, His body, His human nature was formed
in the womb of a virgin, a virgin. He was fearfully, wonderfully,
secretly made. You don't see a baby being formed
in a womb, do you? You can't see that. Of course,
now they got ultrasound, they can show you it's in there, but
how all those parts are coming together? I'm fearfully, wonderfully made,
marvelous are thy works. Every human being that comes
into this world is a work of God. You don't just come into
this world. But it's especially speaking
here of His children. And that my soul knoweth right
well. I started the title at that.
My soul knoweth these things right well. Our Lord said, a body hast thou
prepared me. A body to live in, to be obedient
in, to sacrifice and to go back to glory in. But listen here,
I am fearfully and wonderfully made in that new creation. I mean, you know, I stand here
and preach the gospel. You know, there was a time none
of us were born again, we were lost. There was a time everybody
in this room was lost. And one day you were listening
and how you don't know. You were born again. That seed
was planted and you were born again, a new creation, a new
creation. 2 Corinthians 5.17, Therefore,
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, a new creation.
Old things passed away, behold, all things are new. Over in Galatians
6.15, For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything,
nor uncircumcision, but a new creature, a new creation. You're
a new creation. God made you new. It's not a
renovation. Salvation is not renovation.
God said, behold, I'll make all things new. He's not in the renovating
business. I know a lot of people like to renovate old houses.
He don't. He's gonna make a new one, a new one. And my substance was not hid
from thee, You know, when a baby is grown in a womb, it's hid
from us, isn't it? I can't see that baby growing
at all. You can see the stomach growing.
You can see that growing. You know, Vicki, She looked like she had a basketball.
Beach ball, really. Of course, I guess when you're
short like me and her, you show more. But God sees that. He oversees
that. Listen, He oversees that. He
oversees you growing in the womb. He oversees you growing in Christ.
He oversees that. My substance was not hid from
thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the
lowest parts of the earth. The lowest part of the earth
is the womb here is what he's talking about. He's talking about
the womb. Thine eyes did see my substance. Nobody else could,
but the Lord did. Yet being unperfect. Now most
translations, you know what they call this? Embryo when I was
an embryo if you ever want a scripture that stands against abortion
right here it is When I was just an embryo And in that book all
my members were written that embryo All the members are written
You know in that embryo is every body part Your eyes your hands
everything about you is in that embryo That's it That embryo
is a real person. That's what you and I were. That's
where we came from. Physically. And in thy book, all my members
were written before I was born. All of them was written. But
also look, I thought of this. This came to me. Speaking of
Christ in the church, the body of Christ, all the members are
written in the book. Isn't that so? Your eyes did see my substance,
the church, and all the members of the church, and all of them
are written where? In the Lamb's Book of Life. They're written
in the Lamb's Book of Life, written before the foundation
of the world, which in continuance were fashioned, made as it grows. You see, in time, We are born
into this world and then there's a time we are born of God and
then we grow from being babes in Christ to young men in Christ,
young women in Christ, to elders in Christ in CONTINUENCE. Which in continuance we're FASHIONED
and that's exactly what's going on right now. The Church, the
Body of Christ is being FASHIONED when as yet none of them None
of them, but that is before time. How precious. He says, oh, and
when he said he's thinking about this and he's thinking about
how God's intimate knowledge of him and watching over him
from the womb, watching him grow, looking at his substance, even
before there is a substance and it all written in the book, he
says, how precious are thy thoughts unto me. You know God thinks upon His
children, He thinks upon each one of them as if they were the
only ones that existed. And it dawned on me today when
I started to think about these thoughts, God's thoughts upon
me, upon His children, upon you who believe, upon every one of
them, is an unbroken thought. You see, I have thoughts of my
boys and family and then I forget them. I think of something else. God has, his thoughts of his
children are unbroken. It's unbroken from eternity to
eternity. His thoughts of you are unbroken. Listen here Jeremiah 29 11 God
says to Jeremiah for I know the thoughts I think towards you
saith the Lord thoughts of peace and not evil think about that
one God's thoughts of you whom whom he has saved have been thoughts
of peace and not evil not not put you in hell YOU OUGHT TO
GO TO HELL, I OUGHT TO GO TO HELL! But God's thoughts are
PEACE! Put that on your refrigerator! How PRECIOUS ALSO ARE THY THOUGHTS
UNTO ME, O GOD! HOW GREAT IS THE SUM OF THEM
THAT CAN'T BE RECKONED UP IN ORDER! That's why it says in
Psalm 40 verse 5, Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works
which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to usward.
They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee. If I would declare
and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Brethren, don't ever think God's
forgot about you. He's never had a broken thought
about you, ever. If I should count them, he says
in verse 18, which goes along with Psalm 40. If I should count
them, there are more in number. Now this is incomprehensible.
Can you count the grain of sand by the sea? That's all the seas. That's all the shores. That's
all the sand in the sea. He's saying your thoughts of
me are more than that. Never out of his mind Let your
conversation, Hebrews 13, 5, let your conversation be without
covetousness and be content with such things as you have for He
has said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you. I'll never leave
you. I'll never forsake you. I'll
never have a thought that doesn't involve you. It's amazing. But listen here, here's a sure
thing. This is great comfort to God's children, what I've
just read. He knows me. I'm glad He does. He knows my
need. He knows I need forgiveness.
He knows I need cleansing. He knows I need to eat tomorrow.
He knows when I'm sick, I need help. He knows. He knows. But
here's one thing for sure. Surely thou wilt slay the wicked.
It's gonna happen. Now don't think the wicked are
the murderers and the whoremongers and all that. It's everyone who
doesn't believe God. That's the wicked. Everyone who won't confess
Christ, come to Christ, follow Christ, that's the wicked. And
he says here, you're going to slay the wicked. Surely thou
wilt slay the wicked, O God. Depart from me, therefore, you
bloody man. Don't be standing by me. You know, if lightning
was going to strike somebody, you know what I'd say? Don't
stand here close to me. Don't be standing here by me.
You're going to be struck by lightning. I don't want to stand
by those who are going to perish. In other words, we're not going
to walk together because disaster is coming. I don't want the company
of those whom God is going to destroy. For they speak against
thee wickedly, things that are not true, lying on God. And thine enemies take thy name
in vain. I don't want them as my friends and companions who
take God's name in vain. I don't want them. David said,
I don't want to be around them. I'm not going to buddy up with
them. That's true. They take my Lord's name in vain.
I know we have to work with them. I know that in the workplace.
But I don't have to after that. I couldn't tell you how many
times I was invited out. Well, a few times I was invited
out. The guys at the shop would invite me out. They had a company
picnic. And I knew the company Pitnick,
they were drunks. They were drunk, they tore up
the last, the year before that, they tore the plant manager's
garden, all the pieces falling in and just drunk as could be. And when it came around, I said,
I wouldn't go, I didn't go. Then the next year it came around,
plant manager came out and gave me the credit card. And he said,
take your family and have a good meal. He said, I don't, I don't
blame you, I understand why you're not coming. I said, I'm not gonna,
I told him, I said, I'm not gonna expose my family to that, and
those boys, they were just young. I said, I'm not gonna expose
them to that, period. I'm not gonna be around those
who take God's name in vain. And here's something that's tough. Verse 21, DO NOT I HATE THEM,
O LORD, THAT HATE THEE? AND AM NOT I GREED WITH THOSE
THAT RISE UP AGAINST THEE? Now first of all, I believe this
is Christ speaking. Jacob have I loved, Esau have
I hated. That's Christ speaking, that's
Him saying that. I put at the top of this a justified
hatred. Now brethren, if somebody, you
know, every one of us in here at one time hated God, And He
forgave us. And we forgive. We forgive those
who trespass against us. We do. But I agree with what Paul said
here. You know, here's wisdom. The
gospel is dealt with in wisdom, not just emotions. You get your emotions involved
in it, judgment goes out the window. You just throw judgment
out the window. You have to learn to differentiate
between EMOTIONS and JUDGMENT. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 16,
22, If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be damned
when Jesus Christ comes. If that's the way you end up,
when God casts that great whore into hell, I read it to you not
long ago, we're all going to say, Hallelujah! I HATE THEM WITH THE PERFECT
HATRED! It's not a hatred of malice,
it's not a hatred that's got sin in it, it's a mature, it's
a spiritual hatred of another gospel. You hate another gospel? I HATE
IT! I HATE IT! This gospel that goes
around that Jesus wants to save you, He loves everybody, He's
done all He can do for you, now it rests up to you, I HATE IT! I hate it. And those who preach
it, they die, they deserve to go to hell. Just as I do, but
God by grace saved me. Saved you. There is a just hatred. And it's not with this emotional
thing like we do. Ours has so much sin in it, but
not God's. God's hatred has no sin in it.
And He can say, I hate you with a perfect hatred. God can love and God can hate. I'll tell you this. He said,
I hate them with a perfect hatred. I count them my enemies. Who
our friends are and who our enemies are says a whole lot about us
and our relationship to God. And I thought of it this way.
Here's what I thought of. If you are an enemy to my wife,
if you hate my wife, you're my enemy. You're my enemy. Now, can we, I'm going to close.
Can we say this with all honesty? Search me. Oh God, and know my
heart. And then look, reveal it to me.
Make me to know my heart. Don't let me be fooled. I don't
want to be fooled. I don't want to come up to the
end and be fooled. Do you? Well, I know you don't.
Search me, oh God. That's a statement of David. Oh God, oh Lord. Know my heart,
try me. And know my thoughts, my thoughts
towards you. Why such a request? I want to
know I'm yours. Do you want to know that you
are His? I'm His and He is mine. Do you
want to know that before you die? I want to know it now. I want to know it now. I want
to be compassed of Him now. Possessed of Him now. And see
if there be any wicked way in me. Lead me in the way everlasting. I don't want to be found among
them that hate God and take His name in vain. Cleanse, I thought
of this scripture, cleanse thou me from secret faults, ones I
don't even realize, know about, and lead me in the way everlasting. And that statement, if there
be any wicked way in me, any way, now listen, here's what
it really means, I think it means, any way contrary to Christ the
way. Anything that's contrary to Him,
make me know it and depart from it. Flee from it. Don't leave
me to myself, leave me in the way everlasting. Leave me by
thy Spirit, thy Gospel in the way of Christ, who is the everlasting
way. Leave me, guide me. you see he
says thou has searched me and known me and now after knowing
the Lord we're being known of God as Paul said it in Galatians he said Lord now this is serious
business search me and make me to know if there's a problem
make me to know it that's a healthy relationship
right there that is a healthy spiritual relationship