Alright brethren, Isaiah chapter
32. Isaiah 32. The subject is a man our refuge. A man our refuge. Let's read
just verses 1 and 2. Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. And a man shall
be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest,
as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock
in a weary land." Now this is the Word of the Lord. This is
the Word of the Lord. This is the Word of the Lord
to His chosen people. It was the Word of the Lord to
His elect among the children of Judah, and it's the Lord's
Word to His elect among us here today. Now, brethren, hear this
word that way. Hear this word as the word of
the Lord to you personally. To you personally. Hear this
as the word of the Lord to you personally. When God saves And
I'm not talking about just in the first time he's calling you,
but I'm saying as he saves us day by day throughout our life,
he does it by calling you to himself personally. Sitting you
at his feet personally, speaking to you personally. And when trials
and troubles come, He will succeed in calling His child to Him and
settling us down at His feet and teaching us and instructing
us personally. So hear this as the Word of the
Lord to you one-on-one, one-on-one. God commands us to behold. And when God tells you to behold,
whatever comes next is vitally important. He says, behold a
king. Oh, I pray the Spirit of God
today would make you behold the King. Make you behold the King. Now, this can be said of Hezekiah,
but he's just a picture of the King. God the Father's good news,
the gospel for His people is concerning His Son, the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's what this whole book is
about, the Lord Jesus Christ. You read the first few verses
of Romans 1 and He'll tell you that. The gospel is concerning
His Son, the Lord Jesus. All the prophets spoke about
it, all the laws spoke about Him. And all through the New
Testament, it's all about the Son. Behold a King. Behold a King. Let me show you
something about this King. Go over to 1 Timothy chapter
6. 1 Timothy 6. My message is on
verse 2. But to get verse 2, it will help
you to get this right here. 1 Timothy. 1 Timothy. To know that Christ Jesus is
the King. And what does that mean? 1 Timothy
chapter 6, look here in verse 14. Here's what it means. It
means, see there at the end it says,
it's speaking of our Lord Jesus, and it says, verse 15, which
in His times shall show who is the blessed and only potentate,
that means who is the blessed and only power and authority,
the King of kings and Lord of lords, who only hath immortality. He only has immortality. He lives forever and he gives
immortality to those he saves. dwelling in the light which no
man can approach unto, whom no man has seen nor seen. God is
a light that no man can look upon and live. No man can approach
unto and live. Yet this King, Christ, dwells
in that light. He is that light. He is God. He is God. And He makes it so
that we dwell in Him, in God's presence. One with God, one with
the Father. Look at the last word, to whom
be honor and power everlasting. Amen. That's who Christ is, brethren,
the blessed and only potentate, all authority and power, King
of kings and Lord of lords. In an earthly kingdom, when citizens
come before a king, they come before the king and they bow.
And they don't call the King by His first name. They call
Him Your Majesty. They call Him My Lord, My King. And when He gives you a heart
to know Him, you come and bow before Him and you confess He's
your Lord, He's your Savior. I give you to understand no man
speaking by the Spirit of God called that Jesus is accursed
and no man can say that Jesus is Lord but by the Holy Ghost. but by the Holy Ghost. Now back
there in Isaiah 32.1, God declares Christ our King is our sovereign,
righteous King. Behold, a King shall reign in
righteousness. He'll reign in tzedek, and that's
the Hebrew word. He'll reign in tzedek, in righteousness
and justice. His name is Melchizedek. That's who he is, the King of
righteousness, the Lord our righteousness. He's reigning over all. in righteousness
from His holy hill of Zion. And He's doing all that He's
doing in this world in His righteousness. And He'll reign until He's put
all His enemies under His feet. We're thankful, we're comforted
that Christ is God. And as God, His salvation is
eternal. But we're also thankful our Savior's
a man. He's a man. And as the man, He
established righteousness for His people. He's our righteous
King reigning over all. And as a man like His brethren,
He sympathizes with His people. Now watch what He says here.
He's our refuge. Verse 2. A man shall be as a
hiding place. from the wind and a covert from
the tempest, as rivers of water in a dry place, as a shadow of
a great rock in a weary land. You see that? He's saying he's
a man shall be our refuge. Believer, we're passing through
this world and it is a dry desert. Just like the children of Israel
went through that desert, you're not in a literal desert. but it is a desert. It is a dry
desert, a waste howling wilderness that we're going through. Now
in a desert there are three extreme dangers. Storms, great winds,
and so we need shelter. He says, a man shall be as a
hiding place from the wind and a covert from the tempest. Secondly, the second danger in
a desert, drought. drought. He says, and a man shall
be as rivers of water in a dry place. The third danger is the
scorching sun. And he says, and a man shall
be as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. There'll be
times in the life of a believer when we feel like we're going
to perish. You'll feel like you're going to perish. But we have
this promise right here that He'll never forsake us, and we
have this Word, and He won't let you forget this Word, and
He won't let you forget Him. A man shall be as a hiding place
from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of water
in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. So these needs right here, and
what He is to us, and each of these needs, that's going to
be our division. Let's look at them. A little bit at a time. One, Christ is our shelter from
the storm. We sing that song, A Shelter
from the Storm. Listen to this. This is what
we sing right here. The Lord's our rock. In Him we
hide. A shelter in the time of storm.
Secure whatever ill betide. A shelter in the time of storm.
This is the refrain. He says, Oh, Jesus is a rock
in a weary land, a weary land, a weary land. Jesus is a rock
in a weary land, a shelter in the time of storm. He's a shade
by day, defense by night. That's what our text says. He got it from this text. The
raging storms may round us beat, but he's a shelter in the time
of the storm. Oh rock divine, oh refuge dear,
he's a shelter in the time of the storm. This is where this
song came from. He's that shelter. Now, sin entering
in has made the world a cursed desert. And every trouble, every
problem, everything that's coming to pass in this world is due
to sin. Every bit of it. Every bit of
it. It's why our Savior promised
that we must, through much tribulation, enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Because we're living in a world that's cursed. We're living in
a world full of sinners. And so you're going to go through
much trouble to enter the kingdom of God. Job said, man's born
under trouble as the sparks fly upward. He said, man that's born
of a woman is a few days and full of trouble. The winds and
the tempest, like a storm, like a hurricane, just a waste howling
wind in this desert, that's a good example of the various kinds
of troubles that we face in this world. winds, storms. Christ said, the wind bloweth
where it listeth. And now here's the sound thereof,
but you can't tell whence it cometh and where that it goeth.
And that's how trouble comes. It comes like the wind. just
out of nowhere, here comes trouble. Have you ever experienced that
where things will be coming about and you don't want to see this
happen and you try to say or do something to stop this and
it keeps happening anyway. And the winds just keep blowing.
It's just like the wind blowing, like a stormy wind blowing. You
don't know where it's coming from, you don't know where it's
going, you can't stop it. That's what these troubles are
like. When God first called you, you
experienced this great storm, this fierce wind of guilt and
conviction in your soul. You knew you were guilty. He
made you see you were guilty and convicted you in your heart.
Now, if we're God's child, that wind's not going to stop. We
have peace in our Lord Jesus, but from time to time, you're
going to have conviction. There's but one thing the child
of God can do. This is the purpose of every
storm of conviction, brethren. The purpose of every storm of
conviction. The publican standing there far
off wouldn't lift up so much as his eyes to heaven, but beat
upon his breast saying, God be merciful to me, a sinner. That's the purpose of it. So
that you flee to the shelter from the storm. The Lord Jesus. What was he doing? He was fleeing
to this man, Christ Jesus, the King of kings, the Lord our righteousness. That's how you flee into this
covert from the storm. That's how you flee into this
shelter from the storm. You call out to Him from the
heart and beg Him to have mercy upon you, beg Him to save you.
That's how you enter the shelter. He never turned away a sinner
that comes to Him asking for mercy. He never will. He never will. Somebody might
say, well, I called for mercy and He didn't relieve me. No. They were still trusting something
of themselves because when you are really and truly convicted
that you are the sinner and the only way you can be saved is
by His mercy alone, you will call out to Him to save you and
have mercy on you and He will have mercy on you. He delighteth
not in the strength of the horse. He taketh not pleasure in the
legs of a man. The Lord taketh pleasure in them
that fear Him and those that hope in His mercy. He delights in mercy. He saves
by mercy. Sometimes people speak, you hear
folks speaking of a believer and you would think they never
experienced this stormy wind of conviction again. God's children
know better. You know better. We hate sin. We flee from it. We try to avoid
it. But we are sinners. That's just
how it is. We are sinners. And from time
to time, when you sin and the Lord will convict you in your
heart and the guilt of it weighs on you, Well, how are you going
to flee into this shelter? How are you going to flee into
this man who's the shelter? David was a believer, and he
was running again to the shelter. And here's how he fled into this
man who was our shelter. He cried out Psalm 51.1 and said,
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness, according
to the multitude of Thy tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine
iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. That's
how you flee into this shelter. Somebody might say, Well, that
sounds too easy. That's something right there,
what David's doing right there is something no sinner can do
except by the grace of God. David's confessing there's not
one thing in me that's good. He's confessing I can't do one
thing to save myself. I've never done anything to make
myself right. That's what David's crying out.
That's what a cry for mercy is, is that I don't deserve the least
from God. And it takes the grace of God
to make a sinner cry that out. That's how you enter this shelter.
Christ laid down His life on the cross for God's elect, and
He justified us from our sins, and He purged all our sins away
by Himself. That's what Christ did. Don't
ever forget that. That's what He did. So God will
not condemn one for whom Christ died. He will not because justice
is satisfied. God said in those days and in
that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought
for and there shall be none. The sins of Judah and they shall
not be found for I will pardon whom I reserve. Our God-man mediator,
this one who is a man like us, he's the fountain for sin and
uncleanness. When He called us, He made us
know we're complete in Him, wherever we're whole in Him. That's what
He made you know the first hour when He called you to Him and
made you first enter this shelter and confess your need and that
you're the sinner and that you need His mercy. He made you know
you're complete in Him. But as He declared, He said,
you're going to need your feet washed. You're going to need
your feet washed. You're going to pick up defilement
as you go through this world and you're going to need your
feet washed. And He's willing to wash them. He's willing to
wash our feet. He keeps calling us. He's the
one that sends the stormy wind of conviction. And He's the one
then as our advocate with the Father who prays for us. My little
children, these things write unto you that you sin not, and
if any man sin, when you do, we have an advocate with the
Father Jesus Christ, the righteous. And He's the propitiation for
our sins. That's true, brethren. He's the
shelter. We all go through the strong
winds of temporal trouble. Temporal trouble. And it's a
strong wind. Things in this world that are
just troublesome to you. You have sickness in your body.
You have all different kinds of trials. You're going to lose
loved ones. These are strong tempests. They're
strong tempests. Storms too great for weak ones
like we are. That's what they are. They're
strong tempests. Child of God, don't make the
mistake the children of Judah made. Remember what they did,
we saw Thursday? They took counsel of men and they went down to Egypt and
they trusted in a shadow when they trusted in Egypt. Don't
make the mistake they made. No, we have one hiding place. We have one covert from the storm. A man The God-man shall be a
hiding place from the wind and a covert from the tempest. You
go to Christ, take counsel of Him. How do you do that? You
go to His Word and you read it and you meditate on what you
read. You really truly sit and just think about this and ask
Him to give you an understanding. and you cast it all on Him, you
believe on Him, you trust He's your peace and your safety from
every temporal storm that you face, every spiritual trouble
you face. Isaiah said, Thou hast been a
strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress,
a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast
of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. That's what
he's been for his people since the beginning. That's what he'll
continue to be. He says, Come, my people, enter
thou into thy chambers, enter into this hiding place, enter
to this man. and shut the doors about you.
Hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment till the indignation
be overpassed." You see, you think about it. Here's Judah
at the time Isaiah sent with this word. They've got the nation
Assyria and the king of Assyria right outside the walls of Jerusalem. Puffing and saying he's going
to destroy them and he's fixing to do to them what he'd done
to these other nations. That's what they had going on
at that time. That's the storm they were enduring
at that time. And here comes Isaiah. The Lord
says, go save my people. And he sends Isaiah, just a preacher. And he sends Isaiah and Isaiah
comes and says, there's a man. and he's the shelter from the
storm. It's going to take God giving you faith, isn't it? Which
one would you listen to? Would you listen to the wise
counselors telling you, we need to go and make an alliance with
the mighty nation of Egypt so they can save us? Or would you
listen to this preacher who nobody who comes and says, Believe on
the Lord Jesus, he'll be your refuge. He'll save you. Which
one would you believe? I'll tell you, if the Lord speaks
to our heart, we're gonna trust Christ. That's what we're gonna
do. That's what we're gonna do. But it takes him giving us faith
to believe him. Shut out every other voice, shut
out every other counselor, except for the word of our Lord saying,
come to me, I'll be your refuge. I'll be your refuge. Whatever
the storm, whatever it is, whatever it is. Secondly, Christ is our
river to save us from drought. That's another danger we face
is drought. Drought. A man shall be as rivers
of water in a dry place. Isn't this world a dry place?
It's a dry place. No spiritual No spiritual water
in this world. You can't find any of that from
anything in this world. Believers have this inward spiritual
season of drought sometimes. We go through a season of drought.
Some believers are feeble-minded. Scripture speaks to that. Some
are feeble-minded. Some suffer from mental problems. You get depressed. You get anxious,
you get depressed, fearful in the mind. It's all due to our
sin nature, brethren. That's what it is. You know,
when I was growing up, there was no, they didn't have all
these labels they have now. Some of you, my age, you remember
that. They didn't have labels for all
the things they do now. They got a label for every, if
you stump your toe, there's some, it's a ism of some kind. But it's all due to sin. It's
all due to sin, but it's a real thing. It's a real thing. It's a spiritual drought in the
soul. And it's painful and it's fearful. You don't know why it's come.
You don't want it to be there. It's just depressed. Even strong in faith, those that
are strong in faith, they sometimes feel as though they've lost communion
with God. You just have a season of drought. You feel like God's not speaking
to you, and you've lost that connection with Him, and you
just feel like you're just dry. Sometimes this spiritual drought's
overwhelming. It's overwhelming. You experience
that? You know what I'm talking about,
don't you? Sometimes we don't know why we have this inward
drought. It's emotional, it's physical,
it's spiritual, it's circumstantial. There's all different kinds of
reasons for drought, spiritual drought. But there's a man near
at hand. I know if you're in it, if you're
in it right now, I know how it is. You hear this word and you
think, Preacher, you just don't know what I'm going through.
I do know what you're going through, but better than that, Christ
knows what you're going through. And it'll take Him speaking this
word to you, into your heart, to make you really hear this,
but this is your need. This gospel is your need, and
this man who is the river to save you from drought, he's your
need. He's your need. A man shall be
as rivers of water in a dry place. He's near at hand to satiate
our souls in drought. Listen to Psalm 46.4. There's
a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,
the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. Who's that
river? It's Christ. That's what our text says, it's
Christ. When our Lord used Paul in Philippians 4-5, He said,
Let your moderation be known to all men, the Lord's at hand. Here's what He meant by let your
moderation be known to all men. Here's what He meant. Be careful
for nothing. Be anxious, be depressed for
nothing. But in everything by prayer and
supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known
to God and the peace of God. that passes all understanding,
shall keep your heart and minds through Christ Jesus." We're
talking about inward spiritual drought in the heart and the
mind. And he said, he said, don't be
so anxious and cared about, you know, but the Lord said, he said,
when you're fasting, and let's get simple, let's get real simple.
It means when you're mourning, and you can't eat, you can't
sleep, You're mourning. No earthly food satisfies. You need Christ. You're mourning. He said, wash your face, get
dressed, and He said, when you go to the house of God, and He
said, don't put on, He's basically saying, don't put on a show so
people know that you're mourning and all. That's what He's saying there.
Let your moderation be known to all men. Don't be anxious
and depressed and carrying on. Why? The Lord is at hand. There's a river and He's at hand. He's at hand. Go over to Psalm
77 and let's look at this verse. I'm going to read a little bit
here because this right here is what we all know. experience
this as believers. That's who we're talking to here.
We're talking to you who believe. Listen to him, Psalm 77. I cried
unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice, and He
gave ear unto me. In the day of my trouble I sought
the Lord. My sore ran in the night and
ceased not. My soul, see this is an inward
drought, my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God and
was troubled. I complained and my spirit was
overwhelmed. This is this inward drought,
spiritual drought. He said, Thou holdest mine eyes
waking. I'm so troubled I can't speak.
He couldn't sleep. He couldn't speak. I've considered
the days of old, the years of ancient times, and I call to
remembrance my song in the night. I commune with mine own heart,
and my spirit make diligent search. Will the Lord cast off forever?
This is what he said. He made diligent search. He communed
with his heart. These are some questions he asked.
Have you asked these questions? I have. Every believer has. This is what he said. He said,
Will the Lord cast off forever? See the drought. He lost communion
with the Lord. Will the Lord cast off forever?
Will He be favorable no more? Is His mercy cling on forever? Doth His promise fail forevermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He in anger shut up His
tender mercy? Selah. Stop and think. Stop and think about that. Think
about those questions. What did he realize? And I said,
this is my infirmity. This is my weakness right here.
Then he fled to the river. Look at this now, he fled to
that man who is the river. He said, but I will remember
the years of the right hand of the Most High. I will remember
the works of the Lord. Surely I will remember thy wonders
of old. I will meditate also of all thy
work, and I'll talk of thy doings. You know, brethren, when you're
in in this trouble and you're in a drought, spiritual drought,
and you just keep talking about it and talking about it and talking
about your trouble and talking about, you know, the pad, this
and that and the other that you did wrong or whatever. You just
keep talking about your trouble and talking about your trouble.
It never gets better. It gets worse. It gets worse. He said, I'm going to think about
your works, Lord, and I'm going to talk about your works. I'm
going to stop talking about my trouble, and I'm going to talk
about your doings, Lord. And then another problem is,
when we're in this drought, we have a bad problem of wanting
to absent ourselves from the Lord's house, from His sanctuary,
from the preaching of the Word. And that's when we need it the
very most. And He said this, Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary. Who is so great a God as our
God? Thou art a God that doest wonders. Thou hast declared Thy
strength among the people. Thou hast with Thine arm redeemed
Thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. You see a change.
He's pining away. He's in a drought. He's sorrowful.
He's talking about his troubles. That's all he has in his mind
focused on. You forgot me forever, Lord.
Will You ever be merciful again? And then, He goes to the sanctuary. He goes into the holiest of holies,
to God's presence. He goes into his house and he
hears the gospel. And he starts remembering God's
works. And he starts remembering who
God is. And he starts remembering the mercies of the Lord to him.
And he changes, he turns, and he starts talking about all his
works. And he starts remembering the strength of his Lord. What's
happened? He's gone to this man who's the
river. And his soul has rained on him the dew of heaven again. Look over to Psalm 73. This was a different time right
here, Psalm 73. David experienced this drought
of his soul. How did he experience it? He
got to looking at the prosperity of unbelievers, at the prosperity
of the wicked. And he began to question if he
had even believed on the Lord in vain. He began to say, have
I believed in vain? Look at this. Verse 2, As for
me, my feet were almost gone. Psalm 73, 2. My feet were almost
gone, my steps well nigh slipped, for I was envious at the foolish
when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. Look at verse 13. Verily, I have cleansed my heart
in vain, and washed my hands in innocency in vain. I believe
God in vain, he said. For all the day long have I been
plagued and chastened every morning. Look at them. They're prosperous,
and here I am believing the Lord, and I've been sick and plagued
and chastened every day. This is all in vain, he said.
That's a drought, brethren. That's a drought. Verse 15, if
I say I'll speak thus, behold, I should offend against the generation
of thy children, God. When I thought to know this,
it was too painful for me. Where did he find out, where
did he get this river of water, where did he get this new moisture
from the Lord? Until I went to the sanctuary
of God, I went to the house of God, I went into His holy place,
prayed to Him, then I understood their end. Thou didst set them
in slippery places, thou didst cast them down into destruction.
Look at verse 21. Thus my heart was agreed, I was
pricked in my reins. So foolish was I, and ignorant
I was as a beast before thee. When I was looking at them, and
envious of them, and thinking I believed in vain, I was in
a drought. I was just in a drought, he said. But here's the good news. This
is what the Christ, the man, the river, reminded him of verse
23. Nevertheless, I am continually
with thee. Thou is holding me by my right
hand. Thou shalt guide me with thy
counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven
but thee? There is none upon earth that
I desire beside thee. My flesh and my heart faileth. My heart and my flesh faileth. It goes through these droughts.
But God's the strength of my heart. He's that man who is as
a river in a desert. He's my portion forever. Here's
what I'm trying to show you, Brethren. This is what the Word
is showing us right here. You get alone. Shut out all the
noise of this world. All the noise of the earthly
counselors that everybody knows what you ought to do. You get
alone and you read God's Word, and you meditate on Christ's
person and on His wonderful works. I mean, start thinking on His
works. Start thinking on the strength
of His hand. Start remembering His wonders
of old. Start thinking on what He's done
for His people, what He's done for you, how He's blessed you
in times past. And then you go into His house.
And you hear the gospel preached. You hear His strength proclaimed.
You hear the good news that Christ is the King of kings who reigns
in righteousness. You hear the good news that He
is the river and is desert for His people. And then do what? Then you get alone. And you meditate
on what you heard. And you read His Word. And you
pray unto Him. You enter into His holy sanctuary
above. And you ask Him for more of this
water. And then you do it again. And
you do it again. And you do it again. That's how
He saves, brethren. That's how He saves. A man shall
be as rivers of water in a dry place. Here's the third thing.
The last thing, Christ is our rock to shade us from the scorching
sun. You get in a desert and there's
no shade. But this man, he says, shall
be as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. You've got Satan's
accusations and his temptations. That's what the devil is doing
all the time. He tempts you and you sin and then he accuses you. Temptations and accusations.
It's like a scorching sun beating down on you. This is what you're
going to have. You're going to face it. Christ
said you're going to face it. You're going to encounter it. And it's like a scorching sun,
brethren. You're going to have human opposition. Human opposition. Friends will betray. Family will
oppose you. Brethren are going to misjudge
you and they are going to speak evil of you. Christ experienced
it and He said the servant is not greater than his Lord. You
are going to experience it. David experienced it. He tells
us time and again. But he is telling us He said
this, the Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed. He'll be a
refuge in times of trouble. He'll save you from the oppression.
It said, the oppression coming down on you like a scorching
heat. He said in Psalm 31 20, Thou shalt hide them in the secret
of thy presence from the pride of man. Thou shalt keep them
secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues. This is not
fantasy land here, brethren. This is true what the Lord does
when you face human opposition. He just draws you in and enables
you to just shut it out. And He gives you refuge from
it. He's your shield. He's your hiding
place. Your hope in His Word. Now here,
child of God, there's a man He's God. Salvation's eternal because
He's God. His redemption's eternal because
He's God. But He's a man. He's a man. He was tempted. He was tried.
And He sympathizes with us in all of our trouble. He's gone
through the desert already. He's our forerunner. You look
down, whatever trouble you're in, you look down, you're stepping
in His footprints. He's already been there. And
He is our refuge. He is your refuge. A man shall
be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest,
as rivers of water in a dry place, and as the shadow of a great
rock in a weary land. Do you believe on the Lord Jesus?
Do you believe Him? Do you believe He is all your
righteousness, all your acceptance with God? Do you believe He can
save you as you go through this desert? That's how we get into
the shelter. That's how we get under the shadow
of this great rock. That's how we drink of this river,
believing on Him. Believing on Him. This is what
He said to us in John 14.1. Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe on
Me. He said, My peace I give to you. I don't give it to you
as the world gives you. Oh no. He said, I'm going to
give it to you in spirit. I'm going to give it to you in
a way the world knows nothing about. It's going to be peace
in Him. Peace in Him. In the world you'll
have tribulation, but in Me you'll have peace. It's in Him, brethren. He that believeth on Me, He said,
shall never thirst. He's the river. He said, he that
believeth on Me, out of his belly will flow rivers of water. The
fear of man bringeth a snare. That's what most of these troubles
are. We're fearing our own selves or we're fearing somebody else.
We're fearing flesh. We're fearing we've either sinned
too much and we've lost our salvation or we're fearing what men are
doing. We're fearing man. Just turn away from you. Turn
away from all men. Turn away from this world. Turn
away from all of it. It's just the Word of the Lord.
A man, Christ Jesus, right there at God's right hand, He's your
refuge. He's your refuge. And He says,
and whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. He'll be safe. God give us grace
to do that. Amen.