Introduction

“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.”Jeremiah 15: 16

The words that he found, and he ate them. In other words, he let them come into his mind, down into his heart, down into his soul, and he digested them.

The word of God is “the joy and rejoicing of” your heart because through salvation, you are called by the name of the eternal God, the Lord Jesus.

“The mighty God” was born as a child, “and thou shalt call his name JESUS”, who is “Christ the Lord”. Isaiah 9: 6; Matthew 1: 21; Luke 1: 31; Luke 2: 11.

Through salvation, you are associated with the Lord Jesus, the Almighty.

“for the joy of the LORD is your strength”Nehemiah 8: 10

You cannot separate the joy of the Lord from the Lord. The joy of the Lord is part of Him, and it has been with Him from eternity.

Jesus’ last words that He gave, my joy, I leave with you. Now, you know what kind of joy that is. My joy, the eternal God joy.

The Lord Jesus has eternal joy.

What did the Lord do from eternity, before the foundation of the world? With joy, He allowed Himself to be slain. With joy, He chose you in Him. With joy, He wrote your name in the book of life. Revelation 13: 8; Ephesians 1: 4; Revelation 17: 8.

The Lord is happy that He has paid the price for our salvation.

He had to go to the cross, do all that He did. He was rejected by His people. He was rejected by those that were created by Him, and all of that. And yet, He fulfilled His mission. And He rejoiced. John 1: 10 – 12; Isaiah 53: 3 – 7; Hebrews 2: 9.

At the final thing, and He said in the end, He will rejoice with His people forevermore. That’s really something.

The Lord will continue to rejoice with us for eternity hereafter.

You’ve got, as a Christian, such a valuable that God gave you. There won’t be two of you. He won’t make no mistake and leave you and take one that looks like you, because it’s so set even in the turnings of Mazzaroth, and all of that. It is so set that He knows you, and you’re so valuable, that no one’s like that, and you have eternal life.

You are an individual before the Lord, and He has given you eternal life.

Are you doubting whether you are going to make heaven? Such a thought will steal your joy.

Is it a fact that some are doubting that God has called them? Some are doubting that they’re going to make it in? That’s stealing your joy. Why, if you keep listening to that, you’re going to be in trouble, and your joy will go. But if you believe you’re going to make it, and you believe that God has chosen you, and no matter what, you’re going to hold onto that power.

Why are there such secrets in praise, because that is why we were created to praise the Lord of Host!

“Behold saith the Almighty praise is the guardian of the soul and the protector of thy body!”

(Ps. 91: 1 – “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. And the secret place is in praising the Lord, repeating His Word! (Bible).

“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.”Isaiah 12: 2 – 3

The Lord is your salvation; He is your strength; He is your song. In consequence, with joy, you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of the Sermon

We listened to a sermon titled “Digesting The Word”, CD # 1341, by Brother Neal Frisby.

In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:

The Christian assets, in the life of a Christian, that the world is supposed to take notice, and that people are supposed to watch, or it kind of makes them feel good, is a Christian’s life of peace, and joy, and happiness, and believing that Jesus has given eternal life.

You can get happy in your singing songs,

Digesting the Word. How to eat the Word. How to digest that Word.

Your life is one of joy. Don’t let the devil steal it from you.

Jesus, He’s coming for a bride, He said. He’s the bridegroom. Can you imagine Him coming for an unhappy bride, saith the Lord?

You will rejoice if you believe my word.

How do we digest the Word of God?

In Jeremiah 15: 16: Thy words were found. Oh, he found the word. He found those words. And I did eat them. He didn’t just bristle over them, and say, I don’t understand. I don’t understand that. You will, if you stay with it, and you keep listening to what God has to give you. And he said here, and I did eat them. And Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. Now, why? What was the difference here? The words that he found, and he ate them. In other words, he let them come into his mind, down into his heart, down into his soul, and he digested them. He likened it to food.

David said, Thy word and Thy law, and Thy precept, oh, they’re like honey in my mouth.

You’ve got to put forth an effort. If you don’t put forth an effort, and keep drinking some water, you’re going to dry up and die and dehydrate. And if you don’t drink or take in the Word of God, the same thing, you’re going to dry up, and you’re going to lose your joy.

Oh, the prophets, Joel said, the bugs have been on the vine, and they’ve chewed away the Word of God. And he lamented out there, and he said, look at this. He said, the joy is withering away from the sons of God. He said, it’s going to go down, and it did.

Digest the Word of God. And as you chew on the Word of God, it will bring a satisfaction. Then you’ll begin to get the joy. You’ll rejoice in your heart.

Thy words were found and I did eat them. And Thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of my heart. Chew on the word of God.

Jeremiah showed us how to do it, piece by piece, little by little, he chewed on that word of God.

Jesus’ last words that He gave, my joy, I leave with you. Now, you know what kind of joy that is. My joy, the eternal God joy. He had to go to the cross, do all that He did. He was rejected by His people. He was rejected by those that were created by Him, and all of that. And yet, He fulfilled His mission. And He rejoiced. At the final thing, and He said in the end, He will rejoice with His people forevermore. That’s really something.

You’ve got, as a Christian, such a valuable that God gave you. There won’t be two of you. He won’t make no mistake and leave you and take one that looks like you, because it’s so set even in the turnings of Mazzaroth, and all of that. It is so set that He knows you, and you’re so valuable, that no one’s like that, and you have eternal life.

So, digest the word of God, and you’ll be satisfied with happiness and peace.

The joy of the Lord is my strength, it’s said in the Bible.

Isaiah 35: 2: It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing. Oh, He likes the glory of Lebanon, shall be given unto it, and the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing.

How many of you believe that if you knew in your heart, like you’re supposed to, and believe in your heart, you couldn’t help but to be happy?

Is it a fact that some are doubting that God has called them? Some are doubting that they’re going to make it in? That’s stealing your joy. Why, if you keep listening to that, you’re going to be in trouble, and your joy will go. But if you believe you’re going to make it, and you believe that God has chosen you, and no matter what, you’re going to hold onto that power.

You hold right on there, and you keep that in your heart. He’ll find a way. He’ll get you on up there. Believe in your heart. You’re going to make it in there because it’s worth it all.

Habakkuk 3: 18: Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation.

Psalms 89: 15: Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound: they shall walk, O Lord, in the light of Thy countenance. What made it? How will they walk into the light and the countenance of the Lord looking over them, and watching them? Those that walk in the joy of the Lord. He said, the countenance of God will look upon them, for He loves a joyful people. That does something to Him. He said, now they’re believing in their hearts in there. They’re happy of this great thing that I’ve done for them. They’re rejoicing in my word. They’re rejoicing that they have eternal life.

Jesus, they come to him and said, Lord, man, we can put these devils on fire. We can cast these devils out. Man, they get out, you give us power. And the Lord said to them, something’s greater than that. He said, don’t rejoice that you’re able to cast them devils out, but He said, rejoice that your names are written up there. Why, He said, rejoice. It’s all right to get happy and cast the devil out, but He said, the greatest joy in this world is your names are written up there.

Psalms 51: 12: Restore joy of Thy salvation. He said, restore the joy of my salvation.

In this whole life, if you have true spiritual joy to help you along this life, there’s nothing in this world that you can buy that can beat that.

He said, let your joy be full. I leave it to you. You do what you want to do with what I’ve left with you.

If you just stay with it, like Jeremiah said it, eat the Word of God, digesting it, and so forth like that, it’ll spring forth in health and joy, and you’ll be a much better spiritual Christian in the Lord. He was talking about the physical, and he was lining up the spiritual the same way.

So, one time, David heard the ark of the Lord was coming, and he got so happy he didn’t know what to do with himself. He no longer thought about himself being a king on this earth. He didn’t think anything about what the people, he didn’t care about anything, for a minute. And David got out in there to dance before that ark. It brought such joy in his heart because it meant something to him. That word was in his heart. And when he saw that, the deep called the deep, he knew the miracles of Moses and Elijah, all of them, everything that they had, he knew all the miracles of the past were attached to that little ark. And when he saw that coming, it was like God himself, confirming him again. Why? It made him so happy that the real house of God, he could see it coming in that little old thing there. And so, when they have God in such a way, and you get God in such a way, and the joy of the Lord moves on you, and you let the joy of the Lord move on you, that’s really something when it’s real. It was real to him. Finally, some of the things that David said, God just got and said, He knew it in the beginning, before He even put him there, but the Lord said, that man, I’ll sit on his throne and none other but his. I will sit there on his throne. And God said then, and he got ahold of the heart of God. The Lord said he got a hold of my heart. And, just look, that you’ll sit down with God if you can get a little bit like those prophets or like David at that time.

Acts 20: 24: That I might finish my course with joy. Paul said, I don’t want to finish my course in sadness. I don’t want to finish my course, you know, discouraged. But he said, I want to finish my course with joy, even if I have to go before Nero, and I know it’s the last time that I’ll go there, I have a crown.

Romans 14: 17: The Kingdom of God is joy. The Bible says it’s not meat and drink, but the Kingdom of God is the power of the Holy Spirit and joy. Then it turns around and says the Kingdom of God is joy.

Psalm 16: 11: In Thy presence, and the only place that he ever found it, in Thy presence, he said, is the fullness of joy. In Thy presence is the fullness of joy. There’s the presence of the Lord. And there is your joy. So, if you allow the presence of the Lord, if you eat the Word of God and digest it properly, then the presence of the Lord will come out like light. And the light of His countenance will be upon those that are full of joy.

Maybe the church needs some of the fruits of the Spirit to make it happy. Maybe the spiritual fruits have dried up, and they’re stuck with so few gifts around there, and they hear the Word of God. But then the fruits of the Spirit, the most valuable, over all gifts. And you know, peace, love, joy, happiness, see that joy is in that fruits of the Spirit. And possibly, the church don’t have enough of the fruits of the Spirit to have the joy, because there’s where it’s at, in the fruits of the Spirit, and may God make the gifts, and the fruits, and the word of God, may all of it work together, and that’s why we’re going to get out of here. The Bible said the word, your faith in the word, and the fruits, and the gifts of God, work like a wheel within a wheel, until we meet the perfect One.

Thy words were found. And Thy word was unto me the joy and the rejoicing of my heart. Thy word was unto me, after I eat it, the joy and the rejoicing of my heart

He does love a happy people. Great persecution will come upon this earth just before the elect get out of here. But at the same time, He’s got a plan. He’s got something going, that He is going to have those people happy, just before He comes.

And so, at the end, He’s going to have His way, the way of that Holy Spirit, because He’s coming for a happy people, He said. He’s coming for those that love Him, and looking for Him. And He’s coming for those that believe so strong in their heart, they’re going to have a happy bride elect. Because they know He’s the One they want. You could get no better, no matter what, than your great Messiah, the living God.

If you want God to rejoice, and smile, like David said, His countenance smiles over the people that are happy and joyful. No matter how hard it is, you’re going to win.

Scripture Reading

“Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts.”Jeremiah 15: 16

The words that he found, and he ate them. In other words, he let them come into his mind, down into his heart, down into his soul, and he digested them.

The word of God is “the joy and rejoicing of” your heart because through salvation, you are called by the name of the eternal God, the Lord Jesus.

“The mighty God” was born as a child, “and thou shalt call his name JESUS”, who is “Christ the Lord”.

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.”Isaiah 9: 6

“And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.”Matthew 1: 21

“And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.”Luke 1: 31

“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.”Luke 2: 11

Through salvation, you are associated with the Lord Jesus, the Almighty.

“for the joy of the LORD is your strength”Nehemiah 8: 10

You cannot separate the joy of the Lord from the Lord. The joy of the Lord is part of Him, and it has been with Him from eternity.

Jesus’ last words that He gave, my joy, I leave with you. Now, you know what kind of joy that is. My joy, the eternal God joy.

The Lord Jesus has eternal joy.

What did the Lord do from eternity, before the foundation of the world? With joy, He allowed Himself to be slain. With joy, He chose you in Him. With joy, He wrote your name in the book of life.

“And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.”Revelation 13: 8

“According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love”Ephesians 1: 4

“The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”Revelation 17: 8

The Lord is happy that He has paid the price for our salvation.

He had to go to the cross, do all that He did. He was rejected by His people. He was rejected by those that were created by Him, and all of that. And yet, He fulfilled His mission. And He rejoiced.

“He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name”John 1: 10 – 12

“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.”Isaiah 53: 3 – 7

“But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man.”Hebrews 2: 9

At the final thing, and He said in the end, He will rejoice with His people forevermore. That’s really something.

The Lord will continue to rejoice with us for eternity hereafter.

You’ve got, as a Christian, such a valuable that God gave you. There won’t be two of you. He won’t make no mistake and leave you and take one that looks like you, because it’s so set even in the turnings of Mazzaroth, and all of that. It is so set that He knows you, and you’re so valuable, that no one’s like that, and you have eternal life.

You are an individual before the Lord, and He has given you eternal life.

Are you doubting whether you are going to make heaven? Such a thought will steal your joy.

Is it a fact that some are doubting that God has called them? Some are doubting that they’re going to make it in? That’s stealing your joy. Why, if you keep listening to that, you’re going to be in trouble, and your joy will go. But if you believe you’re going to make it, and you believe that God has chosen you, and no matter what, you’re going to hold onto that power.

I read from Scroll # 70:

Why are there such secrets in praise, because that is why we were created to praise the Lord of Host!

“Behold saith the Almighty praise is the guardian of the soul and the protector of thy body!”

(Ps. 91: 1 – “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. And the secret place is in praising the Lord, repeating His Word! (Bible).

“Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.”Isaiah 12: 2 – 3

The Lord is your salvation; He is your strength; He is your song. In consequence, with joy, you will draw water out of the wells of salvation.

You will be blessed.
Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

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