Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 7/30/14

Brother Gary Wednesday Evening 7/30/14

Psa 34:1  A Psalm of David, I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

I’m so thankful to have a Bible.  I want to do an overview of what is recorded in this 34^th Psalm.  David here was in a very difficult place in his life. 

If you are in a difficult spot; that is the reason that life is called life.  Read Job and Psalms 34.  You may feel that you have come through your last battle and will soar from here on out.  When you find out that is not true, then read Psalms 34.

Learning how to bless God in the difficult times in our life is a part of coming to maturity.  Until we learn this, we go through difficulty again and again.

Psa 34:2  My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

There is nothing like a genuine testimony.  There is a way to be genuine.  It is recorded in the Word of God.  That is the reason that the Bible teaches us in Isaiah that it is going to be precept upon precept and line upon line. 

It must start with conviction, crying out to God, repentance, godly sorrow that works repentance and then it is line upon line, here a little and there a little.

That here a little and there a little is the reason that Brother Herb’s Bible is marked in Psalms 23, Matt 26, many other places, and at the end of James he says, “1 Peter is next.”

My soul shall make her boast: It is a marvelous thought that young brother Schwartz brought of fading virtues.   It is wonderful to know that where real joy, peace, and satisfaction are found is in obeying the Word of God.  As the song says, “Jesus is right for whatever is wrong in your life.”  And as Isaiah 35 says, “A high way shall be there, and a way and it shall be called the way of holiness.” 

May God help us to make our boast in the Lord.  How nourishing it is!  I want to go home tonight and when I bow beside my bed and pray, I want to thank God for the nourishment that I got tonight.  It started in the first song and went on through the service.  I don’t ever want to lose it.

Psa 34:3  O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

It is wonderful when we realize how much we have been saved from; that pit we came from.  I would undoubtedly be in hell already and in torments forever if I had not gotten saved.  I need everyone to praise God with me. 

It is a wonderful thing to be saved.  I have always had someone to bear the heartaches that life brought me, Jesus and the Body of Christ.

In Deuteronomy 32, Moses was inspired by God to speak of the Word of God and the doctrine.  “It shall fall like a gentle rain.” And then again later he writes, “Ascribe greatness to God.”

Every time we view a literal beauty, the mountains, a new born child, a precious saint with the Beauty of the Lord in their life, we can ascribe greatness to God.

Psa 34:4  I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

For every one of us, if men and women will begin to pray, they can get help from God.  If men will begin to pray…  there was the generation of Adam, then the generation of Seth, then the generation of Enos.  The Bible says, “And then men began to call upon God.” 

I don’t know how far men went away from God in those generations.  I have a note with a question mark:  how far away from God are men driven in one generation?  All of us have heard the testimony of individuals, “How did I ever get here?” 

People in prison facing never being paroled:  “How did I ever get there?”  They didn’t just drift away from God.  They chose a task master that drove them. 

There is a marvelous thing, when men and women are estranged from God and then they begin to call upon God, not this modern day thing of “I pray all the time.”  No.  If they will get a heart cry to God where they are quiet before God, (People get their lives messed up so that they are a running machine, never quiet.), with God all things are possible. 

I believe beyond a shadow of any doubt that that one that is so busy that they cannot eat or sleep, God will bring them to a realization of the deep need that they have and that they can get those needs met.  They just have to do it God’s way.

Psa 34:5  They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

Psa 34:6  This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

This is an encouraging scripture tonight.  We would all have requests before God.  Makaela has a former classmate in Spokane that is in desperate need from God.  Think of a 10 year old girl that is so sick that her arms are not in control.  She has a trachea; they are so afraid of pneumonia that they put a shaking machine on her every day. 

We know how God feels about children.  Their angels always behold the face of the Father on behalf of the children. 

Can you have a son or daughter in law without having a burden?  That part of the family that came in through marriage and has needs.  The wonderful conviction of truth. 

Psa 34:7  The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

And delivered me from all my fears: Would there be anyone in this audience that doesn’t have in laws that you are not concerned about?  Isn’t it wonderful that we can pray?

They looked upon him and were enlightened: In Hebrews 12 where it was speaking of Jesus:  Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith.  When you get a good look at Jesus, it puts a fire burning, “There is hope.”  Their faces were not ashamed.

Psa 34:6  This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

Psa 34:7  The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

God has a way of making a way where there doesn’t seem to be any way.

Isn’t that a marvelous thing.  In a world where violence and heartache will increase, in a world where virtues are fading, isn’t it wonderful to know that the angels will be there? 

He was moved upon of how good God is:

Psa 34:8  O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

Dear ones, what God has for us far exceeds any pleasures that the world could ever afford.  Taste the joy, the peace, the thrill, the answer to prayer.

That trusts in Him:  In Jeremiah it tells us that those that trust in Him will be as the tree planted by the waters; those that don’t trust God will be as the heath in the desert that won’t see when good comes.

When you are trusting God, you realize that, “I am on the brink of a miracle, something good is about to happen.”  That is how God is. 

Psa 34:9  O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

God only has good things in store for His people.  You say, “I don’t understand why what I wanted didn’t happen or didn’t work out like I thought I should.”  Trust God. 

Know how to take your losses and disappointments.  We will have them.  There is no disappointment in heaven but we are not there yet. 

There is no want to them that fear

Psa 34:10  The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

The big and the mighty men that think that they are so strong will suffer hunger. 

Verse 11:  I like the thought of us as children. 

Psa 34:11  Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

It is a fading virtue of people keeping their tongue.  People will say anything about anyone in any place.   Don’t make the story any bigger than it is or make yourself out to be any better or any worse than you are. 

You say, “If I do that then I won’t say anything.”  There is such a thing as blessed quietness.

Psa 34:12  What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

Psa 34:13  Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

Psa 34:14  Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

Psa 34:15  The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

Psa 34:16  The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

Psa 34:17  The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

If you want God to hear you then live right.  If you are living right then God is waiting to hear from you.

Psa 34:18  The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

Psa 34:19  Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

Psa 34:20  He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

Psa 34:21  Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

If you hear someone say that it doesn’t seem that anything is right in their life it might be ok if you have them read Psalms 34

David said, “Cry to God in your trouble.”  It is ok to call Karen and I we are glad to agree in prayer when you call.”  Where does your help come from, The lord which made heaven and earth.

A broken heart is a part of life.  “The Lord is nigh to them that are of a broken heart”  In a broken heart it is designed to lead people to Christ the healer.  I want to tell this to some people in loving kindness and tender mercy.

Tell it to Christ when your heart is broken.  He is the healer.

Psa 34:22  The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

If you are righteous then when someone doesn’t like you, you can trust God to take care of the rest.

There are times when we really need God to step in and help us.  Have you ever felt the storm beating on your little vessel?  You got a cry out to God and you felt, “Either the storm calmed or I calmed in the storm.” 

None that trust shall be desolate.

Brother Gary Sunday Evening 7/27/14

Brother Gary Sunday Evening 7/27/14

Eph 4:15  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

We know some things about nourishment.  We have learned that some foods are better for us to eat than others.  When we are a bit shaky and wobbly then it is better to take a piece of toast with almond butter than that piece of pie that is in the refrigerator. 

There is such a vitalness of receiving nourishment from the head and from the body of Christ.  Tonight the first song we sang was written by Fanny Crosby:  Blessed Assurance, “Perfect submission, all is at rest I and my savior are happy and blessed”

We have learned from the Word of God and the precepts of God of line upon line that God has a definite plan of giving nourishment in our soul. 

We have come together tonight to speak the truth in love.  As I heard the testimonies we went back along ways in our service tonight to when God gave Sister Dorothy the song, “Until Then.”  The inspiration is as real from that song as it was in 1985 when God gave it to her. 

We don’t know how long we have until we will be ushered into the presence of God.  We have been so blessed.  To think of what sin offered and then I think of what sin would have paid.  They are two different things, two different concepts. 

When I look at how sin has paid our family members.  Some of them are in eternity. 

Among the things in eternity is that it is not without regrets.  They are full of regrets.  Sister Hayen’s daughter asked her the question, “Mom why didn’t you tell me how terrible your life was when you were in sin?”

Jesus told us the same type of story.  A rich man began to plead as he lifted up his eyes in hell, “Give me a drop of water, and send someone back to tell my family.”

I thought of the Songs of Solomon “Come my beloved.”  And I thought of Jesus saying, “Come unto me.”  And then I thought of Revelations, “The spirit and the bride say come.” 

We are to grow up into Him in all things. 

Thank God for the new babe in Christ.  She has laid the foundation of confessing her sin, turning from her sin, believing God to forgive her of her sin.  Believing God that He not only casts our sin as far as the east is from the west but has also buried our sin in the depths of the sea.

She has the same opportunity as the rest of us of receiving nourishment into her soul from God.  We cannot receive nourishment into our soul without that contact with the Lord Jesus Christ. 

It is the design of God that blood flows into our muscles.  When they get tight the blood cannot get through it and it brings a headache to the mind and it is painful.  Don’t let anything tighten up that royal cable.  Don’t let anything get in there.  Don’t mess up with receiving thoughts that have mold contaminating them that would hinder receiving from that royal cable.

Everyone took part in the service tonight.  We as individuals have a vital part in worship.  It is important that we are all here, and that everything is clear between me and God and between me and my fellowman. 

The body of Christ moves.  These saints sang and the body took the message.  Brother Bill and Sister Teri sang, “He will not fail me now.”  Your mind goes back to all the pitfalls and the sore temptations and we think, “I’m so glad that I didn’t go that way and instead stayed true to God.”

It is wonderful.  Some were very vocal.  We thank God for every bit of it.  Others were quieter.  Just because you don’t hear the joint pop doesn’t mean that it is not working.

Maketh increase:  the way that we grow is by doing what God wants us to do.  It doesn’t mean that in order for me to grow I need to sing or testify every service.  No.  The way to grow is by doing what God inspires you to do for every service.  When it is your turn to be quiet, then be quiet.  When it is your turn to speak out, then speak out.

Eph 4:1  I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Walk worthy:  what God has called you to do, keep your life clear, keep your life in order.  Perfect submission.  Our priority is not money, it is my vocation.  We are called to be wives, husbands, children, all of them need time.  We are called to be saints.  It takes time.

This is the rest and this is the refreshing.  Walk worthy.  We all have jobs and responsibilities.  Some of you have really big jobs.  The mothers have a really big job.  You may be in a difficult state but you must stay focused. 

“God I have to have it precept upon precept and line upon line.  Not only do I need to work, and take care of my son, but I need to be rightly related to Christ and giving out to someone else.” 

If all the rivers flow to you then it won’t be long until there will be a smell.  If you give out, then it will not be so.

Let us ever stay humble before God.  When God uses you it is all about God.  When God uses your testimony, song, whatever to be right on target.  It is all about God.

Eph 4:2  With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Some of these fruits of the Spirit we don’t have in our natural makeup.  Some of us wouldn’t be very longsuffering. 

Forbearing one another in love.  Give others lots of space.  Draw a real close line for yourself. 

Eph 4:3  Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

Amen.  Labor to keep the unity of the Spirit.  You will have some personal opinions and you have a right to them.  Keep them personal.  You may not have an appreciation for the way that I water; keep it to yourself.   

Don’t cause the body of Christ any trouble over the way that Sister Dorothy painted her fence. 

There is only one body.  We need each other.  I need your prayers.  I am very grateful for everyone that prays for me.  My mother said, “I live by prayer.”  We need the prayers of the saints.  People outside the body cannot pray for us inside the body and do any good.

Eph 4:4  There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;

Eph 4:5  One Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Eph 4:6  One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Eph 4:7  But unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

We can go back to the primary things and the saints rejoice in it.  In God’s church those precepts are still alive.

Eph 4:11  And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;

Eph 4:12  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:

Some of us will feel fire this week.  Sometimes God says, “Son there is some refining that I want to do.  We say, “God I want the refining.”

I like it, an edifying church.  A nourishing church.  Let’s be that church.

Eph 4:13  Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

No division, one; a knowledge of the son of God.  I am still singing, “More about Jesus would I know.”

We want to stand before Him in all the understanding that we have, perfect brother and a perfect sister, thoroughly furnished unto good works.

Jesus knows how to deal with little children.  He knows how to deal with their hearts: how to obey their parents, to pray, to trust God.  Little children need to know how to place things into God’s hands.  You don’t have to be very old until there are things that you desire.  You need to know how to put it in God’s hands.  As you grow He knows just how much to require of you. 

To the measure of the fullness of Christ:  Jesus is not afraid to give us a compliment.  When you have done your best then he says, “You have done your best.”

Eph 4:14  That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

Aren’t you glad to know what the doctrine is?  By the slight of men:  People like to use whatever tactic to push your buttons you can have victory, “I don’t have any buttons, I am a child of the king.”

Eph 4:15  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

Eph 4:16  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 7/27/14

Brother Gary Sunday Morning 7/27/14

Exo 2:1  And there went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi.

Exo 2:2  And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

Exo 2:3  And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.

Exo 2:4  And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

Exo 2:5  And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash herself at the river; and her maidens walked along by the river's side; and when she saw the ark among the flags, she sent her maid to fetch it.

Exo 2:6  And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.

Exo 2:7  Then said his sister to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

Exo 2:8  And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child's mother.

Exo 2:9  And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages. And the woman took the child, and nursed it.

Exo 2:10  And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Act 7:20  In which time Moses was born, and was exceeding fair, and nourished up in his father's house three months:

Act 7:21  And when he was cast out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.

It is wonderful to be able to preach about Moses.  He was gifted of God to write the first five books of the Old Testament.  We are so blessed to have the Word of God. 

The Bible tells us that Pharaoh’s daughter took this little child from the water and looked upon him.  God moved upon her heart as she looked upon this little child as he wept.  Moses sister wasn’t far away and came to offer the services of a Hebrew nurse. 

All of you mothers can perhaps remember the first three months of your child’s life and it nursing.  It was at three months that this mother placed this child in the ark.  She took the ark to the river and put it among the flags. 

Pharaoh’s daughter came to bathe with her maidens.  She looked in the basket and heard the child weep.  They believe that Moses was nourished in his father’s house maybe for five years.  Then he was taken and in the care of Pharaoh’s daughter’s house for 35 years. 

Moses was nourished by God.  There are many results in his life the one recorded in Numbers 12 records his humility:  “He was the most meek man on the face of the earth.”

Wednesday night I taught from Colossians 3.  The lesson is that way back in the early days of the gospel message, there were those that rejected the gospel, the sure foundation, the judgment and the lines and they chose another way. 

They said that they didn’t need God or the Bible; they had a direct connections with the angels that caused them to be above the teachings of the Word of God.

That spirit has always been around to discredit the Word of God, the teachings of the Word and to discredit God.

I ask the question to myself first:  “What need of nourishment do I feel?”  Every one of us has a personality.  We come from the training in our own house, from the training that we received from pastors, Sunday school teachers, and others.  We have all been exposed to teachings contrary to what the Bible says.

This is to everyone in this audience that will acknowledge and own that there is a deep need in their life for the nourishment from God. 

All of us have heard those that will make what they do so big and shrink that which others do.  When they come to the realization of how needy they are I hope that God can still be found.

What need of nourishment do you feel this morning?  God knows our need of nourishment.

Isa 28:1  Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!

Isa 28:2  Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one, which as a tempest of hail and a destroying storm, as a flood of mighty waters overflowing, shall cast down to the earth with the hand.

Isa 28:3  The crown of pride, the drunkards of Ephraim, shall be trodden under feet:

Isa 28:4  And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.

God moved upon the prophet to deal with those that had the crown of pride.  But verse 5 is what God, His Son, and the Holy Spirit will be in the Gospel Day.

Isa 28:5  In that day shall the LORD of hosts be for a crown of glory, and for a diadem of beauty, unto the residue of his people,

In Psalms 90, the last verse says, “Let the beauty of the Lord rest upon us.”

The beauty of the Lord is Jesus Christ and His presence first in our life.  Without Jesus Christ in our life we are so empty; we are so void that we are as M.R. Wheeler, the man that wrote the story of the empty man.   

We are worse than the man missing a leg.  We are as the vessel that is walking around without any of the vitality of Jesus Christ in our life. 

He is the beauty.  Without Him there is no beauty in our life.  Without His sweetness, His presence, we can struggle along but there is none of that beauty between us and God and us and mankind.

Isa 28:6  And for a spirit of judgment to him that sitteth in judgment, and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.

The prophet instructed that Jesus would be for a Spirit of Judgment.

Isa 28:17  Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

People take the attitude, “We don’t want any judgment and we don’t want anyone telling us anything.”

I am not here to tell you anything, I am here to point you to God and His truth that has stood the test of time.

Judgment to the line:  This is how it is.  God in His love to us allows us the wonderful privilege to be nourished in His house.  He comes to us on an individual basis with His presence. 

When God has something for you to be nourished by He prepares the heart, the soul, the understanding, and the appetite.  He helps us to know how empty everything is without Jesus in our life.

Isa 28:7  But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

Isa 28:8  For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

God moved upon the prophet to tell us of the Gospel Day.  Men, women, boys, and girls get intoxicated on whatever it may be: pleasure or anything that is in the world that would cause them to lose their focus.  Those tables are always filthy.  It is so sad how all the pleasures in this world end with disappointment and heartache.  All it takes is time.

Isa 28:9  Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

Everyone that is in this audience is headed for the final judgment.  We are all headed for eternity.  We need to have a desire to be taught knowledge.  Doctrine is the truth that will save you. 

If we as the church are not careful our entire focus will be on life in its most briefness.  Ninety years is very brief.  When you and I think of eternity ninety years is short.  Ninety years is only old in the thought of the time world.  But in the thought of eternity it is so short that it cannot even be measured.

The question is, “Who will understand knowledge?”  Who will understand that “I have this season that I am here and there is a reason that I am here.  I have this season to labor, to enjoy, to follow life, to marry, have children, and have grandchildren.”  There is more to life than just this season of whatever duration it will be.

Who will have the knowledge, “I am here for more than what the pleasures of this life can bring.”  Material things and tangible things will never bring satisfaction and will not lay up treasure in heaven.

Who will understand the doctrine?  The majority of people don’t want to hear about doctrine.  They say, “You can believe anything and go to heaven.”  That is not true.  If it is then why do we have the Bible?

Drawn from the breast:  When Moses was three months old he was taken from his mother for a while and then was taken back to be nourished for a time.

Isa 28:10  For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

Precept upon precept:  if we are going to be weaned from the breast and have knowledge and understand, we must get the precepts right and the foundation right. 

I visited with two young men in desperate need of help from God this week.  Their need is the first precept. 

In Genesis after Adam and Eve sinned and there was no one seeking after God.  There are times when you walk into an audience and you wonder, “Is anyone in this audience seeking after God?” 

What the schools need, what the hospital staff needs, what the seniors need is the first precept.  Before they can get to God they must get past the hindrance.  For every one of us in this audience this morning we will be placed with something we have to get past to get to God.

Mat 11:12  And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

The very first precept is getting a call out to God, to begin to pray.  How many people do you know that would even tell you that they know how to pray?  My sister told me with her own mouth, “Gary, I forgot how to pray.”  Yet she was nourished in my father’s house!

Don’t think that it won’t happen in your family.  The enemy is a thief.  It had only been a few generations.  Adam and Eve were not far from Enos.  Yet here Enos was the first one in two or three generations that began to call upon God. 

Oh to recognize my need of nourishment! 

Line upon line:  This is not a crash course in becoming a saint pilot.  It is first starting out with the basics.  The first ‘basics’ is crying out to God and saying, “God I need to be saved.  I need to be a new creature in Christ.  I need to be washed by the blood.  I cannot change myself.” 

Everyone here has sinned and come short of the glory of God.  We all had to start with the first step.  “I need a new life.  I need to come up from that horrible pit.  I need divine intervention to get out from it.” 

There is hope.  If they will begin to cry out to God there is hope.  It has to be precept.  It has to be the desire, “I want to know about spiritual things.  I am not looking for a better job or more money.  It isn’t monetary that I need, or a better house, car, or clothes.  I need one thing and it starts with precepts and lines.”

That line is when God comes down, “Judgment shall I lay to the line and righteousness to the plummet.”  Jesus will be just the size of these three grandchildren on the second pew and as they grow He will be just their size again.  He will come right to their level with precept upon precept and line upon line.

Each of us must choose the precepts and the lines.  No one else can choose for us.

This precepts and this line upon line will bring rest for the weary.  You will faint if you don’t take line upon line and precept upon precept.  I look at some of you that are young and can hike five miles when I am doing the first.  That strength is natural.  We have the wonderful blessing and promise that there is rest for the weary.  It is found in precept upon precept and line upon line.

Isa 28:11  For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

Isa 28:12  To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

There is refreshing.  The refreshing is a word from the Hebrew that means the same as the calm after the storm.  You will encounter storms.  You will encounter violent storms, storms that are as a boat on the ocean, up and down, up and down.  You will feel your heart aching and breaking. 

He promised that is you look to the precepts and line upon line there would be rest to the weary and a refreshing.