And we are looking again in the
Psalms. This time moving to Psalm 104. Brother Al read that chapter
to us there a moment ago. We're reminded of what he began with. That is that
who can sit in judgment of the Lord He has done many mighty
things in the earth, things past our finding out. How foolish
it is when men think to sit in judgment upon Him and call Him
into question and say, well, that wouldn't be right if He
was to do that. Well, tell me, you know, what
grounds upon which you would stand to judge the way of the
Lord? And the Lord has shown us those
things throughout the Scriptures. And he reminds us, you know,
that we are dust. Because men do think that they
are special creatures in the earth. Men think that they have
some vital worth that the Lord just can't do without. Somehow
if he, you know, loses men, he's going to be lessened. Well, he
was never added to by men and so he certainly can't be anything
taken away if all men were destroyed. I mean if there were no such
thing as men, I mean what the Lord would be resplendent in
all of his glory. He doesn't need men to make his
creation. Men never did anything except
that which the Lord was pleased to cause them to do. And so You know, He's the One that's
worthy of all the glory. And that's what these Psalms
that we have been reading about are. And this one is no different. It begins with the same phrase
that the other one began and ended with. Bless the Lord, O
my soul. O Lord my God, Thou art very
great. Thou art clothed with honor and
majesty. who covereth thyself with light
as with a garment, who stretcheth out the heavens like a curtain,
who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters, who maketh the
clouds his chariot, who walketh upon the wings of the wind, who
maketh his angels' spirits his ministers of flaming fire, who
laid the foundations of the earth that it should not be removed
forever, Thou cover'st it with the deep as with a garment. The
water stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled, at the
voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the mountains,
they go down by the valleys, unto the place which thou hast
founded for them. Thou hast set abound that they
may not pass over, that they turn not again to cover the earth.
He sendeth the springs into the valleys which run among the hills.
They give drink to every beast of the field. The wild asses
quench their thirst. By them shall the fowls of the
heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
He watereth the hills from his chambers, the earth is satisfied
with the fruit of thy works. He causeth the grass to grow
for the cattle and the herb for the services of man, that he
may bring forth food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad
the heart of man. and oil to make his face to shine,
and bread which strengtheneth man's heart. The trees of the
Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted.
Where the birds make their nest as for the stork, the fir trees
are her house. The high hills are a refuge for
the wild goats, and the rocks for the conies. He appointed
the moon for the seasons, and the sun knoweth his going down. Thou makest darkness, and it
is night, wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.
The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their meat from
God. The sun ariseth, they gather
themselves together, and lay them down in their dens. Man
goeth forth unto his work, and to his labor until the evening.
O Lord, how manifold are Thy works! In wisdom hast Thou made
them all. The earth is full of Thy riches.
So is this great and wide sea wherein are are things creeping,
innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships, there
is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein. These wait
all upon thee, that thou mayest give them their meat in due season. That that thou givest them, they
gather. Thou openest thy hand, they are
filled with good. Thou hidest thy face, they are
troubled. Thou takest away their breath,
they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth thy
spirit, they are created, and thou renewest the face of the
earth. The glory of the Lord shall endure forever. The Lord
shall rejoice in his works. He looketh on the earth and it
trembleth. He toucheth the hills and they
spoke. I will sing unto the Lord as
long as I live. I will praise my God while I
have my being. My meditation of Him shall be
sweet. I will be glad in the Lord. Let
the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked
be no more. Bless thou the Lord, O my soul. Praise ye the Lord. Now, if a man can read that and
not come away awestruck at the power and might of Almighty God,
then he is either unable to comprehend words or he is a rebel against
God. You know, the Lord has plainly
set forth His sovereignty, His absolute control over all things
in the earth throughout the Bible. It's impossible to miss it You know, he said, I make peace
and create evil. I form the light and I make the
darkness. I, the Lord, do all these things.
And yet, men try to argue those points. They try to point out
things that God has not caused to come to pass. They get mad
when someone says God caused something to come to pass. Well,
the Lord said these things come to pass according to the good
pleasure of His will. And He said this, who can say
anything about it? When the Lord confronted Job,
you know, Job waxed pretty eloquent, and rightly so. He had a lot
of good things to say to his miserable comforters and physicians
of no value, as they discussed things throughout the book of
Job. And of course, they often said many good things. Now, they
often got off the track, even as sometimes Job did a little
bit. But in the end, Job, though he was one favored by the Lord,
he was put in his place because Job perhaps had thought he knew
too much about the Lord. And he had waxed pretty eloquent.
And the Lord appeared to him in the whirlwind. And he said,
sit down and shut up, Job. He said, where were you when
I created the earth? And then he went on to tell him
all these different things, and that was at the end when Job
put his hand upon his mouth, and he fell on his face, and
he said, I have heard of thee. You know, I thought I knew something. I heard about you, and I talked
about you. But he said, now mine eye seeth
thee. And he says, I abhor myself and
I repent in dust and ashes. And when a man is brought to
the place where he knows who the Lord is, when he's brought
face to face with the true and living God, the first thing that
will happen is he will smite upon his breast, woe is me. You can see it throughout the
Scriptures every time. If somebody came into the presence
of the Lord, that was the first thing that came upon them. Daniel
said, My comeliness was turned in me into corruption when I
saw the Lord. He said, I became as a dead man. John said, I fell at his feet
as dead. Isaiah said, Woe is me, for I
am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in a people of unclean
lips. It's impossible for the natural
man to be confronted by the true and living God and not find himself
to be weak and without strength. And I often am amazed at some
of these so-called Preachers, they call themselves preachers,
who go about talking about how they've got power with God. You
know, they can like back God up into a corner. And they can,
you know, by just prayer and this, they can get God. You know,
they just cause God to have to do something. Well, dear brethren,
you can't cause God to do anything. You can forget that. God can cause you to do things.
But you can't cause God to do anything. Now God often does
the things that His people call upon Him to do. But, you know,
we read in the Scriptures that if we ask anything according
to His will, He heareth us. True prayer comes from the Lord.
And true prayer is always that which is desirous of seeing the
will of God done. Isn't that what the Lord told
His disciples to pray? Thy will be done in the earth
as it is in heaven. So we don't pray to get God to
change His mind. We pray that the Lord would conform
us to His will. Lord, Thy will be done. Help
us, Lord, to be conformed to Your will. And so, as we consider
this One who is the great and mighty God, the One who formed
the earth out of nothing, who formed the earth for His own
good pleasure, was under no necessity to create it. When I was a little
boy and going through Sunday school and all that kind of stuff,
And we were basically taught that God, the reason he created
the world was he was lonely. And he wanted some men, you know,
to worship him and he could have fellowship with him and whatnot.
And of course, as a little kid, that sounded pretty good to me.
But I'll tell you this, when the Lord showed me a few things
about him, I realized that was a bunch of baloney. The Lord
didn't create the world because He needed the world. He created
the world because He wanted to create the world for His own
glory, to manifest the glory of His grace. And we understand
that as we see Christ as that Lamb slain from the foundation
of the world, that the world was created for the glory of
Christ in redemption. that men might see the redemptive
work of the Lord and give Him praise. And is that not what
we read in the book of the Revelation? That the multitude that gathers
around the throne, that's the song, worthy is the Lamb that
was slain to receive glory and honor, strength and power and
dominion and might forevermore. So, you know, it's a glorious
thing. When we read, now the psalmist,
He didn't have the panoramic view that we have. He could look
at the creation and he could see all that he could see, but
he couldn't see as far as we can see at the present time.
As the Lord said of John the Baptist, there's not been arisen
a greater prophet than John the Baptist among the prophets. But John was an Old Testament
prophet. He died before seeing the kingdom
of God brought forth in power as we have seen it, as Jesus
Christ was crucified and then risen again from the dead, triumphant
as that one who's ascended back to the right hand of the Father.
He never saw that. The psalmist never saw that.
But you see, you and I have seen it, and we rejoice. We can rejoice
in a more full and free fashion than even the psalmist did. But
even the psalmist could give glory unto God because he saw
in the creation. So you see, as we've said so
many times, as men look around them, there's no man that's without
excuse. It doesn't make any difference
if he's in the darkest place in the earth, and has lived among
the wolves for his whole life. He is without excuse because
he can look around him according to what the scripture says. The
invisible things of God are clearly seen by men, all born of a woman. And they are without excuse because
God is worthy of the praise and even the creation. is that which
testifies to that, and a man cannot escape it. He may want
to escape it, he desires to escape it. Charles Darwin and his cohort,
I can't remember his name, but he was as much involved in the
formulation of Darwin's theories as Darwin was about the origin
of the species. But these were men that were
raised as children in the church. And they knew the gospel. What
Darwin came up with was not just some scientist off out here figuring.
It was a repudiation of the creation of Almighty God and the purpose
and fashion in which he performed it. He didn't set out just to
set forth some scholarly theory on this. He set out to disprove
what we know is the truth according to the Scripture. Now how do
we know? How do we know that the worlds were formed by the
hand of God? Because he hath showed it unto
us. He has taught us. And a man has
to go contrary to what he's been taught by nature itself to not
believe that. That's just the way it is. Bless
the Lord, O my soul, O Lord my God. Thou art very great. Thou
art clothed with honor and majesty. He is very great. Not just great,
He's very great. He's clothed with honor and majesty. You see, a lot of people think
of the Lord as being majestic. high and lifted up. There are many people that would
worship God, but they don't necessarily want to give him honor. You see,
the Lord Jesus said that a prophet is not without honor except in
his own country. And so men don't like to give
Christ honor. Now, they'll admit that he was
a great, I mean, you can find a lot of people that'll think
about the things that Christ did. We're coming up on a season
of the year when folks will turn out and go to church in larger
numbers. Now, that's getting less and
less as time goes on, but used to, more so even than now, Easter
was a big day. I mean, you know, church, you
could count on churches everywhere, they was gonna be full. I mean,
because you know people was going to remember the Lord. One time a year was enough for
them. I mean, that's all they needed,
you know, and so they wouldn't come back till next year. And
so they was willing to recognize to some extent that Christ was
a good man and He had done some things. I mean, if you took a
survey in this community, you'd find the majority of people would
say they believe Jesus died on the cross. They would say that
they believe that He rose from the dead. They would say all
of those things. I mean, by and large, there's
plenty of them that wouldn't, but most of them would. But the
thing they wouldn't do is give honor unto Christ. Because, you see, to give honor
unto Christ is to do the things that He says. He said, if you
love me, keep my commandments. That's to honor Him. You know,
if you honor your father and mother, it's synonymous, is it
not, with obey your father and mother. And so it is that that
to give honor unto the Lord is that which men are very reluctant
to do, because to give honor to Him is to do, as he says,
who covers thyself with light as with a garment, who stretches
out the heavens like a curtain. Isn't that a beautiful language?
He covers himself with light as with a garment. Now, men think
of light as having a source that they can see. I mean, I was taught
when I was in school that the source of the light of the earth
is the sun. You believe that, don't you?
I mean, isn't that what we think? The source of light for the earth
is the sun. But, dear brethren, before the
sun was ever created, the Lord said, let there be light. And he didn't create the sun
until the third day. That's an amazing thing. And you know, light in the night,
when one of the plagues that came upon Egypt was that of darkness. And it says that darkness covered
the land of Egypt so much they couldn't see their hand in front
of their face. But there was light in the houses
of the children of Israel. Now some of them say, well, they
had candles. Well, you don't think the Egyptians had candles?
But you see, they lit candles and they couldn't see. I don't think they lit candles
in the houses. I think there was just light.
Because you see, the Lord clothes Himself with light as with a
garment. He is the light. He said He was the light of the
world. And if a man doesn't abide in that light he can't see. So
it is. He covers himself with light
as with a garment and he stretches out the heavens like a curtain.
You ever, when you get up in the morning, just pull the curtain
back and let the light come in? Well, the Lord stretched out
the heavens just like that. He just said, let the heavens
exist. And there they were. stretches out the heavens, who
layeth the beam of his chambers in the waters." You know, it's
an amazing thing, some of the language, and I don't claim to
have an understanding of all of these things and of all of
the import of it, but you know, when the Lord created the earth,
the scripture says that he separated the waters that were below the
firmament, he made a firmament and separated the waters that
was above the firmament from the waters that was below the
firmament and that he created the earth in that firmament. Now that's an amazing thing if
you stop and think about it. He said there's waters above
the firmament and below the firmament. And in the midst of that, here
we are. Now all these scientists and
they got these satellites and spaceships and all that stuff
that go out into the space and they can supposedly see all this. And they can see what they can
see. But see, they can't see what there is to see. They can
see what the Lord would have them to see. And these things
are mysteries unto us. I don't fully understand that,
but the scripture says that He laid the foundation of His chambers
in the waters. Now, who builds something in
the waters? I mean, you don't build, you build on dry ground,
don't you? But you see, the Lord builds
wherever He pleases. And I'm not sure what all the
import of that is, but it's a glorious thing to consider. And what a
wondrous thing it was when He walked on the water. and bid Peter to come to him. Now, what did he teach Peter?
Now, you know, most people say, and I think he did teach him
these things for sure. Most people think that what the
Lord taught Peter was not for his faith to fail. You remember
how he got out and he began to sink and he said, Lord, save
me, I perish. No, what the Lord taught Peter
was he couldn't walk on water. See, the Lord could walk on water. Peter said, Lord, if it's you,
bid me come to him. And he started out, but pretty
soon he started to sink. Why? Because he couldn't walk
on water. But the Lord could walk on water. Oh, what a glorious
thing to consider that all of the elements of the earth are
nothing as unto the Lord. Remember when the disciples were
in the upper room? And the Scripture says that the
Lord was there. And it makes mention of the fact that all
the doors were closed. And I'm sure they were looking
around, how did he get in here? No, I don't think they thought
that at all. I don't even think they thought about that right
at that time. And I think maybe later on they
said, well, you know, how did he get in here? Just like those
disciples on the road to Emmaus as the Lord spoke to them. And
they said later on after he left, see the scripture says their
eyes were holding that they could not see the Lord. They didn't
know who he was. But then when he was gone and
they said, wait a minute, didn't our heart burn within us when
he spoke? Oh, what a glorious God he is. Walks upon the wings of the wind.
He makes his angel spirits and his ministers a flaming fire.
Now the angels are creatures, of course, that dwell in the
heavens, but they dwell in a realm unseen by mortal men. They're
here, according to what we understand about them, is that there is
a realm in which the angels dwell, which they are watching over
the children of God, even in the present hour. I can't see
them. Can't say that I ever have seen
them. But the Lord uses those heavenly creatures for various
things according to the good pleasure of His will. He sent
some to get Peter out of the prison, you remember. Opened
the gate. But the spirits, the angels that
it's speaking of here, his angel spirits and his ministers of
flaming fire is not specifically speaking, I don't think, about
those angelic beings, although they are spoken of in the scripture. But rather it's talking about
those messengers that he sends into the earth. Now the Lord sends men with the
gospel just as surely as He sent angels to get Peter out of prison. And the power's the same. The
power didn't belong to the angel. The angel didn't have any more
power than that which was bestowed upon him. And so when the Lord's
pleased to send His Word into the earth, it's because He sends
it. And the Scripture says that His
Word will not return unto him void, but will accomplish the
thing whereto He sends it. How shall they believe in Him
of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without
a preacher? And how shall they preach except they be sent? The Lord's pleased to send His
Word into the earth, and when He sends it, dear brethren, it
will be heard. You don't ever have to worry
about the Word of God falling on a deaf ear. Now, there are
plenty of men deaf to the hearing of the Word of God. There are
plenty of men that hear men preach the Word of God over and over
and never hear a word. But then, there are those who,
like those Gentiles in Acts 13, 48, and when the Gentiles heard
this, they glorified the Lord, and as many as were ordained
to eternal life believed. But you know, a lot of people
like to tear that passage of Scripture out of the Bible. In
fact, I've never heard anybody preach on it. When I take that
back, I have heard men preach on it. I'm talking about before,
back in the olden times, before the Lord brought me to see some
things. I never heard anybody preach
on Acts 13 and 48, because that's a very inconvenient passage of
Scripture. Because you understand that that
passage of Scripture plainly says that these men believed
the gospel because they were ordained to eternal life. They didn't become ordained to
eternal life because they believed, but they believed it because
God ordained them to eternal life. He sent somebody for them
to hear. He sent somebody on the day of
Pentecost. Peter stood up and he preached. And 3,000 men out of that crowd
of people that was there that day, I don't know how many, but
3,000 heard it. See, the miracle was not that
they spoke in tongues. That's what a lot of people think
the miracle is, and a lot of people get all wound up about
that, you know, about these people speaking in other tongues. The
amazing thing was not that people spoke in tongues, but that if
you read what the script says, that every man heard them in
his own language. Now that was the miracle. You see that God opened the ears
of men that they might hear the Word of God. And so it is that
He sends His Spirit, makes His spirits, His angel spirits, His
ministers of flaming fire, who laid the foundations of the earth
that it should not be removed forever. Thou cover'st it with
the deep as with a garment. The water stood above the mountains.
Now we understand that The waters have stood above the
mountains. Even the scientists have to agree that at some point
in time the water stood above the mountain. On Mount Everest
they found fossils. How does that happen, you know?
Isn't it amazing how when the scientific record kind of leans
in a direction that they want it to go, you hear a lot about
it, but you don't ever hear much about it when it kind of confounds
their theories and things. How did sea creature fossils
get on top of The mountain. Huh? How'd they get up there?
You think somebody, a bird carried them up there or something? Or
what happened? How did it happen? It tells you right here how it
happened. It says the water stood above
the mountains. Now, I don't know if the mountains
might have rose higher than they were then, and they rose up in
the cataclysmic things that took place in the earth as the waters
receded from the earth. I don't know how it occurred,
but I know at some point in time that the whole face of the earth,
according to what the Scripture says, was covered with water. There was not a place of dry
ground to be found. Now where did all that water
come from? Remember what the Scripture says
there about the Lord laying the foundations of His chambers in
the waters? I mean is all the waters that
the Lord sent to flood the earth, is it still here? I don't know. You know, maybe He took it back
into that water that's above the farmer and below the farmer.
I don't know. But I know this, that it rained
for 40 days. But see, that wasn't the only
place that Scripture says that the water came from. It says
He opened the fountains of the deep. And the water that was
in the earth... Well, we know water's in the
earth, don't we? I mean, every time you pick it on, you know
there's water in the earth. Had the water get in the earth?
Because the Lord put it there. And He caused it to cover the
mountains. Who laid the foundations of the
earth? Who covers it with the deep as
with a garment? The water stood above the mountains,
and at thy rebuke they fled. At the voice of thy thunder they
hasted away. When the time came, After the
Lord had sent the flood into the earth, what did He do? He
sent the flood back. Now that's a wondrous thing that
He did. At thy rebuke, they fled. At the voice of thy thunder,
they go up by the mountains. They go down by the valleys unto
the place which thou hast founded for them. You know, the cycle
that the Lord has ordained in the earth for the water is an
amazing thing. Is it not? I mean, you know,
you think of water being in the low spots, don't you? But you
take a well driller, when he goes out here to drill a well,
he don't want to drill a well down in a low spot. He wants
to drill up there on a high spot. Why? Because the hydrologic pressure,
the system that the Lord designed for the water to go up into the
mountains and flow down into the valleys. Isn't that an amazing
thing? I mean, have you ever thought about it? I mean, the
water's up in the mountains, and yet it runs down. Well, how
did it get up in there? Water doesn't run uphill, does
it? No, it flows downhill. But you see, the Lord can cause
it to go uphill, just like He can cause it to stop any time
He gets ready for it. They go up by the mountains,
they go down by the valleys into the place which Thou hast founded
for them. Now how did the... I read something
the other day that it's been a while back, that there's only
just a few natural lakes in Georgia. Every lake in Georgia practically
has been brought about by being water dammed up or put around
by the acts of men. Now men take great pride in that,
but is that really what happened? Well, it did, the Lord used men,
did he not? To damn that up, because that
water couldn't be where it's at if the Lord didn't ordain
for it to be there. Now, the Lord called, set the
bound, it says here, there I set a bound that they may not pass
over, that they not again to cover the earth, turn not again
to cover the earth. Now, I've talked about this before,
and I don't deny that the climate is changing, But the climate
has been changing ever since the Lord put us here. All you've
got to do is look around. I mean, you can see things in
our lifetime that's changed. I know where there was bodies
of water that don't exist now. They dried up. And there's water
in places where it wasn't before. And the Lord caused it to be
there. So things change in the earth according to the good pleasure
of the Lord. But you can be sure of this.
that there's nothing that a man is going to do that's going to
keep the water from going where the Lord would have it to go.
And they talk about rising sea levels and how we need to, you
know, quit doing stuff that we've been doing
because, you know, we need to do away with the cows because
the cows is passing gas and that gas going up into the air and
causing the atmosphere to get warm and more and more the polar
ice caps is melting. How did the polar ice caps get
frozen? I mean the Lord caused them to
freeze. And it's an amazing thing because
they hadn't always been frozen because they find things up there
under the ice where people lived and stuff. So how can it be that
the climate has never changed until men came along? Because
that's a foolish thing. God's the one that causes these
things to occur. And the waters, the seas, the
level cannot rise one centimeter, one millimeter, apart from the
work of Almighty God. And if He causes the polarized
caps to melt, I think it's a great thing. And if Miami gets covered
up, and California washes off into the sea, it'll be a good
thing. It's a glorious thing to see
the hand of God in all these things. Why would we want to
attribute such things to men? See, isn't that men again trying
to take glory under some kind of an off-handed way? Well, we
can control the climate. We can control the world. No,
we can't control anything. It's in the hand of Almighty
God. He sendeth the springs into the
valleys which run among the hills. They give drink to every beast
of the field. The wild asses quench their thirst. Now, how many wild animals have
you ever known that drilled a well? Not one, did you? I mean, how
did a man ever figure out to do it? the Lord just showed him
how to do it. How would he have known that?
I mean, how would a wild ass know to go over somewhere and
get him a drink of water? How would he know it? How would
he find it? Except that the Lord showed him where it's at. Because
they can't supply it for themselves. They can't make themselves do
it. I mean, sometimes, in times of drought and whatnot, there's
animals that Starved to death, thirst to death. Why? Because
he can't find water. Why? Because the Lord hid it
from him. And dear brethren, that's just a picture of the
grace of God. I mean, a man cannot give himself
water to drink. He can't find it. He can't know
how to drill a well. I mean, you can't get the water
of life. apart from the grace of God.
It's what the Lord told that woman at the well. He said, I
could give you living water that you'd drink and never thirst
again if you had asked. Oh, what a glorious thing that
the Lord gives me in a mind and heart called upon Him and He
gives them that water to drink. He gives drink to every beast
of the field. By them shall the fowls of the
heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. He watereth the hills from his
chambers. The earth is satisfied with the
fruit of thy works. He causeth the grass to grow
for the cattle, and herb for the service of man, that he may
bring forth food out of the earth, and wine that maketh glad the
heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread
which strengtheneth man's heart." Every blessing that comes to
men comes to them from the mercy of God. Every one. Not a thing
in the world that a man has ever done. You know, men talk about
they're going to plant a crop, and you can go put a seed in
the ground, but you can't make the seed sprout. I've had seeds
before that didn't sprout. You put them in the ground, you
wander, you wait and go out there. I've had seeds that sprouted
and looked good and I went out there the next day and he couldn't
even tell anything had been there. Because in the middle of the
night, the Lord sent some deer out there. And they ate them. Now, did that
happen by chance? No. The Lord purposed for me
to plant those seeds because He said, you know, I've got some
deer over here and I need to feed them. Go over here and plant
the seed. Now, I thought I was planting
the seed because I was going to get me a crop. But I was planting
the seed to feed the deer. The Lord watereth His creation
according to the good pleasure of His will. And brethren, He
calls His people unto Himself in the same fashion. That's a
wondrous thing. Bless the Lord, O my soul. What
have we ever done to earn one of God's blessings? Yet men think
they can. I mean, there's plenty of folks,
plenty of preachers on TV right now. You can go turn TV on for
you if you want to. When you get home, I guarantee
you, if you flip the channel far enough, you'll find somebody
on there telling you all the different things you can do to
get God to bless you. But I'm telling you, they're
telling you a lie. Because according to the scriptures, the only way
for a man to be blessed is for God to bless him according to
the good pleasure of his will. Now the amazing thing is that
he does bless men. Why should he? I mean, why should
he? Because at every turn, we have
rebelled against his way. We've been unthankful. You know,
I think I talked about this a while back. You know, a cat is never
thankful. I mean, they just like, you know,
you can put food in the thing, and that old dog, if you pour
food in the thing, buddy, he'll be on that thing before you can
move. I mean, he's gonna gobble that
stuff up. And he's kind of, he'll be, you
know, licking you and carrying on like you can kind of think
he's thankful. I don't know if he's thankful. He just, I don't
know why he's doing it. But at least you think that he's
thankful. But you know, a cat, they don't
care if you feed them or not. I mean, they do, but they're
not thankful in the same fashion. At least my general, my wife's
looking at me like, because she likes cats. I'm not a cat person.
But cats in general are aloof creatures. And that's how men
are, men and women. I mean, creatures, we as creatures,
we're not thankful for the things God does to us by nature. Now by His grace, He causes us
to be thankful when He shows us what we are by nature and
the blessing that He has, that He doesn't have to give us one
thing. I mean, if He killed us all tomorrow and obliterated
us, our names from the registry of the world and nobody ever
knew we existed, He'd be right. Everything He'd done would be
good. But in His mercy, In His mercy,
He sent His Son into the world to save sinners just like we
are. What a glorious Savior He is.
May we be thankful.