Blessed Is the Man

Q: What does the Bible say about the blessed man in Psalm 1?

Psalm 1 describes the blessed man as one who delights in the law of the Lord and meditates on it day and night. In Psalm 1, the blessed man is portrayed as someone who intentionally avoids the influence of the ungodly and actively seeks the counsel of God instead. He is depicted as a tree planted by water, meaning he has a firm foundation in God's Word, which nourishes him and enables him to bear fruit in its season. This blessed state signifies a deep, spiritual happiness that comes from a close relationship with the Lord and an ongoing engagement with His Word, contrasting sharply with the fate of the ungodly, who cannot endure under judgment.

Q: How do we know that meditation on scripture is important for Christians?

Meditation on scripture provides nourishment for the soul, enabling believers to grow in faith and understand God's will. Meditation on scripture is emphasized in Psalm 1, where the blessed man is described as meditating on God's law day and night. This continual reflection leads to spiritual growth and a deeper understanding of God's will. Engaging with scripture allows believers to internalize God's teachings, draw strength from His promises, and find comfort in His presence. The act of meditation transforms how Christians live and interact with the world, shaping their thoughts, beliefs, and actions in accordance with God's truth.

Q: Why is it important to avoid the counsel of the ungodly?

Avoiding the counsel of the ungodly is crucial as it helps maintain a believer's faith and moral integrity. Scripture warns against walking in the counsel of the ungodly, as their thoughts and paths lead away from God’s truth. The blessed man, as described in Psalm 1, actively chooses to reject the influence of worldly wisdom and philosophies that do not align with God's Word. Engaging with the ungodly can lead one to adopt their values and perspectives, ultimately straying from a life of faith. By standing firm in biblical principles and seeking counsel from godly sources, believers can preserve their integrity and walk in the path of righteousness.

Q: How does being blessed relate to a believer's life in Christ?

Being blessed means experiencing joy and favor from God, which manifests in a believer's life through faith and obedience. In the context of Psalm 1, being blessed refers to the profound happiness and favor that comes from a relationship with God. This blessing is not merely about external circumstances but is deeply rooted in one's standing before God through Christ. Believers who live in accordance with God's Word experience a transformative joy that sustains them through life's challenges. They are likened to a tree planted by streams of water, symbolizing stability, growth, and fruitfulness, reflecting the abundant life that Christ provides to His followers.

Q: What are the characteristics of the ungodly in comparison to the righteous?

The ungodly are likened to chaff that the wind blows away, lacking stability and purpose in contrast to the fruitful righteous. Psalm 1 delineates a stark contrast between the righteous and the ungodly. Whereas the righteous are firmly planted and bear fruit, the ungodly are like chaff—light, insignificant, and subject to being carried away by the wind. This imagery highlights the ultimate futility and lack of endurance in the lives of the ungodly, who do not stand in the day of judgment. In contrast, the righteous find their security in the steadfast love of God and His Word, producing a life marked by spiritual vitality and purpose.

Blessed is the man that walketh
not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners,
nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his, that is this
man's, delight is in the word of the Lord, and in his word
doth he meditate day and night." and he shall be like a tree planted
by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit into its season. His leaf also shall not wither,
and whatsoever he would, and whatsoever he would, is possible. The ungodly are not so. Nothing
that we say about this to be set about the ungodly. The ungodly
are not like a green tree, but they're like chaff, withered
branches and leaves which the wind drives away. Therefore the
ungodly shall not pass, they shall not endure the judgment,
nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the Lord
knoweth the way of the righteous, the way of the ungodly is the
same. Charles Perkins calls this psalm the preface psalm, the
preface psalm. That is, he says, Psalm 1 notifies
us immediately from the outset of the content of the entire
verse. Psalm 1, the preface psalm, notifies
us right away. context of this whole book. There
is a way of blessedness, there's a way of destruction. That's
what he says. There's a way of the righteous,
not in themselves, in practice, but there are righteous. There's
the way of the righteous, and there's the way of the ungodly.
There are those who sustain. One day at the judgment, they
book to open, they shall say. When men are judged, they shall
say. When penance is set forth, they
shall say. When all men fall, they shall
say. In Christ, who shall stand in
his presence? These people who are in Christ,
who are redeemed by Christ, and the ungodly shall fall. They
can't stand under the judgment And then there are those who
have the life of God, and they're like an evergreen tree which
eternally bears fruit and never loses its leaves. And there are those who have
not the life of God, but they're dead, dry, past, lifeless, fruitless. They shall be blown about like
the wind blows the grass in the leaves. And there is a godly
man, as we talked about here, there's a godly man. And that
man, whatever his state on this earth and whatever his condition
in this world, he's happy, he's blessed, and he's safe. He's happy and blessed. and there is an ungodly man,
whatever his plan, or show of prosperity, or accomplishment,
he's miserable and he's cursed. That's the content of this whole
book. Well, let's see how it opens. It opens this way. I use
the word blessing. I've been brought up saying blessing
in the But it opens like our Lord opened
the Sermon on the Mount. It opens with a benediction,
a blessing. Our Lord opened the Sermon on
the Mount in that way. He said, Blessed are the poor
in spirit. There's what He's saying to them.
Blessed are they that mourn. They're going to be comforted.
Blessed are the meek. They shall inherit the river.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for righteousness.
Blessed are the merciful. They shall obtain mercy. Blessed
are the pure in heart. They shall see God. Blessed are
the peacemakers. They shall be called the children
of God. Blessed are you, that men shall revile you, and persecute
you, and say all manner of evil against you, falsely, for my
sake, rejoice, and be exceeding glad. But grace is your reward
in heaven. So it begins with a benediction,
blessed. Blessed or blessed is the name. What does the word blessed mean?
B-L-E-S-S-E-D. What does it mean? It means happy. Take down your Hebrew concordance
and look it up. Happy. Why is happy, somebody
says? It not only means happy, it means
highly favored. Highly favored. Highly favored
is God. In other words, it goes this
way, oh, oh, the blessednesses of the man, the multitude of
mercy, the multitude of blessings, oh, the happinesses of that man,
oh, the blessednesses of that man. How happy and blessed is
that man, favored of God, who refuses and pauses to approach He hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Blessed indeed. All right, who is this happy,
highly favored, hilarious person? Well, the first description given
of him here is a man. Blessed is the man. Now ladies,
I mean, please, you know, they got me so confused in this, I
can't write M-I-S-S or M-R-S, I have to write M-L. You can't
say chairman anymore, you have to say chairperson. And all that
sort of thing, but this word is still designated every person
who knows God. Blessed is the dear, young ladies,
and mothers, and grandmothers, and daddies, and that's what
we say. All right, but when I say he's
a man, I mean he's a person. All right, the first instruction
given of this epic, Christ, epically favored person is he's a man.
You know, when this is how Christian we are in our thinking, when
people consider a person, Greatly, highly favored, blessed of God,
used of God, happy in the faith. We're called to make him a little
more than just a man. Did you know that? We've elevated and exalted men and women, men and women of God, as if they
weren't just plain men and women. Isn't that right? When we think
of someone who's blessed of God, and highly favored of God, and
actually in Christ, we try to act some special earthly distinction,
like reverend, or cardinal, or bishop, or archbishop, or man
of God, or elder, or deacon, or some earthly distinction where,
for some or they wear some particular type of clothing, or they have
some personal charisma, or some material and mental advantage
or difference. But this verse doesn't say that.
It says, Blessed is the man. You know what it says? The man. It doesn't say, Blessed is the
king. It doesn't say, Blessed are the rich. It doesn't say,
Blessed is the people. It doesn't say, Blessed is the
decent. It doesn't say, Blessed is the scholar. If there's prayer, or there's
snow weather, you say, that's what it's about. It's just another. I tell you this, if there is,
now let me tell you this, if there's any growth, conservative,
or distinction, spiritual distinction, among any of us, only by God's
grace. It's not in our nature. If anybody
knows anything, God calls it. If anybody has anything, God
creates it for them. If any man's attained to anything
in this world, here it is. As he said tonight, and that's
what God is. Unto you that believe he's precious,
well, the very fact that you believe on him is a gift of God.
That's right. So blasphemy is the name of it.
And this man, this man here who's happy and highly favored and
blessed, is a man who's subject to the powers of life, sickness,
yes, weariness, pain, disappointment, yet even death. He's subject
to every one of those things. And if he lives long enough,
he'll walk through every one of those things. And he's not shielded or protected
from any of those things. He's not only a man subject to
the powers of life, but this man, this blessed is the man. I wish I could get that across.
The woman, the man, just a plain old everyday person. But he's
subject to the infirmities of this life. Do not ever dream
that the blessed man is without fault. He's not without fault. He's still in the flesh, which,
like any other man, desires the comfort and pleasure of that
flesh. Like any other man, he has a
heart that can be wounded, and a heart that can be angered.
Like any other man, he has ears which hear untimeworthy. He has
eyes that see. things that are disappointing.
He has a tongue that speaks too quickly, too often. He's still
a man. Blessed is the man. That's the
problem. But he's highly favored, blessed
or not. And he's also a man who needs
help. He needs God's help. For this blessed faith is not
of him, it's of God, for he is a tree which was what? Planted
by the rivers of living water. And that water is Christ, and
that tree is planted by God. See, he's blessed, he's a man
subject to all of the powers of life and the infirmities of
life, and he's a man who needs help, daily help. Our Lord calls
us to pray for our daily bread. Well, what does it say about
this blessed man? Now let's look at it. Blessed
is the man. What does it say about him? Well,
it sums it up in three things. It tells us some things he does
not do. It tells us some things that
he does. And then it tells us a blessed
state in which he lives. This highly-paced, happy man,
this blessed man. First of all, some things that
he does not do. It says, Blessed is the man that
walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. Now, a man's walk,
what is a man's walk? He does not walk in the counsel
of the ungodly. What is a man's walk? Well, a
man's walk is the center of his life. It's the direction, it's
the general direction of his life. That is, of his thought,
of his conviction, of his understanding. It's the way of the individual.
It's his way. You say, I don't like his ways.
I like her ways. Well, what is her ways? It's
her walk. It's her walk. It's her direction. It's the
tenor of that person's life, the general tenor of that person's
life, the pin of the wheel, that way in which that person's going.
That's his walk. Well, it says, this man, this
blessed man, does not walk in the council of the ungodly. Now, notice the spelling of the
word council, c-o-u-n-c-i-l. It's not to be confused with
c-o-u-n-c-i-l. A c-o-u-n-c-i-l is a council,
as the nato council, when they sit around a table. there's a
council meeting down here. That means some people who sit
around a table, an organization, or a planning board, or something
like this. But this is, he does not walk.
His direction's not. His life is not in the council,
c-o-u-n-c-e-l. That is the thought, idea, general
wisdom of the ungodly. He does not walk in or agree
with their counsel, their thoughts, their ideas. They're not for
wisdom. It's like we said of our God
and natural men, your thoughts are not my thoughts. Your ways
are not my ways. And that's what this blessed
man can say of all natural men in general. Your thoughts are
not my thoughts. Your ways are not my ways. What
you see I don't believe. And what you think, I don't believe.
Your counsel, your wisdom, the wisdom of this world. See what
I'm saying? He does not walk in, that's not
his direction. He does not walk in, that's not
the pen of his will, the pen of his life. That's not his counsel,
that's not his wisdom. And he does not walk in it that
way, in that counsel, in those thoughts of the ungodly. The ungodly, you're talking here
a picture about the drunk? No, not necessarily. The harlot? No, not necessarily.
The thief? No, I'm raising up the ways of
the thief, or the murderer, or the drunkard, but that's not
what he's talking about here. The ungodly here may be your
closest friend. The ungodly here may be your
family, the ungodly here may be your neighbor. The ungodly
are people who are simply not godly. They're not people who love and
worship the true and living God. A man who does not believe in
God and his power like he prayed a while ago. I rejoice that God
is proper, and I rejoice that God does what he does on purpose.
I rejoice that none can stay here, and I rejoice that Christ's
death is effectual." That's not the counsel of the religious
work. They're ungodly. They're ungodly. I received a phone call from
a friend last night. off in another state. And he told me on the phone about
this little boy that had picked up some words and ideas and strange
thoughts. Strange thoughts. And he said
that he went to talk to a preacher about it. The preacher said the
boy was demon possessed. He said, what do you think? I
said, I can't give very much thought about this thing because
I'm too far away from you, you know. I don't, I don't think
about the little boy. Then I said, let me ask you a
question. I said that he's using words like devils and demons
and all these different things, you know, strange words that
these charismatic people use. And I said, where, where is he
going to search? He said, well, I send him to
a Sunday school. I said, you what? He said, I
send him. I said, you don't take him? You don't know what they're
teaching you. You don't know what he's hearing.
You don't know what he's learning. You're taking your little six-year-old
boy and putting him in the hands of a bunch of religious nuts,
and they're training him in the most vital area of his little
life, in his most formative years, and teaching him weirdo, foolish
things. Shame on you. You get him out
of that right now. out of the hands of those people.
And you teach them at home the things of God. That's another
counsel. You say, those folks down there
at that place, they don't gamble. Yeah, they're gambling their
eternal souls on a foolish profession. But they're not drunk, and they're
not heartless, and they're clean, moral people, but they're ungodly. For they do not know the living
God. Any religion won't do, my friend. Any gospel won't do. Any message won't do. I don't
walk in their way. I don't walk in the council.
I don't meet in their C-O-U-N-C-I-L and try to prepare how we're
going to get our garbage picked up every two minutes. I'll meet in their C-O-U-N-C-I-L,
a town meeting, and elect who we're going to elect to Congress
or something like that, but I'm not of their wisdom. We're done. That's it. You see what I'm saying?
This man does not walk in this. The blessed man follows his love,
the counselor. There's one counselor. His name
should be called Wonderful Counselor. C-O-U-N-S-E-L-L-O-Y. Right? What's that say? That's,
that's, see, this blessed man is different. He does not walk in the house
of the Lord's gospel. Secondly, he doesn't stand in
the way of sinners. We're all sinners. What's that
talk about? Well, the proverb says something about birds of
a feather flocking together. See the old men down at the courthouse.
Go by some country, central Kentucky courthouse, and there they all
sit. They've been sitting there for years. They have a lot in common which
causes them to want to be together. See the ladies down here gathered
at their bridge club or whatever? They have a lot in common, conversation-wise
and every other way. See the kids at school in their
little cliques and circles in the hall out on the campus? Birds
of a feather flock together. Those who have things in common,
they like to talk about the same things, plan the same things,
see the nations and the elks and the mooses and the club members
all meeting together in their funny little hats and everything.
That's their triumph of decision. This blessed man does not enjoy
the company, the conversation, the communion of the potent.
He doesn't stand in their way. He doesn't stand on the street
corner with them. He doesn't stand in the circle with them.
He does not stand out on the campus with them. He doesn't
stand down at the courthouse with them. because their conversation
and their profane ways and the way that they live and talk and
act and so forth is a burden to him. That's right. A burden to him. You will not find him voluntarily
standing in the way of that kind of crowd. He's still strong. You remember Walk on Down? That's
the way this man is. He walks on back. He walks on back. The company
he enjoys, the companionship he enjoys, and the conversation
he enjoys, has something to do with his Lord. Because he enjoys,
and I'm telling you, that he enjoys. He does not enjoy the
other. It's a burden to the And then
another thing about him, he doesn't sit in the seat of the scornful. The scornful is the critic. The person who speaks harshly,
critical, know-it-all. You know, there's a lot of know-it-alls
in this world, in the religious world, in the world in general.
And the critic and the scorner and the know-it-all have sat
down. He sat down in his feet of human wisdom, of self-righteousness,
of having arrived and satisfaction, and he will not lose. He's sat
down. He has set in judgment on everybody else. He has set
in judgment on the Word of God. He has set in judgment on the
ways of God. He has set in judgment on the
people of God. He's set in judgment on all men.
He knows. But this righteous man, this
blessed man, will not sit down with him or side with him, but
he'll avoid him, for he's like the apostle Paul who's always
said, Oh, that I may win Christ. He's not sitting down, he's pressing
forward. He's not arrived, he hasn't apprehended,
he hasn't laid hold upon that for which Christ has laid hold
of him. He's not perfect, he forgets
those which are behind, those things which are behind him,
and moves forward. always reaching out. Always. You're not stuck on that. Notice the subjection of this,
of this ruin and misery of meaning. There's counsel, standing, and
sitting. First of all, a man listens to
their counsel. He listens to the Word. And then
the first thing you know, he stands with the world. And the
next thing you know, he's taken history. See that? Not this man. Not this man. Oh, not this man. Blessed is
the man, listen to how the hymn writer put it, blessed is the
man who shuns the place where counsels and thoughts of the
ungodly meet. who finds no joy in their wicked
ways, and sits not down in presumptuous peace." Well, secondly, it tells us some
things this man does. That's what he doesn't do. Verse
two, "...but his delight." Now, every person, and I'm speaking
in general, I know we have our highs and our lows, I know that.
We have our ups and our downs. But I'm saying that every person
has some actual delight. Every person has in his general
makeup, and in his personality, and in himself, in his soul,
some supreme pleasure of spirit and heart. That's what means
the most to me. That which after all is said
and done, after all is said and done, this is. That which is
going to be. The thing in which he really
delights. What about this happy man? His
delight, his deep joy and pleasure, is from all the Lord. Now, that's
not the ten commandments. You didn't see the Pharisee in
the temple? That's his delight. I thank you, God, I'm not an
exception. I thank you, God, I'm what I
am. That's his delight. But this man's delight is the
Word of the Lord. All the Word of the Lord. And
I'm sure this is not just Scripture, but this is the Word of God written
and incarnated. This is Christ's Word. But you
can't separate the written Word from the incarnate Word. Our
Lord Jesus Christ, in John 1, is called the Word of God. He
is the Word of God. He is the Word of God. And this
person, this pastor, this blessed man, is to keep the life, is
to bring the life, is the Word of God, written and incarnate.
and the daily revelation of God's will, God's purpose, God's mercy,
God's righteousness, God's glory, and hope. And he would rather,
of all things, he would rather be doing what we're doing right
now, finding out what his God has to say to him. Is that so? Yeah, it really is. It really
is, because the Word of God is the children's bread, the Word
of God is the green pastures in which he feeds, the Word of
God is his sole rule of faith and practice, the Word of God
is his comfort. Comfort one another with these
words. The Word of God is his strength
and power. Like Charles said, there's not
a believer without power. That's every day, every day. The Word's my comfort. The Word's
my assurance. The Word's my hope. The Word's
my support in old age. The Word is my foundation in
death. It's my supreme delight, really. I believe I can say that.
His delight is in the Word of God. And listen, and in that
Word does he meditate day and night. In that word does he meditate
day and night. Now listen, please listen to
me. And in that word does he meditate
day and night. Now I know the value of our coming
together here at the services. I know the value of that. I know
the value of the preaching of the word and the teaching of
the word of God. I know the value of it. I know
that God has ordained it for the maturity, for the growth,
for the comfort, for the conversion of sinners. But I also know the weakness
of preaching. And I suppose that we're living
as far as preaching is concerned, preaching God-glorifying, Christ-honoring. I suppose we're living in the greatest famine of such
that ever plagued the planet. You turn on your radio, your
TV, that stuff is plagued. What's being preached today,
generally, I'm talking about Graham and all the rest of it,
that's the weakest, frank water that anybody ever had to live. That's not preaching. There's
no preaching there. I know the weakness of today's
preaching. I know the weariness of the flesh.
I know the weariness of having to listen, having to listen to
men who are ordained, and men who are supposedly trained, and
men who supposedly are sent of God. Listening to them say nothing,
nothing, nothing. I feel like some of that's a
dog. They must think they're dogs.
They're throwing bones. That's all they're throwing.
There's no meat on it. God has mercy on our generation. But the thought is, if you can
wade through it, if you can separate yourself from it, if you can
find the word here, and find occasionally the word here, and
the word preached there in yonder, wherever you can go and hear
the word, hear God magnified, hear Christ exalted, hear the
word called and preached, and explain. Yes, explain. Not just trying to explain this
to me. Then get your, store your sum up. Store it up. Memorize it. Then buy yourself
day and night, morning and night. Isn't that right? Don't do like
Tom Hardy does. He's dangerous. He drives a truck
or something. I don't know the name of the
truck. But he drives a big truck. Has a great big windshield. He
has a steering wheel. And right here, great big ones,
you know, plenty of room. And he has a desk up there. He keeps his Bible on it. And
he goes buzzing down the four-laner, reading the Word of God. But he loves it, don't you? He
loves it. The thought here is that man
delights in the Word of God, and he meditates upon that. Personal
commitment, love heart, meditation upon not what some Christians
say. I'm getting rid of the word.
I just don't want to hear anybody come in and say, you know what
that guy said today? I don't want to hear what he
said today. Tell me what somebody said that
glorifies my Lord. I've written those tellers off
anyway. But don't even get personal. Let's go ahead and talk about
it. Let's meditate on Him in this way. Boy, here's the blessed
faith this man is in. Verse three, And this blessed
man shall be like a tree planted. This isn't a wild tree. It didn't
just come up. It didn't just come up. This
is a tree chosen, planted, cultivated, and protected, and pruned, and
cared for. You know what the Lord Jesus
said? Every plant which my heavenly
Father did not plant before that, this one is planted. You know
what he's saying? He should be like a tree planted, where? Like
a river, you know, until this morning, and then you see that
word plural, rivers of water. So I went to Mr. Mercer, and
he said, that's right, rivers of water. If one should fail,
there's another. There's another. We have rivers
of mercy, rivers of grace, rivers of love. But the water and the
fountain and the spring and the source is Christ. Rivers. He's planted by rivers
of water. An exhaustible source. An exhaustible
source. And it says here that, "...bringeth
forth his fruit in his season." In season? A man said to Mr. Spurgeon one time, said, uh,
I'm worried about dying. Mr. Spurgeon said, why are you
worried about dying? He said, I don't have dying grace.
He said, are you dying? He said, no. He said, we don't
need it. In season. In season. And this man, watch
it now, he bringeth forth fruit, his fruit, his fruit in his season. His fruit, his season, who's
the healer? I believe it's him, our Lord. His fruit, his season. What is
his fruit? Faith, when it says season, in
the time of sorrow. Joy, in the time of sorrow. Love, in the time of comfort. in the season of struggle, gentleness
in a time of haste, meekness in a time of honor, goodness
in a time of need, moderation, and all that. He's God-free, and He's planted
by God, and He's never-ending source of nourishment, and you'll
bring forth the fruit, and you'll see. Amen. And notice it says, and his leaf
also shall not wither. Something else I never did see,
but you know, if you study the Word of God, you'll see something
new every minute, let alone every day. But notice he described
the fruit before he gave the leaf, He said the fruit will
be brought forth in his season, and he says his leaf will not
wither. We have turned it around. I'd say there's a tree that's
evergreen, that leaves always there, and it brings forth fruit,
but he says it brings forth fruit and the leaf will never wither.
Every true preacher knows that the kingdom of God is not in
appearance, it's in power. The kingdom of God is not in
appearance, it's not in words, it's in power and truth. A tree can have leaves and not
have fruit. My Lord cursed the tree one time
because it had leaves and didn't have any fruit. That's right. But a tree can't
have any fruit and not have leaves. You've seen priests that believe
with no proof. You've seen smart-alecks, pop-offs,
loudmouths, charismatic, argent-religionists who make you think that they
have a corner on God, just a bunch of leaves and no proof. But you'll never meet a believer,
a true believer, with proof of what I believe. Let me tell you
what I believe. You ever notice in Acts 1, it
says, Jesus began to do and to teach? It says in Luke 24, 19,
that Jesus Christ was a prophet mighty in, what do we usually
say, word and deed? That's not what it says. It says,
Jesus Christ was a prophet mighty in deed and truth. I guess that
could be said about all. are mighty in word and ain't
much in deed, but he was mighty in deed and truth. That's what
it is. And the Lord's praise were evergreen.
All right, what's this? And whatsoever he doeth shall
prosper. Now then, whatsoever he doeth
shall prosper. Here again is your health and
wealth God wants you to be prosperous. God wants you to have not one
car, but six. God wants you to have a lot of
money and all. Wait a minute now, wait a minute. That's not His counsel. Don't
you confuse or attach this with carnal prosperity. Whatsoever
He doeth shall prosper. Whatsoever He doeth shall prosper.
to the natural eyes in reverse with generalization. It's not outward prosperity. That's not even to be desired
or badly compared to the prosperity of the soul. Having food and
rain, but therewith to be happy, content. What we're talking about
here is what way does he do it? We're talking here about the
prosperity of the soul. We're talking about the kingdom
of God. We're talking about that hidden, secret prosperity, communion,
relationship, intimate relationship with God in which all things
work together for the good, the prosperity, and the security
of the soul of the man who knows God. All right? Our Lord Jesus Christ had one
robe. He said, The Son of Man has no
place to lay his head. He was despised, rejected of
men, a man of sorrow, acquainted with grief, and inherited where
our faith was from him. They spat upon him. He was bruised and wounded, but
the pleasure of the Lord prospered in his hands. It was prosperous,
the will of God, the kingdom of God. I don't know what God
has for you, for me, for tomorrow, the next day, the next year. I have no idea, but I do know
this. If what I've been reading here is true of me and of you,
then whatsoever we do, as far as our relationship with God
and the comfort and security and prosperity of our souls,
we shall prosper. Now then, closing, verse four,
the ungodly are not saved. Ah, not this ungodly. And I'm
not talking about the drunk. Now again, I'm talking about
the ungodly. Men who have no room and time for the living
God, that's who we're talking about. The ungodly are not souls,
they're like cats. And I was sitting today after
I worked on this lecture, looking out on my patio, and the leaves,
the wind was blowing. And it blew the leaves by, and
it blew the pecan shells by, and I thrown out for the squirrel,
and it, it just, the, uh, sunflower seed, wherever birds shell them
out and eat them, then leave it to the chaff. And the wind
might have just blown it away. Oh, what horrible cause, but
the chaff puts the wind out of the way. But, oh, thank God,
a tree planted by God. My rippers have a failing ripper,
the water black, to bring it forth the fruit, in his season,
and with leap also. And whatsoever he doeth, however
it's judged by me, and that poor judge is unclean, I am human. Because I can't see in him, and
I can't even see that grand design God has for that man. And I say,
well, it's like he's taking two steps backwards as a stepfather,
but he's this side. Prājñāni, hands on.

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