Even Jesus Will Soon Be Shouting for Joy — Carter Conlon

Psalm 30: Weeping, Healing, and Joy in the Morning

Psalm 30, please, if you'll go there. Psalm 30, message titled this morning, even Jesus will soon be shouting for joy. Even Jesus. You may wonder, where is that in the Word of God? Well, you're going to see that by the time we get to the end.

Now, Father, I thank you, Lord, for the touch and the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Thank you, God, that where you are, there is life. Where you are, there's hope, there's a strength and a future. I thank you for the touch of your Holy Spirit upon my physical body to just take me out of the limitations of my own self, Lord, and to bring me into where your mind is in this message.

Lord, you're the key that can go into every prison. You're the oil that can heal every wound. You're the tender touch of heaven that can give courage to those that have lost heart. I'm asking you to do that today, God.

I'm asking you to reach through me into the deepest struggles that are in this sanctuary today. I thank you for it in Jesus' mighty name. Psalm 30, even Jesus will soon be shouting for joy. I will extol thee.

This is David, the psalmist, the king of Israel, wrote this. I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast lifted me up and has not made my foes to rejoice over me. O Lord, my God, I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me.

O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave. Thou hast kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the Lord, O you saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness.

For his anger endureth but a moment. In his favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. And in my prosperity, I said, I shall never be moved. Lord, by thy favor, thou hast made my mountain to stand strong.

Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. I cried to thee, O Lord, and unto the Lord I made supplication. What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?

Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me. Lord, be thou my helper. Thou hast turned from me, my mourning, into dancing. Thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent.

O Lord, my God, I will give thanks unto thee forever.". Now, this is an interesting psalm, Psalm 30. It's written by King David, and some of you in your Bibles have a little bit of a title, I guess, before the psalm, and in mine it says, a psalm and song at the dedication of the house of David.

David, Mount Moriah, and the Dedication of God's House

Now, we don't know which house this is. There are theories about it. Probably the most prevalent theory is that it was the house of God that was dedicated on Mount Moriah when David had that vision after numbering the people, and he became proud.

He numbered the people, and because of it, he was turning away from trust in God, and God brought a plague upon the nation of Israel. And you remember the angel had his sword drawn over Jerusalem, and the Lord told David to go to this mountain called Moriah, and on top of that mountain was a man with his two sons, and he was threshing wheat.

His name was Ornan the Jebusite, and Ornan the Jebusite gave him his threshing instruments. He gave him his oxen. He gave him everything he had to make a sacrifice to the Lord that the plague may be stayed.

And after David had done this, heaven was open to him, and he saw that this was the house. This is where God was going to put his house. And of course, many believe that this is what this psalm is about because the elements leading up to that appear to be in this particular psalm.

David's Victory, Healing, and Deliverance from Death

Now, what we know about it from reading it is it was written at a time when he had known victory. Now, this is written after the fact. He had been through a great struggle. Verse 1 says, I will extol thee, Lord, for thou hast lifted me up and not made my foes to rejoice over me.

He had known healing. Verse 2, Lord my God, I cried unto thee and thou hast healed me. David had come to a place in his life where you can just imagine after all the years of victory that he had known, and suddenly it seems like he's being overpowered.

And there's this sense of unwellness that's come upon him, and he knows that if God doesn't touch his life, he's not going to get out of this situation. Verse 3, it's written after feeling as if death had either conquered him or threatened to conquer him.

He said, O Lord, you've brought up my soul from the grave. You've kept me alive that I should not go down to the pit. He had been brought by God to a place where he knew that, God, if you don't touch me, I have no life.

If you don't open the way, I've got no future. If you don't give me strength, I'm no better than all of those that are lying in the grave somewhere. I can't come out, I don't have any power. How many might be feeling that way this morning, even in this sanctuary?

You come into the house of God, you have lifted your hands, you have sung the praises of God, but deep inside your heart, you say, God, if you don't touch me, I don't have a future. I'm losing heart. My enemies seem to be rejoicing over me.

I feel like I've got a loathsome disease inside of my mind that's growing inside of my body. It's not just a physical disease, but it's perhaps depression, despair, anguish. I'm being overpowered by something that is stronger than I am.

This is exactly where David was. He felt in verse 5, like he'd been under the chastisement of God. And of course, if it is Mount Moriah, then he was, he says, for his anger endure, but a moment, but in his favor, his life, weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.

Chastening, Correction, and the Promise of Morning Joy

Even if God is chasing you for a particular reason, remember that the scripture says he only does it to those he loves. If you were not a son or a daughter of God, he would not bother to bring correction into your life because of course you wouldn't receive it.

No chastening for the present, the scripture says, seems to be joyous. How many, how many come in here this morning and you're leaping in the air when the choir is saying, it's saying, praise God, I'm being chastened to the Lord.

No, it's not. It's not a fun time. I've been under the chastening of the Lord. I know what that's all about. I've, I've, I've known what it's like to walk down the street, groaning to get up in the morning and you feel like there's a grand piano strapped to your back.

And you don't know how to get out of where you are. And sometimes it's the enemy, but sometimes it's God who's just saying, son, I need to slow you down just a little bit. I need to speak to you. You're not willing to hear me on this.

So I'm just going to put this piano on your back for a little while until you're willing to consider what I want to talk to you about. I remember one time I was just plowing through some agenda and I was walking down the street.

I believe it was eighth. And finally, this is several years ago. And finally in desperation, I said, Oh God, what are you wanting to tell me? And it was as if the Lord said, well, I'm thankful that you finally asked.

I've been wanting to speak to you and we get, we, we, we, we come to a place of weeping, but the Lord will never let it endure for more than a night. I want you to take heart, those that are in that place.

You're, you're struggling. You're, you're, you're in a trial. You can't seem to get through what's before you. And if you are a child of God, number one, the enemy will never prevail against you. There's no weapon formed against you that will prosper.

And so you, you might be going through this for a season and there might be a weeping in your heart, but you're going to get through. God says, I'm going to give you the power. And this is not the end of the story.

If God's walking with you and walking with me, we don't finish this course in despair. We finish it in victory. Now verse 11 tells us that it was at a time when he says, thou has turned from me my morning into dancing.

Psalm 23 and God's Presence in the Valley

You put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. I believe in my heart that it might've been a deep inner awareness that no matter what I have faced or will face in this life. You see David, just a few, a few Psalms before this in Psalm 23, David had come to an awareness that God will always be with me.

He said in verse four, yea, though I walked through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil for thou art with me, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Now folks, there's a time that you and I just become aware that to be a Christian does not mean that we escape hardship.

It does not mean the trials don't come. Circumstance knocks at every door. Saved, unsaved, rich, poor, educated, uneducated. I don't care what your station is in life. Circumstance and trial will come to your door just like everybody else's.

But the difference between those who know God and those who don't is David said, even though I've got to walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will not be afraid of it because God is with me.

He always has been with me and he always will be with me. He says, you prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil and my cup runs over. In other words, let hell rage as it will.

Supernatural provision will always be mine as a child of God. You'll have to fight. You'll have to fight enemies. You'll have to fight despair. You'll have to fight fear. You'll have to fight many of the things that are wanting to come and just rest upon the minds and the spirits of so many people in our society today will try to rest upon you too as well and somehow convince you that hell is going to triumph in the end.

But David said, no, you anoint me with oil. In other words, there's an oil of gladness in the knowledge that I am God's and God is mine. That comes into my heart. And no matter who is fighting against me, no, whether it says Paul says, whether it's fears within or fighting without, no matter what it is that I'm fighting, God sets a table before me, a banquet of strength, a banquet of truth that vanquishes all of the lies of the enemy that tried to destroy my mind and my testimony.

And then David comes to this conclusion after all, after going through the valley of the shadow of death, after having to fight against every enemy that came against him, he says, surely goodness and mercy should follow me all the days of my life.

And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever, hang around long enough in this world and in the church of Jesus Christ, go through some battles and some struggles and trials as we all have to do. And you will come to the same end as David did.

You'll come to the place where you begin to understand that goodness and mercy will follow you all the days of your life. And that you and I are not destined for some obscure future. We will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

God's house is my house. Praise be to God. Jesus said, don't let your heart be troubled. Don't let it be afraid. In my father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be also.

If it were not so, I would have told you. He's gone to prepare a place. Did you know you have a place in heaven not made with human hands that's being prepared right now? Did you know there's activity going on in heaven this morning?

A lot of activity. Did you know there's a street somewhere in heaven with a mansion on it that's got your name on the door? Did you know that? I believe it was an eternal home. Now David was dedicating a house on the earth.

I'm sure of that according to the psalm, but there's an inner awareness in David because he's a man of the spirit that this is a temporary house. Perhaps I'm rejoicing over, but there's an eternal one that's in the heavens, not made with human hands.

The Eternal House Not Made with Human Hands

Listen to what the apostle Paul says in second Corinthians chapter five, verses one and two, for we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands that's eternal in the heavens.

For this, for in this we groan earnestly desiring to be clothed with our house, which is from heaven. Now David knew this. I'm not going to be here forever. I'm not going to have to live in this creaky old body for eternity.

Thank God. I don't know, as you get older, you get more thankful for that every day. I'm getting to the place where every time I sit down, I groan now. And every time I get up, you have to start figuring out how you're going to do this.

When I used to exercise, I exercise most every day. When I get down on the floor and do sit-ups, I would just bounce up back to my feet for years. I counted one time, Pastor Neil and I were working out together.

There are seven distinct moves now to getting up off the floor. If you get up too fast, your back goes out, your legs hurt, you hurt your shoulder. You have to be really careful. And I'm just so thankful that I don't have to take this old body with me.

I'm not going to cough in heaven anymore. Praise God. Now David started out, if you'll turn to Psalm 142, please with me. Now David started out just like we all do in life. David had a promise, a new life in God.

David's Calling, Anointing, and Early Victories

I think as children, I think when you and I started out as young people, you think of all that the world seems to hold, the future, the potential for most at least. For some, maybe that was not the case for you.

But I want you to know this morning that you do have a future, no matter who told you you didn't, or how you felt where you were growing up. You do have a future, a wonderful future ahead of you in God.

David was set apart and anointed as a young man. Do you remember, called in from the pasture and Samuel the prophet was there and poured oil on him and set him apart from all of his brothers as a young man who's anointed and called of God for a specific purpose.

David was given supernatural faith and courage, just like many of us have. When you first came to the Lord, you were given the supernatural faith to fight against your enemies, oppressions and depressions and such like things that had perhaps governed you and governed your mind, governed your thinking, produced in you a certain worldview and a self-view which was not correct according to the Word of God.

And suddenly you found the supernatural life of God is infused into your life and everything now becomes possible. All the limitations are gone. All the barriers are gone. Every word of hell ever spoken over your life by anybody at any time is gone, dissipated.

You're now a new creation in Christ. And the Bible tells us clearly that whatever God's called you to do, you will do. Whatever he's called you to be, you will be. And you will not do it with power nor might nor anything of your human effort.

You will do it by the Spirit of God within you. And so the whole realm of possibility now is open to those who belong to Christ as it was with David. He found favor in the king's house. He became a worshiper whose praises put the devil to flight.

You remember when that evil spirit came upon Saul, David would pick up his instrument of music and begin to praise God. And that spirit was immediately bound as he began just to glorify God with a heart of faith and trust.

And many of you have known what that is to come in and praise God in your circumstance and feel that any evil that wants to get a hold of your life and mind is suddenly put to flight. He's brought into royalty.

Saul arranges for him to marry his daughter and he's just overwhelmed. And remember how overwhelmed we are when we realize that we are sons and daughters of God. As lowly as our estate may have been, we are called in to fellowship with Almighty God through Jesus Christ and to realize that we are children of God.

We are part of his family. We haven't earned it. We don't deserve it. We haven't worked for it. It is all by grace. And just like the prodigal son, it's somewhat overwhelming sometimes in the beginning.

And it just seems like the possibilities are endless. David must have felt that way. Nothing can stop me now. God's spirit is on me. And I'm part of the family. And we're moving forward. And of course, he's conquering.

He's leading Saul's armies and they're conquering enemy after enemy after enemy is beginning to fall. Just as many of you can't say. I was hooked on drugs and my mind was captivated by despair and all of these things.

They're all gone. I'm part of the family and I've been out there and I've been fighting the battles of the Lord and the Lord's been winning phenomenal victories through my life. And suddenly after all of that, David finds himself in a place that must have felt like death.

David in the Cave: When Refuge Fails

In Psalm 142, he says, I cried, verse one, to the Lord with my voice unto the Lord, I made supplication. I poured out my complaint before him and I showed him my trouble. Now you understand, suddenly everything's turned against him.

Suddenly he's not in favor in the King's house anymore. Suddenly finds himself in a cave pursued by the King that once professed to love him. And once professed to honor, I guess the spirit of God that was on him.

Now he's pursued by this King. He's in a cave with just a few discontented people and over 3 ,000 soldiers are seeking his life and trying to kill him. What a turn of events. It can happen, folks. It can happen in the spiritual realm in your mind.

You can be living in a great, great victory and all of a sudden, just out of nowhere, it just seems like hell has come against you with the fullness of its fury. Listen to what he says in verse four. He says, I looked at my right hand and there was no man that would know me.

Refuge failed me and no man cared for my soul. Nobody had the answer. I was in a struggle so deep. Nobody could quote a scripture to me that would make a difference. Nobody can understand the depth of what I was facing.

I know I'm speaking for somebody here this morning. You're in a struggle right now that is so deep. It's so seemingly unique in your heart and to your situation that you don't even want anybody to try to talk to you.

You don't want anybody opening the Bible and quoting scripture to you. It's a struggle so deep that you know instinctively that only God can bring you out of this. Only God can make the difference in your life.

And ultimately, that's what happened with David. Surrounded in a cave like a man who's in a grave. People all around him and he doesn't even know who's a friend and who's an enemy. There's 400 or so men gathered with him in this cave, but how does he know that one of them is not planted there by Saul?

He has no way of knowing. It must have been a fearful time in his life. In verse five, he says, but I cried unto thee, O Lord. I said, you are my refuge and my portion in the land of the living. Attend to my cry, for I'm brought very low.

God Alone as Strength, Provider, and Future Refuge

Deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I. And folks, I want to tell you something. Everything that God allows into your life and into mine is a classroom. And this classroom is to lead us all to one point.

This is where the ultimate victory lies. I want you to really hear this today. This is where your victory is. When you and I get to the point when we can honestly say, Lord, you are all that I have. You are my present help.

You're my future refuge. You're my provider, my strength. You are my everlasting home. Everything I am, everything I have, everything I ever will have is in you, Lord Jesus Christ. It's all in you. I'm in your hand.

And God, there's nothing around me that I can lean on. I can't lean on anything to the left or to the right. I can't lean on any other human being. I can't lean on my past. I can't lean on anything I've done.

I can't lean on anything but, oh Jesus, you. You are the only one that can take me into the future. You are the only one that has the promise of life for me. You are the only one. And folks, that is the deepest victory you'll ever experience in your Christian life.

When you and I get to the point, when we fully realize, as God said through the prophet Zechariah, it's not by might, it's not by power, but it's by the Spirit of Almighty God that this race will be finished.

It's by the goodness of God. It's by the grace of God. It's by the mercy of God. It's by the provision of God. It's by the power of God. It's by the faithfulness of God. It's by God and God alone that this race is going to be won.

And this race is going to be finished. 2 Samuel chapter 6 verse 14 and 15 tells us later on when David came out of this place, and you remember he took the ark as God now began to establish him. You and I cannot be established until Christ is our only strength.

If Christ is not your only strength, somehow you'll fall or fail along the way. But Christ became the strength of this king, and as he brought the ark, which is the presence of God, that it represented in that generation into the center of Jerusalem, the Bible says that David danced with all his might.

David's Dance Before the Lord

Remember we started with the scripture that says, weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. You've turned my mourning into dancing. You put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness.

Samuel says, David danced before the Lord with all his might, and David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting with the sound of the trumpet. Praise God, David knew at that point, everything I am has come from your hand.

Everywhere I go has been predestined by you for my feet. Oh God, I cannot be overcome by the evil one. I will not be triumphed over by despair. I can go into the valley of the shadow of death, and there your rod and your staff will be with me.

You will give me a banquet of truth and a banquet of hope in the midst of my struggle, and I know that I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. I know it, oh God. I know it deep in my heart. That's the ultimate worship, folks, when you and I can come out of hell itself and dance in the presence of God and say, Satan, you throw anything at me you want, but it makes no difference anymore.

I'm in the hand of God now. He's my strength in my life. Hallelujah, Lamb of God. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, mighty God. Paul the apostle to the Thessalonian church, he speaks of a time coming when even Jesus himself will shout for joy.

The Lord's Shout and the Resurrection of the Dead

There's coming a day of joy, folks, like you and I have never known or seen. You can taste a bit of it now, but there's a day coming of joy that's unspeakable and full of glory. The Thessalonian church was under persecution.

Paul had only been able to preach there for a short time, and you remember they drew even the people out of the house where he was staying, and they threatened them, and they fined him, and there was an uproar in the city, and he was charged with creating public disorder, and he had to actually flee from this city, and he was very, very concerned about the church, whether or not they would survive under the persecution.

There was like an against God madness in that particular society at that time, and Paul writes back to the church after finding out that they indeed have stood. They indeed have held to the testimony of Christ, and he says, For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall not prevent, or that means precede those that have died before us.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. There's a day coming when even Jesus is going to shout. The Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout. It's a shout of victory. It's a shout of triumph.

It's a shout emanating from so deep within the heart of God. It's something that God's been waiting for from the day he lost the man that he loved, the woman he loved, created in his own image in the garden of Eden.

He's been waiting since that day for a day coming when all of his children would be gathered to him again. He's going to come with a shout, folks. What a shout that's going to be. With the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God.

Remember David brought the ark in. It says, With shouting and the sound of the trumpet. It's a prefiguring of Christ. He says he's going to come from heaven with a shout, the voice of the archangel, the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

Everyone who trusted in Christ in whatever cemetery they are in, in and around the greater New York area is going to rise first. I do hope, I do hope they have time to get here before we leave. I do hope.

What a service that's going to be, folks. What a time that's going to be in the house of God. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

So shall we ever be with the Lord. Paul said where for comfort one another with these words, we will all meet one day at the gate of heaven. I think, and this, when I say I think it doesn't mean it's in the Bible.

Okay. It's just, I think, but I think that maybe we'll all be allowed one good cry at the gates of heaven before we enter into a place where tears will be no more. I think we'll get there and I think we're going to dance.

Eternal Joy, Reunion, and the House of Heaven

I think we're going to shout at the gate of heaven. You see, my, my mom and dad are going to be there. I find it hard to believe there'd be no tears there at that moment. Pastor Teresa's mom and dad will be there.

People I've known in the Lord and have gone on before are going to be there. People I'll never believe would be there are going to be there. You're going to be there. I'm going to be there. We're going to dance like David danced.

We're going to sing. We're going to cry. We're going to hug. We're going to shout because folks, this is the beginning of eternity for us. Now, this is everything that God has promised. This is the dedication of an eternal house, not made with human hands, a house in heaven made by God almighty himself through his son, Jesus Christ on the cross 2000 years ago.

Oh, praise God. And don't you despair because I know there's some here say, well, listen, I don't have a father and mother there. I don't have a brother that I don't have a sister there. I don't have anybody there.

Number one, Jesus is there and he knows you. He knows who you are. Number two, there's a cloud of witnesses. According to the right of Hebrews that are watching you now that are encouraging, say my son, my daughter, don't give up the fight.

Don't give up the race. It will be worth it. All keep on running. Keep on going. There's a great, great reward for those who don't cast away their confidence in this or any other time. And number three, we will be there.

And the Bible says, we will know, even as we were known, we will know you, we will remember you, even though I don't get to meet you here, I'll meet you there at the gate. Oh, we'll be hugging. We'll be crying.

There's no time there anymore. It doesn't matter if we're there a million years, it doesn't matter. There's no more time. You talk about dancing. You talk about shouting. You talk about glory. You talk about the goodness of God.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Hallelujah. You know, the Bible says that we'll not be married anymore. I'm going to talk to the Lord about that.

See if we can't do, I'm sure that can be arranged. I'm sure that can happen. I mean, it's heaven. Scripture says he won't withhold any joy. So I'm sure we can do something about that. Folks, hold to your confidence in Christ, declare him to be faithful in your trial and realize deep down that forever and always he will never fail you and he will never forsake you.

Don't let your own heart and don't let any power of evil suggest to you that you're going to be triumphed over. The Lord God has interwoven the honor of his own name into keeping you. If you could be triumphed over, then it would, and you had a trusting heart in God, if you could be, it would bring a reproach to the name of God himself and he won't allow it.

He will not allow any trusting heart. Now, maybe your trust is no bigger than a grain of mustard seed, but didn't the Bible say that's all you need and from that a great big tree can be born that gives shade to others.

Maybe that's all you've got today. Maybe your problems are so big that all you've got is a faith that looks so tiny, but Jesus said, that's all you need. And from that little seed of faith that's in your heart, I'm going to do something phenomenal in your life.

If you will hold to that and not let that little bit of faith slip through your fingers in this hour of time, hold, hold to God's unchanging hand as we sing quite often in this church. And then for others, will you come with us?

Christ's Sudden Return and the Invitation to Salvation

There is an incredible day coming and it's going to come suddenly actually. And it's going to come at a time when the world is starting to spin into some form of uncontrollable calamity. People will be aware of it in their heart.

And the Bible says that suddenly Christ comes for his church. Like a thief in the night, he comes. And we are taken to a place where there's only joy forever. Won't you come with us? Jesus died on the cross 2000 years ago to make a way for you.

He paid the price for the sin. That means the wrongdoing that separates you and God. He paid the price. An innocent man took the penalty for your wrong upon himself, the son of God. And if you believe in him and open your heart to him and let him become the Lord of your life, he promises to forgive you of your sin, to cleanse you and take away the whole record of it.

So there's no record that can stop you from entering the presence of God forever. And then he promises to give you a brand new life, a new start and a new hope, a future, a soundness of mind, steadiness in your journey.

This is what God promises to give to you. Won't you come with us? Won't you join us at that gate? Won't you be part of this celebration that will be for eternity? In order to do so, you must admit that you need a savior.

You must open your heart and let him come. Let him love you. Let him forgive you. Let him walk with you. He promises you life, not only here, but for eternity. Please, will you consider turning from your sin and turning to your savior?