Psalm 107. We're going to be
looking at verse 9 of Psalm 107. These psalms are meant to inspire. These psalms are meant to encourage,
to raise our hearts up in worship to God. And I was going through
different texts and different messages, and I ran onto this
psalm, and I looked at it, and it just raised my heart up. So I thought I'd bring a message
to you this morning. Now, it's not my expectation that an invited guest, whether
it be here or over there or up at the Bible conference or down
in Houston at a conference and I stand up to speak, it's not
my expectation that some invited guest should attend where I'm
preaching and in a single hearing hear one message that I preach,
fall down on their face and worship God in total commitment to Christ
and embrace Him. Now, I've heard of experiences. I've heard men talk about experiences. I've read these accounts in the
old writers of men who came into church buildings with no intent
to hear at all. One came in just to look at the
clock to see what time it was. And something the preacher said
caught his ear I've never seen anything like
that in my lifetime, and it doesn't fit my experience of grace at
all, not at all, nor anybody that I've ever talked to. Now,
I'm not saying it's not possible. I'm just saying it's not the
norm. I don't stand up here to preach to you and expect this
at the end of the message. I'm not just going to fall out
if somebody come running down here to preach, I'm lost. I need
to be saved. I need to know. I'm not just
going to fall out if I don't see that because I'm not expecting
it. I'm not expecting it. Now, Peter
stood up. A fellow told me this one time,
Peter stood up at Pentecost and preached and 3,000 souls were
saved. 3,000 souls were saved in a single
message. Preach to that multitude. But
the Holy Spirit added these words over in Acts chapter 2 verse
40. It said, And with many other
words did he testify, and exhort, saying, Save yourselves
from this untoward generation. And then, it said, the same day
were added to the church three thousand souls. And these, think about this,
these 3,000 souls were people rooted in Jewish religion with
a real knowledge of the Old Testament. How many people do you meet?
How many people if I got in here this morning, if I told you to
turn to the book of Habakkuk, could just go right on to it,
just open up here. Obadiah. You see what I mean? These people
knew. They knew. They understood. When you turned
to Obadiah, they knew where it was. They knew what it said.
They knew what it was about. They were rooted in these Old
Testament prophecies. They understood it. And Peter
was an apostle. This man preaching, he wasn't
me. He was an apostle. This man, I can't even convey
to you. He was taught by the Lord personally
for three and a half years. And then God accompanied his
message with the power of a miraculous hearing. These people were all
gathered there from different nations. Here they are. They
all spoke different languages. They couldn't even communicate
with one another. Peter stood up and every man heard him in
his own language. And then on top of that, he was
accompanied by the biggest outpouring of the Holy Ghost the church
had ever seen. God baptized his whole church
at one time, poured out the Holy Spirit of God, and they all began
to speak in tongues and prophesy. Their understanding opened up.
Oh, my soul, what a day it was. No wonder 3,000 souls were added
on a single message. But I don't expect that this
morning. I don't expect that. A single sermon conversion is
not the norm. But I believe the norm is a godly
persuasion. Now let me give you some scriptures
to think about. God called a man named Abraham
for a very distinct purpose. He set this man aside as an example
of faith. all through the coming centuries,
all through the thousands of years that lay yet ahead of Abraham. He singled out this one man,
Abraham, and called him the father of the faithful. Here's the example
of faith. You want to know what faith is
about? Paul's standing up here. He's preaching on justification
by faith. Who do you think the first thing
is? He ran back and got Abraham. He said, here, God singled him
out, and I'm going to tell you about faith, so I'm going to
tell you about Abraham. And then he begins to tell you
something about this man Abraham. He was the example. He was the
pattern, or as it says in Scripture, the father of all them that believe.
And Abraham believed God, and it was imputed or charged to
him for righteousness. Down here in Romans 4, verse
23, now it was not written for his sake alone, but for us also
to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised
up Jesus our Lord for the dead." You see what I'm saying? He was
an example. And he said, look to him, look at him, study him.
Look at what he did. Look at his life. Abraham. That's what faith is all about.
God called this man out of idolatry and He called him out of superstitious
darkness and paganism. A man born in sin and born with
a mind and heart contrary to God. A man raised in paganism,
surrounded by paganism, knew nothing but paganism. Nothing. And God brought this man into
submission. He took God's Word over everything
and everybody that he ever knew, even his own father. He said
with Paul, let God be true in every man's life. And he told him that he'd produce
seed in him, more than the stars in number, and more in number
than the sands of the seashore. And he lived a little while,
and there wasn't any seed. And he lived a little while longer,
and there wasn't any seed. And you know what Abraham did?
He believed God. Huh? He believed God. He started getting some gray
hairs. I don't have any, but he did. And he still didn't have any
seed. And so they finagled around and Ishmael was born. He still
didn't have God's seed. And he still believed God. He
still believed God. And the angel came and spoke
to him, and Saber laughed in the tent's door. But Abraham
believed God. And now he's a hundred years
old, and she's way past having even an interest to look at him
anymore, let alone have his baby. You're laughing because you know
I'm telling you the truth. And he looked at her the same
way, but he believed God. And there came a day, the Lord
said, when I come at this time, can you hear what I'm saying?
At this time, Sarah will have a son. And she
did. She did. Against hope, he believed
in hope that he might become the father of many nations. He
considered, Paul said, not his own body, now dead, a hundred
years old, neither the deadness of Sarah's womb, Romans 4.20. He staggered not at the promise
of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory
to God. Listen, being fully persuaded. Ain't that what that says? fully persuaded that what God
promised, God was able to do. That's what faith is. That's
what it's all about. The Apostle Paul, a confessed
Pharisee, raised in legalism, raised in self-righteousness,
taught by Gamaliel, the greatest teacher the Pharisees ever seen.
Devoted to the point of persecuting the Church, he held the coats
of the men who who took Stephen, the first martyr, and set him
out there and took stones about that big and bashed his brains
out and just kept throwing them until they buried him in the
rocks. Paul stood over there without weeping, without a tear,
devoted, thinking he was doing service to God in his self-righteousness,
and held their coats and looked on as a witness. Stone-cold Pharisee! Now listen to how this converted
Pharisee that God broke down, unhorsed that proud Pharisee,
put his face in the mud, taught him the gospel, regenerated him,
gave him his spirit, formed Christ in him. Christ in him. Now listen how this converted
Pharisee talks about faith. He said, I know whom I have believed. And I am persuaded, ain't that
what he said? That he is able to keep that
which I have committed unto him against that day. What of Isaac
and Jacob and Sarah and Rebekah? Since these all died in faith,
not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off,
and were persuaded of them, patiently endured. Embrace them. Confess that they
were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. And what of the hope of these
men who preached the gospel to this unbelieving Gentile world? What was their expectation? What
was the hope for their ears? Listen to this, Romans 8, verse
38, Paul said, for I am persuaded. He's talking to these Romans.
Gentile. He said, I am persuaded that
neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor
powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor
depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us
from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Persuaded. Persuaded. My hope for those
who are invited to hear is not full and total commitment and
subjection to Christ, but that God will make them hungry. I'm looking for an appetite.
I'm looking for the gleam in the eye. I'm looking for the
hunger. I'm looking for the longing.
I'm looking for the man who comes back. Maybe God will speak to me today.
Oh, I tell you, when He opened my heart, It was like being stabbed
with a butcher knife and brought me down and showed me I had no
connection with God. I couldn't obligate God in any
way to save my soul. There was nothing I could say
or pray or do to bring His favor down to me, for Him to call from
the heaven down to my heart. Nothing. Separated from God. Strangers from the covenants. Just like those Gentiles. Oh, I remember. And I thought,
if I'm ever going to hear, I know. I know. See, I'd attended before. I heard enough. I had enough
foundation to understand. If God's going to speak, He's
going to speak in His church. He's going to speak through His
preacher. So I went down there and I camped out. But He didn't
speak. But I came back, and He didn't
speak. And I came back again, and He
didn't speak. And I went for a while. And I
didn't just go to one church. This church met on Tuesday. Wednesday
I was at this one. And I was listening. Listening
and listening and listening. And one night he spoke. That's what he's talking about. The hungry soul. The longing
soul. Listen to this, Psalm 107, verse
9, For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with
goodness. Are you hungry? Are you hungry? Oh, in this wonderful
psalm I see five things that God did. He said, oh, he just
keeps saying, oh, that men, oh, that men would praise the Lord
for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children
of men. See it there in verse 8? Look
down at verse 15. Oh, that men would praise the
Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children
of men. Verse 21. Oh, you see what I'm
saying? David understood. I understand. I'm not looking for men and women
to fall out into the aisle and come down in tears and weeping
and, my heart's broken, I need Christ. I wish you would. I'd
love to see that. But what I look for is a hunger. A hunger. And I tell you, When I go in my study, and I beg God, give me a message. Give me a hearing. Give me a
word. He don't give it to me, he ain't
going to give it to you. There's no point in me standing up here
giving you some big theological essay. It's not going to do you
any good. He has to lay a burden on my
heart. He has to lay a message on my
heart. And I wrestle and I grieve over
it. It's like having a child. You
labor and you carry this thing. I see your faces before my eyes
and I wrestle with God and He gives me a message. And I come
in and you're not here. And it breaks my heart. He satisfies the longing soul. He filleth
the hungry soul. Are you hungry? Oh, I'm hungry. Let me give you five things. He said, here's the first thing
I see back here in verse 2. It says, He redeemed a people from
the hand of their enemy. Now, He says this at the outset
of this psalm. Listen to this. He said, Oh,
give thanks to the Lord, for He's good, for His mercy endures
forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord
say so. And they all do. They all do,
don't they? The confession of all the redeemed
is that God redeemed them from the hand of their enemies. They don't pop their gum and
talk about walking down aisles and supernatural experiences,
strange and unusual evidences. I can take you to the hour. I can take you to the day. I
can take you to the bush. Take somebody else. I don't believe
it. I don't believe it. The redeemed of the Lord
say so. Their confession is that God redeemed them from their
sins by the death of a substitute. Who shall lay anything to the
charge of God's elect? It's God that justifies. You
need justice satisfied. It's God that justifies. Who
is He that condemneth? It's Christ that died, yea, rather,
that is risen again, who's even at the right hand of God. Something
God's made me acutely aware of is that men must first be given
a need. How I pray for the need. You won't have any problem praying.
Now, oh, I passed out this wrestling pack. You wait till God shows
you your need. You won't wrestle with it anymore.
You'll pray. You'll pray. You'll fall down
on your face. You'll go lock yourself up in
the bedroom, and you'll lay in there till all the tears are
gone, and you still weep, and the tears won't even come out
anymore. You'll curl up in a ball and beg God, come save my soul. Do something for me! Oh, wretched
man that I am! Who shall deliver me from the
body of this death? Oh, you pray. You won't have
any problem praying. You won't have any problem praying. Pastor, I just can't sympathize
with people. You will when He brings you down.
You will when He redeems you. If He redeems you from the hand
of your enemy, you won't have any problem praying for somebody
else. Their faults won't stick out nearly as bad as they do
now. You won't be able to see theirs for yours. I wonder why he saved me and didn't
save them. Somebody come over and told John
Newton. He said, Brother John, he said
Oh, so and so down here in the county of Bath, the Lord saved
him. He said, I don't think I'll ever despair now since the Lord
saved him. Old John Newton wrote Amazing
Grace. He said, well, brother, he said, I haven't despaired
since the Lord saved me. He can save me. He can save anybody.
He can open this heart. He can open anybody's heart. He made me acutely aware of this.
You have to be given a need. He has to be made hungry to eat.
He must come to see his lack of something before he'll long
for it. Men and women must, by the Spirit
of God and the Gospel of God, be made aware that they're being
held and captivity bound. You can't break loose. Who told
you that? Somebody lied to you. You can't
turn loose of it. If you can, you would. Anybody that can will. Is that
a true statement? You won't because you can't. Bound by a fallen nature. Bound
by evil influence. Bound by the holy law of God.
Bound by the justice of God. Man not free, he's a slave. Chained at dark. And now what
the Lord said to those angels, there's no redemption for them
angels. He said they're bound in chains of darkness. Not even a word of salvation.
Not even a word of redemption. Not even a word of reconciliation. Bound in chains of darkness.
We're born that way. Did you know that? The only difference
between you and those fallen angels is the grace of God. Adam incurred a debt. He couldn't
pay it. All his posterity put together
can't pay it. Paul said they all together become
unprofitable. By one man sin entered into the
world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned. And this sin reigned unto death,
he said. It reigned even over them who
did not sin after the similitude of Adam. It reigned over children,
and babies, and mothers, and fathers, and friends, and neighbors.
It reigned unto death, and it still reigns unto this day. Only
one way for the reign of sin to cease in the lives of men,
and that is for God to intervene and break its chain. God Himself must take up my cause,
become a man, serve God in my stead, provide for me a righteousness,
stand before the holy justice of God, and bear that wrath,
that infinite wrath. I can't even imagine a holy man
who done no tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin.
A kind man. You can't even imagine how kind
He was. do it before God, and God poured
out His wrath on him, right down to the bitter dregs. That's what
it takes to save your soul. If there was just one sinner,
that's what it would take to satisfy God. He must Himself
take up my cause, become a man, provide me with a righteousness,
bear my sins in His own body on the tree, and then be raised
from the dead to justify me and make a place for me in His Father's
house. He ascends up into glory, sits
at the right hand of God, and intercedes for me, listens to
my foolish pleas and cries." David said, I'm poor and needy.
Now listen. but he thinketh on me." God interested in what I have
to say. You know why? Because I have
a substitute. I have a representative seated
at the right hand of God, who is God Himself. The reason He's
interested in me is because God put me in Him. Oh, when a soul is made to see
the dead of sin, the total inability to satisfy God, understands that
the law itself is a curse to him, cursed is everyone who continueth
not in all things written in the book of the law to do, then
he'll begin to have a long... He want to know something about
redemption then. Secondly, it says in verse 3,
He gathered them out of the lands. Typically speaking, Israel was
found out of one man. And God reminds them of it all
down through history. You weren't nothing. That's what
He said. You over in Mesopotamia in the
land of Ur when I called your father Abraham out, he was an
idolater. That's your beginning. That's
your roots. He gathered them out of all the
lands. Having dispersed Israel, He raised
them up, formed them into a nation, and because of their sins, He
dispersed them throughout all the world. And dispersed out
in idolatry, out in paganism, because of their sins. Dispersed
out into these Gentile nations, this heathen captivity. He speaks
spiritually of the gathering together of true Israel. out of the lands. God has a true
Israel called the Israel of God. And Paul, a natural Jew by birth
and a spiritual Jew, being born again, says to these Gentile
believers, we're the circumcision. Don't you know they're looking
at each other? Us? Us? Were the circumcision which
worship God in the Spirit, rejoicing Christ Jesus, and have no confidence
in the flesh? He is a Jew which is one inwardly,
and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, and not
in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God. Know
ye therefore, he told those Galatians, they which are of faith the same
are the children of Abraham. They're the true Israel of God.
And He gathers them out of every nation, kindred, tribe, and people
under heaven. They have to be gathered. They've
got to be gathered from the highways and the hedges and up out of
religion and idolatry, out of heathen paganism. They've got
to be called. They're not going to come. They're
not going to wander accidentally into somewhere. They have to
be called. God has to arrange His providence.
He has to call and equip a preacher, and He has to take His providence
and cause you to come. He has to even operate on the
heart with desires. The preparation of the tongue,
the heart, and the answer of the tongues of the Lord, Proverbs
16. All of these little feelings
and things, it's of God. You see what I'm saying? He gathers. Oh, you read over there in Ephesians
chapter 1, he said, "...in the dispensation of the fullness
of times." In that last days, He's going to gather together
in one all things which are in Christ Jesus, of things which
are in the heavens and things on the earth and things under
the earth. A gathering in that day. But there's a gathering
right now of God's elect. He's gathering them in. He's
calling them. He's calling them. He gathers
them in out of the land. And I tell you, when He begins,
oh, how that soul hungers and longs to hear that gospel. That
effectual call of God goes past all that superstitious tradition
and just conquers the heart. He comes in and takes over. And
all of a sudden, there's a longing in there to hear. I want to hear.
Never heard anything like that before in my life. What you preach? I can't really tell you. You
just need to come and hear. You need to come and hear. I've
read that thing a thousand times. I've never seen that. That's
a hunger. Are you hungry? God's elect are not made known
by chance and circumstance. by free will decisions, emotional
commitments. In 2 Timothy 1.9, they are saved
and called with a holy calling, not according to their works,
but according to His own purpose and grace which was given them
in Christ Jesus before the world began. And Paul said, that's
what I'm doing here. That's why I'm out here. That's
why I'm walking all over Asia. That's why I'm subjecting myself
to shipwrecks and whippings and beatings and cursings and lies. That's why I'm out here suffering
in prison. Because God has an elect out
here and I'm out here to call him. I'm not out here looking
for circumstance and chance. I'm out here on purpose. Oh, I wish somehow William and
I was talking, I'd love to hear anybody, not me, I'd just love
to hear anybody get up on primetime TV and just scream it out, God
does things on purpose. He saves men on purpose. You saved by accident, you're
not saved. You understand it was on purpose
if God ever opened your heart. Oh, let that captive heart begin
to become aware that God's determined by His sovereign grace and eternal
design to save some. That's all he has to hear. I've sat for hours and talked
to men and women. Well, how do you know you're
elect? What's this elect business? How do you know if you're the
one? That don't even make sense to me. Where's the hope in that? Where's the hope in that? Oh,
let God show you your need and show you your inability. Let
God disconnect you from all the blessings that you've been told
are yours by right. Let you discover one day that
Christ is the firstborn, not you. He is. To get to the inheritance,
you have to get to Him. And you're disconnected from
Him. Let him show you that, and then some preachers stand up
and talk about God willing to save some. Huh? Some? Maybe I'm one. Maybe it's, maybe
me. Huh? That's what a captive heart says.
That soul be hungry to know if it has an interest in that election.
Men despise election because they believe they've got a right
to God's inheritance. That's why they despise it. Men
despise effects of calling, shut up to preaching, and the sovereign
call of the Spirit of God because they believe they have the ability
to do it themselves. Let a man find out he's without
Christ, an alien of the commonwealth of Israel, a stranger to the
covenants of promise, having no hope without God in the world. That's what Paul told those Gentiles.
That's where you're at. God destroyed a world to save
one man. Noah found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. He burnt Sodom and Gomorrah,
cities of millions. He burnt those things down to
a crisp. Abraham stood up on the mountain
and watched the smoke roll up. He found one righteous man. Even now, Paul said, at this
present time, there is a remnant according to the election of
grace. There is a gracious gathering going on right now in Christ
Jesus, a gathering out of the north, south, east, and west
that David talks about in his psalm, out of the lands of heathen
idolatry. You are so not hungry to know
if you are one of them. Are you satisfied to just coast
down the river in a raft and what will be, will be? Are you
satisfied to sit in that pew knowing that there is a judgment
and knowing who God is and not even be concerned with your soul? Aren't you so hungry to know
if you have a portion in this goodness of God? That's why David
kept crying out, oh, that men, men in general, just men universally
look around at the goodness of God. He ought to wipe us out,
but he didn't. That heathen idolater out there,
his rain falls on him just like it does on me. And David looks, and he listens
to what they're saying, and he said, oh, that men would praise
God for His goodness. Because the redeemed do. Ain't
that what he's saying in the Psalm? The redeemed do. Why do
they do it? Because He redeemed them out
of the hand of their enemy, and He gathered them out of those
heathen lands, out of that heathen idolatry. And then thirdly, in
verse 4 of Psalm 107, He said they wandered in the wilderness. When a man or woman comes to
see this world for what it is, begins to walk with God in a
solitary way, takes them out of Egypt, splits the sea, carries
them across on dry land and lets them wander for 40 years in the
wilderness in a solitary way. No life in the wilderness. No
cities there. No supplies, no means, no food,
no potential, no water, no comfort, no protection. Everything out
there in that wilderness bites you, stings you, sticks you,
or burns you. Everything out there. Let you wander around the wilderness.
Found no city to dwell in, he said. Nobody wanted to dwell
there. Wasn't anything there. Wasn't
anything there. They found no place to sink down
roots, no place to call home, no place to rest from their labors.
They lived in tents and they were strangers and pilgrims on
the earth, what Scripture said. Hebrews 11 and 15, and truly,
He said, if they had been mindful of that country from which they
came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned.
But now they desire, they're hungry, they're longing in the
soul For a better country, that is a heavenly world, God is not
ashamed to be called their God. And He's not ashamed to call
them His people. Fourthly, they cried out to Him
in their trouble. Everything in this wilderness
of this world is trouble. Job said, man is of a few days
and full of trouble. That's all he is, is trouble.
Trouble, trouble, trouble. Everywhere he looks is trouble.
He had trouble in his religion, and trouble in his marriage,
and trouble in his walk, and trouble in his job, and trouble
in the economy, trouble in the politics. It's full of trouble.
Man's full of trouble because he's full of sin. That's what the trouble is. Get
rid of the sin, you get rid of it. There ain't no trouble in
heaven because there ain't no sin. full of trouble because he's
full of sin. Our Lord looked at him and told him. He said,
if the light that's in you be darkness, how great is that darkness?
Huh? You figure that out until you
figure out how much trouble there is. Our mind's enmity against
God. Our nature's carnal. Our wisdom's
foolishness. Our righteousness is our filthy
rags. Our understanding's darkened.
Our will's our will not. No fear of God before their eyes.
He said, like a dream that brings a man out of a dead sleep and
utter horror is the discovery of what man is in the sight of
God. You ever been startled out of
a dream with a nightmare or something? Just suddenly wake up. Man, you
talk about sober up. You can't even figure if you're
awake yet. You're still waiting on something to happen. He said
that's what it is when a man wakes out of the sleep of this
world. God gives him a revelation of reality. He wakes like a man
out of sleep, startled and awed. A man who is made to see what
he is is a man who cries out of hunger and thirst, and he
cries out of trouble. And then fifthly, there are people
he leads by the right way, by the right way. I guess you can
preach for days on that point, but suffice it to say this, Christ
is the way. Let's just start there. He's
the way. Folks have problems. You know
that. I had them. You had them. Any of you that's
been converted has had these problems. What to believe? What to do? What do I do? What
do I say? Where do I go? Go to Christ. Huh? Go to Christ. Go to Him. Rest in Him. Trust
in Him. He's the Redeemer. He that hath the Son hath life.
He that hath not the Son of God hath not life. Pretty simple to me. Go to Him. Go to Him. I'm hungry, but I
just can't find what satisfies. He satisfies. All the fullness
of God is in Him. Fullness of mercy. fullness of
joy, peace, reconciliation, what do you need? Go to Him. Go to Him. Paul said if you receive
Christ Jesus the Lord's soul, walk in Him. Why? Because all
the fullness of God is in Him. And you're complete in Him. You
don't need anything else. Oh, He satisfied the longing
soul. That's my prayer this morning.
He'd make you to long. And I'll tell you this, if that
longing and that hunger disappears for a moment, you talking about
in trouble. He does that every now and then,
just to jog your memory, just for a little bit. It's kind of
like when the Lord was with his parents. You remember that scripture?
He was walking with his parents down there, and he went over
to the synagogue. He was about 12 years old, I
think. He was in there, just them doctors and lawyers were
just in there looking around. They couldn't answer anything
he said. They was amazed at his wisdom. But his parents just
loaded up, and assuming that he was in the midst, took off.
They were a day's journey before they realized he wasn't there.
The Lord lets us do that on occasion. Did you know that? He just stands
still. You just load the wagon and off
you go. Then you start looking around
and you miss his presence. And you ski-daddle back to Jerusalem
and you get him back. Why? Because you're not satisfied.
That's what David's talking about in this psalm. He satisfies the
longing soul. I can stand up here and preach
Christ till I die. It's not going to affect anybody
until God gives them a hunger. And that's what I see in my expectation,
my prayer, my wrestling in there. I want to see the hunger. I want
to see the appetite. I want to see the gleam in the
eye, the tear on the cheek. That's what I'm looking for. And I tell you this, I'm persuaded
of this, I'm confident of this. When that hunger, he said, I
will satisfy. Well, I'm not satisfied. You're not hungry. Yeah, you're not hungry. You
ever had any problem eating when you're hungry? Boy, I don't. When I'm full, he said, the fool
so loatheth even honeycomb. but not the hungry soul. Father, take the message this
morning and open their hearts to hear. And if we have not that hunger,
give it to us. If we have not that longing,
whatever it takes, give it to us. I don't know how far down we
have to come. I don't know about this stripping. I don't know how much. I don't
have degrees. I just know we have to be made
hungry. We have to be made thirsty. Give
us that longing for thy name's honor and glory. Amen.