Reformed Presbytery in North America

Towards the end of this sermon, Pastor Price explains that God is never late in keeping His Word. Delays are God's appointments in our life to stretch us to exercise our faith in the promises of God so that we don't walk by sight; so that we don't walk by feelings; so that we don't walk by what we observe by way of circumstances; so that we walk according to the promises of God. That's faith because we can't see the promises of God. When we pray for something we think is truly needful, God always responds. It may be a no, it may be a yes, or it may be a wait. God has responded when He calls us to wait. In what He gives us, or in what He doesn't give us, or in what He calls us to wait for, He always does us good.

Very encouraging!

Pastor Price explains that it is not the resources of man that guarantee success or bring to pass the events in life, it is the divinely ordained plan and good pleasure of God that orders the time and events in our lives (even those events that appear from our human perspective to be “chance” because they are outside the control of man).

"A sovereign Providence breaks men's measures, and blasts their hopes, and teaches them that the way of man is not in himself, but subject to the divine will. We must use means, but not trust to them; if we succeed, we must give God the praise (Psa_44:3); if we be crossed, we must acquiesce in his will and take our lot." Matthew Henry. And so it is!

This is a very encouraging, comforting and useful sermon!

Pastor Price explains that in God's time, whether in this life, or whether we are in heaven, He will make all things beautiful. That's our unchangeable hope. That's why we can have joy regardless of what we're going through. When we reach that heavenly shore, we will have heaven's perspective on all the miseries of this life. Presently we have an earthly perspective and we try to have, as God's people, a heavenly perspective on what happens in our life. But day in and day out, we seem to fail. But when we are in the presence of Christ, we will have heaven's perspective on all the miseries of this life. And then we will see the beauty of God's wisdom in ordaining what He did for our lives and for the lives of our loved ones. Then it will make sense to us, even if it doesn't make any sense to us right now. So let us cling to the truth that God already "hath made every thing beautiful in his time." That is our comfort in the midst of all the miseries of this life.

As Pastor Price explains, Alexander the Great gained the whole world but lost his own soul. Alexander died a young man, yet he had conquered the known world. He had attained the glory, the power, and the supremacy at that time. What did it profit him? He had lost his own soul. He died without faith and trust in the living God. Which is more important? The pleasures and comforts of this life? Or the riches and glory of heaven? What you consider to be more important is what you are going to value the most in your life.

Pastor Price explains that if we only consider what we can see with our eyes, our fears will run away with us. Our sovereign God puts us into seemingly hopeless situations before powerful enemies, not to cast us into despair, but that we might look away from what we can see with our eyes, or what we hear with our ears, that we might look away from all of our own human resources, to cast ourselves upon Him and His infinite power, and wisdom, and help. Mere appearances are deceiving and misleading. That's why we are taught in Scripture that we must not walk by sight, and we must not walk by feelings, but by faith in who God is, and His might, and His power, and His wisdom, and His love, and His tender mercies. And we must also walk in the promises of God that He has made unto us. Whatever you face by way of some great trial that seems hopeless, it is not hopeless because God is ever faithful to His own.

Great sermon! Indeed, God is in control and His will is supreme!

Thank you my Brother for exalting the Worthy Lamb and making sin exceeding sinful. Rev 5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Rev 5:12 Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. Pray for the fatherless and at such a time, that they would know Him! Isa 9:6,7

Very encouraging.

This sermon helpfully explains that God sometimes uses delays in our lives to test our faith in Him.

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This is a powerful andencouragingsermon directing Christians to look to God alone for deliverance from severe trials.