Break thou the bread of life,
dear Lord, to me, As thou didst break the loaves beside the sea. Beyond the sacred page I seek
thee, Lord, My spirit pants for Thee, O Living Word. Bless thou the truth, dear Lord,
to me, to me, as thou didst bless the bread by Galilee. Then shall all bondage cease,
all fetters And I shall find my peace, my
all in all. Thou art the bread of life, O
Lord, to me. Thy holy word, the truth that
saveth me. Give me to eat and live with
Thee above. Teach me to love Thy truth, for
Thou art love. O send Thy Spirit, Lord, now
unto me, that He may touch my eyes and make me see. Show me the truth concealed within
thy word. And in thy book revealed, I see
the Lord. Thank you. Be seated. Hymn number
314. 314. I am thine, O Lord, I have heard
thy voice, and it told thy love to me. But I long to rise in
the arms of faith, and be closer drawn to thee. Nearer, blessed Lord, to the
cross where Thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer,
blessed Lord, to Thy precious bleeding side. Consecrate me now to thy service,
Lord, by the power of grace divine. Let my soul look up with a steadfast
hope, and my will be lost in thine. Nearer, blessed Lord, to the
cross where Thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer,
blessed Lord, to Thy precious bleeding side. Oh, the pure delight of a single
hour that before thy throne I spend. When I kneel in prayer and with
thee, my God, I commune as friend with friend. Draw me nearer. Nearer, blessed Lord, to the
cross where Thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer, nearer,
blessed Lord, to Thy precious bleeding side. There are depths of love that
I cannot know till I cross the narrow sea. There are heights of joy that
I may not reach till I rest in peace with Thee. Draw me nearer, nearer, blessed
Lord, to the cross where Thou hast died. Draw me nearer, nearer,
nearer, blessed Lord, to Thy precious bleeding side. Good evening. If you have your
Bibles, let's turn to Ephesians chapter 1. We'll read the first
14 verses. Ephesians 1. Paul, an apostle
of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the saints which are
at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus, grace be to
you and peace from God our Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who
hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places
in Christ, according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation
of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before
him in love. having predestinated us unto
the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according
to the good pleasure of his will. To the praise of the glory of
his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved, in
whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of
sins, according to the riches of his grace. wherein he hath
abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known
unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure,
which he hath purposed in himself. that in the dispensation of the
fullness of times, he might gather together in one all things in
Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth, even
in him, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being
predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all
things after the counsel of his own will. that we should be to
the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ, in whom
you also trusted after that you heard the word of truth, the
gospel of your salvation, whom also after that you believed,
you were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise, which is the
earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased
possession, under the praise of his glory. Let's pray. Our most gracious and forgiving
loving father in heaven. We thank thee for the holy word
and from whom it speaks. We thank thee for the message
this morning and we ask thee once again to be with us as we
come into this worship. We ask thee to be with brother
Cody as he brings the message. We ask for the healing of the
sick of the congregation and we ask for the mercy of those
traveling. We ask all these things in Christ's name. Amen. Him number 228, 228. My faith has found a resting
place, not in device nor creed. I trust the ever-living One,
His wounds for me shall plead. I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that he died for me. Enough for me that Jesus saves,
this ends my fear and doubt. A sinful soul, I come to him,
he'll never cast me out. I need no other argument, I need
no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died,
and that He died for me. My heart is leaning on the Word,
the written Word of God. Salvation by my Savior's name. Salvation through His blood. I need no other argument. I need no other plea. It is enough that Jesus died
and that He died for me. My great Physician heals the
sick, the lost He came to save. For me his precious blood he
shed For me his life he gave I need no other argument I need
no other plea It is enough that Jesus died and that he died for
me. We're so pleased to have Brother
Cody with us again this evening. Cody, we want to thank you and
Rachel for coming and with all you've got going on. And we appreciate
your labor in the gospel, your labor in the word, and looking
forward to hearing the message God's put on your heart. So come
ahead. Good evening, it's good to be
with you again. I invite your attention tonight to Exodus chapter
3 once more. Exodus chapter 3. I'd like to pick up where we
left off this morning. Exodus 3, we'll start in verse
7. God had just revealed himself
to Moses in this burning bush through a flame of fire, and
he spoke to him and told him who he was, the God of his fathers,
the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Moses was afraid. He hid his face. He was afraid
to look upon God. Verse 7, and the Lord said, I
have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt. and have heard their cry by reason
of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows, and I am come
down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to
bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large,
unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the place of
the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites
and the Hivites and the Jebusites." By way of introduction, I want
to tell you how I came about this message, okay? I was already
looking at Exodus chapter three, and I told you this morning,
what first caught my eye was verse 14, I am that I am, all right?
I was working on this with my Sunday school class back in Kingsport
the last two weeks. Well, I knew that this past week
I'd be going up to Kentucky to take my mom to an oncology appointment. We already knew that she had
cancer. We already knew it had likely spread there from somewhere
else. I say that to say we knew it
was serious. I was working on the morning
message. I just had a little bit of that done. And I knew
what verse 7 and 8 here said. And I thought, I'm going up here
just I'm not going to get my hopes
up, earthly speaking, OK? Well, we're at the appointment,
and then quickly we find out her case is grave, OK? We knew it was serious, but we
didn't know she had a large brain tumor. Since then, she's had
brain surgery, emergency brain surgery. Since then, we know
it's consistent with the masses in her lungs, all right? I find
it interesting that the doctors, they just told me Friday, they're
puzzled by it. They don't have all the answers.
And we're awaiting information. They said that depending on what
they find, it could be this, it could be that, regarding a
life expectancy and all that. But we know how this ends. If you have cancer, let's not
kid ourselves. We know how this ends. I'll tell you what, even
if you don't have cancer, we know how this ends. It's appointed
unto men once to die. We know this. We know this. Now, she and I have done some
talking, and we want everyone to know, maybe someone's listening
who's never heard me preach before or never heard the gospel preached
before, we want everyone to know cancer is not her problem. She has a far greater problem. Sin. That is her problem. That is my problem. And that's
your problem. Why do we get sick? Why do we
get cancer? Why do we die? I'm telling you, that little
word carries with it a huge problem. Sin. Sin. The wages of sin is
death. If you're interested, look up
these verses. Deuteronomy 24, 16. Ezekiel 18, 4. Romans 5, 12. There's many more. If you want more, you just come
ask me. I'll be happy to give you more.
But I think it's important that we understand this is not some
accident. This is not some awful tragedy. This is where we're all headed.
We're headed six feet under. Her time may be sooner than mine.
My time may be sooner than hers. Here's what we need. This is
the title of my message. We need deliverance from sin. And that's all we need. That's
all we need. We need to be delivered from
our sin. I would love it if my mom is
delivered from cancer. Oh, that would make me so happy.
But she doesn't need to be delivered from cancer. She needs to be
delivered from her sin. I told her when I was sitting
there with her, either Wednesday or Thursday, I said, Mom, you're
in a cancer center. There are bound to be people
here, either today or this week, who found out I'm in remission,
I'm cancer free, and they're so happy. But they're going to go home.
And they're going to keep living their life, and then they're
going to die. When it's time, they're going
to die, many of whom don't know Christ. And I said, I would not
trade your position with theirs for anything. And that's hard,
but I mean that. And she agreed. It's a good thing to find out
you're in remission, isn't it? Some of you have experienced that.
What a wonderful thing. Oh, but what a wonderful thing it is
to have remission of sins through the blood of Christ. The two
don't compare. They don't compare. I prepared this message with my
mom on my heart, but I believe it's for us. I really do. I believe
this is the message for the hour. I'm convinced. Look here, verse
7 again. And the Lord said, I have surely
seen the affliction of my people, which are in Egypt. Here's the
first thing. God has a people. Aren't you
glad? Oh, I'm so glad. I'm so glad. His people aren't the Egyptians.
His people are the children of Israel, which are currently here
in Egypt. Okay? This message is for God's
people. God is about to send Moses with
a message for a particular people, okay? The gospel is for God's
people. It's good news. Do you need good
news? I do. I sure do. My mom does. Maybe someone here
does. Maybe, like I said, maybe someone's
listening who's never heard the good news. Well, here it is,
okay? I thought of this quote from Brother Scott Richardson.
I never got to know him. I can't wait to get to know him.
I've heard so many great quotes from that man. He said, I haven't
heard any bad news since I heard the good news. Is that how it
went? You know, some people are commenting
on her Facebook post. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
And I get it. I get it, and in that sense,
I'm sorry, too. But she's heard the good news.
She believes the good news. She'll comment, I'm at peace.
It is well with my soul, and I can't tell you how that makes
me rejoice. No matter what bad news we hear
in this life, if we've heard the good news, it's going to
be all right. It's going to be all right. How
are we going to get through this? Here are the good news. Oh, here
are the good news. A terminal cancer diagnosis is
hard to swallow. I hope we don't have to experience
that for ourselves. I really do. I hope we don't
have to experience that for any more of our loved ones. But know
this, child of God, it wouldn't be the end for us. If we're in
Christ, if our hope is in the Lord Jesus Christ, that's not
the end. Honestly, it's just a stepping stone to the beginning.
That's what God tells us. He said, I have surely seen the
affliction of my people, which are in Egypt. Is anybody here
going through affliction? Anybody enduring some trials,
trouble, heartache, loss, grief, pain? Anyone? Anybody? When I look out here, I see people
who have gone through cancer. I see people who currently have
incurable illnesses. I see people who have lost children. I see people who have lost spouses. I see people with lost children,
lost spouses. We suffer affliction, don't we?
We suffer affliction. Psalm 34 verse 19 says, many
are the afflictions of the righteous, God's people, but the Lord delivereth
them, hear this, out of them all. Don't you like that? Oh, I'm so thankful for that. This life is hard. Gabe says
all the time, life for a believer is not easy street, and it's
not. For me, it's been pretty easy,
but I'm realizing it's not. It's not. I'm telling you, life
isn't easy, but life for a believer especially isn't easy. God sends us trials for a reason.
He sends them for a reason every time. Turn to Isaiah 48 with
me. Isaiah chapter 48. Isaiah 48, look at verse 9. For my name's sake will I defer
mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that
I cut thee not off. Behold, I have refined thee,
but not with silver, not for silver. I have chosen thee, look
at this, in the furnace of affliction. These afflictions are serving
a purpose. Always. God sends them to us
for our good. You know Romans 8, 28, don't
you? We know that all things work together for good to them
that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
And we know our God is a God of purpose. Everything he does
is on purpose. The sorrow, the heartache that
we suffer in this life, If we're His, it's to draw us closer to
Him. Oh, I love this. The trial of our faith being
much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be
tried with fire, this is a promise, okay, will be found unto praise
and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. Well, that's
all right, isn't it? Hmm. You know, that doesn't make
me desire trials, but it does give me confidence that the Lord
will encourage me through them and that he will bring me through
them and deliver me from them. Though our affliction often feels
so heavy, God calls it light. You know that over in 2 Corinthians
4? Our light affliction, which is but for a moment. It's light. It's temporary. He tells us it worketh something
for us. It's not against us. If God be
for us, who can be against us? All things are for our sakes.
That's what he tells us. They're for our sake, for Christ's
sake, because of Christ. He says this light affliction
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
Are you interested in glory? Think about that next time you're
suffering through a trial. What awaits us? If we're in Christ,
if our hope is in Him alone, glory. Glory. Whatever you're going through,
know this. Back in our text. God knows it. God sees it. He said, I have surely seen. Verse 7, Exodus 3, 7. I have
surely seen the affliction of my people. which are in Egypt,
and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters." Let me
say this. God sees what we're going through.
He sees it much more clearly than us. We see the pain. We
see the sadness, the suffering. That's what we see. That's really
all we see. God sees his purpose in it. God
sees his goodness in it. I think that was another Scott
quote, if I had the power of God, I'd change everything, but
if I had the wisdom of God, I'd change nothing. God can bring
us to truly believe that. Yeah, we think, yeah. Kenny Chesney's always been my
favorite musician, favorite singer, and I just thought of a song
he sang. I'd have done a lot of things different. I wouldn't have it any other
way, would you? Whatever happens with my mom,
I wouldn't have it any other way. Because God is working these
things, and he's working them together. He's working them for
his people. He sees our affliction, and he
hears our cries. We just had a new baby. Y'all
know that. He cries, and you hear his cries. You always hear his cries. Sometimes
she'll say, I hear something. I'm like, I don't
hear anything. She hears his. Just like she hears Baby Jack's
cries, our God infinitely more so hears our cries every time. Every time. You know, the love of a mother
to her baby is precious. How much more so the love of
God to his children? His love, which is perfect. You
know, we get angry and I've always thought this, you know, discipline's
so important, but it's important that we discipline in love. How
often have we disciplined in anger? God disciplines his children
in love. Always. owe to discipline like
that. What a God. What a God who knows
our affliction, who hears our cries. I have shed some tears
this week. I'm not much of a crier, okay? And I want the world to know this.
If the Lord takes my mom out of this world sooner rather than
later, that's okay. And let me say this. If he is pleased to do that,
though I've been crying, Lord, please heal her. Please be with
her. Please touch her. You're our
great physician. Please take care of her. If he
takes her soon, if it's months rather than years, if it's weeks
rather than months, that does not mean that my cries unto him
And her cries unto him have been in vain." I want everybody to
know that. It's like when somebody asked
Henry Mahan, where was God when your son died? And he said, same
place he was when his son died, on his throne. Circumstances
don't change that. Our God is in the heavens. He
hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. He doeth according to
his will. In the armies of heaven, among the inhabitants of the
earth, none can stay his hand or say unto him, what doest thou? Nay, O man, who art thou that
replyest against God? Who are we to question our God? I've only ever heard this song
sung here. The Not So Boring Sisters. My Jesus hath done all
things well. And that's so, that's so. Some people find praying to be
silly, to be a waste of time. I know my brother does. He was
there with us a little bit and my mom would say some things
encouraging. If she mentioned God, he just goes, hmm. I know
he finds it silly. We don't find it silly at all,
do we? When you tell me I'm praying for you, I'm praying for your
mom, that makes me want to cry. God's people know we have nowhere
else to go. To whom shall we go? We believe
we're sure thou art the Christ. Thou hast the words of eternal
life. We're interested in eternal life, not this life. This life,
whether we enjoy it or whether we loathe it, it's going to end.
We need eternal life. We need eternal life. We need
Christ. One of my favorite verses of
scripture, I think it's Colossians 3, verse 4. It's in Colossians
3, I know that. It says, when Christ, who is our life, shall
appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory, if ye then
be risen with Christ. I pray He causes us to trust
in Him, in Him alone. Turn to Psalm 25 with me. Psalm
25. Psalm 25, look at verse 1. I would read the whole Psalm.
I'm going to read a few verses. For time's sake, Psalm 25 verse
1, a Psalm of David, says, unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my
soul. We cry to him. There's just one
to whom we cry. It's unto him. Look at verse
6. Remember, O Lord, thy tender
mercies and thy loving kindnesses, for they have been ever of old.
Remember not the sins of my youth nor my transgressions, According
to thy mercy, remember thou me for thy goodness sake, O Lord. Verse 16. Turn thee unto me and
have mercy upon me, for I am desolate and afflicted. The troubles
of my heart are enlarged. Oh, bring thou me out of my distresses.
Look upon mine affliction and my pain. Now look how he ends
it here. And forgive all my sins. David was a man who endured much
affliction. David suffered many trials, many
troubles, but at the end of the day, you know what David needed? He needed God to forgive him
of his sins. His sins. He cried all the time
to be delivered from the hand of his enemies, but he knew his
greatest enemy is himself and his own sin. That's what I need
to be delivered from. This sin, this sinner right here, God has taught us there's nothing
we can do to atone for our sins, nothing. When we wrong someone,
we try to right our wrongs. We can't right our wrongs before
God, and it's against him and against him only that we've sinned,
him only. We're just as helpless right
now before God as we've ever been. If I'm still here in 50
years, I'll be as helpless then as I've ever been. More helpless
than I've ever been. We're under taskmasters, just
like the children of Israel. We're in bondage to our sin.
I love verses that read like this. How can ye do good which
are accustomed to doing evil? How are we going to get right
with God when we're evil? And God is good. It's impossible. We can't do it. We can't do it. We're under the curse of God's
holy law. We'll try to keep it, and we
realize quickly we can't. The purpose of the law is to
show us we can't keep it. It's our schoolmaster to bring
us unto Christ, not once we keep the law enough, then we'll be
in Christ. No, the law, we hear the law, and we hear its condemnation. We hear the punishment that it
demands, and we, by God's grace, cry out to Christ for mercy. Everybody's just trying to stop
sin and trying to please God, working hard to get to heaven,
but to no avail. To no avail. I pray it's not
us. We find ourselves, by God's grace, we find ourselves
at that point of despair, that point of utter hopelessness and
helplessness, and what do we do? We cry unto Him. We cry unto Him. Look at Psalm
120 with me. Psalm 120 verse 1. Psalm 120 verse 1. In my distress I cried unto the
Lord. and he heard me. I cried and he heard." Doesn't
that make you rejoice? Sometimes it's the shortest verses
that just speak the most. It's like when Peter cried, Lord
save me. Never heard a more wonderful prayer. Our God hears us, child
of God, and he's promised to never leave us and never forsake
us, never. Look back in our text, Exodus
3, verse 7. And the Lord said, I have surely
seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have
heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters, for I know
their sorrows. God sees our affliction. He hears
our cries because He knows our sorrows. Now, He doesn't just
know our sorrows because He's omniscient God who knows all
things, no. No, He knows our sorrows by experience. This is the glory of the gospel
right here. I know nothing more glorious
than this. knows our sorrows because he acquainted himself
with them, made them his very own. Lamentations one, behold
and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is
done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day
of his fierce anger. There's never been any sorrow
like unto our Lord's sorrow. Never. We sang it this morning. Man
of sorrows, what a name for the Son of God who came, ruined sinners
to reclaim. Hallelujah, what a Savior. We read in Isaiah 53, He's a
man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. He chose to be that. He's the
servant of God. He's God. He's the servant. He's
the king. He's the redeemer, the creator. And yet that's what he came to
do. Look right here, verse eight.
And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians. He knows our sorrows because
he came down to deliver us from ours. He came down and he took
upon himself the form of a servant. He came in the likeness, the
likeness of sinful flesh, and he traded places with us. He
took our sins and our sorrows and they became his. And he died
for our sins. Enduring what we deserve, for
our sorrows that we deserve. Let's consider for just a moment
our affliction, okay? I asked you, you all nodded,
okay? I believe my mom's listening. Mom, let's consider our affliction,
okay? All of us. God came down to deliver
us. What is man that thou art mindful
of him? God Almighty, God who spoke everything into existence. God who reigns above came down. How far down did he come? It
wasn't just to this sinful, godless world. He went down to the lowest
hell to deliver us, useless, unworthy, ungodly sinners. He came down to deliver his people. I pray we'll never cease to be
amazed by that. He didn't do this because we
deserved it. Honestly, I can't even fathom
believing that we deserve God to come down, to condescend,
to endure such contradiction of sinners against himself for
someone like me. I can't fathom thinking I deserve
such a thing. By God's grace, I know what I
deserve. And it's for him to have absolutely
nothing to do with me. And then we fret and we sorrow
over learning that we have an illness and that our life here
might end, knowing that in him we're going to live forever. Moses tells us in verse 11, he
said, who am I? Do we ever ask ourselves that? Whoever asked God that, who am
I that you should have anything to do with me? Like the children
of Israel, I know I complain so much. And then I walk through
these doors and I sing a song like, amazing love, how can it
be that thou, my God, shouldst die for me? And I just, sometimes,
sometimes that just slays me. That God should love a soul like
me, Verse 8, I am come down to deliver
them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that
land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk
and honey. Do you desire to be delivered
out of this land? I'm not just talking about America.
Home of the free, land of the brave. I love living in America. I do. But are a lot of us not
torn up right now just thinking about an election? Wouldn't you
love not to have to worry about any more elections? Wouldn't
you love to not have to worry about the price of gas? Wouldn't
you love not to have to worry about if you can afford groceries,
buy some organic stuff every now and then, grass-fed beef? This land, and when I say this
land, I mean this world, is an evil, sinful, sad place. And it's that way because of
sin. I've come across several verses
over the last several years that I've thought, when I'm on my
deathbed, I hope somebody will read this to me. This is one
of them. This, if we're God's people, this is for us, but especially
for those of you who might think your time is running short, you
think about this. God said, I am coming down, I
came down to deliver you and to bring you up unto a good land. This good land has no more sin,
no more sorrow, no more pain, no more tears, no more crying,
No more death, no more former things. In this good land, all these
former things, all these old things are passed away and all
things have become new. And I thought about this today.
They will be new for all eternity. You say, well, how's that? I
don't know, but I know it. You read how this is worded in
Revelation. Eternity is worded as one day,
just one day. You say, well, one day is a thousand
years. Exactly. I long for that one great, blessed,
never-ending, eternal day where there's no need of the sun because
the lamb is the light thereof, where we don't have to worry
about anything, where worry doesn't exist. Are any of you anxious? Oh, my. This good land is holy ground. Because it's the place where
God dwells. It's where the Lord Jesus Christ is seated on his
throne. It's the place where he went to prepare. It's the
place where he said, I go to prepare a place for you. That's
where it is. That's the good land he went
to prepare for his people. And I love this too. He said,
concerning this place, he said, where you're going to be with
me forever. He said, that's what I would have. Where I am, they
be with me where I am forever. This good land is a place of
perfect peace and rest. Don't you love that song, Like
a River Glorious? God's perfect peace. We get little
bits and pieces of peace. But the peace we enjoy in this
life is only in Christ. There's no peace in this world.
There's not. You know, people are looking
for world peace. I'll go ahead and tell you something.
There ain't no such thing. It don't exist. You can look
till you die. You're not going to find it.
But there is peace. Christ is our peace. And in glory,
perfect peace and rest. In this good land, there's peace. My mom keeps telling people she's
at peace. She's right. In Christ, we're at peace. We're at peace. Even if we get all torn up about
things, we'll be at peace forever if we're in him, if we have him.
Don't you long for this? I don't long to leave here. Again, we're building our family.
God is increasing us. And I'm so excited about that.
I love my wife. I love my children. I love my
in-laws. I love you all. And I desire
to spend more time with those I love. You understand what I'm
saying? Oh, but I long to go to that good land. I do. I really
do. There's going to be so many people
there. I can't help but look out here,
and I've been preaching here, filling in for a few years now,
and even before that, I've been here many times. I've met many
brethren here. I don't want to say anyone's name, because I
know I'll leave somebody out, but I see empty spots where I used
to see precious faces. They've gone on to the good land.
Wouldn't take them back for anything, would we? They've gone on to that land
where everyone there is seated around a throne, worshiping the
Lamb of God, who loved us and washed us from our sins in His
own blood. There's so many people there.
It's a multitude no man can number. I love dealing with numbers.
I'm an accountant. If God said no man can number,
no man can number. And I love what he said here.
He said, unto this land which flows with milk and honey. I
didn't really know what to say about that, but I'm gonna say
this. In Christ we'll never hunger and never thirst again. Never. Forever satisfied. Can you imagine? Honestly. Can you imagine being
forever satisfied? Perfectly. Eternal satisfaction. Oh, my soul. Oh, can't wait. Verse eight again, I am come
down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to
bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large,
unto a land flowing with milk and honey, unto the place of
the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites
and the Hivites and the Jebusites. All of these people that he mentioned
right there dwelled in the land of Canaan. You know what the
land of Canaan is? It's the promised land. It's the place where God's people
are headed. Soon we're going home. I plan
to drive to what is currently my earthly home tomorrow. That's
not what I'm talking about. Soon we're going home. Soon we're
going to endure no more affliction. Soon we won't know what affliction
is. Sorrow, what's that? Sin? I mean, no more crying? No more sadness? The verse that
really captivated me when studying for this in Psalm 119, I pray
we can say this. By God's grace, we can say this.
It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes. I believe my mom can say that.
I believe we can say that. I truly mean it. If God has revealed
Christ to us, it's so. We know it. We see the goodness
God has wrought by it in drawing us closer to Him. Closer to Him. I know I can't hear it tonight.
I'll listen to it on my phone when I leave. Another song you
all sing. I have to close with this. What
a day that will be when my Jesus I shall see, when I look upon
his face, the one who saved me by his grace, when he takes me
by the hand and leads me to the promised land. What a day, what
a glorious day that will be. Let's have a word of prayer. Our gracious, kind, heavenly
Father, We hear your word and how glorious
it is, and sometimes we're just at a loss for words. I thank you for being so good to such unworthy
sinners such as us. We bring one another before you.
Lord, do that which you're pleased to do. Do that which seemeth
good unto you to do in all things. Lord, please give us faith to
believe on you, cause us to trust you, cause us to know that your
grace is sufficient for us. Lord, please save us. Please
have mercy upon us. Please bless your word to these
dear saints, I pray, for Christ's sake and in his precious holy
name, amen. Well, I thank the Lord for that
message. Thank you, Cody. Let's all stand together and
let's sing that song that Cody mentioned, Like a River Glorious. It's number 287. Stand together,
we'll sing. 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. Stayed up on Jehovah, hearts
are fully blessed, finding as he promised, perfect peace and
rest. Hidden in the hollow of his blessed
hand, never foe can follow, never traitor stand. Not a surge of worry, not a shade
of care, not a blast of hurry. Touch the spirit there. Stayed up on Jehovah, hearts
are fully blessed, finding 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 fully, all for
us to do. They who trust Him wholly find
Him wholly true. Stayed up on Jehovah, hearts
are fully blessed. Finding as he promised, perfect
peace and rest. Well, you're all dismissed. We'll
meet again Wednesday night, six o'clock, God willing. Good night.