The. The. The. You. You. Thank you. Go back with me now to Psalm
115. Psalm 115. Let's read verses 9 through 11
again. Psalm 115, verses 9 through 11.
O Israel, trust thou in the Lord. He is their help and their shield.
Oh, house of Aaron, trust in the Lord. He is their help and their shield.
Ye that fear the Lord, trust in the Lord. He is their help
and their shield. Now, we have looked at this song
many times together. Usually we dwell on the first
part of the first half of this song, but today I want us to
look at the whole song and dwell mostly on the second half of
this song. It ends this way in verse 18. Praise the Lord. Have you ever
noticed how many times it says that throughout the Psalms and
the rest of Scripture, but particularly the Psalms? The Psalms begin, many of them
begin and end with it. Praise the Lord. And that is
why we are here this morning. That's why we're here. That's
what this thing of worship is all about. You ask me what is
worship? It's praising the Lord. Praise means to give honor to.
Praise means to give all credit, to give all due. Praise means
to extol, to lift up, to bless. to worship. It says, praise the
Lord. It's unto the Lord. That's why
we come here. Verse one says, not unto us.
Verse one, not unto us, O Lord, not unto us. This is not all
about us. We don't come here. It's not about us. If you'll
notice, religion is mostly about folks and what the Lord can do
for you. And you know, this is our ministry
for you. And this is not about us. We
come here. It's not about us. It's not unto
us. It's not for us, by us, through us, to us, about us. It's unto
him. Not unto us, O Lord, but not
unto us. But unto thy name give glory. Unto thy name. Through worshipers, worship in
His name. That means Lord. They worship
Him. Be Lord. He really won't worship until
you know that He is Lord. We're going to see that in a
moment. God. Here always with the Lord. Our
God is one Lord. He is God. God. Christ. We've come to worship Christ
because He is. He is Christ. He really is our
Savior, God our Savior. Give glory, all credit and honor
to Him. That's why. And the chief reason
being, for Thy mercy and Thy truth's sake. For Thy mercy. See, it's of the
Lord's mercies that we're not consumed. It's of the Lord's mercies that
we're not consumed. Salvation is the sovereign mercy. of God to hell deserving thing
that's what salvation. That's why we're not in hell
right now. That's why this world has not
been yet destroyed because God is merciful and he will yet show
mercy to some more of his. And the truth truth is God's
word isn't it all of God's word. Makes up the truth. Truth. which tells us. When you learn
the truth when God shows you the truth when God reveals the
truth. You'll hear it from God's word
you'll know that God's word is truth and this is what you hear
this is the first truth you'll hear I'm saved by the mercy of
God the mercy of God which is in Christ our Lord Christ is
the truth. See, that's why we come here.
We come to praise the Lord for his mercy and his truth, which is Christ himself, personified. The mercy of God, personified,
is God's Son. You see, mercy, and this is probably
the best definition of mercy. Mercy is not getting what we
deserve. Mercy is being spared what we really deserve. wrath, punishment, death, hell. But God spared some. Amen. God spared or showed mercy unto
his people. Why? Because he spared not his
own son. He showed him no mercy. And Christ was the substitute
of his people. Christ bore the wrath of the
hell of the death of his people. That's why, why does God show
mercy upon us? Because he spared not. He showed
no mercy to his son. His son got what I deserve. So,
and that's the truth. That makes up the whole gospel. God made him to be sinned for
us. And so we praise God and we say, not unto us, this whole
service, what this is about, both now and forever is praise
unto the Lord for his mercy and his truth. No, not unto us, not
unto us. But for thy name's sake we praise
you for your mercy and we give glory for your mercy and your
truth. Then God's Word asks this question. Why should he then ask about
where God is? First why why should the heathen
say where is your God where is this God you're talking about
this God shows mercy and grace and it's got. You find the work. Kind of as well how would they
ask that question when the heavens declare his glory in the firmament
day and the day of their speech not on the night. knowledge and
they're without excuse, they should see his eternal power
and God didn't get that. They asked this word. Where is
your God? Where is your God? And here's
the answer from God's word. Verse three, here's our God,
Israel, House Aaron, you that fear the Lord, you that know
the Lord, you that worship the Lord in spirit and truth, you
that know that it's of the Lord's mercies you're not consuming,
you that know the truth as it is in the Lord Jesus Christ,
you that know these things, you that know God and his pride.
Here's your answer. Here's our answer to everyone
about your God. Now, here's our God. We're going
to look at their God, but here's our God. Where is it? Number one, where is it? He's in the heavens. Now, I looked
that word up, the heavens, down in verse 16, says the heaven,
even the heavens are the Lord. And I was reminded of a scripture
that says the heavens can't contain him. But this is just a word for saying
he's high. Whoever wrote this, we don't
know if it's David, we think it is. God wrote it. As high above the earth as the
heavens are, that's me. Tell us about your God. Where
is he? Where is he not? That's the thing. Where is he
not? Years ago, that imposter Oral
Roberts, remember he had a dream, he saw a nine hundred foot Jesus.
If Jesus is way too small in it. Ours sits on the circle of the
earth. And the heavens can't contain him. As a matter of fact,
I'll tell you how big he is. In him we live and move and have
our being. A God in whose hands our breath
is. He's going to go on to talk about
their God has no hands, you know, with their hands and so forth.
Our God, where is it? He's in the heavens, he's high,
lofty. What that mean? Well, what can
he do? What can your God do? And I'll tell you what he has
done. I'm not going to tell you what he can do. I'm going to
tell you what he has done. You've seen this slogan all over WWJD. What would Jesus do? All that stuff, you know, that
people so fond of. What would Jesus do? I'll tell
you what their Jesus will do. He'll do what they let him do.
But I'll tell you what our God has done. You say, here's the
difference. No, none. Our God are all his
works from the beginning. You see, when God said it years
ago, He's done. That's our God. Our God, what has He done? Whatsoever
He hath pleased. This is what makes God, God. More than anything else, this
is what makes God, God. Isn't it? Whoever has a free
will is God. Whoever's will is done is God.
Whoever does what he will, with whom he will, just because he
will, and no one can stay his hand, that's God. Well, that's
our God. But your God, Jeanette, you're
a blessed woman. Flesh and blood didn't reveal
that to you, but your Father which is in heaven. This is life
eternal that you might know the living and true God. Who is God? You see, this is what distinguishes
God as God from all these idols. This is what distinguishes and
declares God as he is, as opposed to these man-made gods. He goes
on to describe them. He says the people, they have
their gods. He doesn't even call them gods.
He calls them idols. Their idols, verse 4. Their idols, he said. An idol is an image. And we get the word image from
the word imagination. You see, they've made up this
God, everybody's made this God. These idols that they made up,
he goes on to describe them, these silver and gold, these
statues, these little figurines, these little images they made
of their gods. They're man-made gods is what
they are, man-made gods, small g. They're not gods at all. They
have no power over anything or anyone at all. The ones who made
them have power over them. The ones who made them control
them. That's what some imbecile in our area said in the newspaper.
He said, you control the one that controls you. That's what
he wrote. A conservative Southern Baptist
preacher in this town preacher. Imposter said that. You control
the one that controls you. Now, our little children know
that's that's the most ignorant thing I've ever heard of. If
he controls you, how could you control him? Now, come on now.
That's a man made God, and he goes on to say they have ears
and so forth, hands and so forth. He's making fun of their God.
And he says, now they that make them are like unto them, down
in verse eight. Those that make them and those that trust in
them are just like them. They're blind, deaf, and dumb. They're blind, they can't see
God as he really is. They're deaf, they haven't heard
his voice, they haven't heard his word, and they're dumb. They don't talk right. All they say about God is a lie. Our God, though, hath done whatsoever
he hath pleased." Not what we let him do. We're talking about
God here. But their idols do what these
that made them let them do. And those that put their trust
or their hope or their confidence in them, they must be dead like their
idols. They must be dead. Over in Isaiah
45, the Lord says, Why do they pray unto a God that cannot save? Can't save. I don't know why.
But I do know. They're just like they're dead.
Like they're God. But oh, Israel. Oh, Israel. Oh, Israel, he says in verse
nine. Israel has always been God's elect, God's chosen people,
the ones that God set his love upon, the sons of Jacob. Oh,
sons of Jacob. Oh, Israel, whom I love, whom
I've chosen, whom I've made myself known unto you. Oh, Israel, trust
in the Lord. Trust thou in the Lord. He is
Israel, all Israel's help and shield. Salvation and protection. Trust, now this is what I want
to deal with, this thing of trust in the Lord. He says it three
times there today, trust in the Lord, trust in the Lord. Do you
know how many times throughout the Psalms and the rest of Scripture,
he talks about trusting in the Lord, trusting in the Lord. Do you know how many times? And this will be good now this
will be good with you. May the Lord give us. Attentive. Minds and hearts. The word trust
means this. Confidence in. The confidence
in hope. Hope. It means to really believe
someone or something and therefore Put your confidence in, hope
in, you depend upon. Trust means to depend upon. You
trust, so you depend upon. Trust means this, to go to for
help, to go to for refuge. There's an old word I looked
up, Wesley, it says high, to high for refuge, H-I-E. It's
an old puritanical word, high for refuge. It means to hurry
up and get there for refuge. Trust means to be sure of whoever,
whatever you trust, you're sure of it. Trust. You're like this,
John. Trust means to be bold, concerning. Whoever, whatever you trust is
what you put your confidence in, he says, oh, Israel. Oh, those who've been chosen
by God. Oh, Aaron, House of Aaron, who's
that? That's the priests. Levites, you know, he's made
us kings and priests and believers, all believers and priests. Right
now, this morning, we're ministering about the things of our God,
not under him. We're ministering unto the Lord.
Oh, you we have some female priests. Matter of fact, they're all female. Oh, trust in the Lord, trust
in the Lord. Oh, ye that fear the Lord. You
see, this is what all God's people This is the characteristic of
all God's people. Because he is Lord, they fear
the Lord. This is the beginning of wisdom.
Saving wisdom. You that fear the Lord. Trust
in the Lord. Now, trust, as we say, it means
to be sure of. It means to be confident in.
It means to really believe and therefore put your hope in, your
dependence upon. Stay with me now. Come on. It
means to trust. You're going to get some help
here. Now, we trust many persons. We do. If you didn't put some
trust, if you didn't trust certain people, you wouldn't have anything
to do with them. If you're suspicious of people all the time, you wouldn't
have anything to do with right. A certain amount of trust we
have toward people and there are people that we can trust
to some degree, to a great degree. Right. If you don't trust that
I'm. God's pastor. Don't listen to
me. Get out of here, you better.
We're going to look at that in John 21, where he says that baptism
of John's is of God or man. Need to find that out. It's either one or the other,
can't be both. Huh? You don't trust me. Don't listen
to me. I wouldn't listen to me. Right. You put your trust, you trust. I got to watch out word death.
We trust people. And, you know, once that trust
is broken down, it's hard to get back again. We trust things. You trust things,
don't you? You trust that this building
to a certain degree. If you didn't trust that this
roof would fall down on your head, you wouldn't have come
here this morning, would you? You know, I crawl around in this
attic and I don't know who built this thing, but You don't want
to go up there. Anyway, where was I? You trust even things, don't
you? Your car, you got in your car
this morning. And I was running a little rough
this morning. Anyway, you wouldn't get in it if you didn't trust
to a certain degree. And doctors, you go to a doctor
and you say, tell me what I need to do. You trust him. Don't you. Sure you did. Sure you did. But
we should not put our trust in. Here's a different truck, you
should not trust in people and thing we're not put our hope
that is all our hope and all our confidence and get all our
peace and our safety from. People are saying anything or
anyone do not put your trust in. anyone or anything, but rather
in the Lord. Look over across the page, chapter
118, Psalm 118, verse 8. See it? It's better to trust
in the Lord than to put confidence in man. Do not trust in, and the scripture
speaks a great deal about They that trust in their wealth. They that trust in their wealth,
it won't, it won't, won't help them. You know, folks live a
whole lifetime accumulating money and worry about having enough
money for retirement. And then something happens. Either
they die or they get cancer and all the money's gone. Right. Don't trust in wealth, ask people,
there's no one in here who. I don't think. Yeah, Charles
Ross back there, you live 1929. When the Great Depression hit.
Anybody else? You live back then. Can you trust in wealth? Can
you trust that you've got savings and so forth, you've got a little
nest egg. Well, everybody lost everything, everything. That is. Would pay in stubble
and. Can't trust in you, well, don't
do that, don't trust in you, well. Scriptures talks about trusting
in chariots. Trusting in chariots. I think
back on some of the automobiles that I used to ride. When I was an 18-year-old boy,
I had a 59 Rambler and a push button. Charlie Rambler, what
was it, a Lark or something, had the push button on the dash
transmission. And back then the speed limit
was before change is 70 miles an hour and I rode around on
four bald tired I'm talking ball and I mean that the courts were
showing. Trust and chariots. Your health
your your your safety is not in the finest car you can buy
is it. by your car with an airbag but
that's not. Not if the Lord. Not that you're. Trusting doctors had no trust
in doctors. The Lord built with old. A. Sir that King Asa, because
it says he didn't consult the Lord, he went to physicians instead.
He didn't even call on the Lord at all, but went to physicians,
trusted in them. So the Lord killed him. Doctors, don't trust yourself.
Now, listen to this, everybody. Listen to it, everybody, especially
parents. Listen to me now. Don't trust in yourself. for
anything. You can't even keep yourself
safe. Let alone your children or your wife or anybody you you're
not keeping yourself I made the statement before you're not providing
your needs you're not providing for your family. You haven't
paid one bill. Everything you have you proceed
from above and loan to you and you're just coming you're just
You didn't provide you didn't know this came from you you're
not protecting your family. You can't protect your family
would you listen to me. Don't trust in yourself trust
in the Lord. You can't you're not protecting
yourself and you can't protect anybody else. You're being protected. And so is your family. I remember when my wife was pregnant
with our first and only child. And, you know, when we first
found out about it, that's when you're really nervous, you know,
and. One morning she came bouncing
down the stairs. Oh, don't do that. I jumped over,
don't don't be doing that. I'm so worried, you know, Worry. And, you know, the doctors told
us we could not have children. And this child that we receive
was absolutely from the Lord, they told us we couldn't have
children, the Lord gave us this child. We didn't get the child,
the Lord gave us this child. Why not trust the Lord with the
child he gave you? Hannah did, didn't she? The Hannah
in scriptures, huh? Was a barren woman and the Lord
gave her. She became with child. So what
did she do? She knew the Lord gave her this
child. So she trusted the Lord. And what does she do four or
five years later? She entrusted that child back to the Lord.
She said, Lord, you gave him. Here he is. He's yours to do
with as you please. Would you listen to me, parents?
To not trust the Lord, to overly worry and overly be afraid and
concerned is distrust. The Lord gave them. They're the
Lord's. And the Lord can take them away.
And nothing we do can stop that. They're right. Trust in the Lord. To be overly worried and concerned,
full of care and anxiety and fearful is distrust. You know, the Lord may try us
on these things. There's a man, I knew a man for
years in the church who always worried about something bad happening
to him. Some of you knew this man. He
always worried about something bad happening to him. He could,
he conceived of all sorts of terrible scenarios that were
going to happen to him. Honestly, whenever you're with
him, he's riding down the road in the car and it'd be like a
truck in front of him, a logging truck. He said, I can just see
it now. That chain's going to break and those logs and it's
going to kill me. Always, I mean it. He always
worried about those things. Always. You know what happened
to it. He was riding down the road one
day fifty five miles an hour car and a stone fell off a mountain. Trust in. It's that's distrust
you know we're immortal until the. David who trusted the Lord
who told us that I don't know if he wrote this but David said Of whom shall I fear? Of what
shall I be afraid? Our Lord said, don't fear him
that killeth the body, and after that there's nothing. Fear him
which can cast both body and soul into hell. He's the Lord.
He said, the Lord, from whom all things come. The
Lord, now listen to me carefully, trust or to be worried to a certain
degree, is love. You couldn't love somebody if
you didn't worry about. Honestly, it's human, you couldn't
be human. You're unfeeling, you're insensitive,
you're thinking about yourself if you don't worry to some degree. Right? It's human. The disciples
worried about the Lord. Didn't they? Don't go into Jerusalem, Lord.
Lord, who are you calling me? Don't go in there, Lord. They're
going to kill you. No man taketh my life from thee, and no man
taketh your life from you. I'm the Lord. I kill. I make alive. Not things. I use these things,
but I'm the one that did it. Trust in the Lord. But you know what I'm saying
for your peace and comfort is that human. Or it's still so that the Lord
said don't fear you're not on the law. Now, the Lord never promised
that things we think are bad won't happen. And the Lord doesn't promise
that. That's what these fools, they make false promises. These
religious fools say these things. The Lord didn't promise his people
that they would be without trials and sufferings and sorrows and
troubles and so forth. No, sir. No, sir. He did not
promise that. Nowhere in here it says you won't
get sick. Told you a lie should die from it. Nowhere in here
does the Lord say you won't have terrible things happen to you. What we think are terrible. But
he's promised this. Now here's what he's promised.
And here's where all your peace comes from. He says, I'm the
one that sins it. I'm the one who did this. And it's always good. It's always
good. All things work together. Who's working? The Lord, he did
this. He's doing this. He gave, he
take away. The Lord does it. He said he
promised now. And here's where you need to
put your trust and your confidence and your hope and drive your
peace and comfort from and be sure of and drive. I sent this
and it's going to be good. Absolutely. And you're going
to thank me for it from the top of your lungs, from the bottom
of your heart. You're going to thank me that
I did it. Trust. We don't know we just
don't know God's purpose God's will do we know in part I preach
in part. Trust and. Now but now listen
this is important right here. Don't tempt the Lord. Trust in
the Lord, but don't tempt the Lord. The Lord hath put natural
laws into effect. You break them, you may suffer
because of it. Honestly. Overeat, overdrink,
whatever. Live carelessly, you may suffer
the consequences of it. In other words you give yourself
to anything the Lord might give you over to that and it be. Bad for the Lord has natural
laws that don't trust in your keeping. You know I just discovered recently
I have high cholesterol. Very high. And. I told one of the nurses, I said,
you know, ever since they told me that I've been having dizzy
spells, shortness of breath, and I imagine in all sorts of
things wrong with it. So what have I done? So I've tried to change my diet
a little bit, you know, trying. I'm taking. Oh, you know, I went
and got fish oil, you know, and all this stuff, and I'm eating
every morning, I mean oatmeal. I'm sprinkling everything you
can imagine on top of this person said cinnamon. This person said
flaxseed, ground it up. It doesn't even resemble oatmeal,
man. Anyway, is that going to save me? No. It just makes good sense to eat
right, not to be stupid and, you know, eating McDonald's every
day of your life. But don't trust in any of those
things. I wear my seatbelt. Why? Because
the law says so. You do what the law says. God
has all authorities of the law. You've got to have insurance.
You've got to have insurance to drive a car. It's against
the law if you don't. You better do it. As much as cars cost now,
you know, it'd just be a pretty wise thing to do. But don't trust
in it. Buy some life insurance, but
that's not going to keep your wife. Is it? It didn't keep her before
you had her. It's not going to keep her when
you're gone. Huh? Don't trust in those things,
you see. And don't tempt the Lord, though. I believe when
my days are numbered, that I'm not walking across the street
without looking both ways. That's ignorant. The Lord Satan
tempted Christ by saying, jump off the cliff, prove that God,
prove that your days are numbered. He said, don't you shout not
tempt the Lord now. That's tempting the Lord. That's important. Is that an
important word? Trust in the Lord, but don't tempt him. Don't
live like a fatalist, you know. Don't go out and stand in the
lightning just because you think you can. Trust in the Lord. Don't tempt
the Lord. But especially when we're talking about trusting
in the Lord, it means put all your hope, all
your hope of eternal life, all your confidence of being saved. by God, in Jesus Christ the Lord. Do not trust in your righteousness. Boy, old Peter did, didn't he?
He thought, everybody else may leave you but not me. You may take a horrible fall
where you even question whether you're one of the Lord's or not.
No trust in your. Trust in the Lord. He cannot fail. Don't trust in
your faith. I know whom I have believed, I
really did not know whom I'm persuaded. But that's not what's
going to save me. Tammy, I'm saved because he knows
me. Don't trust your faith. Don't
trust an experience. I've had some experiences, some
marvelous experiences, some miraculous things the Lord has done, proved
himself to me. Don't trust that. Don't trust that at all. As I
said, one day you may and the next day something will happen
that you wonder, I don't know if I'm saved or not. Don't trust any of those things.
Trust in the Lord. Now here's proof, and I got to
quit. Look at verse 12. Here's why
we may trust him. Here's why we should trust him.
Look at this. Verse 12. The Lord hath been
mindful of us. Hath been. The Lord has thought
on us. That's why you're here this morning.
You know that? If you're here this morning, you have an interest
in the Lord Jesus Christ. You really want to worship God
because God thought on you. Because God set his love upon
you, his affection upon you. God chose you. That's why you're
here. Now, it gets better. This is why we may trust him.
He's thinking on you. My daughter used to lie, you
know, in the bed in there, and like every parent, I worried
about her. Often you go in at night. She's
still breathing. Why is she still breathing. What is it. But here's the illustration I
loved her and I thought on her she's sleeping she's not worried.
She's asleep, she's resting, she's unconcerned. But I was
thinking on her, a lot. The Lord's been mindful of us. You may trust him. Go to sleep,
Nancy, go to sleep. He that keepeth Israel is not
sleeping. Never will. And your breath is
in his hands, and when he takes it, it's over. He took You're
his child, he said. The Lord has been mindful of
us and couldn't help but think of this. He's mindful of his
covenant and he will bless us. Listen to this. Listen to this.
He hath been mindful of us. He will bless us. He will bless
the house of Aaron. He will bless them that fear
him. Both small and great. Little faith, big faith. Young,
old. He will. He hath See, the reason
you have this fear, the reason you have this interest, the reason
you are here, the reason you... is because the Lord hath been
mindful of you, thought on you. And he will. He hath and he will. Bless you. He will. Says this three times. He will.
He will. He will. He will. Little faith, big faith. He will bless you. It's not according
to your faith. Verse 14, the Lord shall increase
you more and more, you and your children. He shall. He had, He will, He shall. Increase you, you'll grow in
grace and the knowledge of Christ. He'll perfect that which concerns
you. He shall. He said that. Whatever God hath
begun, He'll finish it. Faithful as He that called you,
He'll do it. He's God, you say. That's who we're talking about.
Our Lord. Trust in the Lord. He's chosen
you and brought you and called you and predestined you. He's
thought on you and you are blessed. You will be blessed. Yes, you
shall be. Trust in Him. All that I don't know, but I'm
saying. There you go. Trying to look to yourself for
something. Don't do that. Trust in the Lord. He will. He shall. Verse 15. You are blessed. You are blessed
of the Lord. You are. You already are. We're of all people most blessed
right now, this morning. We are. You are blessed. You
already have been. You are blessed. He that hath
the Son hath life. He that believeth hath life.
You are blessed. He hath, he will, he shall, you
are blessed of the Lord. Why? Because it's all his. Verse 16. Even the heavens are
the Lord's. It's all his. The earth and the
inhabitants thereof. It's all the Lord's. And you're
the Lord's. You belong to him. You're not
your own. You bought with a price. He paid a huge price for you,
believer. And you're his. Trust. Trust. You know, keeping yourself. He
that keepeth Israel, go to sleep, rest, trust. Right now, I see on some of your
faces. Peace, comfort, trust. Same God, when you leave here,
trust in him, trust in him. The youngest believer, the weakest
faith, you look to the Lord Jesus Christ, you're a saved human
being. The chief of sinners, oh, but I'm, you don't know what
I've done. The Lord knows everything you've done. You don't know what
you've done. He knows. And he said, I've forgotten it.
Never did. Won't ever bring it up again.
Or ever bring it up again. As he says, it's all he is. That's
why he can bless us as he could. It's all he is. But verse 16,
did you notice this? The earth hath be given to the
children of men. The earth hath be given to the
children of men. The earth hath be given to the
children of men. You've got a new one coming.
Don't be surprised if somebody else gets what year maybe you
think you ought to get. Okay, are you hearing me? Don't
be surprised. Let me just give you a good illustration.
About 19 years ago, I was looking for a job and I
had a young child that I was worried about. I needed a job. And I applied for a job and you
know my next door neighbor who I was good friends with your
buddies. Was doing the hiring for that
job. He was the one who was hiring
the person for the job. And the job entailed some cabinetry,
some carpentry, of which I had some experience. In fact, I did
a job for him. And he loved it. Built a mantle
for this fella. And he loved it. We were friends. He was doing the hiring. And
when it came time to interview for the job, there was three
hundred and four hundred and some applicants. I was the first
one interviewed. I knew the job was mine. I knew. I mean we interviewed he interviewed
I feel how are you. Everything is mine. I didn't get the job. I was shot. Why didn't I get the job. I wouldn't be here today. If
I got that job. As 19 years ago. I've been working
and and fella called me and said would you come preach the Central
Baptist Church and say I can't I got to work. Right. Don't be surprised if
somebody else gets the job. But you trust in the Lord. There are better things in store.
Oh, it's bad. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no years ago was in religion and came home
one day and sat down on the bed after all the beacons had a fight
and sat on a bed and you told me that he told me that he just
cried because he said you just can't get any worse. Well a few years later brother
Joe was saying it can't get any better. just a few short years, and it
was best as it better as good as it could get on this earth.
And then he took him and it just got better. Oh, boy. Oh, my. He says in verse 17, the dead
praise not the Lord. These idols, you know, these
people that are dead, deaf, deaf. Now, they're not praising the
Lord, neither any that go down into silence. They're not pray
these idols and those that worship. But we we will bless the Lord
from this time forward and forevermore. Praise the Lord. Give all glory
and honor to the Lord and trust in the Lord. Trust in things,
people, anything. Israel, O Israel, trust in the
Lord. Did this give you any help? In comfort. Anybody? It did me. Now, we're going to go home,
every one of us, and start worrying a little bit, aren't we? Well, I'll tell you what to do.
I'll tell you what to do, OK? Get your Bible out and read Psalm
115 one more time. That's a good advice. All right. Brother Gabe, come
and lead us, and I've got to go. Hymn number 291, and let's stand. Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah,
Pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but Thou art mighty,
Hold me with Thy powerful hand. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
Feed me till I want no more. Feed me till I want no more. Last verse. When I tread the
verge of Jordan, bid my anxious fears subside. Bear me through that swelling
current, Land me safe on Canaan's side Songs of praises, songs
of praises I will ever give to thee I will ever give to thee Okay.