Address—G. Hayhoe
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Testimony you can hinder the usefulness that you could have and the things of God you could really help you could be a blessing among the young people. You could be a blessing in the assembly where you are. But if those two things creep in holding faith.
Good conscience. If you let them go, you let those doubts come in and you don't continually look up. And you have to do it often you know and say I will trust in the 10 times wasn't too often to sing. Then we need to sing it, sing it, and say it over and over again. And then when that questionable thing comes look up and say, oh Lord, keep me, preserve me, oh God, For in thee do I put my trust.
Now the reason I read the other one, I just want to speak briefly about it.
In Second Kings chapter 13.
It's a very interesting other location to me. Here was Elijah. He was fallen sick, He was dying and durash and hadn't paid very much attention to him during his life. But now he realized this old man of God was being taken away, and he comes with tears and he weeps over him and says the chariot of Israel and the horsemen thereof. In other words, he said that I should have come to you before because.
You could have helped me. The chariot and the horsemen represent, Deliverance said. I could account here before, but he comes to him right on his deathbed, right at the end, and that's often true. Someone who could help us, we put it off and we put it off and we don't come. Well, we came right at the very end, and it's nice that Elijah didn't turn him away. He was glad he came, and so he wanted to help him. And you know, I'm a little older, perhaps, than some here.
And I want to help you. And so I think it's nice here what Elijah did. He said take bow and arrows, and he took the bow and arrows and then it says, put thine hand upon the ball. And isn't it nice here, Elijah put his hand on top of this young man's hand, this young king. He put his hand in other words, it said, if I can help you, I will. And I'll show you what to do so that you can have deliverance over your enemies.
And that's all I can do. Dear young people, I'm not the deliverer. The Lord is the deliverer. He's the only one who can give you the strength. But perhaps I can help you. Perhaps I can put my hand on yours and in that way give you a little bit of encouragement here tonight. And that's just what Elijah did. He put his hand right on top of the King's hand. And then he told him to open his window eastward. Well, we know that the Lord Jesus is coming in the future day for Israel's deliverance.
As the sun of righteousness which rises in the east. And so I believe what he was pointing him to was the one who will come in a future day as Israel's deliverer. And he said to him like this. He said, now just put your you get to the bow and arrow, and you point out the window and you point eastward. And so have you, and I have you and I opened our windows eastward. Are we looking on to that time when the Lord will come for us?
When he'll come for us, of course, it's as the bright and morning star, but we can open our windows eastward, as it were, and say the only one who can give me deliverance in all these things that come, all these enemies that are opposed to me, is the Lord.
And that's what he did. He opened his window and he got there and he drew back on the arrow. And and I can see the old prophet helping him, drew it back as far as he given his shot. And he said, that's the arrow of the Lord. Deliverance, are you looking in the right direction, dear young people? Are you looking to the Lord?
Are you looking to the one and the only one who can deliver you?
But then it tells us here that.
In the 18th verse. And he said, Take ours. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, smite upon the ground. And he smoothed thrice, and stayed.
Well, Elijah was going to be taken away. Elijah died. But what he was really saying to him is, and now Joash, I'm not always going to be here to help you.
I'm not always going to be here to put my hand on yours about you taking off barrels so that every time the difficulty comes, you know that there's one who can deliver you, you say? I tried. I tried once. I tried twice. I tried three times, and I give up.
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Oh, he didn't try often enough, did he? He didn't try often enough. And the Prophet said to him, oh, he said, you should have done it more. And you know, dear young people, it's not once or twice or three times. I don't need to tell you this. You know it as well as I do. It's a continual thing.
Over and over again. The devil is never going to give up. He's going to come again and again. And you're not always going to have somebody to rely on. Maybe your father's a helper. Maybe your mother's a helper. Maybe there's some brother in the assembly that puts his hand on yours and says I'll help you if I possibly can, but there's things you're going to have to make all alone. You're not going to have somebody put their hand on yours, but you're going to have the Lord. He's never going to fail or forsake his own.
And so don't give up because you tried once or twice, or three times. Remember, God is faithful, and He's one who will be with you and will, He said, I'll never leave thee nor forsake thee. He's always ready to help you. And perhaps the thought of five Britons before us, human weakness. And six the very best that a man can do.
It's always dependence upon the Lord.
That we need constant dependence upon him. And he will help us and he will give us grace and so do young people. I don't know what the future holds. I'm sure it's not going to get easier. I'm sure it's going to get more difficult. But tonight, if this little occasion helps you.
Open your window eastward and look on to that time when the Lord will come and will everything will be manifested in His presence. And you. And put your hands on the arrow. Perhaps tonight I can give you a little word that will help you, but they're going back home in a few days. You're going to have to meet those enemies. The Syrians are going to invade the land, just like if you read on the chapter they did. They came in and he actually defeated the them three times.
But that was the limit because that was all the hours it took. And so it is if you if you say, well, I asked the Lord and it seems it's just coming all the time. But didn't he help you last time you asked him? And didn't he help you the the time before and the time before? Well, he's still the same Jesus Christ, the same yesterday and today and forever. So I just want to encourage you tonight to look up to the Lord. He has something for each one of you dear young people to do.
He had something for Paul to do when he was saved. He has something for Timothy to do, And Paul encouraged Timothy, and this young king too. There was deliverance for him, and there is for you. The Lord wants to bless you. The Lord wants to use you. And when finally, in another day, we look into the face of our Savior, won't we be glad if in any measure we sought to live to please him, and we think of His abundant grace?
His wondrous love to us, because it's more than we can ever measure eternity, is going to be too short to tell out all His praise. And we do have the privilege now of seeking to live a little while for that Savior who loved us and gave himself for us. Well, may the Lord grant that we will not destroy Thee Ground three times, but we'll do it more times. In other words, He'll say, Lord, I know that Thy grace is sufficient for every circumstance.
Beyond what I think, because he only thought. 3 But he said, you could have gone beyond that, and the Lord will always do, exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think any grant that we might draw upon those infinite resources we have in Himself.
Ask the Lords Blessing.
I knew my heart of God.
All right.
Give me thy.
Soul.
Oh my God.
I curse in me. I'm in. Let me know.
Again, leave me in life. Leave me in life. I'm delicious.
Jesus God stars Manchester.
Where's my song?
I've seen all the way.
I mean.