Psalm 126 this evening. Psalm 126. I caught some kind of a bug yesterday
evening. I've been pretty sick since then.
I will embrace you in my heart tonight rather than the way we do so customarily. Psalm
126 When the Lord turned again the captivity
of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with
laughter, and our tongue with singing. Then said they among
the heathen, the Lord hath done great things for them. The Lord hath done great things
for us, wherever we're glad. Turn again our captivity, O Lord,
as the streams in the south, and they that sow in tears shall
reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth
bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing
his sheaves with him. Let's pray together. Gracious Father, we pray your presence, Lord, We pray
that you turn the light on, Lord, for us tonight, that we might
see, that we might get a glimpse again
of your beauty and glory, and the wonder of your grace
and love toward wretches like us. In other words, may we see our
Savior tonight again, rejoicing Him, Thank you for him. Thank you for your precious word,
Lord, that lifts our hearts, inspires us to worship you, Lord,
and enable us to do so. In our Savior's name, amen. The captivity mentioned in verse
1 is apparently the captivity of the Jews in Babylon, the Babylonian
captivity, and the psalmist is remembering God's deliverance
of them. When the Lord turned again our
captivity, when he delivered us from the
Babylonians, he's remembering that. And we know that this is
a priority for us as believers. The Lord will have us remember. He's given us a very precious
and special ordinance for that explicit purpose. Do this and
remember me. Remember me. And it's very clear
in the ordinance itself what we're remembering, or rather
who. There's not much else involved,
is there? It's all Him. His body, His blood. and by His grace our partaking
of Him. And so this is something we understand
and I pray this will encourage us and remind us to remember.
We need to be reminded to remember, don't we? And this pictures,
of course, as all of these captivities and the battles and the wars
that the Jews fought and the trials that they went through.
This picture is our deliverance from the bondage of sin. Just
as when we studied in Exodus the bondage of the Jews in Egypt
for so many years, so many centuries even. These things remind us to remember
with joy what the Lord did for us. And this is the implication
here. It's joyous. We were like them
that dream. What does that mean? Well, it's just so wonderful. It's
just hard to even believe it. It's hard to even believe. We remember what the Lord did
for us. When the Lord, when the Lord
does something, it's worth remembering. It starts with Him, doesn't it?
When the Lord. And notice that the means are
not even recognized here. King Cyrus was instrumental in
the deliverance of the Jews from the Babylonian captivity, but
it was the Lord that termed again their captivity. He was just
an instrument. When I build something or you
build something, you don't say, that hammer right there built
that house. No, it was you that did it. It was the Lord that
did it. The hearts of kings are in his
hand. Thank you. The hearts of kings. We don't
think about that much, but that's a glorious thing to be aware
of. We remember that, don't we, from
the word of God. The hearts of kings are in his
hand. And as the rivers of water, he turneth them, whithersoever
he will. And what a great thing that is.
You know, we mentioned the Babylonian captivity. That's just some little
historical tidbit to us. That was great to them. They
were embodied. That's a 50 or 60 year exile. What a wonderful thing that they
would never forget, that this nation would never forget. The
people went through a great trial and sorrow They sowed in tears
as we read, but now reaping in joy. And we'll see about that
in a minute. But big things had to happen. It involved the conquering of
Babylon by Cyrus the Great. And then he allowed the Jews
to return to their homeland. Big things had to happen in order
for this great thing to happen. for the Jews. And again, this
is just a picture. In order for us to be delivered from the bondage
of the law, from the bondage of sin, from the bondage that
we're in to the devil, the scripture said, the Lord Jesus Christ had
to conquer our enemies for us. And when you consider
what Christ did and why and for whom, it just seems too good
to be true, doesn't it? That thou should Love and wretch
like me, and be the God thou art. It's darkness to my intellect,
but sunshine to my heart. Have you ever had something really
wonderful happen to you and you said, I must be dreaming? That's
what this is saying. I must be dreaming. It can't
be true. Or you said, maybe you said,
somebody pinch me and see if I'm dreaming. See if it'll wake
me up. That's what he's saying here. Can my sins really be gone? Did God really care what happened to me? And more
than that, I deserved His wrath. And would He extend His mercy
instead? Would He pay such a price for my redemption? Can he possibly
love me that much? You can't really understand that,
can you? I've been trying for a long time now. I've been trying
to understand that. I've been trying to grasp the
fact that God loves me that much. You know, a lot of our problems
would go away, wouldn't they, if we could get a hold of that. A lot of our worries, a lot of
our fears, a lot of our mistakes would never be made. But it's elusive, isn't it? It's
like the details of a dream that you dreamt and you're trying
to get a mental grasp on it, but it's just hard to focus on
it, isn't it? That's how it is with the great
things that the Lord has done for us. It's not really that
we can't remember them, but it is, in a sense, like that. The
reality of them is hard to comprehend. And we do forget, don't we? We
forget. We forget. How can I forget that? How could you forget that God
saved you after centuries of bondage in Egypt? That God parted
the Red Sea and allowed you to go through and destroyed your
enemies in that same sea and you sat there and sung about
it and then just a little while later you're murmuring against
God. How can you forget? Well, that's just what we're
made out of, isn't it? We forget. And even when we haven't forgotten,
we can't really get a hold of Him. Does God really love me? Is Christ really? Have you ever
thought about that? Is the Lord Jesus Christ really
on the throne of heaven right now? Ruling and running this whole
universe for my benefit. If God spared not His own Son,
how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things That
makes sense. If God would not spare his own
son, what would he deny me? And yet, I just can't understand
it, can I? We're as one that dreameth. We've experienced deliverance,
salvation, and it's like we're dreaming. And that's because
of our sinful conditioning. It's because of the limitations
of this flesh we see. But we see through a glass darkly. In Psalm 139, David tells the
Lord, he says, Lord, you know me perfectly inside and out. You know everything about me.
You know all my ways. You surround me everywhere I
go. You're always with me. You guide me every step. You
covered me. even when I was still in my mother's
womb. And then he says in verse six, such knowledge is too wonderful
for me. It is high. I cannot attain it. That's what we're talking about.
Turn to Luke chapter 24. Can we get a hold of it? Are
we as one that dreameth and we think about the great things
that God has done for us? Luke chapter 24 and verse 36. And as they thus spake, Jesus
himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace
be unto you. But they were terrified and affrighted,
and supposed that they had seen a spirit. And he said unto them,
Why are you troubled? Why do thoughts arise in your
hearts? Can you hear those questions
when you worry? The Lord Jesus Christ said, I'll never leave
you, I'll never forsake you, I'll be with you low until the
end of the earth. Is he asking us tonight perhaps,
why are you troubled? Why are you troubled? Why are
those thoughts rising up in your heart right now? Why'd you come in here worried
about the petty things of this life? And listen, I understand. Me too. Me too. I'm with you
on that. But why? When he's with us. What do these disciples have
to worry about? The risen Christ was sitting there speaking with
them. That's what he's doing tonight. He's speaking to us. He said, you're gathered in my
name. I'm there. He speaks to us through
his gospel, and what are we worried about? Why are those thoughts?
We still think them, don't we? We still think them. And then he said, behold my hands
and my feet. That'll help. You remember what
he did for you. You think about his precious
blood shed for a worm like you. Look what I did, look who I am,
see that it is I myself, it's me, it's me. Handle me and see, for his spirit
hath not flesh and blows, but you see me have. And when he
had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet, and while
they yet believed not, for joy. That's what it is, it's just
too good, isn't it? It's too good for us to really
get a hold of it. We believed not for joy and wondered. He said unto them, Have ye any
meat? And they gave him a piece of fish. Can you imagine that?
Well, we have some fish here and a little honeycomb. And he took it and did eat before
them. If the great things that God
has done for sinners is just a set of facts, You know, we
could list them and we could talk about, you know, how wrong
many people are about them and all the error surrounding them.
And we could catalog them and we could dot all the I's and cross all
the T's. But if that's all it is, just a set of facts that
you have a pretty good grasp on. And it's pretty easy to do
that, isn't it? You know, it's easy to preach
points. What most so-called preachers
do doesn't take any effort, work whatsoever. They just tell stories
about, you know, that make people sad and then, you know, with
a happy ending though, you know, sad stories with a happy ending.
And, you know, talk about Jesus dying on the cross for everybody
and how much God loves you and wants to save you if you'll just
let him and things like that. You don't have to study to say
that. I could preach, I've only been
able to listen to Billy Graham preach a few times because I
couldn't stomach it, but the few times I have I could preach
that without even looking at the Bible. Anybody could. And it's also
easy to preach just facts, you know, you get a grasp on the
points, you know, that here's what we believe, and just rattle
them off, and that's pretty easy to do too. But you know what's
not, you know what's impossible? Going word by word by word by
word in the scripture. Wrap through the word of God.
And you know something? You're going to realize you're
not such an expert when you start doing that. You might be an expert
on the talking points of your denominational doctrines. But
you immerse yourself in the word of God. You're going to be as
one that dreameth. It's going to overwhelm you.
You're going to believe not for joy. And this is what this is talking
about now. You can get a pretty good grasp on it. I can not only
learn the true doctrinal points, but
I could learn all of the errors that exist in the world. Many
people have. And I know something about some of them. And be pretty
well versed in all of that. If that's all the scriptures
are to you, then we probably don't know the first thing about
him or what he's done. When you're in over your head
and you're saying like David, this is too wonderful for me.
I don't have a grasp on this. You might be getting close. The
Lord might be starting to show you something about him. God's people rejoice in things
that are way over our head. Way over our head. I can understand
Calvinism. It's logical. But I can't understand
God. Can you? The gospel? Why God
would love a wretch like me? That's high now. That's high.
They call, you know, things like Calvinism a high doctrine. That
ain't high. The gospel, though, is high. And Calvinism is true. But it's not him. You see what
I'm saying? I hope you do. God's people rejoice. We rejoice in things that are
over our head. We don't brag about how much we know. We long
to know. Paul said, Oh, that I may know
him. He didn't say here's, you know, let me tell you what I
know. He said, Oh, that I might know him. And then he would go around and
tell what he knew by God's grace. But God's people long to really
know the truth of what God... We're still learning the simplest
doctrine of the Scriptures, aren't we? The most simple. We're still
learning them. God's people aren't Bible experts
or debaters of issues. They're amazed and they're rejoicing
and looking for others to rejoice with in Christ. That's what we
are. It's that simple. Look at verse
2. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue was singing, we
were laughing and singing. We were as one, that dream, it
was difficult to even believe for joy what God had done for
us, but we were laughing about it, don't we? I can't understand
how God could love me, and I'll never fully grasp that, and I'll
go on worrying and pitying, you know, having my little pity parties,
and I'll do all the stupid things that wretches like me do, forgetting
how much God loves me and what He's done for me. But by God's grace, I do know
that He loves me. And it makes me happy. It makes
me happy. It makes me want to sing. I will
sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, David said. Then said
they among the heathen, the Lord hath done great things for them.
This is what's missing in those who are And I don't know why
I got off on this tonight. I was thinking about some people
that I love that are just caught up. I fear that they're caught
up in the... You know, Paul said that knowledge
will puff you up, but love will build you up. And I think this
is what's lacking. It's lacking with those who are
debaters and experts on points and issues. They're always trying
to disprove something and prove something and show how much more
they know than others do and always pointing out how wrong
others are. Let's examine all of the different
errors that exist in the world so we can shame them and call
them heretics. They can't just find a group
of people who rejoice in Christ. I know many of them don't and
they don't worship anywhere because nobody can stand to be around
them and they can't stand to be around anybody else. They
know too much. You can't just find a group of
people who rejoice in Christ Jesus and just rejoice with Him. This is a rare and beautiful
thing that we enjoy here, my friends. To just be able to rejoice. I haven't had an argument with
anybody in a long time, and I can't tell you how glad I am about
that. We just laugh together here, don't we? We just rejoice
together in the mercies of God, in the glories of our Savior
as we're able to By His grace, grasp what He's revealed to some
extent. No arguments, no issues. Christ
is the issue here. We sing together of the mercies
of God. By God's grace, we know what great things the Lord has
done for us. And that's all we can talk about.
What else would we talk about? When you know what God has done
for you, what else would you talk about? How wrong somebody else is? Think
about this. When a sinner finds out about
God loving and choosing him from before the foundation of the
world in Christ, does that make you want to argue or does that
make you want to laugh? Honestly. When you think about the fact
that Christ died for his chosen sheep, his elect, eternally beloved
of Him, that out of all the masses of humanity He loved and chose
the worst and most wretched and vile of them all and laid down
His precious life, suffering the wrath of the Holy God for
them to redeem them from their sins, and only them, and you're
one of them. Does that make you want to find
people that don't believe that so you can get mad at them and
be sure that they know what heretics they are? Or does that make you
want to sin? Verse 3, the Lord hath done great
things for us. When we run out of great things
to talk about that the Lord has done for us, then we must start
arguing some doctrine. I'd like to get to that someday,
but I don't think we're going to make it. Even the heathen can't deny.
Even the heathen said the Lord has done some great things for
them. They can't deny. What a great
thing it is that God would love and choose and redeem a sinner
like me, a wretch like me, even those that don't believe it.
That don't believe Him, that don't believe His Word, that
don't believe what He's clearly revealed. They have to acknowledge
how great He is in spite of themselves. We see that through the scriptures. And this is the simple and profound
gospel of Christ. Verse 3 is the gospel, isn't
it? The Lord, that's where it starts. That's where the gospel
starts right there. The Lord. There's no good news
if we're waiting on you. Half. The Lord half done. He's accomplished something. He has accomplished something.
What was it that John said? I believe it's in John chapter
20. He said, these things are written that we might believe
on the Son of God and have eternal life in his name. What was written? What he did. Isn't that what
he said? What he did. The Lord hath done. Great things. for us. And if that don't make you glad,
you just don't, you haven't seen it. You haven't seen it. If all
that does is make you want to prove people wrong, you've missed
him. The simple and profound gospel
of Christ, it starts with what God has done. It's all about
what God has done. It ends with what God has done. It don't end
with you. Wait, no Chris, it ends with
what God will do. You can say it that way if you
want to. But the truth of the matter is,
if God's going to do something, He's already done it. He half done. This is the first thing now that
we need to understand about the gospel, about salvation. He did
it. Salvation is of the Lord. Of Him are you in Christ Jesus,
who has made unto us everything we need. He started it, He accomplished
it, and He finished it. And it's a great work. Religion
has reduced salvation to a decision that you make at the front of
a church building. But salvation is the eternal supernatural,
creative, infinite power of God. And I chose those words carefully.
It's the eternal work of God. He saved me before I was ever
born. He saved me on Calvary. He saved me when He opened my
eyes. And He's saving me tonight. And He's gonna come save me one
of these days. There's never been a time that God wasn't saving
me. You realize that? It's the eternal work of God.
The very existence of Christ is my salvation. And He's the
Eternal Son. He's the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. There's my salvation. The Lamb
of God slain for sinners. The precious blood of God's Lamb. Eternal. Supernatural. This is not just about you making
a decision. You must be born again! And not natural birth. spiritual birth. It's beyond
nature. You can't do it. Only God can
do this work. About just you deciding something,
that would be a natural salvation. That'd just be waiting on you
to do something. No, it's beyond us. It's a creative work, I said,
because God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness,
God who said, let there be light, and there was light, has got
to speak creative power. to your soul. And it's infinite power. What
does it take to save a sinner? We have no idea. But we know
this. It's infinite. God's holiness
is infinite. My sinfulness is infinite against
Him. And the precious blood of Christ
is of infinite worth. It took great love to save us.
Because we're wretched, and me being wretched to you is one
thing, but us being wretched before God, we need to understand what it
means to be wretched. We needed to be put in hell.
Hell was cried out for us. We deserved it richly. We richly
earned our place in hell. We preferred hell to him, but
he would not let us go. He could not let us go. It took
great power to save us. We can't even begin to get this.
How can God die? Well, you say it don't take much
power to die. Not for you. But his death is an accomplishment. Would I be out of line to say
his death is the greatest accomplishment that's ever been done? Who can defeat all of our enemies?
You think about the power of our enemies. Who can make a worm
into a saint? Who can make a new heart, a new
man? It took great power, didn't it? Who can calm storms and forgive
sins with a word? Forgive sin. It took great grace to save us
where our sin abounded. It did and it does yet. His grace
has much more about it. If His grace overwhelmed my sin,
then His grace is great. And think about this. This is
what makes us glad now. This is what makes us glad. That
God did something great. That's not normal. What's normal
is for you to be glad when you do something great. We're glad. That makes sense,
doesn't it? It makes sense to To rejoice, to be glad that God
would love me, that He would choose me at an infinite cost,
redeem me, that ought to make anybody glad, wouldn't you think?
But did you know that very, very few can rejoice in the great
things that God has done for sinners? Very few. Only those that He did them for
can rejoice in them. And the fact that we're able
to rejoice in them is one of the great things that He did. He did them for us. Two words
and two things here. Just for us. And for us. You can really look
at these two words separately. Think of it this way. He did
these great things for. That is, with regard to the Lord
doing great things, that word for means that He did them in
our place, as our substitute, as our representative, as us
in this world, as our great high priest. It speaks of substitution. He did them as me. This is my
blood which is shed for you, instead of you, in place of you. I died. He died in my place. But it also
speaks of his motive for doing it. He did it for us. This is my blood which is shed
for you. Not only in your place, but for
your benefit. Because I love you. I did it
for you. You see what I'm saying? And
then us. Who are the us? Well, they're
called in the scriptures, the elect. They're called believers.
They're called sinners. Specifically, now you say, well,
everybody's a sinner. Well, in a sense, yes. But we're going
to look at that. And they're called sheep. They're
called those given to Christ by His Father. That's one of
my favorites. I like them all. And think about
this. With regard to each of these
names for sinners, for His people, with regard to each of these
names for his people there are people excluded in the scriptures
from that group which is described by these different names and
they're excluded under each name think about it with me and this
is important this is what defines the us the elect for example
in Romans chapter 11 I believe it is there are the elect and
there are the rest there are the rest the elect and the rest
The election hath obtained righteousness, and the rest were blinded. Believers. We're called believers? The Lord said to the Pharisees
in John 8, 24, I said therefore unto you that you shall die in
your sins. He didn't say you might die in your sins. He didn't
say be careful lest you die in your sins. He said you're gonna
die in your sins because if you believe not that I am, you die
in your sins. Sinners? We're called sinners?
You say, well that includes everybody. I don't know. Our Lord said,
I didn't come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. There are a lot of people that
aren't sinners. Just ask them. Sheep? Is that an exclusive term? Sheep?
Oh yeah? You believe not because you're
not of my sheep? My sheep, hear my voice. They
all do. And they follow me. Those given to Christ by the
Father? That's an exclusive group. It's all the same group, just
under different names. But I want you to see, under each of these
terms, how exclusive this is now. How particular. Those given
to Christ by the Father? He said, I don't pray for anybody
else. I don't intercede, I'm not high priest for anybody,
not for this world, but for those whom thou hast given me. In every case, by whichever name
God identifies his people in his book, the scriptures are
careful to show that he's not talking about everybody. And
there's a lot of reasons to be clear on this and to point this
out, but I guess perhaps the main one is this, if God has
done great things for you, It's because He loves you. And if
He loves you, He chose you. And if He loved you and chose
you, you are eternally blessed and saved. God doesn't do great
things for people and then lose them. His love is effectual. It just
means He gets the job done. My love's not. But His is. His grace is effectual. His power
is effectual. He said, I will lose none of
them. I know them. I know who they are. I've always
known who they are. I covenanted to come and save
them. And I'm not going to lose any of them. Not a single one
of them. It's not in question. And that's what's important.
It's the character of God. The power of God. The integrity
of God at stake. That's why we're able to rejoice
in what He did. If he had done something and
then left it up to you, if we had to do something in order
to make what he did successful, then we'd have to rejoice in
what we did. As many are doing tonight, I'm sure. But what makes
us happy is the great things that God has done. That's the
only thing that'll do anything for me. Thank God he's ruined
me in that way. We start bragging on the flesh
and we're still susceptible to that. I am and you are. By God's
grace, boy, He'll show us one. It doesn't do much for us. Verse
4. Verse 4 really says that, let's
see, verse 4 of 126. Turn again our captivity, O Lord,
as the streams in the south. Didn't He just say the Lord did
do that? Yeah. The Lord saved us, and what this
is saying is just simply that the Lord keeps saving us. Keep
us. Don't let us go. And we know that he won't. Romans
5, 8, God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than being now
justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For if, when we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, much more
being reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. If your sin
wasn't horrific enough to keep God from saving you, then what
are you going to do to forfeit His love now? Verses 5 and 6. They that sow in tears shall
reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth,
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing his sheaves with him. Now, this was interesting and
took, I think, I believe, when we understand the essence
of what it is to sow and to reap, then we'll get some light on
this. Because we know that from the
parable of the sower in the gospels, in three of the gospels I believe
that parable is told, that sowing and reaping is a picture used
with regard to the preaching of the gospel. The seed is the
word of God, our Lord said, and the ground is the hearts of men. The tares, you know, or the cares
of the world, and you know, the sun was described as trials,
you know, that try faith that will reveal false faith in all
of the pictures there with regard to that parable. But that doesn't
seem to fit the context here. But also there's a reference
that seems to, to sowing and reaping that seems to regard
prayer and seeking the Lord. Listen to Hosea 10, 12. It says,
sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy. And you say, well,
what does he mean, sow in righteousness, reap in mercy? Break up your
fallow ground, for it is time to seek the Lord, until He come
and reign righteousness upon you. You see that? For us to
sow is to seek Him, to pray, to call upon Him, until He reigns
righteousness upon that, and brings forth life, brings forth
what we need from that. He uses the prayer, you see.
And remember, That seems to be the picture here. Sowing is an
act of faith, isn't it? That's what prayer is. Prayer
is believing God in actual expression. We all would say,
I think, if I asked you, do you believe what God said? You'd
say, yeah. But you know, prayer is to come before Him and actually
pour out your heart with regard to specific things, knowing that
He's faithful. Knowing that that if you're going
to receive anything if anything good is going to happen for you.
It's going to happen by his hand And we come Praying and thanking
him and it's an act of faith sowing is an act of faith And
that's why I believe it pictures prayer here in this way when
you go out and plant some seed. There's an expectation in there
You're not just throwing little things into the ground just for
the sake of doing that. You're expecting something to
happen. How's it going to happen? God's going to have to do it.
That's what. Isn't that right? You can't make it grow. By His
grace you can sow. But even that is by His strength
and His wisdom. You know how to do it. You know
what to do because of His wisdom. There's no glory in it for us.
You're doing work, but you're doing it trusting God and knowing
that nothing will come of it. You will have labored in vain
unless God brings forth fruit from it. I think that's what
this is teaching here. So they that sow in tears, they
that trust Him, and with the captivity, you know, they were
sowing in tears. Lord, deliver us. Lord, be merciful
to us. Remember, don't forget us. Don't
leave us. And Paul, remember this about
sowing and reaping. Paul uses this same analogy with
regard to his preaching, which also, that's an act of faith,
isn't it? I preach and you witness and
we send forth the word in this ministry here of the Lord that
he's entrusted to us, in a sense. You know that's right. And we do that expecting something,
don't we? It's something that we can't
do. We do what we do expecting something that we can't do. That's
the thing about sowing and reaping. It's faith. And with regard to
that, with regard to preaching, Paul said in 1 Corinthians 3,
7, He that soweth is nothing. It doesn't take anything to throw
a little seed on the ground. Although that's hard work for
us, isn't it? That is hard work. Farming is one of the hardest
things you can do. But he said, he that soweth is nothing, and
he that watereth is nothing, but God that giveth the increase.
Now there's something there. He's the one that gives life. It's his garden. He's just letting
us work in it, and it's a privilege. And as we've said so many times,
you know, when you go to work in God's garden, that's not you
doing something for God, that's God doing something for you. So he said, it's God that giveth
the increase. It's God that's worthy of all
of the glory. So this is a testimony to the
fact. And that's what he's saying here. He's not saying, you know,
that this may be true, you know, you sow and maybe God, you know,
maybe you'll reap. He's saying, look, I've experienced
this. He's telling us, isn't he? This
is a testimony of the fact that God is faithful to his promise. He said, you sow and you'll reap.
You ask and you'll receive. You come and I'll give you rest.
And this is a testimony, these two verses, to the fact that
those who trust the Lord Jesus Christ will not be disappointed. Can you testify to that? By God's
grace, I believe we can. I believe all who know him can
testify to that. You plant a seed, he said plant, and it'll grow. The Lord will
be faithful to his promise.