Totally committed
October 19, 2023
“Trust in Jehovah with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.” Now let’s take a look at that for just a moment. It’s, I think, a very solemn admonition, and yet it has such wonderful assurance, to be guided in a way of peace. And, you know, what a contrast this is—later on, over in the 28th chapter, verse 26, he says: “He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool.” But it’s wonderful to trust in Jehovah with all your heart. Totally committed to Him. And this is something that’s, I think, so definitely needed today—is a total commitment to Him.
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It’s wonderful to trust in Jehovah with all your heart. Totally committed to Him. And this is something that’s, I think, so definitely needed today—is a total commitment to Him. “Trust in Jehovah with all thy heart.” I find myself again and again when certain situations arise or I’m even in an airport and I find out that the plane I was to leave on, maybe its time has been changed or it’s delayed. It’s bad weather. I generally go over to a corner of the airport, and I say, “Lord, I want to trust You with all my heart. Now just help me to sit down here and just rest in You.” That’s when I need Him.
October 18, 2023
“He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.” One of the reasons that so many Christians are out in the fog and they’re in the darkness, and they wonder where to turn. My friend, it’s obvious what the problem is. They’re so far from the Word of God. Here’s where He’s speaking. This is the foghorn right here—the Word of God. “And he preserveth the way of his saints.” That’s what He’ll do. And He just doesn’t do it haphazardly. You’ll have to come to the Word of God.
October 17, 2023
“For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.” If you want wisdom, you go ask Him. You remember, “Eye hath not seen, ear heard; it hasn’t entered into the heart of man, the things that God hath prepared for them that love Him.” But what has happened? But they’re revealed to us. How? “By the Spirit of God.” The Holy Spirit today is here to be our teacher. That to me was the most wonderful thing I came in contact with as a young Christian. That the Spirit of God would open these things. “God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things; the deep things of God.”
October 16, 2023
“Yea, if thou criest after knowledge”—notice this, Peter puts it like this—“as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word.” Have you ever seen a little baby when Mama is fixing the bottle? The little fellow’s lying on his back and he’s wiggling everything he’s got. Hands are going and, believe me, the mouth is going, the feet are going. I tell you, he desires the milk bottle. And the child of God should be that way as far as the Word of God is concerned.
October 13, 2023
Now there are a great many people are going to say that, after all, you have to be a very intelligent person, you must have a very high IQ, in order to understand the Word of God. But friends, nothing is farther from the truth than that. God does not say that that’s the thing that is essential at all. But He does make it clear now in the second chapter, as this young man starts out, that if he is to know the will and Word of God, it’s going to mean that he’ll have to study. He must “apply his heart unto wisdom.” And, therefore, he must study the Word of God.
October 12, 2023
“To understand a proverb and the interpretation, the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.” In other words, God has put these great truths here. And I would say the tragedy of the hour is the ignorance of the Word of God that’s in both the pulpit and the pew. There needs to be a serious, concentrated study of the Word of God. This idea that you can read over a passage once and you’ve gotten it all—I trust that we’ve seen one thing in this study, that you just don’t get it, friends, without study.
October 11, 2023
“It’s the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the honor of kings is to search out a matter.” Now God has given the gospel so clear to be declared from the housetops, but a great deal of the truth that’s in the Word of God is not put on the surface like diamonds that would be scattered on the ground. He’s always put the jewels and that which is valuable, He’s always hid it away for man to find—for man to look for it. The gold has to be dug out of the ground and the diamonds must be taken out of the ground. Now, friends, if you haven’t found Christ in the Bible, you just haven’t been mining for diamonds. You haven’t been digging deep enough.
October 10, 2023
“A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsel.” A wise man will hear—that’s been the characteristic of all great men, has been that they never reach the place where they felt like they had learned everything. I listened the other night to a young man on television. He’s skyrocketed to fame in rock music, and the thing that characterized him was his arrogance. He knows it all. I don’t think you could tell that young man anything. But a wise man will hear.
October 9, 2023
We’re told in First Corinthians, the very first chapter, in verse 30, “But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.” And wisdom is number one. Christ is the wisdom for the believer today. And we’d need to know wisdom, and to know wisdom is to know Jesus Christ. Paul said that was the ambition, “that I might know Him ….” That was the ambition of the life of Paul the apostle. Oh, that that might be the thing that would grip your soul and my soul today. Oh, how we need it. I need it. You need it, I’m sure.
October 6, 2023
Paul makes it very clear in the third chapter of Romans. He presents Christ as the propitiation, the mercy seat for our sins. And then he says “for the sins that are past.” And that doesn't mean our sins that are past, it means the sins before the Cross. When God saved Abraham, God saved Abraham on credit. That offering Abraham brought didn’t save him. It pointed to Christ. And when Christ died on the cross, He paid for everything that was past. That's what He meant when He said “it's finished”—for those that are past and for those of us that are future. And the trouble of it is with us future is we want to add something to it. He did it all.
October 5, 2023
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