The series on "Ten Great Truths that Make God's Last Days Message Unique" will continue tomorrow night with No. 2.
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It's been three millennia now that David's hymn of praise has been singing its song to win souls to salvation --Psalm 40: "I waited patiently for the Lord ..." he says (just telling people what the Lord has done for you is soul-winning in itself!).
Imagine the joy that David will have in God's eternal kingdom as people come by to tell him what a blessing his story has been to them! He will sit there in joy as countless people file by to tell him.
(a) He "waited patiently," he says. He had no adverb to use with the meaning of "patiently," so he simply wrote, "waited, and waited, and waited."
(b) He was in a mud-hole with no place for his feet to find solid rock to stand on; and he was sinking lower and lower.
(c) He probably thought of Psalm 130: "Out of the depths have I cried unto Thee, O LORD. ... .Let Thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications" (vss. 1, 2).
(d) But it's not literal mud-holes that are David's concern, bad as they are; he was thinking of the mud-holes of sinful guilt that were torture to him.
(e) For example, his sexual sin with Bathsheba that was on his mind as he wrote his famous Psalm 51: "Cast me not away from Thy presence; and take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of Thy salvation. ... Then will I teach transgressors Thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto Thee" (vss. 11-13).
(f) Imagine the joy David will have in God's eternal kingdom as people file by to tell him how his Psalm brought them to conversion and atonement with God!
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