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Box 260, Lindale, TX 75771 4 00:00:19,720 --> 00:00:23,460 or calling 214-963-8626. 5 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:27,760 None of these messages are copyrighted and you 6 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:30,300 are welcome to make copies for free distribution 7 00:00:30,300 --> 00:00:31,380 to your friends. 8 00:00:32,480 --> 00:00:37,360 Psalms 135 and Psalms 136 this morning, particularly 9 00:00:37,360 --> 00:00:39,940 136, but let's read. 10 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:43,320 I'll read a few verses from 135. 11 00:00:55,870 --> 00:00:57,810 I'm reading from the New American Standard. 12 00:00:58,050 --> 00:01:00,670 It says, Praise the Lord, praise the name 13 00:01:00,670 --> 00:01:03,050 of the Lord, praise Him, O servants of 14 00:01:03,050 --> 00:01:05,850 the Lord, you who stand in the house 15 00:01:05,850 --> 00:01:07,510 of the Lord, in the courts of the 16 00:01:07,510 --> 00:01:08,690 house of our God. 17 00:01:09,870 --> 00:01:12,190 Praise the Lord, for the Lord is good. 18 00:01:14,170 --> 00:01:17,090 Sing praises to His name, for He is 19 00:01:17,090 --> 00:01:17,380 lovely. 20 00:01:21,380 --> 00:01:24,300 Psalms 136 says, Give thanks to the Lord, 21 00:01:24,440 --> 00:01:26,480 for the Lord is good, for His loving 22 00:01:26,480 --> 00:01:28,520 kindness is everlasting. 23 00:01:29,860 --> 00:01:32,280 Give thanks to the God of gods, for 24 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:33,970 His loving kindness is everlasting. 25 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:37,620 Give thanks to the Lord of lords, for 26 00:01:37,620 --> 00:01:40,000 His loving kindness is everlasting. 27 00:01:40,720 --> 00:01:43,900 And to Him, who alone does great wonders, 28 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:46,720 for His loving kindness is everlasting. 29 00:01:47,340 --> 00:01:49,880 To Him, who made the heavens with skill, 30 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:52,340 for His loving kindness is everlasting. 31 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,840 To Him, who spread out the earth upon 32 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:59,460 the waters, for His loving kindness is everlasting. 33 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,040 To Him, who made the great lights, for 34 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:06,160 His loving kindness is everlasting. 35 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:10,480 The sun to rule by day, for his 36 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,380 loving kindness is everlasting. 37 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:15,580 The moon and the stars to rule by 38 00:02:15,580 --> 00:02:18,720 night for his loving kindness is everlasting. 39 00:02:18,900 --> 00:02:19,980 Are you getting the picture? 40 00:02:25,690 --> 00:02:28,170 And then I read verse 10 and stop 41 00:02:28,170 --> 00:02:30,850 there because verse 10 is very unusual. 42 00:02:31,430 --> 00:02:33,110 I didn't understand this. 43 00:02:33,450 --> 00:02:37,870 I searched and searched for the meaning of 44 00:02:37,870 --> 00:02:38,250 this. 45 00:02:38,850 --> 00:02:41,770 To him who smote the Egyptians in their 46 00:02:41,770 --> 00:02:45,910 firstborn for his loving kindness is everlasting. 47 00:02:46,070 --> 00:02:47,730 Now it may be obvious to you but 48 00:02:47,730 --> 00:02:49,430 it wasn't so obvious to me. 49 00:02:53,690 --> 00:02:54,850 Everlasting kindness. 50 00:02:56,230 --> 00:02:58,590 Now I have a confession to make to 51 00:02:58,590 --> 00:02:59,310 you this morning. 52 00:03:00,510 --> 00:03:07,150 I stand before you guilty and I must 53 00:03:07,150 --> 00:03:09,910 confess that I am in debt. 54 00:03:12,070 --> 00:03:13,950 Heavy, heavy debt. 55 00:03:15,270 --> 00:03:17,650 So far in debt I don't see how 56 00:03:17,650 --> 00:03:20,330 I could ever possibly get out of it. 57 00:03:22,090 --> 00:03:25,890 The particular debt that I'm in has to 58 00:03:25,890 --> 00:03:29,310 do with how far behind I am in 59 00:03:29,310 --> 00:03:34,730 giving God my praise and my thanksgiving for 60 00:03:34,730 --> 00:03:36,470 his mercies towards me. 61 00:03:39,410 --> 00:03:42,370 And the Lord has taken me through something 62 00:03:42,370 --> 00:03:45,090 lately that I've gone through at particular times 63 00:03:45,090 --> 00:03:49,270 before and I'm referring to the fact of 64 00:03:49,270 --> 00:03:54,670 getting convicted about my lack of ability to 65 00:03:54,670 --> 00:03:58,190 adequately and fully praise the Lord for who 66 00:03:58,190 --> 00:04:01,830 he is and for what he has done 67 00:04:01,830 --> 00:04:03,970 and continues to do for me. 68 00:04:06,670 --> 00:04:08,650 And when I say I'm in debt I 69 00:04:08,650 --> 00:04:10,790 don't say this as a gimmick to get 70 00:04:10,790 --> 00:04:13,270 your attention or just as a way to 71 00:04:13,270 --> 00:04:14,870 introduce this message. 72 00:04:15,149 --> 00:04:15,990 I'm serious. 73 00:04:17,410 --> 00:04:20,470 I stand before you convicted and buked by 74 00:04:20,470 --> 00:04:24,230 the Holy Spirit and this message is born 75 00:04:24,230 --> 00:04:25,850 out of that conviction. 76 00:04:26,190 --> 00:04:29,150 I am in debt, a debt of praise. 77 00:04:30,170 --> 00:04:33,090 How will I ever be able to show 78 00:04:33,090 --> 00:04:36,130 and to tell the Lord how grateful I 79 00:04:36,130 --> 00:04:39,950 am for his everlasting kindness to me. 80 00:04:41,010 --> 00:04:44,750 The Bible says render unto Caesar the things 81 00:04:44,750 --> 00:04:47,590 that are Caesar's and unto God the things 82 00:04:47,590 --> 00:04:48,630 that are God's. 83 00:04:49,350 --> 00:04:51,130 Now as far as I know I don't 84 00:04:51,130 --> 00:04:52,310 owe Caesar a penny. 85 00:04:54,230 --> 00:04:56,170 My taxes are paid. 86 00:04:56,630 --> 00:04:58,910 I'm glad to say I'm not in debt 87 00:04:58,910 --> 00:05:06,490 to Caesar or Bush or Bloomingdale's but God's 88 00:05:06,490 --> 00:05:07,430 another story. 89 00:05:08,690 --> 00:05:11,230 Him I'll never be able to pay. 90 00:05:12,670 --> 00:05:15,330 You say well that's strange the way you're 91 00:05:15,330 --> 00:05:16,350 describing this. 92 00:05:16,410 --> 00:05:17,510 No it isn't. 93 00:05:17,750 --> 00:05:21,950 Psalms 116 12 and 13 says what shall 94 00:05:21,950 --> 00:05:24,570 I render to the Lord for all his 95 00:05:24,570 --> 00:05:25,950 benefits toward me. 96 00:05:27,110 --> 00:05:30,150 I shall lift up the cup of salvation 97 00:05:30,150 --> 00:05:32,730 and call upon the name of the Lord 98 00:05:32,730 --> 00:05:36,230 and yes I do lift up my cup 99 00:05:36,230 --> 00:05:38,610 but it seems so inadequate. 100 00:05:41,630 --> 00:05:43,890 One of the reasons that I'm glad that 101 00:05:43,890 --> 00:05:46,130 I have the ability to speak in other 102 00:05:46,130 --> 00:05:49,270 tongues is not only when I want to 103 00:05:49,270 --> 00:05:51,790 intercede before the Lord and lay out my 104 00:05:51,790 --> 00:05:55,970 burdens before him but also when I want 105 00:05:55,970 --> 00:05:59,710 to praise him and I grope for words, 106 00:05:59,790 --> 00:06:01,150 I grope for language. 107 00:06:01,490 --> 00:06:03,930 I'm glad that I can go into another 108 00:06:03,930 --> 00:06:06,530 dimension and I can speak to him in 109 00:06:06,530 --> 00:06:09,230 a heavenly tongue and I can give praise 110 00:06:09,230 --> 00:06:12,730 to him and though my intellect doesn't understand 111 00:06:12,730 --> 00:06:15,190 it in my spirit I know that I've 112 00:06:15,190 --> 00:06:18,130 entered into a realm of praise unto the 113 00:06:18,130 --> 00:06:18,510 Lord. 114 00:06:18,610 --> 00:06:18,970 Hallelujah. 115 00:06:20,810 --> 00:06:23,530 Well I haven't even got to heaven yet 116 00:06:23,530 --> 00:06:26,850 and Jesus has not heard the last of 117 00:06:26,850 --> 00:06:27,730 our praise. 118 00:06:28,530 --> 00:06:34,190 Psalms 148 2 says that praise is pleasant 119 00:06:34,190 --> 00:06:35,910 and it's becoming. 120 00:06:36,770 --> 00:06:39,010 It's becoming to us. 121 00:06:39,830 --> 00:06:42,490 The church of Jesus Christ, the body of 122 00:06:42,490 --> 00:06:45,970 Christ is never more beautiful than it wears 123 00:06:45,970 --> 00:06:47,630 the garments of praise. 124 00:06:49,070 --> 00:06:51,570 Ever have anybody say to you when you're 125 00:06:51,570 --> 00:06:55,050 dressed up nice and spiffy and Sunday best 126 00:06:55,050 --> 00:06:56,810 on you got a new outfit and they 127 00:06:56,810 --> 00:06:59,130 said you know that's very becoming to you. 128 00:07:00,550 --> 00:07:03,350 Well you see the garment of praise is 129 00:07:03,350 --> 00:07:06,190 very becoming to the church of Jesus Christ. 130 00:07:09,460 --> 00:07:13,180 Now to help us better understand why we 131 00:07:13,180 --> 00:07:15,200 need to praise the Lord I call your 132 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:19,200 attention to Psalms 135 and 136. 133 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:22,040 They are called identical twins. 134 00:07:23,400 --> 00:07:25,380 In fact they might be called the twin 135 00:07:25,380 --> 00:07:30,200 towers of praise and thanksgiving because they rise 136 00:07:30,200 --> 00:07:32,500 up to glorious heights of worship. 137 00:07:34,060 --> 00:07:38,720 Now these two psalms represent a duet of 138 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,060 praise and thanksgiving and they sound like two 139 00:07:43,060 --> 00:07:45,740 fathers trying to pay their debt of praise 140 00:07:45,740 --> 00:07:49,740 to the Lord and basically both psalms say 141 00:07:49,740 --> 00:07:51,880 the same thing but in different ways. 142 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:56,000 In 136 it says praise the Lord. 143 00:07:56,940 --> 00:07:59,220 135 says praise the Lord. 144 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:01,760 136 says give thanks to the Lord. 145 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,460 135.3 says for the Lord is the 146 00:08:06,460 --> 00:08:07,160 Lord. 147 00:08:10,640 --> 00:08:12,680 Verse 5 for I know that the Lord 148 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:14,620 is great and that our God is above 149 00:08:14,620 --> 00:08:15,520 all gods. 150 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:20,220 In 36 it says give thanks to the 151 00:08:20,220 --> 00:08:21,600 God of gods. 152 00:08:22,260 --> 00:08:24,820 Verse 3 give thanks to the Lord of 153 00:08:24,820 --> 00:08:28,220 Lords for his loving kindness is everlasting and 154 00:08:28,220 --> 00:08:32,260 there are many other similarities but I want 155 00:08:32,260 --> 00:08:36,140 to look primarily at Psalms 136 which mentions 156 00:08:36,140 --> 00:08:39,520 this phrase that we read over and over 157 00:08:39,520 --> 00:08:40,000 again. 158 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:43,400 His kindness is everlasting. 159 00:08:44,340 --> 00:08:48,000 The King James says his mercy endureth forever 160 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:52,320 and the message might be entitled that his 161 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:57,460 mercy endureth forever and the terms loving kindness 162 00:08:57,460 --> 00:08:59,800 and mercy have the same meaning. 163 00:08:59,960 --> 00:09:03,720 They can be used interchangeably and it was 164 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:08,380 while reading Psalms 136 that I was moved, 165 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:13,460 moved to tears as the Holy Spirit swept 166 00:09:13,460 --> 00:09:17,700 over me and overwhelmed me with the thoughts 167 00:09:17,700 --> 00:09:21,700 of the Lord's personal loving kindness to me 168 00:09:21,700 --> 00:09:26,200 and to my family and I realized then 169 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:30,720 how much I am in debt, in debt 170 00:09:30,720 --> 00:09:35,760 of praise and so far behind in expressing 171 00:09:35,760 --> 00:09:39,260 my gratitude to God for his mercy that 172 00:09:39,260 --> 00:09:42,180 I'll never be able to in this lifetime 173 00:09:42,180 --> 00:09:47,000 ever be able to offer enough sacrifices of 174 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:51,020 praise to compensate for the amount of blessings 175 00:09:51,020 --> 00:09:54,300 and mercies that have been stowed upon me. 176 00:09:55,100 --> 00:09:58,520 King James says in the first verse give, 177 00:09:58,840 --> 00:10:00,860 oh give thanks to the Lord for his 178 00:10:00,860 --> 00:10:06,080 good for his mercy endureth forever and the 179 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:10,980 theme of this psalm is mercy's vast unfathomed 180 00:10:10,980 --> 00:10:11,600 sea. 181 00:10:12,140 --> 00:10:18,320 Twenty-six times the psalmist lowers his sounding 182 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:23,100 line into the ocean of God's mercy and 183 00:10:23,100 --> 00:10:26,540 twenty-six times he finds that his line 184 00:10:26,540 --> 00:10:27,580 is too short. 185 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,920 There's no bottom here he says, he excludes. 186 00:10:32,860 --> 00:10:37,380 As an old gospel chorus says, wide, wide 187 00:10:37,380 --> 00:10:41,380 as the ocean, high as the heavens above, 188 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:45,540 deep, deep as the deepest sea is my 189 00:10:45,540 --> 00:10:46,740 Savior's love. 190 00:10:48,540 --> 00:10:53,060 God's loving kindness outshines the sun and outlives 191 00:10:53,060 --> 00:10:56,920 the stars and how thankful we can be 192 00:10:56,920 --> 00:11:01,280 for his inspired revelation of the character of 193 00:11:01,280 --> 00:11:01,740 God. 194 00:11:03,260 --> 00:11:07,420 Ecclesiastes says mercy is as beautiful in times 195 00:11:07,420 --> 00:11:10,660 of trouble as rain clouds in a time 196 00:11:10,660 --> 00:11:11,200 of drought. 197 00:11:13,660 --> 00:11:16,420 Now there are several things about the enduring 198 00:11:16,420 --> 00:11:20,460 mercy and everlasting kindness of the Lord that 199 00:11:20,460 --> 00:11:21,100 is brought out. 200 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:22,920 There's numbers of things but I want to 201 00:11:22,920 --> 00:11:24,080 bring out just several. 202 00:11:25,300 --> 00:11:29,960 First of all it tells us that creation 203 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:36,200 and nature shows forth the everlasting kindness of 204 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:36,660 the Lord. 205 00:11:38,000 --> 00:11:42,360 Now I've always been intrigued and yet I 206 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:46,000 didn't fully understand, I've always been intrigued by 207 00:11:46,000 --> 00:11:51,260 the number or the numerous times God's creative 208 00:11:51,260 --> 00:11:56,060 work in creation and in the natural world 209 00:11:56,060 --> 00:12:00,680 is mentioned in the scripture. 210 00:12:02,160 --> 00:12:06,480 And Psalms 135 and 136 is typical of 211 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:06,800 this. 212 00:12:08,180 --> 00:12:10,700 Now it might be obvious to you, you 213 00:12:10,700 --> 00:12:12,860 might be smarter than me, but I would 214 00:12:12,860 --> 00:12:16,580 read all of those never fully understanding it 215 00:12:16,580 --> 00:12:21,820 until the Holy Spirit opened to me as 216 00:12:21,820 --> 00:12:23,240 I studied this message. 217 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:27,620 I don't think I ever fully understood or 218 00:12:27,620 --> 00:12:32,860 appreciated why the frequent references to God's creative 219 00:12:32,860 --> 00:12:37,840 power and the specific mention of the functions 220 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:39,540 and parts of the universe. 221 00:12:39,860 --> 00:12:42,500 I just read over them and say amen, 222 00:12:42,740 --> 00:12:44,320 amen, I know that, that's fine. 223 00:12:47,090 --> 00:12:52,570 But for example, Psalms 146 and 6 says 224 00:12:52,570 --> 00:12:56,630 who made heaven and earth, the sea and 225 00:12:56,630 --> 00:13:00,990 all that is in them, who keeps faith 226 00:13:00,990 --> 00:13:01,670 forever. 227 00:13:03,110 --> 00:13:12,010 Look at Psalms 147, Psalms 147 verses 7, 228 00:13:12,230 --> 00:13:13,250 8, and 9. 229 00:13:15,330 --> 00:13:18,370 It says sing to the Lord with thanksgiving, 230 00:13:18,610 --> 00:13:20,970 give praises to our God on the lyre, 231 00:13:21,390 --> 00:13:25,910 who covers the heavens with clouds, who provides 232 00:13:25,910 --> 00:13:29,350 rain for the earth, who makes grass to 233 00:13:29,350 --> 00:13:32,770 grow on the mountains, he gives to the 234 00:13:32,770 --> 00:13:35,770 beast its food and to the young ravens 235 00:13:35,770 --> 00:13:36,810 which cry. 236 00:13:38,290 --> 00:13:41,570 Look at verse 16, it says he gives 237 00:13:41,570 --> 00:13:45,730 snow like wool, he scatters the frost like 238 00:13:45,730 --> 00:13:49,330 ashes, he casts forth his ice as fragments, 239 00:13:49,910 --> 00:13:51,970 who can stand before his cold. 240 00:13:52,750 --> 00:13:55,670 He sends forth his word and melts them, 241 00:13:56,030 --> 00:13:59,670 he causes his wind to blow and the 242 00:13:59,670 --> 00:14:00,850 waters to flow. 243 00:14:02,490 --> 00:14:08,030 Look at chapter 148 verse 7, praise the 244 00:14:08,030 --> 00:14:11,670 Lord from the earth, sea monsters and all 245 00:14:11,670 --> 00:14:16,130 deeps, fire and hail, snow and clouds, stormy 246 00:14:16,130 --> 00:14:19,390 wind fulfilling his word, mountains and all hills, 247 00:14:19,590 --> 00:14:22,570 fruit trees and all cedars, beast and all 248 00:14:22,570 --> 00:14:29,670 cattle creeping things and winged fowl and winged 249 00:14:29,670 --> 00:14:29,930 fowl. 250 00:14:30,050 --> 00:14:30,690 I'll stop there. 251 00:14:32,030 --> 00:14:36,210 Now what I missed in reading these at 252 00:14:36,210 --> 00:14:41,290 various times is how the psalmist draws the 253 00:14:41,290 --> 00:14:46,670 relationship between God's creative work in nature and 254 00:14:46,670 --> 00:14:51,730 creation and his loving kindness towards his people. 255 00:14:53,090 --> 00:14:58,410 To examine the physical and material and natural 256 00:14:58,410 --> 00:15:03,510 world is to see a mighty display of 257 00:15:03,510 --> 00:15:06,570 God's perpetual love and kindness. 258 00:15:08,090 --> 00:15:11,710 And so few who read this understand it. 259 00:15:11,790 --> 00:15:13,410 Let's go back over a few of the 260 00:15:13,410 --> 00:15:14,590 verses we just read. 261 00:15:16,030 --> 00:15:20,050 Psalms 146 and 6 I read to you. 262 00:15:21,210 --> 00:15:28,850 But look at verse 5, 146 and 6 263 00:15:28,850 --> 00:15:30,610 I read, who made heaven and earth, the 264 00:15:30,610 --> 00:15:32,330 sea and all that is in them, who 265 00:15:32,330 --> 00:15:33,450 keeps faith forever. 266 00:15:33,890 --> 00:15:36,130 But look at verse 5, how blessed is 267 00:15:36,130 --> 00:15:38,430 he whose help is in the God of 268 00:15:38,430 --> 00:15:40,770 Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his 269 00:15:40,770 --> 00:15:46,010 God, who made heaven and earth, the sea 270 00:15:46,010 --> 00:15:49,070 and all that is in them, who keeps 271 00:15:49,070 --> 00:15:50,030 faith forever. 272 00:15:51,510 --> 00:15:54,190 Now what I believe God is saying in 273 00:15:54,190 --> 00:15:58,730 this, he is saying I made the earth 274 00:15:58,730 --> 00:16:04,070 upon which you stand and see and feel 275 00:16:04,070 --> 00:16:08,890 and smell and can depend on for the 276 00:16:08,890 --> 00:16:13,070 sun to rise every morning and the stars 277 00:16:13,070 --> 00:16:16,810 to shine at night and the God who 278 00:16:16,810 --> 00:16:21,890 has a power to create what is so 279 00:16:21,890 --> 00:16:25,670 evident around you that functions every day without 280 00:16:25,670 --> 00:16:28,910 you even thinking about it, that that same 281 00:16:28,910 --> 00:16:31,550 God is our faithful helper. 282 00:16:32,870 --> 00:16:37,510 We serve a God who keeps faith forever. 283 00:16:39,010 --> 00:16:42,110 Now you tell me if God does not 284 00:16:42,110 --> 00:16:46,870 keep faith and faithfulness, have you ever known 285 00:16:46,870 --> 00:16:49,530 him not to provide rain for the earth 286 00:16:49,530 --> 00:16:53,050 or give the beast his food or cause 287 00:16:53,050 --> 00:16:55,330 his wind to blow and the waters to 288 00:16:55,330 --> 00:16:55,750 flow? 289 00:16:57,050 --> 00:16:59,370 Now let's go over some of the verses 290 00:16:59,370 --> 00:17:00,710 I just read to you. 291 00:17:01,570 --> 00:17:03,550 Psalms 147. 292 00:17:05,349 --> 00:17:10,349 I read to you, or was it? 293 00:17:11,130 --> 00:17:14,910 Yes, Psalms 147, it says sing to the 294 00:17:14,910 --> 00:17:16,069 Lord with thanksgiving. 295 00:17:17,550 --> 00:17:22,770 He provides rain for the earth, he gives 296 00:17:22,770 --> 00:17:23,790 to the beast his food. 297 00:17:23,910 --> 00:17:26,250 And then verse 10, he does not delight 298 00:17:26,250 --> 00:17:27,990 in the strength of the horse, he does 299 00:17:27,990 --> 00:17:29,770 not take pleasure in the legs of a 300 00:17:29,770 --> 00:17:29,870 man. 301 00:17:30,110 --> 00:17:32,730 The Lord favors those who fear him. 302 00:17:33,730 --> 00:17:36,450 Look at verse 6, the Lord supports the 303 00:17:36,450 --> 00:17:39,110 afflicted and brings down the wicked to the 304 00:17:39,110 --> 00:17:39,510 earth. 305 00:17:40,810 --> 00:17:45,150 Go back verse 3, he heals the brokenhearted 306 00:17:45,150 --> 00:17:46,690 and binds up their wounds. 307 00:17:46,790 --> 00:17:48,930 He counts the number of the stars, he 308 00:17:48,930 --> 00:17:50,470 gives names to all of them. 309 00:17:51,170 --> 00:17:53,770 Great is our Lord and abundant in strength, 310 00:17:53,910 --> 00:17:55,370 his everlasting is infinite. 311 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:01,360 Look at verses 16 to 18 again. 312 00:18:03,000 --> 00:18:06,080 It goes over and mentions these things and 313 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:08,440 then it says he declares his words to 314 00:18:08,440 --> 00:18:11,440 Jacob, his statutes and his ordinance to Israel. 315 00:18:14,390 --> 00:18:17,030 Verse 15, he sends forth his command to 316 00:18:17,030 --> 00:18:19,370 the earth, his word runs very swiftly. 317 00:18:20,710 --> 00:18:24,490 And then in Psalms 148, it goes, I've 318 00:18:24,490 --> 00:18:26,770 read to you verses 7 to 10. 319 00:18:28,010 --> 00:18:30,190 And then it goes down to verse 13, 320 00:18:30,330 --> 00:18:32,030 it says, let them praise the name of 321 00:18:32,030 --> 00:18:34,350 the Lord for his name alone is exalted, 322 00:18:34,590 --> 00:18:37,390 his glory is above the earth and heaven. 323 00:18:37,550 --> 00:18:39,430 He has lifted up a horn to his 324 00:18:39,430 --> 00:18:39,910 people. 325 00:18:43,910 --> 00:18:45,650 And now and also go back to Psalms 326 00:18:45,650 --> 00:18:56,100 135, Psalms 135, it 327 00:18:58,120 --> 00:19:01,420 says, whatever the Lord pleases, he does. 328 00:19:02,540 --> 00:19:05,240 In heaven and in earth, in the seas 329 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,580 and the deeps, he causes the vapors to 330 00:19:08,580 --> 00:19:11,060 ascend from the ends of the earth, who 331 00:19:11,060 --> 00:19:13,740 makes lightnings for the rain, who brings forth 332 00:19:13,740 --> 00:19:16,300 the wind from his treasuries. 333 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:22,620 Now listen to me, God's mercy and kindness 334 00:19:22,620 --> 00:19:25,920 begins, he is saying, with his creative works. 335 00:19:26,940 --> 00:19:29,240 We are surrounded by them. 336 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:34,080 We do not worship nature or the things 337 00:19:34,080 --> 00:19:37,020 that God has created, but we worship him 338 00:19:37,020 --> 00:19:41,140 who has created all of this for our 339 00:19:41,140 --> 00:19:41,560 good. 340 00:19:42,880 --> 00:19:48,700 And his creation, now I'm not a woodsman, 341 00:19:49,420 --> 00:19:51,400 I'm not an outdoors person. 342 00:19:51,520 --> 00:19:53,840 I remember one time I was going to 343 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,120 buy one of these little travel trailers and 344 00:19:57,120 --> 00:19:58,760 to go out, you know, and go out 345 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:00,300 in the parks and so forth. 346 00:20:00,820 --> 00:20:02,380 And a friend of mine said, what are 347 00:20:02,380 --> 00:20:03,340 you doing that for? 348 00:20:05,480 --> 00:20:07,780 He said, your idea of camping is to 349 00:20:07,780 --> 00:20:08,940 go to the Holiday Inn. 350 00:20:11,350 --> 00:20:13,730 Well, he was right, I didn't buy that 351 00:20:13,730 --> 00:20:14,210 camper. 352 00:20:15,090 --> 00:20:17,250 But as I travel down the highway, I 353 00:20:17,250 --> 00:20:19,090 like to look from the view of my 354 00:20:19,090 --> 00:20:21,670 car and I like to see the handiwork 355 00:20:21,670 --> 00:20:22,330 of God. 356 00:20:23,890 --> 00:20:26,490 But the psalmist is saying that when you 357 00:20:26,490 --> 00:20:33,010 look at God's creation, his creation shows that 358 00:20:33,010 --> 00:20:38,110 he is a God of faithfulness, dependability, and 359 00:20:38,110 --> 00:20:39,550 law and order. 360 00:20:41,230 --> 00:20:44,330 Psalms 19.1 says, The heavens are telling 361 00:20:44,330 --> 00:20:47,970 of the glory of God, and their expanse 362 00:20:47,970 --> 00:20:50,350 is declaring the work of his hands. 363 00:20:50,830 --> 00:20:56,430 Day unto day poureth forth speech, and night 364 00:20:56,430 --> 00:20:58,530 to night reveals knowledge. 365 00:20:59,030 --> 00:21:01,870 There is no speech, nor are their words, 366 00:21:02,190 --> 00:21:03,970 their voice is not heard. 367 00:21:05,010 --> 00:21:07,870 And you see, the voice of God is 368 00:21:07,870 --> 00:21:11,650 all around us, and it is one of 369 00:21:11,650 --> 00:21:12,870 his loving kindness. 370 00:21:13,550 --> 00:21:15,850 And you know what's blowing the minds of 371 00:21:15,850 --> 00:21:16,890 scientists now? 372 00:21:17,430 --> 00:21:20,990 Because they suddenly discovered a new planet, a 373 00:21:20,990 --> 00:21:23,910 new galaxy, and they're all excited about it. 374 00:21:25,130 --> 00:21:27,870 Well, bless their heart, if they'll look a 375 00:21:27,870 --> 00:21:30,550 little bit further, they'll see something even more 376 00:21:30,550 --> 00:21:32,030 that'll blow their minds. 377 00:21:34,010 --> 00:21:37,110 And it's God, I think, God's allowing them 378 00:21:37,110 --> 00:21:39,650 to discover something else up there, to see 379 00:21:39,650 --> 00:21:42,710 it operating up there, to give them another 380 00:21:42,710 --> 00:21:46,370 chance to see his mighty faithfulness in his 381 00:21:46,370 --> 00:21:47,470 creative works. 382 00:21:49,110 --> 00:21:52,150 No one who stands before God will ever 383 00:21:52,150 --> 00:21:54,650 be able to say to God, why did 384 00:21:54,650 --> 00:21:56,450 you not show me your mercy? 385 00:21:57,830 --> 00:22:00,250 God says, do you want to know what 386 00:22:00,250 --> 00:22:01,150 I am like? 387 00:22:02,110 --> 00:22:05,170 Look at creation as I made it. 388 00:22:06,210 --> 00:22:11,350 Psalms 135 and 136, as well as in 389 00:22:11,350 --> 00:22:15,530 numerous other places, we are pointed towards the 390 00:22:15,530 --> 00:22:20,110 natural world as a lesson in spiritual principle. 391 00:22:21,070 --> 00:22:24,110 The Scripture takes us from the physical to 392 00:22:24,110 --> 00:22:28,050 the spiritual, and we see that the same 393 00:22:28,050 --> 00:22:31,850 God who brought us planet Earth as a 394 00:22:31,850 --> 00:22:36,210 demonstration of his loving kindness, he is saying 395 00:22:36,210 --> 00:22:39,450 that when you look at the dependability of 396 00:22:39,450 --> 00:22:43,290 the universe, he said, I'm the same God 397 00:22:43,290 --> 00:22:46,290 who will come down and invade your little 398 00:22:46,290 --> 00:22:49,990 world, and I will be just as dependable 399 00:22:49,990 --> 00:22:53,550 to demonstrate myself to you in your world 400 00:22:53,550 --> 00:22:55,270 as I do in the world that is 401 00:22:55,270 --> 00:22:56,090 around you. 402 00:23:02,250 --> 00:23:05,570 Now, verse 10 begins another thought. 403 00:23:06,310 --> 00:23:10,790 Look at Psalms 136 and verse 10, and 404 00:23:10,790 --> 00:23:12,830 then it begins to talk about Israel. 405 00:23:15,050 --> 00:23:19,870 Another thought is talked about of Israel coming 406 00:23:19,870 --> 00:23:22,330 out of Egypt and how God cares for 407 00:23:22,330 --> 00:23:25,170 them, and how he loved them, and how 408 00:23:25,170 --> 00:23:26,990 he brought them out, and how he led 409 00:23:26,990 --> 00:23:28,910 them, and he protected them, and he fed 410 00:23:28,910 --> 00:23:29,270 them. 411 00:23:30,130 --> 00:23:32,670 And so here we see God going from 412 00:23:32,670 --> 00:23:36,050 the great expanse of the universe, and then 413 00:23:36,050 --> 00:23:39,890 he brings, he gives us a larger picture, 414 00:23:40,070 --> 00:23:42,110 and then he begins to bring it down 415 00:23:42,110 --> 00:23:45,550 to where we live, and he says, look 416 00:23:45,550 --> 00:23:46,970 what I did for Israel. 417 00:23:48,630 --> 00:23:51,130 Jesus said the same thing when he said, 418 00:23:51,230 --> 00:23:53,510 but if God so will raise the grass 419 00:23:53,510 --> 00:23:56,710 of the field which is alive today and 420 00:23:56,710 --> 00:23:59,670 tomorrow is thrown into the furnace, will he 421 00:23:59,670 --> 00:24:02,350 not much more do so for you? 422 00:24:05,150 --> 00:24:06,190 Now listen to me. 423 00:24:06,230 --> 00:24:10,750 If you doubt the loving kindness of the 424 00:24:10,750 --> 00:24:14,870 Lord, if you doubt that his mercy endureth 425 00:24:14,870 --> 00:24:17,750 forever, then I tell you check the record. 426 00:24:18,990 --> 00:24:21,470 Have you ever known it that day did 427 00:24:21,470 --> 00:24:22,530 not follow night? 428 00:24:24,150 --> 00:24:26,230 That the sun did not rule. 429 00:24:26,330 --> 00:24:28,850 He said the sun rules by day. 430 00:24:30,290 --> 00:24:32,410 His kindness is everlasting. 431 00:24:33,670 --> 00:24:35,910 The great lights of heaven to rule by 432 00:24:35,910 --> 00:24:36,390 night. 433 00:24:38,190 --> 00:24:41,590 Go to the beach, if you will, and 434 00:24:41,590 --> 00:24:44,310 lay on the beach for 24 hours. 435 00:24:44,930 --> 00:24:47,570 If the tide doesn't go out, and if 436 00:24:47,570 --> 00:24:49,730 it doesn't come back in, then you can 437 00:24:49,730 --> 00:24:51,710 come back to me and say God isn't 438 00:24:51,710 --> 00:24:52,110 faithful. 439 00:24:52,950 --> 00:24:55,030 But if it goes out and it comes 440 00:24:55,030 --> 00:24:57,530 back in, then I say to you, God 441 00:24:57,530 --> 00:24:58,150 is faithful. 442 00:25:00,370 --> 00:25:03,230 You want to witness of somebody, take out 443 00:25:03,230 --> 00:25:05,230 of the New York Times on the weather 444 00:25:05,230 --> 00:25:05,830 page. 445 00:25:05,830 --> 00:25:10,610 It says right in the New York Times. 446 00:25:11,050 --> 00:25:20,230 It'll tell you sunrise 649, sunset 629. 447 00:25:21,190 --> 00:25:25,490 Have you ever known it that the sun 448 00:25:25,490 --> 00:25:28,250 said I'm tired, I want to sleep in 449 00:25:28,250 --> 00:25:28,830 this morning. 450 00:25:30,490 --> 00:25:32,690 I think I'll get up about 10 o 451 00:25:32,690 --> 00:25:33,030 'clock. 452 00:25:36,050 --> 00:25:39,610 You want to witness to somebody, take that 453 00:25:39,610 --> 00:25:41,490 out of the New York Times and write 454 00:25:41,490 --> 00:25:44,410 over it, his mercy endureth forever. 455 00:25:46,010 --> 00:25:47,730 And they'll look at you and say, what 456 00:25:47,730 --> 00:25:48,490 are you talking about? 457 00:25:48,550 --> 00:25:49,490 I said, well there it is. 458 00:25:49,510 --> 00:25:52,370 It says a sunrise, were you up this 459 00:25:52,370 --> 00:25:54,290 morning to see it? 460 00:25:56,290 --> 00:25:58,110 Or did you see the sunset? 461 00:25:59,270 --> 00:26:01,970 That's a demonstration of the faithfulness of the 462 00:26:01,970 --> 00:26:02,310 Lord. 463 00:26:03,210 --> 00:26:05,070 Now I told you folks that you've been 464 00:26:05,070 --> 00:26:06,030 missing all this. 465 00:26:06,030 --> 00:26:08,090 You've been reading all the scripture. 466 00:26:08,230 --> 00:26:10,710 I know you're missing it because it's not 467 00:26:10,710 --> 00:26:13,310 thrilling you very much, but it's nevertheless, it's 468 00:26:13,310 --> 00:26:14,610 there in the scripture, hallelujah. 469 00:26:14,790 --> 00:26:16,870 I'm getting, I'm having a good time preaching 470 00:26:16,870 --> 00:26:17,550 about it. 471 00:26:22,950 --> 00:26:26,090 Psalms 146 verse 6, who made heaven and 472 00:26:26,090 --> 00:26:28,650 earth, the sea and all that is in 473 00:26:28,650 --> 00:26:31,730 them, who keeps faith forever. 474 00:26:33,070 --> 00:26:37,510 Yes, God keeps his word and his faithfulness 475 00:26:37,510 --> 00:26:41,970 in the way his natural creation performs, and 476 00:26:41,970 --> 00:26:44,990 will he do any less with you and 477 00:26:44,990 --> 00:26:45,310 I? 478 00:26:46,650 --> 00:26:49,910 Jesus said it in Matthew 6, are we 479 00:26:49,910 --> 00:26:52,110 not worth much more than they? 480 00:26:53,430 --> 00:26:57,330 Think for a moment of the orderliness, or 481 00:26:57,330 --> 00:27:00,990 how orderly the sun and the moon and 482 00:27:00,990 --> 00:27:02,210 the stars are. 483 00:27:02,910 --> 00:27:05,810 The way they obey the laws of God 484 00:27:05,810 --> 00:27:08,710 as they undertake their journeys through space. 485 00:27:09,410 --> 00:27:12,990 Think of the mathematical precision of their movement. 486 00:27:13,870 --> 00:27:16,990 If there was no such order, what a 487 00:27:16,990 --> 00:27:19,310 chaotic universe it would be. 488 00:27:19,970 --> 00:27:22,550 We would never know for sure the length 489 00:27:22,550 --> 00:27:25,050 of the day or be assured of the 490 00:27:25,050 --> 00:27:25,990 coming season. 491 00:27:26,610 --> 00:27:29,730 Our lives would be in uncertainty and we 492 00:27:29,730 --> 00:27:32,170 would live in disorder and confusion. 493 00:27:33,690 --> 00:27:36,870 The set rule of the sun and moon 494 00:27:36,870 --> 00:27:40,590 and stars is another proof that God's mercy 495 00:27:40,590 --> 00:27:44,390 endures forever, and I would hate it if 496 00:27:44,390 --> 00:27:47,570 the sun was able to rebel and moved 497 00:27:47,570 --> 00:27:49,290 a little bit closer to the earth. 498 00:27:49,370 --> 00:27:51,730 That would not be the loving kindness of 499 00:27:51,730 --> 00:27:52,150 the Lord. 500 00:27:58,830 --> 00:28:05,230 The world suffers because scientists and our educational 501 00:28:05,230 --> 00:28:09,410 system and the majority of people do not 502 00:28:09,410 --> 00:28:11,850 believe in a divine creation. 503 00:28:13,550 --> 00:28:20,150 Belief in Darwinism or evolution blinds men to 504 00:28:20,150 --> 00:28:21,430 the mercy of God. 505 00:28:22,710 --> 00:28:25,350 Now first of all, if you think that 506 00:28:25,350 --> 00:28:29,190 man, if anybody thinks that man evolved from 507 00:28:29,190 --> 00:28:34,210 a fish or a toad or a monkey, 508 00:28:34,530 --> 00:28:37,130 then he's going to live a very fishy 509 00:28:37,130 --> 00:28:39,950 life and a very animalistic lifestyle. 510 00:28:42,470 --> 00:28:45,770 But worse, you're not going to know a 511 00:28:45,770 --> 00:28:49,510 loving, caring God who not only made the 512 00:28:49,510 --> 00:28:54,510 universe, but mercifully maintains it each and every 513 00:28:54,510 --> 00:28:56,110 single day and hour. 514 00:28:57,990 --> 00:29:00,970 I'm convinced that one of the reasons man 515 00:29:00,970 --> 00:29:04,550 does not know the everlasting kindness of God 516 00:29:04,550 --> 00:29:08,370 is because he does not believe in the 517 00:29:08,370 --> 00:29:11,430 creation theory and account in Genesis. 518 00:29:12,670 --> 00:29:17,790 This is very foundational of not only understanding 519 00:29:17,790 --> 00:29:21,090 how the world was created, but when you 520 00:29:21,090 --> 00:29:24,310 examine the laws by which this world continues 521 00:29:24,310 --> 00:29:27,990 to function each and every single day of 522 00:29:27,990 --> 00:29:32,310 our lives by God's power, you cannot help 523 00:29:32,310 --> 00:29:37,030 but give thanks to him who alone does 524 00:29:37,030 --> 00:29:40,910 great wonders for his loving kindness is everlasting. 525 00:29:43,130 --> 00:29:47,070 You see, because God is a creator, every 526 00:29:47,070 --> 00:29:51,110 aspect of the universe and of man is 527 00:29:51,110 --> 00:29:55,790 structured by God's creative act and universal decree, 528 00:29:56,470 --> 00:30:00,650 and therefore it reflects his law and his 529 00:30:00,650 --> 00:30:01,010 order. 530 00:30:02,330 --> 00:30:05,790 Man cannot escape him, nor can they shut 531 00:30:05,790 --> 00:30:06,370 him out. 532 00:30:08,050 --> 00:30:11,990 Romans 1.20 says, For since the creation 533 00:30:11,990 --> 00:30:16,170 of the world, his invisible attributes and his 534 00:30:16,170 --> 00:30:20,050 eternal power and divine nature have been clearly 535 00:30:20,050 --> 00:30:24,670 seen, being understood through that which has been 536 00:30:24,670 --> 00:30:28,590 made, so they are without excuse. 537 00:30:31,350 --> 00:30:35,310 The first five most important words in the 538 00:30:35,310 --> 00:30:41,190 Bible are these, in the beginning God created. 539 00:30:43,010 --> 00:30:46,210 And men have fought against the truth of 540 00:30:46,210 --> 00:30:51,070 Genesis, the Genesis account of creation for centuries, 541 00:30:51,850 --> 00:30:57,050 and they've endorsed Darwinism for one simple reason, 542 00:30:57,650 --> 00:31:01,450 that if God is our creator, then I 543 00:31:01,450 --> 00:31:03,150 am accountable to him. 544 00:31:06,620 --> 00:31:09,780 Man rejects God as the one who has 545 00:31:09,780 --> 00:31:13,480 established the laws of the universe because he 546 00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:16,540 rejects God's moral laws as well. 547 00:31:17,580 --> 00:31:21,000 If you accept God as ruler over the 548 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:24,260 physical realm, you have to accept him as 549 00:31:24,260 --> 00:31:27,480 ruler over your spiritual realm as well. 550 00:31:28,620 --> 00:31:33,700 But the further tragedy of man's rejection of 551 00:31:33,700 --> 00:31:36,720 God as the architect of the universe, that 552 00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:39,620 it shuts him out from knowing that God 553 00:31:39,620 --> 00:31:43,660 is our provider, he is our protector, he 554 00:31:43,660 --> 00:31:46,860 is the one who maintains the world by 555 00:31:46,860 --> 00:31:51,160 his word, and just as he does that, 556 00:31:51,460 --> 00:31:54,480 he will be faithful to us, his creatures 557 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:55,080 as well. 558 00:31:55,260 --> 00:31:55,680 Hallelujah. 559 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:02,920 Now I know why the scripture makes such 560 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:06,520 frequent mention of the physical creation. 561 00:32:07,100 --> 00:32:11,460 It is a resounding message of God's everlasting 562 00:32:11,460 --> 00:32:12,920 loving-kindness. 563 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:14,800 Listen to it. 564 00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,740 The earth is full of the loving-kindness 565 00:32:18,740 --> 00:32:19,360 of the Lord. 566 00:32:20,260 --> 00:32:22,360 By the word of the Lord the heavens 567 00:32:22,360 --> 00:32:25,480 were made, and by the breath of his 568 00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:27,500 mouth all their host. 569 00:32:28,280 --> 00:32:31,060 He gathers the waters of the sea together 570 00:32:31,060 --> 00:32:31,860 as a heap. 571 00:32:32,440 --> 00:32:35,300 He lays up the deeps in storehouses. 572 00:32:36,180 --> 00:32:38,660 Let all the earth fear the Lord. 573 00:32:39,140 --> 00:32:41,680 Let all the inhabitants of the Lord stand 574 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:42,960 in all of him. 575 00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:46,440 For he spoke, and it was done. 576 00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:49,560 He commanded, and it stood fast. 577 00:32:50,780 --> 00:32:52,720 You can trust a man like that. 578 00:32:52,760 --> 00:32:53,240 Hallelujah. 579 00:32:55,950 --> 00:33:00,810 Nature never breaks her own laws, and you 580 00:33:00,810 --> 00:33:03,690 must be convinced that God will not change 581 00:33:03,690 --> 00:33:06,930 his character in his dealings with you. 582 00:33:07,270 --> 00:33:08,930 That's what it's all about. 583 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,800 I believe that no one, no one can 584 00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:22,340 have a good healthy spiritual life unless they 585 00:33:22,340 --> 00:33:25,300 are convinced beyond any shadow of a doubt 586 00:33:25,300 --> 00:33:26,680 of God's mercy. 587 00:33:28,060 --> 00:33:30,340 Now you may go through troubles. 588 00:33:32,450 --> 00:33:35,630 You may question as to why certain things 589 00:33:35,630 --> 00:33:39,310 happen to you, but if you believe that 590 00:33:39,310 --> 00:33:43,270 no matter what happens in your life the 591 00:33:43,270 --> 00:33:48,790 steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, that 592 00:33:48,790 --> 00:33:51,210 his mercy come to an end, if you 593 00:33:51,210 --> 00:33:54,690 believe that you can withstand anything that comes 594 00:33:54,690 --> 00:33:57,210 into your life, any attack of the devil, 595 00:33:57,470 --> 00:34:00,250 anything that happens to you, you stand on 596 00:34:00,250 --> 00:34:03,610 that and say his mercies endureth forever. 597 00:34:03,610 --> 00:34:04,070 Hallelujah. 598 00:34:06,630 --> 00:34:10,770 That's why Paul could say, all things work 599 00:34:10,770 --> 00:34:12,949 together for good to them that love the 600 00:34:12,949 --> 00:34:13,350 Lord. 601 00:34:14,590 --> 00:34:16,690 Now he didn't mean that all things are 602 00:34:16,690 --> 00:34:20,250 good, but he said all things work for 603 00:34:20,250 --> 00:34:20,889 our good. 604 00:34:22,630 --> 00:34:24,830 They're ultimately for our good. 605 00:34:25,130 --> 00:34:28,090 God is so powerful, he's so full of 606 00:34:28,090 --> 00:34:31,389 mercy that he can cause anything that happens 607 00:34:31,389 --> 00:34:33,969 to us to so work that in the 608 00:34:33,969 --> 00:34:35,850 end it comes out for our good. 609 00:34:35,909 --> 00:34:36,230 Hallelujah. 610 00:34:36,630 --> 00:34:38,810 That's why his mercies endure forever. 611 00:34:42,659 --> 00:34:45,020 This is the end of side one. 612 00:34:45,219 --> 00:34:45,739 You may now... 613 00:34:45,739 --> 00:34:49,480 I got to take my watch off, and 614 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,540 it's like we often explain to you it 615 00:34:51,540 --> 00:34:52,440 doesn't mean anything. 616 00:34:54,880 --> 00:34:57,720 Next I want to show you, I want 617 00:34:57,720 --> 00:34:58,720 you to note verse 10. 618 00:34:58,820 --> 00:35:02,100 Go back to Psalms 135 and verse 10, 619 00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:06,000 excuse me, 136 and verse 10. 620 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,560 The psalmist moves from creation and the natural 621 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:19,100 world to show us a difficult, what I 622 00:35:19,100 --> 00:35:22,440 consider a difficult to be understood loving-kindness. 623 00:35:23,740 --> 00:35:25,840 And this is what stopped me in my 624 00:35:25,840 --> 00:35:26,320 tracks. 625 00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:30,360 To him who smote the Egyptians in their 626 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,220 firstborn, for his loving-kindness is everlasting. 627 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:40,740 How can it be, from the Egyptian standpoint, 628 00:35:41,860 --> 00:35:44,780 how can it be loving-kindness? 629 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:47,800 Smiting the firstborn? 630 00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:53,140 Where is the mercy in this for the 631 00:35:53,140 --> 00:35:54,180 families of Egypt? 632 00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:59,180 I studied this, I came to this message, 633 00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:00,900 I came to a dead end. 634 00:36:01,940 --> 00:36:04,460 I went to bed one night not fully 635 00:36:04,460 --> 00:36:08,600 comprehending the relationship between judgment and mercy in 636 00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:09,200 this verse. 637 00:36:10,300 --> 00:36:12,420 I awoke in the night with the Holy 638 00:36:12,420 --> 00:36:16,680 Spirit showing me another whole aspect of the 639 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:21,220 Lord's loving-kindness, and my eyes watered up 640 00:36:21,220 --> 00:36:24,020 in tears as it was revealed to me. 641 00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:26,720 The next morning I tried to explain it 642 00:36:26,720 --> 00:36:27,280 to my wife. 643 00:36:27,380 --> 00:36:28,940 I have felt all excited about it, and 644 00:36:28,940 --> 00:36:30,320 I tried to explain it to her, and 645 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:32,440 she wasn't very impressed, and I hope I 646 00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,160 do a better job with you than I 647 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:34,740 did with her. 648 00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:45,160 Now think of what happened the night in 649 00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,160 Egypt that verse 10 is describing. 650 00:36:47,320 --> 00:36:51,040 The death angel comes down, and the baby 651 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,280 in the crib is killed. 652 00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,300 The little boy who was school age is 653 00:36:56,300 --> 00:36:56,640 killed. 654 00:36:56,780 --> 00:36:58,240 The young man who can work in the 655 00:36:58,240 --> 00:37:01,340 field, the firstborn of every family is killed, 656 00:37:01,980 --> 00:37:03,540 taken from their family. 657 00:37:04,820 --> 00:37:06,840 Now if you're a Christian or Jew you 658 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,220 know the significance of this as being the 659 00:37:09,220 --> 00:37:13,380 beginning of the end of Israel's bondage, but 660 00:37:13,380 --> 00:37:15,900 it's the linking of the death angel smiting 661 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:19,320 the firstborn to God's loving-kindness that to 662 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:20,400 me is still unusual. 663 00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:24,420 Yes, we must say that this was an 664 00:37:24,420 --> 00:37:28,040 act of mercy, but for who might we 665 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:28,600 ask? 666 00:37:29,300 --> 00:37:32,020 For the children of Israel for sure we 667 00:37:32,020 --> 00:37:36,120 do know that that was his mercy, but 668 00:37:36,120 --> 00:37:38,680 was this only an act of mercy for 669 00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:39,120 Israel? 670 00:37:40,220 --> 00:37:45,560 No, this was mercy both for Israel and 671 00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:46,760 towards Egypt. 672 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,940 For one thing, God was merciful in that 673 00:37:50,940 --> 00:37:55,260 his judgment fell only, only on the firstborn. 674 00:37:56,360 --> 00:37:58,280 It could have been everyone. 675 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:04,220 And this stroke of doom came only after 676 00:38:04,220 --> 00:38:10,080 God had demonstrated his pity and his patience 677 00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:15,420 and his judgments nine different times. 678 00:38:16,780 --> 00:38:21,200 It was only until Moses and God had 679 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,120 been lied to, had been played with, had 680 00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:29,540 been resisted by Pharaoh and his servants nine 681 00:38:29,540 --> 00:38:34,460 different times, only then did God say enough 682 00:38:34,460 --> 00:38:37,720 and he smote the firstborn. 683 00:38:38,340 --> 00:38:41,700 I don't know if you or I would 684 00:38:41,700 --> 00:38:45,080 have had such patience in that situation. 685 00:38:45,260 --> 00:38:47,840 You read the account of the plagues again. 686 00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:51,980 Look at it from the Egyptians' viewpoint. 687 00:38:52,660 --> 00:38:56,580 Was it judgment when God smote the firstborn? 688 00:38:57,500 --> 00:39:01,200 Yes, but was there mercy as well? 689 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:06,160 Yes, yes, yes, nine times yes. 690 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:11,260 Can it be any clearer that in times 691 00:39:11,260 --> 00:39:15,540 of God's dealing with men and nations that 692 00:39:15,540 --> 00:39:19,300 in wrath God remembers his mercy? 693 00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:24,100 Now what an encouragement this ought to be 694 00:39:24,100 --> 00:39:24,820 to us. 695 00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:30,300 Behind God's severity there is always his loving 696 00:39:30,300 --> 00:39:31,060 -kindness. 697 00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:36,620 In wrath God always has mercy as his 698 00:39:36,620 --> 00:39:39,280 primary object in our lives. 699 00:39:40,060 --> 00:39:43,380 Hebrews 12, 6 says, for whom the Lord 700 00:39:43,380 --> 00:39:45,160 loveth he chasteneth. 701 00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:49,700 Now there are some, there are some who 702 00:39:49,700 --> 00:39:53,760 attend here who do not believe really in 703 00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:55,380 their hearts, really down inside. 704 00:39:55,500 --> 00:39:57,680 They don't believe in God's judgment or the 705 00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:58,840 chastising of the Lord. 706 00:39:59,920 --> 00:40:02,620 They've been raised spiritually on a teaching or 707 00:40:02,620 --> 00:40:06,240 a theology of all grace and they do 708 00:40:06,240 --> 00:40:09,180 not believe that God would ever allow anyone 709 00:40:09,180 --> 00:40:13,200 to suffer as a means of obtaining grace. 710 00:40:14,620 --> 00:40:17,240 Some of you went to churches where rarely 711 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,640 if ever you heard a message on sin 712 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:24,660 or ever heard warnings that if you live 713 00:40:24,660 --> 00:40:28,000 in sin or disobedience that God would deal 714 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:29,600 in severity with you. 715 00:40:30,660 --> 00:40:48,680 As a mercy 716 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,940 is always the motive of God's chastisement and 717 00:40:52,940 --> 00:40:53,640 his wrath. 718 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,820 Egypt never would have had to suffer an 719 00:40:57,820 --> 00:41:02,780 evasion of frogs or swarms of flies or 720 00:41:02,780 --> 00:41:04,380 the darkness on the land. 721 00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:08,120 In fact it was not until there were 722 00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,020 six plagues that it was the seventh and 723 00:41:11,020 --> 00:41:13,340 eighth and ninth that life was taken. 724 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,980 First plant life and then animal life. 725 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,720 That would came as a prior warning till 726 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:21,600 before number 10 came. 727 00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:25,540 And with each plague God was trying to 728 00:41:25,540 --> 00:41:27,060 show Pharaoh his power. 729 00:41:28,500 --> 00:41:31,640 He had acted in accordance, if he had 730 00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:36,180 acted into accordance with God's will, after any 731 00:41:36,180 --> 00:41:39,020 one of the plagues or at any one 732 00:41:39,020 --> 00:41:42,200 point God's judgments would have stopped. 733 00:41:42,940 --> 00:41:47,100 But Pharaoh missed the opportunity and turned God's 734 00:41:47,100 --> 00:41:51,920 goodness into an occasion of ever increasing resistance. 735 00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:56,860 And the result was that instead of him 736 00:41:56,860 --> 00:42:00,640 being a sign of mercy, instead of having 737 00:42:00,640 --> 00:42:04,180 a hearing ear and an understanding heart, he 738 00:42:04,180 --> 00:42:08,560 became a warning to show all generations that 739 00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,560 a man who will not bend must be 740 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,380 broken and that the soul may turn to 741 00:42:15,380 --> 00:42:18,760 poison what God intended should be for his 742 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:20,880 nourishment and his enlightenment. 743 00:42:22,100 --> 00:42:26,480 Let it never be forgotten that we are 744 00:42:26,480 --> 00:42:30,120 told that God hardened Pharaoh's heart and the 745 00:42:30,120 --> 00:42:33,100 heart of his servants, but we are also 746 00:42:33,100 --> 00:42:35,780 told again and again that he hardened his 747 00:42:35,780 --> 00:42:36,540 own heart. 748 00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,780 Now what does that mean to you? 749 00:42:42,240 --> 00:42:53,110 Listen, you may experience, excuse me, you may 750 00:42:53,110 --> 00:42:57,150 experience a chastisement, the judgment, and the severity 751 00:42:57,150 --> 00:42:59,770 of God's dealing in your life at this 752 00:42:59,770 --> 00:43:00,390 very time. 753 00:43:00,470 --> 00:43:03,090 You may be going through it, but if 754 00:43:03,090 --> 00:43:06,170 so, you must know that what is behind 755 00:43:06,170 --> 00:43:09,310 it is the loving kindness of our Lord. 756 00:43:11,050 --> 00:43:13,270 Listen to Isaiah, this is what I was 757 00:43:13,270 --> 00:43:15,090 looking for, Isaiah 54. 758 00:43:16,270 --> 00:43:18,370 It says, for your husband is your maker, 759 00:43:19,310 --> 00:43:22,330 whose name is the Lord of hosts, and 760 00:43:22,330 --> 00:43:24,810 your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel, 761 00:43:25,350 --> 00:43:27,970 who called the God of all the earth. 762 00:43:28,250 --> 00:43:30,850 For the Lord has called you like a 763 00:43:30,850 --> 00:43:34,770 wife forsaken and grieved in spirit, even like 764 00:43:34,770 --> 00:43:36,750 a wife of one's youth when she is 765 00:43:36,750 --> 00:43:38,510 rejected, says the Lord. 766 00:43:39,350 --> 00:43:42,970 For a brief moment I forsook you, but 767 00:43:42,970 --> 00:43:45,530 with great compassion I will gather you. 768 00:43:46,550 --> 00:43:48,890 In an outburst of anger I hid my 769 00:43:48,890 --> 00:43:53,050 face from you for a moment, but with 770 00:43:53,050 --> 00:43:57,190 everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you, 771 00:43:57,650 --> 00:43:59,490 says the Lord your Redeemer. 772 00:44:01,370 --> 00:44:04,330 Are you being inflicted by what you might 773 00:44:04,330 --> 00:44:05,430 consider a plague? 774 00:44:06,950 --> 00:44:09,690 If so, I tell you this morning, it's 775 00:44:09,690 --> 00:44:11,210 God's mercy to you. 776 00:44:11,610 --> 00:44:14,490 It's God's mercy trying to get your attention. 777 00:44:15,790 --> 00:44:18,210 If there's an error in your life or 778 00:44:18,210 --> 00:44:22,950 something is wrong, through his chastising, the Lord 779 00:44:22,950 --> 00:44:26,150 is calling you like a wife forsaken and 780 00:44:26,150 --> 00:44:29,270 grieved in spirit, and he says I'll turn 781 00:44:29,270 --> 00:44:31,910 my face from you but for a moment, 782 00:44:32,570 --> 00:44:34,910 but the purpose of it is that I 783 00:44:34,910 --> 00:44:36,810 might draw you unto myself. 784 00:44:39,290 --> 00:44:41,890 You got you got some frogs jumping up 785 00:44:41,890 --> 00:44:42,570 in your life? 786 00:44:45,240 --> 00:44:48,120 They're sent with tender loving care from the 787 00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:48,480 Lord. 788 00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:51,460 He's calling you unto himself. 789 00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:56,380 Maybe there's some swarms of flies all around 790 00:44:56,380 --> 00:44:59,800 you, little things that are bugging you. 791 00:45:05,820 --> 00:45:07,520 What I want to tell you something, that's 792 00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,700 God's, that's God maybe doing that to show 793 00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:13,560 you a sin, an error of your life, 794 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:14,300 of compromise. 795 00:45:16,060 --> 00:45:19,620 Maybe you're experiencing the darkness of confusion, a 796 00:45:19,620 --> 00:45:21,100 lack of direction in your life. 797 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,060 It's darkness, as darkness fell upon Egypt and 798 00:45:24,060 --> 00:45:26,000 God may let you be in that darkness 799 00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:28,200 in order for you to break through to 800 00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:28,520 him. 801 00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:35,340 Now do you recall what the last, very 802 00:45:35,340 --> 00:45:37,860 first plague was in Egypt? 803 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:39,720 I want to talk to you about the 804 00:45:39,720 --> 00:45:40,640 first and last. 805 00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,480 This is what the Lord brought to my 806 00:45:43,480 --> 00:45:46,140 attention in the middle of the night, and 807 00:45:46,140 --> 00:45:49,140 when I thought about it, it just blessed 808 00:45:49,140 --> 00:45:52,900 me as I thought God's loving kindness. 809 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:55,920 Let me read it to you, Exodus 719. 810 00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,620 The Lord said to Moses, say to Aaron, 811 00:46:00,940 --> 00:46:03,980 take your staff and stretch out your hand 812 00:46:03,980 --> 00:46:06,980 over the waters of Egypt, over the rivers, 813 00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,760 over the streams, and over their pools, and 814 00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:14,480 over all their reservoirs of water, that they 815 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,720 may become blood, and there shall be blood 816 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:22,820 throughout all the land of Egypt, both in 817 00:46:22,820 --> 00:46:25,680 vessels of wood and vessels of stone. 818 00:46:27,200 --> 00:46:29,940 Now you see, blood is a type of 819 00:46:29,940 --> 00:46:30,440 redemption. 820 00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:35,040 The Lord gave a sign to Egypt. 821 00:46:35,620 --> 00:46:37,700 He gave them a sign all over the 822 00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:42,200 land, through the blood, intending to bring Pharaoh 823 00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:44,060 and his people to repentance. 824 00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,480 And if a people had such a visible 825 00:46:48,480 --> 00:46:51,980 sign and warning, there's no people that had 826 00:46:51,980 --> 00:46:54,300 such a visible sign as Egypt. 827 00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,980 God filled the rivers, he filled the streams, 828 00:46:58,100 --> 00:46:59,320 he filled their pools. 829 00:46:59,900 --> 00:47:03,080 My goodness, the housewife could go into her 830 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,640 kitchen and pick up a vessel and look 831 00:47:05,640 --> 00:47:08,240 inside, and instead of it being water, it 832 00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:08,960 would be blood. 833 00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:11,460 You talk about a warning. 834 00:47:12,220 --> 00:47:14,300 You talk about loving kindness. 835 00:47:15,220 --> 00:47:18,280 The Lord showed himself in every drop of 836 00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:18,700 water. 837 00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:21,920 And you see, that's the same thing that 838 00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:23,300 the Lord will do for you. 839 00:47:23,580 --> 00:47:25,680 You pick up this thing, you turn over 840 00:47:25,680 --> 00:47:28,300 this, and everywhere you go, oh, you may 841 00:47:28,300 --> 00:47:31,040 have trouble, you may have problems, but that's 842 00:47:31,040 --> 00:47:32,580 God behind it all. 843 00:47:32,780 --> 00:47:35,500 It's God's loving kindness trying to warn you 844 00:47:35,500 --> 00:47:38,180 and show you, this is me, this is 845 00:47:38,180 --> 00:47:38,660 me. 846 00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,620 The Lord, you see, will do no less. 847 00:47:43,740 --> 00:47:45,660 What a mighty demonstration. 848 00:47:47,660 --> 00:47:50,580 The very first plague should have been enough 849 00:47:50,580 --> 00:47:53,400 for them to say, oh my goodness, my 850 00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,800 goodness, and bow down before God, because everywhere 851 00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:59,280 they turned, there was a sign of God's 852 00:47:59,280 --> 00:47:59,720 power. 853 00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,580 And the Lord will do no less to 854 00:48:03,580 --> 00:48:06,520 show his love, his compassion, and his mercy 855 00:48:06,520 --> 00:48:07,320 to you and I. 856 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,400 Listen to Romans 9, 22 and 23. 857 00:48:11,620 --> 00:48:15,480 What if God, though willing to demonstrate his 858 00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:18,980 wrath and to make his power known, endured 859 00:48:18,980 --> 00:48:22,600 with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for 860 00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:23,160 destruction? 861 00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:26,800 And he did so in order that he 862 00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:29,420 might make known the riches of his glory 863 00:48:29,420 --> 00:48:33,200 upon vessels of mercy which he prepared beforehand 864 00:48:33,200 --> 00:48:34,500 for his glory. 865 00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:39,040 You may see it one way, what you're 866 00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:39,740 going through. 867 00:48:39,980 --> 00:48:41,820 I want you to see the other side 868 00:48:41,820 --> 00:48:42,340 of the coin. 869 00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,400 It's his loving kindness, hallelujah. 870 00:48:45,020 --> 00:48:46,440 It's his loving kindness. 871 00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:52,080 There's one final lesson I want to leave 872 00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:53,960 with you regarding the plagues. 873 00:48:55,660 --> 00:48:58,160 I stated that they are evidence of the 874 00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:01,880 loving kindness of the Lord both to Egypt 875 00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:05,300 as well as to Israel, and this is 876 00:49:05,300 --> 00:49:08,140 further seen by understanding the number nine in 877 00:49:08,140 --> 00:49:09,120 its biblical meaning. 878 00:49:10,680 --> 00:49:14,040 The number nine is the biblical number that 879 00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:19,260 denotes completion, finality, and fullness. 880 00:49:20,500 --> 00:49:23,340 There are nine fruit of the Spirit, there 881 00:49:23,340 --> 00:49:24,820 are nine gifts of the Spirit. 882 00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:29,160 Matthew 27, 25, it was a ninth hour 883 00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:32,520 that Jesus cried out, it is finished, and 884 00:49:32,520 --> 00:49:33,980 gave up the ghost and died. 885 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:40,100 The number ten is the biblical number for 886 00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:42,180 law and order and government. 887 00:49:43,060 --> 00:49:47,100 The Ten Commandments represent God's government and his 888 00:49:47,100 --> 00:49:47,520 law. 889 00:49:48,940 --> 00:49:53,620 It was not until God had demonstrated the 890 00:49:53,620 --> 00:49:57,880 fullness of his judgments did he execute the 891 00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,640 final penalty of the law upon Pharaoh. 892 00:50:01,780 --> 00:50:05,460 Or looking at it another way, Pharaoh was 893 00:50:05,460 --> 00:50:09,440 given advantage of grace and mercy to its 894 00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:14,920 finality before law and order came down upon 895 00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:15,560 his head. 896 00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,880 And God will do no less with you 897 00:50:19,880 --> 00:50:23,440 and I than he did in this instance. 898 00:50:24,440 --> 00:50:27,820 Before number ten comes down on your head, 899 00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,040 the Lord will show himself to you nine 900 00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:35,660 different ways in order for you to turn 901 00:50:35,660 --> 00:50:36,220 to him. 902 00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:41,200 Before we ever experience the finality of judgment 903 00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:45,100 or wrath, before we have the Supreme Court 904 00:50:45,100 --> 00:50:48,640 of the law carry out its executive order 905 00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:53,840 for our sins, before that happens the everlasting 906 00:50:53,840 --> 00:50:57,420 kindness of the Lord is poured out upon 907 00:50:57,420 --> 00:50:57,940 us. 908 00:50:58,380 --> 00:51:01,980 He calls and he woos and he speaks 909 00:51:01,980 --> 00:51:06,260 and he chastises, he does anything and everything 910 00:51:06,260 --> 00:51:09,720 to bring us into conformity to his will. 911 00:51:10,220 --> 00:51:13,020 The Lord will show you himself. 912 00:51:14,120 --> 00:51:17,080 Those who are never dark in the church 913 00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,060 door have to just get up in the 914 00:51:20,060 --> 00:51:22,820 morning and God says, there's evidence of my 915 00:51:22,820 --> 00:51:23,560 loving kindness. 916 00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:28,680 And God will show himself to you in 917 00:51:28,680 --> 00:51:30,940 what he does for you and what he 918 00:51:30,940 --> 00:51:31,940 does to you. 919 00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:36,360 But you can be sure that he will 920 00:51:36,360 --> 00:51:42,340 never execute order number ten until the nine 921 00:51:42,340 --> 00:51:46,900 opportunities of his grace have also been extended 922 00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:47,480 to you. 923 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,780 That's what it means when it says in 924 00:51:51,780 --> 00:51:57,220 Psalms 136, he smote the firstborn in Egypt. 925 00:51:57,840 --> 00:52:04,180 His loving kindness endureth forever and his loving 926 00:52:04,180 --> 00:52:07,860 kindness is being manifested before and to you 927 00:52:07,860 --> 00:52:09,400 this morning as well. 928 00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,240 May you give heed to the word of 929 00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:12,700 the Lord. 930 00:52:13,020 --> 00:52:13,400 Hallelujah. 931 00:52:14,100 --> 00:52:14,940 Let's stand together.