Psalm 62 is our study this evening. I'm entitling this message, and
the title is going to be obvious as I've already told you, The
Only Psalm. The Only Psalm. The word only
is repeated in this psalm several times. And the Lord never repeats
anything unnecessarily. But what a blessing that the
Lord does repeatedly tell us of Himself. That salvation is
all of grace and only, only in Him. Now this psalm, 62, has
been one of my favorites for many years. I've preached from
this psalm more than one time. And by His grace, I hope I'll
be able to do that this evening. And I pray, as always, that the
Lord will bless His Word to your heart, and by the power of His
Spirit, and that most of all, the Lord Jesus will be exalted
in our heart. You know, that's what happens
when God encounters one of his own. When he crosses our path
with the gospel, he empties us of self and fills us with himself. What he does, he enthrones himself. He is highly exalted. He is,
God has given him a name which is above every name, that his
name every knee should bow, every tongue should confess that he's
Lord to the glory of God the Father. But when God encounters
us in saving mercy and does that work of grace in the heart, you
know what he does? He exalts himself in our heart. He enthrones himself in our heart. And we indeed say that Christ
is all and in all, in all. Now we read a moment ago in Luke
24, the Lord Jesus Christ said to his disciples as he was departing
back to glory, his departing words, that all things must be
fulfilled which are written in the Law of Moses, in the Prophets
and in the Psalms concerning, he said, concerning himself.
Then he opened their understanding that they might understand the
scripture. I pray the Lord will do that
for us this evening. That he might enlighten our understanding
and open our understanding that we might understand the scripture. By nature we're ignorant. By
nature we have no understanding. Matter of fact it says over in
1 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 14 that the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God because they're foolishness
unto him. God must give us an understanding.
That's what John said in 1 John 5, 20. We know the Son of God
has come and He's given us an understanding that we might know
Him that is true and that we're in Him that is true, even in
His Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and this
is eternal life. Oh, what a blessed thing it is
to have an understanding to be delivered from ignorance. and
to be given an understanding to be enlightened and illuminated
by the Spirit of God as to salvation in Christ in Him alone. Now let's look at this Psalm
62 verses 1 and verse 5. We're going to couple some of
these verses together. Notice verse 1 and verse 5. Truly or only my soul My soul
waiteth upon God, from him comes my salvation. Verse 5, My soul
wait thou only upon God, for my expectation My expectation. You know, the believer has great
expectations. We have great expectations. We're predestinated to be conformed
to the image of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's a great expectation.
Our hope, that's a good hope through grace, is a great expectation
to be forgiven of all sin and to be made just like Christ.
My soul wait thou only upon God for my expectation My deliverance,
my hope of salvation is from His hand, from His hand. Now a three-fold lesson is given
unto us here as believers resting in Christ and waiting upon His
sovereign mercy. Upon whom do we wait? Upon whom
do we wait? It says here, we wait upon God. God who is almighty, God who
is truly God, we wait upon Him. Surely His blessings are worth
waiting upon, are they not? He is, this God of scripture
is almighty and sovereign from everlasting to everlasting. The
psalmist said, thou art God. He is the God who is God and
being God over all things. He's a God of all providence.
The God of all providence, of Him, and through Him, and to
Him, it says in Romans 11.36, of Him, now listen, this is a
comprehensive statement of God's providence, of Him, through Him,
and to Him, for all things, to whom be glory both now and forever. He is the God of all providence. He's too wise to make a mistake. He's too holy to do wrong. As
one of the old patriarchs of the faith said, shall not the
judge of all the earth do right? And whatever he does, it is right. You see, he's the God of all
providence. Known unto God are all his works
from the beginning. He's not only the God of all
providence, but he is a God of all power. It says in verse 11
that power belongs, somebody has power. Now, people talk about
the power of the human will or the power of the human mind.
Now, you know, if you compare a worm to a worm, I guess some
worms are a little bit smarter than other worms, but they're
still worms. Power belongs to God, to Him
alone. He is the sovereign of the universe.
What he does, he does as he pleases according to his own sovereign
will. It says that in Psalm 135. Whatsoever the Lord please, that's
what he does in heaven and earth, seas, and all deep places. You
know, the only place a sinner will really worship is at the
throne of God, who is the absolute God. He's a God of all providence. He's a God of all power. All
power belongs to God. He worketh all things after the
counsel of His own will. Not only that, He's a God of
all grace and all mercy. It says down here in verse 12
that not only does all power belong to God, but it says also
belongeth unto God mercy. He dispenses mercy according
to His delight, according to His will. Mercy belongs to the
Lord. Now, upon whom do we wait? upon
God, upon God, the God of all providence, the God of all power,
the God of all grace. You know, He's called the Father
of mercies, the Father of all grace. How do we wait? How do
we wait? Here's the second question. How
do we wait? Truly my soul waiteth. upon God. How do we wait? Truly,
or only, we wait with sincerity of heart. The believer waits
upon the Lord in submission to His will. We wait silently, resigned
and surrendered unto His will. We wait upon the Lord. We wait
upon the Lord as a child waits upon His loving Father's Word. As a child waits upon the Father.
We wait upon the Lord as a servant upon His Master's Word, upon
His Master's command. We wait upon the Lord. Now, we've
seen this before. Turn back to Psalm 27. Wait upon
the Lord. How do we wait? Silently. In submission. Surrendering to
His will. It's the Lord. Let Him do what
seemeth good in His sight. Look at Psalm 27, verse 14. Wait on the Lord. Be of good
courage. He'll strengthen thy heart. Wait,
I say, upon the Lord. Again in Psalm 37, 34. Psalm
37, 34. You see, this is a constant repeating
of God's Word. Psalm 37, verse 34. Wait on the
Lord and keep His way. He shall exalt thee to inherit
the land, to inherit all things in Christ. We have an inheritance
that's incorruptible, undefiled, that does not fade away. When
the wicked are cut off, you'll see it. Wait. Wait, he says,
upon the Lord. Again in Psalm 40, turn over
there. Verse 1, I waited patiently for the Lord. He inclined unto me, and he heard
my cry. He brought me up also out of
a horrible pit, out of my reclaim, set my feet upon a rock, and
established my going. He put a new song in my mouth,
even praising to our God. Many shall see it and fear and
shall trust in the Lord. Now, wait, wait, he says. Wait upon the Lord. Wait with
sincerity. Wait with submission of will. Wait being silently resigned
and surrendered unto the Lord. Wait. Wait, I say, upon the Lord. Our Lord taught us to pray this
way, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done in earth. as it is in
heaven. Isn't that the desire of every
believer's heart? Thy will be done, O Lord. To know the will of the Lord
and then to bow unto it without hesitation, without reservation.
You remember when Eli the priest of God had to boys that were
rebels who abused the office there in the temple. And Samuel
came to Eli and said, God's going to kill your two rebel sons.
And he didn't say, well, that's not fair. I don't like that. Do you remember what he said?
It's the Lord. Let him do what he will. Resign. Resign to the Lord's will. I wonder What would we say if
someone came to us and said, God's going to kill your family? You know, it takes a lot of grace to say,
it's the Lord, let Him do what seems good in His sight. You
remember the story of Job. God took all of his substance
away from him. God killed his seven children.
His wife turned on him, said, why don't you curse God and die?
You've got nothing left. God stripped him of his health,
covered his body with boils. And then he said, though he slay
me, yet I'm going to trust him. The Lord has given. The Lord
has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
I want that kind of grace to wait to wait upon the Lord to
wait upon the Lord truly my soul waited upon God from him comes
my salvation now here's the third thing what do we wait for what
do we wait for from him cometh cometh my salvation now isn't
that what we desperately need We don't need more religion.
We've got religion up to the top of our head. What we need
is Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is salvation. From Him cometh my salvation. All expectation of all spiritual
blessings are found in Christ Jesus. He has blessed us with
all spiritual blessings and heavenly in Christ. according as He has
chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy without blame in His sight." Oh, I tell you, we wait. We wait upon the Lord. What do
we wait for? All salvation and all blessings.
He says here, hope and our expectation, verse 5, is from Him. You see,
we have a good hope. Our hope is not a wish in the
dark. Our hope is not a wishy-washy thing. Our hope is based upon
His promise, based upon His Word. Paul said that when he wrote
to Thessalonians, he said, we have a good hope through grace. A good hope through grace. We've
been given an everlasting consolation and a good hope through grace. God's sovereign grace. All hope of mercy, all hope of
forgiveness, all hope of blessings now and eternally are all vested
in the Lord Jesus Christ. Our hope and our expectation
is from the Lord. And certainly this includes salvation. Four times it's used here in
these few verses. And we see again, We see again,
from him cometh my salvation. Now what's that saying? It's
saying the same thing we've said over and over, that we've read
over and over, that salvation is of the Lord. It's of, it's
not of man, it's not of the church, it's of Him. That means it originates
with Him, it comes from Him. Salvation of the Lord is planning.
Salvation of the Lord in its execution. Salvation of the Lord
in its application. Salvation of the Lord in its
sustaining power. Salvation of the Lord in its
ultimate perfection. Salvation is of the Lord. That
was an outline to a sermon that Charles Spurgeon preached back
about 1860 sometime. It's in volume two of his Metropolitan
Tabernacle, if you want to look it up and read it sometime, it
will be a blessing to you. Salvation is of the Lord. I like
what it says in Psalm 118, and it's marvelous in our eyes. I
tell you what, we have a Savior who saves to the uttermost. We
have a Redeemer who redeemed from all our sin. Salvation is of the Lord. It's His doing. Turn over here
to Psalm 68, verse 20. Verse 19 and 20. Blessed be the
Lord, who daily loatheth us with benefits, even the God of our
salvation. He that is our God is a God of
salvation. Unto God the Lord belongeth the
issues or the ways out of death. He's a God of our salvation. And it is indeed marvelous in
our eyes. So there's verses 1 and 5. Now
let's look at verses 2 and 6. Verse 2 of Psalm 62. You with
me? Psalm 62. verse 2 he only is my rock and
my salvation he is my defense I shall not be greatly moved
and then verse 6 he only he only is my rock my salvation he is
my defense I have no other defense but Christ I shall not I shall
not be moved now he only is my rock in my salvation." Now this
is the sum and substance of the Word of God, the Bible, and the
Gospel of God concerning the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the
sum and substance of it. Christ is the rock. Now what is a rock? A rock is
a foundation. Now, I'm not a builder. I'm attempting
to build a house, but one of the first things we did before
we started adding any wood was to build and lay a foundation. You had to have a footer to put
the block upon and you put the block upon the footer and then
you put the wood on top of the block and then you build the
walls and then you build the roof and so on and so forth.
You wouldn't dare build a house without a proper foundation. Matter of fact, if you're going
to spend extra money, spend it on a foundation. Now, my friend,
the Lord Jesus Christ is that foundation that God had laid.
He said, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation of stone, a
tried stone, a precious cornerstone. He that believeth on him shall
never be confounded, never be forced off, will never be ashamed,
will never be forced out from resting upon that foundation,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord said, upon this rock,
upon this rock I'll build my church and the gates of hell
shall not prevail." We have a solid foundation. All other ground,
all other ground is shamrock. All other ground is sinking sand. Now I told you about the Irish
preacher that was preaching and He had a heckler out in the crowd.
This was an open-air meeting preaching. He was preaching out
on the street corner somewhere and one of those wise Acre Englishmen
kept hollering, tell us about the shamrock. Well, he just ignored
the guy for a while and started preaching Christ and the gospel
of God's grace and the heckler spoke up again and yelled out,
tell us about the shamrock. Finally the preacher stopped
and addressed the man. He said, On Christ the solid
rock I stand, on the ground is shamrock. You see, the only foundation
the believer has to rest upon, the other foundation can no man
lay than that which is laid And that is Christ. Christ and Him
crucified. No wonder Paul said, I'm determined
not to know anything among you, but Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Christ is that solid, solid rock. You remember from last time I
was here, Psalm 61, turn over there. Verse 2, from the end
of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed,
lead me to the rock. Lead me to the rock that's higher
than I. You see, our rock is not like
any other rock. Our rock is that foundation that's
laid in Zion that is sure and steadfast and that is none other
than the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. Now, He is my only, my only. There's just one foundation.
There's just one foundation. He only is my rock. This rock
is a person, the Lord Jesus Christ himself. Not only is he my only
rock, my only foundation, he is my only and all of my salvation. All of my salvation. You know
salvation, now a lot of people have all these different ideas
about salvation. They say salvation is in a pool
of water. They say salvation is in a profession.
They say salvation is in a persuasion. But my friend, I contend that
the message of this Bible is that salvation is in a person.
He that hath the Son hath life. No wonder Paul said, Oh, that
I might win Christ and be found in Him. You see, it says in 1
John 5, 12, He that hath the Son hath life. He that hath not
the Son hath not life. Whatever else you may have, if
you don't have the Lord Jesus Christ, you don't have life,
spiritual life, eternal life. You don't have Christ. You don't...
You miss Christ. You've missed everything. You've
missed everything. He's... You see, in Him dwells
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. And in Christ we are
complete. Salvation is of the Lord and
it's planning. I told you that a moment ago. He's a lamb slain
from the foundation of the world. Salvation is of the Lord and
it's performance. You remember from our study in
Psalm 57 verse 2. He performeth most things for me." Now I misquoted
that. He performeth all things for
me. So salvation of the Lord in His
planning, salvation of the Lord in His performance, God who has
begun a good work in you, He will perform it. He will perfect
it. Salvation of the Lord in His
purchase. Who purchased us? We are bought with His own blood
and He's gonna take home what He bought. You don't go to the
grocery store and buy groceries and then leave them there, do
you? What do you do? When you go out that door, you
put them in your buggy and put them in your car and take them
home. Why? You bought them. What was your intention? Well,
your intention was to buy them. And you did it. And you went
home and consumed them. The Lord Jesus Christ bought
us with His own blood, and it's His eternal purpose to do so,
and my friend, not one sheep of His will perish! He's going
to take them all to glory. He said that in John 6, doesn't
he? For all the Father hath given
to me, they will come to me, and those that come to me I will
in no wise cast out. For I came down from heaven not
to do my own will, but the will of Him that sent me, and this
is the will of Him that sent me, that everyone which seeth
the Son and believeth on Him may have everlasting life, and
I'll raise him up at the last day. Now that's a pretty fair
quote of that scripture. John chapter 6, 37-39. But it's not an exact quote,
but it's the gist of it anyway. The point is, the Lord bought
the church with His own blood and He's gonna have everyone
for whom He bought with His blood. I have no use for that universal,
they say, atonement that put the down payment that leaves
the rest up to the sinner to make the rest of it up. In that
scheme of things, who really makes the thing effectual? It's
not God the sinner does. If Christ paid a part, and then
I pay the rest, well, who really makes it work? You see, salvation
is either all of grace or not. He bought the church. He loved
the church and gave himself for it. He's a good shepherd that
lays down his life for the sheep and he's going to have them.
He's going to have them. You see, and my whole point on
that was salvation of the Lord and it's purchase were bought
with his own blood. And salvation of the Lord and
it's perfection then too, isn't it? God thought so much of God
the Son, God the Father, thought so much of God the Son, that
He foreordained and predestinated to populate heaven with a people
just like the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what predestination is
all about. It's about being predestinated to be conformed to the image
of Christ. It's mentioned four times in
the Bible. Someone told me today, going out the door, that he had
a friend that told him that those who preach predestination and
election, he said, that's just all a bunch of junk. My friend,
to the believer, it's a glorious, glorious truth. Who doesn't want
to be just like Christ? Every believer wants to be just
like the Lord Jesus Christ, and that's what predestination is
all about. Taking those chosen by the Father, and redeemed by
the blood of Christ, and by His glorious grace, making us just
like Christ. Holy, unblameable, unreprovable
in His sight. You see, He only is my salvation. And He is my defense. He is my
defense. Therefore, I shall not be moved. I shall not be moved. What better
defense could we present against the charges of God's law and
all condemnation from sin, but Christ who is our Advocate, Christ
who is our Mediator, Christ who is our Righteousness. What other
defense could you mount? Is there another defense? Is
there some other means to please God than the defense that the
Lord Jesus has made on our behalf in the fact that He satisfied
God's law and justice and died to satisfy the penalty of that
law, redeem us from the curse of the law? That's the only defense
that God has provided for us and that is crying. He is our
advocate. He is our mediator who can lay
anything to the charge of God's elect. In Christ there is therefore
now no condemnation. Therefore those in Christ Jesus
can never be removed from Him. We are justified eternally with
His own blood. You see, He's my rock. He's my
salvation. He's my defense. Therefore I
can't be moved. Cannot be moved. You see, the
believers fastened to the rock. Fastened to the rock. I hold
not the rock, but the rock holds me. The rock holds me. We used to sing that song years
ago. The rock holds me. The rock holds
me. I wish I could think of the rest
of the words. It's a chorus we used to sing. the believer cannot
be moved. You know how secure is the believer
resting in Christ? The Lord Jesus Christ, when he
by himself purged our sin, he's seated on the throne of God. Now who's going to push him off
that throne? He's seated on the right hand of the throne of God.
Who in this universe has power to push him out and off of the
throne of God. No one has power to do that,
because God has all power. Do you know where the believer
is? Seated in the heavenlies, in Christ Jesus. No wonder the
scripture said, the believer cannot be moved. Resting in Christ,
being one with Him, being found in Him, what is true of the head,
is true of the body. You can't move the head, you
can't move the body. We're one with Christ. So He
only is my rock. He only is my salvation. He only is my defense. Therefore,
our conclusion is this. Can't be moved. Can't be moved. I feel sorry for those poor fools
that think that God saves sinners one day and then they're lost
the next. That's not salvation. That's not the salvation that's
taught in this book. God saves sinners with a... What
do these words mean when he says, I give unto my sheep eternal
life and they shall never perish? What does that mean? Does that
mean that God saves us just as long as we keep ourselves saved?
No, he says, I've obtained for them eternal redemption with
my own blood. Now what does that mean? That
means we have eternal redemption. It says in Isaiah 45, 17 that
he saves us with an everlasting salvation. Now, those words are
pretty convincing and powerful words, aren't they? I contend that this book teaches
that God saves His sheep with an everlasting and eternal salvation,
and they can't be lost. They can't be lost. Now, look at verse 8. I'm sorry. Verse 3 and 4, I want to consider
verse 3 and 4 for a moment. The believer is not without his
enemies. How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You shall
be slain, God says, all of you, as a bowing wall, as a tottering
fence. They only consult to cast him
down from his excellency. They delight in lies, they bless
with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. The believer's enemies
Our real enemies. Our Lord said, if they hated
me, they will hate you. You know those, who are those
that hated the Lord Jesus Christ the most? when he walked among
sinners in the flesh, those self-righteous, self-serving Pharisees. They hated the Lord. They hated
Him. Don't expect any better treatment
among the same crowd today. They hate. Now, if you think
I'm stretching it, you just get in their face and tell them plainly
that salvation is of the Lord and see what Results you get
as that man did I talked to a few weeks ago out here on the sidewalk
When I confronted him with the gospel of God's grace He was
not a happy camper and I didn't expect him to come back and I
don't think he will I pray the Lord will break his heart and
teach him the truth but You plainly declare the gospel
of God's grace, and those who are lovers of self-glory and
self-righteousness, they will hate you. And you know why they
hate you? They hate God. That's right.
They hate God. They will not let God, if I can
use that kind of language, let's put it this way, they will not
have God to be God. They'll have him be God in creation
and maybe God in providence, but they will not have him God
in salvation. That he will have mercy on whom
he will have mercy. They say, well, that's not fair.
I thought every sinner had a chance. My friend, salvation is not by
chance, it's by grace. Grace alone. It's not of him
that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but it's God that shows
mercy on whom he will. The believer's enemies are real,
but they're defeated enemies. They're marked out for destruction.
Sure as a bowing wall, the tottering fence is sure to fall when it
collapses in due time. It says in Deuteronomy 32, 35,
God said their foot will slide in due time. In due time, it
will. What is the goal of the enemies
of the gospel? To bring the believer down from his excellency. Who
is our Excellency? It's Christ. Christ. Their goal
is to bring us down from trusting the Lord Jesus Christ alone for
all of salvation and cause us to look towards other things. Other things for acceptance.
Such as, well, have you got enough good works? Have you received
the right baptism? Are you a member of the right
church? Have you been through certain
traditions and ceremonies? Are you obeying the law? Have
you signed our church covenant? They will cast you down from
faith alone, Christ alone, the Word of God alone, and they will
distract you and take you in a different direction. They'll
distract you from the glory of God alone. when my father passed
away back in, I believe it was 2006. Some of you know that I
grew up in Mormonism, grew up out in the Salt Lake City area
of Utah. And when my dad passed away,
he died in idolatry, died in self-righteous religion. But
my family made the mistake of asking me if I wanted to speak
some words at his funeral. And I did. And it was in a Mormon
chapel. And they had two speakers in
front of me and two speakers behind me. They put me in the
middle. And I gave them that outline that I just gave you. Christ alone, the Word of God
alone, faith alone, to the glory of God alone. And I tried to
tell them the truth as clearly and plainly as I could. Well,
needless to say that they weren't happy. They weren't happy. My aunt came up to me and told
me afterwards You see, those folks, as it says there in the
text, they delight in lies. They bless with their mouth,
but they curse inwardly. My aunt, who was very religious
and pretty well respected in that Mormon religion, and she
told me with her finger in my face, she said, you're going
to hell. And I said, well, pray for me. I wanted to take her aside and
tell her the gospel as best I could, but it was just a little bit
confusing and got away from me. But I watched that crowd, and
it was a large crowd. The building was full. My dad
was well known in the community, well respected in the community,
but they didn't want to hear what I had to say. Matter of
fact, many of the people in that congregation started to visibly,
and I only preached about 20-25 minutes, they visibly were doing
this. You know, sit down, sit down. We've had enough. My stepmother,
I could see her, she was sitting right here in front of me and
she kept doing one of these. You know, time is up, your time
is over. But, you see those folks delighted
in lies, even though they bless with their mouth inwardly, you
know what's going on? They're cursing me. They're cursing
God. You see, the carnal mind The
carnal mind is enmity against God, not subject to the law of
God, neither indeed can be. That's why sinners get so angry
when confronted with the truth. Like what old Barnard said years
ago, Roth Barnard, when he came to Ashton preaching the gospel
way back in 1950, 51, 52. He said, when you meet truth
in the road, one of two things is going to happen. When you're
confronted with truth, the truth of God, who He is, the truth
of Christ, what He did, and the truth of salvation, one of two
things is going to happen. You're either going to bow or
buck, bow or rebel. God's sheep bow. You know what
the goats do? They buck. They won't have it. They won't have it. The sheep
love. The sheep love sheep food. When
I started attending Ashland, where Pastor Mahan was pastor
there, and sat down behind a couple who became my dear friends, and
they turned around and looked at me and said, what are you
doing here? And I said, I came here to hear the gospel of God's
grace. And the old brother spoke up and said, oh, you came to
hear some sheep food, didn't you? You came to get some sheep
food, didn't you? He said, that's what I'm after. I wanted to hear
that message of grace and grace alone. So let the enemies rail
as they will. It doesn't change the fact, does
it, that salvation is of the Lord. I like what Thomas said.
to the Lord Jesus, my God, my Lord, and my God. My Lord and my God. And God is
my salvation, my glory, the rock of my strength, my refuge is
in Him. Look at verse 8 now. Now trust
in Him. Trust in Him at all times. Trust in Him at all times. You
see, our time, it says that in Psalm 33, or Psalm 31, our time,
our times are in His hand. Trust in Him at all times, you
people. Pour out your heart before Him.
God is refuge for us. He is a refuge for us. He is
a refuge. You know what that's saying there?
It's saying He's our hiding place. He's our hiding place. Trust
him at all times. When you're up, when you're down.
When things are going well, when things are not going so well. I told you that we started hanging
some sheetrock in the house last week, the house that we're building,
the new parsonage. The first sheet of sheetrock
that we tried to hang is five-eighths thick, four by twelve. It's heavy. Put it on this lift that we have
and lifted it up and I was underneath it cranking it and the cable that runs the crank
snapped. Came down right on top of the
crown of my head and it knocked me to the floor. It knocked me
for a loop. Trust in Him at all times you
people. Pour out your heart before Him
and I did. Oh Lord that hurt. That hurt,
and it took me a week to get over it. Trust in Him at all
times, you people. When things are going well, when
things are not going so well, pour out your heart before Him.
Oh, just pour it out. Just pour it out. Just empty
yourself before Him. That's what real prayer is. Just
pour out your heart. God is a refuge for us. Well, I've got to quit. Surely men of low degree are
vanity, men of high degree a lie. To be laid in the balance are
altogether lighter than vanity. Man at his best state is altogether
vanity. Don't trust in oppression, trust the Lord. Don't become
vain in robbery. Don't think that you can get
an advantage by cheating someone. If riches increase, don't set
your heart upon them. Set your affection on things
above, not on things of the earth. God has spoken once. Thank God
He has. twice. I've heard this. I've
really heard. He's given me ears to hear this.
Now hear this, all you people. God hath said power belongs to
him and also unto thee. Not only all power in heaven
and earth, But mercy belongs unto the Lord. Mercy belongs
unto the Lord. Power and mercy are coupled together.
Power and mercy are coupled together. When you add power and mercy
together, you have the blessedness of the gospel of Christ, sovereign
mercy, and sovereign grace, and grace alone. Well, I'll quit
with that.