I've titled the message for this
morning as Organically Grown Believers. I'm not trying to
be trite with that title, but we're in a day when society at
least partly recognizes that the cause of contamination is
due to man's own hand. I say partly because our admission
of guilt by nature goes only as far as what we think we can
fix by our own hand. But one of the most widely recognized
means of man's contaminating effects is in farming. You go
through the supermarket now and there's a whole section in the
produce section of organically grown vegetables. It means that
the fruit was produced by the most pure standards possible. Nothing man made to accelerate
the growth was added, no artificial fertilizers or anything of that
nature. No man made pesticides were used
to kill the pests that might kill the fruit. The only thing
that was used was pure seed pure water or pure fertilizer and
patient waiting on God to give the increase. That's the gist
of organically grown fruits and vegetables. Well, believers are
born and they're grown with nothing man-made to make them grow. Believers are born and grown
by nothing that man makes to kill the pest that would harm
the believer. Believers are born and grown
with the pure Word of the Gospel, with the pure water of the Word,
by asking God to give the increase and waiting on Him to do so.
James 3 verse 17 says, But the wisdom that is from above is
first pure. The wisdom that is from above
is first pure. Now God designed farming in the
earth after the pattern, the heavenly pattern. And we learn
much about the heavenly pattern from farming in the earth. So
let's see what we can learn from the farmer this morning. We look
over at James 5, verse 7. And we'll go out through the
end of the chapter here this morning and probably go back
at another time and look at these other verses in more detail.
But I mainly want to look at verses 7 and 8. Be patient, therefore,
brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman
waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience
for it until he receive the early and latter rain. Be ye also patient,
establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
Now, we see these first words, behold the husbandman. Now, God is the true husbandman. Our God is the true husbandman.
If anyone has reason to brag, it's the Apostle Paul. The Lord
used the Apostle Paul to establish the majority, many, many churches
in the Gentile world, and he wrote three-fourths of the New
Testament. But we'd do well to hear what Paul says. He told
the Corinthians, I have planted, Apollo swattered, but God gave
the increase. So then neither is he that planteth
anything and he that watereth anything, but God that giveth
the increase. He that planteth and he that
watereth are one, one in the same. And every man shall receive
his own reward according to his own labor. Whatever you sow is
what you expect to grow. For we are laborers together
with God, but ye are God's husbandry. So when we behold the husbandman,
we first consider God as the husbandman. But James is saying
to us here, consider the farmer, consider an earthly farmer. So
let's do that. First of all, the farmer does
that which God has given him to do. That's what he does. The farmer plants the seed. What
does he plant? Well, I've done a little bit
of gardening. I like that. I grew up, my grandfather
had huge gardens and we ate vegetables all through the year. And I soon
as I think when I was about 13, I planted my first garden and
always had a garden every year. Well, I know this, you don't
plant purple hull peas and expect to gather black eyed peas. And
there's a difference for folks who don't know the difference
between purple and black eyed peas. If you have a purple hulled
pea, you won't want a black eyed pea anymore, in my opinion. But
there's a difference. You don't plant potatoes and
expect to harvest onions. You can tell what a man has a
taste for. Drive by a fella's garden in
the south, anywhere in the north, anywhere. You can tell what he
has a taste for by what he's growing in the garden, what he
likes. You can tell what he likes by
what's growing in his garden. You generally plant what you
enjoy eating. That's what you plant. The false
prophets in Israel drew a great noise and a great bustling and
a lot of crowds with their big fuss in their gardens of idolatry. But the Lord said, they've sown
the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind. It hath no stalk,
the bud shall yield no meal. If so be it yield, the stranger
shall swallow it up. Our Lord said, Beware of false
prophets which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly
they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits.
You know what a man has a taste for of what he grows in his garden.
If I liked the fruit grown in most church gardens today, I'd
plant the kind of seed they plant. That's the kind of seed I'd plant.
But I don't have a taste for that. I love the fruit that is
produced by the gospel of Christ Jesus. The gospel of Christ and
Him crucified. I love the fruit produced by
that seed. And so that's the choice C that
I want to sell. James has been dealing with this
throughout the letter, as we've seen. He says in James 1.18,
of His own will begat He us with the word of truth that we should
be a kind of first fruits of His creatures, the produce of
His creating. I like the seed of His own will.
That's a good seed to sow, the seed of His own will. God ordering
all things, making all things ordered and sure by His eternal
counsel, His everlasting covenant of grace, electing grace, choosing
whom He will, choosing whom He will before there was ever sent
a sinner providing a Savior in the person of His dear Son, predestinating
grace, predestinating all those that He put in Christ unto the
adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself. That's good
seed to sow. That lets the sinner know there's
not one thing that takes place in this earth that's out of control
of the absolute, sovereign God who does all things according
to His own will. If you ever find out who that
God is, you'll find great comfort and peace knowing that God reigns. Your God reigns. I like the seed
of He begat He us. I like that seed. The Spirit
blowing where it will, regenerating dead sinners, impotent sinners. The Spirit of God, the Father
through the Spirit, irresistibly drawing all those that He gave
to His Son to Himself in everlasting love. Not letting one perish,
but bringing all to repentance to behold the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's good seed. That produces good fruit. I like
the seed of the Word of Truth, Christ Jesus, the Way, the Truth,
and the Life, the One in whom are hid all the treasures of
wisdom and knowledge, who being the brightness of God's glory,
the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the
Word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat
down at the right hand of the Majesty on high. I like the seed
that declares that His people are first fruits of His creatures,
His production, the One who gives the increase, the One who is
able to bring into captivity every thought to the obedience
of Christ Jesus, to the praise of the glory of His grace wherein
He has made us accepted in the Beloved. That's good seed to
sow. And there's a way to plant this seed. There's a certain
way to plant this seed. Farmers used to use horses or
mules or oxen, some sort of beast. They would put bridles, bits
in their mouths and they would tame those beasts and they would
use them to break up the ground and to till the ground before
they plant the seed. After the farmer unbridled his
beast and just let him run wild in the field, he couldn't expect
to harvest any seed. He couldn't expect to have any
straight rows and any well-cultivated garden. That's what James teaches
us here in James 3 verse 7. Every kind of beast and of birds
and of serpents and of things in the sea is tamed and hath
been tamed of mankind. We put bits and bridles, he said,
in the horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we turn their
whole body whichever way they go. But the tongue can no man
tame. It's an unruly evil full of deadly
poison. Therewith bless we God, even
the Father, and therewith curse we men which are made after the
similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth
blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought
not so to be. We saw last week, Job's three
friends came to Job. And when you read through the
book of Job, you'll find that all three of those men said some
true things. Said some things that you could
take out of context and take the verses just from the things
they said and preach the gospel from those things. They said
very true things. They blessed God with their tongues. But with the same tongue, at
the same time that they were saying those true things about
God, they were saying, their motive was saying, Job, God don't
punish the righteous like He's punishing you, so you've done
something wrong and you're guilty. They were blessing God and cursing
Job at the same time, with the same tongue. Let's be not like
Job's friends. James 3.18 tells us, the fruit
of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. Look
at James 4.11. Speak not evil one of another,
brethren. He that speaketh evil of his
brother and judgeth his brother speaketh evil of the law. What
law? The law of grace, the law of
love, the law that says, Ask God. The law that says, deal
mercifully with your brethren. The law that says, there's no
condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. The law that
says that He has redeemed us from the curse of the law. The
law that says that He's the righteous judge of the earth. He's the
effectual lawgiver who writes the law in the heart. We speak
evil of the law. We judge the law. If thou judge
the law, you're not a doer of it, you're a judge. You can't
be the You and I can't put ourselves in the place of the one who's
under the law of grace and the one who's the judge of the law
of grace. There's one lawgiver who's able
to save and destroy. Who art thou that judges another? And then we see there in James
5 verse 9, He says, grudge not one against another, brethren,
lest you be condemned. Behold, the judge standeth before
the door. We lose patience and we begin
to murmur against one another and our words begin to grieve
our brethren. He says that's not continuing
in the perfect law of liberty. That's not being a doer of the
work and not a hearer only. These are the things the Spirit
of God produces. Remember how we saw Job's friends
said all those things, but the judge stood at the door. God
heard every word. It came up into the ears of the
Lord of Sabaoth, and He heard every word, and He came to the
defense of His child Job. And we saw also how those friends,
by grieving Job, actually stood before the door, Christ the door,
prohibiting him from entering into the place of refuge and
the one place that would restore his soul. Look at James 5.12. Now we move a little further. He says, But above all things,
my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by earth,
neither by any other oath, but let your yes be yes and your
no, no, lest you fall into condemnation. Have you noticed here how much
these works of faith that James has been speaking of throughout
this epistle, have you noticed how much these works of faith
have to do with the words we speak? You notice that? There is a doing
in the words we speak. There is a doing in what it is
we speak, in the spirit in which we speak, in the manner in which
we speak. A doing that only the Spirit
of God can produce. The core offense in swearing
is not telling the truth. Swearing is excess. If the truth
is yes, say yes. If the truth is no, say no. We usually think of taking the
Lord's name in vain or of using it flippantly or in connection
with a curse word. But it has a great deal to do
with speaking maybes concerning our Lord rather than yes when
the truth is yes and no when the truth is no. We lose our
patience sometimes and we begin to think that it's going to make
us appear more brave and more bold if we add a bunch of cursing
to our words. That makes you appear weak and
impotent and insecure. Or we think it makes us seem
more trustworthy if we swear by something greater. If you
start swearing, it doesn't make your word more trustworthy. If
you've got to add something to your word, it makes you think,
well, everything he doesn't add an oath to probably is a lie. So it doesn't make your word
more trustworthy at all. Well, those are a few things
about the farmer. Here's the second thing. He does what the
Lord gives him to do. That's the first thing. Here's
the second thing. The farmer waits with long patience. Look
there in James 5-7. Behold, the husbandman waited
for the precious fruit of the earth and hath long patience
for it until the early and the latter rain." God must give the
increase. And so the farmer can't make
it rain. The farmer can't make the seed
germinate. One time, one of the first gardens
I ever planted, I got all the seed planting, and I got everything,
everything laid out, all the work was finished. And all I
had to do now was nothing. We have a great deal of trouble
with that part, doing nothing. And I kept waiting and kept waiting.
And I wanted to know what's going on under the ground. What's happening
in there under the ground. So I went out there. and began
to dig around where I planted and I wanted to see what was
happening, what was going on in there. And so I began to dig
around in there and next thing you know, there's some seed germinating
in there. I tried to cover it all back
up and I lost a great deal of my garden from getting out there
and digging around in business that I had no business digging
around in. Well, plant the word. And when you know that you can't
send the rain, you can't do any kind of rain dance that's going
to make the rain come. You can't do anything that's
going to make the seed germinate. You can't do anything that's
going to give the increase. So, continuing in the law of
liberty, walking in grace and love towards brethren is doing
this one thing, asking God. praying to God, asking God to
give the increase. That farmer that's waiting for
the early rain and the latter rain, he's got a long season
to wait. He's waiting for that early rain.
It's come. He sees some effects of that
rain, but he's got a long season to wait until the last rain has
come. And he's waiting in between those
times. He can't do anything. He has
to wait. But he's waiting with an eye towards God. He's waiting
knowing And only God can give it, and He's trusting him to
do so. Last week we saw Ezekiel was
commanded in the Valley of Dry Bones to preach the Word, plant
the Word. And the only other thing he was
commanded to do was prophesy unto the Spirit, pray to the
Spirit, and ask the Lord to quicken, to germinate, to make the seed
effectual in the heart. Now James just said to us here,
to these things, preach the Word. He said, above all, don't swear,
don't grieve the brethren, don't go digging around in the soil
trying to see what's going on and what's happening in the heart.
Don't do that. And what does he follow it up
with? Look at verse 13. Is any among you afflicted? Let
him pray. Is any merry? Let him sing songs. You know what? What do both of
those have in common? What do both of those have in
common? This takes up every hour of every day of our lives. Those two things takes in every
aspect of our lives. We're either in some sort of
affliction or we're married. That's generally the case. But
in both cases, you know the tender plant in the garden, sometimes
it blooms out, and then there's a cool snap, just like our weather
here. We had spring-like weather the
past week or so. And the, what are those little
yellow, are they jonquils? Those little yellow flowers?
Anyway, they began to bloom out, you know, I started seeing all
these blooms and now Saturday it's 32 degrees and the winds
chill and those blooms will fall off. I have to start all over
again. Sometimes the heat withers the
plants. They look like they're just wilted and just gonna perish. Other times the dew falls. and
the winds blow just right and the just right amount of sunshine
and the clouds and everything is all working together. And
they seem to just drink it in and thrive and just be beautiful. Well, we're a lot like those
plants. Sometimes we get a little wilted and sometimes we're merry. That's our condition. That's
our state of things in this life. But you know what else both of
those things have in common? Both of those things are unto
the Lord. Both of them. James is saying,
are you afflicted? Pray unto the Father. Are you
merry? Sing songs unto the Lord. I showed
you a few nights ago how that You look up joyful noise and
about songs, and you go through the Psalms and look, and you
just almost always find, sing unto the Lord. Make a joyful
noise unto the Lord. Always unto the Lord. Whatever
you do, do it unto the Lord. Verse 14, is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of
the church. Let them pray over Him, anointing
Him with oil. How so? What is this oil you
anoint Him with? Look at that next phrase. In
the name of the Lord. We ask the Lord to bless Him. We ask the Lord to strengthen
and to edify, to lift up. Look at verse 15. And the prayer
of faith shall save the sick. What's James been saying? What
did he say about Abraham? Abraham believed God. You know what the Hebrew writer
said? He believed God was able to raise up. Abraham and Rahab
are two folks who were Gentiles who didn't have the law of Moses.
And James used them as examples of works of faith. All Abraham could do and all
Rahab could do was trust that the Lord is able to raise up.
committed into His hands and trust Him to raise up. That's
what James is saying here. The prayer of faith shall save
the sick and the Lord shall raise him up. And if he have committed
sins, they shall be forgiven him. What kind of affliction,
what kind of sickness is this where sins are apt to be committed? Look back up at James chapter
4 verse 9. He talks about the double mind
and cleansing our hands and purifying the hearts. And he says in James
4, verse 9, be afflicted and mourn and weep. Let your laughter
be turned to mourning and your joy to heaviness. Humble yourselves
in the sight of the Lord and He shall lift you up. Speak not
evil of one another, but be afflicted and mourn. Don't laugh at another's
calamity. Don't laugh at your own folly. Mourn. Mourn. Be grieved. And humble yourselves in the
sight of the Lord and He shall lift you up. It may be that this
sickness and this affliction James has been speaking about
through this whole epistle, through this entire epistle, is the same
sickness and affliction he's talking about right here. whereby
we're apt to unbridle the tongue, whereby we're apt to speak wrongly,
to lose our patience, to grieve one another, to break out into
swearing. It seems to have something to
do with that. Look back down at James 5.16. Confess your faults one to another
and pray for one another that you may be healed. There's nothing that adds to
affliction, nothing that adds to true, real sin sickness than
a haughty spirit from a fellow brother. You feel the weight
of your sin and you need a brother to talk to about it and someone
that will receive you and be gentle towards you and pray for
you, and someone that you know is going to embrace you, and
they come to you with that haughty spirit. Instead of coming to
you and anointing you with the oil of gladness, they come in
this haughty spirit as if they've never been touched by the feeling
of your infirmity, never experienced the faults and the errors that
you've found yourself in, to come In that way, man-made pesticides
make us the pest in these matters of growing organically grown
believers. We come and try to, in some spirit
of condemning spirit like Job's friends, we're going to heal. We're not miracle workers. We
can't heal. We can't set the bones. The pure Word, the pure water,
that's all it's going to do. But to have a brother or sister
who knows the sin, who knows the same trial that you're in,
the same affliction you're in, the same sin sickness you're
in, experienced the same faults you're in, and who can shed a
sympathizing tear with you because they share the same faults
with you. To be able to speak tenderly
and honestly with one another. To be able to confess when we've
said something wrong or done something that we wish we could
have took back, that we wish we never would have said to one
another. To be able to know that you, that worm that's my brother,
knows what this worm is. And to be able to go and speak
honestly with one another, confess what we are to one another, to
share in the same sins and errors and faults with one another,
to be able to pray for one another and to whether we're together
together and we're talking and sharing these things or we're
on the telephone with one another or to be able to to lay down
in your bed at night and to pray for that one. Sincerely, genuinely,
honestly, and know that they're doing the same thing for you.
That heals everybody involved. Heals everybody involved. It
certainly won't be healed by that other spirit acting as if
we don't have any faults and coming in rather than anointing
with oil, breaking out the unbridled tongue. That doesn't heal anything. And I, you know, James is probably
saying in physical infirmities, physical sickness, but that's
a whole lot less in comparison to what I just talked to you
about. It's nothing for God to raise the dead. He could do that. But to heal a a rebellious, obstinate
sinner, and to make him humble and submit himself to the Lord,
that's grace. That's grace. Man can't do that. Man can't tame that tongue. Man
can't heal that sickness. Only God can. That's the fruit
of righteousness sown in peace of them that make peace. You
think about how God designed farming. You know, He gives you
the seed from the last year's crop. And in order for you to
feed yourself and to feed your family, you don't take that seed
and go in and soak it and put it in the pot and boil it and
just eat those seeds for yourself. Those are the same seeds that
you're going to harvest if you plant them. You could just soak
those and boil them and eat them. But you don't do that, do you?
You take that fruit, that fruit from the last harvest, and you
go sow that seed, and it makes more fruit for you and your family.
Well, with a believer, the seed you got from the last crop, from
the last harvest, may be the last trial you were in. Wherein in the end of the trial,
as Job found out, you found that the Lord is very pitiful, full
of pity and tender mercy. And He calls you to be merry
and to rejoice in the heart. It may be that seed that He left
over from that crop. It may be that you've looked
in the Scriptures and you've seen some words that rejoice
your heart and you know that you complete acceptance in Christ. And you have a dear brother that
calls you and they're like that broken ground. They're just broken
in spirit. Contrite in spirit. Broken. And
what do you do? You take that seed from the last
crop and you go to them and you gently sow that seed. Carefully
sow that seed. You don't keep it back. You don't
hold it back for yourself. That's how believers grow. That's how the church grows.
That's how the family grows together. and you ask God to bless it.
Hebrews 7.25 says, Wherefore He is able also to save them
to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth
to make intercession for them. Look at James 5.16 there at the
end. James said, The effectual fervent
prayer of a righteous man availeth much. The righteous man, just
like we looked at the husbandman first, The righteous man, first
and foremost, is Christ Jesus the righteous. He's the righteous
man. He's our advocate with the Father. We come and we anoint
with the oil in the name of the Lord. He's the righteous man. And the prayer that's brought
in the hearts by the Holy Spirit of those that He's justified
and made righteous in His righteousness, it avails much. James said, your
cries from your oppressors They come up to the Lord of Sabaoth.
That's who He is, and He hears the prayers of His saints, and
He's our advocate with the Father. He's been writing about these
passions that we have, these passions that we get into. A man who's just not bridled,
whose religion is vain. He said, caution us against those
passions. Now look here in verse 17. He
says, Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are. He
had all these same like passions we've been talking about all
through this epistle. And he prayed earnestly that it might
not rain, and it rained not on the earth by the space of three
years and six months. And he prayed again, and the
heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit. That's
what we're asking for, for the early and the latter rain. God
to give the rain in the heart of our brethren that it might
bring forth fruit. All right, here's the third thing.
The first thing, the farmer does what he's given to do. The second
thing is he has long patience. Long patience. Looks to God,
prays to God, asks God. And here's the third thing. The
farmer has a good hope. The farmer has a good hope. He's
done what God gave him to do. He planted the seed. He's asked
God to give the increase. He's patiently waited and He's
expecting, He's hoping and expecting the precious fruit of the earth.
That's what He's expecting. You know, the Lord said in the
law, He said, He told them in the law, He said, if you don't
turn from Me, if you don't turn from Me, He said, I'll give you
rain in its season, I'll bring forth from the ground plentifully
and you won't lack anything. And we know that has a spiritual
meaning now that we see beyond the letter of the law. We know
that in these things of grace, He's given us one thing. Preach
His Word, ask Him to bless it, and wait on Him to bless it.
It's all focused on Him. And He said, don't turn from
this way, and I'll give you the precious fruit you're longing
for. I'll give it to you. Here's that precious fruit James
is exhorting us to wait patiently for. Look at James 5.19. Brethren,
if any of you do err from the truth and one convert him, let
him know that he which converted the sinner from the error of
his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude
of sins. You draw a straight line from
that first word of patience in the first part of the letter
of the James. And you draw a straight line to these verses right here,
and you stay on that heading the whole way. Through every
verse you read, you have those things in mind, and you look
at everything in comparison with that straight line to this one
thing. And you'll find out what it is
to not expose the sin of brethren,
but to hide a multitude of sins. You'll find out what it is to
walk in the Spirit of grace, to walk in the perfect law of
liberty, to walk in the royal law. You'll find what it is to
be a doer of the work and not a hearer only. You'll find what
these fruits of the Spirit are. without which all our vain faith
is dead. These are the works James is
talking about. These are the works of faith, the fruits of
the Spirit. Believers aren't desirous of
bringing their brethren before the judgment seat, to condemn
them, to kill them in the heart with the tongue, but to help
one another in their faults and their errors, to be helpers of
one another's joy, to restore from the jaws of death, not to
expose sin, to hide a multitude of sin. not to glory in our power,
in our wisdom, in our way, in our artificial fertilizer, in our
artificial pesticides, but to glory in the power of God who
sends forth the early and the latter rain, who's able to bring
forth fruit unto righteousness. And our Lord's able, brethren.
He's able. Here's the application for you
who are true farmers. James 5 verse 8. He says, Be
ye also patient. Just like that farmer's patient,
be ye also patient. Plant the word. Ask God to make
it germinate in the heart. Wait on the Lord to give the
increase. We can't have any, no miracle grow here. No miracle
grow. No, no, Bug removals, none of
that. Just pure word, pure water, pure
patience. Establish your hearts. Establish
your hearts. You know, when my grandfather
would be planting when I was younger, I'd go down and help
him and work. And we'd work in the garden a lot together. And
we'd get tired of working in the garden. Just get tired of
it. And the garden might not be looking
all that great, you know. And you just think, is all this
work worth it? And he'd call me and say, come
down here. What am I coming down there for?
We're going to eat some peas from last year. I'd go down and
eat. We'd eat some good peas and corn
and whatever he had stored up from last year. And it'd just
stablish your heart and say, well, that's what we're working
for. We'd go back out there in the
garden and keep on working for this year's crop. Well, when
he gives you this seed, to sow to brethren, as you're trying
to help one another with these things. It's just like eating
that seed from last year's crop yourself. It establishes your
own heart. It strengthens you. It causes
you to rejoice in His all-sufficient grace. All at the same time.
And here's the best fruit. Look at that next verse, James
5.8, that next portion. For the coming of the Lord draweth
nigh." That's our patience. That's our establishing of our
hearts right there. That's where we expect God to
again be faithful, to perform His Word, to bring in another
crop, to do what He said He'll do. And we expect Him to draw
nigh not only in this trial, not only in today and tomorrow
and the next day, but we expect Him to draw nigh for the harvest. for the end. And we can expect
a bumper crop there. Bumper crop. This is what Galatians
said, expect it. He said, Paul said in Galatians,
he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption.
If you want those, that kind of fruit, then sow fleshly fruit. Sow what flesh likes and that's
what you'll reap, what the flesh likes. But, he that soweth to
the spirit, That's what the Lord told Ezekiel. Preach My Word
and sow to the Spirit. Heal of the Spirit. Reap life
everlasting. Our Lord went to the cross and
He was bearing the precious seed of God's children. Those given
to Him before the world began. And He mourned as He sowed His
own body on that tree. He sacrificed, laid down His
body on that tree. And when He cried, it's finished.
He was crying, Thy God reigneth. Salvation is of the Lord. I've bought them. I've purchased
them. They're mine. I shall bring forth
this fruit. And when the rows get too long,
and the sun's beating down, and the ground gets parched, and
it seems like it's too hard to hold, your back's breaking, and
you're tired, and you're weary, You think of your Lord drawing
nigh. Think of Him drawing nigh. And then you read these words
from Psalm 126. And think of the Lord when you
read them. Listen to this. He that goeth
forth and weepeth, bearing precious sea, shall doubtless come again
with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. That's true of our Lord. He's
coming again. and He's going to bring His sheaves
with Him. John said, He that testifieth
these things saith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even so come Lord
Jesus. Amen.