Psalm 38. This is called Psalm of David
to bring to remembrance. The translators didn't put that
in there, but somebody of old did that had good inclination. This is a song of remembrance.
And that's how I started. I'll kind of give this to you
as I got it. And at the end, he's going to say, don't forsake
me. And it's so easy to feel forsaken, individually, to feel
forsaken. Here in Psalm 38 verse 1, it
says, Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke
me not in Thy wrath, neither chasten me in Thy hot displeasure.
For Thine arrows stick fast in me, and Thy hand presses me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh
because of Thine anger, neither is there any rest in my bones
because of my sin. For my iniquities are gone over
my head as a heavy burden. They are too heavy for me. My
wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. I'm
troubled. I'm bowed down greatly. I go
mourning all the day long, for my loins are filled with the
loathsome disease, and there's no soundness in my flesh. I am
feeble and sore-broken. I have roared by reason of the
disquietness of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before
Thee. and my groaning is not hid from
thee. My heart panteth, my strength faileth me. As for the light
of mine eyes, it is also gone from me. My lovers and my friends
stand aloof from my soul, and my kinsmen stand afar off." We
know David's writing this. Have you ever said these things?
Have you ever felt forsaken? Who's really speaking here? He
tread that winepress alone. Completely alone, didn't he?
Verse 12, They also that seek after my life lay snares for
me, and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and
imagine deceits all the day long. But I, as a deaf man, heard not,
and I was a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. He's a sheep,
for his shears was dumb in him. Thus I was a man that heareth
not, and whose mouths are no reproof. For in thee, O Lord,
do I hope. Thou wilt hear, O Lord my God. For I said, hear me, lest otherwise
they should rejoice over me. When my foot slippeth, they magnify
themselves against me. For I am ready to halt, and my
sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare mine iniquity,
I will be sorry for my sin. But mine enemies are lively,
and they are strong, and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. They also that render evil for
good are my ambassadories, because I follow the thing that is good."
You can read that without the italics. Because I follow good. There's none good but God. That's
who He follows. And He says in verse 21, Forsake me not, O Lord, O my
God, be not far from me. Don't forsake me and don't be
far from me. Make haste to help me, O Lord
of my salvation. This is a psalm of remembrance.
We won't deal a whole lot in this psalm. We're going to look
around other places. But what are we remembering? What's he
remembering? He wants to not be forsaken.
He wants to be heard, the Lord of his salvation, to make haste
coming to him. That's how he ends it. But what are we remembering? We know primarily our Lord speaking
this. This is a Messianic psalm, isn't
it? And then David's speaking it. He's lived it. It would have
been hard to live with that week, wouldn't it? You want to go out
to lunch? I don't think David wants to.
Leave him alone. He had a rough week. David's lived it. He wrote
it. And every son or daughter of
Jacob, all of God's children, it's us. And it hurts my heart
so bad. I've said that before. We might
have been playing religion and may have been doctrinally sound
or something. We was enemies with God until
he saves us. We hated God. And somebody said,
well, I never hated God. And I said, you still do. That's
the thing. God ain't broke you yet. He hasn't
wrestled you down like Jacob yet. And when He does, then we're
not just sad because this life's tough. Well, I lost my job and
my leg hurts. That's just temporal things.
That's just worldly things. This is soul trouble. And if
you ain't got soul trouble, you're in big trouble. I mean it. Our Lord's speaking here because
He bore all of us. And David's speaking because
he lived it and we've lived it. How many times? He says there,
the Lord... How can Christ pray this there
in verse 21? Forsake me not. There's other things in there
too. You just have to... God will have to teach you to bow to it. He says, forsake me not. Why
did He pray that? How many times have I failed
to say, Lord, forsake me not? He prayed for me. He prayed for
his. He said he intercedes for it.
He said, don't forsake me. That's what Kevin means. Don't
forsake me. Don't leave me. Don't leave me
to myself. We feel forsaken often. These are all words we're using,
right? We feel like we're forsaken. That's why he starts in that
psalm a couple of weeks ago, fret not. We're normally fretting
because we think we ought not have the trial that we have.
Self-righteousness. I don't deserve this. Why is
He doing this to me? Instead of why not me? Why don't
He just burn me in eternity of hell? That's what I earned. We feel forsaken. We feel that
the mercies of God are clean gone forever. And we think our
trials are just so heavy that the Lord must be punishing us,
not chasing us. This has got to be punishment.
It has to be. No man can bear it. This is as
bad as it gets. For the child of God, those that
the Father chose before time, those that He put in Christ and
the Father purposed the salvation, the Son purchased the salvation,
and the Holy Spirit comes to them. Some argue with me forever
that we've always been saved and you don't ever have to hear
the preaching of the gospel. I say, well, I guess the Holy
Spirit's out of business. Is He not needed? He comes to us
and speaks in our hearts and proclaims that salvation that
God accomplished, the Lord of our salvation. For those, it's
not so. This ain't punishment. Any trial,
any tribulation, any trouble, any pain that you go through,
it's not punishment. It's just chastening. It's just
chastening. We say often, it's so painful. But that's what the Lord spoke
through Solomon, wasn't it? If you don't chasten your sons,
you hate them. God said, well, I don't hate them. He said it.
It don't matter what you say. I'm more worried about what God
says about it. He says, if you don't chase any sons, you hate
them. And he says, don't spare the rod. You just go ahead and
whip them. They won't die. They'll be all right. That's
not to teach us how to spank children. That's that when we
think we're getting beat with a rod and we're going to die,
the Lord's killing us. No, you'll be all right. He's
just chasing. He's a skillful father. He knows
exactly how to raise his children. For the child of God, it's not
punishment, it's chastening. He's not forsaking us, though
we think He is. That Hebrew writer wrote this,
said, Was He just going to be with us and Bop us on the head and pick on
us all the time? No, he's not an austere man.
I'll never leave you, I'm with you always. And I'll never forsake
you. What I do is for your good. Always. All the time. Sometimes the amplified
version does an absolutely horrible job of translating scriptures.
You get you a King James Version Bible, Cambridge if you can get
it, and you read that. If you've got another one, don't
have it. I mean, that's my business. If I told you what air conditioner
to buy, I would recommend you buy that air conditioner. I know
what I'm talking about. Get you a King James Version Bible. But
most of the time, amplified's a hit and miss. Sometimes they
do a horrible job. Sometimes they do a wonderful job. I want
to read you this text in Hebrews again. Let your conversation
be without covetousness, and be content with such things as
you have. For he hath said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.
Here's what the Amplified says. He said, I will never under any
circumstances desert you, nor give you up, nor leave you without
support, nor will I in any degree leave you helpless. Nor will
I forsake you, or let you down, or relax my hold on you, assuredly
not." I need long-windedness sometimes.
I need it simple. I need it plain sometimes. Sometimes
I need it long-winded. That's good, isn't it? I'll email
it to you. That's good. That Hebrew writer
penned that, for he hath said, well where did the Lord say that?
That's the kind of questions that go through my mind. He said
it. Where did he say it? When did he say it? There's seven
or more. I count at least seven, eight
times. In the scriptures, the Lord said he'd never forsake
his people, never lead his people. I just want us to look at a couple
of them. Is that alright? We'll turn and keep us engaged?
Turn back to Genesis 28. Genesis 28. I think for about every Sunday
for a couple of months now, I've quoted or had us look at this
The passage of Scripture is one verse, but that's good. That's
all right. Why? We might need to remember. We've
been preaching on remembrances. That's what the people on the
walls of Israel are, the remembrances. Because we forget. We need to
remember. Somebody's got to tell us. Write it down. Tell me. I
need to hear it. Here in Genesis 28, this is when
Jacob fled his family, his home, because he deceived Esau and
he deceived his father. for that birthright, for Esau's
birthright. Verse 15, the Lord came to him. Genesis 28, 15,
And behold, I am with thee, and I will keep thee in all places
whither thou goest, and I will bring thee again unto this land,
for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have
spoken to thee. I'm not going to leave you, and I'm going to
do it. I'm not going to forsake you. I will keep you. I will
not leave you. I'll keep you until you are brought
to me. What did the Lord do to Jacob?
We ain't got that far in Genesis. Let me give you a hint. He did
exactly what he said he was going to do. He did exactly what he said he
was going to do. If he leaves us, you're forsaken. If he's with us, who can be against
us? If he's for us, who can be against
us? We're regenerated. We're not rebels. He's changed
us. But if He leaves us, if He leaves us to ourselves, if He
lets us go out on our own because we can do it by ourselves, we're
forsaken. If He leaves you there. Here's another one. Turn over
to Deuteronomy 31. Deuteronomy 31. Deuteronomy 3, this is Moses'
121st birthday. And he didn't take a day off,
so that'll teach me something. He's 120 years old this day,
and he spoke to the children of Israel, and he said the Lord
wasn't going to allow him to lead them into the Promised Land.
Remember, he went to, the Lord said, smite the rock, and he
smote the rock, and water came out. And then the people grieved
him, and he said, Lord, they're going to kill me. And he said,
you go talk to the rock. And he got smacked in people,
he said, you stiff-necked generation, do I fetch water for you? Yeah,
that's your business. I've got to fetch water for you.
That's what I did all week. You get that? Here's the water.
You thirsty? He said, I've got to fetch water for you and he
smoked the rock again instead of speaking to it. The Lord gave
him water anyway. He blessed it in spite of himself
and he said, you ain't leading him into that promised land.
The law ain't going to take him into the promised land. That's
what he's getting at. But he said, the Lord's going to go
before you. It says there in verse 3. Deuteronomy 31, verse 3. The
Lord thy God, He will go before thee. What did we see last hour? Did our elder brother lead us?
He said, I'll go before you. He'll be the forerunner. Every
time I see those Toyotas, I think of that. Forerunners. He goes
before us. He said he's going to destroy
all the enemies just like he did before. Joshua's going to be with him
too. He's going to send him. Look here in verse 6. Deuteronomy
31.6. It says, Be strong and have a good courage. Fear not,
nor be afraid of them. For the Lord thy God He it is
that doth go with thee, he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee."
That's what Moses told Israel what God said. Now Moses is going
to talk to Joshua. Verse 7, And Moses called unto
Joshua, and he said unto him in the sight of all Israel. Everybody
heard it. He'd say in private what he'd say in public. Be strong
and of good courage, for thou must go with this people unto
the land which the Lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give
them, and thou shalt cause them to inherit it. And the Lord,
he that doth go before thee, he will be with thee, he will
not fail thee, neither forsake thee. Fear not, neither be dismayed. Are you afraid? The Lord forsook
me. He ain't going to forsake you. If He's called you out and
gave you eyes to see and ears to hear and hearts to understand,
it don't matter what you feel. He ain't forsook you. He's shouted
on you. Turn over to Joshua chapter 1. Joshua 1. You get those first
five books of Moses, the law, the word of God through Moses,
and everybody stops there. It's like a little tourism stuff.
People used to just have the books of Moses and that was it.
That's all they had. You couldn't have went just one more verse.
Joshua 1. We're in Joshua 1 verse 1. Moses
said all that to Joshua, but the Lord's going to speak to
him too. He's going to send his messenger. to speak to his child,
and then the Lord is going to speak in the heart of his child.
Look here in Joshua 1. Now, after the death of Moses, the servant
of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Joshua,
the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, Moses, my servant, is
dead. Now, therefore, arise, go over this Jordan. thou and
all this people unto the land which I do give them, even unto
the children of Israel. Every place that the sole thou
foot shalt tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto
Moses. From the wilderness, and this
Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, and
the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea, toward the
going down of the sun shall be your coast. There shall not any
man be able to stand before Thee all the days of Thy life. As
I was with Moses, so will I be with Thee. I will not fail Thee,
nor forsake Thee." From the first saved child of God to the last
saved child of God, to the prophets, to the priests, to the beggars,
to the harlots, to whoever it is. If they're His, He speaks
to them the same as He's told to Moses. Ain't nothing new.
He says, I'm with you. I'm not going to fail you. And
I'm not going to forsake you. David told his son that. So Solomon
was building the Lord's house, wasn't he? And David told him,
he said, be strong and of good courage and do it. You building
a building? Do it. Don't talk about doing
it. Get after it, son. He said, be strong, be of good
courage and do. And he said, fear not, nor be
dismayed for the Lord thy God, even my God, The God is my God,
I'm telling you. He'll be with you. He won't fail
you. He won't forsake you until thou hast finished all the work
for the service of the house of the Lord. He's going to assemble
His body. He's going to build His church.
He ain't going to fail. He ain't going to forsake you
in doing it. There ain't going to be one brick missing on the side
of that building. You get it? So many times I've asked the Lord
not to forsake me. And I mean it. That ain't just
words that sound good whenever you're making a sermon. Lord,
don't leave me. I need you. Don't leave me to
myself. Don't leave me to these trials. Don't leave me to my
temptations. A sheep's greatest fear, I gave
an article about it a couple months ago by Brother Rick. A sheep's greatest fear is to
be left alone. If there's goats up at my house,
them things take off by themselves. They'll go up and eat, they don't
care. But sheep, it gets scared to death when it's by itself.
Sheep's afraid to be alone. And in those times, when we feel
that way, when we're begging the Lord not to forsake us, in
a small aspect, we grasp the fact. In those times of fear,
not in times of happiness, in those times of trial and tribulation,
we kind of get a hold, just a little bit, of the fact that there's
not one single second in my entire life that I don't need to be
upheld by my God. And at that moment of weakness, because it
ain't much, it's just every now and then it seems, when I'm just
absolutely brought to my knees, I realize and I get a hold a
little bit, I don't understand fully, but I get a hold a little
bit, every second of my life He has to uphold me. Not just
in this moment of trial, all the time. I have to have Him.
How are we taught that need? Turn over to Isaiah 54. Isaiah 54. I thought this was fitting too.
Isaiah 54 comes after Isaiah 53. Reckon the Lord did that
on purpose? Not just the number. There in
Isaiah 53 we read that the sufferings of Christ And we realize, as
He teaches us, we deserve forsaking. We deserve to be oppressed. We
deserve to be bruised. We deserve to be wounded. We
deserve our grave that we willfully had with the wicked. That's what
I earned. And that's what He bore for me.
That's where we begin. The Lord convicts us of sin,
right? The Holy Spirit comes to us, convicts us of sin. That's
what we are. Now, how do we grow in grace? What do we grow in grace to?
We spend decades walking with the Lord. And what do we mature
into? I wrote my notes there. Decades
walking with the Lord. What a joke compared to eternity.
I've known the Lord for 27 years. That ain't even a nanosecond
in eternity to eternity. Man lives 120 years. That's nothing.
That's like I told you last week. Old Jacob is probably about 100.
He don't know nothing. He's just a baby. Barely breathing
it now. What do we mature into? If the
Lord shows us there in Isaiah 53, that's us, that's what I
deserve, and Christ bore that for me. What do we go to? What
about when we get old? David said, whenever he was old
and gray-headed, oh God, forsake me not. What's the implied thing
there? He's frail, Christ is able. Well
now, the Lord's grown us, so I'm mature now, and I can hold
on. No, you're gonna grow down. Lord, I need Thee every hour,
and I need You more than I thought I did, and I need You more than
I even think I do now. That's called growth in grace.
That's what that is with God's people, with His children. We
must be brought to remember what the Lord has said, because we
forget, don't we? Isaiah 54, some with some minimal
knowledge and zero understanding, may bring this text up. I've
had it happen before. Isaiah 54 verse 7. For a small moment
I have forsaken thee. And somebody said, see? See?
No. He's using words you and I can
understand. When you speak to a child, you
don't use like perfunctory or effervescent, right? You use
words that a child can understand. You talk to them that way. Not
baby talk, but you speak to them in words they can understand.
We're just kids. We're just children. And He speaks to us in words
we can understand. Verse 7 says, For a small moment
I have forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. They say I'll come to you individually
and leave you alone. No, He said I'm going to gather you, bring
you together, give you some bread. In a little wrath I hid my face
from thee for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have
mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer. We say wrath, that's
what He said, isn't it? Oh, the Lord's being wrathful
with me. He's being so hard. The Lord says a little wrath.
A little wrath. He's using words we understand.
He's hid His face from us, but He has not turned away from us.
He hid His face, and we couldn't see Him. He sees all. He still saw us, didn't He? He
still had His eyes on us. Just because we don't see Him,
don't mean He don't see us. He sees everything. Way to train children we learned
of, I learned through experience as a small child. Go out in public
and public places, children to be seen and not heard, but sometimes
they run away. And I've wandered through some coat racks before,
went and hid in them or whatever. Prone to wonder, little children
wonder. And so sometimes a parent says,
I'm gonna break you from that. You take off around the corner
and they just step back. Now I can see you, there's a mirror
up there, whatever. Parent can see, right? Child can't see them. And an over, a debilitating,
here's the word, a debilitating fear comes over the child. What's
a lesson taught? You stay close to mom and daddy.
What do you think the Lord's going to do to us? Alright, I'll
hide my face from you. I see you, but I'll hide my face.
What's he going to teach us? draw near to Him, our need of
Christ. He's going to teach us the gospel.
That's what the trials are for. Show us Him, right? Here's the
Lord doing that to His disciples. Turn over to Mark. Mark chapter 4. He was with them and He was tired
in the flesh. And they thought he was asleep.
He was unaware. That ain't the case. Mark 4 verse
35. And the same day when the evening
was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over to the other
side. And when they had sent the multitude away, they took
him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him
other little ships. And there arose a great storm
of wind, and the waves beat into the ship so that it was now full."
They're getting swamped. They're getting filled up with
water. And He, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Almighty Triune God
in human flesh, He was in the hindered part of the ship. He
was in the back of the ship. Would it have sufficed to say
He was in the ship? I can tell you, assuredly, it
would not suffice to say he was in the ship. It must be said
he's in the hinder part of the ship. You know what that is? That's the roughest spot. You
get out on them edges. The least motion, the least fear
is in the middle of the boat, or plane, or whatever you're
in. You get out on them... I remember the first roller coaster
I ever rode, they had me sit in the very back. There's a candom
park after five school in here. I had to sit in the very back.
And they said, no, you can be in the back. You get to see everybody
else go. Well, that's where it whips you. We think we're in trouble. He's more the worst of it. Right? He's in the hindered part of
the ship, asleep on a pillow. And they awake and they say unto
him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose
and rebuked the wind and said unto them, Peace be still. And
the wind ceased and there was a great calm. And he said unto
them, During that calm, why are ye so fearful? How is it that ye have no faith?
You ain't believing me right now. What's wrong with you? And they feared exceedingly and
said one to another, what manner of man is this that even the
wind and the sea obey him? He says, I'm here with you. You
think I'm going to leave you? I'm with you. You think I'm going
to forsake you? That's what David prayed, wasn't it? Oh, forsake
me not and don't leave me alone. I want you with me. I want you
not to forsake me. He says, what's wrong with you? It's easy to
look down on the disciples in this boat. I know a lot of high-minded
people right now, Their old man, I'll be kind as I can say it,
their old man is just a high-minded Pharisee, and they think the
situation they're in is so bad, and they've got to fix it. And
they look down on these disciples in the boat, and they say, they
should have believed. They should have known the Lord said for
a second he ain't going to leave, and they should have done that.
Is God with you now? Are you going through something
that's real rough waters? Is he with you now? Why are you
fretting? You think he ain't pleased to
calm these waves? He'll do it right then. He said,
I'm with you. I'll never forsake you. He will
not leave us nor forsake us. I gotta get to it. How can we
be for sure? How can I know for sure? How
can you know for sure he won't leave us? How can I know for
sure he won't forsake us? What did Paul say? He spared
not his own son, but delivered him up for us all. How shall
you not with him also freely give us all things? You think
he can't keep his body alive? You think he can't keep the trials
I have sorted out and my enemies against me trying to kill me
and bite me and everything? You think the Lord can't do that?
He gave his son for us. He's going to give you those
temporal things or those comforts. If we have a hard time believing
His words, what have we been learning in John 14? I know I've
labored it over and over again. He's God. Our God is God. He didn't want to be. He ain't
trying to be. He is. He's God. And if we don't believe
His words, what does He say? I'll never leave you. I'll never
forsake you. How many times? A whole bunch. If we don't believe His words,
believe His works. Didn't we say in John 14? Believe
Him for the works sake. What does it say in Matthew 27?
That not thou art came and Jesus cried with a loud voice saying,
Eli, Eli, land of Sabaoth and I. That is to say, my God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me? He said that out loud so that
we who have Christ as our life now, who he's our owner, we assuredly
know we will never be forsaken. Because he was for us. He was
made sin who knew no sin, that we might be made His righteousness
in God. He bore it all. God turned His
back on God for a worm that hated Him and was at war with Him,
just a maggot. If there's a nastier worm, I'd
say that one. He was forsaken for us, so we'll
never be forsaken. He said so, and then He did so.
The whole earth turned dark. The lights went out. It happened. He was forsaken. Why did He say
it out loud? Why did He say it? My God, my
God, why dost thou forsake me? Didn't He know what was going
on? Of course He knew what was going on! Didn't He know why?
He better have you on the heart when He did it. We was in Him,
weren't we? Why didn't he say it out loud?
He used words we can understand. Me and you need comfort. He was
there at the tomb of Lazarus, wasn't he? And he said, Father,
I thank thee that thou hast heard me. He hadn't said nothing yet.
He just knew he was going to. I thank you you've heard me.
And I knew that thou hearest me always, but because of the
people which stand by I said it. I'm going to say this out
loud so they can hear it, that they may believe that thou hast
sent me. Why did he say, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken
me? So we knew that God forsook him.
What's that mean? We don't even know. We don't
even know. If some pea-brained idiot ever
tries to say they can explain that thing away, they're a fool.
Don't listen to them. We ain't got no idea what that means.
He was seeing not just a one sinner and swallowed it up and
what time it took him, all of them that were in him. as many
as the sands, that ought to give us the unvaluable, it's worth
so much, the blood. It's immeasurable. Who this was,
He's God. What's His words? He wasn't going
to forsake us. What's His work? He didn't forsake
us. He was forsaken for us. He died
that we might live. The Holy God MUST. PUNISH. SIN. It ain't some sweet
little old grandpa with a big ol' grey beard that just, well,
that's alright. Uh-uh. All of mankind is dealing with
a holy God. I see it on the news every day. There's people dropping
like flies around this world. I think it's just more televised
than it's always been, but I want to warn people. You're about
to meet a holy God. You offended Him. You're at war
with Him. God MUST. PUNISH. SIN. So, He turned His
back on God. He forsook Him. The Father forsook
the Son. That way we who were in Him will
never be forsaken. He's commanded us to serve Him
and proclaim His gospel throughout the world. Does that make you
want to do it? You got a 401k, you remember
that? I don't even know what that is. He laid down His life
for me. that I'll never be forsaken.
In tribulations, we think the Lord's just forsaken us and He
hasn't. Not if we're His. Read that article,
a lovely trial. Look up the references. Go sit
down and look that up. Be diligent. Be careful how you hear and read. Go home and look that up. That's
good. He won't forsake you. When you
think the Lord's mercy is clean and gone forever, go read His
Word. Remember His works. Remember who it was that did
it and said it. Be good for us. A faithful loving father, he
hides his face sometimes, but we're not forsaken. You know
why? We're the apple of his eye. Do y'all have that phrase out
here? That phrase in common usage, the apple of the eye? You know,
that's kind of an old saying. I love phrases like letting the
cat out of the bag, raining cats and dogs. I love why the etymology
of that comes about. How do we become the apple of
his eye? Where do we get that? In Deuteronomy. The Lord said
it. He said, for the Lord's portion
is his people. Jacob, not Israel. We are his Israel, but he says
it called him Jacob, didn't it? Sinners. That's who it came to
say. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He says, he's given
the heathen for my inheritance. Aren't you thankful? He found
him in a desert land in the waste howling wilderness. And he led
him about. He instructed him and he kept
him as the apple of his eye. Apple of his eye. Lord, don't
forsake me. Don't leave me to myself. Lead me, instruct me,
keep me, and keep your eye on me. Keep your eye on both eyes. Then we'll be fine, won't we?
He won't. He won't forsake me. You think David didn't know that?
David was young. He said, Lord, don't forsake
me. David was a middle-aged man. He said, Lord, don't forsake
me. I deserve this for sucking. I can tell you that right now.
Don't forsake me. Don't leave me to myself. Then David was
real old. Real old, mature. An elder in
the faith. And he said, I ain't nothing
but a sinner. I need you to save me. I know you've said it. Now, you make good, honey. You've
said it. I know what Christ is coming to do. We've seen what
He's done. It's not you. You do it. You do what you said. And that's right. I pray Lord
don't forsake me. Don't leave me to myself. Amen.