We'll supply our needs for blessings
now, oh Lord, I completely. Thank you. Now go back to Psalm 80.
I know most of you love the Psalms. All of God's people love the
Psalms. We read them all the time. Always find something in
the Psalms. The Lord had David, Moses, Solomon
write them for our sake. These things are written for
our sake. Paul said that. They're written for our learning
that we, through patience and comfort of the Scripture, might
have hope. Hope in Christ. Saved by hope. Like so many of the Psalms, if
not most of the Psalms, are prayers. They're prayers. They're a cry
of David, Solomon, Solomon, Moses, a prayer of God's people, a call,
a cry unto the Lord for help, help against their enemies, help,
salvation. David said in verse 2, come and
save us. This is a Psalm crying out, Lord
save us. Save us. Turn us. Turn us and
we'll be saved. If you don't, we won't. Come
and save us. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. I hope you can
enter into this with me tonight because David is crying on our
behalf. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. Who will call? Who will call?
I wish everyone's here to hear this, but they're not, and you
are, and some will hear it over this. That verse is taken from
Joel 2.32. Romans 10.13, Whosoever shall
call on the name of the Lord shall be saved is taken from
Joel 2.32. It says, Whosoever shall call
on the name of the Lord shall be saved, the remnant whom the
Lord our God shall call, that's who will call. We won't call
unless he calls out. Look at verse 18 here in our
psalm. It says, we will not go back
from thee. The right hand, son of your,
the man of your right hand, the son of man you made strong is
on our behalf. We won't, we won't leave you.
We won't go back. Like the children of Israel want
to go back to Egypt, back to the world. So he says, quicken
us and we will call upon thy name. Who will call? The remnant,
the Lord. They elect God's people. It's
a fact. And if you call, take comfort
that you're one of God's elect. If you keep calling, you can't
quit calling. And the quicken, those that are
quickened, the dead people don't call on the Lord. The quicken,
if you call on the Lord, if you enter into this song, turn me,
O Lord, cause your face to shine, I'll be saved. If you can pray
that from the heart, the Lord has quickened you. We were dead
in trespass and sin. Verse 1 says, give ear, O shepherd
of Israel. If you call and keep calling
and keep crying, you must be a sheep. That's what sheep do. You ever been around sheep at
all? And the shepherds anywhere around, they're calling, right? Her dad was a shepherd. Sheep
haven't washed for years. They're all the time crying,
little lambs aren't they? That's sheep, the nature of sheep.
They call, whosoever shall call. Well, scripture says, how shall
they call? on him whom they've not believed?
How shall they believe in him whom they've not heard? And how
shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except
they be sent? Except they be sent a preacher. And a preacher comes and he gives
the gospel call. And that's who calls the sheep. And then they begin to call.
They begin to call. We won't come unless we're chosen,
unless we're drawn. We won't call unless we hear
the gospel call. And we won't hear without a preacher.
But if you do, if you have, and if you continue to hear the gospel
and continue to call on the Lord, you shall. You are and you shall
be saved. That's good news, isn't it? That's
good news. Saved. Saved. He'd be saved. Verse 2, He says,
come and save us. Verse 3, we shall be saved. Verse 7, verse 19. What is salvation? What is salvation? It means to
be saved from sin. Saved from the penalty of it.
A certain punishment of it. Saved from it by virtue of the
shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Period. Saved from sin. Saved from wrath. God is not
angry with His people. Why? Because He poured out His
wrath on Christ. He was the burnt sacrifice. The
fire fell. Our God, who is a consuming fire,
poured out His wrath on the Lord Jesus Christ. So we are saved
from wrath. John preached that, didn't he?
Who hath warned thee to flee from the wrath to come? Well,
we flee, and we flee to Christ, don't we? And he tells us, be
of good cheer. There's no wrath for you. I endured
the wrath for you. We are saved from judgment. There
is no judgment. There is no condemnation to them
that are in Christ Jesus. Isn't that good news? There is
no, therefore, now, no condemnation, no judgment, just correction,
just chastening, just good, but no judgment. God doesn't punish
His people. He corrects them. And there's
no judgment. We will stand before God. Not
to be judged by Him, but to hear Him say, Come, you blessed of
my Father, into the kingdom prepared for you upon the foundation of
the world by virtue of Christ. There is no judgment. Salvation
is of the Lord. It belongeth unto the Lord. It's
His will, His choice, His work, His glory. He does the saving. You know that. You know that. To be saved means you were lost
and now you're found. To be saved means you were blind
and now you see. To be saved means you were deaf
and now you hear. To be saved means you were a
leper and now you're cleansed, you're clean. It's up your feet. To be saved means you were lame
and you didn't walk by faith. You didn't walk with the Lord
and now you do. To be saved means you were in
bondage You were a captive to the God of this world, held captive
by Him at His will, when Christ came and led captivity captive. That's what it means to be saved.
To be saved means you were dead, and now like Lazarus, He called
you forth. And to run right in those grave
clothes. Salvation's up to the Lord. It's a very basic message. No human being has ever done
any of these things for themselves. No human being has ever given
themselves sight, never opened their own ears, never cleansed
their leprosy, never raised themselves from the dead. Salvation is up
to the Lord. And so he cried, come and save
us. If you do something, we'll be
saved, but not until then. What could be plainer, huh? And
when you are saved, if the Lord saves you, and when He saves
you, you'll quit arguing about what salvation is. You'll quit arguing about who
does the saving, how He does the saving, and who He saves.
You'll quit arguing about that. It's His will, His work, His
power, His voice, His blood, His righteousness. When is a
man or woman saved? When is a person saved? When
they believe? That's not what Paul wrote. That's not what the
scripture said. He said, when it pleases God,
who separated me from my mother's womb, called me by His grace
to reveal His Son in me. Salvation comes to a human being
when it pleases God. Doesn't that do away completely
with free will? Completely. Not of him that willeth
or of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy. And He
makes His people willing, yes, in the day of His power. But
it is God that worketh in us both the will and do of His good
pleasure to come, to believe. It's all of the Lord. But whosoever shall call shall
be saved. If we don't call, we won't be
saved. If you don't call on the Lord from the bottom of your
heart to save you, you won't be saved. You won't be saved. Someone that's
not saved has not called on the Lord. I don't care what they
say. Because He said, whosoever shall call on the name of the
Lord shall be saved. Right? And there's no long probationary
period. He said, when you call. He said
in Isaiah, before they call. That is, when He puts in their
heart a desire, and before it gets out of their mouth, He said,
I'll hear them. Daniel started crying and praying,
didn't he? Oh, I love Daniel. He said, Daniel,
when you set your heart to call on me, I sent my angels. Whosoever shall call, what do
we call on the Lord for? What do we call on the Lord for?
Turn us, O Lord. Turn us. That means we must need
turning. Three times David said this in
this psalm, didn't he? Turn us again, O God, and cause
thy face to shine, we shall be saved. Verse 7. Turn us again,
O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine, we shall be saved.
Verse 19. Turn us again, O Lord, God of
hosts, cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved. His prayer
gets more and more urgent. Turn us, O God. Turn us, O God
of hosts. Turn us, O Lord, God of hosts.
Cause thy face to shine, we shall be saved. Oh God. We must need
turning, muslims. Turning to the Lord. Turning
from sin to the Lord. Turning from the world to the
Lord. Turning from self to Christ.
We must need turning. And we must not be able to turn
ourselves if He says it so many times. Turn us. Oh God. Now He begins this way. Verse
3. Turn us, oh God. The only God
that can save us is the true and living God. That's the Creator. When He's talking about God,
He's talking about the Creator, Elohim, the self-existent One,
Jehovah, the One who is all self-sufficient, self-existent, in need of, dependent
upon, nothing and no one can change Him, God that created
the heavens and the earth, God that spoke things into existence.
He must turn us. No, we won't be turning. We're
going to talk tonight about two turnings. Regeneration, salvation,
and conversion. There's a difference. There's
a difference between regeneration and conversion. Regeneration
is to be to be born again. Regeneration means to be given
life. Regeneration is to be saved from
sin. Conversion means to be brought
out of a bad state, a bad attitude, a bad spirit, brought out of
a hole that you get yourself into. We need both of them. We need both. Turn us, O God,
O God, the Creator, who caused the light to shine out of darkness.
upon that world that was without form and void. That's us, dead
and... Remember Brother Darwin's message? Oh God, turn us. Verse 7, Oh God of hosts, turn
us. Oh God of hosts. That means He's
God over angels and devils and men and everything. Martin used
to say, everything that writhes or wriggles. Like the way that
old man said that. Oh God of hosts, Now, these angels
and devils he's got over are much more powerful than man.
You know that? Much more powerful than man.
One angel is going to destroy a fourth of this earth. And this says he's God over them.
All principalities and power. What makes man think that God
can't do anything with him? That he can't violate his will?
They just can't be tries and fails. Man, He's the God of hosts. He's the God over all. He's the
God over everything. You remember the devils that
were in that man? The legion of devils that were
in that man? And Christ came along and said,
we know who you are. Have you come to torment us for it's time?
They knew their time was short. They knew who He was and they
knew that They're as good as God. And they pleaded with Him
to let them go in those swines. Get! Allegiant! This is the God of hosts. But
if He says, turn, you turn. He's the one that caused this
earth to turn. And the planets to turn around
the sun. Turn us, O Lord, O God of hosts. And then he ends up
in verse 19. Turn us again, O Lord God of
hosts, that is, King and Sovereign, Creator, Ruler, Judge over all. Turn us. Listen to Jeremiah. I know some of you read this,
you studied it. Listen to Jeremiah 31 verse 18. Do you remember the message on
Ephraim? Remember that? He said, I've
heard Ephraim. Remember in Hosea chapter 3,
I believe it says, Ephraim is joined to his idols. Let him
alone. Remember that? Ephraim is God's people. Represents
us. But God is rich in mercy and
grace and kindness. And Ephraim got himself in a
bad, bad mess. And it went on to say, Ephraim's
like a cape that's not turned. If I don't turn him, he's just
going to burn. And then remember when God said
in Hosea, He said, How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? I want to listen to that again
myself. He said it here in Jeremiah 31, 18, I have surely heard Ephraim
bemoaning himself. Why? Because the Lord made him. The Lord came to him. revealed
his sad state. And here's what he said. He said,
Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised. I felt it. I know
it. He said, I was like a bullock
unaccustomed to the yoke. A wild ass's coat. Didn't want
to be bound by the Lord. Didn't want to be ruled. Now
he does. He said, Turn thou me, and I
shall be turned. If you don't, I won't. I have a brother in here, often
trains wild horses, you know. And they won't do your bidding
unless you manhandle them. You can whisper all you want,
right? Stronger than they in will, mind,
wisdom, with a stout rope, turn us and we'll be turned. Turn
us. You know anybody needs turning?
Oh Lord God of hosts. Now here's the fact. If we don't
turn, listen to Lamentations. Listen to this. You'll love this. Some of you know it well. Lamentations 5 verse 21 says,
Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned. This
is over and over through the Scriptures. When I began to prepare
this several weeks ago, I couldn't get it off my mind. I couldn't
get it out of my head. I just kept praying that one
verse over and over again. Turn us, O God, cause thy face
to shine. We shall be set. Turn us, turn
us. Now, here's the fact. If we don't turn, if you and
I don't turn from our sin, we'll perish. That's a fact. If we don't turn, Let the unrighteous
man forsake his unrighteousness. Turn to the Lord, Scripture said.
If we don't turn, we'll perish. But if the Lord doesn't turn
us, we won't turn. Somebody says, I'm confused.
Yes, you are. We are. We are. I hope somebody's hearing this,
I hope they're confused about it, because that's exactly what
Daniel said in his prayer in Daniel 9, listen to this, he
said, I'm going to read it to you, this is wonderful, Daniel
chapter 9 verse 5, he said, we've sinned, we've committed iniquity,
we've done wickedly, we've rebelled, we've departed. What he's talking
about and the whole purpose of Psalm 80 and all through the
Psalms and the Old Testament talks about the children of Israel
that represent us who were constantly Turning from the Lord. Departing from the Lord. What
for? What did the children of Israel
want to leave following the Lord to go back to? What? Leeks and
onions. Doesn't take much to turn us
back. Oh, boy. Daniel said, we've sinned. We haven't hearkened unto your
servants, the prophets, who spake in your name. Oh, Lord, righteousness
belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion effaces. We don't know what we want by
nature. Men and women don't know what they want. Young people
don't know what they want. Oh, if I can just get this, I'll
be happy. No, there's nothing to make you happy. Nothing. You'll spend all your life trying
to be happy, trying to please yourself, and nothing on this
earth will make you happy, and no one will. No one. Unless the Lord turns us to Him,
unless we look fully into His face, unless we see Christ as
all to us, we won't get any peace at all. We won't get any fulfillment
at all, because God has put all fullness in Him. Do you hear
that? God has put all fullness in Him. Fullness of joy, fullness of
peace, fullness of happiness. Listen to this. To the Lord our
God belong mercies and forgiveness. No, we've rebelled against him.
We will not obey his voice. All this was transcribed. This
is Daniel's prayer. And he goes on to say, O Lord,
according to your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger
and your fury be turned away. He goes on to say, O God, O hear
our prayer, the servant, the prayer of thy servant and his
supplication and cause thy face to shine. This is a common statement
among all of God's choice men, psalm writers, prayers, cause
thy face to shine. We need the Lord to turn us in
regeneration, turn from death to life, darkness to light. Turn
our old hearts, give us a new heart. Turn us from captivity
into the kingdom of His dear Son. We need to be turned from
sin. We need to be turned We need
to be turned from the love of self to the love of God and others.
We need to be turned from the love of lies to the love of the
truth. We need to be turned from the love of this world to where
we hate it. Our Lord said, if you love your
life, you'll lose it. That he that hateth his life
will save it. Do you know what that means?
I think some of you do. We need to look for another world
wherein dwelleth righteousness. Turn us, O God. Now, conversion. Conversion. To be converted means
to be turned from a bad course, or a bad attitude, or a bad spirit. Turned from a bad direction that
you're headed, or a way that you're in, or a pit, or just
in a bad way. Now, every single one of us,
every single child of God gets like that. He told Peter, he
prepared Peter, Satan had desired him. He said, do you like weed? Oh, Peter, Simon. He said, when you're converted,
here's what you're going to do. You're going to strengthen your
brethren. You're going to realize you're not one wick better than
them, that you're not able to keep yourself. conversions be turned from a
bad way, a bad spirit, a bad attitude. Remember David? Can
God's people get in a bad spirit and a bad attitude? Oh my! If
you know yourself, you feel like that's the way you are most of
the time. But Job got full of, you know, he started out in all
this Job sin not or charge God foolishness. Sin not with his
left nor charged God foolishness. As long as he stayed quiet, Job
was fine. But then they started accusing
him and accusing him. They started defending him. And
before long, he started to say, I'm going to order my case before
God. Job, you better off to just be
quiet. He got full of self-pity. Anybody?
Everybody gets in self-pity for one reason or another. Got full
of self-righteousness. Lifted himself up above his brethren
like Peter. That's what Simon Peter did.
Lifted himself up above his brethren. The Lord... It's a painful lesson
that the Lord had to show him. If I don't keep you, you'll go
back to that man, that evil man that I came and found and saved. You'll go right back. Right back. We get in a bad... Job got bitter. The Lord tells us to beware of
a root of bitterness that springs up. How often does it spring
up? A lot with me. A whole lot. Against everybody
and everything. Feel like you've been unfairly
treated or whatever and you get full of bitterness. Who ain't
got a right to be bitter again? Why should a living man complain
for the punishment of his sin? Lamentations. David got in a bad way, didn't
he? More than once. That's why we
love the Psalms so much. He's always getting in a bad
way. David got in a bad way more than
once. He became lazy. When the time when the kings
were out doing battle, he was lying on his roof in the middle
of the day, chambering. Scripture warns us about chambering,
lying around, wantonness, beginning to wax wanton. He was lazy. filled
full of lust. Oh my, he got in a hole. The Lord had to bring him out
of it. He wasn't calling on the Lord. He wasn't fighting. He
was at ease in Zion when everything was just fine. Oh my, the Lord
brought him down. Simon Peter lifted up with pride,
cast down. And then, when thou art converted,
all of us need saving. All of us need saving from sin,
and all of us need saving from getting in a bad way. All of
us need saving from this old man within us. All of us need
saving. How will we be saved? Whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Turn us
again, O God, and cause Thy face to shine, and we will be saved,
but not until then. David cried, didn't he, finally,
when Nathan, the preacher... How did he get turned? God sent
a preacher named Nathan, convicted him of his sin. And when David
was convicted, immediately, the first thing Nathan said was,
the Lord's put away your sin. Oh, David's got sin against the
Lord. Nathan said, the Lord's put away your sin. Just a minute.
The minute he confessed, he's gone. This happened before David, wasn't
it? That's a good thing. And here's what David said in
that blessed Psalm that we love so much, Psalm 51. Create in
me a clean heart, O God. David, don't you have a new heart? Well, apparently he didn't think
so. Create in me a clean heart. Renew a right spirit within me,
O Lord. David, a sweet psalmist, loved,
merciful, gracious like our Lord. David, you got a bad spirit? Renew a right spirit within me. Turn me. David's the one who
wrote this. David says it over and over and over again. Cause
your faith to shine. Renew the right spirit. There's
a big little word here that's important in this prayer. Big little word. Look at it.
It's in all three verses. Verse 3, verse 7, verse 19. Turn
us. Turn us. You know who the Lord
will hear? Those who pray for their brethren. Those that pray for their brethren.
The Lord taught us. The Lord taught us. They said,
Lord, teach us to pray. Teach us to pray. John didn't say, Lord, teach
me. Thomas didn't say, Lord, teach me. Teach us to pray, all
right? The Lord said, after this manner,
pray. Our Father, which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be
done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us. Lead us not into
temptation. Deliver us. Lord, answer that
prayer. If we love ourselves, the Lord
will leave us to ourselves. If we think only of ourselves,
the Lord won't think on us in mercy. If we spend all our time
and energy and efforts alone, the Lord will leave us alone. If we pray only for ourselves,
the Lord won't hear us. Now, there's time. David prayed
for himself, didn't he? Oh, yeah. Private prayer, Lord. And it was penitent prayer, like
Psalm 51. Oh, Lord, forgive me. You know
how Psalm 51 ends up? David's praying for himself,
but in the last part, he says, do good in thy good pleasure
and desire. He closes out by praying for
his brethren. Pray for your brethren. Paul
said, Brethren, pray for us. Think on things of others. Didn't
we look at that? That's what our Lord did. Our
Lord said, I know that you always hear me. You always hear Him. Why? He's
always praying according to the will of the Father, and He was
always praying for others. He never prayed for Himself,
except in the garden, didn't He? But his prayers were always
for others. He was always thinking on others.
And the Lord heard him. All of John 17 is for us. He's about to go to the cross
and endure untold agony for us. And who's he praying for? Us! That's the man, that's the woman
the Lord will hear. Turn us! Oh God, turn us. In Job 42, don't turn there,
but listen to this. In Job 42, after all that, the
Lord came to Job. You remember? The Lord came and
said, Who is this? Who's doing all this talking?
Job. I put my hand on my mouth. Right
back where he started, wasn't it? See, I've spoken things too
wonderful. And then it says that the Lord
turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. I preached the whole message
on that. He turned the captive Job, got into a deep hole. And
captivity to his own thoughts, his own self, his own righteousness,
his own pity, his own... And apparently he began to pray
for those three brothers that gave him a hard time. Those three
brothers that wrongly accused him. He began to pray from his
heart for those three brothers. And the Lord turned his captivity. You need a key? You need a saving?
Right there it is. Turn us. Here's another big little
word. Again. Again. And again. And again. Well, if you're turned,
preacher, how can you turn again back to the sin and say, if the
Lord's turned you, how? Because we're flesh. Because
that which is flesh is flesh, the Lord said. Spirit lusts against
the flesh, and the flesh against the Spirit, and you cannot do
the things that you would. And because without Him, we can
do nothing. Can a man, can a child of God turn back, fall into sin,
live in sin? Yes, sir. Absolutely. Paul wrote
that in Romans 6. He began that by saying, how
shall we that are dead to sin live any longer therein? He said,
it's unthinkable. But now, he went on to say, I
say this because of the infirmity of your flesh. You've yielded your members once
to uncleanness, now yield your members as servants of righteousness
unto holiness. What did you have in that fruit
and those things that you're now shamed? How can you live
in those again? You know, you were dead instead.
Don't go back to that. He says because of the infirmity
of the flesh. I'm telling you, I'm warning you, don't go back.
Don't go back to those things. Call on the Lord. Turn us from
that. Turn away our eyes from beholding vanity. Turn away our
ears from holding those things that appeal to us so much. Turn
away our feet from being swift to mischief and running. Turn
our feet in the paths of righteousness. Turn us, O God, again! Because we all turn. We see something. Wow! We hear
something. Wow! And we start heading that
way. Turn us again, and again, and
again. Huh? Again and again. Now look, you don't think I'm
going to pass over this to you, John. Cause thy face to shine. What's that mean? Go with me
to 2 Corinthians 4. three times, and throughout the
Scriptures, and Daniel says it, and Moses says it, and all of
his people say it, cause thy face to shine. Cause thy face
to shine in regeneration. Remember Saul of Tarsus that
didn't know the Lord? He hated this way? He was on
his road to Damascus. What happened to him? Suddenly. A great light shone round about
him. Captured him. He became captive. What's that light? Jesus Christ
shone on him. Shined on him. And he could not
see for the glory of that light. He thought he saw before. Now
he's blinded. Now he really sees. Explain that,
Richard. I'm confused. How can he be blind
and see for the first time? That's what our Lord said. If
you were blind, you'd have no sin. Saul of Tarsus. Here's what the
Lord says about his face that shines. 2 Corinthians 4, look
at verse 3. If our gospel is hid, it's hid
to them that are lost, in whom the God of this world hath blinded
the minds of them which believe not, lest the light Here's the
light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of
God, should shine under them. But we preach not ourselves.
We don't preach man's will, man's work, man's anything, man's decision,
because he can't save himself. We can't save him. But Christ
Jesus, the Lord, Lord of hosts, and ourselves your servant for
Christ's sake. For God. who commanded the light to shine
out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." The only thing that will turn
us from vanity is to see His face. The only thing that will
turn us from self See his face. See Christ and him crucified.
Only thing will turn it. Remember John on the Isle of
Patmos, he said, he said, I heard a great voice behind me and I
turned to see the voice that spake unto me. He said, I saw
it. He says his countenance, his
face was like the sun that shineth in all its strength. And I've
used this before, but if you ever look into the sun, you can't
do it, can you, fully? You can't stare at the sun and
blind you. That's what happened to Saul.
But if you do, briefly, and you look down, what do you see? You
see the sun. No matter where you look, the
sun eclipses everything. You won't see vanity. You understand? You can't see vanity. It can't
allure you. You see Christ. He's more beautiful. He's more wonderful. He's not
vanity. Look to Him. He's light. He's
light. Peter said this, he said, you
do well to take heed to this Word at the night, whenever,
because this is like a light that shines in a dark place.
And you do well to take heed until the day dawn and the day
start rising in your heart. I'll tell you what to do in the
meantime. Call. Call on the Lord. Now back to Psalm 83. And I want
to show you Psalm 85. Go back there and I'll quit with
you. I promise. I promise. But you'll be glad
we looked at you. Psalm 85. Go over there. You just turn anywhere and you'll
see David saying this. In Psalm 85 he says, Verse 2,
Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of Thy people. Thou hast covered
all their sin. Pause on that a while. Thou hast
taken away all Thy wrath. Thou hast turned Thyself from
the fierceness of Thine anger. Turn us, O God of our salvation. Cause Thine anger toward us to
cease. You see, what happens is we turn away from Him. And
He makes us to feel something of His anger and His displeasure.
And He has to turn it. Will thou be angry with us forever?
Will thou draw out thine anger to all generations? Will thou
not revive us again, that thy people may rejoice in thee? Show
us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation. I'll hear what
the God of the Lord will speak. He will speak peace unto His
people and His saints, but let them not turn again to folly. Or in the other psalm, I think
it's Psalm 130, is it? There is forgiveness with thee,
that thou mayest be feared. We need to fear turning. Because we're so prone to it. And this should be our prayer.
It's a good prayer to pray all the time. Turn us again. Pray for your brethren. Pray for your brethren. Turn
us again. Wilt thou not revive us again? Turn us again, O God. O God of
hosts. O Lord God of hosts. Cause thy
face, thy gospel, to shine. We get times where we can't hear
the gospel. We're in darkness. We're dull
of hearing. We can't hear. Cause Thy face
to shine. Cause Christ to be glorious to
me again. Cause this gospel to cheer my
heart and lift my soul and create a new spirit and a new heart
in me. And we'll be saved. Alright, stand with me. Oh Lord, we have nothing else
to say except thank You for Your Word. Thank You. and repeat these
words over and over again. We say the same things. We know
we're not heard for our much speaking or repetition. We know
that. But Lord, it's so simple. We're so prone to wander. Lord,
we feel it. Prone to leave the God that we
love. Oh, here's our hearts. Here are our hearts, oh Lord.
Take them and seal them. Seal them for Thy courts above.
Turn us again. O God, O God of hosts, O Lord
God of hosts, and cause Thy face to shine upon this tabernacle
and these people, and we shall be saved. Salvation is of Thee,
and this is our prayer for Christ's sake. Amen. You're dismissed.