Good evening, everyone. Open
your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 147. Psalm 147. The name of the message is, He
Heals the Brokenhearted. He Heals the Brokenhearted. Psalm 147. And this is a wonderful psalm.
It's one of the hallelujah psalms because it begins with and ends
with, Praise ye the Lord. which is hallelujah and may our
hearts be in tune that we may praise the Lord while we read
these words of praise and may God the Holy Spirit illuminate
the scriptures for us and teach us to praise the Lord with our
lips no matter what situation we're going through so many times
we forget to praise our great God and King And he's worthy
of our praise. He's worthy of our praise all
the time. And we see very plainly the sovereignty
of our great God and the mercy that he shows to his people in
the text. And when Brother Newell was reading
that scripture and that continuously came up, his mercy endureth forever. Aren't you thankful God doesn't
hold things against us? Aren't you thankful that as believers,
our sins are all forgiven? Others may hold things against
us. But we're not to hold things against them or. Because God. Don't hold anything against us,
does he? Our sins are bought and paid for in Christ. You know
why? Because his mercy endureth forever. Isn't it wonderful? It's wonderful. So therefore, we're to be merciful,
too. And so we see the sovereignty of our great God and the mercy
that he shows to his people in the text that we'll look at tonight.
But let's read the whole psalm first of all. And I'll just make
a few comments on each text, each verse, or not each verse,
but on the verses, except for verse three, that's where our
text will be found. So praise ye the Lord. So hallelujah. Praise ye the
Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God, It is pleasant
and praises calmly. So the psalmist here is stirred
up to praise the Lord and he wants others to praise God too.
He wants others to praise God with him. Because it's good for
us to sing praises unto our God. It's good for us to give him
praise. Because he alone is the one who's worthy of our praise. He alone. So let we who are the
redeemed of the Lord unite in praise to our great Savior. When
we sing that song, I love that song. He hideth my soul. It's
wonderful. We're singing in praises to our
God for what he's done for us. And it makes our heart warm,
doesn't it? when we read those, sing those
words, that he hides our soul, that we're safe in Christ. And so it's good for us to unite
in praise to our great Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And notice
it says here, it is good to sing praises unto our God. It's pleasant. And certainly it is calmly. Now
see the word calmly there? Remember, we've looked at that
in Song of Solomon. That's the same Hebrew word that's
used in Song of Solomon that we've looked at. And remember
what it meant? Beautiful. It's beautiful to sing praises
unto our Lord. It's beautiful. It's beautiful to sing praise
to our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, we who are redeemed by
his blood. Beautiful. Our praise to our
God is beautiful because it honors and adores he who is worthy of
all praise. It honors and adores and glorifies
he who is worthy of all our praise. Now notice verse two, it says
the Lord doth build up Jerusalem. He gathered together the outcasts
of Israel. Notice the Lord doth build up
Jerusalem. This speaks of his church, the
elect of God. Remember, we're living stones
built up into a spiritual temple. The church is his work, beloved.
And the saints praise his name for his redeeming love. And we
praise him, don't we, for building up the church, don't we? We praise
him for that. We praise him for adding to the
church, and that's not the building here, that's the people. When
he draws one of his lost sheep to himself, when the Holy Spirit
draws one of his lost sheep, we praise him for building the
church and adding to it as he's pleased, as he's pleased. And
we praise him because he is the one who quarries every stone.
And we're living stones. It's Him who quarries the stones,
beloved. It's He who does it. And it's
He who, it's God who puts us on the one foundation. And that's
Jesus Christ. That's Jesus Christ, our Lord.
Notice here too, it says, He gathereth together the outcasts
of Israel. Let the redeemed of the Lord
praise Him. once outcasts, dead in trespasses
and sins. When we fell in Adam, we come
into this world in our natural state, dead in trespasses and
sins, outcasts of Israel. But we've been gathered to Christ
by the Holy Spirit of God. And has not God given us a special
personal song of thanksgiving? We praise the Lord. We praise
the Lord for what he's done. Unsaved folks don't praise the
Lord. I know that. Before the Lord saved me, I didn't
praise him at all. Did you? We didn't praise him at all,
did we? Not at all. We may have praised the God of
our imagination, which was no God at all. After the Lord saves
us when we're born again of the Holy Spirit of God, we can't
do nothing but praise him, can we? And we are so thankful. Look at verse three, which will
be our text tonight. He healed the broken in heart
and binded up their wounds. We'll look at that more in depth
and then look at verse four. He tells the number of the stars. He called them all by their names. He who heals the broken hearts
in verse three, counts the stars and calls them by name. As men call their servants and
send them on their way, what sovereignty is here before us?
This speaks of the absolute sovereignty of our great God. Can we, who
are the redeemed of the Lord, look up at a starry sky at night? You ever been in a place, I know,
Brother John, you and Sister Ruth live in a place where there's
not a lot of light, so you can look up and you just see that
starry host, and it just takes your breath away. But can we
count those stars? No way. But the scripture declares,
he who counts the stars, the number of the stars, he called
them all by their names. This is our Lord. This is our Lord. And when we
look up at a starry night like that, when it's a clear starry
night, can we do anything but praise God when we see that?
It fills you with awe. Take a minute one night on a
dark night and just look up. and be in awe and wonder that
our God just spoke all that into existence. And that He's numbered
them all. And that's just a little bit
of what we're seeing, right? He counts them. Oh, how great our God is. And
can we who are the redeemed go a time without praising He who
is our great Physician, the Lord Jesus Christ? Not at all. Not
at all. Look what the psalm continues
in verse 4. Great is our Lord and of great power. His understanding
is what? Infinite. We're finite beings,
aren't we? Our understanding is very limited
and we only know what we know from this blessed book because
God reveals it to us. The Holy Spirit of God reveals
us and he teaches us and we grow in grace and the knowledge and
truth of the Lord Jesus Christ. But the scriptures declare right
here that our God, our God is great. He's great and he's a
great power. There's no power that rivals
the power of our God. None at all. And his understanding
is is infinite. So Beloved of God, let we who
are redeemed praise Him for who He is, Lord. And praise Him for
His greatness. And praise Him for His almighty
power. And praise Him for His infinite wisdom. And it's His
infinite wisdom which put together the plan of salvation, isn't
it? And included, the believer says,
me. So we praise Him for His infinite
wisdom, don't we? We praise Him for that. Glory
be to God that He included me. May God reveal himself to us
so much to our hearts that our lips will be filled with praise
for for he who for for who he is and what he's done. And may
we worship him and adore him here at the church and at home
and at the workplace, no matter where we are, no matter where
we are. Look at verse six. The Lord lifted
up the meek. He cast the wicked down to the
ground and note Note what he does, he lifts up the meek. He
lifts up the meek. What does he lift them up out
of? Well, he lifts them up out of the pit of sin that they were
in. He picks them off the dunghill. And that's where we were. And
what does he do? He sets upon the rock. He sets us upon the rock, the
Lord Jesus Christ. He lifts us from our broken heartedness. Have you ever heard heartache? It's the Lord who took us out
of that. We know that. He takes us out
of that broken heartedness and we go through it for a time.
And when He reveals to us who He is, what happens? When God
reveals Himself to us before we're saved, what happens? Our
hearts are broken. Our hearts are broken over our
sin. Our hearts are broken over what we are. And our hearts are
broken that we so flippantly used His name in
vain. And so flippantly had no care
for Him at all. But, oh beloved, He lifts up
the meek. He lifts us up from His people, from our brokenheartedness,
when He reveals to us who He is and what we are before Him
and what He's done for us. But notice the opposite. He cast
down the wicked to the ground, to the pit. And this shows that
our God is all-powerful. He is absolutely sovereign. Men
shake their fist at God. while they hear your hair breathing
on this earth. But there come a day when they're
all going to bow. Every knee should bow. And every
tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. So he lift up
the meek and he makes us meek, doesn't he? We're not meek in
our natural state. If you think you're meek, you're
not meek. But he makes us meek, doesn't he? He does. He breaks
us. He breaks us, beloved. Look what
it says here in verse seven sing unto the lord with thanksgiving.
Oh, we have so much to be thankful for beloved so much redemption
through his blood justification before the law of god Clothed
in the perfect righteousness of christ it goes on and on all
spiritual blessings in christ It says sing praise upon the
harp unto our god now note. It says there unto our god take
note of the The possessive pronoun here, are, are, or my God, my
God. The believer proclaims God is
my God, is my God. And he proclaims that with all
the blood-washed saints, that God is our God, is my God. Is He yours? Is it yours? Oh, I pray that he would make
it so if he's not. So the believer cries this out
in Christ. This God is our God. Again, can
you say he is your God? If he is your God, then sing
unto the Lord with thanksgiving. Sing unto the Lord with Thanksgiving.
Sing praise upon the harp unto our God. And notice verses eight
and nine who covered the heavens with clouds, who prepared rain
for the earth, who make it the grass to grow upon the mountains.
He giveth to the beast his food and to the young ravens which
cry. Now the psalmist here ascribes everything to God, doesn't he?
Everything. And let we who are redeemed do
the same. It is He who covers the heavens with the clouds. It is He who prepares the rain
for the earth. It is He who makes the grass
to grow upon the mountains. It is He who gives the beasts
of the earth their food. It is He who gives us all that
we have. And think of this, if He does
this, what's mentioned here, covering the heavens with the
clouds and preparing the rain for the earth and makes the grass
to grow upon the mountains and give it, give it to the beast,
his food and to the young weight ravens which cry, how much more
will he care for we who are his blood bought people? And therefore we sing praises
to our great God, don't we? We sing praises to him. He's
everything to us. He's everything to us. Look at
verses 10 and 11. He delighteth not in the strength
of the horse. He taketh not pleasure in the
legs of a man. The Lord taketh pleasure in them
that fear him and those that hope in his mercy. Now, kings
of olden times during biblical times rejoiced in the strength
of their soldiers, or they rejoiced in the strength of their horses,
the strength of their armies. But God has no delight in mere
physical strength. It's nothing to him. It's nothing. He takes pleasure in spiritual
things. He takes pleasure in his son,
and he takes pleasure in his son's bride, those who he gave
to Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world. The Lord taketh pleasure in them
that fear him and those that hope in his mercy. Look at verse 12. Praise the
Lord, O Jerusalem, praise thy God, O Zion. And here is an exhortation
for the church, Jerusalem and Zion, an exhortation for the
church to praise our great God, to praise our Redeemer, to praise
our Savior, for He alone is Lord. He alone is God. And then let's
read verses 13 to 20. For he hath strengthened the
bars of thy gates. He hath blessed thy children
within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders,
and filleth thee with the finest of wheat. He sendeth forth his
commandment upon earth. His word runneth very swiftly.
He giveth snow like woe. He scattereth the hoarfrost like
ashes. He casteth forth his ice like
morsels. Who can stand before his cold? He sendeth out his word and melteth
them. He causeth his wind to blow,
and the waters flow. He showeth his word unto Jacob,
his statues and judgments unto Israel. He hath not dwelt so
with any nation, and as for his judgment, they have not known
them. Praise ye the Lord. So note in verse 20, it says
here, he hath not dwelt or dealt so with any nation. He revealed
his statutes and his judgments to Israel and Israel alone, passing
by all the other nations. And he has done this also to
spiritual Israel. We are his people, we are his
blood bought chosen people, and we can truly say that it is the
Lord who hath gathered the assembly of the elect from every tribe,
tongue, kindred, and nation, and that God has not dwelt so
with any nation. And note the psalm ends on the
same key note that it began with. Praise ye the Lord, which means
hallelujah. Now let's read verses three to
five of this psalm. and we will see the condescension
and grandeur of how great our God is. He who holds all things
together, he who governs all things visible and invisible,
stoops over broken hearts, and with his tender hands closes
up the gaping wounds and binds it by his mercy and by his grace. Think of the Good Samaritan.
Remember our study in that portion of scripture? And that picture's
the Lord Jesus Christ pouring the oil and the wine into our
wounds. The great physician. What love
is here manifested? What condescension is here on
display? The maker of the stars is at
the same time the physician for the brokenhearted. and wounded
spirits of his people. He who has all power, great power,
the scripture declares, and he whose understanding is infinite,
condescends to heal the brokenhearted and to bind up their wounds.
Notice verse 3 to 5. He healeth the broken in heart
and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number of the
stars. He calleth them all by their
names. Great is our Lord and of great
power. His understanding is infinite. The church is gathered in by
He who rules over all things. In note in verse 2, the Lord
doth build up Jerusalem. He gathereth together the outcasts
of Israel, those who are the broken in heart, Those who have
had their sin revealed to them, He gathers them. He heals them. And He is pleased to gather together
a people who have had Christ revealed to them by the Holy
Spirit of God. We've had revealed to us the
guilt of our sin. And we've had revealed to us
our absolute inability to save ourselves. in our absolute unworthiness
of the grace of God in Christ, which is bestowed upon us. And
the church needs to be built up with men and women who have
been pulled down, and that's what he does, doesn't he? I remember
one old grace preacher telling me the Lord, the Lord tears us
down and builds us up in Christ. And that's what he does. Each
time we hear a gospel message, Each time the balm of Gilead
is applied to us. It's wonderful. And so our church
is built up of men and women who've been pulled down and shown
our need of a Savior. And this is who the gospel preacher
proclaims, the Lord Jesus Christ, the only Savior of sinners. And
I can't tell you about somewhere I've never been. He who has never been in the
dungeon of their own sin, He who has never been in the abyss
of their own sin. He who has never felt as if he
were cast from the sight of God. How can he comfort many who are
outcasts? And who are bound with fetters
of sin and despair? And may the Lord break many hearts
and then bind them up. That he may build up the church
and abide. We'll look at this text and we'll
first see the patients and their sickness. He healed the broken
in heart. Then we'll consider the physician
and his medicine. Well, we turn our eyes to the
Lord Jesus Christ. He who does this healing work.
Then I'd like us to consider the testimonial to the great
physician, which we have in this verse. He healeth the broken
in heart. He does it. and bindeth up their
wounds. Let us first then consider the
patients and their sickness. He healeth the broken in heart
and bindeth up their wounds. Our text proclaims that our great
God heals those who are broken in heart. Now many people have
died from a broken heart and some people live with a broken
heart through various circumstances of life. And we all go through
things in life that breaks our hearts, don't we? We do. It's
heartbreaking some of the things we go through. But the Lord always
takes care of us, doesn't He? He always binds up our hearts.
And there are many sorts of broken hearts, and Christ is good at
healing them all. We who are the patients of the
Great Physician. There are hearts that have been
broken through sorrow. There are hearts that have been
broken through disappointment. There are hearts that have been
broken through bereavement. Hearts are broken in, one preacher
said, 10,000 different ways. And in this world, we live in
a heart-breaking world, don't we? We do. It's a world of sorrow. And we go to a land where there
is no sorrow, and no sickness, and no pain. Rejoice, O beloved, and praise
God, because Christ is the only one who can heal all manner of
heartbreaks. He's the only one. He's the great
physician. Our great God and King heals
those whose hearts are broken by sin. Has your heart been broken
by sin? Has God revealed to you your
sinfulness, and does He continue to reveal your great need for
Him? When the believer is born again,
then our heart grieves over our sins, doesn't it? We say, woe is me, for I have
done the succeeding great evil. Our eyes are opened up. Remember
Isaiah? Woe is me. The first few chapters there,
he was saying, woe is he, and woe is he, and woe is he. And
then when he saw the Lord, he said, woe is me. And that's what happens. When
God reveals Himself to us, we become aware that we're sinners
before the Holy God of the universe. And it breaks our hearts, doesn't
it? It does. When we look back at who we were
and how we spoke of Christ before He saved us, it breaks our hearts.
When we look back at how we denied who He was. He is all-powerful. And some
may have denied His existence. But none of us had an understanding
of who he was before he revealed himself to us. And when we look
back at that, it breaks our hearts. Brother Newell, you and I have
talked about this. But praise be to God. He brings
these things home to us and binds up our broken hearts, doesn't
he? He heals our hearts that are
broken from sin. You ever think of this sin is
now the enemy of the believer when it was once our friend. We didn't care about sin, did
we before? Now it's our enemy, isn't it? Do you do you sin more
than you want to? Yeah. Do you hate your own sin? Yeah. You didn't before I didn't before.
When we pass to the other side, when the Lord calls us home,
we're going to be rid of sin, beloved. We'll be rid of sin,
man. And what a great day that'll
be for we who believe. When we pass to the other side,
we'll be free from sin. And we're we're praise the Lord
Jesus Christ for eternity for delivering us delivering our
eternal souls for redeeming us and paying the price for our
sin that was demanded of God for for saving our eternal souls
by his death upon Calvary's cross for us. And marvel at the fact. That we once loved sin and now
we hate it. Marvel at that. That's a work
of God. That's a work of God. And we
desire to be rid of it, don't we? You desire to be rid of sin?
We do, don't we? We do. Praise the Lord Jesus
Christ if you desire it, because it's He who's given you that
heart to desire. He's bound up the broken heart, given us a
new heart, isn't He? A new spirit. Now when someone is broken hearted,
now think of this too, when someone's broken hearted, it's natural
for man to avoid them. I've experienced this. Because
you know why? Because the world wants everything
to be positive and rosy. They really do. They have a delusional
view of things. You ever hear about people always
want things to be positive? Gotta be positive, positive,
positive. Well some things aren't positive, hey. Right? Some things are hard, aren't
they? Some things are tough. And we experience those things
in this life, don't we? So the reality is sometimes we're
down. Sometimes we're depressed. Sometimes
we're hurt and no one else knows we're hurting. That's a reality. But marvel
at this. Marvel at the condescension of
God. God doesn't do what man does. He heals the broken hearted people. His broken hearted people. He goes where they are. Did you seek the Lord or did
He come to you? He came to us, didn't He? Turn
if you would to Luke chapter 15. Luke chapter 15. He goes
to where his people are. He goes to where his lost sheep
are. And he reveals himself to them. And he becomes our comforter
and our healer, doesn't he? Look at this over in Luke chapter
15. It ties right in with this. Luke 15 verses 1 to 7. Then drew near unto him all the
publicans and sinners for to hear him, all the outcasts of
Israel. The ones who the religious Pharisees
wanted nothing to do with. I see myself here. And the Pharisees and the scribes
murmured saying, this man receiveth sinners and eateth with them.
Now, they said that despising him with their words. This wasn't
merely, oh, this man. No, they said it's seething in
anger. They despised him. And he spake this parable unto
them, saying, What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he
lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness
and go after that which is lost until he find it? And when he
hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders rejoicing. Now
remember, I mentioned this before, the Lord puts his lost sheep
on his shoulders so we can gaze into the eyes, the face of the
Savior. I remember hearing, and I think
I told you this before, but it's worth repeating. Somebody one
time in religion told me, the Lord breaks the legs of his sheep
so they can't wander again. No, the Lord don't maim his people,
does he? No, not at all. He's a gentle
shepherd. He cares for his sheep. And know
what he places? The poor lost lamb on his shoulders. Now it's a found lamb, isn't
it? He's found it. And who did the seeking? He came. He comes to the broken hearted.
He comes to the broken heart. And when he has found it, he
layeth it on the shoulders, what rejoicing. And when he cometh
home, he calleth together his friends and neighbors and saying
unto them, rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep, which
was lost. I say unto you that likewise
joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than
over ninety and nine just persons which need no repentance." So
is it any wonder that we who have had our hearts broken by
our sin being revealed to us, that we who are born again by
the Holy Spirit of God, is it any wonder that we who are the
redeemed, we who are purchased by the blood of Christ, Is it
any wonder we say with the psalmist, praise you the Lord. Praise you
the Lord. He's wonderful. It's wonderful. And God shows here the greatness
of His power and the wonders of His wisdom by fetching men
and women out of the lowest dungeon, the dungeon of sin which we were
in, shut into the dungeon of sin and despair. And he frees
us. He frees us. Oh, what a great God. What a
great Savior. And my prayer is if you're here
and you do not know Christ, or if you listen to the sermon and
you do not know Christ, that God may reveal himself to you. to show you your desperate need
for Christ and that He'd make you well in the day of His power.
Because He alone is the Great Physician. He alone is the one
who heals the brokenhearted. He alone is the only Savior of
sinners. Notice the fifth verse. Great
is our Lord and of great power. His understanding is infinite. Only He who can heal the broken
in heart is God. He reveals to us our sinfulness
and we who are born again are broken hearted over it and it's
God who delights to come with His omnipotence and set the burden
one free. He has all power to do so. We
can't save ourselves. We can't even heal our broken
heartedness and we can't heal anybody else's broken heartedness.
But He can. He can. And it takes great wisdom
to comfort a brokenhearted one. It's not an easy task, and we
quickly become aware of our inability to comfort one who is heartbroken
and cast down. But God can do this. God can
do this. That's why we say when we think
the Lord's working on someone's heart, we say, just leave him
alone. Just leave him alone. See, religion
tries to lead them in a prayer and they can they can make a
confession. Just leave them alone. Let God deal with them. Let God deal with them. All we do is declare. The great
things that Christ has done. And we let God do the work. He's
the only one who can say he's the only one who can heal the
broken hearted. He was broken hearted. He or she is broken
hearted over our sin. Only God can do this. And He's
arranged that one person of the Sacred Trinity, the Holy Trinity,
the Holy Spirit of God undertakes this task. He's our Great Comforter,
isn't He? And He performs that which no
man can do. He regenerates us. He regenerates
us. We're born again by the Holy
Spirit of God. And He draws us to the Savior,
the One who is the Great Physician. And the whole Trinity is in action
in the salvation of a sinner. and it is only God who can heal
the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds. Let us now consider
the second point, the physician and his medicine. He healeth
the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds. Who is this
that heals the broken in heart? Turn, if you would, to Luke,
chapter 4. Luke, chapter 4. And let us consider that Jesus
Christ was anointed of God for this work. The scriptures declare
this of Him. And remember the words of our
Master we look at here in Luke chapter 4 verses 18 and 19. The Spirit of the Lord is upon
me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.
He has sent me to what? Heal the brokenhearted. To preach
deliverance to the captives. We're captive by our sins and
recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty. to set them
free, them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year
of the Lord. And this is what he came here
to do. This is what he came here to do. This was his purpose.
This was his mission, his great condescension, leaving the glories
and splendors of heaven to preach the gospel and to heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives. And all we were held
captive by our sin to save his people from their sins. and to
give his people eyes to see and ears to hear and hearts to love
him and praise him. And he was anointed by God. He
is God incarnate in the flesh. And he is the only physician
who can heal the broken heart. And he was sent on purpose to
do this work. He was sent on purpose to do
this work. Look in verse 18 of Luke chapter
4. The spirit of the Lord is upon
me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel of the
poor. He hath sent me. He sent. He sent of God. To what? To heal the brokenhearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight
to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach
the acceptable year of the Lord. He sent the Lord. God sent his
son. And if Christ does not heal the
brokenhearted, he will not fulfill the mission for which he came
from heaven. And this is why the words of
Christ are so precious. The words of Christ on the cross
are so precious. When he cries out, it is finished. This is why it's so precious
to the believer. And we who are redeemed praise him for his life
and for his death. Because it is He, the Great Physician,
who has healed us. And we're washed clean from our
sins by His precious blood. Let's go back, or let's go over
to Psalm 69. Psalm 69. The Lord knows what
it is to have a broken heart. Look at Psalm 69, verses 20 and
21. Look at this. He went as low
as we've ever been and deeper than we can ever go. Think of
this. He cried this from the cross.
My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? The sinless one
cried that from the cross. Notice in Psalm 69, verses 20
and 21. Reproach hath broken my heart,
and I am full of heaviness, and I looked for some to take pity,
but there was none, none, and for comforters, but I found none.
This is speaking of Christ on the cross. They gave me also
gall for my meat, and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.
Our Lord knows what we go through. He's the sinless one. But yet, He's a man of sorrows and acquainted
with grief. And He was tempted in all points,
yet without sin. God incarnate in the flesh. In all our afflictions, He was
afflicted. incline your ear to this precious
truth that for a broken heart there's
no physician like Christ no physician like Christ and he is the only medicine for
those who spiritually have had their hearts broken over their
sin there's no other physician but Christ no other medicine
and he is the great physician and there's never been a physician
like him And He's healed many, hasn't
He? A number that no man can number. Some say, I'm too evil,
too wicked, too much of a sinner to be healed by the Great Physician. Turn with me, if you would, to
John chapter 6. John chapter 6. And note the words of the Great
Physician. Note the words of He who came
to heal the brokenhearted. Look at John chapter 6 verse
37 to 40. All that the Father giveth me
shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will watch, and
no wise cast out. We are to come to Christ just
as we are. For I came down from heaven not
to do mine own will, but the will of Him that sent me. And
this is the Father's will which has sent me, that of all which
He hath given me I should lose nothing. but should raise it
up again at the last day. And this is the will of Him that
sent me, that everyone which seeth the Son and believeth on
Him may have everlasting life, and I will raise Him up at the
last day. What a Savior! Come to Him brokenhearted,
just as you are, and consider who He is, God incarnate in the
flesh. And once you come to Him, Once
you're made willing by the Holy Spirit of God, you'll never stop
coming to Him. You'll never stop coming to Him. God incarnate in the flesh. Consider
Him as we're looking at tonight as the great physician. Oh, God
give us grace to trust Him more and more. What is His medicine? His own flesh and blood. The
only thing that can cure our sin. It's the blood of Christ that
heals our wounds and our broken hearts. And He alone can heal
us from the plague of sin. And it's a plague. It's a plague. And everyone's infected with
sin. They all speak of, I've mentioned
this before, people speak of pandemics that can occur. But the plague of sin has been
continuing for thousands of years, and there's no cure for it, except
Christ, except Christ and Christ alone. The blood of Christ cleanses
us from all sin, heals our broken hearts. And it comes by the atonement
and the atonement by substitution, Christ suffering in our place.
And he suffered for all his people. And we who believe upon him,
the scriptures declare that he that believeth in him is not
condemned, turn, if you would, the Romans chapter eight, the
scripture declares that that he that believeth in him is not
condemned and never can be condemned. For that condemnation which was
due us fell upon Christ, didn't it? The wrath of God, the justice
of God fell upon Christ in our place. And look at Romans chapter
8, verses 1 to 4. There is therefore now no condemnation. That word means judgment. Let
that sink in. There is therefore no judgment.
To who? To them which are in Christ Jesus.
who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. For the
law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do,
it couldn't justify us before God could it. It couldn't save
us, it only condemns us. That in that it was weak through
the flesh, God sending his own son, remember the mission he
was upon, God sent him. God sending His own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh, bone of our bone and flesh of our
flesh, beloved, sinless, absolutely sinless, in the likeness of sinful
flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteousness
of the law might be fulfilled in us who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit. So the believer is clear before
the bar of God's justice. Clear. Absolutely clear, beloved. That's what there is therefore
now no condemnation means. Clear. Before the bar of God's
justice. Clear. Before the throne of God's
mercy. All in Christ. And notice it
says that right in the text in verse one. To them which are
what? In Christ. In Christ. So let this precious
truth flood your soul, beloved, you who are redeemed and look
back and remember when the Lord put that precious ointment upon
our wounded spirit. When he bought us low. When he
bought us low and truly we can say that nothing ever healed
us until we understood that Christ died in our place. And that he died that I might
not die. Now I'm going to die physically, but not the second
death. All because of Christ. All because of Him. That He by
Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree. And that
with His stripes we are healed. And there's no medicine like
this medicine, beloved. None. And when God the Holy Ghost
applies it with His own divine power, what does it do? It fills
the patient's lips with praise for our great God. so that we
sing out just as the psalmist does here, praise ye the Lord. The last final point I'd like
us to consider is the testimonial to the great physician. Look
at verse 3 in Psalm 147. He healeth the broken in heart
and bindeth up their wounds. The believer proclaims, and we
do not doubt this testimony because we who are born again blood-bought
sinners know this to be true. We know that this scripture is
true, don't we? We've experienced it. We've experienced
it. It's been proven in our lives.
It's been proven in the saints of all the ages. And we are a
living testimonial to the great physician and to what he does.
And we don't consider ourselves that, do we? But we are. We're
trophies of His grace. Trophies of His mercy. And there's only one physician
who can heal the heart. And praise be to His blessed
name. Our text proclaims this. He healeth the broken in heart.
God does this. And God alone. And we who are
saved by His grace, we know that He does it effectually, don't
we? We know this to be true. We know it. And you know what? He does this constantly, doesn't
He? It does not say that He healed the
broken in heart. It doesn't say that, does it?
It says He healeth the broken in heart. And He's still doing
it today. Regenerating the Holy Spirit's
regenerating the lost sheep Drawing them to Christ And here do it
until he comes back in judgment Here do it you keep doing it
until he comes back in judgment till the last sheep is saved And you know he's able he's able
to save isn't he to the uttermost He's able to save them to the
uttermost that come to God by Him. The great physician is able
to do this. Those who come, those who are
made well in the day of God's power give testimony to this
fact right here in this verse. He healeth the broken in heart
and bindeth up their wounds. Has He done so for you? We testify
He has. All by His grace and mercy. all
by His grace and mercy. Jehovah, the God of Israel, the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God and Father of our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ, is the only one who can bind up
the broken in heart. And the believer in Christ believes
that He alone, that Christ alone is the Great Physician. And we
trust Him, don't we? We trust Him. He is the Great Physician of
our souls. And the only way The only reason we trust Him is because
we're born again by His Holy Spirit. And by His grace and
mercy, we trust Him. And we fall at His feet and we
look nowhere else for salvation. Nowhere else. Turn if you would,
we're close. Mark 2, verses 16 and 17. Mark
2, verses 16 and 17. Here we see again the Pharisees
getting upset that he eats with publicans and sinners. I'm sure
thankful the scriptures say that. Look at this, Mark chapter 2
verse 16. In light of he healeth the broken
in heart and bindeth up their wounds. And when the scribes
and Pharisees saw him eat publicans and sinners, They said unto his
disciples, How is it that he eateth and drinketh with publicans
and sinners? And look at our Master's response.
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole
have no need of a physician. They who don't think they're
sick have no need of a physician. See, but God reveals to his people
that we're sin sick, doesn't he? Look at this, but they that
are sick. I come not to call the righteous,
but sinners to repentance. And so let us leave here pondering
this truth of if we are one of those spoken of in our text that
the great physician has healed, that he alone has healed our
broken heart, our sinful broken heart. Then we have something
to sing about, don't we? We have something to sing about
in time. And we have something to sing
about in eternity. Praise you, the Lord. May our
hearts cry out to the praise and glory of His grace, to the
one who healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds. Gracious Heavenly Father, we
thank Thee for this wonderful psalm. O Lord, we see Thy almighty
power, Thy almighty power at work. and the condescension,
Lord Jesus, of you leaving heaven to come down and to live the perfect life
in our place, in the place of your people, we who are sinners. We are sinners by birth, nature,
and choice, and yet you come down to where we are. You've
redeemed us, purchased our eternal souls. You sought us out when
we were lost and unaware of who you were, when we were speaking
the evil of thee and using thy name as a byword, but yet your
great mercy and your great love for us. You've loved your people
from eternity. You purchased us on Calvary's
cross and you sought us out just as the shepherd sought out the
lost sheep. Oh Lord, we who are redeemed know this to be true.
We've experienced this in our life. We're born again by the
Holy Spirit of God. And we rejoice with the psalmist
and sing, praise ye the Lord. And we pray that if it's your
will, that you would use this message to draw on your lost
sheep. Oh, we love thee and praise thee, Lord. And we give you all
the glory for it. In Jesus' name, amen.