I want to read only one verse,
Lamentations chapter 2 and verse 19. Lamentations chapter 2 and verse
19. You have a few Bibles. It's on
page 893. Arise, cry out in the night,
in the beginning of the watches, pour out Thine heart like water
before the face of the Lord. Lift up thy hands toward Him
for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the
top of the streets, crying out in times of desperation." I wanted
to look at this verse this morning because it is a very encouraging
verse when you consider the context in which it is written. I imagine
since the children of Israel crossed the Jordan and became
a nation, conquered Canaan, they have never faced such devastation
as they were in at this present time. Judah and her kings and
her priests and her prophets and her citizens had given themselves
over to sin. They had fallen into idolatry.
They worshipped the Queen of Heaven. They offered sacrifices
to other gods. The Lord sent His messengers
rising up early in the morning sending them, but they despised
His messengers, abused them, wouldn't believe the word of
the Lord until finally the Bible says that the Lord was so angry
with His church of old that He sent the Babylonian army in and
humbled them and carried them away captive. The king of Babylon,
Nebuchadnezzar, had sent his troops from Babylon, they had
come through into Judah. They had conquered many towns,
killed people. They had come here to the city
of Jerusalem itself, besieged the city, set up banks and forts
around it. And for 18 long months, they
held out. Finally, there was no supplies
coming into the city. The water ran out. Their food
ran out. They got so desperate that some
of the mothers actually ate their dead children. Then the soldiers
that were here with the king of Judah, they got afraid. The
Babylonians had busted through the front wall and began to slaughter
people. The soldiers of the Jews with
their king ran out the back way and headed for the plains of
Jericho. And what happened next, your
mind and my mind cannot consciously apprehend or get our hands around.
I think the closest thing that you and I could understand, the
slaughter that took place in this city, is that awful terrorist
group that we hear so much about today by the name of ISIS. How
they are taking men out into the desert and slaughtering them.
slaughtering women, cutting children's heads off and sticking them on
stakes. A vicious, vicious group of people. But they take nothing over this
group here. These Babylonians were cruel
soldiers that spared none. Let me read you a few passages
in 2 Chronicles 36. Listen to this. The king of the
Chaldeans slew their young men with a sword in the house of
their sanctuary. They had no compassion upon their
young men, or their maidens, or old men, or him that stooped
for age. The Lord gave them all into His
hands." Here was the prophecy of it in Jeremiah 18. Jeremiah
filled his book full of prophecies of what was coming. Here is what
he said, "...deliver up their children to the famine, and pour
out their blood by the force of the sword. Let their wives
be bereaved of their children, and let them be with us. Let
their men be put to death in the city. Let their young men
be slain with a sword in the battle." Then Lamentations 2.21,
it fulfills that prophecy. Listen to this. The young and
the old lie on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my
young men are fallen by the sword. Thou hast slain them in the day
of thine anger. Thou hast killed and not pitied
them. And listen to what finally happens.
Jeremiah 14, 16. They shall cast them out in the
streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine and of the sword.
And they shall have none to bury them, them or their wives, nor
their sons, nor their daughters. For I will pour their wickedness
upon them. Jeremiah 19, 11. I will break
this people and this city as one breakup of a potter's vessel.
that cannot be made whole, and they shall bury them in the valley
of Topat, till there be no place to bury them." And you read the
last chapter of Jeremiah, and the king of Judah is captured
by Nebuchadnezzar's men. They take him, they take the
princes and great men up to the king of Babylon. They slay Zedekiah's
son before his eyes. They put his eyes out. They slay
all the princes of Judah. They go in and they ransack the
temple. They burn it down. They burn
all the houses down. And before they leave, these
soldiers get together and break down the wall of the city Jerusalem. And Jeremiah begins this book
by saying, now the city that was once full of people sits
solitary. Burned with fire. Can you imagine
that? If you and I were attacked by terrorists this morning, we'd
probably hear about it. They've taken over Washington
and they've killed the President or some other big inner cities.
But our country is so large, that word would just be getting
around slowly to us. But this was a small country
taking place in these cities around Jerusalem. This was hand
to hand. This was what people saw. And
now the devastated city. is laying in utter waste. And
what few is left is just the poor people as bind dressers. Most of them have been killed
or hauled into captivity. And Isaiah said, Now the faithful
city has become an harlot. It was full of judgment, righteousness
lodged in her, but now murderers. And who would have ever dreamed
that this great city and this church of old, brothers and sisters,
would so degenerate and so be given over to such open and profane
sin against God and resist His prophets and gain for themselves
such judgment. I wonder how it would affect
you and I this morning, brothers and sisters, if you and I saw
the state of the Professing Church. What would we think? What would
we think if we saw the condition of the actual church of the Lord
Jesus Christ? What would we think of that?
Some of you drive a long ways to come here to hear the gospel.
Why do you pass so many of those other churches? What's going
on in those places? You and I are sure this morning
that the Lord Jesus Christ will have a church in this world as
long as this world stands. He will have a witness, a people
that love Him and preach His gospel. But one thing you and
I can be sure of also, that that church may become very weak and
very sickly and lose her power and lose her influence and degenerate
into mere morality. and trust in morality, and her
worship is nothing more than a foreign formality. Can that happen? Could that happen
to the true church of the Lord Jesus Christ? In the New Testament,
we're instructed, we're encouraged, and we're warned to watch and
pray. Why does the master, before he
left, instruct his disciples to watch and pray? Why do you
find that all throughout the New Testament epistles to watch
and pray? Because there's good reason for
it. There's good reason for it. You ever wonder what happened
to those seven churches of Asia? You ever wonder what happened
to the church of Galatia, that church of Epius, Colossus? You
know who's worshipped there now instead of the living God? Allah. You say, surely that couldn't
happen. What happened to these churches? The few churches that's
there or used to be there just in the last few centuries or
so, even those who profess the name of Christ, I bet you if
you and I went there and sat down and listened to their messages,
you would even hardly recognize that it's the gospel of the grace
of Christ at all. Allah is worshipped in those
places now. And what happened? I think the
Lord gave us some hints when He was writing to the churches
there in Asia. Listen to Revelation 2. He was writing to the church
of Ephesus. He said, I know your patience.
I know your labor. I know you've tried those who
say they're apostles and they're liars. They're not. But He said,
I have somewhat against thee. What was it he had against this
church? Because you have left your first love. They had left
their sweetheart love. With all their labors and their
patience, they had left their sweetheart love for the Lord
Jesus Christ. And he instructs them, remember
therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent, or listen
to this, I will come unto thee quickly and will remove the candlestick
out of its place. Where is the church at Ephesus?
It's gone, isn't it? That sweet church that the Apostle
Paul wrote and preached those wonderful doctrines of grace
to, what a sweet understanding people they were. But look how
they degenerated. They left their first love. I
was over in the church. I worked with a fellow. He wasn't
a converted fellow, but he had a brother-in-law. that was a
pastor of a church over in Indianapolis years ago. I hadn't been converted
very long. And he said, I want you to go
with me to hear my brother-in-law preach. They had this old church
that they'd just moved into. And I went over there with him.
And I walked in. And I don't know why they did
this. If it was some kind of agreement with the old congregation
or what. But on the wall where you went
in the door was the old doctrine of faith. And I stood there and
read that and what wonderful doctrines it was. It began that
we believe in God's free and sovereign grace in election. And then it went right on that
we believe that man is totally ruined by sin. That Jesus Christ
by Himself has made an eternal redemption for those that the
Father left Him. And on and on it went. And I
was standing there in amazement reading those blessed truths,
and the new pastor walked up to me and he said, now listen,
that's their doctrines, not mine. He might as well have been saying,
the candlestick has been removed. Ain't that so? The candlestick
has been removed. The Lord Jesus was writing in
Revelation 12 to the book of Sardis, to the church of Sardis,
and I think He gives us a hint or two in it. He says you have
a name that you live, but you're dead. Be watchful and strengthen
the things that remain, listen to this, that are ready to die. For I have not found your works
perfect before God. What was it that was ready to
die? Couldn't have meant they were
going to be lost again. That's impossible. They were
His church. They were regenerate people.
What was about to die within these people? Whatever it was,
He tells them to be watchful. Watch and strengthen those things
that remain. Where is that church? We don't
have any record of it today, do we? And of course, we know
the Otesean church there in Revelation chapter 3. Listen to what he
said to his church there. I know your works. You're neither
cold nor hot. I would that you were cold or
hot, so then because you're lukewarm, I will skew thee out of my mouth. What in the world does that mean?
What a cold church. How they had degenerated into
mere formality. And listen to what they said
about themselves. He said, because you say, I am
rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and
you know not. You are not even aware, you are
not conscious that you are poor and blind and naked and wretched. I counsel of thee to buy of me
gold that is tried in the fire, that you may be rich, white raiment
that you may be clothed, that your nakedness does not appear,
and come to me, for I say, that you may see. Those I love, I
rebuke and chasten, I stand at the door and knock." Now who
is he talking to? His church. How is it that Christ
found Himself on the outside of the church? Knocking. If any man open the door, I'll
come in and sit with him, and he with me. Paul was writing
to the church at Rome. Listen to what he says. Knowing
the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep, for
now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is
far spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the
works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. And
finally, Paul was writing to the Ephesian church, and he said,
Awake thou that sleepeth. and arise from the dead, and
Christ shall give thee life." Now, I want you to know two things.
In all of these scriptures that I've quoted to you, you see these
two things. And this is what's so encouraging
to me about this text. When Judah, the church of old,
found herself in such a devastated position, and when these churches,
even though they were rebuked of the Lord, you find these two
things. Number one, you find their sad,
sad state. Brothers and sisters, if we have
a name that we live this morning and we're dead, if we have something
within us that is dying, if we've left our first love, if we think
that we're rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing,
need of nothing, then we've got problems, haven't we? But the
second thing you see in there is encouragement. Every time
that he checks them and reproves them, there's this encouragement. Repent. Rekindle your fire for
the blessed Savior. Cold and indifferent, I stand
at the door and knock. Only I can rekindle the love
in your soul for myself. Strengthen those things that
remain. Always encouragement. The Lord
never leads His people, especially His people that are discouraged
and disparaged, He never leads them without encouragement to
seek His face. And we find it here in my text.
That's one reason I love this text so much. In spite of all
this awful condition that they had found themselves in, He writes
to them here and He says in verse 19, Arise and cry out in the
night. In the beginning of the watches
pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord."
Isn't that wonderful encouragement? What such wonderful encouragement?
He didn't say, you fellows are hopeless. You fellows are helpless. The Lord is so angry with you,
He'll never hear you. No, He doesn't say that. But
right the opposite, He encourages them to cry out unto the Lord. In our text, we have God's remedy,
don't we? We have the Lord's remedy for
all that ails us. If you're here this morning and
you have spiritual concerns, you know you've been sleeping,
you feel like the graces in your heart is diminished, your love
for the Lord Jesus Christ and His cause has become secondary, the loss can come among us, and
go unawakened. We are not burdened for our children,
as Wayne prayed in his prayer this morning. Maybe we have a
sense of shame about it all. Maybe even a sense of guilt,
and we feel something of the Lord's displeasure because we
feel His chastening wrought upon us. Is anybody here like that
this morning? Perhaps there is. Well, if you
are, join your pastor in different times in his own life. When I've
been there, I have been there. You may feel yourself under a
sense of the Lord's displeasure. No chastening for the present
seems to be joyous, but it's grievous, isn't it? Sometimes
it causes your hands to hang down and it causes your knees
to be feeble. What kind of condition is the
church in this morning? What kind of spiritual concerns
do you and I have about ourselves? Are we so helpless and hopeless
that we're going to set out in our deplorable condition without
any remedy to help us? No. No. And that's why I love this blessed
text here this morning. There's not always an easy solution,
is there? Sometimes we get our lives in
such messes. that somebody will say, how in
the world are you going to get out of this? I don't know. There
are some things that there is no simple solution for. But,
Bud, the Lord has given us a simple solution this morning. And that
simple solution is in the Lord Himself. It's God who has given
us this solution. And this solution is in the Lord
Jesus Christ. And I earnestly believe, probably
this morning, That no matter what condition we find ourselves,
especially in these dreadful conditions that we get in our
mind, here's the remedy for that condition. And he says it here
in verse 19, cry aloud in the night watches. And the first
thing that I remember about verse 19 is this, that the Lord had
purpose to carry this people away captive. He had purposed
this all along because of their sins. But you know something
else that God had purposed to do? After 70 years, He had purposed
to bring them back home. And they cried out in the night. They poured their hearts out
to Him. It was just a precursor of their
soon coming back home. And for 70 years, they cried. But I tell you, He brought them
back home. And when our hearts begin to
cry out unto the Lord, when we pour out our souls before Him
like water, brothers and sisters, that shows to us that He is purposed
soon to deliver us. And that's the encouragement
I see in this blessed, blessed verse of Scripture. How does
it begin? Look at it. He begins with a
rise. Now, isn't that a wonderful word?
The encouragement that is in that. He encourages them here
to arouse themselves. Oh, somebody said, I'm in such
a sad state. I'm in such a fearful condition. There's nothing I can do about
it. Yes, there is. Yes, there is. Don't sit there and live and
die in that condition. There's a solution, and God Himself
has gave us that solution. That solution is in Jesus Christ
our Savior. How many times in the Gospel
do you and I read that some blind beggar, or some cripple, or some
dying woman with some dreaded blood disease, and they heard
of the Lord Jesus Christ, that He was passing by. And what did
they do? They aroused themselves. Every
one of them said, we are not going to sit here and let the
Savior pass by. They aroused themselves and some
cried aloud with their mouth and others cried aloud within
their hearts. But they began to cry out. What do you really need from
Christ today? What do you want from the Lord
Jesus Christ? Well, let me ask you this question.
Is it worth crying out to Him for it? Is it worth it? It was for these men and women
in the Gospels that were born blind and setting crippled and
dying of some disease. I fear some people have these
little prayers that they pray every night. Bless their hearts.
into the same little simple pride that can be said, and their children
can memorize that little pride. I'm not talking about that, brothers
and sisters. I'm talking about sometimes when
just a mere asking won't satisfy your soul. And your case is so
desperate, you feel in your mind, that you're willing to cry out
to the Lord. You know the Lord Jesus teaches
us this Himself, doesn't He? You read it sometime in Luke
chapter 11. Christ taught us how to pray. You remember He
told about this man who had a friend, a visitor, to come and visit
him. And he got to his house and he said, Do you have any
bread? And he said, I don't, but I'm going to my friend's next
door and I'll get some. Remember the story? He goes to
his friend's house and His friend is in bed with his family. And
the man is standing on the outside of the door, and I can almost
hear him whispering, Friend, friend, I've got a friend of
mine that is coming. He needs bread. I don't have
any. Can you get up and give me some bread? And what did the
man answer? Don't trouble me. I'm with my
children in bed. Leave me alone. He didn't get
it by asking, did he? But you know he never quit, did
he? He began to seek. He began to seek ways to encourage
the man to get up and get him the bread. He said, it's just
a loan. I'm not asking you to give it
to me. I'll come back and pay you for it. Would you please,
my friend, don't have any bread. You're my friend. Will you not
give this to me? And he said, stop troubling me.
I'm with my family and my children in bed. I'll come back tomorrow. What did he do, brothers and
sisters? I tell you, he had a need, didn't he? This man was desperate. He said, I can't go back without
bread. I've got to have bread. And so what does he do? He quits
asking. He quits seeking to persuade
his friend. And he starts beating on the
door. He starts knocking. And he starts
knocking and won't quit knocking until finally the man inside
says, I can't take this any longer. So he gets up and he gives him
all the loaves of bread that he needs. And the Lord Jesus
taught us that sometimes, sometimes when our case was so desperate,
that it wasn't enough for us just to ask. Sometimes asking
will do, won't it? But boy, sometimes I tell you,
you're so desperate, you'll start beating on his door. And you'll
not give him any rest. You'll start crying aloud to
the Lord until finally He answers. I never say this this morning. If the Scripture didn't say it,
I want you to listen to Isaiah chapter 62 and verse 6. Listen
to this. The Lord Himself said this, I
have set watchmen upon the walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never
hold their peace day and night. You that make mention of the
Lord, keep not silence, and give Him no rest." That's bold, isn't
it? But He said it. He said it Himself. Give me no rest till He establish,
until He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. What do you want
from Christ this morning? What do you really want from
Him? Do you want His grace? Do you feel yourself in need
of mercy? Have you come to the throne of
grace and you ask Him and you've gone away and you don't feel
like you've got it? Do you want to see His power
upon the church? Do you want to see His people
saved in this place? Do you want grace to be followers
of God, as do your children? Do you want His presence? Do
you want to know Christ better and know Him more? What do you
want? Is it worth crying out? Cry out
in the night, he said. Lift your voices up unto Him. Or sometimes just ask and do,
will you? Are you here this morning and
you're lost? Are you here this morning and you're lost? Do you
believe the Lord Jesus Christ is able to save you by Himself?
Do you believe that? Do you want the water of life
that He gives? Do you want to eat of the bread
of life and live forever? Do you long to see all your sins
washed away? You've seen the frown of God's
face. Do you long to see God's smiling
face? Do you have this desire? Is what
you need from Him this morning only He can supply? Then don't
be silent to Him. Cry out unto Him. You say, Bruce,
I don't know how to form my words to pray. I don't know how to
pray properly. He's not talking about that,
is He? These people in In the Gospels, that poor blind man
that was born blind, do you think he ever read a sentence in his
life? Do you think he knew how to write his name? He didn't
know anything about forms of words and the languages. But
I tell you this, he knew how to cry, didn't he? Jesus, thou
Son of David, have mercy upon me. That's what he's talking
about. Do you need mercy? Then cry out. Go like that man in the temple
and beat on your chest before the Lord and say, God, be merciful
to me, the sinner. Cry out. The Bible says there
is no difference between the Jews and the Greek, for the same
Lord is rich unto all that call upon Him. Do you need Him this
morning? talking about not having forms
of prayers. Would you like this morning for
somebody to sit down and write you a pretty prayer and you go
to the Lord with that? Would that do you? You wouldn't get
any results out of that. Here's what He tells us to do.
Arise and cry out in the night. And notice what else He tells
us to do. And I love this. Do we know anything about this
second thing this morning? He says here in our text, pour
out thine heart like water before the Lord. Pour out your heart
like water before the very face of the Lord. Oh, somebody would
say, Ruth, I'm afraid to pour out my heart before the face
of the Lord. Why? I'm afraid of what may come out. Did you ever take an old jug
of muddy water? And you can't see what's in there
until you pour it out. There's things in our hearts,
brothers and sisters, we don't even know what's there. But I
tell you, when you're apt to discover it, when you turn it
up and pour it out. You see, you can't pour no hard
heart out, can you? No, if you've got, if you've
got, if you've got regarding iniquity in your heart, That's
a glue that just sticks and you turn it up and it's stuck. But
when the heart is broken up, when the heart is melted and
it's turned upside down, everything comes flowing out. And some things
are not pretty. Some things you'll discover in
there that you didn't know that was grievous to the Holy Spirit.
You thought you were doing pretty good. Until now you found out
that when you poured your heart out before the face of the Lord,
there was pride there. There was unbelief there. There
was some resentment against the Lord there. And boy, when you
poured it out, there it was. But thank God there were some
desires there too. Is there not? Is there not some
longings for His presence and for His glory and for mercies? Pour it out, dear soul. He knows it anyway, does He not? Turn your heart upside down and
just pour it out. Here's what David said, I poured
out my complaint before Him, and I showed before Him my trouble. What was it, David? I don't know
what David's trouble was. But he said, I poured it all
right out before His face. I tell you, brothers and sisters,
there's two wonderful advantages that you have when you go to
the Lord and pour out your heart. Just empty your heart before
Him. There's two great advantages
of doing that. One is this, you'll never be
afraid or ashamed to face the Lord. You know why? You've got nothing to hide. You've
got no sins that are in your heart that you've been hiding
out and afraid that someday He's going to find out about it. No,
He knows it because you have poured it all right out before
His face. You took it to Him beforehand.
Now when you go up to judgment, if anybody says anything about
it, the Lord Jesus said, yeah, I remember when He poured all
of that out. I've already seen it. It's already taken care of.
And here's the second advantage for you who go to Him and pour
out your hearts before Christ. When you emptied your heart before
Him, I'll tell you what He'll do. He'll fill it up with good
things. He may send the full away empty,
but I tell you, He sends the empty away full with His things,
His good things, His heart-cheering things. Pour out your soul. Pour out your heart like water
before Him. Oh my, isn't that wonderful?
That's wonderful. Don't be afraid to empty your
heart before the Lord. Trust in the Lord. Pour out your
heart before Him. For God is a refuge for us. Notice one more thing, and we'll
close here in just a minute. Notice what he says here. When
did he say to cry out? When did he say to begin this?
In the beginning of the watches. In the beginning of the watches.
It's never too early to pray, is it? It's never too early to
begin to cry loud and pour out your heart to the Lord. And you
know what? I think there's a lesson here
for the young people. Because here in our text, look
at this. He mentions the young people. Arise, cry out in the
night. In the beginning of the watches,
pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lift up thy hands toward Him for the life of thy young children
that faint. I think this could probably include
our young children. It's never too early for you
and I as saints to begin to pray. Let's begin to pour out our hearts
this morning, brothers and sisters. Get up in the night hours. I
said the other day, the Lord does a lot of night work. Get
up in the night, and when you have to get up to go to the bathroom,
get off by yourself and pour out your heart to Him. You may
find He'll meet with you in the night hours. Pray early. It's never too early. Well, I'll
pray tomorrow. Why not start now? Dear child
of God, earnestly to pray unto Him. But couldn't this be taken
for the young people? We've got a lot of young people
here this morning, haven't we? I am looking around and I don't
see a single child in here that I could not say this to.
You children, listen. Cry out to the Lord. Cry out
to the Lord. Josiah the king was eight years
old, and he was a crier after the Lord. Can you imagine an
18-year-old child down beside of his bed, and what's he doing?
He's pouring out his heart to the Lord. And I'm telling you,
if you're here this morning, I don't care what your age is.
If God is calling you, then seek Him. Call upon Him. He won't refuse you. You remember little Samuel? I
don't know how old he was, but he was just a child. And he thought
Eli was calling him. And Esau said, listen, it's not
me, it's the Lord. And the next time he speaks to
you, cry out to him and say, Lord, I'm here. Speak to me. I'm listening. And Paul said
to Timothy from a child, you've known the Holy Scriptures, didn't
you? Which are able to make thee wise unto salvation. You know
what the devil does with young children. He starts this at a
very early age. Jeremiah talks about it in chapter
3. A young man bearing the yoke.
in his youth. And the devil comes and he tells
the young people, oh, you don't want to seek the Lord now. You
don't want to be a Christian now. It's time now for you to
sow your wallows. It's time for you to have fun.
You'll be miserable if you come to Christ. But he'll never tell
those young people that the yoke of Christ is easy and His burdens
are light. And I'll tell you this, sissy,
You start calling on the Lord now, you'll never regret it when
you get old. You won't have to look back like
some of us does in the life of sin, and remember that, that
some of us have to do. Children, begin to call on the
Lord now, while you're early. And I'll tell you something else,
I think, while we're here, it's never too late to pray. It's
never too early to begin to call on the Lord. But I wouldn't encourage
anybody to wait to seek Him. But I tell you this, the devil
takes advantage of old people. And you know what he does? He
comes to them and he says these little words. Oh, that drives
despair to their heart. It's too late. There's a man
who asked me to go talk to his mother. She was dying. I went
to the nursing home and talked to her. And I got down beside
her bed, and she was sick, and I was trying to tell her about
the Lord, how merciful He was and what He had done for sinners.
And you know what she did? She stopped me. And she said,
I'm sorry, but I'm too sick to pray. I'm too sick to pray. But you know, it wasn't that
she was too sick. You know what it was? She had
despaired. And the poor lady, as far as
I know, died in that misery. The devil comes and says, it's
too late. He tells the young people it's
too early. Then he comes to the old people
and says, it's too late. We're not ignorant of his devices,
are we? It's not too late, brothers and
sisters, if he's calling. It's not too late if you'll turn
to him and seek his face. Was it too late for that thief
upon the cross? And I tell you, that woman thought
she was sick. Was she in any more pain than
that poor thief was upon the cross? Here was the difference. He says, yes, my case is desperate. Yes, I'm in the eleventh hour.
I'm ready to die for my crimes. But here's the Son of God and
there's hope. And, Budwin, there's some hope. You'll find some energy
to cry out, won't you? I don't think Nicodemus was a
young man when the Lord saved him. I think he was a very old
man. Can a man when he is old enter
into his mother's womb and be barned? But he was barned again,
was he not? Did he seek the Lord? Did he
call upon Him? Begin early, in the early watches, and pray when
you are old. Call upon the Lord and pour out
your heart before Him. Sometimes it may seem our situation
is helpless and hopeless, but our blessed Lord Jesus Himself
has given us a remedy, and that remedy is found in Himself. And
I do believe this morning that whatever situation you found
yourself in this morning, that He can remedy it. Therefore,
go to Him and cry out to Him and pour out your heart. And
that's a good indicator that His blessings is on its way.
God bless His Word. Let's pray.