The longest Psalm in the Bible is Psalm 119.

It has been called the Psalm of the Scriptures because it concentrates on one thing,

the amazing sufficiency of God's word for our lives.

Open to Psalm 119 today and open your heart to the Lord as we

join Scott Pauli in this study. It is our prayer that through God's truth, you will find all you need.

All right, friends, I'm moving on in Psalm 119, not because I want to, but because if I don't,

we're never going to finish this study.

We have progressed now to Psalm 119 and the section that begins with verse 113.

What a beautiful section it is.

Let me read it to you.

Beginning in verse 113 down to verse 120,

the psalmist writes, I hate vain thoughts, but thy law do I love. Remember the love-hate

principle we talked about a few studies ago? Here it is again. He says in verse 114, thou art my hiding

place and my shield. I hope in thy word depart from me evil doers for I will keep the

commandments of my God uphold me according unto thy word that I may live and let me not be ashamed of

my hope hold thou me up and I shall be safe and I will have respect into thy statutes continually thou

has trodden down all them that err from thy statutes for their deceit as falsehood

thou putst away all the wicked of the earth like draw so therefore I love thy testimonies

my flesh tremblet for fear of thee and I am afraid of of thy judgments. There's one word I want to draw to

your attention in this section. It's really in the middle of the section, and it's at the heart of

the truth that this section is explaining to us. It is the word in verse 117, safe. I'm harkening back

now to my Little League Baseball days, and the player slides in,

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