When We Come to Hear from God

    Bro. Ebenezer Erskine was visiting with a pastor on his way to a preaching engagement. The pastor said, “We are meeting tonight to worship around the Lord's table. Would you preach for us?” Mr. Erskine preached, and the Lord richly blessed all. One believer urged the pastor to have Mr. Erskine come again on his return and preach for them, which he did; and the same believer, who spoke so highly of the first sermon, expressed disappointment with the second. The wise pastor asked the believer two questions. “When you heard Mr. Erskine the first time, why were you here?” He replied, “I came to worship the Lord at his table.” The second question, “Why did you come to the meeting tonight?” “I came to hear Mr. Erskine;” to which the pastor replied, “Dear one, when we come to worship God, we will hear from God; when we come to hear a man, usually this will be our experience, that we hear only a man.”