Good morning. Good seeing everybody. If you will, let's turn to Genesis
47. Genesis 47. Lord willing, next
hour, we'll look at the work of the church. But this hour,
the title of the message is When Everything Fails. I know the
feeling. A lot of things break. The mind
breaks down. The body breaks down. One by
one, each appliance in my house is breaking. This well pump broke. It's just one thing after another.
Money's failing. This nation's failing. The car's
failing. I've got to nail them a tire.
Relationships fail, either through death or through strife. Everything
fails. You turn it down a little bit.
Everything fails, and if you live long enough, you start realizing
that. It's all gonna fail. Now, it
might not be this week, but hits are coming. I wanna be here as
long as I can be here. I'm gonna die someday. I ain't
gonna live 400 years. It just ain't gonna happen. Everything
fails, and that's good. It's real good. People say that
this morning. It's real good when everything
we put our stock in and us fails. Because there's one thing that
will not fail. One person that won't fail. And it's faithful
for the Lord to teach us these things. Now I hope he'll keep
our attention this morning. He won't let us drift off and
get in the la-la land or go nappy nap time. I hope you stay with
us. This is important. It's eternal life and death.
It's real important. Here in Genesis 47 verse five,
we remember that Jacob had come and saw Joseph for the first
time in a long time and they fell on each other's neck and
they wept a good while. Well, here in verse five, Genesis
47 verse five, and Pharaoh spake unto Joseph saying, thy father
and thy brethren are come unto thee. The land of Egypt is before
thee in the best of the land. Make thy father and brethren
to dwell. Make them. Say, allow them if
they pretty well please. Make them. He maketh me to lie
down in green pastures. Is that what the scripture says?
In the land of Goshen, let them dwell. Let them stay there a
long time. Joseph took Jacob to meet Pharaoh.
He asked how old Jacob was, and Jacob says, I'm 130 years. You know what his confession
was to that king? Few and evil have the days of
the years of my life been. How's the years of your life
been? We've had a jolly good time. Few and evil, it's a vapor,
and I ain't nothing but sin. That's a good confession, isn't
it? Few and evil, that's good, isn't it? He says in verse 12,
Genesis 42, and Joseph nourished his father and his brethren and
all his father's household. He nourished them. Now look what
it says. It's good for us to look at it with our eyes and
to hear it with our ears, and maybe Lord will put it in our
hearts, okay? Verse 12, and Joseph nourished his father and his
brethren and all his father's household, comma, with bread,
comma, according to their families. He nourished them with bread.
Remember, this is a picture of the Lord Jesus Christ and his
people. He nourished them with bread. Joseph had everything
that there was. We're about to see he had a whole
storehouse full of cattle. You think he couldn't have nourished
them with filet mignon? Couldn't he have nourished them
with fish? Couldn't he have nourished them with a real nice steak from
Ruth's Chris Steakhouse? Couldn't he have done something
good? That's what's important. About to see the importance of
bread. He nourished them with bread. This ain't talking about
they just made some sourdough. Lord nourishes his people with
Christ the bread of life. Give us our daily bread. That
ain't just mean don't let me starve to death today. I need
Christ today. You see that? Well, he knows
I gotta eat. He made this body, he knows its
needs. Famine had been taking place for two years and they
still have five years to go to the point this famine's gonna
go that even every little housefly is gonna know there's a famine.
Animals gonna starve to death. I see the horses here in Southern
California, and I feel so sorry for them, I can't stand it. They're
just a bag of bones, and ain't nothing for them to eat. They
have to truck it in. Then you go to some lush place,
and they're just plump, and their coat looks so shiny and pretty
and good. Even the cattle's gonna know.
The nations all around the world, they're gonna fall because of
the famine, because that Punishment of the Lord, His judgment
coming. But that supplanter and those
sorry sons of Jacob, they're gonna be fine. They're gonna
be in the land of Goshen. The Lord's gonna show that there's
a difference between everybody else in the world and His people.
That's what He's gonna show. But this is also, I want us to
see this as a picture of the sinners. This is what God does
for us. This diamond has a whole lot of facets on it, okay? And
just cause somebody that ain't in this generation no more said
something, don't mean it's wrong and don't mean that this is wrong.
I wanna see it, okay? There in Amos 8, the Lord said,
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, I will send a famine
in the land, not a famine of physical bread, nor a thirst
for water, but a hearing of the words of the Lord. That's coming. God said so. Now what you gonna
do? What happened when Elijah, that
brook dried up? He had a famine of water, didn't
he? What did Elijah do? Well, time to go where there's
water. Gettin' wagons, Lord sent wagons, let's go. Time to go,
isn't it? And they shall wander from sea
to sea and from north even to east, and they shall run to and
fro and seek the word from the Lord, and they shall not find
us. Too late. Too late to famine
come. That was taking place all around,
but Jacob and his house were fine, weren't they? They're in
the land of Goshen, they're fine. Joseph, their family member,
their brother, is on the throne, isn't he? He owns all the storehouses,
and he loves them. They're fine. They have not a
worry in the world. That's what David said. I've been young,
now I'm old. Yet I've not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his
seed begging bread. I've seen some other people wanting
to find a gospel, but those that know Christ, I've never seen
them wanting. The Lord makes a way. He'll provide for it,
and he'll put that gospel, he'll put Christ right in front of
them, put it in them. And I said, well, I hate the
bread used to be here. Well, you must not be his seed.
You must not be that hungry. You'd go where the bread was.
You'd follow the bread train, wouldn't you? He said, he is
ever merciful and lendeth, and his seed is blessed. It's his
seed. He's going to bless it. Every
nation has fallen physically. Every nation's fallen. They might
still be around. Rome's still a city. There's still some buildings
there. But no one stayed in power. That's historically accurate,
isn't it? Every great nation's fallen. This country's going
to fall, too. It's just so. I won't get into
it. But this is an apostate nation. That president said a couple
years ago, this ain't a Christian nation. That's right. That's so, everybody,
I mean, they flaunt flippantly Christianity and other churches
and corporate churches and all this other nonsense, but they
don't know God. They don't. And they had his
word and they had his preachers and they forsook him and they
wouldn't take care of him and they tried to starve him out of town and they'd kill
him if they could. I said, Lord, let him go. Let this place go. We're an apostate nation. We're
living against the word of God on absolute every front. We're
killing babies. We're living on debt. The children
are disobedient to parents. They're rebellious to the lawmakers
and to the law, saying, I won't do that. Don't you police officers
tell me to do stuff? What do you think is going to
happen? Well, like every other nation,
this nation is going to follow it. Every king is going to follow.
Every king has died, haven't they? Save one. He sits on his
throne, physically. Every king, we're all kings.
That's what the Lord, we think we're kings, right? Until he
makes us kings and priests. We think we're the boss. You're
going to bow. I'm going to bow a hundred percent. Totally. It's going to happen.
Now, it'll either happen in this life, and that's called salvation,
or it's going to happen in judgment. We're going to bow to one. the
king. Everything we put our trust in
is going to cave. Everything we put our trust in,
our knowledge, our understanding, our wisdom, our time, our experiences,
it's all going to wither away except a person. Not the doctrines
of grace, Christ, the person. Verse 13, there was no bread
in all the land, for the famine was very sore, so that the land
of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted by reason of the
famine. And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found
in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan for the corn which
they bought. And Joseph brought the money
into Pharaoh's house. And when money failed, When money
failed, I got a bunch of money. I saw pictures of that in Germany
before the Second World War. They were taking wheelbarrows
full of Deutschmarks to buy a loaf of bread. It feels like we ain't
far from that now. A loaf of bread's $8. Woo, green
beans, $4 a can. Ain't far from it. Money failed.
It happened recently down in Argentina and may happen here.
But money failed. And when money failed in the
land of Egypt, verse 15, in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians
came unto Joseph and said, give us bread. For why should we die
in thy presence for the money failing? All of a sudden money
ain't worth nothing and I still need bread. Now used to, I could
buy my own bread. But it's just been shown to me that what I
can provide for this bread ain't worth nothing. You just gonna
have to give it to me. Or I'm gonna die. Do you see
that? You get that? Some of you do. I see one or
two smiles out there. You're gonna have to give it to me.
I can't buy it. I can't buy it. Turn to Haggai. You got Matthew,
and then go left three books. You got Matthew, Zechariah, Habakkuk,
and then Haggai going to the left. Haggai. Haggai came because the
Lord told the people to rebuild the temple. And then Zechariah
came. He was a bad cop. Zechariah was
a good cop, seems. But the people said, we can't
build the temple. Just excuses, excuses, excuses is what they
had. And they said, well, I saw the
temple before, and if we rebuild the temple now, it won't be as
good as the old temple. And that, well, we just can't
afford to build it. That's what other people say, isn't it? I've
heard that before. Other assemblies of the Lord
Saints in this nation, now they can afford that, but we can't.
Well, how come they can afford it and we can't? I heard a pastor
ask a congregation at one time, he said, we can't do it. And
I said, why not? Other people can. Why can't you go read Corinthians?
It was the poor folks that did it, wasn't it? They couldn't
afford it. Whose money was that that they
had anyway? Back in Haggai's day, they had some money. Whose
money was it? It was the Lord's money. The money that all them Egyptians
had that Joseph gathered up, whose money was that? It's the
Lord's money. All the money I have now, whose
money is it? It's the Lord's money. He gave
it to me. I hope I hit this later on, but
I put stars all around it in my notes. I want you to get you
a pencil and write this down. Believers do not tithe. I hope I preach on giving here
soon. I'll give them eight words about giving that Paul gave and
Henry gave and Spurgeon gave and everybody else. Believers
don't tithe. Other people tithe. Church people
might tithe. Rich people might tithe. Poor
people might tithe. Religious, they may tithe. Believers
don't tithe. Well, this Lord gave me this,
90% is mine and 10% is his. No, it's not. It's all his. It
is. The heart's not law. Love gives. My daughter just went out of
town. And if I said, how much do you need? That's cold. She said, I need $20. And I said,
can I give you $40? Will you take 100? That's what
love does. You see the difference between
need and what can I do? Big difference, big difference.
Believers don't tithe. Why did money start to fail?
It's a good thing. Look here at Haggai 2, verse 7. Haggai
2, verse 7. It says, I will shake all nations,
and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this
house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts. The silver, go out
there in them hills that nobody's ever dug in. Underneath them
hills is silver. He goes, that's mine. He said,
and the gold, y'all worried about gold? What's the price of gold
this week? We gotta invest in precious metals. The mine that
ain't never been found that's full of gold, God said, that's
mine. I made it, it's mine. All the silver's mine, and the
gold's mine, saith the Lord of Hosts. The glory of this latter
house, y'all worried about these things? It's gonna fail. But
the glory of my house to come, you say it won't be as nice as
the one before, shall be greater than that of the former, saith
the Lord of hosts. Why is it gonna be greater, Lord?
Why? And all this money don't matter,
and your house is gonna be greater than it was before, why? And
in this place will I give peace, that's what it says. In this
place, you want peace? There wasn't no peace before,
we had a bunch of money though. Miserable. He said, that's all mine, you're
gonna have peace, what I'm gonna give, saith the Lord of Hosts.
How can I be rich if money's failed? I'm one of the richest
men on earth. I am the richest man on earth.
Well, I thought Elon Musk was. No, hush and listen. I'm the
richest man on earth, you know why? But God, who is rich in
mercy, that's what I needed. I needed the bread of life. I
wasn't alive. I was dead. I needed life. And I needed Christ
who is life. And you know what he did? Gave
me a bunch of it. Every day. Ain't quit. Ain't gonna quit.
That's so. He's rich in mercy for his great
love, wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins,
hath he quickened us together with Christ. O. C. A. Tenley
wrote, he said, if the world from you withhold all its silver
and its gold, and you have to get along with meager fare, you
just remember in his word, That's the Lord's remembrance, sirs.
Remember what God said, how he feeds the little bird. He said,
ain't you worth more than a sparrow? You take your burden to the Lord
and leave it there. David said, I've been young and I've been
old and I've never seen the righteous begging bread. Ain't never happened. Well, people twiddle their thumbs
and say, well, there just ain't no gospel church here. Well, you
ain't begging yet. You ain't hungry yet. It's a
pretense. Back in our text here in Genesis
47, Verse 16, Genesis 47, 16. And Joseph said,
give your cattle, give your cattle. And I will give for you, for
your cattle, if money fail. And they brought their cattle
unto Joseph and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses
and for the flocks and for the cattle of the herds and for the
asses. And he fed them with bread. for
all their cattle for that year. He said, you bring me cattle
and I'll give you bread. You know what does the scripture
say? A wise man doesn't trust in his horses, in his horses. The Lord's teaching us that.
We don't just know that. You have to be taught it. You
have to go through experiences. It's necessary. And he said,
you bring me your cattle. Let's rewind. Did Joseph need
that money? Could you go up to Elon Musk
or somebody, I don't know, pick one, whoever it is for that generation,
and say, buddy, I really need something. I'm gonna give you
$20. They don't need $20. Joseph didn't need their money.
Does he need cattle? He don't need their cattle. He
don't. They gotta be taught that. They're
about to give up their cattle to be taught he don't need cattle.
Look here in Psalm 50. It's good to look at it and read
it, and not just have somebody read it to you, because we know
these things. Some of these verses, the world's
never heard. That's what Cameron had to go
down to the Basilica or whatever, and they got Christ all the way
down at the bottom in all the paintings, and he ain't got no arms. Somebody
said, why ain't he got no arms? I don't remember reading that.
They said, we ain't got no arms, what's your arms? You ever read the Psalms? That ain't what the word says.
We know what this word says, and we know what it means. Isn't
that precious? Not just to know, but to understand.
Lord said glory in that. That's a good thing, because
he's done it, hasn't he? Look here at Psalm 50, verse 7. Hear,
O my people, and I will speak. O Israel, and I will testify
against thee. I am God, even thy God. I will
not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings to have
been continually before me. I'll take no bullock out of thy
house, nor he goats out of thy folds, for, because every beast
of the forest is mine, and every cattle upon a thousand hills,
I know all the fowls of the mountains and the wild beasts of the field,
they're mine, they're mine. If I were hungry, I would not
tell thee, for the world's mine, and the fullness thereof." Well,
how come he gave us them laws about sacrificing these These
lambs, and they had to cook it, and there's a whole lot of rules
with all these things, because it pointed to him, to his lamb,
to Christ. That's why. You want to go through
all this stuff just to have a picture? You mean that whole physical
nation of Israel for a couple thousand years has walked this
earth just to be a picture of what Christ does to his people?
Yes. He said, I've given nations for you. I've given Seba for
thee. He would do that? He gave his
son for us. I think he can swing a nation.
We ought to value Christ more than we do nations, shouldn't
we? He said, will I eat, verse 13, will I eat the flesh of bulls
or drink the blood of goats? Offer unto God thanksgiving.
When we see all that and we see the magnitude of it, what ought
you to do? Look right there in verse 14. It says, offer unto
God thanksgiving and pay thy vows to the most high. Thank
him. Thank you. They come to Joseph's. Well,
I gave him my cattle and he gave me bread for a whole year. You're
gonna learn that cattle wasn't worth nothing but a burden. You
think Joseph's got to feed them cattle now, don't he? Physically.
They were trying to get people to buy goats for them homeless
folks in Africa. So you can send a goat and two
chickens. Well, that's just two more mouths to feed, ain't it? You
ain't doing them people no favors. They need water. They ain't got
no food. offer up Thanksgiving, and he says, verse 15, and call
upon me in the day of trouble. Call upon me in the day of trouble.
I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me. That's gonna
be the response. You're gonna need me, you're
gonna be in cattle ain't worth nothing, and you're gonna call
upon me in the day of trouble, and I'm gonna deliver you, and
you're gonna thank me again and glorify me. You know what's gonna
happen next week? He's gonna do something that's
gonna make us thank him. His children are a thankful people.
But not everybody's thankful people. Well, yeah, most people
ain't thankful. His children are. His people's
a thankful people. Now back in our text, Genesis
47, verse 18. Genesis 47, 18. When that year was ended, remember
they brought all the money, the money failed, they brought the
cattle, they're fed for a year, but that year ended up, they
run out of bread again. When that year was ended, they
came unto him the second year and said unto him, we will not
hide it from my Lord. This verse right here is just,
if I could stand here for six or eight months, it'd be great.
There's so much here. The Lord looks on the heart. People's watched me do bad things.
I've sinned against you. And God's people are honest.
He makes that new heart that's in them. They say, I'm the man.
That's me. And I ain't gonna hide it from
you. Lord, I ain't gonna hide it from you. They said, we will
not hide it from my Lord. How that our money spent, money
ain't worth nothing. My Lord also hath our herds of
cattle. You got everything, that ain't worth nothing either. There
is not all left in the sight of my Lord. There's nothing left.
Anything we've ever throughout time, slowly but surely, year
by year, have put stock in is gone. It's gone. But our bodies and our land,
me and the ground I'm standing on, that's it. That's all I've got. Wherefore
shall we die before thine eyes? About to die. Stay with me, this
is life and death, okay? We're gonna die. Both we and
our land. What's the only, this whole thing
is, we got, now we're four years in to famine, right? And everybody
has been brought to Joseph and all these things come to pass.
And think of the carnage that's happened. Think of the little
children that started death. Think of the cattle that started death
and poor cows and everything else throughout the lands and
all the world. Everything's been brought to
Joseph. And we come to him and he's fed us, and then he's fed
us again, and I ain't got nothing. I mean, I'm stripped. I got this
body and that's it, and it ain't worth nothing either. What's
my only hope? Verse 19, wherefore shall we
die before thine eyes? Both we and our land, by us. You get it? You see that? You gonna have to buy me. And
this land of ground, whatever ground I'm holding down at this
minute, That's my way, that's where I lay down, that's where
I walk, that's where I work. What we're standing on has everything
to do with our daily life, isn't it? You ever just floated for
a day and didn't need the ground? Some people do in their minds,
I guess. Get a little helium in them, but you have to buy
it all. And you buy us and buy our land,
and we and our land will be the servants unto Pharaoh. and give
us seed that we may live and die not. Give us incorruptible
seed that the land be not desolate. And Joseph bought all the land
of Egypt for Pharaoh. For the Egyptians sold every
man his field because the famine prevailed over them. So the land
became Pharaoh's. They were absolutely desolate. That's a good place to be. Physically,
we don't want those things, do we? To spiritually be brought
to absolute desolation and say, Lord, you have to buy me. That's
my only hope. That's it. And I'm going to be your servant.
And everything I touch is going to be yours because it's yours
anyway. You just taught me that in the last three years. I'm
thickheaded. It takes a long time. I'm your
servant. Profitable servant. That's what
I want to be. Don't you? You want to be a profitable servant?
I don't want to be a security guard on that wall of Jerusalem
that's sleeping. We had a boy that intentionally
went to sleep in the watchtowers in Mor. We had a strong talk. I said, if they don't kill you,
we will. You're watching us while we sleep. Better wake up. Awake. That's a good place to
be. Not only to give yourself, give
your heart to Jesus. That's what the world says. That's
what false prophets say. That's wrong. What'd it say? Buy us. I can't buy me. I can't do nothing. That's good.
Buy us. Buy us. You're the only one that
can. That's a good place to be. Paul said what? Know you not
that your body is a temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you,
which ye have of God. He did that. And you are not
your own, but you are bought with a price. Cover me in the
blood. That's the price. Therefore glorify God in your
body and in your spirit, which are God's. He owns both of them.
He bought it. He bought it. Joseph was generous
on everybody, wasn't he? He was merciful and bountiful
to Israel. Yes, there was a difference,
but he was kind to all. Our Lord is too, even on those
that cuss Him. We were that way. We were at war with Him. You
hated God whenever you was a teenager and you was a young adult in
your 30s and 40s and all that stuff. You thought you was raising
your children with the gospel. We didn't even know what the
gospel was. He hadn't come yet. We thought it was a thing or
a systematic piece of junk on a paper. It's a person. And He
came. And we said, He's been good to
us this whole time. I was making myself the elder and the founder
and the glory seeker and the king and everything else. And
he was good to me while spitting in his face. He was. Christ said, on this earth, he
said, for he maketh the sun to rise on the evil and the good,
and he sendeth rain on the just and the unjust. And then he comes
to us one day and says, come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden. You're working yourself to death in works religion.
And that could be under the reform or whatever else you want to
call it, but you're trying to do something to please God and debt Him to you. And
your money ain't worth nothing, your cattle ain't worth nothing,
you ain't worth nothing, but I bought you. And that's rest. You quit
working. Now as soon as all that labor
is done, now we can get to it. Now we can work the works of God.
Now we can start forgiving and being merciful and loving and
long-suffering and being kind and generous to one another.
What you need? What can we do? We can do more. Let's do it. Verse 21. And as for the people, he removed
them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt and to the
other end thereof. He puts us in that city of refuge,
doesn't he? Only the lands of the priest bought he not, for
the priest had a portion assigned them of Pharaoh. and did not
eat their portion which Pharaoh gave them, wherefore they sold
not their lands." I ain't got time to touch on it, but there's
a lot of false prophets that get fed well, don't they? And
the Great Depression came on our nation, there was false churches
everywhere, business was, they're building new buildings. Our rent's
going up. Everything's getting more expensive.
We don't know if we're going to make it. All the false people out
there, well, they're selling raffle tickets and having yard
sales and everything else. They're doing good. Their eyes
bug out with fatness. What's going on? And like David,
until I go in the house of the Lord, I see their end. Then I
want to have a broken heart and I want to go preach to them.
Don't you? Don't you want to talk to them people we say we
love? We'll see it next hour. If we loved them, we'd be chopping
roofs, holes in this roof to try to get them in here. Instead
of just saying we love it, we do the love. That's what would
happen. Anyway, verse 23, and Joseph
said unto the people, behold, I bought you this day and your
land of Pharaoh. Lo, here's your seed for you,
and you shall sow the land, and it shall come to pass in the
increase that you shall give a fifth part unto Pharaoh, and
four parts shall be your own for seed of the field, and for
your food, and for them of your household, and for food for your
little ones. Law hadn't come in yet, Levitical
law yet. Count them of double honor hadn't
come in yet. But Joseph gave them here 20%.
They said, no, you keep the rest of it for you. That's for favor. That's for the Lord to keep his
house. And they said, thou hast saved our lives. That ain't nothing. It's a reasonable sacrifice.
Let us find grace in the sight of my Lord, and we will be Pharaoh's
servants. We'll serve you any way we can. You just let us find
grace. That's what's needed. That's
what's needed. If we see these Egyptians as us, yes, there is
a difference. You could pull that out and say,
well, that's the heathen world, and here's the land of Goshen
because the Lord never taxed them. We're not under no law.
We don't have no quid pro quo on us. Christ saved us from a
curse of the law. You could do those things. But
if we see these Egyptians as us Gentiles being saved, and
they're all in Goshen, that's that promised land. Remember
us looking last week? That's a believer going home for eternity.
Well, I'm still here. I ain't in Goshen yet. I'm still
here in this land of Egypt. I got to work. That's why God
put me on this earth. I got something to do. I get
after it. There'll come a time, we'll just
sit around and the Lord teach us all day long. It's gonna be
wonderful. There'll be no more tears. But for now, until we go to that
land of Goshen. Verse 26. which became not Pharaoh's. They
were taxed exempt. And Israel dwelt in the land
of Egypt and the country of Goshen and they have possessions therein
and grew and multiplied exceedingly. They did. How could they multiply?
Because money ain't worth nothing and cattle ain't worth nothing
and we don't care and our body ain't worth nothing. Well now
my body's doing okay and I got a bunch of cattle and I got plenty
of money. When I don't care for it. Now I'm just minding it,
it ain't mine, I'm just babysitting it, that's all I gotta do. Easy
peasy, isn't it? Turn over to Isaiah 55, and I'll
close, Isaiah 55. That's what I thought was interesting
too. David had said, oh, fear the
Lord, ye saints, for there is no one in them that fear him,
there's no lack. He said, you lacked anything?
I said, we've lacked nothing. He said, the young lions do lack,
And they suffer hunger, young lions do. I'm reading Psalm 34,
I want you to turn to Isaiah 55. David said, the young lions
lack. Do you know what the picture
of Egypt was? They declared themselves. They
said, I'm gonna put a picture of me. And when everybody looks
at me, you're gonna see that picture. It's a lion. That's
what them sphinxes are. It's a lion with a man's face.
They're young lions, they suffer hunger. They all suffer famine,
don't they? But they that seek the Lord shall
not want any good thing. Come ye children, hearken unto
me. I'll teach you the fear of the Lord. That's something to
eat on. Lord turns us from our wanting
to have cat-like abilities to lean on the lion of the tribe
of Judah. To stop making ourselves those things and to look to him.
That's what he said in Revelation 5. Weep not, weep not. Behold
the line of the tribe of Judah, the root of David. He's prevailed
to open the book. Him, him. Not a line with my
face on it. That's just odd, isn't it? Isaiah 55. Money's failed, cattle's
failed, I failed, land's failed, everything's failed. He's faithful. And he says, Isaiah 55, one.
Ho, everyone that thirsteth, come ye to the waters. And he
that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat. Come ye, buy wine
and milk without money and without price. Wherefore do you spend
money for that which is not bread? We spend a lot of money on stuff
that ain't Christ the bread, don't we? and your labor, for
that which satisfieth not, hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye
that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness,
and cline your ear, and come unto me. Here, and your soul
shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you,
the sure mercies of David. Come and eat. Right when we ain't
got nothing to buy with, when we ain't got nothing to offer,
and we're starving to death, he says, eat all you can eat.
And we just get filled up. Because it's him. My heart, my
cup's running over. I don't know. Don't that get
you excited? Don't that make a elephant tap
dance? That's good news, isn't it? It's him. All right, let's
pray together. Father, thank you for this word.
Lord, thank you for the living word that we can't exhaust. Lord,
thank you for the providence you give us and the famines and
the times of plenty and the times of thin. That we see your word
as magnificent and your Savior, you provided the lamb you've
given for us. as all and in all. It all testifies
of him. It's magnificent, Lord. Thank
you for giving us an understanding of your will and your word. And
though we see in part, we're thankful. Thank you for saving
us, Lord. Thank you for the blood of Christ.
And if it's because of him, we approach your throne. Amen. All
right, we'll meet back at 1030.