OK, open your Bibles now to Psalm
84. Psalm 84. felt impressed to go in this
direction, and I hope the Lord, hope the impression was from
him. The Lord blessed one of our brothers to pray for us tonight. Pray for me, for you, for us. I hope he answers that prayer.
Verse 1, Psalm 84, How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of
hosts. The word amiable means loved.
Or beloved, how beloved are thy tabernacles. Plural, tabernacles. More than
one. A tabernacle is a dwelling place. And also, look that word up,
and it means a lair of animals. And in parentheses it said, the
shepherd's hut. where the sheep can resort, the
shepherd's hut. He says how amiable, how lovely
and beloved are God's tabernacles. The Lord said where two or three
are gathered together in my name, that's where I am. I'm dwelling
in the midst of them. The church is the place where
God dwells with his people. It is the tabernacle of God,
the church. And these places, tabernacles,
these places, these tabernacles, these dwelling places are love. They're the beloved places of
God, places he delights to go and meet with his people and
dwell with them there, beloved by God. lovely, amiable places
where his people are, and they are loved and beloved. These
places are loved and the beloved places of his people, God's people. Christ, of whom it could truly be said,
the man after God's own heart, the only real man after God's
own heart. He always resorted to the synagogue,
didn't he? Every Sabbath you could find
him where God's people were wont to pray and to gather together,
right? Every Sabbath, wherever God's
people were. And that was on the Sabbath.
That's where God's people were. And sure there were some, sure
it was full of hypocrites. Sure it was. The synagogue that
he went into, the Jewish synagogue, was full of hypocrisy and wickedness
and so forth. But he wouldn't have been there
had not two or three gathered in his name. There were two or
three there. Some of God's people were there. And all over the
land, God placed these synagogues for God's people to meet down
through the years, synagogues and now. Even now, it's where
God's people gather. They're tabernacles. And I'm
like David. To me, they're amiable places.
I love to go there. I love to visit these places.
Now, we're not talking about buildings. Most of these tabernacles
or these buildings you'll find are very meager and very plain
and very ordinary. There's nothing kind of like
that tabernacle in the wilderness. There's not a great deal about
them that's We try to make them look attractive,
but that's not our emphasis, is it? It's the one within, the
one that's preached from the inside of those walls, isn't
it, that we desire for men to be taken with? But they're lovely
nonetheless. These various places, when I
drive up to them, when I'm visiting these various cities, when I
just drive up and see them, I think, ah, that's a lovely place to
me. Brother Bale used to be called the Faith Chapel down in Crossville. Met in a little renovated schoolhouse. Some of you had been there or
went there. A little white block building
down in Crossville. Used to love to go to that house
of prayer. That's what they had on their
sign out front. My house shall be called the
house of prayer. I used to love to just drive up to that little
building, because I knew that's where God was going to be, that's
where the gospel was going to be preached, and God's people
were going to be meeting in an amiable place to me. How amiable
are thy tabernacles, O Lord! David was exiled. David was in
hiding, and he was exiled from He was away from the tabernacle,
the place of worship. He was away from the ceremonies,
the ordinances, the sacrifice. He couldn't get in on the high
priest offering up the blood and so forth. And he says here
in verse 2, My soul longeth. Look at it, verse 2. My soul
longeth for thy courts, for the courts of the Lord. My soul longeth
for these things. My heart and my flesh crieth
out for the living God. My soul longeth." Many people
long to leave, and no sooner in the courts than they're longing
to leave. And many, he says, my soul longeth,
yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord. Many faint when
they get inside. David was fainting for being
outside of it. He said, I'm going to faint if
I don't get there, if I don't get there to hear, to partake
of what I so desperately need. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth
for the courts of God. And as I said, many long to leave
upon arriving, and many faint when they get there. But David
says, my heart and my flesh, that's my mind, my soul, my heart,
and my body. crieth out for the living God,
for the living God. Where God's people are is where
God is promised to be, and you cannot separate the spirit of
worship from the actual act of worship. God is promised to bless his
people who are gathered, who are congregated by his presence. There is no promise of God's
presence in a As much as I love these tapes, they cannot in any
way, shape, form, or fashion take the place of the congregation
of God's people. He said where two or three are
gathered. It can't take the place of a book. I mean, the book can't
take the place of the solemn assembly, the assembly of the
saint, the joyous assembly. The Lord is called the Lord of
hosts, isn't it? The Lord of hosts. He is called
the shepherd. In other words, he is a shepherd,
and sheep are animals that live together in herds. He is the
shepherd of the sheep. Heaven is a congregation of people.
Heaven is a congregation. John said, "'Truly our fellowship
was with the Father and his Son.' Where will you find the Father
and his Son? Dwelling in the midst of a heavenly
host. Right? Where will you find the
Father? He'll be with his children. The
Father delights to be with his children. And the Son? He's with his people. A multitude
of heavenly hosts are about his throne, day and night, praising
him. David says, My heart crieth out. My heart and my flesh cryeth
out for the living God. My heart and flesh cry out,"
like Paul said, to win Christ and be found in him. How are
you going to find Christ? To know him, Paul said. How is
he known? Listen to this, Psalm 48.3. Beautiful
for situation is Mount Zion, the city of the great King. God
is known in her. for a refuge. Where did you come
to know the true and living God? Sitting in the woods? Sitting
at home alone? In the midst of the congregation
where the gospel was proclaimed. And David cries out to be in
that place, literally, to be in that place. The place that
God, I keep coming back to this, don't I? The place where God
has chosen to put his name there. where the gospel is, where God's
name is honored and glorified, where God's people are, where
the sacrifice is put on display and offered, where the gospel
is proclaimed. David cried out for it. Verse
3, when he envied the sparrow, he said, Yea, the sparrow hath
found the house, and a swallow a nest for herself. David was in exile, he was out
running from his enemies and living in caves and so forth,
and he began to think about those little birds that flew around
looking for a nesting place, and oh, those blessed birds that
found the place where God's name was, the tabernacle of the living
God. The little birds even got in
on it. place of worship. David envied that sparrow. He
said the sparrow had found a house to swallow a nest for herself. Poor little ignorant birds found
a good place to nest. I wonder how ignorant these animals
are. He said the ox knows he's on
it. He asked his master's crib, my people. He said that she has
found a nest for herself in a place where she may lay her young." A nest for herself. Our Lord
said in one place, Is not your life worth more than many sparrows? Can you be found nesting where
God has promised to be? If they go looking for you, can
it be said of you But they're nesting down in God's house.
They seem like they're always there. They're nesting, like
that bird is nesting, waiting on those eggs to hatch. And we're
waiting on something, too. We're waiting on the salvation
of the Lord. We're waiting on God to hatch
the seed of his word in our hearts. Are you nesting and resting in
Christ? A place to lay her young. This
is a good place, parents, to lay your young. Lay them before
the altar of the Lord. Lay them, sit them, bring them
in. Sit them down before the Lord. Sit them down before the
Word where they will hear this Word and it is able to make them
wise unto salvation. Oh, Lord, uphold my King and
my God. Oh, he says, I envy. Oh, Lord,
oppose my King and my God." David was envious of those little birds,
and here we are. Do we take this for granted? Maybe David had at times, but
he sure wasn't now, was he, when he was away from it? Some of
you have been away at times, and could your heart and flesh
cry out like David here? Oh, how amiable to thy tabernacle. Verse 4. Blessed are they that
dwell in thy house." Blessed are they that dwell. They don't
just visit, they dwell there. They live there. They live for
the things of God. They live in God's house. They
are in Christ. They are in the tabernacle. They
are in Christ, by faith. They are in the family of God.
They are in the body of Christ. Blessed are they that dwell there,
that live there in Christ, the tabernacle of God. But you know
his body is his tabernacle, isn't it? Right here, his people. Know ye not that ye are the temple
of the living God? His body is the tabernacle of
God. His temple, his church, is his
tabernacle. And our Lord said where the carcass
is, that's where the eagles will gather. That's where they'll
be gathered. wherever the nest is, that's
where you'll find the brood feeding. And whenever possible, at many
times in various cities all over the land, look at it, verse 4.
It said, They will be still praising thee. They will be still praising
thee. They're not carrying on. God is not the author of all
this confusion and this mass hysteria that's going on in his
name. God is not the author of that. God is in the heaven and
we're on the earth. Let your words be few. Be still
and know that they will be still, but their hearts will be bubbling
open. They'll be praising him, but not with just the lips, but
from the heart. And there are times when they'll
be carried away in the Spirit, truly. in the Spirit, the things
of Christ, and they'll be just joyous on occasion. And that's
the time you'll hear their voice, one or two here and there, their
voice over the rest. Say, who is that? Like the Lord,
you know, when the Lord said, somebody touched me. Remember
that? And there'll be times when some
of God, two or three, their voices will be heard over the multitude.
Who is that? Somebody touched me. And he makes himself known
in a special way to that person. He says they'll still be praising
him. They will still be praising David. The Lord's house is called a
house of praise, a house of prayer. It's an amiable place. When you come to the Lord's house,
when you come to a place where God has chosen to put his name
there, put his true gospel there, where his true people are, when
you come there the first time, John, when you come the first
time, You'll find the people that are praising God and God
alone. They're not bragging on the flesh,
and they're not with all these carrying-ons. They're praising
God. They're giving glory to him.
They're talking about and praising and honoring and extolling his
person, his work, his son, find a man who is preaching the gospel,
you'll find a people who are glorying in that gospel. They
are praising him. Right? That's where God's people
are found. They are praising him. Not praising the flesh,
but praising him. You come the first time, that's
what you'll find. You come again, they'll still be praising him.
You come again, they will still be praising him. You come again
and again, and they will still be praising him. Selah. Think
about it. That's the place where you want
to go, the place where you can always go and find God's name
extolled and honored and magnified, and where God's people will still
be found praising him. Verse 5, he says, Blessed is
the man whose strength is in thee. Blessed is the man or woman
whose trust, whose faith is in Christ. Flesh and blood didn't reveal
this to you. If you believe and trust and look to and believe
in and look to Christ and Christ alone as your wisdom, your righteousness,
your sanctification, All these things, your redemption, your
strength, your help, your keeping power. Blessed are you. Blessed are you, Charles Barr,
whatever your daddy's name is. Blessed are you, John. Blessed
are you. Flesh and blood didn't reveal
this to you, but my Father which is in heaven. Blessed is the
man whose strength is in the Lord Jesus Christ. That rock
is strength. his Master, his Lord, his King,
his Savior, his Salvation. Blessed man, blessed is the man
whose strength is in thee, in whose hearts are the ways of
them." The ways of who? Verse 4 says, "...they that dwell
in thy house." Those that are praising thee. That's who. "...in whose hearts are the ways,
the things of God." the house of God's abode, the things of
God. Blessed are they who are about
the Father's business. Blessed are they in whose heart
are the ways of God's people. The way. And it doesn't walk
in the path of sinners, as Psalm 1 says, but in the ways of God's
people, whose affections are set on things above. This is
not natural. This is God-given. God-given. Supernatural. He says
these people pass, he'll be like one passing through the valley
of Bacchus, and make it a well. What does that mean? Well, they're
passing through, for one thing. He says they're passing through
a valley. Psalm 23 says, yea, I walked through the valley,
the shadow of death. Passing through. We have here
no continuing city. and their heart is set on things
above. They have here no continuing
city, or their heart is not totally attached to the things of this
world. We talk about driving our stakes
deep. The deeper you drive your stakes,
the more it's attached, right? The heart is not beset, as in
concrete, attached to. We're passing through. We're
strangers and pilgrims, sojourners. Nothing wrong with having things.
Everyone in here has a house. Nothing wrong with those things,
as long as you don't have an attachment to these things, right? As long as that's not your treasure,
because that's where your heart will be. Passing through. The Valley of Bacup. What's the
Valley of Bacup? Well, that was a very dry and
hot and dusty and barren, lifeless place. That's a picture of this
world. And they're passing through that
valley, and it says that God will make it a well to them.
Jacob's well will be there. And Jacob's well was there, a
place where the well, the spring of living water is bubbling up,
where God's people can go and be refreshed. Where is that?
What is that? What is this well? That's Christ. He said, All my springs are in
thee, that well of living water. It's an oasis for God's people.
It's like old Mephibosheth. Living in Lodabar, he found a
table where he could hide his lame feet and sit with God's,
or the king's, sons. Table in the middle of Lodabar.
A table, he's prepared a table in the midst of my enemy. There's
a rock, a shadow of a rock in a weary land. A place where you
can get your thirst quenched. Look at it. It says, "...the rain also filleth
the pools." Showers of blessing filleth the pool. Christ is that cloud in whom
is full of all blessings. All the blessings of God are
in Christ, aren't they? He is that cloud who is full
of those showers of blessings that we so desperately need.
And we are earthen vessels, right? Earthen vessels. And he says
to us, open your mouth, and I'll fill it. How did you come out
here this evening? As an empty vessel? Or your mind,
your heart, you're full of this world? Well, you won't be filled,
you're already full. If you come, he said, blessed
are they that hunger and thirst. If you're hungry, if you're thirsty,
if you're empty, if you need, the needy. Blessed are the poor
and needy. Blessed are they that are empty.
These earthen vessels that come out in need of a blessing, showers
of blessing, oh, that on me they might fall. An earthen vessel,
an empty vessel, he says, open your mouth and I'll fill it. Thank you. Some said it thundered. God's faith. Open your mouth,
and I'll feel it. Christ is that cloud of blessing,
and all we need bring is a desire to be filled, an empty vessel. What does it require to empty
a vessel? Most of the time we're full of many things, aren't we?
It requires a little emptying on our part, a little preparation,
doesn't it? Get rid of this. How do you get rid of it? This
kind cometh not out but by prayer and fasting. Look at verse 7. These people,
they'll find a well in a hot and dry place. The rain, these
little pools, they'll be filled, overflowing. Their cups will
run over, and they'll go, verse 7, from strength to strength.
They'll go from strength to strength, from faith to faith. It says
in the New Testament, more and stronger faith. a knowledge of
Christ to more knowledge of Christ. They'll grow in grace and a knowledge
of Christ, from a communion with Christ to an even stronger bond
with Christ, even closer intimacy with Christ. Do some people seem to you like
they grow in grace and a knowledge of Christ more rapidly than others? Does it seem like to you that
some people, they seem like they're growing? I don't feel like I'm
growing. Why do you think that is? I guarantee you can trace it.
You'll find those people where the showers are. You'll find
them at all times where the showers are. I have many flowers planted
around my house in various places. Some of them are quite out of
reach of my watering holes. I have to go to great lengths
to water those flowers. But there are some who are very
close to the house. And I can easily water them.
And I water them. I water my flowers, and they
look great. They're growing. They're looking beautiful, aren't
they, Nancy? And I feed them, and I water them, and they're
just growing. Well, I've got some that are pretty far away
from the house, and they look just a little bit scrawny. Tell
you anything? Faith cometh by hearing, hearing
by the word of God. How do you grow? Desire the sincere
miracle of the word that you may grow thereby. You'll find
these people under the showers at all times, under the shower.
It says, look at verse 7, every one of them in Zion, they're
appearing before God. I was glad when they said unto
me, let's go to the house of the Lord. Why? He said he'd be
there. Huh? The bride, looking forward
to the marriage. Waiting on the bridegroom, got
the lamp filled with oil. Behold, the bridegroom cometh
when? Sunday morning. He said, I'll be there. Let's
go. No option. You don't sit down and think
about it. When Christ is your life. Huh? No option. You don't sit down and say, well,
am I going to go or am I not? Christ is your life, your life. They go from strength to strength.
Every one of them in Zion, they're appearing before God. You'll
find them there. As quoted before, and I quote this five times before
we leave here, where the carcass is, that's where the eagles will
gather. What's that talking about? Our Lord's the one that says
that. What's the carcass? The body of Christ. Right? That's where the eagles are gathered.
That's where you'll find them, feeding, growing, strengthening
themselves. Wherever the shepherd is, what
will you find? Sheep. Wherever the mother hen
is, what will you find? Little bitties, little brood. You say, oh, Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
how oft would I have gathered thee? But you would not. Can you say that? How often would
I have gathered that? Verses 8 and 9, O Lord God of
hosts, hear my prayer. Pray this with David. Lord God
of hosts, hear my prayer. Hear my prayer. Give ear, O God
of Jacob, O God of these weak and finite and fickle and fallible
and failing sinners like Jacob. Hear my prayer right now. Can anybody play this with David
right now? I'm looking for somebody. O Lord
God of Jacob, hear my prayer. Hear my prayer. I want to go
on from strength to strength, from faith to faith. God of Host, God of Jacob, hear
my prayer. Think about it. Behold, O God,
our shield, our shield and our O God, our shield, look upon the face of thine anointed.
God, our shield, our protection, our protection. We are kept from the evil one
by God, our shield, by Christ, our protection, our shield. Look
upon the face of thine anointed. Look upon the face of thine anointed.
Look upon Christ, God's anointed. Look upon him, God's chosen,
our substitute, our mediator. Don't look at me. I'm a miserable
thing. Look upon him and therefore forgive
and forget my sins and my iniquities. And though we are God's anointed,
aren't we? He has anointed us by his Spirit
And our prayer is, O Lord God, look upon me. Look upon me and
set your eye of love and affection upon me, your mercy, your grace
upon me, your anointed Lord, look upon thine anointed. Look
upon me with mercy, with favor. Verse 10, look at this. For a
day in thy courts is better than a thousand. A thousand what? There's a period there in it.
A day in thy courts is better than a thousand. David doesn't
even have to continue. It's better than a thousand.
A thousand what? A thousand dollars, a thousand
places, a thousand things, a thousand people. Remember when they said
that of David? He said, You're worth more than
the people. He said, David, don't you go out to battle. You stay
here because you're worth more than ten thousand of us. Remember
that? The fairest among ten thousand.
A day in thy courts is better than ten thousand, or than a
thousand. I've been many places. I'd venture to say that very
few people in here have been in more places, done more things,
been in more countries, unless it be John or somebody that's
been in the service, traveled overseas, and enjoyed many things, had
their fill. Like old, young Solomon, he said,
I took my fill of the wine of this And at no time and in no place
have I ever experienced the joy and the happiness of one day
when God blesses it with God's people. One day. When God meets
with His people in a special way, it's better than a thousand
anywhere else. I'm telling you. I'd rather be a doorkeeper in
the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. And I ask you to search your
own heart and mind right now. What would you rather be doing
right now? Where would you rather be right
now? Search me, O God. Try me. See
if there be any wicked way in me. Where would you rather be? What's your pleasure, Barbara?
What's your pleasure? I'd rather be what? You repeat
that. I'd rather be what? David says,
I'd rather be just watching the door in the house of my God and
in the dwell and the tents of this world and all of its pleasure
and so forth. When the Son of God comes, will
he find faith like this on the earth? He said that over in Luke 18
when he was talking about the importunate widow. Remember that? He said she kept coming. To whom
coming? She kept coming continually.
Lord, avenge me, my adversary. Lord, help me, please. And after
he told that story, he said when the Son of Man comes, will he
find faith on the earth. Really? Judgment has begun at the house
of God, the winnowing, the span is in his hand, he's winnowing
the threshing floor right now. It's obvious. I told one of our
men, I said, this is a dangerous time of the year. When the weather
warms up, the hearts get lukewarm. The hotter the weather gets,
the cooler the heart gets. Dangerous time. Who is a faithful and wise servant,
the Lord said, who he hath made ruler over his house? Faithful
over a few things. When the Lord comes, who will
he find watching and waiting? Mary. Mary was found at that
tomb every day, wasn't she? He said she sure was ignorant.
The Lord was living. Maybe so. But who did the Lord
appear to first? She may have been a poor little
ignorant woman, but who got to run with the tidings first? Who
was the first one the Lord appeared to? She was at that tomb that morning,
the first day of the week, and she was weeping. She was a poor,
ignorant, silly little woman. Lord said, Mary, my Lord. The Lord revealed himself to
her in this very special way. Psalm 12. I think about this
all the time. Lord, help, Lord, so that godly
man faileth, and the faithful fail from among the children
of men. Faithful in a few things. Help, Lord, the godly man faithful,
and the faithful faithful among the children of men. Faithful
in a few things. Let so few things be faithful
about. So few things about the things of the Lord, right? So
few things. So few. Help, Lord, the godly man faithful.
When the Lord comes, we'll be fine faithful near him. Will
there be a Central Baptist Church? Verse 11. The Lord God is a sun and a shield.
The Lord is a sun to warm, to cheer, to cause you to grow,
a light to guide. He is a shield. He is a shield
to protect, to preserve, to keep thee in all thy ways, lest you
dash your foot against a stone. You find a stumbling block, you
won't stumble. If something is laid in your way, you won't stumble,
John. The Lord is a shield, a protection
to keep you in all your ways. The angel of the Lord will keep
you. The Lord will give grace and glory. You see that? More
like that. The Lord will give grace and glory. That's what
I need, don't you? I need grace for today, and I
need glory. I need to see his glory. When
I lose sight of that glory, that's when I faint. That's when I faint
in the house of the Lord. I need to see that glory. Lord,
show me your glory. I'll be enwrapped with it. And I need to get the
glory. need to get to glory with Christ. He says no good thing. No good
thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. No good
thing. No good thing. Spiritual and material. No good
thing will he withhold. He hasn't, has he? And he won't either. No good
thing. Walk uprightly. What does it
mean to walk uprightly? Walking paths of righteousness.
walk according to his word. He said his word is a lamp under
our feet, a light under our path. Walk uprightly. You might be
able to walk uprightly. The things I've been talking
about tonight, walk in them. Be doers of the word. Walk in
these things. Walk in the word. Be doers of
the word, not hearers only. Don't say amen with the lips
when the heart is far from it. Walk in these things. Take these
things to heart. Take these things to your step.
Walk in them. you'll find health to your soul.
Those that walk uprightly, those that walk by faith in Christ,
those that walk according to his word, those that walk according
to the light of his word, those that walk in paths of righteousness,
those that walk like Enoch with their God. No good thing will he withhold.
He's done a miserly, God. He's a very, very liberal God. Very generous God, isn't he?
No good thing. He said the young lions do lack
and suffer, but no good thing will he withhold from them that
fear him, that walk uprightly, he says here. Oh, my! Oh, Lord of hosts! Can you pray
that with me? Oh, Lord of hosts! Lord of hosts,
let me be a host. Let me be in that host. Let me
be in that number." It says he was numbered with the transgressors,
wasn't it? Where God's people was, where
you found Christ, right in the middle, numbered with the transgressors. When God's people come to appear
before the Lord, he's right there in the midst of them. Paul the
Apostle, the Lord says, here. James the Lesser, the Lord says,
here. Wherever his people, whoever his people, the Lord of Hosts,
he's right in the middle, and he says, here. That song I love
so well, Eternal Questions. When it's time for you to stand
before God's judgment throne, will you stand in Christ complete,
or will you stand alone? When it's time for you to stand
before God's judgment throne, Will he stand for you when your
name is called, and for you say, I'm here? Stand in him now, he'll
stand for you then. Right? Walk by faith now, he'll
walk in his streets then. Right? Confess me before me,
and he said, I'll confess you before the angels of my Father
which is in heaven. Oh, Lord of hosts, I want to
be in that number. What is that song? What is that
song? You know, I want to be in that
number. O Lord of hosts, I want to be among the hosts. Blessed
is the man, that host are those men, those women that trust in
thee. When you trust in something,
when you trust in something, you really trust something. We
saw this last time we met together. Whatever you trust, whatever
you love, whatever your heart is set upon, whatever you trust,
that is your all and end all. He says, Trust not in the deceitfulness
of riches, this world, the things of it. It's deceitful. It's here
one day and gone the next. Don't put your trust, don't put
your love into your family. Don't love them more than me,
he said. Father or mother, they're gone. Some of you, both of them
are gone. Father, your mother whom you love so dear, you trusted
for so many, gone. Your husband, gone. Right? Your children. This world, the
things of it, he said, don't trust them. Trust in me, the
true and the living God. I'll go to prepare a place for
you in my father's house and many mansions. If it were not
so, I wouldn't have told you that. unsearchable riches, many
dwelling places, unsearchable riches of Christ. Trust in him,
you saints, forever. He is faithful, changing never. David, the only reason David
could say these things was by the grace of God, wasn't it? It's the only way he could say
these things. My heart and my soul crieth after
thee, my heart and my flesh. The only way he could say that
was by the grace of God Almighty. The only way you and I could
say it, too, is by his grace. And we can all trace it back
to that happy day that he fixed my choice. on our Savior and
my God. Oh, happy day that makes my joys,
on thee my Savior and my God. Well, may this glowing heart rejoice, and tell its pride. Happy day, happy day, when Jesus
Christ sends away. He taught me how to watch and pray, and live rejoicing every day. Happy day, Oh, happy fun, that seals my
vow to Him who In. The. How does he teach us to watch,
to pray? Right here. Right here, in the
midst of the congregation. I'll be praised, and he'll still
be praised. And this is how he teaches us. He teaches us to
watch. Oh, Lord, teach us to pray. And
we'll not know that unless we are taught it, will we? How to
watch him. Let me sing the third verse. I love these words of
the third verse. is done, the great transaction's
done. I am my Lord's and he is mine. He drew me and I followed on,
charmed to confess the voice divine." Sing the fourth verse.
Now rest, my long-divided heart Fix on this blissful center rest
Wherever from, my Lord depart With Him I'll stay Happy day,
happy day Long as I live Thank you for joining us. We'll
see you next time.