Psalm 13. I turn to these Psalms time and
time again for my own comfort and for yours. We are just alike. The same afflictions
Peter wrote are accomplished in your brethren throughout the
world. We have the same troubles and the same needs. Same word
comforts all of us. The true preacher is told to
warn the people. I told you what the Lord said
to Ezekiel. If you fail to warn them, their
blood is on your hands. But, like he told Isaiah, we're
told to comfort ye, comfort ye my people. Speak ye comfortably
to them. Nowhere can we find more comfort
than in the Psalms. Told you time and again, you
know this, the psalms, psalm means psalm. It was meant, these
were meant to sing. They were meant to be sung. They were meant to be played
on instruments. That's what he wrote, didn't he? Played with
an instrument of ten strings, twelve strings, a hundred and
how many strings? Play sculpture with a loud note.
Play on an instrument meant to be sung by singers. David appointed
singers by the Word of the Lord. David appointed singers. Sing.
Sing unto the Lord. But I don't feel like singing.
Sing. It will do you good. Music. I love music. I've always loved music, thanks
to my parents. They loved music. Both of them
played instruments. You wouldn't know this, but my
dad played the trumpet. That's a good instrument. Oh,
we're going to hear one played, one note, like Ray had heard. It'll be the sweetest note we
ever heard. I love music, grew up loving music. David played, and music's medicine
for the soul, but David played the harp. Saul, King Saul, I
know he wasn't a saved man, but it says that while David played
the harp, it drove the evil spirit from him. What do you think David
was playing? Some psalm that he wrote. By
the way, I have one of these radio Pandora, you know, I have
that. I've got a radio station you
can make your own music up, you know. And I've got one that's
all instrumental hymns. I can't tear myself away from
that. It just does me good. Just turn it on. And those hymns
will remind you of the blessed gospel and the truth. And those
words come back to your mind. You find yourself singing. And
you find your spirits lifting. Singing soothes the soul. It
does. That's why the Lord tells us
to sing. It will drive away our sorrow and our sadness. That's
why we're exhorted to sing so much. Listen to what Paul wrote
to us. He said, speaking to yourselves
in psalms and hymns, that means we don't... The early church
sang a psalter. That means it was just song. But he tells us hymns, if somebody
writes a hymn, a good hymn, like Rock of Ages, like This is My
Father's World, like Come Thou Fount, oh my! Sing, he said, Psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart
to the Lord. Giving thanks always for all
things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ. That's what he told us he did. Why? Because it's for
our good, for God's glory. It's a good testimony to this
world, to our unsaved. the loved ones around us when
we're singing, even in a time of deep sorrow. And it does us
good. When did Paul write that? He
was in jail. Do you remember Paul and Silas
in Philippi? Do you remember? They had just
been beaten. bruised, bloody, battered. They were in the dark, in bondage,
in chains. And Paul said to them, and they
started praying, and it suddenly occurred to them, let's start
singing, Brother Silas. And they started singing, and
you know what happened? The chains fell off. The doors opened up. And a jailer came running in
with light. Do you remember the story of,
I was going to end with this, but we might not make it to the
end. Wouldn't that be wonderful? But Jehoshaphat, remember, Jehaziel
preached that message, the battle is not yours, it's the Lord.
He said it's over before it even started. And so Jehoshaphat said,
what are we worrying about? Let's start singing. He said,
everybody come on, let's start singing. And you know what they
started singing? It says, the Lord sent ambushments and destroyed
all their enemies. That's a true story. Sing, sing. David in this psalm is sad. Psalm
13. Very sad. Sorrowful. He's sighing. He's sighing. You ever sigh? I do it all the time. Don't you? For the sighing of the needy,
our Lord says, I will arise. Sighing. He goes from sighing
to suing. It's an old Puritan word. They
would sue for mercy. They would plead for mercy. From
sighing to suing to singing. He ends up singing. He started
out sighing, Sister Bonnie, and he ended up singing after he
sued the Lord for mercy. And the Lord heard him, and he
started singing. Spurgeon said this, he said,
he went from pining, that's an old where we don't use very much
in old country, where pining away, pining, troubled down and
out, from pining to praying to praising. He went from crying to calling
to being comforted. This is a psalm for the longing
soul. He says, he asks four times,
how long, how long, how long, how long? Look at it. Verse 1, How long wilt thou forget
me, O Lord? Forever. Four times. How long? How long? How long? You know, in reality,
we all know better than little children before our Lord. Little children are so impatient,
so anxious, so fearful, so fretting, so unbelieving. Little children
are weak, they worry, they're impatient, Always wanting, always
wondering, always asking. How long? I remember asking that. We'd
take our vacations to the Gulf of Mexico. That's where we would
go, to the Gulf of Mexico. We'd rent, the six of us, a little
cement block house in Pensacola near the beach and just had the
best time. Oh, we looked so forward to that
every year, every summer. And the Gulf of Mexico, going
to the Gulf, going to the Gulf. Well, I remember distinctly being
about five years old and we left the house and we hadn't been
gone 20 minutes. How long? How much longer? About 20 more hours? But we pulled into a Gulf filling
station. I said, we're here. Didn't I? I remember that. Standing
between my parents, no seatbelts, you know, one arm around each
one of them. There was six of us, you had to get wherever you
could get. How long, Dad? Little children, how much longer? And he says this, In his self-pity,
how long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? Have ye forgotten me? He said this several times. We
read it in Psalm 42. I'll say it. How long wilt thou
forget me, Lord? Forever? He'd been down and out,
I guess, downcast for quite some time. He thought the Lord had
completely forgotten him. David's in a sorry state or he
wouldn't have said such a thing, you know? The disciples, you remember,
they went through a brief storm, and it was a storm. If you've
never been out to sea in high waves, I'm telling you, it wouldn't
take much for you to just be scared to death. I was in the
high seas, about eight foot waves, and I was scared. On a little boat, a little tiny
boat. Well, these disciples, this storm, the Lord sent it. And it didn't last long. It seemed
to them like it was all night long. It seemed like it was never
going to end. And they were in, they were scared.
And remember, the Lord, what was He doing? He's in the boat
with them. If they go down, He goes down. He's not leaving the ship. The
captain's not going to leave the ship. He's sleeping, trusting
in the Lord. But they went back to him, Lord,
and here's what they said, don't you care if we perish? They were trying everything they
could to bail water and get themselves out of trouble. The Lord put
them in it. And after he calmed that troubled sea and that stilled
that wind, he said, Don't be faithless, but believe. But He knows our praying, doesn't
He? Have you ever said that? How long will you forget me,
O Lord? David said that in Psalm 6. Mason, go back to Psalm 6,
verse 3. He said, oh, verse 2. Verse 1, rebuke me not, have
mercy upon me. Verse 3, my soul is vexed. How long, O Lord, how long? Return, O Lord, hurry, deliver.
Another place he said, make haste to help me, O Lord. He says,
hurry. The Lord's not in any hurry. At that time, when we need him,
we feel like, if he doesn't hurry now, I'm a goner, don't we? If
he doesn't do something fast. Will thou forget me, O Lord?
How long? Look at Psalm 10, verse 1. Why
standest thou afar off, O Lord? Why hidest thyself in times of
trouble? Why are you far off? Another
place, He said, are your mercies clean gone? Now this was David
who wrote over and over again, His mercy endureth forever. In fact, one psalm he wrote 26
times. to remind him that his mercy, well here he is saying,
is his mercy cleaned up? Isaiah 49, turn over that. I would not have you turn to
these scriptures if they weren't a blessing. Isaiah 49, prepare
to be blessed. It's not presumption when I tell
you a message should be a blessing, should be a comfort. Because it is. If we need it. It's never the
case, never will be the case that our Lord forgets us. I'll
tell you what it is. You know what I'm going to say. We forget Him. Look at Psalm
49, 13. Sing, O heavens, Be joyful, O earth, break forth
into singing, O mountains, for the Lord hath comforted His people.
He will have mercy upon His afflicted. But Zion said, The Lord hath
forsaken me. My Lord hath forgotten me. Can
a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion
on the son of her womb? Yes. Sinful human beings do it all
the time, don't they? Our brother David and sister
Teresa. A woman gave birth to a child.
Second or third time she's done this. As soon as she gave it
up, I mean as soon as she had that child, she sold it for money. And David and Teresa's daughter
and son-in-law took that baby at probably one of God's elects. Can a woman do such a thing?
Yes. All the time. Can God? No. Why? He's God. He's not a man. Isn't that what he said to Jose? He said, I'm God, not man. I'm not like you. Read on. He said, they may forget,
yet will I not forget thee. Who's he talking to? Jacob. Jacob. Behold, I have graven thee upon
the palms of my hand. Thy walls are continually before
me. I know my thoughts toward you,
he said, thoughts of peace. Oh, man. We forget him. This is the problem. This is
the problem. We forget him, and he's going
to have us experience a time when we think he's forgotten
us. It's not punishment. It's that we might seek his face,
the face we have not been seeking. Listen, God says, how long? This is what the Lord says about
His people. How long? In Numbers 14, 11, the Lord said
to Moses, how long will this people provoke me? How long will
it be ere they believe me? For all the signs which I showed
among them, how long? How long? When are they going
to start believing me? And yet we say that He forgotten
us? No. We've forgotten Him. If and when, look at our text. It says in Psalm 13, How long
wilt thou hide thy face from me? This is what He's doing.
He's hiding His face. He does hide His face. He does
hide His face. David said this, Thou art a God
that hideth, Isaiah, that hideth thy face. He does hide His face.
in displeasure. If and when we do not seek His
face, His presence, He will hide His face. If we go for a length
of time, if we go very long without calling on the Lord, without
coming to worship Him, then when we call, He will answer. He shouldn't change. He should
make us feel that. Can God be grieved? at the slight
of his people of him? Oh, yeah. You know, Isaiah 54, turn over
there, Isaiah 54. And he says these things so that
we might know his tender heart towards us. Isaiah 54. You know, one of the worst feelings
we can ever go through is for someone that you love To shun
you. Not want to see you. Not want
to talk to you. Ignore you and forget you. It's
the same as saying, I wish you were dead. Isn't it? It's a tough thing. Our Lord
said in the psalm, David said it, and our Lord experienced
it as a man, that David said, if it were my enemy, I could
have taken it. But it was my brother. Tough. Well, that's exactly what we
do to God time and again. Isn't it? Huh? Be honest. What for? Like Hosea, like Gomer. I mean
Hosea. Gomer. Like Gomer went after
her lovers. Went after her this and that. Is that it? Sure it is. Some in here have experienced
this with a husband or a wife being shunned and being rejected.
Look at this. Isaiah 54. It says here in verse
5, thy maker is thine husband. The Lord of hosts is his name.
Thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the God of the whole
earth, shall he be called. For the Lord hath called thee
as a woman forsaken. See that's his bride, all of
his bride are forsaken women, forlorn women. The Lord hath
called thee as a woman forsaken, grieved in spirit, a wife of
youth when thou wast refused, saith thy God. For a small moment
have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face
from thee for a moment, but with everlasting, unending kindness,
will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer." Oh, that ought to be committed
to the memory of some in here, everyone in here. How long, so
David says, how long, oh Lord, will you forget me? No, never,
it's not possible. How long will you hide your face
from me? Long enough for you to seek his faith, in earnest,
in sincerity. in desperation. That's how long. How long, verse 2, shall I take
counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? How long?
How long? Turn to Ecclesiastes, right after
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes chapter 7. Go over there with me. You know, it's good and we should
commune with our hearts on our bed, like Psalm 4 says. Sorrow
and sadness is good. It is. There's a Psalm proverb
that says, don't eat too much honey. It's not good for everything
to be sweet and wonderful all the time. Why? You'll take it
for granted. But take the bitter with the
sweet. The Lord sends it to make the
sweet that much more sweet. Doesn't He? Ecclesiastes 7. Sorrow is good. Verse 1. A good
name is better than precious ointment. And the day of death
than the day of one's birth. Isn't that what we've been talking
about? It's better, verse 2, to go to the house of mourning
than to go to the house of feasting. This is the end. That's the end
of all men. The living, that is those who have their life,
Eternal life will lay at the heart. Sorrow is better than
laughter. By the sadness of the countenance,
the hearts make better. The heart of the wise is in the
house of mourning. The heart of fools is happy-go-lucky. Better. So David says, I take
counsel of my soul. Now, we should take counsel from
the Lord and we should commune with our heart, but don't try
to find any answers or consolation or peace. or anything inside
of you, you're not going to find it. You go to the Lord's Word,
you get your counsel from Him. He says, I have sorrow in my
heart daily. Sorrow in my heart daily. You
know, it's good to be sorrowful at times, but overmuch sorrow
is not good. It brings reproach upon our Lord.
To be always sad and sorrowful brings reproach upon our Lord. Someone is always melancholy
and morose and downcast and sad and all that. Brother Walter
Griswold one time rebuked a man. He was just kept, he would not
be comforted. He was constantly sad and sorrowful. And Brother Walter, you know,
is a man that's been through great sacrifice and troubles
and sorrows and worries and sleepless nights, many, in a foreign land. enemies all around. He said to
the man, where's the consolation? There's supposed to be a consolation
with every trouble and trial. So being sad all the time is
not good. Not good for you, not good for
anybody, and it's not faith. David asked, How long, O Lord,
shall mine enemy be exalted over me? Oh, my. The child of God hath
many enemies, don't we? Strong and lively, David said.
Strong and lively. They're stronger than me. David
was a man, a giant slayer, and yet he thought his enemies were
going to take him. He said, I'm going to die at
the hands of Saul someday. He knew that God couldn't lie.
God said, you're going to be on the throne. Yet, he had about
all he could take. And he was so full of fear, and
he finally, trembling, ran, scared. Abraham was scared. And David said, I'm going to
die at the hands of Saul one of these days. Oh, David, no
you're not. How long will my enemy triumph
over me? I'm a constant adversary. We
have constant adversaries, don't we? Satan, his temptations, never
going to let up the world with all its trouble. And the chief
enemy is the man within us, and this man of sin within us. And if you know anything about
the plague of your heart, you say, how long is this going to
be my undoing? Is this old man going to overcome
me? No, our Lord said, the elder
shall serve the younger. He said, sin shall not have dominion
over man. The enemy shall not be exalted
over you. No sir, the Lord's grace and
mercy shall be exalted over you. And he said this, the God of
peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. Just wait
and see. How long? How long do I have
to wait? As long as you're in this world.
Because everybody else does too. Job said it, didn't he? All my
days I wait. I just have to wait till my change
comes. And then it won't seem long at
all, will it? That wasn't bad. I'll give you
an answer. How long? Not long. In a few
days, just a few more days, just a few more days, Scripture says
sing. A few more rolling suns at most
will land us safe on Canaan's cove. There we shall sing a song
of grace to Jesus Christ, our hiding place. Sing! A few days. That's how long. Not long at all. Verse 3, he
says, Consider and hear me, O Lord my God. Consider and hear me. Psalm 8 says, What is man that
thou art mindful of him? Son of man, that you would visit
him. Would the Lord consider such a one as me? Every one of
us think that. We all feel like we're the chief
of sinners. We all think we're the worst, don't we? Every one
of us think we're the worst. Starting with this preacher.
And we all think, Would the Lord even consider such a one as me?
Why would the Lord even think on me, let alone hear my prayer?
Will He? But I'll tell you, God walked
this earth, and He had the weight of the world on His shoulders.
He had an important work to do, didn't He? The redemption of
all His people. And He was headed to Calvary's
tree, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, but He didn't act
like it. until he got in the garden. That was the first time
the disciples ever saw him sorrowfully even unto death. The rest of
the time he was cheering them up. Be of good cheer. He's the
one with all the grief and all the sorrow and the sin. He's
the one that's going to be cast out of God's presence, not them.
That's why he came. They would not be cast out, but
he's going to be. He's not down in the mountains. So he's walking toward that event,
Face Satan and be cast out of God's presence on behalf of God's
people. He's walking with all of that.
And one blind beggar by the wayside said, Jesus, thou son of David,
have mercy on me. Stopped. Said, somebody call
me. Bring him to me. But Lord, it's
just an old blind beggar. Bring him to me. Anybody calls
on me. Anybody that calls on Me from
the depth of their heart. Any need. I don't care how low
he is. I don't care how worthless he is. Bring him to Me. One time he was preaching to
a crowd of people in a temple. Oh, the old man spake like this
man. He was preaching a wonderful sermon. And they interrupted
his sermon. They interrupted his message. And they brought
in a woman caught in the act of adultery. Forlorn. Was this
the first time? Probably not. And they brought this woman,
caught in the act, guilty. And everybody's shouting at her,
everybody's talking, and she's, at his feet, trembling. Her heart
is breaking. She's full of guilt. She's full
of shame. She's full of worry. She doesn't know she's going
to die or live. And she's not saying a word,
but her heart is breaking within her, and her heart is crying
out to the Lord for mercy. You know what the Lord Jesus
Christ did? He stooped down where she was, ignored everybody else,
all those self-righteous Pharisees, ignored them, and stooped down
where she was. When it was all over, Bonnie,
it was just he and her. And he's smiling. And her tears were dried up,
and he said, Woman, I don't condemn you. No condemnation. Will the Lord consider such a
one as I? Yes, He's done it many times.
In fact, that's who He came for. David says, Hear me, O Lord.
Hear my prayer. You know what our Lord said?
Now it's going to have your turn, but mark it down. Isaiah 65,
24 says it, before they call. And you know how good he is? He has to send the trouble. He
sends the trouble. We won't call until he sends
the trouble, and then as soon as we call, we deliver him. How long? Not long. Lighten mine eyes, verse 3 says,
lighten mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death. Oh, what
a good prayer this is, how needful to watch unto prayer. Often it
says that, watch unto prayer. Prayer is watchfulness, you know
that? Open mine eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death. We fall asleep in this enchanted
ground like Pilgrim and Pilgrim Progress and his friend. They
fell asleep in the enchanted ground. They went aside out to
Bypass Meadow. Vanity Fair wooed them. They
came upon Vanity Fair and like everybody else, they were all
taking it. And they lost their role. They lost their hope. They
lost their peace. They got in Doubting Castle.
Remember, they were bruised by that giant. Said, you're never
getting out of here. Giant despair. Doubting Castle. Said, we're
never going to get out of here. Let us not sleep as do others. Peace and prosperity. Some in
here are having trouble listening to this. Peace and prosperity
will give us carnal security. But I tell you, trouble will
have your eyes wide open. It'll have your mouth open too.
It'll have your heart seeking help. But peace and prosperity? You'll fall asleep. Open mine eyes, dear Lord, to
see Thy glory, to see the sun reigning and ruling and carrying
and coming again. Open mine eyes to see things
as they are, temporal, Things that are seen are temporal. Things
that are not seen are eternal. I open my eyes to see the deceitfulness
of riches. There's nothing to it. They deceived
you. Don't let them deceive me. Let my eyes be wide open. Open
my eyes that I might see the traps, the snares, the pits,
the nets that Satan hath laid for me. Temptation. Things that
look good and are not good. Things he says are sweet and
are not sweet. Open my eyes to see the vanity and the brevity
of this life. I began this by talking about
some of us that are 70, some of us that are 60. Look in the
mirror. Just get up and take it before
you put your makeup on. Look in the mirror. Look at that
old person in front of you. Where'd that kid go? Where'd
that child go? He's gone forever. You know what? Just a few days and that old
man, that old woman you're looking at in the mirror is going to
be in a pine box. Open my eyes, dear Lord, to see
the end. Oh, that they were wise and would
consider the latter end. Come into an end fast. Rapidly
approach. Open my eyes. Let me see. Open my eyes that
I may see afar off. We're so nearsighted, aren't
we? Open our eyes that I might see afar off. The camels are
coming! Do you remember that? Rebecca, the camels are coming,
people. They're coming for you. Open mine eyes to see that there's
a land that is fairer than day, and by faith we can see it afar,
for the Father waits over the way. We are in the sweet by and by.
In the sweet, sing it with me. By and by, we shall meet on that
beautiful shore. Sing it! In the sweet by and
by, we shall meet on that beautiful shore. I mean, by and by. That's
what by and by means. Just real short, Matt. Real short. By and by will be that. Sing! You're like this, listen. He
said, Lord, verse 4, open mine eyes, verse 4, lest my enemies
say I prevailed against him. I've got him now. And those that trouble me rejoice
when I'm moved. You know what the believer fears
more than anything? You know what the believer desires
more than anything? Psalm 27. Anybody know Psalm
27? Anybody know Psalm 27? You know
what it says there? One thing have I desired of the
Lord, that's what else He can't do. that I may dwell in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life, behold the beauty of the
Lord, and inquire in His temple." I want to dwell in the house
of the Lord. Do you want to dwell in the house of the Lord all
your day? Do you like it being here? You're going to love being
there. Do you want to be there? Do you want to dwell there forever?
Have you seen something of the beauty of the Lord here? Have
you fallen in love with it? Would you like to see more? Wouldn't
you like to see Him as He is? You want to dwell in the house
of the Lord forever? Do you fear He's going to kick you out of
the house? Moved? You have to move? Have you ever had to move out
of a house you loved? Anybody? Ever been evicted? Ever had to
move out of a house you couldn't pay for, or something, or something
happened, or whatever? My grandfather, my father's father,
Went through the Depression, they had a house, they worked
hard for it. They worked a long time to steal milk and get this
house. Well, the Depression hit, they lost their house. They lost
everything. And they moved in behind a rich man, picked beans
for him. Lived in a shack behind there.
Tried to raise two kids. Three, three kids, two boys and
a girl. Well, the Depression went by. And they worked hard
and they bought another house. A little country house with a
few acres in Tecumseh, Georgia. A couple of cows, a nice little
place, a feather bed. Boy, I loved going there. A feather
bed. One night, the house caught fire
and burned to the ground. They didn't have any insurance.
They lost it all again. God has a house. You'll never
have to move. You'll never be evicted. You'll
never be cashed out. Do I have to leave? No, never. Never. I will never cast you
out. Never. That's what David longed
to do, dwell in the house of the Lord. You see, God's in the
midst of her. Psalm 46 says, God is in the
midst of His church, in the midst of His people. That's where He
dwells. And if He's not leaving, neither are you. He said, God's
in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. Don't dwell with Him forever. Well, David said, He seems to
come to himself, doesn't he, after praying. He says, but he's
worried about the Lord forgetting him. He's worried about his sorrows
and his enemies going to be exalted over him. He's worried about
sleeping in the sleep of death like so many do. He's worried
about he's going to have to move. He's worried about his enemies.
But, he said, I have trusted. Verse 5, I have trusted in that
mercy. David doesn't plead his works.
He doesn't plead his sincerity. He doesn't plead that he's quit
this, quit that. He doesn't plead what he's done
for the Lord. He doesn't plead any of that. You know what he
pleads? I've trusted in his mercy. That's what the Lord said. None
of them that trust in thee will be desolate. Most of the time, people, that's
about all I can find within me. is to hope in his mercy. How about you? I have John, I have trust in
his mercy. There was a day when he told
me, I found out I needed mercy. And I feel like I need it now
more than I did then, alright? I have trust in His mercy. And
right now as I speak to you, I'm trusting not that I've become
a better person, that I'm now a good Christian. No, I feel
worse than I did in the beginning. What I'm trusting now is in His
mercy. And I will yet, I will yet trust
in His mercy. In my heart, he says, verse 5,
he said, I have trust in thy mercy, so my heart shall rejoice
in thy salvation. Do you rejoice in his salvation?
Let such as love thy salvation say, the Lord be magnified. Such as
love salvation by grace. Sovereign, electing, keeping. Grace. You love that? No, not everybody does, but most
sinners do. They love it. His salvation.
Salvations of the Lord. And who the Lord saves, what
the Lord does is forever. Oh, I love that. Don't you love
the sound of that? Well, I shall rejoice. I have. There was a time when I first
began to rejoice in it. I do now. I'm still rejoicing
in it. Does this sound like I'm enjoying
this? You'd think a person would get
tired of saying the same things over and over again. No, it's
more wonderful now. It seems more glorious, the song
says, each time I tell it. Suffer a sinner. Suffer a sinner's
heart overflowed, loving his Savior to tell what he knows. Once more to tell it would I
embrace. I'm only a sinner saved by a
greater... Sing. My heart shall rejoice. I have,
I do, and by God's grace, I shall. And I will sing unto the Lord
because... Now he started out crying. He started out worrying. He started
out wondering. Is the Lord going to cast me
out? Has he forgotten me forever? My enemy said, I'm a goner, and
he's going to tell me he's going to kick me out of the house.
Then he starts calling. Well, the Lord hears such a one
as that? Yeah, David, before you called, he was going to answer
you. Before you repented, he'd already
forgiven you. He said, God's ready to pardon.
More ready to pardon than you are to ask for. He starts calling, and the Lord
answers. And now he's singing. The Lord hath dealt wonderfully,
bountifully with them. Be still, my soul, the Lord is
on thy side. Bear patiently the cross of grief
and pain. Let's sing that song. What number?
290. Sing. You're going to tell us
to sing? We're going to sing. I've been the only one singing. Too bad. Let's stand and sing
a couple of verses of this in closing. The Lord did. He headed to the cross. His disciples,
they sang a hymn and they headed out. Let's sing the first. What are we going to leave out? Let's
sing them all. Sing them all. Too bad. Be still, my soul, the Lord is
on thy side. Bear patiently the cross of grief
or pain. Leave to thy God to order and
provide. In every change he faithful will
remain. Peace to my soul, Thy best, thy
heavenly friend, Through thorny ways, leads to a joyful end. Be still, my soul, thy God doth
undertake, To guide the future as he has the past. Thy hope, thy confidence let
nothing shake. All now mysterious shall be bright
at last. Be still, my soul, though waves
and winds still blow, His voice to rule them while He dwelt below. Be still, my soul, the hour is
hasting on, when we shall be forever with
the Lord. When disappointment, grief, and
fear are gone, sorrow forgot, love's purest joys restored. Be still, my soul, when change
and tears are past. All safe and blessed, we shall
meet at last. That's a great song, isn't it? Thank you. That's Psalm 13. Oh my goodness.
That is just great. I want to redo that, but I think
I can do it.