If you want to turn in my text
this morning, thank you, Wanda. Turn to the book of Psalms chapter
11. Look at Psalms chapter 11. Put I my trust. How say you to
my soul? Flee as a bird to your mountain. Below the wicked bend their bow. They make ready their arrow upon
the strain, that they may privately shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations be destroyed,
what can the righteous do? The Lord is in His holy temple. The Lord's throne is in heaven. His eyes behold His eyelids try
the children of men. The Lord trieth the righteous,
but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth. Upon the wicked he shall reign
snares, fire, and brimstone, and an horrible tempest. This
shall be the portion of their cup. For the righteous Lord loveth
righteousness. His countenance doeth uphold
the upright." Spurgeon called this psalm the Song of the Steadfast. And I think that would be a good
title this morning for us. The Song of the Steadfast. I think probably of all the trials
and the afflictions The tribulations that David the king went through,
I imagine this may have been one of the most difficult of
all of them. But one thing here David settled
on right from the beginning, and it's what you and I, brothers
and sisters, need to settle our own hearts in. He said, In the
Lord put I my trust. I deliberately, I willingly,
confide, I repose, I put all my confidence in the Lord. Isn't that what we should do?
Before our trials come, right in the midst of our trials, we
always have to be going back and convincing ourselves what
David convinced himself of here. In the Lord put I my trust. What this one man said, trials,
afflictions and troubles, they prove us. They prove us. It's not to prove anything to
God. He knows everything perfectly. Boy, but it proves something
to us, doesn't it? Proves something to me. My trials
and my afflictions. You know what my trials prove
to me? Whether I'm gold or whether I'm gross. They usually prove
that, don't they? It'll prove whether we're sincere
or whether we're hypocrites. It'll prove whether we're chaff
or whether we're wheat, whether we're shadow or whether we're
substance, whether we're carnal or whether we're spiritual. These
trials will prove something to us. And I tell you one of the
things they often prove to us, am I putting my trust in the
Lord? Am I truly trusting in Him? Trials are going to come. Afflictions
are going to come. But I never knew the first person
with any spiritual sense that prayed for. Do you ever pray
for trials? We don't know how to pray for
them, do we? If we could pray for them, then we could say when
they come, what kind of trial it would be, how long it would
last, how deep it would be. But that's the thing about trials.
Here we're going along our way, and suddenly they come out of
nowhere, and we seldom know anything about them until we're right
in the midst of them, and what do we say? How in the world did
this happen? How did I get here? I didn't
pray for this. No, we don't pray for them. But
I tell you, they come, don't they? And we have to be prepared
to say the same thing here with David. I put my trust in the
Lord. Well, that's one thing I want
to make sure. Old John Newton said, Lord, if I've never loved
you before, give me grace to start now. If I've never trusted
you before, give me grace to trust you now. Paul said you
trusted in him, didn't he? After that you heard the word
of truth, you trusted in the Lord Jesus Christ. Solomon said
put all your trust in Him. Trust in Him with all your heart.
Lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge
Him, and He shall direct your steps. During trials, during
affliction, put your trust in the Lord, and He shall direct
your steps. Boy, we see a need for that here
in the last portion of verse 1 through verse 3. This was David's
enemy speaking to him. We have spiritual enemies. When
we talk about enemies, we don't talk about flesh and blood, do
we? We don't have any enemies in flesh and blood, but we're
talking about spiritual enemies. And you're the enemy, the real
enemy. Either Satan or his cohorts whispered
to David, or maybe it was some timid friend, and here's what
he said. David, you better flee as a bird
to your mountain. They'll cause trouble, Scott.
The wicked's bent their bow. They're ready to shoot their
arrows at you. They've got you in their sight.
And the foundations are destroyed and you can't do nothing else
but flee. Now, that's what the enemy had
whispered here to David. Some people think this psalm
was written when David fled from King Saul to Nob. And boy, that's
a terrible time in David's life. He went to Ahimelech, the priest
of the Lord. And Ahimelech gave him the giant
sword. Remember that? He fed him food
and made intercessions to the Lord, sought the Lord for David.
And David went on his way. And a man, a wicked man was there
by the name of Dog. And he went and told Saul, Ahimelech
and the priest, they're confederate with David. And boy Saul went
down there to Nob, and he gathered eighty-five of these priests
and slew every one of them. He went into the city of Nob
and killed every man, every woman, every boy, every girl, even the
little infants, killed all their cattle. And one man escaped and
told David, and David said, I've occasioned this. It's my fault. I've done it. And boy, in the
heaviness of his heart, in his brokenness, can't you almost
hear the enemy whisper to him, man, you better flee. You better
get out of here. The battle is too hard. It's
too heavy. You can't go any further. You
better get to the mountain. You better leave the land of
promise. You better leave your calling. God has called you to
be king, but you better forget about that. You better go hide
yourself. That's what the enemy whispered
to David's heart. What can the righteous do? Well,
David said, what about this? What about putting my trust in
the Lord? Putting my trust in the Lord. Boy, there's times when it's
permissible to flee. When the Lord gives you permission
to flee. When He gives you permission to flee the fight. and permission
to go to the mountains, he told the Jews, he said, when you begin
to see all these things come to pass, get out of Jerusalem
and flee to the mountains. We read about those in the Old
Testament. Boy, they hid in the mountains and dens and caves
and the earth. But you know something? They didn't do it to shirk their
duty to God, did they? This was the Lord Jesus telling
David to flee to the mountains. This was the enemy. Telling him
to shirk your duty. Get out of here. Don't obey God
any longer. Flee and hide yourself. And boy,
unless the Lord gives us permission to do that, we can't, can we?
We can't. We'll put our trust in the Lord. Here's what Moses said to Joshua. And boy, he's going to get in
some battles, wasn't he? Man, he's going to fight seven nations.
He ain't going to be able to flee to the mountains. Here's
what Moses said to him. Be strong and of a good courage. Be not afraid, neither be thou
dismayed, for the Lord thy God is with you. Wherever you go,
He's with you. Boy, sometimes it's tempting.
Ain't it tempting? Sometimes we're tempted, boy,
to shirk our duty. Get out of the battle. Find you
some place that's safe and quiet and just hide out there. Well,
that's what the enemy says. He's telling all of God's children
that. Look at Nehemiah chapter 6. I don't want to tell you about
this story. I want to read a little bit to
you. Nehemiah chapter 6. Over to your left. Nehemiah chapter 6. If you have a pure Bible, it's
on page 582. You remember Nehemiah. He came
back out of Shushan, the palace. He was there
where the Jews had been taken captive. And the king of Persia
gave him permission to go rebuild the wall of Jerusalem that had
been torn down. And boy, when him and a little
group got back over there to build the wall around the temple
and around the city, meant all of these enemies rose up against
him to confront him. And he faced the very temptation
that David faced to run and hide himself. Look what he said. Let's just start reading here
in verse 1 of chapter 6. Nehemiah. Now it came to pass
when Sambalat and Tobiah and Gershom the Arabian and the rest
of our enemies heard that I had builded the wall, and that there
was no breach left therein, though at that time I had not set up
the doors upon the gates, that Sam Ballard and Gershom sent
unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some of the
villages in the plains of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. And I sent messengers unto him,
saying, I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down. Why
should the work cease while I leave it and come down to you? Yet
they sent unto me four times after this sort, and I answered
them after the same manner." Now, I think the Lord's got to
have a sense of humor sometimes when I read His Word. Ain't it
strange that where they wanted to meet Him at was, You see the
irony in that? And he sends back to him and
he says, Oh, no. Oh, no. I know what you're going
to do. Oh, no. In verse 5, Then sent
Sambalik his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time
with an open letter in his hand, wherein was written, It is reported
among the heathen, and Gershmew saith it, that thou and the Jews
thank to rebel, for which cause thou buildest the wall, that
thou mayest be their king according to these words. And thou hast
also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying,
There is a king in Judah, and now shall it be reported to the
king of Persia. According to these words, come
now, therefore, and let us take counsel together. Then I sent
it to him, saying, There are no such things done as thou seest,
but thou fringest them out of your own heart. For they all
made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from
the work, that it be not done. Now, therefore, O God, strengthen
my hands. Afterwards I came unto the house
of Shimeah. the son of Delilah, and the son
of Maccabal, which was shut up, and he said, Let us meet together
in the house of God, within the temple. And let us shut the doors
of the temple, for they will come to slay thee, yea, in the
night will they come to slay thee." Let's hide out. Let's
leave the work. It's too dangerous. And I said,
Should such a man as I flee? And who is there that, being
as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not
go in, and lo, I perceived that God had not sent him, but that
he pronounced this prophecy against me, for Tobiah and Sambalic heard
him. Therefore was he heard, that
I should be afraid, and so do, and sin, that they might have
matter for an evil report." that he might reproach me." What did
they want him to do? The same thing the enemy wanted
David to do. Flee to a place of safety and
hide yourself. And you'll notice he said over
and over again in this chapter, his enemies made us afraid. They made us afraid. Boy, I tell
you, we're living in a day where it seems like the enemy is bending
his bow bending his bow against God's church, bending his bow
against each of the members of his church, and got the sights
of Christ's church set in his sight. It seems like the foundations
are destroyed, doesn't it? When we look around us, sometimes
you get it in your head, can you find a modest man? Can you find a man you can put
your trust in that's going to do what he tells you he'll do?
Don't it make you afraid sometimes when you look around you? It
does me. I'll acknowledge, brothers and
sisters, sometimes I get afraid. I get afraid. I tell you, all of God's children
have their fears, don't they? Oh, Elijah was one of the greatest
prophets in the Old Testament. Jezebel sent a message to him
and said, I'm going to kill you. And he said, man, I'm the only
one that's left. And what did he do? He fled to the mountain,
didn't he? He fled to Mount Sinai, hid himself in a cave, and the
Lord came to him in a still, small voice. He said, what are
you doing here? He said, I'm left alone, and
they seek my life, and I'm scared to death. I am left alone. The foundations are destroyed.
That's what he was saying. You can't trust anybody. The
church's foundation is gone. I'm the only one standing on
it. And what did the Lord tell him? They've convinced you of
a lie or you've convinced yourself of a lie. Listen, he said, I
have reserved to myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee
to Baal. Brothers and sisters, as long
as this world stands, Jesus Christ is going to have a church in
it. The devil may whisper to us the foundations are destroyed,
and we may think sometimes that it's chipped away, that nothing
much is left of it. But I tell you what, Jesus Christ
is the foundation of this church, and He said, Upon this rock I'll
build it, and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
And I know sometimes the little churches think we're left by
ourselves, but listen, brothers and sisters, there's all kinds
of people out there just like you are. They're scattered out
all over the place. The Lord has called them. They
believe in Him. They love Him. They follow Him.
They live for His glory, just like you do. And we don't know
the most of them, but I tell you this, they're on this foundation. And if you and I give up the
work, If we're tempted to run and hide ourselves and just quit,
we'll not only be sinning against God, but we'll be sinning against
His little flocks. We can't run and hide, can we?
Oh, it's time to run and hide. David said, I think I'll do this.
I think I'll put my trust in the Lord. I'm going to put my
trust in the Lord. They come to the Lord Jesus.
Shot at him privately too, didn't they? They shot at him privately. The wicked bend their bow and
shoot in private. They did the Master that way.
They hired one of His apostles against Him to betray Him. When
He stood along in the trial, what did they do? They hired
false witnesses to come and shoot at Him, didn't they? And Paul
said they did the same thing with us. These false witnesses
came in among us, he said, to privately Spy out our liberty
in Christ. And boy, we didn't give them
a minute. We didn't give them a minute.
Our liberty. Our liberty. Trials. We're going to have them as long
as this world stands. I don't know of anybody in this
world where the Lord has saved them and tucked them to heaven
on a bed of ease. Do you? That's not my experience. That
wasn't David's experience. Boy, he went from one Trouble
to another. When he was a kid, it started.
I don't know how early he was in life when the Lord saved him,
but I'm telling you, his trouble started immediately. A bear came. Remember that? A bear came. He got in a fight with a bear.
Then on the heels of the bear, a lion came. Then on the heels
of that, a giant came. On the heels of that, a king
came and tried to kill him. Hunted him like a partridge.
Then on the hills of that, the Philistines came. Then on the
hills of that, the Amalekites came. Then on the hills of that,
the temptation in which you fell came. And then on top of that,
the rod of God came. This man was in trouble from
the time the Lord saved him until he left this world. The believer's
life is full of trials, isn't it? And boy, in the midst of
our trials, sometimes they get so tough. The enemy whispers
to us, you better quit the battle, boy. It's got too tough. You can't go on. Flee to your
mountain and hide out. Oh, but David said, no, I won't
flee. The song of the steadfast, I
will put my trust in the Lord. Let's look back over to our text
again. There were four things David
saw about this Lord in whom he trusted. Here in verse 4 and
the first portion of verse 5, there's four things that he saw. When we say we put our trust
in the Lord, brothers and sisters, let's know the Lord in whom we
put our trust. Trust is not a blind thing, is
it? It's not a presumptuous thing. I know the Lord in whom I put
my trust. You know in whom you believe,
don't you? You put your trust in Him. Notice these four things
David said about the Lord in whom he put his trust. First
of all, there in verse 4, the Lord is in His holy temple. The Lord is in His holy temple. The Lord is. The Lord is. David just didn't know the Lord
was. That the Lord is going to be.
But he said the Lord is. You know what our trouble is
most of the time, brothers and sisters? We forget the Lord. We try to think on some past
experience, how the Lord helped us. That's good. But one thing
we never want to forget, the Lord is right now. Where is He? He's in His holy
temple. What does that mean? Heaven?
Well, it surely means that, but it means more than that, doesn't
it? His glorified body. That's what
He said. That is His temple. Destroy this
temple and in three days I will raise it up again. What temple
was He talking about? The temple of His body. And Jesus
is in heaven today in His glorified humanity and He is safe and sound. Now isn't that encouraging to
you? He was here at one time right where you and I are now.
And man, he went through an awful battle, did he not? He went through
a war. And you know something? He won
the war. He won it. And he was exalted
and set on the right hand of God in His glorified humanity. And listen, he is safe and sound. While you and I are in our little
battle of life, struggling through these trials, The one whom we
love more than anything and the one who loves us is safe and
sound in heaven. Don't that encourage you? Armin Popov. He was in the Russian,
where the Russians took over the Eastern Bloc countries after
the war in 1948 and they put him in prison. Thirteen years
they tortured that poor man. And for the first few years of
his life in that prison, his wife and his child was just barely
getting by. And one of the greatest burdens
on that poor man's soul was concern about his wife and his child.
And one day they got a message to him that your wife and your
child has escaped and they're safe in another country. And
he said, let them do to me what they will, nothing else matters.
Brothers and sisters, don't that mean something? Our Master is
in heaven and He's safe and sound. They can't touch Him anymore.
His affliction, His sufferings, His trials are over with. Let
them do to us what they will. Our loved one is in heaven. That's what comforted David,
Janet. My Lord is in His holy temple. He's there in heaven
in His glorified body. What does that mean, that He's
there? Why did David take comfort in this? Well, what's Jesus Christ
doing there in His glorified humanity? We're told. In one
sense, we're told like He's doing nothing else but this one thing. He ever liveth to make intercessions
for you. That's all that matters, isn't
it? He's there pleading and maintaining the cause of His people. He's able to say to the uttermost,
them that come to God by Him. We're always coming to God by
Him, and He's always making intercessions for us. We keep coming, and He
keeps making intercessions. Somebody will say, Bruce, I'm
so sinful. You just can't relate to how sinful. No, I don't know
anything about that. I'm a preacher, you see. I don't
know nothing about sin. You're a sinner? That's a good thing, is it not?
Have you always known yourself to be that way? It's a wonderful thing to be
a sinner. The Holy Ghost has made him so. The Holy Ghost has
showed you that. And He showed you that to make
you know this. You need a mediator. You need
someone between you and God to plead your cause. And the Lord
Jesus said He bore the sins of many and made intercessions for
the transgressors. He makes intercessions for nobody
else, brothers and sisters. And oh, here the enemy was, whispering
to David, you better flee. It's not safe here. David said,
as long as my Lord's in heaven, they're making intercessions
for me. I will not flee. I'll put my trust in the Lord. He says, number two, look what
he says, number two, the Lord is in His holy temple. The Lord's
throne is in heaven. the Lord's throne. Now, what
does he mean by that? You and I have become very familiar
with our sovereign Lord in heaven. Time and time again, we've got
these scriptures memorized, haven't we? That God exalted Him and
set Him far above all principalities and powers and every name that's
written, not only in this world but the world to come. He rules
all things for His church, for the glory, for the good, for
the encouragement, for the final salvation of His church. Jesus
Christ is on the throne. We love that, don't we? But you
know this means more than that. This means He's on the throne
of grace. As the mediator, He sits on the
throne of grace. You know the Scripture talks
about grace. being sovereign. As sin has reigned unto death,
even so might grace reign. And Jesus' heart is full of grace,
and that grace reigns. Come boldly to the throne of
grace. And you know what? He reigns
in His intercessions. The Father is not deaf to His
pleadings. Everything He asks His Father,
He has. He reigns in His intercession. You remember when Peter was going to be tempted of the
devil? He didn't know it at the time, but boy, he was going to
suffer severe trial for his temptation. And the Lord Jesus said, Peter,
I pray for you. I pray for you that you won't
get in this trial. And know what He said. I pray
for your life that you won't have many trials in it. That's
not what he said. I pray that God's going to take
you to heaven on a bed of ease. That's not what he said. I'm
not praying that you be delivered from this temptation. Here's
what I'm praying for. That right in the midst of it,
when you find yourself damned, when you find yourself broken,
when you see Satan has got the advantage of you and you've denied
me and cursed like a sailor, Here's what I pray for you, Peter.
That your faith fail not. Was that intercession effectual? Did it rain? Was he on the throne? Would Satan hinder that intercession? Would Peter's heart become so
hard? No, no, no. Peter failed. He utterly failed.
Boy, he did flee, didn't he? Satan said, you better flee,
and he did. He failed. His heart failed. His strength
failed. But I'll tell you something that
didn't fail. His faith. His faith. It wasn't long until
he got back up. Got a hold of the sword. And
I'm telling you, he left some stripes on Satan's back, didn't
he? When he got back in the battle,
he left some stripes on Satan's back. All because the Lord is
on his throne. The Savior reigns in the salvation
and in the preservation of His people. Now He does. That's what David's talking about.
It's not enough that He just reigns, is it? We want Him to
reign in grace. Reign as our Savior. As our Lord
and our Savior. Notice something else thirdly.
Here's something else that David noticed. Here's why he said,
I'm going to put my trust in the Lord. He's in His holy humanity
in heaven. He's there to make intercessions.
His intercessions are effectual. And look at this. Boy, He knows
all about us. His eyes behold. His eyes behold. He knows everything, doesn't
He? He sees everything. Dear old
John Mitchell. Some of you have never met him.
Never met John. Died a few months ago. That was
the sweetest old man that I Sweetest man, I've known him for years,
and that was the sweetest man that I ever met in my life, I
think. But he went through some of the deepest trials. And as
they said, that's probably what brought on his Parkinson's that
finally killed him. But you know something? That
old man never got better. Even after his sickness came,
he was so sweet and he'd get the life in some time, he'd just
shake all over. And you know what he often told
me, and he often said this about all of his trials and all of
his struggles? This is what he said, God knows. God knows. Oh, he does, doesn't
he? God knows. His eyes behold. There's nothing hid from our
Lord. He sees us. Wherever we are, He sees us.
John was down in a dungeon, and the Lord saw him perfectly. The
Lord knew right where he was at. Oh, pop off. They put him down in a dungeon.
He said he don't know how many feet it was underground. But
they put him in a dirt cell that he couldn't see his hand in front
of his face. For weeks he stayed there and
almost starved him to death. And he almost went blind down
in the darkness, down underground. But you know something? The Lord
saw him. The Lord's eye was always upon
him. The Lord sees us. Everything
about us. Our motives, our words, our thoughts,
our brokenness, our fears, our doubts, our needs. He sees everything. Why saith thou, O Israel, my
way is hid from the eyes of the Lord? Nothing is hid from Him.
Wherever you are, Whatever you're going through, the Lord's eyes
behold you. Isn't that a comfort? Well, if
you've got somebody with you, you're never alone. If you've
got somebody watching over you, man, a little child, they'll
go anywhere or do about anything if their parents are watching
over them. Our Lord sees us. He sees us. God knows. We don't have to run. We don't
have to hide from our enemy. He knows. And look at this, fourthly,
His eyes try, His eyelids try the children of men. And verse
5 says, He tries the righteous. Now, what's David saying here?
Well, he's saying this. I am in affliction. I am in trouble. I'm in trials, he says. But he
said, the Lord is not putting me through this because He's
angry with me. Because he's mad at me. Because
I've done something wrong. He's putting me through this
to try me. He's going to make a better child
out of me. He's going to make a stronger
child out of me. He's going to make a more faithful
child out of me. He's going to burn away the draws
from my faith. Brothers and sisters, trials
are a good thing. And God knows how to try His
people to make them better Christians. The Lord Jesus' eyes are like
a flame of fire. Remember the vision that John
saw? And those eyes of fire are not
just to see with and know all things, but it's fire to burn
away the fat and the dross and to make us better Christians. That's why he tries us. William Kalper wrote a song about
trials. Listen to what he said about
how they purify you. You wouldn't want to live without
them. It is my happiness below not to live without the cross,
but the Savior's power to know, sanctifying every loss. Trials make the promise sweet.
Trials give new life to prayer. Trials bring me to my knees,
lay me low, and keep me there. Did I meet no trials here, no
chastisement by the way? Might I not, with reasoned fear,
I should prove a castaway? Bastards may escape the rod,
Sunk in earthly vain delights, But the true-born child of God
Must not, he would not, if he might. Trials are good for us. They're sin of our Father in
heaven. He says when they come. He says what they are. He says
how deep they are. He says how long they last. And
He sends them for the trial of our faith. And that's a good
thing. That's a good thing. David said,
I ain't going to flee. I ain't going to shirk my responsibilities
to God and to the Church of Christ. I'm going to put my trust in
the Lord. And though He slay me, yet will I trust Him. Look in verse 5, the last portion
of verse 5, and we'll quit here quickly. The Lord trieth the
righteous, but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his
soul hateth. Boy, this is something good to
know, too, ain't it? When you see the prosperity of
the wicked, he seems to be spreading himself like a green bay tree.
Don't envy him. Don't envy him. Boy, this is an awful thing here.
God's so mysterious, isn't He? He's so mysterious. We can't
comprehend Him. We look at Him from every direction,
for so many directions, and see the all-sightedness of God. And He's so mysterious to us.
Sometimes we look at Him and we see Him as the Creator. And
we see Him in His kindness and His mercy and His goodness, caring
for His creatures. And He's sending them fruitful
seasons and filling their hearts with gladness. And then we look at Him from
another direction. What do we see? Oh, we see Him
in His holiness. We see Him in His absolute purity
and His justice. And He's looking upon the wicked
and He's looking upon their sins. And in Him is stirred up this
hatred. And oh, we say God's a mysterious
God. Charles Spurgeon said some people
think they've got God figured out. They've reached the depths
of this mystery of Godliness, and Spurgeon said they've just
saw the shallowness of their own heads. It's what they've
seen. Oh, my soul, who can comprehend
the everlasting God? Upon the wicked He shall reign
smashed, fire and brimstone and a horrible tempest, this shall
be the portion of their cup." God has a cup. And He is going
to hand that cup someday to the wicked. In that cup is their
sins. In that cup is His wrath. And
they are going to meet together. And once they begin to drink
of that cup, they will never have another good moment in all
of their eternal existence. Brothers and sisters, do not
be mad at the lost people. Don't get angry with him. Pray
for him. If the Lord don't save him, this
is the best life he's ever going to know. Whatever God gives him,
however good God is to him in this life, his wrath is going
to abide upon him for all eternity. And that's a horrible thing to
think of, ain't it? Oh, the wicked's day or number,
David said. God's watching over him, too.
His eyes are over the righteous. His ears are open unto their
cry. But the face of the Lord is against
them that do evil to cut off the remembrance of them from
this earth. And he finishes here in verse
7. Boy, this is a mystery. For the righteous Lord loveth
righteousness. His countenance doeth behold
the upright. I can understand that, can't
you? I can understand how the Lord would love righteousness.
He's righteous. He loves righteousness and hates
iniquity. Here is the mystery how He could
love us sinners. Oh, the mercy of God, Paul said.
The grace of God that come to you. The love of God that quickens
you when you were dead in your sins. You ever wonder how God
could love you? One man said, That's not a mystery
to me why God would hate Esau. The mystery to me is how God
loved Jacob. Ain't that a mystery to you? Even when we were dead
in sins, for His great love were with the love of us. And His
countenance. His countenance doeth behold
the upright. His faith. His faith. I pray
that's a blessing to you. God bless you.