So our Bible is again a Psalm
34. Titled the message this evening,
Encouragement to Seek the Lord. David wrote this Psalm 34 in
a time of trouble. He had just left King Achish
in the country of Gath. Remember, he
went there hiding from Saul, and when he got there, he was
afraid the king of Gath would kill him. He acted like he was
insane. He let the spittle run down his beard. He scratched
the door and things to make them think he was insane so they'd
kick him out. And they did. So then he goes running to a
cave in Adullam. Now here is the anointed king
of Israel, the one who's killed his 10,000, hiding in a cave. It's a low point for David. At
this low point, David writes a psalm. He doesn't write this
psalm to complain. He doesn't write this psalm to
ask the Lord why he's doing things the way he's doing. At this low
point when David doesn't understand, he doesn't understand why the
Lord's doing what he's doing. He doesn't understand how am
I going to get from this cave to the throne of Israel. He doesn't
understand what the Lord's doing. See, he doesn't write a psalm
to complain. But he writes a psalm to encourage us to seek the Lord. Trust the Lord. Even if we don't
understand, trust Him. Seek Him. I want us to look this
evening at five encouragements to seek the Lord. First, David
encourages us to seek the Lord. Because do you know praising
the Lord makes the humble glad? Verse 1, he says, I will bless
the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually
be in my mouth. Now the word bless means to kneel
in adoration. And it means to congratulate.
David saying, I will kneel before the Lord at all times. Adoration. That's true worship. That is what true worship really
is. It's good for us to just bow before the Lord and adore
Him. Not asking for things, not asking
for more things, but just to adore Him for who He is. To adore His perfections. To adore His mercy and His grace. Adore His progeny. Now He's working
all things together to accomplish His will even when we don't understand
it. We can adore that, can't we? And the word bless also means
to congratulate. To congratulate the Lord on how
well He's done things. Now, I thought about that a while. I don't know that I feel comfortable
going and saying more congratulations, you know. But that's what David's
saying here. We praise the Lord for the salvation
that He accomplished. It's perfect. Only the Lord could
have done such a thing. Only the Lord would have had
mercy and saved sinners like we are. We can praise the Lord
for that candle. We wouldn't have had it any other
way. David says here, I'm going to bless the Lord. I'm going
to kneel before Him in adoration. I'm going to congratulate Him.
I'm going to talk about how wonderful everything He's done. At all
times. At all times. Not just when everything's
going my way, and I'm sitting on the throne, or I'm hiding
in the cave in a dome. Not just when the Lord blesses
us with plenty, but when I don't know where my next meal's coming
from, I'm going to bless the Lord. David said, I'm going to
bless the Lord at all times. Not just when they're singing
their songs about me, how I've killed more people and conquered
more people than Saul. But even when I'm hated by almost
the entire nation, and I've got to hide from them in a cave,
because if they find me, they're going to kill me. Even then,
I'm going to bless the Lord. Look back at 1 Samuel chapter
22. That'd be good for us to remember next
time everything's not going our way. Maybe the thing to do, I
say maybe, facetiously, the thing we ought to do at that time,
when everything's not going our way, when nothing's going right,
is just to stop right there and bless the Lord. That's what David
did. Now, David did have a few men come out there with him,
and hiding with him in the cave. Look at them in 1 Samuel 22,
verse 1. David therefore departed thence
and escaped to the cave of Dolom. And when his brethren and all
his father's house heard it, they went down thither to him.
And everyone that was in distress, and everyone that was in debt,
and everyone that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him,
and he became a captain over them. And there were with him
about 400 men. What a rabble of society came
to David. And he became a captain over
these people. Now, this is what David's telling
us. He's not just going to bless
the Lord just for no reason. Even at this time, no matter
what's going on with the flesh, the believer can bless the Lord
at all. No matter what's going on with
the flesh. God has forgiven the sin of his people. sacrificing
his son. That doesn't have anything to
do with our flesh, does it? We can praise the Lord for that.
We can bless him for that. He has made his people righteous
through the obedience of Christ. That's reason enough to bless
the Lord at all times, because that's a salvation we can't lose
and a righteousness that we can't mar. So David says the Lord's
praise shall continually be in my mouth. I don't have anything
else to talk about. That's all I've got to say. is
the praise of the Lord. I can't tell you anything good
about me. I can't tell you anything good about what I've done. But
I can praise the Lord continually. I can praise Him continually
because I'll never run out of things to praise Him for. No
matter how long I praise Him, the half will not be told, will
it? And we praise the Lord continually because His praises never grow
old. How can it grow old to praise
the Lord for forgiving our sins? King. So even in this difficult
time, this low point, David says in verse two, my soul shall make
her boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear thereof
and be glad. Here's this David. He's been
anointed king. He's been told he's going to
be king, but he's been humbled at me. He acted like a crazy
man to escape from a heathen king. He's sitting here in a
cave with nothing. And he says, the only thing I
have to boast about That's the only thing. We can't boast about
anything about this flesh, can we? Because it's all shameful.
Salvation is of grace, not by works, lest any man should boast. If the Lord showed us who we
are, we can't boast about ourselves. We can't brag about anything
about us. But look at 1 Corinthians chapter
1. The humble can boast. They've got something to boast
about. They can boast in the Lord. David said that, and the
Apostle Paul tells us that. 1 Corinthians 1. Verse 26. For you see your calling, brethren,
how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not
many noble, are called. But God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the wise, and God hath chosen
the weak things of the world to confound the things which
are mighty. and base things of the world, and things which are
despised hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to
bring to naught things that are. And here's why He did it that
way, that no flesh should glory His presence. God did it this
way that no flesh has any reason to glory about itself whatsoever. But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus,
who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification
and redemption. In Christ The humble have everything. In Christ, these have got nothing
to brag about themselves, have everything. And here's why God
did that. That, so that, according as it
is written, he that gloryeth, let him glory in the Lord. The
humble got something real to glory in. They've got something
real to brag about. We can brag on the Lord. We can
brag on his perfection. We can brag on his salvation. We can brag how he came to this
earth to accomplish a salvation so great it'll even save somebody
like me. We can brag on the Lord that
way. That's the only way the humble can be glad. It's to brag
on the Lord. Now, they can't brag on themselves.
They're humble. They're ashamed about everything
about themselves by nature. But when the humble brag on the
Lord, it makes them glad. Now, I would imagine everybody,
even a believer, everybody would say this. I'd like to be happier. I'd like to go through my life
more happy. I would, would you? I mean, I'd
like to be not a grouchy old man. I'd like to be happier.
Want me to tell you how to be happy? We sit around and think. We're not sitting in a cave.
We're sitting in a nice home. This is what we think. I'd be
happy if I had I'd be happy if the Lord gave me this. I'd just
be happier if the Lord did this. We're not going to find happiness
that way. Want to know how to be happy? Frag on the Lord. When you're sitting there, all
alone in your house, in this comfortable house that the Lord's
given you, wear nice clothes and all these nice things, just
sit there to yourself and frag on the Lord. You'll be happier. You really will. That's what
David's telling us. That's how the humble be happy. And David
encourages us to do that. He's doing it, but he encourages
us to do that. He tells us, join with me in
blessing the Lord. Verse three. He says, oh, magnify
the Lord with me. Let us exalt his name together.
Magnify the Lord with me. Let's preach a big God. Isn't that what you do when you
magnify something? You have a microscope and you
want to see something small and you get to it. Certain age, you
want to read a bottle or something, you get a magnifying glass. Some
of them have done that. Because you need to magnify it
so you can see it. Make it bigger. David says, magnify
the Lord with me. Let's magnify the Lord in our
preaching. Let's preach a big God. I was
preaching somewhere else one time, one of the men told Janet.
He preaches a big God. I'm glad he said that. Let's
magnify the Lord. Make Him big. We need to magnify
the Lord so that the blind, even the blind will see Him. We need
to magnify the Lord so that His people, they're poor and needy.
They just see through a glass darkly. Then let's magnify the
Lord so they can see. They get a clear view of Him.
And Lord will ever give us a view of Christ. That's when we'll
be blessed. That's when our souls will be
blessed and comforted and quieted. So we magnify the Lord, make
Him big so everybody can see Him. And let's exalt His name
together. Let's lift up Christ high in
our preaching so that everybody can see Him. You know, you all
came in here on a Wednesday night. You come in from the world and
there's lots of stuff that's right here. Lots of stuff from
going to work, from going to school, from going out in the
community. And the stuff of this world is right here, this right
here. We need to lift up Christ so
we can see up over that, get him up over all this low line
stuff so we can see Christ because that's when our souls will be
blessed. Lift him up high. That's when our souls will be
healed and when it will be, our souls will be strengthened. So
let's exalt the Lord. And David says, let's do it together.
But you know what he's talking about there? Let's do it together. He's talking about public worship.
Now, private worship is important. Reading the Word in private is
important. But it's not nearly as important,
not nearly as important as public worship. I was a young man riding
down the road with this fellow. He is older and more experienced
than me. And he made this statement. He
said, Oh, I like public worship. I like it. He said, but he said,
I like my private worship, my private studies. He said, if
I had to choose one, I'd choose my private studies. And I just
thought, that's not right. I don't, I don't, I didn't know. I was too young to know, but
I thought, well, I wouldn't because I can't understand anything.
Somebody else could, you know, bridge it. I can't understand. But he
made that statement. Public worship is important.
Don't forsake it. Don't forsake the assembling
of ourselves together as the manner of some is, because God
has ordained His church to worship together publicly. God has ordained
it this way. There's no sense arguing about
it. There's no sense wondering, why
does God do it this way? Because He says this is the way He's
going to do it. You know how He's going to feed His people?
Through public worship. He said, I'll meet with them,
two or three of God's together, in public worship. God's going
to save His people in public worship. In glory, worship's
going to be public. Let's start it now. It ought
to be the same way now. Let's worship together. Let's
magnify the Lord's name together. Let's lift Him up together. Because
that's the only way the poor, humble, small sinner is ever
going to be encouraged and be made glad. By magnifying the
Lord together. Everything will be okay. No matter
what's going on with this flesh, everything will be okay. If we
see in God's word, God's bigger than our sin, bigger than our
problems, bigger than what's going on in this world. We magnify
the Lord together. Our souls say, now I'm glad. Now I'm glad. All right. Second, David encourages us to
seek deliverance from the Lord. because he has never disappointed
anyone who sought him. And first, David speaks from
his own personal experience, verse four. He said, I sought
the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears.
Now I sought the Lord. He heard me. He delivered me
from my sin. And what the result of that,
what David is saying is, so now you seek the Lord too and he'll
deliver you too. Remember that demoniac in the
Gadarenes? Nobody could tame him. And the
Lord healed him. He cast that legion out of him,
remember? And the people of that town, they saw that. They were
afraid. They wanted the Lord to depart from their coast. And
he said, all right, I will. And that demoniac, that former
demoniac said, Lord, I'm going with you. These people are crazy.
I'm not staying here with them. And the Lord said, nope. Don't
you go with me. Go home. Go home to your friends. Go home to your family. And you
tell him how great things the Lord has done for you, and how
the Lord's had compassion on you. Now, he didn't know how
the Lord did what he did. How could you explain that? How
could he explain why the Lord let him be possessed by that
legion for so many years and living in the cemetery and just,
oh, how can he explain all that? He don't have to. The Lord had
compassion on him. The Lord came where I was and
cast him out. There I sat before him, clothed
in my right mind. Just go home. You don't have
to be a preacher. You don't have to be Charles
Spurgeon to tell people what great things the Lord's done
for you. That is what will encourage other people to seek the Lord.
Knowing what great things the Lord's done for you. How the
Lord's had compassion on you. David said, I was full of fear.
I was full of fear. So I cried. And the Lord delivered
me from all my fears. He delivered me from my fear
of sin by being made sin for me. He set me free, delivered
me from the fear of judgment by being judged for me. He set
me free from fear of the law. I was always so afraid of the
law because I couldn't keep it. Christ set me free from that
by being made a curse for me. I was always afraid of dying.
There I was down there in the King of Gath. I was afraid he
was going to kill me. I was always afraid of dying. The Lord has
delivered me from the fear of dying by dying for me, my substance. He took the sting of death away
for me. He delivered me from the fear of Satan by crushing
his head. He delivered me from the fear of this world by overcoming
it. Be of good cheer, he said, I've
overcome the world. Now all of us can do that. Just
go tell people what the Lord's done for you, how the Lord's
had compassion on you. That's what David's doing. He's
doing it to encourage us to seek the Lord. They may encourage
others to seek the Lord, but you tell them the same thing.
And every believer has the same story. Because here's 2nd David
tells of everybody else. How the Lord delivered them when
they sought the Lord. Verse 5. They looked unto him and were
lightened, and their faces were not ashamed. Now the they, he's
talking about here's the fathers. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, all the
prophets, all the past believers. Salvation's in a look. All they
did was look to the Lord. Out of their darkness, out of
their blindness, out of their disease, out of their sin, they
just looked to the Lord. And their faces were like the
Lord just lifted them up. They looked to Christ, and they
were healed. They looked to Christ, and they
weren't ashamed. When we look to Christ, we've
got nothing to be ashamed of. They trusted in the Lord, and
the Lord didn't make them ashamed. He delivered them. He didn't
leave them in the darkness of their sin, of their death, and
their disease. No, He delivered them. He gave them life. He lifted
their spirits up. He put a smile on their face.
Now David said, that's what the Lord's done for everyone who's
ever looked to Him, who's ever trusted in the Lord. That's what
the Lord's, He never let one of them down. Now you seek the
Lord. Right where you sit, right now,
you seek the Lord. You look to Him. The Lord will
do the same thing for you. No sinner has ever trusted in
the Lord to save them, and the Lord disappointed them. Not one.
The Lord has never let anyone down who trusted in Him, and
you won't be the first. So look good. Trust Him. The
Lord will deliver you. You know what God said? God said,
I didn't tell the seed of Jacob to seek ye me in vain. You seek
me, you won't seek me in vain. You'll find me. That's what God
said. You'll find him, he'll deliver you. He'd never let anyone
down who's ever sought him. All right, thirdly, David encourages
us to call upon the Lord because the Lord will hear, he will hear,
he will hear the cry of poor sinners. Verse six, this poor
man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all
of his troubles. And here David tells us of his
personal experience again. He said, all I am is a poor sinner. I'm just a poor man. Now, this
is the King of Israel. The King of Israel. Now I grant
you, he's not sitting on the throne yet, but he's gonna. The
King of Israel. Doesn't that teach us something?
No matter what we have in this life, no matter what position
we arrive at in this life, we are nothing more than a poor
sinner. That's all we ever are. The richest
heathen in this world is nothing more than a poor sinner. And
the oldest believer, who's the strongest in the faith, in himself,
in and of himself, he's nothing more than a poor sinner. But
a poor sinner can cry to the Lord. It can be a mighty poor
cry, but the cry of a poor sinner, the Lord will hear, and He'll
save them. Look over in verse 18. The Lord is nigh, He's close
unto them that are of a broken heart, and save them, such as
be of a contrite spirit." Every poor sinner that's got a heart
broken over sin, got a spirit that's humbled because of their
sin, who cries to the Lord, the Lord saves them. Look over a
few pages of Psalm 51. Verse 17. The sacrifices of God are a broken
spirit. A broken and a contrite heart,
oh God, thou wilt not despise. I tried to think of an example
for this. Have you ever been somewhere
and you've seen a truly poor person, a homeless person? They're
somewhere begging, doing something, their clothes are dirty, their
hair's dirty, their body's dirty, It smells good. What do you think? Maybe this is real, but they
brought on themselves. Isn't that what we tend to think? A
self-righteous man? Come on now. That's the first
thing that goes through our mind. You're a poor sinner. And you're
dirty. And you're unkempt. And you put
yourself in this position. You cry to the Lord. He won't
despise you because you're poor. He won't despise you because
you're needy. He won't despise you because you're a sinner.
He won't despise you because your heart's broken. But He'll
hear you. He will not despise you for needing
Christ. Matter of fact, He'll save you
for needing Christ. He'll give you everything He's
got in His Son. And all you got to do is cry.
Now listen, just cry. It doesn't have to be a well-worded
prayer. Christ does not hear us for how well we put our argument. Christ does not hear us for the
strength of our prayer. He hears us for our weakness.
He hears us for the poverty of our heart. So just cry to the
Lord. Just cry to him. He'll hear you. And to be heard by the Lord is
to be saved by the Lord. For the Lord to hear you is for
the Lord to deliver you. That's how powerful the Lord
is. That's how good and gracious the Lord is. When he hears you,
he'll save you. The Lord, he hears your cry. Now you cry to me. Right now,
from your heart, you cry to me. You'll be heard. Because the
Lord's ear's not heavy that it can't hear. No, he'll hear you.
The Lord will hear your cry if you're a poor sinner. That's
what he says in verse seven. The angel of the Lord encampeth
round about them to fear him and deliver him. Now that doesn't
say angels. You know, people I've read some
commentaries think that that's angels. I don't think so. This
is seen as the angel. The angel of the Lord is our
Lord Jesus Christ. And he surrounds everyone that
trusts him. He protects everyone who trusts
him. He saves everyone who trusts
him. He's the one who preserves them to the end. He's the one
who delivers those people that trust him. He always does that,
not sometimes, but he always delivers those that trust him. Now that ought to encourage us
to trust the Lord, shouldn't it? That ought to encourage us
to call on him because he answers the call of those needy sinners.
All right, fourthly, now David makes this personal to us now.
David encourages us each of us to taste the goodness of the
Lord, because God's grace is so good. Verse 8, O taste and
see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth
in him. This thing of trusting the Lord
is personal. It's something that you must
do for yourself. That's why David gave us his own personal experience. But now we can read of David's
experience. and say, that's wonderful. But
each of us must trust the Lord. If you would be saved, you must
trust the Lord. You have to. Nobody else can
do it for you. David tells us that he's tasted of the Lord's
goodness. Oh, it's good. It's sweet. Mercy of the Lord.
It's a, it's a delicious banquet. Every course is delicious, he
says. But now you've got to taste it
too. Now you sit down and eat. You know, that first taste, the
very first taste of God's bread is so sweet and it seems too
good to be true when you first taste it. But this is the experience
of a believer. All through life's journey, the
Lord just keeps giving us, keeps giving us, keeps giving us manna
from heaven. Keeps giving us Christ, the bread
of life. And every bite is good. Every bite is sweet. Every bite. It's exactly what we need. And a believer never tires of
it. Never tires of hearing of Christ. How can a poor sinner
ever tire of hearing about free grace? How can a poor sinner,
guilty, ever get tired of hearing about mercy and forgiveness?
Can't be done. It's always good, David says. But now he's telling us The Lord's
good, but you have to trust Him yourself. You have to taste. You have to take Christ and eat
His flesh and drink His blood. You do. You have to be joined
to Christ by faith. You must call upon the name of
the Lord. It's not just whosoever calls upon the name of the Lord
shall be saved. You must. And if you call upon the name
of the Lord, you'll be saved. It's not just anyone who seeks
the Lord will find Him. You must seek the Lord. And I thought of this illustration,
we've heard it before, but it's a good one. David says, now taste
this, eat this, see that the Lord is good. Y'all might come
into the kitchen and see Janice's got a table full of good food. We're in that, coming up on that
month, that's going to happen. She's going to have a table of
good food. And I might be real hungry. I mean, might be real
hungry. My stomach's growling, kind of knocking up. I'm hungry.
But going in there and smelling that food, not going to do me
any good. Won't do my body any good. Going
in there and looking at all that food, just looking at it all
in the containers, won't do me any good. No, having some knowledge
that the way she cooked that was with healthy ingredients.
And all those ingredients in that food, they're going to do
my body good. Knowing that's not going to do me any good,
is it? Understanding the biology of how that food goes into my
body and helps every cell in my body, understanding that,
having that knowledge, it's not going to do me any good. Hearing
others say, well, that food sure is good, and agreeing with them,
it's not going to do me any good. That food is not going to do
me any good. until I take it and eat it."
That's what David's saying here. The same thing is true spiritually. Having a head knowledge, knowing
all the doctrines of the gospel, knowing what these verses mean,
not going to do me any good unless I believe Christ, unless I take
Him and eat Him. Knowing that Christ saves sinners
is not going to do me any good until I come to Him. I'm begging
for mercy. Hearing others say, and agreeing
with them, that Christ is sufficient. That knowledge doesn't do me
any good until I call on Christ and come to Him to find in Him
everything that I need. And that's how. So right now,
this is what David's encouraging us to do. Don't wait. Right now. You call upon the name of the
Lord. You call on Christ. You believe
Him. You take him and eat him. And
when you do, just let the gospel roll around on your tongue of
faith and just take your time to taste every drop of God's
grace to sinners. It's good. It's all good. You
do that, you'll be saved. You do that and your soul will
be fed and strengthened. And you might wonder, how can I know if I've tasted
it or not? That can be a good question.
You know, I grew up, from the time I understood language, I
was a Calvinist. I mean, I would, you know, I'd
have some understanding of this, but I hadn't tasted it. So how
can I know? Do I have a head knowledge here?
Or have I really tasted it? Look at 1 Peter 2. Peter gives
us something I believe will be helpful to us here. Verse 2, Peter says, as newborn
babes desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow
thereby. If so be you've tasted that the Lord is gracious to
whom coming as into a living stone, disallowed indeed of men,
but chosen of God and precious. If you've tasted that the Lord
is gracious, you're going to desire more of it. You're going
to desire more of the sincere milk of God's word. Just plain,
simple preaching of the word. You're going to desire more of
it. If you've tasted that the Lord is gracious, you know what
you're going to do? You're going to keep coming, keep coming,
keep coming, keep coming to Christ. Salvation is not coming to Christ
once, it's to Him coming. You'll do that if you've tasted
that the Lord is gracious. All right, here's the last thing.
David encourages us to fear the Lord, because those who fear
the Lord won't want for anything. Verse nine. Oh, fear the Lord,
ye his saints, for there's no want to them to fear him. The
young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the
Lord shall not want any good. Everyone who fears the Lord respects,
honors, bows to the Lord. Everyone who fears the Lord will
want for nothing. Now, that does not mean that
the Lord is going to give us everything we want in this life.
You know, people in false religion take that to verses like this
to to say, well, if you've got real faith, you know, the Lord
is going to make you rich. And, you know, here's why we,
we look at God's words, the Lord will give you more friends, the
Lord will give you better jobs, the Lord will keep your children
off drugs, the Lord will make you, you know, have three houses
and five cars and two planes and a boat. No, that wouldn't
be good for us. It just wouldn't be good for
us to be increased with goods and have everything that the
heart could desire in this world. Because you know what Solomon
said? Solomon said, if we had that, we could get Deliver me
from those things, Solomon said. But those who fear the Lord won't
want for anything. That word want means deficient
and it means impoverished. No one who trusts in Christ will
ever be deficient in anything that God requires because they've
got Christ and Christ is all. Christ is our wisdom, our righteousness,
our sanctification, our redemption. He's all. So we're not going
to ever be deficient of anything if we trust Christ, because we're
perfect in Christ. And no one who trusts Christ
will ever be impoverished. Now I can almost certainly assure
you that you will not be rich in this life. Not many might.
Not many. Some, but not many. I can almost
assure you, you will not be rich in this life. If you're going
to come to Christ, you count the cost. But I can tell you
this too. You're not going to beg bread
either. But mainly, I'll tell you what this is speaking of.
You'll be spiritually rich. You come to Christ. You trust
Him. You will be spiritually rich. You will have the key to
God's storehouse of grace. You got the key. So you can look
in this Word and find out what it is. You know it's pointing
to Christ. You won't be impoverished. Now the young lions, they're
strong, they're in the prime of life, you know. They lack,
don't they? That's true in the animal kingdom.
I watch some of those shows sometimes and they're about these big cats.
I'm fascinated by lions and tigers and these kind of things. And
you know, sometimes the king of the jungle, I mean, they're
these mighty, mighty animals. Starve to death. They lack in
hunger. Now that's true in the animal
kingdom, but I tell you what, David, he's not talking about
lions out in the wilderness. This is a picture of the self-righteous
who thinks he's strong in himself, who goes around, he puffs his
chest out like a strong lion, roaring, trying to scare everybody
off. That fellow's going to lack every single time. Every time
he's going to lack. He's going to lack what God requires
because he's without Christ. If he's trusting in himself,
if he's trusting in what he's done, if he's trusting in what
he's planning on doing, if he's trusting in how he lives a good
Christian life, he's lacking. Because if he's trusting in something
other than Christ, he doesn't have Christ. So he likes. But that person who trusts Christ
will not want any good. You notice that word thing there
is in italics. The person who trusts Christ
won't want any good. The word thing was added by the
translator. David didn't write that. No one who trusts Christ
will want any good. Because they've got Christ himself.
And Christ is the one who's good. So if we trust Christ, We've
got everything that God has for a sinner. Because Christ is good. Now that doesn't encourage us
to trust Christ, to call upon Him, to come to Him, to cry unto
Him. Nothing will. But that's the
message, that's the word that God uses to reach the heart of
His people to make them call on Him and come to Him. And I
pray Lord will do that for us tonight. Let's bow together. Our God, how we thank You for
this precious portion of Your Word that we've just read. How
we thank You for giving us these encouragements to seek the Lord,
to come to Him, to trust in Him, to call upon Him. Father, apply
Your Word to our hearts, we pray, that we would reach out and taste
Christ, reach out and take Him, and eat Him, have union with
Him, and find in Him everything we need, that we would be made
whole in the Lord Jesus Christ. Father, bless us, we pray, for
our good and for the glory of our Savior. For it's in His precious
name we pray and give thanks.