Gods Faithfulness in Trials - Ps 119_65 — Phil Beach Jr.

Because you prayed this morning. Now if you pray this morning, that's good, but if you think I'm blessing you because you made it it beloved. But see these are lessons. Thank God. He's the Lord. Listen listen closely.

Healing from Bitterness and Past Failures

Anger. Depression a pattern of snapping in your life that people tendencies to withdraw. Now I could name more and more, but now listen God will name them in your own heart. Is it possible is it possible?

The question is is it possible that? These things the root cause of them is because in our heart. We're still holding on To some failures in our past. We haven't been released from them. Because we're angry at God that we made a mistake.

We're angry at God because we made a mistake and we say God. How could you have let this happen to me? How could you have let this happen to me God? Is it possible that the spirit of the Lord could speak to your heart this morning and Bring a healing and release you from that mentality and Bring you into a place where you can where you can say Thank you father.

Oh Lord thou has been faithful in afflicting me Lord, thank you. You have shown me How weak and frail I am and Lord I never would have learned this lesson though I would never have chosen this method Lord.

Can you relate to that Marcel oh He's God, I've never would have chosen this Lord matter of fact. I don't think it would ever come in my mind. But then Lord you're God. I'm clay Lord Jesus. Help me to see that.

I'm such an important person to you because you redeem me That you just reigned over this whole circumstance. And I see now Lord that I Confess this to you Lord. Change my heart Lord. Lift me out of this Human this human snare lift me out of it Lord.

So that I can rejoice saying the Lord my God has dealt bountifully with me and all his dealings were dealings of love and Kindness and wisdom. So, but how can that be this this God didn't do this this was because of my mistake and my sin.

God knows God knows but he stood back and He let things happen, but remember he tells the water how far to go and then he says stop. He's got it in control. Say Lord, what are you teaching me? Father.

Deliver me Lord Jesus listen closely. Deliver me Lord. I pray. I'm powerless Lord, but you said cry out so I'm sure I'm doing Lord deliver me from being hell by the past in the gall of bitterness. Lord God, I'm human help me Jesus I know thy word says That you are faithful.

Make this real to me Lord. Lord I can't bear this Lord you have promised in Isaiah 61 That you would give us the oil of joy for mourning garments of beauty and praise. This is exactly what the scripture means in Isaiah 61 the mourning and bitterness of human failure and affliction Is always crowned with praise and God's anointing in God's oil.

Becoming Vessels of Honor Through Grace

Let him do it. Let him do it. We are his workmanship. He's making us his way Into vessels of honor not our way not our way. God will ultimately be glorified. God will ultimately be praised as having the perfect track record of having done all things well and We will always have the perfect track record of having done all things.

Not so well, but because of the divine grace of God that was working in me. I did good nevertheless the good that I did is the good that came from God. That's what God wants. Proper perspective. The great apostle Paul I Apostles boy what a statement to make he said nevertheless It wasn't I but the grace of God in me that was laboring.

God had done a great work in Paul's life. And God was so concerned about Paul's tendency because he came from the stock of eight Adam. Just like we did. God was so concerned that Paul's tendency being flesh.

That his ego could hinder his playing. God gave him a thorn and said I'm not going to remove it. Why so that the great work that Paul did? Paul could never become deluded in thinking that there was something good in him that was Constituting this great work.

See God had to give Paul an Affliction. I can't sit here and try and figure out what it is. And men have created great divisions. By being so foolish to try and figure out what it what God. God would never do this as a you know just listen the fact is God gave him a thorn and.

And some of you have thorns in your past and you've prayed remove it remove it. And God has said no. My grace is sufficient. Now don't stop there. You need to follow that because Paul got the fullness of the purpose of God.

Then God then Paul said after God said no. Therefore I will rejoice. Now how could Paul rejoice? In that which brought pain. That which brought weakness. That which kept him weak. How could Paul rejoice because he perceived by God that that which was working weakness in his life.

Was keeping him in the place so that he could experience God's strength working through him. Do you want God's power and God's strength working through you. Then you have to be made weak the greatest?

Weakness as the Pathway to Divine Strength

Battle in the early revival of 1900 as Testified by the eyewitnesses was this. Men sat seeking for God to anoint their strength. Men sat Seeking for God to anoint their strength when God sought To turn men's strength into weakness so that God could show them his strength.

Now that makes sense. Men sat seeking for God to fill their strength to anoint their strength and God went not. So I'll not anoint your strength. But because I'm a loving God, I'll make you. How does God make us weak?

Let's us do things that result in shame. That result in the need to go back and say I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Don't like that. Do that. Do you ever hear Saturday night alive not Saturday night live Saturday night alive?

W-a-w-z. Ron Hutchcraft. He's the youth worker. He's funny. Sometimes they'll be talking with the kids and he'll start turning his voice into a funny voice and he gets the kids laughing and he'll Try and talk like that.

It's funny. They'll say something like yeah, sometimes we go to school as Christians and we say Nobody serves God in this school. All the kids laugh. How does God bring weakness in our life? Shall I I'll tell you One thing that and Forgive me for personal Personal example just one thing God brought weakness in my life years ago.

By allowing me to lead a group of people to have a Bible-burning service. You say impossible. No, it's not impossible. God allowed me To be deceived and showed me just how good and how faithful My human heart was to him.

Well, how could God have allowed such a thing? In faithfulness he afflicts us. Before I was afflicted Continually went astray. So were you weren't a Christian where you guess I was. I was a spirit-filled Christian in faithfulness To the Lord Leach, of course, he didn't lead me, but he didn't stop me either.

Did you think God was leading you? Of course, I thought he was leading me and he opened up the way for me to go. To you know what the Lord wants to do. The Lord wants to perfect this work in all of us so that we all can see ourselves as The soldier Who when Jesus was crucified took the sword and Pierced him in the side you say well, I'll never do that.

Didn't Peter say something like that. Didn't Peter say something like that. I'll never forsake you Lord. Oh, you won't. I would never be the one to pierce the sword the side of it. Oh, you wouldn't. Oh you wouldn't.

Peter's Failure and Restoration for Service

Can you imagine the love that Jesus had for Peter? When Peter looked at him and said, ah Lord, don't let old man forsake you. I won't you just imagine Jesus looking at Peter but yet. The first sermon preached was old Peter.

Your human failures don't disqualify you. To be used by God. Many times it's what qualifies you. Oh Peter was up preaching 3 ,000. God saved and then when Peter breathed his last breath, he requested that he wasn't worthy enough to be crucified right side up so the historian Josephus tells us that Peter requested that he be crucified upside down.

Boy, that was a change. Back when the Lord just started dealing in Peter's life Peter said I know myself. I know me. I'll never forsake you Jesus. At the end of this pilgrimage. Oh I'm not worthy to be crucified the same way that my Lord was.

Please turn me upside down. Let my feet point up and my head down to the dust. I'll feel a lot more comfortable. And they were they granted Peter his request and Tradition tells us he was crucified upside down and gave up the ghost.

What happened to Peter. What happened to Peter in faithfulness? God afflicted Peter in faithfulness. This is true with every blood-washed child of God. So be encouraged. Isn't it Tim? Don't you see it brother?

Sure you do. Good to see you guys. Love you. So what's 1991 hold for us. God's faithfulness. Do you need anything else? Yes, but what's gonna happen in my life? Well, I don't know. I threw out my crystal ball.

Trusting God's Sovereign Plan for the Coming Year

I Was. I don't get into it. What is 1991 hold. I'll tell you what it holds for us. God will be exalted as God in our life and we will be made flesh. But the grace and blood of Christ will be applied and we will remain reconciled to God friends and Through a sovereign working of almighty God that can't be understood by any man.

God will somehow in 91 if he should tarry. Make us more aware of our need for him and less confident in Ourself, how's he gonna do it? I don't know. Do you think it might mean? Some hard times. Yes. The Lord just won't let me have anything.

No, the Lord might let you have everything. I don't know if I want that. Well, then you might not get it. But I'm not too sure. Well, that's all right. If you went to bed tonight and you weren't sure the Sun was gonna rise that wasn't gonna stop it from rising.

You know. Do you ever feel like God's will in your life is contingent upon you understanding it and when you cease from? Understanding thought it was gonna stop to. Did I say that too fast? Do you ever think it was up to you to keep things going?

Well, let me assure you something. It's not. That ought to be a good comfort to you. 91 a year of revelation a Year when God will become more visible to us as God and we will become more visible to us as mere flesh Utterly dependent upon our God and when the good we do do We will recognize it to be from God.

We can be confident in the faithfulness of God. Do you feel held? to an incident That has produced some of those things that I mentioned before but now suddenly God's light may be shining. God's healing may be flowing and God's releasing May be closer.

I Hope so. I hope so. Praise the Lord. Let's sing this song. I've had many tears and sorrows. It's in our book. The chorus book. God has a present for everyone this morning. Each one can ask and you have to be patient for the Lord to give it, but here's the present 213.

Thank You Norman. God wants to grant everyone here the gift of Seeing in Faithfulness. God has dealt with me and may I say that when God grants you that ability to Perceive that truth in your spirit. That's just the confession, but that's you start by what God's Word says.

God says it but be honest with yourself, but I'm having a hard time believing it be honest. But then that's when you say Lord help me. I want to say on the authority of God's Word when you see. Not when you see with these eyes, but when your spirit sees that in faithfulness God Has dealt with me.

Rejoicing a praise a sense of love for God that you've never known before and it will stay there all the days of your life and It will pave the way for a much greater Enjoyment of God in the years to come that will be crowned with Thanksgiving even through the most greediest trials.

It all lies in the spirit within you the Holy Spirit. Taking the veil off of your spirit that you might see in neon spiritual lights a Message from God the Father to you his redeemed child in faithfulness.

Have I dealt with you and when the truth of that statement hits home in you It will set your feet against. Do you believe that? Tom's back there. I think so. Say Lord, I believe that help thou mine unbelief.

Amen, hi Joe.

Number Norman. To 213. Let's all sing it together. Now to 13. In faithfulness. My God is faithful. Everyone together. Psalm 119 verse number 65. 119 verse number 65. The message which God graciously breathed into my spirit has been ministered Almost in its entirety this morning, but this of course is the Word of God which crowns the message with God's Word.

Psalm 119:65–72 and God's Faithful Dealings

Psalm 119 65. May I encourage you beloved to consider 1990 in light of Psalm 119 verse number 65 through 72 and may I also Encourage you to ask God to grant to you the assurance that God shall in 1991 if he shall tell bring this to pass more fully in your life and Mine.

His his methods his methods are Diverse. We may become aware of them. God may reveal them to us. He may not. We may know as Paul many times was warned by the Holy Ghost What was about to happen. He knew he was going to get tied up in Jerusalem.

He knew he was going to stand before rulers. But he didn't know everything. God may choose to show you some things you may choose not to. But it doesn't matter. The overruling Affirmation of faith Can be found in these verses.

Thou has dealt. Well with thy servant Beloved may I say that at the very beginning of this wonderful scripture it is God's will that his grace may so move upon us and His spirit so do a work in our life that we May personalize this scripture and from the depths of our being be able to say Thou has dealt.

Well You don't listen listen closely you don't repress Deny Ignore avoid pretend. The things that brought pain and affliction did not happen. You don't do that. You don't deny them, but when God works this in your soul You are including all things and Seeing not by mere human apprehension Not by mere human understanding but by divine Intervention.

You are saying that God indeed has dealt well With you now I would like for you if you could to put your finger right there on that verse and go to the New Testament and let's just walk through a few scriptures this morning and Let us just ask God to grant us a greater understanding in the unfolding of his purposes.

Human Independence as the Root of Sin

The greatest Stumbling block to maturity is Recognizing and accepting the character of God. That must that must work in us through human failure the knowledge of our utter Inability apart from him to please him.

That's the greatest stumbling block because the most difficult thing to give up in the human heart is the belief that somehow some way Apart from utter dependence upon God we can do any good. That's the most difficult thing to give up.

The very nature of sin is a disposition of Independence from God. The very nature of flesh is I'm looking at the tree. It brings wisdom by it. I can be enlightened and I'm going to reach Everything being initiated apart from dependence upon God.

That's the root cause Of sin right there. That's the most difficult thing to give up, but that also is the greatest hindrance in the Christian life, which God must deal with in every child of God if They are to be a vessel of honor Where the lovely life of Christ is flowing through.

It's all it's all of our lots everyone. Thou has dealt well with thy servant O Lord according unto thy word teach me Good judgments. Oh When God teaches us the error of our bad judgments How this prayer becomes more than just a mental affirmation?

But it becomes a very strong the very throngs of our soul. Oh God teach me good judgments because thou has faithfully showed me the outcome of mine own judgments, which are always Grieving 1991 perhaps God may teach us How to pray from our soul.

Teach me good judgments Lord that come from thee perhaps. He may have to teach us this through allowing us to experience some of the distastefulness of our own judgments but remember in faithfulness God will do this.

What a secure Savior we have. Teach me good judgments and knowledge for I have believed thy commandments verse number 67 if you write in your Bible put 1991 Next to verse 67 before I was afflicted. We're going to go to the New Testament.

Rejoicing in God's Will Through Affliction

I went astray but now Have I kept? Thy word in Thessalonians first. Thessalonians chapter 5 verse number 16 rejoice Evermore Beloved may I suggest this morning that the soul's ability to rejoice evermore Is found When it is loosed from mere human observation and brought into a divine union with God's sovereign purposes and when we recognize verse 65 thou has dealt well with thy servant when we Recognize the wellness of all of God's dealings in our life.

Both the joys of being led by him and the sorrows of being Under the power of our own failures all is well. Then we can learn to rejoice. For some reason it slips my mind. There's another scripture that says in everything give.

Thanks. Is that in Philippians? Okay Let's just turn there for a short moment. Philippians beloved this is healing for the soul. Okay, rejoice in the Lord always and Again I say rejoice For for Right, but there's another one too isn't it in everything give.

Thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus. Okay, so here's Philippians 4 4 1st Thessalonians 5 and now Ephesians. What was that norm? 2nd Thessalonians verse 18 what chapter? Nope. 1st Thessalonians 5 18 there we go look at that.

We were a few verses away from it. Just two verses away from a few minutes ago in everything give thanks. Do you think Peter was able to thank the Lord Jesus? For the misery of denying him three times, I believe that when Peter saw What that denial did for his soul He not only thanked God for it.

But I don't think he would have it traded the experience for anything all God's works will praise him at that day all of them well. In everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

So there's three witnesses in the New Testament all Shedding light on this wonderful lesson to learn now. Let's go back to Psalm 119 Verse 67 before I was afflicted. I went astray. But now have I kept Thy word.

God Teaches us to trust him and keep his word through our afflictions through our afflictions Thou art Good. Oh my lord. Can you see the order of revelation here? That's occurring in the psalmist heart first.

He starts out by saying that has dealt well. Then he goes teach me my judgments then he begins to affirm that before he was afflicted He went astray, but now he keeps the Lord's Commandments and now he crowns this journey with thou art good and do us good.

What a healthy soul can you see this. What a marvelous Progression of spiritual maturity here. He starts out. Then he brings it into human experience. I I was going astray Continually God. Therefore this faithfulness saw the need to afflict me.

The way to flip there used to press on a measure to to to bring into a place of tightness. God saw the need to afflict me. Then I began to learn as a result of God's wise Fatherly paternal dealing in my life.

Then I began to learn the marvelous lesson of Keeping his word and of course I learned to keep his word by utterly crying out to him for the strength to keep it and. And and and then after after the bitterness of of being afflicted the bitterness of.

Well, hey if David wrote this We know the Lord how the Lord taught David the Lord turned him over to his heart. You know with Bathsheba The the bitter experience and and also the Lord turned David over to 11 of pride in his life when he numbered the children of Israel.

You know and God just God just you know David said my before I was afflicted. I went astray, but but the Lord afflicted me. I look I've learned to keep his word and now and now I sum it up by saying You are good, and you do all things in a good way now.

Remaining Faithful While Misunderstood

Verse 69. The proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. Here the possible grief and turmoil of being misunderstood while spinning on the potter's wheel but nevertheless I Will keep thy precepts.

And if we go into the New Testament We even get a greater insight as to what to do when we're misunderstood. We bless them that curse. We pray for them. We heap coals of goodness upon the heads of those who snarl at us that proves that.

The Genuineness of the work that God's doing in our life. Their heart is as fat as grease. But I delight in thy law. He just can't get away. Verse 71. He can't get away from the joy of his infirmities.

Paul's Thorn and the Sufficiency of Grace

May we stop for a moment. Let's go to the New Testament again because Paul shared this joy. 2nd Corinthians chapter 12. He can't get away from it. You think the psalmist would just be talking about all the marvelous things He did for God, but no he's hung up on the wonderful Afflictions that happened to him because he knows those afflictions showed him how utterly weak he was and the rest of his life.

He just boasted about the afflictions. And he left all the good things that happened in his life to God because he knew it wasn't him anyway. Oh The Lord is so wise. 2nd Corinthians chapter 12, okay. Verses 1 through 4.

Paul describes a man of course it's himself Who saw wonderful things he was given by God. The gift and grace of seeing Incredible revelations that perhaps no other human being ever saw at least maybe not to the extent that Paul saw him.

I know the prophets saw him in part, but he didn't major on those things. He went on to say verse 5 of such a one will I glory yet of myself I Will not glory. Oh my god the work that God did in Paul of myself I will not glory.

I will not boast. Because I know there's no good thing that dwells in my flesh. Verse 6. For though I would desire to glory I shall not be a fool. For I will say the truth, but now I forbear. Thus any man should think of me above that which He seeth me to be or that he heareth of me and lest There it is Should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations there was given to me a thorn in the flesh a messenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure.

For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might be departed from me. This was an affliction one of many afflictions that Paul endured. Notice what God's grace did to Paul in relation to his affliction.

And he said this thing I should besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me. And he said unto me my grace is sufficient for thee my strength is made perfect in weakness. Now watch this most gladly.

Therefore Oh Lord, please by your Holy Spirit give us a posture of looking at that which afflicts us and weakens us and say most Gladly not well. I'll just do it. Bible says so most gladly therefore Will I complain and grumble and Murmur and say Lord, this isn't fair.

No, he didn't say that most gladly. Therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities. That the power of Christ may rest upon me you see the relationship between Infirmity and the power of Christ. One Enables the other.

The absence of the one most likely will result in the absence of the other. At least as long as we're human. Therefore I take pleasure. His divine joy over God's faithfulness and afflicting him. Therefore I take pleasure.

Paul could take pleasure because he understood the purpose for which God afflicted him that was to enable him to Continue to enjoy the power of Christ in his life and to keep a divine check on his ego.

I wonder he was so happy he saw God took special precaution to keep him from falling and Becoming shipwreck in his faith. Granted Lord grant it to me. Lord take special precaution. I can't keep myself Lord.

You take special precaution. What I'm not. I take pleasure in infirmity. I take pleasure. Because that's keeping me in the posture of Weakness so that the power of Christ can flow through me. Therefore I take pleasure.

The word pleasure is well pleased. Paul saying therefore I am well pleased. I'm pleased with God that he's such a good Lord that he had the forethought to watch out for me. Oh, and we begin to see our history in that light things change.

When we begin to see the coming year in this light things change. I Take pleasure in infirmities Reproaches Necessities Persecutions Distresses for Christ's sake. For when I am weak then am I strong. There it is.

We read that in order to give you the New Testament Supplement first verse 71 in Psalm 119. He goes back to it. It is good for me that I have been afflicted. See that Paul just said it too. It was good.

It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes. Learning though he were a son yet learned he'll ah Is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. Do you see the consummation of God's working in one of his children?

God brings us to the place where all Lord the words from my mouth thy mouth thy holy will Have to do with you and your girl for my life are more pleasing to me are more to be desired are more Enticing to me than anything that this world offers.

God is committed to you child of God in 1991. To produce the reality of these things in you. Which will crown your life with joy on earth and at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Exceeding joy will come one scripture.

Peter on Trials, Rejoicing, and the Testing of Faith

See all these things come together. Let's go to Peter and just understand something that he said. And You're really with choice here. Look at this now in 1st Peter chapter 1 read this down in the light of the whole context of this morning verse.

Verse number 3. Chapter 1. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us that is? regenerated us. He begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus from the dead to an inherited incorruptible and undefiled and that faded not array preserved in heaven for you.

Who are kept by the power of God? Through faith unto salvation. Ready to be revealed in the last time. Listen you and I are being kept by the power of God right now, but while we're being kept. What's God doing?

Verse 6. We're in ye greatly rejoice. There's that rejoicing again. What is this with rejoicing? In the midst of infirmity. We're in ye greatly rejoice though now for a season if need be ye are in heaviness through manifold Temptations.

Listen to this that the trial of your faith Being much more precious than of gold that perisheth though it be tried with fire Might be found there you go Unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ.

1991 is part of God's timetable To produce in you That which he wants so that verse number seven may come to pass in your life when Jesus comes again. Well, you know we can go on and on but I won't you see how the Savior can just walk us through and Give us understanding and comfort our hearts and help us to see his wonderful working in our life.

Isn't he a good Lord? Now remember. Ask God to loose you from being held to the past be loosed. May I say the loosing comes when God? Shines into your spirit. It is good that I have been afflicted for I am learning To trust God.

The loosing will come the rejoicing will be there and the year ahead of you will be marked with incredible assurance. Not necessarily knowing what's going to happen But knowing that God is faithful. Let's pray.

Prayer for Healing, Comfort, and Deeper Reliance on God

Thank you, Lord Jesus. Oh father. Thank you for thy word. Thank you for thy Savior. Thank you for Thy goodness Lord cause thy word to minister to us in Faithfulness Lord Enlighten our hearts and our understanding.

I Pray for healing. I pray Lord for comfort. I Pray that by thy power Lord. You may cause us to enter in to a union with you. Produce a joy and a rejoicing in us lift us out of ourself and Into thy great power we pray as we're all just quiet before the Lord.

I Just want to give anyone an opportunity to stand and in standing. You're doing it because you know that God is wanting to work this in your heart, and you just want to take a Step. It might be a memory you just want a special Touch.

I want to invite you if God's moving on your heart stand up and come forward and we'll pray for you in a special way. Just as we wait for a moment anybody at all.