# We Can Always Praise God

Category: Worship & Praise
Key Passage: Psalm 33
Speaker: Doyle Robinson
Date: June 7, 2024

On with us, that neighbor that lives down the street, a family member, whatever, he can work in hearts. He can work in our hearts. And trust that he will even work in our hearts tonight. Take your Bibles, please. Turn to the book of Psalms. We’re going to look at Psalm number 33, Psalm 33.

Do you like the Psalms? I do. I think it seems like the older I get, or the more mature I get—you know, maybe I should say it that way—the more I read the Psalms. In the Psalms, David just kind of lays his heart bare, doesn’t he? We realize he’s a man with like passions and like failures, like struggles, just like we do.

But he was one that God used marvelously. We see how often God would come to David’s aid, how he would lift him up when he was low, and how he would help him and bless him. There’s just a tremendous blessing to me as I read through the Psalms. I appreciate the pastor mentioning having a Bible reading plan. If you don’t have one, you know, the Word of God is an amazing, amazing thing. Without it, we tend to shrivel up and die, and with it, we tend to bloom and blossom, don’t we? I was on a program at one time called the Bible, which has divided up into separate sections, and you would actually read through the Psalms twice in one year, and the rest of the Bible once. The first time I did that, I said, I don’t know why they had you read through Psalms twice. But the more I did it, the more I realized what a blessing, what a wondrous blessing it is. Psalm 33 is a tremendous Psalm about praise.

You know, in our day and time, we hear a lot about praise. We hear a lot about worship. I have a fear that it would be a little bit like when I was a kid growing up. I seemed like the charismatic group, the Church of God, etc., had kind of a corner, if you could say it that way, on the use of and the teaching and preaching about the Holy Spirit. They would tend to abuse it, and they would talk about speaking in tongues, et cetera. They would talk, “Oh, if you’re full of the Holy Ghost, you’re going to speak in tongues,” and they would have their false teaching concerning the Holy Spirit. Sometimes it seemed like the fundamentalists, those who believe the Bible, began to shy away from teaching about the Holy Spirit because of that.

Which is really something that we don’t want to do, because the Holy Spirit is such an important part of a Christian’s life that we don’t need to ignore him. We need to embrace the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, and we need to make sure that we have full use of the Holy Spirit-filled life so that we can serve God. It was a mistake to turn from that. I have a fear a little bit in our day and time that the term praise or worship has been misused so much that we’ll begin to lose the significance of it—lose the reason why we worship, or who we should worship, or where we should, or how we should worship—and kind of turn from that. But if we read the Word of God, we can understand that it’s very important to praise God. It’s very important to worship God, and we don’t turn from it, but we do it in the correct biblical way.

Here in Psalm 33, we’re going to cover this entire chapter tonight, but we’re going to do it quickly, all right? So hang on. You listen quickly, and I’ll speak quickly, and we’ll still get out of here in a decent time. We’re going to begin partway down the chapter, and we’re going to begin with reasons why we praise God. Why should we praise him? The psalmist here tells us a bunch of reasons, so we’re going to look at that. Let’s look first of all at verses four and five, and we’re going to have a word of prayer and then dive right into it. The word of God says in verse four of Psalm 33: “For the word of the Lord is right, and all his works are done in truth. He loveth righteousness and judgment. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.”

Here in verse 5 and 6 that we’re going to look at in just a moment, but primarily now verse 5, we see that we praise God for the perfection of his character. If you want to write some of these down, all of them are going to have a ‘P’ in there somewhere, so they can be kind of alliterated. We can praise him for the perfection of his character. Are you tired of people lying to you? I am. It seems like when I was a kid—and that was a little while ago, I’m 67 now, so you might have to sit there and worry about it—when I grew up, you could pretty much take a man at his word. You shook hands with somebody and said, “I’m going to do it.” He says, “I’m going to do it,” and it was done. That’s all you needed. But nowadays, when people talk to you, especially politicians, it seems like, I hate to say that, but I sit there and think, they’re probably lying through their teeth just as well as they’re telling the truth. We are lied to so often, and it seems like it doesn’t bother them a bit. But it’s wonderful to have a God who has perfection in his character.

In verse 5, it says, “For he loveth righteousness and judgment. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.” Verse 4 says, “The word of the Lord is right, and all of his works are done in truth.” That one thing would be enough for God. We could praise him every day of life, just that he is a perfect God whose word is truth. We can count on it. It’s never going to steer us wrong. It’s always the truth, and we can bank on it, as the old saying goes.

Next, in verses 6 through 9, we can praise God for his power in creation. Look at it. It says, “By the word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the sea together as in a heap; he layeth up the deep in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast.” Wow. What a God we serve. Here we can praise him for his power in creation. God just spoke things into existence. They didn’t involve—you know, they didn’t come from lower forms, some little things squiggling around in the dirt. The Bible says he created things day by day, and it’s very clear in there. On the sixth day, he created man in his image. He didn’t create an ape that changed into man; he created the world. We can praise him for that. Why? Because if we have a God who created everything and created us, then that command to praise commands worship and commands awe, does it not?

That’s why the diabolical—and I mean that—the satanic evolutionary theory that has been pushed on us for years and years now is so wicked because it takes God out of the picture. If we just evolve, then who is God? What is God? Why should I worship Him? Why should I praise Him if I just evolved from an ape? If I just evolved from some lower life form—sometimes I think even Christians tend to think all evolution is just kind of a, “I don’t agree with it, but it’s just something”—it is diabolical and wicked. It’s straight from hell. Here it says it talks about how, “Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.” Why? Because he is the great Creator. Even if they don’t know him as personal Savior, if they realize God created this world, they’re going to have a sense of awe and respect for him. But nowadays, do you see that? No. People don’t even have respect for life. When you can kill millions of babies and just look the other way, they don’t have respect for life. They don’t have respect for God. It all starts when we take him down from his rightful place as the creator. We can praise him for his power in creation.

In verses 10, 16, and 17, we can praise him for his protection of his people. Look at verse 10: “The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught; he maketh the devices of the people of none effect.” Look at verse 16: “There is no king saved by the multitude of an host; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength. A horse is vain for safety, neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.” Why? Because God is the one that protects us. We can praise God for his protection. He bringeth the counsel of the heathen to naught. I don’t think there is anything wrong with taking common sense measures for our protection. I think you probably ought to lock your doors. There was a time in life we didn’t have to, but I think you probably ought to lock your doors now. Just recently, there was that shooting in a church in Texas, I’m sure you all heard about that. They had some men that were prepared to help protect, and they did. There’s nothing wrong with that, but when we ultimately get down to it, our protection comes from God. God protects us daily.

There was a missionary once that was preaching in a place that had a lot of witch doctors and satanic worshippers, and many of them had threatened the life of the missionary. He got to thinking about it and said, “I know God will protect me, but I think I’ll get some pepper spray.” It was kind of a primitive culture; their weapon of choice there was a machete. By the way, they knew how to use it. The missionary thought he could maybe neutralize the situation if he had some pepper spray. He got some and would stick it in his pocket or try to keep getting a habit of carrying it with him all the time because a certain witch doctor had threatened his life several times.

One day, the missionary was at home, his wife was at home, and one of the native ladies had come to visit his wife. The missionary heard a racket out in the roadway, somebody hollering and everything. So he went to the porch and stepped out, and sure enough, here came that witch doctor—shouldn’t probably call him a gentleman—this witch doctor was coming down the road with his machete in hand, waving it, shouting how he was going to do in the missionary, how he was going to take his head off and alleviate what he considered his problem.

The missionary saw that, and by the time the man was coming close to the yard, the missionary stepped out on the steps and said, “Now wait a minute, wait. Let’s talk about this.” He was trying to diffuse the situation and see if he could talk any sense into the witch doctor, but the man was not listening to anything. He was coming full bore right into the yard, right to the steps, and he was about to kill the missionary that day.

After talking some, the missionary thought, “I’ve got my pepper spray; it’s probably now or never if I’m going to use this.” He got out his pepper spray by that time he was just a few yards away and getting closer. The missionary held out his can of pepper spray and pushed the button. Nothing happened.

So the missionary got killed that day, right? No. God was protecting. Unknown to the missionary, the native lady had stepped out on the porch also to see what the racket was going on. He was so focused, he didn’t even know that she was back there. She was kind of a take-charge person. She saw what was happening. She looked around, and while the missionary’s bottle of pepper spray was fizzling, she saw a two-by-four lying on the porch. She picked up a two-by-four, and the witch doctor was concentrating on the missionary. The missionary saw—they didn’t even see her. She stepped between them, swung that two-by-four, caught the witch doctor right across the nose, flattened it, and it was very discouraging to him for some reason. He went out of the yard, blood dripping, and went back down the road mumbling and didn’t bother the missionary, I don’t think, ever again.

Why? God was protecting. Was there anything wrong with him carrying his pepper spray? No. God may choose that; he could have chosen that to spare him that day. But God was protecting him, and when he thought all hope was gone, God stepped in and protected him in a great way. So we can praise God for his protection. I am convinced when we get to heaven sometime, we’re going to look back amazed at how God has protected us. Many times we didn’t even know it. We can praise him for his protection.

Next, we can praise him for the permanency of his word. Look at verse 11: “The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.” At 67, my wife is younger than I am, but we’re at the grandpa and grandma stage. We have 12 grandchildren. They were all there for Christmas. That’s an interesting time to have 12 grandchildren ranging from 13 years of age down to twins at just one year of age. We had a wonderful time. We’re loving the grandparent stage. We are about to have our 13th grandchild any day now. Aaron and his wife are expecting, and she is due in four days, so it could be any moment. We’re looking forward to that. But there are times when I look at this world and say, “Oh my, what kind of world are my grandkids growing up in? What kind of world will they grow up in?” But then when I read the Bible in verses like this, it brings peace to my heart. Why? It says, “The counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.” The word of God is just as true for my grandson as it is for me. The word of God is just as applicable and works just as well for my granddaughters, my twin granddaughters, as it does for me. What a joy. We can praise God for the permanency of His word.

We can praise God next for the prospect of His blessing. Look at verse 12: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.” Blessed is a nation whose God is the Lord. I think there was one time in the United States that we could say, “One nation under God.” Most people—there were many Christians in America. Those who were not Christians at least had some respect or some type of reverence for God. I can remember being at work years ago, and one of the guys who wasn’t a Christian would slip and say a curse word. Many times he would say, “Oh, Doyle, I didn’t mean to do that. I know you’re religious.” There was a respect there, but it’s amazing how much of that is gone now, and it is lost completely.

Praise him for the prospect of his blessing. If we as a country would turn back to God, yes, God can restore a nation. What it’s going to take is for us as Christians to reach those who are not saved with the gospel. It’s going to take us getting busy reaching our families, reaching our neighbors, and reaching workers for Christ so that we can turn this nation back to God. If we do, then God will bless it again, and he will put his hand of blessing on our lives and on our nation. But it’s going to take turning back to God, and it’s going to take us as Christians getting busy working for God. But that’s another message. So we can praise him for the prospect of his blessing.

We can praise him for the proof of his care. Look at verse 13: “The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men. From the place of his habitation he looketh upon all the inhabitants of the earth. He fashioneth their hearts alike; he considereth all their works.” I don’t know about you. When I think about God considering all of my works, one of my first reactions is, did he see that? Did you know that? Yes, he did. He does. There is an aspect of God’s watchfulness and seeing. There’s also another aspect: God’s watchfulness indicates he cares, and that he loves us. Why would he even stop to watch? Why would he consider our ways? He’s the creator of the universe. We are nothing. But he loves us enough to watch. He loves us enough to consider our ways. He loves us enough to be involved in our lives. He’s not just a God who set things in motion and then went away. He considers our works. He considers our ways. He loves us enough to do that.

I remember with our grandkids—not his grandkids, with our grandkids—sometimes when we’re watching them, there are situations that can be slightly dangerous. For instance, I remember being up in Wisconsin helping at a camp. It does get a little bit hot up there, not quite as hot as it does in Tennessee, but it does get hot. One day we had this little wading pool. It was about six inches deep, about that big around. It was a little bitty, dinky thing. We let a couple of the grandkids get in the wading pool just to cool off and splash around and enjoy it. There was probably one about three, or maybe one even younger. Do you think that we just put them in there and then Donna and I went off somewhere else? No. What did we do? We watched them, didn’t we? Because we said this is a situation where if something goes wrong, they could drown. One sibling might hold the other one down, thinking it’s fun. You never know exactly what’s going to happen when they’re that young, or it could happen by accident. We didn’t just put them in the wading pool and take off. We sat there and we watched them and we considered them. Why? Because we love them. God is the same way. He’s put us here on this earth, but he watches us. We can praise him for the proof of his care, which is his watchfulness.

Lastly on this part—don’t get too excited—we can praise God for his plentiful mercy. Look there at verse 16: “There is no king saved by the multitude of an host; a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.” We were talking about that for his protection. Then look down at verse 18: “Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy, to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine. Our soul waiteth for the Lord: he is our help and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in his holy name. Let thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, according as we hope in thee.”

Aren’t you glad for God’s mercy? If it weren’t for His mercy, we’d have no hope, would we? We would have no hope of heaven. We would have no hope of any kind of life here. There would be no hope without God’s mercy. But in his mercy, he sent Christ to die for us. In his mercy, he gave him so that we could have eternal life. So we can praise him. We can worship God, and we should: perfection of his character, his power in creation, his protection for his people, the permanency of his word, the prospect of his blessing, the proof of his care, and his plentiful mercy. We should praise him for all of those things. Never, as a church or as an individual, get to the place where you think, “Praise is something I don’t want to be involved in because that church over there is doing it the wrong way.” No, we should embrace it because it is right, but we should do it in the right way.

Let’s look at verse one, and we’ll see a few other things here in our time. First of all, we’ve seen why we praise God. Let’s look at who is to praise God. Psalm 33, verse 1 says, “Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.” So who should praise God? Those who are righteous, those who are saved. It says praise is “comely,” or suitable; it means suiting or fitting for the upright. We as Christians, we that know the Lord, ought to be praising him and glorifying him. I don’t know about you, but I am often guilty of saying, “Give me, give me, give me; I need, I need, I need,” and too many times I don’t say, “Dear Lord, let me praise you for who you are. Let me praise you for what you’ve done in my life. Let me praise you for my family. Let me praise you for the health you’ve given me. Let me praise you for your care for me.” So who’s to praise God? We praise him. As Christians, it is suitable; it is fitting that we praise God.

In verse 2, it reminds us who we are praising. It says, “Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.” Verse 3 says, “Sing unto him a new song; play skillfully with a loud noise.” It talks about singing. One of the easiest praises is to sing. At Ambassador, we say preaching is king, music is queen. They go together. We say preaching is king; that’s the most important thing, preaching from God’s word. But music is queen. It’s also important. Music is important in our lives. It’s important in the life of our church, and we should never put it down. We should realize it’s important because we are praising God; we are worshipping God. We are just not coming in for the entertainment. That’s where a lot of people get off the bus right there. They say, “Oh, music is to attract people. Music is to attract the young people, so we’ve got to have some entertainment. We’ve got to have some kind of a drum set up here. We’ve got to have people that look like we just dragged them out of a bar somewhere, stand up here and be a worship team and just lead us in worship.” We need that because we are worshipping God. We need to worship him in the way that he should be worshipped, because God doesn’t just accept any kind of worship.

Some people say very piously things like, “Brother Doyle, what you don’t know is the music doesn’t matter. It’s just the words that count.” That’s not true. The words count, but the music does also. The pastor mentioned bringing worldly music and putting some Christian words to it, and how that makes as much sense as Christian beer. That’s right. It doesn’t make any sense at all because Christian and beer don’t go together. It’s like me saying, “Hey, after church tonight, we’re going to have a Christian bank robbery.” Just all the citizens can participate. We’re going to go down to the nearest bank. I think we probably could use some extra funds to build the building, give the pastor a raise, get some more missionaries. We could use funds for a lot of things at the church. Wouldn’t this make a lot of sense and probably honor God: a Christian bank robbery? You say, “Brother Doyle, that’s ludicrous,” because we are told plainly in the Word of God we are not to steal. You can’t have a Christian bank robbery as easily as you can have Christian rock or Christian rap. Why? Because on one side you have Christian, and the other side you have something that is not Christian, something that’s wicked and worldly, and there’s no way those can come together. The only way they can come together is if someone can persuade you or me that the music doesn’t matter.

That’s what they’ll say. They said, “Brother Doyle, the music’s done.” Now, I probably did this 13 years ago, but if I did, forgive me for doing it again, because it’s a great illustration. Sometimes people say, “Brother Doyle, tell me, is that note a good note or is it a bad note?” Well, it’s a note. It’s middle C, right? It’s neither good nor bad; it’s just middle C. They say, “See, music isn’t good; music isn’t bad. It’s just the words. If the words are good, the music is good.” Wait a minute. What they’re trying to say is that just because that one note is neutral, then all music is neutral. Just because that one note isn’t good or bad, then all music is immoral. It’s not good; it’s not bad.

Let’s think about it this way. On the very surface of it, you could think they have a little bit of a point. But not really. Suppose we think about an alphabet. Suppose I choose a letter of the alphabet and ask you, “Is that B? Is that a good B or is that a bad B?” Well, it’s just a B, right? I could choose any letter of the alphabet, and in and of itself, they are neutral. They are not bad; they are neutral. Using their logic, which is not really logical, let’s apply that to the alphabet. Because letters are neutral, all literature is neutral, right? Wrong. I can take those neutral letters and put them together in a way that would honor God, or I can take those neutral letters and put them together in a way that would dishonor God. The same is true with notes. Just because middle C is neither good nor bad has no bearing on the fact that I can put those notes together in a way that would honor God or in a way that would dishonor God.

Probably the next question is, what kind of music does honor God? I think the whole answer to this is found in verse five, the first three words. Verse five tells us how we’re to praise God. It says, “He loveth righteousness and judgment. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.” He loveth righteousness. There’s no way that we could even realize how righteous God is because our minds are polluted. We do not know perfection. Nothing is perfect; even we aren’t perfect. Some of you might think that you are, but you’re not. There’s some imperfection there. The longer you live, you realize there’s a lot of imperfection there, right? There’s nothing about us that is perfect. Even our looks—you might think you’ve really got it made, but it’s okay. We don’t know anything about perfection, but all of a sudden we try to focus on the fact that God is perfection. It’s hard for us to really wrap our minds around that.

Isaiah caught just a glimpse of the holiness of God, didn’t he? He saw the seraphim there, waving their wings, crying, “Holy, holy, holy.” When Isaiah caught a glimpse of God’s holiness, he fell flat on his face. He said, “Woe is me! For I am a man of unclean lips.” His response was one of contrition. He realized, “I know I am a wicked person.” That’s how we need to respond when we think about God’s character: He loves righteousness so much that he cannot look upon sin. He loves righteousness so much that he turned away from his own Son as he hung on the cross and became sin for you and for me. As he turned, Christ said, “Why hast thou forsaken me?” That’s how righteous of God we serve. He loves righteousness.

How could we think we could take something worldly like rock music, rap music—there are things called Christian rap now and Christian country, whatever worldly style you want to put with it—and say, “Oh, we’re going to put some Christian words on it, and it’s going to be okay”? No, it’s not okay. He loveth righteousness. Can you imagine a righteous, holy, perfect heaven, and someone is saying, “I’m going to praise him,” but it sounds like a beer joint down the street? God’s going to say, “No, this is strange fire, folks.” It’s not sacrificing the right kind of sacrifice. The Bible talks about the sacrifice of praise, and we need to remember as we say, “I’m going to praise God, I’m going to worship God,” that we’re saying we’re going to do it in a way that agrees with God’s righteousness and holiness.

What kind of music is the right kind of music? I think one of the easiest ways to put it is Christian music should not sound like the world’s music. If it sounds like rock, it’s not right. If it sounds like rap, it’s not right. Christian music should not sound like the world’s music. It should have a distinct flavor of its own. It needs to agree with words of praise and glory to God. Does the music matter? Yes, it does, when serving a holy God. Does the music matter? Yes, it does, because it affects the message of that song. It doesn’t matter just what you say; it matters how you say it. If you haven’t realized that, then you’re probably not married, for one thing. Have you ever said something as a spouse, and your spouse said, “Here’s what you said,” maybe even a day later, “Here’s what you said.” “Well, that’s not what I meant.” “Well, here’s what you said, but that’s not how I said it.” Why? Because it matters not what you say; it matters how you say it. If you look at your spouse and say, “Hey, thank you so much,” that means one thing. But if you look at them and say, “Hey, thank you so much,” that doesn’t quite do it, does it? You can say, “Hey, you’re beautiful.” It doesn’t matter just what you say; it matters how you say it. In music, you need words that honor the Lord, and you need music that also honors the Lord. It doesn’t detract from it; it doesn’t distract. I often say music has the ability to support, to distort, or destroy that message. We want the music to be godly also so that it will support the message, so it will praise God—the one we are supposed to be praising and worshipping, the reason why we’re having music in the first place. Look throughout the scriptures; time and time and time again, it’s for him primarily, not for us primarily. Colossians, Ephesians—Colossians talks about teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. But it’s all directed toward God, and we need to remember that he is a holy, righteous God.

Our time’s gone, and practice has probably been gone for a few minutes here. Forgive me; I don’t get a shot at you very often. Once in every 13 years, I’ve got to take a named shot, right? But forgive me for that. Let’s have music in our lives and our churches that honors God, that praises him, that worships him, in the way that would be acceptable to a holy, righteous God. He loveth righteousness, and that’s the way we should worship him.

Let’s pray. Heavenly Father, thank you so much for your Word of God. We pray that you would help us in our lives to please you in everything. As we think about this praise and worship thing, I pray that we will not let the world turn our hearts and minds away from it, but that we would remember the importance of praising you and worshipping you, lifting our hearts in praise to who you are and what you’ve done for us. I pray that you would help us to have wisdom in this area of our lives. We pray these things in Jesus’ name.

Heads are bowed and eyes are closed. In just a moment, I’m going to ask if we could sing a verse of “Have Thine Own Way” in just a few moments. I encourage you: if God has spoken to your heart tonight, would you do business with the Lord? Would you surrender to whatever the Holy Spirit has talked to you about tonight? Maybe it’s in your music, maybe that you have lacked praise—I think we could probably all do better in that department. I’m not asking for everybody to come down here tonight, but if God is speaking to your heart and there’s a definite thing you need to take care of, let me ask you to take care of that as we sing together. Let’s stand together with heads bowed and eyes closed, and we’ll just sing that first verse. Everybody knows it. You don’t even need to turn any hymn books. “Have Thine Own Way, Lord. Have Thine Own Way.” If God’s speaking to your heart, heads are bowed, eyes are closed. Let’s just respond to the Holy Spirit tonight as he speaks to us. Have Thine Own Way. “Have thine own way, Lord, have thine own way. Thou art the potter, I am the clay. Mold me and make me, after thy will while I take it.” The pianist and organist will continue to play.

Have you been obedient tonight? There are folks here at the altar. We’ll give them just a few minutes. The pastor will come and close the service in just a little bit. As God speaks to your heart, there’s still time for you. We’re going to play another stanza, then the pastor will come.

Can I just remind you, you can look up the power of music? Your spiritual life is not stronger than your music. We, in our pride sometimes—and I think the world—think, “I can listen to the world’s music.” Friend, you’re not that strong. We’re not that strong. Music has a lot of power there. Satan is gifted, created with musical talents, and they use it. It seems like it’s been emphasized in our church the last six months or so: there’s a lot about music and how much the Bible talks about music. Music is powerful, and it’s either going to train you and pull you a worldly route or draw you more like Christ. Just want to remind you of the power of music. I don’t know how many youth directors we’ve had over the years, but I always try to emphasize to our youth directors: if we could get our young people listening to good music, we’ve gained so much ground. If they’re not listening to good music, we’ve got a hard battle to fight. Music is so powerful and crucial. I appreciate Brother Doyle and Brother Robinson focusing on music. It’s not a mistake that Satan is trying to change the typical church music. That’s not an accident; it’s not a coincidence. Satan knows what he is doing, and music is crucial. My request is just to give your music to the Lord. Say, “Lord, whatever you want, I’ll study this thing out. Whatever you want, Lord.” Just give your music to the Lord, and he knows best.

I appreciate the message. If you got a blessing out of tonight, would you say amen? What a blessing. I believe the Lord just brought Brother Robinson along—just what we needed. We appreciate that very, very much. If you have any questions about Ambassador Bible College, stop back; they’ve got a table back there. Give you more details, brochures about it. Pray for them, and make sure you stop by there and tell Brother Robinson how much you appreciate him tonight. It was a needed message. A lot of people don’t want to address that issue because for some, it’s their sacred cow. I appreciate him being willing to tactfully, wisely, and biblically deal with the subject because the power of it is crucial. I appreciate it very much. Thank you, brother. If you got a blessing out of it tonight, would you say amen? Amen. I appreciate it so very, very much. Make sure you stop by and let them know how much you appreciate them staying faithful all those years. That’s awesome. Praise the Lord for them. We’ll pray and be dismissed. Glad you’re here. Excited about what the Lord’s doing and what he is going to do. I’m excited about serving the Lord in 2020. Amen. I’m just thrilled about it. I just believe maybe the Lord sent him along—he called me this week, believing I was in the area or whatnot. Maybe the Lord was saying, “Hey, let’s get that music area straightened out so I can bless you and use Rutherford County Baptist Church even more in 2020 in such a key area.” Glad you are in God’s house tonight.

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