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The Convicting Word Brings Joy! (9)
First notice how the people were crying and wailing after they had been taught the Law.
This should be a natural response for those who have understood the demands of God in light of their sin.
In fact, in Matthew’s gospel, the phrase “weeping and gnashing of teeth” are expressed 6 times to describe the torment in a literal hell that those without Christ will face after the judgment.
But, oh the joy and freedom the Word can bring to the soul who hungers and thirsts for righteousness!
When His Word brings conviction that leads to repentance, we have joy that we’ve never felt before!
Listen to how the prophet Jeremiah describes God’s Word:
This is the type of joy that is described here.
The people were encouraged to stop mourning and start rejoicing!
They’d just gathered and worshipped for the first time in a long time, heard the Law preached and were so convicted!
But Nehemiah and Ezra encouraged them to rejoice.
This day was one of joy and celebration!
This joy wasn’t a “good feeling” worship service.
It wasn’t a “Sunday Power Up.”
This was joy from hearing God’s Word and acting upon it.
Concord, do you feel the joy that time in God’s Word brings?
Listen to this quote from Charles Spurgeon:
We shall count it to have been a successful morning if the people of God are made to rejoice in the Lord, and especially if those who have been bowed down and burdened in soul shall receive the oil of joy for mourning.
It is no mean thing to comfort the Lord’s mourners; it is a work specially dear to the Spirit of God, and, therefore, not to be lightly esteemed.
Holy sorrow is precious before God, and is no bar to godly joy
C. H. Spurgeon, “The Joy of the Lord, the Strength of His People,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol.
17 (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1871), 709.
Warren Wiersbe said:
It is as wrong to mourn when God has forgiven us as it is to rejoice when sin has conquered us.
Warren W. Wiersbe, Be Determined, “Be” Commentary Series (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 101.
Listen to what God says in about serving Him joyously:
The Convicting Word Brings Strength!
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“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, for the abundance of everything,  therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you
The New King James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1982), .
Believing friends, when you read the word and are convicted, be joyful that the Lord counts you among one His and chastises or encourages you.
Take heed and follow Him with gladness.
The Convicting Word Brings Strength!
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The same Word that convicts and brings joy, brings strength!
What kind of physical strength would we have if we bought exercise clothes, yet never exercised?
What kind of spiritual strength would we have if at our conversion we bought a Bible and put it on a shelf and never read the riches of the promises that scripture gives to the believer?
“The joy of the Lord is our strength”
Our strength is found in Him, not the things that perish.
The metaphor of storing our treasurers in heaven is indicative of following the Lord and living a life of holiness before Him.
Having a right relationship with God is not only a sign of spiritual strength, but other things happen as well when we are child of His and are walking as His disciple:
We are evangelizing weekly.
We raise up strong disciples.
We find joy in corporate worship and Bible study.
We ask ourselves, “how can I bless someone,” rather than, “what can I do to keep this?”
Look back at and see the joy that leads to strength:
Strength in the Lord allows you to fully enjoy the things the Lord has given without guilt or shame.
“Eat the fat, drink the sweet”
This strength allow us to take care of others knowing that our needs will be met.
“Send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared.”
He says, “this day is holy to our Lord.”
Friends, our strength is not found in how physically imposing we are, the size of our bank account, or in the number of years we have spent upon the earth.
True strength is found in our Lord, as we rest in Him and find true meaning as a folllower, disciple, and bond-servant of His.
The Convicting Word Brings Understanding! (12)
Friends, it isn’t enough to be encouraged to be joyful when reading God’s Word, or to know that our strength comes from Him and His Word, but we must understand it as well.
True understanding is more than simply learning something.
With it comes an implication of a changed life!
Notice what Jesus says to His disciples at the end of these parables:
Tommy G. Thompson was once one of the greatest treasure hunters of his time: A dark-bearded diver who hauled a trove of gold from the Atlantic Ocean in 1988 — dubbed the richest find in U.S. history.
Years later, accused of cheating his investors out of the fortune, Thompson led federal agents on a great manhunt — pursued from a Florida mansion to a mid-rent hotel room booked under a fake name.
Now Thompson’s beard has grayed, and he lives in an Ohio jail cell, held there until he gives up the location of the gold.
But for nearly two years, despite threats and fines and the best exertions of a federal judge, no one has managed to make Thompson reveal what he did with the treasure.
The wreck of the S.S. Central America waited 130 years for Thompson to come along.
The steamer went down in a hurricane in 1857, taking 425 souls and at least three tons of California gold to the sea floor off South Carolina.
Many tried to find it, but none succeeded until a young, shipwreck-obsessed engineer from Columbus, Ohio, built an underwater robot called “Nemo” to pinpoint the Central America, then dive 8,000 feet under the sea and surface the loot.
“A man as personable as he was brilliant, Thompson recruited more than 160 investors to fund his expedition,” Columbus Monthly noted in a profile.
He “spent years studying the ship’s fateful voyage … and developing the technology to plunge deeper in the ocean than anyone had before to retrieve its treasure.”
Thompson’s crew pulled up rare 19th-century coins, the ship’s bell and “gold bars . . . 15 times bigger than the largest California gold bar previously known to exist,” the Chicago Tribune reported in 1989.
And 95 percent of the wreck site was still unexplored — potentially worth $400 million in gold alone, The Washington Post reported a year later.
“The treasure trove is the richest in American history and the deepwater salvage effort the most ambitious ever undertaken anywhere.”
The expedition’s loot captured the country’s attention, as did the peculiarities of its leader — a scientist-seafarer hybrid who worked on nuclear submarine systems before he hunted treasure.
“Thompson is not exactly the romantic, swashbuckling sort,” Forbes wrote during the years-long recovery of the ship’s treasure.
“He is scientific and methodical, with none of the P.T. Barnum that infuses (and inflates) other salvors.”
📷Gold bars and coins from the S.S. Central America, first glimpsed in 1989.
(Associated Press)
In his late 30s, during the height of his fame, Thompson said little in public and tended to play down his role in the discovery.
“This gold is part of the largest treasure trove in American history,” he told reporters in 1989.
“But the history of the S.S. Central America is also a rich part of our nation’s cultural treasury.”
He added: “It’s a celebration of American ideals: free enterprise and hard work.”
But before long, some of Thompson’s bankrollers began painting a very different picture of the man.
Two of the expedition’s biggest investors took him to court in the 2000s, accusing him of selling nearly all the gold and keeping the profits to himself.
When a federal judge ordered Thompson to appear in 2012, he didn’t show.
An arrest warrant was issued, but the man who found a long-lost shipwreck had disappeared.
[Treasure hunter vanishes while searching for $2 million gold stash in N.M. wilderness]
There followed a two-year manhunt for what a top U.S. Marshal called “perhaps one of the smartest fugitives” the agency had ever chased.
Thompson had “almost limitless resources and approximately a ten year head start” in the chase, U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of Ohio Peter Tobin said in a statement.
Thompson and his girlfriend had been living for years in a Florida mansion, paying rent with cash that was damp and moldy from the earth it had been buried in, The Post’s Abby Phillip reported last year.
The couple had fled by the time authorities found the house.
Government records detailed what they’d left behind: disposable cellphones, money straps stamped “$10,000” and a guide on evading law enforcement titled “How to be Invisible.”
📷An undated photograph of Thompson made available by U.S. Marshals in January 2015.
Thompson was finally caught in January 2015, after agents tracked his girlfriend to a $200-a-night hotel near West Palm Beach, The Post reported at the time.
In a celebratory statement, Tobin said the U.S. Marshals had used “all of our resources and ingenuity” to find the treasure hunter.
But they didn’t find the treasure.
Thompson’s investors, who originally expected to make tens of millions of dollars from the venture, said that they believe he had hundreds of gold coins secreted in a trust account for his children.
At first, their search for the coins looked promising.
Thompson pleaded guilty to contempt of court in April 2015, according to the Columbus Dispatch.
He said the coins were in Belize and agreed to reveal their exact location.
But that didn’t happen.
Thompson’s attorney said last month that his client couldn’t remember who he gave the gold to, even after poring over thousands of pages of documents related to the treasure, according to the Dispatch.
A federal judge ruled that Thompson was faking memory problems, the newspaper reported, and has held him in an Ohio jail cell for a year.
Thompson could remain behind bars until he talks, the Associated Press reported, and is being fined $1,000 a day in the meantime.
“Who knows — he might have an epiphany,” U.S. District Judge Algenon Marbley remarked Monday when he ordered Thompson to answer questions about the gold’s location.
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