Praise ye the Lord, O let all
that is in me adore Him. All that met life and breath
come now with praises before Him. Let the Amen sound from
His people again. Gladly, glory, we adore Him. We sing these old, old hymns,
which are to this modern world old-fashioned, and maybe even dull and boring,
to the modern world. But we have a reason for doing
that. Scripture itself says, Seek ye
out the old paths wherein is the good way. We need to worship
God as closely as we can to the way he's been worshiped from
the beginning. And these old hymns, while they
may sound formal and, I don't know, a little bit flowery
or whatever. God is not like us. Psalm 50, God said, Thou thoughtest
I was altogether such a one as thyself. We don't refer to God. We don't think of God. We don't
worship God as if he were one of us. He's so much higher than
us, deserving of words, high words. And we don't worship God in a
familiar way. We don't refer to God as we would
refer to a human being. It's much higher than that. And
so, the songs that we sing, the way we conduct ourselves in worship
service, everything we do, from the way we dress, the way we
act, what we sing, should be reverential. Scripture keeps
talking about God's holiness. Worship the Lord in holiness.
That has something to do with respect and reverence and awe
and fear and so forth. God is not a man. And the world
today the contemporary world the modern world talks about
contemporary worship that they made we made worship like the
modern world. And you know yourself that the
modern world is without shame. And refer to God as if they prefer
the man next door they even refer to him as that man upstairs.
We're not going to do that. We're just not going to do that.
God is to be feared in the assembly of the saints and worshiped with
the utmost reverence and respect. You can sing these old formal
hymns. I love them. I just love them. I never grow tired of them. But
the point I'm trying to make is these hymns are reverential, respectful,
worshipful, That's the way we're going to
do it. Once someone made the comment
that we should worship the Lord in such a way that the prophets
and the apostles themselves could walk in here and say, well, this
is the way it should be done. The way it should be done. Contemporary
means like the modern world. That's worldly, isn't it? I don't
know what you mean by worldly. We're not going to do that. We're
not going to do that. All right Matthew twenty one
Matthew twenty one. Read with me verses fifteen and
sixteen of Matthew twenty one this is our text this morning
subject. When the chief priest and scribes
saw the wonderful things that he did and the children crying
in the temple, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David. They were
sore displeased. And they said unto him, to Christ,
Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea,
have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings
thou hast perfected praise? The Lord Jesus Christ was riding
into Jerusalem, as prophesied, and the multitude, of which there
were many young children, always were, began to cry out to him,
Hosanna to the Son of David. Blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord. Hosanna means, O save us, Son of David. O save us, Christ, is what they
were saying. And then the Lord went into the
temple, rode straight up to the temple in Jerusalem and cast
out all those people that were making money and selling religious
trinkets and so forth, cast them out, rebuked them sharply. Scripture says he took a whip
and drove them out. And he said, you've made my house a den of
thieves, a merchandise, things for sale, not a place of worship
and pray. Does all that sound familiar? And so these religious leaders
who had a hand in the pot, they were displeased. They saw the wonderful things
that he did. That doesn't mean they thought it was wonderful. Everything our Lord did was full
of wonder and amazement. They'd never seen anything like
it. That's what that meant. And these religious leaders who
were in charge of the temple, who collected probably a percentage
of the money, You know they did. Paul was a Pharisee. Saul, a
Tarsus, he said, I, what was gain to me, religion was great
gain to me, he said, but now it's a loss, counted loss. They
became aggravated, these religious leaders. They were angry. They
were upset. So they were sorely displeased. Sorely. I mean, they were very angry. Most of all, they were angry
and upset that people were crying out to this Jesus. They just
thought he was Jesus. Who is he? He's the Jesus of
Nazareth, of Galilee, the prophet, healer, miracle worker. But the
people were saying, this is Christ, this is God with us, this is
Emmanuel. People were saying, blessed is
he that comes in the name of the Lord. This is our God. That's
what they were saying about this man. And that's what made them
more angry than anything else. He was sorely displaced. And
they said to him, then that's when they said to him, do you
hear what they're saying? They came up to him. They were
standing by watching all of this go on, you know, cowards that
they were. They were over in the corner. They weren't about
to face him when he had that whip in his hand. But finally, they came up to
him, Sam, and said, do you hear what these people are saying?
What they're calling you? Angry looks on her face, you
know, you could see that you see their faces. And I'm just quite sure our Lord
smiled back at their angry faces. I'm just quite sure as another
time when he rejoiced. That when the Pharisees didn't
understand what he was saying. I'm quite sure he smiled back
into their angry faces and said, yes. Yeah. Have you not read? Haven't you read Psalm eight
verse two. Out of the mouths of babes and
suckling. Have you not read? He cut them to the heart when
he said that, and he said this over and over again. The same
thing needs to be said to our religious generation. Don't you
read God's word? Have you not read? They prided themselves in what
they read or memorized. They had memorized a great deal
of the Old Testament. They prided themselves in that.
And he says, have you never read? And as I said, this same question
needs to be asked our generation. Don't you read? God has changed. God of the New Testament is not
different than the God of the Old Testament. Salvation has
changed. The way to worship God, that's
what I was saying in the beginning, the way to worship God hasn't
changed. God said that right before the
New Testament was written. One of the last things he said
to mankind in Malachi 3 was, I'm the Lord, I change not. The last book of the Old Testament,
he said that. To prepare us, this is the same God. And the
same thing needs to be said to our generation and its leaders. Have you not read? Do you not
read? So many Bibles today, aren't there? So few who really read
them. And you hear things like this
all the time. Well, you know what the Bible says. Cleanliness next
to God. No, it doesn't say that. It does
not say that anywhere in the Bible. Nowhere. Well, you know what the Bible
says. And they make up all sorts of things. It doesn't say. Have you never read? Don't you
read? So many books. People read lots
of religious books and the scripture says of the making of books there's
no end. No end. I contend that it doesn't
need to be one more book ever written on a religious subject.
Not one! Until people start reading this
one. So many books but yet few read. What does Bible mean? the Word of God. It comes from the Latin word,
the Greek word, biblia, the book. Men and women don't need another
book. God wrote this. And like one old wise preacher
said one time, he said, God's Word is the best commentary on
God's Word. We don't need another commentary
on God's Word. Another study Bible. What we need is faithful
men who will study it and preach it verse by verse, line upon
line. No one. Have you never read? That's what
he said to them. And the same thing needs to be
said to our generation. Have you never read? So many
who hold the truth, like Romans 1 says, hold it. They literally
hold it in their hands and in their lap. But Romans 1 says
they hold it in unrighteousness. That is, they use it for evil
purposes, their own gain and so forth. You'll see it's going
on all over today, men using this as a prop to make people
think that they're religious fellows. And they're not preaching
it. Have you never read Psalm 8? How about you? Let's go over
there. OK, let's go over there to Psalm
8 with our Lord and listen to me. This is the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is God. This is the one that wrote the
book. What does he use when he's talking to me? What does he do? The word. It is written, it is
written, it is written, he keeps saying that it is written. Though But Sam, though everything
our Lord, he chose to refer back to what
had already been written. It's a good note. Do you remember
the parable or the story of the rich man and Lazarus? Our Lord
gave that story. He said the rich man wanted to
send Lazarus back to his brothers who didn't believe. Remember that wanted to warn
them to not come where he was. And our Lord said they had Moses
and the prophets that appeared in the word of God I have the
word that's that's all they need he said no one rose from the
dead no. I don't have any signs and visions
and I'm sorry I got the word of God. At the word of God. Have you never read? This is
our Lord's answer, not a question, it's an answer. It's our Lord's
answer to them who were angry over the people crying out, saying,
Oh, save us, son of David. Psalm 8, verse 1, this is how
it goes. Oh Lord, that is Jehovah, capital
O-R-D, Jehovah, our Lord, our God, our Lord is Jehovah. Every believer is a Jehovah's
Witness. I know there's some who go to
door to door and say they are, but they don't believe that Jesus
Christ is God. Therefore, they're not Jehovah's
Witnesses. Jehovah means God our Savior. And Thomas said to Christ, Jesus,
the man, he said, Thou art my God and my Savior, my Lord and
my God. Jesus Christ is Jehovah. Anybody
that denies that is anti-Christ. Too strong? This Bible says Jehovah. Christ's name is Jehovah Sid
Kenneth. Do you know what that name means?
Jehovah Sid Kenneth. And that day his name shall be
called Jehovah Sidkenu, meaning the Lord our Righteousness."
What Lord? Jehovah, our Righteousness. Jehovah
Sidkenu. Who is your Righteousness? Who
is the Lord our Righteousness? What does Romans 10, verse 4
say? Christ is the end of the law
for righteousness to everyone that believes. Everyone that
believe of Jesus Christ is Jehovah said. I'm a Jehovah's Witness with.
Old Jehovah, our Lord, that means our sovereign, the one who is
our judge, our ruler, our controller, Jesus Christ is not just the
figurehead. We looked at this last week.
He's not a figurehead to us. Not just in name only, not just
with the lips we say Lord. We mean it from the heart. He
is the one whose absolute control over flies, let alone the souls of men and
women. This Lord, this God says all souls are mine. This is the
Lord. This is the God Dan. You know,
Daniel's God is God. Is he your God? This God is God. He's not trying to be God. He
won't be God if men let Him be God. He is God. Our Lord is Lord,
meaning our breath is in His hands. That's
what Daniel found out. That's what Nebuchadnezzar found
out. The Most High ruleth in the kingdom
of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will. He said that four times
in one chapter. And over in Daniel 535 he concludes
by saying he reigns in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants
of the earth and none can stay his hand. Nobody can do a thing
about it. I don't like that. That's the
way it is. That's who he is. He's our Lord.
My God. Is this your God? My God. Every
knee will bow someday and find out that he is our Lord. He is. Oh, Lord, our Lord, how
excellent, verse one, is thy name in all the earth. The word
excellent means to excel, to go far above. How excellent,
how far above is thy name than all others. You see, let me just
labor this point a little bit more, OK? Our Jesus is far more
excellent than the one there, this other Jesus they're talking
about today. Our Jesus Christ is not standing
outside anybody's heart door just in the rain, hoping they'll
let Him in. Our Jesus Christ, the Christ
of Scripture, is seated on a sovereign throne right now. Right now. Reigning, ruling all things under
His divine, absolute control. He's not frustrated. He's not
disappointed. He's not trying and failing,
wishing, hoping, wanting anything. He's willing. Purposing, working,
directing all things. This is the Jesus Christ of the
Bible. There's far more excellence than
the gods. That's what we read there in
Psalm 69, wasn't it? 96. Our God is so far above these
little g's, little gods. Our Jesus, they preach another
Jesus who can't save a flea. What men are preaching and women,
another Jesus can't save a flea. That's the way they like him.
And everybody's going to get sentimental come Christmas time
over a little baby in their arms whom they have control of. He's
not a baby anymore. He became a baby for one reason,
and that's to die on Calvary's cross as a substitute for his
people. He's not a baby anymore. He's a King of kings. He's Lord. That means sovereign. This United States of America
doesn't have a clue what sovereignty is. It doesn't have a clue what
sovereignty is. Sovereignty means one who is in absolute authority
and control. Oh, Lord, our Lord, how far more
excellent is Thy name when we say, God, we mean it. When we
say, Lord, we mean it. When we say, Jesus, we mean it. He saved his people. When we
say, Mediator, we mean it. God hears him on behalf of everybody
he mediates for. When we say, Redeemer, John,
we mean it. He redeemed his people. He obtained
redemption for his people. How excellent is our Jesus Christ. Far more excellent than the rest
of this. You can have these gods. I don't know why people want
them anyway. I don't know why people want
a God that doesn't want things to happen, but they do anyway.
Why? A God who's a bystander in the affairs of men. What good
is He? Who Satan's having his way and
God can't do anything about it. What good is He then? I don't need a God like that.
I need someone stronger than my adversary, stronger than me,
one who's in absolute control of everything about me, and who's
too wise to err, who's too good to do wrong, who's too powerful
to be thwarted. I need a God, don't you? Who is God? to rest my soul,
my life, my all, my everything, my future, my eternity in His
hands. And I will rest. And come what
may, if I know God willed it, God purposed it, He knows better
than I, Father knows best, then I can rest. I can have peace.
Peace. And verse 1 is not in my subject,
not in my text. But you see, Dan, why He said,
How excellent is thy name in all the earth. You see, the heavens
declare the glory of God. The firmament showeth His handiwork
through all the earth. God's creation, His greatness,
His eternal power in Godhead, His work is seen throughout all
the earth, clearly seen. Only a fool says, No, God. professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools. All these scientists and doctors
and so forth that think themselves wise and look at this glorious
creation and say that there wasn't someone infinitely wise and glorious
and a genius that created all this is a fool. I don't care how many degrees
they got behind them now. An utter fool. That's what God
calls them. You know, it's his name throughout
all the earth. And he set, I love this, his
glory above the heavens. His glory, what is, his greatest
glory, his chief glory. It's far above the heavens and
the firmament and the earth and the created glory. His glory,
that means who he is, who he really is. His essential person,
his attribute. Far above the creation. David was a young man when he
wrote this, and he says this in verse 2. Now here's the text.
He says, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou
ordained strength, because of thine enemies, that thou mightest
steal the enemy and the avenger. out of the mouth of the babe,
God Almighty, the Lord God Almighty, who has hid these things from
the wise and prudent." That's what Christ said. The doctors,
the scribes, the Pharisees, the lawyers, the religious leaders
of His day, the masters of divinity, the doctors
of divinity and all that couldn't understand a word He was saying.
Neither can anybody unless it's revealed by the Spirit of God. That's 1 Corinthians 2. But our Lord rejoiced that the
Lord hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed
them unto who? Babes. Even so, Father, He said,
it seems good in thy sight. He hid these things from the
self-conceited, from the self-righteous, from the proud, from the know-it-alls,
from the self-made men and women, scribes and disputers. Paul one
time said, Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this
world? Well, and he revealed the truth
on the babes, God's the one that purposely see that he's ordained. That's what that meant. God ordained,
God founded, God purpose, ordained means just that. He ordered it
and that's the way it's going to be. That's the way it is.
And it says out of the mouths of these babes, he's ordained
strength, purpose, strength. What is strength? What is the
strength of God? What is the power of God? Talk
about strength. What is the power? The power
of a man is in his strength, isn't it? What is the strength
or the power of God? What does Scripture say? It's called the word of his power. The word of his power. And it
goes on to say that Christ, is the power of God and the wisdom
of God. He's called the Word, the strength
of God. Oh, so it is, the gospel of Christ,
the story of Christ, the person of Christ and his Word is the
power of God unto salvation. And this strong word will steal
the enemy, the avenger, will steal them, all God's enemies. Listen to him. All the enemies
of God are those who seek their own glory. That's God's enemy. Whoever seeks their own glory,
whoever promotes their own name, whoever seeks their own glory,
when no flesh should glory in His presence. Let not the wise
man glory in his wisdom, the mighty man in his strength, the
beautiful woman in her beauty, this and that and the other.
Let no flesh, no flesh should glory in His sight. Because what
do we have we have not received? given to him the glory due to
his name. And so the enemy of God is everyone
that's robbing him of his glory. Who wants part of that glory.
That's an enemy of God. Everyone who glorifies man. There
are many of them standing up right now as I speak. They're
speaking and they're glorifying man. When salvation is 100% of the
Lord. And yet there are liars standing up right now glorifying
man for doing something for him, for doing something for God.
Can you imagine the foolishness? Those are God's enemies. He calls
them false prophets. They're His enemy. They're not
in it for Christ's glory because Christ is all in salvation. Jesus Christ is all in salvation. If anybody gets any credit at
all, Christ is not off. And so they are antichrists.
Call them what they may. They're antichrists. If Christ
is not getting off the glory from the choosing to the calling
to the final culmination, A-double-L, off. Christ is off. He said to
his disciples, you did not choose me. I chose you. I said, yes, that's right. That's
right. You get all the glory. How about you? What do you think
about what I just said? Everybody in heaven saying, Amen. Unto him, thou art worthy. Everybody up there realizes that
nothing is unworthy. That they're unworthy. That the
only reason they're there right now is because of him. Who loved
them and washed them from their sins in his own blood. Who lived
for them. Who died for them. Who interceded
for them. Who reigned over them. Who provided
for them. Who brought them all the way
to glory. Like those lost sheep. Huh? Every. This is the best message you'll
ever hear. Right now, anyway. Because I'm giving all the glory
to where it belongs. I was told to give unto the Lord
the glory, do it unto his strength. I'm a babe. Compare it, you know,
the world, the world's, the world's leaders and so forth. I'm a nothing
of nobody. I have no college education. I don't. It may be obvious in
my grammar or whatever. So be it. So be it. Ah, boy. I'm a babe. I'm a babe. But he said, out
of the mouths of babes, there's going to be strength. Not their own strength. They're
going to talk about somebody else. I'm just a witness. I'm just a messenger. Talk about somebody else. who absolutely depends on the
mother's milk and breast to sustain their life. Where do I get my
sermons? Well, it's supposed to be a message
from God, isn't it? And I didn't get it from John
Gill. I didn't get it from Spurgeon. I got it from the breasts of
God. That's what Isaiah 43 says. They'll
suck on my breasts. Old and new. And be satisfied
and milk this milk, this sincere milk of God's Word. Sucklings. I'm a suckling. How about you?
Dependent on it. I'm totally dependent on it.
Why do I use so much Scripture? Because it's my crutch. John,
it's what I lean on. It's what I back up everything
I have to say with. It's it I mean I depend on totally depend on.
I'm a suckling totally dependent on the milk sincere milk the
true milk of God's word to build strong bones of your bones skeleton
framework foundation. Suckling he's ordained this strength
because because of the enemy to steal the Avenger. Oh I'm
out of time. Who are these babes and suckling
very quickly. Let me just give you a few. All
right. And I'm not going to have you
turn, but just listen as I count over Luke's gospel chapter two. Now, Christ must have the preeminence
of all that. As the mouths of babes and suckling,
God has ordained strength or power to steal the enemy and
the avenger over and Luke chapter two, there was a man who God
told he would not die until he saw God's salvation. God's power,
God's strength, God's glory. He told this man he would not
die until he saw that. And that man was standing in
the temple one day, looking, seeking the Lord, seeking God's
Christ, God's salvation. And in came a young Jewish woman
and had a baby in her arm. A baby! And that man said, let
me see that. And they put that baby in his
arm. No, no, no, no, no, no, not just
a baby. This is the power of God, the
strength of God, the glory of God. This is God. Unto us a child is born, a son
is given, a son, an eternal son, who is ever with the Father,
who hath no beginning of days. He who hath no beginning of days,
right there he is. The child of the mother is really
the everlasting Father. The mighty God. And so Simeon
said, I've seen thy salvation. I've seen thy strength, thy power,
thy glory. God was manifest in this babe. Out of the mouth of babes. And
this babe grew up and he became twelve years old. And he went
to the temple. He was always around the temple. He ended up
in the temple. And now he stays in the temple.
But he came to the temple as a twelve year old boy. He had
to. He's a priest forever. That's where it belongs, isn't
it, John? He came into the temple, 12-year-old boy, and it said
the doctors and lawyers were astounded at him. They were amazed
at him. They were asking him questions.
These old men were asking this 12-year-old boy questions. Why? Because out of the mouth of faith, Twelve-year-old boy, that's God.
That's right. He's ordained strength. And later on, these old men said,
you're not yet fifty years old. Have you seen Abraham? Not fifty,
that's true. I'm eternal. Before Abraham was, I am. Oh yes, that babe, truly. out
of his mouth came a two-edged sword, the strength and power
of God. David was a young man when he wrote this, as I said,
a young man, a babe, a babe. And you remember our story there
in 1 Samuel where David came before all Israel, and they were
faced by that giant, and David said, Isn't there not a cause? And everybody there was cowed
down before this. before all Israel. Is there not
a cause? Yes, out of the mouth of a babe
came strength in them. And then he went up to that Goliath
who said, you little peanut. And David said, you come to me
with sword. I come to you in the name of
my God. You're going to see right now
my God is God. Your head's coming off. Oh, out
of the mouth of a babe. He stilled that man, didn't he?
Forever. who is a picture of Christ Himself,
who kept the head of Satan. Satan is not alive and well on
planet Earth. Where does it say that in the
Bible? It doesn't. Hannah, it says he's on a train.
That's what the Bible says. Jude, they're reserved in everlasting
chains of darkness. Who put them in chains? Christ
did. He led captivity. Kept Him. Got Him on a chain. That's the
Christ description. David was a babe when he said
those things. Out of the mouths of babes. What
about the prophets? Jeremiah was 24 years old when
God called. In Jeremiah chapter 1, he said,
Lord, I can't speak. I'm a baby. And God said, that's just what I wanted to
hear, because that's who I am. Don't say I'm a babe, because
I've made your mouth and you're going to go and you're going
to bring down strongholds. You're going to read it for yourself.
Jeremiah was a babe. Oh, strength and power of God
came out of his mouth. Prophets. Oh, he told the apostles,
you know, they laid down their coats when they stoned Stephen
at a young man's feet named Saul, a young man, young man. That young man's going to turn
the world upside down. Stand before the king. Out of
the mouth of babes. He told young Timothy, he said,
Timothy, Timothy was a young man. He said, be strong in the
Lord, in the power of his mind. Be strong. And in the grace that's
in Christ. Be strong, Timothy. He told young
Titus, he said, let no man despise your youth. prove her view correct
with all the long-suffering doctrine. Let them win, sir." So out of
the mouth of the babes. And all believers. We were sitting at dinner with
a couple the other night, and all of us were talking about
our inability to talk to people. We want to talk to people about
the truth, but we fumble all over. We feel like babies trying
to say something. Babies try to express things
they can't. They may know what they want
to say, but they just can't get it out. And we all feel that
way. I feel that way. Babies, that's
who the Lord uses. Babes, just tell what you've
seen and heard. Tell what you know. That's what
babes do. Tell what they know. Not eloquent. Literal babes. You know, we quote
this all the time, don't we, when young children say something
profound. Isn't that when you quote it?
I do, don't you? It's quoted quite often. We hear a young child say something
profound, and we quote that out of the mouth of babes and such.
Well, literally, babes say things that grownups are either ignorant
of or ashamed to say. I'll give you a few illustrations,
and I have to use my own daughter. I'm glad she's not here. I have
to use her. She's who I heard do this. And you have stories of your
own children and grandchildren saying things, don't you? Well,
out of the mouth of babes, they say things profound. They say
things that adults either ignorant of or ashamed to say. She was
like three years old one time. Standing in her little bedroom.
That was yesterday. That was yesterday. When she
was three years old, standing in her bedroom, there was a terrible
thunderstorm outside. Lightning, flashing, thunder
rolling. She's standing in her little
window. Oh, man. She's standing in her little
window, looking out that window like that. I'll never forget.
silhouette of her standing in that window. She said, I see
God. And what would somebody say? No,
honey, you know you don't. The wise man doesn't see God
in anything. Huh? I'll give you another one. One time we were sitting in a
restaurant and she was about three or four years old, two
years old, two. We were sitting in a restaurant
and she's sitting in her high chair, you know, and we're sitting
there, Mindy and I are looking at the menu and she's burst out
in song. She starts singing, He is Lord,
He is Lord. He is risen from the dead and
He is Lord. Every knee shall bow, every tongue
confess." Just singing at the top of her lung, and with many
of our boys, honey, honey. And you remember why I said,
I said, no, if we're not going to say it, let her say it. Every knee shall bow. And everybody
in there was hearing that babe say, every knee shall bow. We were ashamed to sing it. have them out. I'll give you
another. I got a bunch you you have them
to. One time she's standing for the
TV set. Sunday morning. And. I think we're waiting on my pastor's
program to come on at the time she was about three years old
at that time and in front of some fella was on there preaching. And she's standing there watching
and listening intently. She listened a little while and
then she turned to me and said, Is he preaching the truth? Don't you wish more adults would
ask that question? Don't you wish more adults would
sit and listen to some fellow and say, Are you telling me the
truth? Let's search the Scriptures and
see. Yeah, out of the mouths of babes. He's ordained strength. Our Lord
paraphrased it, didn't he? Our Lord seemed to change it,
didn't he? The Lord said he's perfected
praise. Didn't he say that, didn't he?
He knew that. That's his word. He wrote it.
Well, it's the same thing. Say the same thing. Out of the
mouths of babes. And I love babes in Christ. I love those young believers
and converts who are bold with the truth. Come out and say it
boldly. Perfected praise, you know. They
don't know much. Boy, they tell what they know.
And I love that. Perfected praise. See, praise
is only perfected. when it really comes from heart
and sincerity and simplicity. Praise is simple. And praise
is basically what you first started learning through worship. You know, when we grow knowledge
puffeth up. Knowledge puffeth up. We go on
to learn all sorts of doctrine, right? Puffeth up. And you become
too old and wise to get carried away. Our Lord said, you need
to be like the children. Don't be like the children in
the marketplace. When you start piping, you need
to start dancing. The Lord said, if you receive
the word as little children, babies, may we hear the gospel
every time like babies, like we never heard before. Knowledge puffeth up, but oh
my, love I'm. OK what's the closing him. Six seven. Seven number seven. Day. Come Thou Fount of every blessing,
tune my heart to sing Thy grace. Streams of mercy never ceasing,
call for songs of loudest praise. Teach me some melodious sonnet,
Stung by flaming tongues above Praise the mount I'm fixed upon
it Mount of thy redeeming love Here I raise mine Ebenezer Bitter
by thy help I'm come And I hope by thy good pleasure safely to
arrive at home. Jesus taught me when a stranger,
wandering from the fold of God, He to rescue me from danger Interposed
His precious blood Oh to grace how great a debtor Daily I'm
constrained to be Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering
heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel
it, prone to leave the God I love. Here's my heart, oh, take it,
steal it, steal it for thy courts above. Okay.