Psalm 40

Q: What does the Bible say about waiting on God?

The Bible emphasizes waiting on God as an act of faith, reflecting patience and trust in His timing. Waiting on God is a central theme in Scripture, signifying a posture of reliance and trust. In Psalm 40, David exemplifies this by declaring, 'I waited patiently for the Lord.' This waiting is not a passive resignation but an active expectation of God’s intervention. Romans 8:28 also reassures us that 'all things work together for good' for those who love God, encouraging believers to trust in His divine timing. The act of waiting teaches us to rely on God’s wisdom and grace rather than our own understanding or haste.

Q: How do we know that God hears our prayers?

God hears our prayers as He is merciful and inclined to listen to those who trust in Him. The assurance that God hears our prayers is rooted in His nature as compassionate and faithful. In Psalm 40, David reflects on how the Lord 'inclined unto me' and 'heard my cry,' indicating that God actively listens to the cries of His people. This is reinforced across Scripture where James 5:16 tells us, 'The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.' Thus, our faith in Christ as our righteousness provides us confidence that God listens and responds to our petitions, ultimately for our good and His glory.

Q: Why is trusting in the Lord important for Christians?

Trusting in the Lord is vital for Christians as it leads to true contentment and reliance on His provision. Trusting in the Lord is foundational for the Christian life. Psalm 40 highlights the blessings that come from making the Lord our trust—'Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust.' This trust enables believers to find peace amidst life's challenges, knowing that God is sovereign and will provide as promised. Philippians 4:19 reassures believers that God will supply all their needs according to His riches in glory. Moreover, trusting God cultivates a deeper relationship with Him, allowing us to experience His guidance and provision firsthand, leading to a life of contentment and joy.

Q: What does Psalm 40 teach about God's redemptive work?

Psalm 40 illustrates God's redemptive work through the trust and experiences of David, symbolizing Christ's ultimate sacrifice. In Psalm 40, David not only speaks of his personal experiences but also foreshadows the redemptive work of Christ. The psalm emphasizes that 'sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not,' pointing to the inadequate nature of the Old Testament sacrifices and paving the way for the perfect sacrifice of Christ. Hebrews 10 confirms this link, stating that Christ came to fulfill God's will by giving Himself as the ultimate offering for sin. This psalm beautifully intertwines David's faith and experiences with a prophetic view of Christ’s atoning work, reflecting the depth of God’s plan for redemption and His grace extended to believers.

All right, now to Psalm 40. Now, these are the words of David. These are the words of David.
It says there under Psalm 40, this is a psalm of David. A psalm of David, the words of
David inspired by the Holy Spirit. And I can't help but believe
that These words were written in his old age. I believe David
was up in years when he wrote this psalm because the experiences
that he deals with here and the fact that he continually talks
about waiting on God and experiencing God hearing him and God blessing. He waited on the Lord. Now, these
are also the words of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is a Messianic psalm. How
do I know that? Well, turn to Hebrews 10. Let
me show you this. You need to see this. Hebrews chapter 10. Now, you
remember what I read. Sacrifice and offering, thou
willest not. Lo, I come in the volume of the
book, I delight to do thy will." All right, Hebrews 10, verse
5. Now, this is the Apostle Paul telling us about the redemptive
doings and dying of our Lord Jesus Christ, the work of Christ.
And he gives this psalm to Christ. He said in verse 5, Hebrews 10,
when he cometh into the world, he said, sacrifice and offering,
thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me. In burnt
offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come, and
the volume of the book is written of me to do thy will, O God."
See, Paul says that's Christ talking, but we know it's David. And we know it's David talking
of his own personal experiences. and his trust in our Lord. And
we know it's the Lord Jesus speaking because Paul says it is. But
also it's every believer's experience. It's every believer's experience.
Those words that belong to David belong to me. And those words
that belong to the son of David belong to those who are his sons. Isn't that right? Alright, let's
look at it. Verse 1, Psalm 40, I waited patiently
for the Lord. I waited patiently for the Lord.
David begins with a word that's so hard to learn. And I won't say the majority
of us, because that may not be kind, but many of us have not
learned that word. I waited. You know what he's
really saying here? He's saying, waiting on the Lord,
I waited. That's what he said, waiting
on the Lord, I waited, I waited, I waited. David knew, David knew
that all things work together for good to them who love God.
Yes, I know that, he did too. But he believed it. We know it,
he believed it. He said, I believe, therefore
I've spoken. We know some things we don't
believe. You don't believe anything until you experience it. You
can talk about it all you want to. But he knew that God would
give him grace, so he waited. He knew that God would order
his steps, so he waited. He knew that God would supply
his needs, so he waited. He knew that God would give him
wisdom in God's own time, so he was willing to wait. Waiting,
I waited. I waited. We jump around. We change directions. We change
positions. We change places. Do you know one of the reasons,
now there are multiplied reasons, but one of the reasons God has
blessed this congregation is because some people for years
and years and years and years and years and years and years,
close to 40 years now, have learned to wait on the Lord. That's exactly
right. David Koepp said, wait on the
Lord. Be of good cheer. He'll strengthen your heart.
Wait, I say again, I say it again now, wait on God. A young man
was in a seminary and he came to an old, old professor. And
he said to him, he said, Sir, teach me a psalm that you think
would be good for me. So the old professor opened the
Bible with the young man to Psalm 40. And he read. I waited patiently for the Lord.
He closed the Bible and he said, Now, you go learn what that means. And then we'll go on. I waited,
I waited, I waited, I waited. I waited patiently. And what
did he do? Verse 1, and he inclined unto
me. Spurgeon said he bent over. He
bent over and heard my cry. He inclined unto me. He inclined. He bent over and he heard my
cry. In his time. This is our problem. We're not willing to wait on
his time. We want things done our time. And God's going to answer in
His time when He, listen to me, when He has accomplished His
design, when I have learned His lesson, when I've grown to the
place I can appreciate His gifts, when He can get all the glory,
am I going too fast? When He can get all the glory
and the praise, when I am sufficiently shut up to His grace And I can
say, the Lord did it all, then he'll bend over and hear my cry. That's when. I tell you this, it's a marvel
that he'd hear us and say, oh, where do we get this thing that
God's obligated to hear me? Just because I say, oh Lord.
Many shall say unto me, Lord, Lord. It's not everyone that saith,
Lord, Lord. That'll enter the kingdom of
God. It's a marvel that God would hear me at all. Why would I get
impatient with Him? It's a marvel that God would
incline, that He would bend over. Then why should I get weary with
waiting on God? He doesn't have to come to my
aid. He doesn't have to meet my need. He's not required. I haven't done anything for Him.
But run. There's something here, there's
something here for me that has to do with contentment. Contentment. Paul said, I've learned that
in whatsoever state I am to be content. He talks about being
content with what you have and avoid covetousness. He's talked
about having food and rain to bear with to be content. I stood
over there in Bedford and looked around at all the different memoirs
of and memories of John Bunyan. And as I stood and looked at
that prison door that they have there, this is the door. The
prison's gone where they kept Bunyan in prison for 13 years. The average preacher has a hard
time staying in a church 13 years, let alone in prison. The average
church member has a hard time staying in a church 13 years. let alone in prison. But I stood
there and looked at the door, the cell door of the prison,
the door behind which Mr. Bunyan sat. With only one charge
against him, he believed the gospel and dared to preach it. And he kept him there 13 years,
waiting on the Lord. Waiting on the Lord, I waited. We get in a hurry, and that's
the reason we stay continually in a mess. That's the reason
our lives are continually confused and upset and troubled, is we
keep doing what we want to do, what we will to do, what we plan
to do, what we think is right to do, instead of sitting down
and waiting on God and being content. Isn't that so? Isn't that so? Waiting, I waited. And verse 2, and he brought me
up. He leaned over. He bent over. He inclined. And he brought me
up in his own time. Here are three powerful statements.
He brought me up also out of a horrible pit. A horrible pit. This refers back to those Old
Testament prisons. They didn't have the modern prisons
like we do. the halfway houses and the minimum
security and the maximum security and all these different things,
they had prisons. And they were pits. They were
holes in the ground. There was one opening at the
top. They were deep, deep, deep pits. And these pits were filled
at the bottom with mud and corruption. There was no water. There was
no way out except from the top. And that's where he found me.
And you can apply that to the pit of sin, the pit of sin. And that's what we were in Adam.
You can talk about the pit of religion, false religion, Arminianism,
free willism, self-willism, self-righteousness. That's what's a horrible pit.
And there's no way out unless he reaches down and picks you
up. He brought me up. He brought
me up. You can also compare it to the
pit of our own messes that we get in. We get in these messes
because we don't wait on God. We confuse our lives, and we
tear our lives up, and we hurt everybody, and we're in this
pit. And there's no way out but Almighty God to reach down and
take us out. But He came. I waited. You might
as well wait. Nobody else can help you. I might
as well wake. Nobody else can get me out. I
can't get myself out. And I waited and he brought me
up out of that horrible pit. He came where I was. He became
what I was. He paid my debt. He restored
my soul. He lifted me up out of the miry
clay into light and life and freedom and set my feet on a
rock. And set my feet on a rock. He's my foundation, and I'll
not be moved. Now, my knees shake sometimes, and my arms grow weak, and my
mind's not always clear, but my feet are planted. And isn't
that the main thing? I'm planted on a rock. He reached
down. I was in that pit, that horrible pit, that pit of sin. that pit of religion, that pit
of self-righteousness, that pit of self-pity, that pit of corruption,
that pit of confusion, and I raised it. Ain't no use wiggling, you
just get deeper. And he reached down, he bent
over, and he heard my cry, and he lifted me up and set my feet
on a rock. And the wind blows, And the troubles
come, my knees shake, and my mind is not always clear on the
matter, and my arms get weak, but my feet are planted on the
rock, Christ Jesus. He's established my going, my
direction. Watch it now. And he put a new
song in my mouth. He put a new song in my mouth.
A song of praise, even praise to our God. I'm not talking about
this idle religious chatter that's going on all around me today.
Everybody talks religious. Everybody talks religiously.
Everybody chatters. There's a noise about that's
irritating. You hear that noise? You hear
that noise, that idle religious chatter? You hear that empty
shouting You don't glorify God by saying
glory to God. You glorify God by living for
the glory of God and preaching the glory of God. It's not this
out-of-character behavior. I don't like to see a man get
out of character in the church. If you're not in your kitchen
jumping up and down like a jack-in-the-box, don't do it here. Isn't that
right, Dan? I don't like to see people have
to be worked up by music, methods, and this sort of thing. I got
a new song. I got a new song. But it's not
out-of-character behavior. It's not empty shouting. It's
not religious chatter. It's not noise. It's a song with
words, intelligible, understandable words. It's a song about a new
covenant. It's a song which a dying man
could sing. Although it be not so with my
house, as David breathed his last breath, he declared, God
hath made with me an everlasting covenant, altered in all things
and sure. This is my desire. This is my
salvation. That's the new song. It's a new song of a new and
living way, which the Apostle Paul said, let us come boldly
into his presence by that new and living way, which he opened
for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh. That's
that new song. It's a new song of a new creature.
John Newton said, amazing grace, how sweet the sound. It was grace
that taught my heart to fear. And grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear, the hour I first believed. Through
many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come. Grace brought
me safe thus far. That's the new song. And grace
shall lead me home. It's the song of a new heaven
and a new earth, which John saw and said, I saw a new heaven
and a new earth. It's not whoopee. It's a song
of hope. It's a song of a covenant. It's
a song of grace. It's a song of a new and living
way. It's a song of a new heaven. And the Holy Spirit enables us
to sing it and others to hear it. And they say, oh, God's with
you. Hold that place there a minute.
Turn to 1 Corinthians 14. Let me show you something. And I wouldn't go into this so
carefully if it wasn't one of the plagues of our day, one of
the sicknesses. In 1 Corinthians 14, the chapter
in which the Apostle Paul deals with this tongues business and
gifts, and he says in verse 23 of 1 Corinthians 14, look at
it, If therefore the church be come together in one place, and
all, everybody is speaking in tongues, Everybody's carrying
on the idle chatter. Everybody's going on with their
prophecies and their interpretations. And a man comes in who's unlearned,
untaught, unbeliever, he'll say, well, you're a bunch of crazy
people. This outfit's crazy. They're mad. They've lost their
mind. But if all preach, if all have a word, if all teach, that's
what you've been doing this morning. You've taught over yonder. I
taught back there, doesn't taught over here. If you teach, and
there come in one that believeth not or unlearned, he's convinced
of all. He's judged of all. What judged
him? The Word did. The Word of God. And thus are
the secrets of his heart made manifest. And falling down on
his face, he'll say, God is with you. Now, somebody leaves your
service, do they say you're crazy? Or God's with you? Did it say you're a bunch of
mad men? But God's with you. I heard from God this morning.
I heard from God. Oh, He's put a new song. He's
put a new song in my mouth. Look at verse 4. Verse 4, blessed,
blessed, blessed is that man. Oh, twice happy is that man that
maketh the Lord his trust. Blessed is that man who can say
with Job, though he slay me, I'll trust him. Though he slay
me, I'll trust him. Who can say with Abraham, no,
I'm not going to take anything from you. I don't need you. I
don't need the kings of Sodom. I don't need the strength and
influence of this world. I don't need to cater to you
or covet what you have. I've lifted my hand to God, and
I'm waiting on the Lord. How many young preachers I've
known, how many missionaries through these 40 years, 39 years,
they just couldn't wait on God. Go to a little church there,
you know, and I can't live on what they're paying. So I'll
do this, I'll do that, I'll get me a job, I'll go to work. It's
good by God. Can't wait. Bill Clark said one
time, you mean you can't live on what your Heavenly Father
provides? You can't live on what your Father
provides? Blessed is that man that makes
the Lord his trust, not the arm of flesh, but the Lord's his
trust. He says with Peter, to whom shall
we go? You have the words of life. He
says with Paul, my God will supply all my needs. The Apostle Paul
said, I've learned. I know how to abound. I know
how to enjoy profitable, good things, but I know how to be
abased. And I'm just as happy abounding as I am abasing. I'm
just as happy abasing as I am abounding. I'm just as happy
with cornbread as caviar, maybe more. I'm just as happy with
a cup of coffee as I am with the finest meal you can serve. Blessed, twice happy is that
man who maketh the Lord his trust. A believer may be as poor as
Lazarus, and there's some in Mexico that are. A believer may
be as persecuted as Job. A believer may be as lonely as
Elijah. Elijah sat there by himself and
said, I'm the only one left. I'm the only one left. A believer may be as hopeless
as Jonah, but I'll tell you, if the Lord's his trust and he
can wait on God, he'll win. He'll be victorious. I guarantee
it. I've proved it too many times. David said, I'm old. I've been
young. You've proved it. You've proved it. You have. You
have. Isn't that right, Jim? He'll
answer, but he'll answer in his time. He'll bend over and he'll
lift you out. Stay there now. The more you
wiggle, the deeper you get in the mud. The more you fret and
fume and fuss, the deeper you're going to get in the mud. You
wait on him. And let me show you something
here. He said, blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his
trust, and respecteth not the proud. You'll have enough telling
you not to do it. You'll have enough advisors.
You'll have enough telling you where to go and what to do and
how to straighten out your situation. You'll have enough people, proud
people, that think they've got all the answers. They're more
advisors than we need. And there are those that turn
aside to lies, but the believer is not going to cater to them.
He's not going to bow to them. He's not going to court their
support. He's not going to go their way. He ain't going to
compromise God's testimony and God's way. I'm waiting on the
Lord, thank you. Well, here's the way out. Appreciate
it. I'm waiting on the Lord. Well, here's what I'd do. I don't
want to do what you'd do, because I'd be where you are. I'd rather
wait on Him. Let's wait on Him. He'll answer. Don't cater. Don't cater. I'll trust and not be afraid.
Trust in the Lord. Wait on Him. He will bring it
to pass. Oh, verse 5, looky here. Many,
O Lord, many. Many, O Lord, my God, are thy
wonderful works which thou hast done. And you know what most
of us think about immediately? We think about his creative genius. We think about the works of the
universe. We think about the variety of
them, the fullness of them, the perfect order of them, the unchangeable
glory of them. We think about, well, we Americans
think about our freedoms and our prosperity and our plenty. We're rich and increased with
goods and all these things, but that's not what David's talking
about here. No, sir, I beg your pardon. Many, O Lord of thy,
my God of thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy
thoughts which are to usward, what is man that art mindful
of him? He thinketh upon me. What David's
got in mind here is God's thoughts to usward, God's redemptive thoughts,
God's redemptive works. God's redemptive words in Christ
Jesus because then he goes on in the next verses and talks
about the ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ. O many, O Lord
my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy
thoughts to usward. They cannot be reckoned up in
order unto thee. If I would declare and speak
of them, there more than can be numbered for sacrifice and
offering thou didst not desire. What's this talking about? He's
talking about the sacrifices and offerings and Sabbath days
and atonements of the Old Testament. That's what he's talking about.
God Almighty never desired them, nor required them, nor was He
ever pleased with them. Never! Oh, you say, Pritchard,
you don't understand. Those people were saved by those
sacrifices. They were not. They were not. Those sacrifices were pipes. The Word of God says there is
no power in all of them put together to put away one sin. The blood
of bulls and goats and heifers cannot take away sin. God said,
I was never pleased with them, never required them, and never
satisfied with them, and they never took away sin. They stood
in the gap. They stood as pictures, and that's
all. They stood as types. Until something
happens that verse 7 tells us about, then he said, I lo, I
come. The Lord Jesus came. The Lord
Jesus left heaven's glory. He left heaven's majesty. He
who thought it not robbery to be equal with God, made himself
of no reputation, took on himself the form, the habit of a servant,
was made in the likeness of sinful flesh, and became obedient unto
death, even the death of the cross. And lo, I come in the
volume of the book, this book and that book. You say, what
book? That book he held in his hand, the one on the throne that
no man could open, written within and without. And the prophet said, I cried
because nobody was found worthy in heaven, earth or hell to open
that book. Then I saw in the midst of the throne a lamb as
it had been slain. And he went up and took the volume
of the book out of his hand and opened it. That's the book. That's the book. You want to talk about steaks
and chops and in the light of these wonderful works. You want
to talk about new suits and fine cars and country homes and all
these things that you are so interested in, in the light of
these things. And you want to talk about your
children and grandchildren and their graduations and their degrees
and their heroes and all these things and all this stuff. There's nothing in the world
but sand castles you built up one night and the next morning
you went down to the beach and it's all gone. All gone. You may not have to wait till
the next morning. They'll be gone before you get this little
banner on top. They'll be gone. That's right,
they're gone. But all his works, he came. Oh,
it's written of me. I came, verse 8, and I delight
to do thy will. What is his will? He said, All
that my Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh
to me I'll in no wise cast out. I came down from heaven not to
do my will, but the will of him that sent me. And this is the
will of him that sent me, that every one that he giveth me,
I should lose nothing, but raise it up at the last day. I came
to do thy will, by the which will we are sanctified. That's
the wonderful works. And I'll tell you, it might be
better for all of us if we could pull up our chairs somewhere
under the shade of a tree and forget all this we're involved
in and taken up with and enamored with, all this decoration and
decor and scraping and paying and A man wrote me not long ago
and he had a settlement with some insurance company and was
able to pay off three of his outstanding notes and get a little
bit of the fourth outstanding note that he had. Four major
loans. No wonder he can't help a missionary. He's so socked in. Some of you
got $900 a month house payment. And these young people, I guess
they're tired of seeing young people that can't live simply.
They can't start off simply. They've got to have two or three
cars, two or three televisions, two or three VCRs, two or three
stereos. They've got to eat out about
four nights out of five or six or seven during the week. Their
kids have got to have the best shoes, the best clothes, and
they keep their nose to the grindstone. They keep themselves so heavily
in debt, so heavily obligated, they can't look up and they can't
wait on God, that's one thing. Am I telling the truth? That's
exactly right. We're wrapped up, we're in that
horrible pit, that horrible pit, self-destruction. We put ourselves
there, keep getting deeper and deeper and deeper. And if we
could just get us a chair and pull up under a tree somewhere,
and our minds be cleared from all these obligations, responsibilities,
all these things we wrapped ourselves up in, our business more going
out than coming in. If we could get there and open
the Word of God. We don't have time for the Word
of God. And read it, meditate it, discuss
it, talk about it. Oh, God help us. God help us. I delight to do thy will, O God. O God. Then he said in verse
9, and this is the Lord Jesus still talking, he said, I preach
righteousness in the great congregation. Our Lord, I'll give you this,
and then I'll quit. He gives us five things that
he preached, our Lord preached. He was a preacher. Prophet Preston
King. prophet, priest, and king. What
did he preach? Verse 9, I preach righteousness,
essential, imputed righteousness, without which no man will see
the Lord. The righteousness of God. Martin Luther said this, I greatly long to understand
Paul's letter to the Romans And nothing stood in my way of
understanding that book but one expression, the righteousness
of God. One expression. And it stood
in my way because I took it to mean the righteousness whereby
God's righteous, His essential righteousness. And I took it
secondly to mean the way God deals with rebels in punishing
their unrighteousness. Night and day I pondered, I studied,
I wondered, until I grasped the truth that the righteousness
of God is that righteousness whereby, through His grace, by
His mercy, by the obedience of Christ, He justifies us and makes
us holy and accepted in the beloved. Then I felt myself to be born
again. I felt myself literally to have
gone through the doors of paradise. And the whole Bible took on a
new meaning. And whereas before, the righteousness
of God had filled me with hate, now it became inexpressibly in
greater love. This one passage of the Apostle
Paul became for me the gateway to heaven. Do you know what he's
talking about? I believe I do. Our Lord said,
I've preached righteousness. And we've got to have it. We
can't produce it. The Lord Jesus is our righteousness. He said, I've preached, listen,
thy righteousness, verse 10, I've declared thy faithfulness.
I know God's people are going to be faithful. They're going
to endure to the end. But we're not talking about our
faithfulness here. We're talking about His. He's faithful to His covenant. He's faithful to His Son. He's
faithful to His Word. He's faithful to His promise.
Thank God He is. I'm the Lord. I don't change.
Therefore, you'll never perish. I change. He doesn't. And I've preached your salvation.
It's all to the Lord from beginning to end. And I preached your lovingkindness,
verse 10. Five things. His righteousness,
his faithfulness, his salvation, his lovingkindness. That's what
David prayed. Be merciful to me according to
your lovingkindness. Not be merciful to me according
to my dedication, consecration, my faithfulness. Just be merciful
to me according to your lovingkindness, will you? And he said, I preached your
truth. Now listen to this prayer. Now, Lord, withhold not thy tender
mercies from me, and let your lovingkindness and your truth
preserve me. For innumerable evils, and my
friend, we'll deal with these evils as long as we're on this
earth, have compassed me about, just surrounded me. My own iniquities
have taken hold on me. I'm not able to look up. Have
you ever been there? Maybe somebody's there this morning. Maybe that's
why I'm preaching this message. These iniquities and evils and
troubles are more than the hairs of my head. My heart faileth
me. Lord, I wish we would quit obligating
God and learn to pray like this. Be pleased, O Lord. Will it please
you? Can it please you to deliver
me? And Lord, make haste to help me. And let those people that
laugh at me and those people that criticize Those people at
fine fault, let them be ashamed and confounded. They seek after
my soul to destroy it. They want to wound and hurt and
offend and cause me trouble. Let them be driven backward and
put to shame that wish me evil. Let them be desolate for a reward.
Reward them for their thoughts. Reward them for their shame.
Reward them that say, Aha! Aha! And Lord, let those that
seek Thee rejoice. You can't be ah-ha'ing and seeking
the Lord. No, you can't. You can't be over
there criticizing and in here praising. You can't do it. You can't do it. You can't be
over there waiting for a man to stumble or waiting for him
to fall or waiting for things to, they wish me, they want to
destroy me, they'd like to see this thing perish so they can
say, ah-ha, I was right. You can't be right because you're
wrong. He's right. I'm never right. Let God be God. Never man a liar. I'm not right. You're not right.
Nobody in here right. He's right. And my righteousness
and my right depends totally on my relationship with Him.
And you can't be right and be dependent on Him. Take that for what it's worth.
But verse 16, let those that seek thee, and seek thy face,
and wait upon thee, and seek thy name's glory, let them rejoice,
and let them be glad in thee, such as love your salvation. Somebody said to me recently,
I don't know whether they were in total command of their wits
or not, but they said, I wish you'd let me go back to my own
free will. Okay, go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. But I'll tell you wherever
man's will's got him since that first man. Since the first one. And those
that spit on the blessed Saviors that hung on that tree did what
they willed to do. I don't want that. Lord, erase
that. Blot it out. Erase it. The Lord be magnified. I rejoice in thy salvation. Watch
this, and I'm going to quit. I'm poor and needy. I'm poor
and I'm needy. Yet. Thank God for that yet. Yet. You know, our problem today
is not preaching the good news. It's finding somebody that needs
it. I know the news. I know the way. I know the glad
tidings. But I'm looking for somebody
to tell it to. Are you in the pit? No, I'm up
here. Oh, I'm looking for somebody
in the pit. I've got good news. Yet the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer. Make no tarrying, O my God. Have you learned to trust Him?
Cast all your care upon Him and wait on Him? If you haven't,
let's do, let's learn that. There was a fellow out hitchhiking
one day and he caught a ride with a man in a jeep. And he got in and he had a backpack
on, a great big heavy backpack. And he got in and sat down in
the jeep and he thanked the man for stopping. He said, I appreciate
you stopping and picking me up. I'm grateful to you. He kept that pack on his back.
And the driver looked at him and said, why don't you take
that pack off your back and put it back here in the jeep? And
the fellow said, oh, he said, no, he said, I wouldn't want
to impose on your kindness. You gave me a ride. That's enough.
You just gave me a ride. And I'll just keep the pack.
And the man looked at him and said, well, suit yourself. But
he said, whether you wear it or put it back here in the back
of the jeep, I'm still carrying you and your load. Now, no sense in both of us carrying
it, is there? So won't you take it off and
lay it in the Jeep? He bore my sins, He bore my guilt,
He bore my shame, He bore my burden. Thank you, Lord, I'll
carry it too. No, I'm going to put it in the
Jeep. I'm going to put it in the Jeep because He set me free. Set me free. Waiting on the Lord,
I waited. And sometimes I waited and waited
and waited. But He's going to come. He's going to
bend over. He's going to do it in His time.
When I'm shut up to His grace, when the trial has served its
purpose, when I've learned my lesson, And when he can get all
the glory, he's going to lift me up, Herman. He's going to
lift me up. Let's learn that.

Psalm 40

What does the Bible say about waiting on God?

How do we know that God hears our prayers?

Why is trusting in the Lord important for Christians?

What does Psalm 40 teach about God's redemptive work?

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What does the Bible say about waiting on God?

How do we know that God hears our prayers?

Why is trusting in the Lord important for Christians?

What does Psalm 40 teach about God's redemptive work?

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