We are looking in Psalm 25. Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift
up my soul. O my God, I trust in thee. Let
me not be ashamed. Let not mine enemies triumph
over me. Yea, let none that wait on thee
be ashamed. Let them be ashamed which transgress
without cause. Show me Thy ways, O Lord, teach
me Thy paths. Lead me in Thy truth and teach
me, for Thou art the God of my salvation. On Thee do I wait
all the day. Remember, O Lord, Thy tender
mercies and Thy loving kindnesses, for they have been ever of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions according
to Thy mercy. Remember Thou me for Thy goodness'
sake, O Lord. Good and upright is the Lord.
Therefore will he teach sinners in the way. The meek will he
guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way. All the
paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, and to such as keep his
covenant and his testimonies. For thy name's sake, O Lord,
pardon mine iniquity, for it is great. What man is he that
feareth the Lord? Him shall he teach in the way
that he shall choose. His soul shall dwell at ease,
and his seed shall inherit the earth. The secret of the Lord
is with them that fear him, and he will show them his covenant.
Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord, for he shall pluck my feet
out of the net. Turn thee unto me, and have mercy
upon me, for I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles of my
heart are enlarged, though bring thou me out of my distresses.
Look upon my afflictions and my pain and forgive all my sins. Consider mine enemies, for they
are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred. Oh, keep my soul
and deliver me. Let me not be ashamed, for I
put my trust in thee. Let integrity and uprightness
preserve me, for I wait on thee. Redeem Israel, O God, out of
all his troubles. Now once again, we want to point
out that this is the prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now there
are parts of it in here that someone might take issue with
that about. And surely, as the Lord does
all things for His people, He would caused this very prayer
to become our prayer. I mean, because we say that it's
the Lord's Prayer, we don't mean by that that it is not our prayer
as well, because He works in His people, both willing to do
Him His good pleasure. And surely as David prayed this
prayer, he thought it was his prayer, did he not? I mean, he
prayed it, because it was that thing which he felt in his heart.
But we know and understand that the Lord Jesus Christ was a man
of prayer, and what do you suppose he did when he went aside to
a mountain to pray? He prayed as a perfect man, but
he prayed also as the substitute of his people. And he bore our
sins and he carried our sorrows. Now, sometimes men would look
at, say, verse 11. Some would look at verse 11 and
say, well, that couldn't possibly be Christ. Well, dear brethren,
He became sin for us. He never knew sin. He never had
sin. He never had any inclination
towards sin. He never had any thought of sin.
Neither was God found in his mouth. Yet he undertook our sin. And who do you think he prayed
for when he spent all night in prayer? He prayed for those whom
he loved. And he desired to take our sin
upon Himself. And He desired that the Father
would forgive our sin. That's why He went to the cross,
because He loved His people. And He knew that that was that
which He would do to carry our sin away. It couldn't be just
thrown out and under, but it must be paid for according to
His law. And so He became sin for us.
He is that One who prays this prayer. in all these things. And He gives it to us. And He
moves in the heart of His people to pray this prayer. There is
no other one to whom the people of God come in a time of trouble. Unto Thee, O Lord, do I lift
up my soul. We see that in the Lord Jesus
Christ from the beginning of His life to the very end. For
He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend my spirit. Unto Thee,
O Lord, do I lift up my soul. He said, If I be lifted up, He
said, I'll draw all men unto Me. And He said, Praise, O Lord,
do I lift up my soul. Because, you see, the Lord said,
Of all those whom Thou hast given Me, I shall lose none. Thine they were, and Thou hast
given them to Me." And He's done all things necessary to bring
His people there. For He said to His disciples,
Don't fear. He said, Where I am, there ye
shall be. I go to prepare a place for you.
And these sweet words, I think some of the sweetest words in
all the Scriptures, He says, If it were not so, I would have
told you. The Lord Jesus Christ is not
a deceiver. I mean, whatever He says is true. And He said
to His disciples, if all these things that I've told you just
now are not true, I would have told you. I would have said,
no, this is not the way it's going to be. But it is the way
that it is. And you see, that's the place
that God's people are. without any ability to escape
drawn. I mean, the children of God,
all the women and men talk about free will, but let me tell you
something, the children of God have no other choice, dear brother,
than to trust Him. Thy people shall be willing in
the day of thy power. What other one would we desire
to trust in but Him? He is our Savior. He is our Lord. Unto thee, O
Lord, do I lift up my soul. O my God, I trust in thee. Let me not be ashamed. Let not
mine enemies triumph over me." Now, as the Lord Jesus Christ
would have prayed that, Being a man, and you know here, as
I've told you so many times, I think this is the grandest
mystery that's ever been set forth in all the ages, is that
the Almighty God, who has all power, should come and dwell
among men as a powerless man. As one who is caused to cry out
to one higher than him, needing help. And he says, oh my God,
I trust in thee. Let me not be shamed. Let me
not be confounded. Let not my way be overturned.
Let not mine enemies triumph over me. Because you see, he
knew and understood that if his enemies triumphed over him, then
the redemption that he would bring to pass would not occur.
Now we are saying that all in the ifs and the what-ifs, hypothetically,
but that could not occur, could it not? Could it? Because that
is the whole purpose for which he came. Now some people seem
to think that the Lord could not do some things, I mean, some
tell us that He died for every individual man upon the face
of the earth, but that some of the men on the earth shall perish
and be eternally lost. And they say the reason is because
when it came right down to it, God couldn't even save them.
They wouldn't let Him. Who had the power in that case?
They would have, would they not? In other words, God's trying
to do something and He can't do it. Well, dear brethren, God's
never tried to do anything. He's done exactly according to
the good pleasure of His will. He says so in the Scripture.
He says, I will do all my pleasure. He will accomplish His will.
And every one of those for whom Jesus Christ shed His precious
blood shall indeed enter. into His presence because they
were given to Him by the Father and He has redeemed them. He
has obtained eternal redemption for them. Glorious thing, dear
brethren. Oh, let not mine enemies triumph
over me. Oh, we desire, do we not, as
the children of God, not to fall prey to sin. The greatest enemy
we have is not the devil. He is the enemy, but the greatest
enemy we have is this old flesh that dwells within us and fights
with us day after day after day. And what overcomes us, what destroys
us, does not mean us well, but greater is He that is in us than
he that is in the world. See, our flesh is in the world.
We're here, we're dwelling in this fleshly realm. But you see,
we have one who is greater than our flesh. The good that I would
not, that I do. But you see, thanks be unto God
that giveth us the victory in Christ. Then, you see, this body
of this death shall not destroy me. Yea, let none that wait on
thee be ashamed. Let them be ashamed which transgress
without cause. Those that wait upon the Lord
shall not perish. Those that seek the Lord shall
find Him. But those that have no regard
to His way or have regard to their own way..." See, one of
those things is just as bad as the other. When a man says, I
will not do the things God says, he's in just as bad a shape as
a man that says, I'm going to do what I want to do. See, one may be an active rebel
against God. We think that somebody that stands
up and just fights against God, well, we surely know he's going
to be destroyed, don't we? A man that lifts up his fists
against God, we know that. But what about the man that says,
well, Lord, You know, I know that I ought to follow you, but
I'm just going to do what I want to do. I mean, is he any better
off than the one that lifts up his fist before God? Of course
not. See, because both, either one
of them transgressed without cause, that is, without good
reason. I mean, what good reason is there
that a man should disobey the way of God at any point in time
in his life? What good reason would a man
have for that? It's without cause. All sin is
without cause. Now, we always have a cause,
don't we? I mean, we can always come up
with a reason for why we do the things we do. We can always blame
somebody else for how we are. Well, I wouldn't be like that
if you weren't like that. Well, no. No, we're like we are
because we're sinners. And as the Lord is pleased to
show us what we are by nature, we come to grips with that by
the grace of God. But oh, we can't help but wait on the
Lord. What else can we do? I mean, if I gave you a list
of all the things that you were doing wrong, And I will do that
if you'll meet me after the meeting. But if I gave you a list of all
those things, what good would it do you? I mean, the Lord,
He already gave you the list, did He not? Al's been leading us through
it. He gave us the list. We know what we're doing wrong,
but the law can't help us. Knowing what we need to do won't
help you. Only the Spirit of God, as He
constrains your heart to love the way of God, to see yourself
as you are. You see, only the grace of God
can deliver a man out of sin. Let them be ashamed which transgress
without cause. Show me thy ways, O Lord. Teach
me thy paths. Now, who but the redeemed of
the Lord can truly ask such a thing as that? Because the man who
is a rebel against God, he does not want to know the way of God.
He might want to know the way of religion. He might want you
to give him a list. He might say, write out the things
I am going to start working on. But you say, show me thy ways,
O Lord. See, when we see Jesus Christ
for what He is and who He is and how He is, and we see Him
dealing with people as we read in the Scripture, and we say,
O Lord, show me thy path. Let me walk as You did. Let me
be as You are. Let me love my neighbor as myself. Show me thy ways, O Lord. Teach
me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth and teach
me." I believe this is a true thing, and that is that God's
people are teachable. When you find a man that knows
everything, I mean, it's hard for me to believe that a man
can think he knows everything and have grace operational in
him. Paul said, we know nothing as
we ought to know. Here is the apostle Paul. He
caught up to the third heaven. He heard things that it is unlawful,
he said, to even speak about. And he said, heaven, we see through
a glass darkly. I mean, can you imagine what
he must have seen? And yet he said, we see through
a glass darkly. We know nothing as we ought to
know. I mean, if we took all of our
knowledge and we put it together and we compressed it down, it
wouldn't fill up a thimble. It's nothing. And the people of God must confess,
Lord, lead me in thy truth. Teach me. We need to be taught.
See, I learned when I was a little child to share. I learned when I was a little
child not to say bad words. I learned when I was a little
child to do good to other people, to treat other people like I
want to be treated. But I still say, Lord, teach
me. Teach me to love my neighbor
as myself. Because, dear brethren, that
is not something you will ever learn. You will never get the
sum total of that in your whole existence in this world. And
the prayer is here, Lord, lead me in Thy truth and teach me.
Now some people think that you can have like a course or you
can read a book and you can learn what the Lord would have you
to do. I mean, you know, you take this course. Well, here,
we won't learn the way of the Lord, so we're going to take
this course, the way of the Lord. We've learned it. No, you don't ever learn it.
Because you have to be constantly taught. He's constantly teaching. I mean, when you've filled up
your mind with all the things that you know about following
the Lord, then the next day you need to be on your face before
the Lord teaches you. You know, I don't know anything.
Of course, it's not about what you know. It's about Him applying
the Word of God to our hearts and our soul. Lord, lead me in
Thy truth and teach me. Don't let me come to the place
where I think I already know everything and I can't be taught. For Thou art the God of my salvation. On Thee do I wait all the day. Wait on the Lord. Be of good
courage, and He shall strengthen thy heart. Wait, I say, on the
Lord. They that wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings
as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk
and not faint. Wait, I say, upon the Lord. On thee do I wait all the day.
Remember, O Lord, Thy tender mercies and Thy loving kindnesses,
for they have been ever of old." When did the Lord start loving? I mean, when did love begin?
He has always been full of loving kindness, tender mercies, of
old. When is of old? It's just of
old. I mean, you can't get back that
far. Because there is no far to it.
You know, we're such creatures of limitations in time. I mean,
and that's the way God made us. See, the thing that separates
between God and man is the eternality of God. He inhabits this eternity. You and I cannot inhabit eternity. We are finite creatures. Now,
He has given us eternal life and we shall never perish. But
you see, eternality, it goes both ways. That which we have
been given, see, we had a beginning. He had no beginning. Now, that
just blows my mind away. I get to thinking about that
and I can't. It hurts. But we are not meant to know
that. Because He says, I am God and there is none else. I am God and there is none like
Me. Now that just blesses my heart. I just rejoice when I say those
words. Oh, praise God that there is
a God in the heavens. And known unto Him are all of
His works from the beginning. You see, we live our lives as
a tale that's told. He's the one that's telling the
tale, is he not? He said, this is your life, right
here. I'm glad he did. You know, some
people, they would like just for their life to just be randomly
going out here into chaos or oblivion. How would you like
that? He's marked out your path and
He'll bring you safely. to the destination that He has
marked out for you. Because, as He says, remember,
Lord, Thy tender mercies and Thy loving kindnesses, for they
have been ever of old. You see, that's why we trust
Him. That's why we're caused. It's the moving of the Spirit
of God that causes us to find joy there. The loving kindness
of the Lord, they have been ever of old. Remember not the sins
of my youth, nor my transgressions according to thy mercy. To thy
mercy remember thou me, for thy goodness' sake, O Lord." Now,
you know, it would probably, if on a more practical note,
have been a good thing if somebody had stood up in these congressional
hearings here recently and read that passage of Scripture right
there. You know, how foolish is it for men to dwell on past sins? The Lord Jesus Christ never did.
There was a woman taking in adultery brought to Him. She was guilty. She knew it. He knew it. Did he bring that up to her?
He said, go and sin no more. You see, that's the mercy of
God. He remembers not the transgressions of His people. He knows that we're done. Remember not the sins of my youth,
nor my transgressions, the things I've done in ignorance. the sins
of my youth? I mean, how many things have
you done and you look back and you say, you know, how could
I have been so stupid? I mean, just stupid. I mean,
why wasn't I killed? I mean, why wasn't my life just
blotted out? Oh, Lord, just take that away. But He says, not only the sins
of my youth, but my transgressions. You see, a transgression is an
act of knowing. You know, many things that people
do in their stupid youth, they do it without thinking. I mean,
it's just impulsive. They just go and they do something,
you know, and later on they think, how dumb that was. And people
are still impulsive. I don't mean to say that that's
just the way of youth. But you see, what he's saying
here is, The things that I've done stupidly without consideration,
but also the things I've done when I knew. Now you think David's mind and
heart didn't tell him when he was going up the steps and when
he was looking at Bathsheba that he needed to turn his eyes away
and that he needed to, when he sent somebody to go get him and
the time it took for them to go get her. Remember, you don't
think that he had any thoughts, well, you know I probably ought
not to be doing this. Sure he did. Transgressions,
when you have planned to do evil. The Lord's mercy is greater than
all of that. Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions. According to thy mercy remember
thou me." Now see, a man who thinks that he can stand before
the Lord and argue his case is a fool, and he will perish. I don't care who he is. I don't
care what he's done. I don't care where he's been
or what he might have accomplished. in earth. A man that doesn't know he stands
in need of the mercy of God will perish. Remember me according
to thy mercy. Oh, Lord, show mercy to us, because
if you don't show mercy to us, we will surely perish. For thy
goodness sake, You know, the Lord is pleased to teach us of
His goodness, is He not? Now, a lot of people don't believe
the Lord is good. They say, well, why would He
cause babies to die? And all that. Or why did He do
this? Or why did He do that? Look,
I don't have the answer to the questions of why God does the
things that He does, but I know this, that whatever He does,
He does according and in keeping with His goodness. He's good in all that He does. And oh, for thy goodness sake,
O Lord, remember me according to thy mercy. Good and upright
is the Lord. Therefore will He teach sinners
in the way. Now did not the Lord Jesus Christ
do that perfectly when He was walking in the earth? I mean,
He spoke the truth. He taught men exactly what the
way to go was. He walked uprightly among them,
and that was the very thing that the Pharisees could not stand.
They knew that His righteousness made them look bad. See, men
do not love light, because light makes them look
bad. That is why they hated the Lord
Jesus Christ, because He walked among them and they could not
find anything wrong with Him. Now see, they could look at one
another and they knew the faults of one another, and that was
alright, because you know, as long as somebody is as bad as
you are, then we just kind of all blend in together, and it's
not that big of a deal. But you get it. See, when righteousness
is in the midst, when perfection is in the midst, then that causes
men to, their eyes to hurt. When you come out of the darkness
and into the light, your eyes, you have to adjust to it. But
you see, God who has shined in our hearts to give the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in Jesus Christ. And He causes us, dear brethren,
to fall on our faces before Him and say, Lord, don't remember
me according to my way. For good and upright is the Lord,
and therefore will He teach sinners in the way. Because the Lord
Jesus Christ came, and He was not teaching good folks how to
be good, was He? Now that's what most churches,
their efforts are given, to try to make the good people be good
or better. They're trying to help you improve
your life. You know, four steps to a happier
life, or how to improve your prayer life, or how to do this,
or how to do that, and all of these things. You can spend the
rest of your life reading books on how to do stuff. And when
you've got through reading them, you won't be one bit better off
than you were when you started because you're still going to
have the same exact problem that you've got right now. And it's
not going to change by reading the book. It's not going to change at all.
The Lord will teach who? Sinners in the way. See, He teaches us in the way.
He doesn't teach us in the classroom. He teaches us in the way, along
the way. He's teaching us how we ought
to be by showing us what we are. See, the greatest lessons that
you ever learn is when the Lord looks you right square in the
face and shows you a mirror, and you look in it and you see
what you are by nature. I mean, that's when the Lord,
He's teaching you something. He does that in various ways,
but He will teach sinners in a way. Not harshly, but with
love and tender mercy. because he loves sinners. The Scripture says that he came
to save sinners. I'm glad that he did. The meek will he guide in judgment,
and the meek will he teach his way. Now who are the meek? The
meek are those who desire to be taught. The Lord said, blessed
are the meek. Blessed are the poor in spirit.
They are blessed. He said that he hid the truth
from the wise and prudent and revealed it unto babes. That
is, the meek and the powerless, the helpless, those that cannot
help themselves. I remember when I was growing
up, I would hear people say, well, the Lord helps those that
help themselves. And that sounds good to me. Because,
buddy, we see somebody, you know, over here, and we say, oh, well,
he's old sorry, no counting. And, you know, the Lord would
help him if he just helped himself a little. The Lord helps those
that help themselves. Well, you know, you'd be in bad
shape if that was the only people the Lord helped. Because the
Lord helps those that can't help themselves. That's the meek. You know, children, by nature,
in some ways, are meek. I mean, they don't know anything,
and they have to be taught everything. And they're willing to be taught,
for the most part, unless it's something they don't want to
do, and they're not meek anymore. You know, generally speaking,
children are meek. They're like sponges. They're
seeking knowledge. They're wanting that. They know
they don't know things. You know, that's what causes
a child to reach out. to grab his mama's hand or his
daddy's hand, because they're meek. They know themselves to
be weak. They know they don't have the power to do things. And the meek will He guide in
judgment, and the meek will He teach His way. The Lord will
teach those who know they need to be taught. He will lead them
in His way. All the paths of the Lord are
mercy and truth, under such as keep His covenant and His testimonies. For Thy name's sake, O Lord,
pardon my iniquity, for it is great. The paths of the Lord
are mercy and truth under such as keep His covenant." Now, the Lord Jesus Christ kept
the covenant of God. Now, the covenant of God was
made with the Son, The Father and the Son. The Father said,
Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance.
And the Lord has kept that covenant. He said, Of all that you gave
me, I have lost none. He kept that covenant. He is
our covenant keeper. Now, we know there is an application
of this, and the application of this to the children of God
is those that love that covenant. See, we love the fact that Jesus
Christ is the Savior of sinners. Because we're not having some
expectation that by keeping some agreement that men have with
God, God... See, a lot of people think that
the covenant under which we're under is the same one that He
gave to Moses when He said, if you will do this, these things,
then you will get these blessings. Well, guess what? That covenant
wasn't worth a flip. The Lord knew it wasn't worth
a flip. Now, it wasn't any failing on the part of God, but the law
was what? It was weak. How was it weak? Weak in the flesh. Because the
law was never given as a covenant in the sense that God was expecting
that men, well, God is sitting up there and He's saying, now,
these men, maybe they'll be able to do it. You know, maybe they'll
be able to keep it and I'll be able to bless them. No, He gave
that in order to show them that they couldn't keep it. The whole
Old Testament and the dealings of the Lord with Israel is a
testimony to the faithfulness of God and the unfaithfulness
of men. And the Lord would use that to show
us that we don't have a hope, dear brethren, outside of the
covenant-keeping Savior that came in our behalf. And so our
covenant keeping is found in Him. And we delight in the covenant. Because He is a covenant keeping
God. I mean, the Lord has never gone
back on any covenant that He ever made. The soul that sinneth shall die.
Part of that covenant. But He said, He that doeth righteousness
shall live. Has He disregarded that covenant? We don't have any salvation if
He did, because the Lord Jesus Christ kept the law in every
job and title in our behalf. And the Father justified us on
the basis of that which Jesus Christ did in His life as one
who is obedient to the law and one who paid the price for our
sin. as that lamb which was slain. So we have a covenant-keeping
God, dear brethren. And He will bless those that
keep the covenant. He shall dwell... I've got to
help myself. "...all the paths of the Lord
are mercy and truth unto such as keep His covenant and His
testimonies for thy name's sake, O Lord. Pardon mine iniquity."
For thy name's sake. Not for my name's sake. For thy
name's sake. It's David's prayer. But who
is the one whose name is above every name? The Lord Jesus Christ. For thy name's sake. That's the
name in which our iniquity is pardoned. It is cancelled. It is put out of the way. Oh
Lord, pardon my iniquity, for it is great." The Lord Jesus
Christ, and we say this reverently and
with hopefully a proper understanding, the Lord Jesus Christ became
the greatest of sinners because He took upon Himself the multiple
sin of His people. He became sin for us. You know,
we need to be reverent when we consider that, lest in any wise
somebody should think we are saying in any wise that Christ
was tainted with sin because He was not. But yet He willingly
bore our sin. And He became as though He was
sin. He was sin in the Father's sight
as our Savior. Pardon my iniquity, for it is
great. What man is he that feareth the
Lord? Him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose. What man is there that feareth
the Lord? Now this is speaking in absolute
terms. What man is he that feareth the Lord? I'm not talking about
what man is he that feared the Lord yesterday. I'm talking about
what man is he that feareth the Lord. That is, he came into the
world with the fear of God written in his soul. And he went out from this world with
the fear of God in his soul. What is the man? Who is the man
that feareth God? What man is he that feareth the
Lord him shall he teach in the way that he shall choose? For
you see, the Father sent the Son in the exact place and way
in which He would have Him to go. In fact, the Scripture speaks
of Him as the Chosen of God. You see, the original elect is
the Lord Jesus Christ. Our election is where? It's in
Him. We were chosen in Him from the
foundation of the world. Even our election is in Him.
Everything we have about us is in Him. He is our substitute. when he reasoned with the men
in the temple? I mean, had he been to some synagogue
somewhere and been sitting at the feet of great and learned
teachers? How did the Lord Jesus know the
things that he knew? I mean, how does anybody know
the things they know? Now, I know you can gain some
knowledge from books. But I'm not talking about that
kind of knowledge. I'm talking about the knowledge
that you know. You know, when the Lord writes something in
your heart, that's when you know it. And the Lord teaches people
things that they can't get out of books, that they can't get
from the lips of someone else. He just teaches you things. I
can't explain that. I wouldn't attempt to. But I
believe it's a true thing. He will teach his people. He'll
lead them in the way that he shall choose. Why did you start
thinking the way you think? I mean, why did you wake up one
morning and you had a thought that you never had had before?
Where did that come from? I mean, he is the source of all
knowledge. And he causes men to know what
he'd have them to know. The way he should choose. Does
he give everybody the same knowledge? No. You know, it's a foolish
thing to come up with some doctrinal treatise and say, you know, everybody
that's one of the Lord's people is going to know this. No, I
don't know what doctrine a man might know or what he might not
know. Now I know there are some things that all of God's people
will know. They'll know that Christ is the
Savior, and they'll rejoice in that. But you know, the understanding
and the knowledge that the Lord gives to men is a knowledge that
He chooses to give them. And you'll argue with a man until
you're blue in the face, and you'll never convince him of
one thing. Now the Lord may take what you say, And he may apply
it to the man's heart, and he might get the thing in there
laying in bed one night, and he might say, well, you know,
that's right. I'm not saying the Lord doesn't
use human instrumentality, but see, brethren, it's not because
of the human. He used a man to bring the man. Now, just like when Elijah was
by the brook Cherith, the Lord sent ravens out there with food.
Now, Elijah did not have a menu. And he said, I want a ham sandwich. And the raven went off somewhere
and looked until he found a ham sandwich and brought it back.
No, Elijah ate whatever the Lord sent him, did he not? And he
was glad to get it. He was glad to get it because
it came from the Lord. Would not you like to have been
there? Him shall he teach in the way
that he shall choose. May the Lord help us. You know, our prayer is that
the Lord would teach us. I don't ever want to be thought
to be against knowledge, or against the quest after knowledge, or
against reading books. I talked about, you know, the
books. I want you to read every book you can get your hands on.
But know and understand that you cannot learn one thing out
of a book unless the Lord is pleased to teach it to you. And
He is able, dear brethren, to teach you things if you haven't
even looked at a book. He can do that. May the Lord
help us.