Let's all stand at Canstand this morning. Let's read together the ninth stanza, verse 65 through verse 72. Surely you can do that. Verse 65, Psalm 119. Together, thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord, according unto thy word. Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I have believed thy commandments. Before I was afflicted, I went astray, but now have I kept Thy Word. Thou art good, and doest good. Teach me Thy statutes. The proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep Thy precepts with my whole heart. Their heart is as fat as grease, but I delight in thy law. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statuettes. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. May the Lord bless the reading of His Word. You may be seated. Now back there in the eighth stanza, verses 57 through 64, We saw the grateful David and we saw the further evidence that God had answered David's prayer which made him grateful. We also saw that the Holy Spirit had been instructing David to not only faithfully read the Word of the Lord, but also to passionately study the Word of the Lord which when he did, caused David to dutifully follow the word of the Lord. Let me say that again. I read this to you, I preached this to you last week, but let me say it one more time, and you ought to use the word I in this. If I will faithfully read the word of the Lord, and I'm not talking about once in a while, but every day, every chance you get, But also, after you read it, passionately study the Word of the Lord. If I will passionately study the Word of the Lord, then I will dutifully follow the Word of the Lord. See, this is what the Holy Ghost had taught David. that if he would faithfully read the Word of the Lord, but also passionately study the Word of the Lord, then David would dutifully follow the Word of the Lord. From those hours of reading and meditating, David learned, and I showed us last Sunday, that there were three things for which he was extremely grateful. And not only that, but these three things seemed to have prominence in David's thinking. Number one, David was grateful for the Lord's omnipotence, His all-powerfulness. Secondly, David was grateful for the Lord's omniscience, seeing that God knows everything and certainly everything about David and understanding that now by this understanding of the Lord's Word. Thirdly then, David began to understand and was extremely grateful for the Lord's omnipresence. God being everywhere and certainly around David completely, totally. So verse 64, David even tells us that he's grateful for the Lord's omnipresence when he exalts the Lord by saying, the earth, O Lord, is full of thy mercy. And might I add, it's full of everything else you can think of, the Lord's control, His sovereignty, His grace, His mercy, the whole earth is full of the Lord and as I told you, this folks is where joy and peace is found in the understanding that God's all-powerful, all-knowing, all-present, all the time. and if He is, He's up close and personal with us. That should make you extremely happy because the same omnipresent God for whom David was extremely grateful is still today preserving and governing all His creation for His children's exclusive benefit as He exclusively intends that they alone be with Him in eternity, in heaven, in the midst of the bliss of heaven for eternity. God is doing what He's doing up close and personal in this world for us that we might be with Him where He is. Think about that for a moment. God's personal, perfect, providential, omnipresent dealings are for you saints. And Job 23 verse 14, Job stated, here's Job, he's down in that dust and ashes, he's got boils from the top of his head to the sole of his feet. And in verse 14, Job 23, Job says, for he, God, performeth the thing that is appointed for me, and many such things are with him. Listen, that's why that you and I believe Romans 8 28 the way we do and we know All things work together for good for them that love God God has performed these things Appointed them for us and we know no matter what it is good bad or indifferent It will work out to our benefit to our blessing We're our beneficiaries OF GOD'S PURPOSES IN THE WORLD, WHICH WILL BRING US NIGH UNTO HIM IF WE WILL JUST TAKE TIME TO READ HIS WORD, PASSIONATELY STUDY HIS WORD, AND LIVE FOR HIM THE WAY WE SHOULD." And he does all this up close and personal, right here. Well, wait a minute, Brother Darrell, right here in us. For those who are listening by sermon audio, I'm pointing at my heart. But notice, if you will, that no, God does all these things and David is not finished with his prayer. David appears to not stop at the end of the eighth stanza. David appears here to slide right into the nice stanza without hesitation. The reason for this, as best as I can tell, is because the grateful David, upon these revelations of God's omnipotence, his omniscience, his omnipresence, given to David by the Holy Ghost, has caused David, hold on to your hats, to become the hungry David. The grateful David, after imbibing on the Word of God, the hungry David with humble, respectful supplications wants more. That's why he says, teach me thy statutes. This is a plea for more. These grand revelations that have created these grand thoughts have made him extremely hungry and he wants more. Thus still prostrate on the throne of grace, the hungry David in grateful tones. First of all, thanks the Lord for what he has done in David's life thus far, so he will get more. Verse 65, David says, thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord, according unto thy word. In the truest sense, David is overwhelmed at the Lord's personal dealings with and for him. And it's made David exclaim, praise, yea, exalt the Lord with an absolutely grateful heart. Thou has dealt well with thy servant, O Lord. How good are you? How wonderful are you in the sense of the words. My goodness, this is akin, believe it or not, to David saying, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. You know what that's from, that's from Jesus' model prayer when he was teaching his disciples. And certainly David had found that God had been doing that very thing in his life. God's will had been and was being done in David's life. David's making a confession of that right here. Thou has dealt well with thy servant. What a confession. Lord, you've done it all. Lord, it's been you. in everything, in every way, in every way. It's been you, you, you Lord. Whatever promises God had made in His Word, David had been and was now enjoying as God had made him a beneficiary of each and every one of them. First, think about the record of the Lord's precious performances in the life of David. As a youth, God had given him power to kill a marauding lion and bear that was determined to steal and kill some of his daddy's flock. But God gave this kid the ability to kill a lion and a bear. And then secondly, as a young teenager, God put the life of a giant in David's hand to kill that giant of a man with nothing but a rock, with a rock, when the armies of Israel were hiding from that Philistine. And then thirdly, as a young adult, there was King Saul that had been relentless in his attempts to kill David, yet God saw to it that Saul never touched a hair on David's head. God would bring this little shepherd boy from the sheepfold to be king over Israel. Through many dangers, through many toils, through many snares, God would bring him. and gave David victory after victory. And then as an adult, God had forgiven him for his tragic affair with Bathsheba and the subsequent murder of her husband. And then fourthly, as an old man, his own son would try to dethrone him. His nearest and dearest friends would leave him, but God preserved his throne and nevertheless, giving David rest from all his enemies. And then lastly of all things, and certainly it wasn't the last blessing that God gave him, but here as far as this sermon is concerned, God makes an everlasting covenant with David, stating that David's prodigy, that is all his offspring down the line that God would appoint, would sit on David's throne forever. And my friends, that's being accomplished even now in David's son, the Lord Jesus Christ. You didn't know that Jesus was in the lineage of David, did you? Go read Matthew 1. Plus, God blessed him with manifold spiritual blessings, which included an interest in salvation to be satisfied in time by David's coming Messiah, the Lord Jesus Christ. When I was making this sermon up, God was giving me these visions in my head of David's life, you know, the bear, the lion, all these things. And as I thought about David having an interest in the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ, it popped into my mind that here is David down in paradise with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. and all of a sudden he looks up and standing in front of him is the very one he's been writing about in the Psalms. I mean, can you imagine that? Oh my goodness, what a grand meeting in paradise that must have been when Jesus came down there to lead his elect out of paradise. Oh, what a wonderful thing. I can just see it all. Here was standing in front of him the one that David had visions of. Here's the one that David recorded the words of. Words that were staggering to David. I doubt he knew what they meant back in Psalm 22 when he wrote down the words of Jesus speaking from the cross in the future. David was now seeing Jesus up close and personal. They're in paradise. And there in paradise, Jesus most likely said, hello, David. Oh my goodness there was Jesus. Hello David. And in a flash, in a flash, all those words that David had written connected in his brain. And most likely, I wasn't there, I don't know, I'm speculating, most likely David fell to his knees, yea on his face and grabbed his ankles, grabbed the Lord's ankles and cried out, my Lord and my God. because that's what Daryl's gonna do. When I see him face to face, I'm gonna fall on my face, grab his ankles, wrap my arms around him and say, my Lord and my God, thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh, that must have been a great meeting, but make no mistake about it, folks, the hope of eternal glory that was now David's is yours as well. As David bows himself in thanksgiving before the Lord here in Psalm 119, and cries, thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord. He has dealt well with thee so far as well, saints. but the hope of the eternal glory with Christ that's available in the hallowed halls of heaven to those who trust in Jesus belongs to His beloved chosen children exclusively. And if you're in that number, it's yours. Just as David received these views of our thrice holy God and the grand gift of His prolific promises, all the elect received the same. These promises are according to the Lord's own words, verse 65. And the Lord who cannot lie tells us it's so. All the Lord's providential mercies according to His promises found in the Lord's Word were active in process for David. All the saints, the elect of God, have the same promises of life, liberty, and pursuit of the happiness. The saints are granted access by faith into this grace. And we all hold residence in Christ Jesus if we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and trust in Him, Romans chapter five, by the which the apostle Peter tells us in second Peter one, four, that God gives us exceeding great and precious promises that by these, you might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world. And pretty soon our bodies are going to escape it too. Our soul and spirit has escaped that corruption. If you're saved today, your soul and spirit are clean and you stand righteous before God. But these old bodies, this old flesh, it's still condemned. It's still corrupt. You got to know that every time you grab a refrigerator door. but someday we're gonna get glorified bodies, glorified flesh, and we'll stand in the hallowed halls of heaven in perfection. Well, say amen, somebody. This old body, my mind is wearing out and so is yours. Some of y'all are way ahead of me in the race. Great spiritual blessings are stored up in these exceeding great and precious promises, which are yea and amen in Christ. The delivery of them is assured to all that trust in His Son, which God that cannot lie made before the world began. He made those promises to us before a star glimmered in the solar plexus of the world. And folks, listen to me. There's no shadow of turning in Him. He won't take them back. He won't renege on His promises. He won't fail in their delivery. He changes not. His compassions, they fail not. All He has been, He shall evermore be. The Godhead of God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. His mandates toward us will be carried out in fantastic detail. And He won't miss a one. He'll not miss a single detail. What He has promised, He will deliver upon. So David has great reason to exclaim, Thou hast dealt well with thy servant, O Lord, according unto thy word. Secondly, David wanted the Lord to take full control of his life in the present. David was thankful for all the Lord had done thus far. Now he wants the Lord to take full control of his life in the now, in the present. And certainly like the model prayer that Jesus used when teaching His disciples, this is David as much praying in verse 65, again, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. And I can't belabor that point. I can't say it enough. David definitely wanted the Lord, the Lord's kingdom, to come and his will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. He wanted it done in his life completely. He wanted it continually. David knew that if the Lord's kingdom was in him and Lord's will done in him, David could not go wrong. That's what you should want. Your prayer ought to be, Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in me as it is in heaven. Whatever your will is for me, Lord, do it. Whatever you want to do with me, do it. Lord, here I am. Take me. Make me thine own in every way. Leave nothing out. David says, For I have believed thy commandments. Which is David saying, I have read your word and believe all that is contained in it, and I want more. I believe every jot and tittle. Here I am, do with me with every jot and tittle that you have purposed to do in heaven. Here on earth. I don't know if that made sense to you or not. Let me bring it down to these terms. David is saying, fill my cup, Lord. Fill it up, Lord. Quench this thirsting of my soul. Again, from the model prayer, this is David saying in substance, Give me this day, and I will add every day, your daily bread, Lord. Give me this day your daily bread. Yeah, and I know the model prayer is speaking of bread, meaning food and shelter, and for physical needs each day. But what David is asking for here is for the SPIRIT. He wants that bread that is the Word of God to nourish his soul and his spirit. I believe David finds that to be real in his life before long because if you'll look at verse 103 of this psalm, David says that the Lord's words were sweet to his taste, yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. Over in Psalm 34, 8, David says there, O taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trusteth in him. David's being nourished by the Word of the Lord. He's tasting it. It tastes good. It's sweeter than honey. He wants more. I'll never forget back when I was a boy, Lay's potato chip had this slogan for a while. Bet you can't eat just one. Bet you can't eat just one. Well, I had news for Lay's. That's the case for me with everything. I can hardly just eat one of anything. David has tasted this and he wants more. Not only was the word of the Lord sweet to David, this bread also had spiritual vitamins and nutrients that had in the past that would now make David strong against the devil, that would help kill David's appetite for sin, and would keep him in the straight and narrow. I'm convinced that the vitamins and nutrients and food contained in this word will keep you from sin. Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, cost you more than you want to pay. But the Word of God and the nourishment it contains will make you strong against the wiles of the devil. Read Ephesians 6 sometimes. Now, the reason I believe this is there in verse 67 where David says, before I was afflicted, I went astray. But David says, now I'm keeping your word, but now have I kept thy word. This is David saying in essence, forgive us our debts or forgive me of my debts. That is the many sins for which David says, I owe restitution and for which I have nothing to pay. He had nothing to bring to the table. Forgive me, Lord, of my debts. And he's talking about not what he owes in money. David didn't owe anything in money. David was talking about what he owed for the mercies of God toward him. David had sinned through the weakness of his flesh, which for all men is corrupt, your flesh is corrupt. It is the continual target of temptation, which can overwhelm any man or woman. ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU GET CARELESS IN YOUR DAILY CONSUMPTION OF THE LORD'S WORD, THAT BREAD. ESPECIALLY IF YOU GET HEEDLESS TO THE PROMPTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. What I mean there is the Holy Spirit says not to do a thing, you go ahead and do it anyway. Holy Spirit says, DO THIS! And you say, I'm not gonna do that, I'll do this. And then thirdly, You'll become the greatest target of temptation when you get negligent in your walk with the Lord. You let it go. You don't take the time each day to pray as you should, read as you should, study as you should. Why do I got to do it every day? Because the devil never sleeps. David's being honest. David knew that he had wandered from the Lord's way. He knew it. And every time he attempted to ignorantly wrestle control from the Lord's hands, bad things happened to David. But now, having learned these lessons of the truth of God's hatred for sin, he says, But now have I kept thy word. Verse 68, David says, thou art good and doest good. Teach me thy statutes. In essence, I don't want to be like I was. Accomplish in me that which your word is intended for, that I might in every way honor you. I want more. I want more so I can walk in your way as I should. This is David here in Psalm 119, wanting to take full advantage of God's promises. Because he knew that these precious promises of God would help him to do that which needed to be done before a righteous and holy God. You know, Peter had experienced the same promises David had experienced. And Peter instructed those scattered strangers, 1 Peter 1, now in his second letter, to be as newborn babes, desirous of the sincere milk of the word, that they might grow thereby. In verse 3 he says, If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious. If you have found that the Lord is gracious, desire it. Because there's more. There's more to be had. Listen, God's barrel of oil never runs out. God's barrel of flour never runs out. There's always bread at the Lord's house. But I say that all the delicacies ye could ever think of are there as well. The very man of heaven, the Word of God, hath fed David and Peter, and will feed all the saints that will feast on the Lord's Word. I think about over in the Song of Solomon, even the old Shulamite, There in the Song of Solomon in chapter two, verse three, exclaimed, as the apple tree among the trees, the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight and his fruit was sweet to my taste. The Song of Solomon is a picture of the love of Christ for his bride, the church, the Shulamite being the church in that story. That is his people. And Christ has enabled His people to sit down under His shadow, in His shadow, and feast upon His Word to our heart's delight. He never sends us away from the table. Folks, I want you to know the Word of our Lord is also a marvelous banquet of His flesh and blood, His very person and all that pertains to Him. After all, we are all that are saved, joint heirs with him to all that is in heaven, Romans 8, 17. Jesus declared, this is my body broken for you, eat ye all of it. This is my blood shed for you, drink ye all of it. My heavens, why would you not eat, drink, and live in the goodness and favor of the Lord? Why not take advantage of all that bounty? Now lastly, TO ENSURE THAT DAVID GETS DEBT FOR WHICH HE HAS ASKED FOR THE FUTURE. HE'S TAKING CARE OF THE PAST, HE'S ASKED FOR THE PRESENT, NOW HE'S ASKING FOR THE FUTURE. DAVID NOT ONLY ASKS FORGIVENESS OF HIS OWN PERSONAL DEBTS, HIS SINS, AGAIN THINKING OF THAT MODEL PRAYER THAT JESUS TAUGHT HIS DISCIPLES, BUT ALSO FOR THE SINS OF THE OTHERS AROUND HIM, POSSIBLY IN HIS FAMILY, AMONG HIS FRIENDS AND EVEN HIS ENEMIES. David is thinking about everybody. You know, the model of prayer says, Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors. Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. David has a heart for not only himself and his sins, but for others too. He wants them to enjoy what he's been feasting on. Thus the words from the model of prayer, As we forgive our debtors. Now look at verse 69 and 70 back there in Psalm 119. If you're still there, stay with me. David said, "...the proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart." I'm not going to let what they do deter me. I'm going to pray for them. Verse 70 says, "...their heart is as fat as grease." but I delight in thy law. David could have killed King Saul many times for just the lies that King Saul had told about him. But David refused to touch God's anointed, and that's what King Saul was. God had anointed King Saul to be king. And David would not touch King Saul, though King Saul lied about him, called him every name in the book, hunted him down, but David would not give in. And listen to this, when his own son Absalom tried to take his kingdom and had all his friends side with him, David would not come against his son, would not go against his friends. He ought to have them all killed, but he wouldn't retaliate. Instead, he went back to his kingdom. God restored it to him, kept him there, wouldn't let anybody take it. No, David had a heart of mercy like the Lord Jesus Christ who cried from the cross, Father, forgive them for they know not what they do. David could well have prayed before any of these terrible incidents in his life and said, Lord, kill them all. but instead he says, lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil in the sense of it from the model prayer. David didn't say that, but he's thinking that. He wouldn't fall prey to falling into temptation of taking life for life like that, unless God said to. David wanted the rest of his life to be one of life and peace. And God has certainly He did that, could do that, and would do that. For David had seen that his afflictions had worked out for his good, as it does for all them that love God, who are called according to the Lord's purposes, whatever they are. And notice, if you will, David was not bitter toward the Lord in the way that the Lord performed His purposes in and through David, though some of the Lord's actions were pretty horrific, hard. Looking back on all the times and terrible incidents and understanding the providence of God in His governing the affairs of all men, David says in verse 71 that it was good for him that he had been afflicted, that he might learn the Lord's statuettes. David had learned and surely every saint, if they've been a saint for any time, has learned that experience is the best teacher. David had learned a multitude of lessons from the afflictions he had experienced. Number one, hey listen, through those afflictions he had learned to lead a nation. God used those afflictions to help him, to train him to lead a great nation. Secondly, he learned the sovereignty of God. Those afflictions made him know that God was ultimately in control. And thirdly, David found The attributes of God in those afflictions, God's love, God's holiness, God's righteousness, that's His attributes. These are inherent to God, especially mercy. Boy, David had learned about mercy because that's God's attribute. God shows mercy. What is God? The Bible says God is what? Love. He learned that. Verse 72, David says, That is the words of the Lord's own mouth spoken through His prophets before David and into David. Plus the history of the Lord's performance with His elect people of the Old Testament recorded up to David's time. David had evidently been reading. David had studied over them. And they were proving now to David that they were better unto David than thousands of gold and silver. Look at verse 72. Better unto David than thousands of gold and silver. The Word of God and all the doctrines contained therein that have been spoken from the mouth of God through those men that God had chosen to speak through were words of weight and authority and as such commanded reverence and respect and should be held in awe. as indeed the value, listen to me, of the very thoughts of God spoken in words by His mouth read by us in His Word are beyond our ability to calculate. We can't tabulate the value of God's words. BE SATISFIED TO KNOW, FRIENDS, THAT THEY ARE BEYOND THE VALUE OF ALL THE GOLD AND SILVER, etc., etc., IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE, IN HEAVENS ITSELF, AND THEY ARE BEYOND TABULATION WHEREBY WE COULD EVEN COMPARE THEM TO THE WORD OF GOD. THAT'S HOW VALUABLE THE WORD OF GOD IS. DAVID WAS EXTREMELY WEALTHY, FOLKS, BUT DAVID BELIEVED THAT THE WORD OF GOD WAS MORE VALUABLE THAN ALL THE WEALTH HE EVER POSSESSED, AND ALL THAT WERE AROUND HIM POSSESSED. YOU COULD ALMOST HEAR DAVID PRAYING THE FINAL LINE OF THE MODEL PRAYER, IF YOU WILL, FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM AND THE POWER AND THE GLORY FOREVER. Isn't that amazing how these words of David in Psalm 119, stanza number 9, almost line up with the model prayer? David is saying, in essence, you own it all, Lord. It all belongs to You, Lord. That He allows His people to share in all of this, by the way, is all of grace. God's sovereign grace. And David knew this and wanted more. He didn't want more wealth. He didn't want more height. He didn't want more this or that. He wanted more from the Word of God. That was what was nourishing his soul. That's what made him wealthy in heart and spirit and in kind. It was the Word of God. Oh, why would you folks live your life in depression and desperation, destitution, destruction, when you have Christ Jesus and Jesus Christ is the very vault of heaven. The very prophet that God chose to anoint David king over Israel, declares in 1st Samuel, excuse me, in 1st Chronicles chapter 29 verse 11, Thine, O Lord, is the greatness and the power. and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty, for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head over all." Listen to me, in heaven right now, the 24 elders are bowed down around the throne of God, and this is what they're saying, Revelation chapter 4 verse 11, this is what they say continually, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created. David declared himself in Psalm 8, When I consider Thy heavens, the work of Thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained, what is man? That Thou art mindful of him, and the Son of man, that Thou visit him. How in the world, Lord, could You even throw an eye at us? based on who you are. The great creator has become our savior, and he's been mindful of us, every one of us. I know he's been mindful of me. You've heard me say this before, but I'll say it again. Long before the heavens materialized from the voice of God, long before the expanse shone one orb of light in the heavens, that same mighty deity that created all time and space and all that is celestial and all that is terrestrial in it knew my name. As much as each star was known as it is known, spoken by God into creation, Daryl Lingerfeld was known, Reggie Johnson was known, Dennis Johnson was known. We all that trust in Jesus were known. in the expanse of eternity past the extent of us was loved by God so much so that though the extent of us was known corruption at all God chose to write your name in his life book electing unto salvation every one of you to be authenticated on the day that you were saved there in the heavens of heavens, grand purpose was there inaugurated, grand resolve was there dedicated, majestic means were there allocated to purchase your pardon and adopt you into the family of God. Unconditional election was thus mandated, predestination of your salvation was initiated, having been there given to Christ Jesus to someday be emancipated. For me, that was June 20th, 1960. On that day, my eternal life was activated, authenticated by the quickening of the Spirit, by a complete imputation of the righteousness of Christ into me. And with it came just complete exoneration from all my sins, past, present, and future, by the propitiatory work of Christ on the cross. by which God has granted you, if you're saved today, justification and subsequent glorification. I heard it as fast as I could. Certifying your sure salvation and giving you residence in heaven's domain. I know. I know it's true. for He saved a wretch like me and you, if you're saved today. You ought to want more of and revel in the knowledge of the sovereignty of God and so great a salvation that is purpose for you. You ought to be as hungry as David was. What can you answer our great Creator when He asked, to whom will you liken me or to whom shall I be equal? If you're smart, you'll say, no one Lord, no one's like you. Let me read these verses right here and then I'll let you go. Isaiah 40 verse 22. If you want to turn there, we'll quit with this. Isaiah wrote verse 22 chapter 40. It is He, God, that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. It is He that stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. Isaiah 40 verse 23, It is He that bringeth the princes to nothing. He maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. Verse 24, Yea, they shall not be planted. Yea, they shall not be sown. Yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth. And He shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. Talking about anybody who disdains Him. Folks, His dominion is an everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to generation. And all the inhabitants of the earth," Daniel 4, 34 and 35, "...are reputed as nothing. God does 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? Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in me, says David, as it is in heaven. Oh, friends, is that your prayer today? Is that your prayer today? Do you want more? Are you hungry for more? Oh, taste the Lord and see that he's good. If you'll just taste him, if you'll spend some time feasting upon his word, oh, you'll want more. Thank you, Lord, for your word this morning. BLESS BE THE TIES THAT BINDS OUR HEART IN YOUR LOVE. THIS FELLOWSHIP THAT YOU BROUGHT US INTO AND MADE US YOUR LOCAL ECCLESIATES, CALLED OUT ONCE HERE AT THE PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH. LORD, DON'T WET THEIR APPETITE, INCREASE THEIR APPETITE FOR YOUR WORD. HOLY SPIRIT, CAUSE THEM TO FEAST ON THAT WORD THAT THEY MIGHT GROW THEREBY. Thank you, Lord, for David's hunger revealed to us in Psalm 119. These things we ask in Jesus' name, Amen and Amen.