Back to Psalm 37. I titled this message, Good Instruction
from an Old Saint. Good Instruction from an Old
Saint. I enjoy listening to aged believers,
to hear their wisdom that they gained from experience. Some of my fondest memories is
when I sat around and I listened to Henry talk about years gone
by. and things that he had experienced
and things he had seen and learned. Those are some of my favorite
times, just listening to him talk about those things. And we have in this psalm such
a man who has much experience. You know, he says in verse 25,
I have been young, and now am old." It's evident when David
wrote this psalm, he was old. He wasn't a young man. He said,
I was young at one time, but now I'm old and I've not seen
the righteous forsaken on his seat begging bread, but he was
an old man when he wrote this. And he knows what he's talking
about because he experienced the fretting, the worrying, the
anxiety, being envious of the wicked.
When we get to Psalm 73, we'll see that. He said, I was envious
at the wicked. So he knows what he's talking about. He's not
telling us to do something he hasn't experienced. One of the
great advantages when you're older and if you can get a young
person to listen to you, I mean, if you can get that done, You
can tell them the things to avoid because you've done that. You've
done that. You know, I know people, especially
young people, they want to experience things for themselves, but there's
some things you don't want to experience. It's better to take
advice, wise advice, and miss the experience. It's much better. Now the subject of this psalm
has to do with the prosperity of the wicked. There's a real
comparison going on in this psalm of the wicked and of the godly,
the believer and the unbeliever. You notice how many times he
says, the wicked shall be cut off, but the righteous shall
inherit the earth. He says this several times, going through
there. And what David does here, he makes a comparison. I think Spurgeon has a message
on this, but he definitely has it in his Treasure of David,
and Henry brought a message on this called Eight Great Precepts. Great message. And we'll look
at some of those precepts, good instructions from an old saint
as we go along here. But let me give you a brief summary
of this chapter. In verses 1 and 2, David speaks
of evildoers. People who work evil. And how
they flourish. He says, they flourish. There's
a lot of them, aren't there? The world's full of them. It's
full of them. He says, they're like the green
bay tree. They just flourish and they spread
out and the world's full of them. But he tells us in verse 2, but
know this, they're going to be cut down. So don't envy us. Don't fret over them. God's going
to cut them down. And it tells us in verses 12
and 13 that the wicked, the unbeliever, he hates the believer and he
persecutes them. If God pulled back his hand of
restraint from the unbelievers, you and I would find out real
quick how much they hate us. Even though right now they may
pretend to like us, but if God pulls back His hand of restraint,
you'll find out what's in the heart. You see, David is speaking
in the Spirit of Christ and he reads their heart. He exposes
their heart to us. He's telling us, this is who
they really are. You know, what you see on the
surface and what you see outwardly is not what's going on inwardly. That's what the Lord said to
those Pharisees. He said, Outwardly you look like whitewashed graves,
you're decorated, you look great on the outside, but on the inside
you are full of dead men's bones. That's the part you and I can't
see, but that's the part God sees. And it says here that the
unbeliever, he doesn't like you. He doesn't like you at all. But
it says here that the Lord laughs. He laughs at their opposition.
because their day of judgment is coming. They are soon going
to be cut off. Remember this, it is appointed
unto men once to die, and after this, the judgment. And then he tells us in verses
14 and 15 that the wicked take advantage of the godly. and that
the wicked draw out their swords to hurt them. They would like
to destroy them from the earth. There's nothing more than the
world would love, along with Satan, and that's to get rid
of the church. It has to be done with the church
of the Lord Jesus Christ. But he says here that God will
make their own sword, their own method of destruction, whatever
it is, against His people, whatever it is. He will turn it and plunge
it into their own hearts. whatever device they have to
destroy. And I've seen this, I ain't gonna
go through it again, but I've seen this. I've seen men devise
wicked and evil and the thing be turned right around on them.
And the very thing they devised, they got hung with. Just like
Haman, he made that noose, he thought he's gonna get to hang
him. And he's one dangled from that noose that he made for Mordecai. God's in control of them. And then verse 16 and 17, "...the
godly seem to have so little," he says. They just seem to have
so little. You know, I've traveled around
a lot over the years. I started that preacher school
when I was 23 years old. And 23 and 24, I had it for two
years. And I mean, we were going out
of there just constantly, constantly. Then years after that, it was
every weekend here and there across this country. And for
the most part, for the most part, God's people are just common,
ordinary working people. Listen, not many of them are
rich. Usually, if any of them are rich, they were rich, and
then God saved them. They were rich before God saved
them. I don't personally know any whom the Lord has saved that
they have become rich afterwards. They were usually already rich.
He let them get that way before he saved them. But the godly
just seem, he says, to have so little while the wicked are so
rich and prosperous. But what he tells us here is
that their riches are temporary. Just like I was telling my brother-in-law,
he and I was out there on the carport, had a good discussion.
And I told him, I said, the minute I die, the minute you die, we
become penniless. Penniless. There won't be no
U-Haul sitting outside the funeral home waiting on you. Penniless. Everything in this life, and
if you and I could keep this in our mind's eye, everything's
temporary. It's just temporary. And it's
fading away. You ever see something just kind
of fade out? It's just fading away. While
the inheritance of the godly, what you have in Jesus Christ,
is forever. What we have in Christ we cannot
lose. It's eternal. And I told him,
that's one of the things I told him, I said, everybody will be
penniless. I said, but what a believer has in Christ
is that which will last. That's what will last. And that's
the true riches. The true riches are spiritual. The true riches is what I have
in Christ, and it enables me to stand before God accepted. You can't put a price on righteousness. We are righteous in Christ. God
demands it, and we have it in Christ. You can't put a price
on that. And that will never fade away.
What we have in Christ is everlasting. And then in verse 20, the enemies
of the Lord, he says, seem to get fatter and fatter, don't
they? The day we live in right now, it just seems like there's
very little truth And very few people have got
anywhere, doesn't it? It just seems like it's just
rampant. The world's gone crazy. It's
not any different than any other generation. It's not any different. Not any different. I remember
when I was a boy, growing up, and the news would be on, and
there's Vietnam War, and there was all the rioting, the fighting,
all the hippies, and all the stuff that was going on. It looked like it was just disaster,
doesn't it? Here we are today. It's the same
thing. It doesn't change. This world's
the same. This world's the same. But it
says here, it seems like, he's talking about in verse 20, it
seems like they just keep getting fatter and fatter. I have a friend in Cottageville,
West Virginia, Danny Belcher. And he raised steers, and he raised them for the slaughter.
And he would put, and he had a bunch of them too. And he put
them in the barn and they would not touch the ground, the pasture. They just sat there. You know
why they stayed in? They stayed in that stall. And
he fattened them up and they just got fatter and fatter. And
all they did was just stand there in that stall. And the reason
why is it broke the muscle down. Do you envy that steer? I'm glad I'm not a turkey on
Thanksgiving Day. I'm glad I'm not. It's for the slaughter. That's
what he's talking about. The enemies of the Lord, they
get fatter and fatter, but they're like, he says, you're the fat
of lambs for the slaughter. I don't want to be there. I don't
want to be like that. I want to be one of them. And then he says in verse 35
through 37, the wicked are in great power and they flaunt their
power and their greatness like a big green bay tree. If you
notice the people that's in power in the world, do you know any
of them that are godly? Do you know any that are really
godly and they know God and they sit under the gospel? I don't. I don't. God uses them to run
things. They don't know it, but He uses
them. I was thinking today, The Egyptians. God's going to bring
a famine, right? Remember this in Genesis? God's going to bring a famine.
Well, here are those Egyptians out there plowing the ground.
They didn't have tractors. They had to plow that ground
with the oxen. They had to plant that seed. They had to take care
of that garden. And that corn grew up, and it
was a real harvest. And then God brought Israel in
and fed them. And they didn't plant one grain
of that corn. God uses these men to run big corporations to
feed one child of God. They may just be one believer
that works at one of these great corporations, and God blesses
them to feed that child of His. That's amazing what our God does. It's amazing. And He lets the
goat shepherd the goats. I ran a business one time. And
I don't want to do it again. I don't want to do it again.
If I was going to do it, I'd want to just do it by myself.
Because I am not good at a goat herding. All they did was, and
I had about 15 men, they butt heads. I became a problem solver. I was constantly just solving
problems. And I just, I mean, I've had to stand between men
going to fight. More than once I've had to do
that. I'm like, what in the world am I doing here? What am I doing? Let the world, let the potsherds,
listen, let the potsherds of the earth strive with the potsherds
of the earth. Let them have at it. But he says here that those men
who are in great power, they too shall pass away and the place
shall know them no more. But not so the perfect man. Not
so the perfect man. That perfect man is the man in
Christ. God said to Satan, if you consider my servant Job a
perfect and upright man, that's the man in Christ. The end of
his life, and I've seen the end of some believers' lives. I've
seen some of them. And I've seen peace. I've seen
the end of an unbeliever, and I've heard screaming. And I've
seen the believer with peace, quietness, and joy on their way
out. I've seen it. The end of that
man is peace. And then he tells us in verse
38 and 40 where and when all this is going to be settled,
and how we are to find comfort in our trials while the ungodly
are at ease. He says, and listen, "...but
the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord." Now, if it's of the Lord, we
cannot help but be saved. If God Almighty, we're saying
this, God Almighty died for me, I cannot help but be saved. The
salvation of the righteous is of the Lord. He's their strength
in the time of trouble. He's the one who keeps us from
falling apart. I know you wonder this, and you
know the answer to it, but also you wonder, in times of trouble,
where do you go? If you don't believe God, where
do you go? You've got to dupe yourself.
I mean, you've literally got to lie to yourself in order to
get through it. We have a place to go. We have
a refuge. The Lord is our refuge. It says
here in verse 40, "...and the Lord shall help them and deliver
them." He shall deliver them from the wicked and save them
because they trust in Him." Now, let's look at these instructions
from the old saint. The first thing he says in verse
1, and I'll go through these relatively quick, fret not thyself
because of evildoers. You know, to fret is to be discontent. Well, that's a word that we should
never have tagged on us, discontent as believers. But don't be worrisome
over the ungodly prospering. They have all they have, and
all they will ever have, and they have it right now, and that's
all they're going to have. They spend their brief days upon
earth, and they may spend it in ease and riches, but soon
it'll be cut off. Always listen." And this is another
thing I told my brother-in-law. I said, success is not what you
have accumulated or accomplished in this life. Success is where
you end up. It's where you end up. It's not
what you got along the way. It's where you end up. If you end up in Christ, that's
the greatest success of all. If you end up in heaven, that's
the greatest success of all. If you end up in hell, you just
lost. You just lost. Ain't no winners
in hell. "...a side of their terrible
end ought to deliver us from fretting, being worrisome over
the prosperity of the wicked." It's God who prospered them.
It's God who's fattening them up. fret not thyself." You know where
fretting comes from? Envy? Jealousy? That's all flesh, isn't it? Or to have the spirit and attitude
of contentment in Christ and with what Christ has given me
and where He's put me, and let the world just go on by. Well,
you can drive all the Mercedes and Cadillacs and whatever you
wanna drive. Not that if any of y'all have that, don't worry
about it. I don't have one. I just happen to think some of
you guys probably got one. Not that I know. Doug has a Ford,
I know that. He'd rather have that than a
Cadillac. Anyway. Don't be jealous of it. Don't
be jealous of their prosperity. It's only by the grace of God
that we are not one of them and one with them. Paul said, I am
what I am by the grace of God. He used to be a Pharisee, a Pharisee,
one who hated God, who pretended to love God, but he hated God.
He said, I am what I am by the grace of God. The second instruction
is this, in verse 3, trust in the Lord. Have faith in God. Brethren, there is not any better
cure or medicine for fretting and worrying than this. Trust
the Lord. Just trust Him. Simple faith. Faith in Christ will cure fretting. A believer begins to fret when
he takes his eyes off of Christ and he begins to look at the
beggarly elements of this world. You remember Peter said, Lord,
if it's you bid me to walk on water, he said, come on. And
Peter walked on water. And then he began to see the
wind, look at the wind, how boisterous it was and the waves. And he
began to see. Christ is our life, our strength,
our refuge in times of trouble. He's our hiding place in the
storm. What do we have to fret about? I know this, I know I
fret. I know I get worrisome at times.
But I seriously have zero, zero to fret about. Zero. You know whatever it is
I'm going through, whatever it is you're going through right
now, you know the outcome is already done. You know the outcome
is already established. It's already established. You
just got to wait till you get there and see it. You know, we pray
about things and we ought to pray about things. We ought to
pray according to God's will. We pray that I will be done.
But whatever it is I'm dealing with, the outcome is settled. It's already settled. And if
I could just realize that, it's settled. Trust the Lord. When we fret,
we're not believing, are we? We are not believing when we're
fretting. Someone said this, Our outward conduct depends on
our inward attitude and confidence in God. That's good. Then here's a promise. Several
of these instructions come with a promise. Trust in the Lord,
and thou shalt be fed." You know that word means shepherded. You shall be shepherded. The
Lord is my shepherd. You trust Him, He'll feed you.
He'll take care of you. That's what He tells us over
in Matthew chapter 6. Your heavenly Father knows what you have need
of before you ask Him. He says to set not your heart
on these things. Don't go after these things.
Trust Him. You shall be fed spiritually.
That's your tonight. You're being fed spiritually.
And you shall be fed physically. I'm 64 years old. I have never
missed a meal. In 64 years, I've never missed
a meal. Unless I did it on purpose. I've never missed it. I've never
gone hungry. Now, I know there's people out there that have gone
hungry. I've never gone hungry. In my life, I've never gone hungry. The Lord has shepherded me, He's
taken care of me, and He'll take care of you. And then here's the third one. Delight
thyself also in the Lord, fret not, trust Him, and delight in
Him. Delight thyself also in the Lord. It's hard to fret when you're
delighting in something or someone, isn't it? It's hard to really
fret and worry when you're actually delighting in someone. Because
that delight makes you forget about the fretting. It does. Let me read something over here
in Nehemiah. I've got it marked. Let me go over here and find
it. Let me read this to you. Nehemiah 8.10, Then he said unto
them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send
portions unto them, for whom nothing is prepared. For this
day is holy unto our Lord, neither be ye sorry, for the joy of the
Lord is your strength. The joy of the Lord is your strength.
When you really do, when you and I, really find joy in the
Lord Jesus Christ at the same time we find strength, spiritual
strength. That comes with joy. It's just
tied in with joy in the Lord comes strength. There's nothing
that makes you want to be more active than when you really find
joy in it. There's nothing that you want
to be about and do. There's something that you find
joy in. And if you really find joy in
the Lord, you'll be active. You'll be active in His service.
This won't be a drudgery. You'll be active in it. Whatever
it is that you find to do, you'll be active in it. And here's a promise. Delight
thyself also in the Lord. And it means this too. Commune with Him. I like what
one of the old writers said. It said, sit down beside of him. Sit down beside of him and commune
with him. Often David spoke of meditating
upon the Lord in the night season. Tonight when you go to bed and
everything's quiet, speak to the Lord. Speak to him like me
and you speak to each other, Ed. We don't have to say thee,
thou, and you know, you don't have to say all that. Just speak
to him in your language. Speak to Him as you would speak
to your Father. And He shall give thee delight
thyself also in the Lord, and He shall give thee the desires
of thine heart. I thought about this one for
a little bit. I hope I thought about all of them for a little
bit, but this one caught my attention. He shall give thee the desires
of thine heart. And I thought about this. If
my delight is truly in the Lord, then the desires of my heart
will be pleasing unto the Lord. If I really delight in Him, then
my desires will be pleasing to Him, because my desires will
be after Him. My great desire will be this,
that I will be done. That will be my great desire. John Bunyan said this concerning
this verse, he said, His desires and our desires are one. They're one and the same. And
then fourthly, the fourth instruction, which comes with, it's really
two precepts in one verse. Commit thy way unto the Lord.
You delight in Him, you trust Him, you quit fretting, and now
you commit. You commit thy way. Spurgeon said this, and this
is good. Roll the whole burden of your
life upon Him. Put that on the refrigerator.
Roll the whole burden of your life on Him. And that goes right
there with 1 Peter 5-7. Cast all your care upon Him,
for He careth for you. You know, it's like the farmer
who plows the ground, he plants the seed, but he leaves the increase
in the hands of the Lord, doesn't he? He has nothing to do. I mean,
he planted, he plowed, he planted, he fertilized, just go home.
Go home. The end result is in the hands
of the Lord. Just go home. Don't worry about that corn.
Don't go out there and dig it up and see if it's growing or
taking root. Just go home. because the increase
is of the Lord. A song that I have sung in the
past, I don't know if we've sung it here or not, Take Your Burden
to the Lord and Leave It There. Take Your Burden to the Lord
and Leave It There. Commit and trust. Trust. These
go together. You are not and I'm not. We are
not going to commit anything to anyone we don't trust. Paul
said, I know whom I have believed and I have committed unto Him. I've committed everything to
Him. Everything. And here's a promise. Commit
thy way to the Lord, trust Him, trust Him to bring it about,
trust Him to take care of you, and He'll bring it to pass. Do
you believe that? You believe He'll bring it to
pass? He will. There's a scripture in the Gospel. Our Lord is dealing with these
two blind men. I believe it's two blind men. And He asked them,
He said, what do you want? They said that we receive our
sight. He said, do you believe I'm able to do this? They said,
yes, Lord. He said, receive your sight.
And you know what happened? they received their sight, which
was evident they believed He was able to do it. It was true
faith. He said, you believe I'm able
to do this? Do you believe God is able to take care of your
troubles? You believe He's able to bring
you home safely? He'll bring it to pass. Those
who trust Him will not be disappointed. Let me read this, I copied this
before coming down here. Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however
dark it be, O lead me by Thine own right hand, choose out the
path for me. Smooth let it be, or rough, it will be still the
best, winding or straight, it matters not, it leads me to Thy
rest. I dare not choose my lot, I would
not if I might, but choose Thou for me, O my God, so shall I
walk aright. Take thou my cup, and with joy
or sorrow fill. As ever best to thee may seem,
choose thou my good and evil." That's good, isn't it? He'll bring it to pass. The Lord
you choose. Commit thy way to Him. And rest. Here's the fifth one. Rest in the Lord. Rest. That
word rest there means be silent. Shut up murmuring. Whatever it is you and I have
been murmuring about, just stop it. Just put a stop to it. Stop murmuring. I don't care
what it is, that's what He's saying. Rest in the Lord. Are
not all things of God? Are they? It takes grace to carry this
out, to rest and be silent, be still, know that I'm God. Be still. You know, God rested
the seventh day from creating. That's because He was finished,
not because He was tired. And our Lord cried on the cross,
It's finished. And He rested from all His works.
And now you and I need to just be quiet and rest in Him. We need to find rest for our
souls in Him. Out there in all the hustle and
the bustle and all the stuff that's going on out there, let
us just come apart for a while. Just like here tonight. Let us
find a little rest, a little solace, and some encouragement
that God is God. That He's God. And listen, the
more we learn of Jesus Christ, the greater the rest. The greater
the rest will be. Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me. And then wait patiently for Him.
You can't rest without patience. You cannot rest if you have no
patience. He's like, where is He at? I
thought He was going to be here. I prayed two minutes ago, and
this thing is still going on. Wait. Rest and patiently wait
for Him. Time is nothing to God, and let
it be nothing to you when waiting on God." And I'll tell you this, the Lord's
worth waiting on. He's worth waiting on. He's never early
and He's never late. He's always on time. You know,
when you read the book, Unless you're like some people,
you cheat and get to the end of it. When you read a book,
you wait till you get to the end to find out the story, don't
you? That's what you do. Well, let's
wait till the end of our story. Let's wait till the end. Let's
wait till the last chapter. Our lives are written like a
story in a book. We read of Job. We read of David. Don't we read
of all these men in the Scriptures? We read of our Lord. Well, your
life also is sketched out just like theirs. Our life. My life. It is sketched out just
like theirs. And then cease from anger. I
put out there madness because that's what anger leads to, madness.
You'll do the dumbest things on earth out of anger. You'll do things you wish you
hadn't done, say things you wish you hadn't said. Once said, always
said. I was telling my grandson, you
know, he likes to come down here and he likes to shoot. That's
one thing he loves to do when he comes here. He likes to shoot his pistol. And I've told him probably every
time he's come down here, I say, Cole, I want you to remember
one thing. When that bullet leaves that
gun, you cannot take it back. Make sure what you're aiming
at, because you can't bring it back. You can't just reach out
there and pull it back and put it in a barrel. Whatever it does,
it does. And it's like a tongue. Once
said, always said. And you can't unsay something. It's not like you can take an
eraser and just reach out there and erase it. It's there. Now, if we know that all things
are of God, then we have nothing to be angry about. Now, the Scripture
says, let not the sun go down on your wrath. Get over it. That's what the Scripture teaches.
Get over it. That's what it's saying. Let it go. Just let it
go. And I thought of the story of Joseph. You never read in the story of
Joseph and all that was done to him, of him ever being angry
and mad. You don't read that. Even when
he stood there with his brothers, he wept over them. You meant
it for evil, but God meant it for good. And let us not cease from anger,
and we are not to be angry of God's providence. Whatever came your way today,
God brought it into your life. It's providential. And getting revenge is not for
us, but for God, who always acts in justice. Listen to James 1.19-20,
"...Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear,
slow to speak, and slow to wrath." We seem to have that totally
in reverse. Human nature, I'm telling you, human nature has
that in reverse. You can get angry before you can ever even
listen to somebody finish what they're saying. I mean, before
they get done, you're ready to slap them. But here is the process. Swift to hear, pay attention.
Slow to speak. Listen, if you haven't thought
about it, don't talk about it. You just mark that down. If you
haven't thought about it, don't talk about it. Swift to hear,
slow to speak, and slow or slower to wrath, to act on it in anger." Wrath is what unchecked anger
turns into. If you let anger go unchecked,
it's going to turn into wrath. For the wrath of man works not
the righteousness of God. And he says, and forsake wrath.
Listen, if you will not have trouble, then don't be the source
of it. Don't be the source of it. A fire will go out if you
quit putting wood on it. If you don't put wood on the
fire, it'll go out. Just let it go out. Henry would
tell us in the preacher school, don't trouble trouble till trouble
troubles you. and fret not thyself in any wise
to do evil." Don't talk yourself into it. Here's how the process
goes. You're angry. You're angry. You're going to get even. Now
you're in a state of wrath. And then here's what you do. You justify your actions. You
justify slapping somebody or cussing them or getting even
with them. You justify it. You talk yourself
into it. He deserved it. Don't we all? The only thing that comes out
of our anger is evil. Commit your way unto Him who
judges faithfully. And then seventh, and I'm going
to wind this down, depart from evil. Don't make a truce with it. If
you're around evil, He says, depart from, get out of there.
Like a burning house, don't stand around and admire the fire, get
out of the house. Depart from evil thoughts, evil
company, evil situation, flee it like Lot fled Sodom and he
didn't even look back. Remember his wife did and God
turned her to a pillar of salt. and depart from the evil principles
of this world. We don't act like this world
no more. We don't deal like it deals and think like it thinks. Now listen, depart from evil
and do good. Do good. And this is what it
says. Faith is active. Faith is an
act of grace. Do good at every opportunity.
work the works of righteousness, adorn the gospel by doing good,
not evil, and dwell forevermore," Charles Spurgeon said this, "...obtain
an abiding and quiet inheritance. Short-lived are the gains and
pleasures of evil, but eternal are the rewards of grace." And
last of all, last of all, I had to get through these tonight.
Last of all, wait on the Lord. Wait on Him. I've got a star
by Isaiah 30 verse 18. So turn to Isaiah chapter 30. In verse 18 of Isaiah 30, And
therefore will the Lord wait, and listen, And therefore will
the Lord wait, that He may be gracious unto you. He's longsuffering. And therefore will He be exalted,
that He may have mercy upon you. For the Lord is a God of judgment. Blessed are all they that wait
for Him. Wait on Him. Wait on Him in obedience. Wait
on Him in expectation. Wait on Him in service. Wait
on Him in faith. It's easy to say it, but it's
another thing to do, isn't it? To wait on Him. And keep His
way, the narrow way, the narrow gate. Spurgeon said, onward and
upward, that's the Christian motto. Keep His way, the gospel
way. This here, wait and do good,
this here, wait and keep His way, someone said it's wait and
work. His grace being exercised in
both areas, waiting and working. And here's a promise. Here's
the promise in verse 34. He shall exalt thee to inherit
the land. When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. Heaven
is yours, but it's not theirs. They won't be there. You'll never
deal with them again. We will see the end of the wicked,
but we will not partake of their destruction. Those are good instructions
to live by, aren't they? Those are very good instructions
to live by. Good instructions from an old
saint. All right.