Psalm 34. I titled the message, Taste and
See. That word see has to do with
experience the Lord's goodness. You ever taste something? And
you say, that is good. That does taste good. You've
experienced. You've experienced something.
You've experienced something good. And that's why he says
here in this psalm in verse 8, Oh, and I like the way he says
that. He doesn't just say taste and
see. He says, Oh, it's like, Oh, this
is good. Oh, and here's why you say, oh,
the Lord is good. Oh, He's so good to me. Taste
and see. You taste for yourself. You experience
His goodness as I have experienced His goodness. That's what David's
saying. You know, our senses are the way we experience things.
God has made this body in such a way that the things we experience,
we experience through sight, Hearing. Smell. I mean, think of what God has
given us, how he's put this body together. Taste. Feelings. I mean, a fly can just, a gnat
can light on you. You can feel it. You know, this
just, those things amaze me. I don't know, they may not, but
they do amaze me. But our senses are the way we
experience things, and taste is the way we experience good
food or bad food. You know, it's either good or
bad. You know, when I was a child, there were many things I did
not want to taste. I hadn't even tasted them. You
know, Mom would put stuff on my plate, green beans and those
kind of things. I didn't want to taste them.
And she would make me taste them. And there was many of those things
I tasted I didn't like. But now that I've grown up, I like them.
I do. I started to say I love green
beans, but that's kind of using love in a wrong way, isn't it? After 13, after first granching
at 13, you know, I want to be careful how I use the word love.
You know, I love my dog. I love my food. I love my wife.
You say all that and the same thing. Those are different types
of love. But I like. I like. I like things now that I did
not like when I was young. I've grown up. I've matured. Did the food change? Is the cooking
better? No. The food didn't change. It didn't change at all. My taste
changed. And let me tell you something.
For you to really Love Christ. For you to really enjoy the Lord
Jesus Christ, God Almighty has to change your taste. He's got
to give you a taste for the gospel. He's got to give you a taste
for the Lord Jesus Christ. Because this has a spiritual
implication, and we'll look at it here in a minute. You know,
taste can cover many things. You know, when we speak of someone,
the way they dress, we talk about their taste and their style.
And here, we're talking about something spiritual. In order
to experience the goodness of God, the goodness of God, to
experience that God is genuinely good, we must, by faith, taste
that the Lord is good, that He's good. He says in verse 8, Oh, taste
and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth
in him. Not just look and see, but taste. You know, to taste something,
you've got to put it into your mouth. You've got to take it into your
mouth and chew on it or drink it and swallow it, and you get
a taste of it. And you can see whether it's
good or bad. And seeing that the Lord is good, If He's good,
then when you taste, when by faith you look to Him, you're
going to find out He's good. That's what you're going to find
out about God, that He's good. You're not going to be like that
man who had one talent, and he said, I knew you to be an austere,
a strict, hard man. Do you find God to be that way? If God were that way, I wouldn't
be here, and you wouldn't be here. God is gracious and kind
and merciful and good. And that's exactly why you and
I are here tonight, worshiping Him because of who He is. That's
His nature. That's the nature of God. It
is by faith that we feed on Him through His Word. Taste first,
then see. As David said, that I had fainted
unless I had believed to see. the goodness of the Lord in the
land that I live in. You believe first and then you see, you experience. You have the experience. Not
everyone or not everything that looks good is good. Now you can
make poison look good. I tell you this, David said,
the Lord, He is good. He is all that is good. Apart
from Him, there is no good. Good does not exist apart from
God. It does not exist apart from God. The Lord is infinitely
good. There's no end to His goodness.
Sin has not changed God. Sin has had no effect on God.
God is still God. God is holy, God is just, God
is love, and God is good. Now, sin has had a great effect
on me and you. It changed us. By one man's disobedience,
many became sinners. We became sinners. But God didn't. It didn't change Him at all.
He's infinitely good, unmeasurably good. There's no measure and
there's no end to His goodness. And God is independently good.
If you and I are good, it's because we've been made that way in Jesus
Christ. We have been made good in Christ. God has not been made
good, He is good. He is good. He is independently
good. His goodness is not derived from anything outside of Himself. In Mark 10, 18, when that young
man came to Christ, he called Him good master, and Jesus said
unto him, Why callest thou me good? There is none good but
one, that is God. God is infinitely absolutely
and independently good. And then God is unchangeably
good. He said, I am the Lord, I change not. You know, we can
go from having a good day to a bad day. We can go from acting
what we would call acting good to acting bad. God never changes. Everything our God does is good. You know, when He casts the wicked
into hell, when He exercises His justice, it's good. It's good. Then God is universally good.
In Psalm 145.9, it says, The Lord is good to all. How many
over 7 billion people are on this earth right now?
and they eat and they survive. I know some have tougher times
than others, and that's because of sin. That's just because of
sin. But our Lord feeds and provides
this whole world over. Even the animals that you and
I don't see out there in the forest, even the ones that we
don't want nothing to do with, even God takes care of them.
He feeds them. He's good. The Lord is good to
all and His tender mercies are over all His works. They're over all His works. Out
there, like I said, where no man is, the grass grows and the
animals are fed, His tender mercies are over all His works. And then God is eternally good.
Scripture says in Psalm 52, the goodness of God endureth continually. There's no end to His goodness. Now, here's what you will see
if by grace you can taste. Here's what you're going to see.
The goodness of the Lord. He really is good. He really
is. You will see His goodness in
creation. In Genesis 1.31, And God saw
everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning
were the sixth day. He gives us good food to eat.
He gives us good water to drink. He gives us good air to breathe.
And the water and the food and all that that is polluted, God
didn't pollute it. We did. We pollute. God has never polluted anything. That comes from us. From us. And then we see His goodness
in providence. This is what you'll see. If you
taste, you're going to see that the Lord is good, that He's good
in creation. All that He made is good. He
never made one thing evil. And you're going to see that
in His providence, you're going to see the goodness of God in
His providence. Romans 8.28, And we know that all things work
together. All things work together in providence. Everything that happened today
worked together for your good. Everything, I don't know what
you experienced today. I don't know what all you experienced,
but I know this, you're a child of God. God brought you through
that. He brought you to that experience
and it's for your good. And I have God's Word on it.
It's not something I'm making up. I have God's Word on it.
And we know that all things work together for what? For good. For our spiritual,
eternal good to them that love God. Now, not everything works
today for the good of everyone on this earth. To the unbeliever,
this day added to his condemnation. But for you, it's for your good. And we know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are called
according to His purpose. It is written in Psalm 145.9,
the Lord is good to all. He's good to all. He's good to
all of them. All His children, taste of His goodness. in the
redemption of sinners, Jesus Christ. That's God's goodness. We see the goodness of God. We
see the grace of God. We see the love of God. We see
the goodness of God in our redemption. He didn't have to redeem me.
God Almighty did not redeem me. He did not save me because He
had to. He did because He purposed to,
willed to, and it was His good pleasure to make me and to make
you His people." So Samuel said, it's the Lord's good pleasure
to make you His people. And then in the operation of
the Holy Spirit, we see the goodness of God. He is the one who guides you,
teaches you, instructs you. Let's not lose the awareness
of this, that every child of God here is sealed with the Holy
Spirit of God. He lives in you. He guides you. He instructs you. There are many times that I've
had a thought of a scripture, and you have too. And it comes
to your mind, or there's something that has struck you and turned
you, and you never realize it's the Holy Spirit guiding and instructing
you. Paul said this in Philippians
1.6, "...being confident of this very thing, that He which hath
begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus
Christ." He will not quit, He will not give up on you, He will
not leave you. He will perform that work until
you stand in glory someday and see Jesus Christ face to face. Then he says here, well let me
mention this, since I'm on the goodness of the Lord. People
think, or so many preachers think, that this preaching of a hell,
fire, and brimstone scares people into making a profession, scares
people into what they call getting saved. You know what the Word
of God says in Romans 2.4? It is the goodness of God that
leadeth thee to repentance. It wasn't the fear of hell, fire,
and brimstone that led me to repent. It's the goodness of
God. God brought me along, revealed Himself to me, made the Gospel
known to me. That's the goodness of God. Blessed is that man that trusteth
in Him. Words fail in describing this
blessed man. I cannot describe how blessed
you are that believe the Gospel. You have eternal life. You have
eternal life. You have forgiveness of sins. I don't care how deep the stain
is. It's gone. It's gone. All our sins have been put away.
And blessed is that man that trusteth in Him. Never envy the
rich man. Never envy the strong man. Never
envy the popular man. Envy the man that believes God.
You know, over in Hebrews, it gives
a list, what I call the hall of fame of faith. And it says,
these all died in faith. There's one thing that I desire
of the Lord, that when my life's over, that I can truly die in
the faith, believe in God. that I can be with Abraham, Isaac,
and all those others who have gone on to be with the Lord,
that I can die believing God. Now, he says in verse 9, O fear
the Lord, O ye His saints. Nobody else is going to, but
he's speaking here to God's children. This is to you. This is the message
to the children. Because I'll show you that in
a minute, there in verse 11. Oh, fear the Lord, ye his saints,
for there's no want to them that fear him. Every necessary thing
you need, God will provide. God will provide. Listen, God
provided you with a lamb. Abraham said to Isaac, when he
said, here's the wood and the fire, but where's the lamb? He
said, God will provide himself a lamb. God provided a Lamb for Himself and for me and you. And God Himself is the Lamb that
He provided. He is the Lamb. God Himself is
the Lamb. And seeing that He has done this,
You think He's not going to take care of all these other necessary
things? He has made us. God made us.
We're His children. You know, you parents in here,
you take care of your children. I know you take care of your
children. Well, put that on an infinite level when you think
of God taking care of His children. He takes care of His own. It is written in Nahum 1.7, the
Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble. A stronghold
that Satan and all the demons of hell cannot, cannot bring
down. Every stronghold that man has
made, every castle, every stronghold they've made can be brought down.
But God is a stronghold in the day of trouble. He cannot be
brought down. And He knoweth them that trust
in Him. I trust in Him. Many of you say
you trust in Him. But I tell you this, He knows
who trusts Him. He knows exactly who trusts Him. Now he says here, there's no
want to them that fear Him. There's no spiritual want. We
have all spiritual blessing given to us in the Lord Jesus Christ. And all our temporal wants will
be met as they come along. But here's the blessing of it.
There's no want to them that fear Him that in Christ you are
complete. You are complete. You lack nothing.
You lack absolutely nothing. Oh, He said, Fear the Lord, ye
His saints, for there is no want to them that fear Him. Worship
Him. And that's what fear of the Lord
is, is to worship Him. To worship Him. And those who
worship Him will have no want. No want for real happiness, no
want for temporal blessings. Now I know as far as this flesh
is concerned, we have too many wants. You can't satisfy this
flesh. It's like the ocean, it never
fills up. It's like the eye, Job said, it never stops seeing.
It's never full of seeing. But to God's children, we have
God's Word on it, you'll never want. David said, I have been
young, and now I am old. I've never seen the righteous
forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. He says, the young lions do lack
those proud, bold, young lions, and they suffer hunger. But they that seek the Lord shall
not want any good thing. any necessary thing, whether
it be spiritual or temporal, He said, you shall not want. They will not come up short in
this life and in the life to come. You will not come up short. We have God's Word on it. Now,
as you grow older, you appreciate these verses more and more. I
appreciate these more and more than I did when I was 23 years
old. And I heard the gospel, but I
tell you now, these scriptures like this are precious to me.
They're precious to me. And then he gives us some parental
instructions here in verse 11. Come, ye children, hearken to
me, listen to me. I will teach you. The fear of
the Lord. Here's the best education. You
know, we want our children to have a good education, don't
we? We want our children to have the best education they can have.
Right here is the best education you can have. Sitting under the
gospel, hearing of God, hearing from God, hearing Him preached. And He says here, come ye children,
and He's speaking here to the children of the Lord, Listen
to me, and I'll teach you the fear of the Lord. This message
is for the children, and they are to come and listen. And the
lesson is this, the fear of the Lord. The Scripture says, the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Not to fear God, there's no wisdom
in that. That is sheer stupidity, not
to fear God. But the fear he's speaking of
here, it is a fear of awe. It's a fear of reverence. It's
a fear of reverence. It's respect. It's respect, and it's respect
born of love. When the love of God is shed
abroad in the heart, that's when this fear takes place. We cannot learn a greater lesson
than to stand in awe of the Lord, to fear Him. He says in verse 12 here, What
man is he that desires life, loveth many days, that he may
see good? You know, desiring to live a
long life is common to everyone. You know, what age do you want
to die at? What age do you want to die at?
I asked Vicki that one time. We were talking and I said, what
age do you want to die at? It's like the, you know, you want to die at 50? You want
to die at 60? No, you want to live a long life.
It is natural to want to live a long life. But even living
a long life in this life, it comes with pain and suffering. And the longer you live, the
more difficult it gets. I know, I see this. But we desire long life. And
to live in health and some prosperity, that's desirable to everyone.
That's a good desire. There's nothing wrong with desiring
that. But he's talking here about spiritual life. Spiritual life. Because if the only life I have
is on this earth, that's no good. That's no good. Because it's just, Job said,
man that's born of a woman is a few days and full of trouble. So what he's speaking here about
is spiritual life, a life lived without guilt. Well, what's that
worth? What's that worth to have a clear
conscience? Paul speaks of that in his epistles, a clear conscience. knowing that you've been redeemed
by the blood of Christ and your sins have been put away. To live
a life without feeling guilty all the time, or to live a life
without fear of damnation, without fear of the wrath to come, because
the Scripture says He has saved us from the wrath to come. Not
talking about a place, He's talking about a person who's coming in
wrath. To live without bondage. Bondage. Religion without Christ
is nothing but bondage. It's bondage, that's all it is.
Those whom the Son sets free, they are free indeed. It's to live a life with peace
in the heart. That's the life He's talking
about. That's the life He's talking about. It's a life lived in communion
and union with Jesus Christ. It's to live the life of a believer
on this earth. And the many days is the eternal
life. It's the life of God, but it's
to live with Him forever and ever and ever. But now, He does start here.
We do have to live a life here, don't we? You know, God has brought
us into this world and we have a time to spend on this earth
and we have a life to live here. Now, if it be long days or short
days, that's determined by the Lord. But listen, what man is
he that desires life, loves many days, that he may see good? The first thing he says to every
believer here, this is to believers, keep your tongue from evil. Keep your tongue from evil and
thy lips from speaking, guile." The tongue is a little member,
James tells us, and it causes great problems. James says it's
set on fire of hell. You know, we seem to be able
to control every part of our body pretty good, except the
tongue. It's like a flap that you can't
stop flapping. It's just almost... James says
it's uncontrollable. You ever been around somebody
who just won't shut up? I mean, she's like, why won't you shut
up? You know, it just goes and goes.
They can't get their tongue to stop. They just can't do it. Solomon said in Proverbs 18.21,
death and life are in the power of the tongue. That's why Pilate
said, don't you know, when he said this to the Lord, don't
you know I can set you free or I can put you to death? And the
Lord said, you don't have no power over me at all. But what
Pilate was saying to him, all I have to do is give the word.
If I just give the word, you're free. If I say crucify him, you're
going to be put to death. Death and life are in the power
of the tongue. And our tongues, listen, our
tongues speak what's in the heart. It's operated by the heart. Just
like the heart pumps blood through the body, it also pumps words
out of the mouth. That's why we're taught to put
a check on our tongues, Solomon says. Put a check on your tongue. And he starts here with the tongue.
Keep your tongue from evil. This is what John Gill said.
Listen to what John Gill said. The tongue is an instrument of
much evil, an unruly member, and needs restraint. And it is
from evil and not from good, it is to be kept. From evil speaking
of God, from cursing and swearing, from evil speaking of men, reproaching
and reviling them, from filthy speaking, from all obscene and
unchaste words, and from all lying ones, For where such evil
speaking is indulged, the fear of God cannot be in that man. I thought that was a good statement
by John Gill. Listen to Proverbs 21, 23. Whoso
keepeth his mouth and his tongue keepeth his soul from trouble. Why is it so hard to just shut
up? I'm talking to myself. Just leave
it alone. So that's the first thing. Keep your tongue from evil, from
evil conversation. Do you speak guile or lies or
hypocrisy?" He said, Don't let it come out of your mouth. And
then the next thing he says in verse 14, Depart from evil. Depart
from evil. And do good. You see, faith is
active. Just like love, when we looked at Thursday. Love is
what? Kind. It's active. That's why the Scripture says,
Love not in word, in word but in deed and in truth. Love is
active. Faith is active. Depart from
evil but at the same time do good. Here's a negative and a
positive. You know it takes a negative and a positive to have light.
And this is light. Depart from evil and do good.
Seek peace and pursue it. Now we know that evil is all
around us. But let it not come from us. Let it not come from us who believe. What we are to do is what it
says in Psalm 37.3, trust in the Lord and do good. When something is going on, and
it's especially good for the younger people, It's good for
us older ones too. When there's something going
on that's not right, get out of there. Get out of there. Leave. Don't hang around where
things are going on that's evil. That's why he says, depart from
it. And if you want peace, I think everyone in this room wants peace.
And he says, pursue it. You want peace with God? I want
peace with God. Pursue it. In Christ, pursue
peace with God. Peace with God, peace in the
heart, peace in the conscience, peace in this life, peace in
the home. Pursue it. Go after it. You know, we go after that which
we want, don't we? Whatever it is you really want,
whatever it is you really want, that's what you go after. And most of us are guilty of
going after things material than we do things spiritual. But he says here, he's not talking
about pursue a good job or pursue this, not that it's wrong, but
he says, if you want peace, go after it, run after it, make
it your aim to have peace. And then he says, "...the eyes
of the Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open to their
cry." You know what this is saying? To put it just simply, that our
God is God. Our God is God. Turn over to
Psalm 135. In Psalm 135, let me find the
verse. Look in verse 15. The idols of the heathen are
silver and gold, the work of men's hands. They have mouths,
but they speak not. Eyes have they, but they see
not. They have ears, but they hear
not. Neither is there any breath in
their mouths. They that make them are likened
to them." In other words, they're just as dead as their idol. Their
idols are dead, they're useless dead idols, and they that make
them are dead also. But now listen, the eyes of the
Lord are upon the righteous. He is a real God. He is the real
living God. He is the only God there is,
and He's our God. His eyes, the eyes of the Lord
are upon the righteous. Everything you did today, everywhere
you went, Everywhere you went, all the work that you did, everything,
God's eyes was on you. His eyes, they were on you. And His ears are open to their
cry. Did you pray today? Did you really pray today? Did
you seek the Lord? He heard you. He heard you. His ears are open to your cries. We are never out of his sight.
He watches over his children so much that the very hairs of
their head, he said, will not perish. Luke 21, 18, he said,
but there shall not a hair of your head perish. I don't think you and I realize
how, how do I say it? You know how you take a baby,
when it's first born, they take his blanket and they just wrap
it up real tight? It's like this. It's like a straitjacket. They
wrap that baby up. That's how God has you. You are
wrapped up that tight into Him. You don't move. I mean, you don't
even look. Your eyeballs don't even turn
that He's not watching you. Now, if we could live in the
awareness of that, we could live with a lot more peace and a lot
more comfort, and with true worship, knowing that our Lord is watching
over us. This is how complete His salvation
is. His eyes, the eyes of the Lord
upon the righteous, And his ears are open to their cry. We have
God's complete attention. Can you imagine that? I'll tell
you what you do. Go home tonight and call the
president. Tell him you got something you want to talk to him about.
You're not getting through. He ain't going to answer your
phone call. You can't call the governor. You probably can't
even call the mayor here in town and get him to listen. I don't know if it's a man or
a woman. I know you. I don't know much more else about
outside of this place. But I tell you what, you and
I can go home tonight, we can call upon God and have His complete
attention. That ought to make us go, wow,
wow. I've got God Almighty's complete
attention. And you know what? And by faith,
I'm going to leave the answer to Him. I'm leaving the answer
to Him. Cast all your cares upon Him,
for He careth for you." Now this is a side you don't want to deal
with. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil. Oh, I don't want to deal with
that side of God. I want this to be said. If God be for us, if God is for
me, who can be against me? But I tell you what, if God's
against me, it doesn't matter who's for me. Listen, in Proverbs
1.26, God says this, "...I will laugh at your calamity and mock
when your fear cometh." He says, you know, if you go and read
that chapter, you'll see where He spoke and they ignored Him. And then He says, alright, alright,
when your calamity comes, God said, I'll laugh. I called, you
wouldn't come. you wouldn't respond, you wouldn't
do nothing with me. So when your calamity comes, when you call
on God, He said, I'll laugh. The face of the Lord is against
them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from
the earth. You know, everything on this earth that's not of Christ is going
to be destroyed. You know that? And the only thing
on this earth right now that's of Christ that's not going to
be destroyed, it's you. It's the church. Everything man has
made, everything that man has made and he's made it into the
honor of man, God's going to bring it down. He's going to
burn it up. He's going to destroy it. He's going to destroy them. He's
going to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. One day,
God will cut them off and their remembrance and their name, when
it's mentioned, you'll say, who? I don't remember that. But one
day, listen, one day, let me make the spiritual application
here. One day when this is all done, we're going to be in heaven.
We're going to be in glory. And nobody's going to remember
anybody on this earth that perished under the wrath of God. The scripture
says the former things will not come into mind. We're not going to be wondering
what happened to this one or that one. Nope, those things,
those memories are gone. They're gone. The righteous cry and the Lord
heareth and delivereth. And that word delivereth, E-T-H,
that is means He does so continually. Continually. The righteous cry
and the Lord heareth continually. That means continually. and delivereth
them continually out of all their troubles." You know, some of
you have been around here a while. You've been around here for several
years now, and you've got some years on you in the Lord, in
the faith. Can you not look back and say,
the Lord has delivered you? Can you not look back on your
life on this earth and say, He delivered me there. He delivered
me there. He delivered me there. I cried
and He delivered. He's faithful. God is faithful. And He never tires of hearing
His children cry to Him. You and I do. You know, we get
tired of our children crying to us, don't we? Oh, we do. He
never does. He never does. But it says, "...the righteous
cry, and the Lord heareth and delivers them out of all their
troubles." This cry is different from murmuring. Moses said to
Israel, The Lord heareth your murmuring. He hears that also.
But here's what he hears and delivers is the cry of his children
for him for help. Is it Psalm 107? I'm taking too
long. This may not be the psalm I'm
thinking of, but I think it is. If it is, go home and read it,
because I'm not going to read all this. All give thanks unto the Lord,
for He is good, and for His mercy endureth forever. Let the redeemed
of the Lord say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the
enemy, and gathered them out of the lands, from the east and
the west, and the north and the south. They wandered in the wilderness
in a solitary way. They found no city to dwell in,
hungry and thirsty. Their soul fainted in them. Then
they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them
out of all their distresses." That whole psalm keeps going
like that. He delivers them out of their
distresses, they get back in trouble. They call upon Him,
and He delivers them out of their distresses, they get back in
trouble, and He does it. Read that when you go home. And then here's encouragement,
and I need to close. Here in verse 18. The Lord is nigh unto
them that have a broken heart. You know, here's what's odd. Those who are of a broken heart
and a contrite spirit, they feel that God is so far away from
them. They do. When your heart is broken over
sin, and your heart is so contrite, you feel that God is so far away,
and yet He is so near to you. And the evidence of it is this,
you have a broken heart and a contrite spirit. He's the one who gave
it to you. He gave it to you. If he were far off, you wouldn't
think about him at all. You wouldn't think about him
at all. This is one of the greatest blessings
that any child, any sinner, let me say any sinner can have, is
for God to give that sinner a broken heart over sin. To break your
heart. over sin, not just something
you've done, but what you are. And here's why this is such a
blessing. It's because of this, He saveth
such. He saveth such. God has never
saved anyone whose heart has not been broken over sin. Many are the afflictions of the
righteous, There are many. Many are the trials, the heartaches. Salvation doesn't save us from
heartache and pain. Believing on the Lord Jesus Christ
doesn't save you from trouble. But you sure do have One to bring
you through trouble. We have One to bring us through
it. But many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord
delivereth them out of them all. Not one will do us in." Sometimes,
and some of you may have experienced this, but if not, you may yet.
But something comes along and you think, this is going to do
you in. You don't know how you can see
the sun come up again. There are trials that are so
difficult, you just don't see how you can move on. You don't
see it. And yet, as time goes by, you
do. And after a while, you look back and you see that the Lord
brought you through it. When you go through the water, He
said, I'll go with you. In the fire, He'll not burn you.
He'll not burn you up. And He keepeth all his bones,
not one of them broken. We know this applies to the Lord
Jesus Christ. We can apply all this psalm to
Christ and to us in Christ. We know that on the cross not
one of His bones were broken. It said it wouldn't be broken
and it were not broken. But it can also be applied to
us who are the body of Christ. Not one member will be broken
off. Bruised maybe, but never broken off. Never broken. I don't know if it's David or
one of the other prophets that said, Rejoice not over me, O
my enemies. For though I fall, yet shall
I rise again. You may knock me down, but you're
not going to break me. For not a bone of his body will
be broken, and we are the body of Christ. Evil shall slay the
wicked, they shall perish in their own sins, and they that
hate the righteous shall be guilty. That's right. I tell you what,
a man's own sins will slay him. They'll slay him. Be sure the
Scripture says your sins will find you out. They'll slay you. If you walk in a snake pit long
enough, you're going to get bit. You'll get bit. A man's own sins
will slay him. And they're going to be guilty.
I do not know of a more terrifying word than to hear guilty. Especially when God says it. And then last of all, the Lord
redeemeth the soul of His servant. He buys back, He purchased. He
purchased the soul of His servant. And none of them that trust in
Him shall be guilty. In Christ you are justified from
all things which you could not be justified by the law of Moses. In Christ you've been cleared
of all charges. You're not guilty. Not guilty.