As John said, so say we. We love
these hymns, don't we? Because we love God's kingdom.
It's not pride or presumption to say that. It's just your heart's
feeling it. Don't you? Don't you love this,
these people and what we're doing here? Don't you? When the Lord asked Simon Peter,
do you love us, Simon Peter? Did he hesitate? He was ashamed
of himself. How do you know that he loved
the Lord? How do you know? Because when
they said, it's the Lord, he was in that boat, it's the Lord,
he couldn't get out of that boat to him fast enough. The Lord called him back, he
came back. like a dog, prone to wander. But how do you know
that Lord loves us and we love him? He brings us back. And we're
sure glad to be here. I love this psalm. I love this.
His God's kingdom, his church. I love you. I really do. You're my family. God's family. That's not pride. That's a confession
of a heart. Can you say that? David did. over and over again. Verse 1 in our text, it says,
How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts. Amiable means
lovely, beloved. I love it. David said, I love
thy tabernacles. How lovely. Tabernacles represents,
well, they are the little places where God's people met in all
the various little villages and towns. Okay? a tabernacle where
the Ark of the Covenant was and the Mercy Seat in Jerusalem when
David was king. But all over Israel in various
little villages, people lived so far away, you know, and there
were little synagogues and tabernacles. So he said, I love them all. I love this place, don't you?
This congregation, this assembly, this place where God's people
meet to do one thing, worship. Tabernacle means a tent. It's
a temporary dwelling. And all this, everything is temporary.
What we're doing is not temporary. It's going to go on forever.
And there'd be no temple, no building. No building could hold
all of us. But we have this little place. It's a sanctuary, it's
called. David, over and over again, look at a few verses with
me. Psalm 20. Back to Psalm 20, and David over and over speaks
of the sanctuary. And Psalm 20, verse 1, he says,
The Lord hear thee in a day of trouble. In the name of the God
of Jacob, defend thee. Where do you go when you really
need help? You go to the Lord. Well, where
are you going to find it? In the sanctuary. Read it. Send
thee help from the sanctuary. Don't you really get more help
here than anywhere? It's called a sanctuary. Psalm
63. Go over there real quickly. Psalm 63, verse 1. Psalm 63, 1. We have morning services on the
Lord's Day and evening services on Wednesday. It was that scriptural
morning and evening. Oh God, thou art my God. Early
will I seek thee. First day of the week. My soul
thirsteth for thee. Kelly, you read this a couple
of weeks ago. My flesh, my flesh longeth for
thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is, to see thy
power and see thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. Because, read on, thy lovingkindness
is better than life. Do you really believe it doesn't
get any better than this? Anyplace you'd rather be, seriously. It's called a sanctuary, and
I could read over and over. David, Psalm 73, was envious
at the prosperity of the wicked. He was feeling bitter toward
whatever, that God's people were, you know, full of trouble and
the world was not. And he said, until I went into
the sanctuary. And then I remembered, he said, how could I have been
such a dumb beast? I forgot their end. They get this world, the world
they get with it. They'll perish with it. We get
a new heaven, a new heaven. Sanctuary, the word sanctuary
means a place dedicated or consecrated to God. Now, I've been preaching
long enough that you know that I'm not talking about this building.
It's just, it's just, there's not going to be one brick standing
on another. We're not talking about this building, per se,
and yet God has given us this, this place, a nice place to meet,
and it's where we've been meeting for years, and one thing has
gone on here for years, And that's what this place, Stephen, that's
what it's dedicated to. This building is not holy per
se, but this place, God's house, where God's people meet, is dedicated
to the worship of our God. It really is. That's what we
do here. And we don't do anything else. We're careful not to do
anything else. No fun and games, no entertainment,
no big dinners to try to get people in. No, no, no, no. This
is a house of worship, a house of praise, a house of prayer,
isn't it? That's what we do here. So it's
a dedicated, consecrated place. The word sanctuary means asylum. Asylum. Now your first thoughts
are insane asylum. Well, this is where we come to
get healed of our insanity. That's true. This is a healing
place. But actually it's a place where
we come to get away from insane people. We're in our right mind. But this is a good illustration.
Asylum, the word asylum is a place of refuge for people in a foreign
country that are offenders of some sort and they can run to
this political place for asylum. And they are, big word, inviolable,
means nobody can violate them, nobody can apprehend them as
long as they're in this place. The law can't touch them. And
everybody in there is not going to give them up. That's God's
church. We're all a bunch of offenders.
And we're foreigners, strangers and pilgrims on this earth. It's
a place of refuge where we come and we're not going to give each
other up. We're not going to turn each other in. If we do, we'll all go together.
It's a sanctuary. That's a good word, an asylum.
As I said, it's not this building, but it's this gathering, this
congregation set aside for the worship and prayer of our God
and singing these hymns. I love coming here. I just love coming here to this
place. Moses, I counted one time, I
think it's 17 times, beginning with Deuteronomy 12. Listen.
He talked about the idolatry in the land. He said, tear all
that down, burn their groves, get rid of all these houses,
these images and all these places, and then you come to the place
which the Lord your God shall choose to put His name there. He said, that's the place. It's
the place of His habitation, where He dwells. That's where
you'll seek and that's where you'll come, He said. And that's
where you'll eat before the Lord your God. and rejoice in all
that he's done. And he says, bring your wives,
your children, your little ones, and come to that place. That's
his church. That's his black church. And
it says that over and over and over again throughout Deuteronomy,
beginning with chapter 12, all the way through chapter 17. Christ
is promised to be in this place if there are two or three people
here. Isn't that where you want to be? Where He is? If you're
a disciple, you want to be with your Lord. If you're a sheep,
that sheep huddle next to the shepherd. They're prone to wander,
but they get in trouble, and that shepherd goes out and calls
them, and they can't get through. He's fast enough, you know. Right? Like Peter jumping out of that
boat. Christ has promised to be here.
Why wouldn't I be here? Oh, I need Him. You need Him?
He promised. He promised. I'll be right in
the middle of you. And it's not really a choice
with God's people. It's just life. He's life. You
don't stop and think if you're going to go home at night to
your wife or husband. You stop and think about it.
Let's see. Oh, no. You stop and think, am
I going to go worship the Lord? I know our flesh gets in the
way sometimes, and then you chastise yourself, and you get mad at
yourself. And you come and, Lord, if he
mercifully and graciously blesses you, you think, I don't deserve
to be here. I'm sure glad that he brought
me back here. Prone to wander, yes, that's
sheep, but, he said, prone to leave the God we love. And we love him, we do, because
He first loved us. And we love how lovely are thy
tabernacles, O Lord of hosts. Our God reigns and rules over
the host, a multitude of heavenly hosts and all the hosts of earth
and every principality and power. He made the starry host, the
heavenly host. That's our Lord. He keeps saying
that, the Lord of hosts. Our God is God over everything,
like Barnard said, that writhes or wriggles. that crawls or flies,
unseen or seen. Our God is the Lord of hosts. Keep saying that. And so what
need we fear? He said in verse 2, now David
was at this time on the run, we believe, from Saul. Or Absalom. We're not sure. But he said,
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord. Now, throughout this psalm, it
talks about the courts, and down in verse 10, a day in thy courts.
You know, back when there was a tabernacle, there was a courtyard. It was open. The sky was the
ceiling. There was no ceiling. The grass
was under their feet. And all the people could come
in those courts. and smell the smell of that sweet-smelling
sacrifice of that lamb being burned. Hear the bells on that
high priest's garment, ringing the bells. Smell that sweet incense. Aren't the prayers of your brethren
sweet to you? The prayers we read of the saints
throughout the Scripture. But above all, the prayers of
our Lord Himself, our great high priest. His sweet smelling sacrifice. And this is where you come. You
smell all that and eat it. You know, the people got to eat
those sacrifices. It wasn't just the priests. Because Solomon
killed how many thousands? Tens of thousands and tens of
thousands. There weren't that many priests.
That means anybody hungry could eat all the lamb you wanted,
all the bullet you wanted, whatever else they had. Bread, lots of
bread. Come. This is the courtyard of
the Lord and the house. The house is a place where a
family dwells in. home, God's house, where the
family gets together. We have a family reunion here
every Sunday and Wednesday. This is, it's called a well,
down in verse 6, passing through the valley of Baca, make it a
well. This is a, this is a well. This is where Isaac meets his
bride. This is where the Lord found,
the Lord, all these men found their barren wives at the well. That's where the woman met him,
the woman at the well. Pool, called a rain field at
the pool. This is Pool, Bethesda. And we're
all just lying around the porch waiting on the water to move.
How about it? Oh, how lovely. Inverted Psalms,
Psalm 84 inverted is Psalm 48. This is it. He says, beautiful for situation. The joy of the whole earth is
Mount Zion. Beautiful for situation. Meaning, you can have a wonderful
view of things from the window of the ark, the church has. A
view of, it's like Mount Pisgah, a view from its lofty heights
of our home. And you can see this world for
what it is, the perishing places. He goes on to say in that psalm,
take a walk around Zion. Take a walk now around, he says,
and go around her and tell the towers thereof, mark the bulwarks. Notice how well defended it is. Salvation, our God appoints for
walls and bulwarks. With salvation's walls around
us, we will smile at all our foes. Nothing can touch us, nothing
can harm us. So he says, My soul longeth for
the courts of the Lord. David was away and he longed
to be there in the house of worship. You know, David was away. He
was unable to attend God's house, but did he worship? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. God's people always
worship. No, he worshiped every day. You need to worship the Lord,
private worship, private prayer and private worship and reading
of God's Word. It's just a good thing and an
enjoyable thing. But is it as profitable to you? Is it as enjoyable to you as
when you're doing it with everybody else? The more the merrier. How many times have you read
something and you're like, well if you... ain't nobody to share
it with. Are you eating something? I wish somebody was here. Eat
this with me. And you call them up. It's not the same. They're doing
something. They're distracting. It's not the same. He said, My heart and my flesh
crieth out for the living God. David longed to be in the house
of worship there in Jerusalem. He needed to hear Nathan preaching
God's Word. He needed to hear that preacher
preaching. He had a preacher. David had a preacher named Nathan,
a faithful man that ministered him in the Word all the time. When he thought he was lost,
Nathan picked him up and he preached to him, your sins forgiven by
the blood. And David needed to see the sacrifice
being made. He needed to be with God's people.
Yes, he did. He needed to be there. So he
said, my soul, my soul longeth, my heart And my flesh crieth
out for the living God. My soul, my heart, my flesh crieth
out. You know, whatever is in your
heart will come out of your mouth. You'll cry out of the heart of
the issues of life. And whatever is truly in your
heart is what you'll go after, what your body will go after,
what you'll go after. If worship is in your heart,
your body is going to be in the pew. Yes. If your heart and soul cries
out and hungers and thirsts for God, your flesh will come to
the table where the bread is served. Yes! This is the table we're served
at. Isn't the Lord's table a very
special time? Some people haven't been in on that in years. It's
sad. Verse 3, he says, Yea, the sparrow
hath found a house, a swallow, a nest for herself, where she
may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King
and my God. A sparrow and a swallow. These
two birds. He mentions these two little
birds. That's interesting. Our Lord mentions the sparrow.
He said, Aren't two sparrows sold for a farthing? You know
how much that is? It's not even a penny. Two. That means one's not worth a
quarter, a fourth of a cent. We're getting ready to throw
away all our pennies, because they don't have nothing. He said
two spares are not worth a penny. But now, he says, your Heavenly
Father feeds every one of them, and not one of them falls to
the ground without Him. That's you. That's me. What's a sparrow? It's a songbird. I want to be a songbird in God's
house, don't you? A sparrow has found a house, a
swallow, a nest for herself. I believe David gave a kingly,
a royal command that if any bird built a nest in that tabernacle,
don't touch it. Anyone that comes here, be it
bird or whatever, or worm, is welcome here. We have a bird,
you do too, have birds that keep coming back to your house and
building a nest. There's one right on our front
porch. And, you know, the hummingbirds
come and they're just belligerent, act like they own the place.
But the robins, you know, they keep robbing. I like robins a
lot. You've found a home, haven't
you? A nest? A nest? That sounds so
comfortable, doesn't it? Where you rest. A refuge like a mother hen, her
nest under his wings. A nest. It says the sparrow swallows
found a nest for herself. And for her young. There's a
songbird right back there. Got her young sitting in here. There he is. Got his young sitting
there. Good place to have your young.
And you know what I hope and pray? That the Lord will save
every one of them and they'll come right back here and have
their young here. Don't you? Oh, I want that more than anything.
I don't care if they're doctors or dishwashers. I don't care
if they're lawyers or laborers. I don't care. I don't want them
to be lawyers. No, I do care if they're lawyers. Don't let them be lawyers. But
you know what I'm saying. Oh, but I do want them to know
the Lord more than anything. If they do, everything's all
right. If they do, they'll hear the gospel. If they're around
this place, they're going to hear it right here. And they're
going to bring their family and their young. If the Lord saves
them, they're going to hear it too. You see, you're born of
the Word of God, born of His Spirit. And we witnessed many
births here. It's said in another place, it
shall be said that this man was born there and that man was born
there. What a name you will bless. Lay
your young, O Lord of hosts, my king, is he your king, and
my God. Blessed are all they that dwell
in thy house. They will, I love this prayer,
they will be still. Praise the Lord. Blessed are they that dwell in
thy house. Look at Psalm 92. This is good.
Psalm 92 talks about what a good thing it is to give thanks and
sing praises unto our Lord on the instruments. And it goes
on down in Psalm 92, a great psalm, one of my favorites. Psalm 92, verse 12, the righteous
shall flourish like the palm tree, grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the
house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They
shall still bring forth fruit in old age. They'll be fat. This is the kind of fat you want
to be, spiritually fat and flourishing. To show that the Lord is upright.
He's my rock. You're your rock. No unrighteousness
in Him. Those that be planted. I want to be a tree of righteousness,
don't you? I want to be a tree of the Lord's
planting. Because if you're not, He's going
to root you in. And if you're planted of the Lord, if the root
of the matter is in you, and you're rooted on Christ the solid
rock, and you're planted in the house of the Lord, you're going
to flourish. And you bring forth fruit, you'll be worshiping him
in old age. Look there. Look at that old
man right there. John came in. John and Erlene came in. They've
been doing it for years. And Nancy's been doing this for
years. Coming to the same old place. Same old thing. Same old
Psalms. Same old people. You're still
smiling. I said, look at that charming
old couple. John said, that's right, we're old. I said, my
mama didn't think so. God willing, you're going to
be here until you die. Huh? Is that what you want? I've
seen it happen. Virgie, Violet, Ellen, Henry,
Henry. I've seen them right here until
the day they died. Walking up those steps until
they couldn't walk up them again. Isn't that you? That's what I
want to be. Planted. You'll be fat and flourishing. And you'll be still. See, this
is where you come to hear the message from the preacher who
says, Be still and know that He's God. All the world's running
around screaming, Oh, oh, oh, look, look, look, look, oh, oh.
I got it. You got it? I got it. Be still. Just be still. In returning and
rest, you'll find strength. In quietness and confidence.
Where? In the Lord of hosts. He goes
on down here and says, He's our shield. How many times do you
have to say that for us to believe Him? Once. What's shield mean? Protection. From what? Everything. If He can only save
our souls, He's a fire escape from hell. He saves us lock,
stock and barrel. Soul, mind, body, body. Be still and trust the Lord. This is where we come and hear
that. You don't hear that anywhere else, do you? If you do, it's
God's house. If you hear a man standing up
telling you who God is, it really is. And to be still and trust
Him, trust in the Lord. That's an amiable tabernacle.
There are few and far between. Mark that. Oh, how blessed. Verse 5, Blessed is the man,
the woman, whose strength is in him. Whose strength is in
thee. Oh my, this is the home, the
house for the hopeless. This is the help of the helpless.
This is the place where you can get some strength for the powerless,
strength for the weak. Verse 5, And whose heart are
the ways of them, that is, those that dwell in God's house, the
ways of God's people. This is what we do. This is what
we love to do. Dwell in the house of the Lord,
sing His praises, hear His Word, give thanks unto the Lord, eat
from His table, worship the Lord, fellowship together around His
Word. This is our ways. And you like these ways? It's
what we do, it's the way we do it. This is our message, this is
our methods, and this is our motive. Prayer, worship, service
of our God, and that's what we do. Nothing else. Nothing more,
nothing less. Heart, as we say, is issues of
life. You know, he said, blessed are
they that dwell there. This is the way of God's people. Most people. And you know, out
of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. If you ask
somebody what's the most dear thing and precious thing to them
in their life, most people will say, family. Yes, they will. What comes out
of your heart first is what you make. My family is everything
to me. My family. Well, our Lord said
that this was His family, didn't He? That's what He said. And that's what I said. Can you
say that? This is my family. That man is more of a brother
to me than my flesh and blood brother. Oh, Nanny, if you listen to this. This is the family we're going
to have forever. You see? There's not going to be any relationships
in glory if the people don't know the Lord. So, we need to... Bless me the tide of mine. Blessed
be this family. We're a close-knit family, aren't
we? Thank God for this family. I'm glad I'm a part of this family.
I want my name to be Christ. That's the name I glory and boast
in. Jesus Christ, my Lord. So you
go passing through the Valley of Bacchus, a valley of tears,
a valley of sorrows, a valley of heartache. And that's what
this is. Man is born of woman is a few days and full of trouble.
Why? He's in a world that's full of trouble. Nothing but trouble. Trouble with God. Sinful place. Dry and thirsty land. Valley
of Bacchus. Well, you're going to find, you'll
find a well. The dry and thirsty, those that thirst for the living
God, hungry and thirsty for Christ, they're going to find Him at
a well there. There's a pool, the rain's going
to fill the pool. He's going to come down like
rain and just fill the pool. Drink to your satisfaction. Verse 7, they go from strength
to strength. You go from strength to strength, meaning you come
here weak, poor, needy, hungry, thirsty, dry, needing help, dirty,
and you get in the pool, you drink from the well, eat the
bread, you see the sacrifice for you, the sinner. You hear
the great high priest say, clean. You go out here feeling clean.
Your thirst is assuaged, we say. You come in sad, drooping. You go out happy, leaping over
a wall, running through the troops. But it doesn't take long. You're
back down and dirty. Feeling helpless and hopeless
and strengthless and dirty and sinful and all that. You need
to come back. And in return, you'll rest. You'll find strength. Sit still.
Be still. You'll find strength. You can
go from strength to strength. Because we're without strength
in ourselves, aren't we? And Christ is our strength. We come to Him
to be strengthened and edified and built up, because this world
just tears us down. Each one of them, every one of
us appear before God. Why do we come here? We come
here before our God. We come here to worship God.
We don't come here to be seen or heard or even really see each
other. We come here before our God to
worship our God and sing His praise. We really do. And that's our desire. Verse 8, O Lord God of hosts,
now he's praying. We pray here, don't we? This
is the house of prayer. And again, every child of God
prays. We all do, don't we? You pray
privately. Do you feel any liberty in private
prayer? How often do you feel any liberty in private prayer?
Huh? I don't. I don't. But seriously, I don't. I told you many times that most
of the time I feel like all I can say is have mercy. Have mercy
on my brother and sister, have mercy, have mercy. You got so
many distractions, you feel so worldly, all this stuff pulling
at you and all that, and you feel even ashamed to pray. So you don't have much liberty.
But now, when you get together like this, And what a man is
called upon to lead in prayer. It never fails. That the Lord
gives that man liberty. And you enter, is that not right?
You enter into his prayer. And you feel like the Lord has
blessed him to pray for us. All the great prayers in Scripture
like Daniel and Ezra and Nehemiah and all that are in the congregation. Our Lord was praying for his
disciples. The greatest prayer I ever prayed was his prayer.
And they heard it. See, public prayer, meaning in
the church, one man praying for the people, is the most blessed
of all. And this is a house of prayer. O Lord, hear my prayer. Give
ear, O God of Jacob. Give ear. Most people just like, you know,
many Pharisees, Pharisee in the temple prayed thus with himself.
He liked the sound of his voice. I knew a man one time that he
sounded real good in prayer. I went to his house one time
and he prayed and he sounded so eloquent, but I got to know
him and I didn't trust him at all. I never did call on him
to pray here. Never did. He would have been
impressive, but I never did. And he left the gospel and he
left his wife. And so the Lord gave me some
insight there. But it's not eloquence. No, no,
no. You're not heard for your eloquence.
You're heard for Christ's sake. And heart. That woman at the
Lord's feet wasn't saying a word. Those men around him were saying
a lot. But he wasn't hearing them. But he's hearing the beat
of her heart. Who was it that said, better
have a heart without words than words without heart? The Lord
looks on the heart and listens to the heart. Give ear, O God.
Behold, verse 9, O God, our shield, look upon the face of thine anointed. Who's that talking about? David's not calling himself his
anointed, although Lord, I'm looking to Thee, you know, like
a servant looks to the master, the mistress to her, you know,
she's looking up her face, and Numbers 6 says that. Lift up
thy countenance upon us, shine, smile on me, I'm looking to you.
But he's talking about Christ, isn't he? Christ the anointed. Look upon the face of thine anointed.
Because he always hears his prayer. I thought of Mephibosheth sitting
at David's table. He sat there all his life. I
think Solomon reserved that place for Mephibosheth. When David
died, he probably told Solomon, now
you take care of Mephibosheth. But every day when David sat
at that table, when he was sitting at that table, he looked over
there. You know who he thought of? John. And food chef might have said,
you sure it's okay if I'm still here? Jonathan. I believe he grew to love Jonathan,
Mephibosheth, just like he did Jonathan. In fact, I know, Tammy
Jo, I know that Mephibosheth grew to be just like him. You reckon? Until when David
looked at Mephibosheth, it was like looking at his father, Jonathan. He looked just like him. But
it was for Jonathan's sake. You trust Christ? Do you? Do you, Rev? It means you're
going to sit at the table from now on. From now on. And he's going to hear your prayer
for Christ's sake. And he looks on his anointed.
Today, verse 10, in thy courts is better than a thousand. A
thousand what, David? A thousand anything. What had
David done? Where had David gone? What had
David said? Huh? Solomon, what did he say? Everything he had in it. He's
king. He's the greatest man on earth.
He can go anywhere he wants. He can have anything he wants.
He can go anywhere. He can see anything. Get my best chariot and take
me to Timbuktu or wherever, you know. I want to see that ocean
that I hear about. He said, One day in thy course
is better than a thousand anywhere else. I'd rather, he said, I'd rather
be a doorkeeper. I'd rather stand at the door
of the tabernacle and greet my brethren coming in than to dwell
in the tents of the wicked. We have men that do that. Stephen,
your dad, stood right back there for years, greeting all the saints
when they came in. You know who's doing it now?
John Cecil Jr. I noticed Ron's kind of getting
on back there. We've got about six greeters
now. Good place to be in. Don't you love standing back
there and watch the brethren go, Hello, Teresa, come on in.
Good to see you. I'm so happy to see you, Teresa.
I'm happy to see you. Psalm 119, David said, They that
love you will be glad when they see me. And we are, aren't we? I'd rather be a doorkeeper. The
Lord, verse 11, He closes. with a blessing, with a promise
and a blessing. The Lord God is a son. John came by and we were talking
about this, John Davis. The son, there's no life without
the son. It's like water. The son, you
know if I'm inside the house very long, I've got to get out
in that sun. I can't stand it. Just today, sitting in that office,
like before, but it's not the courtyard. I love that courtyard
by the sunshine. And buddy, no matter how, if
it's wet or bleak or whatever, or you're sick or whatever, if
you stand and just go out in the sun a little bit, you'll
feel instantly better, won't you? Won't you? The Lord God is a sign. Warmth. comfort, healing, Son of Righteousness,
healing is winning, growth, Son. You can't grow without the Son.
The Lord God is a Son and a shield. There He is again. He must mean
it. David, let me remind you now,
David never wore any bodily protection when he went out to army. Never. And he's writing to everybody,
the Lord is my shield. And he was. David didn't die
from an error or a sickness. He died of old age. Even an error or sickness, the
Lord did it. You hear me? If the Lord's going
to kill you, nothing's going to protect you from it. If the
Lord's not going to, nothing's going to touch you. Right? He's
our shield. The Lord will give grace. Oh,
I need grace, don't you? He's the God of all grace. What
kind of grace you need? All of it. Believe in grace,
live in grace, die in grace. daily grace, glory. He'll give
glory. Oh, I want to see His glory in
the sanctuary. I want to see, I want to be with
Him in glory, don't you? Well, Christ said you would.
Trust Him. No good will He withhold from
them that walk uprightly. No good. No good. No good thing. Everything's good
for God's people, those that walk by faith. Oh, Lord of hosts,
verse 12, he ends. O Lord of hosts, ends it again,
O God over all, Thou who reignest over all, blessed, how blessed
is the man that trusteth in Thee. Do you trust the Lord? I trust
that you do. Okay, stand with me.