E11: Psalm 119: Living Life in the Light of God's Word - A Biblical View Of God

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You. Have your Bibles, if you would

turn to Psalm 119. I know that's not a shocker to

anyone who's been here any amount of time as we have been

walking through this longest chapter in Scripture, the 119th

Psalm, as we have been on this journey about learning to live

life in the light of God's Word. And I pray that we are doing

just that. Today we come to the 73rd verse

and we'll be looking at verses at verses 73 all the way to

verse 80. It's going to begin as each

section has begun with a letter from the Hebrew alphabet.

And this one today is the letter yot.

And that letter yot is interesting because in Matthew

Matthew 5:18

chapter 5 verse 18, Jesus himself said this, that not one

yot jot in English or title shall be removed from the law.

And so this is the letter that Jesus was talking about yot.

And we know that's after this letter Yot is mentioned, there

will be, as we have seen, this entire but 8 verses under that

particular letter of the alphabet.

And so we come to Yot today and we come here to learn and we

come here to learn about a biblical view of God.

And we need to learn this because we know that we live in

a world full of relative truth, where God is defined by

philosophy, intellect, God is defined by the world views of

man, whatever those world views may be.

God is defined by relative truth.

And it's easy that way because if if God is defined by relative

truth and not the absolute truth of scripture, well, God can now

be perceived as anything that the perverted and sinful mind of

man desires him to be. It stands to reason that in a

culture where men can choose to be women, if they so choose to

be, and others are then demanded to respect that choice, it

stands to reason that this type of wickedness would be actually

looking for a new or unbiblical view of God.

A God of relative truth. One who we can simply choose to

accept whichever way that we want to accept him, to make him

into whatever it is that we want him to be.

Or as many have done, the atheist who just completely

denies his existence at all. That's the easiest way, isn't

it, to just completely deny his existence.

And truth to you is that there is no God at all, which is false

and it's just relative to you. But we're going to see today

that God has revealed in Scripture exactly who he is.

He's revealed exactly how he works, how He loves, how he

afflicts, as we talked about last week and we'll mention

again this week how he judges, how he shows compassion, how he

interacts with mankind. Aren't you thankful that we get

to interact with our Creator and commune with Him?

God's Word is expressly clear on these things.

And so if we're going to have the right view of God, the right

view of God can't come from relative truth.

It can't come from your own intellect, your own philosophy,

your own ideology. It can't come from whatever

indoctrination you received as you came up through school and

then into higher learning that God is just whatever, whoever

you want him or her to be. If we're going to have the

correct view of God, a correct view of God comes from the truth

of Scripture. That is the only place that

we're going to find a correct view of God.

And we are going to see today that the psalmist understood

that. He understood a biblical view of

God, and in looking at what he writes today, we're going to see

that. But the psalmist recognized the

one true and living God, the eternal Creator, the sustainer

of life, the wise counselor, the compassionate Redeemer of

sinners, and the mighty conqueror of the hearts of man.

He recognized him for who he is biblically.

He's going to teach us how to do the same and I pray that you

would adhere to what he is going to teach us today.

Psalm 119, the 73rd verse. He says this under again the

title Yoat. He says your hands made me

informed me give me understanding to learn your

commands. May those.

Who fear you, rejoice when they see me, for I have put my hope

in your word. I know, O Lord, that your laws

are righteous. And in faithfulness you have

afflicted me. May your unfailing love be my

comfort, according to your promise to Your servant.

Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for Your law is

my delight. May the arrogant be put to shame

for wronging me without cause. But I will meditate on your

precepts. May those who fear you turn to

me, those who understand your statutes.

May my heart be blameless toward your decrees, that I may not be

put to shame. Let's pray together.

Father, we thank you for your word.

We thank You that Your word does truly reveal who you are to us.

Lord, we thank You that You have preserved Your Word so that we

cannot be bound by relative truth and humanistic ideology,

but that we can see the one true and living God for exactly who

You say that you are in Your Word.

God, I pray that you would use the Psalmist today who was

inspired by the Spirit to write these things to point us to a

proper and biblical view of God so that our worship would be

what it is supposed to be. So that our lives will be what

they are supposed to be. So that our eternity will be

everlasting life with You according to Your Word.

God, I pray that we would yield to Your Spirit as You change our

views because what we may be skewed and we may be off in our

wicked hearts. God, I pray that You would use

Your word today to bring us back to the center.

Show us exactly who You are and that we would worship You

according to Your word for exactly who You are.

That we would follow You and obey Your commands because You

are the true God. But I pray for the soul who's

here who does not know Christ, Lord, They do not have a

biblical view of God. And I know this because they

have not bowed the knee to Christ.

They have not surrendered to Him as Lord and Savior.

They have not repented of their sin as Your word has commanded

God. I pray today that by Your mercy

and Your compassion, you would open their eyes, change their

view, awaken them spiritually to new life, that they would trust

in Christ as Lord and Savior, seeing you for who you truly

are. Lord, we'll be careful to give

you all the glory and all the praise for it.

Teach us now as we look at Your Word.

Holy Spirit, we ask that You give us enlightenment.

You teach us what it is that You would have us to know.

And we pray these things in Christ's name.

Amen. We see here the Psalmist giving

us an example of someone who has a biblical view of God, and he

begins illustrating this for us and what he says in verse 73, in

the very first part of this verse, he says your hands made

me and formed me. If you're going to have a

biblical view of God, a biblical view of God recognizes God as

sovereign creator. You can't have a biblical view

of God without first recognizing this.

And the psalmist. Psalmist rightly acknowledged

God as sovereign creator right out of the gate, the one who has

formed him by his hands. Horatius Vonner said this.

He said it is nearness, not distance that the name Creator

implies and the simple fact of having made us in the assurance

of his desire to bless us and to hold intercourse with us.

Bonner is saying this, that it's God as our Creator that actually

brings us near to God. It's not as if he's creator than

causing us to think that he's far from us, but that he was

intimately involved in our creation.

The psalmist understanding this when he makes the statement,

your hands again, as Bonner says, assuring the fact that

having made us is assurance of His desire to bless us and to

hold intercourse with us, His desire to commune with us.

It is by His hands that He has created man, giving evidence

that from creation He desired to commune with us.

If you'll go back into creation, you know that He spoke many

things into existence, but not man.

For man, he reached down into the dirt, and he molded and he

crafted man, and he formed him into his own image with that

special creation. We must recognize him as the

sole creator and that is the first step.

That is the first step in being restored to an intimate

relationship. A communion with him is to

recognize him as the sovereign creator that he is, Stephen

Sharnick said this. He said we must first believe

that He is and that He is what He declares Himself to be, and

over and over again in Scripture He declares Himself to be

sovereign Creator. He says we must do this before

we can seek Him, adore Him, and devote our affections to Him.

Charnick says we must believe that He is who and what he says

that He is. Is that not what the author of

Hebrews says in Hebrews Chapter 11 verse 6 when he says without

Hebrews 11:6

faith it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to

Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who

earnestly seek Him. First base is this believing in

the existence of a sovereign Creator.

The atheist in his foolish heart attempting over and over and

over again to deny God is sovereign Creator, not the

psalmist. The psalmist right in the

beginning says it's he who by his hands made me informed me.

Oh, it is the psalmist here recognizing God as sovereign

Creator. If you truly recognize God as

sovereign creator, you can write this down.

You will recognize him as author of a creation.

Again, the Psalm is saying your hands made me.

Now why is that important? It's important because in

acknowledging that we are agreeing with what happened in

Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 and we're agreeing that this is

Genesis 2:7

absolute truth and what does it say there?

The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and

breathe into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man

became a living being. It is God who authored the

creation not of only all things, but especially of man, and He is

the author of that creation. Now we all know this to be true

in a worldly sense. If we were to invent something,

whatever that invention may be, we are the creator of that

something. We would then file for a patent.

We would have this invention patented and we would have this

patented. Why?

Because we are the creator of that thing.

We don't want anyone else coming in and and trying to state claim

that they created what it was that we invented.

God the same in His Word has made it very clear.

He's laid down the patent over and over and over in Scripture

that He is the author of creation.

We need to recognize that. We need to recognize him as that

author of creation according to the truth of the word of God.

Not only do we need to recognize that, we need to Revere God as

Creator. David in the 33rd Psalm says

this. And verse 6, by the word of the

Lord, where the heavens made the story host, by the breath of his

mouth, He gathers the waters of the sea into jars.

He puts the deep in the storehouses.

Let all the earth fear the Lord. Let all the people of the world

Revere him. Why?

Because He is sovereign Creator over all.

He is worthy to be revered. He is worthy to be praised.

In fact, Jonah, that rebellious preacher there on his way to

Nineveh and he decides, you know what, I'm not going to go to

Nineveh. I'm going to go to Tarsus.

And we know how the story goes, but Jonah understood this.

In Jonah chapter one verse 9, even in all of his

misunderstandings, it says this. He answered speaking to those

men aboard aboard the ship that he was on, rebelling against

God. I am a Hebrew and I worship the

Lord, the God of heaven who made the sea and the land.

Even in his waywardness, Jonah could not deny the fact that God

is sovereign Creator over all. He is the author of creation,

for all things were created by him and for him and through Him.

And there is nothing that has been created that he did not

create. It's God.

We must recognize God rightfully as author of creation.

In fact, in Isaiah, our scripture reading today in

chapter 41, particular verse there in 28 stands out to me.

The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the

earth. He's created everything, things

you see and things you will never see.

The depths of the ocean, the extent and the expanse of

heaven. He is the author and the

mastermind over all creation. He is the author of creation and

must be recognized as such, even though the atheist denies God as

Creator. And why does he do this?

Because he knows that the Creator is worthy of respect

from whatever it is that He has created the creation and he is

do this as the Creator. That's why the psalmist says in

Psalm 14 that you're obviously a fool when you deny the existence

of God, right? Because a fool has said in his

heart there is no God. He's describing for us an

atheist who's an absolute glittering fool.

Perhaps you're here today and you wandered in under the radar

and you're still an atheist. You are a fool and I am not

telling you that. God is telling you that, and you

are a fool because obviously when we look at the majesty and

the splendor of all that He has created, including ourselves as

humans, when we look at that, it is obvious that there is a

creator and there is an author behind that.

And who does Scripture say that that author is?

It is the one true and living God, Yahweh of the Old

Testament. We see Him as the author of

creation, but we also need to recognize this and recognizing

God as sovereign creator. And he's the authority over that

creation. Just as I mentioned a moment

ago, that person who gets that patent on that invention, guess

what else that creator has? He has the authority over that

invention, whether to mass produce that or not, whether to

sell it to someone else so that they can produce it.

He has complete authority over that which he has created.

The psalmist understanding this, that God as creator and author

of all creation has authority over that creation and he

recognizes that. If you remember with me, in

Psalm 24, verse 1, he says the earth is the Lord's and

Psalms 24:1

everything in it, the world and all who live in it, where He

founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters.

What is the psalmist saying here?

That the One who created everything is the authority over

everything. Now let me just help all of you

out. You don't have to acknowledge

His sovereign authority for Him to be in sovereign authority.

He is in sovereign authority whether you know it or not.

He is in sovereign authority over His creation, whether you

accept that or not. He's made that very clear in his

Word. And so a person who has a

biblical view of God will recognize God as sovereign

creator, that he is the author of creation and he is the

authority over that creation. And to deny God, who is the

Creator, the authority that he rightfully has is foolish.

This is wicked reasoning, isn't it?

This is the reasoning of the unbelieving, to say, well, maybe

God is Creator, but that doesn't mean He has to be an authority

in my life. No, He doesn't have to be an

authority in your life. Let me make it very clear for

you. He is an authority in your life.

And one day every knee will bow in every tongue.

Confess that He is Lord and there's nothing that you were

going to do to change that. He is sovereign over all.

The person who refuses the right of the Creator to govern his own

creation. Just simply rebels and refuses

to submit to him in governing their life.

He rightfully deserves that position, doesn't he?

To govern our lives, to be our Lord and our Master.

Why? Because He's our Creator, and if

He created us, that we would commune with Him and He did

whatever He had to do, even the unthinkable, in sending His only

Son to the cross to die to reconcile mankind unto Himself,

so that He could again commune with these things, these people

He has. Created who wandered away into

sin. It stands to reason that if He

is the author of creation and He is the authority over creation,

and He has gone to the extent that He has gone to that we

ought to bow to Him as the authority in our lives.

So if we're going to have a biblical view of God, we must

recognize him beginning with the fact that he is sovereign

creator. The psalmist then quickly moves

on verse 73, the second part, not only does he recognize God

as sovereign creator. Secondly, he recognizes God as

wise counselor. Pay attention to what he says

here. He says give me understanding to

learn your commands. May those who fear you rejoice

when they see me, for I have put my hope in your word.

The psalmist here now gives another mark of those who have a

biblical view of God. And this biblical view of God

recognizes God not only as creator and the author of

creation and the authority over creation, but this biblical view

of God recognizes God as an all wise counselor.

Paul expresses this in first Timothy chapter one verse 17, as

he gives a doxology unto the Lord.

Now to the king, eternal, immortal, invisible, the only

God. Many of your transcripts say the

only wise God because he is where wisdom comes from.

He says be honor and glory forever and ever, Amen.

And we know this to be true, don't we?

It's from God that we receive wisdom.

It's from God that we receive true, unadulterated knowledge.

We have to trust in this wisdom. We have to trust in the wisdom

from the Scriptures. This is where we find wisdom

from God. People come to me and they ask

me, I need wisdom for this situation and I point them to

scripture over and over and over again.

Why? Because I don't want them ever

accusing me of being wise. God is wise and any wisdom that

I give to someone comes from His wisdom.

And any true wisdom that we gain, we gain it from God.

Everything else, it's just man's ideology.

It's the wisdom of man. It's fleeting.

We can trust in the wisdom from the Scriptures that the psalmist

is doing here. He says, give me understanding

to learn your commands. He said, Lord, I want to learn

your truths. I want wisdom from you.

I want to know what you think about things.

Isn't it interesting that we ask everyone's opinion in the world

except God's on most issues? What is your opinion on blank?

We hear these discussions all the time.

Now I want to say in every one of those discussions, why does

your opinion matter or why do you think your opinion matters?

Because your opinion, my opinion, our opinion as a whole

does not matter. What is God's opinion on things?

Lord, give us understanding in into your wisdom and into your

knowledge. That's what the psalmist is

saying here. Give me understanding to learn

your commands. I recognize that you are an all

wise counselor and I don't want to get my advice from just

anyone on the street. I want to get wisdom and I want

to get direction. I want to get advice from the

truth, from the Word of God. That's where the psalmist is

turning here, trusting in the wisdom that is received only

from the Scriptures and knowing that true wisdom comes from the

truth of God's Word. Deuteronomy 4 verse 5, Moses

Deuteronomy 4:5

says this. He says, See, I have taught you

decrees and laws, as the Lord my God commanded me, so that you

may follow them in the land you were entering to take possession

of it. Observe them carefully, for this

will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations.

Now where were the people of God going to get wisdom and

understanding from the word of God that was given unto Moses

that he's now giving unto them? And he says, then they will hear

about all these decrees and say, this is what the lost world

should be saying. Surely this great nation is wise

and understanding people. They are wise and understanding

people. Why?

Because they don't see human reasoning.

They see the wisdom of God. They see the understanding that

has come through His word. The reason that they're not

saying that about us today. Is because many of us only pick

up his word in our Lord's Day services on Sunday morning,

never gleaning from his word as the psalmist was desiring here.

Give me understanding to learn your commands.

Let me open your word and give me the wisdom and the

understanding to know what it is saying to me.

He's trusting and he's gleaning from the wisdom of God, desiring

wisdom for his life. Are you desiring that same

wisdom from your for your life, from the word of God?

You have it at your fingertips. You have access to it.

Many of you hold it in your hand.

What are you doing as the psalmist is doing here?

Recognizing God is wise counselor saying, Lord, I need

direction from you. I need direction from your word.

He's doing what must be done to acquire wisdom here.

Is that what James says? If you lack wisdom, you should

ask God. That's what the psalmist is

doing here. He's asking God for wisdom.

And we know that James tells us this.

God's going to give us that wisdom.

He's going to give us that wisdom graciously.

But are you asking God to give you wisdom and never returning

to His Word to see the wisdom that it is that He has given

you? His true wisdom is going to come

from His commands, from His Word, just as the psalmist says.

And so one who recognizes God as wise counselor will be trusting

in the wisdom from Scriptures again, not just one day a week,

meditating on scriptures every moment of their life.

So the psalmist recognizing God as wise counselor, trusting in

the wisdom from the Scriptures, but also encouraging others to

do the same. See the next part of this in 74

May. Those who fear you rejoice when

they see me, for I've put my hope in your word.

He's not saying that they can see me and it draws attention to

myself. He's saying that they can see me

and they can see the wisdom and the understanding that I have

from the Word of God, and it draws attention unto the Lord

and to His Word. This is what we ought to be

doing. We ought to be encouraging

others to do the same as the psalmist has done here.

He said, give me understanding to learn your commands.

We ought to be encouraging others.

Go to the Lord and ask Him for wisdom to understand His

commands. Go to the Word, Spend time in

the Word. Find the answers to your

questions, Probably the number one most asked question that I

receive. How can I know God's will for my

life? You know what they're asking

for? Supernatural wisdom.

You know where you find that? Not for me.

Go to the Word of God and there you will see the will of God

unfold in your life as you spend time studying and meditating on

the Word of God. And so we see the psalmist doing

just that, studying, meditating on the Word of God, learning his

commands, seeking God's wisdom and doing that and then

encouraging others to do the same by giving them that godly

example that we all need. We need to be that example of

one who trusts in God's word, who trust in God's word for

wisdom, who trust in God's Word for understanding, who trusts in

God's Word when something in the world happens, right?

We wake up and all of a sudden, man, we're, we're bombing Iran.

Just rest. Trust in the Word of God.

Those people have been the enemies of God forever.

They're going to continue to be the enemies of God until Christ

comes and sets the record straight.

Just chill. Where did I gain that from?

Well, I didn't get it from reading Time magazine.

I didn't even get it from watching Cnni got it from the

scriptures. And in that I have peace and I

have a hope in God's sovereign plan.

And I want to encourage you to do the same thing when it when

all chaos seems to be breaking out in the world.

Let me just ask you this question.

Do you believe the Scripture? God is sovereign, Jesus is

merciful, and he wins in the end.

Let's not complicate this. And so we see that all to be

true when we go back to the Scripture and we do as the

psalmist is doing here, receiving that understanding

from the Lord and then being an example of someone who trusts in

the Word of God. Are you being that in your life?

Are you being that in the lives of your children or not?

A question that we ought to ask. Are you teaching your children

to trust in and to appropriate the Word of God?

Or are you worrying about things all the time?

Are you fearful all the time? Is your anxiety out of the roof?

And we have to teach the word of God by our example.

That's what the psalmist is saying.

May those who fear you rejoice when they see me, when they look

at me and they say, you know what?

Not only does he know the Scriptures, that man lives the

Scriptures. He says, right, put my hope in

your word. They say this, He hopes in the

word of God. Isn't that what the psalmist is

encouraging us to do today, to encourage others by living a

life of hope, by living a life of obedience unto the Word of

God, encouraging other believers to do the same.

We ought to be encouraging one another, as we're doing in this

series, to live a life in light of the Word of God, to walk in

it, allowing it to be a lamp unto our feet and a light unto

our path, and encouraging others to do the same.

The psalmist here giving us the second point, that a biblical

view of God will recognize him as wise counselor.

Thirdly, verse 75, he says, I know, oh Lord, that your laws

are righteous and in faithfulness you have afflicted

me. Oh, no affliction again.

We had a whole message about that last week.

We're not going to stay there long, long, so don't worry.

I think we covered most of it last week.

But he says, I know, oh Lord, that your laws are righteous and

in faithfulness you have afflicted me.

May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to Your

promise to your servant. The psalmist here, yes, is going

to revisit Affliction for just a moment.

He's going to do this so that we can learn a little bit more

about this. We can learn about putting our

trust in God as our loving comforter.

A person who has a biblical view of God will recognize God as

loving comforter. He says, may your unfailing love

be my comfort according to your promise to your servant.

Why is he saying this? He's saying it in the context

and on the heels of mentioning again the fact that God has

allowed affliction into his life.

So the Psalmist here teaching us that a true biblical view of God

will recognize God as loving comforter.

Watch this despite the situation.

No matter what it is that you're facing.

We're all good with saying God is our comforter when we're

comfortable, but saying that God is our comfort is not the same

as we are comfortable. Does everybody understand that?

Because the American Church thinks that being comfortable is

comfort. Now I can tell you this, I have

received comfort from the Lord in the most uncomfortable

situations that I have faced in life, and comfort as far as the

world it defines being comfortable was nowhere to be

found, but it was God with a supernatural comfort that He

gives me from His love internally.

This is what the psalmist is understanding.

This is what he knows. This is what he knows, that God

truly is who He is in regard to His loving comfort.

He comforts us despite the situation.

Even in affliction, in times of trouble, He comforts us.

In fact, Isaiah 49 verse 13 says this.

Isaiah 49:13

Shout for joy, O heavens, rejoice, O earth, burst into

song, O mountains. For the Lord comforts his feeble

and will have compassion on his afflicted ones.

What does that mean? No matter what you're going

through, you can rest in His loving comfort.

Isn't it good to have a loving comforter, one who constantly

comforts us by his unfailing love?

That's what the psalmist says. It's his unfailing love.

It brings me comfort. It brings me comfort according

to the promise that you've made to your servant.

And where do you think that he found this?

He found it in Scriptures. I will never leave you.

I will never forsake you. And he rested on that, and he

stood on that, and he knew that God's going to comfort him in

any affliction. In.

Fact, Second Corinthians Chapter 7 verse 6, it says, but God who

2 Corinthians 7:6

comforts the downcast comforted us.

This is Paul talking there to the Corinthians about the

comfort that he and Titus received from the Lord.

And it's God who comforts us even when we're downcast.

What is those moments that we feel his love the most?

Many times, isn't it? And we go through the darkest

hour. And His Spirit and the promises

of His word embrace us with the unfailing love of God despite

any situation that we face. He comforts us in our affliction

and He covers us with His affection.

Isaiah 54 verse 10 says though the mountains be shaken and the

Isaiah 54:10

hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not

be shaken, nor my covenant of peace be removed, says the Lord,

who has compassion on you. Oh.

What great promises that we can claim in Christ that he made

through the prophets so long ago, that we can rest, that

though the mountains be shaken and all the hills dissolve, we

can rest in his compassion because of the covenant that

he's made with us through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus

Christ. We see that the psalmist is

recognizing God as his loving comforter no matter what

situation he's in, no matter what he faces, despite the

situation, but also because it's declared by His Word.

The Word has declared it, and it's time we, as professing

believers in Christ, claim the things that the Word of God

proclaims. Stop acting as if God hasn't

said these things. God is our loving comforter.

Second Corinthians chapter one one of my favorite passages on

God's comfort. It says this in verse 3.

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the

Father of compassion and the God of all comfort who comforts us

in all our troubles. Don't you think We didn't say

some of our troubles, a few of our troubles when things get

really, really bad. No, He comforts us in all of our

troubles. Why?

So that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we

ourselves have received from God.

Isn't that what the church is supposed to do?

We've received comfort from the Word of God.

That, that, that comfort, those promises that he gives us bring

comfort into our lives. And then what are we to do?

We're to turn around. We're to share that with someone

else who's going through a similar time of trial or

affliction, affliction or sorrow or suffering.

That's how the body of Christ is designed to work.

A group of people recognizing God as loving comforter and

reminding one another of that all the time.

Yes, brother, Yes, sister, I know that you're going through a

difficult time. In fact, I went through that

same thing. I got that same diagnosis.

I got that same phone call. I went through that same trial.

And let me tell you something, what I learned from the word of

God. He is a loving God who comforts

us in all of our troubles because He is the God of all

comfort. Aren't you thankful that He's

the God of all comfort? This morning the psalmist saying

that a biblical view of God will recognize him as that loving

comforter. Fourthly, we move on verse 77.

The psalmist says, let your compassion come to me, that I

may live, for your law is my delight.

Fourthly, I want you to see this that a biblical view of God

recognizes him as merciful Christ.

Now when I say. Christ.

I'm not talking about the last name of Jesus, as many of you

think that that's just his last name.

It's not his last name. It is the title of who he is.

He is the Christ. He is the Savior.

And when we talk about God being a merciful Christ, we are

talking about Him being a merciful Savior.

And the psalmist here is going to turn our attention to the

only hope that any of us have. And what is that?

God's compassion and His mercy. If God did not let His

compassion come to us, and see how He worded that, please let

it come to me. If God had not let His

compassion come to us, we would all be dreadfully lost and bound

for hell. But the psalmist here pleading

with God, let your compassion come to me.

I'm dependent upon you and your mercy and compassion toward this

Sinner. God brought his compassion to

us, didn't He? He brought his compassion to us

Himself. It is through God Incarnate, the

Lord Jesus Christ. Who came in flesh bringing mercy

to sinners. This is why the deity of the

Lord Jesus Christ is so essential to having true

biblical theology. That is God Himself, who

condescended and came to this earth to die in the place of

wicked sinners, to redeem them, and to cleanse them from all of

their sin. Matthew chapter 1 we see this

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promise being given and what is it?

The promise that was taken from the prophet Isaiah and it says

this in verse 21 of Matthew 1. She will give birth to a son,

Speaking of the Virgin Mary, and you are to give him the name

Jesus because he will save his people from their sins.

Give him the name Jesus, which is Jehovah saves because he will

save his people from their sins. It says in 22.

All this took place to fulfill what the Lord had said through

the prophet. The Virgin will be with child

and will give birth to his Son, and they will call him Emmanuel,

which means God with us. The psalmist here saying, let

your compassion come to me, that I may live.

And God in the appointed time, honoring this, coming to this

earth fully God and fully man, offering himself as a

substitutionary sacrifice on a cross, so that all who believe

in Him would be saved from their sin and live.

He says, let your compassion come to me that I may live.

I'm dependent upon this Lord. I need your grace.

I need your mercy. Because a biblical view of God

will recognize God is merciful Christ, knowing that it's he who

brings forgiveness and pardon. And without His compassion,

there is no chance for forgiveness and pardon for our

sin. O may you all hear that this

morning. May that be the cry of your

heart. Lord, let your compassion come

to me, because without His compassion you will never be

forgiven of your sin. Without His compassion, you will

never be cleansed. Without His compassion, you will

never inherit eternal life. But it is in His compassion and

a proper understanding of that that we see he brings

forgiveness and pardon even to the most wicked and vile.

Center the psalmist again using the word let, let, please, just.

He's pleading with the Lord, let it, let it happen.

I'm hopeless without your compassion.

Let it come to me. God did not first will this.

The psalmist knew he did not deserve it.

Aren't you thankful that God has let his mercy and His compassion

come to you? Because I want you all to know

this. He was under no obligation to do

any such of a thing. You were not entitled to His

compassion. You were not entitled to his

mercy. In fact, truth be told, you

deserve justice and wrath and his indignation for all eternity

and hell. But yet He has let his

compassion come to you. Why?

Because He's a God of compassion.

And if He had not first loved you, you would never have loved

him. Oh, let us be thankful that He

is a God of compassion and let us see Him as such.

Lamentations chapter 3, verse 22 says because of the Lord's great

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love, we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail.

They're new every morning. Great is your faith on this

Jeremiah there placing faith and a biblical God, a biblical God

who is a God of compassion, bringing forgiveness and

pardoning sin, showing his love. Ephesians chapter 2, Paul says

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this. But because of his great love

for us, God who is rich in mercy made us alive with Christ even

when we were dead in transgressions.

It is by grace you have been saved.

So, a Curt are we really going to talk about grace again?

Yes. If you haven't noticed, every

week we're going to talk about grace to some degree because if

God does not grace you with His mercy and His forgiveness, you

will never be. Forgiven.

So we honor Him for that, and we know that it is His grace and

His compassion shown by that grace that allows us to live His

great love for us. Because of that great love, He's

made us alive with Christ even when we were dead, all according

to His grace. So biblical view of God will

recognize God as the merciful Christ, the merciful Savior.

Who brings forgiveness and pardon?

But not only that, who brings new life?

Anyone. You're thankful for the new life

that you have in Christ. Because I can tell you this, My

old life was a pile of trash. My old life was detestable to

the nostrils of God. My old life was blasphemous.

I'm thankful that God has rescued me from that old life

and that He has given me new life.

That's what the psalmist says. Let your compassion come to me

that I may live. God, I need you to

compassionately spare me. Oh, and He has compassionately

spared so many of us, bringing us to a place of new life, life

that, as we've already said, was provided by God's grace.

We know Ephesians 28 and 9. If we if we finish out Ephesians

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chapter 2, for it is by grace you've been saved through faith.

And this is not from yourself. It's the gift of God, not by

work, so that no man can boast. There's nothing for us to boast

and we have new life not because we woke up one day and say, you

know what? I want to have a better life.

I want to have a new life. I want to have a good life.

Now you would have said any of that in that you would have

woken up just like you did the day before and said, what kind

of sin can I find that will bring pleasure to my flesh?

But God, in his kindness and in his mercy, through his grace, he

saved us by his work and his work that he did on a cross

through faith. And that work and that work

alone, the death, the burial, the resurrection of Jesus

Christ, it's in him that we find life.

That's what the psalmist is getting at.

He says, let your compassion come to me, that I may live.

I don't even know life. Isn't it true?

The lost man's a dead man. He just doesn't know it.

His true life is found only in Christ.

In fact, John says this in his first epistle, chapter 5.

He said He who has the Son has life.

He who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

First, John 512 Those who don't have Christ have no life at all,

because it is the compassion of God, it is the mercy of God.

It is that which Christ does for us by His grace.

That makes us alive again. We don't just wake up one day

dead and decide to be alive. Dead people don't wake up, they

stay dead. It is God, through his mercy and

His compassion, who quickens us to life and grants us the gift

of faith to believe in Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of

God who died. On a cross 2000 years ago, who

was buried and who rose victoriously over the grave?

He gives us the faith to trust in Him, to believe that He truly

is the Savior that the Scriptures have described all

the way from Genesis all the way to Revelation, To know that He

is the only hope for man to be saved from their sin and.

But in that we receive new life, this new life provided strictly

by God's grace. Many would ask, well, how do I

know if I have it? Your life will prove it.

New life will be proven by new desires.

We see this in the psalmist here.

He says, let your compassion come to me, that I may live, for

your law is my delight. What has just happened?

Won't I need your mercy? And I know it's dependent upon

your grace. And in that he's changed.

And now the Word of God becomes his delight.

His desire has changed, a desire that desired only himself to a

desire that now desires the will of God.

According to the Word of God. Your law is my delight.

I don't see your law as a burden.

I see it as a delight. Oh, it's proof that He is truly

received in new life. Because those who once delighted

in sin and in the things of this world, and they receive the

mercy of God through the Lord Jesus Christ, they'll no longer

delight in the world, but they'll begin to delight in the

Word. Why?

Because they're a new creation. Just a second Corinthians

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chapter 5 or 17 says they're a new creation.

They'll delight in the Word instead of delighting in the

world. Now you have to ask yourself

this question at this juncture. Are you delighting in the Word?

Because that's evidence of new life here.

That's evidence that you have received mercy and you have

received the compassion of the Lord, that you have truly been

saved. And if you have truly been

saved, you will desire the Word of God.

Let me help all of you out. If you're sitting here this

morning and you're saying, I wish this guy would just stop

teaching from this old relic, you have a spiritual issue.

You're not yet born again. Because those who have truly

been born again, they hunger after the word of God.

It is food for their soul. Because they understand what the

word of God testifies, that man cannot live on bread alone, but

every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.

So if you don't enjoy learning from the Word of God, studying

the Word of God, being preached to from the Word of God, you

have a spiritual problem. It's one of two things.

You're either lost and not yet born again, or you are starving

as a believer. There's no excuse for you to

starve around here. There's no excuse for you to

starve around here where you have every opportunity to.

Feast from the Word of God, where you at every opportunity

are encouraged to study the Word of God.

Some of you you haven't opened your Bible since the last Sunday

service that you came to. You're not delighting in the

Word of God. You're delighting in the Word of

God only on a Sunday morning. That's not delighting in the

Word of God. To delight in the Word of God

means that you delight in the Word of God constantly, that you

meditate on His commands, His precepts, His law, His promises,

over and over and over and over again to the day that the Lord

calls you home. Why?

Because that's evidence of a changed life.

You used to not do that. All you thought about was the

world and how you can succeed in the world's eyes and how you can

fulfill whatever fleshly desires that you had.

But now, because you have truly been born again, you desire the

Word of God. You crave it like that pure

spiritual milk that the Scripture talks about.

Then after you feast from that milk, that's not enough.

Why? Because when you taste and see

that the Lord is good, you want more of Him.

And now you want meat. And I'm so thankful for a

congregation who can eat the meat from the Word of God

because I've been in so many places where if you preach for

over 15 minutes, they were done because it was just way too much

for them to handle. And I say this to them as kindly

and as lovingly as I know how. You're either lost or you're OK

with being malnourished spiritually, and either one of

them is a major spiritual problem, and you need to turn to

Christ. Today.

You see the psalmist recognizing God is merciful Christ bringing

forgiveness and pardon, bringing new life, and that new life

being evidenced by a new desire for the Word of God.

Your law is my delight because one, when they received mercy

from God, they received new life.

They value the word of God, they value scriptures.

So biblical view of God will recognize God as merciful Christ

biblically moves to the fifth point this morning.

Verse 78 says, May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me

without cause, but I will meditate on your precepts.

May those who fear you turn to me, those who understand your

statutes, may my heart be blameless toward your decrees

that I may not be put to shame. A biblical view of God

recognizes God as mighty conqueror and the psalmist here

is doing nothing wrong. But I want to make very clearly

what is going on here because many people in in our mamby

pamby weak society would say, wow, can you really even do

this? The psalmist is praying to God

against his enemies. Make no mistake about that.

He is turning them over to the Lord.

He is praying against them. And he's doing this instead of

taking matters into his own hands and seeking vengeance by

the sword. And let me just assure you this,

the psalmist knew how to wield the sword.

History proves it. Scripture proves it.

But here he's not because he has been changed.

He's not considering those things.

What he is doing is he's trusting God to conquer his

enemies, just as God has promised to do.

Isn't it true that God in Scripture has promised to defend

the righteous? And this man of God was counting

on that. In fact, Thomas Manton says

this. He said malicious enemies may be

expressly prayed against. Many of us have faced that in

our Christian life, and maybe you haven't.

But if you've ever pastored a church, you have there are

people who just are mean and malicious toward the pastor.

Let me remind all of you, I am just as the delivery boy.

I'm the mailman. Don't get mad at me because God

has delivered something unto you that you needed to hear.

But yet we know there are those people who are malicious and

they, they bring accusations and they say false things.

And again, I know what we covered last week.

Blessed are you when men say all kinds of evil against you.

I understand that, but there's a reality to it that it hurts.

And when it hurts, you know what we can't do?

And I had to learn this. And I am so thankful that I

learned this because I have seen God work in this over and over

and over again since I have learned it.

In my younger years. I thought it was my

responsibility when someone was maligning me to go and verbally

assault them right back, because that's the thing to do, right?

No, absolutely not. Every time that I ever attempted

to do anything like that, I was so convicted and so broken that

it led me to a place of repentance and confession.

But. Now on the flip side of that,

God has taught me what the psalmist understands here, and

that is when people are malicious against you, you pray

for him. And you turn them over to God.

You trust God to defend you, and you stop trying to defend

yourself. You know why?

Because every time I've ever tried to defend myself, I did it

in the flesh. Because when I tried to defend

myself, you know what I am thinking for a second?

That I have rights. I don't have rights.

I died with Christ. I laid my rights down at the

feet of Jesus Christ when I surrendered to Him as my Lord

and Savior. Now He has the right to defend

me anytime He wants to, because when he's defending me when I'm

right, he's defending himself. Because I'm standing in His

righteousness, Not in the righteousness of Kirk Hall,

because I have none. And so I've learned when those

enemies pop up their head, those people who talk behind the

scenes, that you, you're not fooling anyone.

Someone rats on you. When?

Those enemies talk behind the scenes.

You know what I do? I just simply get on my knees

and I turn them over to the Lord, and I say, Lord, if

they're bashing me, rightfully so, I deserve it.

And I could give them a thousand other reasons to blast me.

But Lord, if they're blasting me as I'm standing in you, Lord,

defend your name, Defend your glory.

In fact, during the time of the 16th century, John Knox, one of

the Scottish reformers, encountered a woman by the name

of Mary, Queen of Scots. She was a devout enemy to

Protestantism, and she once said this about Knox.

She said, I fear the prayers of John Knox more than all the

assembled armies of Europe. Why?

Because Knox would pray for his enemies.

God would work on his behalf, and God would work for his own

glory. Through Knox, through his

powerful preaching, and through his prayer ministry on this

earth, God used him in a mighty way, but he also defended him

against all enemies that came against them.

It's what was Knox doing? He was simply recognizing,

trusting in God and his promise to conquer the enemies who come

against us. Why would Scripture give us so

much wisdom and insight into trusting God with our enemies

and praying for them and turning them over to Him?

And then we're not to do that. We are to do that.

And in doing that, God will do what God is going to do, and

that is to conquer our enemies. It's the one who biblically

recognizes God, recognizes God is mighty.

Conquer and conquer over our enemies.

Psalmist calling on God in prayer to conquer the enemies

who are coming against them, those who are afflicting him,

those who are harming him. Those who are doing all this

without calls simply because he's following God.

Psalm 3417 the psalmist says this.

The righteous cry out and the Lord hears them.

He delivers them from all their troubles.

The Lord is close to the broken hearted and save those who are

crushed in. Spirit, a righteous man may have

many troubles, but the Lord delivers them from them all.

Oh, would we cling to that? Would we hold on that?

Would we just shut our mouths? It's not getting involved in

things that we don't need to get involved in.

God is going to take care of us. He protects all his bones.

Not one of them will be broken. Evil will slay the wicked.

The foes of the righteous will be condemned.

The Lord redeems his servants. No one will be condemned who

takes refuge in Him. No one.

So I encourage you to do this. When your enemies come against

you, they're blasting you on social media, they're blasting

you in whatever crowd that they run in.

See them for what they are. They're arrogant and they're

proud and they're wicked, and all those are synonymous in

Scripture. There are those arrogant

enemies, just as a psalmist is facing those arrogant enemies.

What is he saying? That they would be put to shame,

that they would be put in their place?

And would you just trust God to put them in their place?

You don't have to do it. He doesn't need your help.

That's one thing I've learned. I God doesn't need my help for

anything. I can simply just take Him at

His word and trust that He's going to do what He says.

And you know what? The truth always comes out.

It doesn't always come out when I want it to come out, but it

always comes out, doesn't it? He's always going to defend

those who take refuge in Him. So in those situations, you know

what you need to do. You need to examine your life

and you need to ask this question by taking refuge in

God. Am I trusting in His word?

OK, I am. OK, I am.

And Lord, I know you're going to defend me and I know you're

going to take care of every bit of this.

And I can tell you this, He does every single time.

Every single time. He is the Conqueror of our

enemies. The psalmist calling on God to

do this. People would say it was he's

seeking vengeance. Not for his name, He's not.

He's turning them over to the Lord.

And the Lord has said this, Leave room for my vengeance.

Don't take matters into your own hands.

He's simply just trusting in God to do what God and God alone can

do. He's applying what we see Paul

teach in Romans chapter 12. Do not repay anyone evil for

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evil. Be careful to do what is right

in the eyes of everybody. Chapter 12 verse 18 says if it

is. Possible as far as it depends on

you. Live at peace with everyone.

I do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for

God's wrath, for it is written, it is mine to avenge.

I will repay, says the Lord. On the contrary, if your enemy

is hungry, feed him. If he is thirsty, give him

something to drink, and doing this you will heap burning coals

on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but

overcome evil with good. David simply turning to a good

God and saying, Take care of this situation for me.

Take care of it however you see fit.

God knows how to do it best. Sometimes he removes those

people from your life. Sometimes he removes their

influence. Sometimes he changes their

heart. Sometimes he takes their life.

That's. All dependent upon God's will

for that specific situation. But what you must do is you must

trust God and not yourself in conquering your own enemies.

That's what the psalmist is doing here.

One who has a proper biblical understanding of God.

We'll do just that, knowing that God has promised to defend US

against our enemies. So we see one who recognizes God

as mighty counselor will know that he's conqueror of their

enemies, but he's also conqueror of hearts.

We can't leave this out, he says.

May the arrogant be put to shame for wronging me without cause.

But I will meditate on your precepts.

May those who fear, who fear you turn to me, those who understand

your statutes saying and those who are in that group, or maybe

they're saying the wrong things, but yet they are God fearing

people and they've just been LED astray.

Would you cause them to repent and to turn to me and to see

that I am righteous and that I am noble and that I am not doing

the things that others are accusing me to do and.

Then he says in verse 80, May my heart be blameless toward your

decrees, that I may not be put to shame.

Look at David here saying this. He's saying conquer hearts,

conquer the hearts of others. He's praying.

That those who had had a wrong heart and wrong view toward him,

that they would be changed. Isn't that what we ought to do?

To pray for those who have a wrong heart, that they should be

and would be changed? Luke 627 But I tell you, hear

me, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless

those who curse you, and pray for those who mistreat you.

David, praying for those who are mistreating him.

And what is he saying? Lord, change their heart.

If it is that they're God fearing people, turn them toward

me and let them see the truth. Let them see that I am righteous

because of you, and I'm standing in that righteousness and

nothing else, but also His own heart.

God is not only the Conqueror of the hearts of our enemies, those

who may come against us, He's a conqueror of our own hearts.

And boy, don't we need that. Why is that so needed?

Well, we know this, that our heart is desperately wicked,

right? Jeremiah chapter 17, verse 9.

Jeremiah 17:9

The heart is. Deceitful above all things and

beyond cure. Who can understand it?

Our heart is wicked and we are in need constantly of God

conquering our wicked heart. Christians so often forget that.

They'll say stupid things like just follow your own heart.

Please don't take the plaque off your wall.

Take it back to Kirkland's. Whatever you have to do.

Don't let anyone in your home adopt that false teaching.

Don't follow your heart. Your heart will trick you so

fast you'll think you're right when you're wrong.

Don't follow after the heart of God.

Trust in God to conquer your wicked heart.

Luke chapter 6 Lord reminds us how wicked our heart is.

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We need to remember that. Sorry, that's Mark Chapter 7.

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If you're taking notes, you're in Luke 6 going What in the

world? Mark, Mark 7, verse 21.

Mark 7:21

He says for for from within, out of men's hearts come evil

thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed,

malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly.

You don't want to trust your heart.

In fact, you want that heart to be conquered.

In fact, more than that, you ought to desire a new heart,

that heart, a flesh that replaces your heart, a stone, as

Ezekiel promised the people of God.

You ought to pray that God would conquer your wicked heart.

He. Would conquer your wicked heart,

just as he conquers the wicked hearts of your enemies, and that

he would move you to follow his decrees.

Luke 645 The good man brings good things out of the good

stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out

of the evil stored up in his heart.

For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth will speak.

O may our prayer for ourselves, just as a psalmist prayed for

himself, that God would be our mighty conqueror even in our own

hearts. Oh, it's easy to turn and to

pray for the hearts of the wicked who mistreat him.

But will we? Be honest about our heart.

Will we be honest in prayer? The Lord have turned my heart.

Make my heart blameless toward Your decrees.

Let me walk in obedience to Your word that I may not be put to

shame. Let me walk in such a way that

even if they want to accuse me of doing wrong, there is so much

right that they cannot find an accusation.

I wish that was the heart of Christians in our culture.

Lord, let us live such righteous lives that no one can bring any

blame against us, that even if they were to accuse us of doing

wrong, they have to be ashamed of that because they know that

deep down there's nothing wrong in our lives.

We are living our lives honoring the one who has conquered our

wicked hearts so the biblical view of God will recognize God

as our mighty conqueror. So we wrap this up and we

prepare to close as we've been challenged this morning.

That a true biblical view of God recognizes God as sovereign

creator. Don't forget it.

That's where it begins, Seeing Him for who he is, the author of

creation, the authority over His creation.

Then it recognizes God as wise counselor.

We need His wise counsel. We need His wisdom constantly.

We need His understanding. From His word, every single

moment of every single day of our life.

Then a true biblical view of God recognizes God as loving

comforter. We need His love and we need His

comfort, and thankfully, He brings us His love in the form

of that comfort, comforting us, leading us, and guiding us,

shepherding our soul as that great shepherd that He is.

We can agree with the psalmist in Psalm 23 that the Lord is my

shepherd. I shall not be in one.

I'll recognize God is loving comforter, and fourthly,

recognize God as merciful Christ.

Where would we be without the mercy of Christ had He not let

His compassion come unto me? I would spend an eternity in

hell under the wrath and the judgment of God, and rightfully

so, because I would deserve every single ounce of it.

Or recognize God as merciful Christ.

If you have not surrendered to Christ yet in your life,

recognize Him and surrender to Him today.

And then lastly, recognize God as mighty conqueror.

Stop taking matters into your own hands, shut your mouth and

just trust God to defend the righteous.

He always does and He always will.

So did the believer. I asked you the simple question,

do you have a biblical view of God?

I told the man before we met, before we began the service,

when we met out in the foyer. I actually told them, Some of

you are going to realize that you have some ideas about God

that aren't correct. I pray that God would correct

those ideas and you can actually leave.

You're saying, yes, I do have a biblical view of God.

I no longer adhere to an unbiblical view of God.

No, I no longer desire to have an unbiblical view of God.

Everything that I want to know about God I know I can find in

Scripture and there's where I'm going to find my answers for the

unbeliever. You're still in an unbelieving

and sinful state. And you're proving.

That every single moment of your life.

And you're proving that by that you don't have a biblical view

of God. Because if you did, if you had a

biblical view of God, you would repent of your sin.

Why? Because Christ has commanded

that we repent. If you had a biblical view of

God, you would repent of your sin, and you would turn by faith

to Jesus as your Lord and Savior.

Why? Because God commands that we do

so, and a biblical view of God was surrender to Christ as Lord

and Savior. You don't have a biblical view

of God because you don't value His word.

You don't value his commands. You don't have a biblical view

of God, therefore you're not reconciled with God.

You have not been forgiven of your sin.

You do not have eternal life, and unless you repent and turn

to Christ, you will never have either.

My prayer today is this, that you would cry out to God in

desperation, asking Him to let His mercy and His compassion

flow upon you today. That He would wash you and that

He would cleanse you of all of your sin and all of your

defilement. All the things that you've done

in your life and said in your life that are offensive to His

Holiness, and that today you would be restored and reconciled

to your Creator. Would you see God for who He is

today? Would you a God who loved

sinners in such a way that He sent His only begotten Son to

this earth to rescue all who would believe and trust in Him?

Would you believe and would you trust in Him today?

The trust in a Savior who went to a cross and who died to

display the compassion and the love that the Lord has for His

own. Would you surrender to that love

today by surrendering to Christ, the lover of your soul, receive

His mercy and his forgiveness and the eternal life that he and

he alone as promised. Let's pray together.

Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you now for your word.

We thank you. Thank you for this group of

people who have endured the entirety of this.

But I know that it will accomplish everything that you

have set out in your sovereign plan for it to accomplish.

Lord, I ask that you would draw sinners unto yourself for

forgiveness and eternal life in Christ, that you would quicken

them to new life and to faith that they would believe and

trust in Jesus as Lord and Savior today by that faith that

you've given them. God, I pray for the Saint who's

here who's let all the indoctrination of the world skew

their view of you. God, I pray that they no longer

accept that, but they would wholeheartedly turn to Your

Word, just as the psalmist has shown us today.

They would turn to Your Word and gain wisdom and understanding

into who You really are, and they would worship You properly.

Holy Spirit, we invite you now to do what only you can do.

Convict the hearts of men, transform them into what it is

that you desire for them. And we pray and we ask all these

things in the mighty name of Jesus.

Amen. You have been listening to Key

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