I forgot my timer. Honestly, I have determined to
cut these pages down, but I don't remember what that clock says. Alright, the mere reading of
this portion here should greatly capture your interest. 1 Samuel 21, beginning with verse
10. David rose and fled that day
for fear of Saul, and went to Achish king of Gath. And the servants of Achish said
unto him, Is not this David the king of the land? And did they
not sing one to another of him, and dances, saying, Saul hath
slain his thousands, and David his ten thousand? Talking about
the blissing, the slave of blissing, and that's where he is. And it says, David laid up these
words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the king of
Gath. Now, how long he was there, we
don't know, but he was there a while. So some time took place
between verse 12 and verse 13. He was there a while, and verse
13 says, And he changed his behavior before them, and tamed himself
mad, or crazy, in their hands. And scrabbled, or began to scratch,
on the doors of the gate, and let his fiddle fall down on his
beard. And then said Achish unto his
servants, Lo, you see the man is mad, is crazy. Why then have
you brought him to me? Have I made him a madman? But
you brought this fella to play the madman in my presence. Shall
this fella come into my house? Get him out of here." I've got your attention, haven't
I? All right, but that's not our text. This is the story behind
the text. All right, now turn over with
me to Psalm 56. Psalm 56. Psalm 56, if you'll notice the
title, right before the psalm, you see where
it says, To the cheap musician upon lies a difficult word, and
John of the limerick joy. Victim of David, when the Philistine
took him in gaffe, all right? David wrote this psalm at this
time, when he was in gaffe. He wrote it while he was there,
not after he left, but while he was there. David wrote Psalm
56. All right? And I believe, well, I'm certain
that he wrote it before he acted like a crazy man. I'm certain
of that. Because look at verses 3 and
4, all right? David wrote this while he was
there. He writes verse 3 and 4. What time I am afraid I will
trust in thee. In God I will praise his word. In God I have put my trust. I
will not fear what flesh can do unto me. I will not fear." Well, he did, didn't he? Boy, did he. He sure did. Now, you've got
to understand who this is. This is David. This is God's
promised king, remember? God said, I have provided me
a king. David, God's promised king. This
is David, the defender of the faith. This is David, who when
he was a young 20-year-old boy at Gath, when that huge giant
Goliath, 10 feet tall, weighed over 500 pounds. But everybody
in the world was scared of him. David pointed his finger at his
face and said, Who do you think you are? I'll cut your head off.
And nobody stood with him. He said, Is there not a cause? Who is this dog that he's to
defy the armies of the living God? Well, I'll take him. This is David. He's about 30
years old now when he broke dead. David, the defeater of the enemy,
I will not fear. But he did. So much so, that
he acted like a crazy man. Now this is, this is unbelievable
isn't it? That he acted like, or is it? Scratching on the door, It's
inexcusable behavior. There's no excuse for the way
David acted. None whatsoever. It was unbelievable. The way
he acted was unbelievable. It brought reproach upon his
God. It brought reproach on the truth. It sure did. Everything David
said meant nothing when he acted like
that. Right? Why did this happen? Why does
God record this story in his scriptures? Why did this happen? Why is this
recorded? Well, Paul wrote in the Romans,
he said, what things are written are written for our learning. And our comfort, the comfort
of God's people. These things are written, and
I think you're going to find great comfort from what happened
to David here, what David did and what David said after. Now, David wrote another song after what he did. He wrote another
song, and that's the one we're going to look at tonight. But
this is written and recorded for several reasons, many more
than I will give. But number one, it's man at his
best state. Solomon said, David's son, who
was the wisest man on earth, said, man at his best state.
The best man is altogether bad. He's nothing. The best of men. David was man at his best save
at this time. You understand? David was a 30-year-old,
strong, virile, fearless warrior. King. King to be. Man at his best save. Doesn't
matter who did it. Doesn't matter what man did it. And this was written to tell
us that the best of men and the best of women will act like that. The best of men and the best
of women, it doesn't matter who it is, is going to sometime act
like an absolute believer. Like a crazy man, like an unbeliever. The strongest believer is someday
going to give way to absolute unbelievers. Going to act like
they didn't, they don't believe a thing. Are you comforted already? But I told you this was for your
comfort. See, our religion, the gospel, is for those who play
the fool. When our Lord said, I didn't
come to call the righteous, I came to call sinners. What he meant
was, I came to real people with real problems, and I've got real
help. I got a real good word. I got good news, really good
news for those that play the fool.
That's the title of this message, hope for those that play the
fool. And I believe the chief reason
for this happening today is that we might have Psalm 34. That's where I want you to turn,
that's Psalm 34, because that's what David wrote after this all
happened. Psalm 34, and this is where we'll
dwell tonight. Psalm 34. Surely everyone in
here is playing fool. If not yet, or even if you have,
you'll do it soon. Every one of us have acted in
a way that's totally contrary to what we say and believe. Now
listen, and I don't believe anyone in
here, I don't believe you would, only a reprobate, only a reprobate
would excuse such behavior by using David as his example. You understand? Only a reprobate
would excuse themselves, their behavior, or justify themselves
by what men like this did. Now listen, I'll give you an
example. I've known some do this. I knew a man, a preacher, who fell for some other woman. He
was married and had three small children. He fell for another
woman and he left his wife and family, three small children. And later on, he was confronted
by several brethren, telling him, you can't do this. And what
he said was, I'll just get in line with David. Only the reprobate would do that,
would say that. Only a reprobate would justify
such behavior. It's inexcusable. David's behavior
was inexcusable. But God allowed it and God recorded
it for our comfort and for our learning. Who fools to have those? Now here's what David wrote,
and now listen, our sins, they're never excusable, and they cause
us, but they cause us to look to Christ, they ought to, and
they cause us not to think too highly of ourselves. That's what
they ought to do. They ought to cause us not to
think too highly of ourselves, because whatever man is capable
of doing, we're all capable of doing. And it ought to make us
esteem others better than ourselves. It sure should. David later on,
later in life, he realized that. And a man, remember a man one
time started cussing him. Yeah. A man started cussing him. And one of his friends was going
to go cut his head off, and David's going to leave him alone. I need
him to cuss me. Please don't let him. The Lord
sent him to cuss me. The Lord knows I've blamed him
before. Well, all right, look at verse
1 of Psalm 34. He said, I will bless him. David
said, I'm not going to fear him. Well, he did. Now, here's what
he should have been saying. I will bless the Lord. at all
times. His praise shall continually
be in my mind." Now, he wrote this after this king kicked him
out. That's when he went down to that
cave. You remember? Went to the cave and everybody
was in distress and in bed and came to him. That's when he wrote
this. And I'll bless the Lord at all
times. We ought to. At all times. In everything, give thanks. And
we ought never to complain, ought never to murmur, but we do. But
we ought never to. We ought to bless the Lord at
all times. Now, listen, listen to this. Matthew Henderson said this.
And I don't often look up to many writers and all for these
messages, but I'm glad I did it this time. And this will come from you.
Matthew Henry said, after David's terrible change of behavior, This psalm proves that though
his behavior was bad, his heart was. Though his behavior was bad,
this psalm proves his heart was. He said, I'll bless the Lord
at all times. His praise shall continue to be among my people.
You see, after he's gone, he's got nothing to brag about, really.
What he's doing is bragging on his Lord. He said, I've got a
lot to be thankful for. Verse 2, My soul shall make her
boast in the Lord. Now, this is the language of
a true believer. You hear a lot of this religious
jargon going on today. They're praising Jesus. Isn't
Jesus wonderful? They're really not praising and
boasting in their Lord at all. They're bragging on themselves.
Like these bumper stickers you see. I love the Lord. Who's first? I. That's who's
getting the glory. David said, Now my soul shall
make her boast of the Lord. And he says, The humble shall hear thereof, and hear
of what name, or hear what I did. The humble being those that are
broken, those that know themselves to be nothing, those that know
themselves to be without strength. Those that don't think they're
too smart or too good or too righteous. That's the humble. Those that are humble before
God and realize that without Him we can do nothing. Unless
He holds us up, we'll fall. The humble shall hear what I
did. And it says, they'll be glad. Aren't you glad? Aren't you glad
now that that happened to David? As bad as that was. And it was
bad, wasn't it? I said, it's terrible what David
did. But aren't you glad it happened? What about Psalm 51? You know
when he wrote that? When he took his worst fall of
all. Horrible. And he suffered the consequences.
And everybody else around him did too. But he wrote Psalm 51. Aren't you glad? I'm so glad. And he says in verse 3, O magnify
the Lord with me. Who's he talking to? Those that
have heard about this. Magnify the Lord with me. Magnify
means to lift Him up. Let us exalt His name together.
Let our names perish. Let every man's name perish. Let's exalt His name. He alone
deserves the prayer. Let's exalt His name together.
Call us fools in here. Don't we have reason? You've
all played the fool haven't you? Let's magnify the Lord. He's
the Lord of fools. Yeah. That's exalted. I sought the Lord. Listen to
this, verse 4. David said, I sought the Lord, and He heard me. Who? David's not a king yet,
Sam. He's just an old sinner in a
cave. He's a nobody from nowhere, just
acting a fool. He said, I sought the Lord, and
He heard me. That means you'll hear all fools, crazy men. He delivered me from all my fears. All my fears. What's a fool's hope? What's
the only hope for a fool? For a human being? Is it a faithful
Lord? Our hope is not in our faithfulness.
Our hope is not in us keeping ourselves. Our hope is not in
us doing anything to preserve ourselves, to save ourselves.
Our only hope is in a faithful, sovereign, omnipotent Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. That's
the only hope for us. Look at verse six. He said, This
poor man cried, and the Lord heard him. Now, he wasn't poor
materially. What he's saying here is this
poor excuse for a man. This poor excuse for a man cried. And the Lord heard him. The Lord heard him. You know,
real men cry. Real men cry. They cry over their
sins. They cry unto the Lord, a real
man, cry. I need I remind you of the only
true man who ever lived, our Lord Himself wept, not over His
own sins, but over ours. And he cried unto the Lord, he
who was the Lord himself. This is the mystery. He who was
God himself, who needed no one, really, but as a man, he cried
unto the Lord. And the Lord heard him. But David
said, this poor excuse for a man. I love that song, John. The Lord saved the simple. He said, I called and he heard
me. Simple. The Lord heard and he saved.
He said, the Lord heard me. Saved me out of all my troubles.
And all our troubles are due to one thing. Sin. This evil nature that's within
us. And Christ saved us from the dire consequences of that.
Verse 7, he says, The angel of the Lord encampeth round about
them that fear him. That fear him. There's a key. Those that fear Him, reverence
Him. Those that know Him to be who
He is, really, sovereign, holy, just. Not this pitiful failure
in the name of Jesus that they're talking about today. Not this
God who tries to fail. Not the one who's standing out
in the rain knocking on your door. No. The one sitting on
a throne reigning and ruling the lives of all human beings,
their souls, their breath is in his hands. That's the only
Lord anyone will fear. That's who David said we fear. The angel of the Lord encampeth
round about them that fear him and delivereth them, only them. Who's this angel of the Lord?
Well, I'm just certain it's the Holy Spirit. The angel of the Lord. Paul says, As many as are led
by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. The Holy Spirit
of God encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth
them. Read on. We'll talk more about
that in a moment. Oh, taste and see. The Lord is good. Have you tasted A little of the
Lord's goodness, a lot of the Lord's goodness. Have you seen
His goodness in the land of the living? The Lord's goodness. He says in verse 8, blessed is
the man that trusts in Him. Blessed, it's a blessing of God
if you trust Him, if you look to Him. It's a blessing of God,
it's a gift of God if you're really looking to Him. Oh, fear
the Lord. He is saints, and only they will. Modern man and all his religion
doesn't fear God. Paul said that. No fear of God
with their faith. God's saints do. They always
have and they always will. They fear the Lord. They know
Him. Fear the Lord. His faith, there's no wants,
no lack to them that fear Him. Verse 10, the young lions do
like and suffer hunger. He's talking about even young,
virile, the king of the jungle. A young, two-year-old lion is
the king of the jungle. Everything is his prey. There's
times when he even goes without food. But not God's people. He says, they that seek the Lord
shall not want any good, ever, shall never lack. David, later
in his old age, he said, I've been young. He said, I'm now
old. And he said, yet have I never
seen the Lord see forsaken, the righteous forsaken. Not one time in my life. And David traveled that known
world over. Not one of his people have I
ever seen forsaken or begging bread. They shall not want any
good. Now what is this good that they'll
not like, that they'll not want? Psalm 23 says, The Lord is my
shepherd, and I shall not want, I shall not lack the Lord. I
shall not lack, I shall not want or be in need of anything that
I need. What's one thing I need? I hope
I can just have more money. Yes. If I could just get a better
job, I'd just have a bigger... No, none of those things would
be needed whatsoever. Having food and arrangement,
our Lord said, that's all that's... For this body to exist, that's
all that's necessary for this body to continue, isn't it? But now, for these souls to live,
we're going to have to have mercy from the hands of the Lord. I
need mercy. Because I'm guilty, I'm a sinner
before this holy God. I'm gonna need, I need mercy.
And I need it from the day I'm born to the day I die. And I, David says, those that
fear the Lord, those that seek him, shall not lack this mercy. He delights to show mercy. He
has plenty of it. And he gives it to all those
that fear him now, not those that think he owes it to them,
and those that think that they're doing him
a favor by exception. No, no. So is it fear him. Those that are guilty of guilt
that need mercy. They shall not want mercy. They
shall not want grace. Grace is a gift. Grace is a handout. Grace is for beggars. Only beggars need the gift of
salvation. They don't want this grace. all
their lives. God gives us more of it. They'll
need grace for everything, and God gives it. They'll need wisdom. No, not the wise men and women
of this world, not the modern man who thinks he knows everything.
Now, God's people, they're humble, but realize they're nothing.
They know nothing. All wisdom comes from above.
They're going to need wisdom, and they'll never lack it, and
they'll never want it. They're going to need righteousness, wisdom, righteousness. They're
going to need a perfect standing before God and live with God.
They're going to need a perfect holiness. Now, they know they
don't have it, but they can't produce it. They can't live according
to God's holy law perfectly, like He demands. They need someone
to do it for them, and they know that Christ did that for them.
And they'll never lack for this righteousness. And all that they
need, they'll never lack. Verse 11. I've got to hurry. Come ye, children. Come ye, children. There's Charles Ross back there. How old are you, ma'am? Oh, are you really? Seventy how old? Seventy what? Tell me. Seventy what? Seventy-five? I can't believe it. It seemed like
it was yesterday or Sunday. Seventy-five years old. Don't you still feel like a baby
in Christ, though, at that time? That's why, you know, John says,
John, when John wrote his official, he said, now there's young men,
there's babes, there's young men, and there's fathers. Didn't
he? But he said to all of them, I'm
writing under you little children. But you see, I'm not. None, if any man say we have
that. We all feel like babes. Just when we get 75 years old,
finally learn something, haven't you, brother Charles? Finally
learn something, or haven't you? But in this thing of spiritual
mastery, none of us feel like we've attained much. And so he
says, come, children. Come, let me teach you something.
You've got to be a child to be taught. Then our Lord say, except ye
become as little children, you'll not, no wise enter the kingdom
of heaven. No smart people are going to enter the kingdom of heaven. No independent people,
no self-righteous people, no smart, proud, arrogant, wise,
Babes, fools, sinners, unrighteous, ungodly, helpless, hopeless,
beggars. That's what God's kingdom is
made of. Come, children. Hearken to
me. Listen to me. He said, I'll teach
you the fear of the Lord. I'm going to teach you the fear
of the Lord. What is it, the fear of the Lord? All right?
Verse 12. What man or woman, young person,
is he that desires life and live? life more abundantly. He's already
been talking about eternal life, and that's in Christ. That's
in Christ. Trust in the Lord, that's life,
that's eternal life. Christ said, He that believeth
in me hath life. Eternal life. Now he says here,
now what man does he desire in life? Abundant, more abundant
life. You want to live out some good
days here, put it this way, huh? Don't have many, he doesn't say
years, brother Stan, he says days. Teach us to number our days,
not years. It's days, isn't it? It's days. Well, which, who of you loves
want to see some, some good days? You want to see some good days?
Well, here he says, verse 13. Here's something to do. Keep
your tongue. That'll keep you occupied. Just try to keep your tongue
from evil. Come on. You know what makes
our days bad? That's it. Get up and lash out
at that woman of hers. She lashes at you, so you think
you ought to lash back at her. Or somebody, you know, lashes
at your son or daughter or somebody cuts in front of this thing. So James writes a lot about that.
Oh, he says, it's a little member, but boy, it can cause lots of
trouble. Keep your tongue. You want to
see some good, that ain't going to have any left. You want to
see a few good ones? Get a hold of this thing. Keep that thing from evil. Boy,
most of what comes out is evil to them. Murmuring, complaining,
bitterness. Your lips, your tongue will be
taken care of. Keep your mouth shut, nothing
worse. Old Brother Jack Shanks, I loved him. You may have heard Brother Todd
Niagara say this, I don't know. I heard Brother Todd. He said,
Old Brother Jack, you know, the old slow talking Texan. He said, How did he say it? I don't want
to get it correct. He said, take every opportunity
to shut up. There's a lot of wisdom in that.
He said, take every opportunity to shut up. And that's a man you can listen
to. He's a man of few words. You can listen to a man of few
words. Scripture says, Wise men study
the answer. Fool is known by this tongue
flatterer. But there's hope for fools, they
say. There's hope for a fool he has at this tongue that the
Lord will give us grace to keep it. And he's lived from lying,
lying lips. Verse 14, depart from evil. What's that mean? It means what
it says. It means what it says. Don't do that. When David said, or when Peter
said, put off the old man, what he's saying is, stop that. Give
in. Quit that. Don't act like that. When it said Job was, when the
Lord said, Job's a righteous man, wasn't it? It shews evil. What does that mean? It means
he ran from it. That's what that means. Do good. What does that mean? That's what it means. That's
what it means. Do good. Seek peace. Pursue it, he said. Pursue it. Seek peace. Our Lord, didn't
our Lord say, blessed are the peacemakers? They're going to be called the children
of God. Peacemakers. Boy, didn't that describe Him?
He made peace for us by the blood of His cross. Eternally. So He tells us, seek peace. Pursue
it. If nobody else will, you do it. David one time said, they're
for war. Seek peace in your marriage.
If she won't, if he won't, you do it. Right? Pursue it. In your children,
in your friends, in your job. Pursue it. Find ways to make
it. That's what that means. Find ways to make it. What can
I do that we might have peace? Read on. The eyes of the Lord
are upon the righteous. Now, you know what that means,
don't you? Who's righteous? Let me see someone
in here raise their hand if you feel like you're really a righteous
person, I mean a holy person, without sin, holy. Raise your
hand. Scripture says there's none righteous. Not one. Why is he talking about
me? Ah, but those that are in Christ,
those that are found in Him, not having their own righteousness,
but having His righteousness, which is by faith. That the Lord sees them as righteous
because they look to Christ. We know that as much as anything
in this book, don't we, brothers and sisters? But the only reason
he calls his people righteous is because of Christ. They're
righteous. Well, he says, the eyes of the Lord are upon Christ.
And generally speaking, they are righteous in all they're
doing. They are God's people. It's generally speaking, not
always. David proved that, didn't he?
But I tell you what, other than a few bad times, you've got to trust David with
everything he has. Right? Yeah. He's generally righteous. They're
generally righteous in all their dealings. Yes, they are. And
his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the Lord is against
them that do evil. God's dead set against them that
do evil, religious or irreligious. Cheaply the religious. And do
what they do, say they do it in the name of Christ, when it's
for their own evil purposes. It's for their own namesake. That's a cheap look. He's dead
set again. The face of the Lord is against
them that do evil, isn't it? Didn't he call those people back
in Matthew that said, we've done many wonderful works in your
name. We've preached in your name. We've cast out devils.
He said, you're working for me. getting glory to yourself, getting
glory to your church, getting glory to the preacher, getting
glory to himself. Get them out of here. We don't, these gifts ain't going
to cut off the remembrance of them. It's the righteous cry. The Lord heareth and delivereth
them out of all their troubles. Who are these righteous? Here
they are, verse 18. The Lord is nigh unto them that
are of a broken heart. What does that mean? It doesn't
mean sorrow of things that happen in this life. Everybody goes
through, everybody goes through a broken heart. Man, everybody. Everybody's born on the top side
of this earth at one time has a broken heart, right? The Lord's
mother and I and everyone. Who are the broken heart? Those
that are broken hearted over their own sin, you see, that's
what he's talking about. Over themselves. Over themselves. Broken hearted
over what they are. The Lord's mind is nailed. You
want the Lord's presence? That Peter said, I'm going to
set it. I'm going to set it. If we won't, he will. He sayeth
such as be of a contrite spirit. You see that? That's what he
sayeth. He sayeth such as be of a contrite spirit. That's
what our Lord, in his Sermon on the Mount, is saying. Blessed
are those who, blessed are the poor in spirit. Not to pour and disturb. See,
one time he said, you pour it in with you always. Do good to
them, yeah, but that's not what he's talking about. Pouring spirit. Those that know that... Paul said, in my flesh dwelleth
no good thing. Pouring spirit. That I need everything. I need God to do everything for
me. If I'm going to be saved. Blessed are they that mourn.
Well, everybody mourns. No. Blessed are they that mourn
with their sin. Blessed are the meek. Does that
mean the shy and the timid and the mousy little? No. It means
those that are humble before God, that are proud. That's what
he's saying. That's who these righteous are.
Read on, back in our text. The Lord is mine, and to them,
you want the Lord's presence? You want salvation? It's got
to be a broken-hearted contract. Verse 19, "...and many are the
afflictions of the righteous." Oh, many. Psalm 73. David said, ah, he said, the
world doesn't seem to be in trouble like I am. What good is my religion doing
me? I've got nothing but trouble. The world was fat and sassy,
got everything they could have with God's people, and waters
of a full cup of trouble were rung out on them. He said, I don't understand. He said, I
was in this, in this. He said, and then I went into
the sanctuary, and I heard God's word, and I heard, he said, I
saw their end. Like sheep being fattened with
a slaughter. Or God's people will be weaned
from all of this, so that they won't hold to all of this. And
He sends them trouble and trial so that they know they have here
no continuing city. Takes away from them everyone
they love dearly, so that they'll know they can't hold on to everybody.
But you better hold on to Him whom you can hold on to forever. Many are deflations of the right,
many, many. People, the finest people I've
ever known who walked this planet are the ones who went through
the most severe trials. That's right. Read God's Word. The men and the women He used
the most went through the hardest trials. Many are afflictions
of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of
them." A double L. One way or another, sooner or
later. But it will be, this too shall
pass. He keepeth, I love this, this
deserves a message on my son. He keepeth, do you know why he
wrote this? Why is this in here? Why is this
next verse? He keepeth all his bones, not
one of them broken. What, where'd that come from?
What's that talking about? Does that mean God's people never
had broken bones? Huh? No, Paul broke probably every
bone in his body in his lifetime, had broken. What's he talking
about? Christ's body. Christ is the head, we are his
body. Every one of us is members of
his body. Every one of his people are members of his body, not
one bone. shall be broken." A bruised reed, he'll not break. Not even your little tongue will be finally broken, you know,
completely, all the way. What he's saying there is, Not
one of God's people will ever finally be lost and forsaken. Not one member of Christ's body
will ever live. Cast away. He said, I give unto
them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Not one of them. That's why they say they're righteous. They're brokenhearted, but they'll
not be severed from the body. Read on. Evil shall slay the
wicked. Now, they that hate the righteous,
enemies of God's people, they'll be made desolate. They'll be
found guilty someday. Guilty. Doesn't matter how righteous
they say they were. They're going to be found guilty.
But verse 22, the Lord redeemeth the soul of his servant. What? Who? The Lord Jesus Christ. By his blood and his righteousness
redeems the soul of his servant. Every one of them. and none of them that trust in him. Now, all that
hate the gospel are going to be made and found guilty. But
not one that trusts in Christ shall be found guilty. Not one. Now, it does not say those who
strongly trust in God. Does it? Not one of those who
keep on keepin' on. It doesn't say that. It doesn't
say, not one of those who pray through all night long. Not one
of those that they quit sinnin' all the... It doesn't say that. It doesn't say. Not one of those
who stay strong all the days of their life. It just says not one of those,
but trust in Him shall be made desolate, that
is, cast off all, found guilty, and that's it. Isn't that a good song? Are you
glad that that happened to David? See, there's a fool's hope. David
acted like an absolute, blown idiot. Like he didn't believe
anything. Boy, his heart was right though.
The Lord brought him out of that and realized what he was and
sat him down and he took his pen out and said, I want to bless
the Lord at all times. I pray that I won't boast to
the Lord of none of those that I cried this for back right here. Aren't you glad that happened?
All right. Won't do long. All right, stand
with me. Let's pray. Our Lord, thank you
for your word. This is all our hope. You don't speak out loud to men
anymore, but you do speak very really through your word, the
preaching of your word, how we thank you for it. And we intend,
by your grace, to preach the word in season or out of season.
It's our hope, our only hope, hope for sinners such as we are. We thank you that we've got a
good hope through grace, yea, through Christ our Lord. Bless
your word. One word, you can take one word. According to your will and purpose,
it's a good pleasure. You can take one word, one sentence,
and bring it home to the heart of your people and give them
great joy and comfort and health. That's my prayer, our prayer
in Christ's name. Amen. You're dismissed. Thank you very much. All right. All right. uh... Thank you. uh... uh... you Okay. Okay. you you Okay. uh...