In verse 7, the Lord says, Harken unto me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings. Now this is the word of the Lord to his elect, to his regenerated people, And it's at the very time that they were captive in Babylon. Now that's important to know. This was the word the Lord sent to them when they were captive in Babylon. This is the Lord's word to them when they were bound by a people that did not know God. They're in captivity, bound. wanting to be loose, they're bound by people that do not know God. This is the Lord's word to them when they're in the pit that these people dug and threw them into. They're in a pit, a literal earthly pit. This is the word of the Lord to them when they don't have bread. There is a scarcity of bread for them. We see their fear and their anxiety down in verse 14. It says, the captive exile. That's who they were. They were captured by the Babylonians and taken into exile into a foreign country. The captive exile hasteneth. They were fearful, they're anxious. The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed and that he should not die in the pit nor that his bread should fail. Now, it seems like they had a good reason to fear, doesn't it? It seemed like they had a good reason to fear the reproach of man and man's revilings, but it wasn't so. This is what the Lord says in verse 7. Hearken unto me, ye that know righteousness, ye that know Christ our righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law, the people in whose who God's created a new heart and that's written the everlasting covenant of grace on your heart. That covenant is ordered in all things insure. He said, fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings, for the moth shall eat them up like a garment and the worm shall eat them like wool, but my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation. Look down at verse 12. I, even I am he that comforteth you. Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the Son of man which shall be made as grass, and forgettest the Lord thy maker? that thou hast stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy, or as if he made himself ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor? He said, here you are, captive, and you're hastening, you're anxious, you're fearful. Verse 15, but I am the Lord, You see, I am the Lord thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared. The Lord of hosts is his name, and I have put my words in thy mouth. And I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, thou art my people. You see, the Lord's saying to them, you don't have any reason to fear. Now, it's important to know this was the Lord's word to them when they were captive, when they were in the pit in Babylon, when they have a scarcity of bread. It's important to know this is what the Lord said to them. Fear not. Don't fear the reproach of man. Don't fear his reviling. It's important to know that because if that was the Lord's word to them when they were in that condition, Me and you can be sure, that's the Lord's Word to us, whatever it is we suffer. We haven't suffered anything like that. And if that was His Word to them, that's His Word to us right now. Fear not reproach. That's our subject. Our Lord Jesus was reproached by men. He was reviled by men. And He told us, we will too. You don't want to bring reproach on the gospel or on the Lord, but you're going to be reproached by men. You're going to be reviled by men. You just mark it down because our Savior was. And He said, we're not above Him. We will too. But He tells us, fear not the reproach of men. He said in Proverbs 29, 25, the fear of man bringeth a snare. The fear of man brings a snare, but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Now I want to show you three things. I want to show you who we forget when we're fearful of man. Number two, I want to show you who comforts us. And number three, I want to show you the result. Now this is the third time that our Lord said, hearken unto me. We've seen the first two. This is the third one here in this chapter. He says, hearken unto me. Now, when we're reproached and we're reviled by men, the Lord tells us, listen to me, not to them. That's what He's saying. Hear the Lord and shut out the voice of reproach, shut out the voice of the reviled, hear the Lord. Now, when we're in the darkness, and this is that darkness He was talking about in Isaiah 50, when we're in darkness, it's only the Lord speaking that's going to give us light. And when He speaks, this is what He's gonna say, listen to me, listen to me. Don't listen to the reproach, don't listen to the voices of men, listen to me. I pray the Lord to speak to us right now and make us hear Him. All right, first of all, the fear of man. The fear of the man's reproach and his reviling makes us forget who we are. Makes us forget who we are. Makes us forget who made us to be who we are. Look in verse 12. Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man? That's what the Lord asked him. Who are you? You've forgotten who you are. The fear of man makes us forget who we are. So the Lord's gonna renew us to know who we are, more particularly, who made us so, and more particularly, whose we are. That's what he's gonna remind you of, whose we are. Back in verse seven, our Lord begins by speaking into our hearts. Verse seven, he says, are good to me, ye that know righteousness. That's who you are, you're those that know Christ Jesus, the righteousness of his people. And he said, the people in whose heart is my law, That's who you are, the people in whom God's written the everlasting covenant of grace. Now how do God's saints, how do you know Christ Jesus the righteous? How do you know him? How do you have his law written in your heart? Verse 16, he said, I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of my hand. Now, it'll help us to remember this. When we're reviled by men and we're reproached by men, I tell you, and this goes for any sin you see in a man or in a brother or sister or in any man, and especially if you're reproached by a man and reviled by a man, try to remember this. You were the reviler. You were the one reproaching God and reviling God. That's what you were doing. That's who me and you were. We were that way toward Christ, we were that way toward His people. Why do men do this? Men hate Christ, our righteousness. That's why men reproach His people and revile His people. I'm going to tell you something. Have you, now that the Lord saved you, do you have a heart to reproach God's people and revile God's people? God's people are not the one doing the reproaching and the reviling. That's clear as a bell in Galatians. Those that are born after flesh persecute them born after spirit. And the reason men reproach and revile God's people is they hate Christ our righteousness. That's where we were. That's what we did. We hated Christ our righteousness. They hate Christ being the only righteousness of his people apart from our works. That's what the reproach and reviling, that's where it starts. Man wanting to take some glory. That's where we were. They hate to hear that we must be born from above by God. That's the only way we can know the Lord. We can't do it ourselves. They hate that we have to be preserved by the Lord. What they hate is salvation is of the Lord. That's when you hear men reproach you for believing Christ and trusting Christ, when they start pointing out your sin and start reviling you and all, yeah, you're not who you claim to be. Listen, you remember that's exactly who you were. That's all you were in your flesh. Well, who made the difference? Who made the difference? That's how the Lord's going to renew us from being fearful of men. He's going to renew you and remind you who made the difference between you and what you used to be. What He is, who He is, and what He's done for us, that's how He's going to make you know who you are and whose you are. We belong to our Lord. He had the power to create a new heart in us. He had the power to come to you and speak and say, hearken to me. And with that word, he created life in you. He created a new heart in you that you didn't have before. And he planted his word in your heart. Remember back up in verse two, what did he do with Abraham? He said, I called him along and blessed him and increased him. And that's what He did for you. That's the only thing that made you different. And He didn't use anything of your old nature. He didn't use anything of you. You didn't assist Him in this work. And I didn't either. The Lord came and He spoke and in power He put a new spirit in us. And when he wrote his, when he put that new heart in us, he wrote his words, his everlasting covenant grace, his, that new law, the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, he wrote that in that new heart. It made you know him. And he said, hearken to me, verse seven, you people in whose heart is my law, verse 16, I have put my words in thy mouth. That's why you have this law in your heart. I put my words in your mouth. Jeremiah 24 7, he said this, I will give them a heart to know me, that I'm the Lord. We didn't have that before. We couldn't make ourselves know the Lord. Men do not go to this book and study this book and discover who God is. Christ has got to be revealed. Paul said in Romans 1, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for therein is the righteousness of God revealed from Christ Jesus the faithful into the heart of faith he's given. He has to do that. We can't do that. And He came and said, I'll give them a heart to know Me that I'm the Lord, and they shall be My people, He said, and I will be their God. For they shall return unto Me with their whole heart. That's what a holy heart is. The heart God's given is a whole heart. It's a heart He's made whole. And you're going to come to Him one way. You're not coming to Him half-hearted. If a man tries to come to Him half-hearted, halting between two opinions, he's not coming to Him at all. We're coming to Him with the whole heart that He's given and made whole and made you see Him and know Him. That's how, that's faith. He said in Jeremiah 32, 39, I'll give them one heart and one way that they may fear me forever for the good of them and of their children after them. He's going to keep his fear in our heart. We'll come into unbelief and we can't see him, we can't know him, we can't call on him. We're fearing man and what man's going to do. And it's a strong thing when you start fearing a man's reproach. And the only one that can save you out of that is the Lord. And He's going to renew His people and keep His fear, you fearing Him, rather than men, for your good and for the good of our spiritual children that He's going to birth through us. He said, I'll make an everlasting covenant with them. That's still all he's talking about in our text. I'll make an everlasting covenant with them. I will not turn away from them to do them good. Isn't that good news? You can't do something to make God turn away from you to do you good. And he said, but I'll put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me. Left to ourselves. Now you know this is so and I know this is so. Let's bring this down to where the rubber meets the road. Left to ourselves, the reproach of men, the reviling of men has a terrible effect upon us if God left us to ourselves. It makes a new believer. A man starts hearing the gospel and he starts believing the gospel, but his mother and his father don't believe that gospel. Sister and brother don't believe that gospel. Somebody, friends, family, people that has influence on him, they don't believe that gospel. And they begin to reproach him, revile him for believing that gospel. Unless God intervenes, it will keep him from confessing Christ. Because he's fearful of men. He's fearful of men. Fearful of losing that favor. It will make, if God left you and me to yourself, it will make you, the fear of man will make you shun a fellow brother or sister. If somebody that has some influence over you doesn't like them, and you'll lose their favor, it'll make you shun a brother or sister, unless God intervened, unless God keep you. If you put in a situation like these children of Judah were in, right here, in a pit, in the middle of a foreign country, you just imagine if you was carried over into the Middle East somewhere and dumped in a pit. like the hostages are over there now. If the Lord hadn't protected you and kept you, especially if they come to you and say, deny the Lord, deny this one you claim to believe, you deny him in a heartbeat. fearful of man, but our Lord promises, I will put my fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from me. That's his problem. That's the only reason you're not going to depart from him. I'll put my fear in their hearts. And our God not only had the power to create a new heart in us, He had the power to put His fear in our hearts and He has the power to renew that fear in our hearts and keep that faith in our hearts by continually reminding us of this everlasting covenant of grace, ordered and sure in all things because Christ has fulfilled everything He promised to us. And He shall do what He's promised. He keeps renewing us to remember our Redeemer Himself. not just His covenant promise and not just the fact that He had the power to call us and reveal His gospel to us, He keeps us remembering our Redeemer Himself. We're protected by our God who had the power to reveal Christ in us. That's who's protecting us now. The same God that had the power to reveal Christ our righteousness within us and who has the power to continue to renew us by his grace. That's who he is. Look what he says in verse seven. hearken unto me you that know righteousness. And he speaks here, we're gonna see in a moment, he's speaking of my righteousness. That's the righteousness he's talking about. If a man hears that and thinks that he's talking about your righteousness, something that man does, he's missed it all together. He's talking about his righteousness, Christ Jesus. Verse 16, how do you have that righteousness and know that righteousness? I've covered thee in the shadow of my hand. that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth and say unto Zion, thou art my people. The only way God, holy God, the only way he could say to you and me, thou art my people, the only way he could is if his holy justice is honored. He couldn't call you his people unless his justice is honored. God's holy. Men want to exalt him as being, God is love and he is love. But he's not going to love in a way that's inconsistent with his holiness. That's his chief attribute. Whatever he does has got to be holy. It's got to be righteous. It's got to be just. And you sinned against him. You broke his law. And he declared plainly in his law, the soul that sinneth must die. So how are we going to die and live? Well, God's gonna have to be just, and the only way he can call you my people is he's gonna have to kill everybody that, he's gonna put them through the death penalty, everybody that sinned against him. And the only way he can be merciful to you is if he does it in a way that's just. That's the only way he can. How's he gonna do that? The only way to do it is for God to do it himself. And that's what he did. In the person of his dear son, God came forth and God honored his law. God went to the cross and bore the sin of his people. God satisfied his own justice. God did it. And so when God comes to be merciful to his child, he's just to do it because he satisfied and honored his own law. That's the only way He can call you, my people. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect, it's God that justifieth. He's the one that did the justifying. That's God in human flesh, Christ Jesus the Lord, the Son of God. He's God, one with the Father, one with the Holy Spirit. It's God that just, it's Christ that died and risen again and interceding for us at God's right hand. That's who did the justifying. And this is the covenant I'll make with him after those days, saith the Lord. He tells us what the covenant is, he's written on the heart. What is this law he wrote on the heart? He said, there's sins and iniquities I will remember no more. And where remission of these is, there's no more offering for sin. Having therefore bred the boldness to approach holy, holy, holy God through the blood of his son, Christ Jesus. That's how we approach. And that's the covenant he writes on your heart. He comes and makes you know, I've put your sin away. I've justified you. I've redeemed you. You're risen with me. And now you have access through the blood of my son. That's what God reveals to his people. That's the only way he can call you my people. Make you know the words fulfilled. He fulfilled it. Listen to the Lord here in our text. Why does he declare this to us again and again? Why does he, why have we become so fearful and so unbelieving? Why does he keep renewing this in your heart? Look here to Isaiah 51 7. He says, hearken to me, you that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law, fear you not the reproach of men, neither be you afraid of their revilings, because the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool. But my righteousness shall be forever, and my salvation from generation to generation. I'll tell you, when men start to reproach and revile, how could you possibly be a child of God? I knew they wasn't a child of God. All these different things men will say to reproach you, revile you. God says, the man that reproaches and reviles you, He's going to be eaten up just like a moth eats a garment. He's a dying man who's dying, and he'll be eaten up like a moth eats a garment. But he says to you, my righteousness, the righteousness I've made you, the righteousness I've made my people, is forever. My salvation is forever. So who are you going to fear? Who are you going to fear? Who are you going to bow to and give the glory to? A man that's going to die and perish? Are you going to fear the Lord and trust, if He's made me righteous and He's saved me, He can keep saving me. Men can revile or reproach and say all manner of evil against you, but they can't take your spiritual life from you, and they can't take your faith, and they can't take your righteousness, and they can't take what Christ is to His people. They can't take Christ from you. That's all that matters. So who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man? Who are you that you should be afraid of a man? Secondly, all the glory for renewing us and keeping his fear in our heart, all the glory goes to God alone. All of it. Look here in verse 12. I, even I, am he that comforteth you. You see, that's what the Lord's doing for us here. He's comforting His people. And this is how He keeps us trusting Him. It's the goodness of God that leads you to repentance. When you're in this shape right here, and you're under the reproach of men, and reviling of men, and you're fearing men, you know what you need? You need to be granted repentance. It's sort of ironic when men are reproaching and reviling you and saying, you need to repent. Yes, you do. You need to repent for listening to them and trust the Lord. That's exactly right. And that's what the Lord is saying here. We get overcome in unbelief and we're giving man the glory that belongs to God when we're fearing a man. We're giving him the glory that belongs to God. We're forgetting the God who made us. And so the Lord can comfort us and renew us, and he's gonna make us see what we are and who we are. Look what he says here in verse 12. I, even I am he that comforteth you. Who art thou that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass? And forget us, the Lord thy maker. that has stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. Here you are anxious and trying to get out of this pit and trying to save yourself from being in a famine and all this. Verse 15, but I'm the Lord thy God. I'm thy God, he said. I'm the Lord thy God that divided the sea, whose waves roared. The Lord of hosts is his name. The Lord's comforting us and making us see how silly it is for you and me to be fearful of a man. Who art thou that thou shouldst be afraid of a man that shall die? Think about that. Who are you that you should be afraid of the Son of Man which shall be made as grass? He's weak as grass. Why are you afraid of a man? The Lord comforts us by renewing us to know who He is. You're forgetting the Lord, your Maker. I made you, He said. He's our sovereign Creator who stretched forth the heavens. We don't think He can save us. He stretched forth the heavens. He said, I'm your sovereign Savior who laid the foundations of the earth. And you're fearful of a man that's as weak as grass? He reminds us, I'm the Lord thy God. I've made myself your God. That's all by grace. Well, you didn't earn that. You think he's gonna take that away from you once he's made you know I'm your God? No. You're his child and he's your God. He's not gonna take that away. And this is the sovereign, omnipotent savior who divided the sea when the waves roared. He's the Lord of hosts. Everything's under his sovereign power and under his sovereign dominion. That's who he is. So our maker, he's able to protect us and preserve us, especially against a man who's weak as grass. Christ said, don't fear man. Only thing he can do is take your life, this earthly life. He said, fear him who's able to destroy your soul in hell. Never forget the Lord's power, brethren. He's ruling all providence and He said in Romans 8, He's doing it for our good. Everything. You know why they were in Babylon in exile and captured in bondage in a pit with a lack of bread? You know why they were there? Because they weren't trusting the Lord and that was the best thing for them to put them there where they didn't have any other choice but to trust the Lord. That's what he did it for. That's what he does our trials for is to make it so you don't have a choice. Faith is not a choice, brethren. You go back and read what Joshua said, and that's Christ. He's speaking the word of the Lord he's speaking. He begins that passage saying, it says, Joshua was speaking, thus saith the Lord. And he never stopped saying, thus saith the Lord. And it gets down and Christ says to his people, choose this day whom you will serve. Here's your choice, the false gods on that side of the flood or the false gods on this side of the flood. If you got a choice, it's between false gods He takes your choices away. Christ said, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. No choice to it. And that's what the Lord's going to do. He's going to take our choices away so that faith is believing. Faith is trusting the Lord. You don't have to make a decision to do it. You can't help but do it when His power and grace brings you to it. And He's made His promises to us. He's promised to be our shield. He's promised to be our defender. He's promised He'll never leave us. He'll never forsake us. So instead of thinking on the man who revives, and I know this is tough. I'm telling you, only the Lord can comfort you and turn you. But instead of thinking on the man who revives, you think on the Lord and on His goodness and His grace towards you. When you're in that place, you start thinking on His goodness and His grace that He's shown you. And you start thinking on all His promises that He's made good on. He promised to send His Son from the garden, and He sent His Son. He promised all through the scriptures and every lamb that died that He was going to redeem His people from all our sin. And in the fullness of the time, He sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the law, and He redeemed all His people that were under the law. He promised that when it pleases Him, He's going to come and reveal His Son and His people. And when it pleased Him, what did He do for you? He revealed Christ in you. You think on the promises. He said, I'm going to keep you. I'm never going to leave you. I'm never going to forsake you. And you remember, has He left you up to now? Has He forsaken you up to now? No. Think on those things. Hear His voice. Hear His word. Hear what He says rather than listening to what a man says. Remember how He's delivered you from so great a death and continues to deliver you and promises, I shall deliver you and trust Him. The Lord comforts us by making us know that this oppressor, as furious as he may seem, the oppressor has no power. And we're only imagining that he does. That's truly, that's what the Lord's saying. We're only imagining that the man who's oppressive and reproaching and revolting, you're imagining that he has power. Look at what the Lord says here, verse 13. Who art thou that thou hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor as if he were ready to destroy? It's only as if, brethren. That's it. It's as if he, and the margin says there, as if he made himself ready to destroy, as if he's doing what he's doing of his own power by himself. He's not. Where's the fury of the oppressor? Where's the fury of Pharaoh now? Did Pharaoh make himself, did he make himself ready? Was Pharaoh just lift himself up, decide he was going to destroy God's people? God said, I raised him up. I gave him the power he had to make my power known to my people. That's why I raised him up. Where is he now? God dumped him in the sea. Where is Sennacherib, the king of Assyria? Oh, he boasted he made himself ready. He boasted he was the oppressor ready and he could pour out his oppression on Judah all he wanted to. The Lord said, I raised you up and I gave these cities into your hand and I brought you up against my people Judah. and I'm using you like you're an axe in my hand, like you're a saw that a man uses to cut a tree down. And when he finished using the king of Assyria, Sennacherib, for that purpose and accomplished his purpose and taught his people, you know what he did with Sennacherib? He destroyed him. Well, what about Nebuchadnezzar? That's who's over him right now. That's the oppressor that seems so furious to him right now. What about Nebuchadnezzar? He, in his fury, that's what the scripture says, in his fury, when Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego wouldn't bow to his idol God, Nebuchadnezzar cast him into the furnace of fire. And he said he did seven times. He said, I want to watch him just disintegrate when you throw him in there. And he threw him in there, and he looked in that furnace and he said, I see one that looks like the Son of God. That's what Christ said back in Isaiah 43, 2. He said, I'll be with thee. And he said, and when you walk through the fire, thou shall not be burned, neither shall flame kindle upon thee. And the scripture says the Lord delivered them out of that fire. And it says, whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was a hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. They didn't even have the smell of fire on them. Not a hair singed. Do you think that really and truly happened? I'm sitting here telling you today. That really and truly happened. The Lord raised up Nebuchadnezzar. He got furious and threw them in that fire and the Lord brought them out of that fire. It didn't singe their hair. It didn't put a smell of smoke on their clothes. The Lord did that. The Lord did that. Fire can only do what fire can do because the Lord gives us His power to do it. He's the law of nature. And if He takes that power away, fire can't hurt you. Do you believe that? He does rule everything that seriously, that minutely. And the Lord made Nebuchadnezzar praise the Lord. He said, there's no other God that can deliver after this sword. And then the Lord abased Nebuchadnezzar, he put him out in that field like a wild beast, and then finally returned his understanding to him, and Nebuchadnezzar said, blessed is the most high, and I praise and honor him that liveth forever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom's from generation to generation. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest thou? He said, now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of Heaven, all whose works are truth and His way's judgment, and those that walk in pride He's able to abase. See, brethren, the oppressor was made by the Lord. He made him. All those men we just talked about, the Lord raised them up and gave them their power and brought them up against His people. An oppressor is ruled by the Lord. He's used by the Lord to keep you trusting the Lord rather than trusting a man. When he brings a man against you to reproach you, he shows you how weak you are. You just fall in unbelief like that. Oh, we're going to die. And then the Lord comforts you and shows you, who are you? Who are you? Whose are you? Look what I've done for you. Why are you fearing this man? I'm using him to teach you this. And here's what the Lord's going to do. He's either going to save the man. I think he did that for Nebuchadnezzar. He's either going to save him or he's going to destroy him, like he did Pharaoh and Sennacherib. But either way, that man's going to praise the Lord. The wrath of man shall praise him, and the remainder thereof shall he restrain. That's the Lord of glory. Now, we got to... I can't tell you all that and not have you turn to Isaiah 54. Turn there with me. Next time you're approached by men or involved by men, I want you to say this to yourself, remember this, it's just as if he's ready to destroy. It's just as if he is. You remind me of that, alright? It's just as if he is. The Lord's doing this. Look here now, Isaiah 54, 14. In righteousness shalt thou be established. Thou shalt be far from oppression, for thou shalt not fear. and from terror, for it shall not come near thee. Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by means. That means they're gonna gather together, but it's not me trying to destroy you. He said, whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work, and I have created the waster to destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. Now that right there, brethren, what happens when he says that in your heart? What happens when the Lord comes and reminds you of this again? That's the last point. I left out verses 9 and 11 because I want to save it for now. When the Lord comes and speaks this good news in your heart again and renews you in your heart, the result is going to be you're going to start calling on the Lord. See, you were the one that was asleep, but when He speaks His word and wakes you up, you're going to start calling on Him to awake. And you're going to start praising Him as you're calling on Him to save you. Don't you find this so? When you're calling on the Lord to save you, don't you just praise Him and praise Him while you're calling on Him to save you? You repeat to Him things He's already done for you and things He's doing for you. And then in the course of that, you're going to start singing his praises and singing what he shall do and how your salvation is sure. That's where he brings you when he does this. And look, I'm just going to read it. Verse 9, they start saying, Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord. Awake as in the ancient days and the generations of old, are not thou he that hath cut Rahab, that's Pharaoh, and wounded the dragon, that's Pharaoh. Rahab's Egypt. Are thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep, that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransom to pass over? Now they're remembering, aren't they? Now they remember who the Lord is. And they're praising him as they're asking him to come save them. And then look what they're gonna say. This is still the Lord's people talking. Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing under Zion, and everlasting joy shall be upon their head. They shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and mourning shall flee away. That's where he brings us, brethren. By speaking this word in our heart and reminding us, he brings you to start calling on him to save you. And as you're doing it, you start repeating what he's already done to save you. And then you start saying, and I know he's going to save me. That's what he does. And I pray that he'll do that for us now and keep us trusting him. All right, brethren. Brother Adam, I'll tell you what.