if you would look at psalms 126 for just a moment and I want to challenge this
church family and those that are watching us about television those that
are watching enough over the Internet I want to challenge you to look into this
this word for strength and an encouragement and renewal it psalms 126
it is often encouraged me and brought me through turbulent days and I want to
just briefly just X or portions of it and leave it with you as an opportunity
that you might be strengthened thereby can you say Amen Fonz ones when he
success when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion we were like them that
dream then was our mouth filled with laughter and our tongue was singing then
says they among the heathen the Lord had done great things for them the Lord has
done great things for us well we are glad it is funny that sometimes you
don't recognize that the Lord has done great things for you until somebody else
says so and it was the heathens that begin to say the Lord has done great
things for them and it's almost as if it took them a while for for the children
of God to echo what was being said and they said you know what the Lord have
done great things for us we're we're land
watch this turn again our captivity Oh Lord as the streams in the south now
watch this carefully they that sow in tears
shall reap in joy this is about two thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight
people reported missing and then in the World Trade Centers they're people
who've got Tears unbelievable pain just beyond human comprehension
people were just at the end of the road lost loved ones and plane crashes and
then just at the Pentagon and just just distraught there are people who are
distraught today because they had financial a travesty lost their jobs
lost their income economy shaking everything shaking everywhere but the
Bible says they that sow in tears shall reap in joy it doesn't say that
everybody will reap in joy just those that sow in tears if you if you know
what it is to weep if you know what it is to have the kind of pain that feels
that if you cannot be confident if you know what it is to be at the end of your
rope and feel like your life is over and you've got questions that cannot be
answered and you're confused and you're uncertain you need to learn this verse
they say that with me they that sow in tears shall reap in joy oh this is good
it's getting good it's getting real but he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing
precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with
him
he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again
with rejoicing bringing his sheaves with him but but but if and I'm not really
going to preach but if I were going to preach I would have preached from the
first verse and the first word in the first verse says win
if if I were if I were if I had an opportunity to talk to the nation and to
talk to the world and to talk to the bereaved and to talk to the hurting and
to talk to the confused and to talk to the perplexed and to talk to the
frustrated and talk to the intimidated I wouldn't have to use the whole text just
the first word in the first verse when it said when that that that that would
be my text if I were gonna preach that the text would be win its me because if
he if he would have not said winning if it would have been if
it would have been totally different if he did if he would have said him he
didn't say if he didn't say where which would have indicated location
he did say wide to embrace uncertainty but he said when and though and the term
Winn leads me to the subject it's only a matter of time
I will never forget there's been many opportunities in my life that I have
grappled with grief and pain is so unbearable and so overwhelming that I
thought that I would never smile again I've seen days that were so dark for me
that I thought they're not possibly be a silver lining in the clouds that hung
over my head I've seen days and weeks and months that drugged me so low that I
gave up all hope of getting up again but in the midst of all of that despair and
that trouble and that trauma and that pain there was in the basement of my
soul this one word win you see that the writer here embraces an agricultural
metaphor to display a divine ability he talks about they that sow in tears shall
reap in joy so the process between sowing and reaping is a period and a
process that requires time and anytime you've been through trauma of any kind
it takes time to recover we we are indicating a year from September 11th to
this present moment and we're measuring time and yet nobody can say precisely
how much time it takes for tears to turn into rejoicing for mourning to turn into
dancing for a recovery to occur for for some people it may take two years for
somebody it might take two months for somebody it may take three years but
what you need to hold on to it's the first word win sooner or later there is
a turning point whereby God begins to strengthen you this turning point is so
intoxicating that the writer finds it difficult to
particularly the magnitude of the feeling that he had when things turned
around he says with the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion it was like
a dream it was surreal it didn't even seem possible I want to suggest to you
my brothers and sisters that what makes the mountains high is how low the
valleys are if you haven't had an extremely low recessed Valley in your
life then there is nothing for the mountain to protrude out of but even it
funny how life has peaks and valleys high places and low places almost like
riding a roller coaster you go solo and you drop down so low that you think you
won't come back up again but God has a way of lifting you up even when you
think that you can get up I feel like I'm on to something tonight while we're
talking about that just drop over the songs 137 and take a look at and add the
captivity and the feeling of captivity and the attitude of the National dilemma
that the people of God found themselves in and how they felt about it
in Psalms 137 it talks very candidly about the captivity of the Jews as they
entered into Babylonian captivity they never thought before they went into
captivity that this kind of thing can happen like our nation never thought
that this kind of thing could happen a false sense of security a shaking down
for the very foundations of their existence and suddenly they confronted
the fact that we are not untouchable and unreachable that we are vulnerable it
was this same sort of feeling in the text where they found and self snatched
out of their beds in Jerusalem pulled out of their safety their businesses
were pulled away from them families were separated and the historian records that
it was such a terrible time at this moment that the young men
were drugged away in Chains many of them had been castrated they had iron chains
wrapped around their ankles and when they left Jerusalem on fire headed from
Babylon blood was dripping down their legs from castrated out of the
horrendous event that shook all of us if there were anything positive that came
out of it it would have had to have been that our enemies and their attack upon
us made us recognize that we must stick together all around the Rome you'll see
people with t-shirts on they say united we stand that we is very important for
this nation that we transcends the color of our skin that we transcends our
economical sociological barriers that we transcends they're educated the
illiterate the high the low the up the down we because win the World Trade
Centers burst into flames and the Pentagon burst into flames and the
planes begin to crash it wasn't just white America
it was white America black America brown America rich America poor America
democratic America Republican America we all experienced it together and that's
why it is appropriate when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion it
was like a dream then was our mouth filled with laughter and our hearts
began to say the heathens when God turns things
around he will bless you until even your enemies even your enemies will have to
know the Lord have done great things for us David says something that has
strengthened me all of my life he says by this I know that the Lord is with me
for he has not allowed my enemies to triumph over me they may fight but they
will win was amazing to me at that age to stand there in that situation and I
worked very hard to try to be articulate and to be effective and the minister and
whenever I have the responsibility of standing over a bereaved and grieving
family I tried to speak something that's encouraging but it was amazing to me
when I was on the other side of the funeral processional it was amazing to
me as I listened to people trying to say comforting things it was amazing to me
how little human words help you when your heart is bleeding I was shocked to
find how little attention you paid to a sermon and you really don't notice a lot
about the flowers and you really don't care how well the choir sings and you
really don't notice the cards like everybody thinks you do
it's not how elephant people speak that comforts you in fact one of the most
comforting things is just their care their compassion some times that
somebody would weep with you and feel what you feel and understand what you
understand and go through with you but even with that
and even with all of the elephants I found out that real grief real grief in
order to recover it's just going to take
time as I said they that wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength they shall mount up on wings like eagles they shall
run and not be weary they shall walk and not faint the old folk said he may not
come when you want him to come but he's right on time it how much time does it
take preacher I don't know it takes as long as it takes I don't know how many
hours it takes for turnaround in your life but I do know this that weeping may
endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning can I get a witness
if you've ever survived anything just a little while longer and you're gonna
feel your fight standing back up in you again just a little while longer and
he's going to turn your mourning into dancing America just a little while
longer and we'll see that also how I got over
they're over my soul looks back and wonders
hello general I want you just to take a moment and
touch somebody just those of you this sold some tears this just a man in
telling my soul looks back and wonders how I got over I didn't think I was
gonna make it but I made it over I didn't think I could take it but I made
it over
we shall overcome we shall overcome we shall overcome we the blood wash the
sanctified the prayer warriors the Bible believing the Bible toting devil rebuke
a word standing believer we shall overcome some day so the next time you
run into the devil and he's laughing at you and steering at you and saying where
is your God and where is your faith and where is your victory and where is your
deliverance and where is your prosperity and where is your future and where is
your family and where is your joy just pull your watch out and say check this
out never
oh yeah yes yes yes yes keep your watch with you
keep it with you everywhere you go keep it by the bed so you can wake up in
the middle of the night and remind yourself that God's got a watch and he's
watching over you if he wants it over the sparrow he is watching he was
watching
and that's why I like that one word winning because it reminds me that God's
got a watch and maybe when it says that he's watching over me maybe it doesn't
just mean that he's watching over me maybe it means that he's watching over
me and devil it is only a matter of time stand to your feelings of the Lord play
some people tonight maybe your challenge is it September 11th
maybe your trouble was September 20th November the 3rd December the 5th
January the 12th February the 16th March the 20th April the 10th maybe your
calamity didn't hit when those 767 said the world for each sentence maybe yours
was later when something hits your house hits a marriage it child hits your
career and everything in your personal world begins to shake and maybe your
calamity has cost you the spiral downward and sometimes you're afraid you
won't get back
let not your heart be troubled
it's only a matter of time God has a way of watching
oh I gave my life to him and I'm so glad I did I wish I could tell you that
because I gave my life to Him I'm not vulnerable to any attacks but I've had
all kinds of them all kind and I probably will have some more so I didn't
come to Christ so I wouldn't have trouble came to Christ so the trouble
wouldn't have me you see the Bible says it didn't say that all things were good
what happened on September 11th God knows that wasn't good and maybe what
happened to you on April the 10th other than good
March the 5th November the 12th I don't know what the date was that you were
attacked all things are not good but it said all things work together
for the good of them that love the Lord who are the called according to his
purpose about 27 years ago he called me on a Tuesday night and a little
sanctified Church on the corner of 3rd and Stockton he called me
I wrestled but he called me I resisted but he called me I didn't think I was
ready but he called me and though I pulled against him with all of my might
he was far stronger than me he called me according to his purpose
I'm so glad that Tuesday night I stumbled up ow
came the Christ I'm so glad so that when things happen that weren't so good I was
comforted to know that he had a way of taking bad things and making them work
for good I'll be honest I play some days that I thought you I lose my mind
but just before I lost it he always
I've facing days I thought I wouldn't get up but he watched over me and he
brought me out on time I want to give you an opportunity you that are in this
room you that are watching by television you that are logged on the internet I
want to give you an opportunity to get to the altar whether the altars in your
living room by the couch there by the kitchen table or if you're in this room
you have an opportunity to come to this altar and kneel and pray America needs
to come back to God but let me tell you something
America geographically if just land dirt can you come to God no rivers nor
streams when we say America needs to come back
to God what does that mean buildings can't come to God the White House can't
come to God or the blue house for the Red House people come to God America
can't come to God too we come to go we said we will we remember I want
to call back sliders to repentance sinners to Christ with heads bowed and
eyes closed if you're in this room and you need a friend that sticketh closer
than a brother I'd like to recommend Jesus you're watching right now I'm not
television I'd like to recommend Jesus Christ to you right now you may have
been weeping all day frustrated all day at the end of Europe breathing all day
depressed all day he loves you it's only a matter of time if you come to him now
hit turn your life around he's waiting on you
shed his blood 2000 years ago so that you would have to go through this alone
family leaves loved ones leave they die they move they separate but he said I'll
never leave you nor forsake you why don't you come to him today
if you're in this building you should step into any aisle and come to this
altar Christ died for you he's waiting for you he loves you with an everlasting
love he loves you perfectly and completely he said he that come up to me
I will in no wise cast him out on September the 11th a day the enemy meant
for evil why don't you make it good and come to Christ today
would you come
come just this is cut you don't need a dollar you don't need a dad
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