Psalms 119, Part 1

I think you will find it very interesting. Probably you haven't heard a sermon about a particular psalm, but we're going to cover it. Throughout the Bible, there is a common theme that we see converted men and women in the Bible all praised God's laws. They did not pay lip service, but were actually doers of the Word. That's one reason we are where we are, because we believe in being a doer of God's laws, not just give lip service, as many in Protestant and evangelical world. They'll talk about God's law, but then at any moment they'll either say it's been done away with, or it's not good. It's something that was just given in the past, sometimes as a negative thing. But that's not what the Bible brings out, as I will present. First of all, we have the witnesses in the Bible about loving God's laws. And of course, the outstanding one who never broke any of God's laws is Jesus Christ. Let's notice in Matthew 5, verse 17, what Jesus Christ said about the law. He said, Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I did not come to destroy, but to fulfill. And that word in this context means to fill to the fullest. It's used when describing how when Christ made that miracle with the fish, that the nets were filled to the fullest. All the fish just filled the net to the fullest. Well, He said, I came to fill the law to its fullest. He continues, Notice in Matthew 19, verse 16.

Now, behold, one came and said to him, Good teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? He said to him, Why do you call me good? No one is good, but one that is God. And what he was referring to here is that when he came to the earth, he had a race to run. He had to be that perfect sacrifice. And it says that he was tempted in all things as we were, but he never failed. But he could not at that moment say, Well, I've already achieved that goal. I'm already perfect in that sense. And so he always, with that humility and modesty, just said, Look to God, God the Father right there. But of course, he was God in the flesh as well, but he could have sinned. And so he wasn't taking that for granted. Continuing on, it says here in Matthew 19 and verse 17, it says, But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments. If you want to have eternal life, he says you keep the commandments. He said to him, Which ones? And he read them out. Jesus said, You shall not murder, you shall not commit adultery, all of these others. And so he kept God's laws and he told people we should keep God's laws. He was not a law abolisher. He was not doing away with the law, like so many have said. Well, how about the Apostle Paul? What did he say about God's law? Let's go to Romans chapter 7. Romans chapter 7, in verse 12. This is his conclusion about God's law. Romans 7, verse 12. Therefore, the law is holy and the commandment holy and just and good. He knew God's commandment was holy, just and good. Those are three descriptions. Only God can make things holy. Only God can make things just. And he only can make things good. Verse 14. For we know that the law is spiritual. It is generated through God. But I am carnal, sold under sin. We have that evil human nature. But the law is not to blame for sin. And then he goes on to say, in verse 22, That's the same way David described how he delighted in God's laws. Oh, how I love thy law. That's what Paul is saying here.

But he says, I have this other nature that goes against God's laws. That's the one I have to wrestle with and have to control. What about Peter? One of the chief apostles. Notice in 2 Peter, chapter 2, verse 21. Again showing that these were not only teaching the law, but they were doers of the law. In 2 Peter 2, chapter 2, verse 21, it says here, For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than having known it to turn from the holy commandment delivered to them. Talking about God's laws and how people should not turn away once they've been called. So he was emphasizing the importance of the way of righteousness and of keeping God's laws. Of course, the apostle John did the same thing. Notice just another page over, 1 John, chapter 2, verse 3. He says, Now by this we know that we know Him. We can talk about God, we can talk about Jesus, but here's the litmus test. This is the thing that reveals whether you know Him or not. He said, If we keep His commandments, He who says, I know Him and does not keep His commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in Him. But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in Him. By this we know that we are in Him. We're not going to go against God's laws if we truly have God living in us. And of course, the famous description of what love is in the Bible, 1 John 5, 3.

For this is the love of God, that we keep His commandments, and His commandments are not burdensome. They're not something to get rid of. They're something to incorporate, to internalize in our lives. So that was John's description. And finally, another of the leading apostles, James, a couple of pages back, James 1, verse 22. He said, But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he's like a man observing his natural face in a mirror. For he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty, that's how he described God's laws, and continues in it. Not just keeping it for a while, and is not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work. This one will be blessed in what he does. So we see all of these witnesses, and of course there are many more we could call here in the Scriptures to testify, men and women. They were all about keeping God's laws. And in this regard, there is a mini-Bible inside God's word about God's law. It's a diamond with many facets that we're going to view. David praised God's laws in these 176 verses. Can you guess where it's located? Psalms 119. Jewish tradition has it that David composed it to teach young Solomon about loving and keeping God's laws. It is still the first chapter that the Jewish kids learn when they learn the Hebrew alphabet. It is Psalms 119, the longest chapter in the Bible and longer than many of the biblical books.

I remember one minister mentioning, can you imagine a person that can write 176 verses to praise God's law? How difficult is that to do? To be able to go on and on? Well, David did this. Psalms 119 is carefully designed. There are 22 sections, each comprising of 8 verses. That's why you multiply 22 by 8, you get 176. This is called an acrostic poem because each section begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It is also called the Golden Alphabet because, just like the Golden Rule, which is in Matthew 7-12, here you have the Golden Alphabet because each one of those Hebrew letters has a section about God's laws, praising it, and it's also an instruction manual to be able to understand what God expects of us, how we should view His law. And like I said, it's a beautiful diamond with all the different facets that King David carefully composed. Now, in this sermon, we will only cover a part of Psalms 119, but this is something that we should do at least once in our lives, to focus on this psalm because it has so much meaning. It helps us in our spiritual life. We can learn to truly love God's law like David did. He had the heart, the mind, and the soul of God's law. And it's interesting that God explains why David was a man after his own heart and will be greatly exalted in God's kingdom. In Ezekiel 37, verse 24, here Jesus Christ is talking about that future kingdom that He's going to establish. Ezekiel 27, verse 24, and inspired the prophet Ezekiel to write this down. He said, David, my servant, shall be king over them. He talked about the twelve future tribes of Israel in his kingdom. He said, and they shall have one shepherd. They shall also walk in my judgments and observe my statutes and do them. See, David was exalted because he understood God's laws in so many different ways and dimensions that he was the right person to teach others how to keep God's laws. He lived it. He had to suffer persecution. He went through a lot. But he never gave up. He continued keeping God's laws. Even if he slipped, he would get up and continue following God's way of life. So he turned out to be a winner in the Bible. And he was greatly exalted. In Acts 13, verse 22. In the New Testament, it also exalts David.

It says, See, that's the key. It's not because he's a respecter of persons or that David is somehow a favorite. No. It's because this man knows all the dimensions that are needed to do God's will. Believe me, David, when he was king, that was the golden period of Israel. He ruled with righteousness, with justice, with mercy, and he loved God's laws to the utmost. So it's interesting to read Psalms 119 under this prism, under this lens, to see how much he loved God. And then ask ourselves, how are we doing in this regard? Let's go to the first section in Psalms 119, verses 1 through 8.

I've always been intrigued by this Psalm. Never given a sermon on it, but it was on my mind during the feast and all of this time to share with you.

Now, in my Bible, in Psalms 119, each section is headed by a Hebrew letter. I don't know if yours is that way, but mine starts out with aleph, which it shows here the Hebrew letter for it. And that's where we get our alphabet, A. It actually comes down through the Hebrew and the Greeks accepted all of this.

Basically, they started with alpha, but it's very similar. The A that starts our alphabet as it does the Hebrew. And then it says, Blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with the whole heart.

Notice twice it's mentioned the blessings. Just like in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus started, Blessed is he who does this and that. Well, this also begins with a blessing for those who follow this way of life. And so, Psalms 19, the first section, has to do with the principal trait to succeed spiritually, which is having the right attitude towards God's law. If you want to grow spiritually, it has to begin in your mind, it has to begin in your heart, before it's even externalized.

You are what your thoughts and attitudes are. And here it starts out with a spiritual aspect, which is what is our attitude towards God's law. Are we hostile? Are we indifferent? Or do we really love it? Well, it starts out saying that those who walk in the law of the Lord, bless those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with the whole heart. Notice the attitude. So, King David brings up that before anything else, you've got to have your heart right before God.

And frankly, that's why many times we've had difficulties in the church from the first century to the 21st century. We have people, and they come, but do they really love God's laws? Is that the principal reason they are here? Or is it some other reason? True conversion can only come through loving God's laws, and the right attitude as it brings out here.

The first step to conversion is to have the right attitude. I remember this very well. Notice, let's continue. It says, verse 3, They also do no iniquity. They walk in his ways. You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently. Oh, that my ways were directed to keep your statutes, that my mind and heart would go that way. Then I would not be ashamed when I look into all your commandments. You're looking like into a spiritual mirror.

I will praise you with uprightness of heart. Notice something spiritual coming from the inside of the person. When I learn your righteous judgments, I will keep your statutes. Oh, do not forsake me utterly when you are going through trials.

And we know that God looks to the attitude. That's the first thing that has to be there. I remember this well when at 17 years of age, I hadn't even finished high school, and I came across the church. I had to start reading the Bible, and I realized that I'd been deceived by my former church, that were basically teaching me about catechism and church ritual, and sins had to do with what the church told me was sin, and not what God's Word said was sin.

So when I started reading for myself the Ten Commandments, and what God's laws are all about, I had to face my transgressions of God's laws. I had to face that I had broken God's commandments, and I had to completely repent of breaking those laws. Many times it was in my ignorance. Maybe I didn't know that the Sabbath was one of the commandments, and that all of the things that I was being taught, much of it was in error. So I had to completely repent before God, and committed myself to following His laws.

I started at 17 to keep the Sabbath, to tithe, to follow God's way of life. I never ate pork again, and I had to battle with my mother, who kept feeding me, and I had to just have a daily battle of things, because she couldn't understand what had happened to me. And of course, I didn't have the wisdom to have just patiently endured that, but I would just try to convert her. And that didn't work.

So I felt quite isolated. I had my younger brothers and sisters who thought, what happened to him? He's not going to church on Sunday anymore, and my friends and everyone else. But I had to change my life. I had to start keeping the Sabbath day, because I saw that was the commandment of God.

I started tithing. I worked at a hospital as an orderly there, taking care of sick people. I had to start tithing there, and I couldn't eat pork and shellfish and all of this. So I had to change that, and I also had to keep the feasts, God's feasts. So I had to begin anew. The question is, do you truly love God's law with all your heart, mind, and soul? Remember this point. You can't rise above your own spiritual level of conversion.

You cannot rise above what you are before God and your attitude. Your level will be exactly where you are as far as conversion and commitment to God's laws. As you rise, you can rise spiritually, but you cannot rise above that spiritual level that a person finds themselves. And you can gauge yourself by how well you apply God's laws in your life. That's the beginning. That's just the basics. 101, are we keeping the physical part of God's laws? Then God expects us to start keeping it spiritually.

In other words, tithing is just a physical law. That's mathematics. Just learn how to deduct 10% from your net income. And that's what God says is what's expected, for Him to start blessing and being a partner to you. I formed a partnership with God at 17, and you know what? He's never failed once. But that's just the physical part. What is the spiritual part of tithing? Well, I had to learn to give. I learned to have that outgoing generosity with time, with care. See, there's a spiritual dimension, but first of all, I want to get my things right with the boss upstairs, physically.

And then there's that aspect of giving and sharing and being generous with offerings and giving of myself as I can, as a sacrifice before God. So each one of these principles has a physical aspect, and then comes the spiritual aspects. But you have to first get to meet the physical. A lot of people say, well, I just want to do the spiritual. Oh, yeah, that's easy, isn't it? You want to learn to be good and generous and everything? Yeah, but let's start with God first. How are we doing with just the basics, the physical basics?

And then we can go forward. So this is where Psalm 119 says the attitude has to be right. You can't have God and mammon, the God of money on the other side. You can't just have one foot in the church and one foot outside the church. That's never going to work. Oh, I'll tithe as long as it's convenient and I'm doing fine. But don't expect me to tithe when things get tight. That's having one foot in the church and one foot out in the world. So this is why people only have half-successes in their lives, because they never fully commit.

And so God doesn't fully commit with them either. So David says your attitude has to be correct. Notice what it says here. The second part, the second Hebrew word or letter, is Beth, where we get our B. So the Hebrew alphabet, the Greek alphabet, and our alphabet all have the first two letters in common. Actually, Beth comes from the term house. That's why they call it Beth-L, house.

So the word B comes from that. A comes from the word cow, animal. It's a little round with two little horns. And that's inverted. We get the A. I don't want to go into all the details of things, but just interesting sightlights. So here is the second part. And this answers, how can a young person please God? Now, just take into consideration, David is teaching about his law, God's laws, and probably teaching young Solomon. And so the first thing he says is, look, you have to have your heart right with God. David was an expert. He didn't do everything right, did he?

But you can never question his attitude of dedication to God. And the second thing he would naturally want Solomon to learn is, well, how can a young person please God? So let's read verses 9 through 16. It says, how can a young man cleanse his way? The answer? By taking heed according to your word. With my whole heart I have sought you. Oh, let me not wander from your commandments. Wandering is one of those big problems that young people have.

They have a wandering eye, they have a wandering way, they have that curiosity, they want to learn everything about the world. So the wandering is a big problem. And he says that, with my whole heart, now I have sought you. Oh, let me not wander from your commandments. Some of the biggest temptations a person will face will be in his youth. Because there are a lot of temptations out there, especially when you come into the church. In Genesis 8, 21, keep a finger here in Psalms 119 because we're going to go back to it. Genesis 8, 21, we see here what God says about the heart of youth.

He says, And the Lord smelled a soothing aroma. Then the Lord said in his heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. So God knows, youth usually wander. They want to try things out on their own, test things. And what does David say to avoid that? He says, With my whole heart I have sought you. Oh, let me not wander from your commandments. Again, everybody has their own tale. I know when I came into the church, I was starting to date a girl, starting to become a girlfriend to me, and then I had to face this new way of life.

Well, she wasn't interested in anything about the church, and I didn't try to convert her either. I just quit dating her at that time. I just thought, this isn't what God wants for me. I want somebody that can share God's way of life. And so that helped me avoid wandering. Wandering off and trying to find my own way of life and desires.

Verse 11, it says, Your word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you. So you've got to keep that in your heart. Blessed are you, O Lord, teach me your statutes. With my lips I have declared all the judgments of your mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate on your precepts and contemplate your ways. I will delight myself in your statutes. I will not forget your word.

Again, a lot has to do with the right attitude. But now we see that a young person has to put this first, not second, not third in his life. Again, you are going to reap what you have sown. According to what you invest, that's what you receive back. And so he's telling you, put those spiritual values first. God will bless. God will bring all the other blessings. But it will be because you didn't put an idol before him.

You did not love something more than God. So this is the way a young person can please God. And that takes us to the third section, Gimmel. Now that is the third letter in the Jewish alphabet that is synonymous with the letter G. And this section, you have to learn to praise and marvel at God's laws. You have to learn to praise and marvel at God's laws. In other words, this isn't just something that you have hardly accept, but you are in wonderment of God's laws of his ways. You have to learn to praise God's laws. Notice verse 17, it says, deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live and keep your word.

Open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from your law. That is a key verse in this section. We need to have our eyes opened, and we need to ask for it. Some people say, well, I don't know if I'm converted. I don't know when God will ever call me. I don't know when I'll ever know it's right. Well, have you asked? I remember a young man back when I was serving in Chile, and he had been in the church, then he'd been outside the church, and then he started coming back, and he said, well, how can I know if God is going to call me?

How do I know if this is the right time? And I just answered him, act like it. Act like he's calling you. Act like this is the right time, and he'll provide the rest.

But if you're just waiting for something from heaven, a choir of heavenly angels to sing and to welcome you, it's not going to happen. Just do your part before God. He will do his part. And so it says here, Open my eyes, that I may see wondrous things from your law. He says, I am a stranger in the earth. Do not hide your commandments from me. My soul breaks with longing for your judgments at all times.

You rebuke the proud, the cursed, who stray from your commandments. Remove from me reproach and contempt, for I have kept your testimonies. Princes also sit and speak against me, but your servant meditates on your statutes. And this is another key one along with verse 18.

Your testimonies also are my delight and my counselors. So he wanted to have his eyes open and use God's laws. You have to ask for it. We need to have that innocent wonder about things. I remember yesterday, I had a chance to have a day with the grandkids.

They were dropped off at our house, and boy, they just come in running, and they're just so happy to be there, and they know they're going to have a good time. And so when we took them out to have some of those chicken tenders that they like so much, on the table there were some freshly cut flowers. And that was a moment for them to learn something. So I picked up those flowers, and I said to the oldest one, four-year-old Gabriel, who made these flowers?

He said, God. I said, right. He's the one that made these. And what colors are they? Well, they're yellow and green. And are they pretty? Yes. You see, God makes pretty things. Is he smarter than you and me? Yes, he is. So those are learning moments where you can teach them about the wonders of God's creation and also of His Word. So there are all kinds of moments like that. We have to keep that wonderment of the world around us.

Never take it for granted. Never become jaded. Open my eyes so I can see wondrous things in your creation, in your Word. All of it is out there. We should be just like innocent children, marveling at every one of those sunsets and looking at all the beauty around us, all the beautiful flowers, and how God so meticulously created each part of them. So you see how David is going from one step to the other?

This one is, you have to learn to praise God. A person who learns to praise God is not going to demean God. He is not going to go against God's ways because God's ways are higher than His. When you think you are higher than God, then you have problems. Then you get haughty. Especially if you get rich, you start thinking, you are feeling your oats, I can do things here, I can get away with things, I can have all these nice things, start looking at God's law.

No, that's beneath me. I can do a lot more now with my money and power. That's when people really get into a lot of problems. But we have to have that wonderment and always have God and His laws above, looking up at them. We are never going to be worthy of them. We are never going to keep them as we should. But they are above us.

God said, my thoughts are above your thoughts. My ways are above. That means He's perfect, we're imperfect. He's the one that deserves that praise, we don't. One thing that I've just wondered in these last couple of months has been what they discovered in physics. The last particle that they needed to discover, there were 17 that they figured to make all the laws of physics work as they thought. They had 16, but they couldn't find that elusive 17th, which they call the Higgs-Boson.

They had to build this huge collider, which was like 17 miles of just magnets and all of this, so they could shoot protons and smash them up and see what the particles are. Well, they finally found that Higgs-Boson. Then they said, well, the only thing is that this confirms the theory, which they call it the standard theory in physics of how things explain.

The problem is that all of these 20 laws that govern the universe, they're all calibrated to 32 decimal points. If you move one little decimal point just by one number, the whole thing unravels. To me, that is a wonderment of how God's creation is so carefully done that you have 32 decimal points.

Probably in school, you learned about the number pi, which is the circumference divided by the diameter of a circle. You can use this for physics, for trigonometry, for geology. It's one of those formulas, just that magical number. We all learned it 3.14. But if you want to get specific, you can go and it's an irrational number. It never ends. It's 3.14159. People have memorized it 60, 70, a couple hundred decimal points. But just think, 32 decimal points. Who has to have that precision to measure things?

Nobody goes to 32 decimal points. But yet the laws of physics are that precise. That's the God who is our Father, who is our Creator, who is the one who's going to give us a kingdom. So that is part of the wonderment of God's laws. Let me give you a second example.

According to a famous physician, Lewis Thomas, writer and doctor, talked about the greatest marvel in nature. Which is conception, when the fertilized ovum takes place. This is what he wrote. For the real amazement, if you want to be amazed, is the process of conception. When you have that fertilized egg in the mother's womb. You start out as a single cell, derived from the coupling of a sperm and an egg. This divides into two, then four, then eight, and so on. And at a certain stage, there emerges a single cell, which will have, as all its progeny, the human brain. The mere existence of that cell should be one of the great astonishments of the earth. People ought to be walking around all day, all through their waking hours, calling to each other in endless wonderment, talking of nothing except that cell. It is unbelievable, and yet there it is, popping nearly into its place amid the jumbled cells of every one of the several billion human embryos around the planet, just as it were the easiest thing in the world to do. If you like being surprised, there's the source. One cell is switched on to become the whole trillion-cell massive apparatus for thinking and imagining, and for that matter, being surprised. All the information needed for learning to read and write, playing the piano, arguing before senatorial subcommittees, walking across the street through traffic, or the marvelous human act of putting out one hand and leaning against a tree, is contained in that first cell. All of grammar, all syntax, all arithmetic, all music. So that's another thing to just marvel at.

So, as David said, open my eyes that I may see wondrous things from your law. And of course, God's laws are the same. They govern every part of our lives, just that we ignore many of those laws, and we break them at our own peril. Notice the next part.

This is Dalleth, the Hebrew letter Dalleth, where we get our letter D. Verse 25. In this point, David says, after you have the right attitude, after you turn to God in your youth, after you ask him to open your eyes to his wondrous law, the fourth thing he says is, Make a commitment. Don't dawdle or dally. Make a commitment. Notice here in verse 25. It says, My soul clings to the dust, Revive me according to your word. I have declared my ways, and you answered me. Teach me your statutes.

Make me understand the way of your precepts. So shall I meditate on your wondrous works? My soul melts from heaviness. Strengthen me according to your word. Remove from me the way of lying, and grant me your law graciously. I have chosen the way of truth. See, he's made a commitment. Your judgments I have laid before me. I cling to your testimonies, O Lord. Do not put me to shame. I will run the course of your commandments, for you shall enlarge my heart.

So you need to make a commitment. This is a way of life. And once you put your hands to the plow, you should not look back. This is the best way to live. There is nothing that can substitute it. But it is a commitment to following God's laws to the end of your life. And he says he will enlarge our heart. What does that mean?

It means to give us that big heartedness. A big heartedness. To have that big heart enlarge it. So we are a big hearted person. You know what small heartedness means? It means a stingy, judgmental person, like the Pharisees were. Little hearts, little minds, always little criteria for things. It is completely opposite what he says here. To learn, make a commitment, and let God grow in us. In the final section, we are going to cover the letter He, H-E, where we get our letter H.

Verse this section is where we should humbly ask for more understanding to better apply God's laws. This is something, once we are on our way, we made a commitment. We have to ask God for more understanding to better apply His laws so that a person can have more discernment, be able to make better decisions in his life. If you make better decisions, you will be able to help others make better decisions. Before you learn to save somebody else, you have to save yourself. Before you can be a lifeguard, you have to learn to swim strong enough to carry another person if necessary.

The problem is, most people like to save others when they can't even have been a lifeguard to themselves. They haven't put in the time, the exercise, the effort to straighten out their lives before you can help someone else straighten out theirs. Notice in verse 33, it says, Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes, and I shall keep it to the end. Give me understanding, and I shall keep your law.

Indeed, I shall observe it with my whole heart. I talk about his whole intensity. Make me walk in the path of your commandments, for I delight in it. Incline my heart to your testimonies and not to covetousness. Turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things and revive me in your ways. And certainly, boy, that's a big one, isn't it?

Nowadays, turn away my eyes from looking at worthless things. There are more worthless things today than ever in the history of mankind. And they know how to get your attention. And you've got to avoid that and to make that commitment to God. And not looking at worthless things. As they say, it just takes a couple of buttons, and you can be in cyber world. A whole virtual world. Instead of Hollywood, I call it Sodomwood. You want to get involved. So much of that is worthless things. He goes on to say, establish your word to your servant, who is devoted to fearing you.

That's what he's devoted to doing. Having that deep respect. Turn away my reproach, which I dread, for your judgments are good. Behold, I long for your precepts. Revive me in your righteousness. And so he's learning to ask God for that understanding. He provides it, as James mentions in the first chapter there about if you need wisdom. Ask God. He provides it, but he has to see the person has the right attitude.

That he's looking at his law in a positive way. That a person has also looked at his law as something wondrous to exalt and to edify. That he's seen a person that has separated himself from the wrong way of life. He's willing to make a commitment.

He's not just listening. He's not there always. Just as a forgetful hearer. Afterwards, okay, what are you going to do about it? Is this just a nice listening time? Or is it time for commitment? That's what God is looking for. And to humbly ask for more understanding to better apply God's laws. So, I'd like to conclude again what we read in Psalm 119 verse 18. In the contemporary English version, it says, Open my mind and let me discover the wonders of your law. That's what we've been doing with these messages. And hopefully for the next part, we'll be continuing to study the wonders of God's law.