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[0:00] The Lord's help will speak from Psalm 51 and verse 18. Psalm 51 and verse 18.

[0:15] Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion, build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

[0:26] Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion, build thou the walls of Jerusalem.

[0:40] For the most part of this psalm, David has been looking and feeling himself to know what he has been solemnly killed.

[0:56] Taking his own case to the Lord in this psalm of godly sorrow and repentance.

[1:08] He was making a clean breath of the vile deeds that he had so recently.

[1:20] Well, this is not written at the time it happened, in the second of Samuel's books. Of those things which were beyond the telling.

[1:35] Deep, dark, iniquitous. And the king at that. The king. He had the awful responsibility of setting an example.

[1:50] He had the awful books. And he never set it. He was a stumbling block. What he did, others felt that they could do.

[2:03] As is still the case. We are the ones who are apt to forget that we could be a solemn stumbling block.

[2:14] To the generation following. The children say, well, father did it, so can I. Mother did it, so can I.

[2:29] And over the children go. And fall flat over the inconsistencies of the elders.

[2:40] What a responsibility in the things of God. How soon are we to get it. David forgot it.

[2:55] And in his high position, the crime was aggravated. All the crimes were. There was no one else who could issue commands like he could do.

[3:15] No one could say, set Uriah in the hottest part of the battle. But King Daniel. When all this came home to him.

[3:29] It stung in the very depth of his conscience. But it didn't come home straight away. That is the awful part of our sin.

[3:41] That it takes a long time for the sting to come out. He does with an insect bite. You stand perhaps in the garden today.

[3:57] You take a little notice of it. Tomorrow it begins to hiss. The next diet begins to swell and sting.

[4:13] And from there you go on to realise the poison that is detected in your veins. Very much like this is guilt.

[4:27] Oh, it's nothing. It's nothing. Pass it over. But the time comes when it begins to itch.

[4:39] When conscience begins to itch. As it does in a good many of them. It might never go further. The mercy of it does.

[4:53] And itching conscience is It stops short very often. That little worry that things aren't quite right is Soomed out with.

[5:09] And the word of Nathan Got into The heart of David There's no doubt about the poison then.

[5:21] The mercy was The mercy was That Nathan Wasn't stumbled. The mercy for you is That God sends the truth to you And stings you And really alarms you By his word.

[5:42] Mercy is If you go home with a A guilty conscience And the word of divine truth And the word of divine truth Enters your heart Perhaps for the first time And leads to That wonderful conviction Thou art the man It turned unto always You can sidestep the issue By nature But it was A mercy for David That Nathan Was enabled to speak to it As much as your friends Love you It's a mercy If they're able to tell you Climbless Faithful are the wounds Of a friend

[6:42] But the kisses of an enemy Are deceitful So said King Solomon That the word of God Stung David After a time Running on To Some nine months Ere the child was born Go and tell my servant David This is here Come on So I say It's enough to make him Look at home And again The beauty of this army That it is so Complete It wins Genuineness Got in it

[7:43] That reality Of true confession And repentance No hiding Anything And saying Well Lord It isn't quite so bad As that Against thee And thee O'er of Isis This psalm Is Very sacred Grat You go in some cemeteries You see For some reason Or other Iron railings Around Just Some Token Of Authority Perhaps Or Precedence But This Sharp Are certainly Sacred railings All around And you'll never Get in there Only By God's grace And that Not every day Of your life But it is

[8:46] A Remarkable Sight And he's looking At Himself And opening up That which He feels Within So He pleads Something And that Something Is So Fully Revealed To us In the gospel That we Can see At a glance What it is You know The physical Type And shadow Of Hyssop Purge me With Hyssop Wash me And I Shall be Whiter Than snow And so on In this Diabrise We can look To see The Wonderful Outcome And fulfillment Of these Things As they

[9:48] Affect us There is Such a thing As having Your sins Put away So that You cannot Find them You cannot Find them This is a Most sacred Experience One which I believe The Lord Has given To me Not that I am not Sinner Not that I don't Feel daily Sins But To Cleanse Truly From the Iniquities Of a Lifetime That's what David Confessed On one Occasion You will Remember Remember not The iniquities Of my Youth You young People Do you Think that The day Is ever Coming When the Iniquities Of your Youth Are going To be Brought up Before You

[10:49] So that You won't Be able To offer Any Evasive Excuse I hope That day Does help It will Be a Great Day For you When it Does Please God It may And that Too Iniquities Of your Youth So that David Was not Without Some Foundation For his Prayer And a Good Foundation Because it Was God Hidden Now this Confession Is A Part On the Gospel Actual Place John Tells Us That If we Confess Our Sin Is

[11:49] Faithful And Just To Forgive Us Our Sin To Cleanse Us From All Iniquity And you Could Take That Verse From The General Epistle Of John And put It In This Psalm And it Would Fit Exactly Because It Is The Same In Colonel Truth It Is That Abiding Truth That Every One Of The Lord's People Are Brought To Greater Or Greater Degree To Experience He Had Something To Please He Then Gives Us The Whole Of It Cast Me Not Away From Thy Presence And Take Not Thy Holy Spirit Process Which Reveals To Us The

[12:49] Work Of The Holy Ghost So Hidden So Little Spoken Of In The Old Testament As A Powerful Factor In The Conviction Of Things Ever They They Believe In The Presence Of The Holy Spirit Which Is Of Course Amply Verified In The Gospel But Cast Me Not Away From Thy Testament It Didn't Take Peter Very Long Did It When They Were On The Water Upon That Notable Occasion He Said To Jesus Depart From Them For I Am A Sinful

[13:50] Man Oh God Now If You Have Ever Felt Like That And Express That Before God In Confession In The Reality Of It In Your Own Soul You Be But Inside Those Railings As I Just Sent Tie That Sacred Place But Without This Really Your Religion Has Got No Root Nothing Going On Underground Ask Yourself A Question Where You Stand Then With Regard To The Confession Feeling A Sense Of Your Own Unworthiness And Depredited And As We Have It Here Before Us In The Last

[14:51] Words Before The Text Restore Unto Me The Joy Of Thy Salvation Uphold Me With Thy Free Spirit Then Will I Teach Transgressors Thy Ways Do you Think They Want To Listen A Good Many Of Them Won't Nayli You'll Be Spending Your Time In Vain Nayli They Won't Want To Hear You Teaching Transgressors God's Way Why Say This Then Why Because This Is The Outflowing Of A Gospel Spirit If God Has Anything For You You Won't Want People To See For It Not Forever I Don't Save For Time Oh No This Is A Very Essence Of Gospel

[15:52] Paragraph Telling What God Has Done Or Is Doing In You Then Will I Teach Transgressors Thy Ways And Sinners Shall Be Converted Unto Thee And So On Oh Lord Open Now My Lips And My Mouth Shall Show Fult Thy Praise Can't You Do It Of Yourself How Many Of You Here This Morning Are Done How Many Of You Have Got An Impediment In Your Speech Done Absolutely Done You Can't Open Your Mouth Do you Want It Open You Feel It Would Be For God's Glory If It Was Open Is

[16:54] There Anything To Open To Leave All These Questions Open But Here His Mouth Is Already Opened In One Way But He Wants It Opened In Another Way Doesn't He What Way Is This Why Pride My Lick Shall Show For Thy Pride Which Really You See They Do Here Well Now We Come To The Text A Little Delightedly Perhaps Do Good In Thy Good Place Around Josiah Josiah And David's Beloved Sire That Place Of Work That

[17:55] Tabernacle As it Was Then Which His Heart Was Set On As Regards Building A Magnificent Base For The People To Worship Him But He Never Saw The Temple Though He Prepared For It But Zion The City Of Our Celebrity This Strange People This Strange Name Not Denominational Name By Any Be World Wides Zion Glorious Singers Of The Are Spoken Zion You Zionite So Through Spiritual Sense Then You Been Cut To The Heart And You Know Something Of These

[18:55] Things We Have Been Speaking About If Not You Might Know Recognize The Name Zion But I For You Little Joy As Regards The Prove Of God Zion But Oh As He Looked At What Were The Inhabitants Of Zion Saying About David What Were The People Of God I Mean And There Were A Lot Of Them Who Saw David Paul Heard Him In His Deep Dispare What Were They Saying What Were They Thinking He

[19:58] Didn't Good Sire That I Just Now He Stumbled Them They Would Many They Had A Trip So As A Solve They And Yet God Brings Him Back To His Beloved Zion Our Feet Will Stand Within Thy Gates Though Jerusalem That Beautiful Psalm The 84th And Peace Is There A Zion Then Upon Earth The City Of A Son Of Things That There's No Humor About It And No Laughter And No Like Moments Not

[20:59] The Place To Engulf In Humor The Awful Reality Of The Depravity Of The Fall And The Preciousness Of The Price Of The Sacrificed Night For Sin There's No Room For Smile No No No Well Too Good In Night Good Pleasure Here In Earlier Verses He'd Been Seeking God's Good Pleasure The Good Pleasure Of His Mercy The Good Pleasure Of His Forgiveness The

[22:00] Good Pleasure Of All That He Had Been Taught In Those Wild Days In The Wild In Wild He Was Right Back To The Time Of His Birth Where He Seeds That He Was Born In Sin And Caponed In Iniquity And Here Is God Good Pleasure Fear Not Says Jesus Little Throat Or It Is Your Father's Good Pleasure To Give You The Kingdom Work Out Your Own Salvation With Fear And Tremble Says The Apostle In The Second Of Philippians

[23:02] Work Out Your Own Salvation With Fear And Tremble It Is God That Worketh In You To Win And To Do His Good Pleasure Good Pleasure So This Is One Of His Great Pleasure His Sovereign Pleasure Is This What He Is Doing To David Then Indeed It Is Look At The Good Pleasure Of The Lord In Bringing And It Was Only I Think Yesterday I Suddenly Realized What A Close Connection There Was Between This Text And What We Were Speaking From Last Sabbath I Suddenly Realized Last

[24:04] Sabbath I Was Speaking About Simon Simon Satan A Desire To Have The In A Sift This Week That I Pray For The That Thy Pain I Am After But Now I Convert It Strengthen Thy Brethren Look At The Spirit That We Have Here He Turns His Mind Now Out Of Himself Don't Leave Off Doing Good In Thy Good Pleasure Take Not Thy Holy Spirit From Me Death What Is God's Good Place To Deal With Sinners Rebellion With Sinners Those That Stumble And

[25:04] Fall Those In Nature's Darkness Who Are His Sworn Enemies Who Hate It Those Who Say Will Not Ever Have Anything To Do With This Kind Of Religion It's Detestable Not Going To Follow Such Things As These But You Know Your Heart Riding Up Against It Doesn't It You May Feel You Would Like To Pull Me Out Of This Who Bit Only Proved That What Your Heart Is And That What I Saying Is Perfectly True And If You Came And Pulled Me Out Of It You Would Only Be A Witness Against Yourself You Might Hurt Me But You Hurt Yourself A Thousand

[26:04] Times More What Hatred The Human Heart Has Against The Doctrine Of Redemption By Blood Obnoxious They Say Totally Out Of Place Far From Even Humanity So So Is The That Is Gospels This Is God's Good Pleasure To Please God That Through The Shedding Of Blood There Should Be Revision New Young Young People Who Wonder What I Say And Why I Say The

[27:05] Day Should Come When I'm Gone And The Lord Teaches You The Reality Of God You Will Never Regret That You Are In Chapel Today You Cannot Tell From Whence It Cometh Or When It Goes And You Older One Her Cannot Tell That The Truth Will Stand There Clear And True God's Good Place Is To Forgive Christ Sin Pardon Iniquity Of His People That There Only One Way Whatever You May Devise In Your Heart However You Might

[28:05] Think To Yourself But Those Praying People Can't Do Right And You Will Only Have To Wait Perhaps Till Tomorrow To Hear Some Of Them Say Oh That's Foolish Then When God Shows You The Blessedness And The Ethicacy Of This Atonement How Well It Will Be With You You Will Cling To Christ Jesus And Enchled The Heavenly Court Not Without Love As As As As As As It May Be Despite That It Is The Enemy's Great Work To Pour Contempt God God God God Will Triumph At Last Who

[29:06] Loved Us And Washed Us From Their Sins In His Own Blood Is Heavenly Langley As Well As Earthly And It Is Not A Matter Of Human Opinion And It Is Not Put Down For Debate It Is The Truth And The Truth Of Step How That God Good Ledger Works Out Work Out Your Own Salvation I Just Quoted With Fear And Friends What Is God That Worketh In You And To Win And Do Will Be A Smooth Pleasure How Blessed Therefore Is This Working Out But How Sodom

[30:06] In The Reality Of It And Here Is A Concrete Case It Not Something That Is Put Before Us As A Supposition We Are Given The Narrative And We Are Told The Details And We Shudder As We Read Them It Is To This End That God Has Ordained The Deeper Histories Of His Words Should Be Written Now He Says Do Good There Is Another Word That Runs Through The Scripture Like A Silver Thread Good Do Good Is Thy Good Place Here

[31:06] It Is Twice Setting For The Importance Of It And The Emphasis In It Do Good Look At The Good That God Has Done You Here That Seek His Name You That Can't Possibly Resist The Truth You Who Love It You Who Feel Brawn For It As Much As It Searches You And As Close As It Comes To You What Good God Has Done For You Look At His Goodness In Bringing You To Your Knees Look At That Goodness Whereby You Don't Want Anybody To Know That Is That Is

[32:07] That Is That Might Be That To Die You Do Take These Burdens On Your Knees To The Wall Would Like Anybody To Know Does A Husband Ever See His Wife On Her Knees Why Have A Husband On Her In This Is It Sacred If You Want Anyone To Know All One Good So Far But Don't Carry It Too Far So When We Come To The Habit Of God It A Little Different Isn't Public Work Then But There Needs To Be Reality In It The Touch Of God So Good Spirit Furnishness In Joining In Some Of Our Beautiful Hymns And Confessions And Pray Not

[33:10] Just Running Over Them Light To Good Or To Others I've Done Enough I've Brought Disgrace I've Brought My Holy Name Into Kabul God Told Him That His Enemy Would Speak Against Him As Paul He Says There's There's An Enemy To Speak Against Yes There's Enough Black Mark From Me Lord Do Good To Other People This Is What You Call An Evangelistic Spirit In The True Sense Of The Word And Love For Others They May Know What You Have Known

[34:10] And Desire That Others Might Be Blessed Like You Have Been Blessed And Out Of The Pit Of His Own Corruption And Out Of The Very Hour Of His Particular Prayer He Turns His Eyes Out When He Says Do Good Lord To Others Keep Their Fates Preserve Them From The Curly Vills Of The Day Which Is Why Prayer Is Made This Is Why You Children Are Prised For You Young People You Perhaps Don't Like It All Together I Hope You Do That

[35:11] I Know What It Is In Remembrance To You Know My Others Praying For This But Not So Now This Is The Spirit You See Of The Gospel Pray For Others Not Only Children But I Do Know This Last Word Of Course Cannot Be Thoroughly Doubted In A Few Brief Words Can It God By What I Said Already This Morning Some Of You Will Be Able To Judge My View Of Good And That Is According To The Word Of God That My Belief Is This That It Would Be

[36:11] A Good Thing For You To Be Brought To Your Knees Yes We Know Whether You Ever Go There Or But You Just Get To Bed At Night That Is The End Of The Day And You Just Get Up In The Morning And That Is The Beginning Of It But Good Is My View And The Script Of View Is This The Lord Should Teach You Out Prayer And Teach You To Prayer You Know Very Well There Is Such A Thing As Prayer But You May Not Know What It Is To Pride You Might Be Too Proud To Pride Another Thing Is Good To The Lord Open Your Nex In Prayer There Comes The First Prayer Perhaps You Have

[37:12] Left Your First Prayer Long Way Behind Now In The Heavenly Race There Comes The First Simple Single Parted Prayer That Good The Substance Of That Prayer Can Be So Varied It Can't Possibly Cover It That A Thought Of Two Thousand First Of All We Might Be Preserved From Evil You Want To Go Out Into An Evil World You Need To Be Preserved You Have Got To Go Out Of This Captation You Need To Be Preserved You Have Got To Stop At Home Some Of You Mothers All Day But You Say

[38:12] Well We Shant Need To Be Preserved At Home Or Won't You Just As Much As Those Who Have To Go Into The World In The Advanced Different Way You Need To Be Preserved From The Carnality Of Your Own Heart Which Four Walls Will Shut Out So That This Good Leads To One Direction And That Is The Right Way The Strength Gate You Will Need To Be Guided To That Gate You Will Need To Take Off Some Of Your Self Righteousness Your Fancy Religion That Which If Testing You Will Find Will Burn Like Tinder Yes It Will

[39:12] And God Will Test Every Man's Work Do Good Says This Guilty Sender David Could You Ever Really Honest Pride God Would Do Good After What You Done After Your Behind Your Diving Can You Catch A Blitz Of This Wonderful Work Of Pride In The Way And The Left Of This Child That This Man With Blood Dripping From His Dirty Fingers This Man Could Ever Pride For Things Spiritual Good Abundance It Is So And

[40:13] To Pray Good More Gospel Goodness It Was With The Apostles And All The Prophets This Is The Gospel Therefore That We Denied And In This Our Evil Die Need Much To Be Set Before May The Word Have Come Somewhere Near Someone Who Is Perhaps On The Edge And Field As David Did In Those Dark Days Of His Dirty Before Nathan Came To Him That If Anyone Came To You And Said Look What Sauron Has Done He Has Taken The One New Lamb He Got Plenty Of His Own

[41:14] And You With Your Self Righteousness Could Say He Shall Restore Four Holden People To Death David You Hypocrite But No Divine Mercy Overshadow It All And I Come Today Where I Going Afterwards Don't I With Peter And As I Have Already Said There's No Thought What Soever In My Mind Picking Out Another Text I Can't Pick Out Text I Was Thankful To Say That It May This Is My Courage That If My Mind Is Drawn To Two Subjects As These Upon Two Consecutive

[42:14] Sabbath Days There's A World Somewhere I Hope For Someone In It We Will Close To Morning Service I Send In Number 570 June 248 In Number 570 June 248 Could Please lust way coming out how

[43:15] MY LIFE MY LIFE MY LIFE The End The End

[44:36] The End The End The End

[46:06] The End The End The Communion of the Holy Ghost

[47:08]  May we do more Amen