Turn in your Bibles to the 30th
Psalm, Psalm 30. We'll read the following, Psalm
30. A Psalm and Song at the Dedication
of the House of David. I will extol thee, O Lord, for
thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over
me. O Lord my God, I cried unto thee,
and thou hast healed me. O Lord, thou hast brought up
my soul from the grave, thou hast kept me alive that I should
not go down to the pit. Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints
of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.
For his anger endureth but a moment, in his favour is life. Weeping
may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. And in
my prosperity, I said, I shall never be moved. Lord, by thy
favour, thou hast made my mountain to stand strong. Thou didst hide
thy face, and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O Lord, and
unto the Lord I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood
when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall
it declare thy truth? Hear, O Lord, and have mercy
upon me. Lord, be thou my helper. Thou
hast turned for me my mourning into dancing. Thou hast put off
my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. To the end that my
glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent. O Lord my
God, I will give thanks unto thee forever. Sing unto the Lord,
O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of
his holiness, for his anger endureth but a moment, in his favour is
life. weeping may endure for a night
but joy cometh in the morning and in my prosperity i said i
shall never be moved in my prosperity i said i shall never be moved now this 30th psalm is headed
a psalm and song at the dedication of the house of david We read
earlier from 2 Samuel chapter 5 when David was crowned king
over Israel. And when he took the stronghold
of Zion, the city of David. And where the Lord blessed David
and caused him to set up a fort and a stronghold in Zion. And
when David grew great and they built David a house. We read in 2 Samuel chapter 5,
And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar trees, and
carpenters, and masons, and they built David an house. And David
perceived that the Lord had established him king over Israel. and that
he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake. David had been on a long journey
before he was brought to this place. Before David was made
king. Before David was given a house. Before his kingdom was established. Before the Lord exalted him. as his chosen anointed leader
over his people. David had suffered many, many
things. David had had King Saul seek
to slay him. David had been hounded from place
to place, from cave to cave, with his life
at threat. Many times David could have been
killed David knew what it was to suffer and to suffer greatly. He knew what it was to mourn.
He knew what it was to weep. He knew what it was to be persecuted. He knew what it was to be hated.
But in the end, this man of faith saw his faith rewarded. In the
end, this man of God saw his God Take this man, this man who
was once a lad, a shepherd who tended over his father's sheep.
This man who once came before Israel and slew Goliath, that
great giant and foe. Yet this man, who knew the King
Saul's hatred for him as a result, and who knew what it was to face
death, this man finally was exalted and made king over Israel. And
he was given a city, Zion. And he was given a house in that
city. And he perceived that the Lord had established him king
over Israel and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's
sake. As we saw he went on in that
chapter to face the Philistines and the Lord gave him the Philistines
and he conquered them. And the Lord strengthened the
kingdom of Israel and made David a great king over this people.
And David in Psalm 30 can say in the light of such things.
In my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved. I shall never be moved. That's
a strong declaration to make. I shall never be moved. That's
a statement you can say out of a place of strength and of confidence
and of assurance. Nothing's going to move me. Here
I stand. It's a statement you make out
of, as it says, prosperity. When everything's against you.
When you know what it is to be defeated in battle. When things
aren't going your way. When the enemy seems to win.
Hard to say I shall never be moved. But when the Lord takes
you, as he took David, and brings you through the greatest of trials,
when he takes you into a battle that you would never think you
could come out of alive, When he takes you before a foe who
is mightier and stronger and greater than you are and you
think, naturally, I could never defeat him and the Lord fights
the battle on your behalf and takes away your foe, destroys
him, brings your enemies to naught, takes away all the opposition,
removes the trial, and brings you into a place of prosperity
as it were brings you beside the still waters to lie down
in green pastures as David says in Psalm 24 when he restores
your soul and leads you in the paths of righteousness for his
namesake when he strengthens you when he exalts you when he
brings you forth by his mighty hand when he saves you with an
almighty salvation and sets you to stand upon a rock and brings
the warfare to an end and declares peace then in that place, in
that prosperity Out of that prosperity faith will rise up and you will
say with David, I shall never be moved. The Lord has brought
me here, the Lord has done it all, the Lord has placed me here
and in him I shall never be moved. He is my strength. He is my rock. He is my salvation. He is my
all. David perceived that the Lord
had established him king over Israel and that he had exalted
his kingdom for his people Israel's sake. David perceived and he
could say I shall never be moved what have you perceived? what
do you know? what do you believe? in what
do you hope? if your hope is in this world
is in the wisdom of this world is in your own wisdom or your
own strength or your own righteousness. If your hope is in your own good
works or your own will, then you stand, my friend, upon sandy
ground. You have built your hopes up
upon sandy ground. For the wisdom of this world
will fail you, and the ways of this world will fail you, and
the prosperity and the riches of this world will fail you,
the status and the power that this world can give unto you
will fail you, and your own strength, your own wisdom, your own works,
your own will will fail you. You have no strength before God. You have no strength before the
enemies which are arrayed against you. Enemies that you perhaps
don't even know of. You may go through this world
and see those people who stand as your enemies, those who cross
your path, those who get in your way and you may know what it
is to suffer defeats at the hands of others and you may know what
it is to suffer victory over to have victory over your enemies
you may know what it is to conquer you may know what it is to prosper
in a material sense or in a natural sense over those that come in
your path. You may be one of the strongest,
one of the most prosperous in the riches and the wisdom and
the strength in this world, but there are enemies arrayed against
you of which you cannot see, of which you cannot know, of
which you do not perceive by nature. There are spiritual enemies. and your own soul and your own
sin is one of them. Within you there stands an enemy
which will bring you to nothing. You may conquer every external
foe that comes your path. You may become the greatest in
this world. You may be in providence exalted
to some great height there are many who have been made great
leaders with great riches of many empires and countries who
in the end are brought to nothing because they like anyone are
just men and they stand before God as sinners and they have
an enemy within with which they have no weapons to fight their
sin will bring them to an end and if you want to contend against
that fact if you want to cast my words in my face oh sinner
and say well that's just your point of view I don't go for
your definition of sin If you want to contend with the whole
idea that you are a sinner, then try to contend against the fact
that the consequence of sin, death, will one day come to your
door. Because the truth and the reality
of what I tell you about sin and its effect upon you will
one day come to bear upon you. You cannot escape the fact that
you are mortal. You cannot escape the fact that
you age rapidly. You cannot escape the fact that
one day you will be old and one day you will be gone. many many
people who were once mighty and once had the adulation of others
in the world. have gone. They've come up, they've
grown up like grass, they've sprung up, they've flowered,
they've had a glory in this world and then they wither and fade
and they're gone. And they're back in the dust
of the earth trampled underfoot. They're gone, they're memories.
At best they might have a place in the history books, at worst
no one will ever remember or know who they were. they're gone
and they're gone because death has come to their door and death
has come to their door and death will come to your door because
of sin there is sin within you your actions your deeds are governed
by the sin that motivates and moves within you and controls
your will. You live and move according to
your nature and you have a sinful nature and by nature your desires,
your aspirations, your ambitions, your decisions are governed by
the nature of sin within you. You will further your own nest
and your glory at the expense of others. because you love self
and you hate others by nature. Civility causes men and women
to try to show a care for others but in reality that care is only
there when it doesn't get in the way of their own ends. Ultimately if somebody stands
in the way that you want to go they become dispensable. and
that's the nature of sin and the reality that there is sin
is proven by the fact that your life will not go on forever you
will die and you will stand before your maker and then you will
find that your prosperity that you had in this world that in
which you trusted whatever it is whether it's the prosperity
of riches or the prosperity of a loving family or friends or
the prosperity of a nice little cottage in the country which
has all that you want or the prosperity of having the time
to engage in the activities that you love to or the prosperity
of having a family grow up with whom whom you live your life
or the prosperity of your own religion, the prosperity of your
own righteousness, the prosperity of your own works, the prosperity
of your own bible reading or church attendance or prayer whatever
the prosperity If it's not of God, you will find in the end
that it did you no good. And when you stand the other
side of death, the other side of the grave before him with
no answer to your sin, with no righteousness to your name, it
shall be evident that you indeed were moved. You never stood. you could not stand you were
washed away in a moment because your whole life, your whole house
was built upon sand David's house was built upon rock as Christ
taught in the parable if you build your house upon rock then
when the storms come and the rains come the house will stand
but if you build your house upon sand when the storms come you'll
be washed away the wise man built his house upon the rock this
psalm is a psalm at the dedication of the house of David it's about
where your house is built David's house was built upon rock it
was built upon his rock of salvation his house was built upon the
foundation of him being god's chosen anointed king it was built
upon christ god chose him god saved him god made him king over
israel and he could say on that rock from that rock in the light
of that rock, in the light of that prosperity I shall never
be moved. Now what can you say honestly
out of your soul regarding your house? Upon what is your life,
your house built upon? Is it built upon sand or is it
built upon rock? Is it built upon the riches,
the pleasures, the wisdom of this world? Or is it built upon
the rock Christ Jesus? Are you building upon the gospel? Has the gospel found you and
delivered you and set you upon Christ? Or are you building upon
sand? Is your religion sand? Or is it a revelation of Jesus
Christ by his gospel? Is it you that has brought you
to this place where you are? Have you got to this place in
your religion through your strength, your decisions, your choice?
Or has God come unto you, despite your unwillingness, despite your
unrighteousness, despite your weakness, and delivered you,
and taken you, and opened your eyes, and opened your ears, and
led you to Christ, and spoke in peace to yourself, and set
you upon the rock? Christ Jesus. What can you honestly
say? Can you say with David, in my
prosperity I said I shall never be moved? How could David say
this? How could he never be moved?
Was he himself as a man so strong that nothing that came his way
would move him? No! David was the same David
who was that young lad who was a shepherd boy he was the same
David whose soul sought to put to death. He was the same David
who his enemies constantly hounded. He was the same David who as
a sinner fell greatly many times. He was the same David that sought
to put Bathsheba's husband to death that he might have his
wife. He was the same David who sinned greatly before his God.
He had no strength. not in himself then the fact he says I shall
never be moved is not some strong-willed stoic attitude of someone that
is determined this is not the determination of self or the
natural man this is the firm hope of a living faith of the
man whose house has been built upon a rock, of a man who God
took and delivered by his grace. For David perceived that the
Lord had established him king over Israel. The Lord had done
it. The Lord had done it. He goes
on in verse 7 of Psalm 30. Having said, I shall never be
moved, he goes on to say, Lord, by thy favour thou hast made
my mountain to stand strong. Thou didst hide thy face, and
I was troubled. I cried to thee, O Lord, and
unto the Lord I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood
when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall
it declare thy truth? Hear, O Lord, and have mercy
upon me. Lord, be thou my helper. Thou
hast turned for me my mourning into dancing. Thou hast put off
my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. You see, he says, if
the Lord had left him, if the Lord left him to himself, he
would be troubled. Thou didst hide thy face, and
I was troubled. Whenever the Lord turned from
him, he was troubled. If he was left to himself, he
knew that he would go down into the pit. He'd go to hell. His sins would condemn him, would
damn him. He'd be lost. There'd be no prophet
in his blood. But he can say, by thy favor,
Lord, by thy favor, thou hast made my mountain to stand strong. That's how he can say, I shall
never be moved. Elsewhere in the Psalms, David
echoes the same sentiments. Psalm 16, 8 we read, I have set
the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand,
I shall not be moved. That's why David isn't moved. Because the Lord is always there. His faith beholds his Lord. That's why he's not moved. Left
to himself. When the Lord, as it were, departs
and leaves him to himself to discover what he is in himself,
he crumbles and falls. and that's the pathway of every
believer. You may have those days when faith is lifted up,
those days when you see a saviour, those days when your hope is
rewarded, those days when you know that you're upon the rock,
those days when you know that you shall never perish, those
days when the Lord blesses you and makes himself known unto
you and then it soon follows that he turns aside for a moment
and you start to walk on as it were upon the water like Peter
walked upon the water towards the Lord Jesus as the Lord Jesus
came walking upon the water to him Peter steps out and when
he looks with faith to his Lord when his Lord is there by faith
he walks and he stands but then the gaze is turned and the gaze
sees the enemies and the struggles the gaze turns to see the storm
and the winds and faith disappears And Peter began to sink and to
cry, as soon as the Lord's As soon as the Lord is removed from
our gaze, as soon as faith turns its gaze aside, as soon as we
begin to walk in our own strength, or think we stand because it's
of ourselves, as soon as we begin to think we're walking on water
because God has given us some power to do it, and here I am
and here I stand, it's all in me, then the Lord turns aside
and we fall and we sink. and it's not from that state
that we can say I shall never be moved well David knew both
states he knew constantly in his pathway what it was to be
set upon the rock what it was to shout and to sing and to dance
with joy and what it was to mourn and to sorrow and to fear and
to cry and it's the reality of both
It's the reality of being left to ourselves, being shown ourselves,
being shown our weakness, being shown our poverty, being shown
our sin and the righteous wrath of God against sin. It's the
reality of being left to the battle and seeing how weak we
are in the battle that then brings the joy when God comes. and intervenes and conquers our
enemies before us and delivers us and picks us up out of the
water into which we sank and sets us up again upon a rock
in my prosperity I shall never be moved what prosperity? what
prosperity? Well that of which David speaks
in this psalm throughout, he intermingles the prosperity,
the victory with the enemies, the foes, the poverty. He says in verse 5, well he says
in verse 4, Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give
thanks at the remembrance of his holiness, for his anger endureth
but a moment. his favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night
but joy cometh in the morning. Then as we've read verse 7 Lord
by thy favor thou hast made my mountain to stand strong thou
didst hide thy face and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O
Lord, and unto the Lord I made supplication. What profit is
there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise
thee? Shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O Lord, and have mercy
upon me. Lord, be thou my helper. He shows us the prosperity, and
he shows us the poverty. The Lord's anger against our
sin endures but a moment. but in his favour, in his grace,
in his salvation, his life. Weeping may endure for a night
but joy cometh in the morning. David knew the poverty and he
knew the prosperity and he knew that the prosperity was not in
self not in his righteousness, not in his works, not in his
will, not in his ways. The prosperity was in God. God had saved him. God made him
to be righteous. God took away his sins. God took
him out of the sand and out of the depths of the waters and
lifted him up and set him upon a rock. God saved him. God made him king over Israel,
David perceived. that the Lord had established
him king over Israel. His prosperity was in God, his
prosperity was in Christ. Now where are you? Are you upon
the sand or upon the rock? Are you poor or are you rich? Where are your riches? Are they
in Christ Jesus? is your hope in Christ alone.
Is he your all in all? Can you say, in Christ I shall
never be moved. In my prosperity I shall never
be moved. Now the rich man of this world
will say, in my prosperity I shall never be moved. I have my house,
I have my riches, I have my status, I have my place, how strong I
am. But the reality is it won't take
much for God to bring him to naught. But when David says,
in my prosperity, he's looking to Christ. His riches are in
Christ. In Christ. I shall never be moved. Never. Never. If you're in Christ, if you know
Christ, if you know His grace and salvation, if you've been
delivered from all your enemies, you will know that in Him, stood
upon the rock, you shall never be moved. It's not temporary,
it's not for a moment, it's not simply today, it's not that yesterday
I was in trouble and today I'm in Christ, I'm upon a rock and
if I can try to remain there, if I can try to keep my faith
strong, if I can try to avoid slipping that's where I'll stay.
No, if you're on this rock However many times you may slip,
however many times your faith may fail you and you, like Peter,
might begin to sink, God will lift you up again. You shall
never be moved. Jesus says in John 10, My sheep
hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me, and I give
unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish. Neither shall
any man pluck them out of My hand. My Father which gave them
Me is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out
of My Father's hand. I and My Father are one. then the Jews took up stones
again to stone him. The Jews hated Christ for saying
that he and his father are one. And they with others were ready
to stone him. But as he says, no man is able
to pluck my people, my sheep. out of my father's hand. They
could have stoned Christ then. They could have put him to death
right then if Christ had allowed them. But they could have done
nothing to pluck his sheep out of his father's hands. they shall
never perish no matter how weak they are no matter how frail
their faith may be at times no matter how often they may fail
to struggle they shall never perish they shall never be moved
because they are Christ's because the father has chosen them, because
he's given them to his son, because he has given them eternal life. And none shall pluck them out
of his hand, shall never be moved because the child of God is never
apart from the saviour. times their gaze is not upon
him at times they doubt and fear at times they try to run on in
their own strength and they're left to fall and they learn the
vanity of their ways but they're never apart from him he never
lets his sheep out of his sight he's the good shepherd he leads
them and they hear his voice and they follow him as he says
in Hebrews I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. I will never leave thee, nor
forsake thee. And because he never leaves them,
nor forsakes them, they are never moved. I shall never be moved, David
says. Never. Because they're in Christ. In
what sense might they be moved? Well obviously David knew what
it was to mourn and he knew what it was to have joy. He knew what
it was to suffer and he knew what it was to have blessing.
He knew what it was to lose battles in the pathway and he knew what
it was to win battles. He knew what it was to have enemies
and he knew what it was to have friends. The fact that God had
made him king over Israel, the fact that he had been established
and put upon a rock didn't mean that his journey was without
trial and trouble. Didn't mean that there weren't
mountains and valleys. Didn't mean that there weren't
days when his faith was stronger and days when his faith was weaker.
It didn't mean he never doubted or he never feared. There were
ups and downs, but he was never taken away from Christ. Whatever his circumstance, he
could be surrounded by enemies. He could, like Job, be in great
affliction, great bodily affliction, great mental affliction, great
spiritual affliction. He could have enemies within
and enemies without. He could be in the weakest place. And yet, if he had faith, Christ
was there with him. He could be sat in the fire,
sat in the flames of the furnace, like those three men in Babylon,
who were thrown to the furnace by the king. Shadrach, Meshach
and Abednego there they were because they worshipped God because
they would not turn to the wisdom of this world and the gods of
this world there they were in the furnace and yet one I come
to the Son of Man the Son of God was there with them. In the furnace the Son of God
was there with them. And in David's weakest place
and greatest of trials, as he repeats so often throughout the
Psalms, he speaks forth out of these depths, and yet he can
always say, the Lord is with me. Always the Lord lifted him
up. Always the Lord was before his
gaze. colossians and chapter 2 paul
says though i be absent in the flesh yet am i with you in the
spirit joying and beholding your order and the steadfastness of
your faith in christ As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus
the Lord, so walk ye in him, rooted and built up in him, and
established in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding
therein with thanksgiving. He encourages them to walk with
their eyes upon Christ, rooted and built up in him, grounded
and rooted in the doctrine, grounded and rooted in the gospel. What
kept David in the hour of need was what he knew of Christ and
his salvation. Because God had shown him his
saviour. Because God had shown him that
one day that saviour would come into this world and suffer in
his place. Because David looked through
time to the place of the cross where God's priest offered God's
sacrifice for David. Because David saw another king,
another prophet, another priest of whom he was but a figure.
His king, his prophet, his priest, because he saw Christ, and he
saw Christ upon the cross, and he saw Christ suffering in the
furnace of fire. as it were there with Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego as it were there with all his people in
the fire David with him because David looked and beheld Christ
the Son of God in the fire and the flames didn't touch him because
he saw His God, His Saviour, taking His sin, taking the judgement,
taking the wrath due unto Him and taking it all away because
He could see His Saviour walking through the fire and coming out
the other side for Him and with Him. because he could see the
salvation because he knew the deliverance because he knew that
God would not impute his sin to him but that God had taken
that sin away because he saw the righteousness that his saviour
would make to be his David could stand in the darkest hour in
the worst place, in the hardest trial and say, in my prosperity,
in Christ, in my Saviour, in the Son of God, I shall never
be moved. His gaze, his faith was never
moved from looking unto Christ, unto the cross. unto the place
of salvation. That's where his salvation lay,
that's where his hope lay, that's why he was never moved. Now in
all of these things, in all of this psalm, David's sentiment
is a sentiment of Christ. All these words could be Christ's
words. Christ knew what it was to suffer. Christ knew what it was to be
lifted up. Christ knew what it was to die. Christ knew what it was to rise
from the dead. Christ knew what it was to have
his enemies all around him. Christ knew what it was to have
victory over his enemies. Christ knew what it was to go
through the fire. Christ knew what it was to lose
all and to willingly give up all, to leave heaven's glory
and become as nothing as a man upon this earth. Christ knew
what it was to come unto his own when his own received him
not. Christ knew what it was to be rejected and hated by all
men, you and I included. Christ knew what it was to be
alone. and alone in the darkness and
alone in the wrath and the burning heat of God's wrath against sin
he knew what it was to suffer he knew what it was to mourn
in the night time but like David he knew that when the morning
came there is joy Like David he knew what it was to be lifted
up and made King of Israel, glorified. Like David he knew what prosperity
was and in that prosperity he could say, I shall never be moved. But the same place to which David
looked, as David looked to his Saviour, as David looked to his
sacrifice, is the same place. that Christ hoped for his people
lay. It's because of that covenant,
that eternal covenant, that everlasting covenant which David trusted
in, which he wrote of on his deathbed, the Lord have made
with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things and sure.
It's because of that covenant which was established and brought
to pass upon the cross that the people's salvation lay. There
is the rock, there is the hope, there is their salvation. I shall
never be moved. When Christ was rejected by all,
when all men turned against him, when the Jews took up stones
to stone him, it was because he would never be moved from
heading towards Golgotha, from heading towards the cross, from
heading towards Jerusalem, that they could not destroy him. His
pathway from the womb until the day he died was the head for
Jerusalem, the head outside Jerusalem, the head to the city of David,
the head to Zion, the head to that place of execution with
his people, the head for the fire, the head for the cross. I shall never be moved. He was
not moved from the cross. He did not get down from the
cross. He was nailed to it and there he hung until salvation
was wrought. He would not be moved. And David's
gaze of faith was never moved from that place unto which Christ
went. And the child of God's gaze shall
never be moved from that place from which his prosperity springs. The same place the same place
where all these opposites meet the morning in the night is the
same place from which springs the joy in the morning the life
forevermore, the favour which God gives in eternal life springs
from that same place where his anger poured forth in judgment
upon his own son. His anger endureth but a moment
in his favour is life. Weeping may endure for a night,
but joy cometh in the morning. Death and resurrection all meet
in Christ. He died, but he rose again. He suffered, But out of his suffering
springs forth prosperity. He lost all that he might give
all unto his people. They're always seen together.
And in this psalm, David mingles the two. And it's because he
could see all the sorrow and all the death that his sin had
brought in, all taken away. by his saviour, that he could
say, I shall never be moved. The cross is both the most terrible
place in history, anywhere, ever, and it is the most wonderful
place. the cross is the most terrible
place the most awful thing happened when Christ hung in the darkness
when God's wrath was poured out upon him when he was burnt under
the fires of God's wrath the most terrible place when he cried
After the hours in the darkness, my God, my God, why hast thou
forsaken me? And yet it is also the most wonderful
place. This is the paradox of the believer. He will look on upon a place
of great judgment, great sorrow, great death. He will look on
upon a man who shed his blood, a bloodied man, hung and dying,
crucified for him. He will look on upon death, but
he looks through that death unto the life that that death brought.
It is the most terrible place and the most wonderful place.
The most wonderful place. By thy favor thou hast made my
mountain to stand strong. Hear, O Lord, and have mercy
upon me. Lord, be Thou my helper. Thou
hast turned for me my mourning into dancing. Thou hast put off
my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. To the end that my
glory may sing praise to Thee and not be silent. O Lord my
God, I will give thanks unto Thee forever. because this God
gave his son for David. What profit is there in my blood,
David says, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise
thee? Shall it declare thy truth? What profit would it have been
if Christ's blood went down to the pit? What profit would there
be in Christ's blood if he didn't rise again? But he did. The cross is both the most terrible
place and the most wonderful place. Praise God, he rose again
from the dead. He took away David's sin and
he brought in a wonderful inheritance for him. David perceived that
the Lord had established him king over Israel and that he
had exalted his kingdom for his people, Israel's sake. Has he done it for you? in my
prosperity i said i shall never be moved can you say that with
david i shall never be moved