Comfort for the Comforted

Q: What does the Bible say about comforting God's people?

The Bible emphasizes that God commands His people to comfort one another, as seen in Isaiah 40:1. In Isaiah 40:1, the Lord instructs, 'Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.' This command highlights the importance of providing comfort and assurance to believers who face trials and tribulations. God recognizes the need for His people to be encouraged, especially during difficult times. It is through the ministry of the Word and the sincere love of fellow believers that this comfort is conveyed. This calling is important in a world filled with uncertainty and sorrow, reminding us that true comfort comes from God Himself, who is the source of all comfort.

Q: How do we know that God comforts us in our troubles?

God's Word assures us that He comforts us in all our tribulations, as stated in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4. The assurance of God's comfort is found in 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, where it says, 'Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforteth us in all our tribulation.' This verse emphasizes that God's character is one of mercy and comfort, affirming that He is actively involved in our distress. The comfort we receive is not only for our benefit but is intended to equip us to comfort others in their struggles, reflecting the grace we have received from God. This relational aspect of comfort fosters a community of support among believers, emphasizing that we are never alone in our troubles.

Q: Why is faith important for comfort in trials?

Faith is crucial because it connects us to God's promises, which provide comfort during trials. Faith acts as the anchor for believers in times of trial, as it is through faith that we access the promises of God. In the midst of suffering and difficulties, we may struggle with doubts and fears about our circumstances. However, Hebrews 11:1 helps us understand that 'faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.' When we trust in God's faithfulness and look to Christ, the ultimate source of our comfort, we can find peace even in our storms. Our faith reassures us that God has a plan greater than our current struggles, inviting us to rest in His sovereignty and His promises of comfort and grace.

Q: How does God demonstrate His love and comfort?

God demonstrates His love and comfort through His provisions and presence in our lives. God's love and comfort are profoundly illustrated in His actions towards His people. In Isaiah 40:11, we see that God 'shall feed his flock like a shepherd; he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom.' This imagery showcases God's intimate care and tenderness towards His people, highlighting His desire to nurture and protect us. In times of distress, we can find solace in the fact that God actively participates in our lives, providing what we need for both our physical and spiritual well-being. His comfort comes from knowing that through Christ, we are not left to face our struggles alone, as He walks alongside us, giving us strength and guidance.

And all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. For the voice said,
Cry, and he said, Well, what shall I cry? Here's your message. All flesh
is Christ, and all the goodliness, the glory thereof is as the flower
of the field. The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth. The flesh withereth, and the
glory faded, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it.
Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower
faded, but the word of our God shall stand forever. O Zion,
church that bringeth good news, good tidings, get thee up into
a high mountain, into a high place. that bringest good tidings, lift
up your voice with strength. Lift it up, don't be afraid.
Say to the cities of Judah, to the people of God, Behold, your
God. Behold, the Lord God will come
with strong hand, and his arms shall rule for him. Behold, his
reward is with him, his work before him. And he shall feed
his flock like a shepherd. And he shall gather the lambs
with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently
lead those that are with young. Now, who's speaking here? Verse 1 says, Comfort ye, comfort
ye, my people, saith your God. This is the Lord of hosts who
speaks. This is the Lord our God. He
condemns sins to speak to us, right here this morning. David
said, when I consider the heavens, the stars, the moon, the sun,
the things I was made, what is man without even mindful of it? What is man that you even look
his direction? It's even considerate. But God
speaks to us. God speaks. Now, to whom does
He speak? This is important. Saith your
God, to whom does He speak? Well, He speaks to His preachers,
His prophets, His apostles, His missionaries, His pastors, teachers. He speaks to those who speak
for Him. Oftentimes here, one of our men,
one of our elders, Brother Roach, will be called on to pray. And
God's given him the gift to pray. And I hear him saying quite often,
Lord, speak to our pastor. He may speak to us. And that
is not in vain. That is God's way. You see, we
are ambassadors for Christ. As though God did beseech you
by us, be you reconciled to God. And when he sent out his disciples,
he said, he that heareth you, heareth me. And he that receiveth
your words, receiveth my words. And God does speak through men.
He said, Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall
be saved. But how shall they call on him in whom they have
not believed? And how shall they believe in
him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear? What
does it say? Without a preacher. How shall
they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach except
they be sent? You say, well, I can just read
the Word for myself. But a preacher wrote it. Isaiah wrote this. God uses men. That's what I'm trying to say.
God does not speak to us through angels. He speaks through His
Son, the Word, and the incarnate Word and the living Word is one
Word. So He's speaking to those who
speak for Him. All right, what is his command
to these preachers, pastors and teachers, prophets and missionaries?
His command is to comfort my people. He says, comfort ye,
comfort ye my people, my people. Now, I can't comfort where God
hasn't comforted. When our son was killed in Vietnam,
the Lord gave us great comfort. It was a very, very difficult
and trying time. Some of you have been in similar
situations. And there was no comfort to be
found anywhere but in our Lord. That was it now. Becky will tell
you that. Darcy will tell you that. I'll
tell you that. I appreciated the people who came and the flowers
that were sent and the messages I received by telegram and letter
and the telephone calls and they're precious and wonderful and I
appreciate them deeply. But my strength for that difficult
time, my strength for the time of weakness, my comfort for the
time of trouble, my help for the time of difficulty was in
Him, in my Lord. in his sovereignty, in his purpose,
in his will, in his grace, in his mercy. And then I have people,
after that happened, you can imagine, it made the papers and
all. And then I would have, the phone
would ring and someone would be on the phone and say, say
this to me. They'd say, we noted your composure
and your strength in your loss. I have an aunt or an uncle or
a brother or a sister or a neighbor or a friend who has lost a loved
one. Would you go and give them what
you have? Would you go and speak a word
to them? I can't do it. I cannot comfort
an unbeliever. Do you understand what I'm saying?
I cannot comfort where God has not comforted. I cannot say,
peace, peace, when there is no peace. You understand what I'm
saying? So what the Lord is saying here,
comfort my people. And what I'm preaching this morning
is comfort for the comforted. What I'm preaching this morning
is encouragement for the encouraged. What I'm preaching this morning
is hope for those who hope. It's help for those whom he has
already helped. Comfort my people, that's what
he said, my people whom I have chosen. Comfort my people with
whom I have a covenant. Comfort my people whom I've redeemed
by my blood. And the way you comfort people
whom he has redeemed by his blood is call their attention again
to the blood. Isn't that right? The way you comfort people whom
the Lord sends you to comfort is by pointing them not to you
or to your words, but to Him. He is my comfort. He is my peace. He is my rest. Comfort my people
whom I call to faith. When our Lord came to Mary and
Martha when their brother Lazarus had died, He said, Martha, he said, your
brother will rise again. She said, I know, I know, I'm
sure, I know he'll rise again in the judgment at that great
day. He said, but Martha, I'm the
resurrection and the life, and he that believeth on me shall
never perish. Do you believe this? Martha,
look at me again. Look at me. And that's all I'm
saying this morning. That's all I can do. I can just
say to you out there, each one of you, when you're in trouble,
when you're in trial, when you're in great straits, all I say to
you, you look to Him before, look to Him again. You rested
in Him before, rest in Him now. He was your comfort at the beginning,
He's your comfort now. He is your Lord and your Redeemer. He cares for you. You look to
Him. That's what our Lord said when
Paul got the thorn in the flesh. I got a letter this week from
a man asking me some questions. He said, what was Paul's thorn
in the flesh? I wrote back and said, what it
was is not important. Who gave it is what's important.
Who gave it? That's what's important. Who
gave it and why he gave it. The Lord said to Paul, I've sent
this on purpose to you. that you might not be exalted
above measure. I've met a need that you have,
Paul. And I'll tell you this, along
with meeting your need, you remember this, my grace is sufficient. You look to me. So comfort my
people who are tried people. Look at the next verse. He says,
speak comfortably to them. And the best definition of that
word comfortably is speak to the heart. I wish I could get
every preacher, and I know some of you who've been with me for
40 years, I wish you'd have heard it too in the early days, but
I wish I could get every preacher and urge them to preach. Don't
keep preaching to the head, preach to the heart. I know we can't bypass the head.
I know there's got to be a foundation. There's got to be a superstructure.
There's got to be some joists and some studs and some of whatever
those things are over here, there's got to be the framework, got
to be that teaching. But I still say that we need
to preach to the heart. The heart. Speak to the heart,
he said of my people. Speak to the heart. You see,
my people are in need of comfort. My people are in need of peace.
Or they're sometimes troubled. And you know, our Lord, I look
back over the New Testament, In the next few days, our Lord
did not rebuke his disciples very often. Did you notice that?
Now, he rebuked the Pharisees. Oh, he had some hard words for
the religious Pharisees. He called them vipers, called
them hypocrites. That's some cutting words, cutting
words. But you know, he did not rebuke
his disciples very often, and when he did, what was it over? What was the reason for it? Why
did he rebuke them? Over and over again, he'd say,
Oh, ye of little faith. Quarian did you doubt? Oh, ye
of little faith. That's when he'd rebuke them
because he didn't believe. And God's people need comfort. They're
troubled people. They're tried people. He said
in the world they're going to have tribulation. And every time
you come together, every time you meet as an assembly, as a
people of God, somebody there has a broken heart. Somebody
there has a weary road. Somebody there has a heavy spirit. Somebody there Needs to be encouraged. Needs to be lifted. Needs to
be comforted. I'll tell you, I just looked
at these four things. We're troubled. We're troubled
by the corruption of our own natures. Sometimes it's greater
than at other times. Isn't that true? Sometimes the
corruption of our natures just floods in. Sometimes it's not
as heavy. It's there. But it's not as intense. But sometimes the intensity of
our flesh and our nature just floods in upon us, doesn't it?
And my people need to be comforted. Then another thing that bothers
us is the temptations of the world. Everybody likes comfort
and likes luxuries and likes ease. And there are times when
we'd be satisfied with a log cabin and a rocking chair and
a piece of fatback, you know, and a piece of cornbread and
look out over the backyard and watch the dogs sleep under the
tree. But there are other times when
you've got that, you know, that greed, that covetousness, that
status, that, you know, just going after And that's when my
people need to be comforted, having food and rain with them
to be content. And then another thing is the
afflictions we meet with in this life, afflictions, sicknesses. I tell you, it's one thing to
say to a friend who is sick, that he's got heart trouble or
or some other trouble, and you say to him, well, the Lord's
sovereign. But what happens to you? Now
it's different. Now it's different. Or to say
to someone whose burdens are so heavy and flesh is so assaulted by the things of this
world, to say, it's going to be all right. okay when it comes
to you, then the need is greater, isn't it, to say it when it happens
right here. And that's what God's people,
and that's what's happened, it's happened to them. Now they need
comfort. And then I'll tell you another
thing that bothers us is the doubts and fears. Whom having not seen you love,
but whom having not seen. And I'll tell you, there's those
doubts. It's not doubting, and I don't
think any of God's people will for one moment doubt the power
of Christ to save, or the willingness of Christ to save, or the ability
of Christ to save, or the sufficiency of Christ to save. But do I believe,
you know? And then we preachers come along
and we say, well, examine yourselves, whether you're in the faith,
You know, that verse, here's what that verse is saying, examine
yourself whether you look into Him. Don't examine yourself to
find out anything in here, just examine your faith to see if
it's in Christ. See that? So, God's people need
comfort. That's the reason He said this,
to you preachers and pastors and teachers and missionaries
and whatever, comfort my people. Comfort my people. Speak to the
heart. They need assurance. They need encouragement. They
need comfort. And it's the will of God that they be comforted.
He sent His Son to redeem them. He sent His Son to comfort them.
He sent His Holy Spirit. He called the Holy Spirit to
comfort them. Let me show you a verse over here. Don't leave
Isaiah 40. Just turn over to 2 Corinthians
for a moment. 2 Corinthians chapter 1. Look
at this. 2 Corinthians chapter 1. Blessed, verse 3, 2 Corinthians
1, 3, blessed be God, you got it? 2 Corinthians 1, 3, blessed
be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father
of mercies and the God of all comfort, who comforteth us in
all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which
are in trouble. by the same comfort wherewith
we ourselves are comforted of God. Now then, I can't serve this
purpose this morning unless I've partaken of the comfort. See that? He's the God of all
comfort. I know the source of comfort.
I know the fountain of comfort. I know where comfort's found.
And I come this morning to tell you. I come this morning to comfort
you in your tribulation. And He gave me tribulation that
I may comfort you with the same comfort wherewith I've been comforted. All right, let's go on now. That's
comfort my people. Verse 3, verse 2. Speak ye comfortably. Speak to the heart. It's to the
heart. And cry to her, hear a thriftful thing. Now you tell her this,
you tell my people in their tribulation and trouble that her warfare
is accomplished. Her warfare is accomplished.
What is this warfare? Well, our journey through life
is a warfare. It's referred to in the scripture
as a warfare. It tells us to take unto ourselves
the armor of God. It is a warfare. We have many
enemies. Principally four. Principally four enemies. Satan,
sin, our flesh, and the world. And our Lord says to us here,
now you comfort my people and you tell them this, the war has
been fought and won. All their enemies have been conquered. That's right. Christ has put
to flight all of our enemies. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them who are in Christ. Satan, what did he say? He said,
the prince of this world has come and met me, met me, the
man, and he found nothing in me. Now, he came to our father
Adam, and he found agreement. He found weakness. He found all
these things in Adam, and in Adam we fell. Well, he came to
our Lord, our Lord Jesus Christ, our captain of our salvation,
our great warrior. He came and met Christ. Up there
on the Mount of Temptation, he hurled at him everything that
he hurled at Adam, and even more. And Christ said he found no agreement. He found no accord, and he was
put to flight. He has crushed his head. So Satan
has no power over you, except God gives him that permission.
He's been conquered. All right? What about sin? Well,
let me read you what it says over here in the book of Hebrews.
You don't turn to it, just listen. This is the covenant that I will
make with them after those days, saith the Lord. I'll put my law
in their hearts, in their minds I'll write them, and their sins
and iniquities will I remember no more. The blood of Jesus Christ,
God's Son, has cleansed us from all sin. You say to my people,
the war is over. The war is over. Sin has been
put away. It's been cast behind the back
of God. It's been cast into the depths
of the sea. Sin separated us from God, but
now our sins are separated from us, for He separated them from
us as far as the east is from the west. In Christ there is
no sin. Will you remember that? The warfare
is accomplished. It's over. Satan's defeated. You have no sin. The blood of
Christ cleanses us from all sin. And then our flesh, Paul cried,
listen to him over here in Romans 7. Listen to Paul in Romans.
The gospel, that's the believer's comfort. In Romans 7, Paul confesses,
verse 18, listen to Romans 7, 8, I know in me that is in my
flesh. Well, it's no good thing. The
will is present with me. How to perform that which is
perfect, I haven't found it yet in me. The good that I would,
I do not. The evil that I would not, that
I do. If I do that I would not, it's no more I that do it. It's
sin that dwelleth in me. I found then a law, when I would
do good, when I would be perfect, evil's present with me, I delight
in the law of God after the inward man. But I see another law, warring
in my members, warring against the law of my mind, bringing
me into captivity of the law of sin. O wretched man that I
am, who shall deliver me from this body of death? God speaks. You've been delivered. I thank
God through our Lord Jesus Christ. So while I'm in this flesh with
the mind, I serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law
of sin. But that victory has been accomplished. My flesh has
been defeated. That's right. Say to her. Look
at that next line. Her sins are iniquitous pardon. You're free. Here's a man in
prison. He's committed crime. He's in
prison. He served his time. And his sentence is complete,
and the governor gives him a pardon. He walks out the door. He's free.
The law has no claim on him. Now, if he wants to, he can live
in the shadow of that prison and say, they may put me back
any time, but they're not going to. He may live in the shadow
of that prison and say, well, I'll just stay here and wait
until they open the gates and they'll haul me back. No, go
on home. Go on walking the park, walk
through the woods, go fishing. You're free. And that's what
says your sins are pardoned. You're put away. What about this
world? He said, I've overcome this world.
Look at the last line here in verse 2. She, you comfort my
people. You tell them the war is over.
Christ is the victor. Christ is seated at the right
hand of God. He's seated. He's not pacing
the floor. He's seated. He's victorious. His enemies
are at his footstool. He's the victorious conqueror.
And you're seated in Him. And your iniquities, your sins
are forgiven. They're pardoned. You're free.
And you tell them that she has received of the Lord's hand double
for all your her sins. Our sins are paid for to such
an extent that Christ paid far more than we owe. That's what
he's saying. Far more than we owe. You've heard my illustration.
I'm going to have to use it again because I think it's a good one.
But this old fellow, he got his check, his monthly check, and
he went down to the bank. It was for $97.50. He drove up
to the window and he put it in there for the girl to cash. put
it all out. He got it out of the drawer,
and the drawer shut, you know, and he sat there and counted
it, and he counted again, and he counted again. She kept watching
him, sitting there, counting that money. She says, isn't it
all there? He said, it just barely is. Well, our redemption is not that
close. Let me tell you something. I
know he took our sins in his body on the tree, but he took
ultimately more than our sins. That's right. Each double, double. You know, I don't know why that
is, but I'm always in trouble when I'm paying somebody. I go
in the store and they say, well, that's $10.50, and I go out and
throw it down, and they ring it up, and I walk through there
and think, did I give them enough? Did I give them enough? I hate
to think I'm trying to cheat them. It just bothers me so much.
But listen, Christ has so forgiven my sins, there's not even any
possibility of any sin being brought up. No possibility. Double! You see that? Comfort my people. The war is
over. The battle is won. The king is
crowned. The kingdom of our Lord Jesus
Christ is victorious. Our sins are all forgiven. They're
pardoned. Don't carry a load of guilt and
blame and shame and all that. Don't do that. Don't carry that.
He carried it, why would you want to carry it? I like that
illustration. I heard one time this boy was
hitchhiking. He had one of these backpacks on, a great big old
backpack. And a man came by in a Jeep.
And he pulled up beside the young man and said, you want a ride?
The young man said, I sure do. I'm worn out carrying this load.
He said, get in. So the boy got in, kept that
pack on his back, and sat down in the front seat. And the man
said, They rode along. He said, take your pack off and
throw it in the back. No, he said, you gave me a ride. I don't
want to impose on you. He said, why don't you take it
off and throw it in the back? He said, no, the fact you gave me a ride,
that's enough. He said, I'm not going to throw it in the back
seat there. He said, well, son, he said,
I'm carrying the pack. Now, if you want to carry it
too, it's all right. But if you want to, you can put it in the
back seat and you won't have to carry it because I'm going
to carry it anyway. Either on your back or in the back seat.
So Christ carried your burden. Carried your guilt. Why don't
you throw it in the back seat? Why do you want to keep on carrying
it? Why do you want to keep on carrying the load? He carried
it. He carried it to the Calvary and paid for it. Why do you want
to keep carrying it? I don't want to impose on him.
Do. He likes it. cast it off and be free. Enjoy his presence, his power.
Now here's something, and I just wrestle with this so much, why
is this right here? Verse 3, the voice of him that
crieth in the wilderness prepare you the way of the Lord. Make
straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall
be exalted, every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the
crooked made straight, and the rough places plain, and the glory
of the Lord shall be revealed. And all flesh shall see it, for
the mouth of the Lord is spoken." Why is that right there? Talking
about comforting my people. Let me see if I can show you.
Bear with me a minute. Back in those days, if a great
king, a great, great king, I'm not talking about just a little I'm talking about a mighty king.
If he were planning to visit a certain place, months before
his visit, months, when he was coming to this certain village
or town or place, months before his visit, there would men go
out before him, and they'd cut the trees, and they'd fill in
the valleys, and they'd bring down the hills, and they'd straighten
out the curves, and they'd make a great highway for the king.
No obstacle, nothing in the way, just a highway for the King to
pass over. And that's what John the Baptist
did. He came to prepare the way of the Lord. The Lord's coming.
The Lord's coming in His glory. The Lord Jesus Christ is coming.
Who are you, John? I'm a voice. The voice of one
that crieth in the wilderness, in the desert. In the rough places,
in the heathen places, in the pagan places, in the swamps,
in the grown-up places, in the hills, in the mountains, in the
valleys, the Messiah is coming! The Messiah is coming in His
glory! The Lord victorious. What's that got to do with me? Well, the Holy Spirit comes in
the Gospel, and He says the King is coming. The Lord Jesus Christ
is coming, this One who accomplished our warfare. This one who bore
our iniquities. This one who engaged our enemies. This one who paid the debt. The
great Lord's coming. Not in His second coming, but
in His coming to the heart. In His coming to the heart to
forgive. And the Holy Spirit comes ahead.
And He fills in the valleys. Here's our despondency, and our
depression, and our guilt, and our feelings, and our flesh. And He raises every depression.
And then he brings down the hills, the mountains. That's our self-righteousness. That's our pride. That's our
own exultation. The king's not going to climb
that mountain. He's going to go all the way across. Oh, he's
going to bring it down. Brings down the pride. Lifts
up the depression. Brings down the pride. And the
crooked places, hypocrisy, pretension. No, it's got to be straight.
Fixed heart. Single heart. Single eye. And
then he makes the rough places plain, bad attitude. No, the
King's going to level them out. He's going to smooth them out.
And he's going to come straight with nothing between you and
the King. Nothing between. Not our thoughts,
our deeds, our works, our professions, our efforts, our feelings. Nothing
between my soul and the Savior. Not of this world's delusive
dreams. Must not my heart from him ever
sever? He's my all, nothing between.
Nothing between like pride or station. Self or friend shall
not intervene. Though it may cost me much tribulation,
I'm resolved, nothing between. Nothing between my soul and the
Savior, so that His blessed face may be seen. Nothing preventing
the least of His favor. Keep the way clear. Nothing between. Old Jacob slept on that pile
of rocks one night, and Almighty God put a ladder from the throne
of God down to Jacob. And there was nothing between
them. Nothing between them. That's
what he's saying here. Verse 6 says, the boy said, cry.
And I said, why shall I cry? Tell them all flesh is grass.
All the glory thereof is the flower of the field. The grass
has got to wither, the flowers got to fade, the Spirit of God
got to blow on it. The people's grass, the grass
withered, the flower faded, the Word of the Lord endureth, it
standeth forever. We got to see nothing but Him,
nothing but Him. Those thoughts of self, those
deeds, those works of religion, that law, that effort, that profession,
that feeling, it's all got to get, get, all the Spirit of God
is going to get that self out of this thing. And I see Christ,
me and Christ coming in His glory on a straight path. I used to
live on a railroad track down in Alabama when I was a little
boy. These were back in the days of the old steam engines and
the old bridge gangs and the old section crews and things
like that, just railroads, a railroad town. The thrill we had every
day was going down to the depot and meeting the trains. We met
three different trains every day. Everybody met the trains.
That's all we had to do. But I lived right on the railroad
and I'd go down and sit on top of the hill and watch them work
on the railroad. And they had what they called
a weed burner. And the railroad in those days
was kept clean. Every once in a while the Johnson
grass would grow up and the Bermuda would grow up and all the different
things. And every once in a while that weed burner would come down
through there. That was amazing to see. On the front of that
engine It was a pipe, and I'm telling you, it was like an army
flamethrower. It cleaned that railroad on a
30-foot-width path, burnt everything in the way. It'd come down through
there slowly, like this, with that fire pouring out. And when
that thing went by, you'd look back, and there was nothing standing.
Clean as a whistle. And that's what he's saying to
me, all flesh is grace, and the glory of man Grass grown up and
God's Holy Spirit comes and blows on it like that weed burner on
the railroad and burns it up because the King's coming. The
King's coming to comfort his people and to strengthen his
people and deliver his people and there's not going to be any
grass, human flesh and glory going to be burned out. That's
what that's talking about. All right, read on, I'll quit.
Now, verse 9, O Zion that brings these good tidings, get you up
on a high place. Jerusalem brings good news, lift
up your voice. Lift up your voice. Lift it up! Don't be afraid. Oh, there's
a lot of opposition to the king, but it's nothing. It's minimal. Don't be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, behold
your God. Behold Him. They hold him, and
this is the way I see him. He comes with a strong hand against
every enemy. He comes against the strong.
His arm, his power shall rule for him. His reward's with him. He is the reward. Christ is our
reward. The reward's with him. It's not
a delayed basis. It's not I'm going to my reward.
I have my reward. Christ is my reward. and his
works before him, all the way from the foundation of the world
his work was before him, to redeem you. Here's his work. He'll feed
his flock like a shepherd. He'll gather the lambs in his
arms. He'll carry them in his bosom.
He'll gently lead those that are with him. You see, every
believer here this morning can say together, the Lord is my
shepherd. I shall not walk. He maketh me
to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul. He leadeth me in the paths of
righteousness for His namesake. Yea, though I walk through this
valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil. Thou art with
me. Thou art with me. Thy rod and
thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before
me already prepared. Come and dine, he said, in the
presence of mine enemies. Thou knowest my head withal.
My cup runneth over. Surely, goodness and mercy will
follow me all the days of my life. And better than that, I'm
going to dwell in the house of the Lord forever. That's our
comfort. He'll gather the lambs in his
arms, he'll feed his flock like a shepherd, and especially those
that are weak, that give suck, he'll specially tend to them.
He's the good shepherd, he's the great shepherd, he's the
chief shepherd. He is our comfort. Be ye comforted in him.

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How do we know that God comforts us in our troubles?

Why is faith important for comfort in trials?

How does God demonstrate His love and comfort?

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