Psalm chapter 31. I'd like to speak on the first sentence
of verse 15. My times are in thy hand. A few weeks ago, I think it was
two weeks ago, I mentioned in the course of my message an infidel
who had come across a young man who was reading his Bible. And
this infidel, and there were some of the details that I didn't
have that day, and he had written a poem later that I wanted to
share with you, but this infidel's name was William Hone. And he
met this boy, as we said, reading the Bible. And Holm said to this
boy, why do you spend your time with a worthless book like that? And the lad responded, it's the
only thing that gives my mother, my sick mother, any comfort. And Holm was moved by the boy's
simple comment, and decided to read the scriptures for himself. And as he did, God's Spirit spoke
to his heart, and sometime later, He wrote the following lines
in his Bible, and I like this. This just blessed my heart, and
I didn't have it the other day when I mentioned this story,
but I have it now. And here's what he wrote. He
said, The proudest heart that ever beat hath been subdued in
me. The wildest will that ever rose
to scorn by cause or aid by foes is quelled, my God, by thee."
We see then that his life was transformed through the power
of the Word of God. Now, beloved, the first duty
of every soul is to find not its freedom, but its master. But its master. Now, you may
be here today, you may be saying, I'm seeking freedom. I want freedom. Well, the Word of God says that
if the Son shall set you free, ye shall be free indeed. So I say that the first duty
of every soul is to find not its freedom, but its master. Now, beloved, the older I get,
the less sure I am about a lot of things, and the more sure
I am about a few things. And when I come to my text this
morning here in Psalm chapter 31 and verse 15, I'm sure about
this. There are many things, as we
said, that possibly we're not so sure about, but we are sure
about our times being in God's hand. Now I do hope that you
listen carefully as our brother read this psalm this morning.
It is a great privilege to be able to sit and listen to somebody
read the Holy Word of God. And I hope that you're paying
attention and listening as the reading takes place. This morning
I will not have the time or maybe the strength to be able to go
back and to go over so much more of this or so much of this chapter,
but we want to try to focus our attention mainly on the subject
at hand. Now according to this psalm,
David was sad. We will point that out. In verse
9 he says, Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble.
Mine eye is consumed with grief, yea, my soul and my belly. For my life is spent with grief,
and my ears with sighing. My strength faileth because of
mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed. So his life was spent
with grief. This is a child of God. This
is a man of God. This is a praying man. This is
a man who is trusting in the Lord. But his life was spent
with grief. His sorrow had wasted away his
strength. Even his bones, he says, are
consumed. Now this man had malicious and
cruel enemies that pursued him, that were seeking his life. And
not only did he have malicious and cruel enemies, but he had
his own sin to have to deal with. He mentions here in the 10th
verse, he says, My strength faileth because of mine iniquity. Now every child of God knows
something about the old Adamic nature. We know that we have
two natures within us. We have the old Adamic nature
and we have the new nature, the divine nature of God that is
implanted in our souls. And now David had that old nature
and he had to deal with it. And he had sin that he had to
lament and confess. He had sin that he had to deal
with. He had sin that he had to mortify
in his life. But the whole song says, what
a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. So whatever it was that David
was bearing, his grief and his sins, blessed be God, our Redeemer,
the Lord Jesus Christ, bears our sins and our griefs. Now in verse 14, David says,
but I trusted in Thee. I had these enemies, I was weakened,
but yet he says, I trusted in Thee, O Lord. In verse 1, he
says, in Thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. In you, Lord, do I
put my confidence. I said, Thou art my God. Thou
art my God. Thou art my personal God. Now, beloved David had no other
refuge but that which he found in the Lord his God. Isn't that
a marvelous and wonderful thing that there is a refuge? There is a place to go for the
sin burden. There is a place to go when you're
in trouble, and David admitted here that he was in trouble. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for
I am in trouble. Have you ever found yourself
in that kind of a situation? Well, it's wonderful to have
a refuge, but David found in his Lord, his God, His refuge. He had cried to the Lord in verse
1, as we mentioned, and also in verse 17. He said, Let me
not be ashamed, O Lord, for I have called upon Thee. Let the wicked
be ashamed, and let them be silent in the grave. Well, He says,
Let me never be ashamed. Let me never be ashamed. David
had one simple defense, beloved, and that was faith in God. There's
not a hint of any other refuge in this chapter for David. Only his trust in the living
God. Now many, beloved, are the fire
darts of the wicked, but David had the grand resource of faith
in a living God. He said, in verse 14, he said,
Thou art my God. Thou art my God. Now, beloved,
listen. We must come to the place where we know that God has given
us the gift of Himself. If we're ever to be comforted
really in this life, we must know that this God, the God of
the Bible, the God that inhabits eternity, that this God that
created the heavens and the earth and all things that are therein,
that this very God is our personal God. If the God of the Bible
is your God by His gift, of himself to you. Beloved, you're richer
than anybody on the face of the earth. Let the millionaires stand
up. Let them be counted. Let them
come forth. But a child of God, one who knows
that the God of the Bible is His, that individual is richer
than all the millionaires. What could you have more? Beloved,
it is true that you don't have the world, but you have the Maker
of the world, and that is far more than to have the world. You have the maker of the world
if this God is your God. Now brother, there's no measuring
the greatness of a soul's treasure who has God to be his all in
all. You see, bad times have fallen
on me. All I have is the Lord to lean
on. All I have is the Lord. He's
my all in all. My friend, you've come to a very
healthy place. It is good for children of God
to come to that place where the Lord is indeed their all in all. Having then faith in God and
making the grandest claim possible by saying, Thou my God, the psalmist
now stays himself upon an old doctrine which is one of the
most wonderful that was ever revealed to men. Now listen to
me now, I'm trying to talk to you about this subject of our
times being in God's hands. So after David, as he works himself
up here to verse 15, he stays himself in the midst of his trouble,
in the midst of his weakening condition, in the midst of his
dealing with the old nature and the old corruption of his nature. He comes now to stay Himself
upon this old teaching, this old doctrine, one of the most
wonderful, I say, that was ever revealed to men. In verse 15,
are in thy hand." Now this was to him a most cheering fact,
and I hope to us also. It was a cheering fact to old
David to know that whatever happened, wherever it happened, and who
was involved, that his times was in the Lord's hands. Now
he's telling us here that he had no real cause for fear as
to his circumstances since all things are in God's hands. He had no real cause, no basic
cause really for fear seeing that all things were in God's
hands. He's not shut up into the hand
of the enemy. He says in verse 8, Thou hast
set my feet in a large room. You didn't shut me up to my enemies.
And bless God, it appears sometimes that we are shut up to certain
enemies or to certain circumstances, but God does not leave His people
in that kind of a situation. Our times are in His hands, not
in the hands of our enemies. Now the Lord had placed Him in
the very hollow of His hand. To be entirely at the disposal
of God is life and liberty for us. Brother, sister, I say to
you, to be entirely at God's disposal is life. It's liberty for us. What does
this mean? My times are in thy hands. Well, the truth is this. All
that concerns the believer is in the hands of the Almighty
God. My times. Now these change and
shift. from day to day, but they change
only in accordance with unchanging love, and they shift only according
to the purpose of one with whom there is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning. My times, he says, that is to
say my ups, and he's to say my downs, my health. and my sickness,
my poverty, and my wealth, all those are in the hand of the
Lord, who arranges and appoints all things according to His holy
will. The length of my days and the
darkness of my night, my storms and my calms, they vary according
to His appointment. Whether times are reviving or
depressing remains with Him, who is Lord both of time and
eternity, and we're glad, we're glad it's so. We're glad it's
so. My time are in His hands. Now, beloved, all true believers
give their assent to the statement, My times are in His hands. Is that alright with you? Is
that where you'd want it? Now, my friend, would you get
together with us, if it were not so, and vote, and even today,
that our times be placed in the hands of the Lord, if they're
not be there. Would you meet with us? Would you all agree? Would you raise your hand and
say, I'll vote that my time be in the hands of the Lord. Whatever
is to come of our lives is in our Heavenly Father's hand. He
guards the vine of life. He guards it. If life be as a
field, the field is farmed by the great husbandman, and so
the harvest of the field is with him also. The ultimate result
of his work of grace upon us and the education of us in our
hearts in this life is all together with him. What you come to know
of him, beloved, is what he chooses to reveal to you about himself.
God is a mystery, and the Godhead is a mystery, and God must reveal
Himself. Whatever you know of Him to be
true, whatever's real and true in your soul, He has made it
known to you. He's revealed it, and we're shut
up to knowing what He would reveal to our hearts. Oh, how many times
would we like to pass along what God has revealed and shown to
us, how we'd like to get people down, put a funnel in their ear
and pour it into their head. But my friend, we cannot do that.
We're not able to do that. We can't do it. But God is the
God who is able to teach, and this is in His hands. It's in
His hands. We're not in our own hands, nor
in the hands of earthly teachers, but in the skillful hands of
Him who makes nothing in vain. Our times make up a kind of atmosphere
of existence, and this is said to be in God's control. We dwell within the palm of God's
eternal, absolute, sovereign hand. We are absolutely at His
disposal, and all of our circumstances are arranged by Him in all their
details. and we're comforted, as we said
earlier, to have it so. Well, how did the psalmist times
get into the hand of God anyway? How did the psalmist times, how
did our times, get into the hands of God? Well, first of all, they
were there according to the eternal purpose and the decree of God. All things are ordained of God
and are settled by Him according to His wise and holy predestination. Whatever happens here happens
not by chance, but according to the purpose of him who worketh
all things after the counsel of his own will. Ephesians 1
and verse 11. The open acts of providence in
this world tally exactly with that which is written in the
secret book which no eye of man nor angel has ever read. This
eternal purpose superintended, first of all, our birth. My substance
was not hid from thee, the psalmist said, when I was made in secret,
curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes
did see my substance, yet being unperfect, and in thy book all
my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned,
when as yet there was none of them. That's Psalm 139, verse
15 and 16. Who we are. who we are was determined by
our God. Where we were born, to whom we
were born, the time of our birth, excuse me, and the place of our
birth was all mapped out before we were born into this world,
before we were come in, before we were thought of by our parents. All this was mapped out by the
living God. Second of all, they were there
also because David had committed them. I said first of all, they
were there because of the wise and holy decree and plan and
purpose and predestination of God. Secondly, they're there
because David had committed them to God by faith. If they were
not there, David would have begged God to put them there. And I
tell you this morning, if you're here, I counseled a young lady
this last week and I told her that I felt like she ought to
give herself every day to the Lord. She ought to commit herself
unto the Lord. She ought to commit her time
into the Lord's hand. Commit her life into the Lord's
hand. Put her future into the Lord's
hand. Commit it there. And David had
committed. Look at verse 5. David here says,
In divine hand I commit my spirit. And this, of course, reminds
us of the Lord Jesus as He was dying. He commended His Spirit
into the hands, the loving hands of His eternal Father. And so
you and I must do the same every day. Into Thy hand I commit my
Spirit. my life, I commit all, I lay
it down at thy feet. We should do that in order and
we only say amen to God's eternal decree and purpose who put our
lives and times into his hands when we do ourselves willingly,
joyfully commit ourselves unto him and yield ourselves up into
his hands. Now thirdly, Our times are in
His hands because we are one in eternal union with the Lord
Jesus Christ. We are members of His body, of
His flesh, and of His bones. My friend, we must get a hold
of this. We must get a hold of it. Everything
that concerns Christ Concern is a great concern to the Father. Now listen to this statement.
The Father thinks more of Christ than He thinks of all the created
world. I tell you, the Father loves
the Son and has committed all things into His hands. I'm telling
you that the eternal purposes of the Lord Jesus Christ are
of the utmost importance unto the Father. So it follows that
when we become one, in eternal union, and they that are joined
unto the Lord are one spirit with Him. And when we become
one in eternal union with Christ, then we become objects of the
Father's tender, loving care. And He loves us as He loved His
Son. He looks upon us as He looks
upon His Son. He does not see His Son separate
from us, neither does He see us separate from His Son. We
are in eternal union with the Son of God. And this is why we
need to think upon this so much. We cannot conceive He that loves
the head loves all the members of the body. He takes us in His
hand for the sake of His own Son. We cannot conceive of Christ
ever being out of the Father's mind, so neither are we ever
out of His active, loving mind. We are always, always in His
mind. All His eternal purposes work
towards the glorifying of His Son. And quite as surely they
work together for the good of those who are in His Son. The purpose which concerns our
Lord Jesus Christ, members of His body are so intertwined as
to never ever be separated. Now where could our interest
be more secure than in the eternal hand of God? Where could it be?
It could not be more secure than to be in his hand. Listen to
John 10 and 29. My Father which gave them me
is greater than all, and no man is able to pluck them out of
my Father's hand, implying that the Father's hand is a hand of
power, it's a hand of security, it's a hand of majesty. And so we're in the Father's
hand. What a blessing it is to see
by the eye of faith all things that concern you grasp in the
hands of God. My times are in His hands. Our hope is built on nothing
less than this stable foundation, and preserved by supreme power,
my times are in thy hand." The poet said, our times are in thy
hand, whatever they may be, pleasing or painful, dark or bright, as
best may seem to thee. Well, what will be the effect
of our believing this text? If this text be clear, personal,
and enduring to us, what will be the effects of it? To know
and to believe that our times are in his hands, whatever they
be. Now, beloved, listen. I said, if we believe this text. I hope this morning that it wouldn't
take very much coaxing to get you to believe this text. Now, faith is only as valid as
its object. Don't ever forget it. Faith is
only as valid as its object. Let me illustrate. You could
have tremendous faith in very thin ice and drown. You could have very little faith
in very thick ice and be perfectly secure. Now my point is, Mark
11, 22, Jesus said unto them, Have faith in God. Have faith in God. Faith is the substance of things
hoped for. It's the evidence of things not
seen. Augustus said, Faith is to believe what we do not see,
and the reward of this faith is to see what we do believe.
And God's people believe this text. God's true people. I'm talking about the living
family. I'm talking about the Holy Spirit indwelt people of
God, regenerate people, people that love God and worship God
and serve God, people that believe my text. Well, first of all,
let me say, what effect will it have? It will create within
us a sense of the nearness of God. And how important is that? If our times are in His hands,
He must be very near us. He must be. He must be very near
us. Bless God, I know He's near us.
I feel He's near us. I feel very much like that the
Lord is near us. Now the Puritans, they believed
that God was in the daily affairs of men's lives. They believe
that he was in domestic life, believe he was in the history
of nations, and in all events which transpired on the face
of this earth. They believe that. And I believe
what they believe. I believe it too. The tendency,
though, of this age is to get further and further from God. That's the tendency of this age.
Men will not tolerate a creator now. Everything must be evolved. Everything's got to be evolved.
We cannot tolerate a creator. To get God further back is the
ambition of modern philosophy. Get him out. Get him back. Quit
thinking about God. Give up on this idea of there
being a supreme being. Get God out of your mind. Get
him way back. Now, beloved, if we were wise,
we would clear out all obstacles for drawing near to God and for
God to draw near to us. We'd want to get just as close
to the Lord as we possibly could, even when He's chasing us. You
know, there was an old fellow, one time I heard him, or I read
after him, he said that when his mother used to give him a
licking, that he'd get just as close to her as he could, because
she wouldn't be able to wind up and to really lay it on him. So he'd get just as close as
he could. And so it is so with the Lord.
We ought to get everything out of the way. Get just as close
as we can. And even when He's chasing His
hand upon us, get close, my friend. Nothing ever, ever will be bad
for you if you're near the Lord. And this doctrine brings us near
the Lord. This doctrine does just that.
Then there's nothing left to chance. Do you believe this doctrine? There are times when His hands
Well, you know, the scripture says, the lot is cast into the
lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of who? Is of the
Lord. It's of the Lord. It's in His
hand. Blessed is that man who is done with chance. Blessed
is the man who no longer uses the word luck in his vocabulary,
but believes that from the least to the greatest, that all things
are ordained of the Lord, and we dare not leave out the very
least event. The creeping of an apis upon
a rosebud is as surely arranged by the decree of providence as
the march of a pestilence through a nation. So God is near at work. The scripture says in Philippians
2 and 13 and 14, do all things without murmuring and disputing.
For it is God which worketh in you both the will and to do of
his good pleasure. Now, beloved, if we exempt one
thing from his control, soon it will be another and another
until we're back where modern philosophers are now, and that's
back to practical atheism. That's where we'll be. We cannot
exempt these things from God's hand. They're in His hand. Next
and second, a full belief in the statement of our text is
a cure for present fretting and worry. Now, beloved, the habit
of worrying abounds among us. You remember I did not say among
other denominations. I did not say now that the habit
of worrying abounds among the Episcopalians, or the Methodists,
or the Roman Catholics. I didn't say that. I said the
habit of worrying abounds among us. We worry and we fret. Why do we vex ourself in the
hand of God? Well, look at verse 24. Be of
good courage, David said, he shall strengthen your heart,
all ye that hope in the Lord. If he's undertaken for us, then
why do we need to worry? Why do we need to fret? To be
nervous and fretful is to want to interfere with the Lord's
business that's going on in our lives, with what God is doing
in our lives. Do you ever stop and think that
the Lord knows what He's doing in your life? He knows what He's
doing. You may not. And I'm sure that most of us
do not know exactly what's going on right now with us. But Beloved,
He does know. He is not ignorant and He knows
the way that we take. Now Beloved, all this. Listen
to me. You were worrying this morning.
You were fretting last night. And you're distressed now. And
you will be worse tomorrow than you are today. Because that's
the pattern of it. When you begin, when you give
yourself over to it, that's the pattern. And it's very difficult
to break. All this because we do not believe
our text. Our times are in His hands. If
we fret, we will not glorify God. We will not. We cannot fret
and glorify God at the same time. We just can't do that. We ought
to be as free from care as a bird that is singing in the tree.
And do you know what the bird sings as he's in the tree? He's singing, mortal, cease from
care. God provideth for tomorrow. Mortals
cease from care, cease from worry. God provideth for tomorrow. And so we should be carefree
believing the text, trusting God, Him the object of our faith. Half the joy of life, listen
to me, there's many, many things, as we said earlier, we don't
understand, we don't know what's happening, we don't know what's
around the corner, but half of the joy of life, beloved, lies
in expectation. Expectation. If we can believe
that our times are in God's hand, we'll be expecting great things
from our Heavenly Father. And that's what we need to do.
We just need to say, well, Preacher Ever Avenue is shut up. It's impossible. There ain't
anything that can happen. It's all downhill from here.
Nothing can happen. Well, beloved, I say to you that
as long as God's on the throne, as long as He can raise the dead,
and there's no impossibilities with God, let me tell you that
we ought to be expecting God to do great things for us, give
us His hand of blessing and mercy. When we get into difficulty,
we, rather than worrying and fretting, ought to say, I'm now
going to see the wonders of my God. I'm just about ready to
learn again how surely He delivers those that trust in Him. I'm
about to see it. I'm about to again look at it
and be able to see His loving kindness, His tender mercy, and
His care on my behalf. This will calm us down. This
is God's opportunity to deliver us. This should, as I said, calm
us down and cause us to trust and not be afraid. It surely
ought to do that. So those are some of the effects.
I don't have the strength to go carry that out any further,
so I'll come to my last point. Lastly, I think it will quiet
our hearts as to our future. As to our future. My, my. Somebody
said, are we going to have a future? Well, only God knows. Our times
are in His hands. But it'll be all right, whatever
the future holds. Now, do we want to know What
will happen to us in a short time? Do we really want to know? Do we really want to know what
will happen in a very short time? Well, we certainly don't know.
We don't know, as we said earlier, what's around the corner. The
future is intended to be a sealed book. It's intended to be a sealed
book. The present is all we need to
have before us. If we were wise, we would want
the future, we would want it always to be concealed. I say,
if we were wise. Now, somebody said yesterday
is history. They said tomorrow is a mystery. And all we have is the present,
and that's God's gift to us, and that's why it's called a
present. the present. It's God's gift to us. We have
today. We have God's gift. We have a
present. We have today. Now, beloved,
if the future were revealed to us, it would create responsibility. It would arouse fear. It would certainly prevent and diminish
present joy. It would. Not that we need to
believe that there's anything in the future, in the book of
the future, God's book of the future, which should cause distrust
to a believer. Because, listen to me, your times
are in God's hands. And the word time supposes change
for you, but as there are no changes with God, all is well. You know, the scripture says
that He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. Mike mentioned
that downstairs in his prayer this morning. God is the same. He doesn't change. He's not like
we are. He does not change. He's always
the same. So being that God is the same, then all will be well. The Lord foresees all and provides
for all His own. Well, you say, I would like to
know if I'm going to die soon. Well, let me say to you that
we're all going to die soon. We are. While time passes away
as a... What's the scripture saying?
It's even as a vapor. What is our life? It is even
as a vapor that appears for a little time and then it just vanishes
away. So the best thing to do is practice
dying every day. Practice it. When you take off
your garments at night, that's taking off the old body of flesh. When you put them on in the morning,
that's putting on that new house which God has created and which
God is building for us over there on the other shore. Remember
Elijah. You know Elijah, he ran a long ways getting away from
old Jezebel who threatened his life. He ran and he ran and he
ran like his whole life depended upon him getting away from that
woman. And then when he got away from
her and sat down, you know what he did? He prayed to die. Why
in the world would he have ran in the first place if he'd wanted
to die? All he'd had to do was just stay right there and she'd
have took care of that. But here he ran all this way,
and then here he is out of breath, but he got just enough breath
to say, Lord, let me die. Just let me die. Well, beloved,
you know the Lord sometimes He does not give us what we ask
for because he got something better for us. And you know he
had something better for old Elijah? He did. Hallelujah, he
had something better for old Elijah because he never did die.
He was caught up in a chariot of fire unto glory. He never
had to die. Well, so, we shall not all sleep,
Paul said, but we shall all be changed in a moment in the twinkling
of an eye at the last trump. So some of us may be alive at
the coming of the Lord. At any rate, He that takes care
of our times will take care of our eternity. My times are in
His hands and therefore, I just say to you, the end will be glorious.
The end will be glorious for a believer. The end will be glorious
for those that are trusting in the Lord, who has God as their
God. The end will be glorious It will
indeed, and we need to believe what the Word of God says. If
they were in my hands, I'd ruin everything. That's right. Oh,
my friend, you say, I think I've got a handle on this thing. Oh,
you may think you have, but oh, you know when disease starts
working on this old mind, and starts working on this old body,
and that old tent starts coming down, I mean, here's one stake
that down, and another one, and another one. First thing you
know, you're wobbly and just barely moving from day to day. Listen to me. Listen to me. If
it's all in your hands, we could not get up here and say this
morning, the end will be glorious. No, we couldn't. And if it's
in my hands, my end would not be glorious. But because it is
in the hands of the Lord, then the end will be glorious. And I think we should be more
concerned about dying well than to get through the world well.
We need to be thinking about it. We need to be praying about
it. We need to be committing ourselves daily, as we said,
and dying a little bit every day unto ourself. Now then, but
since these things are not in our hand,
we can expect God to intervene, and we can expect Him to bless,
and we can expect Him to give us dying grace and uplifting
mercies in that time. The Lord will grant dying strength
for a dying hour. The hand of God ensures success
all along the line. and our times are in His hand.
When once a matter is in God's hand, it is never neglected or
forgotten, but it is carried out to the end. Philippians 1
verse 6. He that hath begun a good work in you will perform it until
the day of Jesus Christ. Keep this truth in your mind.
Comfort one another with these words, these words of our text.
Few are the words, beloved, but mighty is the sense and full
of rest and security. Well, it is not everybody that
can find honey in this hive. Not everybody can find honey
in this hive. Some of you listened here this
morning. And you say, well, he's talking to somebody, I don't
know for sure just who he's talking to, but I just don't seem to
be getting anything out of it for myself. Well, I say sinners
are in the hands of an angry God. I say sinners are lost for
the want of faith and love in the Lord Jesus Christ. I say
sinners have no hope in eternity. I say sinners shall be cut off. cut off forever and ever to die
endlessly for all eternity. Beware you that forget God, lest
he tear you in pieces. You cannot escape from his hands. But beloved, listen, his mercies
in Jesus Christ endureth forever. He was made to be sin for us,
that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. He that believeth
on the Son hath everlasting life. He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him. The eyes of God are fixed upon
every one of us. in this room here this morning.
And God knows the way that you take. He knows where you are.
He knows what you're about. Mike mentioned that earlier,
how that some of us are one way and some another. But God knows
where you're at. And He knows what you're about. Submit yourself to God. Bow now. Flee to the Lord Jesus Christ
and find shelter from the wrath to come. Hide yourself away in
the five bleeding wounds that was received at Calvary. Hide yourself away in His wounds. And may the Lord be pleased this
morning to give you everlasting hope And may He give you the
strength and the ability by the grace of God to place your times
in His hands. And as soon as you do that, you'll
be assured, I believe, in your own heart that He already put
them there. And so they're there for all
eternity. Father, in the name of Jesus, We must give you thanks
and praise for such a text. And praise you, Lord, for the
strength to be able to mow these things this morning and to set
them before the living family. And I do pray for those that
are strangers to your grace. We pray again for them. Oh, God,
enable them to sometime be able to get honey from this hive.
We pray it in Jesus' name. For his sake, amen.