The Word of God (Laurel Mountain Chapel) — Keith Daniel

Thank you, Father, for that special member this morning. Well, it's so good to have everybody here this morning. We're blessed to have Brother Keith Daniel, minister of the Word of God, faithful in presenting the Word.

If you haven't heard him, I'm sure you'll be blessed here this morning. Evangelist Keith Daniel, the Word bless you as you come and minister, my friend. Thank you.

Can we bow for a moment of prayer, please? Father, thank Thee for this privilege that's given me to be here with such choice servants as these dear, dear people are. The ones I've got to know, young and old, and especially the dear pastor and his wife, we thank Thee for them.

Thank you for the joy of being able to come this corner of the vineyard and the privilege. I am deeply grateful. Come, therefore, Lord, wash me in the blood of Christ, afresh, that I might, in Thy mercy, be used of God by grace, all because of the blood.

Wash me through and through and anoint and unctionize and fill with Thy Holy Spirit. And take Thy Word and speak to the depth of every heart as only God can, for without Thee we can do nothing. So our expectation is in Thee and Thee only, not in preachers or in ourselves.

Come Thou and speak to our hearts by the working of the Holy Ghost through this, Thy sacred book. In Christ Jesus' name, for His glory, we all unitedly ask these things of Thee, our Father in heaven, amen.

The Bible as the Inspired Word of God

The Bible. The Bible refers to itself as the Word of God. The Bible refers to itself as the Word of God in Hebrews 6, verse 5. And in 2 Timothy 3, verse 16, we read that all scripture, all scripture is given by inspiration of God.

All scripture is given by inspiration of God for instructing, for instruction in righteousness. Verse 17, that the man of God may be complete, that the man of God may be complete and thoroughly equipped, thoroughly equipped.

Now, today, I want us to carefully consider 16 facets, 16 facets of this book, which is the sacred Word of God. The first thing we must realize, the first thing we must realize is that it is the source of our salvation.

The Word as the Source of Salvation

It is the source of our salvation. James tells us in chapter 1, verse 21, to receive with meekness the engrafted Word, which is able to save your souls, being born again by the Word of God. 1 Peter 1, verse 23, and in 2 Timothy 3, verse 15, Paul refers to the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

For by grace are ye saved through faith, Ephesians 2, verse 8, and faith cometh by the Word of God, Romans 10, verse 17. And so firstly, firstly, we see that it is the source of our salvation. Son, but secondly, the keeping of it is the evidence that I am truly saved.

The keeping of it is the evidence that I am truly saved. Be ye doers of the Word, not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. James warned in chapter 1, verse 22, hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments.

He that saith, I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. 1 John 2, verse 3, 1 Peter 2, verse 23 says, being born again, not of corruptible seed, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible by the Word of God.

Now, the seed is the Word of God, Jesus said in Luke 8, verse 11, but in the next verse, he gave a fearful warning, then cometh the devil and taketh away the Word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

O soul, whatever the devil does, whoever the devil uses, be careful what you do when you hear or read the Word of God. For we are warned that it will one day judge us. It will one day judge us. In John 12, verse 18, Christ declared, he that rejecteth me and receiveth not my Word hath one that judges him.

The Word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last days. Whoso despiseth the Word shall be destroyed. Proverbs 13, verse 13. And so firstly, firstly, we see that it is the source of our salvation.

But secondly, that the keeping of it, the keeping of it is the evidence that we have been truly saved. And thirdly, the rejecting of it will result in us to one day be judged by it. But if and when I am truly saved, if and when I am truly saved, it, it immediately becomes my source of spiritual growth.

It immediately becomes my source of spiritual growth. 1 Peter 2, verse 2 says, as newborn babes, as newborn babes desire the sincere milk of the Word that he may grow thereby. Beloved, this book is the source of our salvation and the keeping of it.

The keeping of it is the evidence that I am truly saved, but the rejecting of it will result in us to one day be judged by it. But if and when I am truly saved, it immediately becomes my source of spiritual growth.

And fifthly, it is our source of daily renewal. It is our source of daily renewal. In 2 Corinthians 4, verse 16, we read that the inward man, the inward man is renewed day by day, morning by morning, morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear, Isaiah 50, verse 4, to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man.

Ephesians 3, verse 16 tells us, the inward man is renewed day by day. It is our source of daily renewal, beloved. And it ultimately becomes our source of survival. It ultimately becomes our source of survival.

Man doth not live, literally man cannot live by bread only, by eating food only, but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live. Deuteronomy 8, verse 3, I have esteemed the word of his mouth.

I have esteemed the word of his mouth more than my necessary food, Job 23, verse 12. It ultimately is our source of survival. Now the seventh vital facet, the seventh vital facet we must realize, we must realize is that it is given life and revelation by the Holy Spirit.

The Holy Spirit Gives Life and Understanding

It is given life and revelation by the Holy Spirit at salvation, at salvation the Holy Spirit of God possesses me, at salvation the Holy Spirit of God possesses me, ye are the temple of God and the spirit of God dwelleth in you.

1 Corinthians 3, verse 16, your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you. 1 Corinthians 6, verse 19, Christ in you is the hope of glory, you have no hope of eternal life, if Christ is in you.

Colossians 1, verse 27, but if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. Romans 8, verse 9, and from the moment, from the moment of our salvation, the word of God is given life, the word of God is given revelation and life by the Holy Spirit who now dwells in us.

From the moment of our salvation, the word of God is given revelation and life by the Holy Spirit who now dwells in us. But the natural man, that's the unsaved unrejeterate man, receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, they're meaningless to him, neither can he know them, he can't understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

1 Corinthians 2, verse 14 tells us, for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. The letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life. 2 Corinthians 3, verse 6, in Luke, in Luke chapter 24, Christ appeared to two of his sorrowing disciples on the Emmaus road.

And verse 27, beginning at Moses, beginning at Moses, and all the prophets, that's virtually the whole Old Testament, he expounded unto them in all the scripture, the things concerning himself. Then suddenly, verse 31, he vanished out of their sight.

Verse 32, and they said one to another, did not our heart burn within us? While he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures, and Christ promised his disciples and us that the Holy Spirit, when he is come, would do the same.

John 14, verse 26, he shall teach you, he shall teach you all things. But without the Holy Spirit, without the Holy Spirit, this book is dead. 2 Corinthians 3, verse 6, the letter, the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life, God says, of the sacred book.

The psalmist prayed, the psalmist prayed, open thou mine eyes. The Hebrew says, give revelation, literally, give revelation, open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law. Psalm 119, verse 18, then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scripture.

Remember, Luke 24, verse 45, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, Ephesians 1, verse 18, that our God may lighten our eyes, literally open our eyes, Ezra 7, verse 8. Those disciples had cried, did not our hearts burn within us?

While he opened to us the scriptures, and our hearts will burn within us also, beloved, as the Holy Spirit of God opens the word of God to us daily. Our hearts will burn within us also, beloved, as the Holy Spirit of God opens the word of God to us daily.

Neglecting Scripture and the Danger of Backsliding

But how tragic it would be if a Christian sits before an open Bible and like a blind man sees nothing. How tragic it would be if a Christian sits before an open Bible and like a blind man sees nothing to give him a burning heart daily.

Oh, Christian, beware for the neglect of this book is the first evidence that I am in the tragic process of backsliding. I'm going to repeat that. Beware for the neglect of this book is the first evidence that I am in the tragic process of backsliding.

The first indication that you have backslidden is if you lose appetite for the scriptures, but instead your appetite increases more and more for things that are not related to God or His word. But these things will leave you empty spiritually.

These things will leave you empty spiritually. And even in laughter, you will experience that even in laughter, the heart is sorrowful. That's tragic. You're pretending to yourself you're enjoying it, but your heart is sorrowing if you try and find fulfillment in other things.

Even in laughter, the heart will be sorrowful. Proverbs 4 verse 13 warns. Who's he speaking of? The next verse tells us, sadly, but clearly the backslider in heart. Even in laughter, the heart is sorrowful.

Be careful here. It is a hundred times more difficult to find a relationship with God that's real if you're backslidden than for a pervert or a drunk when he comes to God the first time. Don't go that way.

Please, I beg you, child of God, be careful. Beloved, the word of God is the source of our salvation. And the keeping of it is the evidence that I am truly saved. But the rejecting of it will result in us to one day be judged by it.

That once I am truly saved, it immediately becomes my source of spiritual growth and our source of daily renewal. It ultimately becomes our source of survival. It is given life and revelation by the Holy Spirit who now dwells in us.

But the neglect of it is the first evidence that I am in the dangerous and tragic process of backsliding. It is also our moral compass. It is also our moral compass. In John 17, verse 15, Jesus prayed, Father, I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil.

Scripture as the Christian’s Moral Compass

Verse 17, sanctify them, keep them from the evil through thy truth. Thy word, thy word is truth. Beloved, this is our moral compass. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.

Psalm 119, verse nine. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? Well, my son said that to me when he was a boy. How am I gonna stay clean, daddy? He started weeping. Daddy, you don't know what I'm facing.

Everywhere I wanna look for good friends. Even amongst preachers' children, daddy, it's a sin. Held out. This world is so wicked. Daddy, how am I gonna stay pure? I want to. I said, listen, my boy, and never forget till the day you die now what daddy's are gonna say to you.

Shock yourself in the word of God. It's the greatest discipline in your life daily. The most nurtured, guarded, treasured moment that Satan or man won't keep you from. And you will find it's possible when you put God first, this book is first.

My boy, do that, and the devil can't touch you. He'll tempt you, but he can't touch you, boy. Wherewithal shall a young, how am I gonna stay clean, daddy? Cleanse his way by taking this book, beloved.

Taking heed as you read it. Seeking to be, oh, equipped daily to walk with God. Thy word have I hid within my heart that I might not sin against thee, oh God. Verse 11 says, it is our moral compass, beloved.

Sin will keep me from the Bible, but the Bible will keep me from sin. That was a word to me when I was a young Christian. Praise for God, standing with a professor that is so loved, lectures in Oxford Theological Circle and some of your great universities.

His writings in all the documents today, revered. He's dead now, but oh, when I was younger, I was in awe of him as he came to speak there, and lectured, and he saw my fire. He looked at me. He said, listen carefully, Keith.

The only words I ever found myself able to write and add within the covers of this sacred book, outside of which I couldn't write another thing. Show me, let me show you. He opened the front of his Bible and here were these childlike words.

A professor, revered across the theological academic world. Sin will keep me from the Bible, but the Bible will keep me from sin. I wrote it immediately in my Bible, and I've since found that there are multitudes across the world that have written it in front of their Bibles.

It is our moral compass. It is our moral compass. It is also the means by which the Holy Spirit cleanses us from all wrong influences we face in this sinful world daily. We read in Ephesians 5 .25 that Christ loved the church and gave himself for it that he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.

By the word. It is the means by which the Holy Spirit cleanses us, beloved, from all wrong influences we face in this sinful world daily. The blood cleanses us from sin, but we are cleansed from the world's wrong and warped influences with the washing of the water by the word daily.

Scripture, the Mind, and Spiritual Discipline

It also fortifies. It fortifies and keeps my mind from vain, worthless thoughts. It fortifies and keeps my mind from vain, worthless thoughts and from thoughts of evil. I hate vain thoughts. That's wrong, worthless thoughts.

But I love thy law. Psalm 119 verse 130. I hate vain thoughts, but I love thy law. A very godly young man in Africa, a missionary, was sitting with me over a meal, young Haram Lubbers Cochrane. Oh, he's godly.

He said to me, sir, the Bible keeps our minds off things that don't matter, onto God's values, onto God's priorities. I hate vain thoughts, worthless wrong thoughts, but I love thy law. Psalm 119 verse 130.

The thought of foolishness is sin. The thought of foolishness is sin. Proverbs 25 verse nine. For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he, bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

2 Corinthians 10 verse five. You can, or God wouldn't tell us to. He can unmock us. He's holy. His integrity would never ask anything of you that you won't receive the grace to perform. You can bring every thought.

The thought of foolishness is sin. As he thinketh in his heart, so is he. You see, there's thoughts of evil, and there are evil thoughts. They're very different. A thought of evil, every one of you has.

The godliest man that ever lived will tell you he has thoughts of evil. That's not sin. You don't have to confess. You see, memory isn't sin. If you walk down the street and see something you didn't want to see, God knows, and if your memory recalls it, the old devil says to you, ah, what are you thinking about that for?

No. You bring it into captivity before it becomes an evil thought, a thought of evil we all have because of memory and the past experiences in our lives. But it's not sin. You're bringing into captivity every thought.

You can, young man. You can. You've gotta want God's grace, though, enough for God to do it, but he will. He's obliged. You say that's sacrilege, rubbish. It's sacrilege to not believe that God's obliged to give you the grace to fulfill and perform his commandments when we want to.

Bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. You can immediately, before it becomes an evil thought, don't think on. Just bring it into captivity. God, I didn't want to think this.

Thou knowest. It is the Bible, beloved. It is the Bible that fortifies and keeps my mind as nothing else. You can look at 1 ,000 Christian films today, as good as Hollywood, and they're getting as good as Hollywood, I believe.

It won't do for you what one hour with this book will do, along with God. It is the Bible that fortifies and keeps my mind from vain thoughts, worthless thoughts, and from thoughts of evil. It also becomes, it also becomes our source of safe navigation.

The Word as Safe Navigation and Counsel

Safe navigation. Order my steps in your word. Psalm 119, verse 133. Literally, direct my steps, God, by means of your word. I'm seeking guidance. It's our source of safe navigation. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path in this dark world.

It's our source of safe navigation, beloved. Jesus, savior, pilot me over life's tempestuous sea. Unknown waves before me roll, hiding rocks, treacherous salt, chart and compass come from thee. Jesus, savior, pilot me.

Order my steps in your word, Lord. It is our source of safe navigation, beloved. I was in a restaurant for multi-billionaires. Have you ever been in a restaurant for multi, well, at least I thought they must be multi-billionaires.

The chandeliers and oh, the waitresses themselves look like the queen, let alone serving the queen. And here I am now going with these dear people to this very exclusive place that very rich people obviously would go.

And of course, they've got brains, these people. To get into the restaurant from where the parking area, you come into the beautiful building. You're gonna walk through a room about this size. And in it are beautiful articles from all over the world, very expensive.

Someone like me just looks and says, oh, that's nice, but you just turn around, you know you can't afford that. And so to get in that restaurant and they know rich people will come to afford that meal, they're gonna go past all these wonderful things.

And then I saw a little sign board on one of the walls with all these lovely articles. And it said there, this will give you the power to see in pitch dark. Oh, I walked up and that's interesting. So what is it?

It's a little cap. You know, these children today, they put caps the wrong way around. I don't even know what, but anyway, here it is. Now there's this cap and on it are two little LED lights. I don't know where the batteries are, but somewhere in there.

This will give you the power to walk safely in pitch dark, to know where you're going and to be safe. I thought to myself, rubbish, the word of God does that. Yes, it was a lamp unto my feet, a light unto my path, beloved.

By his light, I walked through darkness. Job 29 verse three. And the instructions it contains are the men of my counsel. Without counsel, purposes are disappointed. You plans go wrong, you make mistakes.

Without counsel, purposes are disappointed. But in the multitude of counselors, they are established. You're safe. Proverbs 15 verse 22. In the multitude of counselors, there is safety. Proverbs 11 verse 14.

Thy testimonies. That's God's commandments and instructions are my counselors. Psalm 119 verse 24. The Hebrew literally, they are the men of my counsel. Moffat translates this verse, they are my advisors.

Most Christians, beloved, are forever running to man for counsel, advice, guidance. But beloved, there's a greater safety in the instruction of God's word. The men of my counsel are the commandments, the promises, the warnings, the instructions contained and strewn throughout this holy book.

And when many of them give me the same counsel, I embrace them as God's leading. His direction for my life in every crisis, in every moment where I have to lean on God for guidance. For in the multitude of counselors, there's safety.

The instructions it contains are the men of my counsel. This book is not just a book. It's God's words, it's living. It was protected. Don't think God lost control and let man choose to the canonizing, the canonization of the books that were divinely inspired, even the order.

And beloved, if you are real with God, you're real with your quiet time. Nothing disturbs that, nothing diverts that, nothing makes you hurry because there's nothing to hurry to. Because the more you soak yourself in the word of God, the more you love it.

Now, there's nothing the devil can give him, Hollywood or technical, that could draw you away from it. There's nothing he can do. When God's first, this book is first. Nothing gives you more delight. And beloved, if you want to know the sovereignty of God, now that word sovereignty, I'm scared of because of the abuse of it in certain circles that blame God for men's sins and choices.

Wait, I love the word sovereignty because if you're pursuing God with your heart, with your free will that God gave you, and you are pursuing him in reality, this book and the time with God is so real and undisturbed, undiverted from.

And the sovereignty of God has proven to me that in any circumstance and crisis I faced in life, just where I'm reading, not like a lucky packet, you could make some real mistakes or suddenly in crisis moments, looking for some promise, you could get promises that aren't from God or guidance.

But if you're real and you're as real as your quiet time is real and your quiet time is as real as this book is soaked daily, unhurriedly. And I found it's like God just sitting opposite me, exactly what I need to know.

And then he confirms it, just where I am at, not jumping around because it's consistent, drawing from God, seeking his voice every day. I open it, his heart, his directions, his protection, his moral defense, every single thing.

And suddenly it's the word of God, the men of my counsel, Hebrew. They are the men that I go to, not other men. When there are many counsels, in the multitude of counsels, there's safety. When many of them confirm, I don't believe God's going to mock me by believing and stepping out in faith.

It's not just an ordinary book. You dare not believe that. You dare not believe man was in it. Of course, God may, but if you think for a moment, God lost control, there's a mistake in the order of it.

Oh, you're in trouble. No matter how dark and confused this world becomes, don't you ever doubt that this is divinely inspired to the very last word. The first to the last is divinely inspired for you and for me.

The instructions it contains are the men, the men of my counsel, Psalm 119, verse 24. And this sacred book contains the prayers that I need to pray to survive. This sacred book contains the prayers that I need to pray to survive when my heart is crushed, wounded, overwhelmed.

Scripture’s Prayers for Suffering and Endurance

Does that ever happen to me? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. But this sacred book contains the prayers that I need to pray to survive when my heart is crushed and wounded and overwhelmed and I become weary and am no longer able to pray in faith.

Yes. Martin Luther testified of how during the Reformation, all hell came against him. I don't doubt that. And he became so weary and fearful that there were times he couldn't pray. He was numb from weariness.

It was then, he said, God led him to pray the Psalms out aloud. And he found that through this discipline, he swiftly, he swiftly sensed that he had entered into the presence of God in a way he had never known in his entire saved life.

He had entered into the presence of God. And he experienced his faith being renewed as he prayed. These God-given prayers, you see, the Psalms alone. Beloved, 90%, about 80 of them, they start in agony of the wounds, the injustices, the cruelties, the wrongs that I'm facing.

And then they commit halfway through the prayer, everyone committing to God, everything, looking to God to intervene, and then ending in praise. Oh, Luther said, it's the school book and the prayer in prayer, in the word of God.

He found, he entered in, do you know, Luther said he was so stunned after a few Psalms that for the rest of his life, most of his prayer life, almost entirely, he said, was just praying the prayers that are in the Bible.

And he was into the presence of God and lifted up into faith. Not only the Psalms, throughout the Bible, there are prayers, they're there for you and me. As you soak yourself from cover to cover, 500 times, 1 ,000 times.

And if you haven't, what have you been doing? What did you do in life? If you think that's impossible. It's impossible not to have done that if you saved 30, 40, 50 years like me. It's impossible unless you just buried God daily.

It contains the prayers that I need to pray to survive when my heart is crushed, wounded, overwhelmed, and I become weary and I'm no longer able to pray in faith. But wait now, it also tests our faith.

Scripture’s Promises Test and Sustain Faith

It also tests our faith. The promises contained in the sacred book test our faith, beloved. We read in Psalm 105, verse 17, that Joseph was cruelly sold by his brothers as a servant. That is, he was sold into slavery.

Verse 18, whose feet, whose feet they hurt with fetters, with chains. And he was laid in iron. He was laid in iron. Do you know, literally, the Hebrew says, his soul entered into the iron. He suffered so much.

In the furnace of affliction, the Bible speaks of. Isaiah 41, 10, until, verse 19 says, until the time that his word came, came to pass, the promises, until the time that his word came, the word of the Lord tried him, tested him, tested his faith, until the time that his word came to pass, the word that God had given him, the promises God had, tried him, tested him.

It tests our faith, beloved. But if my faith is ever put to the test, if my faith is ever put to the test, it, it installs hope, comfort, courage, healing within me to endure through God's compassionate and precious promises, which are strewn across the sacred pages, beloved.

Oh, beloved, Job had no Bible. And he cried, my days are spent without hope. Job 7, he had no Bible. You see, this is the first book, according to every scholar that has any academic understanding before Moses was even born, before God gave revelation to Moses of the creation, the law, the commandments and the judgments.

Of course, there was writings from Adam. Don't believe it only started, passed on generation upon generation. But the first book that was canonized as part of the divinely inspired word of God for this book, before any other book in the Bible, the book of Job was written.

And Job had no Bible. And he cried, my days are spent without hope. But we, we, beloved, we cry, although my soul melteth for heaviness and fainteth for thy salvation, I hope in thy word. Psalm 119, verse 81, David was greatly distressed.

1 Samuel 30, verse six, but then we read, but David encouraged himself in the Lord. David encouraged himself in the Lord. In the multitude of my thoughts, he said, within me, thy comforts delight my soul.

Psalm 94, verse 19. This is my comfort. In my affliction, thy word, thy word. Psalm 119, verse 49. Psalm 107, verse 20, he tells us he sent forth his healing word, his healing word. But unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction.

Unless thy law had been my delights, I should then have perished in my affliction. Psalm 119, verse 92, that we, through patience and comfort of the Scripture, might have hope. Romans 15, verse four. That we, through patience, endurance, and comfort of the Scriptures, might have hope.

Romans 15, verse four. Hebrews 11, 33 tells us of men and women who through faith obtained promises and out of weakness were made strong. Men and women who through faith obtained promises from God and out of weakness were made strong.

The Sixteen Facets of the Word of God

Now, beloved, the Bible has many other facets. And I'll preach on them one of these days. But today we have considered 16 of its vital facets. Firstly, it is the source. It is the source of our salvation.

Secondly, the keeping of it is the evidence that I am truly saved. But thirdly, the rejecting of it will result in us to one day be judged by it. And fourthly, once I am truly saved, it immediately becomes my source of spiritual growth.

Fifthly, our source of daily renewal. Sixthly, it ultimately becomes our source of survival. Seventhly, it is given life and revelation by the Holy Spirit, who now dwells in us. But eighthly, the neglect of it, is the first evidence that I am in the dangerous and tragic process of backsliding.

Ninthly, it is our moral compass. Tenthly, it is the means by which the Holy Spirit cleanses us from all the world's evil influences that we face in this sinful world daily. Eleven, it also fortifies and keeps my mind from vain, worthless thoughts and from thoughts of evil.

Twelve, it also becomes our source of safe navigation. And 13, the instructions it contains are the men of my counsel. 14, it contains the prayers that I need to pray, to survive when my heart is crushed or wounded or overwhelmed and I become weary and I'm no longer able to pray in faith.

15, it also tests our faith. Our faith is tested by it. 16, but while my faith is being put to the test, it installs hope, comfort, and courage to endure through the precious promises which are strewn across its sacred pages for my survival.

Seek ye the Lord. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord. We read in Isaiah 34, verse 16, I rejoice at thy word as one that findeth great spoil. Psalm 119, verse 162, I rejoice at thy word as one that findeth great spoil.

Great treasures, you know that in the old days they go into the cave, there's gold and diamonds and rubies and whoa, that's nothing. I rejoice as one that findeth great treasure. In this book, that's eternal value.