Now we're turning to Psalm 91.
Psalm 91. Let me read the last three verses
of this 91st Psalm. There are seven promises set
forth here. He said, Because he hath set
his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him. Number one, I
will deliver him. Number two, I will set him on
high, because he hath known my name.
And number three, verse 15, He shall call upon me, and I'll
answer him. I will answer him. And number
four, I'll be with him in trouble. Number five, I will deliver him
and honor him, I'll honor him. And number six, in verse sixteen,
with long life, length of days, I will satisfy him. And number
seven, I'll show him my salvation. Now, anything this side of judgment
is mercy. Anything this side of hell is
mercy. There's no living person who
cannot say, the Lord is merciful. If you're here tonight and you're
not in hell, God is merciful. because we deserve God's wrath
and condemnation. We do. We deserve his wrath,
we deserve damnation, and anything this side of hell is the mercy
of God. Scripture says it rains on the
just and the unjust. He causes his sun to shine on
the just and the unjust. The sons of Adam should all rejoice
that we are not like the fallen angels, without hope of redemption,
chained in everlasting darkness. Do you believe that? I don't
think we do as much as we ought to. The angels fell, and the
scripture says God reserved them in everlasting chains, in unbroken
fetters, in darkness forever. And he took not on himself the
nature of angels, but he took on him the seed of Abraham. And
the fact that we're not chained in darkness tonight is indeed
the mercy of God. God is plenteous in mercy. He
delights to show mercy. But my friends, I'm interested
in more than just the mercy of God. Does that sound crude? But I am, I'm interested in more
than just the same mercy that all sons of Adam
receive. I'm interested in that special,
spiritual, eternal grace of God. That's what I'm interested in,
the grace of God. Someone said this, I'm not sure
this is true. But someone said one time, God
is merciful to everybody he's gracious to some. That every son of Adam participates in God's mercy,
but the elect are recipients of God's grace. And that grace
is summed up in these seven promises here. I want us to look at them
individually, just briefly. each one. But I want us to look
at them and see what they mean. In verse 14, the Lord said, I
will deliver him. I will deliver him. Here are
seven glorious, gracious promises. I will. I'll do it. I'll do it. He's not going to deliver himself.
I'm going to deliver him. Now, the word deliver means to
set free. The word deliver means to save
and to set free. And we have been set free from
the curse of the law. Do you realize what that means?
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law. I do not
have resting upon my head, if I am in Christ, the condemnation
or curse of God's broken law. I just don't have it. There is
therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ. We
don't need to fear the judgment of nations. We don't need to
fear the judgment seat of Christ. We don't need to fear the great
white throne judgment, because if the scripture is true, there
is no judgment to them who are in Christ. Is that right? There's
no need to bring a man to the judgment who is not under the
curse or condemnation of the law. If the law is satisfied,
if the law is fulfilled, then why would you bring him to judgment?
God said, I'll deliver him. I'll set him free. Not only have
we been delivered and set free from the curse of the law in
Christ, but we have been delivered and set free from all claims
of justice. Justice says the soul that sinneth
shall surely die. Justice says the wages of sin
is death. But Job said, deliver him, deliver
him from going down into the pit, I found a ransom. I found a ransom. So what God
says, I'll deliver him. I'll deliver him from the curse
of the law, from the claims of justice, and not only that, but
he has delivered us from ourselves. Isn't that great? He delivered
us from ourselves. The worst person in this world,
in whose hands you could be left, is your own hands. Did you know
that? Because there's a way that seemeth right to men, and the
end is death and destruction. I hear people say, do your own
thing. You don't want your own thing.
You don't want your own will. God said, your thoughts are not
my thoughts, and your ways are not my ways. And God hath delivered
us from our own hands, and put us in the hands of his Son, who
has willed and decreed for us to bear. I'm not in my hands,
I'm in Christ's hands. He's not in my hands, I'm in
his hands. He has delivered us from the
curse of the law, he has delivered us from the claims of justice,
and he has delivered us from ourselves. And fourthly, he has
delivered us from religion. Oh, my soul, to be delivered
from religion! A man will never be delivered
into the hands of Christ until he's delivered out of traditional
religion. Saul of Tarsus named all of his
religious accomplishments and heritage and so forth, and he
said, I count these things but dung. Those things that were
so important to me and so valuable to me, I now count them as dung
that I may win Christ and be found in him. Galatians 5 says,
He has delivered us from bondage. From bondage. He has set us free. We have entered into the liberty
of Christ. We're not in the bondage of traditional
religion. We have ceased from our works
and entered into His rest. His rest. All right, look at
the next promise. He said, I'll deliver Him. I'll
deliver Him. And I'll tell you this. Therefore,
mighty statements from the curse of the law, from the claims of
justice, delivered from himself, delivered from himself, and delivered
from religion. Oh, Peter stood up there in front
of that crowd at Pentecost, and he said, Save yourselves from
this generation, this religious generation, this perverted religious
generation. And then he said, I'll set him
on high. I'll set him on high. See it there in verse 14? I'll
set him on high. Well, now, this is not the high
seats of government. We're not talking about the high,
ecclesiastical seats of religion. That's not where God sets us
on high. We're not even talking about
the seats in the business world, the financial kingdom. Many have occupied these seats
to their own nightmare and misfortune. Actually, you don't want the
responsibility of government leadership. You don't want that.
Maybe thrust upon you, but you don't want it. Certainly don't
covet that type of leadership, or even in religion, or in finances. What this is talking about here,
I believe, in the light of all the rest of the Scripture, I
will set him on high, is found in Ephesians chapter 2. See if
you don't think this is true. He said, I'll deliver him and
I'll set him on high. I'll set him on high. In Ephesians
chapter 2, listen to this, verse 5, when we were dead in sin,
when we were dead in sin, God hath quickened us together with
Christ, by grace are ye saved, and hath raised us up together
with Christ, and made us sit with Christ in heavenly places
in Christ Jesus. Is that where it is? I'm confident
that's where it is. He hath seated us on high. In the Beloved accepted am I,
already risen, ascended, and seated on high. Saved from all
harm, by his infinite grace, with all the redeemed ones, I've
been afforded a place, and I'm seated on high." Turn to Colossians
3, and see if that's not what this is saying also. Colossians,
the third chapter. If you be risen with Christ,
seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right
hand of God. Set your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth, for you are dead and your life
is hid with Christ in God. Where are we? Seated on high.
Scripture says, Whom he foreknew, he predestinated to be conformed
to the image of his Son. And whom he predestinated, he
called. And whom he called, he justified. And whom he justified,
he is already glorified. The saints who are now in heaven
are no more secure than the saints who are seated in Christ and
are still on this earth. They're no more secure. Because
he said, All that my Father giveth me shall come to me, and him
that cometh to me I'll in no wise cast out. For I came down
from heaven, not to do my will, but the will of him that sent
me. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one
that he hath given me I'll lose nothing, nothing, not a one-up,
but raise him up at the last day." We're already seated. All
right, notice the third promise in Psalm 91. This is what I covered. This is what I covered. I know
there's a lot of preaching and emphasis today, and a lot of
people have been taken in by it, talking about prosperity
and talking about healings, talking about two cars in the garage,
talking about financial success, and folks are swallowing it hook,
line and sinker. They've been taken up with it.
Somebody said the other night about one of those television
evangelists. I don't know whether he stays
on the air to raise more money or if he raises more money to
stay on the air. I can't figure out which one it is. But this is not the direction
they're going right here. But this is the promise of the
grace of God. I'll deliver him. I'll deliver
him. And I'll set him on high. And
then thirdly, now listen to this. Verse 15, he'll call on me and
I'll answer him. I'll answer him. He'll call on
me and I'll answer him. Do you realize the implication
of those words, I'll answer him? Back in, sometime in the spring
of 1984, I preached down in Lake Charles, Louisiana, for Brother
Don McKinney. And one day at night after the
service, he said to me, he said, not long ago, Dr. W.A. Criswell,
pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas, which is one
of the largest churches in the world, one of the largest in
this country, Baptist churches, preached a sermon on election.
He said, I want you to hear it. Well, I knew of W.A. Criswell. I heard him back years, 30 years
ago. He wasn't preaching grace then.
I've heard him on the radio. I've heard him in other places,
on tape. Never heard him preach the doctrines
of God's sovereign grace. And I said to Don, I said, well,
I'll hear it sometime. He said, I want you to hear it.
I said, well, I'll hear it sometime. I didn't want to hear it, really.
And he pinned me down the next day, Darcy and I were over at
his house, and he said, I've got this cassette, television
video cassette. I want you to see and hear this
man preach election. I said, well, OK. And I sat down.
And I've never heard a better sermon on election than I heard
from W.A. Criswell that morning. I was
stunned, astounded. And I got a copy of it, of the
cassette tape. And I've played it for a lot
of people. I've heard it 8 or 10 times, riding down the highway
listening to it. It's one of the most unusual
messages you've ever heard the man 70 some odd years old. And
he did lay out the grace of God in election. Well, I sat down
and wrote to him. I sat down to study one day and
I thought, well, I'd like for that man to come over here and
preach in our Bible conference. And he's known all over the world.
and his most famous Southern Baptist preacher in America.
And he's been President of the Southern Baptist Convention twice,
I think. He's Mr. Baptist. Mr. Baptist. So I sat down and wrote
him a letter. And I told him I wasn't an artist. I told him who I was and told
him my age. And Told him my background, told
him what we had over here, 31 years of Grace Bible Conferences,
people from all over the country. Told him some of the men I knew
in the past, been identified with. Told him what we stood
for and told him how much I loved and appreciated his message.
I thought it was one of the greatest sermons I ever heard on election.
And I said, if you'll come over and preach at our conference,
I believe I can have a hundred sovereign grace preachers from
all over the world here to hear you. And I sent the letter and
I marked personal, all that sort of thing. And he never answered
me. That's been months and he never
even answered me. He never even had the courtesy to answer my
letter. And he's too important. I know
I'm just a peanut preacher. I know that as well as anybody.
I know Ashland is not Chicago. It's not New York. But you know,
and that bothers you when you write to someone. They just ignore
you. Just ignore you. We say, how
do you know he got the correspondence? Because I sent some of our books
and his secretary. acknowledge the books from the
church library. Said he got the books and put
them in the church library. So he got it, but he never answered. Well, there's some men too big
to answer you. But I'll tell you this, compared
to my Lord God, he's the peanut of peanuts. He's not even in
the field. He ain't even been dug yet. And
it says here, God Almighty, and you listen to this, God Almighty
said this man will call on me, and I personally, Tom, will answer
him." Now, you think about that. God answers prayer. There's never
been a little old insignificant, worthless, ragged sheep out yonder
in the wilderness anywhere that's ever bade for mercy, and God
didn't hear him and answer him. God answers. That's what it says.
He said, I'll answer. I'll answer. And he'll answer
when he will, and he'll answer how he will, and he'll answer
where he will, but he'll answer. If you belong to him, God will
answer you. Now, he may tell you to shut up, but he'll answer
you. That's right. Well, you say, where did you
find that? Turn to Deuteronomy 3. Brother Scott Richardson and
I were talking on the phone the other day, and he said, I want
to read you something. And I said, all right. He said, in Deuteronomy
chapter 3, you know Moses smote the rock. And God said
to him, you didn't sanctify me in the eyes of the people, and
you're not going to cross over Jordan into the promised land.
He said, you're not going. Joshua was going to take the
people, so Moses began to talk to the Lord about that. Deuteronomy
3, 24. Deuteronomy 3.24, O Lord God, Moses saith, now this is
Moses, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness and
thy mighty hand. For what God is there in heaven
or in earth that can do according to thy works and according to
thy might? I pray thee, let me go over, let me see the good
land. I want to see the good land.
That's a reasonable request, isn't it? I want to see the good
land that's beyond Jordan, and that goodly mountain in Lebanon.
I want to see it. But Moses said, The Lord was
wroth with me for your sakes. Talk to the people. And he would
not hear me. And the Lord said to me, Now,
listen, let it suffice thee, and don't speak to me again about
this matter. Just shut up, Moses. Do you want
to know what he said? He said, let's don't talk about
it anymore. You're not going? I said, you're
not going? And you're not going. So don't
mention it again. I'd rather hear God say, shut
up, than hear men say, talk on, hadn't you? Just anything. Just answer me, Lord, but don't
ignore me. Most everybody prays or calls
on God occasionally, but the question is, does he answer?
or he plainly says here in Psalm 91, I'll answer him. I'll answer
him. He'll call on me and I'll answer
him. And then he said in the next place, he said I'll be with
him in trouble. Our Lord Jesus said in this world
you're going to have trouble. He said we're troubled on every
side. Cast down but not destroyed.
Turn to 1 Corinthians 7. 1 Corinthians 7. I've often thought
about the scriptures that I read at weddings. I read 1 Corinthians
13, I read, He that findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and I read
all these pretty scriptures. But here's one I thought often
that I ought to read. 1 Corinthians 7, verse 27, "...Art thou bound unto a wife,
seek not to be loosed," stay with or if I loose from a wife,
seek not a wife. But if you are bound and determined
to get married, you have not sinned. And if a virgin marries,
she hath not sinned, nevertheless she is going to have trouble
in the flesh. That's it. You are going to have
trouble. Trouble. Trouble is going to follow you
on every hand. You are going to have trouble. Trouble in the flesh,
you are going to have trouble in the home, you are going to
have with your children, you're going to have trouble in the
world, you're going to have trouble as far as your health, you're
going to have trouble. Troubles and sorrows are all through this
life. One trouble after another. But
the Lord says, I'll be with him in trouble. I'm not going to
leave you alone. You see the difference in the
believer and the unbeliever in this business of trouble. You
know what the difference is? It's a big difference. The believer,
when he's in trouble, is conscious of the presence of the Lord.
The Lord Jesus said, Lo, I am with you always, even to the
end of the earth. He was tempted and tried, as
we are, and yet without sin. He's with us in our trouble.
You don't know a trouble that Christ hasn't already borne.
You won't put your feet anywhere in this world that he hadn't
walked before, even to the grave. That's right. He was a man of
sorrows and acquainted with trouble. Our Lord Jesus Christ knew trouble,
and he's with his people in trouble. You're not alone. I feel so alone. You're not alone if you belong
to him. I'll be with him. Know what he said? I'll be with
him, with him in trouble. We're not only conscious of his
presence, but believers are conscious of his purpose. that there is
no trouble that you can bear or endure that is not decreed
by God as the first cause. Now, there are all kinds of second
causes. Trouble is the result of many second and third causes,
but the first cause of all tribulation and trouble in a believer's life
is God Almighty. I was in the home of a relative some years ago, and we were discussing
this business of God's purpose in all things in the life of
a believer. And we were discussing the death
of my son Robbie in Vietnam sixteen years ago nearly. This relative said, what do you
believe about that? I said, I believe God decreed
it, God ordered it, and God, you second-caused this to accomplish
it. No reason for me to be mad at
the United States government. No reason for me to be mad at
the presidents and others who foolishly kept us engaged in
that idiotic enterprise over there, and that's what it was.
No use me being all upset with the North Vietnamese and the
Communists, and going over there and doing all manner of foolish
things. If I'm a child of God, my son was no more in danger
over there than he would be sitting right here in one of these pews.
That's exactly right. Do you believe that? I know that's
so. God's in everything. If he's in the fall of a sparrow,
is he not in the fall of an only son, huh? If you don't believe that, you
don't have a God. Well, this relative had a daughter-in-law
who contacted polio, and she was
paralyzed. And I said, what do you believe
about Jean? Don't you believe that her experience
with polio is in the will of God, if you're God's child? Oh,
she said, I never could believe that. I said, what do you believe? She said, I believe that Jean
was in the wrong place at the wrong time and ran into that
germ. And this dear lady is a pillar
of a Baptist church. She's a Sunday school teacher,
was, she's dead now. She's one of the mothers of Israel
of a Baptist church down south. Do you hear what she's saying?
That you better be careful where you are tomorrow, because you
might be where God ain't. Wouldn't it be awful to be where
God's not? to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and run
into the wrong germ, and God not know about it, and God can't
do anything about it, and one of his children becomes paralyzed
for life? My friends, you can't have God
and have luck. You can't have God and have chance. You can't have God stand and
have faith. You can't do it. It's got to
be all God or all faith. Isn't that right? When I choose
John, all God, all God. And he said, I'll be with him.
God has, he said, all things work together for good to them
who love God, who are called according to his purpose. You
say, that's fatalism. That's not fatalism, that's the
Bible. And everything God brings to
pass in the life of a believer, it may not be for his temporal
good or his present delight. Because we don't delight in sorrow.
You can't cry and laugh at the same time. But it will be for
our eternal good. Some of our darkest experiences,
we're going to look back on them and find out that they were our
greatest blessings. I promise you that now. When
you get on the other side, that experience you had, Dave, you're
God's child. belong to him, and that hunting
accident you had when you were just a boy, nobody could have
convinced you then that was for God's glory and your good when
you blew your arm off and you reacted bitterly to it. And I understand, and all of
us would have. But aren't you just as confident
now God was in that as if he had pulled the trigger? I do.
If you don't believe that, lose your mind. You might as well,
because you soon will. You soon will. Now let's straighten
up and let's witness a good witness in the face of trouble, because
God said, I'll be with him. We like that I'll deliver him.
We like that I'll set him on high. We like that I'll answer
him, but we shy away from that trouble stuff. But I'll tell
you this. We see God better through the
telescope of tears than we do looking down from the rainbows.
He's magnified a lot better through tears. His love is magnified,
his grace is magnified, his mercy is magnified, and his purpose. And not only that, but the believer
is conscious of God's presence, his purpose, and the believer
is conscious of God's power. Old Paul said, This thorn in
the flesh is more than I can stand. And God said, My grace
is sufficient. My grace is sufficient. This
messenger of Satan that buffets me and tries me and troubles
me is more than I can stand. God said, More than you can stand,
but not more than we can stand. My grace is sufficient. All right,
not only that, but watch this. He said in the next place, I'll
deliver him And he said, I'll deliver him and I'll honor him.
This is the fifth one. I'll honor him. Now, here's something
beautiful. Believers are delivered from
shame. We were born, we were conceived
in shame. We were shapen in iniquity. That's shame. We were brought
forth speaking lies from the womb. Every one of us have a
record. Yeah, we do. We have a record.
God keeps records. And every one of us have a record.
And that's a record of shame and sin and evil, evil thoughts,
evil desires, evil words, evil deeds. But God delivers us from
shame and sin and evil and iniquity in a way that does not lower
and degrade us, but in a way that will honor us. We're delivered
from the pit to honor. Brother Ronnie Lewis was called
for jury duty last week. I think he's still on jury duty.
Don't any of you get in trouble, Ronnie's on the jury. Foreman,
hang him. Don't get in trouble this week.
Stay out of the court. But Ronnie's on the jury. And
he said one of the first days over there, they were thinning
the jewelry down. You know, they'll throw you off.
Surprised he got to stay on. They'll throw you off. But one
fellow Ronnie told me about, he was sitting there, and the
judge evidently wanted to know if there was any reason why they
thought any of them wouldn't be fit to serve. And one fellow
said, he said, I was convicted of carrying a concealed weapon
Twenty years ago. And the judge said, you're dismissed.
Twenty years ago. That man cannot serve on a jury
because twenty years ago he had a petty charge of carrying a
concealed weapon. It stayed with him. And I'll
tell you this, if you ever get arrested, it'll stay with you.
If you ever get a record on this earth, you apply for a job and
find out. You try to get in the armed forces,
you'll find out. Man doesn't forget, nor forget. You get a record, you got one.
But God said, when he delivers his people, he remembers their
sins no more. But yet I know so many people
who claim to believe the gospel. who claim to believe Christ,
who claim to believe they're saved, they still want to go
back and talk about the concealed weapons. Don't they? I hear them. I hear
them talk about what they did back yonder, you know, what they
regret back yonder, what they weep over back yonder, what they
grieve over back yonder. Let's grieve over today, not
back yonder. God says, That's what he said. He said, I'll take all their
sins and put them under the blood and remember them, what? No more! No more! No more. I tell you, that's glorious. If a man is convicted of a crime
and serves time in jail, and he serves the full time and they
give him a new suit And pack his lunch and send him out the
gate. And they shake hands with him at the gate. You've been
a good prisoner. You've been a model prisoner. You've paid
your debt to the Lord, your debt to society. Goodbye. We'll see
you, George. But George, don't ever forget,
son, you're guilty. He'll never get out of the shadows
of that prison. I don't care where he goes. He'll
never get out of the shadow. of what he's done. But when God
takes his people out of bondage and out of prison and saves them
from their sin, the shadow of the prison is cast away. He's
in the full sunshine of God's absolute, eternal love, and Almighty
God will never again bring up one sin you've ever done. And
that's what the Word says. God said, I'll deliver him in
such a way, verse 15, that I'll honor him. Now, no prisoner goes
out of Lucasville Penitentiary in honor. He goes out in shame.
But God's people go out in honor. In honor. You know why? Because
they go out in Christ. All right, here's the sixth one.
He said, I'm going to satisfy him with long life. With long life. Now then, a lot
of people, about all they can think of, is long life on this
earth. That's just about all the average
person thinks of. They want to stick around here
as long as they can. They want to milk out of this
old human existence all they can. They want to hang around
and celebrate number 102 if they can. But I'll tell you this,
if you live on this earth 102 years or 202 years, it's just
a moment That's not long life. Man, he
lived a long time. He lived 92 years. That's just
a blink of the eye. That's just a blink of the eye.
Whether he lived 30 years or 90 years, he's dead. Whether
he lived 21 years or 200 years, John, he's dead. That's not a
long time. I'll tell you how long I want
to live forever. forever! That's how long I want
to live, forever!" And that's the life he's talking about here.
He said, I'm going to bless him with long life. Now then Augustus
Toplady, who wrote Rock of Ages, he died when he was 38. Robert
Murray McShane, who wrote that How Much I Owe, died when he
was 29. David Brainerd, who was a missionary
to the Indians, died in his 29. Mr. Spurgeon died when he was
exactly the same age I am right now, 58. Is that not very long? None of it's long. But brethren,
our life is not in this flesh, it's not in this world. Our life
is with him in glory. And that's the life I'm talking
about. That's the life I'm interested in. That's the life that I'm
prepared for in Christ. to live always, always and always
and always. I'll deliver him, honor him,
and with long life will I satisfy him." And that word satisfy gives
me a clue. David said, I'll be satisfied
when I wait with my likeness. That's when I'll be satisfied.
I wouldn't want to live here that long anyway, would you? No, you know, the Lord decreed
three score and ten. That's just about all the average
folks can handle. That's just about it. That about
winds up the old heart and lungs and everything else. Everything
else is just borrowed time or something, I guess. Everything
else is kind of downhill anyway, isn't it? All right, the last
thing he says, he said, I'll show him my salvation. That's
a person. That's a person. That's Christ.
Old Simeon took up the baby in his arms there in the temple,
and he said, Lord, I let thy servant depart in peace. Mine
eyes have seen thy salvation. I've seen the Lord. I've seen
the Lord. I've seen thy salvation. He that
seeth the Son, and believeth on him, hath everlasting life.
Now then, here are three things, and I'll close. And I want to
show you, all of this is to somebody. Well, this somebody is described
by the word because. He said in verse 9, because thou
hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most high
thy habitation. This is the Lord himself. He's
our refuge. It's not a religion, it's not
an experience, it's not a denomination, but we dwell in Christ. We dwell
in Christ. Thou hast made the Lord thy refuge.
Look at verse 1 of Psalm 91. He that dwelleth in the secret
place. Where is that? That's in the
covenant of grace. That's in the shepherd pole.
That's within the veil. And he dwells there. It's not
an in and out proposition. It's not one day a week. It's
our dwelling place, in the secret place, unknown to the world,
but known to God and known to his people. We dwell in the secret
place I will say of the Lord, verse 2, he is my refuge, he
is my fortress, he is my God, in him I'll trust. Brethren,
let's don't miss the hymn. Thou hast made the Lord thy refuge. Our refuge is not a profession
of faith or an experience or a doctrine, but it's a hymn. He is my refuge. It says in verse
14, because he has set his love upon me. Now I can clearly declare
that we love God because he first loved us, but my friends, we
do love God. Peter unashamedly and plainly
said, Lord, you know I love you. You know I love you. And he said,
I'm going to deliver him and set him on high because he loves
me. He loves me. You see, love to
Christ is the mark of the new birth. Everyone that loveth is
born of God. Love to Christ is the mark of
knowing God. He that loveth not knoweth not
God. Love to Christ is the root of love to others. He that loveth
God loveth him that's begotten of him. Love to Christ is the
means of peace. Perfect love casteth out fear.
Love to Christ is our motivation for holiness, for the love of
Christ constraineth me. We love him. All right, last
of all, here's verse 14. Again, he says, "...because he
hath known my name." I will deliver him, I'll set
him on high. He'll call, and I'll answer him,
and I'll be with him in trouble, and I'll honor him, and I'll
show him my salvation, because he's made me his refuge, and
because he loves me. And because he knows my name,
my name. What is his name? He said, Whosoever
shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Moses by
the burning bush got his orders to go down to Egypt and deliver
a people and to say to Pharaoh, thus saith the Lord. Let my people
go. And Pharaoh says, Who is the
Lord? And Moses said, What shall I
say? When Israel asked me, Who is he that has sent you? What
is his name? What shall I say? And the Lord
said, You tell them, I am sent you. You know I am? I am. I am Alpha and Omega. I am the beginning and the end.
I am the first and the last. I am that which was, which is,
and which is to come. I am the Almighty God. I am the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ. I am the God that's reconciled
through the sacrifice of his dear Son. I am the one who brought
him from the tomb, and I am the one who called him up to glory
and said, Sit thou on my right hand, that I make thy enemies
thy foots to. I am. I know his name. And I'll tell you these promises
are ours if we know His name.