The Lord gave us a very rich worship service Friday. I do believe, I've heard a lot of comments on that service. And I believe the Lord gave me something to say and Kevin, the way he handled that, the Lord just blessed us. And the way that was conducted yesterday is the way to conduct every funeral of a believer, just like we conduct a worship service.

Now, turn to Hebrews 13. Hebrews 13, the title of this message, Let Brotherly Love continue throughout this epistle jesus christ has been set forth as superior superior to moses superior to aaron the priesthood moses as the prophet superior to that old covenant the new covenant is superior to that that old covenant superior to the angels.

He's been set forth clearly. He's set forth as the substitute right in the first chapter. Being the express image of God, He by Himself purged us from our sins and is set down on the right hand of the majesty on high right now. As we sit here and we open up His Word, as He speaks to us, He reigns. He reigns in heaven above and on earth also. This is His. This is His. He rules and reigns over all things. Nothing is out of the control of Jesus Christ. DON'T LOOK AT THINGS AND THINK THEY ARE OUT OF CONTROL. THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY UNDER CONTROL AND WORKING TOWARD THE PURPOSE OF GOD WHICH HE PURPOSED IN CHRIST BEFORE HE CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.

And now we come to what many of the old writers called practical godliness. You know, we have the doctrines of grace, but we also have the application of grace. Grace lived out in the life. Now the Word of God has a lot to say about loving God and loving one another.

This is so important, this is so important. Our Lord said in John 13, 34, A NEW COMMANDMENT I GIVE YOU, THAT YOU LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS I HAVE LOVED YOU. A new commandment given by a new example, HIM. His love was and is perfect. That you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another. You know, love is said to be the greatest commandment. But He said that you love one another as I have loved you. How does the Lord love us?

How does He love His children? Well, first of all, He loves them fervently, fervently. He loves them unreservedly. He loves them sacrificially. And then He loves them eternally. That s how He loves us. And then He loves us with an undying love. His love knows no weakness. It never flickers. It never diminishes. And there's nothing, now listen to this, there's nothing you and I can do to diminish His love. We can't wear it out. We can't do it. He loved me when I was unlovable, and I still am. I still am. But the Lord loved me before the foundation of the world. It says He has loved us with an everlasting love. Everlasting. Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them, it says, to the end. to the end.

Now in verse 1 it says, LET BROTHERLY LOVE CONTINUE. You know sometimes in the scripture it means NOT TO HINDER or it means HINDER or NOT TO HINDER. DON'T HINDER BROTHERLY LOVE. Don't be a hindrance to it. But LET BROTHERLY LOVE CONTINUE You see, there's been some contention and dissension among the Hebrews, which always causes love to grow weak. Anytime there's contention and problems in the house, I can assure you, love is taking a back seat. It'll take a back seat. Being human, our love is not perfect. It's never without sin.

And that's why He says to them in this first verse, YOU LET BROTHERLY LOVE CONTINUE. You know, if you look back in verse chapter 10, I'll read it to you. Here's one of the reasons he's writing this in verse 24 and 25, because some of these Hebrew brethren were not only being contentious, but they was pulling back. He says, And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is. Some are forsaking the assembling. They're pulling back. They're pulling back to the law of Moses, to the priesthood, to the sacrifices, the ceremonies, things they can SEE. They can see the priests and they can see the sacrifices. We don't live by what we can see, do we? It says the just shall live by faith. We live by what God says. We live by the Word of God, not by what we can see.

He said, As a manner of some is, but exhort one another, and so much more as you see the day approaching. You see, the pressure on them was great. So the apostle urges them to love one another, but not only to love one another, but to let it continue. Continue. Now this brotherly love is family love. Here's what this means. Brotherly love, it means this, from the same womb. You're from the same womb.

We have the same Father. Every believer all over this world, we have one Father. GOD IS OUR FATHER. GOD IS NOT THE FATHER OF ALL MEN AND WOMEN. HE IS THE FATHER OF THOSE IN CHRIST. HE IS THE GOD OF ALL. HE'S THE JUDGE OF ALL. BUT HE'S ONLY THE FATHER OF THOSE IN CHRIST. THOSE PHARISEES SAID GOD IS OUR FATHER. THEY SAID GOD IS OUR FATHER. YOU KNOW WHAT THE LORD SAID TO THEM? THE DEVIL IS YOUR FATHER. He said, Satan's your father, not God.

But brotherly love here means from the same womb. And this brotherly love flows from the heart where the love of God has been shared abroad. It's where it comes from. And the very motive we have to love one another and let brotherly love continue is this.

He first loved us and it continues. The love of God continues on us for time and eternity. His love was on me before I was born and when I was born and the years I didn't know Him, the love of God was on me because He chose me in Christ before the foundation of the world. He set His love on me long before I knew Him and that's the way it is with all His children.

NOW WE ARE TO CULTIVATE THIS LOVE. THAT WORD MEANS TO FOSTER THE GROWTH OF. WE ARE TO FOSTER THE GROWTH OF THIS LOVE, THIS BROTHERLY LOVE. IT IS TO BE IMPROVED BY LABOR, CARE, OR STUDY. THAT'S HOW THIS IS IMPROVED. OUR LOVE TO GOD AND TO ONE ANOTHER. AND ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE DO THIS IS A REGULAR STUDY OF GOD'S It's a regular study and reflection on Christ's love for us. Let's not just think about that when we come here, but when we get up and we go through the day, and especially when we're going through trials. What are trials?

It's a chastening of God's hand. Who does God chasten? those whom He loves, that's what He said, He chastens those whom He loves. You chasten your children, you don't chasten your neighbor's children, you chasten yours, but you love your children. God chastens His children because He loves them, He loves them.

And then listen, we pray for the ones we struggle to love, You know, some people are not so easy to love. You know, we have different personalities. I'm not going to try to make this look like we've got this thing down. We don't. I'm trying to figure out how to word it without being too off the wall, but there's some people not that easy to love. But I tell you this, it's hard to stay upset with someone when you're praying for them. You can't do it. You can't do it. And maybe the one you ought to be praying for is yourself. Maybe the real problem is not them. It may not be them.

And provoke one another, as I said, provoke one another to love. How do you do that? Provoke one another to love by your love for them. Provoke means move to action and you do it by your love for them. Now secondly, we have here in verse 2, love for strangers. You see, we start with brotherly love. This is us right here, a family, God's family right here. We love one another, we promote brotherly love, we pray for it, we seek it, we ask God to help us to grow in it.

But then this love, this brotherly love, also goes out. It doesn't stay in these four walls. It goes out. In verse 2, Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. You see, love begins at home, right? It begins here. Then it reaches out to strangers.

If we don't have it here, it's not going out anywhere else. Believe me, it ain't going nowhere. If there's no love in the home, there's no love for anyone else. You go over and read 1 John, I'm not going to do it right now, but he said, He that loves not, knows not God. And it begins right here.

Now the name strangers is not someone thumbing for a ride down the road. That's not the strangers he's talking about. He's not talking about a stranger, a complete stranger, just walks up and knocks on your door and wants to know if he can spend the night. That's not the stranger he's talking about.

He's talking about the brotherhood, those whom God has saved, that we don't know, we've never met. But whenever we do meet them and they are in need, we extend love to them, we help them, we feed them, give them a place to stay, we look after them. This is the family. He's talking here about family because remember, we are strangers in this world together with them.

Now, over the years I've traveled a lot of places to preach. And I've stayed in a lot of homes. People that I never knew, never met in my life, and they've opened their home, they have fed me, I have been fed like a king. I've had people to cook for me, and I'm like, seriously? I mean, I can't, there's just no way I can eat like this.

You know, I remember the first time I went down to Alabama, And Henry Breedlove was the pastor. He was retiring and Henry wanted me to go down there. And Vicki and I, we had the boys with us, and we got up that morning to eat breakfast. It was a buffet. I mean, 50 people could have eaten. It was unbelievable what she cooked, got up early that morning and cooked.

They had never met me in their life. I was a stranger. I was one of the large strangers, but they and me, we were brothers and sisters. We were one in Christ. We were one in Christ. And this is what this is talking about. These strangers here, it's not someone coming down the road, it's someone that has been redeemed and born again. Now listen, let me put this in this context. These Hebrews, some of them, they were being persecuted. I mean persecuted. They had lost their homes. They'd been scattered. They'd been run out of town.

And He's saying, when they show up, you take care of them. You take care of them. Don't just say, well, be warmed and be fed. I'll see you later. No, no, don't do that. WE WELCOME AS BROTHERS AND SISTERS. THIS SHOWS HOSPITALITY. You know what hospitality is? It's love in action. That's what hospitality is.

Now the early believers, they depended on these other believers to open their homes. And the Apostle here, he makes this reference. He said, REMEMBER THIS, SOME HAVE ENTERTAINED ANGELS UNAWARE. And I'm always referring to Abraham. You remember when there were three angels came, but one of them was the Lord. And two of them went down and a lot met Him. A lot entertained Him.

And our Lord said this, this is very important. Our Lord said this, He that THAT HAS DONE THIS TO THE LEAST OF MINE, YOU FED HIM, YOU WATERED HIM, YOU CLOTHED HIM. HE SAID YOU'VE DONE IT TO ME. LISTEN, YOU'VE ENTERTAINED ME. TO TAKE CARE OF ONE OF GOD'S CHILDREN IS LITERALLY TO ENTERTAIN JESUS CHRIST. YOU GET THE PRIVILEGE OF ENTERTAINING THE LORD. HE SAID, AS MUCH AS YOU'VE DONE IT TO ONE OF THESE MY CHILDREN, YOU'VE DONE IT TO ME. YOU'VE DONE IT TO ME. And then thirdly, we have love for our afflicted brethren. Verse 3, REMEMBER THEM THAT ARE IN BONDS AS BOUND WITH THEM, AND THEM WHICH SUFFER ADVERSITY AS BEING YOURSELVES ALSO IN THE BODY.

In that day Many were cast into prison. I don't know anybody here, I don't know anybody in the United States that's cast into prison for the gospel. I don't know of any. But in that day, they were cast into prison. Paul was cast into prison more than once. And they suffered the loss of many things.

So the Apostle says, not only remember them, but put yourself in their place. He says, remember them that are in bonds as bound with them. I mean, really sit down and just identify with them. That's your brother, that's your brother. You know, it used to take You take a family in here, you know, a lot of your family. If one of you were put in prison today, we would be devastated, wouldn't we? We'd be devastated. I'm telling you, if you would ask me, you would come to me and you'd say, pray for my brother. He's been put into prison, pray for him. Your heart would be aching. We ought to have that same affection for our brothers, our brothers and sisters in Christ.

And I know this, we are not in prison today for our faith in Christ. There's nobody in prison. There's no one bound by chains. But when I was looking at this, I did think about this. Yet there are some that are bound that we know. Paul Today, Johnny Tindall. They are bound. They are bound to the bed. They are bound at home. They literally are bound.

And He said, YOU THINK OF THEM, YOU THINK UPON THEM AS BOUND WITH THEM. Because that might be, could easily be, YOU NEXT. So let me show you this, AND THEM WHICH SUFFER ADVERSITY AS BEING YOURSELVES ALSO IN THE BODY. Your turn might be coming. And then we suffer adversity. Old age is an adversity. I can tell you. I mean, I'm not super old, but I don't think anybody here, I don't think there's a person here that called me young. Nobody's going to make that mistake. Even if I dyed my hair. You're not going to call me young.

Old age is an adversity. There are things that come with old age that you don't have when you're young. Listen, I wasn't going to read it, but turn over to Ecclesiastes 12. Listen to this, this is old age. This is old age. Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not. Evil days? What are evil days? He's talking about the old age, he's talking about the aging of the body. He doesn't call them golden years. Golden years are not written there. He said evil days. While the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them.

You wake up in the morning and you're just hurting from head to toe. While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars be not darkened at your eye, losing your eyesight, nor the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble the legs Your body, you get weak, you have to walk with a cane, then you go from a cane to a walker. And the strong man shall bow themselves, and the grinders, your teeth, cease because they're few. Can't I chew your food? And those that look out of the windows be darkened, and the doors shall be shut in the streets. When the sound of the grinding is low, you're losing your hearing. He shall rise up at the voice of birds.

I realize how early I wake up anymore. I didn't wake up like that when I was young. I wake up four o'clock in the morning. I didn't wake up like that when I was young. He'll rise up at the voice of birds and all the daughters of the music shall be brought low. How many times, boy, well, Vicki and I turn it up Turn the volume up. I mean, we can get it up to 40 now. It used to be 20. The volume on the TV is up to 40 now. It'll be between 35 and 40. It used to be 20 or 25. I can tell how our aging is going by the volume on the TV.

And when they shall be afraid of that which is high, a curb, you're trying to step off a curb. You ever see an old person trying to step off a curb? It looks like they're trying to step off a mountain, doesn't it, Judy? And fears, fears shall be, oh my, fears shall be in the way. You fear everything, everything you become afraid of. And the almond tree shall flourish, gray hair. And the grasshopper shall be a burden. Isn't that amazing? A grasshopper becomes a burden. And desire shall fail, because man goes to his long home, and the mourner go about the streets.

Wherever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, then shall the dust return to the earth as it is written, and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. and remember them which are in adversity." We forget that, don't we? We forget that. James said pure religion, you know what James said pure religion and undefiled is? He said, "...to visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world."

You see, believers are one body, suffering is shared. IF MY HAND HURTS, MY WHOLE BODY HURTS! I may say my hand is hurting, but I feel it all over. I feel it. Now, remember them. It says, REMEMBER THEM. HOW? PRAYER. Brethren, we don't make enough of true prayer. Let's not make prayer become superstitious, because sometimes I think, you know, we prayed several times in a service or something, and it's just like, honestly, you're getting too many times, you're being superstitious about it. But true prayer, sincere, true prayer. Oh man, the prayer of a righteous man says availeth much.

And then support them and listen, identify with them. Identify with them. Don't forget them. Sit down and put yourself in their place as much as possible. Listen to what Paul wrote to Timothy. Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner. But be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God.

Now fourthly, fourthly, he comes to this matter of love and marriage, love and marriage. He says in verse 4, Marriage is honorable and all, and the bed undefiled, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Another translation of that is this, LET YOUR MARRIAGE BE HELD IN HONOR IN ALL THINGS. In all things. Keep it in high honor. Keep it in high honor. And the word honor here means held as of a great price, esteemed and especially dear. That's how you hold marriage.

Because God instituted marriage, it's a picture of Christ and the Church. I wrote this down this morning and it just struck me. HUSBANDS AND WIVES ARE A LIVING, WALKING PORTRAIT OF CHRIST AND THE CHURCH. WE ARE. WE ARE A LIVING, WALKING PORTRAIT OF CHRIST AND HIS CHURCH. THAT'S WHAT WE ARE. AND THE BED UNDEFILED. BOTH MARRIAGE AND THE MARRIAGE BED ARE TO BE KEPT PURE. THAT'S WHAT IT IS. IT'S TO BE KEPT PURE. Honorable.

Now here's the breakdown in marriage and it starts right here. Absence of love. Absence of love. You see this is the number one reason I believe all marriages break down. Absence of love. It is. A marriage where two people love each other. When they love each other, the only thing that can separate them is death. THAT YOU DON'T THINK CAN SEPARATE THEM. WE'RE TWO, NOT JUST ONE. WE'RE TWO, IT TAKES TWO. THAT YOU DON'T THINK CAN SEPARATE THEM IS DEATH. Song of Solomon, chapter 8, verse 6. SET ME AS A SEAL UPON THINE HEART, AS A SEAL UPON THINE ARM, FOR LOVE IS STRONG AS DEATH. IT'S STRONG AS DEATH. But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

You know, I don't and never have made any sermon to be a political sermon. I never have. I don't look at the landscape of politics and try to address it. I try to make a sermon fit that situation. But I do this, when I come across a scripture like this, you don't go around it. You don't compromise it. You don't take the edge off from it. You deal with it because this really has to do with the church. Let me get into this.

I know the decay in the morals of this country, and I tell you all the other nations for the most part, I'm going to say it's greatly declined, but I don't think it's greatly declined as much as it's just more open. It was just a lot more hidden. But now it's just more accepted by the world. You know, this is the world and this is the way they want to live. And what they don't realize, what they don't realize, all this freedom that they call freedom, same-sex marriage, homosexuality, They think this is actually free, being free.

You know what it is? It's God's judgment. Go read Romans chapter 1. It's God's judgment. It is God turning them over to a reprobate mind. That's exactly what it is. They don't realize that. We do. We do. But I want you to understand this. The world is always going to be the world.

We're not gonna change the world now, just like false religion. And once this dawned on me, it really made, it opened my eyes. You're never gonna change false religion. False religion is gonna be false all the way to the end. But there are sheep in false religion, and the Lord's gonna call them out. How many of you were in false religion? Most people whom the Lord saves come out of false religion. You know why? Because we are religious by nature. We'll grab on to something. Man's gonna grab on to something. He may not grab on until about the time he's about to die, but he'll grab on to something. But this is not for the world.

This here, but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge, it's for the church. He's writing to the church. Remember that man who was committing incest in 1 Corinthians? And Paul was disgusted that they put up with that. He said, I can't believe you're letting this go on. Cast that man out. Well, and he said, deliver him to Satan. And you know what? The Lord saved that man. He came back later and Paul said, you received him with open arms, but don't you put up with his immorality in the congregation.

The world is going to be the world all the way to the end. And when we come across these verses, we do deal with them. We do deal with them. Same-sex marriage, homosexuality, abortion. These things are wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. And God's going to deal with it. I'm not going to just slide over this so I don't offend anybody or I don't get in trouble. I'd rather be in trouble with the world than with God.

The Watchman says, trouble's coming. The watchman warns the wicked. God said if the watchman doesn't warn the wicked, I'll require their blood at his hands. But if the watchman warns the wicked, then I'll require their blood at their hands, and my hands are free. So here we are, whoremongers, adulterers, God will judge with a Greek translation, for that word when it was written in the King James Version.

The word HORMONGER means PORNOS and that's where we get the word PORNOGRAPHY, that's where we get it. But it means this, a sexually immoral person, one who engages in illicit sexual relations, that's what he's talking about. Sometimes specifically one who frequents and it's what it here's what the meanings of it. It's one who frequents prostitutes prostitute prostitutes But it's not limited to prostitution.

It includes all sexual activity outside of the marriage God he said it's going to judge Here's the seriousness of it God will judge see God's the standard You and I are not the standard of what's right and what's wrong. We're not the standard of morals. God is. If God said it's wrong, if He says that a man shall not lie with a man, we don't have the right to legislate and make that right, change it. We don't have the right to do that. God said it.

Now I'm not beating up on any particular person because self-righteousness is worse than all that. OUR LORD SAID THIS, HE SAID, IT WILL BE MORE TOLERABLE IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT FOR SODOM, FOR THOSE SODOMITES, THAN IT WILL BE FOR CAPERNAUM AND THOSE CITIES WHERE MY MIGHTY WORKS WERE DONE. IT WILL BE MORE TOLERABLE, IT DOESN'T MEAN THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE JUDGED, IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S NOT GOING TO BE A TERRIBLE JUDGMENT. BUT IT'S GOING TO BE MORE TOLERABLE, WHICH MEANS THERE ARE DEGREES OF JUDGMENT. IT'S GOING TO BE MORE TOLERABLE FOR THOSE SODOMITES THAN THOSE PHARISEES WHO SAID THAT THE THINGS OUR LORD DID HE DID BY BEELZEBUB. BUT HE'S SAYING HERE AND WHAT HE'S TELLING US HERE AND WHAT HE'S TELLING THE HEBREWS. AND IT'S INTERESTING TO ME THAT HE WROTE THIS IN HEBREWS.

They were the one people upon earth that did have kept marriage in its sanctity. The Hebrews did. I mean, they had it given to them how to properly conduct themselves. The world, the Gentile world, they were just a mess. When Paul went to Rome and all these other places, what a mess he had to deal with. In the early church so much of it had to be corrected because they were just babes in Christ. But now let me go on here and close this message. Fifthly, let love be free of covetousness.

Let your conversation be without covetousness and be content with such things as you have. For He has said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. In 1611 A.D. when the Authorized Version was written, King James Version, what I'm using here, this word CONVERSATION meant this, MANNER OF LIFE and BEHAVIOR. It wasn't just me and you talking back and forth. It's the MANNER OF LIFE, it's one's behavior.

Let your behavior, your manner of life, be without the LOVE OF SILVER, that's what that means, LOVE OF MONEY. Don't I heard someone say this the other day, some religious person. Money is the root of all evil. It is absolutely not the root of all evil. Love is the love of money. Money is not the root of all. It's just paper. It's just paper. But the love of it, people have sold their souls for it. They've sold their bodies for it. They've sold their families for it. People have left the gospel to get a better job for it. You don't want, don't do that. Don't do that. Without covetous, and be content.

With such things as you have, you see, you've got to put yourself in the time that Paul's writing this to the Hebrews, and then identify with it. Because the Word of God is relevant to every day. This is not old-timey stuff. It's relevant to every day. Be content. That's more than just being satisfied. Just be satisfied with what you've got. You ever hear that? Just be satisfied with what you've got. It's more than that.

It's to be dependent upon the Lord and independent of outward circumstances. We depend on Him, we don't depend on outward circumstances. I don't depend on my job or anything else. On your job, I don't have a job. I have a calling. This is a calling, it's not a job.

TO BE CONTENT WITH SUCH THINGS AS YOU HAVE IS TO BE CONTENT WITH PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES. ARE YOU CONTENT WITH PRESENT CIRCUMSTANCES? THE LORD PUT YOU THERE. HE'S PUT YOU WHERE YOU ARE. HE'S PUT HIS CHILDREN, EVERY ONE OF HIS CHILDREN WHERE THEY ARE AND ARE DEALING WITH IT. THEY'RE DEALING WITH WHAT THEY DEAL WITH BECAUSE THE LORD'S TRAINING THEM. HE'S CONFORMING US TO THE IMAGE OF CHRIST.

IN PHILIPPIANS 4, VERSES 11-12, Paul says this, not that I speak in respect of want, for I have learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content. Now, contentment is a learned behavior. It is a learned behavior. And he says here in verse 12, I know both how to be abased and I know how to abound. I know how to handle when I have nothing, I know how to handle it when I have plenty.

EVERYWHERE AND IN ALL THINGS I AM INSTRUCTED BOTH TO BE FULL AND TO BE HUNGRY, BOTH TO ABANDON AND TO SUFFER NEED." He said, I've learned to be content, to be, I have learned to depend upon the Lord Jesus Christ in all my circumstances. And the foundation, and to close, the foundation of this contentment is right here, for He has said, Is that enough or what did He say?

I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. Christ has promised He would not forsake us. He gave Joshua that promise in Joshua chapter 1 verse 5. He gave this in two or three places in the Old Testament. It's not a new thing. because we don't have a new God, it's the same God, because it says Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever.

We'll deal with that next time, Lord willing, Thursday. See, this is the antidote to fear and insecurity. He has said, well, the Lord said it. Now, let me say this to you the way it is really written. HE SAYS, I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU. THREE TIMES IS STATED, I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT, I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU. I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU IN DISTRESS. I WILL NOT ABANDON YOU. IT MAY FEEL LIKE IT, BUT HE SAYS, I WILL NOT. LORD YOU SAID, I WILL NOT FORSAKE YOU AND I BELIEVE YOU.

It don't matter if I believe it or not because He said it. You know, us believing it doesn't make it come true or not true. If God said it, He said it, it's going to happen. And verse 6, So that we may boldly say, and you can take that word boldly and just put confidently. That we may confidently say, The Lord is my Helper. I'll not fear what man shall do to me. I'm not afraid of man. I'm not afraid of the economy. I'm not afraid of the economy. I'm not afraid of what's going on. The Lord's my Helper. You see, confidence replaces anxiety.

Human opposition is secondary to divine support, isn't it? and true security rests in God, not possessions or people. Don't put your trust in, he says, in princes or horses. Who in the world puts their confidence in a horse over God? That's what he says over in Psalms. Don't put your trust in princes or horses. Really? In a BEAST over God? The LORD is my Helper. Can I say it like this? The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. I shall not want. He maketh me lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside still waters. He saith, Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

HE PREPARES FOR ME A TABLE IN THE PRESENCE OF MY ENEMIES, RIGHT IN THE FACE OF MY ENEMIES. INSTEAD OF ME RUNNING AND BEING SCARED, I'M GOING TO SIT DOWN AND FEAST. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW. THE LORD HAS PREPARED A TABLE IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL THE ENEMIES OUT HERE THAT WOULD DESTROY US AND DESTROY THE GOSPEL. BUT HERE WE ARE FEASTING ON THE BREAD OF LIFE. REALLY? Oh, the Lord, how would He wake us up? How would He wake us up? The Lord's my Helper. The Lord's my Helper. Let brotherly love continue. All right.