Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.Then they cried to Yahweh in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he delivered them out of their distresses.Then they cried unto Jehovah in their trouble, And he delivered them out of their distresses,
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when your social media timeline starts filling up with all of your friends who are drinking wine at the French Riviera. and they're jet setting off to watch world cup games around the United States and yet I want to share something I want to be honest with you is that on a Sunday morning at 10 a.m there's no place I would rather be than here with you all listening to this music and celebrating the Lord's day with you and so if you are one of the folks that God has called here I'm going to invite you to do something quite courageous and turn to your neighbor and just say you're right where you need to be. Would you pray with me? O God, in your mercy, I ask that either through these words or despite these words, that the reflections shared here today, that the people gathered might hear your voice and your voice alone. Speak, O God, for your servants are listening. Amen. our scripture lesson today comes from the gospel of luke chapter 7 would you follow along with me in your bulletin and so one of the pharisees invited jesus to eat with him and after he that is jesus entered into that pharisee's home he took his place at the table and meanwhile a woman from the city, a sinner, discovered that Jesus was dining in this Pharisee's house, and she brought perfumed oil and a vase made of alabaster, and standing behind him at his feet and crying, …
… scenes, and they each begin with some, and then they're going to follow the same pattern. You're going to hear about distress and trouble, then crying out to the Lord, and then His deliverance. So, here's the first. Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in, hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted within them. Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress. He led them by a straight way till they reached a city to dwell in. Let them thank the Lord for His steadfast love, for His wondrous works to the children of man, for He satisfies the longing soul, and the hungry soul He fills with good things. Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and in irons, for they had rebelled against the words of God and spurned the counsel of the Most High. So, he bowed their hearts down with hard labor. They fell down with none to help. …
With His almighty breath." IV. And now the disease takes a turn. Our fourth point is THE INTERPOSITION OF THE PHYSICIAN. "Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and He saves them out of their distresses. He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destructions." The Good Physician is the true Healer. Observe when the Physician comes in—when "they cry unto the Lord in their trouble." When they cry, the Physician has come! I will not say that He has come because they cry, though that would be true—but there is deeper truth still—they cried because He came! For whenever a soul truly cries unto God, God has already blessed it by enabling it to cry. You would never have begun to pray if the Lord had not taught you. God is visiting a soul and healing it when it has enough faith in God to cast itself, with a cry, upon His mercy! I cannot hope that there is a work of Grace in you until I know that you pray. Ananias would not have believed that Paul was converted had it not been said, "Behold he prays!" Note the kind of prayer here. It was not taken out of a book and it was not a fine prayer in language, whether extempore or composed—it was a cry. You do not need to teach your children how to cry—it is the first thing a newborn child does. It needs no schoolmaster to teach it that art! Our School Boards have a great deal to teach the children of London, but they need never have a department for instruction in crying. A spiritual cry is the call of the new-born …