Adrian Rogers: How to Get Up When You're Down #2428

welcome to love worth fun with pastor teacher and author Adrian Rogers reaching out with God's love bringing people to Christ touching lives around the world and helping you find the answers you need today join us as we prepare to open God's Word and discover how your life can be changed forever by his great love worth finding would you find please psalm 42 and in a moment we're going to begin reading in verse 5 and what we're going to do today is to have a session on depression how to get up when you fall in and think you cannot get up i'm not talking about having fallen physically but emotionally spiritually when you're down and don't seem to be able to get up i'm not just talking about feeling bad about certain things somebody asked a lady what do you do when you get down in the dumps she said when i get down in the dumps i get a new hat her husband said i wondered where you've been getting at times when we get discouraged when we are unhappy about things maybe we lose a job maybe we have an automobile accident maybe somebody says something bad about us and and we're down but that's not what I'm talking about I'm not talking about when the upright get uptight about this or that I'm talking about depression a deep mood of despair and it's it's something that is so terrible so horrible it is a matter that sometimes sends people to hospitals or sometimes causes them just to drop out of society we feel bad sometimes that's like a thunderstorm and that comes and then it goes but depression is like a lingering fog that takes all of the sunshine out of our lives I want you to think with me first of all what I'm going to call the serious the serious problem of depression look if you will in verse five why art thou cast down O my soul and why are they us quieted in me now David wrote this and David is cast down and he's talking with himself the National Institute of Mental Health reports that depression is more than a billion dollar a year industry people who are being treated by depression and according to the research I did for this message there are millions millions of Americans who are depressed and don't tell a person like that cheer up they've done everything they know and nothing would make them feel better than to be able to cheer up but they can't do it the serious problem of depression i I want to give you a list that I found and that describes what depression is are you ready let's see if you our friend are depressed depression is a passive or listless feeling a continued feeling of sadness an attitude of nothing feels good or is worth feeling good about a state of constant hopelessness a feeling that no one cares or no one understands or no one really accepts me continual worry and anxiety that's depression would you like to check yourself up and see if you are depressed well here's here's a list have you lost all initiative perhaps suddenly or slowly you've just kind of thrown in the towel do you have a repeated crying spells for apparently no cause do you find yourself awakening suddenly at night not able to go back to sleep do you wake up in the morning feeling fatigued and kind of dread to face the day ahead do you feel pain sort of a scattered pain unspecific aching all over please find me yourself sometimes thinking about your own death and afraid that you might have thoughts of suicide you find yourself just sometimes sighing like that just a heavy heavy feeling in your chest have you come the place where you distrust your own wisdom and have unusual trouble making decisions you second-guess yourself if you find yourself sometimes irritable and find yourself cross with others and no legitimate reason for it do you find yourself unable to be enthusiastic about anything that's not my list that someone else's list but that is a description of people who are depressed they say pastor I don't need the message this morning I'm not depressed well somebody you know needs it and somebody that you can minister to needs or you may need it it's in the Word of God how can you get up when you get down now it is a killer disease depression puts many people in the hospital and quite a few in the grave it is the third leading cause of death in certain categories and age groups those of us who've been in the ministry long enough know that sometimes when we go to the graveside to bury a spouse before long we'll have the funeral for the other well you say these are the unsaved people they don't know what we know no let me tell you something God's people are not immune from depression Moses that great leader of God's people got so depressed that he prayed and asked God to killing Jonah the mighty prophet of God did the same thing and asked God to take away his life from him Elijah said under a juniper tree and wish for himself that he might die the great Apostle Paul talked of himself as being depressed or in a state where he despaired even of life John the Baptist got down in a dungeon a dungeon not only a literal dungeon but a dungeon of despair so great John the Baptist the forerunner of the Lord Jesus Christ that even doubted that Jesus was the Messiah and in history great men of history have gotten to press Charles Spurgeon those of us who are preachers think of Charles Spurgeon perhaps as the greatest preacher who ever lived but Charles Spurgeon the great Spurgeon a man of wit and warmth had times of depression and we think in in the political realm of great leaders Winston Churchill the man who saw England through the Second World War an indomitable leader sometimes had fits of depression so great that he just closed up shop he called that depression a black dog that chased after him David wrote this song now King David a man after God's own heart and he says in verse 5 why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me outwardly when this happened David had every reason to be depressed he had lost a son that he dearly loved that son's name was Absalom Absalom had turned against David betrayed David tried to take the kingdom from David and David had to flee from for his own life and then Absalom is killed and David weeps and says O Absalom Absalom my son Absalom would to God I had died for thee Absalom now David is fleeing from his life meant to be a king he's lost his wealth he's lost his home he's lost his power he's lost his financial support on top of all of that David had sinned against God he committed a terrible horrible sin and he lost a child that he loved an infant child and then he had a daughter that was raped had a wife that had been assaulted he had another son that was killed and the nation that he was supposed to be king over was in turmoil I say outwardly David had a reason to be cast down things could not have looked bleeker's for David when he wrote Psalm 42 why art thou cast down O my soul now let's look at this Psalm and it's almost a clinical case of depression first of all David had what I want to call spiritual dryness look if you will in verses 1 & 2 as the heart pana that to the water Brooks so Paneth my soul after the O God my soul thirsteth for God for the Living God when shall I come and appear before God he's thirsty for God but he he feels that God is afar off he feels like a wild deer being hunted by a pack of dogs he feels his spiritual dryness he feels his soul shriveling up and he thinks perhaps God has even forgotten him look he will in verse 9 I will send to God my rock why has thou forgotten me here he is thirsting for God but God seems a billion light years away where are you God why have you forgotten me spiritual dryness now God had not forgotten him that's not that's not the issue he felt that God had forgotten him and then continued crying jags look if you will in verse 3 my tears have been my meat or my food day and night David is weeping uncontrollable weeping this is the mighty man of God now all have blue moments we all have times of sadness but not continual weeping that's the mark of depression not like a a summer shower that falls and then passes away but like the lingering continual dropping on a foggy day david has shame he feels defeated look in the last part of verse three my tears have been my meat day and night while they continually said to me where is thy God he knows that his enemies now are mocking him he's ashamed he feels he's a poor witness for Jesus Christ and indeed he was you know some of us try to witness but we don't have joy and we don't have victory and that just increases our shame david sense of guilt made him feel that he disgraced god that's compounded by lingering memories look if you will in verse 4 when I remember these things I pour out my soul in me for I had gone with the multitude I went with them to the house of God with a voice of joy and praise with a multitude that kept holy day he looked back on better days he looked back on days when he had joy and peace when with the multitude he was praising God in the house of God and all of that is now is just a memory it's not real to him anymore it seems to make his distress all the more real for he feels those good times that he once had are now lost forever on top of that he just has overwhelming circumstances look if you will in verses 6 and 7 oh my god my soul is cast down within me therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of the Hermon heights from the hill Mazhar deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy water spouts right in your Bible their waterfalls all thy waves and i billows are going over me the river jordan is called the river of death jordan means descent and judgment starts up on mountain Hermon Mount Hermon reaches towers 9000 feet above sea level it takes a torturous path down to the Dead Sea a Dead Sea is 1,300 feet below sea level and the river Jordan just flows down to the Dead Sea never to emerge again so in Bible typology Jordan has been a picture of death and despair I've been up to the headwaters of the Jordan where the waterfalls are and David feels like he's just being washed over by circumstances God's water spouts are coming over him he is deluge with problems and he doesn't know where to turn he has overwhelming circumstances I say sometimes people like this can become suicidal a 16 year old boy wrote this letter before he took his life dear world I don't want to get my hair cut I don't want to tend kids I don't want to see Tina at school Monday I don't want to do my biology assignment or English or history or anything I don't want to be sad or lonely or depressed anymore I don't want to eat drink talk breathe sleep move feel or live anymore mom and dad it's not your fault I'm not free I feel ill I am sad I'm lonely that's depression and it's sad the serious problem of depression now here's the second thing I want you to see I want you to see the spiritual provision for depression thank God you don't have to be depressed God has made provision for you for me for our friends those who are depressed number one you need to look within and analyze your heart look within and analyze your heart look if you will in 42 verses 5 through 7 why art thou cast down on my soul and why art thou disquieted in me hope that in God for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance oh my God my soul is cast down within me therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of the Hermon nights from the hill Me's are deep calls unto deep at the noise of thy water spouts all thy waves and villas are going over me but now I want you to notice particularly now as David begins to talk to himself you say can you talk to yourself David did David talked to his soul the soul is the you that lives inside not the spirit the spirit is your spiritual nature your soul is your emotional nature your soul is mind emotion and will and David talks to a soul do you know there's someone in you that's constantly talking to you is that old man is that all nature that's your soul unredeemed or unsanctified and your soul is constantly talking to you saying you have reason to feel sorry for yourself you will never make it you haven't got what it takes this is the end life is not worth living now David talked back to a soul and David said to a soul why are you cast down O my soul now this is where you have to take control you have to take your soul by the nape of the neck hold your soul up in front of you and talk to you that's what David did you have to look your soul straight in the eye and say soul why are you fee in this way you have to look within and analyze your heart why are you depress I'm not saying you don't have a reason to be depressed maybe you've lost a loved one by death maybe it's been a child maybe it's been a spouse and you have to say this is the reason for my depression because of the loss of a loved one if that's true pour out your grief to God ask your friends to help share your grief with you and realize that life is not over for you the best testimony for your love for that friend is to go on and live a life in their honor for God's glory maybe maybe you have a broken heart maybe somebody that you loved jilted you maybe a husband walked off from you maybe there was a broken engagement he ask yourself why am i cast down maybe your parents have made you feel unwelcome in your own home refuse to brood and rehearse it over and over again it does no good but ask yourself analyze this if you've had a heartbreak see what you've learned from that heartbreak and go out and begin to make some new relationships perhaps you have sinned done some Grievous thing and you're being haunted by the host of guilt what do you do confess it to God if you need to confess it to someone else and ask forgiveness do it if you can make restitution do it do what you do and then close the door behind it analyze look at your heart ask yourself why am i cast down but you need to do something else not only look inward and analyze your heart but look upward and recognize your help listen once you see what the problem is now notice what David did look in psalm 42 beginning in verse 7 deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy water spouts all thy waves and thy billows are going over me yet the Lord will command his loving-kindness in the daytime and in the night his song shall be with me and my prayer unto the God of my life I will say unto God my rock why has now forgotten me why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy what is David doing now he's looking upward not only inward to see why I feel this way but he's looking upward he's he's looking to God and he's saying God you are my help you are my hope you will command your loving-kindness to me what a friend I have in Jesus all my sins and griefs to bear you may say Pastor Rogers you don't understand that's not the point God understands God knows how tender and how loving God is and he knows and he cares he is your help even when you don't understand dr. Warren Wisby is a great Bible teacher he has said that life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived and he has reminded us that we do not live by explanations we live by promises some feel that somehow God has let them down and that God has failed them God has not failed you God has not forgotten you David felt and he said in verse 9 Lord why have you forgotten me but God has not forgotten you say well pastor I don't understand you don't have to understand as a matter of fact the fact that you don't understand maybe part of the trial and part of a test Robert Frost said this listen and this is this is so rich so listen to go missing but it was of the essence of the trial that you shouldn't understand it at the time it had to seem unmeaning to have meaning you probably didn't catch that so sharpen your mind and listen to it again it was of the essence of the trial that you shouldn't understand it at the time it had to seem unmeaning to have meaning you see we can trust God with almost anything if we understand why but God doesn't let us understand why all the time that we might know who that we might just trust him with that that we don't understand Andrew Murray was a great great Christian and rumor said this in times of trouble God's trusting child must say first he brought me here it is by his will that I'm in this straight place next he will keep me here in his love and he will give me Greyson in this trial to behave as his child next he will make the trial of blessing teaching me the lessons that he intends for me to learn and working in His grace that he means to bestow last in his good time he can bring me out again how and when he knows so when you're in this difficulty say I'm here won by God's appointment to in his keeping three under his training for for his time you see somebody said God is too good to be unkind too wise to make a mistake and when we cannot trace his hand we can trust his heart look inward and analyze your heart why am I cast down look upward and recognize your help and thirdly look onward and realize your hope look again in verse 11 why art thou cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise Him God wants me to tell somebody here today no matter how bleak your circumstances God is with you don't lose hope God has a future filled with hope for you I shall yet praise Him David took his soul and he says to soul hope in God now hope does not mean a vain wish it means a definite assurance based in anticipation there are only two places where hope is impossible one is in heaven because you don't need hope you have fulfilment the other is in hell if you die and go to hell you're beyond all hope but hope is always possible Jeremiah 29 verse 11 is for you today my precious friend listen to it for I know the thoughts that I have toward you that the Lord thoughts of peace and not of evil to give you a and expected in are some translations give it a future and a hope don't you let Satan blow out the candle of hope I'm telling you you need to look inward and analyze your heart you need to look upward and realize your help and you look need to look onward and realize your hope God wants me to tell you that he's going to turn your Calvary to a nice turn God is going to turn every tear to a pearl God is going to arch the rainbow of His grace over your sorrows hope thou in God he is going to meet the deepest needs of your heart and God will never be satisfied until your greatest desire is for him alone so we've talked about the serious problem of depression we've talked to you about God's hope for you let me give you the sure promise one more time in depression why aren't they'll cast down O my soul and why art thou disquieted within me hope thou in God for I shall yet praise Him you may have fallen but I'm telling you you can get up and if you depress today God loves you not a sparrow that that has fallen to the ground goes without his notice I know many of us give you a hug and a slap on the back and tell you things are going to be better but friend listen to me there is no real hope in this world or the next world apart from Jesus friends all around there trying to find what the heart yearns for by sin under mine I have the secret I know where it is found only true pleasures in Jesus abound Jesus's all this world needs today for sin has blinded and darkened their way o to pull back the grim curtains of night one look at Jesus and all will be light as I thought about what I was going to speak on today I said lord I don't want to talk on depression how I talk about something is happy or something is upbeat the Lord said Adrienne as someone that needs that message as someone who's depressed and God said speak that message so from God to you let me tell you something if you're down you can get up God has a way for you not buy some cheap pop psychology not by somebody slapping you on the back and saying atta boy hope thou in God he will see you through and God's people said father God I thank you we have such a wonderful Savior Lord Jesus take this message today and bind up the wounded let them know that underneath are your everlasting arms give strength and health and hope Lord I pray today for those who may not know Jesus who may not be truly saved that today will be the day that they will trust him now keep your heads bound would you begin to pray for those around about you and pray for your own heart if you're not absolutely certain that you're saved today may I lead you in a prayer and in this prayer you can receive Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior and I promise you that God will save you instantaneously he will keep you continually he will never forsake you or leave you would you pray this prayer dear God I know that you love me and I know that you want to save me Jesus you died on that cross to save me you shed your blood to pay for my sin thank you for doing that dear Jesus I don't deserve it it's by your love and grace that you died for me Lord Jesus you promised to save me if I would trust you and I do trust you right now this moment sitting here with my head bowed I receive you into my life as my Lord and Savior come into my heart forgive my sin save me Jesus say it pray it mean it save me Lord Jesus did you ask him then pray this way thank you Lord Jesus for saving me I don't deserve it but I receive it by faith and that settles it you're now my Lord my Savior my God and my friend lord I give you my life from henceforth I will live for you because you died for me give me the courage now to make this public in your name I pray amen we pray God has blessed you as you've watched this message if you'd like additional copies or information on other resources write us at love worth finding Bo box 38 800 memphis tennessee 38134 at lwf 0rg in the u.s. you can place Visa or MasterCard orders by calling 1-800 two seven four five six eight three Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m. 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Published: Tue Oct 04 2016