David also exhorted these people to set their hearts upon what they had to do: “Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God.” Oh, how much there is of our religion that is a kind of celestial going to sleep! The preacher preaches as if he had not really woke up yet; and the people hear in the same fashion. Are there not, even in our churches, many who, if a guinea were to jingle, would be sufficiently wide awake to look for it, but when the gospel is being preached, they are not thoroughly aroused? As to speaking to strangers, and saying a word for the Master, that has not yet occurred to them.
“I do not know what I can do,” says one. Brother, if the text is true, I do not know now what you cannot do. The text says, “Is not the Lord your God with you?” “Well, I could not—” “Could not,—could not;” do you put God and “could not” together? I think it would be infinitely better to put God and “can” or God and “shall” together. If God be with us, what can be impossible, what can be even difficult to us? God being with his people, “he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel of the Lord before them.”
I cannot speak longer to you, nor is there any need that I should do so. If you Christians will all go out and seek to save sinners, you will be prolonging my sermon, not only for a few minutes, but for many a day and many a year to come. God be with you, brothers and sisters, in this holy service! And if any to whom I am speaking are obliged to say, “No, God is not with me, I am not saved;” remember that the way of salvation is to trust the Lord Jesus Christ. If you trust him, he is with you, and you are saved; for “he that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life.” God is with you if you are trusting him, and you may go forth in his might to serve the Lord who has redeemed you. God bless you, for Jesus Christ’s sake! Amen.
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
