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Hear the Call: Comfort Ye My People 0:00 I got 1 word that I wanna give you. Comfort. Watch what Isaiah says in chapter 40 in verse number 1.0:12 Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people. Sayeth your God.0:25 The word I cannot get out of my head is the word comfort. I will confess to you that preachers are good men, the ones0:37 that I know, But too often times, preachers get something in their head, and they'll never deviate from what they've0:49 got. I've got friends and if they're in the middle of a series, they're gonna preach that series no matter what and that's 1 that's fine. I've got some guys and1:01 man they've got a sermon and they've got everything lined up with the choir and they've got every song and that's fine. But I think too many times, preachers are so1:13 adamant on getting their 3 points and their poem and their their routine and their outline out so that people know that they've been busy during the week that1:25 they forget sitting in the pews are people. Not numbers, not congregants,1:37 people. Many times, preachers get up and they they don't heed the words of Solomon in the Proverbs when he said, look well to know the state of1:49 thy flock. A lot of times it's very difficult in a crowd this size to know what everybody is going through, but I've been doing it long enough2:01 to realize all y'alls is just people. That's right. There's rich people and poor people, white people, black people, pretty people, ugly people, skinny people,2:13 fat people. There's people that have a house and some people that that live in a an apartment, but y'all just people. At the end of the day,2:25 every person in this room is in 1 of several different categories. Number 1, you're either in a state of confusion. You woke up this morning not knowing2:37 what the day was gonna hold because you're just trying to get over what happened yesterday, you're in a state of confusion. And to those of you that are in the state of confusion, hear the word of the Lord2:50 comfort. There are people in this room right now, you and your spouse are absolutely just butting heads over everything. He doesn't know what he's doing. You think she3:02 doesn't have a clue. You think if his mama wasn't this and if her daddy wasn't that or if if his grandma wasn't this or her aunt wasn't that, and you just constantly live. I'm hitting3:14 on something right now. I ain't see any eyeballs. And if and you just stay in this constant state of confusion. And, you keep having the same argument and3:26 you keep saying, why can't things just be easy? Hear the word of the Lord, comfort. There are people in this room right3:38 now brokenhearted. You have walked down the last days and weeks and months and years and today at lunch there'll be an empty seat.3:51 Today at the table, the person that used to sit there and complain about the cooking, you would die just to hear their voice.4:02 Hear the word of the Lord to the broken Comfort. There are people in this room right now that just don't care. There are people in this room4:14 right now. Your heart has got a brick wall up in front of it. You don't want your mama to know about it. You don't want anybody to know how you really feel because down on the other side of that brick wall,4:26 we got brick walls around here and I'm gonna put sheet rock up over brick walls. I don't like brick walls. They remind me of hardness. They remind me of callousness. They remind me that you can't do anything about it.4:38 But everybody that's on this side of a brick wall realizes there's another side to a brick wall. And in your hardness, we might see 1 thing, but you know on the other side of that brick wall and4:50 your soul is a broken heart. A daddy you just wished told you, I love you and I'm proud of you. A mama you wished had been5:02 what you thought and hear the word of the Lord, comfort. You come into the house of God and I don't know what people seek when they come into a place like this.5:14 I don't know if it's the lights or the show or the singing or the the hooping and the hollering preacher that's gonna dance around and tiptoe and jumping do all this stuff hear the word of the Lord5:26 comfort. I was looking at that word comfort and I took a line and I drew a line right through the center of that word. And on 1 side, you've got the word5:38 come and on the other side, you've got the word fort. A fort is not that pillow thing you build5:50 for your youngins in the living room. That's something you do to keep them from bothering you the rest of the day. A fort is that place you6:02 escape to to keep safe while it rages around you. And God says come to the fort.6:15 Brothers and sisters, it's amazing what we flee to. It is amazing what we run to, but every time we run to something, we run away from something. And6:27 that's what people in this room do day after day as you flee to things you think will bring you safety only to realize you're running from the very 1 that6:39 is your security. What is your comfort? I'll give you 3 things that is your comfort. I don't have everything figured out, and you ain't got everything figured out. Your mama ain't got everything figured out. Your6:51 daddy ain't got everything figured out. Your granny that tells everybody she's got it off, she ain't got it all figured out either. There ain't a person in this room that's got anything figured out. So, what7:04 can we find? Because I'm not talking about feeling better. I'm not talking about looking better. I'm not talking about acting better. I'm talking about being on the inside of something while7:15 it all rages on the outside. Several years ago, some of you may remember we were down in Burlington, North Carolina. There was a big tent meeting that CT had down in Burlington called the Burlington revival. We were7:27 a part of that and and 1 night the storm got to raging around. There were 3000 people in this gospel tent on the side of I 40 right in between Greensboro and7:39 Raleigh. 3000 people. And beloved, I'm telling you, a storm came up like nobody's business. If I'm I'm lying, I'm dying. Tell you what happened. We were7:51 in that tent and the wind started raging. And I'm not talking about Tennessee wind. I'm talking about North Cackalacky got hooked on something, blowing hard8:03 wind. Y'all got straight line storms up here. We got hurricanes. The tent poles started dancing.8:16 The wind got up inside of that tent and 28 foot canvas cathedral started bouncing in the wind. We were inside8:28 something, but it wasn't doing us much good from what was blowing on the outside. That's the junk you're trying to find comfort in.8:40 You can't figure out why you keep fleeing to it and nothing occurs, but just raging on the inside like raging on the outside. 3 things that is my comfort this morning.8:53 I didn't learn this in seminary. I have not learned this in a Bible book. I've learned this from my experience in life. Number 1, theComfort #1: God's Unbreakable Covenant 9:05 first thing that is our comfort is the covenant we have with God. Notice what it says, comfort ye, comfort ye, what? My9:18 people. He said, I want you to tell the people that are down there that I still own them. Now what's so special about that? Why does that matter? Here's why9:30 that matters. Because brother Isaiah is writing to a people that have abandoned God, that have walked away from God, that have turned God aside, that are doing their own thing.9:42 They've raised up idols to Molech. They've raised up idols to Baal. They've raised up idols to Ashtaroth. They've gone every which way, but to the God of heaven. But he9:53 sends word to the prophet Isaiah. He says, you let the people know they may have walked away from me, but I have not walked away from them. They may have turned their10:05 back on me but I have not turned my back on them. Why? Not because of who they are but because of their forefather, the 1 that came before them named brother Abraham.10:17 I made a covenant with brother Abraham that I would not abandon his seed. I would not turn away from his seed. I would not throw his seed to the side, but that they would be10:29 my seed all the days that God is alive. And I don't know if you've read that book lately, but that's gonna be a real long time. And after that real long time's over, it's just day10:41 1. Because forever and forever and forever, they're gonna be the seed of God. You say well I'm not Jewish and I don't know father Abraham. Me10:53 either and I'm not Jewish either. But a covenant was made with me a long time ago at an old rugged cross when Jesus, the Son of God, the Son of Man, man, the Son of Abraham,11:05 the Son of David, the Son of Mary, the Son of Joseph, the Son of Omnipotent, the Rose, the Shof Sharon, the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and the Morning Star, the 1 that's altogether lovely,11:17 the 1 that's altogether holy, the 1 that's altogether omnipotent, the 1 that's altogether good, the 1 that's altogether great, the 1 that's altogether lovely, the 1 that's altogether holy and righteous and eternal11:29 and pure and forever. He's the 1 in the beginning and he'll be the 1 at the end because he is the alpha and he is the omega. He is the beginning and he is the ending. He's the 1 that was before all.11:41 He's in all and he'll be after all. He's the 1 that created it all, holds it all together, and after it's all said and done, he'll recreate it all. And on top of bloody Golgotha Jesus Christ, the11:53 rose of Sharon, he walked up bloody Golgotha's heel carrying a 33 and a half pound crossbar on his shoulders. And it wasn't a crossbar he deserved, it was a crossbar I deserve and12:05 you deserve. But the reason he went up Calvary's hill is because he was about to make a covenant with the father, and a covenant means something has to be cut open. And there that day, on12:16 bloody Calvary, Jesus Christ, the lovely Lamb of God, he was impaled to that cross. And as the blood drained from his body and as he looked up to the father, he looked up to the father12:28 and he said it is finished. But that's just what happened from here to there, what happened from there to here is recorded in Romans chapter number 3, for therefore we12:40 are justified by faith through the blood of his redemption. What does that mean? Up in heaven, God leaned over the ivory palaces of glory and he looked down the Milky Way,12:52 condescended into the solar system, looked down into that mud bit, that mud ball called dirt, and he went to the eastern side of the earth. He came down to the northern side of Jerusalem. And as the13:04 Lord Jesus looked up to the father and he said it is finished, the father looked down at the sun and he said I can't look on that. He turned his back on his own son. Why? Because his son had just13:15 borne the way of our sin. But in that moment when he said it is finished, he turned his back on his son and he went to the holy place and he said, I'm satisfied, satisfied13:27 forever I am satisfied because of the righteous blood of Jesus Christ. God the father said, as long as he's alive, I'm satisfied with13:39 everybody in him. Well, let me tell you something. You crazy and so am I. You got issues and so do I.13:51 Your mama's got issues and so does mine, so does mine. You messed up. So am I. I should have14:02 fallen out of the hand of God a long time ago. In fact, if you could lose your salvation, I'd have14:14 done lost it. But today, I've come to the fort and I'm safe not14:26 because of me, but because of the 1 that I stand behind. Brothers and sisters, you can't stand14:38 behind a liquor bottle big enough. You can drink until they call you Jack Daniels and you become a fish and have gills and float in the sea.14:51 Ain't a bottle big enough to bring you comfort. Didn't bring your daddy comfort. Didn't bring your granddaddy comfort, and it ain't gonna bring you comfort.15:03 You can snort yourself until your nostrils and your septum burn. You can't find enough crack to bring comfort.15:15 You can bounce from person to person to person, relationship to relationship to relation. You can't find comfort because they're not big enough to hide behind.15:29 But through the covenant of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, I am forgiven. And today, I have comfort15:41 because of the covenant. Number 2, I don't just have comfort because of the covenant that God has with me, but number 2, I have covenant because I haveComfort #2: The Holy Spirit Comforter 15:53 a comforter. I don't just have a covenant, I have a comforter. I have a built in something that gives me comfort when everything around me says16:05 no comfort. Who is the comforter? John chapter 15, John chapter 16, and John chapter number 17. The intercessor is praying. He says, but before I go, John chapter number16:17 16, he said, I'm gonna send you somebody. And if somebody's gonna do something for you, the first thing he's gonna do for you is he's gonna convict you of sin, convict you of righteousness, and convict you of16:28 judgment. Second thing he's gonna do is he's gonna be your comforter. I don't wanna die,16:40 but I sure enough don't wanna die hungry. I can think of a lot of ways that I'd rather go than starving to death.16:53 Are there any other rednecks in the house that would agree with me on that situation? Yeah. I don't wanna starve to death, Dave. I got this hankering17:04 yesterday. We was riding down Coles Ferry. My beloved was with me and our little girl was in the back.17:17 And right now Coles Ferry and came to that road that comes across Coles Ferry and I don't know what that road is. But off to the right, it said, Lester Farms.17:30 I don't know. Now look, don't you get all mad because you got a farm that sells stuff. If you got a farm that sells stuff, you gonna give me something for free. You call me, I'll promote your junk next week. Sit there17:42 and get all bowed up because I didn't mention your apple pie. You give me an apple pie, bless God, I'll mention it. Albert, I was hung there was something gnawing on17:54 me from the inside. I ain't eat all morning. My wife didn't make me not a blessed thing yesterday morning for breakfast. I told her I was hungry. She said, brother, pop and tartar in the refrigerator, you help yourself18:06 or in the camp whatever you got to do. There was just gnawing. So we pulled in to the, Lester Farms. We we we pulled off and I got out. I had on my boots so I18:18 looked the part yesterday because, you know, I'm looking for a farm right now. Say amen right there. And I go in to the Lester Farms. Inside Lester Farms, they got they got all this strawberry.18:29 We just started getting stuff. We started getting Erica, in my line, I bought bacon cheddar bread. I got Crohn's18:41 disease. I ain't supposed to eat bacon or cheese. I bought bacon cheddar bread. We got, cinnamon rolls. We got18:53 strawberries. I got 3 glass Doctor Peppers. What am I gonna do with 3 glass bottle Doctor Peppers? We couldn't even open them.19:08 It took us 15 minutes to realize you twist the top off of them things. You know, we had I don't know how much money.19:20 I just handed them a I don't know what we bought. I really don't know what we bought. But as I was walking out, Dave, they had these fried strawberry and rhubarb pies.19:34 I hit a nerve right there. I could feel I heard that. Yeah. Erica, we was we left that place. Poor little Erica's in the and she's19:46 in the the passenger seat, and her legs are turned sideways. We had piled up so much stuff. I had a loaf of bacon and cheddar bread right here. Ella's got a pile of something in the back, and I got that19:58 strawberry and rhubarb pie. And we're riding down the road, and I'm I'm dying with hunger. I stayed hungry for20:09 another Oh, and we got them corn pop things. What are those things? Yummy crunch. Yummy crunch. Thank you, Jesus.20:23 For 30 minutes, I stayed hungry. You know why? Because it wasn't enough to be around the food. The food had to get20:34 in me. I finally had enough. I looked at my wife. I said, I don't care. If you say I can't eat in this car, crack open that fried pie.20:51 I took the wrapper off of that thing. And y'all remember the cartoons where they just the whole thing in their mouth? I ate that entire strawberry rhubarb21:03 pie. And so help me. I know why the Pentecostals speak in tongues now. I did it right there in the truck before God and everybody. I did it right there in the truck.21:14 Clinton, it hit me this morning as I was thinking about this. There's a whole lot of people in this room that are around the comforter. You're around the21:26 things, but you've never given your life to Jesus Christ. Therefore, the comforter, the Holy Ghost, has21:38 never gone from the outside. And that's why when you leave here, your heart feels better, but your insides, that spiritual place21:50 has no comfort because you don't have the comforter. He said, sayeth your God.22:02 It's not just enough for us to be his people, he's gotta be your God. He says, those are my22:14 people, but is he your God? Beloved, you saw those 4 people get baptized a22:26 while ago. There are people in this room you've never taken that step of faith to let the world know he's my god.22:38 I'm not ashamed. He's my god. Nick, where are you at? I wanna talk to mamas and daddies. Stay with22:49 me. Don't don't go anywhere. I wanna talk to those of you this morning that are so broken in this house.23:01 You feel like your world's in 1000000 pieces. That's the world we live in. That's that's where we're at today. There is comfort to be found in23:13 walking with Christ. Just because you've been to church and just because you've been it don't mean you're walking with God. Sometimes hardness settles23:25 in. Here, what God says to you, there's comfort. What does that mean? It means no matter how much it's raging on the outside, you're safe23:38 on the inside. I don't know who you are this morning. I don't really know why I've given that word,23:50 but you've been crying and you've been broken and you've been waiting on God to tell you it's gonna be okay. And so the Lord says to you, here's comfort. It's gonna be24:02 okay. Here's comfort. I wanna talk to those of you in this room right now. You've never been saved. You've never trusted in Jesus Christ. Tyler, what what do I do? In24:14 just a few seconds, you're gonna see Christians get on this altar, and they're gonna line themselves around, and they're gonna call on God to help them. I want you to step out of your seat when they come. I want you to24:24 find your place. But when you get down, I just want you to slip your hand up. When you slip your hand up, we're gonna send somebody to you, and we're gonna take a Bible and show you how you can know that you've been24:35 saved. You say, brother Tyler, I know I've been saved, but I I've never ever confessed that he's my God, that I've trusted Christ, I've never been baptized. In just a second,24:47 when you see them come down, I want you to come down. And on this front row right here, there's gonna be some people. You come up to them and you tell them, I want to be baptized. I wanna make it public that I'm24:57 following Christ, that he's my God. You tell them they're gonna get you some information. You're gonna you're gonna get in on the next 1, but but I wanna then talk to the last person in this room, and that's the 1 that25:08 is so hard right now. Unless you come out from behind that wall, God loves you too much to leave you behind it. 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