Your Bible's with me to Psalm
46. Marvin, I tell you, that time,
that was outstanding. I just was so blessed by that. My inclination is to have prayer
and go eat or go to the house. And I have done that. Somebody
preach, you know, it'd just be a waste of time to go on. But I hope it's not that way tonight.
I certainly hope it's not. But look in Psalm 46 in verse
10 with me, if you will. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted in the earth. God says, be still. Be still. And that doesn't mean no movement. It doesn't mean no movement,
but it means to rest. It means to be quiet, to not
be uneasy, to wait on the Lord. Go on about your life, but be
peaceful. Be quiet in your heart and in
your soul. Don't be uneasy. and to wait
on the Lord. It's the same thing our Lord
Jesus Christ said in John chapter 14. He said, let not your heart
be troubled. Let not your heart be troubled.
Lots of things would trouble our heart, but our Lord said,
let it not be troubled. Don't let it be troubled. But
in light of these verses of scripture, be still and know that I am God
and I will be exalted among the heathen, exalted in the earth.
Over in Ecclesiastes 5, it says this. He says, let your words
be not hasty with your feet in the house of the Lord. Be not
rash with your mouth. For our God is in the heavens
and you're upon the earth. Be still, be quiet, be careful
what you say in the presence of God. He's there. We're here. He's almighty. We're frail. And
there's two things astonished me, and he also said this, that
all those, let reverence be given to him, all those that are about
him. Let him be shown reverence to
all those that are about him. But in light of these things,
be not rash, be not hasty with your foot, be not rash with your
mouth. You know, don't offer the sacrifice of a fool. This astonishes me that man's
arrogance, man's irreverence, man's presumptions concerning
God and holy things. It astonishes me how God reacts
to God, how they talk about Him, and how flippant they are about
Him. You hear people say all the time,
Oh, I know the Lord. You're just talking about this
thing, and I told you when you sit down there. My father, getting
ready to, he's 62 years, 58. Getting ready to have heart surgery,
open heart surgery. Died when he was 62. I went to
visit him up in Ohio. He's in the hospital. I go and
talk to him about his soul. I talked to him several times.
And this is what he told me. He said, Oh, DB. That's what he called me. DB.
He said, DB, don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Said
me and Jesus negotiated this thing long ago. And I told him,
I said, listen, I don't respect you and you're my father. You're
just flesh and blood, but you disrespect God like that. And
there's people today in the pulpits, in the pulpits, that they have
an unholy familiarity with God, have an unholy familiarity with
the word. Lift your hands for Jesus. I
turned it through the TV and only preachers I saw was women.
Never seen no men preachers, just women. That's unfamiliarity
with God. That's irreverence before God.
That's an unholy familiarity with His Word. To disregard Him
and what He has to say. When God says, be still, they
ain't gonna be still. When God says, set still, they're
not gonna set still. But oh my goodness, in prayer,
In prayer, let's say a word of prayer right quick. Jesus, we're
here in this trouble, we need you to watch over and protect
us, amen. Just that quick, just that quick. Worship, hand claps,
stomping feet, and there's no preparation, no contemplation
of God in his blessed word. And they make jokes about God,
make jokes about religion, very popular today, very popular today.
In fact, now, in fact, now, you know, when, when all these, uh,
uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
uh, uh And I tell you, here's the second
thing that astonishes me. Man's arrogance and irreverence
and presumption concerning God and holy things. But this is
the thing that really astonishes me about God, is that God hasn't
sent all of us to hell for how we think of Him and talk about
Him sometimes. Oh, it just astonishes me. Oh, the longsuffering of God. He said that with longsuffering
endures, endures. The vessels of wrath fitted for
destruction stand in utter astonishment that God even lets us as a human
race exist. It amazes me, honestly. And I'm
talking about just what I know about myself. And you think there's
any difference in it? Can't turn the difference for
any member of the human race. Can't turn their head for the
difference. And all the works of God, oh my. His sovereignty
scribed before us. Look what He says there in verse
8. Come, come, behold the works of the Lord. What desolations He's made in
the earth. You know what desolations He's
made in this earth just in the last few weeks? And like Davis
said the other day, said they'll flee from these storms. They'll
flee from these hurricanes. But they won't flee from the
wrath of God. They won't flee to God. They won't flee from the wrath
of God. They'll flee from... And these are the desolations
that God sent. But God don't save people in
storms. He saves them for Christ's sake.
For Christ's sake. So He says, Be still and know
that I am God. Because when it's all said and
done, when it's all said and done, God said, I will be exalted
among the heathen and in the earth. Now I want to just say
a few things about this if I can. I got two or three points like
he had. We are to be still, to be still. Before God, be quiet,
be restful. Don't be uneasy under His providence. And you know what providence
is? That means God just govern our lives every single moment
of every day. That's all it means. That's all
it means. People say, well, I know God's
providence was in that. There's not anything that God's
providence is not in, in our lives. Nothing. Nothing. I was the called of God before
I was ever brought into this world. His providence brought
me here, His providence named me, His providence brought me,
my mother and father, everything about me in life is God's providence. And then when we understand these
things, and God teaches us these things, and shows us that He
guards our life, He protects our life, He provides everything
in our lives, And I'll tell you something about this business
of providence, and I know this without a shadow of a doubt.
Scott Richardson said this one time. He said, everyone doesn't
get the opportunity to manifest and bring glory to God in His
grace through suffering in this world. God does not call everyone
to do that. Everyone's not called to honor
God in His grace by believing Him and being still. Everyone's not called to do that.
But He has called some people in this world. And He set them
apart. And He's going to put them in
the fire. He's going to put them in the crucible. And He puts
them in some awful situations to see how they're going to react.
They're going to be still. Are they going to rest? Are they
going to just let their souls ease down in me? Oh my. Oh, bless His name. But, oh,
we're to be still before God under His providence as to what
we say, as to our words. Not speaking against His providence. Never complaining about Him and
what He calls us to go through in this life. Oh, my. Not complain about anything about
Him. David and I was talking about
it today. I've seen people get so bitter
against God, so bitter against God. Something happens, take a flower out of the, you
know, God, everything He gives us, it's temporary, He gives
us temporarily. And if He takes something that already belongs
to Him, we surely wouldn't say, Oh Lord,
that wasn't the right thing to do. You shouldn't have done me
that way. After I've been so faithful,
after I've been so loving, after I've been so true to you. And
oh, let's not, let's be still when we speak our words and the
words that come out of our mouths. No, not by justifying ourselves
and speaking words of vanity. And vanity is, you know, anything
that's just useless and senseless concerning God. And as to our
words, not be pretentious. Not pretending that we're okay,
not pretending that everything's just exactly the way, right with
us, because it's not. Or presumption, you know, we're
presuming on God that God's gonna, you know, if I do this or that,
He's gonna deal with things with me. And certainly not quarreling
with God. Not quarreling with God. Look
with me in Leviticus 10. Leviticus 10. Look what it says here now. Look
what happens here. Verse 1, Nadab and Abihu, the
sons of Aaron, took either of them his sister, and put fire
therein. and put incense thereon, and
offered strange fire before the Lord, which he commanded them
not. They were supposed to get their fire off the altar. And
there went out fire from the Lord, and devoured them, and
they died before the Lord. Then Moses said unto Aaron, This
is it that the Lord spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them
that come nigh to me, and before all the people I will be glorified. What did Aaron do? Aaron held
his peace. God just killed both of his sons.
And Aaron held his peace. When Samuel told Eli, Eli kept saying, Samuel tell
me what the Lord said. Tell me what the Lord said. And Samuel said, well this is
what the Lord told me. You're two sons. You're two sons. Priest, he said, I'm gonna kill
them both. You know what Samuel said? It is the Lord. Let him do what seemeth good. Let him do what seemeth good.
Who can say unto him, what doest thou? And when Job, Job was tried,
and God tried him so severely, And his wife came to him and
said, listen, Job, are you going to hold to your integrity? Are
you going to hold to your integrity? Are you going to curse God? And
he said, oh, he said, woman, you speak like a foolish woman.
He said, have we not received good at the hand of the Lord?
Shall we not also receive evil? Blessed be the name of the Lord.
He gave and He take it away. We came naked in this world,
we're going to go out naked in this world. Oh Lord, my God,
God is God. And all to be able to bless Him,
to bless Him, and to praise Him, no matter what happens to us
in this world. And God will enable us to do
that. And not only be still in His
providence as to what we say, but be still in our actions. Be still in our actions. In our
outward behavior. In our outward behavior. Oh my. Again, we go to Job. Look
over with me, Job. You know, Job's right before
the Psalms. Look what Job said over here. Job chapter 1. We rejoice in God's sovereignty
as long as it doesn't cross our lives or our plans or our purposes. But oh my, this is one thing
I learned, you know, and I hope I hope I'm not being a hypocrite
or presumptuous or pretentious here. But I've often said, and
I'm sure some of you said this, Lord, whatever it takes to conform
me to your will, if I'm like a cup, break me and put me back
together. Ain't that what we want? Lord,
whatever it takes to make me a vessel that you can use and
be honored by, Break me, break me, break me. And old Bruce Crabs,
he says all the time, said, Donnie, we got to stay low. We got to
stay low. And we won't stay low if God
don't put us low. It's not our nature, is it, David?
It's not our nature. God's got to keep us low. Gotta
keep us low. But look what happens to Job.
You know how they come and said, Job, they stole, the Sabians
fell on us, and then the people come and got your camels, and
they come and got you a bunch of your asses, and they come
and got this, and then they come and said, all your children just
got killed. Job verse 20, 120. Then Job arose,
ripped his clothes, ripped his clothes, shaved his head, fell
down upon the ground and worshipped. Worshipped. And said, naked came
out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return there? The
Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the name
of the Lord. In this Job sinned not, nor charged
God foolishly. Oh my. Be still in our hearts. Be still in our hearts. Don't
struggle, don't strive, be quiet, be calm, submit to the sovereign
will of God, whatever it may be. For we know, we know that
all things work together. And you know when they started
working? They didn't start working for us when we got converted,
when God saved us. We've always, I didn't know this,
I didn't know this until I learned the gospel and I didn't know
it for years. That God, before I ever was, He loved me. Before I ever existed, He gave
me grace in Christ Jesus before the world ever began. I understand
that. So all things work together for
good. So that means they started working
together for our good from the day we came forth from my mother's
womb. And what has happened in our
lives from the day we was born until where we're at right now. I was raised, my mother and father,
neither one loved me. My mother and father farmed me
and my brother out all the days of our lives. I carried everything
that I owned one night in a brown paper bag 10 years old, and walked
out a long old gravel road for somebody to come pick me up. I stayed here for a while, I
stayed there for a while, and I stayed with strangers for a
while. Took us one day, some weird people were staying with
us one day, and I'm not trying to make you feel, I'm just trying
to tell you how God works all things together. Took me and
my brother Michael David, you're younger than me. There's a place
called Shawn Acres out on North Main Street in Dane, Ohio. Took
us out there, set us out on the sidewalk and said, went in and
told them, said, there's two boys out here you need to come
check on. And then I grew up. Went off to Vietnam. God in his sovereign mercy kept
me over there. Came back, spent 18 months in
hospitals. And then here I stand today preaching
the gospel of the free grace of God in Christ. How did all
those things happen? How did I survive all that? All
things work together for good. I could not be here had I not
come from there. And you couldn't be where you
are if you hadn't come from where you are. Ain't that right? So to say, Lord, to be still
before you after you've been so gracious and so kind, and
to love me and watch over me all the days of my life when
I was an absolute fool? Well, why should we be still?
Why should we be still? Because He's God. That's enough
reason right there, ain't it? He's God. He's God. We're the
creatures. He's the creator. We're on the
earth. He's in the heavens. It's He
that made us, not we ourselves. We cannot count the mistakes
we've made by taking matters into our own hands. And yet he
hath delivered us time and time and time and time again out of
all the messes we've made. And oh my, he says this. Woe unto him that striveth with
his maker. Let the potsherds of the earth
strive with the potsherds. Can the clay say to him that
made it, why did you make me like this? Let the potsherds
strive. But woe unto him that strives with his Maker. And so
He's God. We're going to be still because
He's God. He's God. And because, I'll tell
you what else, because His will is going to be done whether we
like it, whether we submit to it, or whether we rest in it,
or whether we fight it. His will is going to be done.
It's going to be done. And I'll tell you what, beloved,
Because he, do you know what happens to people that don't
be still? Old Pharaoh said, who is the
Lord that I should obey him? He wouldn't be still. God said,
let my people go, go on. Then he'd come out and stop them.
Let my people go. No, no, no. You know what happened
to him? Because he wouldn't be still.
God drowned him in the Red Sea. Huh? Yeah, I just read to you,
Nadab in a bayou. They wouldn't be still. They
wouldn't do things what God said to do. They decided they was
going to take things in their own hands. They didn't like the
way God ordered things to be done. And so they decided we'll
do it our way. What happened to them? And there's
Cain. Cain, he wouldn't be still at
God. He didn't know who God was. Instead of doing it, he saw Abel
bring a blood sacrifice. But he brought the works of his
hands, said my works is as good as Abel's is. God cursed Cain
and put a mark on him. And how about Esau? What about
Esau? You know, Esau got exactly what
he deserved. He sold his soul, his birthright,
for a bowl of oatmeal. That's what happens to people
who won't be still. Be still knowing he's God. Israel
said, give us a king. We don't like you raining over
us. God said, you mean you don't
want me to rain over you? No. We want a king like everybody
else. And they said, oh, look, there's a great old big tall
fellow out there. He's taller than everybody. He's
taller than everybody. That's the one we want to be
king. He became the sorriest fellow there ever was. He never
did be still. Never did be still. God gave
him Saul. God gave him Saul. And here's
why we be still, because he's God. Because there's no peace.
There's no peace of heart. There's no rest of soul. Till
we do, be still before God. There's no peace of heart. There's
no rest of soul. There's no quietness of spirit.
Until we do. submit to God and do it gladly,
thankfully, not grudgingly, not grudgingly, not stoically, not
just biting, you know, gritting their teeth and, oh yeah, I like
it. No, we don't do it that way.
No, no. And I tell you, we're living
by the will of God right now. We're living by the will of God
right now. It's in Him we live, move, and
have our being. And you know who our God is? He's the Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who God, the Son of His love, He loved us so that He
gave His Son, sent His Son, So that's whose will we submit to,
that he gave his son for us, gave his son for our sins, gave
his sons for our iniquity, gave his sons for our transgression,
gave his sons to bear our punishment. And oh my, ain't you thankful? That's whose will we submit to,
our Father's will. Our father's will, is there any
daughters in here or any sons in here that wouldn't say, do
their daddy's will? That their daddy's been good
to them, their daddy's been loving to them, their daddy's been gracious
to them? Oh yeah, whatever dad wants me
to do, that's what I want to do. Son, would you do this for
me? Daughter, would you do that for
me? You say, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's my daddy, that's my daddy,
what I wouldn't do for my daddy. What about our Father which is
in heaven? Oh, Father, blessed name of Christ
our Lord, I want to submit to your will, don't we? Listen, you're talking about
freedom. Freedom. Freedom from weary and
weary and anxiety. It sets you so free to be able
to get up and say, the Lord's will is going to be done today. And not only is it going to be
done, but that's what we want to be done. Oh, freedom from worry and anxiety. And let me give us my third point
right here. Why should we be still? Because
He's God. And the only way we can be still
before God is to know Him. You can't be still before Him
if you don't know Him. If you know Him, you can be still. But if you don't know Him, you
can't. You can't. This is eternal life that they
might know thee, the only true God in Jesus Christ, whom thou
hast sent. 1 John 5.20 says it like this. He says, We know that He hath
come, and given us an understanding, that we may know Him that is
true, and we are in Him that is true. This is the true God,
even Jesus Christ. He gave us that understanding.
And to know that He is God, that He is God and He does whatever
pleases Him. He works all things after the
counsel of His own will. He does according to His will
in the armies of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth.
He does according to His will in heaven, in earth, in the sea,
in all deep places. God is God and it's beyond reason,
it's beyond sanity to resist His will because it's going to
be done. Just be still. And He doesn't give an account
of His ways to no one. We've got to know Him, and the
only way you can be still before Him is to know Him. And the only
way we can be still before Him is to know that He's unchangeable.
He does not change. He does not change in His nature.
His nature is always the same. He does not change in His purposes. I heard a fellow say one time,
he said, God told me if I could get 300 people to bombard heaven. This is what
God's going to do. Like if He got 300 people to
get together and they'd all start storming heaven, that God would
change His mind. I don't want God to change His
mind. If He changed His mind about one thing, He could change
His mind about something else, and He might change His mind
about me. Oh my! God, listen, He's unchangeable. You know why you sons of Jacob
are not consumed? Because I am the Lord, and I
change not. And oh, He never changes in His
promises. His promises are as sure as He
is. And this is one of His blessed
promises. This is the message I preached for Ed Elmore's funeral.
I said, God fulfilled His promise to Ed today. The day he died. I said, God fulfilled His promise.
What was that promise? He said, I promised that I would
come again on my father's house of many mansions if it's so I
would have told you. But I go to prepare a place for
you. And he went to the cross and
prepared that place. He went there and shed that blood.
He went there and died under the holy will of God. He went
there and prostrated himself before God. And said, Father,
not my will, but thine be done. And He went to that cross bloody,
broken, bruised, and still in absolute control in His majesty
and His glory and His power. But oh, He said this. If I go
to prepare that place for you, He said, I'm going to come again. And I'm going to take you, take
you to be with Me. That's what I love. to be with
me where I am. And that's what he does. That's
the first thing you think of. I'm going to take you. He told
that thief on the cross that day, today thou shalt be in paradise. That don't amount to nothing.
But you know what paradise was? He said, to be with me. to be with me, to be with me. Oh my, he's unchangeable in his
promises, unchangeable in his covenant. Oh, no wonder David
said this, this is my last, the sweet psalmist of Israel's last
word, you said it last night. God hath made with me a covenant,
ordered in all things ensured. This is all my salvation. It's
all my salvation. This is the anchor of our soul.
And not only to know Him is the only way we can be still, know
that He's unchangeable, but to know that He's omnipotent. Look
at Psalm 62. Look at Psalm 62. Know that He's unchangeable and
that He's omnipotent. I know you've heard all this
before. I know David's been preaching here 40 years. I've been where
I'm at 38 and a half, and they've heard everything I've got to
say. I ain't told them nothing new
in years. I hope I never tell them nothing
new. He's right. I hope I never come up with nothing
new. But oh, look what he says here. Psalm 62 in verse 11. God has spoken once, twice have
I heard this, that power belongeth unto God. Power. He spoke it once in His Word.
And that's where we heard it the first time. You know when
we heard it the second time? When He spoke to our hearts.
When we found out that He really does have all power. He's omnipotent. He has all power. That's why
we're able to do it. He's able to deliver us. He's able to keep us. He's able to perform what He
promised. He's able to keep that which
we've committed unto Him against that day. And bless His name,
He's able to prevent us faultless before His throne. Faultless,
faultless, faultless. And so that's why we be still.
Not only that we know Him, know He's unchangeable in His nature.
He's omnipotent, but He's omniscient. He sees all and knows all. You know, I can't see through
that glass with that water in it. You take the water out of
it, I can see through that glass clearly. And that's what we are. We are just transparent to God
as clear glass. He knows our thoughts afar off. In fact, He says He numbers the
hairs of our head. You know why He says that? Is to let us know. how interested
and how careful he is to watch out for us. If he watches out
so much for us that he can't count the numbers of the hairs
of our head, what he's saying is, that's how careful I am to
watch over you. That's how careful. Because he's
not interested in how many hairs you got on your head. That's
not what he's talking about. He's talking about, I care for you. I'm watching you. I've got my
eye on you. I care so much for you. Oh, he knows our persons. He
knows our cares. Oh, how he knows our cares. And
you know what he said about him? He said, cast your cares upon
him for he cares for you. He knows our troubles. He knows
our troubles. He knows our troubles. And I
tell you something, this is one thing I think that
God's taught me too, I hope He has, that I tell Him my troubles. I tell Him my troubles. I do. I tell Him my troubles. I tell
Him what I'm afraid of. I tell Him what I'm afraid of.
I tell Him my troubles. I had to ask Him one time to
help me I asked Him one time and I begged Him, I said, Lord,
and it was my fault that I didn't rest and didn't understand it
sooner, but I did not know how to enjoy God's blessings for
years. Y'all understand what that's
like? To not know how to enjoy God's blessings. Always afraid
something bad's gonna happen. Always afraid that God's gonna
jerk the rug out from under me anytime. And I'd have to say, you know,
and it took years for me to get over that. And I mean, I was
preaching, I was pastor of church. I'm being honest with you. And
I started to ask him, said, Lord, what makes me like this? Please
teach me, teach me how to take from your hand and enjoy it and
receive it. And not be afraid that it's going
to be taken away anytime. And then a few months later,
I never thought about it again. And I say this all the time.
I wish everybody enjoyed living as much as I did. And I haven't
yet to meet the person that's been blessed any more before
God than I have. I've yet to meet him. Yet to
meet him. And oh my, he knows not only
he knows our troubles, he knows how to hide us. He knows how
to hide us. put us under the shadow of his
wing. He knows how to shelter us in the storm. He's too good, too good to be
unkind. He's too wise to do wrong. And
to us, it looks like the wicked are in control, but they're not. Things look black. Things look
bleak. Look here, Psalm 40, verse 1.
Where I'm at, 46, excuse me, not Psalm 40, 46 where I'm at. Look here. Oh, the wicked ain't
in control. No, no, no. No, no, no. He's gonna be exalted in the
earth. Look what he said. This is what I'm talking about.
God is our refuge and our strength. A very present help in trouble.
You know what that means? That no matter what trouble you
got, He's a present help. He's right there. And ain't you
glad He's present? That He's not far away? If He
is far away, it might take Him a while to get there. But He's
ever present. He's our present help in the time of trouble.
And look what He says. Therefore will not we fear. Though
the earth be removed, though the mountains be carried into
the midst of the sea, though the waters thereof roar and be
troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
I love it. There is a river, the streams,
whereof shall make glad the city of God. That's us. The holy place
of the tabernacles of the Most High. Listen to it. God is in
the midst of her. And listen to this, she shall
not be moved. God shall help her. And when? Early, early, early. Early, early,
early. Oh my. And then let me close
with this. Let me close with this. What a sweet, sweet consolation.
Be still concerning your past. Be still concerning your past.
Why? Because their sins are gone.
They're all taken away. They're gone. They're gone. God said He found no iniquity
in Jacob. Our sins are gone. Christ put
them away once and for all by the sacrifice of Himself. There's
no condemnation. when peace like a river attendeth
my way, sorrows like sea billows roll,
whatever my lot thou hast taught me to say, it is well, it is
well with my soul. Sins are gone. Concerning the
past, concerning the present, His grace is sufficient I know
that for certain. I know that. Ever does not a
person in this building who's not found out that His grace is always sufficient. It's sufficient for whatever
you go through. It's sufficient when your health
is bad. It's sufficient when your Weak
is sufficient when you don't know whether you're living or
dying. It's sufficient when you're in your sleep. It's sufficient
when you're in a trial. It's sufficient when you're in
a hospital. It's sufficient when you're dying. It's sufficient,
sufficient, and sufficient. In fact, His strength is made
perfect in weakness. And we had no strength. You get up and preach. You get
up and come to services. Sometimes when your heart's broke,
and your heart's heavy, and you've just heard the awfulest news,
or you're so weary and so weak and so tired. What makes you
do that? His grace is sufficient. You say, I can't stand. I know
you can't, I can't either. His grace is sufficient. Always has been, always will
be. There's a family in our church,
and I'll say this, I'll be, I'll be, I just got one more point. Their daughter had her first
baby, and she lost it when she was about five months old. About
five months? Five months. And they told her
at the hospital, said, what do you want to do with it? She wants
to dispose of it or what? She says, dispose of it. She
says, no. I want to take it home. I want
to bury it. And you talk about people that
the grace was sufficient for. The father of this girl and his
son-in-law, he took, went out there with a shovel. A couple
of shovel fools dug a grave. They pulled up in a white hearse,
got out of the hearse. They had a little white box about
that long. Looked like a shoe box. They
handed it to us. It was the mother, the father,
the grandmother, the grandfather, and me, Mary, that's all the
people that was there. Put that little feller in the
ground. Daddy and Grandpa covered it
up. We had a little service there. I'm telling you, God's grace
is sufficient. Now, this girl now has two beautiful
baby boys. And she told me last Sunday,
she's pregnant again. And I hope they get a little
girl. But Granny and Grandpa's happy. His grace is sufficient for the
present. For the present. And I tell you
what, be still concerning the future. Concerning the future. Concerning the future. Oh, my. You know what it says in Philippians
4? Oh, our future. What a future we've got. Ain't
nobody got a better future than believers. Nobody's got a better
future. We don't have to watch the stock
market to know what our future's going to be. Oh, no. No, there's nobody got a future
like we do. Our future is sure. Our future
is perfect. Our future is to forever be with
the Lord. And if we're going to be with
Him there, Let's live and be still and rest in Him here. Oh, what a Savior. What a wonderful
Savior is Jesus my Lord. Do you know that, y'all sang
that song? That's 256 or 258 what? But you
sing whatever you're going to sing, David. Don't pay no attention
to me.