Turn with me, if you would, to Psalm 23. Psalm 23. Reading from the beginning of Psalm 23. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He meeteth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness, for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemy. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Amen. May the Lord add his own rich blessing to that reading of his holy word. Unto him be the praise, and unto him be all of the glory. We all, of course, know Psalm 23. It was arguably the best known of all the Psalms that you have, even people who don't go to church, they generally tend to know Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23, you find in verse four, I will fear no evil. I will fear no evil. The Psalmist will fear no evil. We live in a world where the world itself lives in fear. All the days of the life, man lives in fear. And you can see that the Bible tells us that man lives in fear all the days of his life. And you can see that so readily when you look at our own nation, you go back to when I was young, there was a fear that the world was going to freeze over. Mankind would be almost obliterated because of the fear that this world was going to freeze over. Scientists were predicting that. Of course, they were wrong. But it was a good means of generating revenue for them when they have something like that. The next thing after that, you discover that there is the fear of AIDS. Remember, when AIDS was first in its flourishing, one man saying that this was going to be the end of mankind. This disease was going to kill mankind off. Of course, they didn't tell you that there was, in fact, a wonderful cure for AIDS. Not for someone who had AIDS, but there was a wonderful cure for AIDS, and that was moral living, morality. was the answer, biblical morality was the answer. But of course that didn't matter. AIDS was going to be wiping out the whole of mankind. And of course there's COVID and now there's green issues. We have to save the earth because we are afraid. The earth is now at risk and we must save it. When we were down in York last week, we were in a park and there was a caravan there and it had that very thing written on it. The earth is in trouble. And the earth, I think it was, is in terminal illness, and we need to save it. Man living in fear all his days. And of course, the greatest fear of all is the fear of death, the fear of death. The psalmist here addresses that very issue. Here the psalmist is speaking about how the Lord is his shepherd all the way through his life. I will not want anything. He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters. As he goes, he restores him. He leads him in the paths of righteousness. Then he comes to the valley of the shadow of death. I believe that is meaning there, death itself. If the shadow of death begins to come over the Psalmist, he will fear no evil. He will not fear anything of death. Why not? For thou art with me. He will not fear what death can do to him. He will not fear what the devil will do to him. He will not fear What man does know even in the other side. He has no fear as he goes into the very shadow of death. I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. As one goes into a valley, it's a dangerous place, a valley, for the sheep. But here is the shepherd with his rod and his staff, still keeping him. He is with him. He is going to look after him even as he walks and goes through the valley of the shadow of death. And what a wonderful thing it is that the Christian, many a Christian has come to the end of their lives and they have shown and proven the reality of this, of these words in Psalm 23, I shall fear no evil. I will fear no evil." What a wonderful thing that the psalmist is able to say that he has no, what does he know of fear of? Even death and the very shadow of death itself.