Learning to Glory In the Lord

Jeremiah 9.23, Thus saith the
Lord. It begins that way and it ends
that way. Thus saith the Lord. Let not
the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory
in his might. Let not the rich man glory in
his riches, but let him that glorieth glory in this. that
he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which
exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight,
saith the Lord." Now, I brought a message on this several years
ago. But I need to hear it again myself. I need to hear it again and again
and again. And some of you have heard this
message before. In fact, there are two or three
here tonight who heard it the day before yesterday. For I preached
this message at the television station to be aired Sunday a
week, week from Sunday. But you need to hear it again
too. Driving back from up in West Virginia this morning, I
told Iris I felt led to bring this message, and she comforted
me by saying, I want to hear it again, too. She needs to hear
it again, too. All right, now we can learn.
We can learn the lessons of original sin, man's fall in the garden,
man's depravity. And we can learn the lessons
of total inability. in God's divine sovereignty,
and we can learn them well. And we can learn the lessons
of repentance and faith. And we can learn the lessons
of practical obedience and holiness. And we can learn the lessons
of Church truth and compassion and affection and kindness and
fruits of the Spirit, etc., etc. But until we can learn to sincerely,
humbly, continually, glory in the Lord, I don't think we really
have learned those other lessons at all. I really mean that. Until we can learn to sincerely,
from the heart, continually, humbly, glory in the Lord, I
don't think we've learned those other lessons experimentally
at all. Paul constantly referred to this
in his epistles. I want you to read with you two
or three of them, 1 Corinthians chapter 1. I'm talking about
learning to glory in the Lord. In 1 Corinthians 1 verse 29,
Paul says that no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are you in Christ
Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and
sanctification and redemption, that according as it is written,
he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Now look at 1 Corinthians
10, verse 31. 1 Corinthians 10, 31. Whether,
therefore, you eat or drink, Or whatever you do, do all to
the glory of God. Look at 2 Corinthians 10. Paul
had a lot to say on this subject. I'm just picking up a few of
them. In 2 Corinthians 10 verse 17, But he that glorieth, let
him glory in the Lord. And then in Galatians chapter
6, Right over to Galatians 6, verse 13. Paul says, For neither
they themselves, who are circumcised, keep the law. But they desire
to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
But God forbid that I should glory, saved in the cross of
our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me,
unto the world. One other passage on this point,
Ephesians 1. Now in this first chapter of
Ephesians, there's a natural outline. The work of the Father
in redemption, the work of the Son in redemption, the work of
the Holy Spirit. And after Paul defines the work
of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit after each division,
he adds this phrase. Look at verse 6, to the praise
of the glory of his grace. God chose you and blessed you
and predestinated you to the glory of his grace. And then
he talks about the work of the Son in whom we have redemption. He made known unto us the mystery
of his will. Verse 11, in him we've obtained
an inheritance. Verse 12, that we should be to
the praise of his glory. And then he talks about the work
of the Holy Spirit, in whom you trusted after you heard, after
you were sealed. The Holy Spirit is the token
or earnest of our inheritance to the praise of his glory. That's what it's all about. Now,
there's an irresistible urge, and this is facing facts, there's
an irresistible urge in all of us to glory in something. I don't care if it's the highest
or the lowest, whether it's the poorest or the richest, whether
it's the bondman or the free man, whether it's the old or
the young, everybody's going to glory in something. Men glory
in their position. Men glory in their power, physical
power, financial power. They glory in their pedigree.
Why do we look up our family tree? If we find something embarrassing,
we won't show it. If we find something great, we'll
hang it on the wall. We glory in our pedigree. We
glory in our possessions. Men glory in their, somebody
said, in their place. They glory in their race. They
glory in their face. And sad to say, they even glory
in their grace. Men glory in their strength.
They glory in their status, they glory in their sins, some even
glory in their sanctification. Men glory in their talents, they
glory in their gifts, they glory in their ability, they even glory
in turmoil. But everybody glories in something. Well, what do we mean by glory
in something or someone? Here's the definition, here's
what I mean. The glory in something is to honor it. It is to place
it in a position of prominence. It is to exalt that thing or
that person. It is to take pride in it, it
is to rejoice in it, it is to find comfort and satisfaction
in it to the point of giving or seeking praise for it. Men have gloried in vain things
and had these things turn out to be their destroyers. God sometimes
uses these things in which we glory, in which we ought not
to glory, but sometimes he'll use these things to destroy us.
I'll give you some examples. Hezekiah took the ambassadors
of Babylon, oh, he was proud of his treasure houses, and the
ambassadors of Babylon came up for a visit, and Hezekiah took
them around from treasure house to treasure house. He just took
them all around, showing them his possessions, showing them
his treasures, showing them his gold and silver and his precious
stones, and it displeased the Lord. And these very men came
back and carried away all of his treasures. And then there
was Herod. Herod stood one day to make a
speech, and what a speech it was. And he allowed the people
to praise his speech to the point that they called his voice the
voice of a God. Well, God proved Herod's humanity
by filling his body with worms and destroying him. Listen to
Nebuchadnezzar. I want you to read this one over
in the book of Daniel. I want you to read what Nebuchadnezzar
had to say over here in Daniel chapter 4. Reading verse 29 and
30 of Daniel chapter 4. At the end of 12 months, he walked
in the palace of the kingdom of Babylon. The king spake and
said, listen to him now, listen to Nebuchadnezzar, is not this
great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom
by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?
Do any of us fit in here? Do we look upon maybe some musical ability or speaking
ability or physical ability or Perhaps something that we've
built, something we've given our time to. Nebuchadnezzar gave
his time to building a kingdom and he's downright proud of it.
And he said, look at it. Is not this Babylon that I've
built? I built this. I'm proud of it. Everybody looks at it and it
wears my name. It's a powerful kingdom. It's
a powerful operation. It's a beautiful operation. recognized
by everybody as being quite an accomplishment. I built it. Well, God Almighty sent him out
for seven years to eat grass like an ox until he learned that
it's only by God's power that anything is built. It's only
by God's grace that anything is accomplished. Some of our children know this,
maybe we hadn't learned. Doris asked in her Sunday school
class Sunday morning, she asked the class, she read that scripture
out there, Daniel chapter 4, and she asked that bunch of little
boys and girls, she said, what's wrong with that? What's wrong
with that? I built for the house of the
kingdom by the might of my power. She said, what's wrong with that?
And one of the little boys spoke up and said it wasn't his power
that built it, it was God's power that built it. And then listen
to Eve. When that first child was born,
his name was Cain, and she delivered that first child, and she picked
that child up in her arms. This had never been on the face
of the earth. A man and his wife brought forth
a son, and she gazed with rapture upon the face of that firstborn
son. You know what she said? I've
gotten a man. And all of the translators just
about agree that she added, the Lord. I've gotten a man, the
Lord. You see, God had promised to
send a redeemer. God had promised to send the
deliverer, the seed of woman. I don't know whether she understood
that seed of woman or not, but he promised to send one, and
she thought this was he. But it turned out that he wasn't.
He grew up to be the first murderer. He shed the first blood. He killed
his own brother. He broke his mother's heart.
Well, she doted with rapture and adoration upon that child. Well, he survived to bring much
tragedy into her life. David, gloried in the strength
and power of Israel, what a nation, what an army. So he decided one
day he'd find out just how many he had. God had told him, never,
never, never number Israel. But David, he looked out there
and saw all those horsemen and spearmen and bowmen and swordsmen
and all these fellas, he just couldn't resist it. He had to
find out how many men David really had, how much power David really
had. So he counted them, and God Almighty
slew 70,000 of his choice men. You reckon we ought to learn
something about that? God says, I know how many people
I've got. I don't need you to put it up on a board. I don't
need you to number it and brag about it. I don't need you to
keep count. The Lord says, I know David.
Peter! Peter stood there before our
Lord, went to the cross, and Lord Jesus Christ said, all of
you are going to be offended because of me this night, and
Peter said, not me. Now these other fellows, they
just might be offended, and they might quit. But don't you understand
this, Lord? I'll die for you." He was the
only one that said that, and he was the only one who verbally
denied his Lord. The very thing in which we take
pride and the very thing in which we boast just may, just may be
used of God to destroy us in one way or the other. Destroy
our fellowship with him, destroy our relationship with him, destroy
our usefulness in his kingdom. God has prepared a cure for this
kind of stuff, this vain glory. Let nothing, Paul said, be done
through vain glory. What is vain glory? Any glory
that's not given to God. any glory. I don't care whether
I'm proud of a sermon I preach or you're proud of a house you
built or whether you boast of the strength you have or what
you can do or have been able to do or have not done. Anything
that's not giving God all the glory is vain glory. And God
has prepared a cure for vain glory. You know what it is? The
cure for vain glory is not to suppress Man's tendency to glory,
that's with him. And that's going to stay with
him. He'll never get rid of it. You're not even going to get
rid of the tendency to glory in heaven because in heaven we're
going to glorify Christ. Man's got to glory in something.
He's got to honor something. He's got to worship someone.
He's got to give preeminence to something, to himself or to
his strength or his riches or his wisdom or his power, something. He's got to have a God. And so what God has done is give
the believer an object worthy of glory. That's what he's done. The cure for vain glory is true
glory. The cure for glorying in the
flesh is to learn the glory in the Lord. That's right. That's right. That's what it
says here. Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom. He said
there's nothing to say, let not the wise man glory. The wise
man's going to glory. But he said don't let him glory
in his wisdom. He could be a babbling idiot if it wasn't for God's
grace. Let not the mighty man glory in his might. You stronger,
you well, you healthy. Only by God's grace you could
be a very sick man or woman. Let not the rich man glow in
his riches. You've got more in the next fellow,
but who gave it to you? You just borrowed it from the
Lord. It's not yours anyway. But let him that gloweth glory
in this, that he understand, that he understand, that he's
got spiritual understanding of the mysteries of this book, and
he knows me. that he knows that I am the Lord,
and I exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness,
and these are the things I delight in. I don't delight in your wisdom
or your strength or your power or your riches. I delight in
lovingkindness and judgment and righteousness. The last verse
in the book of Psalms, you ever notice what it says? This is
one of those verses that just, I think, sums up the entire psalms. He comes down through all this
praise ye the Lord, praise ye the Lord, and then he finally
gets to the last verse in the last psalm and he says, just
let everything that hath breath praise the Lord. I don't know whether I'm getting
being used of God or whether I'm getting tired of putting on a show and
getting to the place where I'm going to start telling folks
like it is, but I visited a dear lady in the hospital the other
day, and I've been visiting her for a long time, and I finally said to her this,
I said, So I said, God's not going to
heal you. No, He's not, and I'm not going
to ask Him to. You've been sick ever since I've known you. I
said, God's going to heal you the way He healed you a long
time ago. He's not going to heal you. I
said, what He will do, He'll give you a song in your heart
if you ask Him to. He'll give you joy in your soul
if you ask Him to. That's His will. He'll give you
confidence and a hope in Christ if you ask him to. If you'll
quit lying here murmuring and complaining and finding fault
with God and let somebody hear you praise the Lord once in a
while, God just might give you a little bit of grace in your
soul. She said, I never had a preacher talk to me like that before.
I said, that's the truth. I said, you're 70 years old and
you're not going to live much longer. You've already lived
as long as God promised you. You may live another day, you
may live 10 years, but you ought to live it praising the Lord.
That's so. And we may wound and we may hurt,
but that's the truth. And true words from the heart
of a friend are a lot more precious than deceitful words from the
heart of one who doesn't love you. And this is our problem. If we
hadn't learned to praise the Lord, We can find more things
to grumble about and complain about and find fault. I said,
let me tell you this too. I know a whole lot of people
swap places with you right now. You can see and they can't. And
you can hear. You can hear God's message and
you can hear God's word and you can hear the voice of your loved
ones and their stone death. And I know a lot of you can get
up out of that bed and walk. Some of them don't even have
the use of a single muscle in their bodies from their necks
down. They'd swap places with you. And I'll tell you something
else, you've got a good mind. There's people in the insane
asylum and their loved ones, they'd trade places with you.
And what you better do is start praising God and quit grumbling
and complaining. And that's what we need to do.
That's what he says here, let everything that hath breath praise
the Lord. The wonder that God Almighty doesn't take everything
we've got away from us and leave us empty like we ought to be
and leave us under his wrath and his judgment. And I hear
men complaining about going to work. I tell you, there are some
folks that wish they had your job. That's right. And someday you might wish you
had it back. There are some men that wish they had strong legs,
that they could walk down the steps and get in their cars,
which they don't have, and drive to a job and support their families
with plenty of food and good clothing and a shelter over their
heads. You know, when we learn to glory
in the Lord and praise the Lord, we're in harmony with the whole
universe. Somebody said one time, creation
is a temple in which all things speak of the glory of God. I'm
not preaching down to you, I'm preaching to all of us. Don't
make it right where the preacher does it, or you do it, or anybody
else. You say, you're just guilty as I am. That don't make it right,
does it? The heavens declare the glory
of God. When I learn to praise the Lord,
I'm in tune with the heavens. I'm in tune with every twinkling
star and the beautiful radiant moon and the shining sun. They're
all put there to glorify God. All thy works shall praise thy
name, O Lord. And I'll tell you, when I learn
to glorify God, I'm in tune with the angels. When angels came
down here to the earth and appeared to the shepherds, you know the
first word they said? Glory to God in the highest. That's the
first. Before they ever delivered a sermon, before they ever delivered
a message, they said glory to God and peace on earth. What does the Son say? What does
Christ the Lord say? He says, Father, glorify thy
Son that thy Son may glorify thee. What does the Holy Spirit
say? The Lord Jesus said, he shall
take the things of mine and show them to you, he shall glorify
me. What does the redeemed in glory
say? Listen to Revelation 19 verse 1 and 2, and after these
things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying,
hallelujah, salvation and glory and honor and power unto the
Lord our God. Now I'll tell you this, and I
said this to my dear friend, she is my friend, and I said this, if you don't
learn to praise God here, you'll never praise Him there. That's
so. If you don't learn to praise
God here, you'll never praise Him in glory. God is great, the scripture says,
and greatly to be praised. He has created and fills all
things. There's no room for a competitor,
me or you or my children or my wife or my husband, my father
or my mother or anything. If any man loved mother, father,
husband, wife, brother, sister more than me, he's not worthy
of me, Christ says. He will have no competitor for
his glory. There's no room in this world
for glory in anything or anyone but Christ. God forbid that I
should glory. And to glory in anyone or anything
is to provoke God's wrath. He says, My glory I will not
give to another. Turn to Isaiah 40. Let's look
at this a moment. Isaiah 40. This is what I'm saying, the
reason preacher and people, we all need to hear this frequently,
don't we? In Isaiah 40, look at verse 6. Let's start with verse 3. Isaiah
40, verse 3. The voice of him that crieth
in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord. Make straight
in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be exalted,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked
shall be made straight, and the rough places plain, and the glory
of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it." And the voice said,
Cry! And he said, Well, what shall
I cry? Well, cry, All flesh is grass, and the goodliness thereof
is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, and the
flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it.
Surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth, but the word of the Lord endureth forever." What I'm lowering
in today is going to be gone tomorrow. That's right. You remember Paul
W., you remember old brother McAllister, old Hipster Strong?
Ah, good night, that man was strong. I went down to see him
one time, he said, I lifted, now I think this is correct,
I lifted 700 pounds, he told me, off the floor down at Armco.
Strongest man at Armco is what they call it. The strongest man
in Armco steel mills. I saw him when he couldn't even
lift his arms. He couldn't even lift his arm off the bed, let
alone 700 pounds off of a steel floor. And I'll tell you the
things we're glowing in right now, they're going to be gone
tomorrow. And I want to learn by God's
grace, and I want you to learn by God's grace, I want us to
learn to glow in Him who lives forever, who never changes, who
never changes. those precious children of yours
in whom you glory, well, they could be, God could remove those
clay idols pretty easily. Why should I glory in the Lord?
You know, that's a good question. When Moses came and stood before
Pharaoh, and Pharaoh said, let my people go and see if the Lord,
and Pharaoh said, who is the Lord that I should obey him? Well, who is the Lord that I
should glory in him? Well, number one, turn to Revelation
4. We should glory in him because
he's God. That's right. Revelation 4, listen
to this. Revelation 4, beginning with
verse 10, talked about, Thou hast redeemed us by thy blood,
verse 10. Revelation 4, I beg your pardon,
verse 10. The four and twenty elders fall
down before him that sat on the throne and worshiped him that
liveth forever and ever. and cast their crowns before
the throne, saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory
and honor and power, for thou hast created all things, and
for thy pleasure they are and were created." That's why he's
God. That's why he should receive
all glory. He's God. He's King of kings
and Lord of lords. He's not just a king, he's the
king. He's not a God, he's the living God. He's not a Lord,
he's the Lord. And he's worthy of all glory
because he created all things for his pleasure, for his glory. And then he should receive all
the glory because he's holy. Nothing else is. Even heaven
is not holy. Even the heavens are not pure
in his sight. He's holy. Turn to Isaiah 6. He's holy. He's holiness. God is love. God is not a God of love. He's
love. He's not a God of holiness. He
is holiness. In Isaiah chapter 6, verse 1,
old Isaiah said, When King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting
on a throne, high and lifted up, and His train filled the
temple, and above it stood the seraphim. Each one had six wings,
with two he covered his face with. With two he covered his
feet, with two he didn't fly, and one cried unto another and
said, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. The whole earth
is full of his glory because of his holiness. Who is the Lord
that I should glory in him? He's God, he's king, he's creator,
he's holy. And the whole earth is full of
his holiness. When I think of any good deed
I've ever done, or ever thought about doing, or ever hoped to
do, and compare it with His mercy and His holiness, boy, I can't
glory. There ain't nothing left. I'm
shamed of it. And I turn in glory in His holiness. And I and the world, these folks
can get so proud and lifted up and brag on there. I saw a sign down here Baptist
church downtown, a fundamental, independent, missionary, premillennial,
all this sort of thing, building a separated church. They're proud
of that. Proud of it separated from what? When I think about His holiness,
I'm ashamed to even talk about anything connected with me, even
smacking of holiness. Aren't you? His holiness. He's
holy. Even the seraphims covered their
face in the presence of his holiness. Isaiah said, Woe is me! Woe is
me! Then why? Because he's merciful. We should glow in him because
he... Look at Exodus 33. Exodus 33, and you knew I was
going to get to this finally, because Moses says, Lord, show
me your glow! Show me your glory." Why should
I glow when he's God? He's holy, merciful. He said, here's my glory. I will proclaim the name of the
Lord, Exodus 33, 19, I will be gracious, I will show mercy. Look over across the page at
verse 6, Exodus 34. And the Lord passed before him
and proclaimed the Lord God merciful and gracious, long-suffering
and abundant in goodness and truth. I tell you, we get to thinking
about our so-called patience. We don't have any patience. We don't have any long-suffering.
Our God is so patient with us, He's so long-suffering with us. We come to the end of a day and
we make all kind of vows about tomorrow and we come to the end
of tomorrow and we begin to apologize for yesterday and make all kind
of promises about the next day, you know, and our God is still
long-suffering. The songwriter put it this way,
and then we glory in Him because He's our Savior. But he put it
this way, listen. Glory to God on high, let earth
and skies reply, praise ye his name. His love and grace adore
who all our sorrows bore, worthy is the Lamb. Jesus our Lord and
God bore sin's tremendous load, praise ye his name. Tell what
his arm hath done, what spoils from death he won, worthy is
the Lamb. Though we shall change our place,
yet we shall never cease to praise his name. To him our songs we
bring, hail him sovereign king, worthy is the Lamb. Then let
the host above, in realms of endless love, praise his dear
name. To him a scribe will be, all
honor and majesty throughout eternity, worthy is the Lamb. How can I glory in the Lord?
Let me give you briefly just three or four things. I can glory
in the Lord by first of all publicly owning him as my Lord and Savior,
as my foundation, my refuge, my substitute, my hope. He said,
if you shall be ashamed of me and this sinful and adulterous
generation of you, shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he
comes in glory. Secondly, I can be identified
with His people. You know, it says in the book
of Acts chapter 2 that those people who believed were together
and had all things common. Turn to 2 Corinthians 6. 2 Corinthians
6. I want you to look right at this.
Hebrews 10 says, Not forsaking the assembling of yourselves
together. But I can glorify God by owning Him publicly as my
Lord and Savior and being identified with His people. You know what,
I believe if we know him, we'll want to be with his people. In
2 Corinthians 6 verse 14, listen, "...be not unequally yoked together
with unbelievers. What fellowship hath righteousness
with unrighteousness? What communion hath light with
darkness? You know, about closest we've
ever come to properly translating or interpreting this is to apply
it to marriage. But I'll tell you this, it applies
to social life, it applies to anything where you are unequally
yoked together with unbelievers. Where you socialize with unbelievers
or run with unbelievers or do business together, in partnership
with unbelievers where you are yoked with unbelievers. Now,
listen to it. What fellowship does righteousness
have with unrighteousness? And what communion can light
have with darkness? And what concord or accord can
Christ have with Baal? And what part has he that believeth
with an infidel? How can we walk with folks like
that? What agreement has the temple of God with idols? You're
the temple of God. You're the temple of the living
God. God said, I'll dwell in them and walk in them, be their
God and they'll be my people. Wherefore, come out from among
them. I believe we glorify God by seeking. I'll tell you this, evil companions
will corrupt good manners. And if you run around with people
who, like he says here, are in darkness and unbelievers and
infidels and unrighteous They'll contaminate you. They'll corrupt
you. We need to seek our social life
and our enjoyments and our things in daily life with those who
love God, that we might be built up spiritually, that we might
be edified spiritually, that we might talk about the things
of Christ. That's what we need to do, and be identified with
his people, with those who love Christ. And I just believe that
a man who knows the Lord We'll do that, I really do. I don't
think he enjoys hearing the trash that you have to listen to when
you run around people in this world. I just don't believe he
enjoys that atmosphere. I don't believe he enjoys an
atmosphere of rebellion, an atmosphere of darkness. He enjoys an atmosphere
of grace, and it comes back to it, we all need to learn to be
gracious. Now really, there's some professing Christians that
I get kind of weary of their presence too. They're obnoxious
and they're holier than thou and they're false and hypocritical
and orthodox and theologians and fault finders and critics
and all these things. But I'm talking about seeking
out people who are of like mind and like faith and like heart
who love God. And you find in their presence
a warmth and a fellowship that you can't find anywhere else.
That's what he's talking about here. It doesn't mean that you
have to look up these folks that are like Pharisees of old and
hypocrites of old who are going to tell you how to shine your
shoes and part your hair and wear your tie. It means to find
those whose hearts have been regenerated and consecrated and
brought to Christ, whose fellowship you enjoy. And we ought to try
to make ourselves those kind of people. You know, people like
to be around our Lord, and I believe if we If we are molded by the
Spirit of God into the image of Christ, then we'll take on
characteristics that are honoring Christ, a forgiving nature, a
loving nature. To have friends, you have to
show yourself friendly. That's what Scripture says. He
who would have friends must show himself friendly. And love begets
love, and kindness begets kindness. And I don't want to go either
way. I don't want to run with the world, but I don't want to run with
these super-religious people either. I don't find any joy either place.
The atmosphere, I'm like a fish out of water. I'm out of water
with them because I can't produce what they claim. And I'm out
of water with them because I don't want to produce what they claim.
But I want to be with some people in whom God's produced something.
You know what I'm saying? I think you do. All right, I
can glorify him by believing his word. They came to him and
said, what shall we do that we might work the works of God?
He said, this is the work of God to believe him. Believe his
word. I'll tell you what else I can
do. I can stand up where his word is opposed and where his
person is blasphemed. And I'll tell you something else
I can do. Now listen, I'll close. To glorify God, I can trust him
and praise him and witness a good confession in time of trouble,
in time of trial. You just think what a witness
Job was when he was sitting there, everything gone, scraping his
balls with a piece of glass, and his wife came up and said,
Why don't you curse God and die? And he said, Though he slay me,
I'll trust him. What a sermon, just a short sermon. And then when they came and told
him those messengers, think what a witness he was to those messengers
who came and they said, Your sheep, your cattle, your donkeys,
your cows, your camels, everything's gone, even your children are
all dead. And he didn't charge God with foolishness, but he
went and worshipped the Lord and he said, the Lord gave and
the Lord has taken away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
What a confession. And that's glorifying God. Joe,
you glorified God in that little tract you wrote about God's bitter
cup. Glorifying God. In the darkness of the valley,
to be able to praise the Lord is the gloweth I got.

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