The Lord's providence of giving
us these psalms and certain passages of Scripture just when we need
them the most. I was looking at your faces as
we were reading that psalm. The Lord is thy keeper. Period. Why don't we just rest and trust
Him? He is thy keeper. He shall preserve thee from all
evil. The Lord cannot lie. I wish I trusted Him more, don't
you? May the Lord keep this psalm,
these blessed words, this truth, This promise running through
our hearts and our minds all the time. The Lord is, so that
we may boldly say, Hebrews 13, Paul said this, we may boldly
say, the Lord is my helper, my keeper. I will not fear what
man shall do unto me. So that I may boldly say, by
His grace, according to His promise. Let us say, I shall not fear
anything, the Lord is my shepherd. How many times, what all does
he say he is to his people for their safety, for their security.
Now, look at the title. Many of the Psalms have a title
right under the number, a song of degrees. There are several
songs of degrees. It begins, we looked at them. Psalm 120 and goes on through,
let's see, it goes all the way through 134. What that means
is it starts low and it gets high. It ascends. This psalm starts good and it
gets better and it ends with these words, forevermore. Happy
ever after. That's what that means. A good
story ends that way then. Ever after. And that's the gospel,
isn't it? Alright? Verse 1, I will lift
up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help. Go to Psalm 42. We're going to
look at several psalms that complement each other. David, like all of
us, Psalm 42. David, like all of us, he got
cast down. Every now and then, didn't it?
And when you're cast down, you hang your head, don't you, and
your eyes are downcast and just moaning and groaning. David said
that day, all my groaning is not hid from thee. And David
was downcast here in Psalm 42, and he said in verse 4, when
I remember these things, I pour out my soul in thee. I had gone
with the multitude and went with them to the house of God with
the voice of joy and praise. That was our last psalm, wasn't
it? Let's come before His presence joyfully with singing. And I
went with them that kept this holy day. So I asked myself,
why art thou cast down, O my soul? Why art thou disquieted
in the hope thou in God? I shall yet praise Him for the
help of His countenance. Count on it. Count on Him. You will praise Him. You will
be lifted up if you look to Him. Don't look within, don't look
around, but look to Him. So David said, here's what I'm
going to do. I'm going to lift up mine eyes. Remember our Lord
said, when you see all these things happening, lift up your
head. Your redemption draws nigh. Lift
up your eyes unto the holy hill, from whence cometh my help, he
said, where my Lord is, his holy hill. Psalm 24. The earth is
the Lord's, and the fullness thereof, the world, and they
that dwell therein. Right? He hath founded it upon
the seas, and established it upon the floods. He is the Creator.
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Talk about His holy
hill. Who shall stand in His holy place?
Well, he that hath clean hand, a pure heart, who hath not lifted
up his soul unto vanity, or sworn deceitfully, he shall receive
the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of
his salvation. Who is that? We'll hear it in
just a minute, but it's Christ. And we're in Him. This is the
generation of them that seek Him. That's us, isn't it? That
seek thy face, O Jacob, O God of Jacob. Lift up your heads.
See that? Lift up your heads, O ye gates.
Be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and a King of glory shall
come in. Who is this King of glory? It
is the Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Christ
who conquered all our foes. Lift up your heads, O ye gates.
Lift them up, ye everlasting doors. A King of glory shall
come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts. He
is the King of glory. I lift up my eyes unto the hill. Lord and my God ascended and
sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high where he
sits right now reigning and ruling over all things and all people. That's where our help comes from. Verse 2, my help. How about you? Our help cometh from the Lord
who made heaven and earth. The Lord, the Creator. My help
cometh from the Lord. Do you remember That psalm we
looked at said, He shall send from heaven, send help from heaven. Isaiah 30. Turn over there. You
shouldn't grow tired of looking at these things. You should be
very thankful we look at them. Very few people do. Isaiah 30
reminds us over and over again to not look anywhere but to our
Lord for help. Because it's a vain thing. Isaiah
30. It says, Woe, verse 1, to the
rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel. That
is, they're trying to get their answers. They're trying to tell
us what to do. But not of the Lord, the Creator,
the Sovereign. And they cover with a covering.
That's significant. But not with my Spirit. This
is not adding sin to sin. Unbelievable. They go down to
Egypt or Washington. And I have not asked at my mouth
to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh." Man, trust
in the shadow of Egypt. The strength of Pharaoh or the
leaders or rulers will be your shame. The trust in the shadow
of Egypt will be your confusion. Now in verse 7, the Egyptians
help the leaders of the United States of America. Their help
is in vain. They cannot help themselves.
And so he says, I cry concerning this, their strength is to sit
still. How many times does he tell us,
be still? Come sit and be still and know
that He is God and there is none else. That's who is reigning
and ruling over everything and that is who our help is. All our help. My help coming
from the Lord. Look at Isaiah 31. Woe, again,
woe to them that go to Egypt for help. Stay on horses. In our day, it's technology,
transportation, or medicine, or whatever it may be. The trust
in these things. Not to the Holy One of Israel.
Egyptians, verse 3, are just men. They're not God. The Lord
says, look unto Me. Look unto Me. Brother Ron read Psalm 12 tonight. Help, Lord. That psalm begins
that way. Help, Lord. David's help comes
from the Lord. And you know what? That psalm
goes on to say that he shall keep them. He shall keep those
that call on him. He shall preserve them forever. He says that over and over again.
Why don't we believe Him? My help, your help, our help,
any help cometh from the Lord, whether it be physical help,
mental help, emotional help, financial help, spiritual help,
whatever it may be, all help cometh only from the Lord, which
made heaven and earth, Isaiah 43. He made heaven and earth.
See, this is the world. Man doesn't even believe that
there is a God. If He is God, if there is a God,
He didn't create everything. Man believes in evolution, so
he has to look to man. But if we believe that God is
our Creator, that means He made everything exactly the way it
is. He controls everything. He judges everything. He rules
everything. He owns everything, and that
includes us. And this is what He said in Isaiah 43. But now thus saith the Lord that
created thee, O Jacob, he that formed thee, O Israel, fear not. I have redeemed thee. I have
called thee by thy name. Thou art mine. Read on. When thou passest through the
water, and you will. You sing that song, some through
the water, some through the flood. No, all through the water. All
through the flood. All through the fire and all
through the blood. Read on. When you pass through
the waters, the rivers, they will not overflow thee. When
thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither
shall the flame kindle upon thee, for I am the Lord thy God, Holy
One of Israel, thy Savior. I gave Egypt for your ransom,
thy ransom. Ethiopian Saba for thee, your
preciousness. God, He goes on to say throughout
that Isaiah 43, what all He's ordered, I'm the Lord. He said,
I will work and who shall stop it? Look down at verse, go to
chapter 45, Isaiah 45. Let's read this one more time,
shall we? I am the Lord, Isaiah 45, 5. I am the Lord, there is none
else. There is no God beside me. I girded thee, though thou
hast not known me, that they may know from the rising of the
sun, from the east, from the west, there is none beside me.
I am the Lord, there is none else. I form the light and create
darkness. I make peace and create evil. I, the Lord, do all these things."
Didn't he say that? That's what he said. Verse 12,
I made the earth, created man upon it. Verse 22, look at that. So look unto me, and be ye saved. All the ends of the earth, I
am God. There is none else. My help is coming from the Lord.
How about you? One more, Isaiah 46. Some of
you know this well. Look at this, Isaiah 46, verse
3. Hearken unto me. O house of Jacob, the remnant
of the house of Israel, which are born or carried by me from
the belly, which are carried from the womb to your old age,
I am he. To your hoary hairs will I carry
you. I have made you. I will bear
you. Even I will carry and will deliver
you." How many promises does he have to make? Go back to our
text. What Lord are we talking about?
Jehovah. Jehovah God. The Father. God the Son. God
the Holy Spirit. These three are one in the salvation,
the redemption, the protection, the care and the keeping of His
people. The Lord Jesus Christ is our
Maker, Defender, Redeemer and Friend. The Lord Jesus Christ. That's who He is. The cause of
who He is is what He'll do. Redeemer. Defender. Keeper. Shepherd. What He is,
is what He does. So you can trust Him. That's
His name. Look at verse 3. He will not suffer thy foot to
be moved. He will not suffer thy foot to
be moved. What's that mean? Go to Psalm
73 with me. Psalm 73. David speaks of this all the time. You've kept my eyes from tears, my feet from falling. I preached
the message, I forget what the text was. Psalm 73, David was
envious at the foolish. And he said, I know, verse 1,
God is good to Israel, those are of a clean heart, but as
for me, my feet. I was almost gone, my steps had
well now slipped. He thought, I'm going to fall. I was envious, I was foolish.
Then verse 17, he said, until I went into the sanctuary. Like
we read a moment ago. Went with the people of God.
Chapter 42. Then I understood. The end. We know the end. He set them,
verse 8, 18, in slippery places, cast them down into destruction.
They're brought into desolation as in a moment. They're utterly
consumed with terror. And David said, I woke up like
in a dream, as in a dream when one awaketh. So, O Lord, when
Thou awakest, Thou shalt despise their envy. My heart was grieved.
I was pricked in my reign. I was so foolish, ignorant. I
was a beast before them. Nevertheless, nevertheless, He
said, I'm continually with thee. Thou hast holden me by my right
hand. Isaiah said, He's carrying us.
You'll guide me with thy counsel and afterward receive me to glory. He's not going to let us slip.
Their feet are in slippery places, but He's set our feet on a solid
rock. Christ Jesus the Lord. Remember
this verse? This God is our God forever. and ever. He will be our guide
even unto death. He will not suffer thy foot to
be moved. In Colossians, it speaks of our
Lord Jesus Christ as the Creator, doesn't it? He said, by Him were
all things made that are made. Let me turn there and read to
you. He's the image of the firstborn, the invisible God, the firstborn
of every creature. By Him were all things created
in heaven and earth. He's the head over all things,
and He was given to the church. It pleased the Father in Him
that should all fullness dwell. He made peace through the blood
of His cross. He reconciled all things to Himself. You that were sometime alienating
enemies in your mind by wicked work, yet now hath He reconciled
in the body of His flesh, listen, to present you holy and unblameable
and unreprovable in His sight. It's talking about everything
He has done and shall do. for God's people. If ye continue
in the faith, grounded and settled, and be not moved away, be not
moved from the hope of the gospel. Well, he said, David said, he
will not suffer thy foot to be moved. Like Luther, Martin Luther, I
have to say, here I stand, I can do no other, can't you? May not
move. He will not suffer thy foot to
move. He that keepeth, in our text,
he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Now he says this three
times. He that keepeth thee. We're kept,
Peter said, by the power of God. Through faith, just trusting
him unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time.
Meaning, it just remains to be seen. It's fact, and we have
a hard time believing it, but he said it's just about. The glorious manifestation, Paul
wrote, of the sons of God. It just remains to be seen. But we're kept by the power of
God. He keeps us. He keepeth us in all our ways. The word keep means several things. First of all, it means To never
throw away. To never cast out. Something
you keep is something you intend to keep. He said, I will never
cast you out. Him that cometh to me, I will
never cast out. I'm going to keep you. I'm going
to keep you. The word keep means to protect.
It means to guard. It means to watch over. It means
to keep from harm. He that keepeth thee. The word keep means to provide.
It means to provide. If you have an animal or something,
you say he's an easy keeper. Well, we're not easy keepers.
But it's easy for him to keep us. We're not easy keepers because
we need everything on him. Every day, day in, day out, he's
our keeper. The Lord is our keeper. He's
our shepherd. I shall not want. Shall not. Listen to what he said, and you
don't have to turn, I'll turn for you. He said this to Jacob,
poor old Jacob. And Jacob lied on a certain place
and tarried all night and put some stones down for his pillow
and the Lord appeared to him. And the Lord said this to Jacob,
said, Behold, I am with thee and will keep thee in all places
whither thou goest. and will bring thee again into
this land. I will not leave thee until I
have done that which I have spoken unto you." And Jacob awoke, and
he said, Surely the Lord was in this place, and I knew it
not. The Lord's in this place, and
some of them don't know it not. I'll tell you this, the Lord's
every place. And Jacob put those stones for
a pillar, A pillar. His pillar became his pilter. And he called it Bethel, the
house of God. Listen to this. He said to all
the sons of Jacob, Israel, in Exodus 23, he said this, Behold,
I send an angel before thee to keep thee in the way and to bring
thee into the place which I have prepared. He'll go before you,
and He'll bring you into the land. No ifs, ands, or buts about
it. That's the Spirit of God. Listen
to this. When He told Aaron and his son,
God told Moses to tell Aaron and his son to tell all the people.
Here's the blessing. All right? Here's what He told
them to tell us. The Lord bless thee and keep
thee. He that keepeth that. Alright? It says he will not slumber. He will not slumber. Now, a watchman
or a keeper or a shepherd is supposed to keep watch over the
city or watch over the plot. And that good shepherd or good
watchman can never doze for a minute. He cannot become drowsy. The
enemy is always lurking. In the dark and at night, what
it says here, he will not slumber, not for a moment. In another
place it says, have you not heard that the mighty God is never
weary? He's never weary, it doesn't
faint. He will not slumber, verse 4, he that keepeth, behold. When
it says behold, that means sit up and listen to this. He that
keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Jude ended
all of the epistles. All the epistles end with Jude.
And here's what Jude said. I don't want to misquote it.
I think I can quote it, but I don't want to misquote it. But here's
how it ends, okay? Here's the very last epistle
to the churches, except for the ones in Revelation, of course.
But it says, Now unto him that is able to keep you, Know what
it says? And to present you faultless
before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. To the only
wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power
both now and ever. Amen. We could just stop right
there. He keepeth thee. He shall not
slumber nor sleep. He never takes his eye off of
his people. Remember he said, I've kept you
as the apple of my eye, the pupil, and always before. He shall not
sleep. We are told to watch and to pray,
but we grow weary, don't we? The flesh is weak and we sleep.
The disciples slept for many reasons. They were weary. They
were sorrowful. We sleep for many reasons, but
the everlasting God, never faints, neither is weary,
he doesn't slumber, he doesn't sleep, he's always watching over
his people. You all heard this illustration.
Spurgeon gave this illustration of a man who was a captain of
a ship, and he knew the man. I think he attended his services
sometime. And he was a renowned captain of a ship. And he had
a wife and two sons, and he was going on a trip somewhere, and
he took them with him on that ship. Well, there arose a horrendous
storm at sea, and his wife and two sons were on that ship. Well,
the wife of the captain went to wake up the two boys, woke
up the oldest one. Wake up, wake up, there's a storm.
And then she woke up the small one and said, wake up, sonny,
wake up, there's a storm. And he said, why? Why are you
waking me up? She said, there was a storm.
We need to get up. He said, is my father at the
helm? She said, yes, he is. He said,
I'm going back to sleep. Our God is at the helm. He's
not a co-pilot. He said, Lord, thy God reigneth
and ruleth over everything. The Lord is thy keeper. He that keepeth thee shall neither
slumber nor sleep. So why don't we go to sleep? The Lord, verse 5, is thy keeper. Who is? What is? What is? No, no, no. What? Who? The Lord is thy keeper. Your safety, your protection,
your defense. The word keep means to preserve,
means to hedge about. The Lord is thy provider, thy
protector, thy keeper, thy defense, your everything. He is thy keeper. The Lord is thy keeper. The Lord is thy shade upon thy
right hand. His name is who He is, what He
is, what He does. That's His name. When it speaks,
when it says things like this, the Lord is merciful. That's
what he is, so that's what he does. He's plenteous in mercy. The Lord is gracious. By the
grace of God I am what I am. Well, he giveth more grace because
that's what he is. The Lord is thy God. The Lord
is thy shepherd. Shall not want it, but Lord your
shepherd. The Lord is thy redeemer. Will He redeem me? Will He save
me? That's His name. He is thy Savior,
God and Savior. He's the Christ, the Messiah. The Messiah has always been the
one who's going to come and get His people and take them out
of here. Well, that's His name. He is thy Keeper. He said in
His prayer to the Father in John 17, here's what He said, All
that thou hast given me I have He's kept. That's His name. That's what He does. That's what
He shall do. Well, He says here, He's a shade
upon thy right hand. You'll like this. Isaiah 32. Go over to Isaiah 32. Have you
ever been out under the hot sun? I mean, a blistering, sunny day
and burning heat? Sure you have. Everybody has.
And you thought, I'm going to faint. One time we were in Mexico. That's happened to me many times. All you men and women that are
outside. We were in Mexico, and down there,
it can get dangerous. And we were with Betty. Walter
wasn't with us. He was wandering somewhere. This
is before Cody had gone down there permanently. And Mindy
and I and me and others were with Betty and we got a long
way away from the car. We were looking at the Mayan
ruins is what it was. And all of a sudden I saw a look
come over Betty's face I'd never seen before. She said, we've
got to go. It was getting hot. It was getting
really hot. That sun was no shade anywhere. No water. And she said, we've got to go.
This is serious. And for her, they'd been there
for years. For her to get worried, it's
time to go. So we all rushed, and sure enough,
it's a good thing we got back, because you know, sun stroke,
heat stroke, people die from that readily, quickly. And we
got and we found some shade. Oh, cooling, soothing shade. Well down there it's 100 degrees
of shade, but it was shade. And water, well look at this.
We're not talking about a place for Shea, we're talking about
a person. Isaiah 32, Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness,
princes, rulers shall rule in judgment, a man, a man shall
be as a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest,
rivers of water in a dry place as a shadow of a great rock in
weary land. A man, that's our Lord, a shade
upon our right hand, the Son of God's right hand. A shade
upon thy right hand. You know, the Lord says in Revelation
16 that He's going to burn this place up, going to send it, and
scorch men with a burning heat, and they will not repent to give
Him glory. Peter said that He'll melt everything
with a fervent heat, and He'll blast them with the presence
of the brightness of His coming. Our God is a consuming fire.
You know that? But not to God's people. He's
shade. He's not a burning heat. He's
shade. The world is full of burns with
sin and lust and shall be burnt, but not God's people. We dwell
under the shadow. He that dwelleth in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under the what? Shadow. of the Almighty. Shade upon thy
right hand. That's what that means. Verse
6, it says, The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon
by night. The sun. When the Lord created
everything, He created the sun and the moon. In chapter 1, it
speaks in verse 14, that God said, Let there be lights in
the firmament. Let them be for signs, seasons, days, and years. And one day He made two great
lights, a greater light to rule the day, that's the sun, and
a lesser light to rule the night. And God set them in the firmament
of the heaven to give light upon the earth, to rule over the day
and over the night. And God saw that it was good.
Now this is a mystery, but this is God's creation. The Lord made
these two great lights, the sun and the moon. They're His to
use. And they are amazing, marvelous creations of God. The sun gives
life and light, doesn't it? The sun. Now if the sun is, some
of you teachers, 25 million miles away? I think that's what it
is. 25 million, that's what they
say. But anyway, 25 million miles away from the earth. Okay? And the earth is rotating. Yes,
it's a ball. It's rotating. And so it's axis,
it's twisted. And it's rotating around the
sun. And it's rotating. If it were
one foot closer to the sun, it would burn out. You know that? If it were one foot, let us say
if it were one foot further away, it would freeze to death. And God did that. The sun shall
not smite that. It shall not smite thee. Christ
is the Son, isn't it? The Son of Righteousness. Who's
risen with healing in His wings. To who? To God's people. He shall
not smite us. But He's going to smite the earth.
Yes He is. But not us. He's a shade to us. Sun and shade. The moon. What
about the moon? The moon is an amazing thing.
The Lord said He made the moon for seasons. The moon affects
the tides, and the tides are absolutely necessary, aren't
they, Brother Mike? And the seasons are controlled
by it and so forth. It's just amazing isn't it? The fool has said no, God, right?
But he made the moon. Well, the moon has an effect
on mankind. It sure does. There's a disease,
a possession called lunacy. There
were lunatics in the New Testament. Our Lord healed lunatic. Luna. Lunar. It's the moon. Smitten
by the moon. At night time, I used to go howling
at the moon. I've done it. Mankind, that's where all his
evil does, under the moon, in the darkness. By the light of
the moon, if you will. Mankind is nuts. He's lost his mind in it. It is against his Creator. And
only our God can heal lunatics in it. Christ. What he did to
them. In Revelation 12, there's a picture
of the woman, who's a picture of the church, says the moon's
under her feet. That is, that sin shall not have
dominion over you. And he said, I shall bruise Satan
under your feet. It's not going to, we're not
going to be, we're not lunatics. We're in our right mind. We're
clothed in our right mind. Sitting, listening to the Lord
Jesus Christ, believe me. No, the moon is not going to
control that. It will not smite you. The noon will not. It did
one time, it's not going to do it again. You see that? Read on. The Lord shall preserve
thee from all evil. Is that what he said? Is that
what he said? Do you remember Psalm 91? There
shall no evil befall them. Is that what he said? Well, it
really didn't mean that. He means exactly what he says.
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. Whatever it is
in the life of a believer, it's not evil. Whatever it is, it's
not evil. It's good. It's good. Didn't the Lord say, I create
evil? Didn't He say that in Isaiah
45, 7? I make peat, I create evil. That
is, whatever it is, the Lord is the first cause of it. And
Romans 8, 28 says, we know this, that all things work together
for good. What's the opposite of good? Evil. Well, all things
in God's people's light work together for good. No evil. No evil. So, the Lord shall preserve
thee. The word preserve means to hedge
about, to keep from bodily harm. The Lord shall preserve, look
at this, verse 6 or verse 7. He shall preserve thy soul. Your
soul is what you are. Your soul is your being. Your
soul is what lives forever. Okay? All souls are mine, the
Lord said. But the soul that on the Lord
Jesus hath leaned for repose, he said, I will never, no, never
desert to its foe. Isn't that what he said? He shall
preserve thy souls. Many souls he's going to cast
in the lake of fire, but not the souls of those people who
look to and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Our God can't lie. Believe, look unto me and be
saved. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. He came to save our souls. From
what? Sin. From destruction. So he
shall preserve thy soul. Listen to this. Listen to this
psalm. It says he shall spare the poor and needy and shall
save the souls of the needy. Are you poor and needy? That's
who he came to save. That's what he came to say. We
cannot keep our bodies. We cannot keep our health. We
cannot keep our youth. The Lord gave it and the Lord
is going to take it all away. Every bit of it. We cannot keep
anything. But we've got a soul that's going
to go on forever. And he said, I'm keeping that. I'm keeping that. You can't keep
anything. But he's going to keep our soul.
And it will be with Him someday forever. He shall preserve thy
soul. The Lord, verse 8, shall preserve. This is it. It's like He keeps building.
Build a song of degrees. Okay? The sun won't smite you.
The moon won't smite you. It will preserve you from all
evil. He won't slumber or sleep. The Lord shall preserve thy going
out. And you're coming in. Our next
psalm is 139. That Helen greedily requested. It's her second psalm. I granted
it graciously. But I'm glad. It goes on there
in Psalm 139 to say that, Whither shall I flee from thy presence?
Nowhere. He possessed my reign. Covenant. Well, the Lord shall preserve
thy going out and thy coming in. Now we go out into the world
don't we? Amen? Some of you ladies go out
into the world. Alright? And you come home. Day
in and day out. Some of you are in your 80s,
90s. Well here you sit. Kept by the
power of God. Isn't that amazing? Huh? Who
did that? You know how many dangers were
all around? Huh? Was that Psalm 91 we looked
at? The serpents walk on? The Lord shall preserve you going
out and you coming in. You go out into the world, He's
there. You come into God's house. You
know, I've been thinking about If people ought to feel safe
anywhere, they ought to feel safe in God's house, worshipping
God. If the Lord's not going to protect us in this house,
worshipping, doing what he tells us to do. But, I corrected myself,
God's God everywhere. We're no more safe in this village
than we are out there. Right? He's going to preserve
you, keep you going out, he'll throw it in. Brother Maurice
Montgomery was going off to army, Brother Ron, and his father,
Hubert Montgomery, oh he was a dear man, a believer. Just
a solid, rock solid. He built barns for a living,
Kelly. I mean, big log barns and stuff. When he was 80 years
old, he was still on top of those barns. But Hubert Montgomery
was a solid, faithful believer. Well, his boy was going off I
mean, shipped out overseas in a dangerous time, Korean War.
And he said, son, when he's bidding him goodbye, I know he had tears
in his eyes. He said, son, remember this. God is sovereign everywhere. God is sovereign everywhere. Brother Henry soared down in
Apatow, in Korea. He said the bullets was flying
over his head. Now my brother was 21, Vietnam,
8 days. Who did that? God did it. Who
kept Henry until he was 80 some years? God did that. The Lord
did it. The Lord did it. We have nothing
and no one to fear. We may boldly say the Lord is
our helper. The Lord is our keeper. The Lord
shall preserve thy going out. And thy coming in from this time
forth and forevermore. Forevermore
until the end and then it's going to be happily ever after. Right? This story, this is not
a fable. This is not a fairy tale. That's exactly what Simon Peter
said. This is no cunningly devised fable. We were eyewitness of
His power and His majesty. He said you'd do well to take
heed, because we're kept, He said, by the power of God. Okay,
stand with me. Our God and our Father, our Lord
and our Savior, hallowed be Thy name. We thank You, Lord, for
Your blessed Word. Give us, let these sayings sink
down deep in our ears and write them on our hearts and oh, give
us Give us peace, give us comfort. Lord, give us faith. Unbelief
is so dishonoring to you. Unbelief does not take you out
of your worry. Fear is... In one place you said you go
to the unbelieving, the fearful and unbelieving, you're going
to cast in the lake of fire. We have every reason to believe
you. You've given us every innumerable reason to believe you and to
trust you. Year after year after year, you've kept us. Our going
out and our coming in. preserved us from all evil, all
these years. And what has happened, we see
clearly. It's your hand. I've seen something
of your purpose and will in it. Not all things, but we know that
we will someday know as we've been known. But Lord, let us
believe you. Give us faith. We believe. Help
our unbelief. Your people everywhere, those
who hear this over mixture, oh Lord, give us the grace, the
gift of faith. If we don't believe, we won't
be established. We won't be settled. We won't be strengthened. We'll
be unsettled. Oh, still our souls with this
blessed knowledge that thou art God and we're your people and
you keep us and preserve us forever for Christ's sake. Amen. You're
dismissed. Thank you, buddy. Appreciate
it. Bye, Andrew. I didn't do it.