Now let's turn back to the book
of Psalm, the seventeenth Psalm, this Psalm of David. And I want you to open your Bibles,
if you will, and followers, I give you a brief account of this Psalm. But let me practice the message
with just two or three comments that I think are fitting, since
we have several men in the service tonight who do preach the gospel,
who teach the Word of God. It is not our words that convert
the soul. It's the Word of God. It is not our arguments. It is
not our illustrations. It is not our persuasive powers. or enticing words. It's the Spirit
of God using the Word of God. I think one of the mistakes that
we make sometimes in preparing messages and preaching to the
people is we try to tell what we do not know, and we try to
explain what we have not experienced, and that can't be done. A man
cannot tell what he does not know. And there's no reason for
him to try. And when he does, he makes a
fool of himself or comes across to the people as an intellectual.
A young man sat in my study several years ago. I asked him to preach
here on a Wednesday night. He came to the office and I said,
what are you preaching Wednesday night? He said, I'm going to
preach from the book of Nahum. I said, how many times have you
preached in your life? He said, four times. I said,
don't tackle Nahum. You don't know enough about Nahum
to preach on Nahum. Tell the people what God's done
for you. Tell the people what you know.
Don't try to tell them what you don't know. We're not here to
impress anyone. It's not our business to impress
people. It's our business to preach the
gospel. And I'm going to give you a running account of some
of the words in Psalm 17. I don't know the meaning of every
word in Psalm 17. I don't know the meaning of most
of the words in Psalm 17. There are a few things in Psalm
17 that I see, that I can clearly see, some things I do know. Some things that I have personally
experienced and therefore I can deal with these particular areas.
I cannot deal with areas that have not been revealed to me.
And we must not try. God doesn't expect us to. The
secret things belong to God. The revealed things to us. Many
times in preparing a message for this congregation, I'll even
select a text and establish an introduction. And then come to
the first point and write out the point and then sit back and
look at it and say, now, is that point clear to me? Do I understand
that point? Does that point live for me?
If it is not clear, I don't understand it, it does not live, I better
erase it. Because I cannot, I cannot present
it to you. And these are very simple things,
but they're simple things that are simply overlooked. And when
we as preachers struggle, we usually struggle with an area
with which we're not familiar. That's when we struggle. You
can tell people about your children because they're real to you.
You love them. You've experienced their fellowship
and their companionship. You can tell people about your
wife. You can tell people about your job. You can tell people
about that part of God's Word that you have lived. that you
have lived, but you can't tell them anything about that part
which you have not lived. That's the reason it's tragic
for a man who doesn't love to preach on love. He can't do it. A man who's never experienced
true repentance to preach on repentance, he can't do it. So
as I look at this scripture tonight in Psalm 17, the first verse,
here's what I see. And I've tried to make this ministry
and message simple. And people say, well, Brother
Mahan, if you've heard him once, you've heard him. That's not
all bad. He doesn't have any education.
That's not all bad. I try to make the message simple.
I never will forget an old preacher one time, he said he had prepared
a real complicated, intellectual, orthodox, theologically sound
sermon, and he was sitting there waiting for the pastor to introduce
him, and the choir sang a special. And the chorus of the special
went like this, the base part, make the message plain, make
the message plain, make the message plain. He said he sang all four
verses all the way through, and the chorus over and over again,
and he got under conviction. And he got up and preached the
plain message to the people. Just make the message plain.
Make it plain. And here in verse 1 of Psalm
17, David pleads for hearing three times. He pleads for hearing. He says in verse 1, hear the
right, O Lord, hear justice. Hear me. Hear me. Secondly, he said, attend unto
my cry. Listen to me. Thirdly, he said,
give ear to my prayer. That's what he's saying here.
He's saying, hear justice. Hear right, O God. Attend unto
my cry, give ears to my prayer. And he says, this prayer goeth
not out of faint lips. I speak without lips of deceit. I pray sincerely. And that's
the only prayer the Lord God is going to hear. That one which
is born of a genuine heart and a sincere heart and comes forth
out of lips that do not practice deceit, not with God. And then
verse 2, he says this, let my sentence, let my sentence come
forth from your presence. Let thine eyes behold the things
that are equal." What's David saying here? He entreats the
righteous judge, the judge of righteousness, the righteous
judge of all the earth, he entreats the righteous judge himself to
give sentence in David's case. He knows he will be dealt with
in truth and righteousness and justice if God deals with him.
Like Brother Barnard used to say, you better be glad I'm not
God. And I thoroughly am glad you're
not God. I'm glad God is God. And I'm
glad that I'm in His hands and not in the hands of men. And
my sentence will come from a righteous God. Now let me show you that
if you'd like to turn to Isaiah chapter 45. Isaiah 45 verse 19.
Isaiah 45, 19. God's going to speak in righteousness.
Righteousness. What David is saying here, Lord,
you look upon me in Christ. And I know if you look upon me
in Christ, I'll have a clear veil for you. If you look at
me in Christ... See, men can't see me in Christ.
You can't see me in Christ. But God sees me in Christ, and
what David is saying here, Lord, you be my judge. You speak my
sentence from there, not from here. I hear people say, he's
not saved, or she's not saved, or that person's not saved. Only
God knows that. One old writer said this, bold
stand I in that great day, for who ought to my charge shall
lay. while through his blood redeemed
I am from sin's tremendous guilt and shame." Lord, let my sentence
come from you. Listen here in Isaiah 45, 19.
God says, I've not spoken in secret. I don't go around whispering
in a dark place of the earth. I said not to the seed of Jacob,
seek ye me in vain. For I, the Lord, I speak righteousness,
I declare things as they are. That's what he's I declare things
that are right. And that's what David is saying
right here in verse 2. Let my sentence, let my sentence,
let my fate, let my future, let what shall happen to me come
from your throne, from your throne. Let your eyes behold the things
that are equal. Alright, look at verse 3. For,
Lord, you have proved my heart." You know what David is saying
here? David is using the same argument Peter used down by that
seashore one day when the Lord Jesus Christ had beckoned the
disciples in from the sea, and they came in and docked their
boat and sat around the fire and aid, and then he took Peter
aside alone and he said, Peter, do you love me? And Peter said,
Lord, you know my heart. That's what it is. You know all
things. You know I love you. And that's
exactly what David's saying here. Lord, I want my sentence to come
from your presence. Your eyes behold things that
are right, things that are equal, because you prove my heart. You know I love you. You know
I love you. because you visited me in every
hour, you visited me in the daytime and in the darkness of night,
you've come in my bedchamber and you've tried me and you've
found no hypocrisy." Now he's not claiming perfection,
he's claiming absence of hypocrisy. He's not claiming he's without
fault or without guilt, he's simply saying that God has tried
his heart and almighty God has found in his heart a confidence
in Christ and a rest in Christ and a love for Christ. That's what he's saying. Lord,
you've proved my heart. Men look on the outward countenance,
but you've vested me in the night when there's no one around to
impress. And there's nobody around to
try to influence. But you've visited me in the
quietness of the night, and you've searched my heart and tried my
heart and my soul, and you've found nothing there, nothing
there, but contrary to faith and love, faith in Christ and
love for the Redeemer. I purpose that my mouth shall
never deny him. By his grace I'll never deny
him. All right, verse 4, now he says
concerning the works of men, by the words of your lips I have
kept thee from the paths of the destroyer. What do you see there,
preacher? Here's what he's saying, I've
kept to the way of the word of God. He says, I know the works
of men and I know the words of men, but thy word is my lamp,
thy word is my light, I have kept to the word of God, not
to the thoughts of men, not to the ways of men, not to the counsel
or wisdom of men or the understanding of men as a way that seems right
to men, but he says I have kept to this word right here. And
by this word I have been kept from the paths of destruction
and from the paths of the destroyer. Satan has no weapon which can
succeed against this word right here. Let me show you a verse
of Scripture that says the same thing. 1 John 2, verse 14. 1 John 2, verse 14. He says, John says, I have written
unto you fathers. 1 John 2, verse 14. I have written unto you fathers
because you have known him that is from the beginning. I've written
unto you, young men, because you're strong, and the word of
God abideth in you, and you've overcome the wicked one." That's
the destroyer. How'd you do it? You did it by
the word of God. Well, I've been preaching a long
time. I'm approaching the sunset year, but I'm more convinced
than ever that our great foundation and our solid rock and the foundation of our faith
is this word right here. I believe we need to read it
more in the services, need to teach it more in the classes,
need to share it more with one another, need to read it more
privately. and seek with all of our hearts
to believe it, whether we understand it or not, but believe it. Because
it's his word. It's his word. I have kept to
the word of thy lips, and it's kept me from the path of the
destroyer. If his word teaches man total,
complete fall, I believe it. If his word teaches his sovereign
particular election, I believe it. If his word teaches reprobation? When we were in Africa, we were
to go to a certain church and preach, and one of the missionaries
there wrote to Brother Ken Wymer and said, when Brother Clark
comes here to preach this year, ask him not to mention reprobation. Bill got terribly upset. Don't
blame him. Man tells you not to mention
something, you almost have to. If it's in the Word of God, that's
right. I don't understand reprobation, but Judas was reprobate. Pharaoh was reprobate. There's
some folks reprobating in Romans chapter 1. And we must not explain
away the Word of God. I believe the Word. Alright, verse 5. Listen to what
he says here. Now, hold up my going. in thy path that my footsteps
slip not." One of the writers asked four questions, or five
questions here. He asked, who? Who? Well, O Lord
God, you hold up my going. That's who God. What? Hold up my going. What's my going? My direction, my walk, my steps. Hold up my steps. You hold me
up. You hold me up. When? Right now,
present tense, at all times. He said, hold up my goings. Hold me up. Continually hold
me. Where? Hold up my goings in your paths. Not in my ways. I don't expect
God to hold me up in my tangents. And in my ways, but hold me up
in your ways. Hold me. Lord God, hold me and
I'll be healed. Keep me and I'll be cast. Hold
me up in thy ways, in thy paths. Watch this. Why? Why? That my footsteps slip not, be
not moved. What? A believer slip in the
way of God? What? A believer slide or slip
on the road of faith? Oh yeah, the road's good, but
you're human. The road's solid. The road's
not slippery. You're slippery. There's nothing wrong with the
footing, but the foot's got problems. That's what the problem is. There's
nothing wrong with the road. The road's been there forever. The road's
established and solid, slide-proof. It does not deceive. But we got
something on the bottom of our feet. And we just can't quite
get those feet planted sometimes. They just slip up. And he said,
Lord, hold me. Hold me. You hold me. Hold up
my direction. Hold my direction. Hold my walk,
my steps, right now, all the time, in your path. Keep me. And I slide not. And I slip not. And then verse 6, he says, I
have called upon thee. I have called upon thee. But I will hear me, O God. Incline
your ear unto me, and hear my speech. I've called upon you,
and you've always heard me." You've always heard me. I thought
about what I tried to, when I made comments, I made the first part
of the message about experiencing something before we preach it.
The Lord's heard us here at 13th Street. We've called on him.
He's heard us, hasn't he? We called on Him. We called on
Him again and again. We called on Him a long time
ago. Called on Him when we were few in number and called on Him when the cupboard was kind of
bare. Oh, we called on Him. He heard that He met every need.
We called. That's what David said, I have
called. And he didn't say, you have heard.
He said, I have called for thou wilt hear me. You not only have,
but you will. Somebody said experience is the
best teacher. That's an old proverb, isn't
it? But I'll tell you, he who has tried the faithfulness of
God will come back again and again. He who has tried the promises
of God will come back again and again in confidence. And one
man said this, about this sixth verse, look at it again. Now,
I have called unto thee, or upon thee, for thou wilt hear me,
O God, incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech. This
is clever. He said you have two words here,
two little words, call and hear. I call and you hear. Then he said you have two persons. One of them doesn't amount to
much, but one of them is almighty. I called and you heard. You heard. Then he said, you have two tenses
here, past tense, I have called, and you have the future tense,
he will hear. He will hear. He'll keep on hearing.
And then he said, you have two wonders, two amazing wonders. One, that I don't call on him
more. Looks like I'd call on him more. If I have called and
he will hear, why don't I call more?" And you know the other
wonder? That he condescends to hear us. That ought to amaze us. I appreciate
Bill's prayer so much a moment ago, and I thought while he was
praying, oh, wonder of wonders that God hears the voice of a
human being. Put your ear to my mouth," David
said. Incline your ear to me. Put your
ear to my mouth and hear me. Now look at verse 7. Show thy marvelous lovingkindness. You know what he's saying here?
He's saying God's lovingkindness is marvelous. His lovingkindness
is marvelous. Nothing complicated about that.
How is his loving kindness so marvelous? Well, one, in its
antiquity. I have drawn thee with an everlasting
love. Anything. You know, most of us
are impressed with old things. We had supper in England at a
restaurant that was built 500 years ago. And it had beans in there that
were built, was put up there 500 years ago. One of the beans,
it said, Behold the Lamb of God. And that restaurant is older
than the United States. It was built before Columbus
came to this country. That impresses me. But let me
tell you something. The loving kindness of God is
older than 500 years. It's older than 5 million years.
He said, I've drawn you with an everlasting love. He's always
loved us. He's always loved us. My wife and I are celebrating
our 39th anniversary tonight. We've been married 39 years.
I've loved her for 39 years and 6 months. But God's always loved me. We
don't have any anniversary, just from eternity to eternity. I've
always been an object of His love. Do you believe that? You
have to, it's God's Word. God never changes. He loves you
now, He loved you then. The loving kindness of God is
marvelous in its long suffering. What He's put up with out of
you and me, Let me read you a verse, don't turn to it, I flipped right
to it. It says here, Thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion,
gracious, long-suffering, long-suffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth. God's loving kindness is marvelous
in its unchangeableness, in its immutability. He said, I'm the
Lord, I don't change, therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. The lovingkindness of God is
marvelous in its faithfulness. I am the Lord. I change not,
and I'll never leave you. And it's marvelous in its power. He's able to save to the uttermost
them that come to God by Him. And then listen to David in the
latter part of verse 7. O show thy marvelous lovingkindness,
O thou that savest by thy right hand. Wonder who that could be. Who sits at his right hand? Who
reigns at his right hand? Unto whom did he say, Come thou
and sit on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? That's how God saves, by him
who sits at his right hand, and he'll save all who put their
trust in him. I was called to go to the hospital
Now Bell thought yesterday to talk with a man whom I've never
met, never seen, never known, 67 years old. He's listened to
me on television from up somewhere in eastern Kentucky. His sister
is a strong supporter of this television ministry and she insisted
I go and talk with him. He's an intensive care. He can't
speak a word. His lungs are gone. He can't
talk. He's got a tube down his throat.
He's 67 years old. He's going out to meet God. His
wife, Neva, said to me before I went into intensive care to
talk with him, she said, he reads his Bible, he believes in predestination,
believes in election, but as far as I know, he's never made
any public or open confession of faith in Christ. That's your
assignment. He can't answer you, all he can
do is blink his eyes. So this is what I've tried to
show him, verse 7 of Psalm 17. O thou that savest by thy right
hand, them that put their trust in thee. Can you trust Christ?
There's nobody else to trust. David, can you look to Christ?
There's nowhere else to look. Can you call on Christ? He has
the words of life. That's all I could say, Bill.
And he just looked at me. Big old tears. My friends, don't
wait until they call me down there to visit you like that. Why don't you trust Christ now?
Why don't you? Why don't you cast yourself on
Him? He can save all who put their
confidence in Him. And I shook hands with him when
I left. That's the last time I'll ever
see him. That's the first time I ever saw him, that's the last
time I'll ever see him. And I said to him, what I said
to you Sunday, I said, David, come to Christ. Here he was,
both hands tied to the bed, needles in both arms, his head back,
that thing down his throat, hard to breathe. Brother, how can
he come to Christ? Same way you come. If he's blind as a bat, he'll
still come to Christ, he'll still see Christ. He'll see Christ
with the heart. And here's the thing, O thou
that saveth us, I can't save David, you can't, but God can. I told him about that thief on
the cross, I said, David, that fellow, He looked to Christ.
He admitted his guilt. He owned Christ's Lordship. And
he cast himself on the mercy of God. And God saved him. And the big old tear came again.
He can save you. Boy, I believe that. Verse 8. David says this. He says, keep
me as the apple of your eye. Now everybody here knows that's
pupil of the eye. That's what that is. You see
what David is saying here, Lord, you keep me. I get tired of people
talking about they're holding on and keeping on, keeping on,
and the only thing you'll keep on is a toboggan slide to hell.
But you keep me, he said, you keep me, preserve me, provide
for me, protect me. If one sheep of Christ could
fall away, I'd fall a hundred times a day. But he'll keep me,
he'll keep me till the river rolls its waters at my feet,
and then he'll bear me safely over where my Savior I'll meet."
And two emblems here of tenderness and care are considered. Look at them. He says, he'll
keep me like a man protects the pupil of his eye. That's pretty
sensitive. Oh, my. Pupil of thine. And then you'll keep me like
a mother bird hides the little birdies under her wings. Under thy wings I am safely abiding. Now that's, you know, why can't
we preach like that? Why do we have to get in these
intellectual stuff? This says this in the Greek.
Well, my folks can't preach. You can't speak Greek and I can't
either. This says this in the Hebrews. You don't know anything
about Hebrews. No Hebrews out here. This is
what the great so-and-so said. Let's hear what the simple fella
said. David says, keep me like a man
keeps the pupil of his eye. Everybody knows something about
that. Ever get anything in your eye? Whoo! Boy, I tell you, that's
something else. I'm going to take care of those
eyes. And those little birds? You ever see a robin take after
a cat? She can't whip that cat, but
she'll try. That little bird. My Lord can whip a cat. And a
half a dozen of them. And then verse 9 through 14,
I'll just give you this, because he talks about, he prays for
deliverance. And I just grouped this all together.
Deliverance from his enemies. What are his enemies? The world,
the flesh, and the devil. The outside, the inside, and the mysterious side. That's
my enemies. He said, keep me as the pupil
of your eye, as the bird under your wings. What from? From the
wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies. Who are your
enemies? You got as many on the inside as you do on the outside.
That's right. who compass me about, they're
enclosed in their own fact with their mouth, they speak proudly,
they've now compassed us in our steps, they have set their eyes
bowing down to the earth like a lion that's greedy of its prey,
a young lion lurking in secret places ready to pounce on you,
that's Satan and and all this flesh in the world, arise, O
Lord, disappoint him, cast him down, deliver my soul from the
wicked one, from Satan, by your sword, and deliver me from men
by your hand, O God." I heard just the other day about
a dear pastor friend, a young man, called to a church some
time ago. The people who called him, some of
them were, some of them that called him, two men in particular
I know were two of his closest friends and closest supporters,
held him up, prayed for him, bragged on me, you know, for
sending him their way and for several years, stood with
him, backed him, supported him. Now they've changed their minds. And they've become his archenemies,
out to run him off. Run him off. When he told me
that, I said, no, not those two. Yeah, those two. I said, no,
somebody else. No, those two. I said, no, I
don't believe that about this, this. But I wouldn't believe
that about those two. Yeah? Our Lord Jesus wouldn't
have, somebody wouldn't have believed it about Peter either,
wouldn't they? If Peter said, you're not supposed
to go to the cross. Satan, Satan, get thee behind. Don't, God keep me, deliver me
from the hand of the wicked one. Don't let Satan use me as his
tool against God's anointing. God help me, don't... Satan's
a crafty enemy, do you know that? You're not playing with an amateur. He knows more about human nature
than anybody but God, do you? Well, I'd never do that. Watch
out now. Careful. Oh, I'd never lift my
hand against the gospel. Watch out now. Watch out. The only thing you won't do is
what God keeps you from doing. That's the only thing you won't
do. I'll tell you one thing you'll never do. You'll never do what
God keeps you from doing. Everything else you're capable
of. Well, I'm telling you the truth.
There's some men in this congregation that are closer to me than my
daddy was, or my brother. But they know and I know that
it's only by God's grace that we stay together. That's right. Only by His grace. Lord, deliver
me, deliver me from the men of the world which have their portion
in this life, whose belly is filled with the hid treasure,
thy hid treasure. Their children are full, they
leave the rest of their substance to their babies. God keep me
as the eye full of the eye, pupil of the eye. Keep me, protect
me, watch over me, shut my mouth, order my steps, keep my hold
up my going so that I don't slide. Don't let Satan, don't let Satan
get the advantage. Don't let him get advantage.
If he gets just one inch advantage, he just takes it all. Don't let
him get an advantage. Verse 15, I've got to quit. But
he says, ask for me. Ask for me. Ask for me. Me, the sinner and the son. I'm
a sinner and I'm a son. I'm a complex being. You know
it's difficult to say, listen to me for a moment, it's difficult
to say to which we owe the most in this walk of faith. To our
friends or to our enemies. Did you know that? That's right. It's difficult to say to which
we owe the most to our joys or to our sorrows. Do I owe the most to my successes
or to my failures? Do I owe the most to my victories
or to my falls? To my times of rejoicing or to
my trials? Well I know this, persecution
drove the early church out to preach the gospel and they wouldn't
have gone. if persecution hadn't driven him out. I tell you, the enemies of the
gospel gave birth to the Reformation. They pushed old Luther back against
the wall so strong he came out fighting, preaching justification
by faith. Bill, I don't think he'd ever
done it if they hadn't pressured him, hadn't put it to him. But
they kept on putting it to him, he put on the gloves and he came
out fighting, justification by faith. Which experience made
Peter the great preacher of Pentecost, his confession of Christ or his
denial? Jonah had to be confined to a
whale's belly before he cried salvations of the Lord. Bob preaches on Philemon, does
a good job teaching that, but you know Bob, Philemon must run
away as a slave to return as a brother. He would never come
back as a brother if he hadn't run away as a slave. Job defended
himself before men, but he broke down before God. Which experience
was most profitable? The prodigal had to leave in
rebellion before he had ever come back in submission. And
that's the reason, let me say something else, but, but, when
Peter was used by Satan The Lord Jesus didn't put him out there
and leave him. He arose from the tomb and he
said, go tell my disciples and Peter that I'm waiting on them. When a fellow leaves, you don't
build a wall so high he can't get back over it. Just leave
it down, let him come back. Because God lets you come back. God lets you come back. And here is David, the shepherd
boy and the king, the hunted and the hunter, the man of joy
and the man of tears. Now watch this. Here's David,
the tender-hearted benefactor of Mephibosheth and the cold
destroyer of Uriah. And yet he says, I'll tell you
this, ask for me. Here I am, as I am, who I am. Here I am, as for me. Let me
say what I got to say about me. He said, as for me, I will. I will. I will. Boy, that confidence. I will. He didn't say I might, I could,
perhaps. I will. According to the promises
of God, I will behold his face. I will. I've seen His power in
judgment. I've seen His wisdom in providence.
I've seen His love at the cross. I've seen His glory in Christ
Jesus. And someday I'm going to see
His face. And you know what? I'm going
to behold His face in righteousness. I couldn't look on Him now and
live at all. But you think about it, I'm going
to be so righteous by the obedience of Christ and so pure from the
blood of Christ that I'm going to be able to stand and look
God Almighty in the eye. You think about that. Can't even
think about it now without falling down in the dust, but I'm going
to someday see His face and not blink. And not blink. He'll only be in the righteousness
of Christ. A God who can save without righteousness
could damn without reason. Is that right? Yeah, it could. People talk about they're going
to go and be with the Lord. Not on that little flimsy profession
of faith, you're not. He's going to be with the Lord.
Boy, I dread it when he walks into his presence. He's going
to say, how did you get in here without a wedding gown? The only
one who can dare be with the Lord are those who are robed
in, clothed in the righteousness of Christ and cleansed by His
blood. And they are going to behold
His face in righteousness. Not their own, but that of another.
And then I'm going to be satisfied. Charles Spurgeon prayed a prayer
one time, I think it's one of the greatest things I've ever
read. And he prayed it from this scripture,
I shall be satisfied when I awake with thy likeness.
He said, Lord, give me freedom from envy. Let me be content with what you
have given me. Let me say, you may have what
you will, and I will not envy you, for I am satisfied with
God's place for me. Give me such a love for thee
and for my fellow creatures that I can rejoice in their joys and
weep at their misfortune. And the more joy they have, the
more I'm glad of it. My candle will burn no less brightly
because yours burns brighter. In thee, O God, deliver me from
it. But how can I get rid of it?
By believing that I have so much in store in heaven that this
world does not know and cannot give. For what shall it profit me if
I gain the whole world and lose my soul? And then, O Lord, when I understand
this, I can look upon everything in this world and I can say,
it is nothing. Oh, I shall be satisfied. Whether
I can attain to that right there at this particular time, I don't
know, only by His grace. But I know this, one day I shall
be satisfied. When on that glorious morn I'm
resurrected and stand in His likeness.