Gospel preachers are trumpeters. Throughout the scriptures, the
preaching of the gospel is frequently compared to blowing a trumpet. Sometimes it's to a trumpet make
a sound of joyous announcement. Sometimes the trumpet sound is
to give an alarm in preparation for war. If the trumpet give
an uncertain sound, the psalmist ask, who shall prepare himself
to battle? But throughout the book, gospel
preaching is compared to the blowing of a trumpet. Turn, if
you will, to Exodus chapter 19. Exodus 19, we'll start there. This is the first time a trumpet
sound is mentioned. And it's mentioned in connection
with the giving of the law at Mount Sinai when God called Moses
up to the mount. Look at chapter 19 and verse
13. When the trumpet soundeth long,
they shall come up to the mount. Verse 19. And when the voice
of the trumpet sounded long and waxed louder and louder, Moses
spake. God answered him by a voice. Chapter 20, verse 18. And all
the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise
of the trumpet, and the mountains smoking. And when the people
saw it, they removed and stood afar off. My friend, Brother
Ron Rumberg, sent out an article this past Lord's Day, dealing
with reverence for God, and he made reference to some Hollywood
starlet who sometime back, acting religious, said, when I get to
heaven, I'm going to jump up in God's lap and give him a kiss. That's how many women talk, exposing
utter irreverence for God, knowing nothing of God. When Moses came
up to the mount and received the word from God, the people
standing at the base of the mount saw the thunderings and lightnings,
the noise of the trumpet and the mountains smoking it, smoking
as God spoke to Moses, and they removed and stood far off. We ought to have a sacred familiarity
with God as our Father, a sacred familiarity with God through
Christ our Redeemer, knowing our acceptance by God through
Christ our Redeemer. but let us never lose the blessed
reverence of God that's due to his holy name, ever sanctifying
him in thought, in word, and in deed. Look at verse 19. These
people, reverence in God. They said to Moses, speak thou
with us and we will hear, but let not God speak with us lest
we die. We've got to have a mediator.
We've got to have an intercessor. We've got to have a good between
us and God, and that mediator, that intercessor, is the Lord
Jesus Christ. And Moses said unto the people,
fear not, for God is come to prove you, and that his fear
may be before your faces, that you sin not. And the people stood
afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where
God was. Throughout the Old Testament,
the Lord God used trumpet blast to summons his people to themselves. By the sound of a trumpet, he
called for their solemn assemblies. By the sound of the trumpet,
he prepared them for their journeys in various parts through the
wilderness and even in the land of Canaan. Through the sound
of a trumpet, he prepared the people for war. Through the sound
of the trumpet, he announced the new moons, and once every
50 years by the sound of the trumpet, the year of Jubilee.
All of this was highly symbolic and typical of things to come
in this gospel age. In fact, one of Israel's annual
feasts by which they were called to God, called of God to come
up and worship him at Jerusalem was what's called the Feast of
Trumpets. Look here in Leviticus 23. Leviticus
23, verses 23, 24, and 25. The Feast of Trumpets. As I try
to preach to you from these three verses, this is my constant struggle. I want you to understand clearly
what the scriptures are intended to teach. I want to faithfully
expound the word to you so you understand the meaning intended
by God the Holy Ghost in the word we read. But I want so much
more. than just to give you a lecture
in doctrine and in biblical facts. I want to speak as God's voice
to your heart this hour so that God may be dearer to you, Christ
may be dearer to you, the gospel may be dearer to you than it
has been to this point, and that we, together, may devote ourselves
utterly to God our Savior. Leviticus 23, verse 23. And the Lord spake unto Moses,
saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh
month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a Sabbath,
a memorial, a blowing of trumpets, and holy convocation, a holy
assembly. Ye shall do no servile work therein,
but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord. Turn, if you will, over a few
pages to the book of Numbers. You have these instructions elaborated
along a little bit more in Numbers chapter 10 and in Numbers 29.
Look at chapter 10 first. Numbers 10 verse one. And the
Lord spake unto Moses saying, make thee two trumpets of silver
of a whole piece. That is, you take one piece of
silver and make two silver trumpets. Of a whole piece shalt thou make
them. that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly
and for the journeyings of the camp. And when they shall blow
with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at
the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And if they
blow but with one trumpet, when the princes, which are the heads
of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee.
Verse five, when you blow an alarm, then the camps that lie
on the east parts shall go forward. When you blow an alarm the second
time, then shall the camps that lie on the south side shall take
their journey. They shall blow an alarm for
their journeys. But when the congregation is
to be gathered together, you shall blow, but you shall not
sound an alarm. and the sons of Aaron the priest
shall blow with the trumpets, and they shall be to you for
an ordinance forever throughout your generations. And if you
go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you,
then you shall blow an alarm with the trumpets. and ye shall
be remembered before the Lord your God, and ye shall be saved
from your enemies. Also in the day of your gladness,
and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months,
ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and
over your sacrifices. of your peace offerings, that
they may be to you for a memorial before your God. I am the Lord
your God. Chapter 29, Numbers 29. And in the seventh month, on
the first day of the month, you shall have an holy convocation.
You shall do no servile work. It is a day of blowing the trumpets
unto you. And you shall offer a burnt offering
for a sweet savor unto the Lord, one young bullock, one ram and
seven lambs of the first year without blemish. And their meat
offering shall be a flower mingled with oil, three-tenths deals
for a bullock and two-tenths deals for a ram and one-tenth
deal for a lamb throughout the seven lambs. and one kid of the
goats for a sin offering to make atonement for you beside the
burnt offering of the month and his meat offering and the daily
burnt offering and his meat offering and their drink offerings according
to their manner for a sweet savor, a sacrifice made by fire to the
Lord. Now there's no question at all,
the Feast of Trumpets was a representation of spiritual joy and gladness
that belongs to God's elect. Gladness of redemption, joy for
his grace that's found in Christ the Lord. when we are made to
know the joyful sound of the gospel. The trumpet sound then
speaks of gladness, of joy, of rejoicing because of the good
news of the gospel. Listen to this in Isaiah 35,
you'd be turning to Psalm 89. Isaiah 35, 10, the ransom to
the Lord shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting
joy upon their heads. They shall obtain joy and gladness
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Here in Psalm 89,
the psalmist speaks of the reason for joy. He speaks to us of the
reason why sorrow and sighing flee from God's elect when they
hear the joyful sound. Psalm 89, 14. Justice and judgment
are the habitation of thy throne. God sits on his throne and he
always does justly and he always acts wisely with judgment. Mercy
and truth shall go before thy face. Mercy and truth constantly
go before our God. Blessed is the people that know
the joyful sound. justice and wisdom or judgment,
mercy and truth. This is the joyful sound. God
is merciful and true. God is just and wise, just and
righteous. Blessed are the people who know
the joyful sound, how that God can be just and the justifier
of the ungodly. They shall walk, O Lord, in the
light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice
all the day, and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. For thou
art the glory of their strength, and in thy favor our horn shall
be exalted. for the Lord is our defense and
the Holy One of Israel is our King. Now let's look at this
Feast of Trumpets and see what we're to learn from it. I'll
give you three things. I'll spend the bulk of my time
on the first. The first is that the preaching
of the gospel is God's voice to his people. See that you refuse
not the voice of him that speaketh. the trumpet at Sinai represented
the voice of the Almighty. When the Apostle John on the
Isle of Patmos heard the Lord Jesus speaking to him, his voice,
he tells us, was as the voice of a great trumpet. What a gracious
God we have. He who spoke terror at Sinai
calls us to everlasting bliss by the gospel. I want you to
turn to that very, very familiar passage in 2 Corinthians 5 again. I want you to see how God himself
speaks by the gospel. He tells us in verse 17, therefore,
if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Being a new creature,
old things are passed away. God has turned away all his fury,
all his wrath, all his anger. Old things are passed away. And
behold, all things have become new. And all things are of God. This whole salvation is God's
work. who hath reconciled us to himself
by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the word, or the ministry
of reconciliation, to wit that God was in Christ, reconciling
the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them, and
hath committed to us, his church, his servants, his preachers,
the word of reconciliation. Now listen to this, now then
we are ambassadors for Christ, As though God did beseech you
by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be you reconciled to God. As a man is sent of God to you,
if God speaks through that man to your heart, God is speaking. Brother Mark prayed just a moment
ago for those men who are preparing now to come here and preach for
us. Brother Lance coming this Lord's Day. I'll be leaving Sunday
evening to go down North Wilkesboro. Oh, pray that God may speak. If God speaks through the voice
of his serpents, it is God who speaks. God speaks by the trumpet. Verse 21, for he hath made him
to be sin for us, who knew no sin. that we might be made the
righteousness of God in him. We then, as workers together
with God, beseech you that you receive not the grace of God
in vain. See that you refuse not him that
speaketh. We were talking back in the office
a minute ago about God's call to Israel in Isaiah 30. He said,
you return to me and rest. Sit still, be quiet. Quietness
and confidence will be your strength. And his next word is, and ye
would not. The Lord God speaks, don't be
so foolish, so ignorant, so rebellious as to refuse to hear him. See
that you refuse not the voice of him that speaketh. For if
they escape not who refused him that spake on earth, much more
shall not we escape if we turn away from him that speaketh from
heaven. Now, let me make several statements
concerning these trumpets. and what they represent. God's
voice is the voice of two trumpets. I'm fairly confident that speaking
of the whole message of God given to us in the Old Testament and
in the New. And yet those two trumpets are
one. They are made of one whole piece
of silver, because the message of the Old Testament and the
message of the New is one message. People talk about the Old Bible
and the New Bible. We have it set for us by our
translators as the Old Testament and the New Testament, because
it represents the old dispensation and the new dispensation. But
this book is a book with one message, and that one message
is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. As you read through the scriptures,
Don't ever fail to look for Christ in the scriptures. Looking for
his work, his person, his glory, the revelation of himself. The
message of the gospel is Jesus Christ crucified, and that's
the message of the scripture. These two trumpets pictured for
us the gospel. The blowing of the trumpet speaks
of the preaching of the gospel, which is called the great trumpet
in Isaiah 27. God's preachers are commanded
to lift up their voice like a trumpet. I like to hear a trumpet. being
played, but I don't like to sit close to it. For me, even with
my being hard of hearing, it has a shrill sound that's difficult
to listen to. God's servants are commanded
to lift up their voice like a trumpet. And the fact is, as men speak
the word of God, the very word of God, and not just the things
our flesh wants to hear. The sound is offensive to our
flesh. It is not always something that's
received with pleasantness, but it's received with necessity.
We have to lift up our voices as a trumpet to sound an alarm
to perishing sinners, warning them of wrath to come. and at
the same time calling the wicked to life and faith in Christ,
looking to Christ for salvation. Cry aloud, spare not, lift up
thy voice like a trumpet, God says, and show my people their
transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. These trumpets
were made of silver, and the gospel of God's grace is comparable
to silver. because it is fetched out of
the rich mind of Holy Scripture. It's comparable to silver because
it is pure. It's free of the dross of human
opinion and human speculation. It is the very word of God to
his people. It's comparable to silver because
the gospel we preach can be tried by the word itself and it will
bear the trial. It's comparable to silver because
the gospel is the everlasting gospel. It's lasting. It's durable. It will stand the test of time.
I have often been asked by folks how I can be so dogmatic in preaching. It's what if your doctrine changes?
And my response is my doctrine is not going to change. And I'm
asked why? Because I'm not looking for anything. I'm not looking for anything
else. I'm not open to another suggestion. I'm not open to another
thought. I'm not open to a different gospel.
The gospel we preach, the everlasting gospel, is of great value, infinitely
precious, here in the book of God. In the word of God, the
unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ are found. The treasure
of his grace is found. Gold, silver, and precious stones. That's the doctrine of the gospel
by which God builds his church. These two trumpets, like the
preaching of the gospel, were used for the calling of solemn
assemblies. for the gathering of God's elect,
either gathering them for war or gathering them for worship
at these holy convocations. That's exactly what the gospel's
for. Romans chapter 10, Romans the
10th chapter. Verse 13, whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now this is what that
does not mean. That does not mean if you start
home tonight and you run into somebody who's just been hit
on the side of the road by a car and they're about to die and
you ask them to go call on the name of the Lord and say, well,
do you believe in Jesus? Say, I believe in Jesus. That's
not what it's talking about. That's not what it's talking
about. That's not getting somebody to say, I believe in Jesus. To call upon the name of the
Lord is to worship him. Whosoever bows at the throne
of Christ our Savior, worshiping him shall be saved. How then
shall they call on him? How will men and women learn
to worship him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they
believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they
hear without a preacher? That's the importance of the
work we do. Oh, what a blessed work God has
trusted to our hands. We have, by the gift of God,
this treasure of God in these earthen vessels, that the excellence,
the power may be of God and not of us. But it is our responsibility
to carry this gospel to the ends of the earth. And how shall they
preach except they be sent? As it is written, how beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, that bring
glad tidings of good things, good news of good things. But
they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah saith, Lord,
who hath believed our report? So then faith cometh by hearing
and hearing by the word of God. We are born again, not of corruptible
seed, but of incorruptible, by the Word of God that lives and
abides forever. And this is the Word by which
the Gospel is preached unto you. The Gospel of God is that by
which God speaks to man. The gospel of God is that by
which God instructs, guides, reproves, directs his people
in all affairs in this world. These same trumpets, like the
gospel of Christ, were used to inspire and direct the children
of Israel as they journeyed to the land of Canaan. The priest
went before them when they were about to take a journey from
one place to another, and they blew a trumpet. and by this the
children of Israel were led to follow the priest through the
wilderness to the land. The priest blew a trumpet and
by this the children of Israel were led through the land to
the land of Canaan from one place to the other. Some years ago, I was preaching
and you've heard folks say the same thing. A fellow was upset
with me and he said, I'm not going to follow any preacher.
And my response was, if you follow God, you will. If you follow
God, you will. That's the reason God gives pastors,
is to lead you with the word of truth. These two silver trumpets
were the weapons of Israel's warfare. as they made their way
through the wilderness. By these trumpets, they prevailed
over their enemies. In verse nine of Numbers 10,
you don't need to turn back there. The Lord says, if you go to war
in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then you
shall blow an alarm with the trumpets and you shall be remembered
before the Lord your God. And ye shall be saved from your
enemies. What a strange word. You blow
these trumpets and you shall be saved from your enemies. It's
not so strange. The Apostle Paul writes about
the Spirit of God and says, though we walk in the flesh, in this
body of flesh, we do not war after the flesh. Oh, Spirit of
God, teach me that and seal it to my heart. Teach this assembly
that and seal it to their hearts. Teach our brethren, our fellow
laborers in the gospel this and seal it to their hearts. The
weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God
to the pulling down of strongholds. casting down imaginations, and
every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge
of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience
of Christ. These trumpets were to be blown
only by the sons of Aaron, blown by men chosen, appointed, and
equipped of God to do the work. That's how gospel preachers are
made. They're chosen, they are equipped,
they're directed by God to do the work. And that's the only
thing that makes a preacher, God's work. And God's servants
are to take the word and declare the gospel by the word to the
hearts of chosen sinners for the glory of God. Oh, that God
might be pleased to send forth laborers into his vineyard, but
the making of a preacher is his work. You can't do it, I can't
do it, the church can't do it. God gifts men for the work, God
puts them in the work, and they are to go before his people with
the trumpet of the gospel. In Numbers 10.10, I do want you
to turn back there if you will. Numbers 10.10. These silver trumpets of grace
were to be blown over the sacrifices as Israel came to worship God,
because there is no good news for sinners but by the sacrifice
of Christ. Look at this. Also in the day
of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings
of your months, you shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt
offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings, that
they may be to you for a memorial before your God. I am the Lord
your God. I am Jehovah your God. The trumpets. were blown at the
beginning of their months, at the beginning of the year, at
the beginning of life. They were blown as the children
of Israel offered sacrifices to God day by day. They blew
their trumpets. And they were blown as a memorial
before the Lord. They were a memorial of faith,
of joy, of gratitude. The trumpet sounded, reminded
them of what God had done. and the trumpet sounded directed
them to hope in what God had promised. That's what gospel
preaching does. It is a declaration of what God
has done and the declaration of what God has promised to do
in Christ for his people. All right, now here's the second
thing. The feast of trumpets was symbolical of God's mercy,
love, and grace proclaimed in the gospel. The blowing of the
trumpets portrayed the preaching of the gospel, the proclamation
of good news, The good news of redemption finished. Redemption
accomplished. Salvation obtained by Christ
the Lord. I want you to turn back to Psalm
89 that I read earlier with you. Psalm 89. There's no good news in the will
worship worksmongers message. That which men preach everywhere
at best is called good advice. They don't declare anything accomplished,
anything certain, but the gospel is good news. It is a declaration
of justice satisfied, sin put away, righteousness brought in,
eternal redemption obtained by the doing and dying of the Lord
Jesus, the Son of God. It was in realization of that,
which is signified by the blowing of trumpets that David wrote
this 89th Psalm. Let's pick up in verse 14. Justice and judgment are the
habitation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before
thy face. Blessed is the people that know
the joyful sound. Oh, blessed are your ears if
they hear. They shall walk, O Lord, in the
light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice
all the day, and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. for thou
art the glory of their strength. And in thy favor, our horns shall
be exalted, for the Lord is our defense. The Holy One of Israel
is our King. Now in this Psalm, David sets
before us in powerfully plain terms, those gracious covenant
promises of our God to his people. Eternal promises made with Christ
before the world was. He says in verse three, I have
made a covenant with my chosen. I've sworn to David, I've sworn
to Christ my servant. Verse 28, my mercy will I keep
for him forevermore. My covenant shall stand fast
with him. Verse 34, my covenant will I
not break nor alter the thing that has gone out of my lips.
Verse 37, It shall be established forever as the moon and as the
faithful witness in heaven. Now stop and think on these things.
Many commentators have called this psalm the glorious covenant
psalm and they've done so accurately. Here we read about covenant mercies
and the covenant faithfulness of Christ our surety. This psalm
is about the covenant God who rules over all, made with his
Son on our behalf before the world was, and he established
with Christ Jesus our surety by which all his people were
and are forever blessed of God in Christ. And it describes God's
people marvelously. Look at verse 15. Blessed is
the people that know the joyful sound. They shall walk, O Lord,
in the light of thy countenance. Now, pay attention to what God
says about his people here. They know the joyful sound. They've
been taught of God. They know the message of free
grace. They know what the Scriptures teach about ruin by the fall
and redemption by blood and salvation by the Holy Ghost. They know
salvation is of the Lord. It's the sound of victory over
sin through Christ's blood. It's the sound of mercy, grace,
love, peace, and pardon through Christ Jesus, our Redeemer, by
which we are blessed of God. They shall walk in the light
of his countenance. Our darkened hearts have been
illuminated by God the Spirit through the preaching of the
word, and now we walk in the light while we walk through this
dark world. There are so many things we can't
understand. We can't explain. We can't give a reason for them
that makes any sense to us or anyone else, except by the revelation
of God in his word. We walk in the light of God's
free grace in Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, knowing that our God
sits on the throne, And He has promised to do us good, nothing
but good, while we walk through this world. Would to God we could
learn to rest in Him, to be at peace with Him, walking in His
countenance, before the light of His countenance, rejoicing
in His grace, in His salvation. The psalmist says they shall
rejoice in His name all the day. Rejoice in the Lord always. I'm not talking about pretending
to joy. I'm not talking about pretending
to be happy. I'm not talking about putting
on a show. When my heart is heavy and my cheeks burn with tears,
I can still rejoice in the Lord. Rejoice in who he is, what he
has done, what he's doing and rejoice in his providence. As
we rejoice in him, we walk before God with ease and we walk before
trouble with ease, confidently, quietly. How can that be? Let your moderation, your ease
of mind, ease of spirit, gentleness of character, your unruffled
disposition, Be known to all men. Why shouldn't we be easy? The Lord's at hand. Why shouldn't we be at ease? The Lord's at hand. He's God
at your elbow. The Lord's at hand. Then the
psalmist says, they shall rejoice in the name of the Lord always,
rejoicing in Christ Jesus. Having no confidence in the flesh.
We trust our God and walk before him. Doing so, the psalmist says,
they shall be exalted in his righteousness, in the perfect
righteousness of Christ, which he worked out for his elect,
that righteousness that has been freely, eternally, and fully
imputed to us who believe, because we've been made the righteousness
of God in him. Christ is the Lord our righteousness. His name is Jehovah Zekinu and
His righteousness is our righteousness. God, therefore, has no reason
ever to be angry with His own. He's put away our sins. He's
made us the very righteousness of God in Christ. We're constantly
accepted of Him. Hear the joyful trumpet sound
of God's free grace in Christ crucified. In Him, by Him, and
with Him, sinners are exalted in His righteousness. He is able
to save to the uttermost them that come to God by Him. The
Lord Jesus is our glory and our strength. Without Him, we are
nothing. We know nothing and we can do
nothing. But the Apostle Paul makes a
remarkable statement. He says, I can do all things
through Christ who strengthens me. What a statement. I can do all
things through Christ who strengthens me. Whatever it is that he puts
before me. Whatever it is, he calls for
me to do. Whatever it is, he would have
me to endure. Whatever it is, I can do all
things through Christ who strengthens me. Nothing is hard for God. That means nothing is too hard
for you who believe. I can do all things through Christ
who strengthens me. This is not us mustering strong
faith or us resolving to be strong. No, no, no, no, no. It is God
working in you to will and do of his good pleasure. And I'm
confident of this one thing, that he who has begun a good
work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. The
Lord Jesus is our strength and our glory and he, our savior,
our covenant surety, our God, is our defense. We're unable
to defend ourselves against anyone or against anything. Unable to
stand against our spiritual enemies. They're too many and they're
too powerful. But our Lord Jesus, our man of
war, stood face to face, toe to toe, before our enemies and
conquered them by his obedience unto death. And we're made more
than conquerors in him. He is my defense, always. I read John Gill's comments that
were very brief on this passage earlier today. But Mr. Gill made a tremendous observation.
Nothing silences the roaring accusations of Satan in our minds
and in our hearts but the sound of the gospel's good news. the sound of God's free grace
in Jesus Christ, our Redeemer. That silences the roar of that
fiend of hell. Our Savior defeated sin, making
atonement for it. He magnified the law and made
it honorable, satisfying justice on our behalf. He crushed the
serpent's head by his death on the tree. He defeated death and
hell by rising from the dead. One more statement, I'll be very
brief. Like the blowing of these trumpets, the preaching of the
gospel is a call to rest. He said, ye shall have a Sabbath,
a memorial of blowing trumpets. A call to rest, a call to rest. I don't know why in God's providence
This passage of scripture has been connected with everything
I've preached in the last six or eight weeks. The Savior speaks
by his word, and he says, come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Maybe the reason is
because you need right now to hear it, or you will need it
very soon. I remember some years ago, my
dear friend, Brother John Mitchell, who's with the Lord now, said
to his wife, he said, we must be in for some heavy, heavy trial. God has been so good to us. And
they no more than got done praying with her and they got a phone
call and found out what the trial is. I have no idea what God has
for you or for me. But the Savior's word by the
gospel to you and to me is, come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I'll give you rest. I promise you, you
won't find it anywhere else. You won't find it from anyone's
counsel. You won't find it from anyone's
advice. You won't find it from any pill
you can take. Come unto me, all you that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
you, bow down, bow down, bow down, and learn of me, for I
am meek and lowly in heart. And as you bow down to him, quit
kicking against the pricks, quit fighting God. Mark, it's the
hardest thing on earth for us to do. Hardest thing on this
earth for us to do is not kick, not fight, but bow down, take
my yoke on you and learn of me and you shall find rest unto
your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden
is light. Let me give you just one blast
of the trumpet more and I'll send you home. Behold, he that keepeth Israel
shall neither slumber nor sleep. He that keepeth Israel shall
neither slumber nor sleep. He is a wall of fire about you. He encamps around you. He keeps
you as the apple of his eye. And he never gets tired. He's
never weary. He's never out of reach. The Lord is at hand. Amen.