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Hebrews chapter 12.
You may want to put a bookmark or
something there, because we'll be coming back to
that from time to time.
Hebrews chapter 12.
My message title is a long one this
morning.
It's, The Devil is After One Thing in
Your Time of Trial.
The devil is after one thing in your
time of trial.
Father, I thank you for the sovereign anointing
of your Holy Spirit.
I thank you, Lord, that I stand not
in my own righteousness nor my own strength.
I stand in the righteousness of Jesus, and
I stand in the strength of the Holy
Spirit, and the truth of God's Word that
you have sown within my inward parts.
Lord, I ask for the privilege this morning
of disappearing that you may appear.
Lord, that my voice would fade and your
voice would be heard through this human vessel.
That you would speak to every life, speak
to every heart, of every person that you
have gathered in this house this morning.
Thank you that your word is truth, and
that your word is eternal, and that your
word is life.
So, Lord, I ask for life to be
made manifest in this house today.
I thank you, Father, for breaking every chain
of darkness, exposing every lie of the devil,
opening every prison door, every place of captivity
that he has desired to put God's people
in, those that are redeemed by the blood
of Christ, cherished of Almighty God.
Father, I thank you for authority today.
I thank you, Lord, that your word is
a powerful word.
I thank you that there's authority when your
word goes forth.
Lord, you have sent your word today to
accomplish a specific thing.
I ask, Lord, that all of the chains
of depression and fear and every weapon that
the devil has brought against any child of
God in this house be absolutely crushed by
the truth of the Word of God and
the revelation of Jesus Christ.
Satan, I stand against you in the name
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I say unto you this day, the Lord
rebuke you.
The Lord rebuke your traps, your plans, your
schemes, your devices that you formulate against those
who have trusted in Jesus Christ for their
salvation and for their direction and for their
eternal destiny.
I stand against every one of your plans
today.
Father, I thank you that truth will prevail
in every heart and in every life.
Let there be a shout of freedom.
Let there be a cry of joy come
from those who have been suffering and have
been afflicted by the evil one.
God, let there be an absolute release, a
mighty release in this house today.
Lord, for this we give you the honor.
We give you all the praise.
We give you all the glory.
For thine is the kingdom.
Thine is the power.
Thine is the glory, both now and forever.
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God.
Hallelujah.
The devil is after one thing in your
time of trial.
You know, the Bible speaks about a time
of trial that's coming upon the whole earth
when everything that can be shaken will be
shaken.
And I have seen in the study of
the Scriptures this week specific tactics that the
enemy will employ against those who are righteous
to go after the very heart of our
relationship with God.
He will start, it's almost as if it's
a spiral.
He starts on the periphery and just keeps
working and working and working and eventually goes
after one thing.
We're going to expose his lies today.
You see, if he can get to that
one thing, he can get what he's after.
Your life, your soul, your testimony for Christ.
I believe that those who are seeking God
just simply in the realm of the experiential
are in for very, very big trouble.
We're going to see as we study the
Scriptures that it's only truth and it's only
truth that's sewn deep in the inward parts
that is our protection against the days that
are coming.
And those that have traveled and run to
and fro and hither and yon looking for
just some experience or somebody to touch them
and they've looked to find stability but from
beyond that prescribed norm that God has given
us in the pursuit of truth, in the
grasping of truth, in the loving of truth
I believe that many, many who say that
they belong to the Lord are in for
a very ferocious shaking in the future.
Some perhaps may turn to God and find
life and others will faint.
Hebrews chapter 12, now in chapter 11 the
rite of Hebrews is talking about those who
are in effect of the hall of faith
those who stopped the mouths of lions who
saw promises and were persuaded of them even
though they were far off talked about those,
about Joseph dying, leaning on the top of
his staff and saying, don't leave my bones
here, take them home, God's given me a
promise talked about the faith of Moses' parents
talked about Moses choosing rather to suffer affliction
with the people of God than to enjoy
the pleasures of sin and it goes on
and on talks about the walls of Jericho
coming down the harlot Rahab receiving the spies,
Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel the prophets
who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness obtained
promises and stopped the mouths of lions then
it goes on to talk about others who
had trials of cruel mockings and scourging and
bonds and imprisonment they were stoned, sawn asunder,
tempted, slain with the sword wandering in sheepskins
and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted and tormented and
verse 39 says, these all having obtained a
good report through faith received not the promise,
God having provided some better thing for us
that they without us should not be made
perfect so in other words there are many
who have gone before us they've walked through
everything that this life could throw at them
they've walked through by faith and they received
a good report before God they are there
today and if they were one by one
to be able to be to come and
stand on this platform they would encourage us
with everything that's within them to trust God,
to believe God that He has been faithful
to His promises and He cannot fail those
who put their trust in Him the writer
begins in verse 1 saying wherefore seeing we
all so encompassed about with so great a
cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every
weight in the sin which so doth easily
beset us let us run with patience the
race that is set before us looking unto
Jesus the author and finisher of our faith
who for the joy that was set before
Him endured the cross despising the shame and
is set down at the right hand of
the throne of God now here's the admonition
to you and I for consider Him that
endured such contradiction of sinners against Himself lest
ye be weary and faint in your minds
now this is a message to everyone who's
in a time of trial everyone who's in
it now or maybe you've been in a
time of trial and for sure everybody who's
here if you're going to walk any amount
of time with God you are definitely going
to walk into times of trial and difficulty
but the writer of Hebrews says that in
those times we are to consider Him and
to consider Him in the context of how
severely and how powerfully those who are without
God came against Him how He withstood the
onslaught of the devil himself speaking through the
hearts of unregenerate men and He triumphed over
them He triumphed over everything that hell could
throw at Him and He is the author
He is the finisher of our faith and
of our salvation if we put our trust
in Him He says I will never leave
you and I will never forsake you the
apostle Paul says I'm convinced I'm persuaded that
He's able to keep that which I've entrusted
unto Him against that day that I have
put myself in the hand of God and
He is able to keep me there and
He's able to fight off all of my
enemies and He's able to bring me home
declaring to all who will listen throughout eternity
that all of His promises are yea and
amen to those who trust Him and believe
the writer says consider Him that endured such
contradiction lest you be weary and faint in
your minds today we have the knowledge that
Christ has triumphed over the power of the
devil and He has become both the author
and the finisher of our faith the finisher
Christ is the finisher we've got to settle
that in our hearts you see He blotted
out the list of sins that was against
us if you are a Christian if you
have trusted in Christ for your salvation if
you have repented of your sin if you
have a desire to live for God with
all of your heart you can sit here
today or stand with that calm assurance that
Christ has finished your faith He blotted out
the list of sins that were against us
the book of Colossians chapter 2 verses 14
and 15 the apostle Paul says blotting out
the handwriting of ordinances that was against us
which was contrary to us and took it
out of the way nailing it to His
cross and having spoiled principalities and powers He
made a show of them openly triumphing over
them in it hallelujah He triumphed over everything
that the devil could send against Him secondly
He made a way to escape every temptation
for everyone who is His who belongs to
Him Paul says in 1 Corinthians chapter 10
verse 13 there has no temptation taken you
but such as is common to man but
God is faithful and He will not suffer
or allow you to be tempted above that
you are able but with the temptation also
will make a way to escape that you
may be able to bear it and thirdly
He is able to uphold all of those
who are going through trial the book of
Hebrews chapter 2 verse 18 says that for
in He Himself for in that He Himself
has suffered being tempted He is able to
help those or secure those that are tempted
the amplified version puts it this way for
because He Himself in His humanity has suffered
He is able immediately to run to the
crime those who being tempted are being tempted
and tested and tried again the writer of
Hebrews tells us consider Him lest you be
weary and faint in your minds the apostle
Paul speaking in another context puts it this
way in 2 Corinthians chapter 2 verse 11
he says lest Satan should get an advantage
of us for we are not ignorant of
his devices did you know this morning that
Satan has devices formulated to get an advantage
of you to attempt to take advantage of
you and if we will study the scriptures
today and consider Christ we can see exactly
how he will come against you and I
but also we will have the knowledge that
Christ triumphed over him and so in the
clothing and righteousness and triumph and strength of
Christ we also can triumph over our enemy
now we ask ourselves the question this morning
what is it then that Satan with his
suggestive thoughts myriad of words through the lips
of unregenerate men is after what is it
that he is looking to take away from
the believer that will cause this weariness and
fainting in his mind now in order to
begin to answer this we have to first
look to Jesus who triumphed over him and
is now seated at the right hand of
all power and authority I want this morning
to look in particular at the onslaught of
darkness against Jesus from the time of his
arrest to his eventual death on the cross
now just like us Jesus had been born
for a purpose my brothers, my sisters when
we come to Christ we are born again
for a purpose God has ordained a purpose
for our lives Jesus had a divine destiny
appointed for him and both his position in
God and his destiny were supported by a
sure word from his father in heaven we
are born again we are born for a
purpose God has a divine destiny for each
one of our lives that are here today
and both this position in God and our
destiny are supported by a sure word that
anybody who takes time to read this book
will find there are promises in this book
for you and for me I can't overemphasize
especially in this last hour of time the
absolute necessity of studying this book and showing
ourselves approved unto God rightly dividing the word
of truth the workmen that needed not to
be ashamed the word ashamed if you look
at it really in effect means a workman
who will not be triumphed over by his
enemies somebody who will know this book he
knows his position in God he knows he
has been born for a purpose he knows
God has a divine plan for his life
and he has a sure word from God
that means that word of faith is sewn
deep in his heart and he knows that
no matter what comes against him the cause
of God the cause of Christ in his
life will triumph he will be able to
walk through the fire through the water through
all adversity in all things giving honor and
glory to the one who purchased him with
his own blood bearing much fruit to the
honor and to the glory of God Jesus
knew his position when he was baptized in
the gospel of Matthew as he came up
out of the water the scripture says the
spirit of God came down in effect bodily
form and abode upon him and then a
voice came out of heaven and said this
is my beloved son in whom I am
well pleased he knew his position in the
father and I hope that if you're a
Christian this morning that you know that position
in God you know of a surety that
you are accepted with the beloved and the
spirit of God that's within you bears witness
with your spirit that you are a child
of God and you can cry out Abba
Father he knew his life calling John chapter
3 verse 16 says for God so loved
the world that he gave his only begotten
son that whosoever believes in him should not
perish but have everlasting life verse 17 says
for God did not send his son into
the world to condemn the world but that
the world through him might be saved Jesus
himself said I have come to give my
life as a ransom for many he knew
his life calling and in the same measure
the apostle Paul says of us that it
is our reasonable service that we should lay
down our lives as a living sacrifice for
the purposes of God that we should serve
him so that others may come to the
saving knowledge of Christ and he also knew
his destiny his final destiny in the gospel
of Luke chapter 9 verses 30 and 31
when he took Peter, James and John and
went up to the mount of transfiguration the
scripture says as he began to pray he
was transfigured in other words the glory that
was within him was revealed on the outside
of him and two men appeared and the
scripture says and behold there talked with him
two men which were Moses and Elijah who
appeared in glory and they spake of his
decease or his death in other words which
he should accomplish at Jerusalem so he knew
he was going to die he knew his
destiny but his destiny also went beyond the
death on the cross in Matthew chapter 26
verses 31 and 32 Jesus said to his
disciples all ye shall be offended because of
me this night for it is written I
will smite the shepherd and the sheep of
the flock shall be scattered abroad but after
I am risen again I will go before
you into Galilee he knew his position he
knew his purpose his life purpose and he
also knew his destiny that he was going
to be delivered up offered up for your
sin and for my sin that he would
die would be delivered into the hands of
wicked men and he would be crucified and
slain and rejected he would die and on
the third day he would rise again and
he said but after I am risen I
will go before you into Galilee now I
want to look I want us to look
at the tactics that the devil brought against
Jesus because the Bible says consider him that
endured contradiction lest ye become weary and faint
in your mind I want to look at
the tactics that he brought against him we're
going to start at the point where he
was arrested and brought before Pilate and then
go right to Calvary so go to John
chapter 19 John chapter 19 this was the
beginning I talked about that circle it starts
out very broad and then just narrows and
goes right to the heart when you and
I get into a trial the very same
tactics that the devil used against Christ he
will use against us to try to stop
us and destroy us in John chapter 19
verse 9 he went again into the judgment
hall this is Pilate now and said unto
Jesus whence art thou?
and Jesus gave him no answer then said
Pilate unto him speakest thou not unto me?
knowest not that I have the power to
crucify thee and the power to release thee?
and Jesus answered thou couldst have no power
at all against me except it were given
thee from above therefore he that delivered me
unto thee hath the greater sin now here's
the first point when you and I come
into times of trial and adversity the devil
would come and have you to believe that
in these times of trial that he has
gained the upper hand over your destiny this
is what he was speaking in effect I
believe the devil animates the hearts of those
who are not surrendered to God we see
that when Christ said I'm going to Jerusalem
and I'm going to be crucified and delivered
into the hands of sinful men and Peter
at the point yet where he was still
relying in himself and trusting in himself says
oh Lord oh no Lord not you this
shall not be done unto you and Jesus
turns and says to him get thee behind
me Satan he said thou savourest you speak
as a man speaks and you don't savour
the things that be of God and here's
Pilate in effect an unregenerate man that the
enemy has control of his heart and his
lips and he stands before the very son
of God and he says to him do
you not know that I have the power
to crucify you and I have the power
to release you in other words I am
now in control of your destiny I have
gained the upper hand and folks there are
many people who even at this particular point
this is only the beginning of trial but
at this particular point the enemy gains a
distinct advantage over their lives because they get
convinced that in their time of difficulty and
trial when it seems that everything is out
of control around them that somehow God has
taken his hand off of their lives somehow
the devil has snuck in the back door
and he's in absolute control of everything that's
going on now and he would want to
convince you and I in times of trial
that that's what's happening but Jesus in verse
11 speaks now the truth to him he
says you could have no power at all
against me except it were given thee from
above and what Jesus was saying is that
even in times of adversity that his life
and the purpose ordained for his life was
completely in the sovereign hand of God even
in times of trial even in times of
trouble even when I'm in places where I
don't understand what's happening my life has been
given to God and God is the sovereign
ruler over my life when you have come
to Christ the devil has no power over
you he has no power over you all
he can do is what God will allow
him to do that's all that can happen
the apostle Paul puts it this way in
Romans 8 28 all things work together for
good to those who love God and are
the called according to his purpose we either
believe that folks or we don't believe that
all things we've got to have that word
sown deep within us we're living down a
society where everything is seemingly going on as
it has for a thousand years but that
could change in a day and if it
does change we've got to have this word
sown in us it's got to be there
deep when it seems like all of everything
is out of order and perhaps some of
us wind up in situations we'd rather not
be in there's got to be that deep
abiding presence of God's word within our hearts
the love of his word that says in
spite of it no matter what anybody tries
to speak to my life God is in
absolute control of my life hallelujah he says
again in Romans chapter 8 verse 37 actually
in verse 36 he says we're giving up
his sheep for the slaughter but in verse
37 he says in all these things we
are more than conquerors through him that loved
us hallelujah Christ was not under the power
of Pilate God the father had ordained a
purpose for his life and Pilate was just
simply a man in the chain of events
that were already ordained by God in the
fulfilling of his purpose for his son Jesus
Hebrews chapter 12 verse 2 says he endured
the cross despising the shame we can say
that Satan tried to bring Jesus to shame
by attacking him in the hour of his
greatest trial and he tried to attack him
at the very core of his relationship to
his father God now go ahead or go
backwards rather to Matthew chapter 27 Matthew chapter
27 and I show you how he attacked
him on the cross in the time of
trial there was such an intense battle happening
on Calvary I think sometimes reading it just
superficially we're not aware of the depth of
the battle that went on on Calvary and
even careful reading sometimes I'm convinced doesn't give
us the depth of what really happened there
but we have a glimpse of it and
having a glimpse of it we see first
of all today how the devil attacked him
and then we're going to look at the
triumph of Christ which in effect is the
triumph that we have been purchased into by
his blood in verse 39 first of all
he attacks his position in the father and
they that passed by reviled him wagging their
heads and saying thou that destroyest the temple
and buildest it in three days save thyself
if thou be the son of God come
down from the cross I want you to
notice something you're going to see in every
one of these challenges that we're going to
go through the devil uses the word if
now I know that people passing by and
thieves on the cross and chief priests and
scribes and elders spoke these words but you
can be sure that the devil himself was
at Calvary and in effect when men are
not surrendered to God they are the children
of their father Jesus said the devil and
in effect all they are is puppets and
he's like the master puppet master that just
pulls the strings and gets them to speak
whatever he desires that they should speak he
puts the impression on their heart and because
there's no resistance power against him everything he
puts on the heart simply comes out of
the mouth and they passed by and they
reviled him they wagged their heads and in
effect they have said this they attacked his
the devil attacked his position in God his
father and he said in effect you have
boasted that you are able to raise in
three days what man will destroy you have
made such a declaration of the power at
your disposal because of your position in God
then he comes in with the if remember
when he tempted him right at the beginning
of his ministry he took him into the
wilderness and said if you be the son
of God command these stones to be made
bread always trying to sow doubt in his
mind and in his heart then he took
him to the pinnacle of the temple and
spoke to him about a promise of God
and told him to cast himself down the
context again is if God is faithful to
his promises then you're not going to be
killed upon the rocks but angels will bury
you up in their hands lest you dash
your foot against the stone and so now
while he's on the cross the devil now
is beginning to circle and the circle is
drawing tighter because he's going after something and
we've got to see this and once you
see it I believe that really it can
produce a shout of liberty in your heart
once we're aware of his tactics against those
who are living for him they said if
you are who you say you are if
God is your father if you be the
son of God come down from the cross
in other words show us by commanding your
trouble to cease you remember when Job got
into trouble and one of his comforters came
to him and in effect was telling him
if you were in right relationship with God
all of this wouldn't have come upon you
because those who are in right relationship with
God success and prosperity is their portion it
was the counsel of the devil himself through
what Job called one of his miserable counselors
when you're in a time of trial in
adversity the devil will come after you and
say if you are born again if you
are a child of God you shouldn't be
in this kind of trouble this type of
thing shouldn't be happening to you and so
if you are in that position then just
command your trouble to cease speak to the
wind speak to the waves and command it
all to cease and the context is he's
attacking your position in God in Christ in
the sense of the Christian and then secondly
he comes after Christ and he attacks the
promises of God verse 41 and 42 says
likewise also the chief priests mocking him with
the scribes and elders said he saved others
himself he cannot save if he be the
king of Israel let him now come down
from the cross and we will believe him
so now he attacks the devil attacks the
promises of God first his position now his
promises in effect he's saying to Christ when
he says if he be the king of
Israel in other words he's saying to him
shall you indeed rule and reign shall you
look at you how can you trust the
promises of God you told others how to
find the way of truth you declared them
forgiven and free from their sins you broke
their chains of misery and now look at
the misery that's come upon you you say
you're a king and yet you appear to
have no authority you're powerless to save yourself
come down displace of majesty and we will
believe come down so now he's attacking the
very promises of God because God had promised
that he was going to rule and reign
and not only he was but we would
rule and reign with him one day and
the devil comes and says if you be
the king of Israel if you be the
king of Israel again trying to sow something
in his heart and now the circle is
getting smaller and now we're going to see
what the devil is really after he goes
right to the bullseye and I want you
to see this because it's what he's after
in you it's what he's after in me
it's the very same thing he was after
in Christ verse 43 he says he trusted
in God let him deliver him now if
he will have him for he said I
am the son of God this is what
the devil is really after this is the
end of side 1 you may now turn
the tape over to side 2 his
confidence in the faithfulness of God if he
can get that he has everything else you
see he was there in Egypt and he
knows and knew that faith in God took
the people through the Red Sea he was
there a little later on and also knows
that when that same faith was lost they
were kept out of the promised land and
he's going after the very essence of the
heart of the relationship of Jesus with his
father and when a child of God gets
into trouble and trial he will go after
the very same thing he will go after
your confidence in the faithfulness of God he
begins in verse 43 and it's interesting the
first 4 words he puts in the past
tense not in the present he said he
trusted in God it's as if he's saying
God has already forsaken him God's already rejected
him because look at the trial that's come
into his life look at the hardship that's
come upon him therefore God must have rejected
him and then he says let him deliver
him now, now there's an important word there
that word now in effect he's saying if
God doesn't deliver you immediately it's because he
has rejected you he says let him deliver
him now if he will have him if,
because he said I am the son of
God and the devil will come right to
the root of what he's after trying to
erode your very confidence in God in the
midst of your trial when you're at your
lowest point when depression seems to be all
around you like in Psalm 18 when David
says it just seemed like my enemies were
all over and hell wanted to swallow me
right on the spot then the devil will
come and say if God doesn't deliver you
right now it's because he has rejected you
he has found some secret fault in your
life that you are not aware of you
have displeased him somehow and because of that
displeasing he's not rescuing you from your situation
this is an absolute lie from the very
pit of hell itself very often we hear
it said and we hear it preached and
rightly so and I preach it myself that
the devil's after you to get you back
on drugs and he's after you to get
you on alcohol and he's after you to
get you into pornography and he's after you
to get you into adulterous relationships and all
of these other things yes those things he
is after but that's only the byproduct they're
just they're just the rotten weeds of the
roots of what he's really after if you
are a Christian and you're in trial he's
after your confidence in the promises of God
if he can get that then these other
things just become a natural a natural outflowing
of a lack of faith in your life
he is after those things now he finishes
and that's his last arrow and he sends
it right for the heart of Jesus and
stands back and waits for the response and
the Bible says from the sixth hour there
was darkness all over the land until the
ninth hour there are three hours where there's
no response and I think the devil is
there and every demon of hell is standing
there they know the warfare that they have
mounted against the son of God they have
done everything in their power he has deployed
every device that he has to take away
the confidence of Jesus in his position in
his father the promises of his father that
he will rule and reign and the faithfulness
of his father to fulfill every one of
the promises that he has ever made to
him and then there's a period of long
silence where they're all waiting now if you've
ever read anything about crucifixion you know that
it was a horrible death crucifixion in effect
would there would be a severe paralysis that
would happen in the muscles of the upper
chest eventually the lungs would cease to work
they would fill up with fluid they would
press against the heart the incredible agony of
those who are crucified in effect is almost
hard to describe with words the back of
those who were scourged would be open and
bleeding their knees would be bent in this
fashion and nailed to a platform that would
protrude from the cross their hands would be
outstretched tied with ropes and nailed through the
wrist part just prior to the hand in
order to breathe they would have to lift
themselves up to be able to draw a
breath and with that drawn breath they could
perhaps only utter maybe a few words at
a time then they would have to draw
back down until they were able to take
the next breath and that's why on the
cross you'll see the sentences are so very
short that Jesus speaks because it was just
physically impossible to speak anything of any great
length and after this time of silence for
about three hours I see in my heart
that Jesus pushes himself up and everybody is
wondering what's going on in this man's heart
what's going on in his mind the devil
is standing wondering have I triumphed over him
and he pushes up and he says the
words Eli Lama Sabachthani as a cry right
from the very depths of his heart which
is to say my God my God why
has thou forsaken me and it's only conjecture
on my part but I personally feel that
there was just an explosion among the demonic
realm at that particular point in effect saying
we have triumphed over him he has lost
his confidence in God every argument the devil
says I placed against him finally my darts
found a place in their heart and sadly
to say in many of God's children they
will utter that cry but not in the
same context that I'm about to show you
that Christ was speaking it in they will
utter the cry and they will lose their
confidence in God and say my God my
God why have you forsaken me why are
you so far from the words of my
roaring why are you allowing all of these
problems and trials to come around my life
I thought it was your son I thought
you had a calling upon my life I
thought you were going to deliver me I
thought you had a purpose for me and
if they stopped speaking long enough and listened
to the voice of God and got back
into this book again they would find out
that everything is right on track the same
way it was from the very first day
that they came to God Jesus was not
in effect saying the Lord has forsaken me
my father has forsaken me I believe that
whole time that whole period of silence on
the cross the word he was the word
of God the word of God was stirring
in his soul he was speaking over and
over the scriptures that he had sovereignly inspired
the psalmist David to write the word was
in him in the beginning was the word
the word was with God the word was
God the word became flesh we beheld his
glory as of the only begotten of the
father full of grace and truth the word
was in him truth was shown in his
inward parts that time of silence he's not
doubting God he is speaking the word of
God in his heart speaking in his heart
psalms and hymns and songs talking in effect
to himself about the faithfulness of his father
and what he was doing he was quoting
psalm 22 if you'll turn there with me
psalm 22 I think sometimes the devil just
doesn't bother with the rest of the bible
or is blind to its meaning because in
effect he was just saying that the opening
line of an entire psalm and to understand
why he uttered those words we've got to
read through the psalm my God my God
verse 1 why hast thou forsaken me why
art thou so far from helping me and
from the words of my roaring oh my
God I cry in the daytime but thou
hearst not and in the night season I
am not silent but thou art holy oh
thou that inhabit us the praises of Israel
our fathers trusted in thee they trusted in
thou didst deliver them they cried unto thee
and were delivered they trusted in thee and
were not confounded but I am a worm
and no man a reproach of man and
despised of the people all they that see
me they laugh me to scorn they shoot
out the lip they shake the head saying
he trusted on the Lord that he would
deliver him let him deliver him seeing he
delighted in him but thou art he that
took me out of the womb thou didst
make me hope when I was upon my
mother's breasts I was cast upon thee from
the womb thou art my God from my
mother's belly be not far from me for
trouble is near and there is none to
help many bulls have compassed me strong bulls
have bashed and beset me around they gaped
upon me with their mouths as a ravening
and a roaring lion I am poured out
like water all my bones are out of
joint my heart is like wax it is
melted in the midst of my bowels my
strength is dried up like a potsherd and
my tongue cleaveth to my jaws and thou
hast brought me into the dust of death
for dogs have compassed me the assembly of
the wicked have enclosed me they pierced my
hands and my feet I may tell all
my bones they look and stare upon me
they part my garments among them and cast
lots or gamble upon my vesture be not
thou far from me O Lord O my
strength haste thee to help me deliver my
soul from the sword my darling from the
power of the dog save me from the
lions mouth for thou hast heard me from
the horns of the unicorns in verse 22
now you're going to see a major turn
in this psalm he says I will declare
thy name unto my brethren in the midst
of the congregation will I praise thee in
effect this is what he's saying I will
rise from this hour of trial I will
stand in the midst of my brethren one
day and I will praise thee your promises
are true I will triumph in your power
over every last one of my enemies hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah and then he speaks to
you and me from his trial from the
difficulty everything that came upon him on the
cross he says ye that fear the Lord
praise him all ye that seed of Jacob
glorify him and fear him all ye seed
of Israel for he has not despised nor
abhorred the affliction of the afflicted and neither
has he hid his face from him but
when he cried unto him he heard hallelujah
praise him he says praise him ye seed
of Jacob he doesn't hide his face when
the afflicted cry he hears and he delivers
them many are the afflictions of the righteous
but the Lord delivers them out of all
their troubles hallelujah hallelujah in verse 25 he
says my praise shall be of thee in
the great congregation I will pay my vows
before them that fear him the meek shall
eat and be satisfied they shall praise the
Lord that seek him your heart shall live
forever your heart shall live forever in other
words the promise of eternal life is true
it's true hallelujah God will not leave you
in your trial God will not forsake you
in your trial God will not let the
devil triumph over you he will be with
you he will walk right through it with
you and every one of his promises are
yea and amen he will hold your hand
right true to the other side yea though
I walk through the valley of the shadow
of death I will fear no evil for
thou art with me thy rod and thy
staff they comfort me hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah all
the ends of the world verse 27 shall
remember and turn to the Lord all the
kindreds of the nation shall worship before thee
for the kingdom is the Lord's he's the
governor among the nations in other words the
Lord rules the nations and those that are
his shall rule and reign with him hallelujah
John says in Revelation chapter 5 verse 9
and 10 they sung a new song saying
thou art worthy to take the book and
to open the seals thereof for thou was
slain and has redeemed us unto God out
of every kindred and tongue and people and
nation and has made us unto our God
kings and priests and we shall reign on
the earth hallelujah all they that be fed
upon earth shall eat and worship all they
that go down to the dust shall bow
before him and none can keep alive his
own soul a seed shall serve him it
shall be accounted to the Lord for a
generation they shall come hallelujah that's us they
shall come and shall declare his righteousness unto
a people that shall be born that he
has done this he's saying even as I
shall rise from the dead defeating the power
of death and darkness even so they shall
rise over the power of death and hell
and trial and they too shall triumph in
the power of Christ and they shall come
and they shall testify of his power and
say it is the Lord that has done
this he has kept me he has sustained
me his promises are true his promises are
yea and amen hallelujah trying to convince you
that your trial is not common to other
men and somehow unique to you it's different
from the rest but today I'm going to
ask you to come to this altar and
we're going to stand against that depression we're
going to stand against that fear we're going
to believe God for a mighty mighty deliverance
in your life many are the afflictions of
the righteous the scripture says but the Lord
delivers them out of them all if you're
backslidden you can come home to God you
can come to this altar too as well
if you're lost I invite you to come
to receive Christ as your savior that you
might be saved hallelujah hallelujah everyone in a
time of trial difficulty would you come we're
going to pray together and believe God for
a mighty deliverance shall tribulation or distress or
persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or
sword as it is written for thy sake
we are killed all the day long we
are counted as sheep for the slaughter no
nay in all these things we are more
than conquerors through him that loved us for
I am persuaded that neither death nor life
nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things
present nor things to come nor height nor
depth nor any other creature that includes the
devil himself shall be able to separate us
from the love of God which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord absolutely nothing absolutely nothing
if we're trusting in Christ and walking with
him nothing can separate us no trial no
fire no water no words of darkness nothing
nothing nothing can separate us so
shall my word be Lord said through Isaiah
that go forth out of my mouth it
shall not return to me void but it
shall accomplish that which I please and it
shall prosper in the thing where to I
send it now here's the promise for you
shall go out with joy you shall go
out with joy you shall be led forth
with peace the mountains and the hills shall
break forth before you into singing all the
trees of the field shall clap their hands
instead of the thorn shall come up the
fir tree instead of the briar shall come
up the myrtle tree and it shall be
to the Lord for a name and an
everlasting sign that shall not be cut off
God is going to take you through and
God's going to take you through in peace
as his word is sown in you pray
this simple prayer with me Lord Jesus I
believe that nothing can separate me from your
love no trial no fire no water no
lying words nothing of the devil himself can
separate me from the depth of your love
Lord help me to have your word so
deeply sown within me that none of the
devices of darkness will ever find a mark
in my heart or in my life I
resist you Satan in the name of the
Lord I stand against fear God's not given
me a spirit of fear but a power
and love and a sound mind I rebuke
depression and every lie of the devil I'm
saved God has a plan for my life
and he's coming to take me home hallelujah
rejoicing today
rejoicing and singing that song and I will
sing unto the Lord he has triumphed gloriously
the horse and the rider are thrown into
the sea hallelujah God bless you this is
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