Robin and I have included Mr. Spurgeon's morning and evening
daily readings in our devotional time before we start our day. His text we used one morning
was actually for the evening, but it was from this song. And after we read it, she had
to leave. It just gripped my heart. It
just wouldn't let me go. But look there at verse 8. His
was just the first part of the psalm. They shall be abundantly
satisfied with the fatness of thy house. A little later that
morning I read the entire psalm again and as I said it just seemed
to grab me and wouldn't let me go. And I thought of the story
Don told us, and you'll remember it, and I've thought of it before
and told you, but, you know, as a young man, I think he was
in college, working his way through college, he worked at a department
store, and they had him in the shoe department. Remember that
story, Bobby? And he's trying shoes on the
lady, trying to fit a dear old black lady for a pair of shoes. And she said, what's your name,
young man? He said, Don Fortner. And he
asked her, what's your name? And she answered, grace grabs. Remember Don telling us that? Grace grabs. Don said, ma'am,
do you know that's exactly what the grace of God does? It grabs
you. She said, honey, it sure did. Well, that's how this text did
me. The title of my message is In
My Father's House. in my father's house. You'll
recognize that, I'm sure, from John 14. But remember this, as we read
here in Psalm 36, look at verse 7 again. You find the phrase,
the children of men. The children of men. That's,
we're still flesh. But as amazing as it is, look
at the second phrase of verse 8. Or the first one, rather. they shall be abundantly satisfied.
You mean the children of men? Flesh? They shall be abundantly
satisfied with the fatness of thy house. When I read that and
thought about it some more, I remembered what the Lord Jesus said to his
disciples that night before he went to the garden. He told them,
John 14, you remember it, in my father's house are many mansions. Good child of God, His house
is our house. The Father's house is our house
too. All God's children are under one roof with our elder brother. Again, in John 20, after Christ
arose, the risen, exalted Savior having power unlimited, God having
committed into his hands the rule of everything, Mary Magdalene
appeared to him, remember what he said to her, touch me not,
touch me not Mary, for I am not yet ascended to my father, not
gone back to the father's house, but go tell my brethren and say
unto them I ascended to my father and your father, unto my God
and your God. And then again, from chapter
14 of John, he said I go to prepare a place for you And if I go and
prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you into
my house, that where I am, in the Father's house, there ye
may be also." Here in this psalm, in the first four verses, as
we read, David calls out to God concerning the state of evil
men. The society, if you will, in
which he lives. And as I mentioned, I think I
did in the reading, didn't it sound familiar? Didn't it sound
pretty much like things are today for you and I? But those first
four verses are sort of a preface for what follows in David's petition. Verses 5 through 10, David turns
away. He left his eyes to God, and
whence cometh his help. And in those verses, 5 through
10, he lays the groundwork for giving God his heartfelt thanks
for that mercy of God and that faithfulness of God, verse 5,
and that righteousness and justice of God, verse 6. You even see
God's justice as now for a believer as a source of comfort for every
redeemed sinner. This is what I mean by that.
God's justice is not against us. God's justice doesn't have
anything against his children. Blessed, remember what Paul wrote
in Romans 4? Blessed is the man to whom the
Lord will not impute iniquity. Now how can that be? How in this
world can any son or daughter or fallen Adam claim that promise? God Almighty? who is too pure
to behold iniquity? And yet it says here concerning
some blessed people, there are some to whom the Lord will not
charge with sin. Now how can that be? My soul,
if you try to find the answer to that, the solution to that
seemingly dilemma, if you look anywhere except at Jesus Christ,
you've made a wrong turn. You'll never find the reason
for that except in Him. But how can that be? On what
grounds can God do such a remarkable thing for any sinner? As old
Job cried out, how can a man, and remember what man is, how
can a man be just with God? And here's the answer. God doesn't
impute sin to us because Christ who was delivered for, because
of, our offenses and was raised again for, because of, our justification. Therefore, being justified by
faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. It's all because of Him. And
that is the only cause. But what a cause it is. That
is why if we confess with our sins, if we confess our sins
rather, He is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and
to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Remember, remember, God's mercy
always comes on the wings of satisfied justice. He doesn't
set aside the demands of His holy love when he justifies a
sinner. But through the merits and righteousness,
life and death of Jesus Christ, there's the reason God can now
be just for Christ's sake when he says, Thy sins, which are
many, are all forgiven thee. That gives this sinner some comfort. There's some sweet comfort and
peace in that. Then in verses 7 through 10,
again, David thanks God for his loving kindness, His trustworthiness,
the never-ending supply of this and more comes from the hand
of our Heavenly Father. Not one of the multitudes of
children are ever forgotten, not one, not one. You know, people
here, your neighbors, your family, when they first hear that you've
gone off the deep end, when that word election kind of slips out,
Oh, my soul, my soul. I'll just mention this briefly,
but I had two sisters at the time that God revealed that blessed
truth to me, attending college. One even taught there at Mr.
Fogwell's Liberty Baptist College. Oh, my soul. When they heard
what their brother believed, I remembered the older sister
came to see me, the older of the two, and she's not I'm older
than her, sat on my couch. She said, Larry, is what I hear
true? I said, what have you heard,
Trina? And I began to explain to her. I never said nothing
about John Calvin. I just remember the sad look
come over your face. She said, oh, Larry, you're not
a Calvinist? Because Mr. Falwell told him,
that was a doctrine straight out of hell. You're not a Calvinist.
She felt sorry for me, but I felt sorry for her. My, so what a
blessed, blessed hope. God saves his people on purpose. How else could he do it? I mean,
did he do it by accident? Was it an afterthought? Of course
not. Oh, David praises God for his
everlasting love. And there is not one member,
one child of this big family, this multitude that no man can
number. But what I was saying concerning
elections, people hear that and they'll accuse you, well, you
just need one or two to be saved. What makes you think you're so
special? Nobody. That's not it. That's not it.
That's just an argument of ignorant folks that don't know any better.
Oh, no, no, no. God has a multitude of sinners
that might be saved. They will be saved. If God chose
them to salvation and put them in the hands of his son, Jesus
Christ, And God looked him over in eternity and said, you see
him, behold my son, he shall not fail. He shall not fail.
He'll do exactly in everything that I sent him into this world
to do. He'll accomplish the eternal
redemption of his people. That's why Christ said after
doing so, it is finished. Aren't you glad he didn't say,
well, it's half finished? I've done all I can do now to
be up to them. No, any sinner that God the Father Eternity
passed. Chose the salvation and put it
in the hands of his son. And Christ became their surety.
And he said, all that the Father giveth me gonna come to me. They're
gonna come. They're gonna come. Oh, but no
buts. They're gonna come. Oh, but he's
so hard-hearted. You're looking at one, but they're
gonna come. There's no case too hard for
him. I used to think I was a pretty hard case. Every time somebody
even attempted to witness to me, which wasn't very often,
and usually when they did, it was, well, will you open your
heart and let God in? But it wouldn't have made no
difference if they gave me the gospel. I wasn't interested.
I was a hard case. I won't have anything to do with
it. I won't come to Christ. I won't bow to Christ. I'm going
to live my life the way I want to. And if what you fellas are
telling me is true, when I get ready to die, I'll say, Jesus,
forgive me. I accept you. And everything is going to just
be humbly done. Yeah, that's a hard case, but not for God. Not for Christ. Oh, just like
he knocked Saul of Tarsus off of his high horse and he laid
in the dust before the sovereign King Jesus, come down sinner. I've heard people tell me, well,
if I believe what you do, I just wouldn't bother to preach. My
soul, I want to say, if I believe what you do, that it depends
on man's will, Just shut the place down. Oh, thank God. Again,
Christ said, I came to do my father's will. And this is the
will of him that sent me, that of all which he hath given me,
I won't lose, nah, maybe one, maybe two. No, no, no. I will
lose none. None. Children of God? Wow. How about that? I will lose
none. David says in verse 10, oh, continue. Continue thou loving kindness
unto them that know thee, and thy righteousness to the upright
in heart. O Lord, after so much mercy passed,
will you let me sink at last? No, no. And if he does, if one
of Christ's sheep sink, he'll have to go down first. Jesus
Christ will have to go down first. before they can snatch any of
his own out of his hands. I know I mention this so often.
You remember, oh I just love that verse of scripture, that
passage in Mark's account of it, when he said to his disciples,
let us pass over into the other side. Let us pass over into the
other side. Yes, There arose a great storm
of wind. We read in Mark 4. And the waves
beat into the ship. Yes, they did. And it was then
full. Yes, it was. And the disciples
looked for help, and Christ was asleep. He was asleep. Yes, He was. But He wasn't unaware. He didn't cease to be the God
of all the universe, the God of nature, because He created.
He was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow,
and they awake him and said, Master, carest thou not that
we perish? That must have hurt. Christ can
be touched with the feeling of our infirmities. But you know
what? I've done the same thing. Anybody
here, when the storms are beating in your little boat, When you
feel like you're going to go down, the next wave will be the
last, and you cry out to God and you feel like Christ is asleep.
Anybody here can tell me they've not had those thoughts. Of course
they're not justified, but that's just the weakness of the flesh. Oh, but he abideth faithful,
doesn't he? He arose and rebuked the wind
and the rain and said, peace be still, but no matter what
happens, between let us pass over to the other side, no matter
what happens in your life. No matter what, listen, I said
no matter what happens. No matter what happens. We read in verse one of chapter
five, and they came over into the other side and so will you.
So if you don't, it's gonna be Christ's fault. And that can
never happen. Oh, thank God for that. Yesterday, my son, LD, in Kentucky,
he sent me a text. I heard it ding. I had my ringer
off, but it said, Kentucky and Tennessee playing on CBS, Dad. Man, I'm studying to preach.
I guess he just wasn't thinking. And I just answered his text,
and I said, son, you're just going to have to keep me posted.
OK. Ding, another text. UK leads
by five. I said, well, final? That's all
I asked. Final? I was hoping it was. No,
no, six more minutes left. A little while later, UK won. And then I said, final? Is this
final? He said, yeah, that's final.
And I thought, good, good. When Jesus Christ says, let us
pass over, that makes it final. It's final. It's final. His word all by itself is enough. His will. And you can apply that
to every promise of the captain of our salvation, because remember,
he's also the master of the sea. And that's final. That's final,
is it not? I like what Mr. Spurgeon, I think it was, I have
this in quotes, I think I got it from him, it doesn't matter.
Verse eight again, they shall abundantly be satisfied with
the fatness of thy house, that was Mr. Spurgeon, but listen
to this, his comment. I once thought, if I might but
get the broken meat at God's back door of grace, I should
be satisfied. Like the woman who said, the
dogs eat of the crones that fall from the master's tail. But no
child of God is ever served with scraps and leavings. Like Mephibosheth,
they all eat from the king's own table. We're all under one
roof. In manners of grace, we all have
Benjamin's mess. We all have ten times more than
we could have expected. Isn't that so? Hasn't God proven
that our entire lives? And though our necessities are
great, Yet are we often amazed at the marvelous mercy of grace
which God gives us experimentally to enjoy. That's how Saul of
Tarsus, Paul, put it, didn't he? Paul, my grace is sufficient
for thee, because my strength is made perfect in your weakness. I use your weakness in this trial. I'm not gonna remove that thorn,
Paul, for whatever it was, because it'll keep you humble. You won't
be exalted concerning those revelations that he gave you that you couldn't
even speak of. You know what Paul concluded?
Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in mine infirmities
that the power of Christ might rest upon me. Oh, when I read
that again, I said, oh, I sent it for prayer. God, forgive me. How seldom do I do that. How
seldom do I look at my trials and tribulations and think, oh,
woe is me. Nobody's ever gone through this.
Instead of saying, God, this is for your glory. This is for
your glory. When Christ was facing death,
he told his disciples, now is my soul troubled. And what shall
I say? Father, save me from this hour.
He said, for this cause I came into this hour. What did he say?
Father, glorify thy name. Oh, oh, give me grace to do that. Even in verse one, here in Psalm
36, look at it again. Here in verse one, even there,
David begins with a description of his day, the day he was living
in, and even there, he has cause to rejoice, even there. The transgression of the wicked
saith within my heart that there is no fear of God before his
eyes. Now, I'll confess to you, and
I think I'll share this with you later, honey. I looked at
that verse, and I looked at that verse, and I just kept scratching
my head. I said, I don't understand that. What does David mean when
he says, the transgression of the wicked saith within my heart? That there is no fear of God
before his eyes? Well, I had to find some help. And I did. David is saying this. What stumped me, I just couldn't
quite understand the personal pronouns David used of himself.
I thought, but that wasn't exactly so. And here's some help. In
Young's literal translation of that verse, he says this, he
says this, the transgression of the wicked is affirming in
my heart that there's no fear of God before their eyes. They have no fear of God before
their eyes. What I see of their behavior, their constant sin,
that just confirms to me again what God's word said, like we
read a moment ago, from Genesis 5 and 6, I think it was. But
again, let me just give you Mr. Spurgeon's take on it. He said
this, men's sin have a voice to those who have ears to hear.
They are the outer index of an inner evil. It is clear that
men who dare to sin constantly and presumptuously have no fear
of God before their eyes. Despite the professions of unrighteous
men, when we see their constant sinful actions, a believer's
heart is driven to the conclusion that they have no true faith
whatever. Unholiness is clear evidence
of ungodliness. Those eyes which have no fear
of God before them now shall have the terrors of hell before
them forever. That's just so. That's just so. Remember what our Lord said concerning
that rich man? And Lazarus, at the end of the
road, at the end of those broad way and the narrow way that took
Lazarus to Gori, that broad road took the rich man, and remember
what? What happened to him? What was his? In hell, he left
it up his eyes. Whew. Oh, that's just difficult
to contemplate, isn't it? You remember last Sunday? I mentioned
in my message, as also I mentioned in my article for the Bulletin
last Sunday, about that fella that I had run into quite a bit
at the place where I had my car serviced. Well, he was there,
and I shared that with you. And in our conversation, he asked
me something, so I asked him, where do you attend church? And
he said, well, I don't go to church anymore. He said, I had
a bad experience in church one time. I didn't tell you then. I think I told Robin afterwards.
I heard the almost verbatim, almost the same exact words.
As soon as he said it to me, this came into my mind 11 or
12 years ago from another man who I attempted to listen to. Let me just share how this came
about. When I first moved down here, I don't think I've been
here a few months, and I was here at the church doing something.
I stepped out back. Wendell Luker, who used to live
right up here, I think his parents, someone sold the land that this
church sits on now, right? Of course, Wendell moved away,
but I sent him out there, and he saw me, and he had a golf
cart. Well, that got my attention. So he stopped there at the fence,
and we just started talking, and introduced ourselves to one
another, and he said, do you play golf? I said, well, I guess
you could call it that. He said, well, I have myself
and some friends. We're right over here. The country
club's only an hour or two away. I'm sorry, a mile or two away
from here. So why don't you join us some Monday morning? We play
on Monday mornings, and they're closed. But we go in there because
we kind of work there during the week, and we get freed up.
I said, yeah, yeah, I'll think about that. I said, give me a
call. Well, he called me several times, several Mondays. He's
going to meet us. I put him off, and I'll tell you why. Because
you just never know what you're going to get into. I've been
out on courses by myself, or have to join someone, and this
blankety blank this, and blankety blank this, and I just quit.
But it wasn't like that. He continued to call, and I said,
OK, I'll be down there. And that's when, through Wendell,
I met this man in our group, another man, through him. And
man, we played quite a bit before our little group kind of fizzled
out. And every Sunday, Monday, I'm sorry, I'd
give them bulletins. Especially twice a year at the
times of our conference, I would give those and I would invite
them. I think Wendell came once or twice, but it wasn't to a
conference. This man would never come. And I kept asking, won't
you come? Won't you come to the conference?
Invite him to our wedding. Oh, if I came to the church,
the roof would fall in and blah, blah, blah. Every time. Well, I asked him again. And he gave me the exact same
excuse as I had a bad experience in church years ago. And if I'm
not mistaken, I asked him if he was 40 or 50. That must have
been a bad one, 50 years, and he ain't got over it yet. But
you know how that goes. But he still called me Brother
Larry. He was still respectful, which
I appreciated. Never heard a curse word out
of the man. Didn't hardly ever see him lose his temper. About
three or four weeks ago, I ran into him. I was playing by myself.
And here he comes walking up the cart path. No clubs, no nothing. I stopped and teased him. I said,
you forgot your club. What are you doing? He said,
oh, I'm just getting some exercise. He was 83 at that time. Just
getting a little exercise. And we chatted a little bit,
as we always did. He went on his way. Monday, this
past Monday, Roger and I went out to the practice green. Nobody
was there, so we just putting around, because the club is closed. But they say it's all right for
me. But anyway. There was another fellow there.
And I told him, look, you're here first. Whatever holes you're
not using, we'll use those. He said, oh, no problem, no problem.
Got to chatting with him. He worked there. He said he just
fell in love with the game. And I said, oh, does old Foy
Collins still hang around here? Do you know him? Oh, I said,
I've known him for a long time. He said, he died yesterday. He
died yesterday, last Sunday. Last Sunday, he died. I went
on the funeral home's website, tried to post something, and
they had, I don't know what you call it, the pictures going by
with titles and so forth, and I guess that's what was set up
down there. And I noticed this poem, these lines from a poem.
So I looked it up. The Road Not Taken, that's by
Robert Frost. Two roads diverged in the yellow
wood, And sorry I could not travel both, But be one traveler long
I stood, And looked down one as far as I could To where it
bent into undergrowth. Then took I the other, just as
fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was
grassy and wanted to wear, though as for that the passing there
had worn them equally the same. And both that morning equally
lay, in leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for
another day. I kept the first for another
day, yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should
ever come by. I don't know what his family
thought. Well, I have an idea. But I'll tell you, I know what
I thought when I read that. Therefore, we ought to give the
more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at
any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels
is steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just
recompense or reward, how shall we escape? How shall we escape
if we neglect, just neglect, so great salvation? If those people that Paul was
referring to, those mumbling, grumbling Israelites during the
40 years of wandering in the wilderness, those words of Moses
to Moses, also speak to us, don't they? I like this quote. It says, we cannot soften our
hearts, but we can harden them. We can soften them, but we can
harden them. And the consequences will be fatal. The last verse
of that poem is this. This is the few lines I saw on
that site. I shall be telling this with
a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence. Two roads diverged in
a wooded eye, I took the one less traveled by, and that has
made all the difference. And again, my heart went up,
I said, oh, my old friend, it sure has. It sure has. I'm afraid that was true in a
way the poet didn't intend. Enter in at the straight gate,
for wise the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.
and many there be which go in there at. Because straight is
the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life, and
few there be that find it. Our Lord was going through villages
with his disciples on one occasion, and they asked him, Lord, are
there few that be saved? Do you remember the answer? Strive.
Strive. Sinners are responsible to do
that, and if they don't, it's their own fault. When men stand
before God Almighty, who neglected the hearing of the gospel, who
neglected the need of salvation, who was interested in everything
but God or Christ or salvation or grace, it's going to be their
own fault. They won't be able to blame election.
If a man goes to hell, it's all his fault. And God will make
that clear. Every mouth shall be stopped.
But if they go to heaven, it's all God's fault. It's all God's
fault. Is that not so? Enter in, because
once the master of the house has risen up and shut the door,
and you begin to knock with that and say, let us in? No. Depart from me. I never knew
you. The end of that road leads to
this way. David discussed it in Psalm 73.
You're welcome. I encourage you to turn there.
Psalm 73. Just a few verses. Again, David's dealing with the
subject of the day in which he lived. Keep that in mind as we
read these words. This is a believer talking. Verse
17 of Psalm 73. David prayed, well, just let
me read it. Until I went into the sanctuary
of God, when I changed my place, it sure changed my perspective.
Then I understood their end, their end, the end of the road. Surely, David says, now that
he sees, surely, God, you have set them in slippery places.
Thou castest them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation? As in a moment, they are utterly
consumed with terrors. As a dream when one awaketh,
so, O Lord, when thou awakest, Thou shalt despise their image."
Again, that's the believer talking because prior to that, David,
the man after God's own heart, or perhaps Asaph, whichever,
it was a believer. Read the Psalm in your own private
time. Prior to what we just read together,
this believer was envious at the wicked. That's exactly what
he said. He looked down and said, man, they never need nothing.
They don't want nothing. They have got even mad. He said,
what am I serving God for? You read it. Why do I suffer like this? Look at them. God blesses them. Like feeding lambs or cows or
whatever before they go to the slaughter. This man concluded
until God brought him to his presence and changed his position
and he changed his perspective. God said, look, look, this is
how it really is. You're wrong in your thoughts.
It's far from being as you suppose, because that writer thought,
it's just not worth it. And that's a believer. Brethren,
brothers and sisters, these exhortations that keep our eyes on Christ,
Ask Peter if it makes a difference when he cursed them. We're responsible,
aren't we, to use the means that God gives us, but at the same
time, let me say, he overrules even our foolishness, our wonderings. He overrules for his own glory
and our good, even though we may suffer for it. This is what
Paul said. believer as believers by God's
grace this is what we should do therefore let us not sleep
as do others but let us watch and be sober for they that sleep
sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunken in the
night but let us us who are of the day be sober the second time
you use that word be sober putting on the breastplate of faith and
love, and for at helmet the hope of salvation. For God has not
appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord
Jesus Christ." Paul told those elders that he met, Acts 20 I believe it is, on his
way to Jerusalem and he met the elders of the church of Ephesus.
And he said, I'm telling you what, fellas, I'm going up to
Jerusalem. They tried to, don't go there, Paul, don't go there,
they're gonna kill you. Paul, why would you wanna go
there? He said, listen, listen, don't do that. He said, I'm determined,
I'm determined to finish my course, to finish my course. I'm ready,
he said, not only to go to Jerusalem, I'm ready to lay down my life
there if that's what the will of Christ is for me. I'm determined. to continue on this course, preaching
the glorious gospel of the blessed God. When I read that, I think
of what he said in Acts, or I'm sorry, 2 Timothy 4. He'd come to the end of his course,
his road, and he said, my departure is at hand. When does a preacher
retire? Heard one old preacher say, well,
Paul told us, my retirement is at hand when God takes him home. Children of God, let me hurry
along. Look where we're going. We're going to the Father's house.
That's where this road, this narrow way, is leading us to
the Father's house. Look where it ends. Who are these,
John, standing before the throne of God, dressed in white robes
and palms in their hands? Where did they come from, John?
Old John said, I don't know, you tell me. These are they that
came out of great tribulation. This is the end of our journey.
Listen to it. These are they which came out
of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them
white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore, no other reason, therefore
are they before the throne of God. This is Revelation 7 verse
15. and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that setteth
on the throne," catch this, he that setteth upon the throne,
only ones on the throne, John saw that in chapter 4, "...shall
dwell among them." My little gray matter won't hardly
get a grip on that. But there, he shall dwell among
them. our elder brother in the father's
house. We're going to live with him.
We're going to be members of his household. And it's going
to be forever. And I'm going to see him for
the first time with nothing distracting me. Nothing shouting, like when
I worked at that boardwalk, trying to get people's attention to
come in and spend some money. Look over here, look over here,
Larry, get distracted, preach this, preach that. All wretched
men that I am, but oh, when I see him as he, when I see him as
he is. How does it go? When I see thee
as thou art, and I love thee with an unsinning heart, then,
Lord, shall I fully know, but not till then, how much I owe. I will be dwelling with him forever,
forever. I think that will make it worth
it all. I like how old John Newton put it. When the Christian pilgrim
views by faith his mansion in the skies, the sight of his fainting
strength renews and weans his speed to reach the prize. The
thought of home and spirit cheers, no more he grieves for troubled
past, nor any future trial he fears, so he may safe arrive
at last. It is there, it is there, he
says, I am to dwell with Jesus. We just read it. with Jesus in
the realms of day, then I shall bid my cares farewell." And he's
going to wipe all my tears away. We won't be here next Sunday,
so if I go a few extra minutes, it'll be all right. And he shall
wipe all my tears away. He's going to do it himself,
Bobby. Himself. Oh, child of God, welcome
home. You've shed the last tear you
ever will. You'll have no reason to cry
again. There'll never be a cause to
weep here in my father's house. Jesus on thee, our hope depends,
to lead us on to thine abode. Assured, our home will make amends
for all the toil while on the road. No wonder Paul said, I
reckon, I reckon, he said, I like his arithmetic, I reckon that
the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared
with the glory which shall be revealed in us. The Lord, I'm in Psalm 146 now,
you need not turn there, but here's a blessed psalm. Verse
9, the Lord preserveth the strangers, the pilgrims. He relieveth the
fatherless. and widow, but the way of the
wicked he turneth upside down. The Lord shall reign forever,
even thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye the Lord. When peace like a river attendeth
my way, when sorrows like seed billows roll, whatever my lot,
Thou hast taught me to say, O God, help me learn the lesson. It
is well, it is well with my soul. Though Satan should buffet, though
trials should come, let this blessed assurance control that
Christ hath regarded my helpless estate and hath shed his own
blood for my soul. My sin, O the bliss, O the bliss
of this glorious thought, My sins, not in part, but the whole,
were nailed to his cross, and I bear them no more. Oh, praise
the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul. There's a lot I'm about
ready to do, I've threatened to do for years now, sing a cappella,
because you say you won't play for me. For me, be it Christ, be it Christ,
hence to live, if Jordan above me shall roll, no pain shall
be mine, for in death as in life, thou wilt hiss whisper its well
with your soul." That's not in the version of our hymn book.
This is the original. But Lord, it is for thee, for
thy coming we wait. The sky, not the grave, is our
goal. O trunk of the angel, O voice
of the Lord, blessed hope, blessed rest of my soul. O Lord, haste
the day when the faith shall be sight. The clouds be rolled
back as a scroll. The trump shall resound, and
the Lord shall descend. Even so, even so, it is well
with my soul. It is well. It is well with my
soul. God bless you. God bless each
of you. Thank you for your attention.