Those songs do go very well with
our text this morning. We turn into John 11, and we'll
see. I want to begin just reading
a few verses and make just a few comments, and then we'll get
into the message. But it says in verse 1, John
11 1, Now a certain man was sick. We know when the scriptures
speak of certain people, talking about God's elect, those he chose,
those he's everlastingly loved, and this is no exception, this
is Lazarus. It says, now a certain man was
sick named Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister
Martha. It was that Mary which anointed
the Lord with ointment, wiped His feet with her hair, whose
brother Lazarus was sick. You know, that's the only person
in the Scripture that the Lord said, she's wrought a good work. The only person, Mary. He said,
she wrought a good work on me. She brought that alabaster box
of ointment, broke it on His head and anointed Him for burial.
This is her brother Lazarus that was sick. And it says, Therefore
his sisters sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest
is sick. That's a very good petition because
you notice they didn't say he who loves you is sick. There's
no doubt God's people love the Lord by His grace, but this is
a better petition. Him whom you love, Lord, is sick. That would move you more if somebody
came to you and said, the child you love is sick. Wouldn't that
move you toward them? We petition Him based on His
love. Verse 4, and when Jesus heard that, He said, this sickness
is not unto death. but for the glory of God, that
the Son of God might be glorified thereby." That's similar to what
he said of that blind man that was born blind. It's just that
I might work the works of God, that I might be glorified, and
that's what's taking place here. Whatever He does for His people
from the first to the last is for that reason right there.
It's for the glory of God that the Son of God might be glorified
thereby. Mark it down. Everything that
comes to pass in a believer's life is for that reason right
there. Good, bad, whether we understand it or we don't understand
it, it's all for that reason right there. Every bit of it.
Now, catch this next verse. Now, Jesus loved Martha and her
sister and Lazarus. And when he had heard, therefore,
that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place
where he was. He loved them. The Lord loved
Martha and her sister and Lazarus. And when he heard, therefore,
that Lazarus was sick because he loved him, he didn't go to
him. He stayed where he was for two
days. He waited till Lazarus died because
he loved him. Because he loved him. I want
to preach on the subject of reasons Christ waits. Now, the truth
of the matter is, with our Lord, there are no delays. There are
no delays with Him. Our Lord does all things at His
predestinated, foreordained time. Everything that He predestinated,
He determined before, He foreordained, He brings it to pass at the exact
precise time. He is sovereign God in control
of everything. He said not even a hair falls
off your head without my consent. A sparrow doesn't fall to the
ground without Him knowing it. Everything is done by His hand
and is done exactly at the time that He determined it to be done.
That's why we keep reading, they could not lay hands on Him or
touch Him because His time was not yet come. Not until the time
was come. But, our Lord makes it appear
to us that He waits. He makes it appear to us that
He's waiting. And it is to us, Him waiting. He waits sometimes. It's like He waited here. But
he does it because he loves us. He does it because he loves us.
He does it that he might bring glory to himself, glory to the
father, and work good for his children. That's why he's doing
it. Because he loved them, therefore, when he heard he was sick, he
abode two days, still in the same place where he was. He didn't
go. He stayed two days, waited, because he loved them. Waited
till he died. Now let's look at some things
here that our Lord does by waiting and why He does this. We just
sang three good songs that talk about our Lord leading us. And
these are things He's going to do as He leads us. And we see
here why He does it. Why He does it. Now He sold us
right off the bat. This is for His glory. That He might work
some works here to give Himself glory. And that's what He's doing
for us. Now first of all, by waiting the Lord teaches us to
deny ourselves. Teach us to submit to Him, to
His will, to deny ourselves. It's going to involve suffering.
It's going to involve suffering. And He's teaching us to deny
ourselves, to wait on Him, to submit to Him in like manner
as He laid down His life for the Father in place of His people. Submitting to the Father's will
for His people. Remember when Paul said his desire
was to be made conformable to Christ's death? Well, Christ
is going to conform us to him in submission to his will, even
when it means suffering. In fact, he's going to bring
us into suffering, just like he did with them right here,
that you cannot end. You just can't end it. It's like
having a sore, a broke bone that you just wish it would be well
and there's no way to make it well. You just have to suffer
through it so that there's no other choice you have but to
submit to His will and His time. That's how He's going to teach
us to deny ourselves. And really, He has to work this
to make us deny ourselves, because we don't like to suffer. Nobody
likes to suffer. If you get out of it, you would.
But He'll bring you where you can't. Now watch this. Let's
see how we see this. Verse 7. Then after that, He
saith unto His disciples, Let's go into Judea again. Now that's
where we just saw Him come from in John chapter 10. where they
wanted to kill him. They picked up stones to kill
him multiple times. And his disciples heard this,
and they said, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee,
and goest thou there again? You gonna go back there? They
just tried to kill you. You see, the trial's never just
for the Mary and the Martha and the Lazarus to suffer in the
immediate brunt of it. It's not just only for them.
He teaches his other disciples here too. He teaches them too.
He's teaching all his people. This is how wise our Lord is.
He's teaching all his people together. And so they hear this
and they say, Lord, that was not wise to them. Now get this,
the Pharisees, we saw earlier in the first hour how the Pharisees
stood there and picked up stone wanting to kill God Himself.
This is not a whole lot better. This is His people saying to
wisdom Himself, Lord I don't sound too wise. But who's being
taught wisdom here? Not him, but them. Now watch
what he does. Jesus answered, are there not
twelve hours in the day? And if any man walk in the day,
he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there's
no light in him. No light in him. Now Bethany
was near Jerusalem, that's where the Pharisees lived that wanted
to kill him. And our Lord knew full well,
he knew, our Lord knew that what he was about to do was about
to be a very public act that was unlike anything he had done.
He's about to call a man out of the grave that's been dead
four days. And this is going to be it. This is going to be
all that the Pharisees can stand when he does this. And our Lord
knows this. Go over to John 11 and verse
46 and look. After all this was done, here's
what happened. And our Lord knew this was going
to happen. Some of them went their ways to the Pharisees and
told them what things Jesus had done. Then gathered the chief
priests and the Pharisees of counsel and said, What do we?
For this man doeth many miracles. And if we let him thus alone,
all men will believe on him. And the Romans shall come and
take away both our place and our nation. That's what they
were worried about right there. If we leave Him alone, men are
going to believe on Him, and we're going to lose our place
in our nation. And one of them named Caiaphas,
being a high priest that same year, said unto them, You know
nothing at all, nor consider that it is expedient for us that
one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish
not. That's the gospel of substitution.
He didn't intend to preach that, but he preached the gospel of
substitution. Christ died in the place of His people so that
rather than his people perishing. That one holy nation God calls
his holy priesthood, that's who Christ died for. rather than
they perish. And this spake he not of himself,
but being a high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus
should die for that nation, and not for that nation only, but
that I also, he should gather together in one the children
of God that were scattered abroad, his elect Jew and Gentile. Then
from that day forth, they took counsel together for to put him
to death. Lord knew this he knew this was
going to be the case and that and his disciples thought something
like this was going to happen, too And that's why they didn't
want to go there They didn't want to go there He didn't want
to suffer They didn't want to suffer and we can put ourselves
in that shoe in those shoes You know there's a lot of God's providence
that if we knew up ahead of time We'd go a different way but the
Lord the Lord He knew, and he had to go there, and he knew
this was going to cause him to come seeking his life, but he
was laying down his life to fulfill the Father's will. He was submitting
himself to the Father's will. He was obeying the Father. His
whole life was one continual submission to the will of his
Father, and that's what he's doing here, and that's what he
was declaring here. He's walking in the day, He's
walking in the light, He's walking in the will of His Father. His
coming down from glory to take flesh and dwell among us was
Him walking in the day. That was Him obeying the Father.
Him going about doing all the works of the Father in this earth.
doing the will of the Father. That was Him submitting to the
Father to work out a righteousness for His people. Him laying down
His life and going to that cross and giving them permission to
nail Him to the cursed tree that He might bear the wrath of God
in place of His people. That's Him walking in the day
doing the will of the Father. And He said, as long as a man
is doing the will of the Father, there's no fear of Him stumbling. No fear of Him stumbling. But
see, the disciples here in just this little instance of them
saying, that's not a good place to go. They want to kill you.
That's an example of me and you walking in the night, stumbling.
They're stumbling. And this is where we are a lot
of the times, is stumbling. And so the Lord puts us in a
situation where we're going to have to submit and suffer with
Him. And we don't have a choice. And
that's what our Lord told them here. The Lord brings us into
these difficulties. It teaches us to deny ourselves,
to take up our cross, to submit to His will, to wait on Christ
to work in His time. And by this, we're learning.
We're learning that it's always better to wait on Him, to submit
to Him, to follow Him. He said, whosoever will save
his life shall lose it. And we try to save our life,
we're going to lose it. But whosoever shall lose his
life for my sake, Christ said, and for the gospels, the same
shall save it. And Thomas got it. Thomas got
it. Lord always succeeds in getting the lesson to his people. Verse
16, it said, then said Thomas, which is called Didymus unto
his fellow disciples, let us also go that we may die with
him. You might think that's sarcastic
and maybe he meant it that way, but he was resolved to it and
said, let's go with him. If he dies, we're going to die
with him. And this is what the Lord brings you to that place.
If he slays me, Yet I'm going to trust Him. His way is the
best way. Lord, be Thou my vision. Lead
me in the right way." And this is what He's going to do for
His people. So He brings us into a situation like He brought His
disciples in and He waits to teach us to submit to Him and
trust Him and wait on His time. Now let me show you the second
thing here. By waiting, the Lord makes us believe His Word that
He is the resurrection and the life. That He really and truly
is our life. That's what it means. He's the
resurrection and the life. It means He's our life. He really
is. Verse 14, Then said Jesus to
them plainly. Well now, let me just fill in
here a little bit. He had said, Our friend Lazarus
sleepeth, but I go that I may wake him out of sleep. That's
all death is for a believer, is sleep. They didn't understand. They
said, well, it's a good thing if he sleeps then. Let's don't
go get in danger if he's just sleeping. But our Lord said to
them plainly in verse 14, Lazarus is dead. He's dead. And I'm glad
for your sakes that I was not there. I'm glad for your sakes
I was not there, Christ said, to the intent you may believe. See, He's going to have to work
things for us in such a way. that makes us believe Him, makes
us trust Him. And that's what He said, I'm
glad I wasn't there. I'm glad He died, so that you might believe. Nevertheless, let's go unto Him.
He said something like that to Mary and Martha. Look down at
verse 17. When Jesus came, He found that He had lain in the
grave four days already. Verse 20, then Martha, as soon
as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him. But Mary sat
still in the house. And then said Martha unto Jesus,
Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. But
I know that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will
give it to thee. Now he is God. She's talking
like God's going to give it to you. Now listen to what he said.
Jesus said to her, thy brother shall rise again. And Martha
said to Him, I know that He shall rise again in the resurrection
at the last day. This is us right here. We have
our doctrine, and we think we know, and we think we have it.
We have it understood, and we're quick to say what we know when
we don't know, really. And Jesus said to her, I am the
resurrection. Resurrection's not a day, Martha.
The Sabbath's not a day. Christ is our rest. Christ is
resurrection. He is the life. He that believeth
in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever
liveth, those that believe on him live right now. They have
eternal life now. Whosoever liveth and believeth
in me shall never die. Believest thou this? She said,
Yes, Lord. I believe that Thou art the Christ,
the Son of God, which hath come into the world. Look at verse
32. And then here comes Mary. And
she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, Lord, if Thou hadst been
here, my brother had not died. All three of them, you get there,
the disciples said, well, it's better just leave him alone,
let him sleep. He said, he's dead. I'm glad
he's dead so you can believe me. Martha comes out to him. Lord, if you'd have been here,
he wouldn't have died. I know he'll raise in the resurrection
day. Martha, I'm the resurrection,
believe me. Now here comes Mary. Lord, if
you'd have been here, my brother had not died. When Jesus therefore
saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with
her, he groaned in the Spirit and was troubled. Don't you know
that our Lord, when He walked this earth, was just constantly
groaning in Himself and troubled? Because this is just flat-out
unbelief is really all it is. Everywhere he's faced, there
he is working the works. No reason to doubt anything he's
ever done. And here they are weeping. And
this is us, brother. This is us. Weeping and doubting. And our Lord being so kind and
gracious and long-suffering. And he said, where have you laid
him? And they said to him, Lord, come
see. And Jesus wept. Then said the Jews, behold how
he loved him. And some of them said, could
not this man which opened the eyes of the blind have caused
that even this man should not have died? Now even these, these
are some elect Jews that he's going to save. Now they're even
saying the same thing. All of them had this unbelief.
And he's doing this for every one of his people involved here.
Jesus therefore again, groaning in himself, cometh to the grave.
And it was a cave and a stone lay upon it. Jesus said, take
your way the stone. And how quickly we go from believing
the Lord. Lord, I believe thou art the
Son of God. You're the Christ, you're the
Son of God. And Martha, the sister of Him
that was dead, said to Him, Lord, by this time He stinks. He'd
been dead four days. Jesus said to her, said I'm not
unto thee that if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldst see the
glory of God. I just, I think I need to print
that out right there. Put it up everywhere my eyes
meet throughout the day. Said I not that if you would
believe you would see the glory of God. Oh Lord, help us get
that. Verse 41. Then they took away
the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus
lifted up His eyes and He said, Father, I thank Thee that Thou
hast heard me. I knew that thou hearest me always,
but because of the people which stand by, I said it, that they
may believe that thou hast sent me." Now, you see, in all of
this, Christ waited to teach those He loved to believe Him,
to trust Him, to believe His Word. That's what He was doing
right here. He was waiting so that it was good and obvious
that Lazarus was dead. So they all got to see their
unbelief And our Lord spoke the Word and said, Believe on Me.
And He's going to show them His glory through faith in Him. The
only way we'll see that is through faith in Him. He is the resurrection
and the life. Christ in you is the hope of
glory because Christ is the life. He's the resurrection. He that
hath the Son hath life. He that believeth on the Son
hath life. Our Lord said He liveth right
now and He'll never die. He'll never see death. He has
life. We're talking about Christ the
life. He is the resurrection and the life. Faith is a gift
that He gives you by His grace where He makes you to believe
on Him and you have life through Him. But by making us wait in
His time and bringing us through, leading us the whole way, bringing
us to something so sorrowful as a brother who died and who
you love and something so hard to go through. and making us
wait and believe that he is life, that he will bring us through
this, and then him doing it and making us see his glory in it,
that's how he not only sustains our faith, that's how he grows
our faith to keep trusting him more. And we'll trust ourselves
less. He promised Isaac children. He
said, I'm going to give you children more than the stars in the sky.
I promised Isaac and Rebekah that. I'm going to give you children
more than the stars in the sky. But Rebekah was barren. And Isaac
and Rebekah waited. And they waited. And they waited. And they waited. And the Lord,
in the meantime, Ishmael. Ishmael. The one that God told
Abraham to cast out. Isaac's brother, Ishmael. Ishmael
had 12 sons who grew up to be princes. Isaac sat in there with
Rebekah and they don't have a child. Waiting and waiting and waiting. And then in time, after 20 years
passed, God put life in Rebekah's womb and brought forth a child. Brought forth a child. And here's
the truth of the matter. All those sons that Ishmael brought
forth, God doesn't say anything about
them, but that one he produced named Jacob. He said, Jacob have
I loved. Jacob have I loved. And he did
it according to his promise. Why did he wait all that time?
Why did he wait? Same reason he waited till Dazarus
was dead to go to this tomb right here. You know where we're going
to believe him? He had to make it apparent to everybody there
that nobody could do what he did but him. and they believed
on Him. Isn't that our gospel? What are
we preaching? Why is it so hard for men to
believe the gospel? Because Christ does what no sinner
can do. That's why. But He does it this
way and God saves this way to teach us that He's the only one
that can do it. This is the only way He can bring
you to believe on Him and trust Him is to make you see He's the
one who does what no man can do. He's the one who came forth
and made His people righteous. He's the one who put away the
sin of His people forever by one offering that He made on
the cross. He's the one who calls His people affectionately and
is able to keep His people and bringing us through every hill
and valley and crooked place and rough place and joy and sadness
and all these things He's bringing us through. He keeps teaching
us. He's the only one that can do
this work and keep you believing Him. And that's how He keeps
you believing Him. Just like He did right here.
That's why He waits for you. That's why He brings you into
something like this and just waits. He just waits. Well, thirdly, by waiting, He
makes us behold His glory. He really makes us behold His
glory by waiting. He not only sustains our faith
and grows our faith and teaches us, if you will believe me, believe
me, I'm the life, I'm the resurrection, I'm the one keeping you, I'm
your life. But He also shows us the glory in that. Shows us
His glory. Verse 40, Jesus said to her,
said, I nod unto thee that if thou wouldst believe thou shouldst
see the glory of God, And when he had thus spoken, look down
at verse 43. When he had thus had spoken,
he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. And he that was dead
came forth, bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face
was bound about with a napkin. And Jesus said unto them, loose
him and let him go. I'm gonna tell you something. I guarantee you that Mary and
Martha That was beyond anything they expected was going to happen
right there. He raised their brother from
the dead. He'd been dead four days. He
brought him out with a word and said, come forth. And brought
him out. Brought him out. Christ in a covenant from the
foundation of the world. He gave his word from the foundation
of the world that he would come forth and redeem his people.
And he waited. And he waited a long time. But
when the fullness of time was come, when the exact time came,
Scripture says God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made
under the law, to redeem them that were under the law. Did
He do it? He did it. He did it. He said He would,
and He did it, just like He said He would. That's His glory. He
finished the work. He's the righteousness of His
people. And before this world was made, God foreordained that
everyone that God chose in Christ each one that Christ redeemed.
The Lord was going to send them the Spirit of God because of
the blood of Christ that justified us and was going to give us faith
to believe him. And he waited. He waited. But in time he sent the gospel
to you. And because you're sons, because
you are sons, not to make you sons, because you are sons from
eternity in Christ, God sent forth the spirit of his son into
your heart, crying, Abba, Father. Our Lord Jesus Christ sent this
gospel and said, Lazarus, come forth. And when he did, he arose
from the dead. Life. by the power of His redeeming
blood, by the power of His gospel, by Christ the power Himself.
As the Father raises up the dead and quickeneth them, even so
the Son quickeneth whom He will. And this is how it is throughout
the life of faith, brethren. Christ renews our inner man continually,
teaching us to trust Him and believe Him. And as you believe
Him, He always works it out to reveal His glory in a way that
is beyond Excuse me, beyond what you and I ever would have thought
he could do. I'm telling you, that is so.
That is so. God's people never end up disappointed. That's so. Think about it. Have
you? Every time you look back, and
now it's painful, it's suffering when you go through it, but when
he gets finished, he said, if you'll believe me, you're gonna
see my glory. And He keeps you believing Him. And you see His
glory. And seeing His glory. Did it turn out good for Him?
It turned out good for Him. Lazarus came forth, didn't He?
That's how He always works it, brethren. And He's teaching us
that He's our life. And believe in Him. Trust in
Him. We're going to see His glory. And one of these days, He's coming
back again. He's coming again. And whenever
he brings you to that time, we're just waiting right now is what
we're doing. He's waiting. We're waiting on him. And he's
going to bring you to that hour that he appointed before this
world made. And either this body's going to die or he's coming again. One of those two are going to
happen. But if this body dies, you know what's going to happen?
He's going to call your spirit to be with him just like that.
Just like that. And then when he comes back,
he's going to call our bodies and bring our corruptible body
out of the grave and give us an incorruptible body, conform
like unto his image, and we'll be with him in glory forever.
It's all by the word of him speaking, Lazarus, come forth. He calls
your name personally and says, come forth. And he brings you
forth. He that hath the Son hath life,
and he that lives and believes in Christ shall never die. That's
what Christ said. And He's waiting until we have
no strength, absolutely no strength in ourselves to show us His glory
in doing the work. That's what he said. That's what
Paul said. This suffering we go through, Paul said, is that
the life of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh. That's why. Do you ever sometimes
think there is no possible way you could believe the gospel
right now if it wasn't for Christ keeping you all this time? You
wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for Him. That's the truth. Though our outward man perish,
yet the inward man is renewed day by day." Because He's the
life, and He's showing us by our weakness that He's our strength.
So that with Paul we say, when I'm weak, then I'm strong. Even the youth shall faint and
be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, but they that wait
on the Lord. What does that mean, they that
wait on the Lord? It's just what our Lord said in our text. He
said, will believe, you'll see His glory. Those that wait on
the Lord. Those that wait on the Lord.
He's just going to try our faith. He's always going to try our
faith. He's always going to try our faith. And teach us where
we've been, where we've sinned, where we haven't trusted Him,
where we've looked to our wisdom. Lord, that's not a good idea
to go there. And He's going to keep you looking to Him, believe
in Him, and He's going to show you His glory. in the face of
our weakness. They that wait on the Lord shall
have a new strength. They shall mount up with wings
as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk
and not faint. Now here's the last thing. By
waiting, this is why it's so good. The Lord doesn't only bless
just his disciples. He didn't just bless his inner
circle. He didn't just bless Martha. He didn't only bless
Mary. He didn't only bless Lazarus. He didn't only bless his select
Jews. He didn't only bless some Gentiles
that heard about it, some strangers, by waiting to let them all get
gathered up there to that tomb to where it was obvious he's
the one doing the work. And they all sat in there weeping
and can't do a thing about it by waiting like He did. Every
single one of His chosen people in that group, He blessed them.
Every one of them. Look here. Verse 45, Then many
of the Jews which came to Mary and had seen the things which
Jesus did, believed on Him. All His disciples were blessed.
All Mary, Martha, Lazarus were blessed and there was many Jews
that had come there and they were all blessed too. Why? Because
he waited. That's why he waited. He waited
until they all got together and gathered up there and that's
why he waits. The life of a believer, think
about this. The life of a believer is made
up of waiting on the Lord. That's really the life of a believer. The disciples were waiting as
they went with him to Bethany. Mary and Martha were waiting
as they believed him that they were going to see his glory. Waiting is not doing nothing. Waiting is doing something. Waiting
is trusting and looking to the Lord. doing whatever He's put
in your hand to do until He does what He's going to do, you're
just waiting on Him, following Him, trusting Him. It's waiting
on Him. And here's the four things we
saw. By the things we suffer, Christ is teaching us to look
to Him alone. He's teaching us to deny ourselves,
to lay down our will, even as Christ did for His people. He's
conforming us to Him to trust Him and obey Him and lay down
our life at His feet. Not taking it into our hands.
Lord, it's not wise to go down there. We're not doing that.
No, Lord. If we're going to die with You, we're going to die
with You. Number two is teaching us to believe His Word. He's
our life. He's our life. The only reason
we have life right now is He is our life. We believe Him.
He is our life. Thou hast the words of eternal
life. He sustains that life. And He's
showing us His glory. All of this is His glory. He
alone is the power of God. He alone is the righteousness,
the wisdom, the sanctification, the redemption. He's showing
us His glory. He said, said not unto thee that
thou wouldst believe thou shouldst see the glory of God. That's
what He's doing. That's what He's doing. And it's
going to end. We're seeing little glimpses of it as we go, as He's
leading us all the way. But one day, We're gonna see it in a full
splendor. Oh. We're gonna see his glory. See his glory. And he's waiting
that he might bless each and every one of his people. Every
one of his people. Every one of his people. I don't
care what the situation is. If we're at a place where we're
growing impatient, we feel like, well, this should be moving along
a little further. And I'm going to have to do something
moving along. Just whatever you do, don't try
to move it along. The Lord can move it along. But
do this. Just know this. He's still got
some people he's working on. He's still blessing the hearts
of some of his people. And he's not going to finish
up until he's blessed them all. Just like he won't finish this
whole thing up until he's called every one of his sheep to him
and brought us to faith in him. And then he's coming back. curving
the journey all the way down. If we hadn't reached the straight
stretch where it's just smooth sailing and a beautiful view,
it's because he's still teaching somebody through this curve.
And he's going to bring them through the curve. He's picking
up the lambs and carrying them in his bosom and carrying those
that are with young. And he'll get it done. But he's
going to make sure all his people are blessed in the process. That's just so, brother. That's
just so. He does all this because He loves
His people. Go to Isaiah 30. I'm going to
end with this. You know I preached from this
a couple of times and referenced it a couple of times. I love
this passage. Isaiah 30, verse 18. You know they wouldn't wait on
the Lord. They went to Egypt. So the Lord
waited, now look what he said, why he did it, verse 18. Therefore
will the Lord wait, just like our Lord waited two days, waited
until Lazarus died. Therefore the Lord will wait,
that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be
exalted, that he may have mercy upon you, for the Lord's a God
of judgment. Blessed. happy are all they that
wait for him. For the people shall dwell in
Zion at Jerusalem. Thou shalt weep no more. He will
be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry. When he
shall hear it, he will answer thee." He said, if you believe,
you'll see. You'll see, my glory, you'll
see. Believe Him, believe Him, trust Him. This is why, these
are some reasons why our Lord waits right here. All right,
Brother Art.