Psalms chapter number 12. Preached out of this psalm a number of years ago, but this thought keeps coming to my heart and mind. So I'm going to try to deal with it with the Lord's help this morning. Amen. Amen. I was going to preach on judgment this morning, but this is where the Lord wants us to be. I think God's been dealing with some of our young people. A lot of times, you know, preachers want to be positive, I guess that's the mindset that we have in this country. And that will be the thought this morning, I hope. But you know, preaching is not relevant unless there's the reality of judgment. I'm afraid we live in a world that don't know much about that, the fear of God, the wrath of God, and preachers has become nothing just a show. But I'm thankful, amen, that there is power in the redeeming grace of God. I like that song, I made it by grace. If you make it, that'll be the reason why. You'll make it by the grace of God, or you won't make it at all, amen. You think you're gonna make it on your own merit, your own stability, or your own steadfastness or stamina, you're gonna be by the wayside before it's over with. But if you'll lean and depend upon the grace of God, he will see you through, amen. Thank God for that, amen. Let's stand to our feet. I wanna read these eight verses. It's a short Psalm. I thank God that it's March the 25th, 1964. Amen, brother. I've got nine minutes past nine o'clock, but God saved us all, sinner. Amen, brother. Good grace. Amen. Come with me. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank God for his saving grace. Amen. Amen. Bless his name. Amen. Eight verses this morning if you'll Pay attention, we'll try to get through this with the Lord's help. And like I said, I just got the thought that it felt like God had changed our order this morning or our mind, and so we'll try to deal with this. We truly need the Lord's direction. The psalmist said, help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth. For the faithful fail from among the children of men. They speak vanity every one with his neighbor, with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak. The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things. Who have said with our tongue will we prevail, our lips or our own? Who is Lord over us? For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the Lord, I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him. The words of the Lord are pure words, as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times. Thou shalt keep them, O Lord. Thou shalt preserve them from this generation forever. The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are exalted. And so that's eight verses. We'll not try to expound all those verses this morning. My thought is taken from the first part of verse number one, where the psalmist said, help Lord, help Lord for the godly man ceaseth for the faithful fail from among the children of men. So I want to simply preach with those two words as my theme this morning from verse number one of chapter number 12 in the book of Psalms. Help, Lord. Help, Lord. You can be seated. Psalms chapter number 12 deals with the plea of a man who is faced with problems that reach beyond his ability. And we know that man is King David. He represents all men, I believe through history, when he writes this Psalm inspired by the Spirit of God. And we will never experience the help of the Lord in its depth and its power and in its reality until we find ourselves in situations that are beyond human ability. And when we need desperately the divine help of God, When David may have written this psalm, it's really impossible to determine when he may have written it because of the various things that we read about in the life of David. But David, like all men, had found themselves helpless in the situation that life brings, amen. Every one of us in the building today have come across situations and storms and difficulties in life that simply living in a cursed world brings across our path. Job said, man that is born of a woman is a few days and full of trouble. Yet man is born under trouble, Job said, as the sparks fly upward. And so we understand that Difficulties are a part of living in this world that we are existing in today. When we think about the situations of David's life without question, each one of us could relate to the various things that David faced. as he sojourned in his life as the king of Israel. And even as a young boy, amen, we find him facing the giant Goliath in the Valley of Elul. And while he was going into the Valley of Elul to face that giant that was defying the armies of Israel, he was criticized by his own family. And when he often was misunderstood in his endeavors to serve the Lord, Saul sought after his life and run him around all over the nation of Israel, trying to seek his life. hunted and haunted by King Saul. If you know anything about your Bible and you read through it, you know David is constantly fleeing. He's hiding in the wilderness and he's fleeing, amen, even outside of his country. hiding in the woods and living in a cave. We find him on Mount Carmel and we find him in Moab and we find him in Gaza. We find that his own son has overthrown him and disrespected him. He's been lied about. He's been betrayed. He's been bereaved at the loss of a family and his own son and he's been broken, amen, within. He's ended up falling to his own lustful desires. We find him being deceptive and lying, amen, as his carnal mind and His carnal members took over his life. We find him trying to cover up what he's done in regard to the sin that he has committed. And so when we look at the life of David and we could go through the scripture and we can outline every circumstance and every situation that we have mentioned about him and what drove him to the woods and what drove him to Moab and what brought him to a place of lust and covering up his sin and being an accomplice to murdering a man's husband or a woman's husband. But we realize that all of these things are the reality of a depraved man living in a world he has created through rebellion. We know that everybody in the building in some way, shape or form could connect and relate to the life of David. And David cries out in this first two words or the first two words of this Psalm, help Lord. The phrase simply means save me. You ever been in that situation? You ever found yourself in a place where you just needed God to interrupt what was going on in your life and bring help and save you from the circumstances, the burden, the overwhelming storm that you may be faced with? The question is, do you have a desire to be a man? a help or to receive that help from the Lord. And I thought about this in a different light. David is crying out for help. David is seeking help and he says, help Lord. But you know, in Psalms 142 and verse number four, that verse was brought to my mind during the Sunday school hour this morning. David said, I looked on my right hand and beheld." In other words, he said, I looked this way and I stopped long enough to take some time to look, amen, to everyone and everything that was on my right hand. He said, but there was no man that would know me. Refuge fell me, he said. No man cared for my soul. I don't know about you, but I want the Lord to help me. But at the same time, I want to be a help. Amen. That should be the desire of everybody in this building, to be a help. And I thought about various things. I was talking, I think to Brother Keith this week, and I said, you know, the Lord knew that Judas was a devil from the beginning. You believe that, don't you? The Bible said that he knew that Judas was a devil from the beginning, yet he gave him every opportunity to get help. He let him carry the bag. You wouldn't have let Judas carry the bag if you'd have known what the Lord knew, would you? No, you wouldn't. Nobody in this building would have let Judas carry the bag if you would have known what Jesus knew. Nobody in this building would have allowed him to go to where the places he went and be a part of what was going on, but Jesus did. You know why, Jesus? I believe. Jesus desired for Judas to have the same opportunity that Peter, James, and John, Thomas, all the rest of them had. Even when he gave him that sop, when he left out of there to betray him, The giving of that sup, I believe, was the final invitation and the final offering of the Lord, amen, to extend a hand of grace and mercy to the man we knew as Judas, who betrayed the Lord, amen. Now I thought about this, I'll try to get to my thoughtful or let me in. I've yet to see anyone in 36 years of pastoring, I've yet to see anyone in this ministry who've had issues with reaching out and helping everlast very long spiritually. There was a young man come to this church a long time ago and he had some issues, problems, I was aware of them. And we tried to be a blessing to him. He was a talented young man. But he had some past issues, some carnal things that had went on in his life, and he had acted as if, or expressed as if he had a desire to do something for God and go a different direction. So I let him do some things, got him involved in some things to try to encourage him and let him know what it was like to serve God and be dedicated to the Lord. I had some young other young men that got a little bit, to say the least, jealous. got critical. And in that, amen, finally that young man did get back out and leave. And they had this attitude. These people had this attitude, this critical crowd, the cynical crowd. They had this attitude of, you know, I told you so, but every one of you had told the Lord the same thing. When Judas, if you'd have been there when Judas had said, what meaneth this waste? When she broke that alabaster box and poured that anointing oil on the feet of the Lord. And Judas said, what meaneth this waste? You would have probably said, Judas has got a problem. I don't understand why the Lord don't see that. Is anybody listening to the preacher this morning? And so this morning, it's very, very important for us to understand when there is a mindset or there is cynical attitudes or criticism, when somebody is being helped by someone else, or you're trying to salvage someone's life, or you're trying to, amen, help someone that is in trouble, there has never been anybody that has ever survived that. Because the Lord is about helping. The Lord is about redeeming. The Lord is about, amen, bringing salvation to the lost. The man that's in the depths of sin and lost without God. Amen, I can't do anything for him. You can't do anything for him. But the mercy and the grace of almighty God can reach down in the muck and the mire of sin and pull him out. But we have a selective way of thinking. and we'll get this mindset and attitude, well, I just don't even know if God can even help them. How easy it is for us to lose sight of where we were at, what we were involved in, the mindset that we had, and the condition that our soul was in, and the carnal desires that was controlling our life, amen, when the Spirit of God, amen, interrupted who we were and what we were doing. Help Lord. Amen. I remember when we started the men's home or the Hope Academy to try to help men. I remember the phone calls and the criticism and the questions. Amen. I had a man resign from a position of leadership in this church simply because the whole church body made a decision to reach out and help someone and he wasn't here to voice his opinion about it. And all we simply wanted to do was get the gospel to a sinner. God help us. What have we become? Amen. Everybody wants to bring up the possibilities and the potentials of whatever. When you help somebody, amen, we understand there's some Judases. We understand that, we realize that, but that does not excuse us. And Jesus has set an example and taught us a lesson, amen, that we exempt no one from the gospel. We don't select. We're not selective when it comes to who we preach to and the opportunity that each individual in this world has, amen, to accept the truth of the Word of God. So David says, help, Lord. So I thought about, and I dealt with this years ago, and I feel a little bit uncomfortable when I go back, and even though it's been, I think, about close to 20 years, 10 or 15 years since I've even dealt with this thought, but it's on my heart this morning, and I thought, who needs help? When David said, help, Lord, I thought about the who. Who needs help? And sometimes we think that we are exempted from that need. But when we look at David and he is the man that is crying out for help, I dare say anybody in the building would stand up and say, with the testimony that we read about in the Word of God, despite all of David's issues and problems, we would not say that David was not a spiritual man. I don't think there's anybody in this building that's wrote as many Psalms that David wrote. Anybody that God has spoke to their heart to the magnitude that David had had God to speak to his heart about communion. And so we would always say without question, I don't think anybody in their right mind would argue the point that David was a spiritual man. but spiritual people need help. Just because you're spiritual this morning, just because you have communion and fellowship with the Lord and a desire in your heart to walk with God does not exempt you from needing help. We would say that David was a serving man. He guarded his father's sheep. Amen, he made sure when he went to the battlefield there when Goliath was in the Valley of Elah that he tended to the needs of his brothers. He was sent there by his father to make sure that Saul and those men had adequate provisions. We find out that David, amen, was quick to bear arms and be a soldier, to fight against the enemies of God. And even though Saul hated David, God used David to serve Saul. He was willing, amen, to sacrifice his own well-being to serve the king, even though he hated him to the level that Saul hated him. So we would all be easy to convince that David was a serving man. But just as spiritual people need help, serving people need help. You may be a part of everything that's going on at the Pleasure View Baptist Church, and there's a lot going on that you can be a part of. There's a school you can be a part of. There is the Hope Through Truth Ministries that involve various aspects of carrying the gospel to the jails and to the Challenge Academy and even the Hope Academy. There's so many aspects. a ministry that you can be involved in and you may be involved in it. You may be in the choir, singing in a group, playing on the platform. You may be teaching Sunday school, teaching in the school. There may be several things that you have your hand in as far as being a part of the work of God here and thank God for you. But that does not exempt you from needing help. Amen. If you're serving God, you're spiritual, you need help. You may be in leadership. David was a sovereign. He was the king of Israel. David was a man, amen, that had leadership ability and had been given authority over the people of God. But you know what? Even though he sat on the throne and he had the power that he had, he needed help. You may serve in a place of leadership in this ministry. We have various people that do so. We have a school administrator. We have deacons in this church. We have Sunday school teachers. We have directors of various ministries. This church has a pastor, at least I hope they do. But just because there are various ones in this church, a song leader, a choir director, a music leader, just because you are a part of what is going on in the realm of leadership and there are people accountable to you and you are accountable to people doesn't exempt you from needing help. And if you're not careful, those that are in leadership that serve you and that try to help, I realize there's a criteria and there's a standard and there's a level of accountability that you hold them to and rightly so. But you need to understand that at the end of the day, they need help just like you need help. David was a soldier. He was right in the mix of the battle that the nation of Israel and the people of God were facing. And you might be that same person. You may be equipped this morning with the whole armor of God, and you may be in the trenches and fighting the battle and trying, amen, to defend the faith and earnestly contend for that faith that God has delivered unto the saints. And you may be right in the midst of the battle and the heat of the battle. That does not change the fact, even though you're a soldier in endure hardness as a good soldier, doesn't exempt you from simply needing help. You may be, you may have some stamina that exceeds our imagination. Your faithfulness and your consistency and your dedication may be unmeasurable. Amen. I text Brother Aaron this morning. And for you that was at the Fall Festival, Brother B.J. had the strong man and the strong woman contest with a big old log and he was holding it over their head. And so, Little Miss Megan had that thing picked up. And when she picked that thing up and they let it down, she started shaking all over. I said, she's gonna last about 15 seconds. And she's gonna get conked in the head with that log. And she held that thing for over, I don't know, a minute and 50, almost two minutes. And you would have never thought that she would have had that much stamina. And then a little Miss Jordan got up there and held it for over two minutes. and won the $500 prize. And I text Brother Aaron, I said, don't smart off to her. I said, that uppercut could be fatal. and there's people here that's been through trials and been through storms and they have stood by a casket and they've had their heart broken and situations in this church and in this ministry that is mind boggling at the storms and the difficulties and the trials that folks in this church has been through and you're still on a pew and you're still serving God and you think in your mind, if I can go through that, I can go through anything, but you can't go through it without the help of God. And you may have spiritual strength and you may be settled in steadfastness. In the Word of God, David, amen, had this book as the joy of his life. But David needed help and so do you. David had a sin issue. He had wandering eyes for the rain sin. He had wandering eyes and he had waning eyes and those wandering and waning eyes led to weeping eyes. So David, just like everybody in the building today, has a sin issue, has a carnal issue and lustful members that can take you down a path of sin. It took David down the path of adultery and being an accomplished to murder. So sinful people, we're all sinful people, need help. David was selfish in many ways. With all of his positive attributes, David had problems like each one of us do. which leads to the second thought. Who needs help, preacher? Well, the spiritual need help. People that are serving God need help. Those that are in leadership need help. Those that are fighting the battle for the Lord need help. Those that have developed strength and stamina to weather the storms, they need help. Then you think about why do we need help? Why do we need help? Why is it that we're saved? We've been bought with a price. God has forgave us of our sin and the blood has washed them away. You'd think that that'd be enough just to see us through the journey. That'd be one, that one transaction of the mercy and the grace of God that has brought the gift of salvation to our soul. We don't need anything else, but that's not the case. We need help because we have a problem with sin. Bathsheba, we mentioned already, the woman that David committed adultery with, covering up the murder of Uriah. David numbered the people out of the will of God. And we can major, and often we do, on the negative aspects of David's life, but David was a great man. David was a spiritual man and God made an everlasting covenant concerning the throne in David's life. But David, because of his sin, needs help. Not a greater king in all of the kings that are listed, either the Northern or the Southern tribe could compare to David, none. But David had a problem just like you have, and he needed help. And sometimes, Brother Herbert, sometimes we find ourselves living right, dressing right, trying to be godly, trying to be faithful. We almost find ourselves getting to a place or a plateau where, you know, we've got this thing conquered now. We got it all under control. And we don't need really a lot of help like other people do, but we need the same divine power and strength. Amen, sin, amen, it's a captor, it binds and it holds, songwriter said, and it can shackle you and there's not a man or a woman, a young man or a young lady in this building that the power of sin does not have the ability in a moment of time, amen, to capture your mind and destroy your life. And we need help from God. David faced problems with suffering. David had issues. He went through many trials, amen. And there's so much speculation. When you read some of the Psalms, he talks about the difficulties. Can you imagine what it would have been like when your own son had barred you from the kingdom and had overthrown your throne and you're driven out in the wilderness? What it must have been like that night when David tried to pillow his head and when the son that he loved and he had such a passion for had betrayed him and had defiled the throne. what must have went through his mind, the problems and the turmoil, the difficulties, the suffering, the inward suffering that he went through. And I've dealt with that in this church for the years that I've pastored this ministry where the saints of God have went through problems and difficulties and were suffering greatly. And sometimes we major on the outside outward suffering, but there is inward turmoil and difficulty. You know what they need? They need help from God. And there's sometimes, there's just not anything that you can say. Speak a word in season, that's wonderful. Think of a Bible verse that could be comforting, that's good. And God's people have a place in that, and I'll mention that in a moment. But there comes a time when the depths of suffering is so great and the turmoil is so overwhelming inside of your soul that you just need, simply just need help from the Lord. David, not a person in this building I'd say is more spiritual than David. I'd say there's not a person in this building that's more faithful as a fighter of the faith than David was. Not a man in this building, I don't think, that served with dedication any greater than David did. But David said, help, Lord. David had problems. David had problems with sin, problems with suffering, inward and outward suffering. David had problems with his sons. Absalom, being one of them. And David had many issues that revolved around his family. Sons that broke his heart. One son, life was cut off prematurely. And David had family issues. There's people in this building today that's had problems with their family, problems with their children. circumstances and situations that they wish that they could undo and they go back and they rethink all their child's childhood. What could I have done differently? Where did I go wrong? What could I have changed? And if you're not careful, the devil in the flesh will plague you with those questions. You know what you need? You need help. When those situations arise, you need help when you have problems with your family. And that's a part of living in this world, amen. I wish I could say that there was something in the Bible and there was a plan, A, B, C, D, but we understand that God is never going to violate the volition of an individual. Everybody in this building makes a choice about life, makes a choice about the Bible, makes a choice about salvation and the will of God. We raise them in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord. And we have a promise in the scripture of training up a child in the way that he should go. But nobody in this building is going to violate the purpose and the will of that purpose and the volition of an individual. God has given everybody in this building a choice. And sometimes when we have problems with our family, we try to figure it out. We try to figure out where we went wrong, what we said or what we've done that maybe caused this problem down the road. And simply, we probably need to run to God for help. David had problem with his spouse. Now he had several of them, that's a problem. Can you imagine all them mother-in-laws? But David had a spouse that mocked him and made light of spiritual things in his life. And I'm gonna tell you something, when you got spouse problems, you got problems. And you need help from God. It's wonderful to go to the pastor and ask for counsel. That's a good thing. It's wonderful maybe to go to another saint of God or to somebody maybe that's been through what you're going through and find out the things that they would have done different maybe or the help that they could give you in dealing with whatever the difficulties is when you find yourself going through problems and situations that are not of your making. And oftentimes we find ourselves in those situations. Simply, choices that someone else makes that directly and direly affect our lives. And it's a blessing to have a friend. It's a blessing to be able to have somebody to talk to. But you'll be wise to run to God. David had problems with the saints. That's why there's so many lamentations that David writes in these Psalms. As he looked around him, he saw the spiritual condition in the text here of the people that surrounded him. The godly ceaseth, the faithful fail. I can't find anybody that loves God. I can't find anybody that knows the Lord. that fellowships with God. He's found himself in a self-centered world and he's looking around him and trying to find somebody that has a heart for God. David just can't seem to find nobody. David, wanted divine help because of the condition he saw the saints in. They didn't have any distinction. The saints didn't. Look at it. Help, Lord, for the godly man ceaseth. The godly. He said, I can't find anybody that's godly. The people that once held a position in this world, that loved God, that lived holy, that lived godly, that walked in truth, they seem to have vanished away. I tell you, when we look at that and we consider the society that we're living in, you can't tell the church from the world. And David said, there's no distinction. No difference. You go to the church, go to the ball game. Can't tell the difference. Go to church, go to the park. Looks like the same crowd to me. Go to the church, go to the racetrack. Same crowd. But there was a day, amen, when the people of God were identified and they were distinct by the way they look, the way they dress, the way they talk, the places they go, the places they would not go. And there was a holy demeanor in the heart and lives of God's people. David said, because of what I see around me from the condition of the so-called saints, I need some help. I talked to Brother Raines this week. In fact, he said I'd called him and left a message and he couldn't figure it out. And I guess I'd pocket dialed him, so I don't know what I was doing, if me and my wife was fussing or what was going on. Thank God he couldn't figure it out. But David said that the saints had not vanished. The saints had not vanished, they were just not visible. They were not seen among the children of men. In other words, the godly, the godly, amen, had seemed to vanish as far as the visibility of the people of God among the children of men. Among the children of men, God's people are to be distinctive. Amen. Daniel didn't believe in them. You knew when you walked in the realm of Babylon, you could tell Daniel was different. Amen. What marks you as a godly person in this world? I can say a lot this morning, but it's very important that you understand that God's people are not to assimilate in the world and the carnal mindset of this world. We are to be different. Now don't misunderstand me now. We're not to be strange and odd. In that regard, we are to be peculiar. late and testified. I had Josh clip that off for me, so I listened to it several times. And I don't know if you heard what he said when he testified on Wednesday night. He talked about being saved in this way and living for God. And he made this statement. He said, you know, people that don't want to go down this path are just downright strange. We are peculiar, but we're really not strange. We're normal. Amen. Purity and holiness and godliness and sanctification. Amen. Distinctives. Those things separate us. And those things, amen, outline who we are as God's people. So I find no distinction and I need help. And when we look around us and we see that the world has become so churchy and the church, they say, has become so worldly and there is no distinction. Those that are trying to live for God and be godly and walk in holiness. You listen to me? We need help from the Lord. Help, Lord. No dedication. He said, help Lord for the godly man ceaseth for the faithful fail from among the children of men. Faithfulness, thing of the past. Consistency. People are overwhelmed. Somebody made a statement here the other week. Somebody came in from way off to come to church here on a Sunday, been watching us online, and they had come to church here on Sunday, and they had planned to stay here for both services, and they did, and so we had a crowd like we do this morning, a Sunday morning, and then Sunday night, the same crowd was here, and they were pretty much overwhelmed. I said, we've never seen it like this. Sunday morning and Sunday night, folks come back on Sunday night. David said, when I see the inconsistency and the lack of faithfulness, I need some help from God because it'll trouble those that are faithful. Amen. Anybody listening? No determination. He said, I need help because the godly season, the faithful fail. They fail from among the children of men. Can't finish. I don't know, I've been here 36 years. Brother Herbert was here several years before I got here in Sturgis. Far as I know, Brother Herbert's here this morning. Far as I know, Brother Herbert believes the same thing he believed when I got here 36 years ago. When they were in Sturgis, he was pastor there, and I mentioned him here a few services ago about having one of the strongest works in the state of Kentucky that believed anything when I came here. That's who I was talking about. And I've been in their home, amen, and he's been faithful. Believes the same thing he's always believed. I don't understand, Brother Herbert, what the problem with that is, why people can't just seem to stay faithful. Be consistent. Honor God with their life. Amen. Can't finish. Don't seem to see anything through. They allow carnal things to disrupt their goals and aspirations. Things that are insignificant take the place of important things. Just no determination to say, I'm gonna be faithful to God. I'm gonna believe what I believe. I'm not gonna change what I believe. Seeing people change their demeanor, change their attitude, change their position on things simply because their children and their grandchildren change. And I've got children and I've got grandchildren here. But me and grandmother, we're not gonna change what we believe and where we stand, even if you do. But that happens and people see that. You know what you need? You need help from God. You'll begin to question things if you're not careful, things that are right, things that are godly, things that are holy, things that God honors. No direction. They don't know where they're going, what they're doing. Consecration, commitment, their conversation, all singing these verses. They speak vanity, everyone. With his neighbor, we could deal with that all, but then the bottom line is, and it's very simple and elementary this morning, we need help. And we can talk about various reasons, but we all need help this morning, and we need help that comes from a divine source. Then I thought about this when David makes this plea to God, where do I get help? And help can be found in many places that God uses, but they all, the source comes from the divine throne of God. First off, we understand that the help that we need is sovereign help. God, God's divine hand working in our life. When we face sickness and unanswered questions, amen, we can run a million different directions and various places, but what we need to do is run to God. I was at the shop getting packed up and getting ready for the trip just yesterday, or not yesterday, but Friday, and this junk everywhere, trying to sort through things, and God laid something on my heart. And I'm not trying to be spiritual when I say this. I'm just telling you there are things that we face that are beyond us. And under the shed there, I just got on my knees before the Lord, and I told the Lord about the problem. I said, God, only you can fix this. Only you can settle this. Only you can deal with this issue. And I'm glad that he can. Amen. We understand that divine help is gonna come from divine truth, and this world can't handle divine truth. This generation does not want to accept it or be assured of that truth or even acknowledge that truth. Many of us want the Red Sea parted. We want the plague stayed. We want everything fixed. But we don't want to embrace truth. But there's a lot of places, I can say a lot of things, I'm gonna wrap up this morning. But our attitude about truth, we live in a superstitious, mystical world. Everybody wants something supernatural. But this book right here is supernatural. And that's about as supernatural as it's gonna get. And when you start looking for something that exceeds the boundaries of this book, you're looking for something, amen, that sits well with your emotions and your feelings. God is gonna honor truth. Everybody understand that? I can read, I can read where the Pharisees and the Sadducees would not accept truth and they become, amen, delusional about the work of God and they became in despair and find themselves depressed and find themselves eat up with deception because they simply cannot accept the truth. Amen. But you're gonna find help, and I'll wrap up. You're gonna find help in the Savior. Brother Jim said that in the assembly this morning. You need to be saved this morning. You don't know the Lord. I'd save you if I could. I care about people that much, but I can't save you. But I can tell you the one that can, And if you'll run to Jesus this morning, Jesus will forgive you of your sin, give you peace and assurance in your heart about the condition of your soul. You find help when you, amen, put your faith and your trust in the Lord Jesus. Not in man, not in some preacher, but in Jesus. You find help, amen, when you put your confidence and your faith and your assurance, as we've already said, and it's simple in the scripture. We're told in verse six and in verse seven that these are pure words. The words of the Lord are pure words. They're words of promise. God, amen, has given us words that bring promise to our heart. He has preserved them. They have been criticized, they've been critiqued, they've been complained about, but it continues to be the undeniable, inerrant, unadulterated, pure truth of God. You need help? You need help, run to the book. Come help, you can get help in the sanctuary. because it's God's house. It's where the people of God gather together to worship. It's set aside for that. Now it's no different than any other building when it comes to its structure and what it's built from, but it's the house of the Lord. Paul said, you need to learn to behave yourself in the house of God, which is the pillar and the ground of the truth. And so for me to say, that's the church that I attend, that's biblical. Paul said that these were neither robbers of churches. So he's talking about a place, a place where people gather. Now, this again is just a structure and it's just a building where people gather, but it's a dedicated building. It's been sanctified and set apart. We don't play ball in here. You listening to me? Hey man, we try to keep our kids under control and keep them respectful because this is the house of God. And it's a place where God's people have set aside to come that's been dedicated for the worship of the Lord and the preaching of the Word of God. We reverence it. You can come to this place when God's people are here. and you can get help from the Lord. When God's people are obedient, you can come in here, you can come here when there's no one here and get help from the Lord. I don't know how many times I've crawled in one of these altars and not a soul in this building and cry out to God and God just meet with me. And you can do that in the woods. You can do that in the barn loft. You can do that in the closet. You can do that at home. But there's just something, amen, special about getting in God's house along with God. I remember as a young boy, somebody carrying me to a church to show me the inside of that building. And they left that building open all the time. And the preacher who met us at the door and was gonna carry us in. And when he met us on the porch and brought us in, he stopped us at the door. Brother Randy had some old man in the yard and I mean, he was praying, he meant like the world was coming to an end. He was crying out to God and praying in earnest, fervency for God to work and God to move. We've lost that sense of fervency. but you can get help in the sanctuary. God's servants can help you, a Sunday school teacher, a preacher, an evangelist, but you can get help from the saints. I don't know what you've been through. I don't know what you faced in your life as a child of God, but I do know this, all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose. And I know the following verse lets us know that God has predetermined that those things that we go through conform us to the image of Christ. And in that confirmation to the image of Christ, God brings us to a place where we can simply help others, bear others' burdens. Nobody in this building, nobody in this building would volunteer to go through what Job went through just to be a testimony to the world. Just a testimony that Job has been recorded in the scripture that you can read and find comfort from when you're going through difficulty. There was nobody in this building volunteer to go through that. In fact, that song that y'all sang here the other day, you changed your words to it, I think. That song, I can't remember what the song was. Y'all sang it and, I'm trying to think of it, it just come to my mind, because when they were singing it, the other day I thought, you know, they change the words, and rightly so. If we could change what we've gone through in life. Say it for me. by myself, but that's not the way the song was written. I've had my share of hard times, I wouldn't trade them. The songwriter said, I've had my share of hard times, I wouldn't trade them if I could. But these ladies changed it because they would trade them if they could. And so would you. Everybody in the building, we would trade our hard times if we could. But we go through them. And God sees us through the hard times. And God Almighty lets us respond right. And we will respond right. Thank God those hard times can mold us and make us to simply be a help to someone else. That's a serious thing. But don't let that difficulty and that storm be wasted. Have a heart. have a heart to be a help. There are people in this church that's been through difficulties and they'd stand up and just be faithful, just be here ever service and testify. And there's people that have went through trials and just you being here and being faithful, it'll take the judgment day to reveal the help and the strength that others had gained simply by your faithfulness. You can get help from the saints. Help, Lord. For the godly man sees them. You can get help, and we all need help. We simply have to understand that there's not a person in this building, no matter how spiritual or dedicated you are, that is exempt from needing help. I need help. I ask people specifically along life's way to pray for me about things. Because I need help. And the help I need can't come from them directly. They cannot fix my problem. No matter what they would do and what they would be willing to do, they cannot do but so much. But God can do the impossible. And we need people that can simply Get a hold of God. And we need people that'll realize that they are not beyond needing help from the Lord. And when they do need help, don't run to the bank. Don't run to the psychologist. Run to the Lord. David was a spiritual man, a serving man, but a man with a lot of problems. but he had a heart for God. The Bible said he was a man after God's own heart, a man after God's own heart, but yet David needed help. You may be here this morning and you're not saved, you don't know the Lord. Again, I would save you if I could. There's people in this building that would pay money to secure your soul in heaven, but none of us can do that, nor can we pay a price to do it. but you can run to God and God this morning can help you.