I want to speak this morning
out of this 26th chapter of the book of Isaiah, primarily on
verse 20. Primarily on verse 20, I'll be
using a few of the other verses. Let me read verse 20 and 21 to
you before we begin our message this morning. Come, my people,
enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee.
Hide thyself, as it were, for a little moment, until the indignation
be overpassed. For behold, the Lord cometh out
of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. The earth also shall disclose
her blood and shall no more cover her slain. I have often said that I believe
that the world was ripening for the judgment of God. And I certainly
believe that our Lord, as verse 21 tells us, that the time is
shortly coming when the Lord will come out of His place to
punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity. I believe
the Lord has appointed a day, according to Acts chapter 17
and verse 31, appointed a day wherein he will judge the world
in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained, whereby
he hath given assurance unto all men in that he hath raised
him from the dead." Do you believe that our Lord raised His Son,
Jesus Christ, from the dead? If you believe that, then you
must believe that He raised Him from the dead, one purpose being
that He would be the judge of all the earth. The Bible says
that God has committed all judgment into His hand. We believe that
God will surely bring upon this world a just judgment for all
of their iniquity. This is a God-hating, a God-defying,
a rebellious world. This world lies in the lap of
the wicked one. This is a sinful and corrupt
generation. And we believe that as surely
as God poured out His judgments on Sodom and Gomorrah, as God
poured out His judgment upon the wicked world in the days
of Noah, as surely as He did that He must, He must punish
the world in righteousness for their sin. In verse 9, the prophet
said, With my soul have I desired thee in the night, yea, with
my spirit within me will I seek thee early. For when thy judgments
are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness. He says, whenever your judgments
are in the earth, when you come out of your place, and when you
judge the inhabitants of your earth, when you pour out your
fury upon men, and when you bring them into account for their wickedness
and for their sinfulness, he says, then they will learn righteousness. They'll learn righteousness.
Look at verse 10. Let favor be showed to the wicked.
Let favor be showed to the wicked. Let the Lord postpone judgment. Let the Lord send His goodness
and mercy, continue to send it. Yet, yet will He not learn righteousness? Oh, if the Lord is merciful unto
the wicked and gives them an extension of days, an extension
of time, if God says, I'll put my judgment off, I'll be good
to this generation of sinful, wicked men, He says they will
not learn righteousness because he says only when the judgments
of God are in the earth will the inhabitants of the world
learn righteousness. And so the Lord is going to come
and he's going to bring his judgments upon the earth. But beloved,
when times of great troubles come, the Lord is thinking specifically
of his own people. And you notice in verse 20, he
says, Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut
thy doors about thee, hide thyself, as it were, for a little moment,
until the indignation be overpassed. In other words, the Lord is looking
out for his own people. The Lord drowned the antediluvian
world in the days of Noah, but not till Noah was safely in the
ark. We know that the Lord burned
Sodom and Gomorrah to the ground, but he did not do so until Juselot
escaped to the little city called Zohar. Until he escaped, until
the angels came and led him out of that wicked city, until then
the Lord did not pour out his judgment. So in all the judgments
of God on the earth, he will remember to have mercy towards
his believing people. He does not allow them to be
destroyed, even in the day of the destruction of the ungodly.
God will preserve His own people. God will make a way for His own
people. God will preserve His people. The feet of the saints are preserved
forever. And if you're a child of God
this morning, your Father's eye is lovingly fixed upon you. His
heart cares for you every moment, and God is not about to give
up His inheritance in this world in the day of judgment. God will
preserve His inheritance and keep them forever. is the soul
who has never trusted the God, the God of mercy, the God of
the Bible, the God of judgment, who said, I am the preserver
of all men, but especially I preserve them that believe. That's what
God said. He said, I'm the preserver of
all men, and God will preserve men until the hour of until the
day when he comes out of his place to punish the inhabitants
of the earth. And then, beloved, and then shall
all the fowls of the earth be called together to feed upon
the flesh of the mighty, and the flesh of the rebels and the
flesh of the wicked. So we see then that the Father
has special care for his people. Happy is the poorest and the
most tried soul in this world who is among those that know
the Lord. and who knows that God is a refuge and strength
in the time of trouble, knows that God is his high tower, knows
that God is his defender and provider, his God and his all. Listen to me this morning. If
you be here and you're a child of God and you've taken refuge
in the Lord Jesus Christ, if you've hid your soul away in
the five bleeding wounds of the Lord Jesus, and if you believe
that the Lord has laid hold of you and saved you, then happy
this morning is your soul, regardless of whatever bitterness, whatever
problems you might have in this world, you can rejoice today
that the Lord has preserved you and give you a hiding place.
Now beloved, we cannot see into the future and I do not claim
to be a prophet in the sense that I'm a seer down through
the future and that I know exactly when judgment is coming and that
I know exactly what form that judgment will take. But I'm here
to tell you this morning that the God of the Bible knows the
end from the beginning. God knows the day and the hour.
He knows exactly when He shall unleash His fury upon this world. He knows the time. He knows the
very date when it will come to pass. But I'd like to tell you
this morning that the Lord has a foresight which He exercises
on the behalf of His own. God knows when the judgment's
coming. He exercises his foresight, his
foreknowledge on the behalf of his own. And if the father of
the family knows what is to occur, his children will not be without
a warning. His children will not be left
in the dark. His children will be guided and
instructed in the way to preserve themselves in the day of the
calamity that's coming. Shall there be calamity in the
city? Shall there be evil in the city? And the Lord hath not
sent it? The Lord does send the calamity
and the evil that is upon the cities of this nation and upon
the world at large. in our very time and that which
is to come. The Lord is the author of it.
But the Lord will inform his family as to what to do. He will
instruct his people as to what they ought to do. Now God, when
he foresees that his judgment will be abroad in the earth and
when any great calamity is coming, he will provide a shelter in
the time of storm. He'll provide a shelter for his
people. Let us thank God. Let us rejoice
for this and let us say hallelujah. The Lord God is reigning and
he is bringing judgment. He'll bring judgment on false
religion. He'll bring judgment on all the
wicked. He'll bring judgment on those
that defied him and hated his holy word. Now, you who have
no God to go to, the future looks very dark. I'm sure that it must
look very dark, especially when you view that blackest of all
days, which is surely coming. That night when you're facing
death, that time when you must cross the chilly river of death,
when you come to that place where you will have to take a plunge
in the dark and you have no hope for your soul, you have no shelter,
you have no place to enter in where you can find comfort and
a measure of assurance for your soul in that dark hour, Surely
the future looks dark to you. But in contrast, the heir of
heaven knows that whatever lies before him, all is ordained and
fixed and arranged and settled by the infinite wisdom and love
of God, and he can trust himself without fear to the Lord's preserving
mercy. Isn't that wonderful? God's people
are on solid ground. God's people are on good ground. in the light of what the Bible
teaches about judgment. Now we could consider ourselves
to be wise if we could do before an event what we would wish that
we could do after it. Unfortunately, we cannot. Now I want you to hear what I'm
saying. We would consider ourselves to be wise people indeed, that
if we could do before something happens what we wish we would
do when it has happened or after it has happened. We cannot do
that. But I do know, listen, I do know
that God is instructing his people out
of his word as to what to do. I do know we can have wisdom
about what we're to do when calamity and trouble and great problems
come upon this earth. I know what we can do. But I
don't know a better definition of a fool than the man who is
wise when it's too late. That is the best definition of
a fool I ever found. A man who is wise too late. He wakes up and it's too late,
and he has gotten an understanding, but it's out of date. It's of
no use to him. It's too late. Now God will make
us wise in time. If we'll take the advice of this
text this morning, God will make us wise in time. Listen then
to the advice that God here gives us to help us when trouble comes,
and like we say, it will come. There is nothing so certain as
the fact that trouble will come, calamities will come in this
world, great problems will arise. We see them on the very surface
now. Now listen, the wise course for
us is plainly marked out in this text. Now the text says that
we're to come He says lovingly, kindly, he says with a heart
full of grace toward his own, my people, come, my people, and
enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee,
and hide thyself, as it were, for a little moment, until the
indignation be come to pass. Now, before or in the time of
trouble, let me say in my comments, I have about four things I want
to just mention briefly about this text. Let me say first of
all that before or in times of trouble, it is well for a man
or woman, a boy or girl in this world to draw near to God. It's
well to draw near God. The scripture says, draw nigh
to God and he will draw nigh to you. And the Lord here in
this verse, as the hen would give her cluck when the hawk
is in the air, her little chicks around about her to get her chicks
to come under her wings, so the Lord says, come my people, come
my people, come. He says, and enter thou into
thy chambers, and shut the door about thee. No, beloved, this
morning the Lord says, come to you. You say, well, I think my
problems are driving me away from the Lord. I think the troubles
that I have seem to somehow or other keep me away from getting
close to God. I kind of feel like the Lord's
against me. I kind of feel like that God
is trying to drive me away. Don't go away, listen, beloved,
don't go away when trouble comes. Do not be driven away by affliction,
but be driven by whatever adversity, whatever affliction, whatever
problem comes into your life. Be driven by that unto the Lord
be driven to come unto the Lord come my people the clouds are
in the sky the lightning is flashing hasten home and be quick about
it come home draw near the Lord come my people come my people
linger not be not paralyzed but fear and apprehension, but come
to your God, come to your God, come to Him, and fellowship with
Him." Well you say, well why does the Lord bid us come to
Him? Why should we do that? Well first
of all I believe we're to come unto the Lord to spread our case
before God. Because, beloved, do you fear
this morning what may happen in your lifetime? Do you fear
what might happen even to your family? Do you fear, you know,
there's so much evil abroad? There's very few places anymore
where an individual can go and not have to stay on his guard
constantly. You've got to constantly be alert
and watching what's going on around you. And sometimes you
can be the most alert person in the world and still not avoid
some terrible problem and terrible situation that can happen. Do
you fear what may happen to you in your lifetime? Do you fear
that something dreadful might befall you and your business
and your household? Do you fear this? Well, beloved,
you should come as the Lord has bid you to come and spread your
case before Him. Come, tell it all to Jesus, comfort
or complaint, tell it all to the Lord Jesus Christ. Spread
your case out before Him. Remember how Hezekiah, when he
received that letter from the Syrian Rabshakeh, and he took
that letter and he spread it before the Lord. All kinds of
threats in the letter. And it shook him, of course,
and he was fearful. But he took it and he spread
it out before the Lord. And we must do the same. Spread
your case out before Him. Come, my people. It calls us
to God, first of all. and we ought to tell him all
about that which disturbs us that which bothers us he will
listen you spread your case before him now the next thing you should
do in coming to God is consider his mind about your case and
what your situation is consider what he's got to say about your
situation now when you go and consult a lawyer And when you
get counsel for yourself, normally it is because you want somebody's
point of view. And we expect that that individual,
that he has had to decide something like our case before. And so
therefore, he will have experience. And he'll know how to counsel
us. He'll know how to tell us what to do in our situation,
how to approach the situation, how to deal with the various
aspects of our situation. Well, beloved, at this time,
in this world, the people of God ought to be consulting the
Lord. Oh, you say, well, I was just on my way over to the neighbors. I was just on my way down the
street to consult. Well, I won't forbid you doing
that. But I will say this, that you first consult the Lord. Lay
your case out before the Lord and ask Him what is His mind
about your situation. If I'm going to lose my loved
ones, I'd like to know what the Bible has to say about those
who are bereaved. I'd like to know what the Bible
would say to somebody that just lost their son or their daughter.
I'd like to know what the Bible has to say to somebody who has
lost their best friend in this world. I'd like to know what
the scriptures has to say. I believe I need to know the
Lord's mind about that. And if I'm going to be ill, if
I'm going to be overcome with some dreadful illness, If I'm
going to have cancer, if I'm going to be plagued with some
terrible disease, I'd like to know what wise counsel is to
a man in that position in order that I might know how to react
and how to live in this world, before the world, as a believer,
as a child of God. I'd like to know how to react
and how to live. Therefore, beloved, I must consult
the Lord, lay my case out before Him, ask for his wisdom now if
i'm going down in the world you know we can all go up in the
world a little some of us a little some of us a little more and
on and on but beloved there comes a time uh... whenever we must
leave it or it'll leave us there comes a time uh... whenever things
happen and situations turn around and they're reversed upon us
in the world and if we're children of god we ought to try to find
out how to react Whenever, whenever our situation is crumbling about
us, and when change and decay is coming upon all that we know,
and when we're becoming, as it were, losers for a while in this
world, we must seek the knowledge of God and His mind about it.
What would the Bible say to me this morning about my situation? My main question is not, how
can I avoid trouble? How can I stay out of trouble
or get out of trouble when I'm in it? But how should I behave
myself when I am in trouble and when everything's going to pot
around me? When the whole world, as it were,
as the old preacher said, when hell is popping on your pillow,
what can you do? What can you do? What is your
situation? How should you behave yourself?
What ought you to be doing under these circumstances which have
come upon you? Come, my people, tell me your
troubles and your anxieties and ask, what is my will about your
life and your situation? That's what God's saying here
in this text. And whatever great troubles and Great storms come,
remember this, come, come my people, come to the Lord. Now
be sure of this, that in your greatest calamities and in those
things that happen in your life and mine, you cannot lose your
best things. You cannot lose your best jewels
as the expression might be. You remember little faith being
robbed Down Dead Man's Lane, Bunyan says that when the three
sturdy rogues, faint heart, mistrust, and guilt fell upon him, they
robbed him of most of his spending money. But he had certain jewels
that they never found and of which they therefore could not
rob him. Now, beloved, when these calamities
come, and when earth-shaking situations occur, and when the
mountains, as it were, shakes to their foundation, and you
begin to see the world crumble around you, and every plant which
our Heavenly Father's not planted being rooted up, when you begin
to see great upheavals in the world, and great and terrible
tragedies coming to pass, You must remember that the world
may come and take away many of our external and temporary comforts,
but we have a treasure that it never gave us and it cannot take
it away from us. We must remember that so that
we'll be able to keep our wits about us, the true riches Beloved,
you did not get by your own effort, by your own strength, by keeping
shop for yourself, and you'll never lose it by not keeping
shop or by not being able to, in your own strength, hold on
to it. So we see that the true riches
are given to us by God and whatever happens, Nothing will happen
to them. I've got some things that cannot
be taken from me Regardless of what man might do We can boldly
say the Lord is our helper and we need not fear what man shall
do unto us because he cannot touch us the true riches. He cannot trust the jewels. One
man in olden times I read about, he had just been to the bank,
got a huge sum of money out, was on his way home, he was robbed,
and uh... he got home he told his wife
he was robbed and she of course became hysterical and he said
he smiled and he said yes but all they got was my handkerchief
he said I'd hid the money and so beloved it is with God's people
we pass through this world we may be as it were robbed of many
things but they'll only get symbolically, our handkerchief. They will not
get that which is true and that which is real. They'll not be
able to steal our salvation that we have in Christ, our security
in Christ, our position in the Lord Jesus Christ. These things
will never be taken from us. So if the most important things
are secure when trouble comes, well, cannot we leave the little
things with God that we deal with every day of our lives?
Cannot we leave these little things with the Lord? So when
we go to God with our troubles, you know, we have trouble. Jacob said, my days have been
few and they've been full of trouble. God's people have trouble. They are a poor and afflicted
people, and God has left them in the midst of the land and
has taught them to trust in Him. So when we go to God with our
troubles, we must say, as one old Puritan said, do what you
will, Lord, with me. Do what you will with me. I leave
the care and the burden of all this trial to you. I'm too foolish
and too weak to deal with it. Therefore, undertake for me.
I leave it entirely in your hands. I will be quiet even as a winged
child, and whatever happens, it is the Lord. Let Him do what
seems good to Him. Just let the Lord do what seems
good to Him. Now, in the second place, we're
The text says that we're to enter in. I'm giving you the advice
of God Almighty to you in the light of the fact that calamity
and trouble is going to come. First of all, I've told you to
come unto the Lord. Draw near the Lord. Secondly,
we're to enter into the chambers of security which God has provided
for us. Enter thou into thy chambers. Picture, if you will, a large
house. Picture a large house with many
rooms, and there's about five rooms that I'd like to mention
to you, which are chambers which the people of God are to enter
into to find their security during earth-shaking problems and calamities. Number one, one of these rooms
is the power of God. enter into that room of the power
of God, because He's able to bring you through every trial. God is able to bring good out
of all evil. Believe in the power of God.
David said, he said, I said it once, I'll say it again, the
power belongeth unto God. God is almighty. There is nothing
too hard for the Lord. The Bible says that the Lord
does according to his own will among the inhabitants of the
earth and the armies of heaven. And who can say unto him, What
doest thou? And who can lay hold of his hand
and push it back and say, What are you doing? The Lord is all-powerful. The Lord is almighty. I said
God is able to bring good out of all evil, and this is our
security. He's able to comfort you. He
can come to where you are, and He can meet your situation. Nothing
can happen to you which will be beyond the power of God. Trust Him! into this room. Another room
is that of the divine wisdom, the wisdom of God. Now we found
our way, we might have had to have a candle or a light to find
it, but we found our way into that room, into that chamber
of the power of God. And we're trusting in God's power
to deliver us and to be with us. Secondly, we come to that
room of divine wisdom and we go there. So you're in trouble
now, you say. Yes, preacher, I am. You're perplexed
and you're bothered and you don't know the way out. But God is
not perplexed. God is never in a mist. God is never at a place where
he doesn't know what to do, where he's wringing his hands, where
he doesn't know the next step to take. You may see no way out,
but God's not in the dark. You may be, but he isn't. God
is an all-wise God, and God is infinitely wise, and we're just
poor fools here in this world, and we've done this, and we've
done that, and it's come to nothing. Yet, beloved, there's a higher
wisdom than any man's wisdom, and that is the wisdom of God.
And you trust God's wisdom, and you believe in it with all your
heart. Now, the third room that we're
going to enter into is that room or that chamber of divine love.
He loves you from the foundation of the world if you're his child.
Old Spurgeon said that back yonder before the foundation of the
world, God loved his people. He said before the flapping of
the seraph's wing had disturbed the ether air, God loved his
people. He said before the song of the
first angel had ever broken the solemnity of silence, God loved
his people. And the Lord does love his people
indeed. And I like to be in that chamber.
I like to be in that chamber. He loves you from the foundation
of the world without beginning, without measure, without end. God loves his people. And you need to believe that.
And if God loves you, my friend, you're well off. Now the fourth
room, we're talking about these things very quickly, that is
the room of the divine faithfulness. The faithfulness of God. God
is true. God is faithful. God keeps His
promise. God will not fail you. If God
ever fails you, if God has ever failed any man, would you please
inform me about it. I'd like to be informed of it
if you know of any case wherein God failed anyone who trusted
in him. God will never fail you. Your
bread and water will be sure as long as there is bread and
water in the cope of this world. God will provide for his people. God will be faithful unto his
people. And so enter into that room.
of God's faithfulness to you, whatever happens in this old
world. The fifth room is God's immutability. And so we enter into that chamber.
And listen to me now. We enter into that chamber. The
Lord says, I am the Lord, I change not. Therefore you sons of Jacob
are not consumed. God does not change. He remains
the same. Jesus said, I'm the same yesterday,
today, and forever. I am the same. I will never change. There is no variableness, neither
shadow of turning with me. I do not vary. I will not cast
a shadow. By changing, I'm God as I always
was, I will always be the faithful God you can trust. I'm not gonna
change. He just like his word, the Bible
says his word is forever settled in heaven. God is settled on
his throne and he will not be changed. Well, the next admonition
of this text is, and shut thy doors about thee. and shut by
doors about thee. First of all, let me say about
this, that we're to shut out all doubt. That's what that means.
We shut the door behind us. Shut out all doubt. Now then,
we shut out all doubt as to his power. Somebody says, well, you
know, I don't know whether the Lord can do anything about my
case or not. I've got a very difficult case. I've got a very
hard case. Beloved, if God's purpose is
to do Whatever God's purpose is to do, He can do. We're not
here to tell you what God will do, but I'm here to tell you
that God can do anything He pleases to do, anything He purposes to
do, He can do. Is anything too hard for the
Lord? Listen, shut the door. Shut the door to your doubts.
shut the door you think God can't do something for you and God
can't he doesn't have the power to do for you shut the door shut
the door believe it and shut the door and shut the doubts
out and then when it comes to the wisdom of God do you charge
God with foolishness Do you say there's been a mistake? That
the providence of God has erred in my case? The Lord shouldn't
be dealing with me like this. The Lord has forgotten some of
the things about my life that ought to have made this situation
different. This should never have happened
in my life. Do you charge God with foolishness?
You remember when old Job was being tried? The Bible says that
Job sinned not. Neither did he charge God with
foolishness. Neither did he say, Lord, you
don't know what you're doing. And so, beloved, shut the door.
God is all wise. He cannot err. God is too good,
He's too holy and too wise to err. He cannot and will not make
a mistake with your life. Shut the door. Get into that
chamber of the wisdom of God and shut that door behind you
and shut out all doubts. Now, I believe that is an admonition
that we can understand. Do we question His love? We've
been in the chamber. We are in the chamber of His
love. Do we question that? Is there an if? Oh, God loved
me 20 years ago, but... I've been doing this and I've
been doing that. Oh, God used to love me, and
God used to deal so graciously with me, but not anymore. Oh,
if, if, if, shut the door, my friend. Get into the room of
God's love and shut the door. There isn't any condition. God
never loved you. because of what you did or what
you did not do. God loves his people for reasons
knowing only to himself based upon his own nature. And God did not love you for
any reason that you can come up with. You cannot. All right,
so shut the door. If you doubt his love, shut the
door. Shut the door. Shut those doubts
out. And then when it comes to his faithfulness, Somebody, you
know, God can deliver us a dozen times and the very next morning
when the trial comes and the clouds come over again, we doubt
the faithfulness of God. We doubt that He'll come again,
that He'll deliver us again, but He cannot lie. Do you know
that God's nature will not permit Him to lie? The scripture says
He cannot lie, He cannot lie. God cannot be unfaithful. He
can't. His nature will not permit him
to. So enter thou into the chamber of God's faithfulness and shut
the door. And then when we come to the
immutability of God, we cannot allow the supposition, the supposition
of change to come in. You can't allow it. God will
not change. You go into that room, you shut
the door, shut it, and shut yourself up. to the immutability of God,
the unchangeableness of the God of the Bible. Now I'm talking
about when they say that a terrorist has a nuclear weapon and threatening
your country, threatening your very existence, I'm telling you
what you're gonna have to do. You're gonna have to come down
in your own heart to where you believe what the Bible says and
where you can get a hold of yourself. I tried to place myself in the
back of that plane, the very back seat of that airplane that
was blowing up out off the coast of Long Island, and what thoughts
would have went through your mind if you'd been sitting in
the very back seat when you saw the front of that plane blow
off and you had just a little time? What would have been going
through your mind? What would have went through
your mind? Well, beloved, wouldn't it be wonderful at that time
to be able to think of these chambers rapidly and hide yourself
in these chambers and shut the door? Slam the door in your mind
against all unbelief and doubt, against the errors that somebody
says that God can make and God can, you know, God fails and
he don't think of his people like he ought to and the Lord's
asleep and this is happening and that's happening. Wouldn't
it be wonderful to be able to just shut the door? and rest
yourself for that little fraction of time in the Lord's hand. Well then, who once he loves,
he never leaves, but loves him to the end. If he's God, he must
ever be the same. He must ever be the same. Make
no difference whether the sun shined or whether it didn't.
God is the same. We must shut ourselves in with
God. and trust only in Him. Now some
of you may be a little late coming to that. Some of you may not
come to that for several years down the road. Some of us have
come to it where we just had to shut ourselves in with God. God is our spring. God is the source of all the
comfort and all the hope that we have in our souls. We are
shut in. The door's been shut. We're shut
in with God and with the attributes of our God. Now lastly, I want you to notice this. It
just teaches here in the last part of this verse. He says,
you hide yourself, as it were, for a little moment, for a little
moment. until the indignation be overpassed. Just hide yourself for a little
moment. What it means is that trouble will just not last long.
That all trouble, regardless of what kind of trouble it is,
that in relation to eternity, in relation to God's purpose,
it lasts a short time, a very short time. Somebody said, well,
I'm just now, I just heard yesterday that I have a terminal illness. Well, you say, well, I know I'm
going to suffer a long time. I know I'm going to have some
awful times ahead of me, regardless of what you heard yesterday. I'm here to tell you this morning,
the Word of God says that in this world, the things that are
temporal, that they are just for a moment. They're just for
a moment. The very short lived. And he
says, just for a minute. We don't think so. We think,
oh, this trial's went on forever. We just can't get out of this. There's no escape. And we just,
day after day after day after day, we're plagued and troubled
and bothered. But listen to me now. Listen
to me. It's just for a little moment. a little moment, and
then the trial is over. The poet said, a script on my
back and a staff in my hand. I march on in haste through an
enemy's land. The road may be rough, but it
cannot be long. And I'll smooth it with hope
and cheer it with song. So the Lord's people then can
do just that. while they're here in this world.
Having hidden ourselves for a small moment from the present trouble,
we'll wake up to endless joy at God's right hand forever and
ever. The Lord's people are secure,
being looked out for, being provided for in the covenant of God's
grace. May the Lord bless these thoughts
and give us some, the subject is some advice in troublous times. May the Lord bless. Father, in
the name of Jesus, may you bless this message and may it be used
in the hearts of all those that fear you. And may it prepare
us when dreadful and difficult trying times come into our lives. Forgive all of our faintings
and all of our failings. For Jesus' sake, amen.