FBC Morning Worship Service

Well, good morning. Good to see you on this Lord's day. We thank the Lord for his goodness to us and his grace his kindness. Boy, have we not seen? The the truth of what we read in lamentations that his Mercies his loving kindness his steadfast love the evidences of it are new each day.

Great is our lord's faithfulness and I I trust you see that and sense that even in your own life in this past week. So we're glad that we can worship together today. And praise our lord for his faithfulness his goodness to reflect upon his His his love.

In that he loved us in this way. He sent his only begotten son Into this world that whoever would believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life. And we're going to reflect this morning on that work on the cross.

That allows for us enables us to have that everlasting life before we begin the worship service itself, though. Let me grab my little folder here. But also make a couple of announcements or highlight a few in your bulletin.

Today is the first sunday of the month and so what we started in may is on the first sunday of the month these evening times. Instead of having the regular six o 'clock evening service here the auditorium.

Uh, there's a group that formed a new group that formed last month. Uh, we just. We just call it the ymsa group. We're so creative. We're just so creative at these things. You can tell I did not get a degree in marketing and Somebody who does have a degree in marketing out there has not come up with a better name.

So ymsa young married and single adult. Uh, we've talked about who who qualifies for that. Um, and I think it's in your bulletin as well. But anyway, they're meeting tonight at 5 30 at the foreman's. There was a sign-up sheet if I think it's still on the board.

But if you did not get signed up for that and would like to attend, uh, please see eric or deb After the service today let them know that you would like to participate At their place this evening and then uh encouraged everyone else to gather, you know in homes invite someone to your home uh to Have a meal or whatever together and and not only just for a time of of fun and food, but Also for some spiritual fellowship.

As uh as a body of christ. This is a vital component to our walk with the lord and with with each other so, uh to to kind of um enhance that or encourage that time of spiritual fellowship tonight I've done a devotional a video devotional.

It'll be available at six o 'clock this evening or anytime thereafter and that's available on the church website. Um as well as on you on our church youtube youtube channel. So again anytime after six o 'clock this evening, you can tune into that watch that Watch that devotional spend some time praying together share some prayer requests with each other maybe some blessings and testimonies um, one of the things you could do in that get together is just Ask one another to share your personal testimony about how you came to christ.

I think that would be a blessing to to hear that from one another. So anyway, that's this evening now wednesday night. For the rest of the summer months on wednesday evening. We're we're doing this Torchlighter series it's called it's a new series that's just recently been produced and A series of a dozen different characters individuals from church history.

That are profiled each of these things is about 30 minutes long uh, they're animated so they're you know, they're very suitable for children. To watch as well, but but beneficial for all of us. So doing that wednesday nights in the midweek service time.

So meet at seven o 'clock we'll have uh, you know time for prayer requests and so forth and then watch one of the torchlighter Episodes and this week we're looking at augustine. This is a church An individual from church history from back in the fourth century.

And a lot to be gained from looking at his life now there is with that series. There is a an activity book for kids. And I think we have um, I think we have five or six of those books available. They're only five bucks a piece and They have a bunch of different activities that kids can do for each character.

So like this week we're doing augustine so a good thing to do might be to get one of these books for your kids and Work on the activity projects or pages that are related to augustine those books by the way are available on that Shelf in the mission on the missionary wall.

Where books are for sale just pick one of those up and and uh, take it with you. That would be fine. Well again, we've gathered together to worship the lord and we're going to do so. With song with scripture.

With the lord's table and with giving our giving today the benevolence offering. That we collect on the first sunday when we have communion together the benevolence offering today is going totally to Bob and jody nap they've been through An awful lot and jody continues to go through a lot still in his place in sycamore.

And expenses are just you can imagine outrageous. Bob drives out to see be with her every day and that in itself is very helpful to her to her health and recovery and jody, of course Had to she's not working and there's a significant source of income that's lost there.

So we want to be a blessing to the naps. And so the benevolence offering today will go completely to them. And I would just encourage you to give as the lord has prospered you. You can do that. Of course in the offering plate as you leave today.

There's an offering plate on the little table benevolence sign under it put it put your gift in that another way you can give is online. On the church website you can go to the church website. There's a place to give online and you can give to the love offering just you know, there's a little tab for love offering and choose that tab.

And any amount that you want to give and it'll be recorded. And As we open psalm 107 verse 2 says this let the redeemed of the lord say so Whom he hath redeemed? From the hand of the enemy the lord has redeemed you.

Say so today as we sing together and worship our lord. Jim, please come lead us.

Thank you pastor. It's number 36 in your blue supplement number 36. I greet thee who My sure redeemer heart. Let's all stand together and sing all four verses. Number 36, please our father. We just thank you lord for looking down from heaven and beholding the earth and And hearing the groaning of the prisoners and just thank you for um For freeing those who were appointed to death and we just uh.

Let me give you all the glory lord for rescuing us and we just uh. Thank you for this church. I pray that you would just be glorified in our worship and praise this morning. Pray these things in jesus name.

Amen. If you may be seated.

For our psalm reading today. We want to read psalm first eight verses of the second psalm. It's one of the psalms that does prepare us for the lord's table. On the back of your bulletin you can join with me in reading.

Let's read this in unison together. Shall we? First eight verses of psalm 2. You found your place. Read together with me. Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves.

And the rulers take counsel together against the lord and against his anointed saying Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us. He who sits in the heavens shall laugh. The lord shall hold them in derision.

Then he shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure. Yet I have set my king on my holy hill of zion. I will declare the decree. The lord has said to me You are my son. Today I have begotten you.

Ask of me. And I will give you the nations for your inheritance and the ends of the earth for your possession. Lord add his blessing to our reading of this psalm and then to the singing of it from our psalter, uh, jim.

And that's in your red psalter book hymn book the On page number four number four. Why do the gentile nations rage? From psalms two that we just read. Sing all four verses together nations rage. And in vain the forbidden dream that in triumph they can wage war against the king supreme Christ his son.

They would deny all ascending rulers say their decree Us defy let us cast the yoke away. But the lord has scorned them all. Come he sits in yoke and I. Soon his wrath on them will fall And his fury will reply.

Yet according to my will I have set my king And on zion's holy hill. You are my beloved son All the earth at your request. Learn to serve the lord with fear trembling. Go with your mirth is the sun blessed on your way.

Pray together today. I want to pray for our missionary of the week scott williquette and I want to particularly remember the school of church planters. Scott was here a couple weeks ago, he talked to us about that giving us an update on his ministry and shared with us the The work of the school of church planters.

This is a it's like a three-day conference where men are trained to a lot of basics and essentials In planting churches on the foreign mission field as well as in the in the united states. That conference is happening this week.

So we want to pray for That church planters at school of church planters and scott's ministry with that We also want to continue to pray for jody nap. We thank the lord for the progress that has been made there and We saw heard report this week that the doctors have Expect her to make a full recovery.

It's a long road to go yet. But nevertheless, that's a Welcome news and a wonderful blessing to hear that so pray for the lord to continue to strengthen jody and to heal her and Also want to pray for a kyle and So ivan just came in and i'm sure there's been a lot of care for dad over the last week.

I've been praying much for kyle. Just ask the lord to completely heal him and strengthen him and And see him Fully recover and get back to full strength as well. Let's look to the lord in prayer. Shall we?

Our father in our god. We do. Thank you today that though the nations rage and especially in our our world today We're hearing more and more raging against The king and against his authority Against the lord jesus and his rule and reign his righteous Principles and truths and precepts and commands vilified and and hated.

And yet lord, we know we know that he sits on the throne and that he reigns. And that eventually every knee will bow before him every tongue confess. We would pray that today on this lord's day in this place.

That every knee would be bowing before him. That every tongue would be confessing that jesus christ is lord to your glory. Oh father and we pray that Should there be one in the midst today in our midst here in this building or watching by a live stream?

And they realize that They are not. They are not children of the king. They are they are not christ's. And that they need him. Oh lord, I pray. Uh open their eyes to the depths and the degradation of the sin and its eternal consequences.

But also open their eyes to the glorious truth of the gospel of jesus. And what he has done on the cross to save sinners from eternal perdition. And may souls come to trust him today. May they kiss the son Lest he be angry.

May they receive him as their savior. Father, we thank you today for scott williquette and for his ministry with baptist admissions and the pastoral enrichment program. And this week as he conducts The school of church planters he and some other teachers.

I pray That you would use that work use that ministry and those that are in attendance. May they gain much that will help them in the planting of churches. That would be solid Biblical local churches in this country and abroad.

So use that ministry this week. We pray and continue to use scott and meet his needs and we also pray for victoria. And pray for her health and we thank you for Sustaining her in her earlier bouts with cancer and I pray that you would continue to give her.

Give her strength and victory over that disease. Father we pray for jody today and ask that you would continue to bless in her recovery. Thank you so much for all that's happened in this past week. We pray that she would make a full recovery indeed and that the progress from here on out would be Would be surprising to all.

Except for those of us who know christ and know your power. Lord do a great work in her life. We pray. We pray for kyle continue to strengthen him. I pray that you give him rest and Freedom from stress that might cause problems and I pray that he would make a full recovery as well.

And father we we also pray for others who can't be in our midst today for bob klein encourage him Continue to sustain him. We pray with not only health but strength and the good spirit about him. And continue to strengthen kathy and Heal her and we also pray father for The shut-ins who can't be in our midst lord how we long for them to be able to have company again And even be able to get out.

Lord, I pray meet their needs this day. We we ask father we pray that as we Will partake here in a moment of the lord's table. That this would be a time of great blessing Spiritual refreshment to us and we ask it in jesus name.

Amen. To prepare our hearts for the lord's table. Jim's going to come and lead us In another hymn from the supplement book how deep the father's love for us jim.

That's on page number 32 in your blue supplements. How deep the father's love. It's all. Stand together again, please if you would. And sing all three verses together. Number 32 how deep the father's love.

Until it was. His dying breath has brought me life. I will not boast in many things in jesus christ. His death is Interaction. Why should I gain from his reward? I cannot give an answer Answer but this I know with all my heart.

His wounds have made my.

Please be seated. Luke's gospel chapter 23. Read a few verses together. It says when they had come to the place called calvary there They crucified him and the criminals one on the right hand and the other on the left.

Then jesus said Father forgive them for they do not know what they do. And they divided his garments and cast lots. And the people stood looking on but even the rulers with them sneered saying He saved others.

Let him save himself if he is the christ the chosen of god. The soldiers also mocked him coming and offering him sour wine and saying if you are the king of the jews save yourself. And an inscription also was written over him in letters of greek latin and hebrew This is the king of the jews.

Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed him saying if you are the christ save yourself and us. But the other answering rebuked him saying do you not even fear god seeing you are under the same condemnation and we indeed justly For we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this man has done nothing wrong.

And he said to jesus lord Remember me when you come into your kingdom and jesus said to him assuredly I say to you Today you will be with me in paradise. I was about the sixth hour and there was darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

Then the sun was darkened and the veil of the temple was torn in two and when jesus had cried with a loud voice He said father Into your hands. I commit my spirit. Having said this he breathed his last the night before this event the lord instituted The ordinance that we are partaking of today.

He took a loaf of bread and he broke it and he shared it with his disciples and he took a cup of wine and Filled it and shared it with his disciples. And he says do this in remembrance of me. And as often as you do it do it in remembrance of me.

So we don't have a single loaf of bread that we're passing around and each one tearing a piece off but we have nevertheless the symbols in this little cup you have one of these and Have prepared to partake of it.

And in the top of this little cup you've ripped back the little piece of plastic and there's this Wafer. And it's not very palatable. But it serves as a symbol. It reminds us of the body That was broken in our behalf and the lord jesus passing around that loaf of bread Said this is my body broken for you Take and eat Having eaten that loaf of bread.

He then took the cup. And he passed the cup to the disciples and he said this cup is the new covenant in my blood all of you Drink from it our father and our god we We reflect back on that night that Ordinance that you instituted that we obey and we carry out even today.

And we realize that the disciples Reclining around that table they They could not grasp the significance of what was happening right then and there. They did not understand the significance of the broken bread.

The cup of red wine they could not grasp it. We look back with the vantage point of hindsight and we see We understand far better. And oh father this morning as we have partaken of these elements May our hearts be filled with gratitude and joy and thanksgiving.

That jesus our savior gave his body to be broken for us. That he gave his blood to be shed this blood of the new covenant. And because of his work on that cross We can know the joy of that eternal covenant the joy of eternal life.

We praise you and we thank you for it in jesus name. Amen. Before the message this morning, we're going to sing just one stanza of 383 close to thee jim, please.

Again, number 383 in your hymnals. Just verse one. Just one second first verse of number 383. More than friend or life. To me all along My pilgrim journey savior. Let me walk with thee Close to thee Close to thee Close to thee Close to thee all along My pilgrim journey savior.

Let me walk with thee.

And then if you would in your bibles turn to judges chapter one. For our scripture reading this morning judges one. It's hard to know how far to read to get the whole get the sense of this Passage and chapter so I didn't want to do all of it, but I want to do the first 19 verses nevertheless Judges 1 Verses 1 through 19.

I encourage you to follow along in your copy of scripture as I read. It says now after the death of joshua it came to pass that the children of israel asked the lord saying Who shall be first to go up for us against the canaanites to fight against them?

And the lord said judah shall go up. Indeed. I have delivered the land into his hand. So judah said to simeon his brother come up with me to my allotted territory that we may fight against the canaanites.

And I will likewise go with you to your allotted territory. And simeon went with him. Then judah went up and the lord delivered the canaanites and the perizzites into their hand and they killed 10 000 men at bezek.

And they found adonai bezek and bezek and fought against him. And they defeated the canaanites and the perizzites. Then adonai bezek fled and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and his big toes and adonai bezek said 70 kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table as I have done.

So god has repaid me. Then they brought him to jerusalem and there he died. Now the children of judah fought against jerusalem and took it. They struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.

And afterward the children of judah went down to fight against the canaanites who dwelt in the mountains in the south and in the lowland. Then judah went against the canaanites who dwelt in hebron now the name of hebron was formerly kiriath arba.

And they killed sheshai hymen and talmai. And from there they went against the inhabitants of debar. This name of debar was formerly kiriath sephir. Then caleb said whoever attacks kiriath sephir and takes it to him.

I will give my daughter ahsa as wife. And athnael the son of kanaz caleb's younger brother took it so he gave him his daughter ahsa to wife. Now what happened when she came to him that she urged him to ask her father for a field.

And she dismounted from her donkey and caleb said to her. What do you wish? She said to him give me a blessing since you have given me the land in the south. Give me also springs of water. And caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.

Now the children of the kenite moses father-in-law went up from the city of palms with their with the children of judah Into the wilderness of judah, which lies in the south near arad. They went and dwelt among the people.

And judah went with his brother simeon and they attacked the canaanites who inhabited zephath and utterly destroyed it. So the name of the city was called hormah. Also judah took gaza with its territory ashkelon with its territory and ekron with its territory.

So the lord was with judah. And they drove out the mountaineers. But they could not drive out the inhabitants of the lowland. Because they had chariots of iron. Our father and our god. I pray that our eyes would be open to see what's really going on In this passage of scripture today.

We pray in jesus name. Amen success. Can be such a deceptive thing, can't it? Do you remember the um, maybe you don't maybe you could care less, but do you remember the super bowl of 2017? So sure. Yeah, right.

That was four years ago. How could I remember that? Well, okay, maybe you don't remember that in general but how about that super bowl was the one where the atlanta falcons played the new england patriots now some of you who are Somewhat interested in football you may remember that one pretty well because In the first half of that game the game was over.

I mean everybody knew at halftime. This game is over. The atlanta falcons they had succeeded at everything. They tried they scored four touchdowns. The patriots all they managed was a meager field goal.

The falcons were winning 28 to 3 well into the third quarter. They were still winning 28 to 3 Into the fourth quarter with eight minutes left in the game. Over eight minutes left in the game. They were still falcons were still up 16 points.

It was 28 to 12 uh, but then It was 28 to 20. And then by the end of regulation. The patriots had come back and tied up the game. And went on to win 34 to 28 in overtime. Success can be such a deceptive thing especially initial success early success.

It can it can kind of lull you into Thinking that oh, this is this is this is all good. This is good is done. All is well. Uh, i'll surely succeed the rest of the way. And it can lull us into thinking that.

You know, we must be doing What we're supposed to be doing. We must be doing the right thing. We've got this. We've got this. But here's the thing. The seeds of failure are often sown in the season of success.

Have you realized that in your own personal life? That's what's going on in judges chapter one. Looks like success. It seems to be success. Success. They're getting off to a good start this new Chapter in the life of israel and the history of israel.

Joshua has died. He's passed off the scene and now There's a new chapter that is being written in his israel's history and it looks like they're getting off to a good start. Well, it seems like they are.

But success can be such a deceptive thing. So think about when you became a christian. Very early in your christian life. I mean, this was a this was a tremendous, uh, a tremendous victory a tremendous Experience an event in your life, wasn't it?

You came to the place where you saw yourself as a sinner hopeless sinner doomed sinner. And yet you also then saw Jesus for who he is the son of god who came into this world sinless. Sinless. And was a sinless sacrifice on a cross.

To pay the penalty of your sin. You saw this you'd heard about it many times before. But you never saw it and you never saw it as it applied to you personally and and finally The spirit of god having opened your eyes to see this and open your mind opening your mind to comprehend this you.

You bowed your head in humble shame and repentance and you turned from your sin and you turned from and you turned to christ. And you became a christian. And at that point You began the conquest that we call the christian life and Pretty early on your life began to change dramatically if you're genuinely converted.

There's some stuff you quit doing. There's other stuff you've never done before but all of a sudden you started doing it. There there were new relationships that began to be forged In that early stage of your conquest of the christian life.

And it also involved the breaking of some old relationships when you realized how harmful they would be to you you cut them off. You're off to a great start. You're off to a great start. But if you're not careful wherever you are in the stage of your christian life.

That initial success can be deceptive. You could be sowing even today. However old in the faith you are however far in the conquest that we call the christian life that you are even even today. You can be sowing some seeds of failure.

Even though it seems like you're very successful. Judges chapter one shows us how you can be off to a good start. But it can just be apparent. You just seem to be off to a good start. Here we are at the beginning of this chapter the beginning of this book and you know.

What's coming if you've read the book of judges, you know, what's coming later? You you have this terrible cycle of sin and degradation and it keeps Spiraling downward it keeps getting worse and worse and the book ends horribly horribly.

So, you know what's coming? But you you don't see it here in chapter one. Do you? Because in chapter one as as things begin. There's there's so much promise. It shows us so much promise. How so well because here you acknowledge the beginning of verse one.

Acknowledge the lord's rightful place after the death of joshua. It came to pass the children of israel asked the lord. They asked yahweh. They came to the lord and said, okay, what are we to do? Who's to go first?

But they but they recognized the rightful place of the lord. They recognized That yahweh is the commander-in-chief. The lord is the commander-in-chief. They they recognized it wasn't joshua. They recognized the commander-in-chief is not some other man.

They went to the lord. He is the commander-in-chief. Now they were in the land of canaan. And in the land of canaan, there were canaanites and perizzites hittites amorites and so forth. There were all these ites and and each of the ites had their own god.

But they didn't appeal to any of the pagan gods in the land. They went to yahweh the commander-in-chief. And they also they also did not ignore him as if he is irrelevant. They went to him. They recognized his rightful place.

Oh as you Begin, you can begin with the promise with so much promise recognizing The the lord in his rightful place and then looking to him for guidance. And again, that's a different thing, isn't it?

It's one thing to say. I know that I know that the lord god is supreme. I know he is authoritative. I know he is all he's all powerful. I know he is sovereign. I know he knows everything. I know I know I know I know I know.

And I affirm it all. But you got to go next step. The next step is they went to him for guidance. They came to the lord and they asked him. Who shall be first to go up for us against the canaanites to fight against them?

It seems that these israelites have learned from some failures of the past. You remember the failure at? Ai right? Had great success at jericho. But then they just assumed that they could figure out how to conquer the little village of ai.

Comparison to jericho is nothing. And they never asked the lord's help. They never asked for guidance from the lord and they were routed. And then also what about the remember the situation with the gibbonites.

They were the gibbonites who lived in the land of canaan. But they came to they they sought out the israelites and pretended like they came from a long way away. And they wanted the israelites to make a covenant with them a league with them.

Because they knew. We're we're under we're under a death penalty here. So we got to do something about this. So they deceived the israelites and and joshua and the israelites they even though. Even though they acknowledged the lord's rightful place.

They didn't go to him for guidance. Ah, not here though. We're off to a good start. This is a start that offers so much promise. They're recognizing the lord's rightful place. They're going to him for guidance.

Where should who shall go up for us first? Now think about this in your own Pre-christian life if you can think back that far. I realize some of you came to christ at a young age and. And this is this would not be your experience.

But others of you came to christ later in life. Think about before you came to christ you might have. You might have acknowledged that there was a god out there and so forth. But but did you ever go to him for guidance?

In the decisions that you needed to make everyday decisions and even lifetime decisions. When you were a were you a junior or a senior in high school, did you spend any time in prayer asking god, you know, what?

What of my talents and gifts and abilities do you want to use and shape and grow? Into a particular career. What would you have me to do with my life? Did you do that? Not not before you were converted didn't even occur to you.

Ah, but now. Here you are. You acknowledge the lord's rightful place you go to him for guidance. And then having heard from him. You're sensitive to his will. You're sensitive to his will. First part of verse 2.

The lord said judah shall go up. Judah shall go up now again. Watch with each of these each of these. Steps at the beginning. It's one thing to do this. It's another thing to go to the next step. It's one thing to acknowledge the lord's rightful place and then to and then to ask him for guidance.

But it's another thing altogether. To be sensitive to his will. It's one thing to pray and ask for guidance. It's another thing to actually listen to that guidance, isn't it? What if what you hear you don't want to hear?

You're really going to be sensitive at that point. The lord says judah shall go up. Now on the one hand you might have you might conclude well that was a sort of a no-brainer judah was the largest tribe.

We're not going to take the time to do it. But you could go back to the book of numbers and at the end of the book of numbers. One of the chapters that has a bunch of numbers in it. Is the chapter that uh takes a census of the different tribes at the end of the wilderness wandering period and the tribe of judah Is the largest tribe by far.

So you might read that and say well, well, of course, it's kind of a no-brainer Jews the largest tribe that they're most likely to have the greatest success. Let them go first. But that's not why the lord chose judah.

The lord had judah go first because judah was to. Judah was to be the tribe of the king. Remember that the tribe of the king. The scepter was going to come from judah and this is very much a symbolic thing, but you're sensitive to the lord's will sensitive to the lord's will.

There's also in the last part of verse two there is a There is this implicit faith In the promises of god believing the promises of god. The lord says have judah go up first. He says indeed I have Delivered the land into his hand so they're hearing this and what they're hearing is.

This is this is in god's mind and Will and his sovereign work. It's a done deal. We haven't even we haven't even set out to battle yet and it's already delivered into our hand. This is what the lord says.

I have delivered him into your hand. I've delivered the land into his hand. And the promise is heard and it is implicitly believed. It's not the first time they heard this promise. Heard it back chapter 23.

You can turn a page or two back in your bible in chapter 23 is before joshua died. He basically said the same thing He said to the people in verse 3 of joshua 23. He says you've seen all that the lord your god has done to all these nations because of you for the lord.

Your god is he who has fought for you. See I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain to be an inheritance for your tribes. From the jordan with all the nations that I have cut off as far as the great sea westward and now look at verse 5.

And the lord your god will expel them from before you and drive them out of your sight. So you shall possess their land as the lord your god promised you. So joshua said before joshua died. He said you're going to succeed here.

You're going to drive out the canaanites from the land. Now joshua's passed off the scene. The land has been divided up the the tribal territories and they've taken some of it a good chunk of it. But there's much yet to be conquered.

And so the lord comes to him and says I have delivered it comes to him and says I have delivered the land into his hand. And they implicitly believe what the lord has promised and. There have been there have been occasions in your life, and I hope many of them.

When that's been your experience. Can you remember some of those times? So some sometimes I think. We're we're more tuned into that implicit belief in the promises of god the younger we are in our christian faith.

And and then there thereafter. It's almost more second nature to us as we grow in faith and grow in grace. And we don't stop and think about it so much anymore that well god's promised did I believe it, you know and but can you believe.

Recall implicitly believing in the promises of god well again, it's one thing to acknowledge the lord's place to Go to him for guidance to hear what he has to say. Sensitive to his will be sensitive to his will and implicitly believe the lord's promises.