We're on there, brother. We'll figure out a way to count quickly again when the service is over. For anyone and our number is higher than that. Because we've heard every night somebody saying, well, I had more than 10. And see, all we're counting are the first 10. Some of you have had 20 times and 30 times. If anybody has had 50 times, I'm sure that'd be a number of you. Have a little gift I'd like to give you for that remarkable achievement. you'll see my wife after the service. It's not anything ultra expensive, just a sermon that I have preached sometime recently from the Word of God. But still, I'd like to put it in your hands as a token of appreciation for your reading the Word of God as you have. Psalm 112, would you notice it with me again tonight? I want to read Isn't it a delight to have the Awana boys and girls with us tonight? What a blessing they are. Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord, and that delighteth greatly in his commandments. His seed shall be mighty upon the earth, The generation of the upright shall be blessed. Wealth and riches shall be in his house, and his righteousness endureth forever. That was the Monday evening message. Verse 4, Under the upright there ariseth light in the darkness. He's gracious, full of compassion, and righteous. A good man showeth favor and lendeth. He will guide his affairs with discretion. That was last night's sermon. Beginning at verse 6, tonight's focus. Surely he, the godly man, shall not be moved forever. The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. His heart is established. He shall not be afraid until he see his desire upon his enemies. He hath dispersed. He hath given to the poor. His righteousness endureth forever. His horn shall be exalted with honor. The wicked shall see it. and be grieved, the wicked shall gnash with his teeth and melt away. The desire of the wicked shall perish. And that reads it yet another time. You can't do that with every text, but you can read the shorter text like this psalm. Let's immediately go to our paragraph tonight which would be verses 6 through 10. Verses 6 through 10. I've got two or three things that I, since it's the last night, two or three things that I really want to say if I can work it in. And I've got the chart and I'm not going to It must be labor at this point. Somebody might want to bring your cell phone and just get a little snapshot of it. I've been wanting to mention all week and haven't really had liberty or gotten the time. The book of Psalms unquestionably is divided into five sections. They have been historically called the five books of the Psalms. How did anybody figure that out? Each section ends with a word of praise to the Lord. Or it will end with some sort of benediction. Now, that's all I need to say. The five books, I've got them on the chart. Like book one is Psalm 1 through Psalm 41. It's all laid out here. The last book is Psalm 107 through... Oh, I've got to tell you this. Five books of the Psalms, five books of Moses. Five books of the Psalms, the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus numbered as I stand here. Book one of the Psalms gives the Genesis story. Book two of the Psalms gives the Exodus story. Book three of the Psalms gives the same emphasis as does Leviticus. Book 4 of the Psalms, they're the Psalms of the wilderness wanderings. It's the only part of the Psalms that has a Psalm written by Moses, the man of God, who led them to the wilderness. Book 5 of the Psalms, 107 through 150, and I want to mention this, Psalm 112 is in Book 5. So is Psalm 111. What's the emphasis of Book 5? Same thing as Deuteronomy, if the emphasis is, I need an amen here, the Word of God. You know what Deuteronomy means? The second giving of the law. The second iteration of the Word of God. And the concentration in the last book, Psalms 107, is on the power of the Word of Almighty God. And that's why In Psalm 112 we began, this man delights in God's Word, he has the fear of the Lord down in his heart. I'll just say this, thank God for the Bible. The book that is so precious and we call so dear to our hearts. I don't know if I ought to do this or not, but it's on my heart. It's almost a passion with me. Verse 2, and I didn't get to talk about it like I want to. He delighteth greatly in God's commandments. And remember, that verb meant as much as he fell in love with God's commandments There is a beautiful parallel between Psalm 112 and Psalm 1. It is absolutely astounding. Psalm 112 begins with the word blessed after the initial hallelujah, blessed. Psalm 1 begins with the word blessed. Psalm 112 talks about the godly man and the blessings the Lord wants to pour on him. Psalm 1 talks about the godly man and the blessings God wants to pour. He'll be like a tree planted by the rivers of water. He'll bring forth his fruit in his season, his leaf won't wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. Psalm 112 ends with a discussion of the wicked and reminds us, last verse, the desire of the wicked shall perish. Psalm 1 ends with a discussion of the wicked. Oh my! Talks about the way of the wicked. The way of the righteous will prosper, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. Ends with the same word, shall perish. So many similarities. In Psalm 112, this man delights greatly. In God's Word, here's what he does in Psalm 1. In God's Word does he meditate. Does he meditate day and night. You want God's blessings in your life? Of course you do. Am I hungry for God's blessings? Absolutely I am. The key, the secret to depth in our life is meditating, meditating. Oh, I wish I had time to talk about that word a little bit. Meditating in the Bible. Meditating in the scriptures of truth as Daniel called them. I am for about two minutes, three minutes. Meditating. in God's Word. In Psalm 1, same idea, not the same word. In Psalm 112, he greatly delights in the commandments in the Word of God. The verb is haggah. H-A-G-A-H. Haggah. Meditate. What does it mean? And Gary, it is so unusual. It means to mumble. even to mutter. It's got the idea of talking in an undertone. Preacher, that's not making any sense to me. What does it mean to meditate in the Word of God? It means you love it so much. You've read it so much. I guarantee you there are folks in this building tonight who have just about memorized Psalm 112. How in the world are they going to do that? Reading it over and over and over. The meditator reads God's Word like that, gets it in his heart, in his mind and he can't get it out of his thoughts. He can't get it off his heart. And he'll go around all day mumbling Haggai, the Word of God. He'll stop at the red light and he'll say, Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly. He'll be standing in line at the pharmacy and he'll say, His delight is in the law of the Lord, mumbling it. Somebody's like, what's he talking about? He's not talking to you. He's sort of mumbling it under his breath. Always thinking about the Word of God. Does that make any sense right there? Always the Bible on your mind and on your heart. You go to the New Testament. And it's the same idea, but it's a different word. Melitao. Melitao. And what does it mean? Comes from the root verb mela, and it's got the idea of caring about. Caring about very, very deeply. It's the idea that it's the apple of your eye. It's the cherry on top of the Sunday. This is a corny illustration, but it's the banana pudding of your life. It is deserved. The Word of God meditating in the Word. Paul told Timothy, keep these things in your heart, ponder them, meditate on them, Meditate on them and thy profiting shall appear to all. That word profiting, it's a man with a machete and he's cutting his way through the jungle. It means you're a trailblazer. You'll lead the pack. You'll go ahead of the group. You get in God's Word, love God's Word, talk God's Word, meditate on God's Word, you'll be ahead of the pack. You'll be an outlier. You'll be a leader to the glory. The more you love God's Word, the more He will bless you. That's what I'm saying. Well, verse 6. Verse 6. Surely, this man that loves the Word so much, see, Psalm 1, he'll be like a tree planted and his leaf won't wither and whatever, a different set of blessings. Surely, he shall not be moved forever. He will not be moved forever. Well, the Bible, what's the idea of that? Mote, M-O-T, it's simple, little old verb, and this is what it means. He will not fall forever. But it means more than that. He will not stumble forever. Difference between fallen and stumbling. I can stumble and nearly fall and reclaim myself. Not only will he not fall, hope I get an amen, he won't even come close to falling. He shall not be moved forever. Why? I'll need an amen because he's anchored to the book. He's deeply embedded in the precious Word of God. We Baptists are some of the most up and down, in and out, hot and cold people on the face of the planet. If we'd get in God's Word, if I'd get in God's Word like I ought to, I would not stumble, I would not fall. This reminds me of Psalm 15. And if it doesn't play a trick on the gentleman who puts this up here, would you go to Psalm 15 if it's possible? I want to show you all something right there where it says, He shall not be moved forever. Psalm 15 is a little old short composition, little poem, little hymn, little psalm. And it gives a list of things. And if you do these things, you will never Be moved. It uses that very wording. You will never be moved. Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? The word there for tabernacle is tent. See if you can get a name. Y'all know God's got a tent? That is the very word for tabernacle. Where the Ark of the Covenant was. Where the altar of incense was. Where the brazen altar and the laver and all the, Who shall abide in thy tabernacle? The word abide, it's G-U-R, ger. The verb simply means to go by and spend some time. It's the idea of sojourning, temporarily living there. Oh my, I'd like to think any time I choose, and it happens when I pray, my God, help me with an amen, is always there, hallelujah. Who shall abide temporarily and spend some time in thy tabernacle? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? That's another word altogether. That's the verb shakhan. S-H-A-K-H-A-N. Shakhanah glory. Shakhanah glory. That means you set up permanent residence. That means you're there 24-7. Boy, I want to spend eternity with my Savior, don't y'all? How in the world are you going to go? There's certain things you cannot do, and you'll never be moved, and you'll abide in the presence of God. Oh, what a sermon that is. Of course, Cain cannot go there. He shall not be moved forever. Oh, long. Forever. It doesn't mean he won't be moved for six months, or a year and a half, 25 years. I'm still amazed. The faithfulness of that man of God right there. Forever? Olam. This is strange. Hebrew is a picturesque language. Olam means this. You take a dot, it's like a little period at the end of a sentence. Here and here. And you make them a little further apart. And that would be forever. No, that won't work. make them a little further apart. And that'd be forever, but it won't work. I'd have to put one of the little dots here, maybe come over here, put one of the little dots, and then I'd say, that's forever. But it won't work. You can measure that. The word olam literally means the vanishing point. the vanishing point. You take that little dot and you put it further and further and further, y'all get it, and further away, and you do the same with that one, and it gets out there somewhere you have no idea where. I think it means this, I'll need an amen, it never ends. Oh, can you imagine? being faithful and steadfast for God. My favorite verse, every time I sign a Bible, I put 1 Corinthians 15, 58 under my name. It's my life verse. Therefore, be you steadfast, unmovable, always abide, steadfast, unmovable. That's where I want to live my Christian life, forever. I need this one, it's easier to find my verse. It says in verse 6, the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. He will be in everlasting alarm again. to the vanishing point, remembrance. And what does the word remember? That's a noun, but the verb is zakar, and it simply means this, it does mean you remember, you do not forget, he'll be in everlasting remembrance, but it also carries the idea of making mention of something. Carries the idea of calling their names often. Oh, this ought to be good news. When those old godly saints of God die, we bury their bodies in a gravesite somewhere absent from the body. They're of course present with the Lord. We ought not to forget. We ought not to forget the lives they lived and the impact they made on us. Oh, I was preaching in Illinois. In fact, Bruce and Barbara Zulauf's home church. a young man, a young preacher in the church said, Brother Bagwell said, we're not an hour away from Peter Cartwright's place where he pastored old-timey, old-fashioned, circuit-riding Methodist preacher. I mean a fiery little fellow, stood for the things of God. Could I make an announcement? I don't know how it's going to go over. There are going to be a lot of Methodists in heaven too. It's not just us Baptists going to be up there. And he said, Brother Bagwell, would you like to go? I jumped in the car. They drove me. I got to stand by that man's grave. I got to go to the church where he preached. I got to touch that pulpit where he's declared the Word of God year in and year out. He's a godly man. He's a holy man. He's a righteous man. We ought to let him impact our lives. Let me give you a verse. Everybody raising a little boy or girl in your home, you ought to encourage them to read, listen to this Christian biography. Christian biography. Read about J. Hudson Taylor, the missionary. Read about Charles Spurgeon, the pulpiteer. Read about George Mueller, the prayer, what, acclaimed yourself. Well, the preacher, how in the world did you get on that? The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance. There's a verse in Proverbs, listen to it. He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. I can't walk with D.L. Moody. He's dead and buried, but I can read his life story. And in a spiritual sense, I can walk with him. I can go with him to those great... I can recall and rehearse. That day, he got so full of the Holy Ghost of God, he had to beg God to hold up so he could get to his room and get down on his knees and said, God, pour it out again. Pour him out again. You know what I'm doing tonight? I've studied all day and I've spent hours in the presence of men that have long since been in heaven, but they've studied these words. They've studied, I'm standing on the shoulders of some giants tonight. I'm standing on the shoulders of Alexander McLaren. I'm standing on the shoulders of Albert Barnes. I'm standing on the shoulders of Matthew Henry. I'm telling you what, don't let those godly people in your life that have died, don't you forget their memories. Oh, there were the righteous. Proverbs talks about the root of the righteous. The root of the righteous is a tree of life. Righteous people, get me an amen. Put down deep roots. Hallelujah. Way down. Verse number seven. He shall not be afraid of evil tidings. The word tidings in our King James Bible is translated at times, rumors. He will not be afraid of evil tidings. I didn't do it, meant to, but you know, time's always of the essence and you just have to follow the Holy Spirit as to what you can get into. I'd sure rather be preaching from some degree of overflow and leave the pulpit saying, oh my, there was so much I couldn't get in than to not have studied and prayed and prepared and preach about 20 minutes and say I'm embarrassed. I ran out of stuff to say. I'm going to make an announcement. I ain't ran out of nothing to say this week. God's just helped me and encouraged me. There's been liberty, sweet spirit in the house of God. I didn't get to say this. You can go through Psalm 112 and make a list of things, a list of fears God has taken away from that man. He no longer fears his enemies. He no longer fears death. He no longer fears bad news. He no longer fears that his children won't grow up right. He no longer fears that somebody will destroy his integrity, his honor, his reputation. How can you get rid of all of those fears, preacher Bagwell? Oh my. There is one fear that will drive out all other fears. And what fear would that be? Get me an amen. The fear of the Lord. Oh! If I get a healthy dose of the fear of God deep down in my life, nobody else can scare me. Nobody else will ever worry me. I know God can handle ever better than that. He shall not be afraid of the rumors. His heart is fixed. His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord. His heart is fixed. Interesting little verb. It means his heart is fixed. It's not a cardiologist's report. His heart is made. The word literate is made to stand. His heart is not a heart that's going to be wishy-washy. It will not be blown about by every wind of doctrine. I know a pastor. That became his life verse. His heart is fixed. He decided what he believed the Word of God taught. Decided he was never going to budge from it. He lived that way, preached that way, and died that way. Thank God his heart is fixed. Trusting in the Lord. Oh could I say this? It begs to be said. You trust in God, your heart will be fixed. Trusting in the Lord. Son, this is one of those myriads of Old Testament verbs about trusting, belief, faith in the Lord, but this one, trusting in the Lord. Only two times, but that's enough. In my King James Bible, trusting in the Lord, that word for trusting is translated careless, careless. God wants me to trust in Him and be careless, not in the sense of pushing and running the red light. Not in the sense of not taking your medicine. No, no. Careless in this sense. This is a little test. Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you. Care is a New Testament word for worry, for anxiety, for pressure, casting all your care. this godly man, this man that loves and delights in the Word of God. He's given God all of his worries. He's given God all of his fears. He is absolutely careless. He's not the least bit worried about the devil. He's not the least bit worried about hell. He's not the least bit worried about his God ever letting him down. That's the kind of careless living a man can enjoy. Hallelujah. If God said he'll do something, how many of you believe he'll do it? If God said he would do it, if he's never failed yet, not a lot of need for us to worry about it, is there? Careless, careless, trusting in the Lord. Verse 8, his heart is established. His heart is established. He shall not be afraid until he see his desire upon his enemies. Now, and I broached this subject last night. This is the second time his heart has been discussed. It is fixed and now it is established. Oh boy. I'm gonna take about two or three minutes and talk about this repetition in this psalm. Repetition in the Christian life. In Psalm 119, and therefore in Psalm 19, they're very similar, last half of Psalm 19 and all of Psalm 119, there is a word that talks about the statutes, the judgments of God that literally means to repeat. to repeat, to go over and over and over and over again. Could I make an announcement? We don't always, I'll need an amen if I can get one. We don't always get it the first time. Hey, hey, y'all be real quiet. And you can amen it if it's true for you. You're more into Psalm 112 You've learned more about Psalm 112. You've got a little bit deeper understanding of the flow of Psalm 112 and the last time you read it than the first time you read it. Why? Repetition. Repetition gives the Holy Ghost of God time to explain it, to expound it, to help us better understand. Anybody here believe the Bible is a living book? I preached some of these series and have never preached them again. That's just, you go by the Lord's leading. But there have been some that I felt like God particularly blessed and I did use them. on down the road, month or two, three later, different church, if God so directed. I hope you don't think less of me for that, but you shoot the same gun more than once, could I get an amen? And I find this to be true. Debbie, my wife, she's with me everywhere I go, nearly everywhere I go. You can preach it next week. You can preach it next month. And it's almost like a brand new text. It's almost like, why didn't I see that at Fletcher? Oh, I would have loved to explain that. It's the teaching ministry of the Holy Ghost again and again. I have twice been told his heart is fixed and his heart is established. Two times we're going to be told his righteousness endureth forever, over and over and over and over again. God's a God of repetition. And the Word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time. Again, this will take a couple of minutes, but I'm okay verse-wise, time-wise. What happens, and I've got so I do it every week, I try to get God's people reading the Word. over, and they don't always reach 3,007. No telling what it will be tonight. But always, I've been in many places preaching to 10, 15, 20 people, and the whole week they may read it 230 times, 270 times, and that's great for them. But when we read God's Word over and over again, I don't know much about the book and I've never read it. Have y'all ever heard of this one? Gone with the Wind. It's a novel. It's set in the Civil War. A lot of y'all don't read, do you? Gone with the Wind. Written by a lady named Margaret Mitchell. That book sold lots and lots of copies. Not so much anymore. And Margaret Mitchell, the author, authoress, is dead. She is buried in Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia. I get to preach every year near that cemetery in an inner city downtown church. I can hear the martyr. Rapid rail trains rolling up and down the tracks from the front door of the church. I love going there. It's an interesting experience. Got there a little early one night. Walked over to Oakland Cemetery. Walked through one of the biggest Jewish burial areas I've ever seen and have found it. Margaret Mitchell's grave. I'm illustrating. Please stay with me. The author of Gone with the Wind. Should I read Gone With The Wind and I really don't plan to? Should I read Gone With The Wind and come across a passage I do not understand? I'm in a pretty bad situation because Margaret Mitchell is not around to explain to me what she meant. It's up to me and Cliff's notes. It's up to me. It's up to me. I don't know. What did she mean? Margaret Mitchell aside now. I've been asking you to read Psalm 112 all week. See if you get it. Its author is not dead. That author would be God, the Holy Spirit, and not only is He not dead, He is still operating. He's not retired. Oh, can I tell you this? I think He lives inside you if you're saved. Can you imagine coming across a closet? I don't understand that. And the Holy Ghost of God who wrote it in the first place, who lives within you saying, let me give you some life. Jesus said when He comes, the Holy Spirit, He will guide you into all truth. Repetition. Repetition gives the Lord a chance to show us. Until He sees His desire upon His enemies. His desire upon His enemies. I want to give you that word for enemies. He's not vindictive. He's not asking God to do something terrible to his enemies. He just knows God's word is true. He just knows saved people are going to heaven and lost people are going to hell. Could I get an amen there? I'm ahead of you or behind you. He just believes God's going to send saved people to heaven and lost people to hell. See his desire. See his desire upon his enemies. Isn't that precious? Preacher Bagwell, his desire on his enemies. Here's the word enemies. Beats all. It is a word that means to squeeze in from all sides. Cramping in around you. Won't give you any room. They're pushing you. from every side. The word that is used for enemies not only means squeezing in from both sides, it means coming down from above, pressure, heaviness coming down. Now put yourself in that situation. And that is the word enemy. He shall see His desires upon His enemy. I've got some good news tonight. In those tight places of life, God can, if He chooses, God can give liberty. God can give release. Help me. God can deal with those enemies, ladies and gentlemen. He shall see His desire upon His enemies. And if I can get ahead there, I think I'm making pretty good time. If I can get to verse 10, I want to say a little bit more about those enemies if I can. He'll say his desires upon his enemies. There's a lady, she's a professor. She's a professor at a seminary in the Midwest. That's enough information. She has written a book criticizing the rapture. the rapture of the church. Preacher, she mocks it. She says we've got it all wrong. We've interpreted it in a terribly violent, hermeneutical way. She takes 200 pages trying to destroy the doctrine, eschatology of the rapture of the church. Hope I get some amens here. I still believe in the rapture though. I read the book, but I still believe in the rapture. I've thought of this. I don't know that she's not my enemy personally. I've never met her. But what I preach theologically, she's in direct opposition to what I believe about the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. How many of y'all believe He could come tonight? The Lord lets us go out to the Midwest time or two a year preaching and I've already got a deal with the Lord. I think he'll let me do it. If the rapture occurs while I'm anywhere near that seminary where that lady teaches, on my way up, Lord be it my helper, I'm gonna go. How did that corny illustration get in the middle of a sermon out of Psalm 112? Here's how I think it got in there. God might give us a desire. You let us see the desire of our enemies. Anybody that doesn't believe in the rapture, I don't think they're doing right. How about you? Well, let's go on to our next verse. Nine. He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor, and his righteousness endureth forever. There's that repetition. I'm not going to deal with that. He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor. This ought to be enjoyable for just a few minutes. Hath dispersed. It is the verb, and it's an unusual verb, that means to scatter to the four winds of the earth. Just to throw it. We'd say helter skelter. No order to scatters. He disperses. And He has given to the poor. Three words. I need a good amen. It will save me some time. He is a generous man. I need a better amen. He's not selfish. He disperses. He disperses. Did you know built into the law of Moses, into those 613 commandments, there is specifically, and there must be a dozen or more laws dealing with it, rules telling Israel how they must care for the poor. in their land. It's not a choice. Not an option. God requires it of them. Could I make an announcement? I wonder if anybody will agree with me. Jesus loved poor folks. He was rich, but for our sake, He became poor. James, Jesus' half-brother, if we're right on James, the writer of the epistle of James, He loved poor folks too. Unlike his perfect brother Jesus, James was a sinner, saved by grace, and James had a pretty hot temper. James was in the synagogue one day, he was in church, and they had set all the rich people in the prime seats. I mean, said he's a gold-fingered man, he's got jewelry set in the prime seats. In the synagogue, the prime seats were at the front. In the Baptist church, the prime seats are in the back. You don't have this problem in a Baptist church. And a poor man. The word is abjectly poor, nearly a beggar, he comes in. And the point being, and I really think I've got the order reversed, the point being, they honored the rich man just as well kicked the poor man aside, didn't they? And it got James upset. James is perturbed. He calls them some names that I really don't want to go into right now because of that. God loved poor people. Jesus loved poor people. James, the Lord's brother, loved poor people. Blessed are the poor in spirit, preached our love. I reckon we ought to love poor people too. One mark of the man that's immersed in the Word of God. He'll be a generous man. Oh, how generous he will be. There's more there. He hath dispersed, he hath given, not ton, he hath given to the poor, and again, this word, it's the poorest of the poor. They don't have, okay, okay, I gotta say this real quick. By poor, I mean genuinely poor, I'll need two amens, not lazy. Thank you, that was a quick one. Somehow we got the idea, if a man's poverty stricken, he deserves our help. Paul dealt with that in his Thessalonian epistle. This is what Paul said, is helping folks right and left. Paul said, if he will not work, I need an amen, neither let him eat. If you're not willing to work a little bit. I'm talking about folks that can't work. I'm talking about folks that are in poor health. I'm talking about folks that care for the poor. They're interested in the poor. Says the common people, the poor people. They're the ones that heard our Lord gladly. It was this morning's lesson on the website. I'm in Galatians 2. This is ironic. I'm getting to preach what I wrote this morning. Paul preaches that here's how you get saved. By grace, through faith, plus nothing, minus nothing. Paul didn't think circumcision had anything to do with it, or baptism had anything to do with it, or what day you worship on Saturday had anything to do with it like the Jews did. Paul believed it was totally by grace. Some of them didn't believe that. They believed it was trusting Jesus plus the law. Some of them didn't think Jesus had angels or Moses. And so Paul, he goes to Jerusalem. He goes to what he calls the pillars of the church. The big shots. The big guns. Up at headquarters. He says we're going to hash this out. God's been saving people over my way. Gentiles by grace through faith. And they didn't have to do nothing according to the law. And they had a little powwow. conference as our King James work. Here's how it came out. Oh boy, I'm just going to say, you don't need Moses to get saved. There's nothing wrong with Moses, but Moses is not the Savior. Jesus is greater than Moses, ladies and gentlemen. One of the premises of the book of Hebrews. They cut us loose, they set us free. Paul said, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of Christian fellowship, only they suggested that we remember the poor. Remember the poor. And then Paul said, which thing I was already doing, which thing I was forward to do. Paul spent a great deal of his life The saints in Jerusalem, I think I'm majoring on a minor, but maybe God's got a reason for it. There were saints in Jerusalem who were poor. They had been persecuted. And then famine came to Judea. Their crops didn't come in. And Paul went to all the Gentile congregations. And he said, let's take up a love offering. Let's amass some money. And let me take it down there to the saints in Jerusalem. He spent his life trying to minister to the poor and show them Jesus. Jesus is the only answer. Jesus is the Savior of this lost and dying world. And then this, and I promise I'll get off of it. I find poor people have got a whole lot more room for Jesus than most rich people do. I always found in my door-to-door visitation, the $500,000 million homes, most of them had up signs, no soliciting, and that's what they considered what I was doing. I had a lady one day, and all I did was give them a track, ask them if they were saved, and she invited me off the property. She said, you get. We don't want to see you around here again. I'm not agile enough to do it. If I could, I'd have dusted my shoes off going down the driveway. Bless your heart. And then I went over across the railroad tracks to the wrong side of town where there's a little snotty-nosed boys and girls, toys scattered all over the yard. Mama and Daddy, he's out there working on the carburetor on the automobile. Go over there and tell them about Jesus. They'll send the kids to church tomorrow morning, and before long, they're liable to get saved. Hallelujah. Oh, by the way, you'll lead more of them to Jesus if you've already shown them you love them from the bottom of your heart. Well, verse number, is it nine? He hath dispersed, he hath given to the poor his righteousness. His horn shall be exalted with honor. I wish I had time tonight to point out one more time the similarities. Between Psalm 111 and Psalm 112, I don't. This godly man, his horn shall be exalted with honor. The word horn, well it means horn. It is usually considered to mean strength or power. Now how can the word horn mean power or strength? These are country folks. This is an agricultural economy. Horns grow on the heads of bulls. on the heads of antelopes. On the heads of those horns up there. That's how that animal shows it means business. You get in trouble with one of them, they'll lower their head, point their horns and come your way. That's power. That's might. That's strength. That's worth the horns. This godly man's horns. His power. His strength. The horns of this man will be exalted with honor. Preached last week for Brother Alan Laws over in Marion. And God gave us a precious meeting, a sweet meeting, one night. Brother Allen said this, and I don't guess I'd ever thought of it. He said, y'all, he said, Brother Bagwell's 71 years old. Be 72 this month, in fact, my goodness, this month, be 72 years of age. And he said, yep. Said, you don't act like an old man. Said, God's given him strength. God's given him strength in his age. And if God's done it, it'd be God. It wouldn't be me. And I praise him for it and say hallelujah. His horn, His strength, His might. Brother Roy, God's done the same thing for you. His horn, His strength, His might, His power, His vigor. Oh my, it will not be shamed. He will be exalted with honor. I'm glad God can take care of our reputations. Hallelujah. Wow. Verse 10. Verse 10. So much to say. The wicked The wicked will see it. Remember the psalm, as Psalm 1, there's so many of the wisdom psalms of Scripture. It's divided between the good man and the bad man. The godly man and the ungodly man. The saint and the sinner. That's the dichotomy of life on earth. The wicked, they'll see it and be grieved. Literally the word, they'll be angry. They don't like it when God's people are doing well and being blessed. It's in this new atheism camp. One of them came out recently with a proposal. It's not legislative, so it won't bleach for a while. He said he believed every Christian who was indoctrinating his children with Bible, he called it propaganda, should have their children taken from their home, they should be declared mentally unstable, and their children should be given to the state to rear in a normal non-eccentric fashion. That's what that crowd is saying about us and our children and our grandchildren. I want to say something right now. They don't like it when God... We've seen some young folks this week serving God. I'll never forget that young man right there playing those instruments like he did. So beautiful. And then, was it last night? That other little fellow. Oh my goodness. came up to me after the service, and he said, well, as usual, once again, you were a blessing, brother of mine. Almost his exact words. Thrilled me to death. Well, as usual. You are a blessing, Brother Bagwell. They can mock us. They can laugh at us. They can say we're nuts. They can say that our children ought to be, but we're raising children. We're raising children. They can't match. Can I get an amen? We got some boys and girls that are excelling, and they're prospering to the glory of God. They don't like it. The wicked can't stand it. He looks, he sees, and he'll be grieved, and he will gnash. with his teeth. Literally means bite. Chomp down on. No, you say preacher, surely that's hyperbole. It's exactly what they did to Stephen. They did it physically to Stephen before they stoned him to death. They hate, they despise what's going on. And they will, said that crowd, they will melt away. They will melt away. I don't know if you'll smile. It might be out of order. Melt away. Sounds like they're going somewhere hot. Melt away. It's the word lust. And the desire of the wicked shall perish the young godly. I've got to close. Dealing with this idea of God's judgment on the wicked. Psalm 1 is 50% about the godly man, 50% about the ungodly man. Verses 1, 2, and 3, the godly, 4, 5, and 6, the ungodly. Psalm 112 is 90% about the godly man. one verse, 10% about the young godly. I like that ratio myself. It's been a blessing to me just thinking about the wicked, the wicked, I'm just going to say this, I'm at 50 something minutes and I need to close. They're going to get their comeuppance one of these days. Oh, that wasn't a good amen. And we're not glad about it. We're not happy about it. But God's going to do what He said. He's going to judge them. Had that time. I was going to read a little Psalm or talk about a little Psalm 109 and Psalm 83 and Psalm 58. What are they? Implicatory Psalms. I'm trying to get up enough nerve to preach it one week. One of those Psalms of Implication. What is it? It's praying God's judgment upon the rebels upon the reprobates, upon the child killers, upon the God-haters, will I get an amen now, of this old world in which we live. I read it today. I prayed it about somebody today that I think is an arch-rebel in our land. It says, Psalm 58, God break their teeth out. And God turned their glory into shame. And Lord, make them like a wheel. What does that mean? All a wheel does, if you get it, is roll on down the road. Make them like a wheel. Get them out of here. Lord, would you? And on and on and on. That's not your neighbor who's lost. Needs to get saved. This is the activist. This is the God hater. This is a rebel who may have crossed God's deadline. Harold Smith. in his life and praying God's name, you say, Preacher, I could never do that. I'd never ask God to do that to the wicked. I'd never ask God to cause them to melt away or to perish. It's already promised right there. If you don't believe and take a stand against that kind of arch-wickedness, Preacher, I'm trying to close now. Don't ever pray the Lord's Prayer again. Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name. Oh, that's pretty good. Thy kingdom come. Do you all realize when His kingdom comes, He's going to ride out of heaven on a white horse, whoop up on the devil, beat the He's going to deal with the Antichrist. I'm out of words. I would say beat the devil out of the Antichrist. And all those nations who've hated Israel, God's going to judge them too. When you pray thy kingdom come, you're asking God to judge those rebels. And God is going to do it someday, son. Are you all alright? I need more of you to be alright. the righteous with God's blessings, the unrighteous with God's curses on their life. If you'll say a good amen, we're going to have the invitation. I know which one of those sides I want to be on. Oh, God, give us the root of the righteous. Oh, oh. What are you doing, Mother Bagel? I'm just mumbling. What are you doing? I'm mumbling. Haggai, it's the word for meditate. Let's leave here. I'm asking for it again. I will quit this time. I need a good amen. Let's leave here being meditators on the Word of God. Would you stand with us please?