All right, brethren, if you will,
let's turn to Psalm 19 again. Psalm 19. Just a reminder, this week, there'll
be no midweek service this Wednesday. We'll resume next week. And Lord
willing, this coming Sunday, we'll observe the Lord's table
and have a meal after and bring what you like. Ain't no themes.
Ain't no restrictions. You know, and I'll tell ya, you
can just learn the bestest things sometimes. We ran out of bread
one time, and Kimberly made chili. And I said, I like bread. I like,
as my brother used to say, I like old doughy bread. Extra gluten
in it. And she said, you want me to make some biscuits for
you? And I said, yeah, I like biscuits. You ever had biscuits
and chili? Ooh, buddy. You lick your eyebrows,
that's good. That's wonderful. Might learn
something. We get away from ourselves. Be good for us. The Lord will
provide for us. Psalm 19. Six words about the Word that
I want to look at this morning. Psalm 19, verse 7. Now let's read the first six
verses too. Psalm 19, verse 1. The heavens declare the glory
of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork. Day unto day uttereth
speech. and night unto night showeth
knowledge. There is no speech nor language,
for their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through
all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them
hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, which is a bridegroom
coming out of his chamber, and rejoitheth as a strong man to
run a race. His going forth is from the end
of the heaven, and his circuit and to the ends of it, and there
is nothing hid from the heat thereof. Verse seven. The law of the Lord is perfect,
converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is
sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are
right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the Lord is
pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean,
enduring forever. The judgments of the Lord are
true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than
gold, yea, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey in the
honeycomb. Moreover, by them is thy servant
warned, and in keeping of them there's a great reward. Who can
understand his errors? Cleanse thou me from my secret
faults. Keep back thy servant also from
presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over
me. Then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from
the great transgression. Let the words of my mouth and
the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord,
my strength and my redeemer. Last week, we looked at the first
six verses of this psalm. This first book in David's library,
as our old brother said, this was the book of creation. Any
man, woman, child throughout time has been inside or outside,
has took a breath, can see and understand somewhat of the majesty
of God and His work of creation and how fearfully and wonderfully
am I made. We have our own bodies that He's
given us. It's a book of natural things that declare His glory,
the heavens that the birds fly in. Heavens that contain the
stars and the sun and the moon, all those asteroids floating
out there, and the heavens that contain His Son, where glory
will eternally be the presence of Almighty God. Paul and Barnabas,
they were at Lystra, and those folks were about to make some
sacrifices for those preachers. They wouldn't call them by their
name. Paul said, I'm Paul, common apostle, didn't he? We went through
this a bunch of times. You know what they called him?
They said, you're mercurious. Barnabas, we're going to call
you Jupiter. Had all kinds of silly titles, didn't he? Things up
in the heavens. He said, speaking of God, who
in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways. Nevertheless,
he left not himself without a witness, in that he did good. That's what
Paul of Barnabas came preaching. He gave us rain from heaven.
You want to give me funny names? He gave us fruitful seasons.
filling our hearts with food and gladness. He wasn't without
a witness. They understood these things. Man wants to worship
the creation, not the Creator, don't we? Copy things in this
world. Other than the glory of creation,
there's more in this psalm. Here in this first six verses,
there's a declaration of the power of God and His creation,
of His creating power, of His power and providence sustaining
all things. This could show every person alive that we have no
power. Seeing His power, we have no power. Seeing a hurricane,
I can't make a hurricane. Seeing a tsunami, I can't stop
a tsunami. We have no power. Everyone born
of Adam, we're powerless and we're dependent on another. We
can see those things in God's book of creation out those doors. My whole life I've heard, my
pew is my bass boat. My choir is a turkey call. I'm gonna go to church up at
tree stand this weekend. My sailboat or my mountain hiking
or whatever, no. That's not so. I'm here, I'm
sent here to tell you that ain't right. That's not so. That's
your Sodom, that's all. You're using, just cause the
Lord has a creation, you're using excuses to do what you want.
That's your Bathsheba, is your bass boat. I don't think any
of y'all have bass boats or turkey calls, but you know what I mean.
The great outdoors cannot reveal what sin we are. Watching a hummingbird
fly through the air is majestic and it's powerful, but it can't
show me what I am. It can't reveal Christ to me.
It cannot reveal the Lord's salvation. And the word of the Lord, this
written word that we have, that first book's creation, this second
book we're looking at today is his written word. David speaks
of six things here concerning the Lord's Word. Six times Jehovah
he mentions. The self-existent one he's mentioned
with the Word. So I have six points for you.
First, verse 7. The law of the Lord is perfect,
converting the soul. The law speaks of the whole counsel
of God. If he said it, it's law. Was
it a mandate? Is it a statute? Hold on. If
he said it, it's law. Period. That's the whole Word
of God. That's what Paul was talking
about in Acts 20 when he was preaching. He said, For I have
not shunned to declare unto you the whole counsel, all the counsel
of God. The Word of God's perfect. It's
perfect. The whole counsel, His entire
counsel is perfect. Everything He said, perfect.
Perfect. What if I don't understand it?
It don't matter. It's perfect. It's so. Just because I ain't
caught up. Because I'm still walking behind
doesn't mean it's not so. It's perfect. His holy law is
perfect. Is there any bad or evil laws
that we have in this nation? Probably a bunch of them, huh?
Self-serving laws. It's all man trying to copy the
Lord. But from His Word, from the Lord,
is there any rules or laws or His commands that are evil? Has
the Lord gave us anything bad? Of course not. The Father's law is so perfect,
it must be kept. But mankind could not keep it,
and mankind, listen, would not keep it. People say, well, I'm
just going to try to live a clean and holy life. No, you ain't.
You're lying. You will not keep it, and you
cannot keep it. So to honor the Father, how is this perfect holy
law going to be honored? How's it going to be fulfilled?
Christ came. He honored the Father. He fulfilled
that perfect holy law. Every jot and tittle. Which one?
All of them. Moral law? He fulfilled it. Mosaic
law? He fulfilled it. Levitical law?
Take those. You've been clean of leprosy.
Take your two turtle doves. Go to the temple. He fulfilled
it. That never happened. Nobody ever
cured leprosy. He fulfilled every jot and tittle,
didn't he? In that Sermon on the Mount, Christ told us what
that law truly means. We can read it. We can sit down,
those that have the capacity to read or have someone read
it to them, you can understand what that means, but we don't
know what the intent of it is. He explains that in Matthew 5
and 6, and he says, Thank not that I've come to destroy the
law or the prophets, either one of them. I'm not come to destroy
but to fulfill. Fulfill all the law, fulfill
all the prophets, all the prophecies. When we hear the word of the
Lord, of His perfect law, and we see we cannot keep it, we
must have a substitute. Then our looking, all of our
looking, our desiring, turns from ourselves, what we think
we can do, to another. I can't keep that law. It's holy.
It's perfect. And I ain't. I can't keep it. I must look to another. And the
soul's converted. That's perfect, isn't it? What
else will convert the soul? Man can't do it. Grandma and
grandpa can't do it. Husband and wife can't do it.
A church creed, a church membership, that can't do it. Baptism can't
do it. What's going to convert the soul? God's Word must do
it. In the foolishness of preaching
the Word, what's written here, not my thoughts, not what's going
on in the news this week, or not what's to come in La La Land,
Preach the Word, what God said. Paul told Timothy, he said, preach
the Word. Preach the Word. Preach Christ. Preach His person,
His work. The Word, Christ the Word fulfilling
the law, fulfilling all the prophets. Every jot and tittle. And be
instant, in season and out of season. When it's convenient,
when it's not convenient. When you feel like it, when you
don't feel like it. Get on your hind two legs and preach the
Word. What does a converted soul do? That's what converts the
soul. that sees Christ lifted up, what does it do? It tells
others that old, old story we just sang. Doesn't it? It's just one mercy beggar telling
another mercy beggar where he found bread. That's what happened
to me. I was at war with God. I was
His enemy, teaching and preaching on a washing machine. Anybody
listen to me, sit down, I'm going to read the scriptures to you.
Come on over to the house, we're going to sit down and read the scriptures. I was
a heathen, I was a heretic, I was self-appointed. And I had my five points of Calvinism,
lock, stock, and barrel dead on, buddy. You couldn't beat
me. You can't beat me. You can't convince me of anything
else. And thank goodness the Lord saved me from myself. God saved
me from that foolishness. He showed me a person, not a
doctrine. Not the doctrines of grace, the
doctrine of Christ. Not a keeping of the law or not keeping the
law. I made a work out of not working. That's what our sinful soul does. One with a tuxedo of grave clothes,
isn't it? What's that converted soul? When
we finally see him, when his law is perfect, comes to us,
he speaks to our hearts, we see Christ exalted. What do we do?
Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you that he may
sift you as wheat. Satan doesn't like this. Satan
doesn't like that at all, Simon. But I have prayed for thee that
thy faith fail not, and when thou art converted, You have
to go through some things. It's not just reading it. God's
going to have to teach you in the heart. Would that offend me? If I stood
up here and preached to you for four years, and the Lord sent
one of his ministers, and he came to me and said, Kevin, whenever
you're converted, you're going to teach your brethren. I've been saved 45 years, not
even 45 years old. No, it wouldn't make him mad,
would it? He told Peter that. He said, I've prayed for you
that your faith will fail not. And when you are converted, Strengthen
thy brethren. When you've been made so weak
you can't do nothing but look to Christ, and He strengthens
you, and He converts you, converts your soul. Now, go tell your
brethren. What am I going to do? What if my faith fails? Ah,
the Lord prayed for your faith. If He started it, He'll finish
it. Don't you worry about that. Strengthen your brethren. We see the perfect
law of God. Our souls return from our ability,
from our pride, from our righteousness to Christ, the fulfiller of the
law. and we're converted, and we tell others, we tell our brethren,
we tell the mercy of the Lord, the grace of God in Christ, the
forgiveness we have experienced. I want you to turn over to James
chapter 1. This is so... You could take the Mona Lisa
and whip somebody with it, you know that? James chapter 1. This is so misused sometimes. James 1 verse 22. James writes here, Be ye doers
of the word. James 1 22. Be ye doers of the
word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any,
be a hearer of the word and not a doer. He's likened to a man
beholding, likened to a man looking. his natural face in a glass. For he beholdeth himself, and
goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man
he was. But whoso looketh, whoso beholdeth, not themselves in
a mirror, how good they did, what they've done, and forgetful,
whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth
therein, he being not a forgetful here, but a doer of the work."
What work? Seeing the perfection of the
law of Christ. Seeing that perfection of the law of liberty, isn't
it? This man shall be blessed in his deed. What deed's he doing?
What's he doing? Be doers of the law. Looking
to Christ. Looking to the one that's gave
us liberty. Looking to the one that set us free. What if he's walking in Sodom?
Well, the Lord sent two angels to bring him out. I ain't worried
about it. Is he looking to Christ? That's what we're told to do,
isn't it? You who've been turned know that it was the Word of
the Lord that did that. The preaching of the Word. Second,
I'm back in our text here. Psalm 19. Psalm 19, verse 7. The law of the Lord is perfect,
converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is
sure. Making wise the simple. The testimony,
the witness, what He tells us, it's sure. His Word, His witness
is sure. And it's His witness to us, isn't
it? And it's a sure witness. It will not deceive us. What
the Lord said will not bring you shame. You won't be found
wanting in His Word. The Lord witnesses to Himself.
You know that? I'm thankful for that. That's
not my plate to do. He witnesses to His Son. They
commune. They talk to one another. And
He witnesses to you and I. Mankind walking this earth. What
a thought. The Lord gave us His Word and
said, here. Man's trying to burn it at different
times throughout history. Good luck. If it pleases Him
to keep His Word on this earth, it ain't going nowhere. I tell
you that. He witnesses to you and I. And
He tells us of Himself, who He is, of His majesty, of His holiness. And He's proven everything He's
showed us out in creation, hasn't He? Who He is. And He shows us and tells us
who Christ is. This is my beloved Son. This
is my firstborn. This is my chosen, my anointed,
my Messiah I'm sending. This is my Lamb I'm providing.
He tells us of Him. And He tells us who we are. This
natural man, what we're born like from our mother's womb,
how we were conceived, and that's sure, and it's not deceiving.
The Lord ain't trying to trick us. Well, I might be, maybe I
ain't as bad. No, He ain't lying, is He? He's
telling the truth. His Word's sure. And equally
as much declaring our sin, He declares His witness to us in
the righteousness He's gave His people. as much of a sinner as
I see myself in, in His Word. There's none righteous. No, comma,
not one. There's none righteous. Well,
no! So I put that in there. We think somebody good, can't
we? Man, we're looking in the mirror
there in James 1. And He was His witness to us just
as surely. We're complete in His Son. He said so, didn't He? You are complete in Him. What
do you need to add to it? Well, nothing. It's complete,
isn't it? Turn over to 1 John chapter 5. We can deceive ourselves. That's
what we read there in Jeremiah 17. The heart is deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? And you know,
I can't even know my own sin. I can't even know my own error.
But the testimony of the Lord, 1 John 5, verse 9. If we receive the witness of
men, and we do, don't we? You find somebody bad enough,
they tell you the truth, buddy, you can take it to the bank. There's
some people I respect in this world, and if they say, I'm going
to do something, I take them at their word, I believe they're
going to do it. They're grown-ups, they're men, or strong women,
and they give you their word, I believe they're going to do
it. If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is
greater. Read it with me. For this is
the witness of God, what he witnessed, which he hath testified of his
Son. He's told us of his Son. He that
believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself. Our text
says, The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. You know, Christ is our wisdom.
You don't have to know how to read. There's so many people
that just bank themselves on their educational background
or their prowess in the quantity of pages they consume in their
minds on a weekly basis. Well, if you couldn't read, could
you still know God? You think that thief on the cross went
to Yale? Why? Wisdom's not in books. Wisdom's
not in knowing stuff. Wisdom's not in doctrine. Wisdom's
in a person. But of Him, of the Lord, are
ye in Christ Jesus, who of God has made unto us wisdom. He's
our wisdom. I'm simple. Well, yeah, my wisdom's
a person. And righteousness, and sanctification,
and redemption, that according as it is written, he that glorieth,
let him glory in the Lord. All the simples made wise. That's
what Paul told Timothy. He said, from a child you've
known the Holy Scriptures, these right here, which are able to
make you wise unto salvation. Make you wise into seeing Christ
the ark, seeing Christ the heaven, seeing Christ the firmament,
seeing Christ the light that shines in our hearts that God
commands. Seeing him as that serpent lifted up. The whole
thing. Every bit of it. Make you wise. You wad up, throw it
in the trash. Thirdly, Psalm 19, verse 8. The statutes of the Lord are
right, rejoicing the heart. The statutes. That's His mandates.
His precepts of the Lord. They are right. That's all of
His words, too. Anything He says to do is right. Anything He says not to do is
right. And it's right because it's from
His holy throne. He doesn't say what's right,
what He says is right. Do you understand that? And we will fight, fight,
devour, lie, cheat, steal, tolerate those that do, excuse, accuse,
anything we can to go against it. It's simple, isn't it? Go read the Proverbs. Look all
through them. It's right. It's good. It's good for me and
you. And it's right for us to agree with it. You know, that's
one of His laws. That's the end of that Levitical law. All these
things that we have, all these precepts of the Lord, all the
words, the laws of the Lord, it ain't just they're right,
holy, and perfect. You've got to agree to them. Amen, Lord. That's right. and they not only are good for
us, they make us right. We read the Proverbs, read through
Matthew 5 and 6, that Sermon on the Mount, they're right,
they're good, and we cannot charge the Lord with folly, but they
make us right. An old friend of mine said that
one time here in Tennessee. He said, when we are taught the
statutes of the Lord by the Lord, they make us right. How's that? They make your opinions right
because they're his opinions. They make your thoughts on a
subject right because it's the Lord's thoughts on that subject.
They make our point of view correct and right and good because it's
His point of view. What's the Lord say? Thus saith
the Lord. I don't like that. I don't care
if you like it. It don't matter. It's what He says. That's my
opinion. That's my thought. That's my point of view, what
He says. It doesn't matter what I think about any subject, strong
or weak. great or small, whether it's
saving money or saving babies. It does not matter what I think.
And it's going to hurt some feelings. It don't matter what you think.
Your opinion does not matter. What you think doesn't matter.
It matters what God says about it. It matters what His Word
says about it. Do you get that? There was a
college football coach one time, they asked him if he thought
homosexuality was wrong. He said, God says it's an abomination. He's out of business, wasn't
he? It's what God says. Doesn't matter what I think.
Don't matter what you think. I don't think that's right, Kevin.
I don't care. It's what he says. Bow to it. What about raising
your children? It's easy talking about them blue chips in the
poker table, ain't it? What about them pennies? What's he say? Well, now, now, now, now, now,
nothing. It's good for us to see things
the way he sees it. You've been taught His Word.
We rejoice. We rejoice in His Word. We rejoice
in His precepts, in all of it. We see the mercy in it, don't
we? We see the compassion in His statutes. Like I told you
last week, one of the Levitical laws, you got to have a railing
on the top of your roof so it don't offend your neighbor. That's
love. You see the love in that? I got there hammering. I got
to build her. God said I had to. I didn't agree with it. He
does that for compassion with your neighbor. We see the love
in it. We rejoice in it. What's a statute
of the Lord? What's something He gives? What's
one of His mandates? There came a voice out of the
clouds saying, this is my beloved Son. Hear Him. There's a declaration and a command.
That's one of His statutes. You okay with that one? You like
hearing somebody else? Hear Him. Hear Him. That's a
statute. You rejoicing in that? I don't
want to hear nobody else. I want to hear Him. what He's
given. Lord, give me ears so I can hear
Him and then I'm going to rejoice. If we hear a word from Him, we'll
rejoice. Well, I've heard that before.
I know. I want to hear it one more time. Tell me that old story
again today and then this evening and then tomorrow morning and
then the next day. I want to hear. He told Nicodemus. He said,
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must
the Son of Man be lifted up. He must be. I like that. that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life."
That's one of his statutes. Does that make you rejoice? You're like a small child with
a pacifier in his mouth, kicking rocks, saying, I want to do something
different. I want to do it my way. I want to believe in his Son, don't
you? Why would someone rejoice over every precept of the Word
of God? Because Christ fulfilled them. I'm Lot's wife. I've looked back.
I've run. I'm that prodigal son that was
down there with them sows eating corns of husk, and I didn't raise
my children the way He said to raise my children. I didn't pay
attention to Him and keep my mouth shut in the house of God
whenever His preachers were preaching to me. I didn't study His Word
faithfully. I didn't seek Him out. I didn't
do any of those things. Christ fulfilled it. That's why
I rejoice, because of Him. Christ fulfilled this. He said
in Hebrews 10, This is the covenant that I will make with them after
those days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws into their
hearts and in their minds will I write them. Does this mean
we think on it and know about it? And their sin and iniquities
will I remember no more. Why? He fulfilled it for us.
Fourthly, here in verse 8, the commandment of the Lord is pure.
enlightening the eyes. The commandment of the Lord is
pure. What's that mean? It ain't muddy.
It ain't unclear. It's like pure water. It's pure,
isn't it? David wrote there in Psalm 42,
he said, The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
and in the night song shall be with me and my prayer unto God
of my life. He will command His lovingkindness.
Is that pure enough for you? That's amazing. I see now why
David had that tambourine and that harp and was dancing and
twirled a baton down in front of everybody, leaping for joy.
The Lord's gonna command love and kindness. I want some of
that love and kindness. He's gonna command it. Isn't
that good? Let me look this up. Hold on
a second. As the dew of Hermon and as the
dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion." That's what we looked
at last week. The Lord commands the dew. He breathes on the waters
and they straighten. He says to the snow, be thou
on the ground, to the light rain and the small rain. He commands
us. He thunders us marvelously, doesn't He? In His creation.
As that dew of Hermon descends upon the mountains of Zion, for
there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life forevermore. What's His commandment? Live. Live. Holy. Mine. Sanctified. My use. You're mine. I love you. Loving kindness goes
to His children. He commands it. Is that pure?
Is that holy? Oh, it's right. David said, For God is my King
of old, working salvation, commanding salvation in the midst of the
earth. When the Lord commanded light to shine, what happened?
It shone. It glistened, it glimmered. When
He commanded anything else ever there in creation, what happened? Right then it was, and it was
good, and it was good, and it was good. For God, who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give
us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. All that light He gives us, all
that love He gives us, commands us to see a person, to see His
Son. That's pure. That's not complicated. There's
nothing floating in that to confuse us or refuse us. Salvation is
of the Word of the Lord. He speaks it. He commands it. And when He does, our eyes are
enlightened. Now we see things truly as they
are for the first time ever. By His Word, we're made pure,
and we see things as they are. What do we see purely now? We
didn't see something. We might have saw some things
muddy and murky. What do we see now? We see our
sin like we've never seen it before. People may have some
sins. People may have done some couple
bad things, but boy, if I could find somebody that's plum lost,
somebody that was shut up to sin, that they couldn't even
speak because they knew what a worthless worm and wretch they
were. That's how we see ourselves now. A lot of His perfect holy
law, and a lot of those just and right commandments and testimonies. Every word He says is sure. It's
pure. It's right. We see our sin like
we've never seen it before, and we see Christ, the holy God-man,
the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world like we've never
seen Him before. This ain't some dude named Jesus that wears tennis
shoes. This is the Almighty God in human flesh, and He's holy. We start kind of entering into
what holy means. Oh, it's something. Is that enough? Is it enough to know that you're
just seeing? Is it enough to know that He's the Savior? Satan
knows what he did wrong, doesn't he? Demons know that they're
evil, don't they? Those demons, they knew that
Christ was the Holy One of Israel, didn't they? It's not just enough
for us to see what we are. It's not just enough for us to
see who He is. It's that we see also. Our eyes
are enlightened that our sin that we are has been put away.
It's been put into our substitute. It's been dealt with in God's
wrath and judgment and holy condemnation for that perfect loss. All that
transgression that I am, not just that I've committed, that
I am. That's my nature. That's my instinct was laid on
Him. He put it away. East is from
the West. That's how far away it is. It ain't never going to
be seen again. Blotted out with His blood. And in that transaction,
all that righteousness and those acts of a holy nature, a holy
nature and the acts of a holy nature from His Son, He put in
us. That's what took place. That's
what happened at that cross in Calvary. He did all that, fulfilled
all that. Accomplished that salvation in
three hours. This whole world went dark. You think there's
a big power surge? We have brownouts. Every time
you have brownouts, every time power goes out, you just think
about Christ on the cross. Be good for you. You'll quit being so
mad at SDG&E, won't you? Fifthly, verse nine. The fear
of the Lord is clean. It's clean, enduring forever.
If we are given a heart that truly fears the Lord, that's
not being afraid no more. You start out like a small child.
My small children started out afraid of me because of physical
punishment. If they didn't do what I said,
I'd pop them a good one. Why would I do such a thing?
God told me to, that's why. What happens? They turned out
the way He said they would. But they started out fearing
me physically. As time goes on, that punishment, that correction,
not punishment, but chasing them, that lessens, don't it, because
they start listening. Now they honor me. They fear me. Make
daddy mad, because they love me, don't they? If the Lord works
in us and we truly honor Him, we truly fear His name, we glorify
His Son truly, there's a new creation in us. The fear of the
Lord is clean and it endures forever. If He makes us truly
kiss the Son, that's going to last forever. If we truly know
Him and we're truly thankful for Him, truly honor Him, It
will endure forever. That's wonderful news. It's his
work, and he sustains it forever. He won't go away. I'm with you
always. I'll never leave you. I'll never
forsake you. What about when I'm dead? Then we'll have him
full tilt. Be made like him, see him as
he is. Oh, it's precious. All right, last thing. Verse
nine. The judgments of the Lord, everything
that he's had. See all this stuff? See everything
that's happened? The law, the testimony, the witness, all these
things, the fear of Him, the judgments of the Lord are true
and righteous altogether. He's just and the justifier. And that's right. You get that? He is righteous in what He did.
It's holy and it's good. Me being His. Christ being made me. me being
made him, me one with him. That's right. Because of Christ. Because of the Lord's covenant
of grace throughout time. He is just and he justified his
people. And that's right. This isn't
some tax evasion trick that he's working in the background. This
is holy. This is good. His judgments are
true and righteous altogether. Every bit of it. And that's desirable.
Verse 10. More to be desired are they than
gold, yea, than much fine gold, sweeter also than honey in the
honeycomb." Is that sweeter than a tree stand? Sweeter than a
turkey call? What would you give for that?
What's it worth to you to know His law has been fulfilled in
His Son? His law is perfect. It's right, it's just, it's holy.
Every word that He's given us and He preserves and He sustains
that we can have at our fingertips is good and it's right and holy. He saves His people. He won't
lose one, no matter what. Nobody can lay charge to His
elect. It's Christ that died. Yeah, He's risen again. It's
completely finished. He intercedes for us. Would it be worth gold? To some
it's worth 30 pieces of silver, isn't it? To some, Sodom is worth
more. Gomorrah is worth more. Loved
ones are worth more. I didn't know which the first
message or second message was. Preach first. You go hand in
hand, don't you? Mercy, Lord. Save. Moreover by them, verse 11, moreover
by them is thy servant warned. Lord, you've warned us. It's
right there in front of us. And in keeping of them is great
reward. Right now. Right now. Right now
we know His law is fulfilled. Right now we know every jot and
tittle of the law is complete. Right now we know we're in Him.
Right now we know we cannot be taken from His hand. Who can
understand His errors? Cleans thou me from secret faults. Why? So I can honor Him. So I
can fear the Lord. I can serve Him. Lord, I don't
know what I don't know. Keep back thy servant also from
presumptuous sins. Let them not have dominion over
me. Why? They had dominion over Him. I was thinking about that the
other day. Out of the hours of the day, how many days do I just
think about the Lord and fear Him and concentrate on Him and
His Word, His creation and His providence that He's had my whole
life, bringing me right to this moment and keeping me and saving
me? Let them not have dominion over
me. Then, all this work of you doing, all this work of you not
letting it have dominion over me, then shall I be upright and
I shall be innocent from the great transgression. Let the
words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in
thy sight. I don't care who approves of
it. I don't care whose sight sees it. I don't care if somebody
thinks I ought not do it that way. Lord, allow it to be acceptable
in your sight. Oh, Lord. my strength and my
Redeemer. We've been given His Word. We've
been given the book the Lord gave us of His creation. It declares
His glory. We've been given His Word, who
Christ is, what He did, who we are, what He's made us, what
we willfully made ourselves and what He's made us in His blood. He's our strength and He's our
Redeemer. What a blessing and privilege that is, isn't it?
And then we have his book of Providence we can look back on.
All this stuff mounted up, all with Psalm 19 so we can read
it. Isn't that precious? Father, thank you for this hour.
Lord, bless your word to the hearts of your people as it pleases
you. Open our ears, close our mouths,
and speak to our hearts. Do a work among your children
today, Lord. Add to your church as you see
fit. We petition. Save your people. Save us. Forgive
us for what we are. As you promised you will. It's
in your son's name that we ask it. Amen.