Now this psalm begins with a
benediction. Blessed. Blessed is the man. Blessed is the man. This is the
way our Lord began his sermon on the mount. Blessed is the
man. He said, blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is
the kingdom of heaven. He said, blessed are they that
mourn, for they shall be comforted. He said, blessed are the meek
for they shall inherit the earth. He said, blessed are they that
hunger and thirst for righteousness, they shall be filled. Blessed
are the merciful, blessed are the pure in heart, blessed are
the peacemakers. What does the word blessed mean?
I looked up this word in the concordance in the Hebrew. The word blessed in the Old Testament
means the same thing that the word blessed used by our Lord
in Matthew 5 in the Sermon on the Mount means in the New Testament,
the same thing. It means happy. In other words,
David is saying here, happy is the man. And our Lord in the
Sermon on the Mount, when he begins that sermon, he says,
happy are the poor in spirit. Happy are they that mourn. happier
than me. That's what the word means. It
means happy. It means something else. It means happiness. The
word blessed means happy. It means happiness. It means
two other words. It means fortunate. Fortunate
is the man. We're going to talk about in
this psalm tonight. Fortunate is the man. Something else surprised
me. In the Hebrew, also in the Greek,
the word blessed means well off. Well off. You've run up on that
before. Well off. Now the world has some
different ideas about what constitutes happiness. Now you know that. Now the world has some totally
opposite ideas about what constitutes happiness or what constitutes
being fortunate or being well off. All my life I've heard that
term well off. Well dash off. And all my life
I've associated one thing. You have to We've associated
with this that man who is well off is a man who's prospered
materially and prospered financially We used to I lived in a little
town in Alabama and there was one man that owned the cotton
gin and the ice plant and The stove and about everything that
was in that town His name was Jade Brown brother Ballard, and
I thought he's president United States I was, we didn't have
television back then, and we didn't take the newspaper. My
dad got a bonus after World War I, and we bought a refrigerator,
we never owned one before, and a radio, and I remember I got
a new bell. And, uh, Jade Brown. I'd go down to play at the Cotton
Gin and the Ice Plant, and Jade Brown would come in, and I was
filled with fear and awe, because I thought he was well off. My
parents told me he was well off. the most well-off man in time.
J. Brown wasn't so well-off, I found out since then. I found
out that to be prosperous materially is not to be well-off. And you
know, we say if a man's fortunate, he's fortunate, he has good health,
he's fortunate, he has a good job, he has good friends, he
has a nice home, he has a good family, and all of his family's
well, he's fortunate. Happiness, happiness to us is
laughter and fame and comfort and freedom from from worry and
anxiety. We're happy, happy. But that's
not what our Lord says at all. Our Lord, when men talk of happiness,
they, they, they, the Lord mentioned none of these things. What we
say about happiness, what we say about being fortunate and
well off, He doesn't say that at all. He said, blessed are
the poor in spirit. Blessed, happy, fortunate, well-off
are the poor in spirit. Happy, fortunate, well-off are
they who can mourn over their sins. Happy, fortunate, well-off
are the meek, are those that hunger and thirst for righteousness,
are the merciful, are the pure in heart, are the peacemakers.
And then David opens this book of Psalms, the hymn book of the
Bible, with this word, happy is the man, happiness. Fortunate
well off and he declares what true happiness is and what true
misery is and then he continues this theme all the way through
the book of psalms Let me read you just a few don't look these
up because I'm just gonna run through them there 10 or 12 of
them But in the book of Psalms alone Blessed is the man here
in Psalm 1 that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly and
so forth but in Psalms 2 David said, blessed are all they, happy. Now remember the word blessed
means happy, means fortunate. It means to be well off, well
off. All right, blessed are all they
that put their trust in the Lord. They are fortunate, they're well
off. And then Psalm 32, he says, blessed
or happy is the man whose transgressions are forgiven. And then in verse
2, he said, blessed, happy is the man unto whom the Lord will
not charge sin, iniquity. And then in Psalm 34, verse 8,
he says, happy, blessed, fortunate, well-off is the man that trusteth
in him. And then Psalm 40, verse 4, happy,
blessed, well-off, fortunate is the man that maketh the Lord
his trust. And then Psalm 65, 4, happy,
Blessed is the man whom the Lord chooses and calls it to approach
unto him. Well off is that man who can
cry, Our Father. Well off is that man whom God
hath made an object of his love, that man whom God hath chosen
in Christ, and that man whom God hath opened for him into
his presence by the new and living way, a way of prayer and praise
and sacrifice. Psalm 84, 4, blessed, happy are
they that dwell in the Lord's house. Psalm 84, 5, happy is
the man, blessed is the man whose strength is in the Lord. Whose
strength is in the Lord. His strength, spiritual, physical,
emotional, he draws his strength from the Lord. Psalm 89, 15,
blessed are the people. that walk in the light of God's
countenance. They're happy. Psalm 94, 12,
blessed, happy is the man, listen to this, Psalm 94, 12, blessed,
happy is the man whom the Lord chasteneth, whom the Lord chasteneth,
and teacheth him out of his worth, happy. We'd never call him happy,
would we? But that's the happy man. Psalm
112, verse 1. Blessed, happy is the man who
feareth the Lord. Who feareth the Lord. Psalm 118,
26. Blessed, happy is he that cometh
in the name of the Lord. Psalm 119, 2. Blessed are those
that keep his word. You know, men today must be totally
out of tune with God for our definition of happiness. Our
definition of those who are well-off, those who are fortunate, those
who live in a blessed state, is directly opposite and contrary
to everything that I've read right here. Happy is the man
that feareth the Lord, that trusteth in the Lord, whom the Lord chooseth
and causeth to approach unto him, that walks in his statutes,
whom the Lord chasteneth and teacheth out of his word. Happy
is that man. Well, let's go on with our psalm.
One, happy, 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." Now, there are many excellent
ideas that have been presented from this scripture, from these
words in verse 1. I'll give you two that I think
are the best. Remembering the scriptures bifocal
and any interpretation that does not violate the rest of the Word
of God is acceptable. But one man said we have in this
verse the gradual decline of men in sin. I look at it again. Blessed is that man that does
not decline in sin, degrade in the sin, he does not walk in
the counsel of the ungodly. First they walk in the company
of ungodly men. First they choose as their companion
the indifferent, their companions the indifferent and the careless
and the worldly. He says that's the first step
down, away from God, on a permanent basis. We choose to find our
companionship and fellowship not with those who fear God and
who love God and who walk with God, But we choose as our companions
those who are careless and indifferent and ungodly. We begin to walk
with them, walk with them. We begin to associate with them.
We begin to have company with them. We just walk with them.
And then he says the next step is to stand with them. We no
longer just walk with them, but now we're in company with them
and we stand with them. We begin to spend our time in
a more permanent fashion. I've seen this happen, you've
seen this happen. People who profess to love God,
to know God, they strike up a relationship, a passing relationship, maybe
just doing business with, or socializing with, or going next
door to the home of, or maybe just having companionship briefly
with worldly people and worldly companions and ungodly people.
We're not in their company much, but we work with them or pass
the time of day with them. We just walk with them. But then
comes a time when we begin to stand and our relationship gets
closer. It gets more intimate. It's no
longer just a passing relationship, a greeting, a passing fellowship,
but now it becomes something that causes us to stand with
them. and to exchange ideas, and maybe
to get a little closer, and our decline has moved a step further. And then the last one, he sits. Finally, he sits. He no longer
just walks with these evil companions, no longer just converses with
them, but now he sits in their seat, totally committed. He's
one of them. He's one of the blessed. Happy
is that man who has escaped this decline. Happy is that man who
has escaped this snare of the ungodly. And it all started with
just passing acquaintance. It all started with just letting
down the bars to a certain extent and having some kind of fellowship
or companionship with these who know not God. And then we began
to stand, and we began to get some connection. And then after
a while, we're seated with them in their committal against God
and in their degeneration and in their corruption. I like the
second application, but that's true. That's a good application.
That's very good, and one that we must be careful to avoid. Here's I think the best one.
Now look at this. Blessed, happy is that name.
Happy is that name. Fortunate. Who walketh not in
the counsel of the ungodly. The ungodly have a counsel. They have their counsel. C-O-U-N-S-E-L. The counsel of the ungodly. In
other words, he's saying that the ungodly have a certain wisdom. That's not God's wisdom. It's
the wisdom of the world. The ungodly counsel people, and
they advise people, even on everything from religious matters to political
matters. The ungodly natural man has all
the answers. They're not according to the
wisdom of the Word. They're according to his natural
thoughts. This is what those people, Aaron,
were talking to you the other day when you were witnessing
to them about the things of God. There's a way that seems right
under the natural man. There's a certain understanding
that he has, a wisdom that he has, a counsel that he has. It's
not God's thoughts. In other words, they say, now,
you don't really believe that a man who is sincere in his religion,
you don't really believe that a man who is dedicated to his
religion Even though he doesn't believe in Christ, you don't
believe that man will go to hell, do you? In other words, you don't
believe that a man who is moral and good to his family and goes
to church on Sunday and pays his tithes, even though he might
not believe in the blood of Christ, he might not rest in the blood
of Christ. You mean that man will perish? No, that's not so. If a person is sincere, and now
that's the whiz, that's the counsel of the ungodly. That's what that
is. That's the counsel of the ungodly. The ungodly says, lead
a good life and do the best you can and it'll be well with you.
That's the counsel of the ungodly. And that's what he's talking
about here. Blessed is that man who does not walk according to
the thoughts of men, according to the wisdom of men, according
to the counsel and advice of the ungodly. And then happy is
that man that does not stand in the way of sinners. That doesn't
mean getting in a sinner's way. A sinner has a way. What is the
way of sinners? It's the way of flesh. It's the
way of materialism. It's the way of covetousness.
It's the way of dishonesty. It's the way of convenience.
It's the way of malice. It's every way but the way of
God. That's the way of sinners. And happy is that man who does
not stand in that way. That's the broad way. And then
the scorner has a seat. He sat down. The ungodly have
a counsel, the sinners have a way, and the scornful is the man who's
totally committed to a mockery of God. His mind's made up. He's
unteachable, he's unmovable, he's confirmed in the seat of
his opinion, whatever it is. Happy is that man who does not
sit in that seat. Happy is that man who submits
to the wisdom of God, to the counsel of God, and not to the
counsel of men. Happy is that man who walks in
the way of the cross, in the way of Christ, who said, I am
the way. Happy is that man who walks in
the way that has been revealed through the righteousness of
Christ. And happy is that man who is not sitting at all, but
that man who's learning and seeking and striving to grow in grace
and the knowledge of Christ and to be taught He's not submitting
to the counsel of the ungodly, he is not committed to the way
of sinners, and he's not sitting in the seat of the scornful.
But, look at verse 2. The happy man, his delight is
in the law of God. Now the first thing you think
of when you see the word law is the Ten Commandments. But
that is not what that word means at all. You're not talking about
the Ten Commandments. You'll find in the Bible many
times the word law is used in reference to the Mosaic law,
the Ten Commandments. It's used many times in reference
to the Levitical law. It's talking about the laws surrounding
the work of the tabernacle and the priesthood. But many times,
and I would say most times, the word law in the Old Testament
simply means the Word of God. The Word of God. Paul said, I delight in the law
of God after the inward man. That's the Word of God. David
said, I love thy law, O Lord. That's the Word of God. I'll
make it a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. That's
the Word of God. And here in verse 2, that man is the happy
man who delights in the Word of God. He delights to read God's
Word. He delights to hear God's Word
preached. He delights to learn the Word
of God. He delights to commit to memory
the Word of God. And I would urge you, this is
something that I would stress very strongly to you, see if
you can't commit the Word of God to your memory. I have found
the most effective way of witnessing to be able when someone asks
me a question or someone presents some sort of argument against
the truth of Christ that I've been able to say well it says
in certain certain place in God's Word this and to be able now
you don't always carry a Bible with you don't always have a
Bible at work you don't always have a Bible when you're in the
store you don't always have a Bible when you over at your neighbor's
house and And I found this to be true. You'd be over at your
neighbor's house having a cup of coffee and she'll say, well,
you know, the Bible says so and so. And you say, well, now, the
scripture doesn't say that. It says this. She says, well,
show me. You say, you've got a Bible and she gets her and
she's got one of these little fellows. You know it. You can't
find anything in it. And you've got your Bible at
home. It's got it marked or written in the back. If you could commit
the scripture to your memory and be able to to and I'm not
talking about Just fill in your mind and your heart full of memory
work. But I'm talking about those scriptures
that have to do with Christ and redemption and with eternal life
and with repentance and with the way God saves sinners. Just
commit these scriptures to memory. Learn where they're found so
that you can not only feast on them yourselves day by day, but
you can give them to others. What a blessing it is to be able
to ride down the highway and say, the Lord is my shepherd.
I shall not walk. He maketh me to lie down in green
pastures, and leadeth me beside the still waters. He restores
my soul." Or to think over John, the third chapter, or Romans,
the fifth chapter. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them whom Christ Jesus, Romans, aid. Or therefore being justified
by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Or just commit those scriptures to memory. Even this psalm here.
But that man, happy is that man who delights in the Word of God.
The Word of God is not a burden to him, it's a delight to him.
To hear the Word of God preached is not a responsibility only
or a chore, it's a delight. The Word of God is a delight.
And then watch this, he said, that happy man, his delight is
in the Word of God, and in that Word does he meditate day and
night. Someone said this, meditation,
meditation truly characterizes a man or a woman. I believe that's
what Solomon was saying in Proverbs 23 when he said, as a man thinketh
in his heart, so is he. What do you think about? That's
what we're saying here. What do you think about? This
is like a A cow. I don't know a whole lot about
animals. I could engage some help here from some of you farmers
and fellas that know something about animals, but I'm told that
a cow goes out in the pasture and just keeps eating grass.
Just eats and eats and keeps swallowing it, swallowing it,
swallowing it, swallowing it. Just keeps on eating, eating,
eating. And then the cow goes over into the corner of the pasture
and just stands there and chews for hours and hours, chewing
the cud, they say. I always thought the cow was
chewing his tongue. But he's not. Is this true, Aaron?
He's belching up what he's eaten and he's chewing it over again.
That's right, isn't it? And this is what Spurgeon said. Read the
Word. Listen to the man preach the
Word. And then go off and meditate on it. And chew it. Think of
that. And I find this to be so that
sometimes we try to take in too much of the Word at once. I heard
somebody say, I read the Bible through, completely through,
every year. Now, if you do that, that's all right. I'm not rebuking
you. That's your business. But that's too much scripture
to meditate on at one time. And no man under heaven that
could possibly, could possibly study the whole Bible in a year.
No way possible. This one chapter right here. that you can sit all day today
and all day tomorrow and all day the next day. Let me give
you an example. In 1 Kings 18, Elijah said to
his servant, he said, he said, it's going to rain. He said,
go look for the cloud. So the servant went out there
and climbed the hill or wherever he went and he stood and looked
and he came back and said, no cloud there. Elijah said, you
go back again. He went back again and he came
back and said, no cloud there. Elijah said you go seven times
and he kept going back and going back and going back and going
back and finally came back from the seventh trip and he said
there's one out there about the size of a man's hand. But it
took him seven times to see it. Now let me tell you something.
You take a good seven times look at one verse John. It might take
you seven times to see that much. Boy, I'll tell you, if you've
got the grace to keep going back, if you've got the grace to wait
upon the Lord, if you've got the grace to wait upon His Spirit
to teach you, for long the clouds will be everywhere. There'll
just be so many you can't see them all. There'll be so many
blessings you can't contain them all. But here we are, we read
a verse of Scripture and one grabs some concordance and says,
that's what he says, that suits me. Well, that doesn't suit me. I want to know what God says.
I'm like the old lady that bought that set of concordances, bought
that set of commentaries from the pastor, and she got them
home, and she'd had them a few months, and she came to church,
and he said, uh, Maude, he said, how do you like the concordances?
Or the, how do you like the commentaries? She said, well, pastor, the Bible
casts a lot of light on them commentaries, I'll tell you that.
And, uh, that's, that's what we need to, we need to keep going
back and meditate. Happy is the man. Happy is the
man. That man's happy, fortunate,
well-off, who looks not to the counsel of men, the ungodly,
but looking for his counsel, advice from God. And he doesn't
walk in the way or stand in the way, the general way of sinners.
He's in the way of Christ, the way of the cross. And he's not
so hard-headed that he's already seated and made up his mind.
decayed and petrified in his denominational position that
he's sitting in the seat of the scorner. He's scornful towards
anyone or anything disagrees with him. But happy is that man
whose delight is in the Word of God and who meditates on it.
He's not too smart that he can't learn something today. He meditates. His delight's in the Word of
God and he meditates on it day and night, day and night. Those
birds of the air, they come in and they nest sometimes in our
thoughts and minds where they ought not to be. But I'm talking
about the general trend of a man's thoughts and meditation, the
general tenor of his meditation. That man's happy. The general
trend and being of his will and the tenor of his thoughts and
meditation is his relationship with God and the Word of God.
Let's move on. He says in verse 3, And that
happy man will be like a tree, a tree planted by the rivers
of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. His
leaf also shall not wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Four questions. How'd that tree get there? Well, look at verse 3. He shall
be like a tree. How'd that tree get there? It
was planted. It was planted. It didn't grow
wild. It didn't come up of its own
accord. It was planted on purpose by Him who works all things after
the counsel of His own will. Turn to Matthew chapter 15. That happy man, it's not by chance
that he's happy. It's not by human endeavor that
he's happy. He's happy because he's a tree
planted. In Matthew 15 verse 12, Our Lord
had said something to his disciples about the Pharisees' righteousness
being an outward righteousness, and he said, it's not that which
goeth into the mouth that defileth a man, it's that which comes
out of his heart. And the disciples said in verse 12, the disciples
came and said, Lord, do you know that the Pharisees were offended
when they heard what you said? Well, naturally they were offended,
because their whole religious Their whole religious confidence
and faith was based upon what they did, what they ate, what
they drank, how many steps they took on the Sabbath day, the
laws that they kept. That was their righteousness.
They didn't pay any attention to their evil hearts and their
sins that had separated them from God and their need of a
Redeemer and an atonement. They were busy trying to establish
a righteousness of their own. So when Christ said that evil
comes from within, Well, they got angry and now look at verse
13 and he answered and said every plant Which my heavenly father
hath not planted Shall be rooted up had that tree get that that
tree but the rivers of living water That tree that's always
evergreen that tree that bears fruit in its season. How'd he
get there? My father planted it Oh, Satan plants tares and
calls them trees, but God will root them up. And the church
is busy bringing forth their Ishmael's, what not, waiting
on Isaac, and God will root them up. And we're busy trying to
get folks to make professions of faith, and we're planting
them here, there, and yonder, and God will root them up. Because
God's children are born by God's Spirit into God's kingdom. He
plants every tree. He plants every one of them.
My father planted them. He should be like a tree planted.
Where is it planted? By the rivers of water. God never
plants a tree out in the middle of the desert. He puts it down
to the rivers of water. What are the rivers of water
here? Who, I should say, who? The stream that supports the
tree. The stream from which that tree
gets all of its moisture and strength and nourishment and
life. Who is that river? That's Christ. Christ is the
river of water by which every tree is planted. Christ is the
source of our life, our grace, our nourishment. And look at
this, and he'll bring forth fruit. It doesn't say ought to, he might,
he should. But this tree that God plants
by the river of water Christ that gets its nourishment and
moisture from Christ, it'll bring forth his fruit. Whose fruit? His fruit. What is this fruit? Turn to Galatians
5. Well, every one of them will
bring forth his fruit. Whose fruit? The Spirit's fruit.
The fruit of God. What is this fruit? Galatians
5.22. The fruit of the Spirit is love. He that loveth not knoweth not
God. Joy. If I said these words, I speak
unto you that your joy might be full. My peace I give unto
you, patience, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance." This is the fruit of the Spirit, and
he says, this tree planted by my Father by the rivers of water
brings forth fruit. When? In his season. In his season. It's his fruit, it's his tree,
he planted it, it'll bring forth fruit in his season, in the time
in which it should come. The fruit is always there when
God Almighty decrees it to be there. He raises up men for a
certain time, a certain day. A man said to Mr. Spurgeon one
time, he said, Mr. Spurgeon, I'm afraid that, I'm
afraid I don't have dying grace. And Mr. Spurgeon said, are you
dying? He said, no. He said, we don't need dying
grace. Dying grace will be given you when when you need dying
grain. This is what I believe that David
is saying here, that this tree that the Heavenly Father hath
planted by the rivers of water that will bring forth his fruit,
and it will bring forth the fruit in his season, in other words,
when it pleases the Lord. I believe every child of God
has the fruit of the Spirit to some degree, some to greater
degree than others. And there's certain times when
this fruit is especially needed. For example, gentleness. There's
certain times that I need to demonstrate gentleness. I believe
God will give me that grace at the time I need. There's certain
times that I need to demonstrate a strong faith. A strong faith. There's certain times when I
need to demonstrate forgiveness and patience more than at other
times. And in his season, He'll enable
me to bring forth that fruit. I hope you know what I'm saying
there. It's not that all the time I'm full of love and joy
and peace and meekness and all this, that the fruit just hanging
all the time, but in His season, Bob, you see what I'm, am I making
clear what I'm saying? In His season, that that fruit
will be brought forth when it's needed, when God needs it for
His glory, when you need it, as an exercise of his grace,
and when the person with whom you're dealing needs that fruit,
it'll be brought forth in his season. My grace, the Apostle
Paul said, Lord, take this thorn away from me. No, he said, I'm
gonna leave that thorn there, but my grace will be sufficient.
Sometimes I need more of that grace than other times. All right,
here's the next question. First, how'd the tree get there?
It was planted. Where was it planted? By the
river of water. What are its fruits? It's his
fruit. His fruit. And it brings forth
his fruit in his season. And what's this? What is its
future? His leaf shall not wither. That
word withers, fades. All of God's trees are evergreen
trees. I know a lot of folks don't preach
that. God plants a tree today and it falls over. Satan pulls
it up or man cuts it down or something. No, it says his leaf
shall never wither. No cold winter shall destroy
its life. Never wither. Not if God plants
it. Not if God plants it. And whatsoever
he doeth shall prosper. Maybe not in men's eyes, but
whatever he does, for the glory of God, it may be failure in
the eyes of men. But like Christ our Lord, the
pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hands. Now we're in this
day of, we're in this day of materialism and human glory and
everything that doesn't make a lot of noise is not successful. Everything that's building is
not full and everybody's not whooping and all this is not
successful. But let me tell you something. The kingdom of God is not judged
by the by the ideas and opinions of men. And that which is highly
esteemed among men is an abomination to God. And that which you may
not see God in it at all, you may not recognize the greatness
of God. Take for example, here on Mount
Carmel, here's one man in his plain clothes, Unsupported by
anybody an Unrecognized name Elijah. Here's 450 prophets of
Baal recognized by the Queen and by the king Dressed in their
special robes and and with the following of the people sheep
cream in their hosannas and praise now, where's God? And then out
there on the battlefield as a giant nine feet tall and there's the
army of the Philistine well equipped and well shot and and well fed
and here stands a little old fella a shepherd boy without
any armor on with a slingshot and Five stones in his hands
where he's got and here in the days in in Luke chapter 2 There
was the temple with all of its splendor that Solomon had built
in its gold and and and brass and and Beauty and the high priest
there and all of the scribes and Pharisees and Sadducees and
all the other C's and and they run around there Sacrificing
and buying and selling and the people following and here down
here in a manger Sits a peasant woman in her late teens with
her husband surrounded by cattle Cows and horses and she's got
a little old baby wrapped in swaddling clothes laying in the
hay. Where's God? Where's God? And here is a Pharisee
having a big supper, and he's got everybody there that was
anybody, and he's sitting up here on the uppermost seat in
that huge palatial home surrounded by, I bet the high priest was
there as his guest that day, and all the pastors and all of
the prophets and all these were there, and there was a table
spread and the cushions laid out, and Christ Jesus was invited,
and here comes a woman in who'd been a straight walker She's
crying and she falls at the feet of our Lord and weeps and dries
his feet with her hair. And these fellas punched one
another in the leg and said, he's not much of a prophet. He'd
know who she is. He'd know to let her touch. Where's
God? That's what I'm saying. And we look, we measure things. You be real careful because it
says the man, that happy man, that's a tree planted by God,
by the Christ, the river, brings forth his fruit in God's season.
His leaf will never wither, and what he does will prosper. It'll
prosper. It may not be prosperous in the
eyes of men, it may not be successful in the eyes of men, it may not
be what men would do, but God says it'll prosper. It'll prosper,
and he can't give a cup of cold water in my name without it prospering. Everything he touches will prosper.
That's what it says. All right, I'm going to quit. The wind will drive them. The
ungodly shall not stand. That is, they shall not be justified.
They shall not be able to stand at the judgment. The righteous
are going to stand in Christ. But the ungodly will not be able
to stand. They're going to be smitten. Sinners are not going
to be able to congregate with the righteous. They're going
to be separated. For the Lord knows the way of
the righteous. What is the way of the righteous?
Christ said, I am the way. I am the way. The way of the
ungodly shall perish. Happy is the man. Happy is the man. May God bless
his word that we have looked into this evening. I hope you'll
meditate on it.