The people who know him know
he's a wonderful Savior, a wonderful Savior to me. Job 22, and while
you're turning, let me mention this. We'll have our get-together,
you know, down at our house on October the 15th, Saturday, October
the 14th, 14th. We've done this the last couple
of years and we'll furnish We'll furnish the meat and all that. We always have a wonderful time,
a wonderful time. And start about noon and hope
everybody can and will come. Rain or shine, unless it's snowing. But rain or shine, rain or shine. All right, I want to start reading
here in verse 22. Receive I pray thee no excuse
me verse 21 I'm sorry I'm sorry verse 21 this is my text acquaint
now thyself with him and be at peace thereby good shall come
unto thee receive I pray thee the law from his mouth and lay
up words lay up his words in thine heart if thou return to
the almighty thou shall be built up thou shall put away iniquity
far from thy tabernacle And then shalt thou lay up gold as dust,
and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brook. Yea, the
Almighty shall be thy defence, and thou shalt have plenty of
silver. For then shalt thou have thy
delight in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face unto God. Thou shalt make thy prayer unto
him, and he shall hear thee, and thou shalt pay thy vows.
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto
thee, and the light shall shine upon thy ways. When men are cast
down, then thou shalt say, There is lifting up, and he shall save
the humble person. He shall deliver the island of
the innocent, and it is delivered by the pureness of thine hands. Look with me again here in Job
22. And I want to, I've mentioned
this verse the last couple of weeks, where it says there in
verse 21, Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace. Thereby good shall come unto
thee. To know God, to know God. Here's one of Job's three friends,
Eliaphus, You can see back up here in verse, let me read the
first four verses here. Then Eliaphaz the Timonite answered
and said, can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise
may be profitable unto himself? Is it any pleasure to the Almighty
that they aren't righteous? Or is it gain to him that makest
thy ways perfect? Will he reprove thee for fear
of thee? Will he enter into thee with
judgment? So here's one of Job's three
friends, and what he's saying to Job, he's saying to us. Whenever we read the word of
God, it speaks to us. We don't, you know what, it's
what God says to us, what he says to me, what he speaks to
us. And what he said to Job then
is as true today as it was when Job penned it. Acquaint now,
I know Job's the oldest book in the Bible. He said, acquaint
now thyself with him. Acquaint now thyself with him.
And when you do that, if that's done, you'll be at peace. Now
when he talks about acquaint thyself with him, acquaintanceships
means more than just a passing knowledge. Very few people you'd
find that say, you know, I believe that there's a God. I believe
that there's a God. I believe there's a higher being.
I believe there's a higher power. But when he talks about here,
the Almighty, knowing God, it's more than just a passing knowledge.
It's not like, well, I don't know Him very well, I just know
Him. I have a little acquaintance
with Him. I know a little something about Him. It's not a presumed
knowledge that you know God. Well, of course I know God. Everybody
says, well, of course I know Him. Well, who doesn't know Him? But boy, when he talks about
here having an acquaintanceship with Him, it means to actually
know Him. to knowing. You know yourself to some degree. You know your mother, you know
your father. Those are people that you know.
You know your husband, you know your wife. But this here, it
goes deeper than that. To know God. And I tell you what,
you know what our Lord Jesus Christ said? This is eternal
life. That they might know thee, the
only true God. And Jesus Christ whom thou hast
sent. Now how many people you reckon
know God? I mean know Him. Know Him to
be able to have an acquaintanceship with Him, to talk with Him, to
converse with Him, to trust Him, to enjoy Him, to delight in Him,
to open your heart to Him, make your request to Him. And then it says here, to know
God, to acquaint thyself now with Him. And in the margin,
it says God, that is God. And then he says, be at peace.
Now let me tell you something, you'll never be at peace, you'll
never be at peace until you know God. I know that without a shadow
of a doubt. Sin separated us from God through
our father Adam. I mean we're far off from God. Scott used to say you're so far
off, you're so far off that only God can go and find you and bring
you back. And beloved, be at peace. Sin
separated us from God. Sin separated every human being
from God. The carnal mind is enmity against
God, and it cannot know God, and they that are in the flesh
cannot please God. And if a man's gonna have peace
with God, it must come by more than just walking an aisle. It
must come more than signing a card. It must come more than joining
a church. It must come more than just saying
some recited prayer or something. It must come by some other presence
of power. People say, well, preachers say,
make your peace with God. You can't make peace with God.
I'm going to tell you how peace with God is made. He said, if
you know God, do you know how you will have peace? He made
peace through the blood of His cross. God reconciled us unto
Himself by Jesus Christ. We were at enmity. Keep this
and look with me in Colossians 1. Colossians 1. Colossians 1. And I've mentioned this before.
I've mentioned this before. Very, very few people, very few
people have any idea of how far off from God they are, how sinful
they are, how their minds are against God, how their wills
are against God. And I'll tell you what, you know,
God, we were enemies. We were enemies of God. We were
born that way. Parents don't never teach their
children to say no. Parents don't teach their children
to lie. Parents don't want their children
living when their daughters grow up to live with a man. They don't
want those things. They don't want their children
to lie. They don't want their children
to be rebellious to them. They don't want their children
to steal, but those things are as natural to a child as breathing
is. And I've said this time and time
again, all you've got to do is leave the house, lock one door,
and say, now when I leave here, don't go in that room. I got
something in that room I don't want you to see. I don't want
you to have nothing to do with it. Stay out of that room. You
won't be to the end of the driveway, they'll be in that room. And
that's the way human nature is. Now how in the world can our
natures change? How can we be at peace? How can
we who are rebels, how can we that are liars, how are we that's
gonna break into the room, how can we be at peace with God?
Now look what it says here. Verse 19, Colossians 119. For
it pleased the Father, that in him should all fullness dwell. Now listen to it. Having made
peace, this is how peace between God and man is made. Having made
peace through the blood of his cross by him to reconcile all
things unto himself. Where the things that are in
heaven, the saints in heaven had to be reconciled. Things
on earth had to be reconciled. And listen to this, and you that
were sometime alienated and enemies in your minds by wicked works,
yet now hath he reconciled, how, in the body of his flesh through
death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable
in his sight. That's how peace is made. God
made peace through the blood of his blessed cross. And I tell
you what, God said, I'll put enmity between thy seed and the
seed of the woman. Now God can only now be known
through the Lord Jesus Christ. There's no other way man can
know God. And there's no other way, an
impossible way, for anybody to know God apart from Jesus Christ.
He was God. Now listen to me. You've heard
this so many times before, but He was God. Before He came into
this world, He was God. He was pre-existent. He is as
eternal as His Father is. But in time, He came and was
put in the womb of a virgin and was made of a woman, and He came
into this world, virgin born, and He was as man as much as
you and I are man, sin accepted. And when he became man, he still
didn't cease to be God. And once he became man, he'll
always be a man throughout eternity. But he's the God-man, sinless
man, perfect man, holy man, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.
And this is how he was made. God can only satisfy God. But
God can't die. But man can die. But man can't
satisfy God. But God became a man and a sinless
man and a perfect man in order to die and satisfy God. That's the gospel. Kiss the Son
lest He be angry with you. That's why it says by the blood
of His cross. And oh, back over here in Job
22, let me show you something here. You know, God is perfectly
independent. God is perfectly independent.
And I'll tell you something. This is hard on the flesh. Man
thinks he is really, really something. But look what he said, we as
man, and we as men add nothing, absolutely nothing to God, nothing
to Him, or detract from Him in any way. Look what he said back
up here in verse two. Can a man be profitable unto
God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? A man
may be profitable unto himself by his wisdom, but can he be
profitable God? What profit are we to God? What
profit are we? What do we add to Him? What profit
are we to God? What do we do that's worth anything
before God? How can we profit God? What have
we ever done in our lives that makes God look at us and say,
Boy, they're a profitable person to me. I need them. And that's
what preachers are saying. God wants you. God needs you.
He has no hands but your hands. No feet but your feet. No money
but your money. God was in eternity before He
ever made a man and He was God then and He's God now and He
still don't need man. Every apostle's gone. Every prophet's
gone. And God's still God. He's still
on His throne. You and I will be gone and God
will still be who He is. You and I, they'll come out on
Memorial Day and put some flowers on our grave, God will still
be God. And we're gone. So, oh listen,
God does, man's character, listen to me, man's character does not
affect God whatsoever. Our sin doesn't lessen His peace,
doesn't lessen His joy, doesn't lessen His righteousness, doesn't
lessen His holiness, doesn't lessen God in any way. Our sin, the only thing it affects
is us. It doesn't affect God. It doesn't
affect Him at all. Any virtue that we may think
we have, any morality, any goodness, any merit that we think we might
have, it can't add to Him. He's holy, infinitely holy, infinitely
righteous. And you know what they say about
Him all the way through the Old Testament and all the way through
the New? Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God. And oh my, when
you find out a God like this, that we add nothing to him or
detract nothing from him by our character, by our words, by our
action, we add nothing to him. We're out here worshiping today.
You're here to hear the gospel. Listen, open the word. And I'll
tell you what we're doing right now. We want to give him glory. We want to attribute all praise
to him. We want to honor him. But I'll tell you one thing.
It does not change him in any way. We're not making him happy
today. God's not just jumping over benches
this morning because we all decided we was gonna go to church and
honor him and patronize him. And I tell you what, beloved,
he is eternal. He's pure, he's blessed. He's
unaffected by the good or bad of us. Look over here at Job
35. Job 35. And look what it says here in verse
6 and 7. And I tell you, this is a God
you can worship. This is a God you can bow down
to. We don't need nothing from us, but we need everything from
Him. We cannot add anything to Him,
but He can certainly add something to us. He don't need us, but
oh my soul, how we need him. Look what he said here in verse
six. If thou sinnest, what doest thou against him? If thy transgressions
be multiplied, what do thou to him? You know, that's what he's asking.
How's your sin gonna affect him? If thou be righteous, what are
you going to give to him? What is he going to receive of
your hand? What? What? We sing that song in my
hands. No price I bring, simply to Christ
I cling. Oh my, no one, no one, no one
is necessary to carrying out God's purpose. He can do it without
us, and He has done it without us, and He will do it. That's
withered to the flesh, but oh, that's not. Oh, we can bow down
before a God like that. We can worship a God like that.
And let me tell you something, God, not only that, man's character
doesn't affect him. He said, God doesn't explain
himself to any man. Look what he says there in verse
three. Is it any pleasure to the Almighty
that thou art righteous? Or is it gain to him that thou
make thy ways perfect? And listen to this. Will He reprove thee because
He's afraid of you? Will He come and reprove you?
Will He rebuke you and reprove you? Not do it because He's afraid
that He might hurt your feelings? that He's going to upset you?
It's utterly ridiculous to think that way. But that's what He
says. Will He reprove thee because He's afraid of you? Is He going
to rebuke you, reprove you, and tell you that you're wrong, and
that you're a sinner, that you're without God, without hope, and
without Christ in this world, afraid He's going to hurt your
feelings? Did He nail His Son to a cross and make Him a sacrifice
for sins, and reprove you through that, and afraid He's going to
hurt your feelings? Oh, no. No, no, no. Oh, listen, will he enter into
judgment with you? You and him sit down and argue
this thing out and negotiate this. That's what my daddy said
before he died. Don't worry about me, D.B. He
said, me and Jesus, we negotiated this a long time ago. I said,
Dad, you're a fool for saying such a thing as that. That's
not possible. It's not right. It's not true.
And he went into eternity with those kind of things in his heart.
He can negotiate with the Lord Jesus Christ. Negotiate with
God. Enter into judgment with God
and God in judgment with Him and negotiate His eternal destiny. Negotiate with me or negotiate
with a bank or negotiate with a real estate agent. Negotiate
with somebody for something that you want. But you can't negotiate
with God. He's not going to enter into
judgment with you. No, no. And that's acquaint thyself now
with him. How? By the Lord Jesus Christ. Now look down with me here in
verse 22. Oh, so acquaint now thyself and be at peace with
him, thereby good shall come unto thee. And the way is plain.
Look what he says. Receive, I pray thee, the law
from his mouth. Lay up thy his words in thine
heart. The law and the word is the same
thing here. The way is plain. Receive, I
pray thee, The law or the word from His mouth. Receive what
He says. Believe what He says. Lay up
His word in your heart. You know, and I tell you, this
is the thing. Receive His word. What does His
word say? Well, His word says this, to
as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons
of God. who believe on Him, which were
born, not of the will of the man, not of the will of the flesh,
nor of blood, but of God. So receive His words. And I'm
telling you, look over here, you keep Job, and look over here
in Psalm 50 and verse 17. Psalm 50 and verse 17. This is, there's so many verses
of Scripture about this. You know, Timothy, Paul told
Timothy, he said, you receive the word, By the Scriptures, by Jesus Christ,
you've received life. You know, you, from your mother
and grandmother, said you've believed on the Lord Jesus Christ.
You've received the Gospel. Look what he said here in verse
17. This is what he says about his
Word. Seeing thou hatest instructions, and cast my words behind thee. Take my words and just, that
don't mean nothing. God's word don't mean anything
to me. Now, you know, I like that part of it, but I don't
like this part of it. There's people that all they
see is speaking in tongues. There's people that all they
see is works. There's people that all they see is grace and
works. And then there's people who see
the whole thing. They see God in the beginning
who said, And they see God at the end and said, behold, I come
quickly. And everything in between talks
about him. Oh my. And let me show you another
one. John 8, 37. Here's what I'm talking
about. You know, our Lord Jesus Christ,
receive his word. Receive his word. Receive his
word. You know, that from a child,
he told Tim, he says, from a child that has known the Holy Scriptures,
the Holy Scriptures which are able to make thee wise unto salvation
through Jesus Christ. Look what he said here now in
verse seven. Receive the word now. I know that you're Abraham's
seed. I know that you are descendants
of Abraham, but you seek to kill me. Why? Because my word hath
no place in you." Oh, so he said, take what God says. Take it.
Take it. And you know what our Lord said
in John 14, 6? Look at it. Just thought of this. You know,
receive the words at his mouth. That's what we're doing here
today to see what God has to say. Shirley said on the way
up here, she said, I hope you have a message for me today.
A message for me, something that'll speak to me. Something that'll
speak to me. And look what our Lord said in
John 14, six. Jesus saith unto him, talking
to Thomas, I am the way, the truth and the life. Now listen
to what he says right here. No man cometh unto the Father,
but by me. Can you receive that? I do. I
do. Lay it up right in here. Lay
it up right in here. Lay it up right in here. Oh,
that's why he says, Beloved, we're bound always to give thanks
to God for you, because God hath from the beginning chosen you
unto salvation. How? Through sanctification of
the Spirit. What else? Belief of the truth. Belief in the truth. And oh,
listen. And then so what? So receive
His Word, take His Word, believe His Word, and then lay it up
in your heart. And then look down in verse 23,
back over here in Job 22. Look in verse 23. Oh, return,
return, the way is so plain. If thou return to the Almighty. Oh my, what does that mean? Return
to the Almighty. You know, whenever they'd go
conquer people, And a man wanted to show his humility in that,
and they wanted to show him that he was his. They'd put a rope
around his neck, and they would take him and show him that this
is the person I've conquered. This is the person that I've
returned with this person. Well, that's what he said here.
Come to the Lord with a rope around your neck for him to lead
you, for him to guide you. And, oh, come with humility.
Come with humility. Return to the Lord with humility.
Return to the Lord with a rope around your neck. Return to the
Lord with repentance. Return to the Lord admitting
that there's no hope for you or help from you apart from Christ. Return to him, come to him and
say, Lord, I'm nothing, I'm nobody, but you can have mercy on me.
Oh my. And then look what he goes on
to say. Return to the Almighty. Come with humility. Come with
repentance. Come with a broken heart. And
then thou shalt be built up, or death shall be built up. And
thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle. And
what in the world does that mean? Just like Israel put leaven out
of their house. Leaven represented sin. What
he's saying is that lawlessness and sin has to go. Has to go. When you return to the Almighty,
you don't return to Him with your lawlessness, with your rebellion.
As one old preacher said, you don't come to the Lord switching
your blowgun from one side of your mouth to the other. That's
not the way it's done. And then, you know, and he said,
iniquity will be put away. And I'll tell you what, and I'm
telling you something, sin and iniquity has to go. And I'll
tell you something else, you want it to go. You don't want
nothing to do with it. Oh Lord, save me from this awful
thing called sin. Save me from this awful thing
called iniquity. And then he says, thou shalt
be built up. Now what in the world is he talking
about here? God must rebuild a man. Thou shalt be built up.
God's got to rebuild a man. God's got to raise a man up.
Sin broke man down. Sin brought him down. Sin couldn't,
and he can't pick himself back up. And all that about him. And
a man can't build himself up. He can't build himself up. He
can't, he can't redo himself. I'll tell you something about
us as believers. We don't even know our own heart.
We know enough about it not to trust it. We don't know about
not to trust Him. And I want you to know, this
is what I'm saying, for by grace are you saved, through faith,
and that's not of yourself. What is it? It's the gift of
God. What is it? It's not of works. Why? Lest any man should boast. Well,
what happens then? We are His workmanship, created
in Christ Jesus by two good works. Huh? And oh my! Titus says it
like this, after the kindness and love of God our Savior toward
men appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to his abundant mercy which he shed on us abundantly
through Jesus Christ, by whom we receive grace. Oh my, God's
got to build you up. Shirley and I was talking about
that this morning, you know, people's hearts and that. And
one thing I know, I know I can't do, I can't even change my own
heart, much less changing anybody else's heart. I can't change
your heart toward me. I can't change my heart towards
you. We can't do that. God's got to do that. And then
look at the results of this acquaintance, the way it's playing, the results
of it. Then he says in verse 24, thou shall lay up gold as
dust and the gold of Ophir as the stones of brick. And then, yea, the Almighty shall
be thy defense. The Almighty shall be thy defense. Oh my, he says here you're gonna
have gold and dust. Gold will be just like dust to
you. And the gold of Ophir, just like stones out here in the brook.
It's just gonna be so plentiful. And yea, the Almighty shall be
thy defense. And what does this mean? This
means that we have so much wealth, so much riches in our Lord Jesus
Christ. It's just compared to the world,
what we have in Christ is people say, boy, I want all that gold.
Well, listen, it's just dust to us. We have so much wealth
in Christ. It's like having gold dust all
around us. Having gold wherever we go, gold's
in the streams. That's what he's talking about
here. We have all this wonderful gold. And what he's talking about,
we have now the true riches. really true riches. We're really
wealthy. And I know this, I know this,
all things are truly worthless when it's compared to Him. There's
not a thing that we have, not a thing that we have, that we
own, that's not temporal. I've told you that time and again.
Our houses, our cars, our land, our money, our health, our time,
everything we got is temporal. And I remember, I've told you
this before, when I first come down here, I was standing over
in another county, and I was looking out on these big mountains
over on Spencer, Spencer Mountain. I was out looking over the country.
And I looked out there, and there's a fellow standing there with
me. And I didn't know him. He didn't know me. We were doing
something. And I said, boy, look at that.
Just to think that my father owns all of this right here.
And he looked at me and said, no, he don't. I said, I know
who this property belongs to. I said, the earth is the Lord's
and the fullness of, and I belong to him. So what he has is mine. Material things can't meet
the needs of an immortal soul. You know, what we have as believers
doesn't satisfy us. You know what satisfies us? Christ
satisfies us. His grace satisfies us. His glory
is our aim. He is our, Christ is our all
and our it all. And everything else, I mean,
listen, I don't care what we have, what we possess, it's when
none of those things truly satisfy our soul. If it did, we wouldn't
be here right now. If we was interested in things,
we'd be out there getting things, but we're not interested in things.
We're interested in Christ. Let men have things. We have
God. We're filled with His fullness.
Let men glory in things. We're going to glory in Christ.
And Paul said we have a treasure. A treasure. But what's it in? An old earthen clay pot. But what's the treasure? Christ
is the treasure. Grace is the treasure. Righteousness
is the treasure. Justification is the treasure.
Forgiveness of sins. What a treasure! To know God! What a treasure. Christ in you,
the hope of glory. What wealth! What wealth! You know what? He called it the
unsearchable, unsearchable riches of Christ. Oh my, but you know
what he talks about riches in this world? He says riches are
deceitful. He says the deceitfulness of
riches choked out the sea. Deceitfulness. Riches are deceitful. They're deceitful. People thought,
boy, I've got it all made now. I've got enough to retire on
this and I've got enough to retire on that. I talked to a fellow
yesterday. He said, I've got enough. I've got enough to do
me. I've got enough to do me. I'm retired and I've got plenty
of money to take care of me the rest of my life. And you know
what? He'll leave it all behind one day. And that's, that's,
that's the, that's the, riches are deceitful. They're deceitful.
They make you trust in, you know, man's trust is in uncertain riches.
Riches will deceive you to thinking that you've got it made. Riches
will deceive you to think I don't need nothing else. Riches will
deceive you to think, well, this is, this is what I'm supposed
to do in life. This is where I'm supposed to
go. This is what I'm supposed to do. This is how I'm supposed
to prepare for the future. And then go on and on and on.
Riches will deceive you and make you rest in them and trust in
them and make you miss Christ. Make you miss Christ. And then,
oh, look what a great delight. Look what he goes on down here
to say. In verse 26, God's going to be your defense. He's going
to defend you now. Then shall have thy delight in the Almighty. Oh my, what you knowing? And
see what you have in him and all the wealth you have in him?
And you believe his word, receive his word? You know what you delight
in? Bless his holy name. Glory to
his name. Oh Lord Jesus, I want to know
you. I want to enjoy you. I want to
know you. And I'll tell you something,
beloved. Paul said it like this, we glory in God through Jesus
Christ. And here's the thing about it.
We enjoy God for Himself. We don't want Him to change.
I don't want to make Him after my image. What a pitiful creature
He'd be if He's made after my image. If I figured Him out in
my mind, how pitiful a being would He be? Oh, but we enjoy
God for Himself. for His holiness and His right.
We desire Him for Himself and we love to have His presence.
Every person that prays up here always prays on Sunday night
or in the meeting back there. They always say, Lord, give us
Your presence. Bless the preacher. Send the
Holy Spirit down. We want His presence. Love to
have His presence. And then we have boldness of
access. Look what He says in verse 26. Excuse me, verse 20,
yeah, 26 again. For thou shalt have delight in
the Almighty, and look what he says, and shalt lift up thy face
unto Him. Oh my, boldness of access. You know, when you know Him,
then you lift up your face towards Him. You lift your heart up to
Him. You lift yourself up to Him. There was a time when we
hid, as it were, our faces from Him. There was no beauty about
Him that we should desire. But now, But now our fellowship
is with the Father and with the Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now
we look at Him. Now we delight in Him. Now we
enjoy Him. Now we lift up our hearts and
our faces to Him with access and boldness and confidence.
And then look what else it says here now in verse 27. Thou shalt
make thy prayer. This is when you know Him, when
you made your acquaintance, when you know Him. Thou shalt make thy prayer unto
him and he shall hear thee. Oh my. Thou shalt make thy prayer
unto him. I preached a message here a few
months ago out of 1 John 5. It says, and we know, John said
it this way, and we know that he heareth us. We know that he
heareth us. John said, we know that he hears
us. Who's us? us he hears us and
that's what he said thou shall make thy prayer unto him you'll
call unto him you'll pray to him and look what it says he'll
hear you you know what he he can hear you and you never move
your lips he can hear you when you speak to him from your heart
speak to him from your mind he hears you And here's how glorious
He is and how magnificent He is. And this is God we're talking
about knowing. He can hear every one of His
people all over this world at the same time. And knows who
they are and what they're saying and what to do for them. That's incredible. I can't hardly
remember what I thought yesterday, what I did yesterday. I can't
remember what I prayed about this and that and the other.
But He hears me when I do. Huh? He hears me. He hears me. And then God's ears turn to us
to hear us when we speak. And then look what else He says
here now in verse 28. Thou shalt also decree a thing,
and it shall be established unto thee. Now what in the world is
He talking about here? Thou shalt decree a thing, and
it shall be established. You know what this is saying?
That once you know God, Your word will become your bond. You'll
say something. You'll say, I'll do this. I'll
do that. And your word becomes your bond. And God says that
that man, he shall, he shall prosper. He'll declassify. And
he said a light will shine on his way. Men began to speak according
to thus saith the Lord. That's what to do. And his word
won't return unto him void. In fact, a believer, he'll swear
to his own hurt, swear to his own hurt. And the light shall
shine upon thy way. No more walking in darkness.
No more walking in darkness. No more we walk in the light
as Jesus Christ is in the light. Now it sometimes may appear dark.
It may sometimes appear dark. And look what else he said down
here. And you know, it may appear dark, but His light is even on
His people, guiding in the truth. It lights the mind. The Lord
is my shepherd, I shall not want. And when we know God, and God's
made us to know him, your worry will become your bond. God will
shine his light on you and direct your steps, guide you into truth. And then he said, you'll be made
useful to others. When men are cast down, then
shalt thou say, I know exactly where your help's at. I know
who you can go to, who will meet your need. I can't meet it, but God can.
Oh thou shall say there is a lifting up who gonna lift you up the
lord will lift you up the lord will pick you up oh my something
has to be done for us before we can do anything for anyone
else and then look what it says here men that are cast down that
means The humble person. He shall save the humble person. He that hath low eyes. He that
hath low eyes. I told you the other day, me
and Bruce Crabtree was talking and Bruce said, Donnie said,
we just got to stay low. Got to stay low. Don't never
lift yourself up. Don't never exalt yourself. Don't
never thank yourself. You know, we, we got to stay
down there. God's only going to use somebody that stays down.
He's not going to use people that's up. bragging about themselves,
trusting in themselves, believing in themselves. He's not going
to do that. He's not going to bless a proud
man. Oh my. Not many can be helped, but there
is a lifting up. And we who know God can truly
say to somebody else, I know who can pick you up. I know who
can lift you up. I know who, when you're cast
down, I know who can get you up. I know who can do that. I pray that's a blessing to you.
I really do. Our Father, in the precious name,
precious, precious name, blessed name, glorious name of the Lord
Jesus Christ, oh, your mercy was so abundant today. Your grace
is always sufficient, always sufficient. Lord, you told us
when we're weak, we're strong, that your strength is made perfect
in our weakness. And Lord, we are indeed weak,
and we come to you for that blessed grace, that blessed sufficient
grace, that powerful grace, that saving grace, that sustaining
grace, that free grace, that upholding grace. Lord, we come
to you for everything, everything we need, everything we hope and
trust in. Lord Jesus Christ, let us make
it all but done, that we might know you, that we might win you,
that we might be found in you, having your righteousness, none
of our own, just yours. God bless the Word today. Send
it forth in power. May it be fruitful. May it be
fruitful. By the Holy Ghost, may it be
fruitful. In Christ's holy name, amen.