Come to this study this evening
now, Psalm 17. Psalm 17 will be our study this
evening. I've entitled this message, Satisfied,
Satisfied with Christ. As it says in verse 15 of this
Psalm 17, as for me, as for me, I don't know about all these
others that David mentions here in verse 14, their portions in
this life, but he says, as for me, as for me and my house, we're
going to serve the Lord. As for me, I will behold thy
face. The glory of God shines in the
face of Jesus Christ. I will behold thy face in perfect,
justifying, everlasting righteousness, and I shall be satisfied. Satisfied
with the Lord Jesus Christ. Satisfied now, but especially
when I wake with a new body, a resurrected body without sin. When I awake with your likeness,
a glorified body likened to the Lord Jesus Christ, we will really
eternally forever be blessed in the Lord Jesus Christ and
satisfied throughout all eternity. Makes me to think about the glorious
future every believer does have in Christ Jesus, to be with the
Lord forever. forever. To be absent from this
body is to be present with the Lord. To be like Him. To be like
Him. To worship Him. Now think about
this. To be like Him. To worship Him in perfection. To worship Him in perfect righteousness. To worship Him without any distraction
of the flesh. I don't know that I've ever worshipped
Truly, without a distraction of the old man dragging me back
down into the gutter. But that day, oh, I tell you,
that day will be a glorious eternal day of worship, eternal worship,
without distraction, without interruption, to love Him fully,
to love Him like we ought to, to love Him completely. fully
to be removed from the power of sin, from the penalty of sin,
from the presence of sin, and to sing forever and ever unto
Him who loved us and washed us from our sin in His own blood. As it says over here in Psalm
16, the last verse, The last part of that verse, 11, Psalm
16, in thy presence is fullness of joy. At thy right hand there
are pleasures for just a little while. No, forever, forever more. What a glorious day await the
saints of God to be raised in the likeness of the Lord Jesus
Christ, to behold him for eternity. to love Him, to be with Him,
to worship Him, to honor Him, that will be a glorious day. Now, let's consider verse 1 and
we'll work our way back to verse 15 and consider David's prayer. And what I want to do this evening
is to make this our prayer. David here cries from the heart
unto his father, O Lord, O Lord, I want to make this our cry.
that we might cry unto our Lord with a broken heart, with a contrite
spirit. For he said, he's nine to them
of a broken heart. Hear the right, O Lord. Attend,
he said three times, he said, hear me, Lord. Attend to my cry. Give ear to my prayer. that does not go out of insincerity. It does not proceed out of feigned
lips. That is forgery. He said, what
I cry unto thee is the cry of my heart. It is sincere of my
cry. Lord, hear me. Hear me, attend
unto my cry. Now, notice this. Hear the right,
or hear the just one. Here's what he's saying. Here
is our cry unto the Lord, hear the just one, the Lord Jesus
Christ intercedes for us as the just one, hear the righteous
one, hear my advocate, hear his plea, hear my Redeemer, let his
wounds plead for me, hear the rights of the Lord Jesus Christ. Father had given him power over
all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as the
Father had given to him. Lord, hear me, not for my sake,
hear me for Christ's sake. Save me for his sake. He says
this in another Psalm. I've noticed over here in Psalm
143. Turn over there. He is the kinsman redeemer, able
to redeem and willing to redeem. Hear me, hear me, hear the just
one, hear my prayer in Christ Jesus. Psalm 143 verse 1, Hear
my prayer, O Lord, give ear to my supplication, in your faithfulness
answer me, and in thy righteousness. Bless me in Christ Jesus. You see what he's saying here?
Don't enter into judgment with thy servant, for in thy sight
no man living shall be justified by the deeds of the law. None
are justified. Hear me for Christ's sake. Bless me and justify me
in the Lord Jesus Christ. For he is able to save to the
uttermost all that come to God by him. And my cry of my heart
is a sincere cry. I want to pray that way, don't
you, with sincerity? It does no good for us to pray
with insincerity, does it? Just going through the motions,
through the exercise of prayer. It's the cry of the heart. It's
the cry of the heart. Lord, hear me. I want to pray
that way. And then he asked for this, verse
2. Let my sentence. Come from thy presence. Let thy
salvation come from thy presence. Come forth from thy presence.
Let thine eyes behold the things that are right, the things that
are equal, the things that are just. Let my salvation come from
thy presence. Now, I thought of an example
of this. I was reading over here in 2
Samuel. Turn over there. 2 Samuel 24. When David was old in years,
King David, about to die. Somehow he tried to get some
kind of assurance in the fact that he tried to number Israel.
Now, I don't know all the details that's involved in David being
tempted to do so. Maybe the devil tempted him to
do so. But notice in 2 Samuel 24, verse 10, David's heart smote him after
he had numbered the people. And David said unto the Lord,
I've sinned greatly that I have done. And now I beseech thee,
O Lord, take away the iniquity of thy servant, for I have done
very foolishly. For when David was up in the
morning, the word of the Lord came in the prophet Gad, David's
seer, saying, Go and say unto David, Thus saith the Lord, I
offer thee three things. Choose thee one of them, that
I may do it unto thee. So the prophet came to David
and told him and said to him, here's your choices, seven years
of famine, come unto thee in thy land or wilt thou flee three
months before thine enemies while they pursue thee or that there
be three days' pestilence in the land. Now advise and see
what answer I shall return to him that sent me. Look what David
said, and David said unto the prophet Gad, I am in a great
strait. Let us fall into the hand of
the Lord. Let my sentence come from thy
presence. Let Us fall into the hand of
the Lord, for his mercies are great. Let me not fall into the
hand of man. Let my sentence come from thee,
O Lord. That's what he's saying. Turn
back to Psalm 2. Let my salvation, let my sentence
come from your presence. Let my life be in thy hands. Lord, judge me and bless me because
you are merciful. you are righteous, and because
you delight in mercy. Lord bless me, bless me for Christ's
sake, save me for His sake. Look at verse 3, Psalm 17 verse
3, For thou hast proved, thou hast proved my heart, thou hast
visited me in the night, thou hast tried me, now watch this,
and shalt find nothing, I purpose that my mouth shall not transgress
against the Lord." Now, what do we see here? I believe it's
David's full confession. Confession. David's full confession. Here's a man after God's own
heart, crying unto the Lord and confessing, you know my heart.
You know my heart. You have proved my heart. David
was given a new heart. He had a heart given of God,
blessed of God, made a new creature in Christ, a man after God's
own heart. And he's confessing, Lord, you
know my heart. It reminds me what Peter said
in John 21. When the Lord said, Peter, do you love me? You remember
what he said? Lord, you know all things. You
have proved my heart. You know. that I do love you."
And the Lord knows our heart. He knows our heart. He's proven
our heart. He's given us a new heart to
love Him. A heart of flesh. He's taken
away that old stony, cold, dead heart and given us a heart to
love Him. You've proved my heart. And then
He said, watch this. This is our confession. Lord,
you know our heart. And then He says here, Lord,
you visited me in the night. Now, I think there's more here
than just God coming to him at midnight. I believe he's saying
this, you have visited me in the night in the deadness of
my sin and have given me light. He's commanded the light to shine
out of darkness. He shined in our heart to give
us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face
of Jesus Christ. Isn't that our confession? The
Lord God in His sovereign purpose crossed our path and has visited
us in the darkness and deadness of our sin and called us out
of darkness into His marvelous light, translated us out of the
kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son. He's
given us a new heart. He has visited us in the darkness
of our sin and given us light. He's turned on the light switch.
He's revealed himself unto us. And then he says, Lord, you've
tried me. You've tried me and you have
found, now watch this, you've found nothing in me. Nothing
in me. What are you going to do with
that preacher? Well, listen to this. Thou hast tried me, and
shalt find nothing in me to condemn me. Viewed in our covenant head
the surety of the Lord Jesus Christ, he sees no sin in us,
for the Lord Jesus Christ has taken away all our sin, and in
Christ Jesus we stand faultless before his presence. With exceeding
joy he presents us holy, unblameable, unreprovable in God's sight.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. Now you remember the story of
that man in old Israel in the book of Numbers 23. His name
was Balaam, and he was a shyster, he was a huckster, but he had
this statement, and it's a good statement, God gave him this
statement, He said this, God hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob,
neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel, for the Lord his God
is with him. He's confessing that the Israel
of God, the elect of God, in Christ Jesus, their sin has been
dealt with in Christ Jesus. Oh, I tell you, in him, He remembers
our sin no more. He's tried us, He's visited us,
He's proved us, and He's found nothing in us but Christ. And therefore, He said, I purposed
in my mouth that I shall not transgress. What is He saying
here? My purpose is to honor the Lord Jesus Christ. My mouth
shall confess what He has done for me, that salvation's of the
Lord. It's of His doing. That's my
purpose. I purpose with my mouth to honor
and to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ. Can't you say that in
your heart before God as we cry unto Him? Look at verse 4, concerning
the works of men, what are the works of men? Individually, collectively,
altogether, all the works of men, all their righteousnesses
are as filthy rags concerning the works of men. By thy word,
by the word of thy lips, by the word of thy mouth, hath kept
me from the works of men, hath kept me from the paths of the
destroyer. There is indeed a way that seems
right unto men, that seems right unto the flesh. By the word of
His mouth, He has kept me from the path of destruction. He's put me in the path of knowing
the Lord Jesus Christ who is the way. Now, here's a couple
of verses on this. If you'll find Psalm 119, and
you young people pay particular attention to these verses here.
Psalm 119. verse 9, Wherewith shall a young
man cleanse his ways? Psalm 119 verse 9, By taking
heed Thereto according to thy word,
with my whole heart have I sought thee, O let me not wonder from
my commandments. Thy word have I hid in my heart,
that I might not sin against him. By his word he has taught
us, he has brought us, he has drawn us, and he has shown himself
to us in his word, and has kept me from the path of the destroyer,
from going the way of those who would seek salvation by their
deeds. Now, I traveled that road for
many years as a self-righteous religious
man. But God, by His grace, intervened. He has given me His Word, and
He has taught me the way of salvation in Christ Jesus. Now, look at
verse 5. He says here, My, and a better word here is
steps, goings, that's our steps. My life. Hold up my steps in
thy path, in thy path, that my footsteps do not slide, do not
slip. Hold up my steps in thy path. What kind of path is this? Find
Psalm 23. Psalm 23. He restoreth my soul,
verse 3. He leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for His name's sake. Now turn to Psalm 37. Psalm 37. He's saying here, Lord,
keep my steps in Thy paths and do not let me slip. Do not let
me slide. Now, notice Psalm 37, verse 23.
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he does delight
in his way. The Lord has provided for us
a solid foundation upon which to walk. It's Christ the rock,
Christ the foundation. God said, I've laid in Zion.
Behold, I've laid in Zion for a foundation, a stone, a tried
stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure stone, a tried stone,
and he that believeth on him shall not make haste, will never
be forced out, will never be confounded, will never be ashamed. Not so the ungodly, not so the
unbeliever. Turn to Psalm 35 verse 6. Let their way, Psalm 35 verse
6, let their way be dark and slippery. sinking sand. Let the angel of the Lord persecute
them. Let their way be dark and slippery.
Turn over to Psalm 73. Remember, in Psalm 73, David
lamented when he saw the prosperity of the wicked, until he went
into the temple of the Lord, in verse 17 of Psalm 73, until
I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I therein,
surely thou did set them in slippery places, thou casteth them down
to destruction. He put us on solid ground. Oh, we sing that song, on Christ
the solid rock I stand, all other ground is sinking sand. Sinking sand. Look at verse 6. He says in verse 6, I've called
upon thee. I have called upon thee. Upon thee, true living God, and
you will hear me. O God, incline thine ear unto
me, and hear my speech. I have called upon thee, and
God has heard my cry. Now you remember the story of
Elijah on Mount Carmel, and that contest between those prophets
of Baal, and the contest was the God who answered by fire,
he indeed is God, you remember the story. How the prophets of
Baal, they called on God all day long and he did not call
on their God. Excuse me, glad you caught that.
I know somebody's listening. They called on their God, Baal,
the idol, Baal, and they called all day. They cried all day.
They even cut themselves to where they bled and then Elijah started
to mock him. mocked them, remember? He said,
well, maybe you're God's, maybe he's on vacation, maybe he's
sleeping. Well, you remember the story,
Elijah put the water all around the sacrifice, he prepared the
altar, and he did that I think three times, and then he said,
oh God, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel,
and beside thee there is no other. You remember what happened, the
fire fell. You see, He is a living God who
does hear the cry of His people, and He does answer their cry. David's confidence here, I shall
call and He will hear, because He is a living God, He can hear,
because He is the Almighty God, He will answer the cry of His
people. Whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved. I believe that. Call upon the
name of the Lord now, not that weak, impotent Jesus, but the
name of the Lord shall be saved. Now, notice verse 7 and 8. This
is good here. Here's the glorious good news
of the gospel in verse 7 and 8. He says, Show me, save me,
keep me, hide me. You see those things? Four things.
Show me thy lovingkindness, O thou that savest. How does he save? He saves by his right hand. Them
which put their trust in thee from those that rise up against
them. And then he says, these two illustrations,
keep me as the apple of thine eye, hide me under the shadow
of thy wing. Now, let's look at those four
things. Show me, show me thy marvelous loving kindness. You
know that word show actually is the same word that's used
over here in Psalm 4, turn back over there. It means set me apart,
set me apart, Psalm 4 verse 3. But know that the Lord hath set
apart him that is godly for himself. The Lord will hear when I call
upon him. He has set me apart. He hath
shown me his marvelous loving kindness. He has set me apart
and then has revealed his marvelous loving kindness unto us. Where
is the love of God manifested? Where is the love of God revealed?
In the Lord Jesus Christ. The love of God is revealed in
Christ. He has set me apart, He has shown unto me, or He has
revealed unto me His tender mercy, His sovereign mercy. It is of the Lord's mercies that
we are not consumed, because His compassion fails not, not
by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to
His mercy He has saved us. He has hid these things from
the wise and prudent, and revealed them unto His babes, even so,
Father, it does seem good in His sight. He has shown us His
marvelous lovingkindness. I remember the words recorded
in Jeremiah 31. He loved us with an everlasting
love, therefore with lovingkindness He draws us to Himself. And it's an effectual, irresistible
draw of God. He does draw us to Himself. For
the Lord said, No man can come unto Me except the Father which
sent Me. Draw him. Show me thy marvelous loving
kindness. What a sight, what grace, what
mercy God gives to us poor sinners. And then he says, Lord, save
me. Save me by not my right hand,
but thy right hand. Those, they do put their trust. Those saved by his right hand,
they do put their trust in thee. From all those that rise up against
us, Lord, save us. Save me by thy right hand. Now,
turn to Psalm 98. You know what he's saying here,
don't you? I mean, it's pretty obvious. You know what I'm going
to say in a minute, don't you? Save me by your right hand. Who's
at the right hand? Who's on the right hand of the
throne of God? When He by Himself purged our
sin, He sat down on the right hand of the throne of God. Psalm
98 verse 1, Oh, sing unto the Lord a new song, for He hath
done marvelous things. His right hand and His holy arm
hath gotten Him the victory. Thanks be to God who has given
us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Turn over here
to Psalm 118. Psalm 118. Here's another verse about that
right hand. Psalm 118 verse Verse 14, the
Lord is my strength and song and has become my salvation.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the
righteous. The right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly. The
right hand of the Lord is exalted. The right hand of the Lord doeth
valiantly. I shall not die but live and
declare the works of the Lord. Lord, save me by thy right hand. Save me by Christ Jesus. You
know, his hand is a most potent, potent hand. We're going to talk
about that in just a minute. Don't want to get ahead of myself.
Look at verse 8. And then he says, not only show me, set me
apart, reveal your loving kindness unto me, and then save me by
thy right hand. And then he says, keep me, keep
me, keep me as the apple. of the eye. Keep me as the apple
of the eye. I want you to find Deuteronomy
32.10. Deuteronomy 32.10. You remember these words here? I
think it's 32. Deuteronomy 32.32. Deuteronomy
32.10. Here we go. Verse 9. Listen to these words here. Concerning
God's Israel, concerning the elect of God, Deuteronomy 32,
9. For the Lord's portion is his
people. Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. He found him in
a desert land, in a waste howling wilderness, led him about, he
instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye. The apple
of his eye. You know, the apple, I think,
has always traditionally been known as a symbol of love. I
guess years ago, when some of you older ones used to go to
the schoolhouse, you'd take an apple to your teacher. It was
a symbol of love. A symbol of love. And God's people
are kept as the pupil of the eye. He has encircled his people
with great protection. We are kept by the power of God. Now, let me give you this illustration.
The eye, our natural eye, the pupil of the eye, is protected. Do you ever notice how it's protected?
It's surrounded by bone, isn't it? Just as God has surrounded
His people with the wall of His love, it has the bone to protect
the eye, the eye socket. The eye has the fountain of tears
to cleanse the eye. And the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ cleanses us from all sin. The eye has The eyelid, when
something comes at your eye, you don't even think about it,
do you? I mean, if something comes at your eye immediately,
you close that eyelid to protect. God has given us this glorious
picture that the Lord Jesus Christ is our covering, that puts away
all our sin. And the eye has eyelashes. Eyelashes to keep out the speck
of dust that might fall our way. It's an umbrella, if you will,
over the eye socket. And the Lord Jesus Christ does
protect His people. And then we have the eye has
the eyebrow. to keep the sweat off from dripping
down and running in our eye, and the eyebrow acts as a shadow
to keep the bright sunlight from the eye. You see how that is
used all as an illustration, how God keeps His people as the
pupil of our own eye. And then He uses this other homely
illustration, hide me, Lord keep me, and then hide me. all hidden in the Savior's side,
by the Spirit sanctified. Hide me under the shadow, under
the shadow of thy wing. Turn over here to Isaiah 32,
Isaiah 32. Hide me, hide me under the shadow
of thy wing. You know that mother chicken,
You who used to, I guess maybe some of the older folks, I'm
picking on the older folks here I guess, but some of the older
folks, when I grew up on a farm when I was a little boy and we
had chickens that just ran everywhere. And a lot of times those mother
chickens, they'd have those little bitty chicks. And when the storm
came up, all them little chicks would run under the mother hen's
wings, and they'd feel her protection, they'd feel the heat from her
body. And that's what he's saying here. The Lord Jesus Christ is
our refuge. He hides us under the shadow,
oh, the shadow of His wing. He does bring us together in
love, and we are safe and secure under His wing. He is our refuge. Isaiah 32, you got it? Verse
2, a man shall be a hiding place from the wind. This is the king
of righteousness that says in verse 1. This is the God-man
mediator. He's our hiding place from the
wind. He's a covering from the tempest. He's the rivers of water
in a dry place. He's a shadow of a great rock.
in a weary land. He's our hiding place. Oh, you
see what he's saying here? Show me your marvelous love and
kindness, save me by your right hand, keep me as the apple of
thy eye, then hide me under the shadow of thy wing. Oh, a glorious gospel we have,
a glorious God we do serve. Verses 9 down through verse 14,
he talks here about the enemies, and I'll not spend much time
here, Verse 9, from the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly
enemies who compass me about, my sin is the deadly enemy. Lord, defeat my sin. Lord, put away my sin. That sin,
that wicked sin that oppresses me, Lord, put an end to it. Put
it away. Verse 10, they are enclosed,
they are enclosed in their own fat. with their mouth they speak
proud things, they have now compassed us in our step, they have set
their eyes bowing down to the earth like a raging bull. I go back to an illustration
on the farm. A raging bull out there, if you
ever go out and try to mess around with a bull, don't do that. Don't
try to take the bull by the horns. Because those old bulls, you
go out there in the field and the first thing they do, they
start bowing down to the ground and they're getting ready to
pounce on you. They're getting ready to charge
you and put an end to you. And that's what he's saying here.
They've set their eyes bowing down to the ground. The Lord
Jesus in Psalm 22, He said, The strong bull's obation has set
me round about. Verse 12, like as a lion that
is greedy of its prey, as it were a young lion lurking in
secret places, the devil is called, he says in 1 Peter 5, be sober,
be vigilant because your adversary the devil has a roaring lion
going about seeking who he may devour. Thank God. that our God protects us from
the rage of the lion. Arise, O Lord, verse 13, Arise,
O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down, and deliver my soul
from the wicked, or deliver my soul from the wicked one by thy
sword, by his sword. I tell you, when our God meets
our foes face to face in battle, the conflict will not last long. He does put an end to our enemies
by the power of His sword. The Word of God is quick and
powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. Out of His mouth, it says
in Revelation 19, out of His mouth goeth a sharp sword. that with it he should smite
the nations, he shall rule them with a rod of iron, he treadeth
the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of almighty God. Now look at verse 14, by thy
hand, from men deliver me from the wicked by thy sword, from
men by thy hand, there's that hand, O Lord from men of the
world which have their portion in this life. Deliver me by thy
hand." Now, the hand of God, you remember what Nebuchadnezzar
confessed When God taught him something about God who is God,
he said this, all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing,
and he doeth according to his will in the armory of heaven
and among the inhabitants of this earth, and none can stay
his hand. Or saying to him, Lord God Almighty,
what are you doing? The hand of God cannot be stopped. His power is almighty. His power
is eternal. His power is sovereign. The hand
of God. I tell you what, now put these
two things together, a sword laying on the ground by itself
is a most useless thing, but you take a man, a fit man who
is a skilled man, if he would pick that sword up and fight
Now you've got something to contend with. And the sword of the Lord,
the word of the Lord is mighty in the hand of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and He slays the enemy with the sword of His word. And
He is a powerful, powerful, victorious Lord. He is the captain of our
salvation. You see what He's saying here?
The sword of the Lord is wielded by a wise and powerful hand,
therefore these men of the earth who have their portion in this
life, whose belly is their treasure, whose children is their pride,
and they leave their substance unto their own families. Their portion is in this life,
that's all they have. Their belly, their treasure,
their children, their substance. That's all they have. This life.
The believer's portion is in the Lord. It's an eternal portion. Psalm 16, look at verse 5. The Lord is a portion of mine
inheritance. The Lord's my portion. Of mine inheritance, of my cup
thou maintainest my lot. The Lord is our portion. The
Lord is our portion. We're looking for a city whose
builder and maker is God. We have no continuing city here,
but we seek one to come. The Lord is our portion. Verse
15, in closing, as for me, as for me, you can have this life,
you can have this portion. We have something much greater,
far greater The blessings we have in the Lord Jesus Christ
are eternal, righteous, glorious blessings. As for me, how about
you? As for me, I will behold his
face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied when I awake
with his likeness. As for me, The hope we have in
the Lord Jesus Christ is a good hope. The hope we have in the
Lord Jesus Christ is a good hope through grace. The hope we have
in the Lord Jesus Christ is an eternal hope. He gives His sheep,
they hear His voice, He knows them, and He gives unto them
eternal life, and they will never perish. To behold His face, righteousness,
to behold his face. What is this? It's to become
perfectly conformed to the image of Christ. This is what predestination
is all about, to be conformed to the image of Christ, to be
A man says, well, you know, that predestination stuff, I don't
like that predestination stuff. Oh, my friend, you don't want
to be like Christ? That's what you're saying. Because
predestination is to be conformed to the image of Christ. I love
predestination. I want to be like Him. And God's
people are predestinated to be just like Him. Don't turn. Let me just get this for you
here quickly in 1 John 3, verse 2. Beloved, now are we sons of
God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be. But when He
shall appear, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as
He is. And here's another scripture,
don't turn, let me just get it for you, over here in Philippians,
you remember chapter 3 of Philippians? For our conversation is from
heaven, for whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus
Christ, who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned
like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby
he is able even to subdue all things unto himself. Oh, I tell
you, my friend, I will behold His face in righteousness, in
the Lord Jesus Christ, and I shall be satisfied. When I wake with
His likeness, satisfied with Christ, we shall have a new glorious
body like unto His glorious body. Our bodies, when we die, will
sleep in the dust for a while. Our soul goes back to God, but
one day there's going to be a glorious reunion. Glorious reunion, and
there shall we ever be with the Lord forever. Brother Job wrote
about it in Job 19. It's recorded, for I know that
my Redeemer liveth, that he shall stand at the latter day upon
this earth, and though after the skin worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh I will see God. That's our hope. At his right
hand are pleasures forevermore. Now, let me give you this, and
I'll quit. Only God, only God can satisfy
and provide what I need. He shall meet all our need according
to His riches in glory through Christ Jesus. Only God can satisfy
and provide what I need. I need four things all summed
up in Christ. Righteousness, He is the Lord
my righteousness. Redemption, He is the Lord my
Redeemer. Regeneration, He's given us life
in Christ Jesus. Resurrection, He said, I am the
resurrection and the life. Only God can satisfy and provide
what I need. Now listen to this. God is only
satisfied with what He's provided. We're accepted in the Beloved.
God will only accept that which He's provided. Christ, the Lord
Jesus Christ. He is Jehovah Jireh, the Lord
will provide.