Do Him now, He scoffed me, and
in love divine He ransomed me. Hallelujah, what a Savior who
can take the poor lost sinner, lift him from the barren clay,
set him free. I will ever tell the story, hallelujah,
glory, glory, glory. Hallelujah, Jesus Christ, it's
so sweet. I and I will join Christy With
Christ eternally I will join the host of their slinging And
the memory To the King of love ransomed me All right, good singing,
good hymn. I want you to turn to 2 Peter
chapter 2. 2 Peter chapter 2. I was reading this. And one verse struck. Caught my attention. Struck me. 2 Peter 2, verse 9. The Lord knoweth how to deliver
the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto
the day of judgment to be punished. The Lord knoweth how to deliver
the godly out of temptations. That caught my attention. Because
I want this deliverance that he speaks of. I need this deliverance. All of God's people do. They're
constantly tempted. Tried. The Lord knows how. Well, how? How does he? If you were looking at that,
if you just read that for yourself, what would you, where would you
go? Where would you turn? as our answer to that. Because
that's all it said. And he goes on to talk about
the judgment of the ungodly. Where would you turn? If you
have the Cambridge Bible, this is the reason these center references
are so good. If you look at it, there's a
reference given, and that's where I turned. Psalm 34. So go back to Psalm 34. That's
what we just read. And no better reference could
be given on how the Lord delivers out of temptation. This whole psalm is about deliverance.
The word is used four or five or six times. Deliverance. David talks about being delivered. I want to know how to be delivered
out of this temptation to sin, how to be delivered from troubles
all around me, how to be delivered, say, from falling away, which
I fear, how to be delivered. This whole psalm is a psalm of
deliverance, and it was written after David. was delivered from his enemies. He was amongst his enemies, and
he feared for his life. They found out who he was when
David was on the run. They found out who he was, and
he was fearful for his life, but the Lord delivered him. And
so this whole psalm is about deliverance. All right, let's
look at it. Psalm 34 verses 1 and 2, I will bless the Lord at all
times. His praise shall continually
be in my mouth. My soul shall make her boast
in the Lord. So David says, I will bless the
Lord at all times. His praise shall continually
be in my mouth. This is a form of deliverance,
a thankful heart, a worshipful spirit and attitude. David said,
I will bless and praise the Lord at all times. We need deliverance
from fear and worry. David, that was his number one
need at the time. He feared. He was worried. He
was full of fear and he needed deliverance from fear. Well,
if you bless and praise and thank the Lord for His sovereign power
and reign and rule over you, it will deliver you from much
fear. Some of us, you know, some of you are getting up in years.
I'm still rather young, I think. But some of you are getting up
in years in the Lord's has sovereignly watched over you all these years. It says, Thou bless and praise
and make my boast in the Lord. We need deliverance from guilt. It's from sin and guilt, don't
we? Well, if we bless and praise the Lord for His sovereign mercy
and grace, He's forgiven us Up to this point, there's no reason
to think that he won't continue to forgive us from here on out,
huh? After 40 or 50 or 60 years as
sinners, 70 as sinners, he's forgiven us. He's been a God
ready to pardon. Why not look to him to keep pardoning
you? That'll deliver you from fear
of falling away. He says, I make my boast in the
Lord. The Lord loves them that brag
on him, that brag on his son. Huh? Don't you? You love those that brag on your
children? If you want to get on somebody's
good side, brag on their children, or brag on their wife, or husband,
or son, or daughter, or their grandchildren, especially the
grandchildren. And you'll be on their good side, won't you?
Well, the Lord... Make your boasts in the Lord
Jesus Christ. Look to Him. Let Him be your... Look to Him for your salvation
and make all your boasts. Give all the glory to Him. And the Lord will not cast you
away. The Lord God. All those that
look to His Son. Him that cometh to Him. The God
by Christ will not cast out. The humble, he says, verse 2.
The humble, that is the poor and the common people. Common shall hear. Common people
will hear of this and be glad. Common people. David was a mighty
man. David was a man of great faith,
was he not? David, God said, was a man after
his own heart. Well, if a man like that can
solve, and yet the Lord pick him up. If a man like that can
be full of doubts and fears. If a man like that, the story
here is of David acting like a fool, acting like a madman. That's what David did. It's very
dishonoring to the Lord, the way he acted. Well, a man like
that, like David, can play the fool and acts crazy. And yet the Lord deliver him
out of that and pick him back up. That gives me hope. The humble
will hear and be glad. You understand what he's saying? The common man will hear about
the great king coming, falling, taking a terrible fall. And yet
the Lord picked him up. Didn't make an example out of
him. Made an example of mercy and grace out of him. They'll
hear and be glad. Read on. Oh, magnify the Lord. Magnify means to build up. When you magnify something,
you make it bigger than meets the eye. Well, each one of us
should be able to say something of our Lord's mercy and grace
to you. In your life, you should be able
to magnify the Lord to others. He dealt with you in a way, a
great way, that perhaps he hasn't dealt with me. I can tell you
great things the Lord has done for me, and so could you. Oh,
magnify the Lord with me. Let us all exalt his name together. That's why we're here tonight,
is it not? Let us exalt his name together. is a gathering of poor
sinners who are seeking to worship the Lord together. That's why
we're all a bunch of nobodies worshiping He who is somebody,
the only one. And we're here to exalt His name
together. David says, verse 4, I sought
the Lord and He heard me. I sought the Lord and He heard
me and He delivered me. From all my fears, David was
in fear. And look at the progression here. David was in fear, he says, and
I sought. And he heard. And he delivered. Here's a good
outline, Sherry. You're taking notes. One outline,
one verse. Fear, seeking, hearing, deliverance. It's really very simple. Is it
not? Fear. I sought the Lord. I looked
to Him. cried unto him. He heard me,
and he delivered me. In verse 6, David said, This
poor man cried, and the Lord heard him. Turn back to Psalm
4. David's constant desire throughout
the psalms. If you just browse through the
psalms, you'll see psalm after psalm, David saying this, Lord,
hear me. Lord, would you hear me? There's times that he didn't
think the Lord was listening to him. You know, there were
times when he didn't think the Lord heard him. The heavens were
brass, he said. He forgot. It was David's. It
wasn't the Lord. The Lord always, He's always
open. It was David who forgot. It was
David who got in a bad state. It was David who became downcast
and worried and overcome by these things. And but look at this
Psalm 4 verse 1 hear me when I call God of my righteousness. Have mercy upon me hear my prayer
Psalm 5 verse 1 and 2 give ear to my words oh Lord consider
my meditation hearken unto the voice of my cry my king and my
God run to thee while I pray. Turn over to Psalm 10 Psalm 10. Just look at a few of them. Verse
1, Psalm 10, verse 1. David says, Why standest thou
afar off, O Lord? Why hidest thou thyself in times
of trouble? Psalm 13. This is one of my favorites. Psalm 13, verse 1. David says, How long wilt thou
forget me, O Lord? For ever, how long wilt thou
hide thy face from me? Verse 3, consider and hear me,
O Lord my God, hear me. Well, David said, the humble
will hear about this and they'll be glad. He said, I sought the
Lord and he heard me. He did hear me. David sought
the Lord. He cried and every time, now
go back again, Psalm 4. Let's go back and look, because
every time David said, hear me, Lord, I want you to see this. The Lord did hear him. Every
time he asked him, he did. Verse 1. Hear me when I call,
O God of my righteousness. Look at verse 3. Know that the
Lord has set apart him that is godly for himself. The Lord will
hear when I call on him. Verse 8. For thou just lay me
down in peace and sleep. For thou, Lord, make me dwell
in safety. Psalm 5. Verse 1, Give ear, O
Lord, consider my meditation. Verse 7, Well, as for me, I will
come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercy, and in thy fear
will I worship toward thy holy temple. Verse 11 and 12, Let
all those that put their trust in thee rejoice. Let them never
shout for joy, because thou defendest them. Let them also that love
thy name be joyful in thee, for thou, Lord, wilt bless the righteous. Look at chapter 10 again. Chapter
10, David said in verse 1, Why standest thou far off, O Lord?
Why hidest thouself in trouble? Verse 14, go down to that. David said, Well, you've seen,
you've seen the mischief, mischief and spite, and you were quieted
with thy hand. The poor committeth himself unto
thee. Thou art the helper of the fatherless. Verse 17, The Lord hath heard
the desire of the humble. Thou wilt prepare their heart.
thy will cause thine ear to hear." Psalm 13, he said, How long will
you forget me, O Lord? It wasn't the Lord that forgot
him. Never. Verse 5 and 6, Well, I have trusted
in thy mercy, and my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation. I'll
sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me. Spurgeon called that psalm the
howling, howling psalm. How long? How long? How long?
He keeps asking that. He says, David went from sighing,
verse one and two, to suing, that is, asking for mercy, verse
three and four, to singing. It's always the case of a heart,
a needy heart. Go back to the text. So David
said, the humble will hear, I sought the Lord and he heard me. He
delivered me from all my fears. I sought the Lord. What was true
of David is true of all of God's people. Verse 5, they looked
unto him and were lightened. That is, like a light came on
their faces. Who is he talking about? Who
looked to him? Well, just name somebody in the
Scripture. How about Adam? Let's go back
to the very first man. Do you imagine can you imagine
how Adam felt when he got kicked out of paradise? No, we can't. We've never lived
in paradise. We've never been there. Thankfully,
we couldn't. It would be horrible to live
here after having lived in paradise. Would it not? Be truly cut off
from God after having him as your Constant companion, huh? Would it not? How do you think
Adam felt? There's never been a man more
tried, surely, than the first man. How do you think Adam felt
when he saw his son lying there dead? Because of him. It was
all because of him. How do you think Adam felt? He plunged his whole world into
sin. Adam called on the Lord. He sure
did. Oh, did he call on the Lord.
What about, well, you can go from A to Z. Adam to Zerubbabel. Any and all
in between. What about Abraham? Abraham, come on. Leave your
father's house. You're 75 years old. Leave your
father's house. Go to a land that I show you. Then you didn't
hear from God for a long time. Where am I going, Lord?" Oh, he called on the Lord. The
Lord heard him. What about Jacob? Just think of somebody. They
looked to him. They looked to the Lord. They
looked to him, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our
faith. That's what the... We have a great cloud of witnesses
before, who all looked to him, they said. And their faces were
lightened. through a dark world or walk
through the valley of the shadow of death yet, if you look to
him, lightened your path, lightened your countenance, lightened your
step. Look to him. Joseph, Shadrach, Meshach, and
Abednego, Daniel, on and on we go. They all looked to him, it
said, and were lightened. Oh, their burdens were lightened.
Their countenances were lightened. Their faces were not ashamed.
They didn't hang their heads in guilt and shame. You look
to him, and you'll find his face is full of pardon. Read on. This poor man cried, and the
Lord heard him. This poor man cried, and the
Lord heard him. Verse 7, the angel of the Lord
encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
David says that the Lord delivered, saved him out of all his troubles.
We just looked, though, at David's life, how that he had trouble till the day he died. Right? So the Lord didn't take
him out of his trouble, did he? Huh? It says, The angel of the Lord
encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Well, wait a minute. All through the scriptures. And
you'll read Hebrews 11. It says that they were sown asunder. They were thrust through the
sphere, they were beheaded, they were cast in the lion's den,
they were burned at the stake, and crucified. Wait a minute. What's he talking about? Well, you know, false preachers
promise people deliverance from everything. Look. This is what
false preachers said. Deliverance. This is the most
popular word in preaching today other than anointing. They named
their churches this, Deliverance. And they promised people deliverance
from everything. They promised health, wealth,
and happiness. God's Word doesn't promise that. David didn't say that here. God's
Word does not promise this kind of deliverance to God's people.
On the contrary, look at verse 19. David said, Many are the
afflictions of the righteous. Psalm 73, you know that well.
Brother Stan, you like this psalm real well. Psalm 73, David was
looking at the world and they had great prosperity, more than
the heart could wish. Psalm 73, verse 3, he said, I
was envious at the foolish. I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Verse 7, their eyes stand out with fatness. They had more than
their heart could wish. And a person got a person and
set their mouth against the heavens and wagging their tongue all
the time. But God's people burst in the
waters of a full cup run out on them. Then what is this deliverance
is. What's he talking about the angel
of the Lord deliver from all his trouble. Go back to the text. Now, God's word does not promise
that there will be no trouble. God's word does not promise us
deliverance from all troubles, trials, tribulations. It says,
no, you must, through much tribulation, enter the kingdom. Does it not?
And these things have their purpose. God uses them to wean us from
a world he is going to destroy. This is why the world does not
want to leave this world, because they're very satisfied with it,
and they find their happiness in it. They don't have the troubles
that we have. They don't need forgiveness because
they don't feel sin. God sends these things to show
us, like all of his people there in Hebrews 11, that we have here
no continuing city. We're not going to stay here.
He's doing us like he did lots when he came to lots. He said
lot. Come on. I'm going to destroy
this place. Tell your wife, tell your children,
and tell yourself don't look back. Don't look back with longing. Don't look at it. Don't take
the opportunity to look back, but look right on, because I'm
going to destroy this place. Don't look back. And we're a
great deal like Lot, aren't we? Lot said, but Lord, what if I
can just, you know, stay a little longer? And he lingered, but
the Lord had to lay hold on him, didn't he? And pull him out. The deliverance our Lord promises,
the deliverance our Lord promises, number one, our greatest need, sin. If I say nothing more, I've said
enough, the Lord is going to destroy this world because of
sin. He's going to destroy all sinners
outside of Christ. But all those in Christ, although
they may yet be sinners, are going to be delivered. It's going
to be the great Passover. That's our great need. Deliverance
from sin. He's promised that. That's our
big trouble, is it not? Lord has delivered us in Christ,
because we have a deliverer, the Lord Jesus Christ, whose
blood makes atonement. He's delivered us from the penalty
of sin. He has delivered us from the
power of sin. Sin shall not have dominion over
you like it once did. I know we think it does, but
it does not. It does not. Think about it. It does not. You're here tonight
because you want to be. Are you not? There was a time
when you had no thoughts whatsoever. You relished a night on the town
or whatever, but now you relish a night in the pew. He delivered
you from the power, the reigning, ruling power of sin, and someday
He will deliver us completely from the presence of it. And I can't say anything about
that. He's too wonderful. Those are things too wonderful
for me. He promised to deliver us from
the world. He said, Lord, when our Lord
himself prayed unto the Father, he said, Father, sanctify them
through thy truth. They're not of the world. They're
not of the world, even as I'm not of the world. And I don't
ask you that you take them out of the world, he said. Don't
take them out of the world. They need to be in it for my
purpose and reason. Don't take them out of it until
you see fit, until you're through with them. But deliver them from
it. Don't let them be caught up by
it. Don't let them be caught up in it. Don't let them be overcome
by it. And we're not. We're not. Are you vexed like Locke with
the conversation of this world? I know in a great measure, we have become a little
desensitized by what we see. When things become commonplace,
you get a little insensitive to sin and so forth. But yet,
does it not still vex you, what you see and hear all about you
in this world? Huh? Especially religion. Does it vex your righteousness? If it does, That's a good sign. Deliverance. The Lord is not
giving you over to the world. Do you feel any sympathy for
these causes? No. No. That's deliverance. The Lord
is not giving you over to the world. This is the 21st century,
man. Get with it. No! I don't want to be with it. Do you? I want to be yet more, like David,
more vile. A more old-fashioned, more archaic,
don't you? Give me the old paths, wherein
is a good way. How about you? Is that what you're
looking for? For you and your children? Then the Lord has given
you deliverance from the world. Hasn't he? Deliverance from fear.
This is what David's talking about. The Lord delivered me
out of my fears. The Lord put him in that place. But he delivered even from the
fear of it. He doesn't promise deliverance
from troubles, but deliverance from the fear of it. I'm giving you some help tonight.
There's no promise in this book that there won't be troubles.
On the contrary, there'll be many of them, but there'll be
deliverance from being overcome by it. Totally overcome by it. I've
heard believers say, I can't make it through this. I did. I did. How? I looked unto the
Lord, and He heard me. I sought the Lord, and He heard
me, and delivered me from all my fear. This poor man cried,
and the Lord heard him. The Lord heard him and saved
him out of all his troubles. All his troubles, the Lord saved
him. My, my. Well, what's our deliverance? We're going to go through these
troubles. What's going to be our deliverance? If you quit looking
to the Lord and you look elsewhere or whatever, you're going to
be full of fears and troubles and doubts and worry and downcast
and maybe overcome by it. You look to Him. They look to Him. Ask old Joe. Let's ask old Joe. Joe, where'd
you get your... How'd you get through that? I cried unto the Lord, and he
heard me. He heard me. It took a little
while, but he heard me. Oh, no, it didn't take him a
while to hear me. It took him a while to answer
me, but he did. And it was good in the end. I'd
like to go back real quickly to Psalm 73. Look at David's answer here,
Psalm 73. Verse 16, he said, all this was
so painful for me. So envious, so troubled, so downcast. It's so painful, too painful
for me until verse 17, until I went into the sanctuary of
God. Like you've come in here tonight. end. This is the key. Look at the
start or the middle, look for the end. Read the last chapter. Have you ever watched a movie
that, I mean a rerun, watched it second time or third time. He liked it real well. The first
time he watched it, it may have been full of, you know, or read
a book. The first time you read it, you
know, you were full of anxiety and sadness and trouble. And you don't know how to scream.
And if it has a good ending, you're so relieved. Well, the
next time you watch it, you still enjoy it. You're not so full
of anxiety. Huh? You know the end. But you do too. You do too. You know the end. You know the
end. Don't look. The world has, they
have everything. And less troubles. But look at
their end. Their end is much worse. But
our end is eternal rest and peace. So look
to that. Go back to the text. The angel
of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him. Who is that
angel of the Lord? Well, the Lord Jesus Christ is
who that is, and he had not yet become incarnate, God manifest
in the flesh, yet he did appear several times to the help of
many. Did he not? The angel of the
Lord. That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
He said, I'll never leave you. No, forsake you. Camp round about
you. How can he camp round about us?
Because we're in his hand. And delivereth them. The Lord
himself was not delivered from troubles and trials and sorrows
and sadness. Was he? He went through more
than anybody else, did he not? Son of God. But God was his help. God was his deliverer. He even
called upon the same one we call on. Oh, taste, verse 8, and see
that the Lord is good. Taste and see. Blessed is the
man that trusteth in him. Oh, fear the Lord. David says
much about the fear of the Lord in this psalm and every other.
Oh, fear the Lord, ye his saints. There's no want to them that
fear him. None. No want. No needs, that is, to
them that fear him. Well, the young lions, verse
10. Young lions are the strong and mighty. They do lack. They suffer hunger. Those that
seek things on the arm of the flesh will not find their relief
at some point. But they that seek the Lord.
Those that always lean upon his everlasting arm shall not want
ever any good. Now, the word thing is in italics. Any good. So you just put anything
after good, what you want. Any good word. Any good grace. Any good whatever. anything, any good, anything
good, anything we need, but he that speaketh the law shall not
want or lack for any of those things. Come, ye children, verse
eleven, hearken unto me. I'll teach you the fear of the
Lord. We needn't talk that, don't we? I'll teach you the fear of
the Lord. What man or woman or young person
is he that desireth life and loveth many days, that he may
see good. Keep your tongue, he said, keep
thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile. Depart from evil and do good. Seek peace, seek peace, and pursue
it. The eyes of the The eyes of the
Lord are upon the righteous, and His ears are open unto their
cry. Oh, wait a minute. I don't always
keep my tongue from evil, do you? Or my lips from speaking
God, do you? I don't always depart from evil
and do good, do you? seek peace. There's times when
I feel like I'm warring with someone. Huh? Do you? In pursuit. Well, what's my hope? He says,
the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous. His ears are open unto their
cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to
cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. All right. Who
is the righteous? That's right. Don't forget that. I looked to the Lord, David said.
This whole psalm, David, uh, John, David was lying to that
man. He was acting like a crazy man. David was guilty of all these
things right here. How are we going to see life
and love many good days and see good? Are we going to be able
to do all of this? We try, but that's not our hope.
Our hope is in the righteous one, the Lord Jesus Christ. You
look to him because the eyes of the Lord are upon him. The
righteous, his ears are open unto his cry. He ever lives to
make intercession for the transgressed souls. The face of the Lord was
against them that do evil. I remember old brother Jack Shanks
preaching from Isaiah. I forget the text, but it says
this, say ye unto the righteous that it shall be well with them. Say unto the wicked it shall
not be well with them. Who are the righteous? Don't
ever lose sight of them. Don't ever forget them. Don't
ever look anywhere for your righteousness but to Christ. He's our righteousness. We look to Him. Christ is our
righteousness. Who are the righteous? Let me
tell you who some of the righteous are, that the Lord hears. Lot. That's what precipitated this
whole message. Lot. It says, that righteous man. Man, if Lot's righteous, there's
hope for me. Huh? He was living in the middle
of Sodom, and his very son's-in-law thought he was mocking him when
he said, listen, we can get out of here, the Lord's woman's... But the Lord said, how do we
know Lot was righteous? The Lord said so. Who shall lay
anything to the charge of God's elect? It's God who justifies
it. That righteous man. Who are some of the righteous?
Jacob. Jacob. He talked about a liar. His name means that. Jacob's righteous though. Happy
is he that the God of Jacob praised him. Who are the righteous whom
the Lord hears? Mary Magdalene. Now, let's get a little worse.
Thief on the cross. The righteous man. Man, thief
on the cross. Dies at the ears of the people.
He heard, the Lord heard him, didn't he? Right beside him.
Thief on the cross. Remember, Christ is our righteousness. The face of the Lord is against
them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from
the earth. And the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all
their troubles, sin troubles, fear troubles, all these troubles.
And he will deliver out of whatever he sins for his purpose. This
too shall pass. Yes, it will. Verse 18, the Lord
is nigh, is near unto them that are of a broken heart. The Lord is nigh unto them of
a broken heart. and saveth such as be of a contrite
spirit, he is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart." Read on, "...many are the afflictions
of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all."
The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, broken
over sin. broken over self, and save us
such as be of a contrite spirit, that mourn over their sin. Like
Christ said, blessed are they that mourn. Many are the afflictions,
and the greatest of which is sin, afflicted till the day we
die by sin. Afflictions of the right. But
the Lord delivereth him out of them all. Him. Who's the him?
Well, who's him? Him that cometh to me, our Lord
said. I want to know, wise captain,
him that looketh to me, him that seeketh me, him that calleth,
whoever he be or she be, out of them all, whatever they get
into themselves, the Lord will deliver them. And whatever he
sends for purposes known only to him, he will deliver them
out of them all. As I said, ask Job. Ask Job. Verses 19 and 20. Many are the
afflictions of the righteous, as the Lord delivereth him out
of them all. He keepeth all his bones, not
one of them is broken. Have you ever wondered what that's
doing there, that verse? It belongs there. That's Christ's
body. His body, Christ's people, not
one of them. When you break a bone, when you
break a bone, a true break, what they might call a compound fracture,
is a bone that's severed, right? A true break, not a crack, but
a break is a bone that has been severed, right? Broken in two,
separated, all right? The Lord's body, Christ's body,
Christ's people, not one of them, shall ever be separated from
him, cut off from the body, not one. He'd keep a thali bone. Do you wonder, do you know now
why they did not break the Lord's legs on the cross? Well, it says
in fulfillment of the scripture. They did, the other two thieves,
they came by and broke their legs with That's what they had
the habit of doing. But God's divine providence stopped
the soldier from breaking the legs of Christ. Why? It can't
happen. Not one of his bones shall be
broken. None of his people shall be separated. They're always
complete in him. Always. Always vitally connected
to him. I thought about the Apostle Paul,
that he had his head cut off. And this happened to many. They
had their heads cut off. The body was severed from the
head. Well, his physical one was. The head of Christ was never
separated from him, his true head. Oh no, that just joined
him to his head forever. So that's why Christ's body,
or Christ's legs were not broken. The only thing the Lord breaks
up there in verse 18 is a heart. That's the only thing he breaks.
And God's people suffer like the body of Christ, wounds and
bruises, but no grace, no severance, none are cut off, not one of
his bones is broken. Verse 21, evil shall slay the
wicked. The evil that men do shall fall
on their own heads someday. And oh, thank God the evil that
I have done and will do has fallen on Christ's, my head. Thank God. The evil shall slay
the wicked, and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.
Those that hate Christ, that's what Paul wrote in Romans 16.
He said, Cursed is everyone that be a man loving of the Lord Jesus
Christ, or let him be anathema, and he will be. And those that
hate the righteous and hate those in Christ will someday be found
guilty. But verse 22, the Lord redeemeth
the soul of his servant. Yes, he does. He redeemeth. The great Redeemer hath redeemed
us by his precious blood, not corruptible things, silver and
gold, but by his own precious blood. And none, none of them
that trust in him shall be guilty. None shall be found guilty in
that death, or death cut off, not one. He keepeth all his bond. David said, I sought him, he
heard me, delivered me of all my fears, and he had many. He
said, this poor man, this poor excuse for a man, cried unto
the Lord in the midst of his terrible sin, and the Lord heard
him. The Lord heard him and saved him. Yeah, there's deliverance.
Our greatest need. Deliverance from those things.
All right, stand with me. Our Father, thank you for your
word. Without it, we'd be in darkness,
even as others. Thank God you have enlightened
us through your word. We thank you that we need not
be downcast. Why art thou downcast, David
said, within me? O my soul, hope now in God. Look to him. I will yet praise
the Lord, he said, for his goodness. O that men would praise the Lord
for his wonderful works to the children of men. May we exalt
and magnify you together. We have great reason to. And
it's in Christ's name we met here tonight to give thanks and
remembrance of him. Amen.