SOUL DEJECTION BY GEORGE WHITEFIELD

Another George Whitfield sermon, entitled Soul Dejection, this sermon is based off of Psalm42 written by David. Verse one reads as a Hart or Deer panteth after Water-brooks, so my soul panteth after Thee O Lord, and it goes on to say why is my soul cast down, but many of our fast food, freewill friends have no idea how to use the psalms because they use the third use of the law which means that they’re getting the booster shot from the Holy Spirit to follow the law, but in reality the law can only condemn, as Jesus says in Matthew 23 the law is to be used to clean the inside of the cup, that we might see the evil black cat in our heart and repent over it before it escapes and then we won’t need to clean the outside of the cup. David writes in Psalm 38, rebuke me not in Thy wrath O Lord, nor chasten me and Thy hot displeasure, for thine arrows stick fast in me, and Thy hand presses me sore, for there’s no soundness in my flesh, because of thine anger, no rest in my bones because of my sin: Here David is seeing his original is sin, that his original sin is sin before the evil black cat escapes. So if we use the law properly, Jesus said, blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God. In order to be a Christian we have to be poor in spirit otherwise the kingdom of God will not be ours. Blessed are those who mourn and mourn over what, but over our original sin and they shall be comforted. So the law demands perfection and perfection throws us to the feet of Jesus, crying out for mercy in order that we might find Grace. So when our soul is dejected, we can find a psalm that matches how we feel and we do not let any crisis go to waste. We immediately go to the psalms and find what Psalm matches where we’re at and then we begin to memorize it because we’re so overwhelmed, with maybe world persecuting us, or our own sin nature tempting us, that our soul is dejected and so we go to God, and do as David did, he says in psalm 42, why is my soul cast down, so you explain that to the Lord and so we don’t need to go to a psychiatrist, we go to the psalms whenever we’re overwhelmed with the evil forces from the outside or the evil in our own heart. The psalms are a perfect way to pray and George Whitfield totally understood this and thus entitled this sermon Soul Dejection and in psalm 42 King David talks about his dejection. King David talks about his dejection and his soul is cast down, but then later on he says, then I remembered the Jordan then we remember all the things that God has done for us and we go from our soul being cast down to our soul being lifted up. Listen to the sermon over and over and you’ll find many nuggets of truth in this sermon may the Lord bless the hearing of this sermon to your souls.