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Paul Mahan

Come And Rest

Matthew 11:28-30
Paul Mahan July, 7 2004 Audio
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Let's go to Matthew Chapter 11. Matthew 11. To deal with this might be good,
at first, many, many times, but, as we hear it, we can take it
for the first time. As, as quoting Peter, who said,
the moon is coming. Wouldn't you like to hear the
gospel tonight, as if it was the first time you ever heard
it? Wouldn't you like, like James said, every time you hear the
gospel, you say, Now the Lord is talking about labor,
hard work, and rest. These are things that everyone
in here knows something about. Hard work, very heavy loads. Let's read Verse 28 through 30.
Come unto me, all that labor and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn
not of me. For I am meek and lowly in heart,
and you shall find rest unto your soul. For my yoke is easy,
and my burden is light." As I said, nearly everyone in
here, I'm sure, except perhaps for the youngest, knows something
about hard work and bearing some kind of heavy load. I'm sure
nearly everyone has worked so hard at times, worked to the
point of total exhaustion, and needed rest in the middle of
that. Or they've borne some kind of
heavy, heavy load And until you're unable to bear
it anymore, you need to put it down. Anybody? Period. This whole message of the Gospel, the whole message of the Gospel,
God's Word, all the way through the Gospel, this whole message
is a fact. Number four, laboring and heavy
laden sin. That's what this whole book is
about. It's for laboring and heavy laden sin. The labor and
the heavy load of burden that the Lord is talking about here
is sin. Not just talking about people
who work hard for a living. A lot of people do that. That's
not what He's talking about. What he's talking about here
is his labor to get rid of sin and his heavy burden that sin
puts on the shoulders of people. And the rest that only Christ
can give from this burden, that only Christ can remove. And now, listen, you won't, you
can't, and you won't come to Christ until you are in laboring
and penitent. This is addressed to those who are laboring and penitent. The
gospel won't mean a thing to anyone who has not been under
this burden of sin. That's what the subject is all
about. The removal of this burden on the back. All right, what
does it mean to labor and behave in good faith? Would you turn
to Romans chapter 7 with me? Romans chapter 7. What does it
mean to labor and be heavy laden? As I said, this is talking about
being under a burden or a load of guilt over your sins. Guilt is the most oppressive,
heavy, and weighty thing. And we can bear it. And this
is what God the Father sends to everyone He chooses, everyone
He lets. All that the Father giveth me,
Christ says, shall come to me. For what? To remove this guilt,
sin. This is what God the Father does
to every single person that He deals with in salvation. He convinces
them. He convicts them of their sin. Not problems in the world, but
their problem within. This terrible thing called sin
within that consumes, that weighs you down. Years ago, we used to talk about
people being under conviction. You don't hear that anymore,
do you? Well, it's still true though.
Everyone whom God Almighty deals with, He brings an under-confection
of sin. Like David said, my sin is ever
open. I can't get rid of this guilt
of sin. Romans 7, this is the story of
a man named Saul. He was religious. He was religious. He was a Pharisee. He was moral. He attended church. He didn't
have all of the vices that, you know, street people had. He thought
he was without sin. He was self-righteous. But now when God Almighty sent
His Word, He convicted him of his sin. The Pharisee, that he
took just like a covenant, The Pharisee hates the conviction
of sin, just like the public, who's lived all his life in sin,
and knows it. Paul said here in Romans chapter
7, verse 9, I was alive without the law once. That is, I thought
I was all right before God. But when the commandment came,
that is, when God Almighty gave the commandment, Almighty love
arrests that man. But God Almighty sent the Word
to convict that man. Convince him of his sin. He doesn't
know he's a sinner. He thinks he's moral. She thinks he's moral.
She thinks he's all right. But God in love and mercy and
grace sends the Word to convict of sin. And look at it. Verse 9, he says, When the commandment
came, sin revived. And it killed him. It just killed
him. In other words, I found out I
was a sinner. I didn't know it. And then if
you just look at that. Look down at verse 13. He said,
Was then that which is good make death unto me? That is the law
of God forbid, the sin. Now here's what God does. Sin that might appear to be sin. Working death in me by that which
is good, that is, killing me, slaying me, convicting me, bringing
me down, bringing me to the grave. You remember Job 33? That sin by the commandment might
become exceeding sinful. You've got to understand, you've
got to know, we've got to come to the place and understand that
we are exceeding sinful. Only when we realize that we're
unworthy It works, and God doesn't need it. And we don't deserve
a chance to be saved. We don't deserve to be saved
up. And we're actually, literally, hell-deserving of sin. But that's who's responsible. Those are those only. Not for
good people. It's for sin. Guilty. Guilty. Whatever the law says, it's going
to be in the running. Look at verse 18. Or verse 15. Paul said, and now here's what
happened to it. Are you with me? Are you looking at it? Verse
15, here's what happened to Paul when God said your word. He said,
that which I do, I do, I allow not. And what I would, that do
I not. And what I hate, that do I. Before, he thought he could
keep the law. Before, he thought he was over
considering it. That's what he actually thought.
He said that then, concerning the law. I said, I was right
about that. But when God says to me, show
him what you are, tell him. He showed him. He didn't just
wonder. He spoke the law. And he can't keep one. That's
what the Word shows, that he can't keep one. As a matter of
fact, what he wants to do, he can't do it, but what he can't
doesn't matter to this one guy. Anybody? Yeah, everybody in here
who God speaks to. Verse 18. He says, that is my
flesh. Now, here's what I know. He didn't
always know this, but he knows it now. That is, in my flesh,
in me, dwelleth no good thing. Not one good thing. No redeeming quality. Verse 24. Conclusion? Oh, wretched man that I am. Who? Now, here's something. Here's a man who's at salvation's
doorstep. Who? I'm undone. I'm lost. I'm sinful through
and through. Who? So what does it mean to
labor in heavy, heavy labor? It means to be under the field
of sin. I've preached this message to
thousands of people, and it wouldn't leave them, but to the people,
it's a hard time in the sense What does it mean to be laboring and heavy
laden? It means to be under the power
of sin. That's what Paul said, under the power of sin. Some people that are religious and
God convicts them of their sin, then they try to do whatever
to get rid of sin. They try to turn over a
new leaf. They try to quit this quick path. They try to find that. They go
here and there. They want to be rid of it. And
they think, if I could just quit sin, I'd be all right. That's right. And some people labor and work
real hard in religion. Some people get real active in
religion, real zealous, real faithful in attendance and this
and that and the other, but still can't get rid of this sense of
guilt, this load. Can't get rid of the past, the
past that haunts you. past life with the power of temptation
constantly bombarding. And so the Lord says, Luke and I are back on set, the Lord
says that all who labor and are heavy laden under the guilt and
sin and trying their best to get the moves, Now, I never asked
to find some people. He says, come unto me. Come unto
me. I'll give you rest. I'll give
you rest. Come unto me, and I'll give you
rest. What does it mean to come to
Christ? Turn back to Matthew chapter 8, Matthew chapter 8.
What does it mean to come to Christ? This is something we
need to do in bed. I can't quote you feet. Let me say it. There's room coming.
You see, we're all guilty of sin.
We always have been, all the world. We wake up sinning. And we go to bed sinning. And we're going to be sinners
till the day we die. And we need mercy. We need grace. We need
help. We need grace. Heal us. We still get other healing. Christ
said, Come unto me. Look at Matthew 8. What does
it mean to come to Christ? What it means is to believe Him.
Verse 1 and 2, when Christ was coming down from the mountain,
I said a great multitude followed Him. A lot of people followed
Him. A lot of people were curious about Him. A lot of people were
interested in Him. A lot of people were mesmerized
by Him. A lot of people were influenced
by Him. A lot of people were taken up
with Him, but not Him. And a lot of people were around
Him, swarming around Him. Back in our text, he was in the
middle of a crowd of people when he said that. Come with us. There were probably some people
standing there saying, we're here. What do you mean, come
with us? They didn't understand what he was saying. Well, here's
what it means to come with us. Verse 2, Behold, there came a
leper. And where is he? Now, what's
a leper? That's a dead man. That's a rotten
piece of flesh. A man whose flesh is literally
unclean. In his flesh dwells no good man. In him, he's silent, and he knows. He knows. He's hopeless. He's helpless. says the whole
13th, 11th, to Christ, and worship Him. Now, here's the first thing. What is it to come to Christ?
To worship Him. When you come to Christ, you
come to worship Him, just like to praise Him, to glorify Him
for all that He is, and all that he's done for you to this point,
whether he does anything else for you on the rest of your life,
he's worth it to him. In other words, we spend a lifetime,
most of us spend a lifetime, up to the point where he reveals
himself to us. We spend years not giving God
much of a thought. And then God, in mercy and grace,
reveals how He is for all these sons of ours. So the first order
is to worship Him. And we've come short of that
for years, and that's time. It's our reasonable service,
it's time. One day we'll get to the next, we'll be gracious
about it. Jesus is the same on the left all our lives, except
this time of year. It's time to start worshiping
Him. So this is His first purpose, to prove our promise, to prove
our wish, to praise our Lord. He came to worship Him. He came to worship Him and said,
now here's what it is to come to Christ. Lord, if Thou wilt,
Thou canst make me live. Come to Christ and see Your need
of Him. Unless Christ does something
awful, you're gone. And it's to see His willingness
and His ability to take care of things. Come to Christ is
to believe Him, that is, to see your need and to see His willingness
and His ability to meet that need. Say that again. Because modern religion will
tell you something like this. Modern religion will tell you,
He wants to, that is, He's willing to have sex, but He can't. They're saying He's not able.
But now here's the fact, like Abraham. Abraham believed God. He believed what He had promised.
He was what? Able to perform. You're not going
to come to Him if you don't believe. You're not going to call on Him
if you don't believe. We come to Him believing that
He is willing, from His Word, to set us up. Huh? And able. Now, he's accident
and can't get rid of this burden. Our Lord said the well need not
a physician. The well need not a physician.
He came to him. He was down. There's another place in the
Scripture that says that he healed all that had made him evil. All that had made him evil. He
healed all. And the scientist said, he said,
come to me, all. What does it mean to come to
Christ? It means to actually go to Him, not just believe what
He is like, but actually go to Him, actually cast yourself out,
actually. How do you come to Christ? Well,
in prayer. He's saving us. He's urging us
on all of us, especially those who follow Him. You come to Christ
in prayer. What kind of prayer? Well, continuous
prayer. Endless continuous prayer. You need to pray right now. So
here's a company of prayer. Importunate prayer. Byron Mayes,
here's an example of importunate prayer. Byron Mayes sits over
at the play side, in rags, a beggar in rags, blind. And the Lord Jesus Christ, the
only one who could heal a blind person, is coming by. And I told
you, here he comes. Today, Byron Mayes, he is coming
through. You may not come with me. What did Barnabas do? He cried to the Lord, Jesus,
that son of man, that person. Well, the people around him,
they thought he was a little too good. God was a little too
loud. I said, Barney, let's go. In that time, he was talking
too loud. Barney thought, you have been
lying to me. And he cried and he laughed.
He kept crying. He kept crying until the Lord,
the Lord of Gods, said, pray for me. He came. What do you want, Barnaby? He came to that woman. He came to that woman who would
not be put away. She would not be offended. She
would not be put off. The Lord ignored her. The Lord
called her a dog. The Lord said, I'm not sent but
through the election. He said, I was called by the election
God. I just love you. I need your help. Anytime. Anytime. Whatever you
do. Just become the human prayer. Keep
coming to us. As we say, become the human worship.
I mean actual worship, public worship. Go with me to Luke chapter
2. You know Christ said, where two or three are gathered together
in my name, there am I in his. Does he mean just figuratively?
Does he mean actually? Does he mean figuratively or
actually? Actually. God is spirit. God is spirit. God's in us. He said he would be in our midst.
Luke chapter 2 is a story of a man named Timothy. So it says,
it was waiting, verse 25, waiting, he was just in the battle, waiting
for the consolation of Israel. He needed some consolation, he
needed some comfort, he needed some assurance, he needed peace,
he needed to know that the Christ was indeed on the side of his
people, that he was the consolation of Israel. And it said, the Holy
Ghost was upon him. Why? How do we know? Because
he was waiting. He was here in the temple with
the Lord, when the Lord's Word, the Lord's people, were waiting. And he revealed unto them, verse
26, by the Holy Ghost, that he would not see death before he
had seen the Lord's Christ. And you know, the same promise
is to everyone who sees. The same promise of the Holy
Spirit is to everyone of the students. Seek your friend. Talk
with him. Ask him if he can forgive you.
Now, honey, seek with all your heart, just as I did. Go where
I am. He said, where it shouldn't be
again, but I'm there. Ask and you will see. And you'll not see bad, you'll
not taste bad, you'll not die when you see the boyfriend. And
he came by the Spirit into the temple. You know, the lot is
cast into the lap, but the Holy Spirit is not alone. And he came,
and what he said. And he came like he did any other
day. This was his habit. He kept coming. The Lord told him, he's going
to see me. He's going to see my Christ. He's coming. And he
might have come one day and didn't get much. Some of those days
he didn't get much. He didn't get what he wanted.
He's coming. He came. That's what the Lord
told him to come. So, he sat there and he died.
He died. I rest now upon my pursuit. It's to come to Him in worship. We don't come to church. We don't
come to socialize. We come to see God. We come to
hear from Him. If that's what we really come
for, we'd better know that. We come to hear from the Lord.
All right, we do? That's what we do. That's what you need. Get what
you ask for. And we come to Him in fellowship.
You're not going to find where two or three are gathering in
my name, God's people. So that's where I'm at. Not the people of the world,
Christ is not going to join them. So where are you people of? There
were two disciples who were walking on the road to the mountains. You saw him walking on the road
with me. And what were they talking about? Pride. Talking about all the things
we've had. Clothed in hope. Beautiful. And revealed himself to me on
the way back home. A good guy. A good guy. It's to come to Him
in fellowship. It's to come to Christ. Now,
when you come, you came here tonight. What do you have to
do to get here? You have to leave home. You have
to leave somebody or something. Some of you literally left family.
That's not it. Some of you left your home. Some
of you left things you were doing. Everybody in here left something.
to come here. So to come to Christ is to leave
everything else to come here. Scripture says, for this cause
shall a man leave his father and his mother. To leave. That's what you do
when you come to Christ. You leave everybody else and
you come here. I don't need a wife that I surely
ain't saved. I don't need a husband, but I
sure need a vision. I don't need a good job, but
I sure need a job. I don't need all those things,
but I need something. I need it. To come to Christ is to leave
all, to follow Him, and to come to Christ is to trust Him. I mean, actually place all of
your trust in this thing now. Most everybody in here has heard
this a million times, but buddy, right here, it's key. Correct
me if I'm wrong. To come to Christ is to actually
put all of your trust and your hope of salvation completely
on Him. I mean, cast all your salvation
on Him. but completely forget about your
settings and time. Lord, if you don't get me to
God, Lord, if you don't make me wholly or blamelessly acceptable
to God, acceptable to Him, I am unsaved. And so he says in our text, come
unto me. Come unto me, all of you. I said I vilify any section with
the word intersection simply because it's not advisable. I
don't know how to do it. It's not advisable. It's a good
way to come to life. It's kind of like the way I was
coming to life. Why don't I like it? Come on, it's
fine. Never late. The Lord Jesus Christ
shows us all. Come on. All we need is labor and a heavy
load. The chief of servants, even the chief, especially the
chief of servants, someone said, Well, I'm not worthy. You don't know my man. Oh, I
don't, but he does. And actually he said this. That's
who's going to give you more heart. You're going to be first
in line. That's what it means to come.
This is the faith. And worship is all acceptation,
especially by the worship center on earth. It's the only way you're
going to be held. Jesus Christ came to the world
to save us. Come on. Come on. Come on, Jesus. Come on, Jesus. ...who was so guilty that everybody
in town knew she was a poor liar. She was the talk of the town. She was full of shame to deal
with. She lived all her life full of shame to deal with. Everybody,
nobody would ever admit it. And the Lord one day was sitting
in a house with a bunch of Pharisees, and a bunch of these doctors,
and lawyers, and religious people, all these good, you know, Sabbath-keeping
people. God's way they called people.
And she's the most notorious woman in town. And nobody asked her to come
in. They didn't give her permission to come in to that house. The
fellow that owned the house would have kept her if he wanted to. And she had the audacity to just
walk up to that man and tell him. And come out of this is
a big crowd of religious people who were just shocked that this
notorious woman would walk in their presence. She had to. She had to. She was going to
die if she didn't. And she wept so profusely, it
says she bathed her feet, Christ's feet with her tears. That's a
lot of women. Wherever she walked, poor animals. She didn't have time. Why? She had to prepare her head
for what was going on. She had to do it. And there was
one person in that whole room that went away with
rest and peace. She wouldn't have died if she
hadn't done it boldly. Boldly. And look at this, there's so much here. You know, John Bootham had five
sermons on these three verses, 66 pages of his work, and I read
them all. I read them all today. I've done a few things now. These deserve many, many blessings. I'm just waiting. I have to leave. But I always said, I'll give
you grace. Grace. How's the word grace?
Most everyone in here works to that somewhere. And you're tired. It's obvious to some people.
Very tired. But, uh, how does it sound gracious? It just doesn't
sound good. It sounds good. Not if you're not
like me. But, you'll be. If you're not
tired, it doesn't sound good. Forgive and sustain, it doesn't
sound good until you cannot do it. Food doesn't sound good until
you get hungry. Water doesn't sound good until
you've got thirsty. But so he says, this is the only provocation,
come try it, labor and pain. Tired, weary, I'll give you rest. What is rest that he talks about? I'll give you rest. I'll give
you rest. We're talking about the guilt
of sin. And our Lord removes that guilt. Freedom from guilt
and labor you get rid of. Freedom from labor you get rid
of. Some of you have such guilt over your past life that you
can never be rid of it totally in your conscience. It's ever,
like David said, ever before you, but now there is a way. Get rid of this guilt. He said, I'll give you rest. You don't work for me. He said, I'll give you rest. I said, how does he give you
rest? And he gave me the old structure. He started an app. That's city
construction. And he had a heavy burden on
his back. He had this big pack of this
burden on his back. It was very, very heavy. And
it weighed him down, and it just kept him all the time down. Kept
him down. Talking about this burden of
guilt and shame. Kept him down. And he came to
a fellow, and the fellow told him, I know where you'll be buried. He said, if you go to this place,
you'll just fall off. If you'll see, if you go to this
place, and once you get there, if you look, you'll fall off
on something. Well, lo and behold, it says
he was walking down that road, the way, and he'd run. He'd run. He was in such a hurry. He didn't
see, he was pressing back. He was hurting. And he was running
in the direction, let us run the race, he said. I don't know
so much. But he said he was running this
way and he was all walled up, he couldn't go. And on the wall
was written, Salvation. You got that. And he was running
in this way, he was walled up, his head's to the mat, his head
in one direction, and he blowed the hole he got to. And the man passed. He says, the bug crossed on an
open grave. He says, he stood and looked,
and beheld that man hanging on the cross. Went down into the
grave. The grave moved, and there he
saw him. How does Christ remove the bug? He said, I'll give you rest,
but I'm going to move the burden from heaven by taking it on me. Every burden I have, I can't
give it up. I'm trying. I need rest. God is laying on me. All of it. God hath made him that they see
him, for us, and those that we have might be made like him.
I forgive you, for it is freedom from that guilt. Why do you thank
him? Who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross, despised shame, He said, call the shenanigans,
all of you. God Almighty hung him on the tree. He pleased the
Lord. The Lord had put him in the tree.
But surely for us, we had to go in our shoes, in our socks,
so we don't have to. He wore our shenanigans. He hung
naked. We read there that he was poor. All things are naked
and unclean. For God's sake, we don't have
to do it, but we're not naked. For all that you're at, and stop
at, and change, basically, so we don't have to. Need to believe
that there's the answer up there, or maybe you don't deserve it. He took that yoke, blinding,
shining all our sins, in his body, on the church, and bore
him away, went down into the grave, to the secondary, and
took him away, and God saved the young man. They're standing
iniquity, I'll remember no one. No one. That's how He gives grace,
by taking our sin and giving us His peace in that place. If we confess our sins, the Church
will say, He's faithful, just, look at us. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
Son, cleansed us of all of our sins. All of them. Every bit
of your past, if other than love, is gone. Now listen. It's like
you weren't even alive. You weren't. You were dead. Until God revealed Christ to
you. He gave you life. You were dead. And that old man's been crucified.
nevertheless you live, it's not you, it's Christ. And that verse
will follow on. Remember that. And you won't
forget though, that over and over, I forgot to write it down,
but there's a verse over, where is it? But it says, You'll owe
yourself for your sin. You'll hate yourself for your
sin. You won't forget your sin for your past. You can't. It's
impossible for us to forget our past, isn't it? It's impossible.
But you don't have to bury the sin. It's impossible to forget
our past. But that's good. That's good
to sin. It keeps you low, little boy.
It keeps you meek. Because you don't need me restraining
you. Once he begins to reveal himself
to you, he begins to restrain you, and no more. At least you're
not lying to each other anymore, but you can't forget when you
were. But here's the good news. He
said, God said, I know. And that'll give you peace. He
said, the record is clean. I sent this one Sunday morning,
it wasn't a meme, it came up in the media, and he said that
to me. He just gave me a whole release, new release on my back.
I said, every day we start the day who cleans clean. His mercies are newer, cleans
clean. He wipes clean. Understand this? Let me tell you this story, it's
a true story. Some of you have heard of this. My dad related
this story about his dad. When he was in his late teens
or early 20s, he was driving a big old Packard automobile,
one of these cars, the way it was done. He was driving this
big Packard automobile, had a car full of people, just a young
fellow, not paying attention to what he was doing. He ran
into a red light, a stop sign. plowed in the side of another
automobile and just tore that car loose. The other car. And he injured some people. Even
a serious one. And they shook him up. A jeep. Another one. Some of
you have been involved in that. Shook him up terribly. And as
it always does, it took a long time for it to come forth. And
all that time, I mean, he did it. He was guilty. He said, I,
I wouldn't, I just flat ran and stopped. I was guilty. Nobody's
guilty. And I tore up and hurt somebody.
And no telling what they're going to do to me. And I'll be what
I say, reckless driving. And it took a while for us to
come to court, and finally today the court came. And he went to
court, and his dad was with him. And they were sitting in the
back of the courtroom, waiting on his name, and he called them. And the judge up on the bench
seemed to be pretty strict about it, because he was watching all
these cases come before the judge, and the judge was throwing a
book at him. I wouldn't read any more judges'
names. The judge was throwing a book at him. All these cases kept coming.
In fact, finally, they were the only ones in there. He and his
dad were the only ones in the courtroom. And the judge, the judge was,
you know, posing up in jerks and all that, and looked up and
said, what can I do for you all? And, you know, they had to confess. Guilty people confess. And they
said, my grandfather said, I'm not making this. My son, Henry,
made him. We were told to appear in court
here today. His case is on record. We're here to answer it, too. And the judge opened his book. We're not listening to the record. It's not on the record. You're not in it. If I give a finger, that's what
Jesus Christ is. Come and be, that's my prayer. That's it, buddy. That's it,
buddy. How do you reckon my day's going
on? About 60 dollars a round. Ain't
it precious? Rest means to rest from searching
for rest. People run off looking for a
church, keep looking, keep looking, and they find one. All the pure rest from the guilt. You find this pearl of great
pride. Now, no minute go anywhere. Rest from searching for rest.
Rest from fear of death. What is it that makes a human
being fear death? Fear of sin. There's a judge out there waiting
on us. One of the men wants to die after this objection. I said,
there is no going out. No conversation with that person. I mean, he bore it. He didn't
fear death. Fear rests from fear of death. It's just going to be like an
oil spill. Rests from all the pursuits that people are going
out to put out at all times. I want to finish this and I want
to take it back to that time you wanted to do it. The geode
will crash, but the geode will be in the process of taking on
a geode. You got it. I think that's how
you want it. Maybe. All right, come in a minute,
I'll give you a break. Somebody's got a surprise for
you. Okay, let's sing out of the Green
Book, number 249. 249. And this is a familiar, and because
that dude down in North Carolina is so amused at it, I'm going
to sing it to a different tune, so you won't recognize it. All right? Number 118 is the
tune, Jerry, I'm going to sing it to, When I Survive. This is
a great deal. Welcome back down to the crowd. 249 and a great deal. I'm going
to start with a tune I want you to pay attention to
now, sir. Let's sing it. Just as many times
a day Oh, say can you see, by the dawn's early light, What
so proudly we hailed at the twilight's Just as I am, always be mine. Silence is wearying out the night. Day o'er hiding can't be too
tight. Oh, when the night comes, night
comes, Heart that I am, Thou wilt redeem,
Filled from the heart of great redeeming, We the Thy prophets
are leading, Lord, it will guide us, guide
us. Our Lord, we thank you for your
word, for your promise, for the rest of us, all of us. Take us to come, Lord, and cause
us to come. Blessed is the man who thou choosest
and causes to approach Him. Lord, we won't come unless you
draw us. Draw us, we can't come unless
you draw us. Or draw us up somewhere, and
not yet come today. Thank you, Lord, for your Word.
Now keep everything away that would choke it out. All these corners, areas of this
world, bowels of the earth, I hope you didn't want to know where,
but it's all on food grounds. The paradox. St. Town, 3 or 4 foot of faith in life. And
I thank you for that. Thank you. you.
Paul Mahan
About Paul Mahan
Paul Mahan has been pastor of Central Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, Virginia since 1989; preaching the Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace.
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