Brother Bob just read to us the
righteous cry, and the Lord heareth and delivereth them out of all
their troubles. I hope we can learn how to cry.
I hope we don't learn how to pray. My brother Don used to
say, I love to hear a man pray before he learns how to. Just cry to the Lord. Kevin,
what good is that? That ain't religious enough.
Well, that's what God hears. If you're in real trouble, He's
going to deliver you if you cry to Him. He'll have to make you
cry. That's what we're going to look.
Do you know what I was preaching from this morning? Psalm 107. Psalm 107. I thought of this message. Do you need
to be healed? And I thought if I was going to be provocative,
I'd probably title this. You need a vaccine. Medicine that cures. You need
free healthcare. We need universal health care.
That's a lot of topics people stand on in these days. What
a frightening, sad thing it is. You need to be healed. You need
to be healed. Psalm 107, verse 20 will be our
text. We'll be looking at the whole
psalm, but verse 20. Psalm 107, verse 20. He sent His Word and healed them
and delivered them from their destructions. If anyone's ever
healed physically - this needs to be said - if anyone is ever
healed physically, it's God that healed. The snake oil might have
been the means. The antibiotics might have been
the means. The cures and the remedies and all these nonsense
names people have might have been the means God used. God
did the healing. physically. He may be pleased
to use means, but it's His working. And if anyone's not physically
healed, it's the other side of the coin, isn't it? Let's be
all of us one day. It's God that kills them. Someone's
not healed and they die, God killed them. It was their point
of time. It pleased Him to kill them.
You know what that means? Either way, it's His will. If
in this physical body I'm healed, that's His will. And if I ain't,
and that's the means He uses to kill me, that's His will.
It pleases Him. We read that in 1 Samuel. The
Lord killeth and maketh alive. He bringeth down to the grave
and bringeth up. If we're going to have spiritual
life, that's going to be the order. God's going to slay us
first, and then He'll give us life. We'll have to be brought
down first to the grave. all the way, and then we'll be
brought up. We're gonna have to cry, not
say a prayer. I hate that. Well, let's say grace. Let's
say a prayer. Don't you dare do that. You knock
that off. Cry unto the Lord. If you ain't
got nothing to cry, then hush. Here's something to say to Him.
This text isn't talking about the physical healing. It's speaking
of the disease of the soul. There's many people All people
born of Adam. They are terribly sick and they
don't know it. Or they flat don't care. I ain't
got no symptoms. Meh. And they don't care. It's
an abomination. Maybe some here. Deathly ill. And I'm not talking about diabetes.
I ain't talking about high blood pressure. I'm not talking about
cancer. I'm talking about the sin sickness of the soul. Eternally
deadly. Not just physically deadly. There
are some here that have been healed in the heart by that great
position. That's what the Lord's going
to speak about here. Given eternal life. He's the one that does
the healing and he preserves that life that he gives for eternity. He says in verse 20, he sent
his word. Man ain't part of that, is he?
He sent his word and healed them. And He didn't just set you back
to zero, now it's on you. And delivered them from destruction,
from their destructions. Delivered them from themselves.
Are you interested in that? Most people ain't. Hush, or I'll
just go off and la-la land. I'm interested in that. My first
question is for those that, who's this for? Who's this for? If He sent His Word and He's
going to heal them and He's going to deliver them from their destructions,
who is that for? Who's going to be healed? Who's
going to have complete and total healing? That means to be dead
and be in the presence of the Lord. Who's going to be in His
presence? Who's going to be delivered from
what we rightfully earned? Who? Who? Verse 17 tells us. Fools. Are you a fool? Have you ever
been a fool? I pray so. Verse 17 says, Fools,
because of their transgression and because of their iniquities,
are afflicted. Fools. They've transgressed.
They have iniquities. That's why they're afflicted.
That's why they need healing. They're afflicted in the soul. That's the most insulting thing
you could say to someone. You're a fool. You're a fool. Insulting someone's looks. That
might sting, but we like your opinion. Insulting somebody's
ability. You can't dunk that basketball
or whatever. I don't know. That may hurt a
little bit, but it digs deep when you call someone a fool.
Why? Because that affects their pride.
And that says everything you've been doing ain't right. Everything
you think right is wrong. It's foolish. It's foolish. I asked this question, were you
a fool when God brought his gospel to you? Well, no, I had a pretty good
handle on it. You better be a fool. You better
be afflicted by your own foolishness or God ain't gonna heal you.
Because you're well. You don't need a physician. Fools
brought this affliction on themselves. Were you saying no to everything
that God is? Were you saying no to everything
that God does? No, I was religious. That's fighting the Word of God,
isn't it? It's what we read in Psalm 14. The fool hath said
in his heart, No God, there is an italics. That's still true. There is no God. I'm an agnostic.
I'm an atheist. You're lying to yourself and
to me. You know there's a God. It's written in your heart. You
might have drowned it out. But the fool says, No God. No
God. I got promoted or demoted at
work. No. I got in a fender bender. No. This didn't come through.
This didn't work the way I wanted it to. No. You're crying. No, God. You're a fool. Ain't God going to do right? Didn't he send this? What about
this body? This whole side of the neck and
all? Do I cry? No. God sent it? Shouldn't I
say yes? Thank you, Lord. Wonderful. We'll
get to that. I'll get ahead of myself. They're fools because they trespass.
That's rebellion. That's transgression. Fools because
they're transgression. You're trespassing. You've trespassed
on God's law, on His Word, on what He said. You've trespassed
on His Son. There's been many that's trespassed in the position
of His positions of prophet. Well, I can tell you about God.
They sin themselves. They sin themselves as priests.
You've got to go through me. If you've got to say something,
come to me. Flood this world. There's churches, so-called churches,
on every street corner. And they fulfill themselves as
king. They decide. They make the rules. You've got
to clear things through me first. Let's clear it through God's
Word. Does that work? How about let's run this place
the way God says to run this place? Not what my opinions are.
Isn't that a good idea? It's wise, isn't it? But man
wants to present himself as the prophet, man wants to present
himself as the priest, and man wants to present himself as the
king. He was worried to death about the mark of the beast.
That's because you're foolish and you don't know nothing. Man
wants to set himself six, right? The number of man as a prophet,
priest, and king. I'm going to be all and in all. That's what
man wants. They're fools. They're fools
because they trespass on God's property, on His Son, on His
salvation, and they're fools because of iniquities. What's
that? Evil. Perverseness. We're inequitable. We don't have equity. There's
a debt of sin. We're fools because we're in
debt. And you know what we do? We're going in debt harder. That's
something you got to teach teenagers. We learned that in high school.
How come you bounced all these checks? Well, I ain't out of
money. I still got checks. Can we laugh about that? We can't
write a check if ain't nothing there if you're going to bounce
it. This is grade school stuff. We're fools because we've sinned
against God and we keep sinning against God. That's man's will. That's man's free will. It's
bound to his nature and it keeps fighting God. And we're fools
because they hate the meat of the gospel. The only thing that
can nourish us. Look at verse 18. They're fools
because their soul abhors all manner of meat. And they draw
near unto the gates of death. They're fools because they're
starving in malnutrition. Their souls are starving. And
a meal is brought to them. God sends a man after his own
heart and said, here's the food. This will give you life. Eat.
Take. Eat. This is his body. It's broken
for you. Eat it. And they say, no. No,
I hate that. I can't stand it. The soul hates
it. It abhors it. And all manner of it I don't
want to hear it. Don't tell me about God. Just
hush. Leave it alone. I don't want
to know about His Son. I don't want to know about His holiness. I don't want to know
that I'm nothing but sin, and all my flesh is grass, and it
withers, and I have no righteousness. It's dung. I got two yards of
dung at my house from my garden, and if the winds rot and the
sprinklers are on, that thing gets wet, I smell it. Woo! And he's composted a little more.
Every time I walk past it, I think that's the very best works that
I can do. God is done outside of Christ.
It's done. It's manure, all manner of it. And mankind's a fool because
they don't want to hear it. Someone who physically won't eat, if
that's only their product, these people in prisons go on hunger
strikes and stuff and they get deathly ill. And they say, here,
just have some yogurt, drink a little bit of milk, have you
some bread and honey and you'll be fine. And it's not going to
do it. Well, you're an idiot. That's foolish, isn't it? Eat
and live. This gospel is brought to somebody. God sends it. It's His Word,
His meat, His gospel, His Son. Eat this. It'll do you good. You'll live. Fool. God says they're fools. Kevin,
that's hard. Well, that's God's Word. He said they're fools.
And they draw near unto the gates of death. You see, this isn't
speaking about physical healing, is it? Man's so worried about
making his body function well. If the Lord was pleased to heal
us, we're still going to die. That impotent man, he made to
walk those that are blind. He made to see those that had
ears. Lazarus, he brought from the grave. He still had to die.
What good is that going to do you? We need spiritual healing,
don't we? We need to be made whole on the
inside. Though we ought to, as a side note, believers, If we
have illnesses in this body, take it to the Lord. Or if you're
pleased to heal me, do that, and if not, give me the grace
to be okay with it. Give me the faith to believe you and be thankful
for the pain that you've sent." We ought to do that. We ought
to have as much sense. Paul told us that he said, "...he
that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all,
how shall he not with him freely also give us all things?" Well, he didn't heal me. Well,
it didn't please him, but he gave me the grace to be okay with it,
that being his will. But this body's drawin' near
to the gates of death. And I wish I could take every
soul in this county and get them by the shoulders and shake them
and let them know that this is their end. You're gonna die. You're a fool and you're gonna
meet God. You're at the gates of death. Well, I'm young. Yeah,
well, maybe you are for right now and you might walk out that
door and die. The Lord might take the breath out of your heart
right now, out of your lungs. We're at the gates of death.
Quit being a fool and cry. Quit playing church and cry to
the God that can actually save. Quit your vain repetitions in
prayer and cry. Cry like there's a pistol held
to your head. God save me! You'll hear that. You'll hear
a cry. The fool left to themselves, they do not cry to God. They
have all kinds of churchy junk come out of their mouth, but
they don't cry to God. And you know what they do cry to? We
read in Revelation 6, they're going to cry to the rocks and
the mountains to fall on us in that day of judgment. outside of God working in the
heart of somebody, you know what they're still crying to? Rocks
and mountains. They're crying to this earth.
They're crying to things in this world. They're in the presence
and judgment of Almighty God. Christ is in front of them. Instead
of crying to Him, the fool still cries to rocks and mountains.
They'll cry to a rock. Those people praise the Lord
who rode that ass into town. And the Pharisee says, why are
y'all hush? Why are you being so loud? Why
are you praising him? And he said, you let them go.
He said, if they didn't cry, these rocks would cry out to
me. A dumb rock has enough sense to cry out to the Lord. That's
his power. But in the day of his power,
they'll cry out to him. His people will. and we're made to see our
foolishness and our inability, that Christ is the only one who's
able to save us, we'll cry out. When we truly know we're sick
and we truly know he's the physician, we'll cry to him. It says in
verse 19, then, unless all is fools, then they come unto the
Lord in their trouble, and he saveth them out of their distresses.
What happened before this? That's a period there, isn't
it? What happened before this? What led these people that are
fools, that if left alone they'll cry to rocks and mountains to
fall on them? What changed? What made to differ? What happened? Verse 20, He sent
His Word. He'll save them from out of their
distresses. Why? He sent His Word and healed them
and delivered them from their destructions. The Lord must send
His Word before we'll have new hearts that are not foolish.
He must send His Word before we're not trespassing, and before
we're fools that's just not so self-centered in our own evil
wicked ways, and that do not hate His meat. When He sends
His Word effectually, then we cry out to Him. You cannot cry
out to someone you've never heard of, and you will not cry out
unless you're in trouble. You've got to be in trouble to
cry out. That's the hard part. The hard
part is not lifting a person up. We can fluff egos. Oh, it's so good. And we're so
thankful for you. And just go and go and go and
go. And you can buff somebody up.
You know, you did such a good job. I'm so thankful for that.
I'm not in the business of fluffing egos. And I ain't good at it.
And I'm thankful I ain't good at it. What's the hard part?
That's the easy part. Bringing somebody down. You know,
I can insult somebody. I can wound somebody, but I can't
break a proud heart. I don't have that ability. God
must do it. He must send His Word in power
and break the cold, stony heart. That's what He does for His people.
You know that's who this is to? Look here in verse 4. Psalm 107,
verse 4. This is speaking to God's elect.
Psalm 107, verse 4. They wandered in the wilderness
in a solitary way. They found no city to dwell in.
Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then, you ever
been lost? I know some people that ain't
never been lost, and my heart cries out for them. You ever
been thirsty? Your soul ever fainted, and you
cried out? Then they cried out to the Lord
in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses.
Verse 11 says, Because they rebelled against the words of God, and
contemned the counsel of the Most High, you ever rebelled
against Him? Therefore He brought down their heart to labor. and
they fell down and there was none to help. You've been helpless.
You've been without hope and all you could do is just cry.
Verse 13, Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and
he saved them out of their distress. That's what happens to God's
people. Nebuchadnezzar experienced that, didn't he? It says, And
at the end of the days, he was brought down to all fours. He
walked around like a beast for seven years and grew feathers
and was eating grass. Then, at the end of those days,
then, Nebuchadnezzar lifted up my eyes into heaven, and my understanding
returned to me, and I blessed the Most High." He cried out
to God. He praised God. Did Paul, O Solitarsis,
did he find that out? Was that his experience? It's
life and death. We ought to be keen to these
things. It said in Acts 9, the Lord spoke
to Ananias. The Lord stopped Paul on the
road to Damascus. He had marching orders to go
persecute the church, to kill them, imprison them. The Lord
stopped him and blinded him and brought him down. And then he
comes to Ananias and says, Ananias, you go talk to Paul. Oh, Solitare
says he's down there. And Ananias says, Lord, you know,
you know who that is. I got to go preach to them. I
got called to Pakistan to preach. What if I got called to Ukraine
to preach? I've been in a war-torn country before, but I had armor
and a gun. I could fight back. I had a fighting chance. And
I says, I know this fella. And the Lord said, Behold, he
prayeth. Something had changed, didn't
it? Saul of Tarsus was a fool. He was a fool. He knew theology,
but he didn't know God. He knew philosophy, but he didn't
know God. He knew the law. inside and out. He knew religion. He knew what
order everything's supposed to do, what he's supposed to say,
and this is when we're supposed to pray, and we're supposed to
do it this time. You gotta have three songs. He knew everything,
didn't he? He knew the church history, but he didn't know grace.
He didn't know grace. He was a fool. And then God stopped
him, and God struck him down, and God blinded him, and now
he's praying. He ain't never done that before. He had said
some prayers, but he had never prayed to God. He never cried
out to God. Why? He was in trouble. The Lord
brought him down. Why did Nebuchadnezzar cry out?
Because he was brought down. He had trouble. What hope? Somebody's in distress. Somebody's
in trouble. That's hopeful. There's still
breath in their lungs, and they're crying out to God. There's hope.
I pray I could remember that. What a blessing it is to be brought
down in body, in mind, in spirit, in anything if it makes us cry
out to the Lord. Whatever means He used. God will
meet us where our point of rebellion is. That's where He'll deal with
us, and that's where He'll break us. It's different for each of
us. That's where God's gonna meet you, and that's where God's
gonna break you, right at your point of rebellion. But that's
hopeful. I wish I had the boldness and the wisdom every time a child
of God says, something horrible happened, what we consider horrible.
I lost a job, I lost a child, I got cancer, something's, my
heart's, I'm going blind, I'm losing my mind, whatever it is,
I wish I had the strength and the wisdom to cry out, wonderful,
It's good news. Good. Why? Because you're going
to see Christ again. Just like we saw the first hour.
What are you going to show whenever Abram cried out, Lord, show me
something? He showed him. Lord, how can I know? Take me
a heifer. You're going to look at that
sacrifice. You're going to see the smoke
because it's accepted. You're going to see the light.
God's in it. It's His doing. You're going to be brought to
His feet again. You're going to heal and you're going to be delivered
again. He's going to save you out of your distress one more
time. That's the end state for the child of God. In every trial,
in every stormy wind that blows, that's Him who you're going to
see. That's a blessing, isn't it? Now, I wish I had the boldness
to tell you that. I wish I had the strength to
tell myself that. How soon I forget. Verse 19 says, Then they cry
out to the Lord in their trouble, and He saveth them out of their
distresses. Period. Who does God heal? Fools, the lowly, His enemies,
the weak, the rebels. Is that you? Has He broken your pride yet? When does He save them? When
does He heal them? When He brought them to cry out to Him, not to
Mommy. not to cry out to Daddy, not to cry out to a preacher,
not to cry out to old Mother Mary, unto the Lord, and to cry
unto Him. And anytime that's ever happened,
there has never been a true sinner with a repentant heart that cried
out to Christ and did not receive mercy. It ain't never happened.
Why? He has to give that. He has to
give it. And what he requires, he provides.
What happened for this to come to pass? Verse 20. After the
period, in verse 19, it says, He sent His Word. What Word? I want to look at that for a
second. Christ the incarnate Word. He sent His Son. That's what it was. Turn over
to John 1. John chapter 1. If we're going to be healed of
our distresses and our death that we are, The Lord is going
to have to send His Son, His Word, Christ's Incarnate Word. John 1.1, it says, In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God. And all things were
made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was
made. In Him was life. Is that what's needed? Are you
dead in trespasses and sins? Do you need life? Are you a dead
fool? Christ is life. In Him is life. We read that in 1 John 4. This
is manifested love of God towards us that because He sent His only
begotten Son into the world, He sent His Word, Christ the
Living Word, that we might live through Him. He sent His love.
Not that we love God, but that He loved us and sent His Son
to be the propitiation for our sins. He sent His Word. He sent His Son. Turn over to
1 Corinthians chapter 1. 1 Corinthians 1. For fools, for enemies, for rebels,
trespassers, the Lord sent His Son. 1 Corinthians 1 verse 30 says,
But of Him, of the Father, are ye in Christ Jesus, of whom God
has made unto us wisdom. Was you a fool? What changed? Christ was made unto us wisdom,
and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, that according
as it is written, he that glorieth let him glory in the Lord. This
world may still consider me a fool. I'm still going to make some
foolish decisions. I'll plant trees in a month. I'll not plant
them. I want to make some dumb mistakes. But Christ is my wisdom. I was a fool before. I was looking
to myself before. I was looking to religion before.
But now I understand and know Him. It's wise for a person to
know how God can be just and justify sinners. Christ has to
be made our wisdom for us to get a hold of that. He's my wisdom. A fool has nothing but iniquity.
Christ is my righteousness. The foolish old man in me has
enough sense to cry out to the rocks and the mountains to hide
from God. I try to separate myself from God. He's my sanctification. He's the one that separated me
to himself. He cleansed me. He made me holy. The foolish,
unable, sinful worm has been bought with a price. A price
I could not pay. He's my redemption. His blood
redeemed me. God sent His Word, and He healed
His people. That's first. He sent His Word. What's that? He sent Christ.
He has the preeminence in all things, doesn't He? What else
did He send with His Word? He sent us His written Word,
His revealed Word. What we looked at earlier, Abram
didn't have. We do. The Lord gave this, and He's
preserved it for us. In black and white, in plain
words, at an eighth-grade reading level, we can get a hold of this.
He gave us His written Word. Peter told us that. Turn over
to Luke 24. You'll be turning there to Luke
24. Peter said we have also a more
sure word of prophecy. That's what we looked at this
morning. We have His Word. This is the revealed Word, but
it points to Christ. It points to Him. Luke 24 verse
25. He's walking that road to Emmaus. Luke 24-25, He said unto them,
O fools... Who did He speak to? Who did
the Word say a word to? Fools. O fools, and slow of heart
to believe, you fool of unbelief, all that the prophets have spoken.
Do you not believe in what God's Word says? You're a fool. Ought
not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his
glory, and beginning at Moses, and all the prophets he expounded
unto them, and all the scriptures concerning himself?" What a blessing
it is. It's not to apply systematic
theology and to try to find Christ in a scripture, but to see Him. This is Him pictured. It's a person that's pictured.
That's a blessing. God must do that. He must send
His Word, Christ the Word, and reveal Him in His written Word
to us. That's the revelation. People
call it revelations. They always put an N on it. There's
just one. There's one thing to be revealed. Him. Him. Paul told Timothy, From a child
thou hast known the holy scriptures which are able to make one wise
to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. The Lord
told the Pharisees, He said, you had these scriptures, you
think there's life in them. What's the difference between what Paul
said and what Christ said to the Pharisees? He said, there's
salvation through faith which is in Christ. Believe in Him
and read in His Word, now you got something. Any healing of a sinner will
be according to that which is written, and it will be according
to the Word of God. That's the instruction. My pastor
gave an illustration before I was born. He said, the written word
of God is like a label on a bottle of medicine. That's what it is. It's the instruction of how much
of the medicine to take, how often to take it. We can enter
into that, don't we? It tells us of what's in the
bottle. We don't need just written instructions alone. We need the
medicine. We need that with it, don't we? What's my job? I show up to somebody in a hospital
bed. Dead and dying. I'm fine. I don't diagnose the
problem. I don't try to treat every symptom.
I just give the medicine. It's the same medicine. It comes
in different doses. Some may take it orally. Some
may take it in the IV. Some may get a shot. Medicine's
the same. He sent His Word and the power
of the Holy Ghost. That's what we read in John 16.
Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it's expedient for you
that I go away. For if I not go away, the Comforter
will not come unto you. God the Holy Ghost won't come
unto you, but if I go away, I'll send him unto you. And when he
has come, he will reprove the world of sin for the first time
ever. When God the Holy Ghost comes
to somebody, you're going to find out you're a fool. You trespassed. You sinned against God. and righteousness,
the Word of God. He sent His Word to show us what
we are, and to show us the only righteousness that is, and the
only righteousness God requires, is His Son. It's Christ. And
of judgment. I know what judgment I rightfully
earned, and I know what judgment Christ bore in my place. And
it's satisfied. It's done. The smoke came through. The light was there in those
pieces. God's accepted him. and I'm in Him. That means I'm
accepted. That's my assurance in it. What if a fool won't eat
the meat? Christ came to this earth. People deny that. They
say, well, it's as if He came. That's what John was talking
about, 1 John, the Gnostics. It wasn't as if He came. Some
say, well, He ain't come yet. No, He has come. He walked this
earth. He came. The Lord sent His word.
His written word's here. He's preserved that for us. He's
given that to us. He sent His Holy Spirit. to give
us life. What if a fool won't eat the
meat? The Lord said, and you will not come to me that you
may have life. Don't do it. God has to send His Son, the
Word in human flesh, and He has to send His written Word that
bears record of Him coming, Him fulfilling it, and He must send
the Holy Spirit to do the convincing. The Spirit of the power must
blow on that He said, all the people that
give me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me, I will
know why he's coming to me. No one can come to me except
the Father which sent me draw him. I'll raise him up at the
last day. They'll be healed. I thought
you said I can't. I thought you said I won't. Well,
it's got to be God to send His Word, to send the Holy Spirit
to dwell on our hearts and make us willing in the day of His
power. I'll be back in a second at Thessalonians. I'll let you
go. 2 Thessalonians chapter 2. Again, what's our surety in this?
Just as Abram. How can I know? 2 Thessalonians
chapter 13. But we are bound to give thanks
always to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord. Recall,
God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification
of the Spirit and belief of the truth. Why would they cry out? Because God sent His Word. He
sent Christ for them. He sent His Word to tell them
about it, and He sent the Spirit to sanctify them in the truth
that He's given. That's revealed in Him. And belief
of the truth. We believe Him. We believe Him. You understand it? Not all the
time, but I believe Him. It's so. whereunto he called
you by our gospel to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus
Christ. Therefore, brethren, stand fast
and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether
written word or our epistle." We have both. Paul was writing
this epistle that we have now at this time. And he said, you
got the word, you got the written word, and you know him, and the
spirits come to you and sanctify you. Hold on to that. Cling to
him. What's that mean? I only got
a sliver. Grab a hold of him and don't you dare let go. Be
where he is. Be where his people are. Be with
him. Therefore brethren, verse 15,
stand fast and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether
by the word or our epistle. Now, our Lord Jesus Christ himself
and God, even our Father, which hath loved us and hath given
us everlasting consolation and a good hope through grace, Comfort
your heart. Establish you in every good word
and work. What's that everlasting consolation? The Lord said He's going to send
His Word. He's going to heal them and deliver them from their
destruction. How long is that going to last?
That's everlasting consolation. That's everlasting consolation.
And a good hope through grace. Free grace. Sovereign grace. Unmerited grace. and purposed
by God, and it shall come to pass. All that the Father gave
Him, He'll lose nothing. He sent His Word and healed them
and delivered them from all their destructions. I know what God's
promised He will do. I know what He has done. I can
see on occasion what He's doing now. But boy, I pray. It's my
prayer that He would bring somebody down to cry unto Him. They ain't got nothing to do
but just weep. I shed a tear. Weep. And there's
snot going everywhere and eyes are puffy for two days. There's
a reaction to this. They say, well, I had 15 minutes
of devotional time. No, this is life. Life and death. I pray the Lord brings somebody
down and they can cry unto Him and see that He healed them and
that they are forever delivered from the destruction that they
set up for themselves. What would be left if that happened?
If we cross their assurance, if we see what he's done. He
did all this. I rightfully earned death. He
stood my place. We're going to praise him. We'll
cry out for mercy. Mercy is given. Thank you. Thank
you, Lord. Thank you. Let's sing a song
for it. Let's praise him. That's what we do it. All right.