Morning. If you will, let's turn
to Psalm 18. Let's pray first. God be with
us today. Lord, don't leave us to ourselves.
Don't let us come here at a routine and circumstance and pomp. Allow
us to see your son and allow us to worship him. Allow us to
love him. Allow us to kiss the sun. Lest
you be very angry. God, don't leave us to ourselves.
We love you, allow us to love you. Enable us to love your son. It's in his
name that we ask it, amen. All right, Psalm 18. We'll be
in Genesis 19, the second message. We're gonna have our dessert
first. We've been doing that more often lately than I was
told. I didn't miss the mark last time I said that, I hope
to have our dessert first. This is the fourth longest psalm
in length. This is the fourth longest, so
we ain't going to get through it all today. And we ain't in
no hurry. It says in Psalm 18, verse 1,
to the chief musician, this is the superscription, to the chief
musician of Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord who spake
unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord
delivered him from the hand of all his enemies. and from the
hand of Saul. And he said, I will love thee,
O Lord, my strength. Charles is what people think
of. I just think that's religious. I thought of Ray Charles. And
he's saying, America the beautiful. He said, God has shed his grace
on thee. And he added into it, he said,
and you ought to thank him for it. Y'all love him for it. We
ought to, isn't that right? Blind squirrel can find a nut
on occasion, no pun intended. I will love thee, oh Lord, my
strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress
and my deliverer. My God, my strength, in whom
I will trust. My buckler, the horn of my salvation. and my high tower. I will call
upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised, so shall I be saved
from my enemies." Who wrote this song? It's good to know who wrote
something, what's the context of it, what are they saying,
who are they writing it to, what's it about? We just vagrantly quote
things in a horrible manner. And we ought not do those things.
We ought to take some time and consider what the Lord gave us in our
laps here. The superscription of the psalm
says it's a psalm of David. David wrote this psalm. And how
does he describe himself? If you saw David today, would
you say, hello king? Would you call him that? Hello
God's prophet. Hello man after the Lord's own
heart. Hello sweet psalmist of Israel. Hey David. He'd probably slap you in the
mouth if you called him those things, wouldn't he? Paul, an apostle. That's
what it says here. A servant. A servant. Not the king of Israel, not all
his wonderful titles he had. He says he's a servant. That
great apostle used to write the bulk of the New Testament. Paul,
first and foremost, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be
an apostle. I was a servant first. The Lord
just happened to call me and give me the job of being an apostle.
separated unto the gospel. I was his anyway. I'm just a
servant. And he happened to separate me and put me to work unto the
gospel concerning his son, the Lord Jesus Christ. That servant,
Paul, wrote most of what we turn to, what we read to in our hands
today from prison. What did he tell Timothy? Don't
be ashamed of me, the Lord's servant, in prison. I'm glad
I'm not a felon, ain't you? I'm glad I'm not locked up in
prison zooming with you all. It's hard to eat that way, isn't
it? Many of the psalms we read, they were written in a cave. David was on the run, wasn't
he? We have it so good. We're not in prison. We're not
in a cave. We ought to be thankful. Who's this psalm to? It says,
The psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who spake unto the
Lord. the words of this song. This
is a prayer to the Lord. This is David speaking to the
Lord, and he happens to sing it. You ever just have something
so good to say, you just gotta sing it? Woo! He sang it. David's singing to
the Lord, calling on the one worthy to be praised, and he's
telling the Lord, I will love you. Y'all pay attention to me. He's
saying, I will love you. You ever prayed that way? Don't you answer out loud. You
be honest with yourself. You ever said, Lord, I'm gonna love
you. Lord, I will love thee. Lord, I have loved you, loved
you for a long time because you first loved me. I don't love
you as I should love you. I don't love you as I want to
love you. I don't love you as you deserve to be loved, but
I have loved you. And Lord, I love you today. I
love you today because you first loved me. But You, that love
abroad in my heart, and today I love You, I love Your Word,
I love Your people. I want to be one with Christ,
do you? I want to be one with His people. I love them. I love Him. And knowing who He
is, knowing what He's done for me, knowing what He's done for
my brothers and my sisters, I cannot see how, if He sustains me, how
I could ever stop loving Him. If He has loved me, I've loved
Him. I don't see how I could stop. Lord, I love you. We ought to pray that way, shouldn't
we? Why was this written? What made
the servant of the Lord, David, stop and consider this love? What made him? It says, Who spake
unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord
delivered him from the hand of all of his enemies and from the
hand of Satan. You who love the Lord, you who
He loved first, you've been delivered from all your enemies. You've
been delivered from sin. You've been delivered from hell
that you earned. You've been delivered from the
judgment that we rightfully deserve to face, that we willingly chose
to depart ourselves from God and from His Word, and we earn
that judgment. He's delivered us from the grave,
from that eternal second death. The Lord has delivered us from
separation from Him. You get that? All my enemies.
A whole bunch of enemies that are bigger than Saul. And Saul. And what's in this world. All
those things that are eternal consequence. The Lord has delivered
me from these. That's why I sang to it. And
everything that's in this earth. We've got all those heavenly
blessings in Christ. But we have earthly blessings
too, don't we? Our brother Maurice Montgomery used to say, we have
Christ and all these things too. I ain't in a cave. I ain't in
prison. We have air conditioning. We
have full bellies. We got running water, indoor
toilets, a comfy bed. My bed's not a cave and a stone
pillow. And Christ. Christ and all these
things. What a blessing that is, isn't
it? Children of God, we see Christ in our daily lives. In what things? How do we see Him daily? Well,
I was a good little child and I gave Him ten whole minutes
of my day to read. No! Quit that and go out in the
world. Lord, put us here on this earth.
Gotta go do things. And see Him in His creation.
See Him in His providence. You ever seen an ant? There's
a couple of them in this state. I got one bit me the other day,
it's still swelled up. I ain't got no wrinkles. I'd
just let him bite me all over. I'd be handsome looking. You
see an ant and you think of Christ. You think of his word that he
gave us. Like in Proverbs 6, 6, consider the ant, oh sluggard. It has no ruler. It has no boss,
someone to guide it and teach it how to do these things. And
it's got enough sense to take its meat in the summertime. It's
got enough sense to bring it in the harvest so it ain't starving
to death in the winter. I see an ant crawling across
my driveway, and I think, one, I deserve to be crushed like
that ant, just without thought, stepped on. And I thought, the
Lord's provided for that ant, and he's provided for me eternally.
You get all that from an ant? If he's put that ant in my thoughts
and Christ in my thoughts, yeah. Yeah, this ain't a Wednesday
and Sunday mind exercise. Well, this is whenever I'm scheduled
to go worship God, that's when we'll do it. This is the Lord
Jesus Christ, our life. This is our life. All of my enemies. And Saul. And Saul. Our brother William Huntington,
he said he briefly wrote something. Y'all get on to me if I briefly
write 25 pages about something. He said, daily observations of
the judgment, mercies and providences of God are very establishing
to faith. They are. He's right. He knows
what he's talking about. For God hath promised us that
at His hands shall be known towards His servant and His indignations
towards His enemies. Every day. We're going to see
it in the next hour. The blessings and the curses of the Lord. The
blessings and the judgment of God. God kills people. Do you know that? God of the
Bible kills people. And He saves people too. I've seen that throughout
my life. and I'll weep as I see it more.
That's not a, I'm going to give you a good history lesson, like
that fella was real loud 70 years ago. That breaks my heart when
I tell people stuff and they shut their eyes and they don't
want to hear nothing I say. I feel like, Jared, but Lord,
you've deceived me. I ain't saying your words no
more. I ain't a lick of listening to
what I say. And in his bone, in these bones,
this word just burns. It's got to come out. I'm like
a shook up bottle. It's got all of the pressure.
It's a good thing of soda. It's just gonna pop out. To the
chief musician of Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who
spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that
the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and
from the hand of Saul, and he said, I will love thee, O Lord,
my strength. Why will David love the Lord?
Because the Lord's his golden parachute. Is that why he loves
the Lord? Lord, you can save me from the
law. Wonderful. You've saved me from hell. That's
great. From all these earthly devices.
They're just hindrances. I had to go out and work hard.
Used to. And I don't now, Lord. You just feed me like the sparrows.
No. No. He loves the Lord because
of who the Lord is. You don't worship benefits. You
worship the person. You take that to the bank. Worship
means sacrifice. We've looked at that before,
haven't we? Love means sacrifice. When Abraham and Isaac went up
that mountain to worship, what was they going to do? Sacrifice.
What's love do? Love sacrifices. Love sacrifices. And that's the heart of it all.
He loved us first. He gave himself for us, didn't
he? Love sacrifices. Paul wrote about that. He said,
Though I speak with a tons of men and angels and have not love,
I'm becoming a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Love's
to a person or people. Do you know that? and it does
something. What does it do? Love suffereth
long. It does something. It's kind. That's a verb. Love's kind. Charity envieth not. It vaunteth
not itself. It's not puffed up. It doesn't
behave itself unseemly. It seeketh not her own. How easy is it for me to seek
my own? I've been looking back like Lot's wife. for two weeks
now and I'm so depressed I can't see straight. I'm as straight
as a gun barrel and just as empty. I feel just dead inside. Why? I'm seeking my own. Isn't it? It'd just be so much more comfortable
for me to do something else for this or that or whatever. Isn't
it? Love doesn't seek her own. Not easily provoked, thanketh
no evil, rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in truth. It bears. What does love do? Love bears.
That sounds good until you've got a load on your back. Love
bears all things. It believes all things. It hopes
all things. And it endures. It endures all
things. Charity never faileth. Love draws
near. Love draws near. You know that? Let me read you something. Matthew 15. I'll read it to you.
The Lord was speaking. He said, Oh, you hypocrites.
Well, did Isaiah prophesy of you saying, This people draweth
nigh unto me with their mouth? Oh, I believe the Lord. I do.
They honoreth me with their lips. Doctrines of grace, I got you.
Yet their heart is far from me. Love draws near. Their heart's
far from me, but in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines
the commandments of men. What does the Lord say? Go away
from me, all you that labor in heaven. No, he said, come unto
me. Love draws near, doesn't it? Draws near. He said in Luke 21, 28, He said,
whenever that sky, the Son of Man comes and you see them skies
opening up, which might be a lot sooner than we think it is, might
be today for us. And He said, look up because
your resurrection draws nigh. That one that loved you throughout
time with lasting love, He's going to come to you. If we leave the 99, we'll exist
a lot. I don't want to preach both of
them at the same time. He leave the 99 and go out to that one
that was by itself and say, how you doing? All right, keep it
up, little buddy. Oh, he brought it. He picked
it up, pulled it out, brought it to himself. Love draws not.
I will love the Lord. And he lists seven things here.
I'll try to go through them quickly. Seven things. And the first is
so appropriate. Psalm 18, verse two, the Lord
is my rock. Why do I love him? He's my rock.
He's my foundation. He's my rock. That's why I love
Him. My hope is built on Him and nothing
less. Hannah prayed that. She mentioned
that in her prayers. She said, There is none holy
as Thee, Lord, for there is none beside Thee, neither is there
any rock like our God. That's a foundation. And that
rock that loves us, I said it does something, right? Deuteronomy
32, verse 4 says, He is the rock His work is perfect. How can
a rock work? God does. He does. His love is perfect.
His work is perfect. For all His ways are judgment.
A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He. All throughout
the Old Testaments we read of the rock. It provides for us
and it's our protection. In those countries in the Middle
East, you got in the middle of the desert. Here even, go hiking.
The sun just starts beating down on you. Find you a nice big cold
rock. Get up in the shade of that thing.
Isn't that nice? Isn't that wonderful? Isaiah 210 says, Enter into the
rock and hide thee in the dust for fear of the Lord and the
glory of His majesty. Go to this foundation we have.
It provided the water of life for Israel as they went through
that wilderness, didn't they? Christ, that smitten rock, that's our
foundation, the waters of life that flows from our belly. from
our inner man. And all did drink the same spiritual
drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed
them, and that rock was Christ. Lord, you're my rock. I love
you. That rock's a man. Isaiah 32 says, Behold, a king
shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment,
and a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert
from the tempest, a river of waters in a dry place, and as
a shadow of a great rock in a weary land. Shadow of the Rock in the
weary land. You in a weary land? If I could
find some folks who's in a weary land, boy, I got a rock for them.
Are you getting sunburnt? You thirsty? It's all in that
rock, isn't it? Rock's our foundation. That's
what everything is built on. If you miss Christ, you missed
it all. If He's an add-on later, you'll die in your sins. He must
be our foundation. He told us that in Matthew 7,
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them,
I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon a rock.
And the rains descended, and the floods came, and the winds
blew, and it beat upon that house, and it fell not for because it
was founded on a rock. You want to build your house
on sand? It's a fool. It's a fool. Either Christ will be our rock,
either He will be our foundation, our all in all that we are standing
on. We are close to, or He's gonna
fall on us and crush us when we're giving lip service to Him.
He said, what is then that is written? The stone which the
builders rejected, the same has become the head of the corner.
Whosoever shall fall upon that stone shall be broken. You fall
on Christ. Fall on His feet, fall on your face. Oh, you might
have a broken heart. You'll live. But on whomsoever it shall fall,
it'll grind them to powder. What is built on the Lord our
Rock? The Lord is my rock, verse 2, and my fortress. We all know
what a fortress is. Big castle, isn't it? High walls,
protection. There's watchmen on the walls
that look out for the people inside the fortress, isn't it?
There's armaments there. They protect them from the enemies.
We see that city of refuge. Oh, our enemies are going to
kill us. All those enemies that the Lord has defeated for us,
they're going to get you. If we can't make it into that
fortress, if we can't make it into that city, I must be in
Him. I must be with Him. I must be
made one with Him. He's our fortress. Satan said
of Job, I can't touch Him. The Lord said, have you considered
Job? Satan didn't bring him up. The
Lord said, have you considered my servant Job? He said, I can't
touch him. You've got a hedge about him.
There's a fortress built all around that man. How will I get into that fortress
that's built on a rock? How will I get into Christ that's
built on Christ? I'm going to have to be delivered like Lot
from Sodom. Somebody's going to have to take me by the hand
and lead me. He said, the Lord is my rock, He's my fortress,
and my deliverer. He's the one that hedges us about
top, bottom, left, and right. And He's the very one that delivers
us to Himself. He hedges us in His love. That's what He told Hosea, wasn't
it? He said, I'm going to go to Gomer. I'm gonna lure her
in the wilderness, and I'm gonna hedge up their way with thorns,
and I'm gonna make a wall, and she shall not find her path."
He's our fortress that delivers us to. There's a fortress around
us, hedged about, all the way to Christ our fortress. There in Luke 11, the Lord spoke
of that strong man. He was always at peace. Everything's
square today. He wouldn't interfere in trembling.
He didn't spend his salvation in fear and trembling, did he?
Everything's fine. I got this squared away. I checked
the block and then a stronger came in and spoiled all his goods,
didn't he? Christ is that stronger, man.
Satan has a hold of us and we think everything's just so peaches
and cream. Everything's squared away and we're good to go. Christ
comes in and shakes things up, don't he? Takes all of our trust
in this world and our hope in ourselves and our self-righteousness
and gets rid of it. and we're bound to Him. We're
standing on Him. We're protected by Him. He's
delivered us to Himself. We're pulled into the house by
God. That rock, the wall, the deliverance,
it's going to be proved to us. God gives something. If He gives
faith, He's going to prove the faith. If He gives love, He's going
to have that love do something. Have you ever seen two evenly
yoked, oxen, just standing in the field, hanging out all day. No. If he puts a yoke on something,
what's it going to do? It's going to pull something.
Servants. Not lazy people sitting around
doing nothing. Servants. They're going to serve
him. They're going to pray for his people. They're going to support the
gospel. They're going to go out and do whatever he puts in their hand to do, and
they're going to do it faithfully. That's what they're going to do. The Lord is my rock, my fortress,
my deliverer, my God, my strength in whom I will trust. Through all those storms that
He sends, through those attacks of the enemies He allows, through
the earth shaking underneath us, whatever it may be, we're
going to be brought to trust the Lord and trust His strength. He's going to prove it to us.
Paul had that thorn in his flesh and he begged the Lord. I thought,
why should I even ask? The Lord refused Paul, but oh,
what a gift He gave Paul. Paul asked three times, Lord,
take this thorn from me. He said to me, my grace is sufficient
for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. When
I'm brought down to nothing, if the Lord just strips me where
I have nothing left in me, He might be just about to use me.
Maybe He's getting ready to bless His people. Boy, I don't feel good. Empty is a lot of echo in there
sometimes, isn't it? And Paul said, Most gladly, therefore,
because he told me his strength will be made in my weakness,
will be perfect in my weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will
I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may
rest upon me. Strike on, Lord. Strike on. Samson, that Nazarite,
he didn't drink. He didn't cut his hair. He didn't
touch dead bodies. He was separated to God, wasn't
he? And he was a man that was so
strong, but he laid his head in the lap of Delilah one too
many times. And he woke up without strength one morning. The Lord
be my strength and don't let me lay my head in the lap of
this world any longer. Oh, don't let me trust in myself.
Don't let me turn to these foolish things that encompass all of
my thoughts. Let me see you as my strength.
Let me see my weakness. That's fine. Let me see you as
my strength. People talk about strong faith. If it's the faith
of Christ, it cannot fail. If it's His faith put in you,
His gift that He gives to His people, it ain't gonna fail.
If it's anything of yours alone, you don't have any. You ain't
got none. While we're on this rock inside
the fortress being delivered, seeing God's strength, trusting
Him through all this, Him making us trust Him, we have a personal
defense and covering. Verse 2 says, The Lord is my
rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my strength, and whom
I will trust, my buckler. He's my buckler. I won't put
you on the spot. This ain't a Sunday school. What's
a buckler? I told you a few times. It's
a small shield used for defense or offense. alligator hide. It means both. It's a small shield. It's a lasting personal defense
and a covering. He's my buckler. He's my protective
armor. He's my small shield that's just
for me. Why do you need a shield? You take Captain America's shield,
you just walk around all day with it, go to the mall, what
you doing? I'm getting gas. You need a shield because you're
at war. There's fiery darts of the devil.
Fiery darts of the accuser. Fiery darts of this old man telling
my new man, you ain't nothing. The Lord couldn't love you. Look
at what you are. I need Him. I need Him. He's the offensive too. Verse
2. The Lord is my rock, my fortress, my deliverer, my God, my strength
in whom I trust, my buckler, the horn of my salvation. What's a horn? It ain't an antler.
Antlers fall off. Horns stay. They grow. It's an
offensive weapon. That's what a goat has, a bull
has. Don't mess with the bull. You
get the horns, right? He's the horn of my salvation.
He's the one that actioned and did this. It's what butts back. When we get butted by them goats,
here's what God says, butt, butt, butt, butt, butt, butt, butt,
butt, butt, butt, quit butting. Thus saith the Lord. That's what butts
back. He's the horn of my salvation. The work's done. But also that
hollowed-out horn. When the offensive battles are
over, when the war is accomplished, the warfare is accomplished,
when the battle's won, it's used to call everyone. You ever seen
them take them old horns? Wooo! Call out. Signal others. What's that? That's our banner.
We can hear a banner. We can see across Jehovanese, our banner,
but we hear Him. What does it cry? The supper's
ready. Come and eat. The battle's won! He's the captain of our salvation. He's the horn of our salvation.
You remember Zacharias, John the Baptist's father. The Lord
muted him until John was born. And he said, all right, I'll
call John. He wrote it down. Everybody's
amazed, right? Well, then the Lord let him speak again. Zacharias
was filled with the Holy Ghost and prophesied, saying, Bless
me, the Lord God of Israel, for he hath visited and redeemed
his people. That's a good thing to first
have come out of your mouth. Six months of silence, isn't
it? And he hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the
house of his servant David. John the Baptist was just a voice.
He was an empty horn getting blue, right? He was a voice in
the wilderness. But he told of Christ the horn
of our salvation. Behold the Lamb. Behold the Lamb. There he is. He was just a horn
blowing that the battle was won. Why will David love the Lord?
Why will we love him too? It's all that's good so far. Is that appealing? If it ain't, God help you. One more thing. My high tower. My high tower. Being set on Christ. Having Him as our fortress, our
rock, our fortress. He's delivered us there. We're
with Him, drawed nigh. He's our strength. He's the one
we trust. He's our defense. He's our covering. He's the horn
of our salvation. He's the only message we have.
The sin-cursed world and Him being our high tower. Now we're
up high. What happens when you're in a
high tower? You see everything clearly. You see everything clearly. That's the only way to clearly
see things in truth is to be in Christ. Mankind can figure
some things out. outside of Christ, you ain't
got no handle on what's going on. You don't. Could you imagine
if... Peter didn't tell us about Lot
and all we have was Genesis 19 and what happened before that.
Would you think Lot was a righteous man? No. What about Rahab? What about anybody else? What
about Hosea? Man, you enter into that, buddy.
No. Gomer? Well, of course not Gomer.
No, Hosea neither. He sees things as they are. And
if we see him and what we are and how he saves sinners, now
we got a handle on everything else. Go vote. That's good for you. The Lord
gave you that right. You go vote for president. And old Matthew
Henry said, everybody says you got to choose between two evils.
That's what it feels like when you vote for president. And he
said, I won't choose neither. If you have to choose between
two evils, don't choose either one of them. But go vote. And
then once you vote, whoever's in that office, God put them
there. Pray for them. Pray for them. Isn't that right?
How can I do that? But, but, but, but, but Christ
is my high tower. I know he rules and reigns. The
government's on his shoulder. Just like you pack it over your
shoulder. Not two shoulders, and bearing. Throw it over your
shoulder, it's fine. The Lord's doing it. He's ruling
and reigning. He's saving His people. Do you love Him? Does that make Tuesday at 1037
a.m. a little bit easier? Oh, there's
traffic! I can see things from across
my high tower. Now it's all right. It's all right. We have some
peace, don't we? Verse 3, I will call upon the
Lord who is worthy to be praised. Is He worthy? If He's all these
things to us, He is worthy to be praised. He's worthy to be
worshipped. He's worthy to serve. David, His servant. I don't want
to be a servant. I want to be a boss. I want to
be His servant. I want to be a servant in His
house. He's worthy to be praised. So shall I be saved from mine
enemies. Seeing all He is for, seeing
the love that saved us, that preserves us, I'm going to call
upon Him because He's worthy to be praised. And you call on
Him. as you are. Call on Him. Call on Him. Call on Him as your
rock, as your foundation, your fortress, your deliverer, your
protector, all of your sight, how you see everything. I want
to see it as you are. Lord, let me be a liar. You be true. And
you shall be saved from all your enemies. Call on Him while He's
near. Seek Him while He may be found.
Today's a day of salvation. David desired to be with his
Lord. David didn't want to die and go see his son, did he? He
said, well, when I die, I'm going to go see him. I'll get to be
with my son. That's all he talked to his friends about. Did he
say, whenever I die, I'm going to go see mommy. Oh, I finally
get to see mommy again. I'll be glad to see my mother
and my father in heaven, but I'm not sitting around pining
all day like, oh, I hope I see daddy again. He wanted to see
his foundation. He wanted to see Christ the rock.
He wanted to see his redeemer, the one that loved him. He said
that in Psalm 73, whom have I in heaven but thee. Did He have
some folks that He knew and have? Of course He did. That's already
in glory. Who do I have but You, Lord?
There's none upon the earth that does desire beside Thee. I desire Him. I desire Him. I'm married to that woman. I
know her. I desire to continue to learn
more of her. I desire to be with her. Now, if I told you that,
if I said, oh, let me tell you about the love for my bride,
and then I never had anything to do with her, Every third year,
on special days, once a year on our anniversary, I went and
saw her. What would you think about my
love? She said, well, let's model our love like Kevin's love. Hogwash! That love doesn't mean squat.
It ain't worth two pennies, is it? If Christ is your all in
all, that's because He's made you draw nigh. He's pulled you
into His home, into His rock, His dwelling, His fortress. He
will keep you there. and you'll be tickled to death.
And you'll love Him for it. You'll love Him. Because that's
all an act of love, isn't it? Father, be with us and forgive
us for what we are. Lord, allow us to see Christ
for what He is. Allow us to praise Him because
He is worthy to be praised. Put this song in our hearts.
Allow us to have comfort as we go through this world and its
wickedness. We see our wickedness in it.
How prone we are to wonder. I was just saying his praises. Thank you for this day Lord.
Be with every soul here. Call your people out in this
county and in this country and in this world until that last
sinner is called on Lord and we can see him as he is. High and lifted up. Thank you
for this day. It's in Christ's name that we
ask it. Amen. Yeah.