Vesper Service

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Short Summary
The discourse reflects on Psalm 145, highlighting its structure as an acrostic poem that praises God’s sovereignty, goodness, and faithfulness. It emphasizes God’s overarching plan for creation, the permission of evil as part of divine justice, and the ultimate hope of resurrection and restoration. The speaker encourages continual praise and trust in God’s wisdom, acknowledging that human understanding is limited compared to His eternal purposes.

Long Summary
Detailed Summary of the Discourse on Psalm 145 and Related Themes

Opening and Context
– The discourse begins with an exhortation to pray and praise the Lord, the Almighty King of creation, emphasizing adoration and thanksgiving for His help and salvation.
– The speaker fondly recalls past fellowship moments involving singing hymns with Brother George and Sister Florence at seminars, highlighting the importance of praise and community.

Personal Greetings and Acknowledgments
– Sends love and greetings from family members including Gretchen (caring for a friend recovering from surgery), Rachel, and Erin.
– Mentions the Delaware Valley Bible students class, now disbanded due to dwindling numbers, and expresses gratitude for ongoing fellowship opportunities.

Focus on Psalm 145
– Psalm 145 is identified as the last psalm in the Book of Psalms and part of a unique group of six final psalms all focused on praise.
– It is an acrostic psalm, meaning each verse begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet (22 letters total), underscoring the completeness of praise.
– The speaker explains the Hebrew acrostic structure with examples, including personal acrostic poetry, to illustrate the concept.
– Notes that Psalm 145 has one verse per letter, making it distinct among acrostic psalms.
– Discusses the significance of the number 22:
– 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet.
– 22 generations from Adam to Jacob (Israel).
– 22 works of creation mentioned in Genesis.
– 22 books in the Jewish canon of Scripture.
– Psalm 145 serves as a fitting conclusion to the Psalter with its comprehensive praise.

Reading and Commentary on Psalm 145
– Verses express continuous praise and blessing of God’s name forever.
– Emphasizes God’s greatness, majesty, wondrous works, compassion, mercy, and righteousness.
– Highlights God’s universal care: “The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works” (Psalm 145:9).
– Explains that all creation praises God and His saints bless Him.
– Notes a missing verse corresponding to the Hebrew letter Nun, which some ancient manuscripts include but others omit. This omission may symbolize that any praise we give to God is always incomplete.

Translation Insights
– The speaker references Robert Alter’s Hebrew Psalms translation, which emphasizes God’s divine kingship and sovereignty over all creation.
– God’s sovereignty is the primary reason to praise Him, as He is the supreme ruler over all.
– Encourages daily prayer and praise as a recognition of God’s infinite wisdom and care.

Relationship with God
– God is not merely a “friend” but the Creator and caretaker who watches over us like a loving parent.
– Trust and faith in God provide strength through trials and tribulations.
– A hymn quoted reflects dependence on God’s promises and strength day by day.

Personal Testimonies and Biblical Encouragement
– Mentions mentors and brethren who have influenced the speaker’s spiritual journey.
– Quotes Romans 8:28:
> “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
– Explains that God’s plan is overarching and sometimes we don’t see the purpose of trials until after resurrection.
– Emphasizes that Jesus’ prayers always sought God’s will, not his own (reference to Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane).

God’s Plan and the Problem of Evil
– Discusses the doctrine of the permission of evil — God allows evil temporarily within the divine plan.
– Contrasts common human views of God with biblical truth, noting that God’s ways are higher than ours (Isaiah 55:8-9):
> “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”
– Affirms that God’s justice and mercy ultimately prevail.

God’s Goodness to All
– Despite appearances, God is good to all creation, even those who suffer poverty or hardship.
– Uses the example of the Amazon rainforest’s survival despite human destruction attempts as evidence of God’s providential care.
– Stresses that God’s wisdom and judgment are perfect and eternal.

God’s Faithfulness and Holiness
– Psalm 145:14 (missing verse) states:
> “The Lord is faithful in all his words, and holy in all his works.”
– This verse is found in Dead Sea Scrolls and most ancient versions, highlighting God’s reliability and sanctity.
– Quotes Ecclesiastes 1:4 on the earth’s permanence:
> “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever.”
– Affirms that despite human threats (e.g., nuclear war), God will preserve His creation and promises.

Righteousness and Justice of God
– God is just and righteous in all His ways (Deuteronomy 32:4; Zephaniah 3:5; Habakkuk 1:13; Psalm 5:4-5).
– Evil and calamity are allowed as chastisement for sin but are temporary.
– God’s justice is ongoing morning by morning, never failing.

Praise as a Response
– Calls believers to praise God continually for His greatness and providence.
– Quotes a hymn refrain:
> “Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, Let the earth hear His voice; Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord, Let the people rejoice.”
– Encourages rejoicing through Jesus the Son and giving glory to God.

God’s Care for the Faithful
– Verses 19-20 assure that God hears the cries of those who fear Him and rescues them.
– Jesus also needed strength from God, highlighting our need to depend on divine help.
– God will ultimately destroy all evil and opposition (1 Corinthians 15:28):
> “When all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him, that God may be all in all.”

The Promise of Resurrection and Eternal Life
– The resurrection of mankind is a central hope, bringing all to a knowledge of God.
– Those who obey God’s laws and love Him will be welcomed into eternal life.

Conclusion and Final Exhortation
– The psalm ends with a call for all flesh to bless God’s holy name forever.
– The speaker prays for a grateful heart that continually praises God, not just when convenient.
– Encourages daily praise and recognition of God’s blessings.

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Key Bible Verses Quoted or Referenced:

– Psalm 145 (various verses)
– Romans 8:28
> “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God…”
– Isaiah 55:8-9
> “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.”
– Ecclesiastes 1:4
> “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever.”
– Deuteronomy 32:4
> “He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment…”
– Zephaniah 3:5
> “The Lord within her is righteous; he doth no unrighteousness…”
– Habakkuk 1:13
> “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil…”
– 1 Corinthians 2:14
> “But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God…”
– 1 Corinthians 15:28
> “When all things shall be subdued unto him…”

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This discourse presents Psalm 145 as a profound and structured praise to God’s sovereign kingship, goodness, faithfulness, and justice. It encourages believers to maintain faith amid trials, recognize God’s overarching plan including the temporary permission of evil, and continually praise God for His eternal purposes culminating in resurrection and eternal life.

Transcript

Pray to the Lord, the Almighty, the King of creation O my soul, Praise him for his thine help and salvation for him who hear now to his temples adoration Praise to the Lord O let all that is in the adoring all men have wise and break them down with praise and be war.

Well, brethren, that’s just a little preview. It is a day of song and obviously I love singing. I thank George for that memory with Sister Florence. How many of you remember being at Kandahar Barn for the seminars? Yeah.

And you remember at the night when the seminar was over, we’d sit out around the fire pit and George and Florence would be there after working hard all day and we’d be singing songs. We’d have our guitars and our hymns and it was great memories. We owe a lot to Sister Florence and to Brother George, and I appreciate very much all the things he did for the young people like me when we were in a turmoil that we thought would end the world. So a song of praise and I subtitled this A Hidden Mystery.

Before I start, I want to bring love from my family. Gretchen’s online. She sends love. She would be here. She’s been caring for a friend of ours who had some surgery last week and he’s a Canadian citizen, doesn’t get all the benefits of aftercare, so she volunteered to help him his house.

And so she’s been there but catching when she can online, and Rachel and Erin both send greetings as well, and I also wanted to mention the greetings from our old class, which was the Delaware Valley Bible students. The class ceased to exist as of the end of last year. We got to the point, like so many of the classes on the east coast, where it just dwindled one by one.

But Sister Barbara Osterman, Sister Marsha Matlak, Sister Sandy Seabrook, just kind of the rest of the class that was there, and Brother Alex Lowtsky and Sister Eva Loudsky, who are meeting now with the Romanian brethren, and Obi and Janet Elbert, who have moved to Las Vegas, that class. So we decided not to have our convention this year. Would have been next weekend. So anyways, we’re grateful that there are opportunities for all of us still to join in as brethren.

I’m going to talk about Psalm 145. It’s the last psalm in the book of Psalms, and it’s a very unique kind of one. But the last six psalms are all psalms of praise. It begins kind of the final section and it’s one of the things called an acrostic. Some of you that do puzzles, know what acrostic is?

It starts with a letter and you make a word out of each letter. In case you don’t know, here’s an example of an acrostic. Love is very kind Encases all your mind over everything it reigns Never binds with heavy chains Ask that God give you a share Request it in your evening prayer Desire that it show everywhere. So that’s an acrostic I made out of my own name. So you can do the same thing.

But that’s the element. So in the Hebrew, as you know, David did that with many of the psalms that started with the letter, and he made a poem out of that letter. There are several of them, each of them successively starting with the letters of Hebrew Alphabet. Psalm 119 may be the one that we know the most, where it was written with eight verses for each of the Hebrew letters. Hebrew consonants, of course, no vowels.

Verses 1 to 8 each have a first word beginning with the first letter. Aleph A. Verses 9 to 16 each have a first word with Beth Be and so on. So that’s an acrostic, and there’s actually, here’s a list of all the Acrostic Psalms.

Nine of them that we have here, nine through 119. You see, some of them have one verse each, some of them two, some of them a half verse each. 145 has one verse each, and it’s the last psalm, and that’s why I picked this Psalm, because I think it’s a very beautiful one that ends this book.

And it’s fitting, when we think about a praise service or vesper service, to consider what David ends with here. Just if you’re interested, I know many of you have taken Hebrew classes and far more expert. But the Hebrew Alphabet that you see here, remember they also had pictures that were associated with it, and each letter represented a picture. Many of the languages that we are known have that same kind of a thing.

And this shows you the letters of the Alphabet. Some of them letters, the ones here, there are five of them that are written differently. If they are at the end of a sentence, we in English kind of end it in period, but they have a final one. So if you exclude Those, there’s really 22 letters that are part of the Hebrew Alphabet, and remember, the vowels aren’t there, not like ours, but there’s a significance in the number 22.

And I think that’s really what came to be known from this Hebrew Alphabet. Early in the first and even second centuries before Christ, the Jews noted that 22 was a significant number, not just for being the number of letters in the Hebrew Alphabet, but because it was in the Bible. There were 22 generations from Adam to Jacob, who was the beginning of Israel. The number of works of creation. 22 works of creation are listed in Genesis, the number of books in the Jewish canon of the Bible, because they do combine some of those that we have put together.

The number of books in the Jewish canon of The Bible is 22. So that’s a significant number, and I think that’s why David probably ends His Psalms with 22.

We’ll take you quickly through the reading of this psalm with the acrostics to show you how it works. A Psalm of David of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name forever and ever. Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name forever and ever. Now you have to imagine in the Hebrew this starts with A and B.

So anyways, great is the Lord, highly to be praised. There’s the hymn we have. Right. Great is the Lord. You know that one too.

No more singing today without music, and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall laud thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts. The glorious splendor of thy majesty and thy wondrous works. Will I rehearse.

And men will speak of the might of thy tremendous acts, and I will tell of thy greatness they shall utter. The fame of thy great goodness shall sing of thy righteousness. The Lord is gracious, full of compassion, slow to anger and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works.

All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord, and thy saints shall bless thee. 11th letter halfway. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy might to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glory of the majesty of his kingdom. 13. Thy kingdom is a kingdom of all ages, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.

The Lord upholdeth all that fall and raises up all those that are bowed down.

Now there’s a 14th letter in there, but there’s no acrostic. We’ll come back to that. The eyes of all wait for thee, and thou givest them their food in due season. Thou openest thy hand and satisfiest every living thing with favor. The Lord is righteous in all his ways, gracious in all his works.

The Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him. So to all that call upon him in Truth. He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him. He also will hear them cry, will save them. The Lord preserveth all them that love him.

But all the wicked will he destroy. My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever. So we’re 21. I know what you’re thinking.

Brother Lynn, you said there are 22 letters. Can’t you count? Well, yes, but there’s a missing letter. Missing letter and a verse, an interesting one, this letter, nun, between these two letters. Well, whenever you have something like that happen, you can imagine the rabbis have a field day with this.

I had a friend that I bowled with. He was Jewish, but he believed in Jesus, but he wouldn’t admit it in his synagogue. We had a lot of good discussions. They said he’s the Messiah, obviously. But he said, you know, when you study Hebrew, he says all the rabbis have to write something on each verse.

He says you get one little verse in the Old Testament, in the Torah, and there’s 100 pages written on these two word verses, and he always got a kick out of that. But that’s what they have to do. But some translations, if you look at this, do contain this verse. Those that are based on the three manuscripts we know as the Syriac, the Septuagint and the Vulgate.

So there’s all kinds of speculation. Copyists left it out, they omitted it, and others say the author omitted it to show that any praise we give to God is always incomplete. So it’s up to you to think whatever you want to think on that. But I’m going to come back to that because it is important at the end. Okay, I want to look at a.

This is a translation by professor named Robert Alter. He’s a professor of Hebrew at UC Berkeley. He’s written several translations that I like. Translations of the Torah, of the books of Moses, of the Psalms, and he did a beautiful one on the Psalms.

And I’m not going to reread it with his, but I’m going to highlight what you see as the colored versions of this, and I think even if you’re colorblind, you should be able to see the yellow ones here. He exalts God the King, great is the Lord, and highly praised the Almighty Acts. His emphasis is on that greatness of God, God’s divine kingship, isn’t that right? God’s divine kingship in all the earth.

That’s our first obligation. Brethren, as we think about praising God, recognize that God is sovereign over all creation. No Matter what happens, he is the sovereign and that’s the first cause for us to praise Him. You know, it’s, you know, there’s a saying that says something. Got to remember, it says, that’s about.

No one likes a self made man, but he worships, you know, he worships us. Forget that one. All right, sorry, I forgot that one. Anyways, God is really the only one fit to be praised. God is part of our meditation, is just seeing what’s around us.

22 Acts of Creation. Do you know what they are? Count them. Go out and look at them and say, what were they? Do I notice those.

When Jesus gave his model prayer, Jesus thanked God before he even gave that prayer. So that was his first words to always thank God. It should be ours for everything. It’s acknowledgment that God’s wisdom is really superior to ours and any other that we might encounter, and even when we encounter.

You know, there’s some tremendously smart people in our world, but yet none has the wisdom that our heavenly Father has. He’s the source of it all, and so when we begin each day, however you begin your day, if you begin it with prayer, if you read an inspirational text, if you read Gretchen’s text each day, the scripture she sends you, if you’re not getting it, talk to her. She sends out a scripture every morning. Those that have it know what she does well.

However you do that, or you sing a hymn, get up and sing a hymn. Never take God out of our life or take him for granted. Sometimes we do. I know people say I talk to God like he’s a friend. God’s not our friend.

He’s our Creator and he cares about us. He’s much more. It’s the same thing we have when we have parental situations. A child doesn’t want you to be their friend. They want you to be their caretaker, their person they can come to.

They have trouble their whole life. That’s what they want. That’s God in our life. We should never forget that.

Day by day and with each passing moment Strength I find my trials be Trusting in my Father’s wife is so I’m no cause for worry or forbear he whose heart is right beyond your measure gives unto each day. Why did he tell rest? Love in me is part of pain and pleasure with peace and help me every tribulation sought to free. Trust your promises, O Lord, that I use not faith’s consolation.

Honor me within your holy word. Help me Lord, when triumphing and to take us from Our Father’s day One by one the taste of moments be Till I reach the Promise Land Till I reach the Promise well, you’ve noticed by now I’m including a lot of pictures of brethren that have meant a lot to us in life. This last one that you saw come up, that’s brother George Eldredge you see on the left there, and the first time he and Ruth were in Orlando living and I was doing. I was auditing at the time.

I went on an audit down to Florida. Orlando stayed with them. George takes me to Disney World. I said, george, I have to get a picture of you. But Disney World.

So that’s George.

Romans 8:28 tells us, we know that all things work together for good, for those who love God who are called according to his purpose. Now, you may agree with this, but you say, boy, I’ve had things in my life that I’m not sure I would consider them good. But we have to remember, brethren, God overrules for the outworking of his plan. When we pray, we’re praying for the outworking of his plan, and he knows far better than we do what’s going to be best for our long term.

We may not know the purpose of a trial that we’ve had in life until after our death and resurrection. Brother Edgar Buckley, who was my mentor in Jackson, Michigan, he married Gretchen and I and he went with me to my co hearing. He was just a great brother. He would always say, when I get to the other side, he says, the first person I know I’ll meet, not Jesus, it’ll be my guardian angel come over and put his arm around me and say, do you know what a lot of trouble you were?

Our prayers, brethren, should seek first the development of the divine plan and the collective development of the church. Paul says, we pray for one another. Jesus never had a selfish prayer. When he did, he excused himself. If this be possible, but not my will, Father, but yours.

Let us never forget that. That this. Romans 8:28 is not talking about us individually. It’s talking about the collective work that God does and our part in it. One of the hymns, and I’m sure some of you know it, it’s a hymn called Known only to Him.

One of the lines in there is, I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.

Verses 5 to 8 of this Psalm say, the fame of your great goodness. They utter bounty. They joyously sing. A lot of people have weird concepts of God’s involvement in their lives. Some of the most notorious are the Sports people, right?

Players thank God or Jesus after winning a game. I’m not against that, but saying if you watch the post game interviews that come after a game, you’ll see that at least one player gives a shout out to God for a win. But I have not yet heard anyone thank God for humbling him with a loss, and that’s the problem as people see God in their lives. This picture that you see here on the left, I just put up this Tony Dungy, some of you may know his name, he was a NFL coach, but Tony played for the Pittsburgh Steelers also and was a great tight end.

But Tony went to my high school. That’s my, I told you I was going to high school reunion. That’s my high school that he’s standing in front of and that’s his picture. When he was a senior in the high school, Tony lived just two blocks from me. But his father was a Baptist, was a, a Baptist minister, but not.

That wasn’t his full time job. It was a Baptist church. They were very Christian people, had five brothers and sisters and they are all there. His father taught with my sister Virginia at the college and they were just an outstanding family. But Tony wrote a book.

If you haven’t seen his book, he wrote the book about winning. But this is something he said in there. We often can’t see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and his plan for us clearly. That’s the way I like to see someone like him respond. Just very knowing that it’s not about us or about your performance.

It’s about God’s long term plan for everyone. God’s eternal purpose for us and for everyone who has ever lived is captured in the divine plan of the ages. That’s God’s plan and that’s what he’s working for.

The permission of evil. It’s a unique doctrine. We have brethren that others don’t see. Even the great Billy Graham didn’t understand why 9, 11 happened. He said, I don’t know why God happened.

This happened. The destiny of mankind. Is there any other faith that gives that hope for everyone? No matter who you are, if you’ve heard today of the gospel or not, the destiny of mankind, the four foundation attributes of God, love, justice, wisdom, power. Those are such an important part of God’s throne.

Paul says in First Corinthians 2:14. But a natural man does not accept the things of the spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. He cannot understand them because they are spiritually appraised. Brethren, you have the privilege, we have the privilege of understanding what God is doing in the world. That spirit gives us a comfort in something that others just don’t see.

They want to talk to God as their personal valet, and we understand he’s far more than that. Isaiah 55, 8, 9 In the contemporary English version reads, my thoughts and my ways are not like yours. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, my thoughts and my ways are higher than yours. Let us never forget that in our times of despondency or times of wondering why, let us never forget that God’s ways are higher than ours.

And the best we can do is try to put our faith and comfort in knowing that he’s watching over us. But it shouldn’t surprise us when we hear our neighbors saying, when there’s a tragedy happen, a little kid gets killed, run over by a car. Well, God called them. God didn’t call them. They’re part of that permission of evil.

It breaks the heart, breaks the family ties. Others assign a majority of people to something that God never considered, the separation from him forever. Never seeing that God’s mercy over reigns over all, and finally, those who really appreciate God, praise Him and the plan to bring all to a knowledge of him in a sweeping resurrection, and just try to imagine that sometime.

Try to imagine the resurrection. It’s again, like I said before, trying to imagine yourself being resurrected. Think of all the masses of mankind being resurrected. But that’s God’s plan. Brother Sam, the man of God, of course my mentor.

As I said, for those that don’t remember Brother Edgar Buckley, he served here in Chicago many times. Verses 9 to 12. God is the Lord to all. Let’s focus on that. God is the Lord to all.

God is good to all, as it says in some of them. The Lord is good to all, as it says in the other one. The Lord is good to all. On the surface, one might question, rather this is really proper or not, Is the Lord really good to all? There’s a lot of people that experience poverty.

They experience destitution in their lives. They don’t see God executing His plan. David is talking about this today. What is God’s overruling is really seen as chance.

Back in the 1980s, you may remember the Amazon rainforest was burning, caught fire because, and it was projected to disappear. By the end of the 20th century, there was a strict military dictatorship in Brazil under Ferrara, however pronounced his name, I don’t remember exactly, but he reigned from 79 to 85 and he began to Strip the rainforest in order to bail the country out of difficulty took 1.6 million miles million square miles of the rainforest out. He began at that devastation as 80% would be 80% of the world’s largest remaining wilderness. Then the late 80s a massive debt hit Brazil and the crisis stopped that activity.

That was in Brazil. If you look at it today, the rainforest is a vast carpet of green crisscrossed by the Amazon river and 1100 tributes tributaries. God used that natural selfishness of man to deter what was going on, that threat against an important part of his creation. How many of you have watched the films with Tom Hanks the Americas? You saw what has happened with the Amazon and it went through all the rainforest.

That’s the way God works. His overruling. He lets man go so far, but he uses the natural means to turn them away, just as he did in Brazil. The entire creation in that sense is under God’s care, His wisdom, his power, his goodness, his benevolence. Think of it.

A memory that never fails, a judgment that never errs. Wisdom that plans for eternity without the possibility of failure can harness every opposing element and make them work for the accomplishment of his plan. The providences that we have today over the prospective church, over you and I, but yet no human in the future will escape his mercy. So to remember, God is Lord to all and he is good to all in many ways. Verses 13 to 16 focus on God’s kingship.

And the 14th verse, the missing verse, the letter that was gone reads, the Lord is faithful in his words and holy in all his works. As I said, most ancient translations contain this. The text of the Psalms that was found in the Dead Sea Scrolls contains it, and perhaps somewhere along the line it was omitted. But the importance of it means that God’s word is his law.

Creation will reflect his holiness. He is faithful in all his words and all his works. They aren’t failing as man sees. Not to say we shouldn’t work to help perk them up, but God is really the one that’s going to be able to deal with that tragedy. Ecclesiastes 1:4 says, One generation passes away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

That’s when we use to show people that it won’t be destroyed, and it’s true. Despite all the nuclear threats we see today in the buildup, we know that man will never be allowed to obliterate the earth through that kind of a war or even obliterate the nation of Israel which will be talked about tomorrow.

Verses 17 to 18 say, just is the Lord in all his ways. One of the hard things for people to understand. God is always righteous. Isaiah 45:7 reads to one, forming light and creating darkness, causing well being, creating calamity. I am the Lord who does these.

It’s not that God’s playing with his creation, doing this and doing that. What he’s saying is that he allows these calamities as part of the chastisement for sin, just as he has throughout years. Adam and Eve were protected from harm, but the choice of disobedience brought consequences. God’s protection over the church does not spare us from trouble or pain or the elements that commonly affect man. But we know that God’s special care eases that pain.

And when we depend on him, we depend on his righteousness. We know that he’s working it out for a far greater and grander plan. Today’s world, brethren, we know, is not the world as God intended it to be. Deuteronomy 32:4 says, the rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are just A God of faithfulness and without injustice. Righteous and upright is he.

Zephaniah 3:5 the Lord within her is righteous, he does no wrong. Morning by morning he dispenses his justice, and every new day he does not fail. Yet the unrighteous know no shame. God is the same each and day. Habakkuk 1:13 reads, Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity.

Psalm 54 says, for thou art not a God that hath pleasure in wickedness Neither shall evil dwell with thee the foolish shall not stand in thy sight Thou hatest all workers of iniquity. It’s a purpose and a plan that’s being exercised. It’s not that God is creating these things to happen and the wicked to be allowed to come their way. Today’s evil, brethren, is temporary and that’s what has to give us comfort when we see the things that are around us Moment for sin and open the life deep and Praise the Lord Praise the Lord Let the earth in his voice Praise the Lord Praise the Lord Let the people rejoice to the Father, Jesus the Son and give him the glory. Great things he has done Great things He has done us Great things he has done and great a rejoicing through Jesus the Son and higher and greater will be our wonder, our transport when Jesus receive Praise the Lord Praise the Lord Let the earth hear his voice.

Praise the Lord Praise the Lord Let the people Rejoice, Praise. Come to the Father through Jesus the Son and give him the glory Great things he ha done. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the earth hear his voice.

Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Let the people rejoice.

Maybe the only time you’ll see Brother Harry in shorts.

International conventions, if you’ve never been brethren are a real blessing, and many of those pictures were from Brethren were very precious outside of our fellowship here in the states. Verses 19 to 20 the pleasure of those who fear him be performed. But this their outcry he hears and rescues them. The Lord loves all who guard.

Even Jesus needed God’s strength. Brethren, when we cry out, you can be sure that God responds. The full assurance of faith means he gives us everything we need to complete our journey. The conditions that he disapproves of will be ultimately dissolved. Those out of harmony will ultimately be destroyed.

The evil principles that exist in the world today are driven by the evil spirit beings. Jesus identified that source as those that were evil as part of your Father, the devil. At the close of the millennium, all evil will have been destroyed along with the devil himself. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 15:28 when all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will be subjected to the one who subjected all things to him. So that God may be all in all to all eternity.

Brethren, there will be no more opposition to his will. All will have been brought to a knowledge of the truth under favorable blessings of rain, and if with the knowledge of truth they come to love God as you and I, and even more so obey the laws and principles, he will welcome them into eternal life.

The psalm concludes with this psalm, with this verse. The Lord’s praise. Let my mouth speak. Let all flesh bless his holy name forever. Thou hast given me.

Thou hast given so much to me. Give one thing more. A grateful heart, not thankful when it pleases me, as if thy blessings had spare days, but such a heart whose pulse may be thy praise to God be the glory. Brethren, may we praise him each and every day of our life. Amen.

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