We roll back as a scroll. The drums shall resound, and
the Lord shall descend. Even so, it is well with my soul. It is well with my soul. It is well, it is well with my
soul. All right, go back with me to
Psalm 37. This same thought has been on my mind for a few
weeks now, and I'm happy for that. I'd like to think that it is of the
Lord. Psalm 73, you remember, last Sunday, and now Psalm 37,
which are the same. Colossians 3, think on things
above. And I hope we never stop considering these things. I'm talking about things I'm
talking about are the end of all things. and the future glory
of the believer. It may be the Lord's coming very,
very soon. I hope that is so. Look at verses
10 and 11 with me again. Verses 10 and 11. For yet a little
while, and the wicked shall not be. Yea, thou shalt diligently
consider his place. and it shall not be. But the
meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves
in the abundance of peace." Now, as I said, we need to consider
these things so much more as we see the day approaching. What
the Hebrews exhorts us to do, that we Do not sleep as do others
our Lord said, but watch. But watch now this message this
psalm as you. Notice reading it is full of
promises to God's people. It's full of promises to the
Saints to believe. Sure promises from God who cannot
lie. It's also full of warnings to.
the wicked and who are the wicked who are the ungodly very simply
it's those who do not know God those who do not truly love the
Lord Jesus Christ now the title of this message is taken from
verse eleven the meek shall inherit the earth does that sound familiar
the meek shall inherit the earth blessed are the meek for they
shall inherit the earth." Our Lord said that. Our Lord quoted
that on the mountain. Now, we're going to look at who
the meek are, who the truly meek are. But first, let's consider
what the earth is that they shall inherit. It says the meek shall
inherit the earth. Go with me to 2 Peter chapter
3. 2 Peter chapter 3, and then we'll
look at something in Revelation 21. 2 Peter chapter 3 says, "...the
meat shall inherit the earth." What is this earth spoken of?
Well, it's certainly not the one you're standing on right
now. Certainly not this earth. Look at it again. 2 Peter 3 verse
7 says, "...the heavens and the earth." which are now by the
same word are kept in store," that is, reserved unto fire,
against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men, verses
10 and 11. But the day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night, in the which the heavens," that
is, the skies that we see, the solar system, It shall pass away
with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,
the earth also, and the works that are therein shall be burned
up." This earth shall be destroyed. See, and then that all these
things shall be dissolved. No ifs, ands, or buts, or maybes. Shall be. What manner of persons
ought you to be, ought we to be, in all holy Conversation
and God looking for these things now revelation twenty one over
there quickly revelation twenty one. The book in which is told
the end of all things revelation twenty one. First one John the writer says
I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the
first earth were passed away, and there was no more sea. A
new earth. And God told his people, God
tells his people, long before over in Isaiah sixty-five, you
know these verses, he said, Behold, I create new heavens and a new
earth, and the former, that is this earth, shall not be remembered. nor come into mind, nor even
be brought up again. But be ye glad, he says, and
rejoice in that which I create, because you are going to inherit
it. The meek, that is, shall inherit a new earth. And we looked
last week how this new earth will far exceed the first earth
in beauty and in glory. Yes, physically speaking, it
will far exceed the beauty and the glory. I believe when the
people were spying out the promised land, you remember when the whole
story of the Exodus, as we've been looking at, is a picture
of God's people being brought out of Egypt, the world, into
the promised land, the new earth. That's what the whole story is
about. That's why it was written. And you remember when Joshua
sent spies into the land, God told them about a land that floweth
with milk and honey, rivers of milk and honey. And the spies
were sent into the new land. You remember what they came back
with, Debra? You remember this. They came back, two of them.
Two of them were carrying one bunch of grapes. One cluster of grapes. Two of
them. It took to carry that one bunch
of. This place is amazing. It's just like our God said.
And our Lord is the one who's been there and came back and
said, I'm telling you. It's a glorious blessing. I go to prepare a place for you,
a new heaven, a new earth. And the former shall not be remembered
nor come to mind, because it far, the new one far exceeds
the beauty and the glory of the first. And the new one will be
a land wherein dwelleth righteousness. It's a land where God himself
dwells in Christ, God in Christ, Adam I'm quite sure that the
Lord God, the Lord Jesus Christ, walked and spoke with Adam there
in the garden. Certain of that. And it's it,
but but he left, didn't he? And he left Adam. To himself,
and you know what happened? Well, Christ is going to dwell
with his people in this new earth, and he said, I'll never leave
you, nor forsake you. It's a land wherein dwelleth
righteousness. Christ himself will be there. And never leave
us. Never leave us. Oh, he whom we
have not seen, we love, we speak to, we pray to, we call upon,
we'll see him someday. He'll dwell with us, actually. And as we've thought about, we
can't, you and I cannot sit here and comprehend this, and therefore
we're not all shouting, because eye hadn't seen, ear hadn't heard,
neither have entered into our hearts. And no man can tell it,
He hadn't been there. No man can tell it like it should.
Like he should, but he hasn't seen it. He's only read about
it. Like Abraham's old servant that
was trying to go in to fetch a wife for Isaac, you know, and
all he could do, he was an old man, and all he could do was
just tell her about Isaac and said, you've got to come see
him for yourself. But God made her willing. in
the day of his power. And boy, when she saw Isaac,
she lit off her candle. Oh, my. The meek shall inherit
the earth. Inherit. That's all I can say
about the new earth. Shall inherit the earth. Now,
some of you may have some inheritance coming to you, right? from an
uncle, an aunt, a father, a mother, grandparents, or whatever. What
is an inheritance? Do you have anything to do with
that? Does that have anything to do
with you? Are you going to get this that's
coming to you because of something you've done? No. It's because of who you're
related to. An inheritance is something given
by someone who has died and they gave it in their last will and
testament. They bequothed it, is that the
word, to their posterity in their last will and testament. They
decided who got it, who got what. And it says we will inherit,
the meat will inherit the earth. It said, did you notice how many
times it said that in reading that? Since I looked at this
and took verse eleven as the text, that's spoken of three
or four times throughout the psalm. Shall inherit, shall inherit. He shall cause them to inherit. Who's that? Look at verse twenty-two. It says, such as be blessed of
him, that is God, in Christ, shall inherit the earth. Whoever
he blesses, they get the new earth. But whoever he curses,
they'll be cut off. They won't get anything. And
here's the thing, is we get what Christ had coming to him.
He's the firstborn, isn't he? Isn't he the heir of all things?
He's the eldest son. He's our elder brother. He's
the heir. The firstborn gets all the, he
has rights. all the property, the rest get
whatever they get according to the goodness of their father
or if their brother shares it with them. Well, the scripture
says we are joint heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ, joint
heirs with him. He earned it all. He earned it
all, and he just freely gives. We have a generous elder brother.
He gives us half the kingdom. And all of God's people know
that. This is what it means to be meek. The meek shall inherit the earth,
what it means to be meek, meek means to be humble, meek means
to be lowly, meek means to realize you don't deserve anything, meek
means to be not think too high thoughts of oneself. I'd rather
think higher thoughts of others. And this is what all of God's
people think. And no. They know this that Christ
is all. That they get whatever they get
they get it because Christ. Earned it for them they know
that they know that Christ is all and he earned it all and
he has given it all to them and they don't deserve anything at
all and they attribute it all to his goal. Every one of God's
people they know there's no argument They know that they that are
blessed, such as blessed in him, shall inherit the earth. We're not meek. God's people
aren't meek in themselves. We're born proud, arrogant, haughty,
boastful, thinking we're something when we're nothing. But God breaks
that proud heart through the preaching of the gospel, humbles.
And whoever he humbles, he'll exalt. The meek and the lowly. All true believers are meek and
lowly. So God says to them, look at these things. This is written
to all of those who know they are nothing, have
nothing, and that Christ is all. And if they get anything, it's
because of Christ. What is your hope? of eternal life. Let me ask every
single person in here, old and young alike, male and female,
to give me very concisely, what is your hope of eternal life? If you are going to go to heaven, if
you're going to be in the new earth, why will you be there? What is your hope? The Lord Jesus Christ is all
the hope of God's people. That's putting it in a nutshell. That's it. All our hope. So,
to thee, and all, everyone who believes that, I
mean, believes that from the heart, with the heart, men believe
it. Everyone who knows that. Then they don't take any glory
to themselves, they don't think about anything they've ever done
as having any worth, do they? Not at all. And they're meek
people. Isn't that the chief characteristic
of God's people? Humility, meekness. Huh? Christ
himself, as a man, said, take my yoke upon you and learn of
me, for I am meek and lowly in heart. Christ as a man was humble. He was meek as a man and attributed
everything to his Father, did he not? Everything to his Father.
Submitted to, committed everything to his Heavenly Father in all
things. Committed his case, he rolled
his, he committed his way unto the Lord his God. Rolled all
his care on the Lord his God. All that the wicked did to him
committed himself to the judge. He was meek. And so are his people,
every one of them. It cannot be said, it must not
and it cannot be said of any true believer that they're proud.
Because they know that whatever they are is by the grace of God. And everything they have received,
most especially salvation. they've received it of the Lord. So to you, to all those meek
and lowly, he says in verse 1, fret not, fret not thyselves
because of evildoers. Seems like evil has the upper
hand today, doesn't it? Doesn't it seem like The wicked
have spread themselves like a big green bay tree that just. But. There's not a tree on this
earth that hadn't been cut down or won't be. No, Fred, because of evil doers. Neither be thou in this against
the workers of iniquity. Don't envy workers of iniquity
in verse two, he says, there'll be soon be cut down like the
grass. whither is the greener. Several weeks ago you look around
at these fields you see the beautiful grass. Blowing in the wind beautiful
site one. Beautiful week people live on
the coast they have their ocean waves we have our waves of brain.
And it's beautiful to see it. You go back the next day though.
It's all cut down. Just cut down to the ground,
dead. It looks barren, doesn't it? That's what he says about
all the wicked, the rich in the world. They'll be cut down like
the grass and wither as a green herb. All the beautiful people, that is self-styled beautiful
people, will be cut down. Cut down. You're going to see
it. Verse three, he says, trust in
the Lord and do good. Trust in the Lord. Trust means
to believe. Why would we believe men who
are nothing but liars? And not believe God, who cannot
lie. That's foolish, isn't it? But
that's what we do. Naturally, people hang on the
words of men on TV and so forth. And they are all a bunch of liars.
I mean a bunch of liars. Solomon said, money answereth
all things. If you look behind everything,
there is money behind it. If the price is right, they will
tell you whatever they need to tell you. But God, who cannot
lie, has promised that. I say, based upon God's Word,
don't trust anybody, but trust the Lord. Trust the Lord. All you can trust is people that
believe that means to believe, have confidence in it means depend
upon it means absolutely cast your all commit your all lock
stock and barrel life, heart, mind, soul, strength, family,
your future, everything. Absolutely. I'm getting ahead
of myself. That's verse five. Committed
all to him. Trust him. And we noted Wednesday night,
didn't we, how you can, you know, would you, would you give everything
into the hands of someone you could trust for safekeeping? He says, trust
me, trust in the Lord and trust in the Lord. Believe God, God's
word. Believe God. I didn't say believe in God.
Even the wicked say they do believe God. Means believe God's word,
whatever he's written. The world doesn't believe God,
they believe in a God, but God's people believe God. They believe
God is, and they believe God's word, everything you say. Believe
God's providence. It says trust me. God's son. Believe God's son,
the Lord Jesus Christ. And in Proverbs 3, you young
people, well, young and old, all of us, you young people like
me and you old people like Margaret. Margaret will be 50 Wednesday,
just in case anybody might forget. Young and old, we young ones
and old ones, from Margaret's age on. Look at this Proverbs
three verse five says trust in the Lord with all that heart.
Not just your head, but all your hearts. You hold being lean not
under that own understanding. Can a man by searching find out
God under perfection? No. I bring up my dog all the
time, but he's just such a good illustration of us and our master
and he doesn't understand anything that I do. He really doesn't. But his whole well-being, his
whole happiness, his safety, his salvation depends upon him
listening to me and trusting me. If he quits trusting me,
he's going to die. He's going to perish. And quite often he doesn't, and
that's the reason I have him on a short leash. And that's what it said there
and didn't it in Psalm thirty-seven, though a righteous man fall,
he'll not be utterly cast down. Why? The Lord upholds him. The
Lord's got a hold of him. See, the Lord knows his people. The foundation of God standeth
sure. The Lord knoweth them that are his. He has them in his hand. He knows them. That means he's
with them always, looking on them, doing all things concerning
them. He's got his eye on them. He'll
never take his eye off of them. He's literally got them in his
hand, but the wicked, he says, he knows are. So trust in the Lord with all
that heart and lean not that I don't understand in anything. In anything, don't lean your
own understanding. Judge not according to the eyes,
don't judge anything according to the appearance, don't do it.
I say that to myself. Don't do it. The world looks
at all of this stuff and they think this is blessings. And we saw that there is the
fat of lambs. Do we envy fat cows? Oh, a dumb cow, a little calf
growing up, sees a big old fat calf over there chewing her cud
and says, boy, I want to grow up and be just like her. And one day he looks up and she's
gone. Where she got? Slaughtered. Don't don't envy the fat cow. My my, judge not according to
the eyes, because our Lord said that which is seen, everything
we see, our Lord said that which is seen is what? Temporal. We need to write that on everything
and everyone. Right on it if we get some happiness
some joy out of it or whatever but write this label on it this
won't last. We every time we marry someone
and it's the happiest day of their life you know they And
it is a wonderful thing. The Lord has instituted it. But
when we marry them, we say these words, we say till death do us
part. We're going to part with that
person. But not if we if our husband,
if our maker is our husband, if the Lord Jesus Christ is the
bridegroom, we his bride, death won't part us. It will unite
us. And if that husband of mine knows
Christ, and I know Christ, it won't part us either. And it's
going to be better, Tammy, then than it is now. Infinitely better. You're going to love him. You
think you love him now. If you both know Christ, I believe
you do, you're going to love him. Oh, you're going to love him.
But not more than these. Oh, my. Judge not according to
the eye, he said, I got to hurry here, he says, trust in the Lord
and do good, do good. What's it? What is it to do good?
Well, you remember the woman with the alabaster box of ointment
that cast that it was all all that she had, all of her earthly
possessions were wrapped up in that one box. She'd saved up,
it was her little nest egg or something. And Bert, she broke
that and Anointed the Lord, she said, he's worth this is worth
nothing at all. He's worth it all. He's worth ten, and they said
of David, I love this. The people said of David, David
was going out to battle. I said, no, no, no. You're, you're
indispensable. Not us. You're indispensable. They said, thou art worth ten
thousand of us. But that woman anointed the Lord
with that alabaster box of all her all her earthly possession,
saying that this is all nothing. That were all to me. And what
did the Lord say? He says she had done a good work. By exalting me by by honoring
me by telling everyone and the smell of that perfume filled
the room and Christ said this is going to be a. What was the
word, Vicki, that he said? This is going to be a testimony
to her for generations to come. And that's what you do when you
come here this morning, that's what this is all about, all of
this worship, all of these prayers and songs that we sing is us
breaking the box of ointment on the head of our Lord Jesus
Christ, saying he deserves it all. And that's a good word. Do good. Do good. Yeah, we're all a bunch
of do-gooders. And do good, what's that mean?
It's just what it says. Do good. What is good? You have
to ask that. Do what's right. That's exactly
what it means. Trust the Lord and obey him. Obey him. Obey God's word. Whatever he
tells you, Mary said, do it. It's good. His commandments are
not grievous. They're good. Do good. Do good. Verse 3, it says, So shalt thou
dwell in the land. The meek, you see, Darnell, they
trust the Lord. They do. They worship him. They're do-gooders. And they're
going to dwell in the land. They're going to inherit the
earth. And it invariably thou shalt be fed, and did you read
with me down there? We talked about a famine. We're
in that family. And Jose is the one that wrote
about it. He said there'll be a famine, not of a bread. But of the hearing of the word,
and you have to go all over the Earth searching to and fro to
find it. Oh, we've got more Bibles than
ever existed. But no real preaching of the
word. You can get you'll be fed barely
the meat will be fed in time of famine they get a table spread
in the midst of their. If they're just hungry all I
got to do is be hungry and come when I was growing up and this
is just about gone the wayside today there are four of us children. And my mother had three square
meals a day. Breakfast lunch and dinner. Whatever
we want. If I want to scramble that, she'd
fix that. You ladies, can you imagine such a thing? And lunch? It was there. It was the table spread. And
she had to call me and call me and call me. Dinner oh it wouldn't
it wouldn't scampi some scampi little fire. Is a table spread. Come and all things are ready
that's the way it is in God's church every time you hungry
you come the table spread open your mouth you get it feel. The
time of famine and I challenge you turn on the radio turn on
the TV or go somewhere else except not on Sunday. And listen, and
tell me if we can get anything, gather anything out of those
husks. You can't do it. And I see you
people, you're fat. Spiritually speaking. That's
what it says, God's people will be fat. They'll feed on fat things. Wine on the leaves, well refined. You'll be fed. Verse four, delight
thyself also in the Lord. And he shall give thee the desires
of thine heart. Delight thyself in the Lord."
Scripture says, in the last days, men shall be lovers of pleasure
more than lovers of God. That's why religion has to have
all the entertainment. Have you ever thought about it? Why the need for all that stuff?
Because, folks, they don't really love God. It's not God they come
to worship. of Christ, if it were, that's
all they'd need. Right? Let me use this illustration
again. You've got two people being married,
and if they truly love one another, they don't need all those candles
and flowers and all these people. Why are they coming? They're
coming to unite this person I love. They could care less, really,
if anybody's there. Isn't that right? Delight thyself in the Lord.
God's people, God looks on our, He knows who loves Him, and who doesn't. Delight thyself
also in the Lord. Delight in Him, and He shall
give thee the desires of thine heart. If it's God you want, it's God
you get. If it's Christ you want, it's
Christ you get. Now what do you get. You get
the bridegroom you get whatever he has you don't marry. You don't
marry a man for his money you'll soon find it out. You'll be found out and kicked
out. Or vice versa. Marry out of love. So it is with
the Lord Jesus Christ the light and verse Five, commit by way
unto the Lord. Trust also in him. Again, he
says trust. See, it's the same thing. Trust,
if there's true trust. If you truly believe somebody,
you'll commit to them. Won't you? You'll absolutely
commit to them. Everything. You trust them, you'll
commit everything you have to them. That's what this is talking
about. Commit by way. unto the Lord,
trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass. Do you have
a marginal reference? Do you like that? What it says,
commit thy way, it says roll thy way upon the Lord. That means cast all thy care
upon him, all thy care, don't retain any of it. Commit thy way unto Him. Trust
also in Him. He'll bring it to pass. You know,
God knows the frame of His people, His children. He knows them better
than they know themselves. Why? Because He's directing everything
concerning them. And their finite understanding,
their flesh, their nearsightedness, He knows that. He knows that. And all the time we run into
things that we don't know what to do, we don't know where to
go, we don't know whether we should do this, should I do that.
Mind you, he that would know God's will, he'll know. He that
would do the truth. Our Lord said this in John 7,
and make this perfectly clear, the Lord said, he that will do
the truth, do his will, he'll know. The willingness to do God's
will, they'll know. They'll know. But there now are
some things in which we don't know which way to turn, what
to do, and so he tells us just commit it all to him. Just roll
it all on in. Lord. Lord, here's my case. Here's my dilemma. Here's my
problem. I don't know what to do. Lord,
here. I don't know what to do. He'll
bring it to pass. Meaning, either he will providentially
make it clear to you. This is what you're to do. Or
he'll bring it Did you understand that? Make it pass. Now, obviously,
I don't know what to do, and it doesn't happen. I guess I
wasn't supposed to do that. He'll bring it to pass. Verse
six, He'll bring forth thy righteousness as the light and thy judgment
as the noonday. Now, you know this. The meek
know this. God's people know this. God makes
it very clear who is their righteousness. It's clear as a noonday sun,
isn't it? Don't you see Christ on every page, John? Sure you
do. Sure you do. You see Christ as
your righteousness, and that gives you good judgment in all
truth. They that are spiritual discern
at all things in light of Christ. And this also means that they're
righteous. God's people are righteous as
he as he is so are we in this world righteous Noah was a righteous
man. That's what he said. And God vindicated Noah didn't
it before the world God vindicated Noah that's what he said. In
Isaiah fifty seven about your husband's funeral the righteous
perish. And the world's going to know
it, that they'd lost a good man. That's right. Spared from the
evil days to come. Noah was a fool to the world,
wasn't he? A fool. When Noah went in that
ark, the world laughed at him, said, well, he's the biggest
fool there ever was. What an idiot, what an ignorant,
he has no judgment whatsoever, like us enlightened modern day
people. Noah, what a fool, look at him,
he's in that, he's gone into his own coffin. Seven days later,
God said, now who's got good judgment? Says to the world,
this is my righteous servant. The world's going to know it.
This is my son. You're the fools, and only wisdom
is for those that are in the ark. Now tell me about judgment
and wisdom and knowledge and all that. Come on, world, tell
me as you're perishing. Tell me where wisdom is. Tell
me where judgment truly is. Tell me. Noah tried to tell you,
and you wouldn't listen to him. He's a righteous man. clear as a bell. You know, everything
is going to be clear as a bell to all human beings someday.
Clear as a noonday sun, not a cloud in the sky in the knowledge of
human beings, not a cloud. Everybody, He says, every eye
shall see Him. Some of us went to the Fourth
of July thing last night, the night before that. And the whole
time those fireworks were going off in the sky. The whole time
I was thinking of one scripture. Anybody else? There was one.
Anybody else? I was thinking, as the lightning
lightened the sky from the east to the west, every eye shall
see Him. Men and women were going, ooh,
and ah, and it was little pop fireworks by men. God's going
to display His Son for the whole world to see. And everyone's
going to see. The wicked, those that don't
believe Him, are going to say, oh! God's people are going to
say, oh! That's the way it is. And God's
people are taking up with Him now. Not men's pop, guns, fireworks
and all this crap. They're taking up with Christ.
Let me see Him again. Let me see Him. God's going to
someday, OK, here He comes. Boo! Man, I wish I could preach that
like it is, but I can't. We haven't seen him yet. We're
going to, Rick. The lightning, bam, big as Christ. Like the noonday sun. He's here. He'll bring forth your righteousness
as a light. And thy judgment as a noonday.
Now who are my people? We'll see. Who are my people? And he says, and I quit, in a
few minutes I quit, he said, rest in the Lord, rest in the
Lord and wait patiently for him. Threaten not thyself because
of him who prospers in his way. Wicked man. The man who bringeth
wicked devices to pass don't He's telling him, don't fret,
don't worry about it. Don't think about it, don't look
on these things. These aren't the blessings of
the Lord, these are the curses of the Lord. He's leaving them
to themselves. A spoiled brat gets everything. But not a child under good discipline
and love and judgment of a kind parent. They don't get everything.
They withhold and they chasten them and so forth. Rest and wait. Rest in the Lord. Rest in the
Lord and wait patiently for him. Wait. Rest and wait. Rest and
wait. Rest and wait. God says that all through the
scripture. Rest. Just relax. And wait. Let's just see the
end here. Don't get excited. Let's see
the end here. Oh, that they were wise and would
have considered the latter end. Now we've got to do something.
He's already done something. Wait, rest and wait. And we're such impatient children,
aren't we? We're just like little children.
I remember when Anna was a young child, you know, we would be
going somewhere in the car, and you know, just 30 minutes in
the car was, you know, Bert, you got four of them, and 30
minutes in the car when they're young is like an eternity. How
much longer? You know, we get to Boone's Mill.
How much longer? Do I have to endure this? And
it's sitting out in an air-conditioned park, comfortable, you know,
leather seats or whatever. How long? And David says that,
oh, how long, Lord? How long, Lord? How long? Seventy
years. Tell me, how long is seventy
years, Brother Henry? How long did it last? The vapor is gone. How long? Just wait. Wait. And bring my dog up again, can
I? Just one person nod their head
and I'll tell her. OK. My dog used to have it well.
He used to live out on the farm. You know, he could just go everywhere
as he pleased. Now he's stuck in an apartment. And so consequently,
I take him with me everywhere I go. Get him out of the house. Get him out of Mindy's hair.
And I take him with me wherever I go, and I take him, bring him
over here to the study. I call him my study buddy. And I take him home at lunchtime.
But those four or five hours lying in that study, he's, the
whole time, he's rolling over the wall. He's
groaning, like, oh, man. You've got it good. There's 10,000 dogs out there
that love to be where you're at right now. As a matter of
fact, Sammy, back when he was outside, he always wanted in.
Now he's in, he wants out. Isn't that us? Isn't that us? And you know,
oftentimes old Abner acts like I exist to make him happy. Quite
often, and I tell him that, listen, I've got better things to do
than to take you outside. I've got more important things
to do than to wait on you. Just lie down and wait. And it'll be good. I've never
done you no good yet. And isn't that us? He says, wait. Just rest and wait. But, but,
just wait. You'll see. He's never done us
any wrong yet has. Stand still. And see the salvation. In returning and rest is that
strength. Verse eight says cease from anger
and forsake wrath. Cease from anger forsake wrath. Don't get mad at anybody. Why
do I need to hear this? We all need to hear this. It
doesn't take much to make us mad, does it? Just somebody going slow in front
of your car. Cease from anger. Who does all
things? Who is it that, in effect, we
are really getting mad at? Listen to Joe as he speaks to
his foolish wife. Joe was married to an unbelieving
woman. She was a fool. And she told him to curse God.
You believe that sovereign God, don't you? Ain't nothing to that.
Look at all the troubles you're going through, Joe. Ain't nothing
to your God or your religion. He said, you're talking like
a fool. And here's what Joe said. He said, shall we receive good
at the hand of God and shall we not receive evil? The Lord
gave. I didn't deserve it. The Lord
had taken it away. And here's the confession of the meek man.
Blessed be the name of the Lord. And all this Job did not sin
with his lips or charge God foolishness. No, my religion is not in vain.
Everything here is. But my God took it away. There
must be a reason. I'll tell you why. What was the
end of Job? The whole book of Job is about
his troubles. How he started out with a lot,
and he lost it all in a moment. And in the end, it says, the
latter end of Job. He had more sons and daughters
than he did begin with. And isn't that a picture of us? In a little while, he says, evil-doers
will be cut off. You'll see it in a little while.
You'll consider, you'll look, and you won't find them. Verse
11, But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight
themselves in the abundance of peace. And
I read this in closing to you. God shall wipe away all tears
from their eyes. There shall be no more death. That's the thing about everything
here in this valley of the shadow of death.
It all dies. There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, none. None, nor crying, none. Neither shall there be any more
pain, for the former things are passed away, and he that sat
upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new." And he said, Write it down. These
words are faithful and true. Trust. Rest, cease from anger. God's
in control. He's reigning and ruling. Just
rest and just wait. Just wait. All right, Brother
Gates. Turn to hymn number 287 and let's
stand. Number 287, we'll sing the first
and last verse. Like a river glorious is God's
perfect peace. Over all victorious In its bright
increase Perfect yet it floweth Fuller every day Perfect yet
it groweth Deeper all the way State upon Jehovah, hearts are
fully blessed. Binding as He promised, perfect
peace and rest. Every joy or trial, falleth from
above. Traced upon our dial by the Son
of Love. We may trust Him wholly, all
for us to do. They who trust Him wholly find
Him wholly true. State of God, Jehovah, hearts
are fully blessed, binding as He promised, perfect peace and
rest. you