Come, everyone, to this person called Water. Those who are seeking for refuge from life, Come and be filled with His tender compassion. Jesus, the Savior divine, brought you down to the water, on to the river, Come to the mouth of the fountain, Jesus the Savior divine. Though you have nothing to spread for His table, though years of labor have all He will exalt you through kindness and mercy. He's just the Savior divine. Won't you come through the water? Come to the mouth of the fountain, Jesus the Savior divine. Come, everyone, with a heart of repentance. He got to Him while He yet may be found. Though you have wandered in sin, He will cleanse you. He's got to save your divine. Oh come, let's drink water. Come to the river of life. Come to the mouth of the fountain. Jesus, the Savior, is ours. Oh, come to the mouth of the fountain. He's a Savior of us. And once again, I want to bring a study from the Psalms. And once again, this psalm is one that only someone can enter into by experience. know what it is to be cast down and under a sense of your own sinfulness and to be in trouble because of your sinfulness. This is a psalm for you. Now, look just above the first verse there. It says, I don't know if it says this in your Bible, but mine describes it as being a psalm of David, and as yours say, to bring to remember. Did you say that? A psalm of David to bring to remember. Now, there's a terrible tendency in us to forget what we need to remember, and to remember the things we should be forgetting. And I believe this may be the tension which it was written, to call to mind some things, and under the power of the Holy Spirit there are basically four things that will come to mind of someone God is dealing with. Four things, the first being trials, temptations, afflictions, and God's deliverance. And the second is our depraved nature. These things are all in this song. And thirdly, our many enemies that assail us. And fourthly, our gracious God. Now, in this first verse, I'm reminded, it kind of makes me think of a guilty child before his or her parent just before they're to be punished for something. If you had a child or had children at home, you know you'll be able to enter into this. This reminds me of a guilty child just before they're to be punished, and we can enter into this personally before I had my father. But look what he says here in verse 1. He says, Rebuke me not in thy wrath." Now, we need and deserve constant rebuke, just like rebellious children. We need to be rebuked constantly, just like our children, just like a young child who's always getting into trouble. Say, a child in their twos, terrible twos, it takes constant rebuke. constantly getting after that child. Don't do this. Don't do that. And we need to find a way. But yet we cry at home. Don't get mad at me. Lord, please don't. If your child ever said that, I heard her going through it. Mommy, don't be mad at me. Don't be mad at me. And look at this. He says, Neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure, Daddy, please don't thank me. Have you ever heard that? Please don't thank me. Honey, you need it. And you know, I hear people, Brother Stan, he prayed rightly last Sunday night. He thanked the Lord for trials, but he wasn't asking for trials. He wasn't asking for testing. Man, the woman would be a fool to do that. I've heard self-righteous, overly pious people make a statement like that. I don't know of anybody that wants to be chastened. You? You want God to send a child your way? Now, if we be not chastened, the Scripture says, we are as bastards, we're not children. And to be sure, He will send them. But like a little child, don't send them my way. I mean, really. Let's be honest. Do you want them? I don't want them. But they'll come. They'll come, but just don't ask for them. They'll come if you're his child. I remember a man that wrote a song years ago, and in that song he said, Don't spare me anything. Don't spare me troubles if it'll be what's best for me. Don't spare me this. Don't spare me that. Well, the Lord didn't, that man. his wife, his children, just molded him greatly. And the man left the church to the faith and all. He wasn't, I remember my dad saying when that first came out, I was, it's a beautiful song, but I remember him saying that he was just so, it just didn't make him feel right when he first heard it. The man was asking, God will send me a sign. Don't do it. Don't do it. He'll send them. But like a little child, we say, don't. Please. Don't thank. Don't thank. Look at verse 2. Well, your arrows stick fast in me. If God sends His Word, if God sends conviction, if God sends a trial, boy, it goes deep. If God sends it. We've got some petty problems. That's what Brother Henry was praying and said, we don't have much to really to worry about. We have some problems, but in light of what I told you about that young lady in a coma, you know, we don't have any trouble, do we? We don't have any problems. Most of us are very well off. But when God sends his, this is primarily speaking of spiritual conviction, God's Word, God's Gospel. When it penetrates the heart, the conscience, if the Holy Spirit applies it, it goes deeper than the toes. You hear people say, how do you settle my toes? Oh, my. I wish somebody would go out of here beating their heart. Oh, it hit my heart. It hit my heart. Well, look at verse 2 again. It says, Your hand presses me sore. Conviction of sin by God Almighty. Trials that come from God as a result of our spiritual needs are pressing matters, and they can't be put off. When God works on somebody, it's a pressing matter. And let me say this briefly. This is the reason I don't believe personally in pressing people myself. I just am pretty confident that God Almighty does that work himself. That I stand up here and spend a lot of time on the study and worry and moaning and groaning and whatever and come up here and spill my guts and wear my heart on my sleeve you know and every Wednesday night and every Sunday morning and Sunday evening I say everything I know. from this word. I don't have anything else to say to anybody anyway. But when God, if God's pressing on somebody, they don't need me. I don't need to go running after them. If somebody has a problem, fallen out or something, I don't need to go run and chase them. This right here is where all the comfort and encouragement and conviction and the motivation and inspiration and everything comes from the preaching of God. And so whenever I get up here, I keep exhorting, come hear the gospel. This is the only place you can go for help. Come hear the gospel. If not, I can't go running after you and nobody else with me either. Now somebody calls me up and says, oh, I've got a terrible spiritual problem. Great. I'll say, hallelujah. Let's go. Let's sit down. Let's look at the word and talk about this thing. But otherwise, this right here, right here where I'm doing now, This is where you can get all the help that you possibly need. Well, I got off the track here, but look at verse 3. He says, by reason of this, of God's conviction of spirit, there's no soundness in my flesh, no soundness in me because of thine anger. If God ever convicts a man of sin, he'll see he's all together under Job, Isaiah, all of them, said the same thing to Henry. When God revealed himself to him, when God works on a man, when he works on a man, this is the first conclusion they come to. I'm undone. I'm worthless. There's no good in me. And he says, neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. No rest because of my sin. A man in pain, in physical pain, can find no rest. and one under conviction of sin, he won't find rest either until he finds rest. This is what I was alluding to a little bit while ago. We have some petty problems, whether it be financial or whatever it may be, but we need to come to the realization that our biggest problem is our spiritual problem, our sin. These are the problems we need to have God deal with. And God may bring it so low financially and physically and so forth until we finally look and see the real problem. The real problem. No rest because of sin. And that man, until a man really meets the Prince of Peace. Until a man or a woman meets Him, they're not going to find any peace in this world. In this world you should have tribulation. But you're not going to find any rest, any comfort, any peace unless you find principle peace, unless he gives to you that peace that he said nobody can take that away from you. Unless the man finds that, you're never going to have any peace that amounts to anything, certainly not in this world. And so this is what I exhort and every preacher exhorts, and you people exhort one another to be seeking after peace that comes from knowing Christ. And you'll only find that right here. right here in the preaching of the doctor and his word. No rest because of sin, David said. Have you ever been in that position? Have you ever lost sleep over your sinfulness? Look at verse four. He says, My iniquities have gone over my head. Have you ever felt as if your sin is bearing in you? You ever feel like you drown in me because of your sinfulness? You ever feel that way? Drown in you. He says it's a heavy burden Too heavy for me. I wish people would come to that conclusion. Too heavy for me. To be weighed down by your sin is terrible. Yet, if somebody ever really reaches that point, maybe, well probably, assuredly, they will go to him. who alone can bear that burden and that sin. They'll see. This is God's conviction, and they're weighed down by these things. If God's conviction is working on them, He'll send them to Him who alone can bear their burden. Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there, principally and chiefly, the burden of your iniquity. What is he talking about here? Verse 5, he says, My wounds stink. Have you ever said this about yourself? Have you ever stank to yourself? Have you ever said that? Really? Being burdened by a sense of your sin? Have you ever said that? Look at this. He says I'm corrupt because of my foolishness. Because of my foolishness. You know that all your troubles are your own doing. Really? It's your own fault that you're in the mess you're in, Lord. And you pray, Lord, I'm in a mess. I am a mess. I have only myself to blame because of my... Have you ever been to this point? Surely, I know you have. You come to the point where you think, I'm worthless. I stink. I'm such a fool. How have I gotten myself into such a mess? And then you cry out in the day of trouble. If you'll read through the scriptures concerning the children of Israel, now that they kept crying out, they put themselves in such a mess. And then they cry out again, and the Lord saved them. And then they get right back into another mess. And then they cry out again, and He saved them again. That's Jesus. That's me. That's me. I stink, and I'm corrupt, and it's all my fault. It's my own fault. Verse six. This is what I entitled this message. I'm troubled. I'm troubled. I'm troubled. I'm bowed down. Scripture says man is born of woman in a few days and full of trouble. Full of trouble. If you're like me, you seem to always be in it. Not necessarily, you know, with the law or whatever or outward open immorality or wickedness, but just within. Trouble. I always seem to be in it, bowed down. Lord, I'm so depressed. So depressed. Verse six, I go mourning all day long. Can't seem to shake my problem. Verse seven, my loins are filled with a loathsome disease. Loathsome disease. No disease is as devastating as a loathsome sin. If you ever get a sight of it, if you ever get a whiff of it, your own sinfulness, ain't nothing worse. Nothing works. Nothing will plague you. You know, this disease called AIDS. Spiritual AIDS is much the same. It's deadly and it's humanly incurable. Spiritual AIDS. And we all have it somewhere. And there's only one great physician, only one curer, the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, he says there's no soundness. He says it again. Verse seven, he repeats it. He says there's no soundness in my flesh. Nothing in there. Again and again, if God is working on us, if we're his children, he won't leave us to dwell in our sin. He'll show us that we're in it and then make a way, a big way, to escape. I go, there's no soundness in my flesh. Verse eight, I'm feeble. and sore broken. I said study we did one night of this bruised reed and smoking flax. I seem to be both all the time. Both. He says I'm feeble and sore broken. I've roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Have you ever reached this point? You know sometimes you can sit down at the prairie or whatever and you can say Lord God in heaven, our sovereign God, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for your many blessings to us. And you can pray a good prayer. But then there's times when you can't say anything. You feel some wisdom. All you feel like doing is, oh, what do you say, I'm roaring. Oh, got nothing to say. Can't come out right, you know. And if it does come out, you think, it's in my heart. I'm roaring. I'm roared by the reason of this quietness of my heart. Verse 9. Lord, all my desires are for thee. Here's real comfort. He knows what we need. It's euphoria. He knows a whole lot better than we know, even. Sometimes we don't even know what we need. Lord, all my desires are for Him. You know what I need. You know what I'm asking for. Whatever good and right desires in our heart, He put it there anyway. And He knows our heart's desire. This is conviction. He also knows our heart's desire, whether it be for Him or whether it be only for escape from the troubles we're in. the words of children of Israel were so many times, and in the end, they didn't enter into the promised land. All of their crying out to the Lord was to deliver them from their difficulties. And that's not a right desire, crying out to the Lord. The unregenerate man will do that. He gets in a little trouble and he'll cry, God help me. You know, gets in a little trouble. Everybody does that. That's not Godless sorrow. But this man, this man of God here, verse 10, he says, The light of mine eyes is also gone from me. The light of mine eyes is also gone from me. You ever feel like you seem to be void of any good understanding at all? Let me say this because this is convicting. This is always the case of someone who begins to, or is forsaking God in the gospel, or becomes steeped in sin or whatever. They become very unthinking. It's very easy for anyone else to see their need. But they themselves, when they get in this predicament, it seems like they don't even use good judgment. Like I was saying a while ago, here is all our help. It's like a man getting sick and refusing just to go to the doctor. He becomes so ill, so sick, and so in pain, and so enwrapped in his difficulties and so forth, that he doesn't even bother to go to the doctor. And somebody else would be interested in it and say, man, you need to go see a doctor. And this, I think, is maybe the sense here in some cases, that the light seems to be gone. No light. Void of good understanding. Verse 11. But my lovers and my friends, they stand aloof from my problem, my sore. My kinsmen stand afar off. back to a child of God in trouble and conviction of sin, under conviction. And this is who this is primarily applying to, and I hope God might use it to touch someone, whatever state they're in. But this is primarily speaking of a child of God being under conviction of each sense of his own sinfulness, and to be far removed from God's He says, My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore. My kinsmen stand afar off. Nobody can enter into what you're going through at times. Nobody can enter into it except perhaps someone who has or is going through what you're going through. Do you ever want somebody, have you ever wanted to talk to somebody and wanted to pour out your heart to someone, and yet just couldn't bring yourself to do what you needed to. You needed to talk to somebody. Well, talk to Him. Talk to Him. He's your only source of help. Verse 12. He says, They also that seek after my life lay snares for me. They that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, imagine deceit all day long. It's bad enough to feel alone. He said even his friends and lovers and kinsmen and all, they can't enter into what I'm going through and they don't seem to be too concerned or touched by what I'm going through. And it's bad enough to feel alone in that way, but it's even worse to have to go out to work and be in the midst of those things. all day long. You know, have you ever been there? To be just, just having problems within yourself and then, and then have to go put up with those, you know, let me say it in compassion. They're idiots. I'm an idiot. But they're worse. They were idiots without God. But you know what I mean? You ever been that way? just don't you sit you feel so downcast you i don't i sure don't want to go out there and deal and be in the midst of that foolishness today i know you have him people come around the station you say don't open your mouth i don't want to listen to your foolishness i don't feel like talking about her don't feel like addressing don't even want to think about it well verse 13 And this is what we must do in those situations. We're in this predicament. We have to go to work. We have to get out there. He says, I'm as a deaf man. But as a deaf man, heard not. As a dumb man, open not his mouth. Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and whose mouth are no reproof. This can apply to Christ, who didn't open his mouth before he was accused of sin. And he tells us to do the same thing. Don't look quite evil with evil. The Lord says vengeance is mine. I'll repay. Just hush up. Their time's coming and we need to see that. Don't need to lash out because we'll see it here in a minute. But it may just destroy our testimony and everything. Barbara, you and I were talking about this not long ago. It's the Lord to give us grace to shut up and close our ears to all that we hear and close our mouths to what we want to say. It's tough, isn't it? Sometimes you want to pummel somebody, don't you? Lord, we need grace. Oh, we need it bad. We keep our mouths shut for the glory of God and open them for His glory. For in thee, Lord, do I hope, in thee do I hope. If you can say this from the heart, then there is hope, real hope. So the Todd Notter's message of good hope through grace, what a blessing. There's real hope. If you can say this from the heart, that in thee do I hope. All around me seems to be failing them. Help, Lord, the righteous man fail us. That's all. But indeed, I hope, indeed, Christ alone is my help and my hope. Thou wilt hear, verse 16, you'll hear, O Lord my God. Look over Psalm 116 with me. I like this. A man down at Belfast's church sung this psalm. when we were down there last week. Psalm 116 verse 1. David says back there, you'll hear me. Lord, you'll hear me. I will hear. Look at Psalm 116 verse 1. It says, I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my supplication. You know, it seems that some of our dearest friends. Well, they are. Our dearest friends, our best friends are those that will hear us. Those that give us a good hearing ear. You know what I mean? Somebody who can confide in you. Somebody who will listen to what you say and won't judge you, won't weigh your words. You don't have to weigh your words too much before them, but you can pour out your heart before them. Nobody can pour out your heart to like you. I love the Lord. Why? Because he heard me. He listens to me, the voice of my triplication, because He's climbed His ear unto me, bowed down that mighty ear. Therefore will I call upon Him as long as I live. He's heard me all my life. He's heard me all my life, so I know He's going to keep calling on me. and the pains of hell got a hold on me, and I found trouble and sorrow. Then in it I called. I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, I beseech you to deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous, yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preserveth the temple. Do you know how I know He sees me? I was brought love. He helped me. How do you say that to you all? The Lord preserves the temple. And He'll hear you. You know my, how foolish and how much of an idiot you are. He'll hear you. You know how I know? He hears me. Somebody said, an English person that said, it's enough. You know, you don't necessarily need your prayers answered. Sometimes it's enough to know that He hears you. That He hears you. Like a child to its parent. Daddy, would you do this or that? I'll see to it. I'll take care of it. Forget about it. Forget about it. Go back to the text there, Psalm 38. He'll hear me. He'll hear me. Yeah, he will. God will hear his children. Any of you ladies, when your children were very small, you know it's amazing the way a woman's hearing becomes so acute. When they have a child, who knows if their hearing gets better? When they have children. Mark, you're going to find this out. That child in the middle of the night may be all the way down the hall in another room and you'll be out of that bed in a minute. You'll hear, you'll hear it. And I did the same thing when I was born. I heard every little teeth, you know, pop off now. You'll be rolling over and you'll jump out of bed and run through about it. Well, that wang didn't amend it. Am I hearing that word? I heard him every day, every day. The other morning, last night, was it last night? Anyway, Hannah made a sound. I didn't hear it, but I heard Mimi jump out of bed and run into it for some reason. I didn't hear it, but you know, God always hears. He hears always in crying to the cry of these children. And you know, when you have those little children, And the older they become, the more you let them cry a little bit, because you know what they're doing. You know by the sound of their cries what it is that they're doing, whether it's just having a pitiful dream or whatever. And you might let them cry a little bit, and say, well, they'll go back to sleep. But sometimes you hear that cry, and you think, they need me. And that's God with his children, too. You'll hear us cry, and sometimes we won't come to the rescue. It doesn't seem to pay attention. But sometimes now, we'll hear you cry, and he'll come running. Oh, yeah, he will. He's too wise, and he's too kind to leave you alone, leave his children alone. Verse 16, and I said, hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me. You ever fled this with God? I know you have. Lord, if you don't keep me, I'm going to fall, and I'm going to bring a cross, not only on me, but on my family, on the church, on the gospel. Lord, if you don't keep me, if you don't hold me up. You ever prayed that? And I covered your prayers for this man and every preacher of the gospel. Many have fallen, you know, and I covered your prayers. I pray this all the time. Lord, don't let me fall. Do you imagine what a reproach it would bring upon this church? Ah, boy. Verse 17. Well, verse 16. They rejoiced against me when my foot slipped. They're waiting. They're looking. Looking real hard, waiting on you to fall. Aren't they, Terry? They're watching you now. The world's watching you, hoping that you make the fall. I remember when I was working for the railroad. I remember When all this first started taking place with the basers, Jim and Tammy, that's all they wanted to talk about, these men at work. I didn't want to hear it. I was glad that false prophet got what was coming to him, but I didn't want to hear about it because the backlash fell on all...they'd made a blanket statement regarding all the Christians and all professing Christians. But that's all they want to talk about. They delight when they see somebody's post-op or even recreation. Don't they? It's just the way they are. And can you imagine, can you imagine the shame? All these years you stand up for the gospel and you speak out and you seem to be such a, and to call and bring reproach. Can you imagine the shame you feel today? You never want to show your face again at work or wherever. or in the church for that matter. Verse 17, I'm ready to quit. I'm ready to halt. I know you've been there. I'm ready to halt. Ready to quit. Give up. Go back. Where? I say that sometimes. You say that sometimes. I want to quit. Where are you going to go? Where are you going to go to? Sin? That's what you're having such a problem with. You want to dive right into it? No. And then you end up saying, Lord, I want to quit and go back to my nest, but where will I go? You have the words of God. Lord, don't keep me. Keep me. Keep a hold on me. Verse 18. That's where it says sorrow is continually before me. Verse 18. And he comes to this firm resolve. He says, I've got a real problem. See, I'm going to declare my iniquity. I'm going to confess it. I'm going to confess it. I'll be sorry when I see it. That's a real problem. See, have you ever been hooked? Have you ever reached the point where you become insensitive to sin? And you say, and you wonder, why doesn't this bother me? It used to bother me. Have you ever been there? Weren't you when the Lord first revealed himself to be sensitive and tender to sin. But now, or sometimes now, you may catch yourself thinking or doing or whatever, something that it appalls you when you think about it. How could I? How could I? And then sometimes you need to come to this firm resolve to, Lord, I've got to bring it all out and open before him. I confess. I'll declare my iniquity. I'll be sorry for my sin. I want to be sorry for my sin. Even when I'm not sorry, I want to be sorry for it. I see that. And we need to go one step further here, because godly sorrow worketh repentance. Worldly sorrow, as I said before, over your predicaments that you're in, your finances, or whatever it may be. That brings no change. We'll get right back into those troubles in trial. But jobless sorrow works for repentance. You know what the word repentance means? Cancel it. Change. That's what repentance is. And Mindy has thrown this at me before. We've had an argument or something. I say, I'm sorrowful. Now, I didn't always mean that. I confess. You can say it. I can say it. But sometimes you say, and men are like most men I've found, are the peacemakers. And they say, I'm sorry. Just to get the argument over with. Just to clear the air. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But you know, godly sorrow works repentance. Change. You're really sorry. And you'll do something about it, but you'll lick your tongue to do it again. You see the difference? Worldly power brings no change, but godly power works as repentance. And repentance must involve a change or a turning. And I ask you, what is your picture of problem? A spiritual problem or sin? or what the old Puritans like to talk about it. If the Lord shows it to you, if the Lord shows you a need and shows you the answer and your problem and all, then turn from it and turn to the answer. Turn to Christ. Get under the sound of the gospel and And don't go back to the problem. Just don't. I believe the Lord, you know, we will. We'll see this in a second, but we'll fall back on occasion. But I believe the Lord will bless firm resolve with His glory and our eternal good in mind. I know Him. I know God. You know God. He's merciful. He's kind. What's His will for you? To be like Christ. the glory and grace and the knowledge of the Lord. Well, if there's a firm resolve within you to not be bound by a particular problem or indwelling sin or whatever, and not be in this state that you're in, and you see a way out, get in it. Go through it. Turn upon that and don't get back into it. Does that make sense? Don't turn back to it. It's like a dog to its mama. Don't do it. He says, But my enemies are strong. He's backing for it, isn't he? This is us. But they're strong, Lord, and lively. They're strong. They're lively and strong. Most of the time you feel like your sins are greater than can be forgiven, but not so. God is greater, and he's faithful, and he's ready to forgive us all unrighteousness. All. All. None too great. None too great. Ah, boy. David, hate me wrongfully, multiplied. Multiplied. It seems like the majority, the majority is not only against me, but against God. Verse 20, They also that render evil for good are my adversaries. Now, if this is truly the case, if we're persecuted for righteousness' sake, for the gospel's sake, you have causes of joy. Christ is blessed are you, blessed are they that are persecuted for righteousness' sake. If you're the enemy, if you're hounded and you have adversary because of your stand for the gospel, hallelujah, I wish upon you more enemies. Blessed is the man. Blessed is that man. But I know me, and I know you, and it's a rare thing. Sad to say, our troubles are mostly Here they are, mostly for unrighteousness sake, not righteousness. Well, there's only one recourse to all of this. It sums it all up. There's only one alternative, one source of help, verse twenty-one. Forsake me not, O Lord. Forsake me not, O Lord. O my God, be not far from me. Be not far from me. I know we pray this, I know I have forsaken you and gone far from you. But don't do this to me. Don't you forsake me. You come to me. And the scripture says, the promise is over and over again. Call on me in the day of trouble. What does it say? I'll deliver you. Oh boy. Call on me in the day of trouble and I'll deliver you. What? I said it. I said it. That's what I said. That's what I said. Why should he procrastinate? Why should he procrastinate? Because of his promises. Because of who he is. Because he's too kind. He's too gracious. God, I love him more than my father. And because he said, I'll never give glory to such. I'll never. His promise, his word is forever written. He can't take it back. I'll never forsake such. Never. So everybody up there, And hadn't he always heard you? Huh? Always. Always. But he ended up by saying this, but make haste. This time, you better hurry this time. Make haste to help me. You've got to be very quick this time. And you've been in trouble a lot of times, you know. And the Lord's always come to your rescue. But sometimes you get in so deep and you think, boy, if he doesn't come quick, quick. You know, we read back there in Psalm 28, I'm going down in the pit. If you don't listen to me, I'm going down in the pit. Down in the pit. Make haste to help me. Why? Because he's the Lord, and I salvate him. That's why it came. That's what he would like to do, save his people. It's a faithful saying, worthy of all expectation, that Jesus Christ came into the world. He didn't have to. We weren't worthy of him. He came into the world to save the miserable, wretched, foolish, stinking, no good, and That's why I came. And he's always there. Let me close by reading Psalm 30. Let's read Psalm 30 together in closing. Listen to David's words now. Listen to this. Psalm 30. He says, I will have told thee, O Lord, for you have lifted me up." God won't leave you there. You know, I've been down, oh, I've been down. You've been down. So far you think you'll never want to get back up again. But then I've been up. I've been up. And you wish, oh, I wish I'd never come down again. But this is where he's up now. He says, you've lifted me up and you haven't made my foes to rejoice over me. Oh, Lord, my God, I cried unto thee, and you helped me. Oh, Lord, you brought up my soul from the grave. I thought I was going in it, but you kept me alive, that I shouldn't go down into the pit. Say unto the Lord, O ye saints of the earth, and just think that the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endures for the moment, and his favor is life, and his grace is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. And in my prosperity, in my good times, I said, I'll never be moved now. Never be moved. Lord, by thy favor, he made my mountain to stand strong. His face sometimes, you think, I'll never. He made my mountain stand strong. Thou didst hide thy face, though, when I was traveling. Now here it goes right back down again. I cried to thee, O Lord, and unto the Lord I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood? And I go down to the pit. Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth? Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me, Lord. Be thou my helper." He turned my mourning into dancing. He cut off my fat cloth and girded me with gladness. It's all to this end that our glory and sing praises to thee, and not be silent. Oh, Lord my God, I will give thanker also unto thee forever. Up and down. That's the life of a believer, isn't it? Up and down. Up and down. And if you're down now, look up. And if you're up But he's there. He's there to help. Let's sing this song, 344, Jerry. I must tell Jesus, I like this song. 344, let's stand and sing it.