Psalm 56, Psalm 56 this evening. I'm taking the title from the
words found in verse nine. Let's read verse nine again.
Psalm 56, verse nine. When I cry unto thee, then, and
he talking about crying unto the Lord, praying unto the Lord,
coming unto the Lord, then shall mine enemies turn back. They turn back because God has
turned them back. This I know. This I'm confident
and assured of. This I know, the psalmist says. David, the man after God's own
heart, this I know. For God is for me. God's for me. God's for his people. God is so much for his people
that the Lord Jesus Christ left the throne of glory, took upon
himself our flesh, died in our room and in our stead with the
weight of our sin, pressed into him, suffered the wrath of God. If God be for us, in Christ Jesus,
who can be against us? No one can be against us. God
is for me. Now this may sound like a boast
of David, but it's not. It's rather the great confidence
that David and every believer enjoys in Christ. It is not presumptuous
to trust our great God at all times. At all times. You remember Psalm 62? Turn just
two pages. Psalm 62. Verse 6, Psalm 62, verse 6, He
only is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense, I shall not
be moved. Verse 7, Psalm 62, and God is
my salvation, my glory, the rock of my strength, and my refuge
is in God. Trust in Him at all times, ye
people. Pour out your heart before Him.
God is a refuge for us. God is for us. Christ is our
refuge. We run to Him. We run to Him.
We can trust Him at all times for all things. Seek ye first
the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be
added unto you. We find David again as we read
through the Psalms so many times, he cries out unto the Lord, doesn't
he? David is again at the throne
of grace to find mercy to help in his time of need. A good place
to be. Our Lord said, come unto me all
you who are labor heavy laden, I'll give you rest. Though in
distress from men, yet happy in communion with God, his plea
is that the Lord, for the Lord to comfort him while his enemies
attack him. Comfort you, comfort you, my
people. We have comfort in Christ. What is God the Holy Spirit who's
called the comforter? What is God the Holy Spirit comfort
us with? Christ, the gospel of Christ. David, in thinking of past mercy,
he finds Great comfort in future deliverance, doesn't he? Look
right across the page, Psalm 57, verse one. We've looked at this Psalm recently.
Be merciful unto me, O God. David just can't get away from
crying for mercy. Be merciful unto me, for my soul
trusteth in thee. Yea, in the shadows thy wings
will I make my refuge until all these calamities, these enemies,
These troubles be overpassed. I will cry unto God most high,
unto God that performeth all things for me. He shall send
from heaven and save me from the reproach of him that will
swallow me up. God shall send forth his mercy
and his truth." And he did in Christ, in the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ, his past
performance is a certain guarantee of future results. His past performance. Past and present and future mercies
are all the result of the redeeming work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
We have all spiritual blessing in the heavenly and our blessed
Savior. By the sovereign good providence
of God, we have all spiritual blessing freely, freely, fully,
given unto us in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, let's take a look
at verse one. We'll try to work our way down
through these verses. Be merciful unto me. Be merciful
unto me. Now, David is not appealing to
the Lord by his merit because he has none. But be merciful unto me. We heard
that before, haven't we? Turn back one page. You remember
Psalm 51, when David committed murder and adultery, and he cries
out unto the Lord in Psalm 51, have mercy upon me, O God, according
to your loving kindness, according to the multitude of thy tender
mercy, blot out my transgression. Wash me throughly from my iniquity,
cleanse me from my sin. Well, I acknowledge my transgression
and my sin as ever before me. Lord, would you be merciful to
this sinner? Merciful to this sinner. Who
else can? Who else would? You know, it's
of the Lord's mercies that we're not consumed. Because His compassions,
they fail not. They're new every morning. We
need mercy, don't we? We need mercy abundantly. I've
got this reference written down. Turn one page over here to Psalm
59, 17. Psalm 59, 17. Unto thee, O my
strength, will I sing. For God is my defense, and he's
a God of my mercy. I like that statement, don't
you? He's a God of my salvation. He's the God of my deliverance.
He's the God of my mercy. Mercy's from the Lord. He's the
only one who can show mercy unto his covenant people. No believer
would dare come to the throne of God and plead his merit, would
he? Not a believer. He knows the best he has is vanity
and filthy rags. No believer would plead his merit
nor his righteousness before God as a basis of mercy. For
mercy that's earned is not mercy at all, is it? We do beg God for mercy because
he delights to show mercy. You remember the story of the
Pharisee and the publican in the temple. The Pharisee bragged
on himself and was condemned. The publican condemned himself
and was justified. God be merciful to me, the sinner. Can we find our place there?
Can we take our place there before God as mercy beggars at the throne
of His grace? It's a good place to be. If God'd
like to show mercy, I'm gonna seek mercy where it's found,
in the Lord, in the Lord Jesus Christ. We read in the Psalms,
Psalm 130, verse seven, he's plenteous in mercy. He distributes
it freely and sovereignly. He said, I will have mercy on
whom I will have mercy. But think about this. He said,
I will. I will be merciful. God's greatest glory. Moses asked
the Lord, Lord, show me your glory. Show me your glory. And he just was delivered from
all that Egyptian, all them plagues and Egyptian bondage. Show me
your glory. God didn't say, remember, I bought
you shoes of red tea. Remember what he said? I will
have mercy on whom I will have mercy. God's greatest glory is
this sinner's greatest need. I need his mercy. I need him. He is plentiful in mercy. He
distributes mercy freely and sovereignly. He delights to show
it. Listen to this scripture, Micah
7. Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity, that
passeth by that transgression of the remnant of his heritage.
He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy."
He delights in mercy, not by works of righteousness, which
we have done, but according to his mercy. He saved us. I'm willing
and I delight to take my place before his sovereign throne as
a sinner seeking mercy from the Lord. in Christ Jesus. Remember, I quote this all the
time in Hebrew chapter 4 where it says, let us therefore come
boldly unto the throne of grace that we may obtain, obtain mercy
and find grace to help in our time of need. When is that? All the time. All the time we
are in need. And here's why. Be merciful unto
me, O God, for man will swallow me up. He fighting daily oppresses
me. Mine enemies would daily swallow
me up. We have a battle every day with
the enemy of our sinful flesh, the enemy within. There's a battle. There's a warfare. And this man
will swallow me up. Daily he oppresses me. My enemies
would daily swallow me up, for they be many that fight against
me, oh God, the most high God. We have enemies within and enemies
without that would fight us daily and consume us if possible. Satan
is called our adversary. He's called the accuser of the
brethren. The law of God would accuse us, and this ungodly world
would accuse us, but we have an enemy within us, this old
flesh. As Paul cried out, O wretched
man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? I
thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Don't turn, let me
just read this to you. You're familiar with this. Paul
says this in Romans 7 verse 18, I know that in me that is in
my flesh, well, it's no good thing. For the will is present
with me, but how to perform that which is good, I find not. For
the good that I would, I do not. But the evil which I would not,
That's what I do. Now if I do that, I would not,
it's no more I that doeth it, but sin that dwells in me. I
find in the law, a principle, a rule that when I would do good,
evil's present with me. For I delight in the law of God
after the inward man, that new man created in Christ. But I
see another principle, rule, law in my members, warring against
the law of my mind, bringing me into captivity to the law
of sin, which is in my members. Oh, wretched man that I am. Who
shall deliver me from this body of this death? I thank God. I thank God, don't you? Through
Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with my mind, I serve
the law of God. but with the flesh, that principle
of sin. You remember Paul talked about
that warfare there in Galatians chapter five. Let me just read
it to you. He said, this I say then, walk in the spirit and
you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusts
against the spirit and the spirit against the flesh. These are
contrary one to another, one to the other. The other so that
you cannot do the thing that you would. There is that battle
between that old, that which is born of flesh. Flesh. Wicked, sinful, rebellious flesh. That which is born of spirit
is spirit. And there is a conflict in the
believer between that old nature and the new. The old nature of
the flesh, the lust of the flesh that continually wars against
our soul that would oppress us and threaten to swallow us up
is not for His mercy. It's not for His grace. Not for
His restraining grace. Now look at verse 3. What time
I'm afraid. What are we going to do when
we're afraid? When we're afraid of whatever
it might be. What time I'm afraid. Well, what
are we to do? Trust Him. Trust Him. Trust Him all the time. What
time I'm afraid. The remedy for fear is faith.
Remember the Lord said, O ye of little faith. Why are you
so fearful? Why are you so fearful? O ye
of little faith. What time I'm afraid. And David
was afraid when he was before the king of the Philistines. He was so afraid that he thought
the only way out of the mess he was in is to act like a crazy
man. What time I'm afraid, I'll trust
in the Lord. I will trust in Thee, and notice
it says here, the Most High. For they be many that fight against
me, O Thou Most High. What time I'm afraid, I will
trust in Thee, the Most High God. The Most High God. There's another psalm that's
familiar to you. Turn back to Psalm 27. Psalm
27, verse 1. The Lord is my light, Psalm 27,
verse 1, and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is
the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked,
even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me, they ate up my
flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though hosts should encamp against
me, my heart shall not fear. The war should rise against me,
in this I'll be confident. One thing have I desired of the
Lord, and that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life. Behold the beauty of the
Lord's inquiring temple, for in the time of trouble He shall
hide me in His pavilion. In the secret of His tabernacle
shall He hide me. He shall set me upon the rock.
What time I'm afraid, I'm going to look to Christ and trust Him
for all, all of salvation, only looking to Him. His love is unchangeable. He said, I'm the Lord, I change
not. We can trust him. His love to us is unchangeable.
He loved us with an everlasting love. Nothing can separate us
from the love of God, which is in Christ. The Lord our God is
our everlasting strength, is he not? Turn back a couple pages. Psalm 46. Psalm 46, one, God
is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble,
therefore will not we fear. Though the earth be removed,
though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though
the waters roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with
the swelling, there is a river, a stream whereof she'll make
glad the city of God, the holy places, the tavern of the multi-gods. In the midst of her, she shall
not be moved. God shall help her in that right. Soon, the heathen raged. The
kings were moved. He uttered his voice, and the
earth melted. We can trust the Most High God
at all times, for all things. His love is unchanging. His everlasting strength He gives
us by His grace, who is faithful to every vow and promise of His
word, all that God has promised. He's able to perform. All the
promises of God in Him are yes and in Him, and amen to the glory
of God. There's great reason to trust
Him at all times. At all times. Look over here
at Isaiah 41. Look over here at Isaiah 41. Verse 10. Isaiah 41, verse 10. You got it? Isaiah 41 10, for
I am with thee. How many times in the book of
Isaiah, God said, fear not. We're so fearful. Fear not, for
I am with thee. Be not dismayed, for I am thy
God. I'll strengthen thee, yea, I'll help thee, yea, I'll uphold
thee with the right hand of my righteousness. Behold, all they
that were incensed against me, they shall be ashamed and confounded.
They shall be as nothing, and they that strive with thee shall
perish. Thou shalt seek them, and shalt
not find them, even them that contended with thee. They shall
war against thee. Those that war against thee shall
be as nothing, and as a thing of naught. For I, the Lord thy
God, will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, fear not, I'll
help thee. Now look at verse 14. Fear not
thou worm, Jacob, ye men of Israel. I will help, saith the Lord,
thy Redeemer, the Holy One. He's the Most High, the Holy
One of Israel. Fear thou not. I am with thee. I'll never leave thee. I'll never
forsake thee. Back to Psalm 56. Look right
up the page of the column. If you've got to Cambridge, and
I'm looking at Psalm 56, and then you go back to Psalm 55,
look at verse 22. Psalm 55, 22. You mark this in
your Bibles. Psalm 55, 22. Cast thy burden
upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee. He shall never suffer the
righteous to be moved. Back when we were going through
so many floods, back in 2009 and 2010, I can't remember which
flood it was, Someone sent me, sent us a contribution
to help us with the flood. And there, in that envelope,
there was a little tiny piece of paper with this verse right
here on it. Psalm 55, 22. I've never forgot that. I had
it pinned on my computer for years and years. Cast thy burden
upon the Lord. He shall sustain thee. He shall
never suffer the righteous to be moved. That's a promise. That's a vow. We talked about
vows in verse 11. In God have I put my trust. No,
verse 12, thy vows are upon me. That's the vow of God. That's
the vow of God. That's the promise of God. Now
verse four, verse 10, and verse 11, faith and trust bring praise
and worship. Verse four, in God I'll praise
his word. In God I'll put my trust. That
word praise there, in God, well, I will praise His word. And it
has a sense of boast. Remember David said in Psalm
34, my soul shall make its boast in the Lord. In God, I will boast. I'll boast in His word. In God,
I put my trust. I will not fear what the flesh
can do to me. Now look at verse 10. He repeats
it, in God will I Boast, I boast in his word, his word written,
his word incarnate. In the Lord will I praise his
word. Verse 11 again, in God have I put my trust. Who are
you trusting? We're not trusting ourselves,
are we? We put no confidence in the flesh. In God have I put
my trust. I will not be afraid what man
can do unto me. Faith and trust brings praise
and worship. The foundation of faith, what
is the foundation of faith? The foundation of faith is His
word. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of the
Lord. The foundation of faith is not tradition, not ceremony. Certainly, we don't, my soul,
would you trust your feelings? That's not the foundation of
faith, is it? Faith comes by hearing the word of the Lord.
I remember the old reformer, Martin Luther, and I often quote
this song where he said, feelings come, feelings go. Feelings are deceiving. My warrant
is the word of God. Nothing else is worth believing.
Though all my heart should feel condemned for want of some sweet
token, I know one greater than my heart whose word cannot be
broken. So, I'll trust God's unchanging
word till soul and body sever. The words of men, they'll pass
away. God's word abides forever. That's our hope, isn't it? Thy
vows are upon me. His words upon me. We cannot
make too much of the word of the Lord. We praise God, we boast
in God, we worship and rejoice in God as He revealed in His
Word. How is He revealed in His Word?
Let's see if we can find out. Turn over here to Psalm 99, verse
9. Psalm 99, verse 9. Psalm 99, verse 9. Exalt the
Lord our God and worship at His holy hill, for the Lord our God
is holy. Holy, holy, holy Lord God Almighty. And then, our God we know is
sovereign. He's the sovereign God in creation.
Turn to Psalm 115. Not unto us, verse one, Psalm
115. Not unto us, O Lord, not unto
us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy and for thy truth's
sake. Wherefore should the heathen
say, where is now their God? But our God's in the heavens.
He hath done whatsoever he had pleased. Our God is holy. Our God is sovereign. Turn to
Psalm 90. Psalm 90. What else can we see
about our God? Psalm 90, look at verse one. Lord, thou hast been our dwelling
place at all generations before the mountains were brought forth,
wherever thou hast formed the earth, the world, even from everlasting
to everlasting, thou art God. Everlasting. He's the eternal,
holy, sovereign God. We give thanks unto the Lord
for His Word. It's mentioned there in verse
4, verse 10, and verse 11. And when we think about the Word,
we think about the Word incarnate. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. We think about His written Word,
all scriptures given of God. We think about the preached Word,
don't we? The preached Word. It pleased
God to preach Him and call out His people. Go and preach the
Word. Paul writes from a prison cell,
his last instruction to young Timothy, preach the Word. Don't
be ashamed of me, God who saved us and called us by His purpose
and grace. Preach the Word. Be instant in
season, out of season. Reprove, rebuke with all, all
long-suffering, all long-suffering in doctrine. When I was away on May 18th,
Jonathan Tate came here and preached the gospel from Isaiah 55, and
he read these words. So shall my word be that goeth
forth out of my mouth. It shall not return to me void.
It shall accomplish that which I plead, and it shall proffer
anything whereunto I send it. God's gonna bless his word. That's
why we stay with the Word, don't we? That's why we preach the
Word. God's gonna bless His Word. God's gonna bless His Word. He
said He will. Won't return to Him, boy. We need not fear the
flesh, for all flesh is grass. Poor, frail, sinful flesh, what
can it do to hinder the purpose of God? Nothing. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Now look at verse 5 and 6. Every day they rest, they twist
my words, all their thoughts against me for evil. And certainly
this is true of the greater David too, wasn't it? This is true
of David the shepherd. Every day they rest, they twist,
distort my words and all their thoughts against me are evil. They gather themselves together,
they hide themselves, they mark my steps when they wait for my
soul. Now that's speaking of David,
but also the greater David, isn't it? The Lord Jesus Christ. This has a reference here to
David and his enemies, but certainly through the future reference
to the Lord Jesus Christ, the greater David. A vivid picture
of the conduct of the malicious enemies of the Lord that twist
the Scripture. Remember we had that in 2 Peter
3, 16. They pervert, twist the Scripture
to their own destruction. The Jews, we've seen this in
our study of the book of Matthew, haven't we? So many times. The
Jews rested or twisted the words of the Lord to their own destruction. All their thoughts toward Him
were nothing but evil. He's a winebibber. He's a gluttonous
man. He does these miracles by the
power of Beelzebub, the power of Satan. All their schemes and
counsels were to put an end to the ministry of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Little did they know what they were doing was only
accomplishing the purpose of God. The Pharisees went out and
held a council against him, how they might destroy him. They
were gathered together against the Lord Jesus Christ. They held
a council to crucify him, but you know what? There was a council
long before that in eternity. The council of the Lord, the
Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. That council determined
their council, didn't it? Him being delivered by the determinate
counsel and foreknowledge of God. You have taken Him by wicked
hand and crucified the Lord of glory. But they only did what
God determined it for to be done. Look at verse 7. This question here. Shall they
escape by iniquity? Shall they escape from the judgment
of God? Shall they escape by iniquity?
In thine anger cast them down, cast down the people, the enemies
of God, O God. Shall the enemies of Christ escape
the righteous just condemnation? No, no way. In his wrath he will
consume them. In his holy anger he will expel
them forever from his holy presence. God's angry with the wicked every
day. Preachers up and down this country
preach that God loves everybody. That's just not so. There's nobody
in hell for whom God loves. Is there? Can't be. There's nobody
in hell for whom Christ died. If there's somebody in hell for
whom Christ loved, his love has nothing to do with salvation.
For somebody in hell for whom Christ died, his death got nothing
to do with salvation. Those for whom he loved and those
for whom he died, they're saved with an everlasting salvation.
They cannot perish. Jacob have I loved, Esau have
I hated. We call that sovereign love.
Hell, sovereign love that first began a scheme to rescue fallen
sinners. Hell, matchless free, free eternal
grace that gave my soul a hiding place. How would you describe the wrath
of God? We know His love is everlasting. We know His love is in Christ
Jesus. We know His love is sovereign, but how would you describe His
wrath? I like what Arthur pinked in
his book on the attributes of God. He said, the wrath of God
is God's anger. The wrath of God, His anger is
His holiness stirred in activity against sin. stirred in activity against it.
His anger is His holiness. His wrath is His holiness stirred
in activity against sin. That's what it is. No man shall
escape by his iniquities. The holy justice of God will
not allow it. It's a point where the man wants
to die after that judgment. Now there's no condemnation to
those who are in Christ Jesus. There's no condemnation to those
who believe it's on the Son of everlasting life. What's the
rest of that verse? He that believeth not the Son
shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him at his holiness
during activity against sin. It's appointed unto men once
to die after that judgment. However, for the believer there
is a gate from iniquities by the righteous sacrifice of Christ,
who was bruised for our iniquity, wounded for our transgression,
and with his stripes we are healed. Turn back to Psalm 32. You've
got to see this. You've got to mark this. We looked
at this not too long ago. Psalm 32, verse 1. Psalm 32 verse
1, Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven. Blessed is that
man whose transgression is forgiven. I mean completely forgiven. Forgiven. Blessed is that man whom the
Lord imputeth not iniquity, in whose spirit there is no God.
Now that's a blessed man. I have transgression forgiven. I have sin covered. Iniquity is not imputed, but
righteousness is given? That's a blessed man. That's
true of every believer. Look at verse 8, Thou tellest
my wonderings. Psalm 56 verse 8, Thou tellest
my wonderings. God intimately acquainted with
all the ways of His people. Thou tellest my wonderings. That word tell us is count. Put
thou my tears into a bottle. I read today the history of the
ancient people. They would take the tears and
put it in a bottle and bury it with those old ancient people.
Thou tellest my wondering, put thou my tears into thy bottle. Now God doesn't have an actual
bottle or a book that He's writing these things down in,
but they're symbolic of God's intimate, loving relationship
with His people. He knows our frame. He knows
that we're but dust. He was tempted and tested in
all points like as we are, yet without sin, put my tears into
thy bottle Are they not in thy book, thy book? Now, here's a
Scripture you can turn to with me. It's the last chapter in
the Old Testament. Malachi, right before Matthew,
of course. The last chapter, the last book
of the Old Testament was second to the last chapter, Malachi
3. Verse 16, Malachi 3.16, Then
they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the
Lord hearkened and heard it, and a book of remembrance was
written before them that feared the Lord, that thought upon His
name. They shall be mine, saith the
Lord of Hosts. In the day when I make up my
jewels, I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that
serveth him." The Lord has intimate knowledge of His people. How
long has He known His people? The foundation of God, then,
is sure having been sealed. The Lord knoweth them that are
His. He's known us from all eternity
and chose us. in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now,
there's not an actual bottle or a book, but these are symbolic
of God's intimate knowledge of us, and of His grace to sustain
us, and of His tender regard to us. One day soon, He'll wipe
away all tears. There'll be no more tears. God counts our days or our wanderings
here. Our journey here, our steps are
ordered of the Lord. Teach us to number our days,
that we may apply our heart to wisdom. God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes. There shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain.
And we've talked about that, haven't we? The former things
are passed away. I have good news for believers. Look at verse 9. When I cry unto
thee, then shall my enemies turn back. This I know. We know this. How do we know this? He's given
it to us in His Word. This I know. God is for me. God
is for me. What a privilege we have to carry
everything to God in prayer. What an encouragement for a child
of God to pray unto God, knowing that he's for me, not against
me. If God be for us, my soul, who
can be against us? What shall we say to these things?
Romans 8. If God be for us, who can be
against us? He that spared not his own son, but delivered him
up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us
all things? He's for me in that eternal covenant
of grace. He's for me in the salvation
of my soul. He's for me in the working out
of a perfect righteousness which He freely imputes to us. He's
for me from everlasting to everlasting. He's loved us with an everlasting
love. God is for His people. Oh, that gives us great encouragement,
doesn't it? Look at verse 12. Thy vows are
upon me. Now notice how this is said here.
That's quite interesting. Most of the commentaries that
I've read, and good commentaries too, in verse 12 they talk about
the vows that believers have made unto the Lord, but that's
not what that says. Thy vows are upon me. The vows
are the promises of God. The exceeding great and precious
promises of God. O God are upon me, I will render
praise unto thee. What are the vows of God, the
promises of God? I think of what David said on
his deathbed, the same man. 2 Samuel 23, 5, God hath made
with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and is
sure, this is all my hope, all my desire, and all my salvation. I'm trusting His promises. I'm not trusting anything I've
promised to the Lord. It's His promise to me. It's
His Word to me. In God, I will trust. Thy vows are upon me, O God. I will render praise unto Thee.
Who gets the glory and the salvation of sinners? Christ. Christ, we
can't pat ourselves on the back and say, look what I've done.
All I've done is messed up. All I've done is sinned against
God. Any mercy we have comes from the hand and the sovereign
throne of God. As he closes with verse 13, thou
hath delivered my soul from death. Now who delivers who? Christ
is called our Deliverer, who shall deliver all His people.
Call His name Jesus, He shall deliver His people from their
sin. For Thou hast delivered my soul from death. Wilt Thou
not deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in
the light of the living? Who is that? Christ. Here's some
exceeding great and precious promises that I have delivered
my soul from spiritual and eternal death that will keep my feet
from falling. He's able to keep us and present
us thoughtless before the presence of his glory. We're kept by the
power of God that I may walk before God in the light of the
living. What would you say the light
of the living is? Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ. Then the Lord spake unto them,
saying, I am the light of the world. He that followeth me shall
not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. Thou
hast delivered my soul from death. You hath be quickened who were
dead. Will not thou deliver my feet from falling? Yes, we're
kept by his power, that I may walk before God. Live before
God in the light of the Gospel, in the light of His mercy, the
power of His grace in Christ Jesus.