I'm sure Sam will read it together, and then we'll come to the preaching of the word. So Psalm 15, and let's read from the children's verse. The psalmist gave it, he penned, in the inspiration of the spirit of God, Lord, who shall abide in my tabernacle? Who shall dwell in my holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbor, in whose eyes a vile person is constrained. He honoreth them that fear the Lord. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not. He that pulleth not out his money to use her, nor taketh reward against How old are you? for the believer to trip up in a way that contradicts what Christianity is so that they can in some way pervertly comfort themselves with regard to the way that they are living their own godless lives. While such expectations of perfection are wholly unrealistic, it is due to the reality that we as Christians are not yet made perfect and we stumble and we fall and we falter. It is an expectation nonetheless that should be kept before our minds as we rise every morning to go about our business. Because how every child of God walks in this world has a bearing on the name of Jesus Christ and upon the testimony of his church. The Christian can either be a tremendous advertisement for biblical Christianity, or they can be the means of driving many and turning many away from the gospel. They can either be a force for good, or they can be a force for evil. With that in mind, I want to preach this afternoon about another way that God would have His children to walk in this world. God wants and God expects every child of His to walk uprightly. Walking uprightly is what the Psalmist David speaks of here in Psalm 15. Look there at the opening two verses of the chapter. And then he comes to answer those very questions. and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. What you notice in those verses is that the psalmist identifies three distinguishing marks that set apart the believer from the unbeliever, the godly from the ungodly, the righteous from the righteous. Notice number one, the first distinguishing mark is their walk. The Christian is one who is said to walk uprightly, verse number two. The second distinguishing mark has to do with their works. The Christian is one who works righteously. And then the third distinguishing mark is their words. The Christian is one who talks truthfully. The Christian walks uprightly. The Christian works righteously. And the Christian talks truthfully. It is the first distinguishing mark. walking uprightly that we want to think about today. Walking uprightly then is the topic, the subject that we want to dwell upon for the rest of this worship service. But to begin with, I believe we need to give some consideration to what it means to walk uprightly. What it is to walk uprightly. If this is what we're to do, we need to understand what we then are to do. Have to understand what this very thought is, this very truth. walking uprightly, what it involves. The word uprightly here in verse 2 of Psalm 15 comes to be translated different ways, various ways throughout the scriptures. And a consideration of those ways I believe will give us a better understanding as to the meaning of the word that is being employed by David here in Psalm 15. So for example in Genesis chapter 6 in the verse number 9, the Hebrew word translated upright in Genesis chapter 15 is translated this way, perfect, perfect. Let me read the verse to you. These are the generations of Noah. Noah was a just man and perfect or upright in his generations and noah walked with god here we find a man walking uprightly in a sin polluted world in a perverted world in a world that is more perverted than our world now you may think that's hard to be that that's that's couldn't be right but you need to remember the words of jesus christ i've said this before that jesus christ will come as society reaches the state that society reach in the days of noah as in the days of noah were told by the lord jesus christ so will the days prior to the coming of jesus christ and so society as much as perverted and as sinful and as corrupt as it has become has not yet reached the level of corruptness and sinfulness as it was in the days of noah and yet here we find a man A man possessed by the grace of God who now walks with God and walks uprightly in a crooked and in a perverse generation. It's not impossible for us then to do, brethren and sisters. Another way that this word uprightly is translated is found in Exodus chapter 12 and the verse number 5. And there the word is translated without blemish, without blemish. shall be without blemish. A meal of the first year ye shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats. Exodus 12 and the verse number 5, speaking about the Passover lamb. It was to be without blemish. It's the same Hebrew word. In Joshua 22, in the verse 14, the Hebrew word is translated another way, sincerity. Sincerity. Now, therefore, fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your father served on the other side of the flood and in Egypt, and serve ye the Lord. In Psalm, 119 and the verse 1, the same Hebrew word is translated undefiled. Blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of God. And then one final reference, Psalm 119 verse 80, there the word is translated sound, sound. Let my heart be sound. And so when we gather together all of those various translations of the same Hebrew word as we find here in Psalm 15 verse 2, we come to see that the person who walks uprightly will have a perfect and unblemished, sincere, undefiled, and sound walk. You see, the Hebrew word that we have here simply translates to mean to go straight. to go straight. And thus to walk uprightly means to walk in a straight way, in a straight manner. Now, how do you know whenever you walk straight? Well, you know that you walk straight whenever you walk according to a straight rule. A straight rule governs and decides and shows us that we are walking in a straight way. And that rule is obviously the Word of God. It is the person who walks according to the rule of Scripture who is therefore walking in a straight way, in an upright way. And really this thought of walking uprightly really draws together the various threads that we've been giving consideration to in this series of messages with regard to our walk with God. You see, the person that walks uprightly will walk honestly. And they're going to walk worthily. And they're going to walk as children of light. And they're going to walk in holiness. And they're going to walk circumspectly. And they're going to walk in truth. These walks will all converge and they will all culminate in a walk that is deemed or is classified or is termed as an upright walk. An upright walk. When God first formed man, He formed man upright, spiritually upright. We have biblical evidence for that. We're told by Solomon over there in Ecclesiastes 7 verse 29, Though this only have I found, that God hath made man upright, but they have sought out many inventions. The original state of man prior to the fall in the Garden of Eden was one of spiritual uprightness. But whenever our first parents sought out many inventions, whenever our first parents decided to violate God's commandment, man failed from that state of uprightness, and therefore, none of us are born spiritually upright, and consequently, we do not walk uprightly. Let me read to you how we do walk. Ephesians 2, It's 8 or the verses, it's not 8 and 9 that I have in my reference here, but Ephesians chapter 2 and the verse number 2 and 3, we read, we're in a time past, speaking about our former state, how we did walk. We're in a time past, you walked according to the course of this world. according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and whereby nature, the children of wrath, even as others." And so the apostle Paul, he says that prior to salvation, you walked according to the course of the world. Now if we walk according to the course of the world, we need to kneel down what such a walk is like. You need to kneel down with respect to what this course of the world is like. And you'll find that in a number of verses. Psalm 14 verse 3, they are all gone aside. The straight path that God gave man, man diverged from that path. They're gone aside from the straight road that God has set down. That is the course of this world. Isaiah 53 verse 6, all we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his own way. Isaiah 59 verse 8, the way of peace they have not known. There is no judgment in their goings. They have made them crooked paths. Whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. And so by nature we walk the crooked way, not the straight path of God's commandments, but we take to ourselves the crooked path. Romans 3 verse 12, they are all gone out of The way. The course of this world isn't an upright course. The course of this world is crooked, perverse, warped, twisted, sick. The course of this world is sick. The course of this world is out of the way, out of God's way. Therefore, if a person is to walk uprightly, then they must first be made upright. If we are in our state, naturally innocent man was in the state of uprightness and man has fallen from that state of uprightness. Man must be brought back to that state. He must be brought into a state of uprightness. Something radical must happen. Something transformational, something supernatural must take place within a person's life. And it happens whenever saving grace enters in. You see, salvation makes us upright as sin's crookedness is straightened out by the power of the cross. The cross straightens us out. The cross straightens us out. And the cross brings us to a position where we are spiritually upright. Possessed now with a new nature, the Christian is now enabled by the indwelling of the Spirit of God to walk uprightly. taking to themselves the unbending, the unyielding, the unchanging, the uncompromising word of the living God as their only rule of faith and practice. The Christian is one who now walks uprightly according to the truth of the gospel. That's what Paul said in the book of Galatians, about walking uprightly according to the truth of the gospel. And so I cannot overstress The importance of this point, there can be no uprightness of life without first an uprightness of heart. The heart, the seat of man's affections and his will, the seat of his desires must be made upright before uprightness is manifested in the life. And so forget about trying to walk uprightly until first. until first your heart is made upright by God in the gospel. Now Thomas Boston was a man who lived many years ago. Thomas Boston unfolded what it was for someone to walk uprightly in one of his sermons. And I want to give you the key points of those sermons and then add my own explanation to what I believe that Boston was trying to force or to bring to the attention of his congregation. Thomas Boston, he said that a person who walks uprightly is one who walks firstly entirely in the interest of religion. A person who walks uprightly is one who walks entirely in the interests of religion. All other interests come a distant and a far second place for the person who desires to walk uprightly with God. God's work in them and God's work about them becomes their single preeminent interest. Not their business, not their farm, not their career, not their money, not the football team that they support, not politics, not Holodin, not cars, not machinery, not any other earthly thing, but God. God becomes their chief interest. The person who walks uprightly is a person who walks entirely in the interest of religion. Secondly, the person who walks uprightly is the one who walks uniformly. In other words, there is a consistency to the life of the person who walks uprightly. Their walk is the same in the church as well as outside the church. There's no two-facedness about them. There's no acting, putting on a performance on a Sunday, putting on our clothes and going to the house of God and pretending that all is well. There is a uniformity, a uniformity with their Christian walk with God. Across the board, across the board, there is a uniformity of life. A person who walks uprightly is a person who walks in the way of all known Judah. They walk in the way of all known Judah. Walking uprightly requires us to walk in the ways of Christian Judah. Judah. It's a word that's mocked at and sneered at, Judah. But there's Christian Judah, brethren and sisters. That means that we are to walk in all of the commandments and all of the ordinances of the Lord, like that old godly couple Zacharias and Elizabeth. They walked uprightly before God. They walked in all of the commandments and in all of the ordinances of God. We are to be those. who live according to the living word of God. The Christian who walks uprightly has come to understand that all Christian duty is binding on them. All Christian duty, not just some, but all. All Christian duty is binding upon me. Fourthly, the one who walks uprightly is the one who walks as under the eye of God. Those who walk in such a way understand that God's eye is on them at all times, because it is such people then avoid, avoid that which is sinful, and they choose instead to walk in the paths of righteousness. To walk uprightly is to lead our lives as in the sight and in the presence of God, who sees all hearts and who searches the reins of every man. And then finally, the one who walks uprightly is the one who walks constantly in uprightness. Every day, every day until they find themselves at the point where faith will give way to sight, the genuine Christian will walk in uprightness at home and abroad. Whenever you're here at home, whenever you're holidaying, you walk uprightly. You don't, as it were, ditch God for a few weeks, but God goes with you on holiday. God goes with you. You keep his day holy. You do what God has told you to do. And so, with regard to that, at home and abroad, at work, And in our times of leisure, we walk uprightly. In our young days and in our old age, in the church outside the church, the Christian will constantly walk in an upright manner. Brethren and sisters, our walking is far more important than our talking. I've known a great deal of people in my short Christian life. They talk the talk. But unfortunately, they fail to walk the walk. And now they're nowhere. Nowhere. If you're not walking the walk, begin walking today. Begin walking with God. Begin walking uprightly. Begin walking scripturally, regardless of what others are doing around you. Let's walk uprightly. Let's walk in sincerity. Let's walk. In purity. Let's walk in Christian perfection. Let's walk blamelessly in this world. That's what God would have us do. Let's walk straight. Let's be straight. Let's talk straight. Let's deal straight. Let's walk uprightly. Having established what it is to walk uprightly, let's move on quickly and make a brief comment on why we are to walk uprightly. Why am I to walk uprightly as a Christian? Without putting any spin of my own on it, I never desire to do that. Let me give you two reasons right out of the scriptures, right out of the scriptures. Tell us the reasons why we ought to walk uprightly. We are to walk uprightly because number one, we fear the Lord. We fear the Lord. Proverbs chapter 14. If you want to turn there, Proverbs chapter 14. Let me encourage you to look and pick up your Bible. Boys and girls, you look and pick up your Bible. Ask your mommy and daddy why they're not looking up their Bible. If you see them going home, daddy, why didn't you pick up your Bible? You ask them, boys and girls, you ask them. You ask them why they didn't pick up the Bible and look at the passages that the preacher told them to preach to. Look up. Live out, live out the Bible. Reverence the Bible. Search the scriptures, child of God. Don't sit there with your Bible closed. Look up the passage. Proverbs chapter 14, verse 2. He that walketh in his uprightness feareth the Lord, but he that is perverse in his ways despiseth him. The reason why the one in our text walked uprightly is because he feared the Lord. What is this fear of God? The fear of the Lord? Charles Bridge, he defined the fear of the Lord in this way, it is that affectionate reverence by which the child of God bends himself humbly and carefully to his father's law. When we fear the Lord, when we have this affectionate reverence from God, then we're going to walk uprightly. Learn the lesson, child of God, learn it. Right conduct before God springs out of a right concept of God. Did you get it? Did you get it? Right conduct before God springs out of a right concept of God. Why are so many professing Christians living so loosely? Why are they living so worldly? Why are they living so carelessly today? It's because their concept of God has no basis in fact whatsoever. They have made up a God of their own imagination. It is not the God of the Bible. And so they are living carelessly, they are living worldly, they are living in a manner that is loose. and far too close to the world than you ever should be child of God. Your concept of God is not biblical. God is thrice holy. He has said, be ye holy for I am holy. Get a right understanding of God and then you'll start to walk as God would have you to walk. And so today, people have a concept of God that is unbiblical. When we understand who God is and what God loves and what God hates, then we're going to fear and reverence Him and therefore walk uprightly. Dr. John Gills said, when a man walks uprightly, and this conversation is in all holiness and godliness, it shows that the fear of God has a place in his heart which influences his outward behavior. Fear God inwardly and walk uprightly before men. This is why we walk uprightly, not because the preacher wants you to do it, of course he does, because God wants you to walk uprightly. Do you fear God? Is that not what the dying thief asked? Dost not thou fear God? I tell you, if you're a Christian, you ought to fear God. You ought to live your life in the fear of God. Not fearing Him in some kind of hard and, as it were, some kind of despot type of dictator that is above us, who wants, as it were, to consume us in a moment of time. No, this is fear. This is reverence that is drawn out of our hearts because we love Him. It's like a child's love for their father. Do you fear God? Here's a good test to see whether you fear God. If you have a genuine hatred of sin and you desire to walk in holiness, then I would say that you're a man, a woman who fears the Lord. The one who fears the Lord does not want to offend his God. And walking uprightly will go a long way in doing that. Do you not want to offend your God? Then walk uprightly. Walk uprightly. The second reason why we're to walk uprightly is because it's the wisest thing for us to do. It's the wisest thing for us to do. Proverbs 15. We're only a chapter over. Look at the verse number 21. Folly is a joy to him that is destitute of wisdom, but a man of understanding walketh uprightly. Wisdom. understanding directs a person to walk in such a manner. It is the wisest thing for us to do. To walk in any other way exhibits that foolishness is bound up in our hearts. You see, the wise person will choose to walk uprightly because that is God's way. And listen to me, listen. God's way is the best way. Get that into your mind, young person. Get it into your heart. God's way is the best way. It's the best way. It's the only way. Matthew Henry, he said, A man of understanding, the eyes of whose understanding are enlightened by the Spirit walks uprightly, lives a sober, orderly, regular life. and studies in everything to conform himself to the will of God. And this is a constant pleasure and joy to him. Be wise and walk uprightly. It's the way that the Master walked. He walked uprightly. Oh, the sincerity, oh, the perfection, the unblemished nature of our Savior's walk. And we're to walk as He walked. Therefore, we are to walk uprightly. He walked an upright walk in this fallen world. Be straight in your dealings, brethren and sisters. Be straight in your dealings with God. Be straight in your dealings with men. They're as straight as a die. Ever heard that statement? They're as straight as a die. Let that be said of you, brother. Let it be said of you, sister. One preacher said this, and I smiled at it. He said, lead your life. so you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. Not a good saying. Live your life in such a way that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip. In other words, you had nothing to say. Live in such a way. But remember, remember, Christ is the unseen guest, the silent listener to every conversation. Isn't he? He sees it all. Pirate or no pirate, he sees it all. Live in such a way that you fear God, you fear him, and then that you understand this is the wisest. The third and final concluding matter. What do you think about the fallout of walking uprightly? Now whenever I use the word fallout, I don't want you to think of it in a negative sense. I use the word fallout positively here. What is the fallout of a Christian walking uprightly? Well, the Word of God has a number of things to say on that particular matter. It speaks about this walking uprightly. It's a very interesting study. I want to try and condense it very quickly in the remaining moments that we have together. We start in Psalm 15 again, Psalm 15, because it informs us that the one who walks uprightly, this is one of the fallouts. that that person comes to abide in God's tabernacle. That's the individual who comes to dwell in His holy hill. When David speaks of the tabernacle and the holy hill, he's obviously primarily referring to the place where the tabernacle was at that particular time, remembering that the temple had not been built. Solomon was to be the builder of the temple after David had vacated the throne. But ultimately he is an eye towards another sanctuary, towards another hell. He's speaking about Zion, the city of God, heaven, glory, paradise itself. Who shall dwell with God in glory? That's what he's asking. Who will be in heaven? And then he goes on to say, No, it doesn't, because I've already set the foundation. You should understand this now. I've already said, man by nature is not upright. By His sinful nature He is not found in such an upright state. So something has happened here. Grace has entered in. Grace has so entered in that they are now walking uprightly. That they are now working righteousness. Because all of our righteousnesses are as filthy rags. And the Bible says, that there is none righteous, no, not one. And these are now ones that are speaking the truth in his heart. All men are liars, David said on one occasion, but now they speak the truth in heart. What has happened? Grace has entered. Salvation has taken hold of these individuals. And therefore, as a result of that, they now walk uprightly, they now work righteously, and they now speak truthfully. And because of grace, And because they walk uprightly in this world, enabled to do so by the Spirit of God, they come to walk in heaven itself, the light of the Lamb. They come to dwell and to abide under all the blessing that awaits the one who walks uprightly at the end of their life. They come to abide and to dwell in heaven. Is there not the thought of permanence here, brethren and sisters, with these words? This word abide, this word dwell. They don't sojourn, they don't go there for a period of time and then, as it were, are kicked out of this holy hell, out of Zion, out of the tabernacle, out of heaven itself. No, they abide there. They stay there. They dwell there. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. That's what the psalmist said. We'll be there forever and forever and ever and ever, the child of God. What a blessing it is to think that forever I'll be with the Lord, forever I'll be with Him. And yet I remind those who are not converted in faithfulness to your soul that not all will be in heaven. David says it here. He doesn't say who shall abide in the tabernacle, who shall dwell in thy holy hell. Everybody in this world will be there. He doesn't say that. He says the people who evidence the work of grace having been wrought in their heart by them walking uprightly by them working righteously, by them speaking the truth in their heart, those are the ones that will be in heaven. Not the false professor, not the person who says, I became a Christian whenever I was five years of age, and now I live as an ungodly sinner. By their fruit ye shall know them. And by the fruit of the life, the evidence is seen in their living. that a work of grace has been wrought within, a work of God within the soul. Oh, come to Christ. If you want to be in heaven, let him make you upright today. Take that old crooked, twisted life of yours and put it at the cross, and let the power of the cross straighten you out. Let it straighten you out, and God will give you an upright heart. Psalm 84. Let's turn there. Psalm 84. Psalm 84 verse 11. Familiar verse. For the Lord God is a sun and shield. That word sun is not the sun in the sky. Hope you know that. It means a notch battlement. A notch battlement. You'll see it at Carrickfergus castle. The notch battlement where you put the gun ports and the guns are out. You see, you think about it there. There's two lines of defense. The Lord is a sun and shield. You would think, well, you're putting the sun, the sun in the sky, and you're applying it to the shield as well, or there's a combination. No, no, no. This word sun means the notch battlement. The Lord is a notch battlement. He's a castle for us. And he's our shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Now notice, don't read the verse incorrectly. The verse did not say no thing. No thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. He, the scripture, reads no good thing. No good thing. Who determines what is good? God determines what is good for us. And God may at times withhold things from you. And because He withholds them, there is the very danger that you may think, but God's not good to me. God's withholding something from me. Let me explain it like this. Parents know exactly what I mean. A little child comes and says, I want a knife from the knife block. The parent says, you're not getting it. But I want it. You're not getting it. But I really, really, really, really want it. You're not getting it. Why? Because the parent knows the tremendous danger that such a sharp implement can become in the hand of an unskilled individual. They see the danger. They withhold it from them, though the child themselves think it to be good. God at times withholds from you, because He knows what is good. He knows what is good for you and what is not. Notice that the good thing that Psalm speaks of is reserved then for only those who walk uprightly. You can't expect your Father in heaven to give you good things if you're not walking uprightly. You know, to think that, folks, it's farcical and it's fanciful. If you think that God is going to give you good things and you're walking in disobedience, it's not going to happen. It's farcical and it's fanciful. You must fulfill the walking uprightly if He is to give you good things. Thank God He gives to us the good things that He has purposed for us. that he has promised for us, that he has purchased for us, whether they be spiritual or temporal. A number of references in the book of Proverbs. Let's go very quickly there. Proverbs 2, verse 7. I'm going to give them to you very quickly and then give you a few sentences to bring them together. Proverbs 2, verse 7. He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous. He, speaking of God, is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. Then Proverbs 10 in the verse 9. Proverbs 10 verse number 9. He that walketh uprightly walketh surely. Proverbs 11 verse 20. They that are of a fruit heart are an abomination to the Lord, but such as are upright in their way are his delight. And then Proverbs 28, verse 18. Proverbs 28, verse 18. Whoso walketh uprightly shall be saved, but he that is perverse in his way shall fall at once. Let me bring the thoughts together in a few short sentences. When we all walk uprightly with God, God will defend us. He's our buckler, He's our shield. Proverbs 2, 7. He will direct us, for God will keep our feet from falling. We will walk surely, safely, securely according to Proverbs 10, 9. God will delight in us. Proverbs 11, verse 20. We delight the heart of God when we walk uprightly. Think of that. You can today delight the heart of God by walking uprightly. He will deliver us, Solomon tells us, Solomon tells us that those who walk uprightly will be saved, saved from temporal and spiritual dangers according to Proverbs 28 verse 18. When we all walk uprightly, God will defend us, God will direct us, God will delight in us, and God will deliver us. The last reference, you don't need to turn there. I'll give you a little space. Micah 2 verse 7. Let me read the verse to you. O thou that are named the house of Jacob, Is the Spirit of the Lord straightened? Are these His doings? Do not my words do good to them that walk uprightly?" God's words, whether they are words of correction or words of comfort, do good to those who walk uprightly. Have you not experienced that, child of God? God's Word came just at the right time. and dead good, dead good to you. Maybe you're here today and you say, you know, preacher, I get very little out of your preaching. I get very little out of your preaching. Maybe today you would say, I get nothing out of your preaching. If you want to get the most out of God's word, whenever you read it, whenever you come to sit under the preaching of it, then walk uprightly. You will profit from God's word when you come to walk according to it. It is the upright who reaps the full benefit of God's word. God's words do good to him or her that walks uprightly and only to them. Preacher, I get nothing out of the preaching. Are you walking uprightly? Are you walking uprightly? In this quick overview of Scripture, we see that there are multiple blessings that are reserved for those who walk uprightly. Let uprightness then govern how you and I live our lives, how we walk in the world. Let uprightness preside over all that we do and all that we say. And if you knew not Christ today, uprightness arises out of God's grace. Let grace save you today. Let him make you upright. Then from this day on, walk uprightly in this world. May God help us to walk in this way as we are directed to do in Holy Scripture for Christ's sake. Amen. Let's bow in prayer. We appreciate you listening. We appreciate you following the Word today. Child of God, just take these moments and cry to God, Lord, help me to walk uprightly. Help me to walk uprightly in this world. The world is crooked, the world is twisted, but Lord, help me to be upright. Help me to walk uprightly. Help me to be straight in my dealings with God and men. Our loving Father, our good and gracious God, we rejoice today. Father, that thou has given us a word whereby we can Lord, know whether or not we are walking in an upright manner. We thank you for the word of the living God. Lord, we cry to thee, O God, that each individual gathered here today will walk in an upright way. Lord, grant, dear gracious Father, all crookedness and all dishonesty to be removed from our living. Grant, dear God, us to live as Christ would have us to live. And as he walked himself, may we just simply follow after him. If you'll answer prayer, bless these dear folk, the people of God, and if there be those who are not saved, save them today. Lord, save them today, this day, this hour, just now, Lord. Work in their hearts and help them to understand the reason why they get nothing out of the word is because their heart is not right with God and they're not walking as God would have them to. Oh, forgive us of our sins. Cleanse us. Oh, we thank Thee that there's always hope whenever there's a cross in the blood of Christ. Lord, help. We cry to Thee. Help me to walk upright in this crooked and perverse world. We pray. These are prayers in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. you