Brethren, if you will, let's
turn back to Psalm 6. Psalm 6. I pray this message will comfort
a child of God that's at their wit's end. Whether that's here
today, someone listening this evening, someone 20 years ago.
They're at their wit's end. Let's be a comfort to them. They just feel so overwhelmed
with pain and grief and sorrow and sorrows over sin. But what
we are, what the Holy Spirit, what the Comforter come to us
and rebuke this world of, this world in us, that's all we are,
sin. Every one of God's children will
be brought there. Not fully, we won't fully see
it. We'll see through that glass dimly, but we will be brought
low, every one of us. And as we look to ourselves,
We are overwhelmed. If you ain't got no comfort,
it's because you ain't looking at Christ. I'm going plain out to say that.
That's the truth. If we look to ourselves, we will
be overwhelmed. If He comes to us, stirs up our
pure minds, reminds us of Christ, and we look to Him, we found
Him. Comfort. Confidence. This is the first of seven Psalms
of repentance. We go through these. Psalm 32,
38, 51, 102, Psalm 130, Psalm 143. That's going to be a couple
of years from now by the time we get there. The Lord keeps
us going through the psalms. This is the first psalm of repentance.
And as an old quote, I tried tracing the origins of it, but
it says, Repentance is a pilgrimage from the mind of the flesh to
the mind of Christ. That's not a switch. That's a
pilgrimage. That's an ongoing journey. That's a race. It's a sojourn.
It's your whole life. That's what David was repenting
here. The first psalm of repentance.
I got a phone call recently and someone asked me, they said,
if you had an altar call, would you ask people to repent of their
sins? I said, I don't do altar calls.
And they said, if you did, I don't know what I do. I don't know.
If I did, the Lord took his hand off of me, I guess. I don't know.
But you will repent of your sins. And it's not something sweet
and precious you just say in a sentence or two. Well, I've
repented of my sins. Like I stopped at the red light.
It's not something dismissive. Psalm 6 is going to show us what
this is. In us. In the Lord's people.
I'm thankful to the, I believe the Lord's gave me some light
on this Psalm and those to come. I see David crying for mercy,
him repenting of himself, him crying of mercy. And when I look
through this, I see myself crying for mercy. These are my words
too. And mercy is given to the Lord's
elect. When we cry for mercy, he gives mercy. Those that he
calls us to cry out for mercy. But I want us to see first and
foremost, If all we see is this, we see seven versus us, moaning
and crying, because that's the bulk of it, right? What's there
more of? Seven's bigger than three, ain't
it? Last time I went to school. If we see that while I'm just
sitting on the couch bawling, making my bed swim, and a little
bit of good news at the end, we're still going to be miserable,
ain't we? We're still going to have a little bit of good news
and a whole lot of bad news. But if we see this first and foremost,
this is our greater David. This is Christ speaking. And
because it is His words, His children have comfort. We have
assurance of mercy in abundance because these are His words.
They will be our words, but we got to see them as His words.
And as I grow older, I see more and more of my need of mercy.
I want health. I want comfort. I want joy. I
want rejoicing. I want things. I need mercy. I'm seeing that more and more.
I knew it always from the first time I received mercy, because
I had a need of mercy. But as I grow older, I need more
mercy. I need mercy. And then whenever
you receive mercy, all else is soothed, isn't it? That old toothache
don't hurt as bad. That pain in your heart don't
hurt as bad, because we have mercy in Christ. No condemnation before
the Father we sin against. What great news! What wonderful
news! The first seven verses are anguish,
suffering. They're complete sorrow beyond
the bone. So it cuts to the bone, it goes
to the soul. The bone shakes and it goes all the way to the
soul. It's pain. Saint pretend. And it seems so dark and down
for us, doesn't it? When we read through this. But
believe me when I tell you, you trust me, it's much harsher than
you and I can enter into. what these words proclaim. And
those last three verses are of confidence, of comfort, of victory. And it seems so short and simple,
doesn't it? But believe me, it's more than
words can describe. That comfort, that victory, that
confidence. Seven and three. How about that? Complete torment
is required. And perfect confidence. Something
go hand in hand then. There's no given transition between
this weeping and this confidence. And I pray we can enter into
what that change was this morning. The experience of seeing mercy. The experience of true repentance
and what it produces. It says in verse 1, O Lord, rebuke
me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. David's writing about this reproval
of sin. That great comforter has come
to him and convicted him of sin, hasn't he? And he asks God to
rebuke him, not in anger. Lord, don't rebuke me in anger.
Discipline him and correct him in his hot displeasure. Don't
chasten me in your hot displeasure. I don't want to be rebuked and
taught that way either. Do you? That's how the Lord deals
with the wicked. In his hot displeasure, in his
anger. I want to be dealt with as a
child. Child of God. When a father whips a child,
you don't whip him in anger. You wait until you ain't mad
no more. Then you go and you whip him because you love him.
I don't want to be whipped in anger. I don't want to be rebuked
and chastened correctly, but this is our surety prayer in
here. You may ask, I know that this
applies to me. I could see David asking this.
I can ask this. How could this apply to Christ
our Lord? He's made one with us. The unity between Christ
and His people, we can speak of it. Boy, if He'd let us enter
into it. Turn over to Isaiah 63. Isaiah 63. This shows us how identified,
how linked, how made one with Christ is with His bride, with
His people, those put in Him before time began. Look at Isaiah
63 verse 9. In all their affliction, He was
afflicted. In all their affliction. Everything we've ever been afflicted
with. Everything. In all their affliction, He was
afflicted. And the angel of His presence
saved them. And His love and in His pity,
because He was empathetic and sympathetic, He went through
it. His pity, He redeemed them. And He bare them. All of that anguish, all that
affliction, all that we are, He bare them and carried them
all the days of old. From before time was time, He
bore His people. Was made one with His people.
They were in Him. Everything that I'm touched with,
everything that you are touched with, our Lord was touched with. All of it. And He knows and bore
every affliction that we could go through. Well, I'm special. I got it worse than everybody
else. We always like to have it worse, don't we? And we can't stand
nobody that's got it better. I got it better. One uppers or
one downers. That's what we want to be, one
of each. Everything we went through, He bore. Every bit of it. And
back in our text there in verse 1, Psalm 6, verse 1 says, O LORD,
rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot
displeasure. Christ knew more than any other
person could know about the anger of God against sin. What that
truly means. No one alive has ever known the
full measure walking this earth of God's hatred of sin like Christ
knew it. He knew what was coming. He knew
what that cup was. He would have to drink up. He
was there when Adam was cast out of the garden. He was there when God flooded
the earth and killed all but those in the ark. He knew He
was the ark. He was there with God and He
was God. As every bit of that took place,
as every bit came to pass. And when Christ was made sin,
who knew no sin, He felt and knew the guilt of sin. He knows
how harshly God deals with sin. In that garden of Gethsemane,
He was sweating those great drops of blood. This is agony that
you and I can't imagine. Can't enter into it. Knowing
the Father was about to deal with Him, with all that sin of
His elect laid on Him, knowing what He had to come to pass.
It says in Hebrews 12, for consider him that endureth such contradiction
of sinners against himself. This old man of me is completely
contrary to him. He's holy. Perfect. Lest ye be
weary. You consider him unless you get
weary and you faint in your minds. When we consider him, now we're
not weary. Now we're not fainting, are we? You have not resisted
unto blood striving against sin. You ever hated sin so much and
wanted to turn from it so much and get away from it so much
that blood come out of your forehead? He did. He did. We remember Him. We don't remember all the good
things I did and all the hard work I did and all the good decisions
I made and I cleaned my life up. Christ is who we look to.
Because this is Christ speaking in our text, it's our prayer
too, isn't it? Rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten
me with thy hot displeasure. Lord, rebuke me. Chasing me,
but you do it with that rod of love. As a caring father, that's
what we ask. Fools don't want to be rebuked.
That's wrong. Stop doing that. That's a rebuke.
And they don't want to be chasing. They don't want to be disciplined.
They don't want to be taught through a trial and be corrected. A fool don't
want to do that. Thomas Brooks once wrote, he
that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a weapon.
If I know I deserve to hang Him, the Lord's going to chase me.
I know trials are coming. I know the Lord's going to deal
with it. And I ask Him, Lord, don't deal with me in anger.
Lord, don't deal with me in hot displeasure. But You deal with
me, because it's right, isn't it? It's needful, isn't it? We
know exactly what we deserve outside of Christ, but we also
know what we need. He shows us what we need. We
need mercy. We need mercy. That's how we
come to ask for mercies, Those trials. Look here in verse 2.
Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak. The Lord's showing
us here how to plead. How do I address the Lord? How
do I pray to the Lord? He's telling us. David didn't
say, oh, have mercy on me because I'm a king. Lord, I'm your prophet. Have mercy on me, I'm your prophet.
He didn't say that, did he? Our Lord didn't plead that. He
didn't say have mercy on me because I'm your son. Have mercy because
of Christ for us is what David prayed. That's what we prayed
in. You delight in mercy because of His accomplished work, His
completed work. We need to follow the lead here.
Have mercy on us because I'm weak. I'm weak. I can't do anything. Paul said,
when I'm weak, then I'm strong. That's how we are healed spiritually. Not getting stronger, getting
stouter. It's getting weaker. That's how we're healed. Seeing
a weakness and our inability and seeing Christ's strength
and power through it. That's how we're healed. Look here in
verse 2. Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am weak. O Lord,
heal me, for my bones are vexed. That means his bones tremble,
they shake, quiver. A true conviction of sin. When
the Holy Spirit moves on a vessel of mercy, not some pretend stuff,
that showmanship, that St. Barnum and Bailey's, when the
Comforter comes and convicts a true vessel of mercy of the
sin that they are, it not only breaks the heart, but it affects
the whole being. All the way to the bone, doesn't
it? Turn over to Psalm 22. Psalm 22, verse 14. It's our
Lord speaking here. He says, Psalm 22, verse 14. I am poured out like water and
all my bones are out of joint. My heart is like wax. It is melted
in the midst of my bowels. My strength is dried up like
a pot shirt. My tongue cleaveth to my jaw. And thou hast brought
me into the dust of death, for dogs have compassed me. The assembly
of the wicked have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and
my feet. I may tell all my bones. They
look and stare upon me." Our Lord is praying this here. These
are His words. And if we've ever hurt so bad
over our sin to the bone, you talk to your bones, complete
torment, we know what our Savior bore in our stead. That's one
made like unto us, made like unto his brethren. That's a high
priest we can go to, isn't it? No matter how bad I got it, imagine
what he had. That's looking to him. Back in
our text here in verse 2, it says, Have mercy upon me, O Lord,
for I am weak. O Lord, heal me, for my bones
are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed. Christ knew no sin, but He knew
what it was to be vexed with it. He said to the disciples
in the Garden of Gethsemane, He said, My soul is exceeding
sorrowful, even unto death. Terry, you hear and watch with
me. He bore that. He said, You stay
up with me and pray with me. I'm going to go pray. You just
stay right here, Terry, with me. You know what his children
did? Fell asleep. Went and took a nap. That's comfort
to me. I can't bear that. I can't enter
into it. I don't know what it's like to
be that victim. It's my own sin. My only hope is Him. When we beg for mercy, when the
weight of our sin, what little bit He lets onto us, it vexes
us all the way to the bone, we tremble. And we can be comforted
because our Lord suffered much more than we have it. Completely. Fully. Turn over to Hebrews chapter
2. Hebrews 2 verse 17. says, Wherefore
in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren,
that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things
pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. This
was necessary. It says in verse 18, For in that
he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succor
Them that are tempted because he's went through this first
before I did. He was successful. He's adored
everything I've ever had to know. Things I haven't even had to
endure, don't know is coming, he's already completed it. Because
of that, he's able to succor them that are tempted. That's an old English word, and
there's a whole lot of hillbilly words that go with old English
words. I went to England several times, but I can understand them
folks real easy. I don't know why. But to succor doesn't just
mean to comfort. It's deeper than that. To succor
means to comfort and to nourish. It's not just a shoulder to cry
on. There's an actual nourishing that goes on. A healing, a fulfilling
that goes on. Because this is Christ praying
in Psalm 6. He can heal us. He can comfort us, can't He?
Back in our text here, verse 3. Many times I've asked in a
hard trial, Lord, how long are you going to have this pain go
on? How long are you going to have this trial keep happening?
How long is this sorrow going to continue? It says in verse
3, My soul is sore vexed, but thou, O Lord, and it's like He
stops, like He runs out of words. But thou, O Lord, how long? How long? How long did Christ
suffer in our stead? There was an end to it. That's
good news, isn't it? There was an end to it. It ended
at that cross of Calvary. It went on, all of his suffering,
his walking this earth from conception to coming out of that tomb, it
went on until justice was satisfied. That's our assurance. That's
our hope. How long will our chastening go on? How long will my trials
and my suffering that the Lord gave, He appointed for me, for
His people, how long will they go on? Sometimes it may last
our whole lifetime until we're in glory, isn't it? But it'll
go on until it accomplishes the purpose in which He sent us. Lord, how long? And then I'm
answered immediately. It'll go on until He's pleased
to end it. Until it accomplishes His glory
and my good. I don't see those things, but
I can lean on His Word and know that, don't I? How long? Until
He sees fit to end it. And thanks be to God, there is
an end to it. Now, it might be our end of days, but it'll be
finished when we're in glory and we'll never shed another
tear. The sun will never go down. Won't that be something? It says
in verse 4, return O Lord, deliver my soul, O save me for Thy mercy's
sake. For David, for you and I, there
are times when a believer feels the Lord has left them. Here's
this great king, God's prophet writing this. He's singing this. This is a song. Let's sing this
in service next week. This is a song. This great king,
this great prophet, there was a time he felt like the Lord
was absolutely away from him. And he cries to the Lord, return.
Come back. Lord, you cling on. You plum
left me. But we will never have any comfort
until we see Him and find Him, will we? He's with us always. He said, I'll never forsake you.
I'll never leave you. So even if we don't think He's there,
He is. And He's working in us. This is what He's working. But
how could this be our Lord? How can this be Christ? Turn
over to Psalm 40. You might have to turn quite a bit this morning,
but it will be good for us. It says in Psalm 40, verse 7, Then
said I, Lo, I come. In the volume of book it is written
of me. I delight to do thy will, O God.
O my God, yea, thy law is within my heart. I have preached righteousness
in the great congregation. Lo, I have not reflamed my lips,
O Lord, thou know'st." That is Christ speaking, isn't it? Look
down at verse 11. not thou thy tender mercies from
me, O Lord. Let thy loving kindness and thy
truth continually preserve me, for innumerable evils have compassed
me about. Mine iniquities have taken hold
upon me." Now, so that was Christ speaking, but all of a sudden
it's that colon. That's not him. That's how one with him we are.
That's how intimate that is. My iniquities have taken a hold
upon me so that I'm not able to look up. They are more than
the hairs of my head. Therefore, my heart faileth."
This is how real that transaction was. Men like to boil this down
to some type of accounting transaction, legal transaction that took place,
like a bill of sale, like you're buying a car or something. This
is how real it was. I can't fully explain it. I can't
fully enter into it, but I believe it so, because the Lord says,
He became what I am so I could become what He is, righteous.
Isn't that something? He was forsaken of God, so His
people never would be. Now, do we feel it? Do we cry
out, Lord, come back! Return! We do, don't we? But then we're taught, we're
shown again, because He was forsaken of God, God turned His back on
God. We will never be. We will never be forsaken. He'll
never leave us. Back in our text there in verse
5. Our gracious God and our King, He suffered this winepress of
salvation alone. We weren't there to help Him,
was we? It says in verse 5, For in death there is no remembrance
of Thee in the grave. Who shall give Thee thanks? religious denominations. They
take this text and pervert it. They've got it wrong. When a
child of God dies, when they leave this earth, they are with
the Lord in spirit right then. They're with Him. We're not in
some kind of purgatory or our bodies are sleeping in the grave. We're with Him in spirit immediately.
But what David's speaking of, one, first off, he's so troubled. This is so real. This weight's
so heavy. I'm about to die. Lord, I'm right
next to the grave." That's how convicted this was. But he's
also saying that this body of death, this old man that I am,
if you leave me, Lord, if you're not with me, I can't know God.
This body of death can't know God. This mouth is an open sepulcher
and it doesn't give thanks, does it? There's no thanksgiving to
the Lord in this grave of mouth I have. Lord, don't leave me. If I'm by myself, there's no
goodness in me. Truly. That ain't what the preacher
told me to say, and so we memorize these words and then we say it.
This is crying on your pillow, meaning it. Hezekiah learned
this. It says in Isaiah 38, for the grave cannot praise thee,
death cannot celebrate thee. They that go down into the pit
cannot hope for thy truth. The living, calmly says it again,
the living, the living, the living, he shall praise thee. Not the
death. Not this old body of death. Not
this old man. The living shall praise Thee. By myself I cannot
praise God. I cannot rest in mercy. I won't
beg for mercy. But when He gave me life, when
He made me living, when He makes you living, that new man who
is truly living spiritually, he praises God. Now he knows
Him. Now he praises Him. We're made
to know this in us. We experience this, but we're
made to know that Christ had to bear us to give us life, to
make us living. Christ bearing you and I, who
were made one with Him, He suffered alone. He died alone. There are
times I feel so alone, more so in the middle of the night when
it's dark out and everybody's sleeping. And I'm the only one
who knows the sin of my heart, the sin of my thoughts. Nobody
else is inside of my brain but me. And you lay in bed and you
mourn. And you can't find no rest, so
you get up and you think, you know what, I'll go to the couch,
it'll be better. I won't wake Kimberly up, I'll go lay down
on the couch. I'll just sit up and watch the
TV or something and get over this. And you cry there too,
don't you? Don't matter where you are, the Lord can get you.
Look at verse 6. I am weary with my groanings.
All the night make I my bed to swim. Cries in the bed. I water my couch with tears.
I got up from that bed that was swimming. I'll go get on the
couch. The Lord can get a hold of somebody. You can't get away from Him.
Have you ever just groaned because you didn't have the words to
say? Just moan and groan. That's a good prayer. That's
a cry for mercy. Christ spoke in Psalm 22. He
said, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou
so far from helping me? And from the words of my roaring,
my howling, my groaning, for my pillow has been wet, my
couch had no comfort, I was groaning. I was brought to remember Christ's
weeping for Jerusalem. Christ weeping for Lazarus. It
says throughout the Scriptures, He's groaning in spirit, isn't
He? There hasn't been too many times
I've watered my couch with tears, and I'm thankful for that. But my Lord wept when I should
have been weeping. Did you know that? I should have
watered my couch a whole lot more than I have. Christ wept
when I should have been weeping. He cried the tears I should have
cried. He cried the tears His children
should have cried. Turn to Psalm 69. Psalm 69, 9. For the
zeal of thine house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of
them that reproach thee are fallen upon me. When I wept, and chasing
my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach. Look down at
verse 20. Psalm 69, 20. Reproach hath broken
my heart, and I am full of heaviness. And I looked for some to take
pity on me, and there was none. And for comforters, but I found
none. He was alone. They gave me also
gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink. The grief and sorrow of perishing
under the wrath of God is what Christ endured for His people.
And because He endured it, you will never have to feel it. Do
you know that? Because He wept, He bore the
reproach. It was for His people that gave
Him that gall for His meat, that vinegar to drink. We will never
have to experience that. Those who look to Him alone.
Those He causes to draw near. That's the condemnation. That's
not just a big letter word. How many letters it is? I can't
spell anyway. That's not just a big word, is it? That's what
He bore for His people. Isaiah wrote, Surely He hath
borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. An old friend of
mine, a mentor, said He didn't carry them in a bucket. He carried
them right here. Put them on that breastplate.
He carried it. That's what He bore. I'm back
in our text here in verse 7. It says, My eye is consumed because
of my grief. It waxeth old because of all
my enemies. We've cried before. Our eyes
get all poofy and bloodshot. Everybody can tell the next day,
can't they? Try to go take a shower. You can tell it. There's some
lasting effects, aren't there? And we see Christ has truly finished
all the work that was given Him to do, that He was accepted all
by Himself. He is risen. He is seated at
the right hand of God. And we're in this pain, and this
trial, and this agony, and this weeping, and our couch is floating. And we say, you know what? My Lord bore this every bit for
me. Not just this physical trial,
but that trial of sin, that trial of eternal judgment. That judgment
seat, He bore that. He bore that for His people.
Changes right then. We've got seven verses of misery,
agony, grief. Oh, that's needed. That's needed.
Needed. We can see His suffering and
now we know He's accepted of the Father. We know it's true.
When we see Christ has truly finished all the work that was
given Him to do, He was accepted, He's risen. Here's the transition.
Our minds change, don't they? Look at verse 8. Depart from
me, all ye workers of iniquity. That's telling my old self, too,
this mind I walk around in. Hush! We'll look to the Lord. Depart from me, all ye workers
of iniquity, for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping. Seven verses, David's bawling
on the bed and on the couch, and now he stands up in full
confidence. Why? His pure mind was stirred up.
He saw the Lord. He saw Christ high and lifted
up, didn't he? Have you ever prayed in grief and sorrow and
you stood up knowing that the Lord heard you? I mean for sure. I know He heard me. When your
eyes are turned to Christ our Redeemer, that's the answer to
the prayer. Whenever you ain't got words,
all you can do is just, ah, ah, you're groaning. The answer to
the prayer is to see Christ. That's it. Christ did. So many times we pray, we say,
Lord, I hope you hear me. Like David, we cry, Lord, hear
me. Hear me. That's why I want to be heard
of you. And then like that man in the temple, we go back home
still beating our chest and crying, don't we? Christ our Redeemer
knew he was heard of the Father. Knew it. He said, Father, I know
you hear me always. And we know this was him speaking
too. He says, depart from me all you workers of iniquity.
He said, get you behind me, Satan. I can say that. I can't make
nobody leave. I can say, everyone of y'all, get out of this room.
And you sat there. I can't do nothing about it.
He can command it, can't he? He withstood the proud. He despised
the self-righteous. He told those workers of iniquity,
depart away from me, but not sinners. not sinners. Scripture tells us He receiveth
sinners and eats with them. You know, not just you can come
in, like, well, you sit over there. You hungry? Hey, you want some soup? In that
culture over there, they feed one another. They take four fingers
like that and stick it in your mouth. I wouldn't fall into that,
but I gotta thank one time in a period I was really uncomfortable,
I thought, my Lord, as nasty as I think this is, He came to
a sinner, received sinners, and He ate with them. Fed them. Isn't
that something? Why'd He do all this? Because
the Lord heard the voice of His weeping. Do you know that weeping
has a voice? This is understood even if you
don't speak the language. All those Afghans over there
in trials and troubles the Lord sent to them, I don't know what
they're saying. I can't understand a word they speak, but they're
sitting there just weeping. I hear that. I go down to Mexico. My Spanish ain't that good. They
go so fast and somebody could be telling me something and I
can't understand it and they start just, that's universal. Laughing and weeping are two
universal things no matter what the language is, what the culture
is. I understand weeping. How thankful we are that the
Lord hears our tears because of Christ. He knows when we cry.
He knows when we groan. He knows when we weep on our
couch. He hears us. When we cry for mercy, God knows
it. What a wonderful comfort. What a wonderful comfort. He
told Hezekiah, He said, I've heard your prayers and I've seen
your tears. I've seen your tears. Psalm 58 says He bottles them
and He writes them in a book. I have four children. I know
several times they've cried a whole bunch, but I don't remember every
time they cried. I don't remember what to call.
I know they was upset one time. I didn't write it in a book.
That's how intimate it is. How made one with the Lord knows
every tear we've ever shed. And in mercy He sends it to draw
us to Him. He told that woman that washed
his feet. He's speaking to Simon the leper.
And he said, I come into your house and you didn't even give
me water to wash my feet. And this woman's come over here
and she's washed my feet with her tears. She's dried my feet
with her hair. You didn't even kiss me when
I walked. You didn't kiss the son. She ain't stopped kissing me
since I've been here. Wherefore I say unto thee, her sins, which
are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. She loved much. Those tears of sorrow that the
Lord sends makes us cry unto Him. They turn into tears of
joy when we see the holy God of our salvation, what He suffered,
what He tread alone by Himself for His people, for a bunch of
sinful dogs like me, wretches. Well, now I ain't crying over
Kevin's feel-bad party. I ain't have a pity party no
more. I cry because of what God did for me. It says in verse
9, the Lord hath heard my supplication. The Lord will receive my prayer.
Let all my enemies be ashamed and sore vexed. Let them return
and be ashamed suddenly. All them things that trouble
me, let it go. Let it go. The Lord will deal
with it. knowing we were made one with Him, and in part, in
part, knowing what He bore on that cross and His body on the
tree, and knowing fully, knowing completely that it's fully accomplished.
What was accomplished? I can't tell you every little
thing, but I know it's done. He saved His people from their
sins. What did all that accomplish?
I don't know, but it's finished. Look at that thief on the cross. You're
going to be in your kingdom today. I'm going to be with you. I don't
know what that is. I don't know what it looks like.
I know it's finished. And I know that's where you're going to
be and I know I'm going to be with you. Knowing that He fully accomplished saving
His people from their sins, now we can go from the couch of tears
to standing on the promises of God. And we can say with confidence,
when God went from bawling to tears of joy, the Lord's heard
my supplication because He's heard my redeemer. If you ever
want to be heard of the Lord, it's going to be because of Christ.
So when we say we pray in His name, Christ in your name, that's
not just words you tack on at the end. It's not some vain show
cooked up in Rome or some other religious man's tabernacle. Because of Him, we're heard of
our Lord. Isn't that something?