Go back to Psalm 40 now. As I said to you in the text, we're going to continue. going through the Psalms that
you have requested. And this one was requested by
Sister Brenda Pendrick, Kelly's mother. I've known her for years.
I knew her before I knew Kelly. And I hope you're listening,
Brenda. I hope you're with us. I wanted
to look at this several months ago. You all requested these
various Psalms. what's been two or three months
ago or more. And I started looking at it, but it didn't speak to
me at the time. So I looked at it again later,
and it still didn't speak to me. You ever done that? We all
have. This is a lesson in prayer and
perseverance, I believe. Waiting. So I just waited, because what a psalmist he is. I kept
reading and asking the Lord to speak to me. He did. Finally,
He did. And it was such a blessing. And
we have looked at singular verses throughout this psalm. There
are several verses that make up a whole message, and we've
done just that. Such as verse 16, Let such as love die salvation.
Say continually, The Lord be magnified. Or those verses where
the Lord said, Lo, I come. In the volume of the book that
is written to me. Blessed is the man that maketh the Lord
his trust, And so on. Now we're going to try to look
at the whole psalm tonight. This psalm, all of God's Word
is God's Word. Though it was written by David,
it's God's Word. Peter said that. No scriptures
of any private or personal interpretation. 2 Peter 2, 20 and 21. Holy men spake as they were moved
by the Spirit of God. David, the Lord moved him to
write this these words, like he did Isaiah and Jeremiah. But
it's also David's words. David's speaking. It's from his
heart. And the Lord, you can recognize
different men's personalities in their writing, just like when
you write letters. Same here, it's David's word.
The Lord uses men, uses people. It's Christ's word. There's some
words here that absolutely must apply to Christ. In the volume
of the book it's written that that's Christ. We talk about
the Psalms being messianic, meaning they pertain to Christ. Well,
all of them do. They either speak of Him or it's
Him speaking. Like Isaiah 53, the eunuch asks
Philip, is the prophet writing about himself or some other man?
And Philip said, another man. Jesus Christ. But this psalm
is David's psalm. It's the Lord's word. It's the
words of Christ. And here's what Spurgeon said.
We'll get into it in just a second. But Spurgeon said, there's such
a union between Christ and His people. They're so one. It's often difficult to know
who's speaking. In fact, what he says We hardly
agree with him. Everything he says, as he is,
so are we. And we're going to see that,
especially in verses 7 and following. Verse 1, I waited patiently for
the Lord. The margin, and this is why I
like the Cambridge King James Bible so much, in the margin
it says, you have it, it says, in waiting, I waited. Await patiently. Patience is not something we
have by nature. And it seems to be one of the
hardest things for us to attain unto. We have to obtain it, don't we?
Don't attain it. How we need patience. To wait on the Lord. Now, by waiting on the Lord,
it doesn't mean like the world waits and hopes. We all have
to wait. You have to wait. You're forced
to wait. But David said, I'm willingly
waiting on the Lord before I do anything. The world waits, but
what they wait is they hope, wish, and wait, and hope things
are going to turn out alright. Right? Right now. The world is
waiting. for somebody to get us out of
this. Hoping it will all turn out alright.
Well, brethren, I know it's going to turn out
alright. Why? Because the Lord said, all things
work together. Why are things going to turn
out alright? Because the Lord worketh all
things at the counsel of His will, and all things work according
to His purpose and are for our good. So we're not hoping and
wishing and, you know, luck, chance, you know, hope it turns
out alright. No, we're waiting on the Lord. We're going to wait
and see. And when it all ends, we're going to, see? We wait on the Lord. We're going
to see what His purpose is. We're going to see. I've already
seen. Haven't you? Some of His purpose
in all this. What a blessing it's been. He inclined unto me and heard
my cry. David was praying, man, as all of God's people are. Look
at the verses right before this. Chapter 39, verse 12. Hear my prayer, O Lord. Give
ear unto my cry. Hold not thy peace at my tears. I'm a stranger with this. Sojourner
as all my fathers were. Spare me that I may recover strength. All the psalms, that's why we
love them so much. A sinner calling on God for mercy,
for help, for graces. A helpless sinner. That's who
David was. David's the king of Israel. The most powerful man
on earth. But he realized, sister, he has no power at all. He waits
on the Lord to help him, to strengthen him, to encourage him. David
was afraid just like anybody else, wasn't he? He said, what
time I'm afraid, I'll trust in the Lord. When I don't know what
to do, I'll wait on the Lord. When I think I know what to do,
I'll still wait on the Lord. Isn't that wisdom? Now wait a
minute, he heard me, inclined unto me and heard my cry. David's
the one that wrote in Psalm 8, what is man that thou art mindful
of him? Why? David was just amazed that
the Lord would hear him at all. And he said he did, he inclined. Lord, will you hear me? Yes, he will. Isaiah wrote one
time, he said, that the Lord would hear us before we called. His people who called unto Him
in the name of Christ. He climbed His ear and He heard
my cry. My cry. God's people are like
little children. They are His little children.
And they cry. They cry. Do you still cry? You're a grown man. I'm not going
to ask you. We all do, don't we? You're crying
right now. Good. We all cry, don't we? Because when it's all said and
done, we're helpless little babies. And he's our Heavenly Father.
And we cry at him. Tell me, Margaret, when that
boy and that girl were babies, did you hear their cry? Back
sound asleep, snoring. You heard every peep, didn't
you? I'd like to ask hope that she hears her fourth one crying.
I don't know. I believe that because I was
the fourth, and I don't think she didn't know where I was.
That's just not so. She knew. But after experience,
she knew when the cry was desperate and when it was not. If you have
one, you jump up at everything. If you have four, let's wait
and see. But here's the point. When we
cry, He hears us. David even said our tears are
in his bottle. I'm going to try to preach Sunday
morning on our hairs and our head being numbered. He heard my cry. He hears his
people. But we don't think so. The Lord
gave the parable of the widow, the importunate widow that kept
coming to the unjust judge. The unjust judge avenged me and
my adversary, and the unjust judge said, give her what she
wants, she's bothering me. Well, our Lord said, how much
more shall the father avenge his very elect, though they cry
day and the night, and he bear long with them, but he doesn't
seem to be, he hears every cry. Yes, he does. Not a word in our mouth, but
a thought in our head that he doesn't know it all together.
Isn't that wonderful? Well, what did you cry for, David?
I'm in a pit. Have you ever been in a pit? Are you in a pit now? Anybody?
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit. He brought me
out of a horrible pit. This is the same read on. out
of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my
going." This is the saving testimony of all God's people that are
saved by sovereign grace and mercy in the Lord Jesus Christ. All saved by Christ from their
sin, set our feet on a rock, which is Christ Himself, out
of a pit, horrible pit, world of sin, slime pits, dung heap,
sit us among princes in heavenly places, established our goings. There was a time when you couldn't,
you wouldn't find me going to the house of worship. I thought
I knew where I was going. There was a way that I thought
was right. And if the Lord left me in my
goings, I would have destroyed myself. But, yeah, brought me
up out of a horrible pit. Brought me up. Sister Robin was
playing, he lifted me out of the deep miry clay. He settled my feet in the straight
and narrow way. He lifted me up to a heavenly
play. And floodeth my soul each day
with his grace. I heard Brenda sing that one
time. Horrible pit. He brought me up. This is the language. This is
the testimony of all of God's people. We don't say, I got saved.
No, we say the Lord saved me. The Lord brought me up. This
is the difference, isn't it? He brought me up. Salvations
of the Lord. He did it. That's our language.
Set my feet on a rock. We just sang that. How firm a
foundation. You saints of the Lord. Everything
in this world is shifting sand, isn't it? Man's wisdom is shifting. Everything is shifting, saying,
shaking. The Lord said, very soon He's
going to shake the whole earth to where the only thing standing
is what can't be shaken. What's that? Christ. The truth. Rock. Solid. God's
Word is a rock. Eternal. God is our rock. Do
you know how often it speaks of God being our rock? That's
why Isaiah Psalm 62 kept saying that. He's a rock eternal in His age
and firm and unchanging. His Word is solid, is firm. You can trust Him, you can believe
Him. His Son is the cleft of the rock. Christ crucified. How firm, how solid, how... It's
absolute truth. God is absolutely true. His Word
is absolutely true. Christ is the true. He set my feet upon a rock. Christ Jesus and establish my
going. Where are you going, David? With
Him. I'm following Him. Verse 3, He
put a new song in my mouth. Even praise unto our God. That's
a new song to me. Years ago, I wasn't singing that. Years ago. Man, oh man. I'm ashamed of what the songs
that were in my mouth and in my heart then. Very much ashamed. Put a new song. A new song. The gospel is good news. That's
the song we sing. Put a new song in my mouth. Praise
to the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the earth
hear His voice. Praise the Lord. Can you imagine
the children of Israel coming out of Egypt that next morning
singing? Can you hear that song? They've been in the slime pits,
been in captivity. And every one of them are together.
Can you imagine what that singing must have been like? Miriam was
before them with a tabra. Can you imagine after they went
through that Red Sea? And saw all their enemies. No
more fears. No more worries. Promised land
ahead of them. Can you hear their song? That's the way it is with every
sinner saved by grace. I wish it were that way after
every time we hear the gospel, don't you? We put a new psalm,
praise unto our God. Verse 3, many shall see it and
fear and shall trust in the Lord. Many shall see and fear and trust
in the Lord. You know, a sinner saved by grace
is a living testimony to the living God. Many shall see. The people said
in John chapter 9, that blind man, he was born blind. Everybody
in town knew it. His face was disfigured. His
countenance was disfigured. His eyes were sunken in. He was
a beggar. His whole persona was a beggar
and a blind man and poor and wretched and miserable and blind.
He probably looked bad and smelled bad. Okay, when the Lord came
back. and took something from his mouth
and opened his blind eye. When it was all over, they said,
that can't be him. Remember that? Somebody said,
that's him. No, I said, that's not him. His
mother said, that's him, all right. Somebody's done something
for him. The woman at the well, remember
that? She's ashamed to show her face. That's why she went to
the well in the middle of the day. Didn't want to see anybody.
They didn't go to the well in the hot part of the day. Women
didn't. They'd go in the morning. She went when she thought nobody
else would be there. She was ashamed of herself. She's a harlot.
And she met Christ. And she ran home and told everybody.
She's not ashamed of Him. She's ashamed of herself. She's
not ashamed of Him. And buddy, they all came on her
word. Many shall see and fear and trust
in the Lord. And they did. And they came and
they heard Christ Himself. I'm still amazed the Lord would
use this poor fellow, preacher, in this little place on the hill. Aren't you? Brother Gabe told me that they
kept meeting, you know, when this all started like we did.
And a man from the community came in and said, you're the
only church in all of Kingsburg that's meeting. He said, I wanted
to come someplace. You're the only place around
here that's meeting. You know what? He's still coming. Many shall see and fear. And
do what? Trust in the Lord. It's always been there. But do
you not see it now more than ever? Trust in the Lord. What's
that mean? Just what it says. Trust in the Lord. Verse 4, Blessed
is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not
the proud, or such as turn aside to liars. I don't know why we
want to believe liars. Men and women who don't have
our good in mind, really? They have the next election in
mind. Seriously, you know it's so. Oh, happy. Blessed means happy is that person
that makes the Lord his trust. Are you happy right now? Look
around the world. You don't see many happy people,
do you? Do you, brother? There's miserable. I feel sorry
for them. I really do. Oh, how blessed. I was glad when they said, I'm
happy to be here. I'm happy to be here. Trust the
Lord. Trust the Lord. Oh, the proud,
those that lie. Verse 5, Many, O Lord, my God,
are Thy wonderful works which Thou hast done. Many. God's creation. Psalm 8, I quoted
a portion a while ago. He said, When I consider the
heavens, the work of Thy fingers, Let me read it to you. He says,
When I consider the heaven, the work of thy fingers, the moon,
the stars which thou hast ordained, many are His wonderful works,
works of creation, works of providence. Listen to this. Oh, you can just
turn anywhere in the psalm. Listen to this. Bless the Lord,
O my soul, all that is within me. Bless His holy name. Bless
the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all His benefits. What benefits,
David? Who forgiveth all thine iniquities.
Who healeth all thy diseases. If you get a sickness, the Lord
gave it to you. If you get healed, the Lord is
going to heal you. Because it's the Lord. Right?
It's His work. He worketh all things. Who redeemeth
thy life from destruction. Deliver him from going down in
the pit. I found a ransom. That's what He said. He said
this many times. That's what Elihu preached, isn't
it? The Lord said this many times, about many. He redeems your life
from destruction, crowneth thee with loving kindnesses and tender
mercy, who satisfies thy mouth with good. Many, O Lord, are thy wonderful
works. His greatest work of all. I've already mentioned it. Salvation.
Election is not a doctrine. It's a work of God. Adoptions
are not a doctrine, it's a work of God. If you're an orphan, and somebody comes and takes
you home with them, that ain't a doctrine. That's mercy. And
boy, you're going to thank Him. Bless the Lord. Oh my soul, His
wonderful works. His thoughts to us were His thoughts. David said, if I reckon them
up in order, if I try to enumerate them or list them, If I declare,
there's more than I can remember. In fact, God thinks on His people
every day, all day, all their lives. There's not a moment going
by that He doesn't think about. I want you to turn to Jeremiah
29, okay? I read this in a study today,
and I thought, I'm going to get Pentecostal sitting here. I want
to just holler and shout. I kind of did out loud a little
bit. Jeremiah 29. This is wonderful.
Wonderful. Jeremiah 29. Look at verse 11. I know the thoughts I think toward
you, saith the Lord. Thoughts of peace,
not of evil, to give you an expected end. Read on, it gets even better. Then shall ye call upon me, and
ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
And ye shall seek me and find me when ye search for me with
all your heart, and I will be found of you, saith the Lord.
And I will turn away your captivity. I will gather you from all the
nations, from all places where I have driven you, saith the
Lord. I will bring you into the place Which I caused you to be
carried away captive. I'm going to bring you all the
way home. Go back to Psalm 40. Oh, his
thoughts tore it up. Thoughts of peace, he said. Thoughts
of love. Thoughts of mercy. Thoughts of
grace. Thoughts of pity. As a father, pity of his children.
I've told you before that one of the emotions I feel more than
anything Granddaughter and my daughter. I go in and look at them when
they're asleep on their bed, still. Even my 36-year-old daughter. And the thought that just wells
up within me, pity. Pity. Pity. Don't you see that? Pity. Pity
her having to live in this world. Pity going through this and that. I have to go through this. I
have to go through that. Pity, pity. Like a father pitied his
children. So the Lord pitied them. He knows our frame. He became us. He touched the
field of our infirmities. He knows how weak we are. He
had more strength than we have. He knows that. And He pities
us. Oh, his thoughts told him. Remember
that for your peace, okay? He knows you're afraid. He knows
that's the frailty of the flesh. It gets afraid. It's flesh. He
knows you're afraid of this, afraid of that. He knows that.
He had perfect faith. He had perfect knowledge. He
had perfect understanding. We don't. He knows that. Oh, we've got a perfect Lord.
So look to it. Believe and trust it. Alright,
verse 6 and following. Oh my. This is quoted in Hebrew. We're going to turn there. Look
at it, verse 6. Sacrifice and offering thou didst
not desire. Nine ears hast thou opened. Burnt
offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said
I, this is Christ speaking. Not labored to cry. Lo, I come. In the volume of the book it
is written of me. I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is within my heart.
I have preached righteousness in the great congregation. Lo,
I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest. I have
not hid thy righteousness within my heart. I have declared thy
faithfulness and thy salvation. I have not concealed thy lovingkindness
and thy truth from the great congregation. I do want you to
turn to Hebrews, okay? Very quickly. Hebrews chapter
1, first of all. This is Christ Himself speaking.
The Scripture says so. In Hebrews 1, it begins this
way. Hebrews. Hebrews is a summary
of the whole Old Testament. It begins, God. like Genesis
begins, in the beginning, God. God, who at sundry time, diver's
manner, spake in time passed unto the fathers by the prophets,
hath in these last days spoken unto us by His Son. Remember
when our Lord said to the disciples, Hear Him, whom He hath appointed heir of
all things. He owns it all. By whom also He made the world.
He's Lord over it all. who be in the brightness of His
glory, the express image of His person, and upholding all things
by the word of His power. Jesus Christ, God, the God-man,
reigns and rules, sitteth on the circle of the earth. Jesus,
the one that men call Jesus, the man. He's not just a man.
He's God. And He reigns and rules. He's
not hoping, wishing, wanting anything. He's willing all things,
working all things. Seated. When he had by himself,
look at this, speaking of a great work of God, his work, his salvation,
by himself purged our sin. Sat down on the right hand of
the majesty on high. And oh, we could go on and on
couldn't we? Alright, go nine chapters later. Chapter 10. And this quotes Psalm
40. Hebrews 10. Verse 5, and all through those
chapters, what's it speaking of? The work that Christ came
to do. Isn't it? His wonderful work of redemption
that Christ came to accomplish by Himself. His work. Not a cooperative effort. It's
the work of Christ. The praise of the glory of His
grace. Verse 5 says, Now when He cometh into the world, He
said, sacrifice an offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast
thou prepared me. In burnt offerings and sacrifices
for sin thou hast had no pleasure. That is, the Jews were just going
through the motion, but Christ came to do one work, make one
sacrifice forever. And he said, Lo, I come. The volume of the book it is
written of me. All the shadows and types and pictures and ceremonies
and symbols and emblems are all speaking of Christ. He came to
do God's will. Verse 8, when He said, Sacrifice
and offering and burnt offering and offering for sin, thou wouldest
not that ye that had pleasure therein which are offered by
the law. Then said He, Lo, I come to do
thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that
He may establish the second. By the witch will, God's will,
we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus
Christ once for all. It's done. There is the work.
And David, the Spirit of God got a hold of him after he talked
about the wonderful works of the Lord. The Spirit of God began
to speak through him as Christ speaking through him saying,
this is the work. This is the most wonderful work
ever. This is God's work. The work
of redemption. The reason why the whole universe
exists is to show forth this wonderful work of redemption.
And Christ said, this is why it's written, in the volume of
the book it's written, that He came. He came to do God's will. What's God's will? To make you
His people. To have a kingdom full of His
people. But now, and, not but, but and. You know that God's
people, as He is, so are we. As He speaks, so can we. Though the book is not written
of us, it's written of Christ, but He's the one who came to
save us. We're His people. We were in Him. Look at this. Can you not say this, verse 8?
I delight to do thy will, O God. Oh yeah. Now, law is within my
heart. That's what God said. He'd write
His word on the tables of their heart, didn't He? Verse 9, I
have preached righteousness in the great congregation. Brethren,
I have, haven't I? Whose righteousness? Verse 10,
His righteousness. You know it's up. When you talk
to people about righteousness, you do. You preach His righteousness.
The Lord your righteous. We've declared, verse 10, His
faithfulness, His salvation. Not concealed it. His truth.
Many say they believe it, but they conceal it. They don't believe
it, do they? No. So as He is, so are we. And we declare His faithfulness. But then David prays again. Verse 11. Withhold not thou thy
tender mercies from me, O Lord. Let thy lovingkindness and thy
truth continually Preserve me, O Lord, withhold not Thy mercy
and Thy truth. You know how often David prays
this, mercy and truth. By mercy and truth, iniquity
is purged. Mercy and truth. By mercy and truth, men depart
from evil. Mercy and truth. What's that?
It's just another phrase that speaks of the gospel. It speaks
of Christ. David, you were so full of faith and insurance. Yeah, but I'm a sinner. David
would tell you, the last verse, I'm poor and needy. David, you're
the king, you're rich. No, not like I want to be. Not
in faith, not in peace, not like I want to be. I feel so poor
in that area. I'm a sinner. He said, one thing
is needful. David said that. One thing I
desire of the Lord, I need mercy. Every day. From when I wake up
in the morning until I go to bed at night, I need mercy. This is why I kept writing, Brother
John, is mercy endureth forever. Psalm 136. 26 times. Right, Kelly? We'll never forget it. Why do
you keep saying that, David? Because it rejoices my heart.
Is mercy endureth forever. The thing I need the most. We'll never end. Truth preserve me. Preserve me. You young people, remember that
preserve, okay? Your teacher is going to deal
with that. Verse 12. Why? Because innumerable evils
compass me about, surrounded by evil. is within me. Verse 12, mine
iniquities have taken hold upon me. You know our Lord was made
sin and He could have said this on the cross, couldn't He? Maybe
He did. Mine iniquities have taken hold
on Him because what were mine became His and what was His became
mine. Isn't that amazing? But David
and we can certainly say our iniquities, Lord, they've got
a hold on them. Please. Don't you say that all
the time. Only sinners saved by grace know
what this is. To be constantly vexed by sin
without and sin within. Lot was called a just man. Lot
was called a righteous man. But Lot was sitting inside of
him. And he wanted out. That's why I believe he was sitting
in the gate. Remember, he was sitting in the gate. I think
he was crying, Lord, come get me out. He did, didn't he, Kelly? He did. But like a lot, we live
inside them, don't we? And we want out. And we want
out of this world of sin, because all that's in the world lusts
to the flesh, lusts to the eyes, and the pride of life, all around
us, vexes our new man, The thing that vexes us more than anything
is this old man within us. And we want him out. No, you
know what I'm saying. Only those born again know what
that means. Innumerable evil. I'm not able
to look up. The republican in the temple,
he came in. Pharisee, you know. Aren't you
glad I'm here, Lord? Everybody listen to my prayer
now. His prayer didn't get above the ceiling. And God condemned
him. But the publican wouldn't lift
his eyes up. He was too ashamed. I'll tell
you whose eyes were on him. The Lord. Looked on him with
mercy. This is what the Lord said. I
tell you, that publican, they wouldn't lift his eyes up. He
went down to his house justified from all things. I mean justified,
like just as if he had never seen it. Over. Gone. Put away. What for? For Christ's sake. Isn't that wonderful? Oh, they're more than the hairs
of my head. My heart faileth me. David says this over and
over again. My heart faileth me. My heart faileth me. My flesh
and my heart fail me. Fail me. Fail me. Oh, the heart. I can't figure my heart out.
Sometimes I say with David, my heart is fixed. Don't you? Then I say with Jeremiah, deceitful
above all things, desperately wicked. Sometimes I say, my heart, I
trust in the Lord with all my heart. I believe in the Lord
with all my heart. Other times I say, time I'm afraid, I'm afraid,
I fear. Create within me a clean heart.
You know what I'm saying. Be pleased, O Lord, verse 13,
to deliver me, O Lord. Hurry. Well, David, I thought
you said you were waiting. Well, I was. What a paradox. So is it. I waited patiently. Well, it
wasn't 12 verses. He said, hurry. Don't you love
the psalm? Sometimes we can wait. The Lord
makes us to wait. We have no option but to wait.
And other times, Lord, hurry! David says this over and over
again today. Make haste! Help me. And as I said before,
the Father knows when the case is desperate. Let them be ashamed. Verse 14, speaking of His enemies,
let me go down through here. Let them be ashamed and confounded
together that seek after my soul to destroy. Let them be driven
backward. Put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for reward
of their shame that say unto me, uh-huh, uh-huh. See there? Let all those that seek Thee,
though, rejoice and be glad in Thee. Certainly, that's Christ
from the cross and all His enemies surrounding Him, dogs, Bulls of Bashan, Tom 22 calls
them, surrounded him. He trusted him. God, wag your
head. Let's see if God will deliver. Some of those are standing, well,
they've already been cast into the lake fire. Boy, I wish they'd
never said that. But you know what? You know what I'm going to say,
don't you? I did the same thing. I didn't care if He came or lived
or died. I had no difference in that world. But I believe
that when Christ was hanging on that cross, He prayed that
prayer for me. Father, forgive them. He prayed
that for somebody. And so does it believe Him now.
So does it ashame themselves and glory in Him. Father, forgive
them. They don't know what they're
doing. Let all those that seek Thee,
I do, don't you? Rejoice, I do. And be glad indeed,
I am. I am. You've got brothers and
sisters crying and laughing at the same time, weeping tears
of joy. Isn't that wonderful? Why? Because
they rejoice those that love His salvation. His salvation. Do you not love the salvations
of the Lord? Man, oh man, don't you? Salvations of the Lord, His will,
His work, His glory, His blood, His righteousness. Don't you
love that? Oh, God's people do. And they all say to a man, to
a person, the Lord be magnified. He that glorieth, let him glory
in the Lord. But, and he ends this by saying, I
am poor and needy. Oh, I'm so poor. I love Psalm 34. He said, this
poor man cried. Right after David acted like
a wild man, acted like a mad man, acted like he didn't have
any sense, brought great reproach on his Lord, didn't he? Do you
remember that story? He wrote Psalm 34 and he said,
this poor man cried. It's a poor excuse for a man,
a believer, to cry. The Lord heard him. And delivered
him out of all his trouble. And he'll do it again, and again,
and again. He'll keep crying. Lord, I'm
poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my
help and my deliverer. But hurry. Oh my God. Let me just say a
word about that. Only sinners say that the right
way. Oh my God. Warn your children. Warn your
neighbors. Warn everybody. Don't take the Lord's name in
vain. He'll not hold them guiltless that take His name in vain and
say that. Get it? Does it not hurt your heart to
hear people say that? But God's people say it the right
way. They say, Oh my God. In repentance they say, Oh my
God, forgive me. Have mercy for me." In faith,
they say, Oh my God, I look to Thee. I trust Thee. Oh my God. In praise, they say, Oh my God,
Thou art wonderful and worthy to be praised. How about you? Stand with me. Our God and our
Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank You for
Your blessed Word, Your blessed, blessed Word. Oh Lord, we'd be
in darkness, we'd be in fear, we'd be in the pit without Your
Word. You sent Your Word and You lifted
us out. Sent Your Son who came to do
Thy will. How we thank You, Lord, for Christ
and Him crucified. Thank You for Your Word. Thank
You for Your Son. Thank You for Your Spirit. Thank
You for Your mercy, Your truth, Your love and kindness, Your
grace. Thank you for all things in Christ's name. Amen.