evening, if you have them, to
Psalm 40. Psalm 40. Psalm 40. And we'll pray before we read
the Scriptures and deal with the message. We will certainly
want to remember Kathleen. She's been a very, very sick
woman, and she's extremely weak still yet. She's at home, but
she's very, very weak. Can't eat very much and she needs
our prayers. She needs us to remember and
God give her strength. Make her strong. Strengthen her
body. Our Father and our gracious,
gracious Lord Jesus Christ, in your blessed name, Lord, we come.
Lord, you're great and glorious in your being and your mercy
and grace that you give to your people in this world. How you
preserve us and keep us, oh, we bless you for it. God, we're
so grateful that again to have a time to meet with the people
of God, the saints of God, the children of God, people you love,
gave you blessed son for, shed you blood, called them to yourself. gave them faith to believe, gave
them a good hope through your grace. And Father, we pray for
those among us who are so sick and so tried. We especially pray
for Kathleen this evening. Oh Lord, I ask that you strengthen
her inner body, make her strong, enable her to get strong, get
well. May her body start functioning
right and clearly Lord, you've been so merciful. We thank you
for what you've done for Jim. You've made him stronger, and
we thank you for it. And Lord Jesus, we know that
you're able, and we believe you're able, and we believe you will.
Lord, we call on you as one of our dear sisters, dear brothers,
that we love and love the gospel. She's been faithful for so many
years. Oh Lord, have mercy on her and her home. Strengthen
her. And Lord, as I labor tonight
in the gospel, I ask for your power and presence. I ask for
the Holy Ghost to come down on the whole congregation tonight.
We ask these things in Christ's name. Amen. Amen. Sweep over my soul, sweep over
my soul, sweet spirit, sweep over my soul. My joy is complete when I sit
at His feet. Sweet Spirit, sweep o'er my soul. Now look here with me in Psalm
40. Let's look at these first five
verses. David said this, this is a psalm
of David. I waited patiently for the Lord,
and He inclined unto me and heard my cry. He brought me up also
out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet
upon a rock, established my goings. And He hath put a new song in
my mouth, praise unto our God. Many shall see it and fear, and
shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is that man that maketh
the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn
aside to lies. Many, O Lord my God, are thy
wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which
are to usward. They cannot be reckoned up in
order unto thee. If I would declare and speak
of them, they are more than can be numbered. When we read these five verses,
there's one thing that we know without a shadow of a doubt.
The salvation's of the Lord. Salvation is of the Lord. It
says there in verse five, many, O Lord God, are thy wonderful
works which you've done. How would you tell about the
works that God has done for you in your life? From the day that
before you ever knew him, how he preserved you and kept you.
And then he had thoughts towards us. Now we know God don't think,
but here it says he has thoughts towards us. He has thoughts towards
us. He thinks about us. In fact,
he told his disciples that the very hairs of your head are numbered.
And he says, you think that a sparrow's worth something? He said, oh
my goodness, those sparrows, as the father takes care of them,
don't you know he's going to take care of you? So I mean if
He cares for the sparrows, imagine how much He cares for us. And
then He goes on to say, They cannot be reckoned up in order
unto thee. How in the world would you start
telling God how He's done? What order did He do these things
in? And if I would declare and speak of them, there more than
can be numbered. And I tell you, it says here
that His works are full of wonder. You know, it's God that works
in us, both the will and the do of His good pleasure. He works,
God works, always works. And it's He, we are His workmanship
created in Christ Jesus unto good work. So all of His works
that He's done, it's He that works in us. It's He that worked,
we're His workmanship. So God works. So if God works,
who's gonna stop Him? And when He works, no man can
stop Him. And thank God, that's why Paul
said, being confident of this one thing, that He which hath
begun a good work in you, He's going to perform it unto the
day of Jesus Christ. But here in these first five
verses, we have a picture of the experience of a sinner, of
a soul passing from death to life, going from darkness to
light. and experiencing the full joy
of salvation. First of all, you gotta start
out, you know, a man don't start out knowing God. He don't start,
you know where he starts at? He starts as David did here,
he said in verse 2, he brought me also up out of a horrible
pit. A man, before he knows God, before
he knows Christ, he's in a horrible place. He's in a horrible condition. He's in a horrible pit. And that's
what sin is. Sin is a pit that you cannot
get out of. Sin is a pit and it's a deep
thing. And it was deep in your soul.
It's deep in your nature. It's deep in everything about
you. Sin is an awful, awful, deep thing that a man can't get
himself out of. And it says here in the Miry
clay, Gary was telling me, I believe it was last year, he got on,
he got these boots and said he gets out in the mud and said
his boots would get stuck in the mud and almost pull his boots
off. And I've been in the same thing. You get in mud and that
mud just all pulls your boots off and there you are standing
in the mud with barefoot. And that's what he says, this
clay, this sin is so mucky and so miry that it holds your feet
and you can't pick them up. You can't get them out. You can't
get them out of it. And Myer and Muck, is this what
they did to souls back in those days? They put them in pits.
You remember you read about Jeremiah, they put Jeremiah in a pit. And
they put him in a pit up to his elbows. And they'd let him down
a little water and a piece of bread every once in a while.
And you remember Joseph's brethren, when they decided that they was
tired of him being with all of his dreams and all of his visions,
they said, well, we'll kill a goat and we'll put blood on his coat
and take it back to his father and say he died. And so they
put him in a pit. Remember they put him in a pit.
And then they saw some people come and said, well, let's sell
him. Let's sell him. They got him up out of the pit.
But that's what they did for people in those days. And when
they put them in a bad place, they put them in a pit. And I
know this. If you know you're in a horrible
pit, and you're in the miry clay, and you can't get out, You'll
know that you're in great distress and you'll start saying, who's
going to get me out of this mess I'm in? Who's going to save me
from this mess I'm in? Who's going to get me out of
this horrible pit? Who's going to take my feet and
has the power and the strength to get me up out of that pit
and get me out of that miry clay? Who's going to do it? Well, when
you get in distress, look what David did in verse one. He said,
I waited patiently for the Lord. Waiting and waiting, that's what
that means. I waited patiently for the Lord. And that's all
we can do for our loved ones, people that's in this condition.
Just wait patiently unto the Lord. And look what it says.
He cried, he inclined unto me and heard my cry. He cried out
to the Lord. And it says the Lord inclined
him to hear him. The Lord inclined to hear him. The Lord leaned his ear over
and said, I hear a cry. That's what he said about the
children of Israel, said the cries of the children of Israel
are come up before me when they were down in Egypt being mistreated.
He said, I hear the cries of my children down there. I hear
the cry of David down there in that pit. I see the cry of that
soul down in that horrible pit. And a soul won't cry out to the
Lord for salvation until he knows he's in trouble. And that's what
most people's trouble is. They don't know they're in trouble.
They've never been in trouble. They don't know what trouble
is. They've always got a way out, got a way of escape. The
only time that you won't have a way of escape is if God Himself
brings you to the place that you ain't got nowhere to go but
to cry out to Him. I'd love to see somebody in trouble
someday. I'd love to see some of these
people that's been come to serve. I'd like to see them in trouble
and say, Preacher, I'm in trouble. I'm in soul trouble. I'm in sin
trouble. Then everything else that matters,
the only thing that will matter is how can I get out of this
trouble that I'm in? Davis said, I waited. I waited
on the Lord. You see, God, God is not men's
errand boy. God doesn't jump and we say to. God's not that way. God's not
standing over us, you know, over men and women just looking down
and saying, Oh, I wish they'd come to me. Oh, I wish they'd
come to me. Oh, I'd want them so bad. If
they'd just make a move towards me. But David said, I waited. I waited on the Lord. And oh
God, the way the preachers preach God now said, He's, you know,
He just has to jump too. Somebody calls on him, he just,
he's right there like that. But David said, I waited. I waited
and I'll tell you something. Waiting on the Lord is not the
easiest thing you'll ever do. But I'll tell you one thing,
when you're in trouble, you're gonna have to wait. Huh? I'd like to, that's why we need
to start praying. God get people in trouble. Instead
of making them sinners, say, get them in trouble. Get them
in trouble with you. Make them know how much trouble
they're in with you. Make them know that you're angry
with them. Make them know that you despise
their sin. Make them know that they are
in your hands and that they're in trouble and there ain't nothing
they can do to get themselves out of it. Get them in trouble. I start saying, God, get my son
in trouble. Get my daughter in trouble. Get
my grandchildren. Get them in trouble. And then when they get in trouble,
don't you try to help get them out of it. Just leave them alone. If they really get in trouble,
just leave them alone. Because if God gets them in trouble,
He knows how to get them out of it. He's the only one that
does. Oh, listen, that's what we'll start praying. Lord, get
them in trouble. Instead of making them know their
sin, get them in trouble. Get them in such a situation
that they can't get out of it. Let their life get so miserable
that they got nothing but trouble when they get up in the morning,
trouble through the day, and trouble all night. And then they'll
wait on the Lord. And look what it says, and he
inclined unto me. God inclined unto him. I mean,
God lifted, he leaned over there and said, oh, I hear a cry down
there. I hear a cry down there. There
ain't never nobody. And as David said, and he heard
my cry. Tell you one thing about him here, he didn't need to be
taught the sinner's prayer. He didn't need to be, he didn't
have somebody have to teach him how to pray. He cried out and
that Syrophoenician woman with her daughter that's grievously
vexed with the devil, she cried out and followed the Lord and
the disciples said, tell her to get away from us. She troubles
us. And, oh, listen, she just kept
going on and on. And the Lord said to her, said,
oh, listen, I'm not sent but to the Lord's sheep of the house
of Israel. That didn't stop her. She kept coming and she kept
crying. And he says, listen, it's not right that I should
take the children's bread and give it to dogs. And that's what
he was calling her, a Gentile dog. She said, Lord, you're exactly
right. But even dogs get the crumbs
from the master's table. And you know what? The Lord received
her cry. Bartimaeus, he's going by Bartimaeus. And Bartimaeus heard that Jesus
was coming. He said, oh Jesus, thou son of David. And them disciples
said, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh,
shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh,
shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh,
sh And that's what does, boy. When
people get in trouble, they'll start crying. They'll start crying
out to the Lord. They won't say, they won't say,
preacher, I want you to, I want you to save me. Preacher, I want
you to tell me what to do. Preacher, I don't know how to
get out of this mess. I'll say, I don't either. Say, you're going
to have to call on the Lord. I can't get you out of nothing. Can't
get myself out of trouble. Can you? And then look what happens to
him. It says in verse 2, I waited
patient for the Lord. He inclined unto me and heard
my cry. He brought me up also out of a horrible pit. You notice
there it says, He brought me up. And where did He bring you from?
From a horrible pit. Where did He bring you from?
Up out of the miry clay. I'll tell you what God didn't
do. He didn't do like preachers are preaching today. Walk over
there and set a ladder down there and say, now that's my part.
You do your part. You know, here, here's the ladder down.
You know, I've got the ladder there. It's up to you to climb
out. Here, here's a rope. Pull yourself
up out of there. No, that's not the way it works.
No, no, no, no, no. It says here, he brought me up. God rushed down and got him.
And got a hold of him. And brought him up out of that
horrible pit. And all, look at, keep Psalm
40, look over in Psalm 65. Psalm 65. You know, our Lord says this,
that no man can come unto the Father. Come
unto me, except the Father which sent me drawing. And every one
that hath heard and learned of the Father, he cometh unto me."
And look what he says, and that's where we got to go. He got to
be brought up. Look what it said here in verse 4 of Psalm 65.
Blessed is the man whom thou choosest. No, election's a wonderful
thing. Thank God for election. Thank
God that God made the choice. But if he made the choice and
left anything up to us, we wouldn't be any better off. But look what
it says, and causes us to approach unto you. Not only did I choose you, but
I caused you to come to me. I caused you to come to me. I
caused you to come unto me. And then that we may dwell in
thy courts and be satisfied with thy goodness. Oh, He's got to
bring us up. He brings us up. And I tell you
what, and that's the one thing that you'll always know, that
the Lord did it. He brought us up. He brought
us out. He did it. Then look what else
He done here in verse 2. He brought me up out of a horrible
pit, out of the mire clay. He brought me up. And whenever
you find anything done in the scriptures, it's always God starts.
God starts. In Romans 8, it's he, he, he,
he. Everything that happens, he did
it. He did it. He did it. All to him I owe. And look what it said here now.
And he said, and he set my feet on a rock and established my
goings. You know, when God brings a man
up out of this pit, saves him and chooses him and causes him
to be brought up out of it. You know what he does is he establishes
that man. He establishes that man. He sets
your feet on a rock. And when he sets your feet upon
a rock, he establishes your goings. He not only brings us up and
out, but then not only that, but he takes us and sets us on
a rock. We went from ivory clay to a solid rock. You went from
where your feet couldn't get out of it to a place where your
own Christ the solid rock I stand, all other ground to sink in sand.
And he set his feet on a rock, no more pit, no more miry clay. And here he sits on the solid
rock of God's grace in the Lord Jesus Christ, of God's sovereignty,
of the truth that never, never changes. Set him on a rock, established
him. And I tell you what, If you get
on, our Lord Jesus Christ called himself the rock, said whoever
falls on this rock, called himself a rock over in Matthew 22, said
whoever falls on this rock will be saved, but on whomsoever it
falls, it'll grind him to powder. Either you're gonna fall on the
rock, and stay on the rock, and trust the rock, and be on that
rock of ages, or else that rock is gonna crush you to powder.
That's what our Lord said. And ought to be set on the solid
rock of God's grace in Christ. And people say, well, what if
they go back? What if they go back? You hear people all the
time, they ask me, say, y'all have any backsliders? No, I never. Ain't been none since I've been
here. There's been a few quit, been
a few left, been a few got mad, but ain't nobody backslid. You
can't backslide from a new birth. You can't get out of the covenant.
But they say, well, what if they go back? Want to go from Iraq,
get back in the horrible pit? That's exactly what it amounts
to. You're on this rock. God brought you out and put you
on this rock. And you say, well, I don't like the rock. I'm going to get back down in
the pit, and I'm going to get right back down in there. I'm
going to put my feet back in the pit, and I'm going to stay
right down in this old horrible pit and walk while we're in this
mud. Oh, no. No, what it says here, he established
our goings. And I remember Scott preaching
a message years and years ago. I believe it was out of, I believe
it was out of Samuel. It may not have been. I'll have
to look and see. But anyways, where a man lifted his hands
when his daughter came in. And he said, I've lifted my hand
to God and I can't go back. And I remember Scott Richardson
preaching on that years ago. I've lifted my hand to God and
I cannot go back. And he started talking about,
what would you go back to? What would you go back to? Go
back from, go from righteousness to sin? Go from life back to
death? Go from light back into darkness? It'd be an impossibility if God
saves a man. This cannot happen. It established our goings. Look,
look, it's in 1 Peter 5. Look in 1 Peter 5 and verse 10. Well, they say it's up to you.
Well, if God established your going, no it ain't. God's the one that brought you
up out of the horrible pit. God's the one that set you on
the solid rock. God's the one that established your going.
Now, what in the world, if God does the work, how in the world
would you stop it? How do you get out of it? How
do you go back from it? Look what he said here in verse
10 of 1 Peter chapter 5 and verse 10. but the God of all grace, that's
how he describes him, the God of all grace, who hath called
us unto his eternal glory. Blessed is the man whom thou
choosest and causest to approach unto, called us unto his eternal
glory. Now, if he called us unto his
eternal glory, then eternal glory is what we're gonna have. By
Christ Jesus, now listen to this, after that you've suffered a
while, make you perfect, listen to this, establish you, strengthen
you, settle you. To Him be glory and dominion
forever and ever. Huh? Oh, establish my goings. Not double-minded. A double-minded
man's unstable in all of his way. He's not in and out. Not in and out. In for three
months and out for three months. In for five weeks, out for five
weeks. Oh, no, no, no. You find somebody
like that and I'll tell you, I'll show you somebody that wouldn't
know God from a goat. I believe that. I believe when
God saves a man by his grace and teaches his gospel, I believe
that person is established. I believe God sees that they're
established. And when they find a place where the gospel's preached,
they pitch camp right there and they ain't leaving. You can't
run them off. Not that I want to. Not that I'll ever try. But
I mean, you can't. Where would you go without the
gospel? Where would you go without Christ?
We're not working our way to the Lord. All our goings before God saved
us by his grace was all wrong. Now they're right because He
established our going. It's like that Gadarene maniac.
Nobody could tame him. Wild. He lived in a graveyard.
They'd put chains around him. He'd break it off. They'd put
ropes on him. He'd just tear them loose. They
kept trying to do something with him. Try to control him. And
nobody could. And when the Lord Jesus walked
up, that man calmed down just like that. And our Lord said
to him, what's your name? He said, my name is Legion. He
said, why? He said, because we are many.
The devil's speaking through him. Our Lord cast him out, and
the scripture says that next time you saw him, he was sitting
and clothed in his right mind. And the Lord Jesus was getting
ready to leave, and you know what? That fellow down, he jumped
up, fell behind Christ, started walking behind him. And he said,
where are you going? I said, I'm going to follow you
in the way. Wherever you go, I'm going. And our Lord said,
no, no. You go home, tell your family
what great things the Lord's done for you. And that's what
David said here. Oh, what am I going to say that
God's done for me? What am I going to say? And oh,
listen, look what else it says here. In verse three, not only
did he pick us up out of this horrible pit, out of this awful
place of sin and shame and not no ability to get out, he brought
us up and he established our going, set our feet on a rock.
And now listen to what else he does. He put a new song in my
mouth. Huh? Not only did he bring us
out, set us on a rock, established our going, but he gave us a song
to sing. You know what that song is? It
tells us what it is, even praise unto our God. That's what we
start doing. When God saves us by His grace,
you know what we say? To God be the glory. Great things
He has done. We don't glory in anybody or
anything but the Lord. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but unto thy name be glory, unto thy name be honor. Before,
it was praise us for our works, praise us for our dress code,
praise us for our condition, praise us for the way we dress,
praise us because we didn't smoke or chew or do any of those things.
We were so self-righteous, and then God saves us by his grace,
and then he starts getting all the praise. I know that this happens to you
all all the time. You all got people you work with,
you got people in your family when you're around them. They
go to other churches and things, and all they talk about is all
that they're doing for the Lord. They just talk about it all the
time. What their church is doing for the Lord, what they're doing
for the Lord, and how dedicated they are to the Lord, and how,
you know, and they talk about what they're doing, and a person
saved by the grace of God. You know what he says? He talks
about what God done. God did this. God, whatever's
been done in our lives to make us, me and Shirley was talking
about it yesterday. You think about this, beloved.
When God saves a man, He puts, He gives a nature, puts a nature,
He brings into existence a person who never existed before. And
that person, what happens to make a man want to then start
thinking about God, calling on God, communing with God, desiring
God. You know, you can't desire God
who is holy unless you're holy. You can't desire a spiritual
being unless you're a spiritual being. You can't talk to a spiritual
being unless you're a spiritual being. You cannot desire to commune
with somebody that's holy unless you're holy. And so God puts
in us this new nature that makes us want God, want Christ. And
this new song that we give praise unto God, we never take any self-glory. We never brag on ourselves. What
would we say about ourselves before God? When Paul said, I
know that in me and my flesh dwells no good pain. And he said, all my righteousness
before is as a filthy rag. And I tell you what, this new
song, this new song brings, this new life brings on a new song.
A song we never sung before. We never sung, we never, all
the songs we sang before, you know, life is like a mountain
railroad with an engineer, that's true. I'm building a bridge. You know, I'm building it strong
and I'm building it wide. Oh my, you sing stuff like that,
one old boy in the church. Walter Norris, he sang bass.
He had a big, deep voice, you know, and sang bass on some of
those songs. And there wasn't nothing at all about God's glory. And now, that's all we're interested
in. If somebody don't get up and glorify God and bring honor
to his son, we don't want to hear them. A new life brings
a new song. A life brings a new tune. And
it's not unto us, not unto us, but unto thy name. And it's a
song of praise to the Lamb. Look in Revelations 5. It's a
song of praise to the Lamb. Oh, it's the Lamb that we sing
about. It's the Lamb that we want to
honor. Tonight, the first song that Brad got was on Christ,
the solid rock I stand. Not on my will, the solid rock
I stand. Not on my will. Not on my power,
not on my abilities, not on my merit, not on my good, not anything. It says, no, on Christ, the solid
rock I stand. His oath, His covenant, His blood
support me in the whelming flood. All other ground sinking sand.
And the next one, one, oh, worship the King. God honoring, Christ exalting
songs. But look what he said here in
verse 9, Revelations 5, 9. And they sung a new song. What
was they singing? They aren't worthy. Ain't that
the first thing? That's the first note in our
vocabulary. That's the first note we learn
when God saves us. You're worthy. You're the one
that's worthy, Lord. Only you're the one that's worthy.
You're worthy. Who else is worthy? You're worthy. Your blood's worthy. You're worthy
to satisfy God. You're worthy to honor God. You're
worthy to bring glory to God. You're worthy to shed your blood
and your blood was worthy to cleanse us of all of our sins.
They sung a new song saying, Thou art worthy to take the book,
open the seals thereof. Listen to this, for thou was
slain. and hast redeemed us to God by
thy blood out of ever kindred tongue and people and nation. Oh, my. That's what we sang. He's the one that's worthy. And,
oh, beloved, he'll not only put this song in our heart and in
our mouth, but he set our feet on a rock and ain't nobody gonna,
he said, I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish.
And and no bands should ever take them out of my father. They're
not able to take him out of my hand or my father's hands And
that's what he said Then look what it says what else will happen
to us then God will use us By his blessed grace who uses there
in verse 3. It says this He put that song
even praise under our God. That's what the song is And that's
what makes it new before it was we never sung praise unto God
now. That's all we do. I Many shall see it and fear
and shall trust in the Lord. God uses us, uses the gospel,
uses our praise of Him and our honor of Him. Many shall see
it and fear and shall trust the Lord. I think about some of you
parents in here. I thought about this today when
I thought about this. There's Eleanor. She's got three daughters
in this service tonight. Three daughters. All of them
got a good confession of faith and has for years. Got a grandson
sitting there. Gives a good evidence he knows
the Lord. Got a son-in-law and a grandson-in-law and a granddaughter
in Kentucky. Gives a good confession of faith. Used to the Lord for her own
children. Gary's got His children. What a wonderful thing. Brett,
Daryl and Joyce, Brad, Seth. What a wonderful thing. Now you
sit tibby with your daughter sitting beside you listening
to the gospel. My, my. Used of God. Not even knowing
you, you ain't used of God. But you are. Ain't that something? And all your brothers and sisters,
you got two sisters and two brothers that come here. And your mommy. And Herman, it's just me and
you. Me and you, the family. We're orphans. But somebody was using the Lord
to get the gospel to you. And that's what we're talking
about. And they'll see it. And they'll fear. And they trust
the Lord. Yep, that's right. Yep, see that
God does something for you. And that's what's so wonderful
about it. And it's obvious that the Lord did it. And you praise
Him. It says here, it says, many shall
see it in fear. Fear, trust the Lord. He makes
them fruitful, happy, joyful, consistent in their testimony
of salvation. Dorothan and Kathleen, And some
of you, when we first started down there 36 years ago, in March,
down there at that old building, Dorothy's been coming all that
time, Kathleen's been coming all that time, Eleanor's been
coming all that time, you've all been coming all that time. 36 years. Just kids when we started,
kids. And here it is, many shall fear
and trust the Lord. Huh? God uses us. And then look what happens. Oh,
bless his name. Ah, get emotional here. Look
in verses 4 and 5. Oh, the man that God saves, he's
a satisfied man. Look what it says in verse 4.
Blessed is that man. What man? That makes the Lord
his trust. That's what. Oh, what makes the
Lord his trust? Lord, I trust you. I have nothing
else to trust but you, and I do trust you. I trust you with my
life. I trust you with my soul. I trust
you with my children. I trust you with my family. I
trust you with my home. I trust you with the church.
I trust you with everybody. And you trust Him with everybody
you know. Blessed is the man that makes
the Lord his trust. And then look what it says. Oh, Lord, I tell you, how am
I going to tell what the Lord has done? Many, oh, Lord, my
God, are for your wonderful works which you've done. And he said,
I can't, if I declare and speak of them, there more than can
be numbered. Can anybody get up tonight and tell them what
the Lord has done for them? Where would you start? Where would you start? Well,
I'll tell you where I'd start. I'll start in eternity. That's
where I'd start. He started doing it for me before
I ever was. And then after I was, he did
it all. And oh, listen, he has thoughts
for us. He does many, many works for
us. I mean, he does works for us
every moment of every day. And I'm ashamed to admit this,
and I hope that you all don't do this, but there are some times
I go for for several days, and I hardly read the scriptures,
you know. I read them, but then at times,
you know, they're just a dead book to me. And yet, the Lord still loves
me, still works in me, still keeps me. And there's so many
things that God's done for us, we can't number them. We don't
know where to start. Don't know where to start. But
that man, that soul, that has the Lord as his trust is a man
that's satisfied. He ain't looking for nothing
else. He ain't looking for nobody else. And he trusts the Lord. And God picked him up, brought
him out of a horrible pit, set his feet on a rock, established
his goings, put a new song in his mouth. He started praising
God. Never had done that before. God
saved him, he starts praising God. Don't he? And then the Lord uses them to
witness to others and pray for others. Oh, my. Then he's satisfied. He's satisfied what the Lord's
done. Our Father, oh, blessed be your
name. Thank you for allowing us this
privilege to be here this evening to be with the children of God.
Oh, what a joyful evening I've had. I delight in your word,
delight in your salvation. Delight to watch the people as
they listen to the gospel and delight in it, rejoice in it.
Find that they identify with it. Find it speaks to the heart,
speaks to the soul. It feeds them and encourages
them. Lord, I thank you. And again, we pray for those
that we've mentioned before, Kathleen, Jim, Peggy, And oh,
the brethren that's not with us, keep them safe. Bring them
to worship with us again. We ask these things in our Lord
Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. ? Is a name I love
to hear ? ? I love to sing it's worth ? ? It sounds like music
in my ear ? ? The sweetest name on earth ? ? Oh how I love Jesus
? Why? That's giving God the praise
for it. Well, good night. See you Sunday,
Lord willing.