Good morning. If you would, open
your Bibles with me to Psalm 130. Let's read this passage of Scripture
together, Psalm 130. David says, Out of the depths
have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Lord, hear my voice. Let thine
ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications. If thou,
Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But
There is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared. I
wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope. My soul waiteth for the Lord
more than they that watch for the morning. I say more than
they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the Lord,
for with the Lord there is mercy. And with him is plenty redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from
all his iniquities. Before we begin our study this
morning, let's go to our Lord in prayer. Our God and Father in heaven,
Lord, we thank you for this day. We thank you for this opportunity
to gather together as a people. Lord, to read your scriptures,
Lord, to hear thy word, Lord, to sing hymns of praise unto
thee. Bless us with your presence this morning. Lord, let us not
have gathered here in vain, but Lord, let us have gathered in
here to truly hear a word from thee. Lord, we pray that you'd
be pleased to be present Lord, that you would speak to
us through your word. Bless this congregation and in
all places where our people gather together. Lord, bless your word
for Christ's sake. Amen. All right. Here in verse one,
we read, Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Now this psalm is believed to
have been written by David. And David had certainly experienced
his time in deep waters, hadn't he? And though we don't know
that it was David, but we do know this, that there was a time
when David was surrounded by his enemies. There were times
when David was fleeing. Maybe it's a time when he was
fleeing from Saul when he sought to kill him. Maybe a time of
deep conviction. Maybe a time of deep conviction
for David after he had committed adultery with Bathsheba, the
wife of Uriah. And then he went on to, not only
did he commit that sin, but he went on to have Uriah killed
in battle. Afterwards, God sent Nathan to
David. Remember that? He told him that story about
that rich man that had everything. And he said there was a fella
that came to town to visit. And rather than taking one of
the lambs from his field, he went and took this one man's
precious little lamb. He said it was one that he had
raised up like his own. And at the end of that story,
David was Remember that he was furious. He said, the man that
did this should be put to death. He shall surely, surely die. And Nathan looked at him, and
he said, he said, David, thou art the man. You're the man that
did this. Maybe it was a time, and there
was a time later when that child died. David was, he spent the
night up praying to God, and he fasted, and he stayed up all
night. And those men, his servants, he asked his servants, he said,
is the child dead? And they said, he's dead. He's passed. A time of grief, a time of suffering. Maybe it was after his son Absalom's
death. A time of great, great mourning
and pain. But whatever the occasion might
have been, We know that it was certainly a time of distress
and a time that the Lord had brought David to. Brother Don
was at our place preaching the other night. He said something
I never thought of before. He said, you parents, would you
ever do anything that you meant to be anything but good for your
children? Would any of us do anything that
we thought was anything but the best for our children? Why would
our heavenly father be any different? Would he ever bring us into a
time that was anything but, no matter how troublesome it might
be for us, anything less than what is good, good for his children? David, in the depths of sin. He said, out of the depths, out
of the depths have I cried. A time of distress, a time of
sorrow, a time of need, a time when weeping becomes our
constant companion. You know when a baby, when a
baby can do nothing at all. In fact, the room we were in
last night, we heard this baby and the next was crying. When
a baby can't do anything, a baby can cry, can't it? And you mothers,
you mothers know something of that. When you hear that cry,
you know what it is, don't you? That always amazed me when we
had the boys. We didn't know nothing. We didn't
know nothing. But Abby could hear one of those
little ones cry. And immediately she knew what
the need was. You know, maybe I'd hear it and
it just sounded like crying to me, but she said, oh, he's hungry. Go get him. Let's go get a bottle.
Oh, he's scared. Just pick him up and hold him. Oh, he's sleepy. Let's go rock
him, rock him. I know that cry. And our father,
In times when, and maybe that's the best time when we can do
nothing. We're brought to the point where we can do nothing
but cry. And our Heavenly Father, He knows
our cry. He knows our need. He's brought us to that. He's
brought us to that place. Back in Psalm 34, David said,
this poor man cried. And the Lord heard him and saved
him out of all of his troubles. We read this throughout throughout
the scriptures. Out of the depths. Out of the
depths, out of the depths of sin and shame, I cried unto thee,
O Lord. And this cry, this cry is from
the heart. This is a prayer. I heard Brother
Henry many years ago, he said this, he said, our cries and
prayers in times of prosperity, they come from the They come
from the lips most often. But in times of trouble, in times
of sorrow, in times of distress, in times of real need, prayer
comes from the heart. It comes from the heart. Blind
Bartimaeus, he sat there by the roadside begging. And when he
heard that Jesus was passing by, what did he do? We read he
began to cry out, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And the people around, they told
him, they said, Bartimaeus, hold your peace. Master, be quiet,
Bartimaeus. And we read that he cried out
even louder, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And the Lord Jesus Christ, he
stood still. Think about that. God in human
flesh, when he heard that cry, he stood still, and he commanded
Bartimaeus to be brought to him. They said, be of good comfort. The master called the thing,
and Bartimaeus, he cast away his garments. He left all that
behind him, and he brought nothing to him. He brought nothing to
God. He brought nothing to the Lord
Jesus Christ. And he said, Lord, that I might receive my sight.
And the master spoke to him. And he said, Go thy way. Our faith hath made thee whole. And immediately, immediately,
he received his sight. And he followed Jesus in the
way. What did Bartimaeus do? What did he do? cried unto the Lord. His need
was revealed to him, and he cried unto him that could do something
about it. He cried unto the Lord. And the Lord heard him, and the
Lord delivered him out of all of his trouble. Peter, remember
when Peter saw the Lord Jesus Christ walking on the water?
And he said, Lord, if that's you, bid me come unto you out
there on the water. And the Lord said, come. And
Peter, he stepped out there, he came down out of that ship,
and he walked on the water to go to the Lord Jesus Christ. But when he saw the wind and
the waves, boisterous, he was afraid. And he began to sink. What did he do? He cried. He cried, saying, Lord, save
me. I believe that's the I believe
that's the shortest prayer we see written in the scripture.
Lord save me. And what happened? Jesus immediately. What did he do? He stretched
forth his hand. Peter wasn't doing nothing but
sinking and probably I just picture him out there flailing his arms
and he's drowning. He's in desperate need. And the
Lord Jesus Christ reached down and grabbed a hold of him. And
he just pulled him up out of that water, pulled him to himself. Call on me in the day of trouble
and I will deliver thee. The Canaanite woman, she cried
unto him, have mercy, have mercy on me. And again, we read this
throughout the scripture. You, sometime today, read some
107 over and over and you talk about this for over and over
again. They cried out of the Lord. He heard. And he delivered
him. He saved him. Well, back to back
to our text. Psalm 130 out of the depths.
Have I cried unto thee, O Lord. Unto thee, O Lord. Turn to turn
to Jonah. Book of Jonah. Look at the chapter
2 of Jonah. Beginning with verse 1. Jonah chapter 2. Verse 1. Here we read that Jonah prayed
unto the Lord. is God out of the fish's belly,
and he said, I cried. I cried by reason of mine affliction
unto the Lord, and he heard me. Out of the belly of hell I cried,
and thou heardest my voice. But thou cast me into the deep
and the midst of the seas, and the floods compassed me about.
All thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said,
I'm cast out of thy sight. Yet I will look again toward
thy holy temple. There in the bottom of the sea,
there in nothing but darkness, Jonah said, I'll turn again.
I looked to thy holy heaven. I cried, I cried unto the Lord. In each of these passages of
scripture, we read about, they cried, but not just to anyone. There's a lot of people in here
I could I could cry to and you might be able to do something
for me and you might not be able to. They cried unto the Lord. And each time, each time, He
saved them. He delivered them. We read, Put
not your trust in princes, nor in the Son of Man, in whom there
is no help. Cry unto the Lord. Look at verse 2. He said, Lord,
hear my voice. Hear my voice. Let not ears be
attentive to the voice of my supplication. Remember what I
read earlier, this poor man cried. This poor man cried in the depths
of sin and shame and a time of trouble and distress. This man
cried and the Lord heard him and delivered him out of all
of his trouble. No other place of comfort. No
other place of comfort. Not true comfort. No other place
of health. No other place of rest. Almighty
God, we cry on Him, He's sovereign. He's sovereign in all things.
Look unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, from
God. And there is none else. None
else. Look to Christ. He hears us in
the Lord Jesus Christ. Almighty God hears his people
in Christ. Verse 3, if thou shouldst mark
iniquities, O Lord, who shalt stand? What
do we read? Your sins have separated you.
Your sins have separated you and your God. The wages of sin
is dead. This thing of sin, it won't be,
it won't be overlooked. God's holy, he must, he must
punish sin. He must judge sin. Sin, when
it is finished, bring it forth dead. All have sinned and come
short of the glory of God. We read, but we read, in spite
of all that we read in the scriptures, he saved a heart. The Lord Jesus
Christ saved a heart. He saved a thief. He saved a
thief hanging on the cross. In the midst of being convicted
of his crime, the Lord Jesus Christ saved him. He saved an
adulterer. He saved a murderer. David was
both, wasn't he? He saved him. The self-righteous
man says, I'm not that bad. Oh, I'm not a harlot. I'm not
a thief. Certainly not an adulterer or
a murderer. You need to be careful making
statements like that, don't we? Outwardly, a man may escape
from being any of those things, but God doesn't look on the outward
man. God looks on the heart. He knows
our heart. He knows our thoughts. He knows
everything about us. Turn to Matthew chapter 5. Look at verse 21 of Matthew 5. You've heard it was said by them
of old time, thou shalt not kill and whosoever shall kill shall
be in danger of the judgment. I say unto you that whoever is
angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of
the judgment. Ever been angry? Ever been angry with a brother?
Whosoever shall say unto his brother, Wrecked, vain fellow,
empty headed, you've lost your mind. That's roughly translated,
that's what that means. Whosoever shall say thou fool,
you're stupid, shall be in danger of hell fire. Jump down to verse
27. Verse 27 and 28, he said, you've
heard said of them old times, thou shalt not commit adultery.
I say unto you that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after
her hath committed adultery in his heart already. What's this say? What's this
saying to us? Again, the Lord, he don't see
like we see. We can clean up, we can put on
a jacket and a tie and comb our hair and dress up real nice.
That's not how the Lord sees us. He looks on the heart. on
the heart. Man says this. Think about this. Man says, oh, he has a, how many
times have you heard this? Oh, he had a good heart. He has
a good, he has a good heart. Oh, trust. Just trust your heart. Trust your heart in that manner. His heart's full of love. Don't
we just, don't we just cringe when we hear those things? Hmm. How about this one? Just let
Jesus into your heart. What would ever make a man think
that he would want to set up residence there to begin with?
Huh? The heart is deceitful above
all things and desperately wicked. This is what I'm trying to say. We know that whatsoever the law
saith, it saith to them that are under the law, that every
mouth may be stopped, and all the world become guilty." Guilty
before God. Now back to Psalm 130. Man's sinful. Man's guilty. Guilty in the sight of God. Look
here in verse 4. But, don't we love to hear that
in a sentence, huh? But. Now that's a, I look this
up, I'm not an English teacher, that's a conjunction. And a conjunction
is used to introduce a phrase or a clause in contrast to what's
been said. In contrast to all this, about
our sin, about our shame, about our guilt. But we're going to
read something in contrast to that. But in spite of all that,
there is forgiveness with the. He said out of the depths, out
of the depths, have I cried unto thee, O Lord, out of the depths
of sin and shame, and I'm helpless to do anything about it. I cried
unto the Lord and he He heard my voice. He said, if thou shouldst
mark iniquity. Remember that woman taken in
the very act of adultery. Remember that? And those religious
men brought her to the Lord and they said, Moses said, she's
to be stoned. And he sat there and he wrote
on the ground. And they wouldn't let up on it.
And finally, he looked at him and he said, he that is without
sin, let him cast the first stone. And you know those religious
Jews, those Pharisees, they were the most self-righteous people
walking around. Even they knew something about their sin. They may not know much, but they
knew something about it because from the oldest to the youngest,
They got out of there didn't they? Huh? If thou should mark
iniquity, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with
thee that thou mayest be feared. How? How's that? How's that so? How can my, how can my sin be
put away? Nathan, Nathan told this, he
said this to David. You know, when, when David said,
They said that he said I've seen I've seen against the Lord. I've seen not not just against
Matthew but not just against her husband you're right I've
seen against the Lord. What they can say to all this
must just. This had to take the weight off
of David's shoulder he said the Lord also There's forgiveness. There's forgiveness with thee
that thou mayest be feared. The Lord hath put away thy sin,
thou shalt not die. Listen to a few verses of scripture
here. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a prince
and savior for to give repentance to Israel. and forgiveness of
sins. Be it known unto you therefore,
men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you
the forgiveness of sins. To open their eyes and turn from
darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they
may receive the forgiveness of sins. In whom we have redemption. through his blood, the forgiveness
of sins according to the riches of his grace. Lord, if you mark
iniquity, who shall stand? Lord, you're just and righteous
to condemn me, but there is forgiveness. There is forgiveness with thee.
And I want you to notice something here. David, David talks a whole
lot about being in the depths. Before he says anything about
forgiveness. Till the Lord brings us to see
something of our of our sin, of our shame, of our helplessness. We don't have any. We don't have
any need for forgiveness, do we? We're just contented to just
go about doing whatever, but when he brings a man to the place
where he reveals unto him his sinfulness, he reveals unto him
his need for the Savior. Well, the self-righteous man,
he doesn't need anything, does he? He's got his works, he's
got his tithe, he's got his whatever it might be. But a sinner, a true sinner needs,
we must have forgiveness. We must have forgiveness. Why
do we lie? Why do we resent authority? Why
do we desire those things that we cannot have? Why do we steal? Why are we filled with pride?
One word, sin. Sin. In this flesh dwelleth no
good thing. No good thing. And it's a sin nature we receive
from Adam. We're born with it. It's not just what we do, it's
who and what we are. And left in it, left in that
sin, we'll die and we'll go to hell. Left in our sin, eternally
separated from God. Totally separated from his son.
But. But there is forgiveness. Where is forgiveness to be found?
The Old Testament sacrifices spoke of forgiveness. They spoke
of a of a blood sacrifice. The slain of a lamb. The blood
being being being placed there on the on the side post and the
lintel. I said when. I pass through,
I see the blood, I pass over. Oh, they woke up that next morning,
didn't they? There's that firstborn child. Oh, in Egypt, oh, there was crying
like never had been heard before. But for those under the blood,
safety. The Old Testament prophets spoke
of forgiveness. Isaiah said this, he was wounded
for our transgressions. He was bruised. for our iniquity. David, we read this, he said,
there's forgiveness with thee. There's forgiveness with thee.
Our Lord in the New Testament, remember how frustrated those
Pharisees and religious leaders were? How often, how often did
he just get them just all twisted up when he would look at a sinner
and say, thy sins, which are many are forgiven. I tell you, that one whose sins
were forgiven, they weren't getting all twisted up in a ball, were
they? Huh? Oh, how thankful that the Lord
would be pleased to put away our sin. Where is forgiveness
to be found? On the cross. On the cross. On
the Christ of the cross. Thus it is written, and thus
it behoove Christ. Suffer. And to rise from the
dead the third day and that repentance and remission of sins, forgiveness
of sins be preached in his name. Where is forgiveness to be found?
Christ and Christ alone. Do you still have one Psalm 130?
He said, I wait for the Lord. Verse five, I wait for the Lord,
my soul doth wait and in his word do I hope. What's a sinner
to do? Wait. Wait on the Lord. I read two things here. Cry unto
the Lord and wait on the Lord. Wait on Him. Just wait on the
Lord. After all, He is the author and
the finisher of our faith. I wait on the Lord, my soul doth
wait, and in His Word, in His Word, the living Word, the Lord
Jesus Christ do I hope. waiting with waiting with confidence.
The word that was made flesh is Abraham being being fully
persuaded that what God promised. He'd do it. He's able to do it.
He would do it. He'd accomplish it. And then
verse six, he said, My soul waited for the Lord more than they that
watch for the morning. I say more than they that watch
for the morning. I read some on this and You know,
we see the moon at night, and that sun, that sun comes up in
the morning. What a beautiful sight that is. Several of the commentators,
they said they compared this to a soldier that would keep
watch all night, all through the night, and he'd just wait
for that, you know, the enemy's out there somewhere in the darkness,
and he'd just wait, wait for that sun to come up. safety,
peace. Others talked about, many of
you have done this, waiting through the night with a dear, sick loved
one. You just, well, they make it
through the night. Just wait, wait for the morning.
Paul said this during that perilous voyage over there in Acts 27. He said that during the night
there, they feared that they would fall into the rocks and
that ship would be busted up and they would sink out there
in the middle of the sea. But he said that they cast out
anchors and they wished for the day. They wished for safety,
a time of safety. Waiting for safety, waiting for
rest, just making it through the night, waiting for his light. He said, I wait. I wait for the
morning. I read this September 22nd of
1862. Abraham Lincoln, he issued the
Emancipation Proclamation on that day. And it proclaimed that
as of January 1st, 1863, that all slaves in the rebellious
states shall be then thenceforward and forever free. I don't know when the slaves
got word of that. It was issued in September 22nd. But can you imagine New Year's
Eve? Can you imagine how they waited
for the morning? Freedom's coming. I'm going to
be set free. I imagine, I imagine they, they
couldn't wait for the morning. But you know what, whatever the
occasion was, David says this, he says, he said, I wait on the
Lord. My soul, my soul does wait on
the Lord more than they. He said, whatever it is, I'm
waiting even more. I'm waiting even more. And then
he, then he repeats himself. He said, I say more. than they
that watch for the morning, more than they that watch for the
morning. Well, verse seven and eight, let Israel, let God's
people hope in the Lord. For with the Lord, there is mercy. And with him is plenteous redemption,
great redemption. Why is that? How is it called?
Why is it just redemption? That'd be pretty great. He calls
it plenteous redemption. Well, consider this. Consider the great price that
he paid for redemption. The precious blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. He shed his own blood. Consider what he redeemed us
from. What a great redemption. What did he redeem us from? All
our sin. That which we could never pay
for. He redeemed us from all our sin, the sin of his people. Why is it plenteous redemption?
For the great mercy and grace of it. For the great love of it. For
God so loved that he gave, the great love of it. He died. He redeemed us from the curse
of the law being made a curse for us. And fifth, look at verse
eight. He shall redeem Israel of all
his iniquities. Why is it Pliny's redemption?
the success of it. It's effectual. He shall. He shall. Not he might, not he
wants to, not he'll do his part and leave the rest up to you. He shall. He shall. And it's particular. Who's it
for? All Israel. All Israel. You know, I feel like I rarely
get what I pay for. Maybe you feel the same way. Sam Henry,
Adam Carey's boy, Sam Dorsey's grandson, Sam Henry, him and
Adam mow grass all summer long. And Adam sent him into the gas
station and said, get us a couple of biscuits and a case of water.
And Sam comes out with a case of water and two biscuits. And
they're driving down the road, and Adam said, how much was that,
Sam? And Sam said, it's $27. And Adam, I think just about
went out of the, he about went out of the road. They charged
him, they charged him for two cases of water and for four biscuits. He didn't get, he didn't get
what he paid for. And, um, you know, that's what, that's
what the religious world says of Christ's sacrifice. They say,
And now they don't they're not going to put this on a billboard
and just come out saying but they're actually saying Christ
didn't get what he paid for. Because there's a price left
man has to do something in addition to that. We don't have the means we. Christ said this. This is the
father's will. which have seen all which he
had given me. I shall lose nothing. He gets what he paid for doesn't
he? Huh? He gets it. He shall redeem
Israel. Don't say anything about all
mankind. He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquity. His elect,
those who are Chosen of God, those who are redeemed by Christ,
those who are called to life and faith in and by the Holy
Spirit shall be saved, shall be saved. Nothing, nothing shall
separate us from the love of God, which is in Jesus Christ,
our Lord. Job said this, he's gracious.
And say it. Deliver him. From going down
to the. I have found a ransom. From the depths. From the depths
where we read there in verse one out of the depths have I
cried. All the way down to the verse
a redemption he shall redeem Israel all. his iniquities. May God be pleased to bless his
word.