Father, I need your help. We need your help. As we walk through this magnificent

word Psalm 16 together, Grant, I pray that we would experience what David was

experiencing and more. And Grant, I pray that South City's church would see her

future here, and that you would grant this church to put you always before

them, that you would stand at their right hand and that they would never be

shaken. I ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. So David cries out in verse 1, if you

don't have your bibles open, reopen them, because we're going to go verse by

verse through this, and I want you to see it for yourself, the greatness of what

is here. He cries out, preserve me, oh God, save me, keep me, hold on to me, don't

let me go. I wonder if you pray that way. If you don't pray that way, you're

not thinking clearly. We need God to keep us every day all day. You cannot do

this without him. You can't remain a believer without God's preserving grace.

Keep me, hold me, preserve me. Now what is he asking God to preserve him from?

That's going to come. We'll see it in just a minute, but first let's just keep

going. Verse 2, I say to the Lord, you are my Lord, I have no good apart from you.

You are my Lord, you are my good. You govern, that's Lord, you govern all the good

that comes to me, and you are the good that comes to me. I have other

lords, I have other authorities in my life, I have to come to terms with, but none of

those lords, none of those authorities come close to your authority. You are my

Lord, you are the authority over all authorities. If there's another authority, it

gets its authority from you, you are my Lord, and you are my good. I have other goods

in my life, but if I taste none of God in any good that this world offers, it's not

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