Come, everyone, to this person
called Water. Those who are seeking for refuge
from life, Come and be filled with His tender
compassion. Jesus, the Savior divine, brought you down to the water, on to the river, Come to the mouth of the fountain,
Jesus the Savior divine. Though you have nothing to spread
for His table, though years of labor have all He will exalt you through kindness
and mercy. He's just the Savior divine. Won't you come through the water? Come to the mouth of the fountain, Jesus the Savior divine. Come, everyone, with a heart
of repentance. He got to Him while He yet may
be found. Though you have wandered in sin,
He will cleanse you. He's got to save your divine. Oh come, let's drink water. Come to the river of life. Come to the mouth of the fountain. Jesus, the Savior, is ours. Oh, come to the mouth of the
fountain. He's a Savior of us. And once again, I want to bring a
study from the Psalms. And once again, this psalm is one that only someone can
enter into by experience. know what it is to be cast down
and under a sense of your own sinfulness and to be in trouble
because of your sinfulness. This is a psalm for you. Now, look just above the first
verse there. It says, I don't know if it says
this in your Bible, but mine describes it as being a psalm
of David, and as yours say, to bring to remember. Did you say
that? A psalm of David to bring to
remember. Now, there's a terrible tendency
in us to forget what we need to remember, and to remember
the things we should be forgetting. And I believe this may be the
tension which it was written, to call to mind some things,
and under the power of the Holy Spirit there are basically four
things that will come to mind of someone God is dealing with. Four things, the first being
trials, temptations, afflictions, and God's deliverance. And the
second is our depraved nature. These things are all in this
song. And thirdly, our many enemies
that assail us. And fourthly, our gracious God. Now, in this first verse, I'm
reminded, it kind of makes me think of a guilty child before
his or her parent just before they're to be punished for something. If you had a child or had children at home, you know
you'll be able to enter into this. This reminds me of a guilty
child just before they're to be punished, and we can enter
into this personally before I had my father. But look what he says
here in verse 1. He says, Rebuke me not in thy wrath."
Now, we need and deserve constant rebuke, just like rebellious
children. We need to be rebuked constantly,
just like our children, just like a young child who's always
getting into trouble. Say, a child in their twos, terrible
twos, it takes constant rebuke. constantly getting after that
child. Don't do this. Don't do that.
And we need to find a way. But yet we cry at home. Don't
get mad at me. Lord, please don't. If your child
ever said that, I heard her going through it. Mommy, don't be mad
at me. Don't be mad at me. And look at this. He says, Neither
chasten me in thy hot displeasure, Daddy, please don't thank me. Have you ever heard that? Please
don't thank me. Honey, you need it. And you know,
I hear people, Brother Stan, he prayed rightly last Sunday
night. He thanked the Lord for trials,
but he wasn't asking for trials. He wasn't asking for testing.
Man, the woman would be a fool to do that. I've heard self-righteous,
overly pious people make a statement like that. I don't know of anybody
that wants to be chastened. You? You want God to send a child
your way? Now, if we be not chastened,
the Scripture says, we are as bastards, we're not children.
And to be sure, He will send them. But like a little child,
don't send them my way. I mean, really. Let's be honest.
Do you want them? I don't want them. But they'll
come. They'll come, but just don't
ask for them. They'll come if you're his child. I remember a man that wrote a song years
ago, and in that song he said, Don't spare me anything. Don't
spare me troubles if it'll be what's best for me. Don't spare
me this. Don't spare me that. Well, the
Lord didn't, that man. his wife, his children, just
molded him greatly. And the man left the church to
the faith and all. He wasn't, I remember my dad
saying when that first came out, I was, it's a beautiful song,
but I remember him saying that he was just so, it just didn't
make him feel right when he first heard it. The man was asking,
God will send me a sign. Don't do it. Don't do it. He'll send them. But like a little
child, we say, don't. Please. Don't thank. Don't thank. Look at verse 2.
Well, your arrows stick fast in me. If God sends His Word,
if God sends conviction, if God sends a trial, boy, it goes deep.
If God sends it. We've got some petty problems. That's what Brother Henry was
praying and said, we don't have much to really to worry about. We have some problems, but in
light of what I told you about that young lady in a coma, you
know, we don't have any trouble, do we? We don't have any problems.
Most of us are very well off. But when God sends his, this
is primarily speaking of spiritual conviction, God's Word, God's
Gospel. When it penetrates the heart,
the conscience, if the Holy Spirit applies it, it goes deeper than
the toes. You hear people say, how do you
settle my toes? Oh, my. I wish somebody would go out
of here beating their heart. Oh, it hit my heart. It hit my
heart. Well, look at verse 2 again.
It says, Your hand presses me sore. Conviction of sin by God
Almighty. Trials that come from God as
a result of our spiritual needs are pressing matters, and they
can't be put off. When God works on somebody, it's
a pressing matter. And let me say this briefly.
This is the reason I don't believe personally in pressing people
myself. I just am pretty confident that
God Almighty does that work himself. That I stand up here and spend
a lot of time on the study and worry and moaning and groaning
and whatever and come up here and spill my guts and wear my
heart on my sleeve you know and every Wednesday night and every
Sunday morning and Sunday evening I say everything I know. from
this word. I don't have anything else to
say to anybody anyway. But when God, if God's pressing
on somebody, they don't need me. I don't need to go running
after them. If somebody has a problem, fallen
out or something, I don't need to go run and chase them. This right here is where all
the comfort and encouragement and conviction and the motivation
and inspiration and everything comes from the preaching of God.
And so whenever I get up here, I keep exhorting, come hear the
gospel. This is the only place you can go for help. Come hear
the gospel. If not, I can't go running after
you and nobody else with me either. Now somebody calls me up and
says, oh, I've got a terrible spiritual problem. Great. I'll say, hallelujah. Let's go.
Let's sit down. Let's look at the word and talk
about this thing. But otherwise, this right here,
right here where I'm doing now, This is where you can get all
the help that you possibly need. Well, I got off the track here,
but look at verse 3. He says, by reason of this, of
God's conviction of spirit, there's no soundness in my flesh, no
soundness in me because of thine anger. If God ever convicts a
man of sin, he'll see he's all together under Job, Isaiah, all
of them, said the same thing to Henry. When God revealed himself
to him, when God works on a man, when he works on a man, this
is the first conclusion they come to. I'm undone. I'm worthless. There's no good in me. And he
says, neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. No rest because of my sin. A man in pain, in physical pain,
can find no rest. and one under conviction of sin,
he won't find rest either until he finds rest. This is what I was alluding to
a little bit while ago. We have some petty problems,
whether it be financial or whatever it may be, but we need to come
to the realization that our biggest problem is our spiritual problem,
our sin. These are the problems we need
to have God deal with. And God may bring it so low financially
and physically and so forth until we finally look and see the real
problem. The real problem. No rest because
of sin. And that man, until a man really
meets the Prince of Peace. Until a man or a woman meets
Him, they're not going to find any peace in this world. In this
world you should have tribulation. But you're not going to find
any rest, any comfort, any peace unless you find principle peace,
unless he gives to you that peace that he said nobody can take
that away from you. Unless the man finds that, you're
never going to have any peace that amounts to anything, certainly
not in this world. And so this is what I exhort
and every preacher exhorts, and you people exhort one another
to be seeking after peace that comes from knowing Christ. And
you'll only find that right here. right here in the preaching of
the doctor and his word. No rest because of sin, David
said. Have you ever been in that position?
Have you ever lost sleep over your sinfulness? Look at verse
four. He says, My iniquities have gone
over my head. Have you ever felt as if your
sin is bearing in you? You ever feel like you drown
in me because of your sinfulness? You ever feel that way? Drown
in you. He says it's a heavy burden Too
heavy for me. I wish people would come to that
conclusion. Too heavy for me. To be weighed
down by your sin is terrible. Yet, if somebody ever really
reaches that point, maybe, well probably, assuredly, they will
go to him. who alone can bear that burden
and that sin. They'll see. This is God's conviction,
and they're weighed down by these things. If God's conviction is
working on them, He'll send them to Him who alone can bear their
burden. Take your burden to the Lord
and leave it there, principally and chiefly, the burden of your
iniquity. What is he talking about here?
Verse 5, he says, My wounds stink. Have you ever said this about
yourself? Have you ever stank to yourself? Have you ever said that? Really? Being burdened by a sense of
your sin? Have you ever said that? Look at this. He says I'm corrupt
because of my foolishness. Because of my foolishness. You
know that all your troubles are your own doing. Really? It's
your own fault that you're in the mess you're in, Lord. And
you pray, Lord, I'm in a mess. I am a mess. I have only myself
to blame because of my... Have you ever been to this point?
Surely, I know you have. You come to the point where you
think, I'm worthless. I stink. I'm such a fool. How have I gotten myself into
such a mess? And then you cry out in the day of trouble. If
you'll read through the scriptures concerning the children of Israel,
now that they kept crying out, they put themselves in such a
mess. And then they cry out again, and the Lord saved them. And
then they get right back into another mess. And then they cry
out again, and He saved them again. That's Jesus. That's me.
That's me. I stink, and I'm corrupt, and
it's all my fault. It's my own fault. Verse six.
This is what I entitled this message. I'm troubled. I'm troubled. I'm troubled. I'm bowed down. Scripture says man is born of
woman in a few days and full of trouble. Full of trouble.
If you're like me, you seem to always be in it. Not necessarily,
you know, with the law or whatever or outward open immorality or
wickedness, but just within. Trouble. I always seem to be
in it, bowed down. Lord, I'm so depressed. So depressed. Verse six, I go mourning all
day long. Can't seem to shake my problem.
Verse seven, my loins are filled with a loathsome disease. Loathsome
disease. No disease is as devastating
as a loathsome sin. If you ever get a sight of it,
if you ever get a whiff of it, your own sinfulness, ain't nothing
worse. Nothing works. Nothing will plague
you. You know, this disease called AIDS. Spiritual AIDS is much
the same. It's deadly and it's humanly
incurable. Spiritual AIDS. And we all have
it somewhere. And there's only one great physician,
only one curer, the Lord Jesus Christ. Well, he says there's
no soundness. He says it again. Verse seven,
he repeats it. He says there's no soundness
in my flesh. Nothing in there. Again and again,
if God is working on us, if we're his children, he won't leave
us to dwell in our sin. He'll show
us that we're in it and then make a way, a big way, to escape. I go, there's no soundness in
my flesh. Verse eight, I'm feeble. and
sore broken. I said study we did one night
of this bruised reed and smoking flax. I seem to be both all the
time. Both. He says I'm feeble and
sore broken. I've roared by reason of the
disquietness of my heart. Have you ever reached this point?
You know sometimes you can sit down at the prairie or whatever
and you can say Lord God in heaven, our sovereign
God, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for
your many blessings to us. And you can pray a good prayer.
But then there's times when you can't say anything. You feel
some wisdom. All you feel like doing is, oh,
what do you say, I'm roaring. Oh, got nothing to say. Can't come out right, you know.
And if it does come out, you think, it's in my heart. I'm
roaring. I'm roared by the reason of this
quietness of my heart. Verse 9. Lord, all my desires are for thee.
Here's real comfort. He knows what we need. It's euphoria. He knows a whole lot better than
we know, even. Sometimes we don't even know
what we need. Lord, all my desires are for Him. You know what I
need. You know what I'm asking for.
Whatever good and right desires in our heart, He put it there
anyway. And He knows our heart's desire. This is conviction. He also knows our heart's desire,
whether it be for Him or whether it be only for escape from the
troubles we're in. the words of children of Israel
were so many times, and in the end, they didn't enter into the
promised land. All of their crying out to the Lord was to deliver
them from their difficulties. And that's not a right desire,
crying out to the Lord. The unregenerate man will do
that. He gets in a little trouble and he'll cry, God help me. You
know, gets in a little trouble. Everybody does that. That's not Godless sorrow. But
this man, this man of God here, verse 10, he says, The light
of mine eyes is also gone from me. The light of mine eyes is
also gone from me. You ever feel like you seem to
be void of any good understanding at all? Let me say this because this
is convicting. This is always the case of someone
who begins to, or is forsaking God in the gospel, or becomes
steeped in sin or whatever. They become very unthinking.
It's very easy for anyone else to see their need. But they themselves,
when they get in this predicament, it seems like they don't even
use good judgment. Like I was saying a while ago,
here is all our help. It's like a man getting sick
and refusing just to go to the doctor. He becomes so ill, so
sick, and so in pain, and so enwrapped in his difficulties
and so forth, that he doesn't even bother to go to the doctor.
And somebody else would be interested in it and say, man, you need
to go see a doctor. And this, I think, is maybe the sense here
in some cases, that the light seems to be gone. No light. Void
of good understanding. Verse 11. But my lovers and my
friends, they stand aloof from my problem, my sore. My kinsmen
stand afar off. back to a child of God in trouble
and conviction of sin, under conviction. And this is who this
is primarily applying to, and I hope God might use it to touch
someone, whatever state they're in. But this is primarily speaking
of a child of God being under conviction of each sense of his
own sinfulness, and to be far removed from God's He says, My
lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore. My kinsmen stand
afar off. Nobody can enter into what you're
going through at times. Nobody can enter into it except
perhaps someone who has or is going through what you're going
through. Do you ever want somebody, have
you ever wanted to talk to somebody and wanted to pour out your heart
to someone, and yet just couldn't bring yourself to do what you
needed to. You needed to talk to somebody.
Well, talk to Him. Talk to Him. He's your only source of help.
Verse 12. He says, They also that seek
after my life lay snares for me. They that seek my hurt speak
mischievous things, imagine deceit all day long. It's bad enough
to feel alone. He said even his friends and
lovers and kinsmen and all, they can't enter into what I'm going
through and they don't seem to be too concerned or touched by
what I'm going through. And it's bad enough to feel alone
in that way, but it's even worse to have to go out to work and
be in the midst of those things. all day long. You know, have
you ever been there? To be just, just having problems
within yourself and then, and then have to go put up with those,
you know, let me say it in compassion. They're idiots. I'm an idiot.
But they're worse. They were idiots without God.
But you know what I mean? You ever been that way? just
don't you sit you feel so downcast you i don't i sure don't want
to go out there and deal and be in the midst of that foolishness
today i know you have him people come around the station you say
don't open your mouth i don't want to listen to your foolishness
i don't feel like talking about her don't feel like addressing
don't even want to think about it well verse 13 And this is
what we must do in those situations. We're in this predicament. We
have to go to work. We have to get out there. He
says, I'm as a deaf man. But as a deaf man, heard not. As a dumb man, open not his mouth.
Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and whose mouth are no reproof. This can apply to Christ, who
didn't open his mouth before he was accused of sin. And he
tells us to do the same thing. Don't look quite evil with evil. The Lord says vengeance is mine.
I'll repay. Just hush up. Their time's coming
and we need to see that. Don't need to lash out because
we'll see it here in a minute. But it may just destroy our testimony
and everything. Barbara, you and I were talking
about this not long ago. It's the Lord to give us grace
to shut up and close our ears to all that we hear and close
our mouths to what we want to say. It's tough, isn't it? Sometimes you want to pummel
somebody, don't you? Lord, we need grace. Oh, we need
it bad. We keep our mouths shut for the
glory of God and open them for His glory. For in thee, Lord, do I hope,
in thee do I hope. If you can say this from the
heart, then there is hope, real hope. So the Todd Notter's message
of good hope through grace, what a blessing. There's real hope.
If you can say this from the heart, that in thee do I hope. All around me seems to be failing
them. Help, Lord, the righteous man
fail us. That's all. But indeed, I hope, indeed, Christ
alone is my help and my hope. Thou wilt hear, verse 16, you'll
hear, O Lord my God. Look over Psalm 116 with me. I like this. A man down at Belfast's
church sung this psalm. when we were down there last
week. Psalm 116 verse 1. David says back there, you'll
hear me. Lord, you'll hear me. I will
hear. Look at Psalm 116 verse 1. It
says, I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my
supplication. You know, it seems that some
of our dearest friends. Well, they are. Our dearest friends,
our best friends are those that will hear us. Those that give
us a good hearing ear. You know what I mean? Somebody
who can confide in you. Somebody who will listen to what you say
and won't judge you, won't weigh your words. You don't have to
weigh your words too much before them, but you can pour out your
heart before them. Nobody can pour out your heart
to like you. I love the Lord. Why? Because he heard me. He
listens to me, the voice of my triplication, because He's climbed
His ear unto me, bowed down that mighty ear. Therefore will I
call upon Him as long as I live. He's heard me all my life. He's
heard me all my life, so I know He's going to keep calling on
me. and the pains of hell got a hold
on me, and I found trouble and sorrow. Then in it I called.
I called upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, I beseech you to
deliver my soul. Gracious is the Lord, and righteous,
yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preserveth the temple.
Do you know how I know He sees me? I was brought love. He helped me. How do you say
that to you all? The Lord preserves the temple.
And He'll hear you. You know my, how foolish and
how much of an idiot you are. He'll hear you. You know how
I know? He hears me. Somebody said, an English person
that said, it's enough. You know, you don't necessarily
need your prayers answered. Sometimes it's enough to know
that He hears you. That He hears you. Like a child to its parent. Daddy, would you do this or that? I'll see to it. I'll take care
of it. Forget about it. Forget about
it. Go back to the text there, Psalm
38. He'll hear me. He'll hear me. Yeah, he will. God will hear his children. Any
of you ladies, when your children were very small, you know it's
amazing the way a woman's hearing becomes so acute. When they have
a child, who knows if their hearing gets better? When they have children. Mark, you're going to find this
out. That child in the middle of the night may be all the way
down the hall in another room and you'll be out of that bed
in a minute. You'll hear, you'll hear it. And I did the same thing
when I was born. I heard every little teeth, you
know, pop off now. You'll be rolling over and you'll
jump out of bed and run through about it. Well, that wang didn't
amend it. Am I hearing that word? I heard
him every day, every day. The other morning, last night,
was it last night? Anyway, Hannah made a sound.
I didn't hear it, but I heard Mimi jump out of bed and run
into it for some reason. I didn't hear it, but you know,
God always hears. He hears always in crying to
the cry of these children. And you know, when you have those
little children, And the older they become, the more you let
them cry a little bit, because you know what they're doing. You know by the sound of their
cries what it is that they're doing, whether it's just having
a pitiful dream or whatever. And you might let them cry a
little bit, and say, well, they'll go back to sleep. But sometimes
you hear that cry, and you think, they need me. And that's God
with his children, too. You'll hear us cry, and sometimes
we won't come to the rescue. It doesn't seem to pay attention.
But sometimes now, we'll hear you cry, and he'll come running. Oh, yeah, he will. He's too wise,
and he's too kind to leave you alone, leave his children alone.
Verse 16, and I said, hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice
over me. You ever fled this with God?
I know you have. Lord, if you don't keep me, I'm
going to fall, and I'm going to bring a cross, not only on
me, but on my family, on the church, on the gospel. Lord,
if you don't keep me, if you don't hold me up. You ever prayed
that? And I covered your prayers for
this man and every preacher of the gospel. Many have fallen,
you know, and I covered your prayers. I pray this all the
time. Lord, don't let me fall. Do you
imagine what a reproach it would bring upon this church? Ah, boy. Verse 17. Well, verse 16. They rejoiced against me when
my foot slipped. They're waiting. They're looking.
Looking real hard, waiting on you to fall. Aren't they, Terry?
They're watching you now. The world's watching you, hoping
that you make the fall. I remember when I was working
for the railroad. I remember When all this first
started taking place with the basers, Jim and Tammy, that's
all they wanted to talk about, these men at work. I didn't want
to hear it. I was glad that false prophet
got what was coming to him, but I didn't want to hear about it
because the backlash fell on all...they'd made a blanket statement
regarding all the Christians and all professing Christians.
But that's all they want to talk about. They delight when they
see somebody's post-op or even recreation. Don't they? It's
just the way they are. And can you imagine, can you
imagine the shame? All these years you stand up
for the gospel and you speak out and you seem to be such a,
and to call and bring reproach. Can you imagine the shame you
feel today? You never want to show your face again at work
or wherever. or in the church for that matter. Verse 17, I'm ready to quit. I'm ready to halt. I know you've
been there. I'm ready to halt. Ready to quit. Give up. Go back. Where? I say that sometimes. You say that sometimes. I want
to quit. Where are you going to go? Where
are you going to go to? Sin? That's what you're having
such a problem with. You want to dive right into it?
No. And then you end up saying, Lord, I want to quit and go back
to my nest, but where will I go? You have the words of God. Lord,
don't keep me. Keep me. Keep a hold on me. Verse 18. That's where it says
sorrow is continually before me. Verse 18. And he comes to
this firm resolve. He says, I've got a real problem. See, I'm going to declare my iniquity.
I'm going to confess it. I'm going to confess it. I'll
be sorry when I see it. That's a real problem. See, have
you ever been hooked? Have you ever reached the point
where you become insensitive to sin? And you say, and you
wonder, why doesn't this bother me? It used to bother me. Have
you ever been there? Weren't you when the Lord first
revealed himself to be sensitive and tender to sin. But now, or
sometimes now, you may catch yourself thinking or doing or
whatever, something that it appalls you when you think about it.
How could I? How could I? And then sometimes you need to
come to this firm resolve to, Lord, I've got to bring it all
out and open before him. I confess. I'll declare my iniquity. I'll be sorry for my sin. I want
to be sorry for my sin. Even when I'm not sorry, I want
to be sorry for it. I see that. And we need to go
one step further here, because godly sorrow worketh repentance. Worldly sorrow, as I said before,
over your predicaments that you're in, your finances, or whatever
it may be. That brings no change. We'll
get right back into those troubles in trial. But jobless sorrow
works for repentance. You know what the word repentance
means? Cancel it. Change. That's what repentance
is. And Mindy has thrown this at
me before. We've had an argument or something. I say, I'm sorrowful. Now, I
didn't always mean that. I confess. You can say it. I can say it. But sometimes you
say, and men are like most men I've found, are the peacemakers. And they say, I'm sorry. Just to get the argument over
with. Just to clear the air. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. But you know, godly
sorrow works repentance. Change. You're really sorry.
And you'll do something about it, but you'll lick your tongue
to do it again. You see the difference? Worldly
power brings no change, but godly power works as repentance. And
repentance must involve a change or a turning. And I ask you,
what is your picture of problem? A spiritual problem or sin? or what the old Puritans like
to talk about it. If the Lord shows it to you,
if the Lord shows you a need and shows you the answer and
your problem and all, then turn from it and turn to the answer. Turn to Christ. Get under the
sound of the gospel and And don't go back to the problem. Just
don't. I believe the Lord, you know,
we will. We'll see this in a second, but
we'll fall back on occasion. But I believe the Lord will bless
firm resolve with His glory and our eternal good in mind. I know
Him. I know God. You know God. He's
merciful. He's kind. What's His will for
you? To be like Christ. the glory and grace and the knowledge
of the Lord. Well, if there's a firm resolve within you to
not be bound by a particular problem or indwelling sin or
whatever, and not be in this state that you're in, and you
see a way out, get in it. Go through it. Turn upon that
and don't get back into it. Does that make sense? Don't turn
back to it. It's like a dog to its mama.
Don't do it. He says, But my enemies are strong. He's backing for it, isn't he?
This is us. But they're strong, Lord, and
lively. They're strong. They're lively
and strong. Most of the time you feel like
your sins are greater than can be forgiven, but not so. God is greater, and he's faithful,
and he's ready to forgive us all unrighteousness. All. All. None too great. None too great. Ah, boy. David, hate me wrongfully, multiplied. Multiplied. It seems like the
majority, the majority is not only against me, but against
God. Verse 20, They also that render
evil for good are my adversaries. Now, if this is truly the case, if we're persecuted for righteousness'
sake, for the gospel's sake, you have causes of joy. Christ
is blessed are you, blessed are they that are persecuted for
righteousness' sake. If you're the enemy, if you're
hounded and you have adversary because of your stand for the
gospel, hallelujah, I wish upon you more enemies. Blessed is the man. Blessed is
that man. But I know me, and I know you,
and it's a rare thing. Sad to say, our troubles are
mostly Here they are, mostly for unrighteousness sake, not
righteousness. Well, there's only one recourse
to all of this. It sums it all up. There's only
one alternative, one source of help, verse twenty-one. Forsake
me not, O Lord. Forsake me not, O Lord. O my
God, be not far from me. Be not far from me. I know we
pray this, I know I have forsaken you and gone far from you. But don't do this to me. Don't
you forsake me. You come to me. And the scripture
says, the promise is over and over again. Call on me in the
day of trouble. What does it say? I'll deliver
you. Oh boy. Call on me in the day
of trouble and I'll deliver you. What? I said it. I said it. That's what I said. That's what
I said. Why should he procrastinate?
Why should he procrastinate? Because of his promises. Because
of who he is. Because he's too kind. He's too gracious. God, I love
him more than my father. And because he said, I'll never
give glory to such. I'll never. His promise, his
word is forever written. He can't take it back. I'll never
forsake such. Never. So everybody up there,
And hadn't he always heard you? Huh? Always. Always. But he ended up by saying
this, but make haste. This time, you better hurry this
time. Make haste to help me. You've
got to be very quick this time. And you've been in trouble a
lot of times, you know. And the Lord's always come to
your rescue. But sometimes you get in so deep
and you think, boy, if he doesn't come quick, quick. You know, we read back there
in Psalm 28, I'm going down in the pit. If you don't listen
to me, I'm going down in the pit. Down in the pit. Make haste to help me. Why? Because
he's the Lord, and I salvate him. That's why it came. That's what he would like to
do, save his people. It's a faithful saying, worthy
of all expectation, that Jesus Christ came into the world. He
didn't have to. We weren't worthy of him. He
came into the world to save the miserable, wretched, foolish,
stinking, no good, and That's why I came. And he's always there. Let me close by reading Psalm
30. Let's read Psalm 30 together
in closing. Listen to David's words now.
Listen to this. Psalm 30. He says, I will have told thee, O Lord,
for you have lifted me up." God won't leave you there. You know,
I've been down, oh, I've been down. You've been down. So far
you think you'll never want to get back up again. But then I've
been up. I've been up. And you wish, oh,
I wish I'd never come down again. But this is where he's up now.
He says, you've lifted me up and you haven't made my foes
to rejoice over me. Oh, Lord, my God, I cried unto
thee, and you helped me. Oh, Lord, you brought up my soul
from the grave. I thought I was going in it,
but you kept me alive, that I shouldn't go down into the pit. Say unto
the Lord, O ye saints of the earth, and just think that the
remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endures for the
moment, and his favor is life, and his grace is life. Weeping
may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. And in
my prosperity, in my good times, I said, I'll never be moved now.
Never be moved. Lord, by thy favor, he made my
mountain to stand strong. His face sometimes, you think,
I'll never. He made my mountain stand strong.
Thou didst hide thy face, though, when I was traveling. Now here
it goes right back down again. I cried to thee, O Lord, and
unto the Lord I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood?
And I go down to the pit. Shall the dust praise thee? Shall
it declare thy truth? Hear, O Lord, and have mercy
upon me, Lord. Be thou my helper." He turned
my mourning into dancing. He cut off my fat cloth and girded
me with gladness. It's all to this end that our
glory and sing praises to thee, and not be silent. Oh, Lord my God, I will give
thanker also unto thee forever. Up and down. That's the life
of a believer, isn't it? Up and down. Up and down. And if you're down now, look
up. And if you're up But he's there. He's there to help. Let's sing
this song, 344, Jerry. I must tell Jesus, I like this
song. 344, let's stand and sing it.