Yes, he did. Psalm 119, Psalm 119, stanza 16, verse 121 through verses up to verse 128, and we begin reading there in 121, I have done judgment and justice, says David, leave me not to mine oppressors. Be surety for thy servant for good. Let not the proud oppress me. Mine eyes fell for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness. Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statuettes. I am thy servant. Give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies. And look at verse 126 real closely as I read it. It is time for thee, Lord, to work. And here's the reason why, Lord. For they have made void thy law. Therefore, I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold. Therefore, I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right. And then David caps off this stanza with these words, And I hate every false way. May the Lord bless the reading of His Word this morning. If you remember anything about last Sunday's message, and I hope you do, if you don't, you can go to sermonaudio.com slash pbcpulaski and listen to it once again. If you remember, I gave you a message on the state of religion this hour. the state of the local church this hour, and last but not least, the state of the culture that we are in here in America, especially this hour. As it pertains to modern religion and the local church this hour, we saw how sin no longer agrees them, and we see how sin no longer agrees them, or what it has and is doing to all of humanity. Secondly, we see how they are not able to bring right worship because the majority of his preachers, his priests and rabbis will be and are many times nothing more than career men, ladder climbers, child abusers, gay and yes, lesbian or transgender. And then thirdly, I showed you and told you about the fact that they cannot worship sin, that they have fundamentally rejected the truth as it is given in the Word of God. All three are abominations, but the one that affects us the most and will affect us as time marches on is that last one, and that is the fundamental rejection of the Word of God by all of these. Then as it applies to the culture of this hour, in spite of the explosion of information by means of the computer and internet, yet the world as a whole is unable to come to the knowledge of the truth on any subject, on any matter, on identity or otherwise, no matter the historic data. Listen to me. No matter the science, no matter the lightning speed, the technology available at their fingertips, the culture sees right as wrong, wrong as right, and in most cases can't even tell what gender they are. God help us. Men who want to be women, women who want to be men, and if you challenge these abominations, these departures from the Word of God in the face of Jesus Christ, our government now will call you racist, homophobic, a white supremacist, and at best an urban terrorist. I don't know how it's going to fit us. We all live in the country, don't we? I thought you were a redneck terrorist. That's what you bunch are. No. But in order to protect these abominations and the sexual preferences of this reprobate society, our Supreme Court and even our President endorsed and worked to protect these things and have given the status of a race as you would Caucasian, Black, Asian, Indians, etc. I'm telling you now, and please be warned, that your Christianity is not only offensive to all those, but they intend, listen, they intend to silence our message and even ban our Bibles if they can at some point. Our Bible is a dastardly book. I mean, we're against everybody. We're against everybody. The Bible's against everybody. And look at all the people God killed in the Old Testament. You wouldn't believe some of the things that have been said to me. But they hate us. And they hate us because we stand against everything they are. Not them. We don't hate them. We pray for them. We pray for their salvation. Sadly, they hate your Lord. For your Lord stands against everything they are. It's apparent in the book, in the Bible. They hate God's Word because it definitely, not just partially, but definitely stands against sin no matter what it is. If it's a white lie, it stands against it. But these abominations that are fast quickening and bringing us to the end are going to turn on us. And when they turn, it's going to be a horrific time. These oppressors in our government, even down to our local churches that meet around us, many of them will side with those and will come after us. That is why we must, without the slightest hesitation or reservation, defend the faith once delivered to the saints. Hold your hand there at Psalm 119, and turn over to the book of Jude. Go to Revelation. This is the fastest way to get to that little book. Go to the book of Revelation at the end of your Bible, and just flip in, and it's the very next little book before Revelation. Look, if you would. Jude. is writing, and in verse 3, he says, Beloved, he's talking to believers, he's talking to Christians here. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, and the common salvation is that one that is espoused and written in the Word of God, given us by Christ Jesus. He says, It was an evil for me to write unto you, and exhort you, and that word exhort means, he says, plead with you, beg you, that you should earnestly contend. And that word contend means fight, earnestly fight for the faith. This faith that we find in the Word of God, which was once delivered to the saints. There's not a bunch of faiths. There's not a bunch of Gospels. Listen to me. There's not a bunch of Gospels. There's only one Gospel. And that one Gospel is that the only one that can save us is Christ Jesus. That's it in a nutshell. Only one can forgive sins, it's Jesus. Only one has died upon the cross for us and it is Jesus. There is no other name given among men under heaven by which we must be saved. Only Jesus. He is the faith once delivered to the saints. Are you with me this morning? Hey, listen this morning. We are on the cusp of something big and grand and yet boy, very destructive coming at us. Verse four, for there are certain men And I'll say women who have crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation. In other words, God knew them. They are ungodly men, and they do one thing only, and that's to turn the grace of our God into lasciviousness. That means immorality, folks. That means into godlessness. and deny the only Lord God in our Lord Jesus Christ. They deny Him. They want Him out of the way. They want Christ Jesus and anybody that's with Him out of sight and out of mind. You got to believe that. We must be vigilant, for our adversary the devil walks to and fro in the earth, seeking whom he may devour. He has the rest of the world. He wants you. He wants to destroy you. He wants to destroy your Lord. He wants to destroy the Church of the Living God any way he can. Of course, he can't do that, but don't you know he's going to try? The prince of this world has come down to you having great wrath because he knoweth that he hath but a short time, Revelation 12, 12. These are now the perilous times that we're in, that Apostle Paul warned us about in 2 Timothy, Chapter 3, Verses 1 through 5. And though our spirits are vexed and grieved at the terrors of the Christ rejecters that promote and perform these abomination after abomination, we cannot hide in fear. We can't! We must fight in defense of the faith. Now I'm not talking about taking up arms and shooting anybody. I'm not fist-to-cuff talking, where we get out and beat folks to a pulp and say, if you don't believe what we believe we're going to kill you. No! We're talking about spreading the Gospel more fervently than we ever have. Speaking the truth in love! But yet not backing down to this. This is ungodliness. This is blasphemy in the face of our Lord. And we ought not to abide with it in any way, not on the pew, not in public. We must stand. We must stand. And it's just not the ones I mentioned as far as sin goes. I mean, this world is caught up in adultery like you won't believe. Fornication runs rampant. You can't watch TV anymore without being there in full living color, in full-blown nudity anymore. I mean, just, you can't. It's right there. You can't hardly watch a program without there being a multitude of GDs in it. I mean, it's sad. You can't go to the movies anymore, any of those things. Yet we should not be surprised at the antics of the wicked. We have been given advance warning of the ill days of the perilous times that will come. In fact, the fundamentally faithful follower of the Lord Jesus Christ should be, and I believe will be, extremely alert to the fact that we are in these times now. I don't see how, if you're a believer, that you don't know that. Unless she lives somewhere up near the interstate. I'm sorry, I just had to go there. No, I'm just teasing. But it's true. We're not in darkness, folks. We are children of the light, and the light has so shined in us and on us that we are able to see and acknowledge the truth. Thus, going back to Psalm 119 now, verse 122, We can continue to defend the faith once delivered to the saints. Secondly, we can continue to occupy till He comes. And then thirdly, We can do so all the while praying, 2nd Chronicles 7, 14, If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. I love this land, don't you? I would love to see the Lord heal this land, to give us a holy ghost sin-killing revival, and we start living in this green earth as God has given to us. But we can't as long as the world lies in wickedness. And though we do those three things, though we defend the faith, though we occupy three incomes, though we keep praying, still you know and I know that we both trust the Lord for the outcome, for He is sovereign over all. Now in our text today, we have several examples of this. And this will help us to see that this is nothing new that we're dealing with, but yet, for us, it is new because we've not lived since the world began, have we? So here is David, and by all accounts, he was in such a position at some point in his day that he's going through some perilous times as well. First, David was defending the faith once delivered to him, beginning down at verse 126. David's oppressors have been making void the Law of God, says David. Evidently in his day there was an open attack upon God's law. Now it doesn't mean just the Ten Commandments. We're talking about all the scripture that David understood and knew from the beginning until then. Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, up to the time of David. And they were making void God's law. And certainly it pertains to his law, the Ten Commandments, and the ceremonial laws, and this law, and that law. But there was also an open attack on God because if you could attack God's Word, you are attacking God. Well, is it true? Say amen if you believe that. And if it's an attack on God, David took it personally. It was an attack on him. And that's how we ought to be. Hey, if folks attack your God, if folks attack your Lord, they are attacking you. He's my Lord. He's my King. He's my Savior. And David took it personally. It is evident that the attitude and the activity and the general adverse of David's time was doing great harm to the law of the Lord. But let's say that wasn't the case. Let's say it wasn't something that was real detrimental like this in David's time. You do know that David was a prophet, right? And it may be that what God had done was give David open vision of our time. By the Holy Spirit, David is given a view of these times and what men and women were doing in their open attacks upon Christ, His Word, and His people. You know, David got an open view of the cross of Christ and wrote about it and even wrote down what Christ said from the cross in Psalm 22. So it could be that God has opened up the vista of the future when Messiah would come and he sees how they're treating the Messiah to come, which is oppressive to David, most likely depressing to him. And at the same time, this oppression and this depression cause an obsession in him. I mean, he got obsessed with the fact that someone must say something, do something to stop this madness. Whether it was in his day or he saw it in the future, it offended him. My friends, it ought to offend you and your family. You get around, they start telling their vulgar stuff using God's name in vain. Say, hey, stop it. You're talking about my Lord. or anywhere else for that matter. People used to do that, now they just kowtow. They giggle. Let it go. David pretty much is saying how dare these oppressors treat his God, our God, the Messiah to come, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ this way. It doesn't matter whether it was in his day or our day. The mystery of iniquity was already at work in his day. Hey, it started back there in the garden. You know it, don't you? The Antichrist system started in the garden. The devil back there was trying to get Adam and Eve to worship him, and in a sense they did when they went ahead and did what he said to do. They threw their allegiance to him, and when they did, the lights went out. God had no choice but to condemn everything and everybody. They would live forever. But God says, in the day you eat of that fruit, you shall surely die. People have said to me, well, they didn't die right then. But they would die. They died spiritually right there on the spot, and God had to reinstate them, if I can use that word, redeem them. But they would die later on. They come out of Eden, and their bodies, because they were condemned, would give way to death. That's what's going to happen to us one day. You're going to take your last breath unless rapture comes. I'm hoping for rapture. Me, I'm hoping for it. I pray we're all right. I believe we are. I believe He's coming. Harpazo is the word there in First Thessalonians. Catching away, a violent taking away. Man, snap me out of here when you're ready, Lord. But this was abominable sin, David's view. making void of God's law. And it was oppressing him. He knows he can't personally remedy the situation, but he knows who can. I know a man who can. He knew one. So he cries out to the Lord for help to break the binding that evil doers hold. Verse 121. He wants the matter fixed, so he goes to the Bank of Heaven, if I can be a little trite for you this morning. He goes to the Bank of Heaven for help, and he goes with his credit application in his hand. Verse 121, and there on his application he is written down, I have done judgment and justice. David's plea, in a sense, is like trying to get some money to fix a house or a car. He wants this fixed. Something of essential value, which a house or car would be, he wants to take care of. And he's right for doing so. I mean, we want to take care of those things that God's given us. And since God has given him his word, the law, he wants to take care of it. This is his now. God has given this to him. You know the Bible's given to us, right? This is a gift to us. This is his love letter to us. But he needs help. It's something more that he can deal with personally. Suffice it to say that David here is saying that these are his oppressors as much as they are the Lord's, and he wants to do something. He sees what the wicked are doing in their attempts to make void God's law, and he sees their attacks, which were nothing more than attacks on God's people because the final outcome will be on God's people. You do know that, don't you? They're coming after us. So David is asking the Lord for help. Look there at verse number 121. He says, Leave me not to mine oppressors. He is in effect saying, Lord, you know who I am. I am one of yours. You know how I love your law. You know my personal works of judgment and justice. And so David presents that as his collateral for the loan. Not that he needed any. but he thinks this is going to move the pen of the chief loan officer in his favor. He uses his own integrity as a collateral, his own personal works of judgment and justice. He feels that this would be enough to cause the chief loan officer, God Almighty, to grant him favor to fight this battle. And I will say here that one can apply to the bank of heaven asking God for a favor based on how good you've been. Well, you can. God may honor you. Honor your good obedience and give you a blessing, because I've always believed obedience brings blessing. I started teaching that back in 1986 at the Shores Baptist Church. Obedience brings blessing. But evidently, the chief loan officer does not respond right away. It's taking a while. But notice that David doesn't give up on getting this loan. He does what I told you what we must all do. And this is the second point. David continues to occupy till the Lord does something, or till He comes. Now watch. David has been around long enough. He's been in communication with God enough. He's had experience with God enough. He's studied enough. He's meditated enough to know that our best deeds are, in every sense, still nothing more than filthy rags. You know what's so fascinating? Isaiah, long after David, having studied David's writing of the Psalms, had come to this same conclusion over in Isaiah 64, 6. If you can turn there real quick, don't lose your place in Psalm 119. You might want to mark this for your own benefit, so when you get haughty and high-minded, you can remind yourself. When you get egotistical, when you get critical, when you get covetous, when you start to conspire against somebody, this will help you. When you think God ought to deliver because you're such a good boy or girl, remember what this says. Isaiah writes in Isaiah 64, 6. Isaiah 64, 6. I'm going to hang around here, let some of y'all that have big fingers find it. Isaiah 64, 6. We are all as an unclean thing. And all our righteousness is, righteousness is, it's hard to say that, are as filthy rags. I don't care how good you think you are in the sight of God, based upon Christ's own righteousness, our righteousness is filthy rags. And we all fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. I believe David comes to that conclusion back there in Psalm 119. Somewhere in this process, trying to get this loan, David's memory is jogged about his personal integrity. He begins to understand that maybe my integrity will not move the chief loan officer's pen. But he doesn't give up. David continues to plead for the Lord to help him. Verse 122, even going so far to ask God to be his cosigner. Can you imagine that? He says, be surety, be surety. You see that? Underline that if you would. Be surety for thy servant for good. Surety is like a cosigner, someone to pledge with you, to help you, to get the loan. By the way, he's right in doing so because you know who the cosigner is for David? None other than the cosigner, listen to my tongue, none other than the chief law officer's own son, the Lord Jesus Christ. And that cosigner, he's got the best credit in the world, doesn't he? He's already appeased the father for our sins and the father loves him like a son. because he is his son. Well, glory to God. Think about it this morning. Be surety for thy servant. He's speaking right up through time to the ears of the Messiah. Be surety for me. Oh, how many times have I prayed that prayer. Help me, Lord. Help thy servant for good. Whether or not my integrity is any good, my collateral of any value, I know yours is. and I can count on you. He knows he can get along with this cosigner, for it's the Chief Lung Officer's own son. I get giddy. I got giddy when I wrote that down. I mean, that's good stuff. You know, the Bible tells us in Romans chapter 8 that Jesus is our mediator. He stands next to the Father on our behalf, making intercession for us all the time. The devil comes accusing us, and Jesus turns to the Father and says, I don't know what he's talking about. I don't have a clue to what he's saying, Father. I paid for all their sins back at Calvary. Hallelujah! My past, my present, my future sins are nailed to that cross and I bear them no more. Hallelujah. And this request is made in earnest as David's oppressors were evidently vexing him sore. And I want to tell you that the oppressors of this hour who are out to take away God's Word from us, they ought to vex you sore. You know, old Lot was down in Sodom and Gomorrah and he knew how bad it was. I think he only stayed down there because his wife and daughters, evidently they had a hold on him. But we read over in Peter that his soul was vexed daily with the conversation in that wicked place. He should have manned up and dragged him out of there ahead of time. that the angels of the Lord had to come down there and get him out and his wife and daughters. And then his wife was so caught up in that filth and abominations down there, Sodom and Gomorrah, she had to turn around and look at it. And I don't think she just turned around to glance. I think she looked back with longing. Because they loved that lifestyle down there. Oh, the parties and the free fall of doom, whatever you want to do. I remind you, folks, that when the angels of the Lord came down there to Lot's house, the men of the city came against Lot's house and were going to try to drag those angels of the Lord out of there to have sex with them. That's the Word of God. He cries once again, let not the proud oppress me. The wicked think they have us. The devil believes he can get us. So the oppression gets real personal. But let me tell you, and for the record, mark this down, nothing moves a chief loan officer's pen more than when we admit our littleness, when we admit our nothingness or our weakness or our inability to do anything. You know, our Father loves that. Our Father loves to hear us to admit the truth about ourselves. We're weak. We're frail. Hey, I'm going to just make it plain to you this morning. If the Lord didn't live this Christian life, I couldn't do it. I'm being honest. If you could open the top of my head up and look inside my brain, you would have kicked me out a long time ago. Thank goodness you can't. Oh, goodness. That's a preacher saying that. I'm just being honest with you. There's none righteous, no, not one. None of us are righteous. If it weren't for Christ Jesus' righteousness and God taking His righteousness for us, we'd all be doomed to hell. It is David, it says in Psalm 73, 25, Whom have I in Heaven but thee? And there is none upon the earth that I desire beside thee, because you're the only one that can remedy my situation. You're the only one that can help me. You're the only one that can save me. You're the only one that can bring me to glory. You're the only one that upon my timely death can bring me to Heaven and keep me out of Hell. David continues to occupy, to press the Lord, to plead with the Lord. He doesn't give up. Look there with you, if you would. Look at those first two verses of this stanza in depth. I believe that David has started his loan application a while back there in verse 1, but the loan had not come in as of yet. And boy, that was starting to agitate his heart a little bit. I know how he feels. I remember when Debbie and I bought our first house. We'd just been out of the service for a little while, and we hadn't built up a whole lot of credit yet, but we wanted a house. We just didn't want to just give away money after money every week renting. But they drug their feet. Every time we turned around, there's another piece of paper to sign. Something else to get, to get these people to trust us to pay our loan, our mortgage each month. And I was beside myself. I wore that loan officer out. I called him every day. Finally, he said, look, look, look, stop calling me. I'll call you. I said, I don't think you will. You haven't yet. Oh, man, I'm in tears. I want this house. We want this house. It's our first house, and, man, we got one little fella running around, another one on the way. We need a house. And for David, it seemed like it must have been taking forever. So then in verse 123, he even says, My eyes fell for thy salvation and for the word of thy righteousness. That brings him to realize that his righteousness is no good, so verse 122, he says, "...be surety for thy servant." Lord, help me! Help me! I believe the Lord moved David to do that, by the way. I don't think David would come to this on his own. I believe the Lord, holding off and answering right away, made David go to his knees. Let that be a warning to you. Let that be a warning to you in your prayer life. God may not come right up on the scene the minute you pray and answer your prayer. Sometimes it may take days, sometimes months, sometimes years. What you ought to be asking is, God, what do you want from me? What is it I'm not doing, Lord, What is it that I do need to do, Lord? And sometimes God simply doesn't answer our prayers to get us on our knees and get us to return to our first love. You understand what I'm saying? Sometimes you can be super religious, you can make every church service and give your money abundantly. With that personal relationship whereby each day you get on your face and you pray and ask the Lord to forgive your sins, and you worship Him and exalt Him. Thank you, Lord, for being my God, my Savior, my Lord. But reading the Word every day, reading about Him, learned about Him, loving Him more, drawing nearer to Him, You haven't been doing. You've been doing all the religious stuff. Read Revelations chapter 2 sometimes about the Ephesus church. That's what they're doing. Jesus says, you do all these things, but I have somewhat against you. You have left your first love. And many times the reason our prayers go unanswered is because we have left our first love. Or we should be doing things for the Lord, but we use all kinds of excuses. We'll do everything else. We'll go everywhere else. We'll waste inordinate energy on everybody else, but you'll give God a paltry couple hours a week. Won't pray, won't read, won't study, won't check up on your fellow brothers and sisters. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to get so out of whack there, but it's true. It's true. So David waited. He wept. He watched. He needed an answer, and he occupied until the cosigner showed up with the impeccable credentials that the chief loan officer would take. Verse 123, the Word of the Lord's righteousness moves the chief loan officer's pen. And I believe that David continued to pray, if you will, verse 124, for mercy. Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy. David, in effect, continues to pray and believe as if he knew 2 Chronicles, Chapter 7, Verse 14, by heart, if my people will humble themselves and pray and repent of their sins and seek my face, et cetera, et cetera. David may have knew that verse and was praying those very things. That may have been his daily prayer. He may have been starting to say, forgive my integrity. Look at your son's righteousness. See that, Lord. See the coming Messiah. Your Messiah is righteous. He says, don't look at me. That's my daily prayer. I don't know about you. My daily prayer is, in fact, all my prayers are, Father, don't look at me. See your Son. See your Son. Father, I have nothing to your altar to bring. To thy only Son and His cross do I cling. That's all I've got, and that's what I come with daily. Thank the Lord that He honors such Humbleness and humility, not that I'm the most humble guy around. Lord knows it's hard to be humble when you're perfect in every way. But so David cries aloud in verse 124, whatever's needed. Listen to me, whatever's needed. Verse 124, look with me there. He said, Whatever I got to do, teach me thy statutes, and I will do it. Whatever it takes to move your hand, whatever it takes to get rid of these oppressors, Stop them from what they're doing. Make him void your law. Whatever it is, I'll do it. Verse 125, he tells the Lord, I am thy servant. Give me understanding that I may know thy testimonies. Whatever it is, whatever it is, whatever you want to do, by your word, I'll do it. I'll do it. I'll do it. I know that's not all there, but that's basically how he's saying it. Did you notice here that David three times uses the word servant and pleading to the Lord? Verse 122, 124, and then here in 125. I thought to myself, why does he continue to use that term? It's true of him. It's true of us. We're servants of the Lord, right? But I began to dig in there, and I realized what David's doing by using the word servant. First of all, he is confessing that he is God's absolute property, and God can do anything with him as he pleases. That's what verse 122 is about. He is professing, number two, that for a fact that God is his only help, verse 124. Only the Lord can remedy the situation that he's in with his oppressors, whatever or whoever they are. In God exclusive, he's trusting and knows that the Lord will always do right. So thirdly, he begins to press the fact that he knows that God, verse 125, is without a doubt his all in all. Therefore, David reminds the Lord that God is God. Not that you need to be reminded. God is God and God is God alone and that He is His servant. David is God's servant unequivocally. In other words, here's what David is saying in the totality of his word servant. I'm nothing more than dust and ashes. You do as you please. Job said, after all that old world he went through, though you slay me, yet will I trust you. Abraham, down there auctioning with God or bidding with God for the lot and his family down in San Gamaro, even said to God, forgive me, I know I'm just dusting ashes, but if there's ten people down there left, will you still destroy it? And God said, if I can find 10 righteous people down there, I won't destroy it. But old Abraham didn't get antsy with God. He says, I know I'm dust and ashes. David is saying that, I know I'm just dust and ashes. And this is David's drawing nigh to God in hopes that God would draw nigh to him. Later in Psalm 145 verse 18, David will write, Psalm 145 verse 18, That has most likely been David's core belief from the days that he was a lad in the sheepfold. David's core belief was that if he would draw nigh to God, God would draw nigh unto him. Do you all believe he'll do that? Knowing this, David appeals the harder and states very pointedly, verse 126, Lord, it's time for thee to go to work. Lord, I've been praying. Lord, I've been trying to learn your statutes. I've been doing everything I can. Lord, it's time to go to work. And this is David saying, time's running out. I'm saying to you folks this morning, time is running out. Time is running out. It's time to go to work. It's time to defend the faith once delivered to the saints. And if the Lord Jesus isn't coming back right away, it's time that we stand up for our country and occupy it till he comes. The vultures are surrounding the prey. And we know what these oppressors are and what they're up to. We know, we know what they're up to. It hasn't been but about 12 years ago that the Democrats took the word God out of their plank of their core beliefs of what they stood for as a party. I've watched it live on television. They voted to remove God from the Democratic plank. They're making void God's law. It's happening in America with lightning speed. David is saying, I'm fighting for You, Lord. And by the way, Saints, the fact that this culture is trying to ban the Word of God is not just about God, it's about you as well. David ends this particular stanza with verse 127, 128. Therefore, I love thy commandments above gold, yea, above fine gold. They are precious to David. He does not want to lose them. He says, Therefore, I esteem, I hold them up, I hold them up like a banner. I hold up all your precepts with my very life concerning all things that are right. It says to be right. He's talking about God's Word, all things in God's Word is right. No matter what the world says, no matter what our government says, no matter what the modern church says, God's Word is right and everything else and everybody else is wrong. David says, I love your Word because it's a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. We uncovered that verse weeks ago. David's saying, I can't see the making of the world without your Word. And no one makes it into heaven without Your Word. So David exclaims possibly at the top of his voice, I think he screams it out. If he didn't scream it, his pen did. I hate every false way. Do you hate sin like that? Do you? I'm trying to. I'm praying every day, Lord help me, help me hate sin. Sin sometimes is pleasurable, isn't it? You know, you know, you know your little petty sins. You know those personal ones that you hold near to, you just can't hardly let go. You know how you'll sit and watch TV when there's all kinds of debauchery? That's convicting me. Should convict you. Whatever God hated, David hated. And we're going to do the same thing. Turn over to Psalm 139. You won't believe this, I'm almost done. And you ought to get your ink pen out and mark these verses. Or put a, tear off a piece of paper somewhere and put it in your Bible right here. Psalm 139, it's only a few pages away from where we are. Go with me to verse 19. David lays out here how he hates those that would treat God and His Word hatefully. Verse 19, Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God. Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men, for they speak against thee wickedly, and thine enemies take thy name in vain. Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate Thee? And am I not greed with those that rise up against Thee? David says, I hate them with perfect hatred. I count them mine enemies. Have you marked those four verses? You ought to read them once in a while. Remind yourself, hey, type them up and put them on your refrigerator, or print them out. Put them up on your refrigerator, up on your bathroom mirror. Put them on your mirror in your bedroom where you stand there and print all the time. But remind yourself, we're to hate the wicked. Now, we love them who persecute us, and we try our best to lead them to Christ, but we're to hate what they do. And to ensure that he's never a part of this crowd, David says in 139 there, if you're still there, verse 23, 24, Search me, O God, and know my heart. If I'm like them, Lord, stop me, try me, and know my thoughts. Verse 24, And see if there be any weak in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. David wants to make sure he's not doing what these folks do. So we are to armor up. Ephesians 6. We're to be strong in the Lord and the power of His might. We're to put on the whole armor of God that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we're not wrestling with flesh and blood. We're wrestling against principalities, against powers, against rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. That's what we're wrestling against. Wherefore, take unto you the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand, and to withstand in the evil day. And having done all to stand, stand therefore, having your loins girded about with truth, having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your feet shot with the gospel, the preparation of the gospel of peace. And above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith you may be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked, and put on the helmet of salvation, and grab up the sword of the truth, which is the word of God, and forward, onward, Christian soldiers! For indeed, we're about to enter a religious war. Pat Buchanan stood up in 1992 at the Republican National Convention and he says, listen, you don't hear anything else that said this convention. He says, I want to tell you, we're getting ready to enter into a religious war. Boy, he didn't know how prophetic he was. And I just want to end with this. There is no law officer at the bank of heaven. The money's free for the taking. You don't have to even come in there with a bandana over your face or your pistols ablazing. You just come up and you do this. It's me, daddy. I'm in trouble. I need some help. And you know what? He never turns you away. Am I a soldier of the cross, a follower of the Lamb? Are you? Are you? Let's pray. Father, thank you for your Word this hour. May it be a blessing to someone. May it be the catalyst to get folks off their stools of do-nothing and quit being just hearers of the Word, but doers also. May these that are listening from home this hour, watching on their phones or their computers, get out of their pajamas next Sunday and come to church. I know that some of us are providentially hindered, and our dear sister with cancer is home today. We're not talking about that. Those that are providentially hindered, we understand, but Lord, we don't want our live streams to be an excuse for not going to church. So Lord, move upon them and motivate them to realize the greatest place on the face of this planet to be in these perilous times is in the house of God amongst the household of faith. Bless your people now, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.