When Christ shall come, with
shout of acclamation, and take me home, but joy shall fill my
heart. Then I shall bow in humble adoration
And there proclaim, my God, how great Thou art Then sings my
soul, my Savior God, to Thee How great Thou art Then sings my soul, my Savior
God, to Thee, How great Thou art, how great Thou art. with me, well, go with me to
Isaiah 55. Go back there. We've been looking
at it for a little while now. I don't know of any other chapter
in all of God's Word that is more full of the promises of
God to His people than Isaiah 55. We could easily spend many,
many messages, many hours looking at this one chapter In verse
three, the Lord speaks of the mercies of David, which He mentions
several times throughout the Scripture. Mercies of David,
which He promises to everyone, the first one who thirsteth,
everyone that thirsteth, everyone who comes to Christ, who is the
water, the wine, the milk, everyone who comes to Him who believes. Christ, who is the Son of David,
about whom these mercies concern. And we looked Sunday at how the
Lord speaks to the thirsty, to the thirsty to come to the
water, to come to Christ. And those without money, He says,
spiritually bankrupt beggars, to come, He says, and buy it.
That is, come by faith in Christ He has a redemption price, really
gives it. Come buy wine, milk, bread. He says in verse 2, why do you
spend money? Why do you take anxious care
for that which satisfies not? Things which only leave you hungry
and thirsty for more of those same things, but never really
fulfilled. And he says in verse 2, hearken.
The last part of verse 2, hearken diligently unto me. That means
listen very carefully. Listen with all your heart. Listen
carefully. Have you ever said that to your
children? Like that first word there in verse 1, ho, remember
that? As we would say to our children,
oh, son, son, and he says, listen, hearken diligently. Would you
listen carefully? Listen carefully. And he says,
eat that which is good. What I have for you tonight is
good. What you have partaken of throughout this day is gone,
a pass, and go out in a draft. And it's not truly good, but
he says, eat this that is good. Let your soul, he says, verse
2, let your soul delight itself in fatness. This is going to
fatten your soul up. and you're going to need it.
You need your soul to be fat because they're lean times. There
are times of winter that you need a little fat, a lot of fat.
Do you hear me? And he says, listen carefully.
So he says, lay hold of and eat like a hungry man. Eat like a hungry man. And your
soul, he says, will be delighted. You'll be delighted. You're going
to be delighted if you'll listen If you'll hearken diligently
tonight and lay hold of this as belonging to you, that's what
eat means. You know, if you eat something,
it's yours, isn't it? And you'll delight, your soul
will delight itself. You'll have pleasure in yourself. Incline, verse 3, he says, your
ear. You know, I'm hard of hearing
and I do this all the time. Sometimes I do it subtly. You
know, I'll be with you and all. If I want to hear you, that is,
I'll do this. This is exactly what He said.
Cup your ear. Incline your ear. Bend your ear.
I've got something worth hearing. Not me. I haven't said a thing
thus far of my words and thoughts, but just reading what God said. He said, bend your ear. I've
got something good to say. He says, come unto me. Come unto
me. You have come, literally, and
you should come to this place where Christ said He would be.
Isn't it? You know, I talk to people all
the time, and again, I hope somebody hears it on the CD or over their
computer. I talk to people all the time
who make excuses for not going to be in the house of God and tell me how they can worship
God and do worship God at home. You won't find David saying that. If you'll read throughout the
Psalms, certainly David worshipped God in private. Certainly he
had communion with the Lord in private. But he talked constantly
about the congregation of Israel, didn't he? These people are just ignorant
of God's Word and God's ways and God's means. This is what
God has purposed. And Christ said, and he's talking
about the church, he's talking about the context of the church,
where two or three are gathered in my name. There am I. He promised that. The church can meet in a house,
yes, if the conversation comes around to worship in His name. Often it does not, does it? The
church is there, but they haven't met in Christ's name, so His
presence is not necessarily there. But every single time when God's
people meet together in the church house, the church meets in the
church house. the house of God, the temple
of God, where Christ's name is exalted, God's word is read,
the hymns are sung, prayer is being made, Christ said, I'm
there. He's promised that. So he says,
you've come. You've come. Isn't it? Come unto
me. And we literally come where he's promised to be. You've come
to a good place tonight. You've come to get some, you're
going to get some good food. You have already. And it's going to get better.
I'm whetting your appetite. The Lord is whetting our appetite.
He says, you come. Come where Christ has promised
to be and spiritually come to Him whenever and wherever. Say
this, wherever and whenever. Say this. Say this. Here am I,
Lord. Where art thou? Come to Christ by faith. Young
people, don't delay. It's a day. It's a day of salvation. You need to hear like there's
no tomorrow, because there may not be. Are you hearing me? And your soul, he said, shall
live. Your soul shall live. Your body
shall die. This reality is just hitting
me more and more every day, isn't it? Some of you are much older
than I am. The time is short. It's so short. We have so very little time.
Someone speaking to Brother Scott Richardson and reminiscing about
the years and all that he has had, 53 years in the ministry,
and he is in his 80s now, and he said his response to them
was, It's over. It's over. And it passed right
there. It's gone. So he says, buy the
truth. Time is short. Buy the truth. Sell it not. And your soul shall live. Your
body's hard, but your soul shall live forever. And now, and even
in this life, you know, there's no real living in this life without
knowing God, knowing Christ. You know that? That's right. When he that hath
the Son hath life, whatever that is, hath life. He that doesn't have the Son
hath not life. Call it what you may, but it's
not life. It's being dead and trespassing sin. It's dead. It's
dead and eating dead things and waiting to die. That's right. But to know Christ is to truly
live now. And so he says, Come. And the
Lord then promises those who are thirsty, those who come,
those who buy, those who hearken diligently, those who eat, those
who delight, those who incline their ear, those who come, those
who hear, those who live. And he says in verse 3, And I
will make with you an everlasting covenant. Now I want you to cup your ear,
okay? Come on. Cup your ear. I will make with you an everlasting
covenant, he said, even the sure mercies of David. Thirsty. Hungry. Are you listening? All right, he says. I'll make
with you this everlasting, that means eternal, unchangeable,
nothing can change it. With you. Me? Yes. Everyone that thirsts it. Everyone
that comes. Everyone that's parking it. You.
You. Male, female, Jew, Gentile. We're
going to look at that Sunday if I return. We're going to look
at that Sunday. How in Christ there is no male,
no female, no Jew, no Gentile. All children. You. No matter
who it is. Even you. Even me. The sure. Even the sure. He goes on to
say even. That little word is added. Even.
I'm going to make with you an everlasting covenant. Even. the sure mercy, the certain,
unchangeable, unalterable mercies of David. Same covenant that
God made with David over there that we read is what he makes
with all of his people. And it's all about mercies, mercies,
mercies. Is it any wonder David wrote
about God's mercies all the way through the psalms, huh? One
Psalm alone. He said it like 26 times. Thy
mercies endure forever. Because that's what we need. That's our greatest need. We're
sinners. God is holy. We always will be sinners. What
we need are His mercies. And if God makes with you this
covenant, this everlasting covenant, it will endure forever. And it's
of the Lord's mercies that we're not concerned. You see, someday
the Lord is not going to show any mercy to those outside of
Christ. But it's all mercy for those
in Christ. Mercies. Sure mercies of David. Sure. Because God is sure. All right, what are these sure
mercies? Go back there to 2 Samuel that
we read. Chapter 7, 2 Samuel 7, you read
with me this story, how that this is a story about David.
Cup your ear, please. Would you cup your ear? I'm trying
to do that myself. I'm trying to just keep from
preaching. I'm trying to listen to this as I preach. It's hard to do. It's hard to
eat with your mouth open, you know. But I'm trying. I most
of the time get the greatest blessing when I'm sitting at
the desk with my mouth shut and my ears open and my tongue, it's
the pen of a ready writer. Come up here, this is for you.
Alright? David wanted to build God a house
in gratitude. David loved the Lord. He was thankful to the Lord.
proved the sincerity of his love. That's what this is all about. David proved it. He said, I want
to build a house. If nobody else contributes, I'm
going to build it. That's what he said, didn't he?
I'm going to build God's house. That's what I want to do. It's
not right, he said, that I dwell in a house of cedar. I'm going to build God a house
and do whatever it takes to have one. Now that's a good thought,
isn't it? Isn't that a noble thought? Huh?
David meant well, didn't he? That's a good thing. But the Lord proceeded to tell
David, and that's a noble thought, but the Lord then proceeds to
tell David through the prophet, through a man. David heard a
preacher. This is where he heard this.
David always heard through a preacher, generally. mostly through Nathan,
and the Lord proceeded to tell David what all he had done for
David and what all he would do for David. This is God's testimony,
God's covenant to David. So rather than commend David
for what he wanted to do for God, for himself, what David
purposed to do, After it's all over, after God
preaches the gospel to David through Nathan, David ends up
commending God and thanking God for his purpose and grace. Paul
wrote this, his purpose and grace which was given us in Christ
Jesus before the world began. You see, man's false gospel,
I'm going to say this one time, man's false gospel is all about
man's will and man's works for God. But God's gospel, our gospel,
my gospel, is all about God's will and God's work for us. And
when we meet together, we're not here to commend men for what
they want to do and will do and ought to do for God. No. We're
going to stand up every time and talk about what God has willed
and what God has purposed and what God has done, what God is
doing, what God shall do for His people in Christ. Period. That's it. And so after it's all over, you
know, David said, I want to do something for God. And after
he heard a preacher, he thought, oh man, what was I thinking? It's all about what has he done
for me. And the first thing that God does, the first thing that
God does is reminds David where he found him and where he brought
him to. And this is what we do. You know,
people say, somebody told one of our sisters one time, your
preacher, you all talk too much about sin. That's what they said. They said, you call people sinners
too much. All the time calling people sinners
and so forth. People, the gospel doesn't mean
a thing to you unless you remember the pit from which you're digging. Here's what God says. He's going
to say great things. He's going to say comforting
things to Jacob, His elect, whom He changed His name to Israel.
He says, Fear not, thou worm. Jacob, worm. Let me remind you,
Jacob. You're a worm. Let me remind
you. Are you going to do something
for me? It's a noble thought. But let me tell you what I've
done for you, thou worm. Let me remind you, God says to
David and to us in verse 8, He said, I took you from the sheep
coat, from the sheep pen, following sheep, looking at the hind end
of sheep. Boy, David was somebody, wasn't
he, when the Lord found him. The Lord needed David, didn't
He? Oh, David was a great man, could do great things. He was
a lowly shepherd on the side of a hill looking at sheep with
cheeked butts. Can I be geographic? Huh? He was a nobody from nowhere.
The youngest son. Not the most handsome, not the
tallest, the youngest, right? God says, I took you. I didn't take your brother. Isn't
this election? Isn't this what we preach every
time, Tammy Jo? I took you. Not your brother
or one of them. It's just prerogative, isn't
it? When this is all over, David
says, Why me? Doesn't he? Who am I? You preach election too much. This is God's glory and this
is our salvation. He took us. I took you. I took you, I chose
you, I elected you from the sheep go coat, from following sheep
to be what? Ruler over Israel. I took you, God says, a beggar
on the dung heap. And where did I sit you? Look
at you now. Do you remember, does anybody
in here remember where you came from? Was anybody in here literally
in the gutter? Huh? Look at you now. Huh? Boy, someday this is going to
elicit a shout unto him that loved us, washed us, oh my, a
beggar from the dunghill and set you among princes, made us
kings and priests, oh my. And let's listen to God's sovereign
prophet. The first night he said, And I was with thee, wheresoever
thou wentest. You know, God's been with you
from the beginning. You know that? Are you listening?
Come here. All your life, your God has watched
over you. Can you give any instances? Can
you recall, recount any times in your past that miraculous
things have happened to you? Can you look back and see God's
hand clearly in saving you from utter destruction? When I was
an 18-year-old boy, so many things happened to me that if God had
taken me, I'd have split hell right open. I'd have been forever
without God. But God. And he didn't do it because my
daddy's a preacher. He didn't do it because my mama's
a believer. He didn't do it. He did it because the police
did it. He didn't do it for my brother. There's a Jacob and
an Esau in my house. There's a Cain and an Abel in
my house. And one of them is probably going to perish. I hope
not. But he did it for me. We need
to remember that. Never forget that. Never forget that. And he's watched
over us all the days of our lives. Even when we were shaking our
fists and stuff. Brother Don Bailey was in the Marine Corps
in Vietnam. He said he had a death wish and
he didn't know God. Wow, as he'd say, a Red River
steer. And served one term over there
and some of you men, you know what that was like. Fifty-some thousand didn't make
it out. 4,000 killed in Iraq, 50,000 in Vietnam. My brother was one of them. But anyway, Brother Bell was
over there, served one term right in the thick of it, a grunt,
a Marine on the front line. First in, that's what they were,
first in, first shot at. Didn't know God, didn't know
Christ, didn't care. He said it got to him so much
that he had a death wish and he volunteered for a second didn't
have to go back, but he volunteered for a second term, went right
back in. He said one day he stood in the field and shook his fist
in God's face. Where is he now? He's lifting his hands to God. How about you? Adept, defiant, God-rebelling,
impotent, Thankless, punk, but God. A prodigal. As I said, every one of us were
a prodigal. Every child of God was a prodigal, one way or another.
A self-righteous one or a in-the-gutter one. And he says, I was with
you then. I've been with you all along.
I watched over you. Should have been done with you,
but I didn't. I wasn't through with you. I
suffered their manners, he said, a long time. I waited my good time to be gracious. How about it, Sam? I was with
you, and he said, Now I've cut off all thine enemies. I've got
to hurry. I've got three other books to look at. He said, I've
cut off all thine enemies out of thy sight. I have made thee
a great name, like unto the name of the great men that are in
the earth, like unto Abraham." Israel, where is Israel? Read
on, "'Moreover, I will appoint a place for my people Israel,
and will plant them, that they may dwell in a place of their
own.'" Here we are, planted. "'And neither shall the children
of wickedness afflict them any more.'" You know something? Honestly, the world doesn't much
bother me anymore, does it? And verse eleven, "...as since
the time that I commanded judges to be over my people, I have
caused thee to rest from all thine enemies." We have rest
in Christ, eternal rest. And also, "...the Lord telleth
thee that he will make thee in house." He'll make thee an house. Christ said, I've gone to prepare
a place for you, a mansion. Oh my, now who is all this talking
about really? Look with me at Psalm 89. Psalm
89. Psalm 89. God goes on to tell
David of his eternal covenant mercy to him and to us, as Isaiah
said, unto you. But all of this is speaking to You know, the Lord was talking
about David's son, wasn't He? Solomon? He's talking about a
greater than Solomon. And this covenant that God made
was really with one person, and we were just in it. When He made
it with Him, He made it with us, He said, because we were
in Him, like Abraham was in the loins. How's it go? When Melchizedek blessed Israel,
they were in the loins of Abraham, right? So it was. When God made this covenant,
he made it with Christ before the world began. Christ, the
Son of David. These are the sure mercies of
the Son of David, he said, whom God took from heaven and sent
to earth to be ruler over his people. Like David. Whom God
was with, he said, no man taketh my life from me. Many times they tried, didn't
they? Many times they tried to take him. His hour was not yet
come. I mean, a whole mob would swarm
him. And we're in him and we're like
him, folks. We're immortal until God says
take him. That's right. I can tell you many instances
in my life, can't you? Christ, many times the whole
mob swarm sought to take Him. They wanted Him. They hated Him.
They wanted to kill Him without a cause. That's right. Because
I was with you wherever. And Christ has cut off, God has
cut off all of Christ's enemies. Many of them He's brought to
His footstool. And He has given Him a name,
exalted Him, given Him a name above every other. And look at
it, Psalm 89. And I don't have time to read
it all. I was going to read verses 19 through 37. That's the reason
I asked you to do so on your own. But this covenant with Christ
is concerning us. We are His children, His seed. Christ's seed, if so be that
Christ dwelleth in you. And all these sure mercies of
David... Verse 23 says, I'll beat down
his foes before his face. I'll plague them that hate him.
Paul wrote one time, he said, He that loveth not the Lord Jesus
Christ, let him be anathema maranatha. And he will. He will. Curse him. I'll beat him down
and plague him, and my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him.
God's faithfulness. Mercy is in Christ with him,
those that are in him. And in my name shall his horn
be exalted. He's the son of God. This is who he is. I'll set his
hand in the sea, his hand in the rivers. He'll cry unto me,
Thou art my Father, my God, the rock of my salvation. I'll make
him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth, King
of kings and Lord of lords. And my mercy, verse 28, will
I keep for him forever. My covenant, which I commanded,
Psalm 11, shall stand fast with him. He's the head of it. He's
the surety of it, like old Judah. Remember when Judah, Benjamin
was caught? You don't have to pay the price
but Judah. What tribe did Christ come from?
Judah. Christ, the surety of the everlasting
covenant, came to his younger brother, concerning his younger
brother, caught guilty, must pay the price. And he said, Take
me instead. Hold me accountable. And he said to the father when
he left, he said, If I don't bring him back, he hold me responsible. He's the head, the surety of
the everlasting covenant and His mercies, these mercies of
Christ are sure to us, sure in certain faithfulness, sure in
certain leading us and guiding us and directing us and providence
for us and people, food and raiment is the very least of our worries. David said this, he said, I've
been young, I'm now old, he said, I've never seen God seen forsaken
or His seed begging for it, never, the righteous forsaken. Never
seen one single believer in Christ forsaken or begging bread. So just forget about that. Ask
him for bread and know and believe him to send it. He's going to
send it. Burma's going to get the money to pay this next bill.
The same place you got the money to pay the last bill. The same
place. When you came into this world,
you were what? Naked. And that's the way you're
going to leave it. And everything between those
two times of nakedness is provided for you by the Lord your God. He said it. I've taken care of
you. I've brought you from the sheep
coat and made you a king and priest. And He's promised His sure protection
against our enemies. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Oh, what? Oh, my. Can I remind you of a
couple of stories in the script? You remember Elijah, one man,
that king sent down a whole army to get one man? He's just a man,
a man of life passions like us. That's what James wrote, isn't
it? The evil king wanted that man. He's one of the most powerful
kings on the earth. Syrian king said, I'm getting
that one fellow. He's coming. Go get him. Sent
his best man to get one man. Kelly, one, one little prophet
dwelling in a hut. Go get him, boys. Bring him to
me. They couldn't touch him. Because they that were with him
were more than they were against him. Is this religious rhetoric,
huh? Is this a fairy tale? Peter said
we have not devised kindling, devised fables. Peter said, we know, we're just
like Elijah. Fishermen going out, the whole
world's against them. The whole world's against them.
Says, get them. Can't have them. He's promised
to ensure protection until it's time. I remind you, one little
microscopic germ could kill you. Our Lord said, You can't even
add one cubit to your stature. You can't make one hair grow.
You can't keep one from falling. He's got them all numbered. That's
our God. That's our God. There's not even
a sparrow. He says there's not a sparrow, not a bird, a worthless. How many sparrows are there on
the earth? How many sparrows? What good are they? They're good
to prove God's providence. to prove His covenant, because
He said, there's not one sparrow that falls to the ground without
your heavenly Father. That's right. His sure protection against our
enemy, His sure place for us in glory. He said to Peter and
all the boys, they were worried. They were fearful. Peter's going to deny Him. And
he's really going to be worried later. The Lord said, I'm leaving. They said, where are you going?
He said, I've been telling you all along, you haven't been listening
to me. That's your whole problem. Would you bend your ear? If only
Ron had bent their ear. For just three years. Just three
years. Buddy, he bent their ears for
forty days. After he came back from the grave, he bent their
ear for forty days and they heard him then. They heard him and
then they went out. Fearless. And he said, I go to prepare
a place for you. Peter. Peter's a Christ denying
sinner. A longshoreman he found took
right off a tugboat. That's about as bad as you can
get. He said, I go to prepare a place for you. For who? A harlot. Rahab. Mary Magdalene. I go to prepare a place for you."
It's a faithful saying. Chief assent. I go to prepare
a place for you in Glower Mansion. Where is it located? Right beside
his. I don't know how this is going
to be, but they're all right beside him. Anyway, he's promised his
sure rest. You're going to rest. You're
having trouble now, aren't you? A lot of fights and fusses and
troubles and trials and tribulations now. And he said, I promise you. It's going to be rest. It's going to be rest. And it's
going to be eternal. I don't know why. Maybe it's
a mere coincidence. But lately, as it approaches
winter, I've been sleeping longer at night. And the older you get,
the more trouble you have sleeping, don't you, John? You probably
don't sleep at all. But it's just true, and Ecclesiastes
says that you rise at the sound of a bird. But just lately, the winter months
come along, colder, barren time, and I've just been sleeping like
a baby. Maybe it's because my grandbaby's sleeping all night.
Quit worrying about her so much, but I've been sleeping like a
baby. I find myself waking up later than I ever have. My boys,
it's been good. I've been enjoying being a little
guilty, but I've been enjoying it. Rest. He's given His beloved
sleep. Eternal rest. Eternal. And nothing's ever going to disturb
Him. Ever. Ever. He said it's going to be
so peaceful that the former things are never going to come in my
way. No weeping. No tears. No sadness, no sorrow,
no bad memories, nothing to make up a lie, nothing but peace. We can't even, well, it hadn't
entered into our heart. Can't do it. He promised chastenings, didn't He? To give mercy. If you're one of His sons, if
you're a son, He chastens you. to be without it, you're a bastard,
right? Thank the Lord for chasing him. He doesn't mostly, this is how
good he is, he does it mostly with his word. I thought about
this, I preach things all the time and you feel guilty, you
look guilty, the rebukes of the Lord. Scripture says, all Scripture
is probable for doctrine, for correction, for rebuke or proof
or correction. It's hard to take, aren't it? But we're His children. That's
what you do to your children. You rebuke them. The younger
they are, it seems like the more you tell them no. No. Quit. Stop. Don't. Grow up. Right? That's what the Lord does to
us. And I thought about this. You know, I look at you and you
feel guilty. Well, good. Because it means
you are. You ever thought about that?
When you feel guilty, it's because you are. That's a good thing,
isn't it, Sam? If you realize your guilt, then
you'll repent over it. Then you'll say, I'll try to
do better. You might not, but you'll know,
won't you? Did you understand that, Robin?
If you feel guilty, it's because you are. Because I am. That's what it's
designed to do. But by the grace of God, it don't
ever leave you there, do it? Ever leave you feeling guilty?
A man's committed a high crime if all he does is rebuke and
reprove, rebuke and reprove, and never comfort. All he does
is slay and kill and not bring the bomb. Where's the bomb? Is there no bomb in Gila? Yes,
there is. But it's only for the slain. It's only for the wounded. He said. He promised it. Well,
go with me in closing to 2 Samuel. What chapter? I've covered two
out of three. Anybody? Go ahead. There he is. I told you. That's right, Mac. 23. 2 Samuel
23. In closing, 2 Samuel 23. Ron and Tammy, you're excluded. You weren't here. You didn't
hear the announcement. Somebody else, perhaps. 2 Samuel
23. This covenant, you see, these
sure mercies of God in Christ, sure mercies of the Son of David,
this is all our salvation. So that we and every believer
can surely say to our last breath, you see, these were the last
words of David. David is an old man. He's 70
years old. He died at 70. He died. He's on his deathbed. And these
are his last words. What's he going to say? He's looking back. He's thinking. He's looking forward. eternity,
meaning God. What's his hope? Look at 2 Samuel 23. It says
in verse 5, Although my house be not so with God. I guarantee you, people, that
nobody in here has had the family troubles that David had. Not even close. If you read his history, you'll
only find just a couple of children. He had a bunch of them. Just
a couple of them that gave him any joy whatsoever. The rest of them were dead set
against him. Rose up against him. Hated him.
And got killed on him. And it broke David's heart. And his wife was not a believer.
His first wife, his sweetheart, the one he wanted Michael, the
first wife, his sweetheart, was not a believer. She hated his
God, Melanie. She hated his God. And it broke
David's heart. Although my house be not so with
God. Yes. It's kind of like Ephesians 2.4,
but God. Yet, he hath made with me." Who
am I? What does my have? But he's made
it with me. An everlasting covenant. An ever eternal covenant in Christ. Ordered. Predestined. The world doesn't like it. I
love it. Don't you? Don't you? All of God's people,
all of Christ's people love God's predestinating grace. Don't you? It's all ordered. Nancy, don't
you love it? It's all ordered. Everything that's ever happened
to you has been ordered. Everything that will happen to
you has been ordered. And God gave the order, the command,
to save you. And nothing What the world positively hates
is my salvation, all my hope. Isn't it you? Oh, he says, this is all my salvation
and all my desire. David said, one thing of my desire
and that, well, I seek after you. I'm going to go, he said,
sit in the house of the Lord and I'm going to listen to this
covenant some more. He said, this is what I'm going
to do. One thing. I'm going to sit and dwell in
the house of the Lord. Because I want to hear about
this covenant. It's my salvation. Although He make it not to grow. What that means is although troubles
and trials and tribulations and things that doesn't appear You
know, it doesn't appear to my natural eye understanding that
everything is for me. Yet, if God be for me, who can
be against me? So, does not this cause you to
cry out with David over there? Thou art great, O Lord God. There's
none like thee. Neither is there any God. There's
no other God beside thee. And according to all that we've
heard, with our ears, according to all that we've heard. And according to all that we've
heard in his book, throughout his word, what he's done for
his people, What He promised, what He hath done, what He is
doing, what He shall do, there is none like our God. None. None. Okay, stand with me. Our Lord, we thank You so much
for Your Word. Without it, we'd just be in despair. We are cast down but not forsaken. We are troubled but not consumed
by it. Lord, we are all these things
that we know, we believe, we trust that nothing and no one
can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord according to that eternal covenant, ordered in all things
and sure, that You made with Him for us. Make it more than
just doctrine to us. Make it more than just a sermon.
Make it the joy and rejoicing of our heart. We pray in Christ's
name. Amen. You're dismissed.