May this be more than just a
sermon. May this be a message from the
Lord, a word, more than a study of a psalm, but a word from the
Lord to us, our hearts. Verse 1, begin, Rejoice in the
Lord. O ye righteous, those who have
been made righteous, only they will. They are the only ones
who will rejoice in the Lord Himself. Many people rejoice
in many things, God's people rejoice in Him. They rejoice
in the Lord, their God, their Creator, their Savior, their
righteousness, their wisdom, their Savior. Praise is comely
for the upright. The upright. Those whom God has
quickened. Praise is comely. It's fitting. It's becoming. It's fitting.
Praise. Psalm 92 says it's a good thing to give thanks unto the
Lord. Sing His praises. What we're
doing here is a good thing. It's not only our duty, it's
a great privilege and an honor and an enjoyable thing if the
Lord enables us to enter into it, to worship. It's a good thing.
A good thing to give thanks unto the Lord. Come, praise. Come,
praise means extolling and honoring. We're here to honor our God.
That's why we don't make, you know, have special services to
honor fathers on Father's Day and mothers on Mother's Day and
this and that and the other. Right? No, every day is the Lord's
Day and we honor Him. We praise Him. We've given Him
all the honor and the glory for all things because As our brother
prayed, what do we have we haven't received? It's comely, it's fitting,
it's right. He well deserves to pray. Praise
the Lord with a harp. Instrumental music is the scripture
of it. Scripture with a psalter. An instrument of ten strings. It says, Sing unto Him. Do this unto Him. Sometimes we're able to sing
unto Him, aren't we? Most of the time, though, we're
so self-conscious. And I hate that. I wish we could,
don't you? Sing unto Him. Why did the Lord
create birds? Who are they singing to? They
wake up in the morning just singing, don't they? Who are they singing
to? Not each other. There are times when the male
is calling the female She's not listening. Or vice versa. But chiefly, the Lord made birds
to sing to Him. If man won't do it, the birds
will. Birds do. They sing unto the
Lord. They fulfill their role, don't
they, that the Lord made them for? Sing unto Him, verse 3,
a new song. Play skillfully with a loud noise. I've heard some people before
it. I wish they would read this.
Play skillfully. Don't play it unless you play
it skillfully. With a loud noise. With a loud noise. The Son to
the Lord. Now here's what he says to the
reason, the chief reason. This is where it all began. Praise
to the Lord and rejoice in Him. The Word of the Lord. The Word
of the Lord is right. It's right. I love that Psalm 119, 128. I
esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right. And I hate every false way. Let
God be true, right. And everybody else is wrong.
Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? Don't you
see it? His Word is right about everything. Oh, praise our Lord. Thanks be unto our God for this
blessed, blessed, blessed Book. Where would we be without this
blessed Book? Instructions from our God. More
than that, oh, by the Word of the Lord, we're born again. We're
quickened. We're raised from the dead. We're
enlightened. We're brought out of darkness.
Delivered from captivity. Delivered from ignorance. We're
instructed. We're approved, rebuked, corrected,
conformed, comforted, consoled, cheered, restrained, constrained. This is life. These are words
of life. These are not vain words and
not the words of men. This is the Word of the living
God, and it's right. You want to know what's right?
It's written. You want to know how to do what's
right? It's written. You want to know
how to be righteous? It's written. Where the Lord
is right in a world that seems everything in it is wrong, God's
Word is right. And all His works are done in
truth. All His works. All His works are done in truth. He's going to talk about His
creation and His salvation, those two great works. But His works
are done in truth, all of them. All that our Lord says and does
is true. He's true to His power. He's
true to His glory. He's true to His wisdom. He's
true to His character. All that He promises He will
do is true. All that he warns of, he'll do
it too. He's true. God can and should
be believed and trusted. He's right. He's true. He is
the truth. Christ is the truth. Believe
him. Trust him. Rest in him. All that
he does is done in truth. In truth. He loveth righteousness
and judgment. David said, He that ruleth over
men must be just. I like that. I look at that a
lot. He that ruleth over men must be just. He must know what's
right and how to do it and treat men right. Ruling in the fear
of the Lord, he said. Our God is just. He loveth righteousness and judgment. The opposite is true. He hateth
iniquity. and lies. The Lord loveth righteousness. It's His holy character to love
righteousness and hate iniquity and to judge or deal righteously. I'm so thankful. Our God, our
Lord is just. He's just. He loveth righteousness
and judgment. In particular, He loveth His
righteous Son. In particular. He loveth his
righteous son. The Lord is well pleased for
his righteousness' sake, and we're accepted in him. All those
who believe Christ are accepted in him. The Lord said so. He's just. He said so. There's
no condemnation of them that are in Christ, those who have
been made righteous by Christ. The Lord loveth. He loveth them.
and will deal righteously with them. The earth is full of the
goodness of the Lord. Verse 5. The earth is full of
the goodness of the Lord. Psalm 145 says, His tender mercies
are over all His works. The Lord is good to all. And
His tender mercies over all His works. All His works praise Him.
Oh Lord, and thy saints bless Him. Everything the Lord does
praises Him. Praises His goodness. The saints
bless him. They thank him. They worship
him. Saints do. The world doesn't. Men don't,
for the most part. Listen to this, what this old
writer said. He said, to hear the worthless inhabitants of
this earth complain, you would think that all God does is evil,
when everything he does is good. If you just look at, he says,
look at the operation of his hand, everything is marked with
mercy. There's no place where his goodness
does not appear. The overflowing kindness of God
fills the earth. Even the iniquities of man don't
prevent his goodness. He causes the sun to rise on
the evil as well as the just, the good, and sends his rain
upon the just as well as the unjust. His tender mercies are
over all. The Lord is good to all. Yes,
He is. Even to the forward. The earth is full of the goodness
of the Lord. Full of it. I might. Praise the
Lord. That's why we're here. Praise
His goodness. All right? There's two things
here He deals with now. His chief goodness. Both of them
are by the Word of the Lord. The Word of Creation, stay with
me, this is wonderful. The Word of Creation, He spoke
and made everything. Oh, He's to be feared, to be
worshipped, our Creator. And when we're talking about
our Creator, we're talking about Christ, too, aren't we? By Him, all things were made
that are made. He is Christ, our God, we're
just saying, and our Creator. The Word of Creation and the
Word of Salvation. The last four or five verses
talk about salvation. His mercy. All right? By the
Word of the Lord, verse 6, By the Word of the Lord were the
heavens made, read on, and all the hosts, the stars, the sun,
the moon, the stars, all the hosts of them, by the breath
of His mouth, He gathers the waters of the sea together out
to heap He layeth up the depths and storehouses. Oh, let all
the earth fear the Lord. Let all the inhabitants of the
world stand in awe of Him." Who? Our Creator. Our Creator. My, my. How many How much does
Scripture speak of this? The heavens declare His glory.
The firmament showeth His handiwork. Day unto day uttereth speech.
Night after night knowledge. There is no language, no speech
or language where this is not heard. God's marvelous creation. The lines go on throughout all
the earth. The words to the end of the world. The whole heavens
and the earth and everything declares, somebody made us. Somebody glorious. Somebody praiseworthy. Somebody infinitely glorious
in His wisdom, in His power, in His person. To be feared. God in whose hands our breath
is. In all our ways. He giveth our
breath, we live. He taketh it away, we die. And all the world stand in awe
of Him. Our Creator. Fear Him. David
said, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. God's greatest creation
is this right here. Man in His image. He said, let us make man in our
image. Image? Jesus Christ. The image
of God. Let us make man. And when God
created all things, And then man was his crowning achievement
in creation. God said everything was good,
and when it was all over after man, what did He say? It's very
good. Very good. Very good. David said, I'm fearfully and
wonderfully made. Only a fool would say there's
no God. Fearfully and wonderfully made. Do you know that there
are over 60,000 miles of veins in your body? 60,000 miles of blood vessels coursing
through your body and one little speck will kill you. Ain't we
lucky? That's utter, preposterous nonsense. Only a fool. You know, it takes
utter, foolish, blind faith to believe this notion that all
this just happened. And what it is, though, Peter
said, men are willingly ignorant. Man is in rebellion against his
Creator. He says, no, God, I don't want
a God. Why? Because if we have a Creator,
He owns us. Cannot I do with mine own what
I will? Christ said, yes, and He does. Our God is in the heavens. What
does He do? Whatsoever He hath pleased, like
you do of your own. It's His right. What does He demand of man? Praise. Thank Him. It's what Romans 1
says, doesn't it? The heavens declare His glory,
the firmament, the invisible things from the creation clearly
show His power and His Godhead. All he requires is, thank me,
praise me, honor me. Is that hard? Is that unreasonable? Is that difficult? No. It shouldn't be. But it is. Man's not just ignorant. He's
willingly ignorant. Man's just not dumb. He is dumb. He is stupid. But he's rebellious. And God's angry. God's anger. He spake, and it
was done. Here in our text, it says, He
gathered it all together as a heap, like the ocean. In the ocean,
the Lord said, Here the two shall ye come, and no further. For thousands of years, Hannah,
the ocean has just come so far. The stars stay right where they
are. That big ball of hydrogen, you know, burning, burning, burning,
burning, burning, just sustains life on this planet. Fool! That said no God. Keep burning. It sustains our life. Water comes
out of the sky. You can't live without it. It's
the only planet. Call it the blue planet because it's full
of water. Two-thirds water. Can't live without water. You'd
die in three or four days without water. You can go several days,
many weeks even without food, but not water. Oh, what a picture
that is of Christ. He that hath the Son hath life.
Water, just where does it come from? Where does water come from?
It just falls out of the sky. It just falls out of the sky.
And never runs out because it goes back down. Amazing. Amazing. He well deserves a praise. Thank you, Lord. I'd rather thank
the Lord for the rain. How many do nothing but complain?
Too much, too little. If it rains at all. Silly folk.
If it rains at all. Ah, boy. God ought to burn this
place up, shouldn't He? He is. Ah, my. Fear Him. Hear him. He spake
and it was done. He commanded it, stood fast.
Everything continues exactly like the Lord said it would.
Nancy and I have talked before about the old wildest fable that
says, you know what the Bible says, that things are going to
change. No, it doesn't say that. It doesn't say that anywhere.
He says, after the flood, while the earth remains, seedtime,
harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall
not cease. The Lord said right after the flood, it's going to
stay the same. It's going to stay the same. And that's what
Peter said. They're willingly ignorant. They
say, all things stay the same. Nothing's changed. Why? Because
God spoke and commanded. And that's the reason it's done.
The earth keeps rotating like it should, like it's supposed
to. Why? Because God said, do this. Dictum, actum, said, done. Who has such power to speak and
it's done? Why? Praise Him. Praise Him. He spoke and it was
done. Well, verse 10, the Lord brings
the counsels of the heathen to naught. Not God, may fool you, the wisdom
of this world. Men get together, you know, all
the wise men of the earth and women and all that, and they
get together, and what they try to do, they have their big councils,
and they're going to disprove God. And they've been doing this
for thousands of years, going to get together, all us wise
men, we're going to disprove God. And they would get some
people believing. And then they would die and go
facing. It's kind of like a group of ants getting together in my
yard. A bunch of ants getting together
in my yard. And get more ants. Get a thousand ants. Get ten
thousand ants. You get them all on a great big
ant hill, you know. Big mass of ants. Get them all
together and they all conclude that I don't exist. They get
a real wise ant, he's standing up in front of them, or sitting
in a wheelchair, and he's highly esteemed because he's a physicist
or a nuclear idiot looking at black holes, and they think he's
a wonderful wise man, and they all believe him. Yep, that fellow
doesn't exist. All the time I'm looking down
at them. That's what this says, the Lord looking down upon them.
It says he came down to Babel. They were building a tower. They
were going to build twin, one tower, not twin, one. Reached
it as high, highest building ever. God came down and says,
just look and see what they're building. They're trying to reach
heaven. They're trying to reach God.
See how high we can go. How high we can go up. What we
can attain to. We're gods now. We've become
gods now, God said. Those ants. He doesn't exist. He just sits in the heavens and
laughs. Am I going to run? Please don't.
Worse than that is what if those ants were religious? What if
they were religious? And they got together a big council
to decide to let me be let me do what I wanted to do. Though
they believe in me, John, but they decided he can't be what
he wants to be unless you let him. But just a couple of little ants,
I pull them aside, like Brian from The Burning. I say, now
you listen here. I own you. And I own this whole
thing. I'm your Lord. You are. I can do with you as I please.
Yes, you can. And I am infinitely merciful
and gracious and kind. You just acknowledge me. You
just say who I am. And I'll lift you to the stars. Do you know who God is? Do you
know who Christ is? Do you acknowledge your Creator?
Do you? Why? He made himself known to
you. He made himself known. You've
got the wisest, not many wise men, not many mighty, not many
noble are called. You say, you're calling, brother.
There's so few. so-called wise people of the
earth that are utter fools. They don't even believe God is
God. They think this book is a silly
notion, an imagination of man. Well, this is the wisest, the
most amazing and glorious book. This puts to shame every book
ever been written by man. If there's any wisdom, any knowledge
contained in anything that man has ever said, it came from this.
If you keep looking, you'll find it. They discovered the earth
was round one day, didn't they? They thought it was flat for
years. If they'd have read Isaiah, they'd have seen it. He that
sitteth on the what? Circle of the earth. Man's a fool. Fool. Why aren't we? God, in mercy,
revealed Himself to them. God came down. Came to his own,
his own received him. I've got to go on. That's my
last few verses. The Lord looked down. Oh, verse
11. The counsel of the Lord standeth
forever. What counsel? God's counsel stands. God held a counsel. Father, Son,
and the Holy Spirit held a counsel before anything ever existed,
before anyone, before the world began, before the foundation
of God Almighty. Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit
had a counsel. And He determined all things
by that counsel of His will. He put into effect. He put into
motion every single thing. Known unto God are all His works
from the beginning, from that counsel. God in infinite power
and glory and wisdom determined, predetermined, predestined everything. Everything. That's God. Everything predestined. And it
stands today, all of them, shall stand. Everything he has said
and done will. And that's who he is. And that,
he says, his thoughts of his heart to all generations. Oh,
blessed, verse 12, is a nation whose God is the Lord. The people
whom he has chosen for his inheritance. Blessed is a nation whose God
is the Lord. Pity. People in Islamic countries,
you know, have a God that is not God, but just nothing but
a monster, a tyrant. Pity Buddhists and Hindus who
have many gods. They don't know what they're
like at all. It has not really revealed. Pity
people like, oh, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
In every way, the nation whose God is the Lord is blessed. Unbelievable, inconceivable,
for lack of a better word, unbelievable. Every nation to where this book of God has
come is blessed in every way. There is what we call life, freedom,
and the pursuit of happiness. There's some value for human
life. There's freedom, there's not
tyranny or bondage. Men, women go and come as they
will and work hard and be prosperous. Why? Blessed is the nation whose
God is the Lord. Blessed. Oh, but how blessed are the people
whom He hath chosen for His inheritance. Oh, blessed is the man whom Thou
choosest. His particular people. Blessed
is the nation, yes, where God's Word is, where the Gospel is
preached. But more blessed, most especially
blessed, are those particular chosen elect people of God whom
He brought the Gospel to, and as we said, revealed Himself
in you, Christ in you, revealed who God is, what He has done. This is so great salvation. We wouldn't have a clue if He
hadn't revealed it to us. We'd be in darkness even as others.
Oh, my. My, my. Blessed be the Lord. Praise the Lord. I might just
sing something after this. It's just blessing me. Praise
the Lord. He chose me. Me. To understand and know that He
is God. He didn't do that for everybody. He doesn't have to. The heavens
declare. Oh, my. The Lord looks from heaven,
it said, upon the sons of men. Verse 13 and 14. From the place
of His habitation, He looketh upon all the inhabitants of the
earth. He fashioneth their hearts alike. He considereth all their
works. What does the Lord see when He looks down on man? You
know, somebody came up with that You know, silly little song,
God is watching us. They think it's real cute. It ought to strike fear in us. But what does the Scripture say? The Lord looked down from heaven
upon the sons of men, the children of men, to see if there were
any that did understand what God is. And seek God. Seek what? Mercy. Forgiveness. Seek God. To know
God. They're all gone aside, he said.
They're all together. Put them all together, he said.
It's not worth burning. Isn't that what Isaiah said? There's none that doeth good.
Can't find one. None righteous. No, not one.
Have all the workers of iniquity. No knowledge. God looks at their
works. What does He call them? Iniquity. Religion especially.
Workers of iniquity. Why? Doing it for their honor,
their glory, their name, build their buildings and so forth.
Not for the glory of God. This is what God sees when He
looks down. And God doesn't see as man sees it. He looks from
the heart. He says, out of the heart, He said, the imagination
of man's heart is only evil continually. That's what the Lord said. All
things are naked and open before the eyes of Him with whom we
have to do. We can't be indifferent. We have
to deal with God. Let's face it. Rejoice in the Lord. Praise the
Lord. If He's revealed Himself to you,
if He's revealed to you His great salvation, now we're getting
into it. Now it says there's no king. It doesn't
matter if He's a king. It doesn't matter if He's the
most powerful man on the earth. He will not be saved. You see,
the Lord looked down. What does He see? He sees man
is lost, is corrupt, is undone, is dead and dying. Dead and dying. He needs saving. We're going
to talk about salvation. Great salvation. Salvation is
of the Lord. It belongeth to Him. He has to do it. Man's lost. He's undone. He's
in captivity. Man is corrupt. He's sinful.
Man needs saving. And I've thought about this long
and hard before I say it. We don't need to be saved from
terrorists. but from the terrible God. Do you understand? You do. That's why the fear of the Lord
is beginning with it. The great and dreadful God, Scripture
says. How many people have a clue that
Jesus says that? Terrible. Thou art terrible,
David said. Terrorists are God's sword. Floods come from the Lord. Judgments,
His wrath is revealed from heaven. God does all things. I the Lord
do all these things. We need saving, not from nuclear
bombs, but from the wrath of God. That's right. And only He can do it. And the
first thing he does is make us realize that. Against thee and
thee only, my son, I have lived all my life without giving you
a thought. You ought to crush me like those ants. But God is
rich in mercy. This God is not only just, he
is a Savior. God is not only angry with the
wicked, he is merciful to the repentant. But a king can't save him. He
can't save himself. No man can redeem his brother
or himself. A king can't be saved. It doesn't
matter how many people he gets together, he won't save him from
God. If God be for us, who can be against us? But if God's against
us, it doesn't matter if that guy's for us. Men get together, don't they?
And they decide this and decide that. Is God on our side? That's not the question, is it?
Who's on the Lord's side? Who's on the Lord's side? He
said, no king saved by a multitude of hosts. A mighty man can't
be delivered by his strength, not strength of resolve, strength
of will, strength whatever. It says, a horse is a vain thing
for safety. You can run, but you cannot get
away from God. Can't do it. The thing to do
It's not run from Him. It's run to Him. Over in Revelation, I was going
to have you turn, but I'm out of time. It says there's going
to be a great prayer meeting someday by all people on the
earth. Hide us to the rocks and hills.
Hide us from the face of Him that sitteth upon the throne.
And you turn it over a few pages, and there's some people, a multitude
of people, praising the rock. praising Him who hath hidden
us in the cleft of the rock. The thing to do is not run from
our Lord, but run to Him. Not cry to the rocks and hills
to hide us, but cry to the rock of ages, hide me. Hide me. Because behold, behold, whenever
the Lord says this, we need to stop and think about it. This
is the most wonderful thing. Behold, like He said in Isaiah
40, behold, Isaiah 42, Behold my servant,
behold, stop, the eye of the Lord. God who looks down on men
and what he sees, behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them
that fear him, upon them that, what? Hope in his mercy. The eye of the Lord in great
pity and great love and compassion and mercy. The eye of the Lord
is upon them that what? Turn over new leaves, that do
good, that promise to do better, good little more. No, that hope
in His mercy. That fearing and hope in His
mercy. My hope is built on nothing less
than the Lord Jesus, blood and righteous. And I dare not trust
the sweetest. For I am by wholly and completely
cast my soul, my care, my everything on His blessed Name. Do I have
a hope? My hope is that being a sinner
though I am, the chief of sinners, that God is merciful and will
be merciful and His mercy endure forever. Do I have a hope? The
Lord looks with great... You look on your children with
I was sitting there and looking up. I'm sorry, Hannah, but I
was gazing at Isabella. I mean, you've grown up, you
know. But I look into that face and you know how I look on her?
Did you see the smile on her? I look on her with nothing but
love and mercy and compassion and kindness and pity. I pitied
her growing up. My heart is for her. I would die for her. But that's
just what God did for His children. That's exactly, infinitely more
He looks on His children. Do you ever go in and look at
your children while they're laying in the bed asleep? Isn't that
when your heart really goes out to them? You look on them and
you feel, don't you? Oh, you look on them. How much more? Can you believe
that? You ought to because that's where
you've got it. If you've got an ounce of compassion, you've
got it from God. You've got an ounce of love, you've got it
from Him. God is love. Praise the Lord. Bless the Lord,
O my soul. He looks on me, on His people
with pity, with compassion, with love and mercy. The eye of the
Lord is upon them that fear Him to deliver their soul. The soul
that sins is going to die, God said. It's going to die. He said,
All souls are mine, and the soul that sinneth must surely die.
Oh, but God chose a people. He said, You're not going to
die. You're not going to die. You're going to live. You're
going to live. Why? How? God came down. God manifested the flesh. God made His soul an offering
for sin. God put on him the nicotine of
the saw. He pleased the Lord and bruised him. God killed his
son. Die. He says, now, the other
in Christ will never die. Live, he said. Christ said, because
I died, you'll live. You'll live. Oh, my. Everyone's dead and waiting to
die. waiting to die, but God. This is great mercy, quicken
the demon when dead. It says, keep them alive in famine. Some of you attend funerals and
all of your loved ones and And you have to sit and listen to
what they listen to. You see it in the paper, all
this stuff, you know, big buck game contest and fashion shows
and golf tournaments and all this stuff in the name of God.
Bluegrass music and all this utter abominable stuff in the
name of God. Aren't you glad you don't sit
in that? Huh? Husks of religion. Got all the
trappings and all the surroundings and all this stuff. Got wood,
hay and stubble. And no gold and silver and precious
stones, huh? While you feast on fat things,
the body of Christ, wine on the leaves, well refined, the blood
of Christ every time. All you've got to do is come
in here hungry. And you'll go out of here just full and overflowing.
Your cup will run over. That's all you've got to do.
Come in here. You'll hear verse after verse after verse of soul
food. I mean soul food, feed, sheep
food, water of life for the thirsty, bread for the hungry, mercy for
the guilty, salvation for the sinner, promises for the worrying,
comfort for the desperate, freedom for the captives. Every time. Feasts. We're living in a day
of famine, not of bread, but of the hearing of God's Word.
Praise the Lord. Thank You, Lord. Thank You for
having left us to ourselves, left us in religion. Oh, we just don't know. We just
don't know. Keep us alive in famine. This
is life. We live on that. Our soul waiteth,
he concludes, let's say, and our soul waiteth for the Lord.
He is our help, our shield, our heart. Do you notice that? God's
people are so one. It's our. It's all our. Us. Our soul, our help, our shield,
our heart. The Lord's people are one in
heart and soul. He hath made of twain one new
man." They're all one. They have one Lord, one faith,
one hope, one way, one truth, one life, one God, one Father
in whom they trust. One salvation. One refuge. They're all one. What a blessing. Religions fights and fusses and
fights and splits and divisions and so forth. Our help, our hope. As long as He is my hope, your
hope, it will be ours. It will be us. And what God has
joined together, no man is going to put us under. It's a marriage
made in heaven. Our help, our hope, our salvation.
Oh, my. Our heart shall rejoice in Him
because we've trusted in His holy name. While the world is
blaspheming His name, God's people are praising His name, making
mention His name is exalted. And he closes with this short
prayer. Last verse. O my Lord, let Thy mercy, O Lord,
let Thy mercy, let it be so, be upon us, our greatest need,
man's greatest need. He doesn't even know he needs
it. But I do. Don't you? I do. And that's perhaps why the Lord
says more about His mercy than any other thing. Forever and
forever. Our greatest need is His mercy,
and Johnny keeps saying it over and over again as if we can't
remember it, as if we despair of it, as if we forget it, as
if we think, no, it's going to end sometime. No, he says. You
listen to me. Listen to me. I'm merciful. I
delight to show mercy. I take pleasure in them that
open my mercy. His mercy endureth forever. Let
Thy mercy be upon us. It is. It shall. It will be. Many sorrows. You can turn anywhere. You can turn anywhere in here.
Cross the page. Be glad in the Lord. It says, the Lord's mercy
shall compass him about. Anywhere it shall be, according
as we hope and do. You keep hoping in God, you've
got a good hope. You keep hoping in Christ. Is
Christ your hope? You've got a sure hope. And the
only reason it's called hope is because you're not there yet.
But he does say we're seated with him. Play that. He said it. Sure hope. Sure hope. Oh, my. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord.
Okay, John, you come. How great thou art. Number 37.
Hymn number 37. If we've never sung it before,
maybe we'll sing it today. To the Lord. Sing unto the Lord. Praise the Lord. Sing unto Him
this new song. May it be new. Number 37. Stand
with us.