Profiting from Our Trials: Part 4

Start recording this for our wonderful Kleindienst family here so it'd be an encouragement to them. And I want to encourage you in the word we're talking about the testing of our faith. Right. Endurance patience perseverance.

Right. Let it let it have let it have its perfect work. That's what I like to. This is a part four and there'll be more parts and I think it's gonna work out just perfect because next week I like to hit a part five and look at the the believing heart.

Today we're going to look at the submissive will the surrendered will. And then. Right. And then the Lord's Day. Right. Not right before Christmas but the the Lord's Day before the coming of the Christmas.

And the following Tuesday I'll preach one more from James and it ends perfectly. Really. And then I'm going to like for all of us to focus on the wonderful birth the virgin birth of Jesus Christ. I believe that would encourage us.

There's so many scriptures about that but that's part of our faith is believing he's virgin born. He came was born in a feeding trough a stable and the lowest of the low and all the way to the cross. He lived a perfect a perfect life.

No one else no one else did this as a man full of the Holy Spirit. And there's so many wonderful things we can talk of about our wonderful Lord. But he was virgin born. And that means he came and entered into this world.

And what's so important about the virgin birth as you well know is he entered into this world without the Adamic nature of sinning. He did not have the bent towards sinning even though he was fully human.

He was not born with the nature of sinning like we are. He was one of a kind. One of a kind and always will be. We worship him for that. Right. And he did all this as a man. And there's a lot of debates that's gone on down through the centuries.

Could he had sinned. Well we believe he was impeccable that he could not have sinned because he did not have that bent towards sinning even though he was tempted in all points as we are yet without sin he was the perfect son of God.

He was. He was tempting in every way to to sin. But he is a read from the scripture and correct me if I'm wrong he was not capable of sinning because there was nothing in him that could give him that desire to sin.

Even though he was flesh he grew weary tired. He was a man of sorrows. He wept he cried. But when it comes to sin that was. That's that's a huge debate down through the years. And well you know we could look into that about his virgin birth.

But that's that's the great part. That's the great argument of it. Well let's go to the book of James. That's a that's another sermon. Right. Talking about the virgin birth. The book of James. Wonderful wonderful epistle isn't it.

We're looking in chapter 1 and I'm going to read to you verses 2 2 through 8. But we're just going to look specifically verse 4 this morning. Verse 4. Hear the word of the Living God. Verse 2 my brethren count it all joy when you fall into various trials knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience.

That's another word for endurance. Perseverance produces patience endurance. Verse 4. And here's the transitional word. But but let at the word of submission. That's what we're going to look at today.

Let patience have its perfect work that you may be perfect and complete. I love that perfect and complete. Lacking nothing. He doesn't want us to like nothing. Right. Verse 5. If any of you lacks wisdom down as you're talking about lacking he doesn't want us to lack wisdom.

Then he says that word again. Let him ask of God. That word let is a word of submission. That's an important word. Let him ask of God who gives God's a giving God right. Who gives to all liberally and without reproach.

And it will be given to him. Here's that transitional word again. But let word of submission him ask in faith. We submissively ask in faith with no doubting. For he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind.

Here it is again. For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord. Why he tells us why he is a double-minded man unstable in all his ways. That's the word of the Lord and God's Word richly bless our hearts and and encourage us and do its work this morning.

Let's pray our Father in heaven. We our prayer is this morning as we study and look into your word together as your people. It's always always for the benefit and for the purpose of you to be glorified.

I don't believe there's any other end to your word than you to be glorified. And you are most glorified in your son the Lord Jesus Christ and through your Holy Spirit. And so father by your Holy Spirit we must come and and and we need this holy anointing as I've prayed this morning.

And we do seek you for this again. For this is a precious thing a most precious thing. And we were your conscience Lord that we have remaining sin within our hearts. And we must have a vessel that's clean a mind that's pure a heart that is cleansed by the blood of Jesus in order for that holy anointing to flow through.

For so father I plead with you this morning. I need cleansing. We all need cleansing. We need the sanctifying work the effect of your words. So father we plead with you with mercy from your mercy and grace.

Be merciful. We pray help us. We pray. We plead with you help us to have a focus upon your son the Lord Jesus and none other. We must be single-eyed and we pray that he would be glorified. You will be glorified.

The Trinity would be glorified. And father we pray Lord to that we would by your spirit but by by discipline within ourselves by your help to set our minds on things in heaven to see the eternal perspective things from a holy viewpoint not a worldly viewpoint.

So father your word gives us this this right viewpoint the things that you are pleased with the things that you hate the things that you love. So father we're not here by any sense of the matter to please men.

We want to please you. That's our prayer father challenges and transform us more into the likeness of your dear son so that we as the scripture says this morning that we will be perfect mature sons and daughters of the Living God that our lives will make a difference for your namesake and for your glory.

So we ask this this morning in the name of your son the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. Well we're looking at a wonderful verse here I mean passages of verse and I don't know about you. If you studying through the book of James it's rewarding.

It's convicting because it's it's not only so practical but it's it really digs in to the heart of who we are in Jesus and and how we're working out our faith working out our own salvation with fear and trembling.

Right. So we talk about trembling. That's what scripture says. This is a sanctifying way. And James really is talking about sanctification in many respects. Because it's how we prove our faith how we show our faith.

And so we've been looking at how how that would be the word. We as believers in Jesus Christ profit from our trials. Trials will come. There's no shortcuts around them by the testing of our faith. And that's how it we profit our from from our faith is is I'm sorry but profit from trials.

Our faith must be tested. So it must be tested in order to profit from the trials. Recognizing also that trials are essential means that God uses to perfect Christian character to mature us. So we're ever going towards Christian maturity.

Right. And that doesn't come easily. Does it. It's it's a process I don't know about you. It's there's no shortcuts I've told myself and I've as I've read good godly books but mainly the the book and mainly the book the Biblos the Bible.

I find out there are no shortcuts to the Christian life. There is it is a hard road but we should not be discouraged because it's hard. There's plenty of sufficient grace for us to make it through. So he wants to perfect us and build Christian character.

Right. It's all about how God wants to chisel away and and perfect us and make us mature. So that's how we are made mature is is through the perfecting. And that's what we're gonna look at this morning.

So James gives us really five keys for persevering through them and through the trials. First to our joyful attitude as we looked at and understanding mind we must first have a joyful attitude. Our attitude must be filled with joy.

That's not easy. Is it that takes a supernatural work. That is a supernatural grace. And we looked at that joy must be supernatural. Joy is part of the attitude a joyful attitude. Jesus said that and the Beatitudes that word blessed is a wonderful word.

You see this all through Scripture all through the Psalms blessed blessed blessed. Jesus said that he just uses it actually as a role of a prophet. His role is in many many facets prophet priest and King.

But there when he taught on the Sermon on Mount he said blessed blessed blessed. And you know as a prophet a prophet would give a curse or a blessing. Here he was giving a blessing and his blessings was it.

Blessed are the poor in spirit blessed are those who mourn. Blessed are the pure in heart blessed. And that word blessed is important word because it means extremely joyful extremely happy just not happy from happenstance.

It is a deep-seated joy in Jesus. So when he's talking about joy and we are to be joyful that's what he's talking about. It is a deep-seated joy and that's the kind of attitude. So we looked at that and we also looked at an understanding mind.

We must be have an understanding mind. So the next three would be a submissive will. And we're gonna look at this one today a submissive will and then next a believing heart. And last in this section all the way through verse 8 a humble spirit a humble spirit.

I'm looking forward to breaking these up and looking at the submissive will believing heart a humble spirit. So today we'll be focusing just on the submissive will Lord willing. Next Lord's Day we'll look at a believing heart then the following Lord's Day as I said before we will look at a humble a humble spirit.

So the third means to perseverance this is the third means in trials is a submissive will. A submissive will that means a surrendered will. Now this is a big one and I'm breaking it up like this because there are so many illustrations I'm not gonna be able to hit them all today because there are so many illustrations from scripture.

I just don't like to just take illustrations and stories which you can through the without the ages of Saints but I think the best illustrations we can find is in scripture. And that's where I like to go.

And I got this from expository preachers and like MacArthur and and other ministers and Martin Lloyd-Jones and they would always go to the scriptures and I said that feeds my soul more than anything else.

So that's what I want to do today. We're gonna look at father Abraham as an example as a father of our faith he was called the father of faith and how he was tested to the ultimate. Okay. Well God cannot build our character right unless we're willing.

Now a lot of people say well hold on he causes us. Doesn't he. Yes he does causes us. But there is an will he will not violate. He will not violate our will. You can read this more and study it. I used to think you know a lot of people have a problem problems with let me just say this this is not in my notes or anything.

I'm just bringing this out if you're interested in studying about the will there's a lot of good books out there. There's Martin Luther wrote a classic called the bondage of the will which is very helpful about you know really the controversy about Calvinism Armenian ism is really the will.

That was the controversy and the way that people took the Calvinist they took the Calvinist wrong was because they felt that God somehow interrupts and been and bends the will in a sense. Now there is a causing God does.

That's irresistibly okay. But it's God will not violate our will. You so I'm saying we're not robots. He gives us a will to choose right and wrong. So that was the argument is really the will that would go back and forth and they think it's a how you.

Okay and in each argument would have their side and state their case about whosoever will that God will not violate the human will that. And then talk about God's will. Okay. But the reason I'm saying this is because we got to understand from what the text what James is talking about the word let and I believe this to be biblical because there is submission on our part.

God's not going to come down and believe for us even though he causes us to believe. But you see I'm saying we must take a hold we must be submissive. We must we must yield. That's why Paul says this let you see this word lit constantly in Scripture and underscore.

That's important word but it's it's very helpful. I remember years ago at a Christian missionary alliance when I was a when I was a associate pastor with he's with the Lord. Now we're the Rollins. He died home to be with the Lord's on September 11th.

Interesting he was up in age. He was this. He was a sweet man. But God led us elsewhere. But anyway as I was teaching Sunday school I remember dear Rhonda Pats. I was her name it was a good friend. She was a good friend of Teresa's and by the way she's with the Lord now she was blind totally blind.

She'd come with her cane and she'd sit and listen to God's Word. Oh did she have questions. My goodness she hit me with questions all the time brother Rollins with questions and I you know we love questions.

And we didn't have all the answers but we did what we could to help her. And I remember one time and this is my point. I was talking about yielding and submissive submission to the Lordship of Jesus. And and submission and to the to and that involves our Christian life yielding.

And I remember that word yield. She had a hard time with that word. She said she said pastor what does that word yield mean. I said well it can mean that several day it means to submit to give in to fall on your face and say Lord this is not my.

I'm yielding this to you I give it to you I cast my care to you. And and she would go back to that word she says. But she says how do you yield. She said I said boy you know how to get the good question sister how do I yield.

I said to sit there and thank the Lord help me. And I said well I said Rhonda I said it's by God's grace of course. And she says okay how do I how do I receive God's grace. And I said well I said there is believing.

She said how do I believe. You know. And I said boy you you're really challenging me sister. And she was just going on and on. I mean every time I would try to go to the answer. She said well how do I do this.

And how do I yield. And how does I said look sister it's God's grace. She finally just dropped and she said okay I'll take it. But she was very challenged. But I love those kind of questions. You know you want to you want to probe it and get.

And she she struggled with this she struggled. And we all struggle. Don't we. We struggle with Lord how do we do this. And but it is by God's grace. God's grace is beyond us it is. There's overpowering this.

And Tozer used that word a lot. There's an overpowering of God's presence and his grace that comes. But yes we must believe and there must be a willingness on our part to believe. But that that's where God's.

And that's what in a sense we do call ourselves reformed in the fact in the sense of biblical sense that word reform can take many different definitions but and go in different many areas. But I'm talking a historical viewpoint in Scripture.

But what I mean by that is there is an irresistibility that God intervenes. But we must submit. And as and and here's the thing you if you study like the golden chain of redemption there's it goes way back.

Doesn't it before we believe before we justified and eventually glorified is the end of it. But before and when you justified you will sanctification will follow. There's no question about it matter of fact if sanctification is not following and if we're not loving holiness and hating sin there's every right to believe that a person's not a Christian that he's not been justified.

See what I'm saying. So people need to bring these things up. And and then a lot of people try to squirm out of these things and say well there's a car. I'm I could be a car. No Christian I can live like the world live the way I want to.

Oh that's not what the Bible teaches my beloved. It teaches love not the world. See. And by the way if you are loving the world there's every question to think to believe that the love of the Father is not in us.

So that whole thing of desire brother Keith and I was talking about this is passion. That's a huge word desire. So God changes the desire the heart. And that's by believing. But even the those that believe are those who are appointed into eternal life.

You see you could take this and read it and study it. And I'm telling you can go to so many different areas. So we're talking about submission. We're talking about submission if we resist. If we resist God then then he chastens us.

Jonah is a perfect example of this. So he resisted God. He was called the prejudiced prophet. Just read it. That's what I call him anyway. He was a very prejudiced prophet. He only thought that salvation was for the Jews.

He thought the Jews had a monopoly on God. And here are these wicked Ninevites out there and God says you go to them. God gave him a command you go and you preach to them what I tell you. And he refused.

He resisted. He did not submit. But God knew how to make him submit. God had a chastening rod for him. And it was in the belly of a whale for three days. God even provided the means of transportation.

And God wonderful. God even transported him. He was going in the opposite direction. God says I even take you there. The first submarine. Raven Hill College. Yeah. That's so true. Isn't it. The first submarine.

And now boy what a trip that that that had to been dark. Could you imagine being swallowed up. I'm sure he's having a hard time with air and oxygen and suffocation. But it's amazing. Yeah. And smell all of it.

He had to be aside after that whale vomited him up on the land. But you know you think of it. We have the record of his prayer. Read his prayer. He ends it with salvations of the Lord. But if you notice in his prayer deliverance is God's.

And he's humbled. So when we are arrogant and resisting God God knows how to humble us. He humbled Jonah. But it's interested that book ends very interesting because it's a short book was a lot of lessons taught to us there.

But he still is pouting and self full of self-pity. He's angry at God. He's angry about this the gourd. He's angry about everything. And because God brings salvation to those wicked Ninevites. But the point I'm making here is he resisted God and but God knew how to take him out to the woodshed and chasing him.

So with that in mind turn with it. Turn with me. And we already read the text. But we're gonna go back and look. Let's go look to Hebrews chapter 12. You know Hebrews chapter 12 has a lot to say about this.

What about the discipline of God. What about it was scripture. Say about God's discipline. Well look at verse 3. I'm gonna read a few verses here because scripture. And let scripture speak and go to all the way to verse 11.

But notice what it says here. Now we looked at some verses about the end of chapter 11. About those in faith that were not always delivered but they suffered. They were afflicted. They would torture did and not accepting deliverance that they may obtain a better resurrection.

And then the writer of Hebrews takes us right to Jesus and the race of faith who to look to the perfect example. And that's the Lord Jesus Christ. But then it speaks about verse 3. For consider him who's him Jesus who endured such hostility from sinners against himself.

Why least you become weary and discouraged in your own souls. Verse 4. And then he says this. You have not. I'm sorry you have not yet resisted to bloodshed. Now what does that mean. That basically means that none of the Hebrews had experienced such an intense as exhaustion of persecution that it brought them to death or martyrdom.

So that word bloodshed is is very interested. It would appear to to be there is that there's a striving there a striving against sin. A striving against sin. Verse 5. And and it says. And you have forgotten and you have forgotten the exhortation.

Here's an exhortation which speaks to you as to sons. Now this is really encouraging. But and that's the purpose of it. It's an exhortation. But notice the exhortation. He quotes several verses actually in verse 5 and 6 from the Old Testament I believe he quotes from Job.

He quotes from Proverbs and I think it's what Job 5 chapter 5 17 and Proverbs. That's what my reference says here 3 and 11 and 12. So this this writer of Hebrews is going back into the Old Testament and bringing these scriptures up my son do not despise the chastening of the Lord.

Don't despise it nor be discouraged when you're rebuked by him for whom the Lord loves he chastens now that's really supposed to be encouraging to us when we're having the chastening right of God on us we know that we're part of the family of God.

What children of God. Now that's something to rejoice about be encouraged about that because it is a painful thing that may come the chastening may be very painful but he talks about that. Listen he scourges every son whom he received now it's an interesting word scourging my notes.

MacArthur says this refers to flogging with a whip something severe and painful from a form of beating that was common to the Jewish practice in that day. That's what MacArthur says. It is a discipline that that you endure from God.

And then he goes in verse 7. Listen we says if you endure chastening and there is a if there's always that chance that someone may not endure it. And that will prove that they're not children of God that they do not persevere.

They defect you some saying that's what scripture teaches. But if you persevere if you endure it if you continue you don't give up. There's a purpose for that trial and we can profit from. So if you endure chastening God deals with you as with sons.

And then he says is what illustration that he gives. And and what a son what son is there whom a father does not chasten. You got to correct them. You got to chasten them. You got to discipline them. In other words.

But if you are without chastening and if you're without discipline of which all have become partakers then you are illegitimate and not sons. Furthermore we I love he puts we we have had human fathers.

In other words he got the chastening rod from his father to who is earthly father who corrected us and we paid them respect. Well you respect those who chastened. You don't you I sure did for my father my goodness.

But anyway shall we not much more readily. Readily. And here's the word be in subjection. There's a way that that chastening submits us submit doesn't it. It brings us to a place of submission. And that's what God's doing.

Because there's love behind there's a loving hand behind it because he cares for us he loves us and he wants us to be like him in subjection to the Father of Spirits and live in verse 10 for they indeed for a few days how about the fathers.

For a few days chastened us discipline us as seen best to them. But he for our prophet there's the word prophet that we may be partakers of his holiness. What a wonderful thing. And in verse 11 now no chastening or discipline seems to be joyful.

It sure is it pleasant isn't for the present but painful. He's right straightforward isn't. He's truthful. That's the Word of God. He tells us the truth it chastening is painful. Nevertheless there's a reward to it.

Listen to this afterward. It yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. That's what God wants to do. He wants us to yield the wonderful peaceable fruit of righteousness and be trained by it.

But it comes painful doesn't it. It comes hard. So there's much more we can say about that about everything about the training there the fruit of righteousness our prophet. But the main thing I want you to see is subjection is a respect for God.

There's a great respect for God. That's all of God. It is a fear of God that's there. And it equals submission to his will. So so we're looking at the submission to his will right and his law. And those who willingly receive the Lord's chastening will have a richer more abundant life.

You know when we push this away we were pushing away blessing. You know if we somehow want to avoid a trial somehow man and try to. There are ways some people can try to get out of it. But I'm telling you it's a blessing when God brings it right to you.

And there's a great rich reward for us in that trial. So I thought that would be good for us to read those verses of 3 through 11 in Hebrews because it gives us a a wonderful idea from scripture from a spiritual viewpoint of what James is talking about about cement right.

So if we do submit to God then he can accomplish his work through us. Right. God is never satisfied with a halfway job. I believe that he will does a full job. He does a thorough job. And when God does a work in us and through us is always to perfect us and to complete us for a work.

And that's what we're looking at. He desires a finished product. God looks at the end of it. We don't see that but he God sees the beginning to the end. He's already lived our tomorrows. So he wants to see us mature and Christ-like complete.

So God's goal for maturity is Christ-likeness. That is God's goal. Pastor John MacArthur says in his commentary says is the only way out of our trials is through it. And that true the only way out of our trials is through.

He goes on to say the Lord promises no bypasses only that he always will see his people through the trials without their suffering spiritual harm. We think we're not going to make it at times but God is going to give us grace to help us through it.

But God cannot do this as he says his his perfect and complete work in and through us without our willing submissiveness. So we must yield. And then he goes on to say this when we learn to rejoice in our trials and come to under and to understand that our gracious Heavenly Father uses them not to harm us but to strengthen and perfect us.

We are not I'm sorry we are motivated to embrace them as beneficial and that's so true. They are beneficial to us they help us. I was thinking of a example from Job that's a wonderful book in it. It's it's it's a lengthy book but it has a great insights to it.

A lot of wisdom a lot of wisdom. They said President Abraham Lincoln during the time when this nation was divided during a very hard time and we were killing each other and you know it was a terrible time.

But Abraham Lincoln I read this Abe Lincoln went to the book of Job more than any other book because it was great wisdom there you see the sovereignty of God through suffering there. And there was a lot of suffering going on in that time period.

A lot of bloodshed right. And not unnecessary bloodshed. It was terrible. This nation was just ripping itself apart. But Abe Lincoln was the leader at that time. I'm sure he felt like a failure in many respects.

But he always would go to the book of Job and I see why it does. Example Ilphas Ilphas one of Job's friends who knows about Job's friends. We do. Don't we. But they we can always talk about Job's friends.

But you know it's interesting that there are times when the Holy Spirit gave them wise words and the Spirit of God was breathing upon them. And I'm going to give you a verse here. I think you'll like you can go there if you like.

Look go to Job chapter 5. Job chapter 5 this is what the book of Job says. Let's look at verse 6 through 11. Now Ilphas Ilphas I think I'm pronouncing that right declared wisely to Job. And it was an argument.

Yeah the art. You know. Really what was the argument. Did Job sin. That's that's the argument. Job did you sin. There's something that's you had to sin because all this to come upon you. But there were times that Job's friends had some great wisdom from God and they would try to encourage him.

I think the greatest encouragement they did was the first week. They said nothing. They just embraced and comforted him. And when they started opening their mouth and they all kinds of things started happening.

You know. So anyway but look look at verse 6 for affliction does not come from the dust and that the truth just doesn't come from the dust or nowhere. It's a purposeful this affliction. He says affliction does not come from the dust.

Nor does trouble spring from the ground. Verse 7. Yet man is born to trouble. Amen. Everybody man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Now that word sparks fly upward. I looked at the commentaries on this and it means this was an expression which describes all sorts of fire light movements.

You ever see a bonfire. And you know you see the sparks. And I think about this too. It's kind of encouraging because you see the the sparks come up from the coals and the wood and it goes into the air.

And this thing you know it just evaporates. It's just you see them and then they disappear. So they're mom and Terry. Mom and Terry. I said right there for just a short period of time. But they're there.

That's the way trouble is flying sparks. Then in verse 8 looks the way he says. But I love. Don't you love the butts. The transitional word. But for me I would seek God. I think that's a good wise word.

Seek God. And to God I would commit my cause. Verse 9 who does great things. And unsearchable and marvelous things without number. So what's he'll fast doing here. What's he saying. Well from verses 9 to 16 he is really given.

You can go and read the rest of it. But his argument is based on a moral on the moral perfection of God. What is he doing. He's looking at God's perfections. So what. He's at stolen God's greatness and God's goodness.

And and then notice in verse 10 he goes and he said he gives time at God. God gives rain on the earth. He sends waters on the fields. That's because of God's goodness. God doesn't have to do that. He doesn't owe it to us.

But he does it. He sets on high those who are lowly. And those who mourn are afflicted. I'm sorry are lifted to safety. Those who mourn are lifted to safety. Where else do we hear this. Matthew 5 to bless it are those who mourn for they shall be comforted.

How wonderful scripture is. Scripture. Interpret scripture. You see David testify this in his prayer. Psalm 131 verses 1 2. What do you say. He said Lord my heart is not haughty. He knew is he did a lot of heart searching.

And then he's praying this. He said Lord my heart's not proud. Nor my eyes lofty. No my my eyes are not arrogant. God you know my heart I've been bent down. I've been afflicted. God knocked it out of them.

And they said this. Neither do I concern myself with great manners nor with things too profound. I love that. Well I'm not bothering with these profound things or the difficult things for me. I'm not searching that.

But he says surely I have calmed and quieted my soul. In other words he's resting in God. He is completely resting in God. And miss Lillian knows where I'm going with this. Like a weaned child with his mother.

Isn't that wonderful. Now what is that word weaned. We're going towards something right. What is James talking about maturity. Got to be weaned that way. Yet you ever seen a weaned child. I know you mothers have I've seen it from five.

There was a time when Teresa she breastfed all of them and she had a weaned. And sometimes that child looking at her like you care about me. You know. Are you gonna take care of my needs. And it was kind of hard for the child you know to to be weaned.

But scripture says it's a good thing. It comes a point that child has to be weaned. Well like a weaned child is my soul within me David. So within me my soul. So God is teaching us something. David had grown into maturity.

He learned he matured through the troubles and the afflictions. He says good for the Lord to afflict me. He already endured it. And so he's given an illustration like a nursing infant as it were to a newly weaned child.

And he continued to stay intimate with his Lord. And notice David was constantly throwing himself on God constantly didn't go to people for his heartaches and trouble. And even though I think there is a place that is nothing wrong bearing each other's burdens.

Right to fulfill the law of Christ. But but first he went to God. Amen. Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. He went to God first he went to God. Oh wonderful hymn. We have it sung too often.

But it says I must tell Jesus. I must tell Jesus all of my heartaches all of my troubles. I must tell Jesus. I must tell Jesus. It's actually good for the child. It's good for us to be weaned. So sometimes God has to wean us away from our childish toys and our immature attitudes.