Morning. Well, let's turn to
Psalm 62. Psalm 62. I wanted to greet you
from the brethren at rescue and from John. They said hello when
they was praying for us today and us them. Psalm 62. The Lord works in wonderful ways. Anytime I think I can't do something,
He proves He can. And anytime I'm about to do something,
His Word does everything. I don't have to rebuke or... I want to caution folks, especially
heathens walking around this world that don't know God, don't
respect Him, that you're about to meet Him. I was telling one
of my children the other day, I said, the things that disgust
me And I get mad about, if I get that mad and upset about it,
how do you think God feels about it? Buddy, but as I read his
word and as I see his word, it's just amazing. Everything's already
done. And if nobody else sees that, I do and I'm happy and
the Lord's people will be happy too. We'll be happy, won't we?
I got a message on waiting for you. Message on, we do a lot
of waiting, don't we? I've been instructed to wait
before, and I've been told to wait on the Lord a lot throughout
my life. I'm told to wait on the Lord a lot throughout the
scriptures. We're told these things. Well, what do I do? What's
that look like? How's that come to pass? Psalm
62, verse one. Truly, that word also can be
translated only, only. Truly, my soul waiteth upon God. From him cometh my salvation. He is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. I shall not
be greatly moved. I'm thankful for that. We're
moved a little bit, aren't we? There's times we see things going
on in Providence and in our enemies. David had a lot of enemies, didn't
he? And he had a lot of things going on that were distractions.
And he said, I'm gonna be moved a little bit. I'm gonna be greatly
moved. That's comfort to me. I shall
not be greatly moved. Verse three, how long will ye
imagine mischief against a man? He shall be slain all of you. As a bowing wall shall you be
and as a tottering fence. That's how we walk through this
world. You just look around and read the news or things we think
of. Everything looks like a bowing retaining wall that's just about
to give way. One more drop of rain and this
wall is going to come down. Like a teetering fence. A teetering
fence ain't no good. It don't keep nothing out and
it don't keep nothing in. One little puff of air and it's
gone. It's useless. That's what everything
around us looks that way. Everything I see, it's just like
that, it's gone. It's gone. They only consult,
verse four, to cast him down from his excellency. They delight
in lies. They bless with their mouths,
but they curse inwardly, see love. Stop and think about that.
That's this whole unregenerated world. They're openly and actively
out to destroy the family government, to destroy the word of God, to
pervert it. And everybody says real nice
things. Well, hello, and it sounds so good. On the inside, it ain't
nothing but corruption and evil. Say nice things to be mean to
people with a different plan. That's terrible, isn't it? What
are we to do? Verse five, my soul. Here's instructing. We're telling ourselves this.
David's preacher to the mirror, okay? My soul. That's what he
said to himself, and that's what I'm saying to myself. Can you
say this to yourself? God taught you this yet? Taught
us anything? My soul, wait thou only upon
God, for my expectation is from him. He only is my rock and my
salvation. He's my defense. I shall not
be moved. And God is my salvation and my
glory, the rock of my strength and my refuge. is in God. Trust in him at all times. Ye people, pour out your heart
before him. God is a refuge for us." David was in a bad place for
a lot of his life. And that was good. David had
enemies chasing him. David was spiritually better
off in a cave than he was in a palace. That's us too, isn't
it? If everything's going great,
and we're healthy, and we got money in the bank, and I'm on
vacation, and they're matching my 401k down at work, and all
these other things, and we're just firing on all cylinders,
are we crying out to God? Are we waiting on Him and earnestly
looking for His coming? When we're broken in body, and
we're broken in spirit, and we're broken in providence, and we're
broken in finances, or whatever. Ah, because those taskmasters.
Remember us looking at that? Now we'll call out to them. Now
we're going to start waiting. Because we have an interest.
If we ain't looking to him, we ain't waiting on nothing. Some people's waiting on their
tax returns. Well, I ain't filed it yet. I can't wait on something. I
ain't paying attention. It's coming. What am I thinking
of it? We have to consider him to wait on him. That's the thing. When we do. call out most of
the time, we have to wait, don't we? Us that he's revealed himself
to, through all that heaviness, we consider the things of God,
we consider his kingdom. And when we call out a lot of
times, we have to wait. We have to wait. When we're in
need and we call out, we wait. When we want comfort, we call
out and we have to wait. That happens a lot. So who are
we waiting on? I'm gonna ask some questions
today. How are we waiting? Like what, combined, what things
are we to wait on? And where are we waiting? Just
three points for you. Three points this message, three
points next message. Who are we waiting on? What are we doing
while we're waiting? And where are we waiting? Who
are we waiting on? Verse 5 says, My soul wait thou
only upon God, for my expectation is from him. The believer is
waiting on their Lord and their God. That's who we're waiting
on. How can we wait on him? We have
to know him. We have to know him. The religious folks, name
it, anything that's pretty and nice, the corporate Christians
or unregenerate, those outside of
Christ, those that don't know God, they don't know him. You
can't wait on somebody you don't know. You can't wait on him. David said in Psalm 10, the wicked
through the pride of his countenance will not seek after God. God
is not in all his thoughts. They don't think on him. I talk
to believers and they say, you know, I'm at work and I think
on God and I'm driving down the road and I think about God and
I'm pumping gas and I'm thinking about the Lord's people. I'm
thinking about the message preached last week and we can't keep from
it. We can't keep from it. I don't
think there's ever been a week, seven days I went without thinking
about my wife or my children. How could I go from Sunday to
Sunday and not think about them? How could I go from day to day
and not think about my God? Not wait on him. If it ain't
in all my thoughts, I don't know him. If I know him, we love him. If we love him, we wait on him.
We look to him. Why do we wait on him? Know him? How come we
know him? How come we believe God? He revealed
himself to us. He chose to do that. He was gracious
to us. We didn't know him. We were enemies
with him. We were at war with God while
I was going to church. Yeah, you was at church, that
was your base, your military base, as you waged war on his
glory. But God, we'll see next hour, sent an internally leprous
person to tell you what God had done for them, and God saved
that. One-on-one, in person. The head harlot came to tell
you a message about God who saves sinners, and God was pleased
to do that. Now we know him. He revealed
his son to us, and we wait on him. That's who we're waiting
on. A brother of mine texted me the other day. He saw a rainbow
where he lives, and he'd listened to that message from here about
the rainbow and remembered it. And he sent me a picture of that
rainbow, and he said, it's going to be wonderful. Christ's return
out of the clouds and the trumpet. What was he doing while he was
out walking that day? What's going to happen in November?
Who cares? Who cares? We'll see that Wednesday.
Peter gave the Lord two choices. We're gonna have two choices.
I don't want neither one of them, and the Lord didn't use neither one of them
either, giving up getting Paul. But that's on our mind, isn't
it? We wait on him. Paul said he
knew the calling and election of the brethren there in Thessalonica.
And he said, you turn from your idols. You ain't playing them
games no more. And you say it's wrong. Like, well, it was good,
and that was part of it. No, you say it's wrong. You turn
from it. You repent of those things. And
you believe God. And our word came in power to
you. He said, and you wait for his son from heaven who raised
us from the dead, Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to
come. You waiting on him. Who we waiting on? Him. Not waiting
on the end times and waiting on eschatology, we're waiting
on a person. Eve was waiting on him, wasn't
it? She said, I got the man. Lord said, he's gonna send a
man, here he is. She was wrong, but she was waiting. The apostles
were waiting on him. They had him with them for three
years, just three short years. And then all the rest of that
life that they walked on this earth, they was waiting on him
coming. He says, he's coming again. And us, we wait. The world laughs
at that. We're like, why don't you just
live wherever you want to live? Why don't you just do what you
want to do? Why don't you do this or that? I don't understand.
Waiting on the Lord? I thought you was waiting on
retirement. That's what our balance is waiting on. Natural man mocks
that, don't they? They mock it. While they trespass
on his earth, and they breathe his air, and they eat his food,
and they live underneath his rain and his sunshine, and they
mock it. That one that's been revealed
to us. The one we are waiting on is over all things. He rules
all things. Everything. I can't believe those
things happened. God did it. What were we to do
while we're waiting? Consider that. How am I in this
pickle? Did this situation sneak up on
God? Caught him by surprise? No. The heathen says what? No, God.
No. No, God wouldn't do this. They
wouldn't do that to me. But we believe, don't we? David
says, down in verse 11, Psalm 62, God hath spoken once, twice
have I heard this, that the power belongeth unto God. I keep hearing
this over and over. Some of you've heard this. The
ears that hear, you that have ears that hear, hear this. We've
heard it and we hear it over and over again. I want to hear
it again. Job said, for God speaketh once, yea, twice, yet man perceiveth
not. So that's a precious thing that we hear. I want to hear.
The Lord came through his spirit to his people,
came to Moses and others, and he wrote us a book. He gave us
the Old Testament. He gave us a book saying he's
coming, the Messiah's coming. And they waited for that, and
they looked for him. And then he came. And he walked this earth,
and he preached. He was a carpenter and a preacher,
then a preacher. He didn't keep building stuff.
And he was here, three and a half years he walked this earth, and
he left, and he's coming again. Now, the Lord gave us another
book, didn't he? The New Testament. It's all one book. It's a hymn
book, but they wrote down the rest of it. And what's it say?
He's coming again. We have the Old Testament, he's
coming, the gospel saying he's here and here's what he's doing,
and the epistle saying he's coming again. So we wait. We wait on
it. He came to save his people from
their sins. He did it, and now he's coming
back to get us. He told them in John 14, let
not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also
in me. My Father's house are many mansions. If it were not
so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
And if I go to prepare a place for you, I will come again. and
receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be
also." How could that be? The God of the Bible hates sin.
We know that. He laid all that, we'll see next
hour, that rod of Moses. He laid all of his people's sins
on Christ and he slew him. God is love on a bumper sticker,
ain't the God of this Bible. God is love, and if we know anything
about love, it's him. And he loved the people so much,
he put their sin on his son and killed him. What does mankind think that
he's gonna do to them? Give them a participation trophy? He slew
him, and we're made holy in him. The very righteousness of God
is what he did, he made us. That's who we're waiting on.
We're waiting on political reform. I get stuff in the mailbox every
day from both sides. And I wish they wouldn't put
so much glossy stuff on it. I could use it for some good
and light my charcoal with it. I could light a fire with it.
Are we waiting on morality in the district? Well, things are
just going so south and we're waiting on that stuff to get
better and change. We're waiting on a person. It's precious to know him and
it's precious to wait on his return. Not everybody does. Whether
we go to him or he comes to us, that's a good thing. It's a precious
thing. How are we to wait? We know who
we're waiting on. How are we to wait? Like what
things are going to come to pass while we're waiting? We wait
on the word from God. Don't you? Do we make hasty decisions
in this world or do we make every decision? I'm talking believers,
I ain't talking to unbelievers. Do we make decisions on how we
dress and what we do and what we say and how we interact with
our neighbors and how we have business decisions and how we
run our businesses and how we're employees? Do we make those decisions
according to the word of God or are we just Wild West shooting
from the hip? We wait on his word. Let's pray
about that. Man asked me something yesterday,
it's pretty important. And he's a believer and I said, I got
time to pray on that. Can you give me a couple of days?
He said, you got about two minutes. I said, well, give me two minutes
then. Let me think about it. Let me breathe for a second.
Let me wait on the Lord. Maybe we'll recall something. I'll
remember something that he's already said. We wait on a word
from him. That's worshiping too, isn't
it? Didn't David do that? Went to the house of God and
was just sitting there in the camp, what you doing? Waiting. Waiting on a word. How
you gonna get it? Well, he's gonna give it. That's
submission. Lord gave you comfort yet? Not
yet, and that's okay. That's comforting to not get
comfort sometimes, isn't it? Because we know the Lord's waiting.
He ain't pleased to do it yet. Okay, well, he'll do it in his
time. He'll be right if he does it. That's submission. You know
what that's called? Worship. That's sacrifice. My way and my time and my thinking
to, well, let's see if the Lord's gonna bless it. Let's wait. We wait on His providence, things
to come to pass, whatever that may be, don't we? There's some things I'd really
like and some things I'd really prefer not to happen, but we
just wait. It'll be right. We wait on His
salvation. Those that are, Christ has already been revealed to
you. You already know Him. You have loved ones and people
you care for. and we want them to know Christ,
and we want them to be just woke up to this gospel, and their
hearts to be melted, not to be indifferent and to be like, well,
I guess that's accurate. No, light them on fire, give
them life. Hear them cry out, hear them
rejoice, and see the light of Christ in their eyes, and that
they're happy to hear about him. We want that. Well, you gotta
wait, because the Lord saves people, and he ain't on our timeline. We're on his timeline. So we
wait. And we hear this messages, and
we wait. And you know what? I wrote this down in parentheses.
God teach us to wait on the salvation of people we don't love. If I had to scale away all the
people I like in this world versus all the people I don't like in
this world, you send things in space on that one side, it's
gonna shoot up. God teach me to wait on him to
save my enemies. I mean, think of somebody you
hate, that you're just mad at, that's done you wrong. I'm like,
man, I'll tell you what, I ain't never forgiven him for that.
What if God saved him? What if a mean old governor,
whatever bad thing he did this week, I don't even read about
it, or the president. What if the Lord saved the president?
I can't wait to get him out of here and get the next one in
or get this old one back in or something going on with somebody.
What if the Lord saved him? Well, hold on now. Wait. We'd start telling other people
to wait, wouldn't we? Wait a second. Wouldn't that be good? Wouldn't
that be a better way to live in this world instead of just tore all
the pieces all the time and frazzled and bounced around like a bunch
of scared cats? Wait on the Lord. Wait on His will to be done.
Wait on His will to be revealed to us. There's things the Lord's
doing I don't know. And if He's pleased, He'll show
me later. And I'll look back and say, ah, that makes sense. I
get it now. I didn't see that when it was
happening. You've known Him for a long time. That's so, isn't
it? There's things you go through and you're like, what Lord? I
mean, I know the Lord's doing this. I have comfort in it. Buddy.
How is this going to pan out? I don't know how in the world
this could be good. And then 10 years, 15 years, 20 years
down the road, you've been doing this a while, you look back and
say, I wouldn't have it any other way. Look what the Lord did.
Look at that. I ain't good at waiting, so sometimes
he has to hedge me about with real thorny hedges. Make me wait. Put us in prison,
make us wait. David said in Psalm 27, wait
on the Lord, be of good courage. He shall strengthen thine heart.
Wait, I say on the Lord. Wait on him. He'll strengthen
your heart. We wait on his provision, don't we? Turn over to Psalm
104. I'll try to go quick. Psalm 104. I saw a raven, I was thinking
of the ravens I had Elijah, a man rescued a raven, and that thing
could stack cups, measuring cups, in order. One of them, he put
one of them out of place, and it went and removed the other
ones, then put it back in place and put them back together. And
I thought, if I had the sense of a raven, we'll see that. Look here, Psalm 104, verse 24.
Psalm 104, 24. Oh Lord, how manifold are thy
works. In wisdom hast thou made them
all. The earth is full of thy riches.
So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable,
both small and great beasts. How many fish are in the ocean?
More than you can count. Get on a boat and go out there
and look down. There's a bunch. We're discovering new stuff.
We don't even know what's there. This is brand new. It's been
there for 6,000 years. There go the ships. There's that
Leviathan, big whale, whom thou hast made to play therein. We
saw those whales breaching. They're just playing. They're
just playing. Well, that's wrong. The Lord
made them to play. Go have a good time. It's all
right. He made them to play therein.
Verse 27. These all wait upon thee. Little tiny sardines, little
minnows out there in the ocean, they wait on the Lord. that thou
mayest give them their meat in due season. Says the birds cry
out to him. Do I? Thou that givest them thy gather,
they gather. Thou openest thine hand, they
are filled with good. Thou hidest thy face, they're
troubled. When we don't see that coming, the Lord hid his face
of providence, do you get troubled? David said, I'm not greatly troubled.
I am so. The birds aren't troubled, the
little sardines ain't troubled. Well, they're troubled a little
bit when the Lord hides his face, don't they? They'll take, they'll
cry out to him, we'll cry out to him. Thou openest thy hand,
they are filled with good. Thou hidest thy face, they're
troubled. Thou takest away their breath, they die. And they return
to their dust. And thou sendest forth thy spirit
and they are created. and now renew us the face of
the earth. The glory of the Lord shall endure forever. What'd
Hannah say? Remember that girl? The Lord
kills, he makes a lie. He does anything he wants and
that's the Lord of providence. That's the Lord of provision. That's the
Lord of salvation. He sends his spirit and breathes
and there's a lie. We're told to wait a lot throughout scripture.
Rahab was told to wait, wasn't she? How long? Till we come. When's that gonna be? If it was
a minute, a day, or a week, or a year, it'd be a long time,
wouldn't it? We wait expecting. We wait expecting with hope,
a certain expectation of Him who's coming to be made like
Him. I think I do, and I want to.
I want to preach expecting. I think this is it. I mean, people
are going to be dancing in the streets after this, and the carpet's
going to be soaking wet with tears of joy. People are going
to be happy. Happy. I expect it. I do. It makes me happy. Surely it makes somebody else
happy. I see smiles. We expect his presence
and his return. Revelation 22 says, he that testifies
to these things, the Lord said, surely I come quickly. Amen. And John wrote, even so, come
Lord Jesus. You coming quickly? Come on.
Good. Those that do not love him, they
do not wait for his return. They didn't want his first coming.
They sure don't want the second coming. They don't care. They
don't care. What's our attitude? while we
wait. That's some things we wait on.
We're waiting on Him. We're waiting on His providence. We're waiting
on a word from Him and comfort from Him and His salvation and
His providence. And to be taught of those things,
we wait on that. What are we doing still? Waiting. I have
all understanding. No, you don't. We're waiting. We have to wait while we're waiting,
don't we? What's our attitude while we wait? You know, God
tells us how to have attitude. The spirit that ought to be in
us tells us how to think in this world, how to talk in this world,
and how to treat our neighbors in this world. Not how we ought
to be treated. Nor does it tell me how I ought
to be treated. It tells me how I ought to treat
other people. Our attitude we have while we wait, it's the
same as a wife waiting for her husband to come home from war.
Wanting, expecting, trusting it'll happen, but we got some
things to do between now and then. Children have to be fed,
have to be taken to school, and lot bill's gotta be paid. And
you're waiting while you pay the lot bill, and you're waiting
while you make the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Waiting, expecting. Like a child
waiting for their parents to get home from work. We might
play a little bit, something to occupy our time, but we're
still thinking of that. Like a servant, an employee waiting
on their employer to come back home. A loving bond servant. Master's out working. He's out
of town working. Well, let's get this place cleaned up good
before he gets home. Let's wash his car. You wanna do that? We'll
vacuum it out. Be nice and clean when he gets
here. Make some meals that he likes when he gets here. Let's
be ready when he comes. Like a POW waiting to be set
free out of a prison. Why is that? We're not our own.
We're not our own. Paul told the church at Corinth,
he said, what, know you not your body is a temple of the Holy
Ghost, which is in you? What's in his spirit? His spirit's
in you. What you have of God, he did that, and you are not
your own. You're bought with a price. Therefore, glorify God in your
body and in your spirit, which are God's. He owns both of them.
Now glorify him. Don't you want to? Don't I want
to? Paul, we're waiting. He's coming, I'm his. Well, he
gave us a job to do, didn't he? Job said, I know that my redeemer
liveth, and he shall stand at the latter day upon earth. I
know it. And though after my skin, worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God. I'm gonna be risen. He's gonna
give me a new body. I'm gonna see him face to face. Whom I
shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another,
though my reigns be consumed within me. It don't feel like
it now, but I know that. We're waiting to be conformed
to the image of His Son. Job also said in Job 14, he said,
if a man dies, shall he live again? He said, all the days
of my appointed time, we have an appointed end, we have an
appointed time to be here too. All the days of my appointed
time, I will wait. Job 1414 till my change come
that old song change is gonna come buddy. You better believe
it this old Mortal is gonna be put away this carnal things gonna
be put off and we put on immortality and would be made just like him What's that gonna be like I don't
know I'm waiting I'll tell you in a little while it's gonna
be great he said so I John wrote about that, he said, Beloved,
now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we
shall be, but we know that when he shall appear, we'll be made
just like him, for we shall see him as he is. What a thought. You can turn over to 2 Peter 3 real
quick. I think we have time. 2 Peter
3. Verse 10, Peter writes here, 2 Peter 3.10,
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night,
in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise,
and the elements shall melt up with fervent heat, and the earth
also, and the works that are therein shall be burned up, seeing
then that all these things shall be dissolved. What manner of
persons ought ye to be, in all holy conversation and godliness. That ought is out of a debt of
gratitude. How should you talk? How ought
you to talk? How ought we to conduct ourselves? Where should
we conduct ourselves? All holy conversation and godliness,
looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God,
wherein the heavens shall be on fire, shall be dissolved,
and the elements shall melt with a fervent heat. Nevertheless,
according to his promise, Look for new heavens and a new earth
wherein dwelleth righteousness. Look for him. Look for him. We
talk to him, commune with our God praying to him, and we talk
with our brethren and to those we know, those around us, while
we wait. Don't we? That's holy conversation.
Holy communion with him. We don't just twiddle our thumbs.
Waiting on God, well, just sit down on the front porch and get
them thumbs going. We run a good race, Paul said.
We fight a good fight. We wrestle. Not with this flesh and blood.
We do those things while we wait. Who are we waiting on? Waiting
on Him. How are we waiting? What are
the things we're waiting on? His providence, His salvation, a
word from Him and His comfort. Where are we waiting? Where?
At the threshing floor. At the threshing floor. The feet
of Christ. Turn over roof three real close.
Roof three. Mary was at that feet of Christ.
At the feet of Christ. And Martha was working so much
and doing so many things. She said, why is she just sitting
there at your feet? Tell her to get up and help me wash these dishes.
Somebody's got to wash those. And the Lord said, but one thing
is needful. You're worried about a lot of things, but there's
one thing needful, Martha. He said, Mary's chosen that good
part which shall not be taken from her. We're brought to the
feet of Christ that won't be taken away. He may hide his face
for a little while. We may stray and be worried for
a while, wander off the path. Just have to sit down and rest
for a little bit, but it won't be taken away. Won't be taken
away. Ruth 3, look here in verse 1. Then Naomi, her mother-in-law,
said unto her, she's speaking to Ruth, my daughter, shall not
I seek rest for thee that it may be well with thee? I want
rest for you. And I want it to be well with
you. Why would I want something different?
That's what I want. And now is not Boaz of our kindred
with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he winnoweth barley tonight
in the threshing floor. He's gonna be down there. That's
where his servants are, in the threshing floor. You know what
the threshing floor was? They'd beat that grain, and they'd take big old
blankets. You remember us going through roofs years ago? And
they'd make them blankets kind of bounce up in the air, and
as the wind come through, now they use box fans, as the wind
come through, the grain fell, the wheat fell, and the chaff
was blown away. as that spirit came through that goes where
it listeth. Some of them chaps just gritted
their teeth and slept through it, didn't care, and was affable.
And that's some good wheat hitting back on that thing. That's where
the servants were going, to working for Boaz. That's where that was
taking place. Verse three, wash thyself therefore
and anoint thee and put thy raiment upon thee and get thee down to
the floor. You get down to that threshing
floor, you get down to the Church of God, you wouldn't get up early, and
the Lord's word right there says, wash yourself. Get up, take you
a shower, and you anoint yourself. Put some cologne on or some deodorant,
whatever. And you put your raincoat on, get dressed. This is important,
what we're doing. Don't halfway do it, don't rush
to do it, but it's a priority. If we was gonna go make the present
tomorrow morning, our alarms would go off and we'd get up
early and we'd be ready to come to this threshing floor. And you get
down. Nod up, like, oh, I get to be
seen today. Humbly. David got up, he shaved
and washed his face, and he went and worshiped God after his son
was dead. Get you down. But make not thyself
known. Don't make a scene unto the man
till he hath said he hath done eating and drinking. Don't come
to talk, come to listen. Don't make yourself known. Come
to listen for a word from God, come to wait, come to wait. And it shall be when he lies
down that thou shalt mark the place where he shall lie and
thou shalt go in and uncover his feet and lay thee down and
he will tell thee what thou shalt do. Wasn't we waiting on a word
for him? Wasn't we waiting on his will to be performed? Get
to his feet, get down to that church house where that threshing
floor is, where his servants are, and you get down, get ready,
be prepared, be on time, be dressed right, and get down there and
get by his feet and you just wait. Well, I don't feel warm
and fuzzy today. Well, wait, it may take six months
or six years. I don't know. The Lord will answer.
He'll answer the heart of his people. That's where David wanted
to be. Was he delighted to go to the
house of the Lord? I'll wrap it up. We'll look next week at Psalm 63. He
said, Oh God, thou art my God. Early will I seek thee. My soul
thirsteth for thee and my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and
thirsty land where there's no water. He said, to see thy power
and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary. That's
what he was waiting on. I want to see you face to face.
I want to see your power and your glory just as I saw you right
here. That's what I saw in that word. That's what I want to see. I want to see him. All right,
I hope that's a blessing to you. Let's pray together. Father, teach us to wait. Lord,
while we wait, teach us to wait. Give us joy in our hearts to
wait with understanding those around us. Wait patiently on
our Redeemer to come and His will to come to place and His
salvation to take place in the hearts of those that we care
for and love. We're so fickle, Lord, and so
agitated so easily and so frustrated and unbelieving. Forgive us of
our sins. Lord, be patient with us and
teach us to be patient as you have been. Thank you for this
hour, Lord. Be with your children everywhere as you promised you
will, but we ask you give them comfort and make them remember
your word and rejoice in it. It's because of Christ we ask
it. Amen. All right, brethren. We'll meet
back about 10.35.