David's five words from Psalm 37 offer a powerful strategy for overcoming life's giants of doubt, depression, worry, impatience, and faint-heartedness. The sermon emphasizes that true victory comes not from our own efforts but from trusting in the Lord first, then delighting in Him, committing our ways to Him, resting in His presence, and finally, waiting patiently for His timing. By adopting this divine order of trust and reliance, individuals can experience renewed strength, peace, and a life of abundant provision and purpose, moving from mere endurance to confident victory.
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Psalm thirty-seven. The thirty-seventh Psalm. Treat not thyself because of evildoers. Neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity, for they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herbs. Trust in the Lord and do good. So shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be paid.
Delight thyself also in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Commit thy way unto the Lord. Trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass, and he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday. Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him. Threat not thyself because of him who prospereth in the way. Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. Seek from anger and forsake wrath. Threat not thyself in any way to do evil.
Verse thirty four. Wait on the Lord and keep his way. And he shall exalt thee to inherit the land. When the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. I have seen the wicked in great power. and spreading himself like a green bay tree. Yet he passed away, and lo, he was not. Yea, I taught him, but he could not be found. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright. For the end of that man is peace. May God add his blessings to his words. My subject of evening is David's five words.
Paul speaks of five words in First Corinthians fourteen. I had rather speak five words with my understanding than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. My good friend, Mr. C. of Hogg, suggested that perhaps those five words might well be, what can or what shall I profit you? And those five words ought to challenge every teacher and preacher of the word as he rises to speak. Some people rise to say something. Others rise because they have something to say.
I had rather speak five words, said Paul, in an intelligible manner than ten thousand unknown words that cannot possibly be comprehended. Most of us know the story of David's adventure with Goliath. What boy hasn't lived with the story of Goliath? And how David, the mere stripling, went forth to meet that giant encased in armor. But you remember what he did before he went to meet that giant. He selected five smooth stones from a brook and hasted toward the giant.
who greeted him with these words, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. And David said, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield. But I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hope, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. And then he put that smooth stone in his sling, and flang it with unerring skill. struck the forehead of that giant. I suppose if the giant could have expressed his experience in words at that particular moment, he would have said, never such a thing has entered my head before. And down went the giant for the count.
And David took the sword from the giant and cut off his head. Well now, many years afterwards, David is sitting upon his throne. The once rejected shepherd has become the king of Israel. And he thinks about five greater giants than Goliath. And he chooses by divine inspiration five little words with which to kill these five greater giants than Goliath. We shall be leaving this conference tomorrow. And many giants great and tall are talking to the land. In a measure we've been shut up to spiritual influences during these days of conference, and now we've got to go down into the valley and meet the giants.
And how are we going to meet these giants? In the same way that David met Goliath from the long ago. We must choose these five smooth stones. And no giant can stand before these stones. And here are the five little words that David uses. First, trust. That takes care of giant doubt. Trust in the Lord and do good. The second word, delight. And that takes care of giant depression. Delight thyself also in the Lord.
The third word, commit. And that takes care of giant worry. You know what worry is, don't you? The grindstone on which we hold our noses while we do our own turning, and it's a miserable business. The fourth word, rest in the Lord. That takes care of giant impatience. We would hurry up into things before proper thought and prayer and care. And lastly, That little word, wait on the Lord. That takes care of giant, faint heart.
So let us think of these five little words. Note the order in verse three. Trust in the Lord and do good. Reverse that order at your peril. Religion says, do the best you can and trust in the Lord. And if you don't manage to do the best you can, well, maybe your trust in the Lord will add a little bit of a make weight. And in some way or other, you'll wrangle your way to heaven on the basis of what you can do. Do the best you can, to all the people you can, in all the ways you can, as often as ever you can. Do the best you can, and then trust in the Lord.
A certain Christian approached the captain of a vessel. And put to him the direct question, Sir, on what are you baiting your hopes for eternal blessedness? The captain thought a moment, and then replied, I'm doing the best I can, and trusting in the Lord. Said the Christian, Reverse the order, Captain, and you have it. Good night. And left that captain with that statement. Reverse the order, and you have it. And the captain went to his cabin. And as he thought upon these words, It suddenly came to him. He'd been putting the cart before the horse. He'd been doing his best and imagining that trusting in the Lord would be a little bit of make-waste.
And that night in his cabin, he put them in the right order. He trusted in the Lord. I would not work my soul to save, for that God's work is done. But I would work like any slave from love to God's dear son. To him that worketh not. Are you here tonight unsaved and you want to be saved? God says to him that worketh not, but believe it on him that justifiably ungodly. His faith is counted unto him for righteousness. By grace are ye saved through faith, not of works lest any man should boast.
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he hath saved us. If you want to be right with God, take from your own work and rest in the work of another who, nineteen hundred years ago, at the place called Calvary, accomplished the God's complete satisfaction, all the work needed for your eternal salvation. Look away from yourself. Look away from your own effort. Look away from your tears and look away from your own believing and striving. Look to Christ. Be occupied with Him. Why was he there as a bearer of sin? If on Jesus my guilt was not laid, and why from his side flowed that thin cleansing blood of his dying, my death has not failed.
Look, look and live. Trust. The meaning of the word. It means to have confidence in the person or in the word or in the work of another, to commit oneself. to another, to rely wholly upon the word of another, to believe a record that God has given. In fact, God uses many words to convey the idea of trust. Come! What's that? That's believing with the feet. Take! What's that? That's believing with your hands. Hear! What's that?
That's receiving with your ears. That's believing with your eyes. Contest. Christ as Lord. That's believing with your mouth. Come, look, trust, believe, receive. All these words convey what simple childlike confidence in God means. Perhaps the best illustration is that of a patient and a doctor. This patient has tried many homemade remedies. but with no benefit. Finally, he goes to a competent specialist. He says, sir, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I come to you in order that you might diagnose my condition.
And whatever remedy you prescribe, if there is a remedy for my trouble, I'll promise you, I'll obey your instructions implicitly. I place myself unreservedly, my life entirely in your hands. That's right. Alexander the Great said, and one occasion received an anonymous letter. The writer of this letter informed Alexander that his special private physician was in a plot to murder him by poison. He carefully finished reading the letter before there was a knock at the door. In came his private physician. Sir, I have come with your medicine. He handed Alexander the Great.
A glass containing the medicine, without a moment's hesitation, and the janitor of the grape drained the contents of the glass, and then handed the letter to his physician, and said, You see, how implicitly I trust you. Job could say, Though he trained me, yet will I trust him. Wanting to trust in the Lord when the sun is shining bright, and everything in the garden is lovely, What happens when you get into prudence? And the clouds gather. And the lightning flashes. The thunderous. And things are going haywire. And there's bodily affliction. What about it then?
Shall we trust then? Well, says someone rather piously, we must trust where we cannot trace. Did you ever hear such nonsense? In other words, providing I can see God, that's okay. But the moment I lose sight of him, well, I guess I'll have to trust him. That's what Jacob said to Laban. The Lord watch you when I can't. The Lord keep his eyes on you when I can't get my eyes on you. That was the confidence he had in Laban. One Christian came to another and said, Brother, I found a lovely verse in the Bible this morning that brought great comfort to my soul. What was it? Why?
It's Psalm fifty-six and three. What times I am afraid, I will trust in thee. Ah, so the other brother, I found a better verse than that this morning. Well, what's that? I will trust and not be afraid. So you have your choice. I like Paul's creed. I believe God, then it shall be even as it was told me. I believe God. I dare to believe God in the face of all the circumstances that seem to indicate that God doesn't even exist. And God is going to try the reality of our faith and love and obedience. If you have faith, God will try it. If you have love, God will test you.
If you say, I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord, he'll test me. He'll put you to the test. Lovest thou me? Do you really trust me? Are you prepared to obey me implicitly? God always trusts. I rather test the reality of the faith and the love and the obedience of all his people. the meaning of the word. Now, why should we trust in the Lord? What are the reasons for trusting? Well, first of all, the character of the one who was promised. God has revealed himself to be the faithful, covenant-keeping God, the God that must be true to himself. For his own name's sake, he must fulfill the promise he has made.
And even Balaam was made to state that tremendous truth. God is not a man that he should lie, nor is he the son of a man that he should repent or change his mind. Have he said? Tell him not do it. Have he spoken? Tell him not bring it to pass. God's not going to lose his reputation over you. No, indeed. He values his character far too much to break a promise he makes to his people. You've heard of the old lady, haven't you? who said she knew that she was saved, and she knew it on the bare word of God. A young man came to her and said, I understand that you believe that you are saved, and you only have the word of God for it. Is that true? Yes, sir. Well, said the man, supposing God went back on his word, then you'd lose your salvation.
Yes, she replied, I'd lose my salvation. But God would be the greatest loser. How'd you make that out? Well, if God went back on his word, I should only lose my salvation. But God would lose his character. And God is not going to lose his character, I can assure you, over any one of us. Then think of the wisdom of the promise. Omniscience is his. Known unto him are all things from the beginning of the world. Nothing takes God by surprise. God dwells in an eternal presence. He's the great I am. omniscience. All knowledge is his. Then thirdly, we should trust him because of the love of the planet.
Every Christian lives on an island. That island is surrounded by an ocean. That ocean is God's love. And nothing can touch you if you're a regenerated child of God on that island, except it comes to you by way of the love of God. Everything comes to us with his love. Even when he rebukes, as many as thy love, I rebuke and chastened. That father, that mother, loves that child. When that child is placed in the correct attitude and with a soft-soul slipper, that slipper is applied to that portion of the anatomy that nature has provided for the purpose. That's done in love. The child may not realize it. But haven't you often seen a little child cling to its mother while its mother was giving it a stanking?
Yes, indeed. Yes, indeed. As many as I love, I rebuke, I chastened. But more, we should trust him because of the power of the promiser. You know the brethren of Matthew Lantham, don't you? That lovely hymn written over three hundred years ago. How good is the God we adore? Our faithful, unchangeable friend. What comes next? Whose love is as great as is what? As is power that knows neither measure your end nor end. You try and state that in a better way. Three hundred years. whose love is as great as its power. In other words, God's love is backed up by omnipotence to make good in us what His love plans for us.
You couldn't wish for more perfect love than this. Here in His love with us made perfect, Christ's love for us. Now notice the results of trusting. Is this life of trust and confidence in the Lord Jesus practical or impractical? Why, bless your heart, faith is the most practical thing imaginable. Does it accomplish anything? Well, look, see what it accomplishes. Trust in the Lord and sit like a bump on a log, twiddling your thumb. No. And do good. Do good. A Christian should be known by what he does. Not merely by what he doesn't.
Are you a Christian? Yes. How do you know? I don't go to the show. I don't dance. I don't do this. And I don't do that. And I don't do this. And I don't do that. But what do you do? What do you do? What do you do? What do you do? Not whatsoever you don't. Whatsoever you do. In word and deed. Do all in the name of the Lord Jesus. Giving thanks unto God and the Father by him. All by the Spirit speaks of faith that worketh by love. Faith works. The faith of the head is the faith that is dead. The faith of the hand is the faith that will stand, but the faith of the heart is the faith that will start. Trust in the Lord and do good. That's the first thing.
Action. The second thing is abiding. So shall thou dwell. So shall thou dwell in the land. That means to abide. Abide in me, and I in you, said the Lord Jesus. What does it mean to abide? It means just to stay where you're put. Where did God put you when you trusted Christ? He put you in Christ. Now then, as he say there, draw all your sustenance, find your complete satisfaction in Christ. Be occupied with him, for the secret of detachment from the world is attachment to Christ. And the more we're attached to Christ, the more we'll be detached from this world that gave him no place. Abide in me, and I in you.
You'll ask what you will. It shall be done unto you. What's the third thing? Abounding provision. Thou shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Here's an appetite for God's word and for God's things, feeding on Christ. Except you eat the flesh of the Son of God and drink his blood. You have not eternal life. What does it mean to eat the flesh of the Son of God and drink his blood? Well, if you look at a few verses earlier in that wonderful John chapter six, in verse forty-seven you'll read these words, he that believeth on me hath everlasting life, hath eternal life. Eternal life consists of believing on Christ.
Eating the flesh of Christ is eternal life. So that eating Christ and believing on Christ are two terms that mean the same thing. How can I grow in grace and in knowledge feeding on Christ? feeding on Christ. A Christian brother once greeted his friend in these words. Well, brother, I haven't seen you for quite a while. How are you getting along? Oh, said the brother, I'm just living from hand to mouth. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Sorry, he said, you ought to be glad. What do you mean? Well, he said, it's my mouth and God's hand. You've often heard that scripture quoted, haven't you?
Open my mouth and I will fill it. Usually one word is missing. Open thy mouth wide. The reason why some of us are not so satisfied, we don't open our mouths wide enough. Like a little girl used to pray, every time she read the Bible, open down mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy Lord. And then she was asked, but don't you sometimes find things in the Bible you don't understand? Oh yes. What do you pray then? Oh Lord, please open my eyes a little bit wider. Yes. Lord, let me open my mouth wider. Open my mouth wide. And I will fill it. Living from hand to mouth.
Every child of God does that. Well, that's the first word. That takes care of giant doubt. Did giant doubt ever whisper doubt into your ear? You remember giant despair of doubting Castle and his delightful wife distrust? One or all one nightmare of a time they gave to poor Christian and hopeful? who climbed over the stile in the bypass meadow and discovered to their cost what it means to leave the path of understanding to try and find an easy, osy Christianity. No, indeed, the very hardships, the very trials, the very winds of temptation that sweep over our soul just enable us to think our roots deeper into the promises of God and rely more wholeheartedly upon him.
Purse him the Lord! Too good! Thou shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. That's our first word. Now second, delight. This takes care of giant depression. First trust, and then delight. This is always a divine order. The God of hope filled you with joy and peace. How? To believe it. To believe it. We cannot have delight. We cannot have joy. We cannot have the peace of God that track us all understanding until our confidence is in the right person. Now, the meaning of the word, it means literally luxuriate yourself in the Lord.
Have a good time in the Lord. Christianity is a thing to be enjoyed, not endured. You heard the story, haven't you, of the man who was sent to the station to meet the preacher? He'd never seen him before, and so he stood at the gate, as the people were piling out. Until presently he saw one sad-looking individual, thought he, this must be the preacher. He said, excuse me, sir, are you the preacher? He said, no, it's just my dyspepsia that makes me look like this. Delight thyself in the Lord. The world is full of troubles. Did you understand that the street corner, and what's the faces of the people as they pass by? Next time you have a few moments of spare, while they...
Red is turning to green. Just look at the faces of the people and see that drawn, haggard, care-worn look. You know what philosophy is, don't you? Philosophy is that system of knowledge that enables a person to become unhappy more intelligently. Did you ever have a fix of depression? David did. Why art thou cast down, oh my soul? Why art thou disquieted within me? What's the matter with you? Oh my soul. The Puritan's comment on that was this.
David chided David out of his dumps. Did you ever get into the dumps? Ever sing that song, down in the dumps? I'll never go? It wasn't very long after you sang that song, you were down in the dumps. Why do I mourning all the day because of the oppression of the enemy? Ever get up in the morning with a kind of an unnamed, indescribable depression of spirit upon you? We're up against not flesh and blood, but spiritual wickedness in high places. And don't forget, God knows our frame. He remembers that we are dust. The great point that A.T. Scott will make in his two excellent books, Nerves in Disorder and Christian Sanity, is this.
When the Christian forgets that he's dust and imagines he's made of cast iron, that's when the Lord has to prove to him very often the hard way. As he lies upon his back countering the fly specks on the ceiling, that after all, God was perfectly right when he remembered our frame and knows that we are but dust. The meaning of the word then is to luxuriate yourself in the Lord. Now notice the fear of our delight. Delight thyself in the law. Not in our circumstances. How is Mrs. A coming along? The question was asked. And the answer was she's coming along as best as can be expected under the circumstances.
Did you ever get under the circumstances? Did the circumstances ever get you down? Paul was never under the circumstances. He was always on top of the circumstances. He could testify, I have learned in what to have a state I am, dare with to be content. And that word content in the original is the only mention of it in the whole of the New Testament. The word is autocrat. From which we get the word autocrat. What is an autocrat? A monarch of all he surveils. Whose rights there is not to dispute. He's the master of everything. He's a death pot. He sits upon his throne, or whatever he says, rose. Paul says, I've learned, in whatever state I am, to be an orocrat.
I'm not going to allow this body of mine to master me. No, indeed. I keep under my body. I'm the master of my body, says the Apostle Paul. I beat myself black and blue. I bring myself into slavery. Yes, I preach to others. I myself should be set aside as unworthy of his service. I keep under my body. You've heard of the Christian businessman in England, haven't you? Every morning before we went out to work, he prayed the same prayer at the same spot every day. The spot was the hat rack in the hallway of his home. As he took the hat off the hook and held it one moment, he prayed this prayer, Lord, make me master of everything underneath this hat today.
Then on with the hat. Are you always master of everything underneath your hat? Well, you see, I sometimes swear off the handle, but it's all over in less than a minute. So is the atomic bomb. But I'm pulling the pieces off the wall for a long, long time afterwards. You're like myself in the law. Not in your prosperity. Not in your health. Not in the position you occupy. For these are only outward circumstances. They're the mercies of the Lord. And never confound your mercies with your blessings. Merces are temporal things. Health and strength and money, all temporal.
Can't take a penny with us. Leave it all to the grave. Mercies are given unequally. God gives one believer more money than another. Better health than another. A bigger home than another. a superior car to another. They have a job than another. God's mercies are unequal. But God gives His mercies equally. Every believer is equally blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. No one believer is more sanctified than another believer or more justified or more saved. God gives His mercies equally. His mercies unequally. Don't get your mercies mixed up with your blessings. One of these days we're going to say, goodbye, mercy, and I shall have known you.
Have some blessings. We'll have them forever. Yes? He alight thyself in the Lord. If any man had the right to be depressed, it was the Apostle Paul. Read the account of his hardships, the unparalleled hardships to which he passed. Described in Second Corinthians, eleven. Hex on his field. You're going to paint in the front of your back. And you couldn't possibly do this or that or the other. Read that catalog of what Paul went through. And then remember, he wrote the letter to the Philippians whose keynote is joy from a dingy, dirty, dark, evil-smelling prison cell in Rome.
What is the secret? He delighted himself in the Lord. And what's the effect of it? Delight thyself in the Lord, and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. You see, if we delight in him, we shall find our complete satisfaction in him and be satisfied with all he gives us. Then his desires will be our desires. Christ should say prophetically, I accept the Lord all is before me. And David with holy determination says, I will see. I will praise the Lord. But next time, giant depression tries to get you down, take you all half from off the willow, lift your fingers over the stream. I will sing, I will praise the Lord.
That way, depression will take unto itself wings and fly back again into the night from when it came. The third word, commit it. This takes care of giant worry. Now, what's the meaning of this word? It means to roll thy way unto the Lord. Casting all your cares upon him, for he careeth for you. Cast thy burden on the Lord. You say, my burden, too heavy to cast. All right, just roll it. Just roll it on him. Roll it on him. Take your burden to the Lord and leave it there. Remember that little poem of Tom Baird's I quoted the other night?
It is God's will. I should... How's it go? Yes, it is God's will that I should cast on him my care each day. He also bids me not to cast my confidence away, but all else holistically I act. When taken unaware, I cast away my confidence and carry all my care. Now one of the reasons for this commitment... Well, first of all, he knows. Your Heavenly Father, know it, what things you have need of. Therefore, say some, what do you to pray?
If our Heavenly Father knows what things we have need of, what do you to pray? Why, that's the very argument that Christ uses for prayer. He says, your Heavenly Father, know it, what things you have need of, therefore pray. Prayer doesn't alter God's will. It simply brings us into alignment with God's will, so that we are now willing to ask for those things that God wanted to give us, but which we would not have appreciated had he given it to us at that particular time. Our complex personality is an open book to him. He knows. He loves. Yes, indeed. The Father himself loves you, said our Lord Jesus. I love you, said the Savior, and my Father loves you.
I beseech you by the love of the Spirit, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, loving us. And the love of God shall be spread abroad in our hearts, to be spread abroad from our hearts, for all those who love our Lord Jesus, and to those that live in darkness and in the shadow of death. He knows, he loves, what else he cares. It matters to him about you. And then notice the result of this act of committal of all our cares to him. He shall bring it to pass. She was a boy, not very famous for him, other brains he possessed, who was looked at. What Thomas in the word brought him the greatest joy? He said, oh, those lovely words, it came to pass.
It came to pass. Every time I see those words, it came to pass. Kills my heart with joy. Oh? What joy does that bring to you? Well, he said, I've had lots of trouble. But I discovered that all those troubles come to pass. All the trials come to pass. They don't let. They don't let. They come to pass. Bishop Taylor Smith used to say, prayer, take care, and you're there. Prayer, take care. No use closing your eyes before you dry that autumn of your old oars.
So by protecting wings around me as I drive on the fourth of July or the fifth of July or the sixth of July and then drive like a demon after you prayed that prayer. I knew I knew an old fellow in Washington, D.C. A grubby old soul he was. He never started any journey. He's only going one block in his car. They are the word of prayer. And then he drove like a demon, breaking all the speed laws. I learned by writing with him the secret of praying without speaking. prayer, take care, and what? You're there. You're there. Commit thy way unto the Lord, and he shall bring it to pass. There's a lovely little word. Nothing complex about this.
Simple as ABC. Fourth, rest in the Lord. This takes care of giant impatience. Now, what does this word rest really mean? It means to be quiet, to be silent, before the Lord. Just sit in the presence of the Lord. Just take time out to concentrate your thoughts upon him. David realized the value of this. In a wonderful Second Samuel chapter seven, will you turn to it please? Second Samuel chapter seven. He gets a wonderful promise through the lips of Nathan the prophet.
Second Samuel seven and verse eighteen. The promise is that from David it shall come a son whose throne shall be established. Verse eighteen, then went King David in and sat before the Lord. And what happened when he sat before the Lord? Saying these things that will happen to us when we take time to sit in the presence of the Lord, direct in the Lord. First he got right thoughts about himself. Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my house? But thou hast brought me hither to. He got right thoughts of himself. Good for the ego to sit in the presence of the Lord and realize how utterly small and insignificant one is.
Then verse twenty-two, he got right thoughts of God. Wherefore thou art great, O Lord God, for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears. He got a right conception of the majesty and the glory of the great Jehovah of heaven. And thirdly, in verse twenty-three, he got right thoughts about God's people. What one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make himself a name, and to do for you great things and terrible for thy land, before thy people which thy regime is to thee, from Egypt, from the nations, and from their gods. He sat in the presence of the Lord, got right thoughts of himself, right thoughts of God, and right thoughts of God's people.
Now Rustin once said, there's no music in a race. But there's a making of music in the room. Did you notice when the quartet from Miami was singing? Every now and then there was a little pause. Now there's no music in that pause, but there's a making of music in the pause. When you hear that resting music, you notice our brother Netweiler. Sometimes you go, hey, what's that? Rest. break. Basketball games. Home teams getting licked. They're getting flustered. Getting worried. Captain says, time out. Time out. Let me do other fellows. All getting that old team. That's not it. As you know, they're just getting distracted.
So what? When you fucked up the team, and after that time out, while they run through the opposition, like nobody's doing. They've taken time out. Don't let the devil get you flustered. Don't let him push you. rest. You know this world is a great world for pushing. When you're born, they start pushing you around in a baby buggy. Then they push you to school. Push you out of a kindergarten into the first grade and push you out of the first into second and so on. Then they push you to high school. Push you through college. Then they push you into business. Keep on pushing you until you come to a great big hole about six foot six long. Push you in there and push the dirt in on top of it. Then they push a tombstone on top of it and start pushing somebody else.
Rest. Rest. Rest. Ever noticed the three stills of the Bible? Stand still. That's God's word for the unsaved. Stand still. You want to be saved? Stand still and see the work of Jehovah. Stand still and touch on the work that Christ accomplished on the cross. Second, fifth word. The words of Naomi to root her daughter-in-law. Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall. For the man will not be in rest until he has finished this thing this day. Do you want to be satisfied? Sit still. Make sure you sit still as Mary did at the feet of the Savior.
Sit still and listen to his word. Sit still and be occupied with him. That's the secret of satisfaction. Be still and know that I am God. That's the secret of soul serenity. Peace, perfect peace. With loved ones far away in Jesus' keeping, they are safe. We are safe. And they. Now, what are the reasons for this? Well, first of all, the journey of life. Elijah discovered that. After that wonderful victory on Mount Carmel, he heard the voice of Jezebel saying, The Lord do so to me. And more also, if thy head shall stand upon my shoulders about this time tomorrow. And poor Elijah beat it for the stick.
I ran ninety miles. You feel all in if you had a ninety mile run. And when finally he reached the Jupiter tree, you remember what it is? I'm all through, said he. Dear Lord, it is my resignation. Let me die. I know better than my fathers. I'm willing to dig a hole and crawl into the hole and pull the hole on top of it. You know what the Lord said? Elijah, what you need is a rest. Just you lie down there now. The journey has been too much for you. Too much for you. The journey of life. The stress and the strain of life is too much for us. We've got to take time out. We've got to rest and rest in the Lord.
Send the cares of life. Poor Martha discovered this. She was humbled with much serving. And she actually rebukes the Lord Jesus and says, Thou shalt not care. She shalt Christ with carelessness. Thou shalt not care that my sister hath left me to serve alone. Martha, Martha, your anxious, your trouble about many things, but Mary hath chosen the good part that shall not be taken away from her. She rested. What about the oppression of the enemy? Why do I mourning all the day because of the oppression of the enemy? What about the sweat and the fumes of this world, the business world? The pressure constantly kept up.
No wonder they have stomach ulcers and heart troubles. Moses, you can remember, locked out through this and state in advisory with his lips, impatient, impatient, impatient. Some good advice was given me years ago by an old Christian who said, When you don't know what to do, don't do it. When you don't know what to do, don't do it. Wait on the Lord. Rest in the Lord. And what are the results of resting in the Lord? First of all, the peace of God that passes all understanding shall set up a garrison in your heart in your mind through Christ Jesus the anxious or rather over anxious for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known of the God and the peace of God set up its garrison secondly restoration of soul from God restoration of soul Christian sanity and finally patience before God tribulation bringing that peace.
Now lastly, we'll have it. Wait! That takes care of giant faint hearts. Now the meaning of this word is to meditate. To look to him in simple confidence. To pour out one's heart in earnest and believing prayer. Habakkuk knew what this meant. He said, I will watch to see what he will say underneath. I'll wait upon him. I'll wait for him. Wait for patience and for him. Now the need for waiting on God is threefold. First, human frailty. How weak we are naturally. Man at his best, is at his best, but man. How can we get straight and overcome this frailty?
Only in one way. Wait on the Lord. Second, human quality. Human quality. Let them my own intonations for the men. But if any man's lack of wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth liberally to all men, and that greateth not, it shall be given unto him. Let him wait, but when the Lord I am praised, wait on me. Lord, I am truly wait on me. Human faint-heartedness, wait on the Lord, and be of good kind. Or he thought, strengthen thine heart. Was that a lovely thing that Jonathan did for David? Jonathan went into the wood there to meet his bosom friend.
And we are told, Jonathan straightens David's end in God. They waited on the Lord. And what's the result of waiting on the Lord? Well, first of all, renewed strength or exchanged energy. They that wait upon the Lord shall exchange their strength. Second, spiritual buoyancy. They shall bounce up with wings like eagles. Those great, unscathed of a wall, will be unscathed or no luck. Drop me mountains, you can't tunnel through. Wake on the Lord, and you'll mount up with wings. What else? Deficient service. They shall run and not be weary. Consistent walk.
They shall walk and not faint. Here then are these five delightful little words that give to us the secret of a happy and joyous and useful life. ten by divine inspiration hundreds and hundreds of years ago by that man of God, that man at the God's own heart. Trust in giant scouts all to the dust. Delight and depression flees. Commit and worry. Take yourself away. Rest and impatience is brought to an end. Wait.
and faint-heartedness gives place of courage and strength. May it be yours and mine as we go back to our homes and to our businesses to the everyday things of life. When any of these giants come along to use these five words with our understanding and by the grace of God the more than conquerors to him that loved us for his namesake. Those of you who've heard it each year, if you will take a little rest now for a minute, well, perhaps there's some here who hasn't heard it.
This is Ms. Rastas Johnson talking on the telephone. Hello, Central. Is Dr. Bell telephone walking? Well, will you ask Mr. Bell if he'll give me Maine, four, four, three, please, man? I can't say three that way. It tickles my tongue. Hello. Hello, is that you, Miss Annie? Oh, my Haley, your voice sounded almost white. Kind of holy today. Too much wedding yesterday. Did I did go? I said I was going to Evelyn's wedding if it was the last thing that I did do. Grand wedding.
My Haley, you done spoke a parable. They had the church all decorated with United States flags and con-febred flags and pineas and yalla asters and china asters and geraniums. They had yalla ribbons and children of white bride family where they sat at. Uh-huh. Five of Evelyn's brothers, they wore the white barbacoats. They urged. Huh? They urged. They was the usher. Uh-huh. They've named after the Apostles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and Revelation. Uh-huh. Nine of Evelyn's sisters dressed in green spaduddle flowers where the bride had to walk at.
Uh-huh. A white lady named Miss Brown played Mendelssohn's wedding march. You know how it goes, Mahaley. Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, on the August. A brother Green from Punica, he came to pre-form the ceremony. Yeah, he had on a long tail coat and a high beaver hat, and one of them colors didn't stop in front, but kept on going straight around. Uh-huh. while you never would have known her. She had on a red waist and a green skirt and orange blossoms on her head and was she the netting hung all down in front of her.
The old gal didn't know whether she was going in or coming out. The grooms, while my Haley, that boy never showed up.