I tell you, you weren't too familiar
with that. I wasn't either, but it's a good word. Alright, you can be turning Psalm
119, Psalm 119. Sunday morning. We looked at Jeremiah 616, which
says. Thus sayeth the Lord. Stand ye in the ways and seek,
and ask for the old paths, where is the good one? And walk therein,
and you shall find rest for yourself." Now, I didn't read the rest of
it, did I? The rest of that verse goes like
this, But they said. We will not walk therein." And then he said, also, I set
a watchman over you, saying, hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, we will not hearken. That's serious, isn't it? Well,
I have a reading for my own enjoyment. In Psalm one nineteen. And this
helped me. We've looked at it before I know
that. I think we've looked at it. Studied it a couple of times
together. But it helped me and it has stayed
with me since I read it a few days ago. And I believe it will
help you and meet your need as well. First eight verses. And notice again how we run into
this same. The same thing. The ways of God. The ways of God. The paths, the
ways, and we read it, if you read with me, if you followed
along in Psalm twenty-five. Do you notice how many times
it talked about teach me thy way? Sinners will he show the
way. Do you notice that? No way. And we didn't properly Sunday
morning. I didn't properly deal with that. From a standpoint
of God's people, we had some visitors and I got real basic,
tried to. So here we go, line on line.
Precept on precept. Line upon line. Precept on precept. Same thing. I didn't learn that
Sunday morning. I need to hear it again. I need
to hear much the same thing. All right, verse one, now, blessed,
blessed are the undefiled in the way. Blessed, the word blessed
has manifold meaning. Blessed means truly favored of God. God blessed
you Oh bless the Lord oh my soul forget not all his benefits blessings
benefit as he blessed you. Are you blessed of the Lord.
Well he's highly favored you and he left off blessing someone
else. He blessed you. Are you not favored. Has not God shown you favor.
Are you not one of his favorites. That's what favor blessing mean
blessed truly favored of God. He has rewarded you. For what? Some of the disciples, one time,
said, Lord, when did we do these things? We don't remember doing
anything. He said, well done, now, good and faithful servant.
I didn't do anything. He rewards us, really, for something
that's his work. But blessed, truly favored of
God, rewarded by God. and happy. The word blessed means
happy, happy, rejoicing. What does it mean to be happy?
There's a lot of people out there. There's people running up and
down the road right now just happy. They've got whatever your
pleasure is. They've got George Strait or Pink Floyd or whatever makes
you happy. You know, they've got one or
the other in there. It shows how fickle and how ridiculous
that happiness is, doesn't it? But they're happy. They think
they're happy. This is the meaning of happiness. Only when the Lord
said, blessed, is somebody really blessed and happy, happy, rejoicing. Paul said, and he said this from
a jail cell. Can a man be happy in a jail? He said, Rejoice in the Lord.
And again, I say, Rejoice. And he had to have a smile on
his face when he wrote that, didn't he? You know, I thought
about this today. You know how we write letters
to people that are in trouble and sorrow and sickness and sadness,
and we try to cheer them up? Paul was doing all the writing,
wasn't he? He was the one incarcerated. and suffering all these things,
and says everybody left him practically. But he was the one doing all
the comforting. Well, then he must know something
about happiness, Barbara, that I want. Contentment, he said,
be content in whatever state you're in. Where did he write
that from? Jail. You think Leggett's is jail? We probably would, too, Barbara,
if we worked that. But it ain't. You're free to
come and go. Paul said, I've learned. Now, I want to know something
about that happiness. Well, here it is. Blessed are the undefiled
in the way. The undefiled in the way. Now,
I don't know about you, but I feel defiled. Most of the time, I
feel defiled. What is this to be undefiled
in the way. I believe first of all it means
to be in Christ. Christ is the way. Didn't he
say that? He said, I am the way. And not many ways, so to speak,
to God. God, Christ, is the way. No man,
he said, comes to God but by me. You're not going to get there
by your work. by your efforts. That's the reason
we steer away from hymns like trust and obey. We don't want
to give anybody any idea that there's creature merit or any
works involved in this thing. But the principle of all that's
true, Jeanette, we're going to see that in a moment. No man comes to God but by Christ,
through Christ. And by Christ taking us there,
John, we're just not going to, if he just says, no, come on,
follow me. About like those animals I have.
Come on, let's go. What are you doing now? Your
dog's like that? Sure they are. Come on, whatever
their names are. Come on, and they run every which
way. They try every now and then they
will follow you. If I have a carrot, Molly will follow me. But drops
that head and starts doing whatever, you know, or running. Nobody's
going to get to God except Christ take us there. Right? Happy are those who find themselves
of God. Are you in Christ? Who of God
is made unto us all we need. We are accepted in the beloved
and we're in Christ Because God put us there. God put us there. And Christ said this, without
me you can do nothing. All right. Of God are you in
him. And though all those chosen by
God, put in Christ, purchased by Christ's blood, are kept by
his power. And they're considered by God
undefiled. They are considered by God holy,
righteous, blameless. He's able. We're not able, are
we, John, to present ourselves faultless. He's able to present
us faultless before his presence in glory. OK? But the word here,
Stan, is different. If you look at your margin, I
don't know if you have a Cambridge, but some of you who have a Cambridge,
the word undefiled, what does it say in the margin? Huh? What does it say, John? Perfect
or sincere. Perfect or sincere? Sincere. All right, here's the
word. Sincere, blessed, happy are the sincere in the what? The sincere in the what? And this sincerity. Now, I'm
trying to weigh my words and say it slowly and clearly so
that you'll understand me and stay with me. This sincerity. is evidenced or characterized
by the fact that, read on, they walk in the law of the Lord. All right? Blessed are the undefiled
in the way, who? Who's sincere? Who's serious
about this thing? Who's really serious about this
thing? The ones who walk in the law of the Lord. And how that
reads, Stan? John? Charles? That's the way
that reads, isn't it? The undefiled, the sincere in
Christ, following Christ, lovers of Christ, are walking in the
law of the Lord, in his law. Law? There was a point in my life
where that word was mentioned. We're not under the law. We're
not under the law. And granted, granted, that we are not under the law
for acceptance with God. OK? That's clear. Everybody in
here knows that. I really believe. Everyone in here without exception
knows that. Don't you? Sure you do. And though we're not under the
law for acceptance with God now, we desire to keep his holy law,
don't we? I want to walk according to his
law. Ten Commandments? Yes, you better believe it. You
tell me what's wrong with the Ten Commandments. Oh, do not I love thy law, O
Lord, David said. Paul said the law is good, it's
just, it's right. Consider all that commandment.
Ten commandments? I love them. Don't you? Wouldn't have it any other way.
I want it written on my heart. I don't want to have any other
God before me. Do you? I don't want to take His name
in vain. Do you? I want to worship Him
and Him only. Don't you? I want to rest in
Christ. Don't you? I want to love my
neighbor as myself. Don't you? So on and so forth. All right, then, the undefiled,
the sincere Christ followers, they do walk in his law. They do. They keep his law. Though
not perfectly. Imperfectly. But they strive to keep it. They
do. They do. Don't let anybody accuse us of
being lawless. We're lawbreakers. But we're
not lawless. OK, that sums it up. We're lawbreakers. But we're not lawless. Verse
2. Blessed happy are they. And we're going to see in a moment
what the law is. You know, it's all the Word of
God. Happy are they that keep his testimony. Turn to John 8. John chapter 8. Happy or favored
of God. blessed of God, rewarded, rewarded of God, favored of God,
blessed of God in many ways, are they that keep his testimony. John 8, John 8, and look at this
now. The true disciple of Christ is sincerely trying to walk in
the ways of Christ. Right, the true disciple of Christ. Ain't nobody that's a true disciple
of Christ. But Vicki, you know what it means
to be a disciple of someone. You're a, he's the master. And
you're the subject. Right? It's the base meaning
of the word. Disciple. Where we get the term
discipline. We want to be disciplined by
our master. We want to discipline ourselves
according to our master's commands. That's what it means to be a
disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, right? There are people who follow
men, who are disciples of men, have been over the years. Buddha,
Confucius, Mohammed. and they and they try to look
like you know grow their buddhist. They think the big belly is so
to make good buddhists. But they try to even look like
what a handy religion that is gluttonous gluttonous you know
to sit around. Well that's. Convenient. But you know I'm a disciple what
I'm trying to say the disciple Tries to look like, act like,
walk like, talk like, adheres to, follows, devoted to a devotee
of his master. Right? A disciple. Well, we're
disciples of Jesus Christ. We want to look like Him, walk
like Him, talk like Him, be devoted to Him. Don't we? And adhere
to His command. Don't we? Everything He said. Like Mary said, What should we
say when you do it? That's what I want to do. Lord,
whatever you say, that's what I want to do. Look at John 8. Look what our Lord says here,
John 8, 51. And we just read, blessed are
they that keep his testimonies. John 8, 51. Verily, verily, I
say unto you, if a man keep my saying. He shall never see the. Saying. Sayings you may know saying. What's that? His word, what's
that? Everything you said. Right now, one thing is everything
you said. Everything you say, well, how
do we do that? Keep his saying, well, in Christ,
we've certainly kept His sayings have been perfectly, we've kept
his sayings, but the word keep here, and if you look it up sometime
for yourself, means to take to heart, to believe, to consider
as right, just, and true, and long for, and need, and hold
to. Keep, something you keep. Do
you have anything at home you want to keep, Nancy? Joe, maybe
there's something surely Joe, you'll be here, you don't want
to lose him to keep it. I'll keep you a while. And too
long now, forget it. You're stuck. But you want to
keep that's what it means to keep it. Keep his testimony.
Find his gospel. His word is dear to your heart. Dear to your heart, everything
he said just right, true, holy, it's just what you need. I'll
keep that. You don't boastfully say, oh,
yeah. That's what you mean. Take it
to heart and say, I want it. That's mine. See what I mean? That's for me. That's mine. That's
mine. Now read on. Now look at John
14. Our Lord stays with it. John 14, verse John fourteen verse fifteen if
you love me. Keep my commandment. Commandment. Verse twenty-one
he that hath my commandments and keepeth them he is in love
with me. He that loved me shall be loved
of my father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself
to him." I want that. Read on. Verse 23, Jesus answered and
said, If a man love me, he will keep my words, and my father
will love him, we will come unto him, and make our abode with
him. Oh, I want that. I believe that's what Paul had
down at And like. Isaiah said my mother
and my father and my mother forsake me the Lord will take me up.
That's what that means. John fifteen look at verse ten
if you keep my commandments you shall abide in my love even as
I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love talking
about obedient child isn't it. Can you get anything else out
of that. Can't spiritualize that away. Don't want to. It's talking
about an obedient child. Now who loves, if this girl loves
me, she says she loves me. If she's an out and out rebel
against me and shouldn't pay any attention to what I say and
wants to go her own way and just hates what her daddy tells her
to do, she doesn't love me. Does she? No. That's exactly what our Lord's
saying. Exactly what he's saying. And
the text says, best of the day to keep his testimonies and to
seek him with a whole heart. To seek him with a whole heart. And let me add this to that last. I'll go on. I can add that to
another verse. I've got to go on. To seek him with a whole
heart. James said this, listen, listen,
listen. James 1, verse 8. He said, A
double-minded man is unstable, or woman, is unstable in all
their ways. Well, I want to follow the Lord,
but I've got to go to the world. I want to straddle the fence. You're tottering. You're unstable. in all your way. Half-hearted,
listen to me now, this is good, I've tried this on. Half-hearted,
half-seekers, are unstable, unsettled, miserable, poor, sickly, troubled,
unsure, inconsistent in character, un-Christlike, mutable, they
change, unstable souls, half-hearted disciples. And it's not, I haven't
arrived, oh my, How can I say this without making
it sound that way? I haven't arrived at all. This one thing I do, like Paul
said, I press. I do know where I'm headed and
endeavoring to walk in that direction by His grace. But I remember
as a young believer being caught between two worlds. My old cronies, you know, were
pulling at me in the world. It still had some allure to me,
you know. It's not, this thing's not, I
don't care what these religionists say. When the Lord saved me,
I quit my drinking. No, hadn't had a desire ever
since. Well, that's not been that way with me. And I don't
believe it's that way with God's people. Peter couldn't have said, When
the Lord save me, I'll quit my cussing. When the Lord save me,
I'll quit my cussing. It wasn't long. The flesh lusts against the Spirit.
That's what I find. I find in myself another law
warring. Don't you? I believe those self-righteous
people to say that. They're not safe. The Lord has
given them, left them and their self righteous, a false security. And the devil's got them right
where he wants them, trusting themselves. But the man or woman
who's trusting Christ alone, the devil's doing all he can
to loosen their grasp on Christ. You find that your experience? Yeah. But I tell you this, and
I remember being that way, but the longer I go in this thing,
by God's grace, let me keep saying it, by God's grace, the less
allure it has. And the more vanity I see in
it, and the less of this world, not of this world's elusive dreams. I can enjoy things as much as
the other man, as much as him. I can enjoy things. I can be,
you know, happy and doing things as much as the next man, but
I see the vanity in it. I can be happy without it. I've
learned, I hope I'm learning, and I haven't learned, but I'm
learning how to both be abound and how to be obeyed. and this requires some wholeheartedness. I remember. And part of my problem, Steve,
was that I was trying to do both. But Christ said no man can serve
two masters, you can't do it. You'll love the one or hate the
other, hate the one or love the other. And I was trying to walk
with both. Two can't walk together except
to be agreed. And thank God he weaned me, is
weaning me. Seek him with a whole heart and
find him. That's what he said. Seek me
with a whole heart. You'll find me. Oh, I want to
be found in him. And I need him. I need to find
him. Oh, where is the Lord that I
might find him? You know what the psalmist said?
My sins have separated me, but I need to find him and find forgiveness
with him. Find him. Well, how do you? Wholeheartedly. And find happiness. Find happiness. Walk with a wholeheartedly and
be blessed in every way imaginable. Read on. Third verse. They do
no iniquity. They walk in his way. I was going
to have you turn the first John two and three, but as a whole,
a difficult passage to deal with and I don't have time. We've
looked at it together. But you know how what it says,
he that is born of God, sinneth not and so forth. Spiritually speaking, what that
means is, as he is, so are we. Now, you know, he says, John,
that he was manifested to take away our sin. In him, he is in Christ, sinneth
not, because his seed remaineth in you. He cannot sin. That new creature in Christ cannot
sin. That's a mystery to me, though.
That's a mystery. I really don't understand that,
because I find this flaw in my memory. Well, David said this, then. David's a man after God's own
heart. Well, here's what David said
he did. Thy word have I here in my heart. that I might not
sin against thee. Didn't he? John wrote in 1 John
2.1, he said, Little children, I write these things I write
unto you. What? What? What'd he say? Can you quote it? These things
I write unto you that you sin not. And we said, John, these things
I write unto you that you sin not. In other words, it's our
help. The Word of God is a deterrent to sin. Can I say that? That's
what John said. These things I write unto you
that you sin not. Isn't it? It's a deterrent to
sin. You need a deterrent to sin?
Huh? If anybody's still with me now. Oh, do I ever learn? So what
David said, Thy word. Our Lord said, He that came to
my commandments, I will come unto him and make my abode with
him. Thy word have I in my heart. They do know iniquity. In other
words, it's not their general course or tenor of life. They
walk in his ways. We read that in Jeremiah six
sixteen is to stand in the way. And you know, I didn't deal with
it as fully as you could. It says they walk in his ways are
sincere, they walk in his way. God said of some people, he said,
my ways are not your way. I want God's way to be my way. Don't you? Do you, Sam? If you're
a follower of Christ, you do. I want his ways to be, I don't
want him to say of me, or you, Nancy Park, my ways are not your
ways. Yeah, you want to say that to
him, say that to him. My thoughts are not your thoughts.
According to this, that's not the way it is with a believer.
A believer's ways become his ways, and their thoughts become
in tune with his thoughts. You can't walk with him otherwise.
You can't two walk together except that they agree. All right, look
at verse four. Thou hast commanded us to keep
thy precepts diligently. Verse four. Thou hast commanded
us to keep thy precepts diligently. Now, obedience is not an option. to this verse is, Thou hast commanded
us, and commanded us to do it diligently. Again, let me use the example
of a child. Do you as a parent, do you as a parent demand partial
or complete obedience? Will partial submission do or
full submission? If you're a good and loving parent,
you will be diligent in commanding those children as you should.
All right? If they are a loving child, they
will diligently try. Right? A rebellious child won't. A loving child will diligently
try, but knowing their frame, they won't do it perfectly. And
you forgive them, but that doesn't lessen the command. You forgive
them. Deborah, you forgive them. They
fall a thousand times. You forgive them a thousand times,
but you'll command them nonetheless, will you? You'll say, no, don't
do that again. Look at verse 5. Look at what
David answers you. Oh, that my ways were directed. Oh, that... Jeremiah 10. I've never seen
this verse. Jeremiah 10. I've seen it, but
I've never seen it. You know what I mean? Do you
see? Jeremiah 10. Oh, that my ways were directed
to keep by statutes. Oh, Lord. Jeremiah 10. Look at this. Jeremiah 10. Now, prayer, people. Prayer is
calling upon God to help us. That's what prayer is. That's
what prayer is. With Thanksgiving, prayer is
calling on the Lord, calling on the Lord. Be strong in the
Lord and the power of his mind. How? Ask him. Call on him for
that power. Call on him for that power. Call,
he's an ever-present. Call in on Christ's power. Call
in on the Spirit's leadership. Help me, Lord, I'm ignorant,
without whom we can do nothing. Prayer is vital. Prayer is vital. Prayer is vital. Look here at
Jeremiah 10, verse 23. Oh, Lord, I know, I know this
from experience, that the way of man is not in himself. It's
not in man that walketh to direct his steps. Have you found that to be so
in your own case? Lord, it's not in me to direct my steps. I've made covenants with my eyes
many times. I've tried. Look at the next
verse. Oh, Lord, correct me. Correct me with judgment, not
anger. That's the way he always does
it. All right, back to the text,
and I'll hurry. All right. Oh, Lord, oh, that my ways were
directed to keep thy station. He's not in me. to direct my
step. This thing's not a democracy,
thank God. It's a theocracy. God reigns. He said, Sin shall not have dominion
over you. Me of good cheer, he said, I
have overcome the world. Oh, that's good news. Oh, then,
Lord, direct my path, my step, to keep thy statute. Then, he
says, shall I not be ashamed? Sin brings shame. Don't you feel full of shame? After you've sinned, you're ashamed
of yourself being sinned. Sin brings shame, doesn't it? Don't you feel full of shame
after you know you have just completely against the Lord and gone your
own way. You feel full of shame. And it
robs joy. The Lord hides his face. That's
joy. And the Lord hides his face. A fall humiliates us. Just be glad the Lord doesn't
allow us to be publicly humiliated all the time for our sin and
our folly. Aren't you glad, isn't he a good
God in that respect, that he doesn't reveal us for what we
really are? But he humiliates us nonetheless.
We fall before our close family. We fall in the eyes of our wife
or our husband all the time. It's humiliating. That man you
look up to, he gets pretty low at times. Huh? Humiliates us. Bless God, he
raises up the fallen. He cheers the pain. But dear
Lord, I don't want to fall. I don't want to fall. How many
times do I have to fall? I want to stand. I don't want
to fall. John, you want to fall? I want to stand. I want to walk. I don't want to stumble. John,
you want to stumble? I stumbled enough growing up. They used
to call me Knothead. I fell up steps, not just down
them. Knothead. That was me. And that's what this is between
my shoulders. A big knot. I don't want to fall. I've done
that enough. I don't want to do it anymore. I want to walk
now. I want to walk. Don't you? I want to walk. Well, read on. Then shall I not
be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments. Have
respect unto thy commandments. Respect, that word respect means
to have careful consideration, carefully consider his commandments.
before we take a step. We're going to fall, Stan, if
we don't carefully consider what's the Lord's will in this matter.
See what I mean? We're going to stumble. Happens
every time. It's not in a man to direct his
step. Well, I like this way. It's darkness without the light
of his counsel. I like it. I just think it's
right. Now, I go ahead. Boom! bloody nose, trouble, help! I, Lord. OK. He'll do it. He'll do it. He's light. He's
a leader. His spirit is a teacher and a
leader and a guide. When we have respect. Why do
we fall? Every time. It's due to not respecting
his work. David knew better. He knew better
man to God's own heart. He knew better. He just disregarded
God's word on that. Boy, it was a miserable one,
one worst ever. That ruined me. It did ruin physically. Oh Lord. Oh, that my ways were
directed to keep thy statutes. Then will I not be ashamed? I
won't be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments. I will praise thee with uprightness
of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgment." This
is a good verse. praise thee with uprightness
of heart. That means to sing songs from the heart. That means
to worship from the heart. Father, seek it such. Whole heart, not a half a heart. Well, I can't wait to get out
of here so I can have a heart. You can't worship that way. Huh? I got this nut Can't do it. Can't do it. I will praise thee
with uprightness of heart. We and I shall have learned thy
righteous judgments. Now, listen, here's real worship
from the heart begins when we learn his righteous judgment.
You know what I'm going to say, John, don't you? When we learn
of Christ who bore our judgments. Now there you can really praise
him. with uprightness of heart. Boy, your heart will go up to
Him in praise and worship. When you learn that Christ, by
His imputed righteousness, His righteousness, we are justified. His imputed right. We will praise
Him with uprightness of heart when we learn that. First lesson. And, and, when we learn a little obedience, There's no real happiness outside
of obedience. There's no happiness outside
of obedience. You and I have talked about this,
about children, raising children, haven't we, from the beginning.
There's no happiness. A child is just not going to
be happy unless it's corrected. And the same holds true for us. It's hard, listen. I have five
more minutes. It's hard to lift up your heart
to God in worship. When you've been down and dirty
and wicked and vile and disobedient and wayward, it's just hard.
That's just fact. It's just hard to do it. You
don't feel worthy to come in this place. You don't feel worthy
to take that name on your lip. Now, do it anyway. You've got
to. And that's where your help's
going to come from. But I'm just saying this from experience,
and you know, I believe you know it. So it's hard. When you've
just been an out-and-out, wretched, vile sinner against God, give
no thought, just gone all wicked, just done what, you know. God
forbid that we do that much, or any for that matter. But it's
hard to worship, come in here and worship. And a matter of
fact, like I say, I've quoted it a couple of times now, God
hides His face quite often. He just does. And he tells us, let it lay aside
every weight of sin, which does so easily beset. If I regard
iniquity in my heart, the Lord won't hear me. You know, that
means holding on to some bosom sin,
you know, and many other things. But it's just hard to worship. A wretched sinner can worship.
We're all wretched sinner. We come in here, we can worship.
Yes, truly. But it's difficult when you're
ridden with guilt. It's difficult, isn't it? Once
you know it's so. So what do I do? What do we do? Well, he said, I'll praise thee
with uprightness of heart when I shall have learned thy righteous
judgment. When I learn something, when I learn a little bit of
the path of obedience, If you'll teach me thy ways, if you'll
direct my steps, if you'll guide my feet, if you'll keep me from
falling, if you'll help me, Lord, if you'll set my feet on solid
rock, and don't turn your head for a second and say, follow
me, but lay hold on me. If you do more than that, lay
hold on me, and lead me in paths of righteousness for your name's
sake, for your glory, for your honor. Then I'll praise thee
with uprightness far. Now come in here and how can
I say this? Jeanette, you and I have talked
about this. There's no peace outside of obedience. Peace in
Christ, that's where we find our essential peace. But listen
to this. Brother, what do I do with it? Brother John Davis took the time
to send off and get several copies of this. Have you read it? You know, I may not agree with
everything in it and the terminology and all that, but there's some
good things and it's well worth reading. And incidentally, these
books and things are for your benefit, not for display. But
listen to this and just go and learn what this means. We find
peace in the same degree that we follow him. We retain it as
long as we are one with him. Listen. The Bible distinguishes
between peace with God and the peace of God. Romans 5.1 says, therefore being
justified by faith we have peace with God. That's something totally
outside of ourselves, John, is a contract between Christ and
God, and he justified us by Christ, peace with God. Well, Philippians
4, 7, he says, the peace of God, he says, do this, prayer is what
it is, and the peace of God shall rule your minds and hearts. See,
there's a difference, isn't there? Christ said in Matthew 11, 28
and 29, he said there's a rest to be found in him, two-fold
rest. First he said, come unto me,
all you that are labor and heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. That's a free gift of his grace. Just believe in Christ. rest, coming to me, just by coming
to Christ, believing Him, rest. And then what'd He say? Take
my yoke upon you, and learn of me. I am meek and lowly in heart, and
you shall find rest for yourself. This is the difference. There's
a difference. Go and learn what that means. Maybe study that, Matthew 11,
28 and 29. And then I close this last verse. David says... Can you say this? David says,
in closing, look at it. Verse eight. I will keep thy
statutes. When you've corrected, and again
I use your child, when you've corrected your child and you ask them, Steve or Mary,
you say, now, are you going to do that again? Have you ever
asked that? You're not going to do that again,
are you? What do you expect them to say? What do you expect them to say? Well, Mom, I don't know. It's
not the election, huh? Come here. You didn't learn a
lesson. Whacko! Now you're going to do that again? What do you want to hear, Steve?
I don't want to do that again. Didn't the Lord say to Mary when
they brought her in? He said, Woman, neither do I
forgive thee. Then what did he say? Go and what? Sin no more. Don't do that again. What she said we read she said. And that's the sense of what
he's saying here like a child. Dad. I'm not going to do that
again. I'm not going to do that again. Lo and behold. We do it again. What does he do? They don't kick
you out this. He raises up again, he corrects
us as the father chases his children. But then he says, no, don't do
that again. And what do we say? I'm not going
to do that again. So that's what we need to say. Anyway, but here's what here's
here's the hell. Oh, I will keep that. I'm going to
keep your statue. And I hope you'll say that with
a firm God help resolve leaving here. I'm going to walk with
Christ. I'm determined. Oh, forsake me
not. Oh, keep your hand on me or I'll
fall when I leave this door. I need to say that. Every time
I preach, it never fails. That night, I'm just bombarded
with the worst thing. The next morning, oh, on the
mountain one that night and in the gutter that morning. Oh,
I'm going to keep it. Oh, wait a minute. Forsake me not. By your grace.
By your grace. Are we antinomians here? No. We believe in obedience. We want
to be obedient. By His grace, we shall be obedient.
But bless God, thank God for the blood and righteousness of
Christ. All right, stand with me. Our Lord, we thank You so much
for Your Word. It's clean. It cleanses us. It cleanses us. purifies us. That's what you said. It purified
your church by the washing of water, by your Word. Oh, how
we need it. Oh, how we need it. Cleanse us
all over, Lord. Not our feet only. But we are
clean through thy Word, you said, through Christ. But we do need
our lower parts clean. So we ask, Lord, that You would
cleanse us according to Your Word, quicken us according to
Your Word, make us Your disciples, followers of Christ, just like
Him. Oh, Lord. And keep us now as
we leave this place. Keep us. Hold us up that we don't
fall. In Christ's name we pray. Amen.