Thank you so much. Excellent
song. Let's go back to Psalm 35, that
passage that I asked Bill to read to us. Let me give you my text and my
subject, and then I'm going to give you an overview of entire
Psalm, and then go back to this verse. But here's my text, verse
number 10. Psalm 35, verse 10. All my bones shall say, Lord,
who is like unto thee, which delivereth the poor from him
that is too strong for him. Yea, the poor and the needy,
from him that spoileth him. Our subject this evening is what
the bones say. What the bones say. This is indeed a Psalm of David,
as is indicated beneath the words Psalm 35. It looks like he wrote this psalm
when he was under severe persecution. Awful charges were brought against
him. People were mocking him, saying
awful things about him. He became an object of mockery
and derision. And he opens his heart up to
God. Isn't it wonderful we have a
God who's interested in what we have to say, who'll listen
to what we pray, and in our times of distress, our times of anxiety,
when we're troubled by the cares of the world, the difficulties
of the flesh, the opposition of the enemies of the gospel,
we can just open up our hearts to God and talk to Him, speak
with Him honestly and frankly. Our God will always hear us and
He answers our prayer in due time. This psalm can also be applied
to the children of God in general. Sometimes when we preach the
gospel or we witness to people about that which we believe,
some folks have some very harsh and vile things to say about
us. How often through the years the
righteous have been persecuted for righteousness' sake. David says in verse three, draw
out also the spear, stop the way against them that persecute
me. And I'll tell you what a blessing
it is if God would say to our souls, I am thy salvation. I can't tell you he's your salvation,
I can't give you any assurance of that, but he can. and he speaks through this book.
To those of you who are begotten of God, who are the objects of
God's everlasting affection, those for whom the Lord Jesus
Christ is born all of your iniquities, and carried all your sorrows,
you who are the recipients of God's free grace, who've been
brought by the mighty spirit to cast your poor, unworthy soul
on Christ Jesus for everlasting righteousness and for God's salvation. The Lord speaks to you, and he
speaks to me, and he says through his word, I am thy salvation. The church is not your salvation. The preacher is not your salvation. You're not your salvation. Your
confession, your faith, your repentance, that's not your salvation. Christ Jesus is. And oh, how
blissful it is, how wonderful it is when we're reading the
word of God and our God in his omnipotence and in his special
grace gives to us a word in season. And he knows exactly what his
children need to hear. He knows the reassurance that
we require. He knows the difficulties of
life. He knows how frail we are, how
sinful we are. He knows of our own feebleness. And how wonderful it is when
he speaks to us through this book And he whispers in a voice
full of grace, so full of love, so full of mercy, and he whispers
it right to your heart, and he says, I am not salvation. Oh, that's precious, isn't it?
Very precious. But I would say more than these
being the words of David, and more than these words being applicable
to the people of God, these words first and foremost have to do
with our Savior. These are the words of the Lord
Jesus. You see, as we read through these
150 Psalms, here's the joy of reading them and embracing them. It isn't in seeing David, though
that's interesting, and it's wonderful to see how God has
blessed his people and he's provided for his people down through the
years, but that's not the joy of the Psalms. Here's the joy
of the Psalms. Here's what blesses us, really,
is when by the Spirit of God's grace, we are enabled to see
our dear Savior. And we find out this is really,
this is really about Him. This is Him speaking. I do know
that it's about Him. If you would hold your place
here and go to John chapter 15. John chapter 15. I'm probably
going to go to several references this evening, and I won't get
in a rush. I'll give you time to find it.
I think one of the most frustrating things is when somebody says,
you know, they announce a text and then start reading it, and
you're still trying to, where is that again? And the pages
are sticking together. That can be kind of aggravating.
So I want to give you plenty of time to find this, but it's
in John 15, and this, you won't have any trouble finding the
Gospel of John. And chapter 15, if you don't
know where that's at, you need to go back to, Bible Course 101 and learn to
locate the books of the Bible. Look at John 15, look at verse
18. Our Lord is speaking to his disciples,
John 15, 18. He says, if the world hate you,
you'd know that it hated me before it hated you. Now that certainly
fits in with the context of Psalm 35, but read on, if you were
of the world, the world would love its own. But because you're
not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said
unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord. If they have persecuted me, they
will also persecute you. If they have kept my saying,
they will keep yours also. But all these things will they
do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that
sent me. If I had not come and spoken
unto them, they had not sinned. But now they have no cloak for
their sin, they have no excuse. He that hateth me, hateth my
father also. If I had not done among them
the works which none other man did, they had not sinned. But now have they both seen and
hated both me and my father. Now watch it. But this cometh
to pass, all of this, all of this hatred, this cometh to pass,
that The word might be fulfilled that is written in their law,
that is in the Old Testament, they hated me without a cause. And that's exactly what it says
back in our text. If you'll go back to Psalm 35,
that's exactly what the scripture says here. They hated me without
a cause. That's what Brother Bill read
to us a little bit ago, look at verse 19. Well, two verses,
verse 7. 35, 7, for without cause have
they hid for me their net in a pit, which without cause they
have digged for my soul. Now look at verse 19. Let not
them that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me, neither let
them wink with the eye, they that hate me without a cause. This is indeed a portion of scripture
about the Savior, and this is our Lord Jesus speaking through
David. And the inspired word of a sweet
psalmist of Israel conveys to us These things that were upon
the heart of our beloved Lord Jesus Christ. He tied this psalm
to himself. We know men were determined they
were gonna destroy him, though there was no reason. Look at
verse seven. For without a cause have they
hid from me their net in a pit, which without cause they have
digged for my soul. We know that they hired, the
Sanhedrin hired false witnesses against him. Look at verses 11,
12, and 13. False witnesses did rise up. They laid to my charge things
that I knew not. They charged him with blasphemy.
Why, he never spoke blasphemy. They said he was blaspheming
the name of God when he said God was his father. He said,
my father worketh hitherto and I work. And then they picked
up stones to stone him, not only because he had performed a miracle
on the Sabbath day, but because he said God was his father, thereby
making himself equal with God. These men, they lied against
him. They laid things to his charge
that he said, I know not. Look at verse 12. They rewarded
me evil for good. Was there anybody that went about
doing more good than the Lord Jesus Christ? He healed every
sick person they ever brought to him. And many of them didn't
believe him. They didn't believe the gospel.
If all those scores of people, multitudes of people, if they
all believed the gospel of God's grace, they'd have never crucified
him. But he healed them physically. And they rewarded him evil for
the good that he did. And verse 13, but as for me,
he says, when they were sick, when they were diseased, I was
very concerned about them. My clothing was sackcloth. I
humbled my soul with fasting. I prayed for them. My prayer
returned under my own bosom. And what did they do? They rewarded
me evil for the good that I did. And indeed, he did go about doing
good. He treated people with mercy. Look at verse 14. I behaved myself. Just stop right there before
I read the rest. I behaved myself. And he behaved himself before
men, and he behaved himself before God. He said, I always do the
will of the Father. When he entered into this world,
he said, lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He always behaved
himself before God, and he behaved himself before men. Watch this,
he said, I behaved myself as though he had been my friend
or brother. That's how he treated people.
And listen, that's the way we're supposed to treat people, isn't
it? Our Lord Jesus, He's our Savior. He's also our example.
And I know it's natural to return evil for evil, but we're to do
as He did and return evil or to return evil deeds toward us
with good. That takes the grace of God there. I behaved myself as though He
had been my friend or brother. people who despised him. I treated them as though they
were a friend, he said. How did he treat Judas? Judas
was a devil. He was filled with all manner
of hell. He had nothing in his heart and
soul but hatred for Jesus of Nazareth. Our Lord treated him
with kindness, He gifted him. He gave him a multitude of talents. He even gave him a very trusted
position of being the treasure of the group. Our Lord never
did anything negative to Judas. He never did anything to merit
that man becoming a traitor. He never did. This was our Lord
Jesus. He walked before God and he walked
before men in perfection. He said, I bowed down. Look at
the rest of verse 18. I bowed down heavily as one that
mourned for his mother. There's no way to, that we could
ever comprehend just how tender hearted our Lord Jesus Christ
was. He was the perfect man. Perfect before God. Perfect before
men. When our Lord was arrested in
the Sanhedrin, insisted that the Lord Jesus die. We know it
was the usual thing to do about that
time of year, that Pilate would release some notable prisoner. And he said, here's what Pilate
said, whom shall I release unto you, Barabbas or Jesus? They said, release Barabbas.
Well, he said, well, what do you want me to do with Jesus?
And he added the Christ. That's what he said, Jesus the
Christ. They said, let him be crucified. You know what Pilate said? Why?
Why? What wrong hath he done? I've
examined this man. I've examined the evidence. I've
listened to the witnesses. All of these accusations you
throw against him, I find no fault with this man. That's what
he said. He was a perfect man. He didn't
deserve any of this kind of treatment. But that's what he got for his
kindness. They mocked him with hypocritical
worship. Look at verse 16. With hypocritical
mockers in feast, they gnashed upon me with their teeth. What'd
they do to him? Crowned him with thorns, put
an old purple robe on him, shoved a reed in his hand, And in hypocritical
mockery, they bowed the knee and said, hail, king of the Jews,
and just had a real good sporting time. My, what hypocrisy, what
mockery. And our Lord is speaking about
that here. This is hundreds of years before
it ever happened. So I say to you, this psalm,
And the other Psalms as well, they rise way above David. This Psalm rises way above our
pleas to God and our cries unto Him. This Psalm, it's all about our Savior. All
about our Savior. This is about David's Lord and
David's son. And it divides itself into, I
think, three sections. And I'll give them to you. Number
one, a prayer that the enemy would be brought to justice.
That's the first thing I see in the first 10 verses, a prayer
that the enemy would be brought to justice. There is going to
be a day of reckoning. That's what this prayer's about.
Number two, hear the charges that are brought
against the enemy. What the enemy's guilty of, verses
11 through 18. So first, the prayer that the
enemy would be brought to justice, verses one through 11. Secondly,
charges are brought against the enemy, verses 11 through 18.
Then here's the third one, an appeal to the Lord. that he would
vindicate the righteous. Verses 19 through 28, an appeal
to the Lord, asking the Lord to vindicate. Lord, show these
people who I am. Vindicate the righteous. Now,
notice this. I've divided it into three sections. I want you to notice how each
section ends. First of all, the first section,
a prayer that the enemy would be brought to justice. Look at
verses nine and 10. This is how it ends. And my soul
shall be joyful in the Lord. It shall rejoice in his salvation. All my bones shall say, Lord
Jehovah, who is likened to thee, which delivers the poor from
him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from
him that spoilteth him. Now watch how the second section
ends. These are the different charges
that are brought against the enemy. Look at verse 18. I will
give thee thanks in the great congregation. I will praise thee
among much people. And then thirdly, an appeal to
the Lord that he would vindicate the righteous. That's the last
section. Look at verse 28, the last verse
of the psalm. and my tongue shall speak of
thy righteousness. I'm not gonna talk about my righteousness,
I'm talking about thy righteousness, and of thy praise all the day
long. Now let's go back to verse 10.
Spend just a few minutes here. What the bones say. What the
bones say. Here's Christ Jesus. He says,
all my bones The word bones is substance or body. All of my bones, all of my substance,
all of my body, that is all the members of my body, they shall
say, Lord, who is like unto thee, which delivers the poor from
him that is too strong for him? Yea, the poor and the needy,
from him that spoileth him. It is a great mercy. A marvelous instance of God's free and sovereign
grace. That in the mind of God, in the
purpose of God, in the view of God, and in the will of God,
Jesus Christ and his church are viewed as one. That is unspeakably
merciful of God to view us that way. Even from old eternity,
God has viewed his people and his son as being one. Our Lord Jesus Christ, he's the
head and we're the body. And in this context, he refers
to all of us as his bones, his substance, My body and all of
the body of Christ, all of the substance of Christ, all of the
bones of Christ, they all say together, Lord, who's like me? Oh, what praise we give him and
how we honor him. Who is meant by these bones?
Well, obviously, the members of the body of Christ. Look at
a few references, Psalm 139, first of all. Look at Psalm 139. Just get you to turn to a few
verses. And we'll start by addressing
this question, who is meant by these bones? It's the members
of the body of Christ. And under this, we'll go to,
if you're keeping an outline, first of all, these bones, this
body, this substance was purposed and ordained in old eternity. Psalm 139. Now, in this psalm,
David, David, after describing the omniscience of God, what
does omniscience mean? He knows everything. And I have
to talk about the omnipresence of God. What does omnipresence
mean? God's everywhere. In this Psalm, a greater than
David says this. Look at verses 13 through 15. Psalm 139, you there? For thou
hast, verse 13, for thou hast possessed my reins. Thou has
covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee for I am fearfully
and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works and that
my soul knoweth right well. My substance. If you go right beside of that,
at least in my Bible, it's this way over in the center margin,
it says or strength or body. My body, my body, my substance. My bones, my substance was not
hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought
in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes, look at verse 16. Thine eyes did see my substance. How God saw all the body of Christ. in him from all eternity, being
yet unperfect, that is unmatured. Our God, he saw us, he saw us
as clay, and he saw what he's gonna make out of us. He saw
we was gonna be vessels of mercy. Listen, the great potter had
before him a massive ball of clay. And out of that ball of
clay, he fashioned vessels unto mercy, unto glory, to magnify
his grace, and others, vessels of dishonor. Vessels of honor,
vessels of dishonor, that was to praise his wrath, praise his
wrath. And our Lord Jesus here, speaks
of those who are His substance, His bones, His body. He says,
thine eyes did see my body. God saw us in Christ Jesus even
before the world began, even from all eternity. We speak of
God chose us unto salvation, and indeed He did, but that was
an everlasting choice. There never has been a time from
all eternity that we weren't the people of God and we weren't
in union with the Lord Jesus Christ. God is eternal. We put things, you know, we say,
okay, God chose us, or He did that. He predestinated us to
be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. He gave us to His
Son. And in our minds, because we
can only comprehend just a little bit of this, so we have to have
it in some kind of chronological order, but it's always been this
way. God's love for us, what did he
say to Jeremiah? I've loved thee with an everlasting
love. Ever how old God is, that's how
old his love is for us. So we've always been his children
and he's always viewed us as being joined to, as being the
substance of Christ Jesus. Notice it says, And in thy book
all my members were written. What book you reckon that is?
You reckon that's the Lamb's book of life? All my members
were written in that book which in continuance were fashioned
when as yet there was none of them before we was ever born.
Before God even made the world. Names in the book. The Lamb's
Book of Life. No wonder, no wonder the psalmist
says in the next verse, how precious also are thy thoughts unto me,
O God. How great, how great is the sum
of them. If I should count them, they're
more in number than the sand. When I awake, I'm still with
thee. These bones, We're the substance
of Christ. We've always been the substance
of Christ. Let me give you another reference.
Look at Ephesians chapter five. Ephesians chapter five. These bones, secondly, they are
the body of Christ. They are the body of Christ. First of all, these bones were
purposed and ordained in old eternity, and secondly, they
are the body of Christ. Ephesians chapter five. It's
a lengthy passage, and you've read this and rejoiced in this
many, many times, but it has to do with the union of a husband
and wife. In marriage, we're viewed as
one. We're one, the two become one.
And he addresses this subject, and he talks about wives and
their responsibility to be subject to your husband, as in to the
Lord. Husband, love your wife, like
Christ loved the church. How much did he love the church?
He gave himself for the church. And he did it, look at verse
26, that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of
water by the word, Ephesians 5, 26, not 27, that he might
present it to himself. A glorious church, an honorable
church. Here's a church held in the very
highest esteem of God. It's one thing for something
to be held in high esteem by us, it's something else for it
to be held in high esteem by God. I guarantee in order for
something to be held or somebody to be held in high esteem of
God, to be honorable in God's sight, they must be righteous. They've gotta be perfect. That's
what we are in Christ Jesus, because he died for us to bring
in everlasting righteousness, which is freely imputed to all
of his people. It's almost too good to be true,
isn't it? Well, this is the gospel, you see. Verse 27, that he might
present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle
or any such thing, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that
loveth his wife, loveth himself. But no man ever yet hated his
own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord,
the church. We are members of his body, of
his flesh, and of his, what does it say? Bones. Bones. The elect of God. The redeemed of Christ Jesus. Those regenerated by the Spirit
of God. We can say we're members of his
body. We're the bones, we're the bones
of Christ Jesus. We're vitally joined to him.
But then here's something else. And you'll see this one coming.
These bones are spiritually dead and they've got to be made alive.
Well, that takes us to Ezekiel chapter 37. Ezekiel chapter 37. Here we find the prophet of God being
carried by the Spirit of the Lord out into the midst of a
valley. Ezekiel chapter 37 in verse one. And here's the situation. Here's
what's going on in the valley. It's a very quiet valley. because
there's no life there. Ezekiel 37, one, the hand of
the Lord was upon me and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord
and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full
of bones and caused me to pass by them round about and behold,
there were very many in the open valley and low They were very
dry. That's us. That's us. Look at verse three. And he said
unto me, son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O
Lord God, thou knowest. Again, he spake unto me, prophesy
upon these bones, preach to these bones. Who ever heard of preaching
to the bones? Oh, the body of Christ has gotta
hear the gospel. Gotta hear the gospel. Gotta
hear how God can be just and justify the ungodly, prophesy
upon these bones and say to these bones, oh ye dry bones, hear
the word of the Lord. That's what we do every time
we preach, hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God
unto these bones, behold, I will cause breath to enter into you
and you shall live. And I'll lay sinews upon you
and will bring up flesh upon you and cover you with skin and
put breath in you and you shall live and you shall know that
I am the Lord. When I put breath in you, you
gonna know who I am. You'll know the Lord. You'll
know I'm God. You'll know I'm holy. You'll
know I'm righteous. You'll know I'm the only savior
of sinners. You'll know me, but he won't
beat till I put breath in you. You see, by nature, we're the
dry bones. Oh, we're his bones, but we're
dry. We're dead. We're lifeless. And he's gotta quicken us. He's
gotta regenerate us by his grace. And let me go quickly back to
Psalm 6. Let's go back to the Psalms and
go to Psalm 6. And I'll give you something else
here. These bones, they were purposed and ordained in old
eternity. These bones are the body of Christ
Jesus. These bones are spiritually dead.
They must be quickened by the power, by the grace of the Spirit
of God. That quickening comes about through
the preaching of the word. Being born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth
and abideth forever. It's as we preach the gospel.
That word becomes a quickening, the quickening power of God when
the Holy Spirit takes it home to the heart. But I'll tell you something else
about these bones, and this is what happens when we're made
alive. These bones are vexed. Psalm 6 verse 1, O Lord, rebuke
me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for
I am weak. O Lord, heal me. For my bones are vexed. My bones
are vexed. Vexed means troubled, frightened,
disturbed, made anxious. I'll tell you, before God brings
us to Christ and gives us joy in him, he shows us what we are. He makes, Our hearts, he makes
the bones to be vexed. We become anxious. We become
troubled. David put it this way. Go over
to Psalm 51. Look at Psalm 51. This is conviction. Conviction by the Spirit. Psalm
51, please. Psalm 51 in verse eight. Here's
what he says. Psalm 51 verse eight, make me
to hear joy and gladness. I need to hear some good news.
That the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. He's gonna have to make us rejoice,
but before he makes us to rejoice, He makes us sad, He makes us
weep, He makes us broken hearted. In other words, the Lord says,
you ever noticed this order and I'm sure you have. He says, I
kill and I make a life. He first of all kills and then
He makes a life. He strips us. He strips us, then
He clothes us. He brings us down, then He lifts
us up. He humbles us and then He exalts
us. That's always His order. That's
the way He operates. And David says here, make me
to hear joy and gladness. Make me to hear the gospel. Make
me to hear the good news of redemption, of reconciliation, of full and
free forgiveness. That the bones which thou hast
broken, you've broken the bones. He's got to do that. Lord, break
the bones. And then we'll rejoice. And then
here's this, number five, these bones will hear the gospel and
they will be saved. Give you a couple of ref, Proverbs
15. Look at Proverbs chapter 15.
I'll give you two verses here from the pen of Solomon. Proverbs
chapter 15, first of all, and verse 30. Proverbs 15 and verse
30. Proverbs 15, 30, the light of
the eyes rejoiceth the heart. And a good report maketh the
bones fat. You know what that means? Makes
the bones to be well. Makes the bones to be prosperous.
A good report. And we have got a good report.
We got a good report. And I know Isaiah says in Isaiah
53 verse one, Lord, who hath believed our report? Well, there
are some people who believe the report and you know who they
are? Those to whom the arm of the Lord is revealed. That's
the ones that believe the report. And here he says, a good report,
it makes the bones fat. It makes the bones well. It's
when we hear the gospel. And we hear it not just with
these ears, but we hear the gospel in our hearts. A full redemption
of salvation accomplished. It makes the bones fat. It makes
the bones well. It's a healing message to us.
Give you one more reference on this right across the page in
my Bible, 1624, Proverbs 1624. Pleasant words. or as an honeycomb, sweet to
the soul and health to the bones. You know what the word pleasant
means? Delightful. Delightful. The gospel of God's grace in
Christ Jesus is the most delightful message there ever was. And you
see, he who broke our bones will heal them with his gospel. Let
me give you a couple more. Look at Psalm 34. Let's go backwards a little bit.
Psalm 34. Psalm 34. Verses 19 and 20. These bones
will be preserved. Oh, the Lord's gonna keep these
bones. This is his body. This is his substance. These
bones will be preserved. Psalm 34. Look at verse 19. Many are the afflictions of the
righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He keepeth, he preserveth. The word means he hedges about
all his bones. Not one of them is broken. That
is, not one is destroyed. not one is ever torn away from
the body. Who shall separate us from the
love of God which is in Christ Jesus? I tell you, when God joined
us to Jesus Christ in old eternity, in his purpose of grace, from
then on, nobody and nothing, no power in heaven, earth, or
hell could ever separate us from Christ Jesus. Not one can be
broken. Not one of his bones can be destroyed. Because we have everlasting life. And then I got to give you this.
And I got several references, but I think I'll just give you
one. Hebrews 11. Hebrews 11. But I'll tell you the story. Joseph said to his family, he
said, all of y'all, the nation of Israel
is going to go back to the promised land one day. But I'm going to
die. I'm going to die right here,
and you're going to bury me. But he said, when you go to the
land, that land of promise, make sure you take my bones. Take
my bones, that's what he said. Take my bones to the promised
land. I don't want one of my bones
left here in Egypt. I want all my bones to wind up
in the promised land. And look at Hebrews 11 and verse
22. By faith, Joseph, when he died,
made mention of the departing of the children of Israel, and
he gave commandment concerning his bones. And I just, let me
give you one more reference. Joshua chapter 24. Joshua chapter 24. He gave commandment concerning
his bones. Now look at this, Joshua chapter
24. And verse 32. All right. We're now in the land
of Israel, just where God said it's gonna go, the promised land. And it says in the last chapter
of Joshua, the next to the last verse of the book, verse 32,
and the bones of Joseph Joseph was a type of our Savior, was
he not? In a multitude of ways. I'm talking
some Sunday school teachers, some Bible class teachers and
preachers in here tonight, and you preached on Joseph being
a wonderful, beautiful type of our Lord Jesus. I think it's
A.W. Pink in his book about gleamings
from from Genesis and he goes into the life of Joseph, he shows
how Christ, how Joseph is a type of Christ over a hundred different
ways. That's excellent, excellent writing.
Y'all read it sometime. Well, now it talks about the
bones of Joseph. So we'll think about the bones
of Christ Jesus, the one Joseph was a picture of. Verse 32, in
the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up
out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground,
which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem,
for a hundred pieces of silver. And it became the inheritance
of the children of Joseph. And I'll tell you what, all the
bones of Christ, we're gonna wind up in the promised land.
And it's not gonna be long. It's not gonna be long. Well,
that didn't even get to the last part of this. What do the bones
say? What about if I just say this
and give it to you Wednesday night? I will just read this. The bones say this, Lord, who
is like unto thee? which delivers the poor from
him that is too strong for him, yea, the poor and the needy from
him that spoilteth him. Isn't it wonderful to be the
Lord's bones? To be the Lord's body, to be the Lord's substance. If that don't put a smile, if
not on your face and your heart, I don't know what will. In the
midst of the troubles of the day and my own sinfulness As
I look around, people of God, some of them are in trouble,
having difficulties and pain, and there are families who are
grieving and sorrowing. Debbie James, Tim James's wife,
her brother passed away yesterday, Larry Perryman. I've known him
for years and years. People are grieving. They rejoice
that he's in heaven, he's with the Lord Jesus, but there's sorrow. We sorrow not as others who have
no hope, but the people of God sorrow. I tell ya, it's joyful
to think all the bones gonna go to the promised land. All
of them. And not one's gonna be left behind.
Let's sing closing song.