Thank you, Mike. I like to learn
those songs. I like to sing about salvation being free. I know
that. We'll look back, if you would,
in James chapter 1, a portion of Scripture that Brother Wayne
read for us. We're going to begin looking
at verse 13. Lord willing, we'll get through
the end of the chapter. Verse 13, James writes, Let no man
say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God. For God cannot
be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man." Now, he's
not talking here about being tempted as God trying us. He's
talking about being tempted to sin. That's something none of
us can ever do. We can never charge God with
tempting us to sin. We can't say, well, God made
me this way. He made me a sinner. He must want me to be this way,
so it's God's fault. That's the exceeding sinfulness
of human nature coming out in us. And when people do that,
you know what they show? They show how closely related
to Adam that we are. Isn't that what Adam did when
he fell? He blamed God. He said, well, I would have done
this if you hadn't given me that woman. Now, it's your fault.
Now, God's holy. God didn't tempt Adam to sin.
He doesn't tempt anyone to sin. We sin because of the corrupt,
sinful nature that we're born with. We've done this to ourselves.
We've just got ourselves to blame. So we can't blame God. He goes
on in verse 14. He says, but every man is tempted
when he's drawn away of his own lust and enticed. We sin against
God because of our own inward nature to sin. We're easily enticed
to sin because that's the nature that we're born with. Look over
in Psalm 58. It doesn't take long for this
nature to come out and start showing itself
in Psalm 58, verse 3. The wicked are estranged from
the womb. They go astray as soon as they
are born, speaking lies. And if you'll look over in Psalm
51, back a few pages, I'll show you why that is. Psalm 51, verse
5. We come forth from the womb speaking
lies because I was shaken in iniquity. And in sin did my mother
conceive me. That's why. Now Wayne knows this. He's a fisherman. The fish is
drawn to the lure or drawn to the bait because there's something
there that the fish likes or catches attention. It's drawn
there and then it's hooked and pulled out. Well, the same thing
happens to us. Our sinful desire lures us to
sin. and then we're hooked and we're
pulled down to death. But God didn't entice us to sin
like Wayne entices that fish to come up to his hook. God didn't
entice us. Our own sinful nature does that.
Look back in our text in verse 15. That's what he says in James
1, verse 15. Then when lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin. And sin, when it is finished,
bringeth forth death. Our sin nature just stews and
thinks up sinful things to do. We just sit around. If you have
free time on your hand, you sit around and think about things
you can do wrong. Things that are full of pride.
Things that will bring us sinful pleasure. Things that will allow
us to get something that we covet that doesn't belong to us. Things
that will allow us to take vengeance on somebody. We sit around and
think of these things. that our parents taught us were
wrong. You know, everybody here, your
parents taught you what's right and what's wrong. Everybody knows
what's right and what's wrong. So instead of resisting those
things that you were taught was wrong, we roll them around in
our head for a while. We kind of play with them. Then
we get closer and closer to them and finally we try to come up
with some way to do them so we won't get caught or so we won't
be seen doing it. Well, if we don't get caught,
you know, maybe it'll be alright. Look over in Joshua chapter 7. Here's
how this progression goes. In Joshua chapter 7, this is after the children of Israel
have taken Jericho. The Lord told them, don't you
take anything from them now. Don't you take anything out of
that heathen place. Well, Joshua chapter 7, verse 19, And Joshua
said to Achan, My son, Give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord
God of Israel, and make confession unto him, and tell me now what
thou hast done. Hide it not from me.' And Achan
answered Joshua, and said, Indeed, I have sinned against the Lord
God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done. When I saw," here's
where it starts, "'When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonian
garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold
of fifty shekels' weight, Then I coveted them, and I took them. First I saw, then I coveted,
then I took. I took them, and behold, they
are hid in the earth, in the midst of my tent, and the silver
under it. And Israel had judgment brought on them because of this. First I saw, then I coveted,
then I took. And that's exactly what Adam
did. Look in Genesis chapter 3. It's exactly what Adam did. Genesis 3, verse 6, And when
the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was
pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise,
she saw it, and she desired it, she coveted it. Then she took
of the fruit and did eat. And she gave unto her husband
with her, and he did eat. Adam did the same thing. He saw,
he coveted, and he took. And, you know, Paul said in Romans
5, verse 10, or verse 12, by one man's disobedience, sin entered
into the world and death by sin. So death passed upon all men
for all have sinned. We all sinned in Adam. We all
have that sinful nature. First I saw, then I coveted,
then I took. See, man is the author of his
own destruction. We've done this to ourselves.
So James says back in our text in verse 16, do not err, my beloved
brethren. Now don't err about this. God's
not the author of sin. He has, I know, a permissive
will, but now God's not the author of sin. Sin is our own doing. The devil didn't make us do it.
God didn't make us do it. We did it because we're sinful.
We've got that sinful nature. But there is hope for sinners. Look at verse 17. Every good
gift and every perfect gift is from above. And cometh down from
the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow
of turning." Now here's the contrast between us and God. We're sinful. All we can do is sin because
that's our nature. But everything God does is holy
and good because that's His nature. Anything that's good or holy
must come from God because there's none good but God. And He gives
good and perfect gifts. And they're all gifts to the
undeserving because not any of us deserve any of the gifts of
God. You think how many gifts, good
gifts, this earth enjoyed today. The earth kept spinning in space,
didn't it? In places it rained. In places like our day, beautiful
sunshine. Nice breeze. Just a beautiful
sunny day. There are crops growing in places. The earth kept being filled with
water and oxygen. How many good gifts came on this
earth today? Well, how many more good gifts
and perfect gifts did God's elect enjoy? Gifts that He gave us
from His free grace. He gave us election, chosen in
Christ. We didn't deserve that. That's
a good gift, a perfect gift. He revealed Christ to us. In
due time, He sent the gospel to us, revealed Christ to us,
gave us the God-given gift of faith. to believe. That's a good
gift. Faith to believe. All men have
not faith, but you do. God gave it to you. He gave you
the love of God. Shed that love abroad on you.
Gave you joy in Christ. Gave you peace in Christ. Forgave
your sins. That's a gift. A perfect gift. God forgave your sins. Gave you
eternal life. Adopted a wretch like you and
me into His family. That's a gift. Gave you the gift
of regeneration. Gave you life. Gave you brethren
to worship with. To strengthen you and pray for
you and love you and be together with. Good gifts. Perfect gifts. And they come to us, James says,
from the Father of Lights. That's God. The Father of Lights.
And in Scripture, light frequently is used to refer to the light
of holiness or the light of truth. And God's both, isn't He? The
light of holiness. He's holy. That's His chief attribute. God's holy. And He gives holiness
to His people. He makes us holy in Christ and
His Son. And God is truth. He's revealed
to His people Christ who is the truth. The Father of lights.
The light of truth. The light of holiness. And these
gifts that the Father gives us are permanent gifts. The Lord
never changes. There isn't even, James says,
a hint of turning, a hint of change with Him, none whatsoever. Look back just one page at Hebrews
13, verse 8. Jesus Christ, the same yesterday
and today and forever. He never changes. If the Lord
loves you, and He loves His people, if He loves you, He's always
loved you. And He always will. He'll never
stop loving you. If the Lord saved you, He'll
never take that salvation away. You'll never lose it. If the
Lord's revealed Christ to you and in you, He'll never take
His presence away. He'll never leave you. If the
Lord's given you life, you'll never die. Your body will be
put to the ground one day, but you'll never die. You'll go be
with the Father eternally. If the Lord calls you, He'll
never cast you out. If He's given you a seat at His
table, that's your seat forever. permanently at his banquet. You
can depend on him. There's not even a hint of change
with him. We change from moment to moment.
He never changes. Well, verse 18, he says, here's
the primary gift, good and perfect gift he gives. Of his own will
begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind
of first fruits of his creature. Now this is the best example
of a good and perfect gift that God gives His people. Spiritual
life. Now all life begins with God.
Physical life, spiritual life, all life begins with Him. When
God wills, according to His will, He gives life. But everything
remains dead until God speaks in power. If God never speaks,
it will stay dead. Look at Genesis 1. You just start
reading the Bible from beginning to end, you'll see that real
quick. Everything's going to stay dead until God speaks. Genesis
1, 1. In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and
void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit
of God moved upon the face of the waters, and God said, Let
there be light, and there was light. Everything was dead and
dark until God spoke, and as soon as he spoke, there was light.
Everything will be dead until God speaks. And the same thing
is true spiritually. Spiritual life comes from God's
free, sovereign will. It's not according to man's will,
but God's will. And no one is ever given spiritual
life because they deserve it. Because we don't. Life comes
from His free grace and from God's sovereign purpose. Look
back at Romans chapter 9. Salvation is according to his
will. Romans 9 verse 11. For the children, being not yet
born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose
of God according to election might stand, not of works, but
of him that calleth. It was said unto her, The elder
shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have
I loved, and Esau have I hated. I have chosen that wretch Jacob.
to be mine. That's why it's God's free will. His choice. And God's gift of
life is perfect. Absolutely perfect. As soon as
a person is born again, they're perfect. They have perfect life. It's the life that you'll have
in eternity. The exact same life. Now, we'll
grow in grace, but we're created perfect in Christ. And those gifts, they have to
be perfect. That life that God gives must
be a perfect life because we're begotten with the sinless seed,
the incorruptible seed, the Word of Truth. Now, the reason that
we're sinners by nature is we are conceived with our Father's
sinful seed. That's the only kind of seed
we can produce is sinful seed. My Father passed it to me. I
pass it to my children. They'll pass it to their children.
It comes from our Father's sinful seed. But when we're born again,
we're not born of sinful seed. We're not born of man's seed.
We're begotten with sinless, perfect seed. And that can only
produce a sinless, perfect man. 1 Peter 1. It's over a few pages. 1 Peter 1, verse 23. Being born
again, not of corruptible seed, not like the first time, but
of incorruptible by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth
forever. And this same word that God uses
to give life, the seed of life to his people, is the same word
that he uses to feed those sheep so they can grow in grace. It's
the same word that he uses to comfort his people in trouble
and trial. And James says that he did this
that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures. Now
God's people are the first fruits of his creatures. And the firstfruits
were considered in the Old Testament the best of the crop. What did
they offer to the Lord? The firstfruits. They were considered
to be the best. That might sound like a contradiction. I'm telling you the believers
are the firstfruits of God's creatures. The best. But they
are. That's a fact. You're different
than the people in the world. You're different than the people
I go to work with. You're different than the people
I deal with trying to collect money from every day. You're
different. Now, you weren't born that way. You didn't come that way. But
God made you that way. He made you different for His
use. The firstfruits are for His use
and for His glory. What did Paul say in 1 Corinthians
4? Who maketh thee to differ from
another? We're not saying you're not different.
You're different. But who made you different? God did. And He
made you that way for His glory and for His use, and we need
to keep that in mind. Now, verse 19, Wherefore, my
beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak,
and slow to rap. Now, since God's Word is the
power of God unto salvation, this is the Word the Lord uses
to give life. Scripture talks about being the
dynamite, the power of God unto salvation. This is the Word that
God uses to feed His people. They feast on this Word. They
need it to be fed now. This is the Word God uses to
comfort His people. You be mighty careful in handling.
Just be mighty careful. And be swift to hear it. Be swift
to hear the Word. Now, I'm not just talking about
anybody getting up and talking. Be swift to hear the Word. And
the word means eager. Be eager to hear the Word. When I come home from work, typically,
unless I've just had a really rotten day and lost my appetite,
I'm eager to eat. I don't want to wait too long.
I'm pretty eager. Well, that's the way we ought to be. Eager
to hear the Word. Be swift to hear the Word. It's
what God uses to feed us, to comfort us, to give us life.
Don't let the opportunity pass you by. Be swift to hear. And
be slow to speak. That'd be good advice for us
just to take 24 hours a day. Be slow to speak. I believe it
was President Lincoln that said, it's better to appear a fool
than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Be slow to speak. Just about anything. But particularly,
what we're looking at in context here is about the Word. Now,
be slow to speak. Be slow to speak, first of all,
against the Word. Just don't ever do that. Be slow
to speak against God's preacher. And be mighty careful. Be slow
to become a teacher of the Word. Just be mighty careful. Somebody
might be listening. They might. Be mighty careful. Before I preach, every single
time my hands are cold and nervous. I called Wayne tonight and asked
him to read for me. He said, how are you doing? I
said, I'm miserable. Just miserable. Somebody might listen. Somebody
might be listening. You never know. One writer said
this, he said, if we were swift to hear as we're ready to speak,
there'd be less wrath and more profit. I think he's right. So be swift to hear. Be slow
to speak. And be slow to wrath. I was studying this this week
and I took a walk and I told her about this verse. I said,
I'm reading that and I'm telling you that cut me to the core. Be slow, Ryner. Be slow to become
angry with people who don't believe the Gospel. None of us did either. Not until God gave us faith did
we. How many times did you hear the
Gospel preached? Then I grew up. Thousands and
thousands of times. And one day, I heard, I'm glad
somebody's patient with me, didn't kick me out in the street. And
give people a break. Because I'm telling you what,
the more I learn about people, people will do stupid things.
And they'll do them frequently. We're teaching our daughter Holly
to drive. I told her, don't worry about you learning to drive a
car and maneuver it down the road and make a turn and stay
on the road. You'll learn that fine. I don't
have a bit of worry about that. Here's the difficulty in driving.
The other people around you, you have to learn to watch for
them. When you come up to an intersection, there's another
car there, or you're driving down the road, there's somebody
in front of you, there's somebody beside you. The definition of driving
defensively is, what are those people going to do stupid? Because
I promise you, they will do something stupid. So you just always better
watch for it, because that's what we do, stupid things. Kind
of expect it, and don't get too angry with people when they do,
because they will. And I wish I could tell you how
to do that, but I can't. I'm the world's worst at this.
And the only thing I can tell us is to pray for grace. Did
you notice when Wayne was reading here in chapter 1, verse 5, he
says, if any of you lack wisdom, well, maybe the same thing can
be about patience. Let him ask of God to give it
to all men liberally. Maybe he'll give it to us if
we just ask him. Henry said in his commentary
on this, a passionate, angry attitude does not adorn the gospel. And that's what we want to avoid,
to be a detraction from the gospel. And every time we act quickly
in anger, we'll live to regret it. Look over in Psalm 106. Here's a good example of it.
Moses lived and see that. Psalm 106, verse 32. The people angered him, angered
Moses also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses
for their sakes. I'm not saying Moses shouldn't
have been angry. They did something, people did something stupid,
but he got angry and Verse 33, "...because they provoked his
spirit so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips." He spoke in anger. He acted quickly in anger and
struck the rock the second time. And Moses didn't enter into the
Promised Land because of it. Because he acted quickly, hastily
in anger. So be swift to hear the Word.
Be slow to speak. And be slow to rap. Because look
at verse 20. For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness
of God." Our wrath is not going to accomplish anything. Man's
wrath is opposed to the righteousness of God. You know, we get angry,
and we want to say, well, I'm angry for a just cause. I've
got holy anger. Well, I don't. I mean, I don't
know about you, but I don't. When I get angry, somebody does
something evil to me, I want to get vengeance. And the way
I'll do that is do something evil to them. to settle the score. Well, that's just not working
the righteousness of God. And that kind of conduct is unbecoming
a believer. And that kind of conduct in our
speech with each other, and especially in our preaching, will never
lead anyone to faith in Christ. We're not going to anger them
into it. We're not going to scare them into it. We're not going
to bully them into faith in Christ. Look back at Romans chapter 2.
I think it was just last Sunday, our pastor quoted this verse
in Romans 2, verse 4. Or despisest thou the riches
of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing
that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance? It's not
my anger. It's not how passionate I can
get and beat somebody over the head to make them see it. It's
the goodness of God. It's the giving of those good
and perfect gifts, the same way He gave them to us, that leads
us to repentance. Now verse 21, He says, Wherefore,
because all this is true, lay apart all filthiness and superfluity
of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted Word,
which is able to save your souls. Now the word superfluity here
is abundance. Put aside this abundance of sin
As long as we live in this world, we will never, for a moment,
be free from sin. But we can keep it from boiling
over and running everywhere and infecting everybody and everything
around us. We can do that. We're to constantly
put off the old man and his deeds. And James is saying, put these
things off so they won't hinder us from hearing the Word. So
they won't hinder us from receiving the Word. Because we're to receive
the Word with meekness. And what he means by that is
we believe the word, we receive it, even when it crosses my logic,
even when it says something different than what I've always thought.
I'm to believe the word, even when I don't understand it. God
said so, I believe it. I receive it with meekness. And
should we receive it with meekness? Who are we? Who is God? And who are we? I ought to receive
His word with meekness. I expect my children to receive
what I tell them of meekness. How much more should I receive
God's word with meekness? And we're to receive, James says,
the engrafted word. God's people will receive His
word because it's engrafted in them. It's made a part of us. We're those wild olive branches
that Paul talked about that's been engrafted into Christ divine. We've been made part of Him.
We're one with Him. And He's been engrafted into
us. Made one with us. Us in Him and Him in me. So,
verse 22. Now, be doers of the Word and
not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. Now, we're to be
swift to hear the Word. We're to be eager to hear the
Word. Eager to hear what the Lord has to say. To hear the
Word humbly, meekly. Because it's the Word of God.
But now, it doesn't stop there. God's Word isn't just to be heard.
It's to be believed. God's Word is to be obeyed. We're
to put this Word into practice in our everyday lives. Don't
be like those Pharisees who heard the Word. Now, they did. They
heard the Word. Our Lord said, you search the
Scriptures daily. And they searched the Scriptures
because they thought that salvation was in the searching, in the
memorizing, in the scribes rewriting it, in the ceremony. They were
hearers, but they were never doers of the Word. They never
one time obeyed the command of the Word to repent and believe
on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. To lay aside all their
doing and obey the command to love God with all their heart,
mind and soul and to love their neighbors themselves. They were
not doers of the Word. So don't be like that. Because
here's what that's like in verse 23. If any be a hearer of the
Word and not a doer, He is likened to a man beholding his natural
face in a glass. For he beholdeth himself, and
goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man
he was." Now James is talking about someone looking in a mirror.
Now most of us look in a mirror. We look in a mirror and we think,
not bad, pretty good. Or we might turn a little bit
to give our best side or something. I heard an interview, Diane Sawyer,
she was talking about aging. And she had a zero birthday. I don't know what year it was.
And she said, you know, I get out of the shower, and I'm drying
off, and I think, I look in the mirror, and I think, not bad. She said, you know, if I got
caught in a bathing suit, one of those celebrity magazines,
the picture, you know, they took. She said, if I was turned just
a certain way, and maybe had my hands up over my head, that
would look good. And she's thinking that, you
know, looking in the mirror. And that's the way we are. We
look in the mirror, and we think, yeah, not bad. But what if we
could really see ourselves as we are? Our face all dirty and
filthy and spotted and our hair is all uncombed. If we look in
the mirror, we see that, you know, like I look every morning,
I get up and shave and look in the mirror. Oh boy. Yeah, I need
to wash my face, take a shower, comb my hair, shave. You know,
we wash up and then we look in the mirror again and see if we
fixed everything that was wrong. Well, how foolish would somebody
be to have that dirty, filthy face and uncombed hair? To look
in the mirror and walk away. And forget to go wash their face.
To forget what they looked like. To go out in public looking that
way. Well, that's exactly what we do spiritually. God's Word
is a mirror that shows us who God is. That He's holy. It shows
us that we're sinful. That everything we do is sinful
and awful in God's sight. And that sin is killing us. And
after it kills us, we've got to meet the holy judge in judgment.
And most people hear the Gospel and go home unchanged. The mirror's
been held up in front of them, and they go home unchanged and
forget what they saw. Forget what they were told. They
see a sin, or at least they're told about their sin, and they
never cry for mercy. Well, that's foolish, but that's
what our sin nature does. Really, a mirror doesn't do a
blind man any good, does it? Because you can't see. Saul of
Tarsus was that way. Look at Romans chapter 7. Romans 7, verse 9. Paul says, for I was alive without
the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived and I died. I thought I was beautiful. I
thought I was holy until the Lord gave me eyes to see and
held the mirror up in front of me, held the mirror of the law
up in front of me. Then I realized I'm dead. Woe is me, I'm undone. I'm a man of unclean lips. I'm
filthy to the core. Not just the outside, but the
inside too. So that's the mirror of the law. But now verse 25,
back in our text. But whoso looketh into the perfect
law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful
hearer, but a doer of the word, this man shall be blessed in
his deed. Now the perfect law of liberty is the gospel. The
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. which is a whole lot better than
the law. The law is a mirror that shows us how sinful we are.
The perfect law of liberty will show us how sinful we are, but
it also points us to the remedy, washes us in the blood of the
Lord Jesus Christ. And the gospel is called the
law of liberty. Don't turn to this, I'll turn
to it quickly. Isaiah 61, verse 1. The Spirit of the Lord God
is upon me. Because the Lord hath anointed
me to preach good tidings unto the meek, he sent me to bind
up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, the
opening of the prison to them that are bound. In our Lord's
very first public message, he read that scripture, and he told
the people, this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.
Here's the liberator. He's come. Here he is. Christ
sets us free from the curse of the law, being made a curse for
us. He sets us free from the bondage
of the law because he kept the law for us. He sets us free from
the power of sin, both the punishment of sin and the power of sin.
He bore the punishment for us and he broke the power of sin
that was over us. He sets us free from the fear
of death. He sets us free to approach the throne of grace.
And not just approach it, you've got liberty to approach it boldly,
Paul says in Hebrews. You've got liberty to approach
God Almighty boldly in the Lord Jesus Christ. He sets you free
to serve Him as His willing, loving bond slave. Scripture
calls us Christ's free men. If the Son will make you free,
you're free indeed. Galatians chapter 4. Galatians 4 verse 30. Nevertheless,
what saith the scripture? Let us be swift to hear the word.
Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman
shall not be heir of the son of the free woman. So then, brethren,
we are not children of the bondwoman, but children of the free. Now
stand fast, therefore, in the liberty wherewith Christ hath
made us free. And do not be entangled again
with the yoke of bondage. You are free. Enjoy that liberty. And if you look intently, eagerly,
into the perfect law of liberty and obey it, you're blessed. You are blessed of God. Now look
and keep looking. Look to Christ and keep looking
to Him. Come to Christ and keep coming
to Him. Believe Him and keep believing
Him. That's what He means here. And that kind of religion will
make a difference in a person's life. Verse 26, James says, If
any man among you seem to be religious, and bribeth not his
tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is
in vain. Here's a fellow, he claims to have religion. He even
acts pretty religious some days. But his attitude, his conduct
is unchanged. He's got no control over his
tongue. He'll talk all day long about everything he's done, what
he's given up, and you know, how he set this one straight
and that one straight, what he told this one, how wrong this
one is, how wrong that one is. He's going around like Isaiah,
woeing everybody else. This one doesn't preach the gospel.
That one doesn't preach the gospel. Gossiping about everybody, about
everything everybody did and said in secret. That man's a
fraud. He's a religious hypocrite. He's
deceived himself, his own heart. And worse yet, he's deceiving
others with his religious show. But look at the conduct in verse
27 of someone who's looked into the perfect law of liberty. Pure
religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to
visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction and to keep
himself unspotted from the world. This man who's looked into the
perfect law of liberty, he's got a sincere love for Christ
and love for his people. He's got a love for people in
general. He's an honest man. He's forgiving. He's meek. He's
humble. And James mentions specifically
here visiting the fatherless and the widow. And that's good
examples of the less fortunate, isn't it? Orphans and widows.
David, in the Psalms, he talks frequently about the fatherless
and the widows. In Psalm 146, he talks about
the Lord taking up the fatherless and the widows. And the Lord
takes them up because there's no orphans. There's no widows
in God's family. He's our Father. He's our Husband. And He provides for us like a
father provides for his children. He loves us and cares for us
like a husband loves his wife. And we're to go visit the fatherless
and the widow, those who are less fortunate, in imitation
of our Savior who did that for us. I think that might be why
he mentioned that. I don't know, but that's what I think. Alright. Well, Mike, you come lead us
in a song.