I will sing hymn number 258.
258. A wonderful Savior is Jesus my
Lord. A wonderful Savior to me. He hideth my soul in the cleft
of the rock, where rivers of pleasure I see. He hideth my soul in the cleft
of the rock, That shadows a dry, thirsty land. He hideth my life in the depths
of his love. and covers me there with his
hand, and covers me there with his hand. A wonderful Savior
is Jesus my Lord, He taketh my burden away. He holdeth me up and I shall
not be moved. He giveth me strength as my day. He hideth my soul in the cleft
of the rock that shadows a dry, thirsty land. He hideth my life in the depths
of his love. and covers me there with his
hand, and covers me there with his hand. With numberless blessings
Each moment He crowns and filled with His fullness divine. I sing in my rapture, O glory
to God, For such a Redeemer as mine. He hideth my soul in the
cliff of a rock that shadows a dry, thirsty land. He hideth my life in the depths
of his love. and covers me there with his
hand, and covers me there with his hand. When clothed in his
brightness, transported I rise, to meet him in clouds of the
sky. His perfect salvation, his wonderful
love, I'll shout with the millions on high. He hideth my soul in
the cleft of the rock that shadows the dry, thirsty land. He hideth my life in the depths
of his love. and covers me there with his
hand, and covers me there with his hand. Thank you, be seated. Hymn number
75, number 75. Abide with me. Fast falls the eventide. The darkness deepens. Lord, with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts
flee, help of the helpless, O abide. Swift to its close, ebbs out
life's little day. Earth's joys grow dim, its glories
pass away. Change and decay, ? In all around
I see ? ? O Thou who changest not ? ? Abide with me ? ? I need
Thy presence ? ? Every passing hour ? What but thy grace can
foil the tempter's power? Who, like thy Son, guidance they can be. Through cloud and sunshine, O
abide with me. Hold thou thy word before my
closing eyes, shine through the gloom and Amen. Love that song. Psalm 37, turn with me to Psalm
37. Read verse 16 down to verse 34. A little that a righteous man
hath is better than the riches of many wicked. For the arms
of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. The Lord knoweth the days of
the upright, and their inheritance shall be forever. They shall
not be ashamed in evil time, and in the days of famine they
shall be satisfied. But the wicked shall perish,
and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs. They
shall consume, and the smoke shall they consume away. The wicked borroweth and payeth
not again, but the righteous showeth mercy and giveth. For
such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth, and they shall
be cursed of him, shall be cut off. The steps of a good man
are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way. Though
he fall, he shall not utterly be cast down, for the Lord upholdeth
him with his hand. I have been young, and now I
am old. Yet have I not seen the righteous
forsaken, nor his seed begging bread? He is ever merciful, and
lendeth, and his seed is blessed. Depart from evil, and do good,
and dwell forevermore. For the Lord loveth judgment,
and forsaketh not his saints. They are preserved forever, but
the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. The righteous shall
inherit the land, and dwell therein forever. The mouth of the righteous
speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. The law
of the Lord, the law of his God, is in his heart. None of his
steps shall slide. The wicked watcheth the righteous
and seeketh to slay him. The Lord will not have him in
his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged. Wait on the Lord,
keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land when
the wicked are cut off. Our Lord and our God, our Lord
Jesus Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. And we're
thankful that we know that you're God over all, that when you came
into this world, you came though through the womb of a virgin,
through the womb of a woman, yet you as God manifest in the
flesh. Oh Lord, what a wonder, what
a wonder, what a astonishing amazing astounding truth that
you've taught us and we believe it with all our heart and soul
and Lord I thank you for allowing us this time here this evening
and I do as always pray Lord come among us you said wherever
two or three are gathered together in your name that you'd be in
the midst and we are gathered together here in the name of
the Lord Jesus Christ we come to him who who always abide with
us. Oh, Lord, everywhere we look,
we see change and decay, change and decay. But, oh, Lord, abide
with us. Abide with us this evening. Abide
with us all the days of our life. And, oh, Lord, uphold you, dear
people. God bless them. God encourage them. God strengthen
them. And my preacher brethren that's preaching tonight, God
be with them. And I, Lord, we pray for those
who are sick. Oh, Lord, Oh, we have so many
that's so frail in their bodies. And Lord, we especially pray
for Bill and Fran. And if there's others, Lord,
we know their bodies are weak and frail. Please give them strength,
give them encouragement. And Lord, all the people that'll
be traveling to go be with their families of your dear people,
see them safely there and see them safely home. Lord, we look
unto you. As the psalmist said, we look
under the hills from which cometh our help. And Lord, our help
is ever present. And so thank you for meeting
with us. Thank you for your word. Thank you for this blessed, blessed
privilege for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. Hymn number 118, number 118. When I surveyed the wondrous
cross, on which the Prince of Glory died. My richest gain I count but loss,
and poor contempt on all my pride. Forbid it, Lord, that I should
boast, save in the death of Christ my God. All the vain things that charm
me most I sacrifice them to his blood See from his head His hands,
his feet. Sorrow and love flow mingled
down. Did e'er such love and sorrow
meet? O'er thorns composed so rich
a crown Were the whole realm of nature mine that were a present
far too small. Love so amazing, so divine, immense
my soul, my life, my all. Well, let's look back together
here, together in Psalm 37, and I want to bring eight marks of
the righteous out of these verses that I read tonight, eight marks
of the righteous. And it says there in verse 16,
a little that a righteous have. And that when He talks about
somebody being a righteous man, man, some men think that they
have an inherent righteousness, that they s born with it, that
all they got to do is live righteous and do the best they can, but
man has no inherent righteousness. He has none. God said to Himself
that there's none righteous, no, not one. God looked down
upon the sons of men to see if there's any that understood.
He said, there's nobody that understands. He looks to see
if there's a righteous man. He says, no, not a one nowhere.
Not a one nowhere. And I'll tell you what, and nor
can a man claim no righteousness of his own if he's got any sense
at all. But God has a people, a blessed
people, whom He declared righteous, and not only declared them righteous,
that made them partakers of the divine nature, and actually MADE
them righteous. God the Father made His Son to
be our righteousness. If you have the righteousness
of the Son of God, you got the righteousness of God Himself.
When you know God made Christ to be sin, who knew no sin, that
Christ might be made the righteousness of God unto us? Now, in the righteousness
of God, that's what it says. Now, you talk about having a
righteousness, the righteousness of God Almighty, and that righteousness
is found in God in the flesh, in the Lord Jesus Christ. And
oh, and you know, and here's another thing, you know, God
hath made Christ unto us. God did this. God hath made Christ
unto us wisdom. God made Christ unto us righteousness. God made Christ unto us holiness. God made Christ unto us redemption. That means the redemption of
our bodies when it's all said and done. And oh my, and the
scriptures tells us in Psalm 32, blessed is the man whose
iniquities are forgiven. Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord imputeth not iniquity, imputeth not sin. But he said here, A
little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of
many. That s the first thing that I want us to look at is
the marks of a righteous man. He may have a little, he may
have a little. Blessed, he s blessed with a
little more than all the wicked and all the things that they
possess. Remember that woman that Elijah came to and he said,
Oh my, fix me something to eat. She said, I ain't got but just
a handful of meal and just a little drop of oil and I was saving
that for me and my child and we was going to eat it and then
we was going to lay down and starve to death. He said, fix
me something to eat. So she took what she had. And
you know, because she'd done that for him, every time she
went to that meal barrel, it had just exactly what was left
in it before she ever took any out. Her little was blessed because
she was, God made her righteous and little Elijah was righteous.
And oh my, and our Lord fell to multitude with two fishes.
and five loaves of bread, he fed over 5,000 people. How do you feed, take two fish
and five loaves, the bread was round, and take five loaves of
bread and two fish, how do you feed 5,000 people with that many? That's just a little bit. But God in Christ could take
a little and feed a bunch. And I'll tell you what, he's
been feeding his people for centuries, for millennia. And let me tell
you, I thought about this, I ain't got this in my notes, but here's
the thing. We may have little faith, a little faith, but better have
a little than have none. The wicked don't have any. It's
better to have, you know, we sometimes chide ourselves because
our love is so little. But our love may be little, but
if it's centered on Christ, it don't have to be a lot. Huh? We may have a little warmth in
our heart at times, just seems like it's almost gone, the warmth
in our heart, but if we got just a little, just a little, I'd
rather have a little and have everything that the wicked's
got. I'd rather struggle with assurance than to have everything
that the wicked's got. They said a little that a righteous
hath is more, is better than the riches of many wicked. And
all my, You know, Proverbs 16 says this, he says, you know,
it's better, a righteous man, he is blessed with peace, he's
blessed with everything but the wicked. He said, it's better
to have a little bit than dwell in the tents of the wicked. And
oh my, so I tell you, a little is blessed. And you know, here's
another thing, another thing about being little, Every believer,
I think, is little in their own eyes. I think they're little
in their own eyes. A man that's not little in his
own eyes, he's not blessed of God. Oh, I tell you what, we
are little in our own eyes. We're not like those fellas,
you know, seeks out the upper seat. No, no. We won't even move,
won't call on unless somebody calls on us to do it. We're little
in our own eyes. That's a mark of a righteous
man. He's little in his own eyes. He ain't got nothing to brag
about. He ain't got nothing that God didn't give him. He don't
know nothing that God didn't teach him. Oh my. Shirley and I was talking on
the way over and I was mentioning a preacher that I know years
ago. Here at this time of year, they having these every day is
a different thing about the advent of Christ coming for his coming.
And they have all these traditions. But anyway, to make a long story
short, at Easter time one time, I was with this fella, we was
riding in a car, and he says, you know, we're gonna start celebrating
Holy Week next week. I said, what's Holy Week? He
said, that's the week before Christ come to be crucified and
raised from the dead. Can you imagine? The riches of
the wicked, that's wicked. That's the riches they got, traditions. But oh my. And you know our Lord
Jesus Christ, bless His holy name, He started out as a poor
man, and it looked like He had little, but then God had in Him
everything that you and I will ever need, no matter how little
we are in this world. Here's another one in verse 17. The arms of the wicked shall
be broken, but listen to this, but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. You know why it says the Lord
upholds the righteous? Because they can't uphold themselves.
See, that's how simple it is. We can't uphold ourselves. No,
we can't. So He upholds us because we can't
uphold ourselves. So the Lord upholds the righteous. He holds us up. If He holds up
the world by the word of His power, Imagine what he does for us,
hope, upholding us. Upholding us. You know how many
times we would have failed had not God held us up? Had not God
put his hand under us and upheld us? Look in Isaiah, keep to here,
and look in Isaiah 41. Look in Isaiah 41. I want you to see something here.
41, I think it's verse 10, yeah. You know, he upholds the righteous.
you go through so many things where our Lord Jesus Christ with
His people, even while He was on this earth, how many times
He had to uphold them, He had to uphold them. Peter was walking
on the water. He said, Lord, if it s you, tell
me to come on out of here. So he got off that boat and stepped
out on the water and started walking. Oh, my, the Lord upheld
him! until he got scared and then
all of a sudden said, Lord, save me, I pray. And you know what?
Christ got him by the hand and took him right back in the boat.
He upheld him, upheld him on the water, upheld him when he
fell in the water. He upheld him. So you think you're
gonna go down? No, no, no, no, he gonna get
you. He gonna hold you. Look what he said here in Isaiah
41.10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee. Be not dismayed,
for I am thy God. Listen to this, I will strengthen
thee, yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with
the right hand of my righteousness. I'll do it, I'll uphold you.
I'll uphold you with my right hand, I'll strengthen you. I
am your God. And oh, not only did our Lord
uphold Peter on the water, but He upheld Peter when our Lord
Jesus Christ said, Satan has decided to sift you as wheat.
And He said, I prayed for you. He upheld him right here when
He s going to deny him three times. Our Lord upheld him to
keep him from falling completely away. He said, I prayed for you
that your faith fail not. And oh, my! And our Lord Jesus
Christ said it this way, without me, without me, you can do nothing. David said like this, my feet
had almost slipped, but thy mercy upheld me. My foot had well not
slipped, but thy mercy upheld me. Oh, I tell you, we need,
I don't know about you, but I need him to uphold me. I really need
Him to uphold me. You know, there's no telling
how many times I would have fallen, not able to get back up had not
He upheld me. And you know, this is the mysterious
thing. We know that we sin. We know
when we sin. We're conscious of when we sin.
We're conscious when we're proud. We're conscious when we're self-righteous.
We're conscious of these things. And yet, when we're in one of
those states of mind, in one of those conditions, in one of
those ways, you know what? He upholds us anyway. He upholds
us anyway. If He didn't uphold us all the
time, then He'd uphold us none of the time. As far as what we
are and how we act in this world, what we think, He would never
uphold. But you know what? Even when we're stumbling around
like a blind man, He upholds us. All right, let me give you another
in verse 18 Here's the third. Here's the third thing about
the righteous man Verse 18 the Lord knoweth the days of the
upright and listen to this and their inheritance the righteous
inheritance shall be forever. Oh We have an everlasting inheritance. Oh What an inheritance The Lord
knows, it says, the Lord knows the days of the upright. He knows
exactly how many days we got. And then at the end of those
days, He said, we have an inheritance. Now, I don't know, maybe you
got a good inheritance coming, maybe you don't, I don't know.
But the inheritance that you get here won't hold a life, the
inheritance you get over there. Not even comparatively at all. Look with me. Oh, look with me
over in Colossians. You keep this now. Look in Colossians
1, verse 12 with me. Colossians 1, verse 12. You know,
this is... Peter says, you know, we have
an inheritance, incorruptible. The inheritance down here get
corruptible. You know, all I've got to leave anybody
is just a little bit of property, but you know, if they sell it,
you know, and here's the thing I know about some peoples in
my family, that if they got a hold of too much money, it would destroy
them. Most inheritance destroy people.
If it's very much, it destroys people. You know, I've been around
a lot of folks and they've died and the first thing the family
does when somebody dies before they get ready to die, I want
this, I want that. Mama wanted me to have this,
you know, and they go to fuss and fighting over what they gonna
get. Well, we're not gonna have to
fuss and fight over this inheritance. Look what it said here in verse
12. Oh, giving thanks unto the Father,
which hath made us meet, that word meet means to be FIT, means
to be ABLE. He hath made us ABLE, FIT, to
be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. All those
folks that s already got on, got their inheritance, they got
their inheritance, and he said, You know what? We re going to
go get ours up there, too. You know what Peter said, I Peter
1 verse 4, he says this, We have an inheritance incorruptible,
incorruptible, undefiled, that man's hands ain't never touched
it. Reserved, it's got a reservation for us. And that reservation
will not fade away. This inheritance will not fade
away. And then not only that, but he
said, it's reserved for you. You got it waiting on you, huh?
I've got a place waiting on me, got a place waiting on me and
you do too. Oh my, not everyone has this inheritance, but those
the Lord made it for. You remember, let me tell you,
when Eleazar was sent off to get a bride for Isaac, you know
what he told her when he first saw her? And her father, when
he went in to talk to Her father, he said this, he
says, My master had a son, and Sarah, my master's wife, bore
a son in her old age. And my master loves him and hath
given all things into his hands. So every, you know, when Rebecca's
gonna marry, Isaac, she gets EVERYTHING that the Father had,
EVERYTHING that the Son had, and I tell you what, we get EVERYTHING
that God had, and EVERYTHING that the Son has. Huh? What an inheritance! You know,
we inherit life, and I tell you what, we re going to inherit,
we re going to inherit a new heaven, We're going to inherit
a new earth. We're going to inherit a new
name. We're going to inherit incorruption. We're going to
inherit immortality. Oh, we got an everlasting inheritance.
Thank God we do. That's the thing about it. You
know, the people leave here, they don't, you know what they're
going to leave behind? Everything. Everything. And whatever they
leave here, they're not going to remember it. They're going
to know nothing about it. And they, you think, you think
that, and then when they get there, they'll think, what, what,
what have I got here? This is, this is the most glorious
thing I've ever seen. Most glorious thing I've ever
experienced. Oh my goodness. Well, and let
me give you another one. Here's the fourth one. Back over
here in our text. A righteous man is merciful and
gracious. Look what it says in verse 21. The wicked borroweth and payeth
not again. He's not an honest man. I've had a lot of them in my
life. I've met a lot of them. I don't know how many times people's
borrowed money, I'll pay not again, so I just quit letting
them borrow it. I just give it to them, be done with it. Don't
even expect it back anymore. But oh, but listen to what he
said, but the righteous, the righteous show us mercy and they
give. Why do they do that? Because
they've got the spirit of their master. Spirit of their master. When they see somebody in need, through sickness, through bad
health, or whatever's going on, the first thing they think of,
what can I do? What can I do to help them? And
you have mercy, you think about them, and you think about what
they need. But oh, He has the Spirit of His Master. And our
Lord Jesus Christ has said, it's more blessed to give than it
is to receive. Huh? And I'll tell you what,
everybody in this building has experienced that. It's a person
who worries about, well, if I give that, I won't be, blessed is
he that it's better to give than it is to receive. Huh? It really is. I mean, you know
that. How blessed are we that everything we got, God gave us?
And our Lord Jesus Christ, everything we've got, He gave us. So He
tells us that it's more blessed for us to give than anything
that we could possibly do. Oh, my. And I tell you, He's
had mercy shown to Him, and so we want to show mercy to others. He's had grace shown to Him,
so He freely receives and He freely gives. There's nothing,
I tell you, I can't get over how many times over the years
that people would, whether it's a death or whether it's a sickness
or whatever it is, how that the Lord's people rise to the occasion,
prepare meals, pray for people, visit with them, sit with them,
spend the night with them, set up in the hospital with them,
countless times over the years, countless times. Bring in food. And you know why? Did anybody
feel like they was doing something special? You know why you wasn't? Because
it's your nature. Where'd you get that nature at
like that? God gave it to you. Man by nature, he's a lover of
self, a lover of pleasure. Well, where'd you get that nature?
God gave it to you. More blessed to give than this.
So he's merciful and gracious. And then let me show you the
fifth one. Look down here in verse 25. I've been young and now I'm old. Every one of us can say that. I've been young, now I'm old.
Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor is he vacant. The righteous man is never, never,
never forsaken. He said, I was young. And when
a man's young or a woman's young, we're ignorant. We're ignorant. We're foolish. We say things and do things and pop off and think we know everything,
you know. You got to live a while before
you find out you don't know nothing. But when we was young, I mean,
we was young and foolish, and we done young and foolish things,
and we was ignorant of so many things, ignorant of so many things. I've done so many things that
I wished I hadn't have done, even as a believer, when I was
a young believer. But then he says, but now I'm
old. He was all young. He said, Now
I'm old. But young or old, He said, I've
never seen the righteous forsaken. Never seen the righteous forsaken.
You ever seen anybody forsaken of the Lord? Our Lord said this,
He said, I'll never, no never, no never, no never, no never
leave thee nor forsake thee. He said it five times, I'll never
leave you and forsake you. Never, never, never. Oh, this
old man's testimony is precious, encouraging. I was young, now
I'm old. And I've never seen the righteous
forsaken, whether they was young, ignorant, foolish, full of pride,
full of self. You know, Somebody asked Scott, asked Scott
one time about election. The fellow said, you know, said
election will take the starch out of you, boy. And old Scott
said, yeah, it'll take it out, but it won't take all of it.
And that's what I'm talking about. No matter what we are, the righteous
has never been forsaken. Never. And you know when we really,
really, really won't We don't want to be forsaken
when we're laying, getting close to our eyes, getting so dim that
we can't see hardly. Oh my. Laying down there and our bodies
weak and frail, our bodies wearing out and our life ebbing out of
our bodies and the next thing you know, you can say, I'll never
be forsaken. Never be forsaken. Oh my. The Lord said, I'll go with you.
You know what He said? He said, I'll go with you to the end of
the world. I'll go with you all the way
to the end. We sang that old song, you know,
how firm a foundation? Oh, the Lord. And then let me give you another
one. In verse 30 and 31. The mouth of the righteous, here
we go with the righteous again, speaketh wisdom, and his tongue
talketh of judgment. The law of God is in his heart.
None of his steps shall slide. Oh my, the righteous speaketh
wisdom. What kind of wisdom does he speak?
Well, he speaks the wisdom of God. You know, if we can't get
it out of the book, we don't want nothing to do with it. We
really don't. You know, his mouth speaks wisdom. Why? Because the
word of God is in his heart. The law of God is in his heart.
The law of God, and that law means the word, the doctrine
of Christ is in his heart. And oh my, he's blessed with
wisdom. He's blessed with what does it
say in his tongue, talketh of judgment. Judgment accomplished,
judgment finished, judgment done, no more judgment for us. We can
talk about judgment, but not for ourselves. Talk about judgment
for others, but not for ourselves. We've already been judged. But
always mouth speaks wisdom. And that's why I said out of
the heart, out of the heart, the man brings forth the good
treasure and he bring forth the good treasure of the word. And
God has taught us the beginning of wisdom is the fear of the
Lord. And that fear of the Lord means
that you understand that God is God and that he holds us in
every single thing there is about us. He orders our steps, He orders
our life, He orders everything about us. And He is God, we understand
that. And I tell you what, He can,
He said, don't fear Him that can destroy your body, but fear
Him can destroy your body and your soul, and your soul. Oh
my, let me show you something in James, I hope I'm not taking
too long. I hope I'm not taking too long. Let me show you something
in James, chapter 13. James is right after the book
of Hebrews, James 3. Here's some things God's taught,
blessed us with wisdom. Look what he said, verse 13 here,
James chapter 3 and verse 13. Who is a wise man? Who has endued
God with knowledge among you? Who's a wise man and knows some
things among you? Let him show out of a good conversation,
that word conversation means manner of life, his works with
meekness and wisdom. But now listen, but if you had
bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't you glory,
don't say you got wisdom, and don't lie against the truth.
This wisdom that envy and strife and bitterness comes from, it
descends, don't come from God. It's earthly, it's sensual, it's
devious. Wherever there is envying and
strife, there is confusion and every evil work. So we can tell
that we don't have that kind of wisdom. We don't want that
kind of wisdom. But the wisdom that is from above,
the wisdom that God gives, first thing about it, it's pure. It
comes from God himself. It's pure. Huh? And it's peaceable. It ain't wanting to fight. It
ain't wanting to argue. It ain't wanting no strife. It
ain't wanting to debate. No, no. And it's gentle. You can't upset it very much.
And easy to be entreated. Oh, my. Would you tell me this? Full of mercy and good fruits
without partiality. Oh, my. And all without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness
is sown in peace of them that make peace. If there's inbred
strife and confusion and backbiting and all those things, and people
getting upset over just little old nothings, that's devilish. But that wisdom that comes from
above, that's peace, gentle, easy, easy, easy. All right,
show you another thing about the righteous. Here's the seventh
thing about the righteous. I said eight marks. Here's the
seventh mark. Verse 37, Mark the perfect man. Well, God did,
and behold the upright, for the end of that man, what's going
to be the end of that man is peace. What's his end? Peace. Oh, peace. I tried to deal with that last
week, Christ our peace, Christ made peace for us between us
and God, and God gave peace to Him, and oh my, and the Gospel,
the Word, the Gospel MAINTAINS that peace. You know, our peace
can be disturbed, but I'll tell you one thing, when you sit under
the gospel, that gospel, you know, restores that peace and
maintains that peace. Our Lord said, in the world you're
gonna have tribulation, but I say I give unto you my peace, my
peace. And the end of our life is peace,
peace. Oh, what a blessed thing it is
to have peace. Oh, to have peace with God, I
never, and I've told you, I think I've told you this before, we
was living in a trailer down there on the farm, down in Thomas
Springs, and had an old wingback chair, old flowery wingback chair. And I sat in there reading through
the Book of Romans and studying, and it came to me then, I was
very young. It come to me then and said,
well, you know, That being justified by faith, we have peace with
God. And I started studying through the book, and there's therefore
no condemnation. And that day, that day, I found
out God wasn't mad at me anymore. I realized that God wasn't angry
with me. And so I quit trying to maintain
peace. But I jumped up and shouted. I got up and hollered. I never will forget it because
I always thought God was mad at me. And I had to do something
to get his anger off of me. But when I started reading the
scriptures and God taught me there, right then and there,
said, there's no more anger. The wrath is gone. It's finished. My soul, I went to rest right
that day like I never have before. Never have. And then let me show
you this. This is my last point. in verse
39 through 40. But the salvation of the righteous
is of the Lord. Well, we always say salvation's
of the Lord. Well, that's what the righteous
men say. Salvation's of the Lord. Oh, my salvation's of God. Oh
my, my salvation's of the Lord. He's our strength because He
saved us. He's the strength in the time
of trouble. and oh my, and the Lord shall help and deliver them,
save them, save them. Oh, salvation's all of God, salvation's
all of the Lord. He saved us by grace through
faith, and when you're saved by grace, all boasting's excluded. From Alpha to Omega, salvation's
of the Lord. And look what he says here in
verse 40. He shall deliver them from the
wicked and save them because they trust in Him. Oh my, we
trust in Him. It's like Daniel. It's like Daniel. He was thrown in the lion's den
and the king himself came out the next morning and he looked
down in that den and said, oh Daniel, has thy God saved thee? He said, yes. He said, good. Has not God saved thee? No. Has God saved you? Oh, yes. If I saved, God had to do it.
And if I saved, it had to be by grace because I couldn't marry
it. And He has to be my strength because I'm without strength. Our Father, thank you for allowing
us to meet here this evening. Thank you for your precious word.
Oh, Lord, there are so many things that we could say about what
you've done for us in this world. And you made us fit to go into
the next world. You made us able to go into the
next world. You've prepared us already to
go into the next world, go into eternity, go and face you in
eternity. And we'll face you like we do
now in the Son, in your blessed Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, our
righteousness, our peace, our salvation, our strength, our
courage. Oh, Lord, we thank you that you'll
never forsake us, always keep us, always preserve us. Oh, Lord,
bring glory to yourself through us in this body of believers.
Meet the need of every home, every family, and every heart.
and continue to bless the dear saints that are so sick. We ask
these things in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Lord,
for saving my soul. Thank you, Lord, for making me
whole. Thank you, Lord, for giving to
me Thy great salvation so rich and free. Well, I'll see you
Wednesday, Sunday morning. I'm about to say Wednesday again.
Sunday morning, we'll have one service.