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  ROOTED IN THE ROCK OF GOD
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of trusting in God's
abiding facts and presence in our lives to experience true happiness and
fulfillment.

Topics: "Gods Presence", "Eternal Hope"
Scripture References: Psalm 125:2, Isaiah 40:8, Romans 15:13, Hebrews 11:1, James 1:6

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about the everlasting presence of the Lord
surrounding His people, drawing a parallel to the mountains around
Jerusalem. She emphasizes the importance of recognizing the abundance of
blessings and hope available to us if we have the wisdom to see things
as they truly are. Tileston highlights the central mistake in many lives
as the failure to believe in the forgiveness of the past, the power of
the present, and the brightness of the future that God provides, leading
to unnecessary sorrow and unbelief. She encourages a firm belief in the
unchanging promises of God, which stand tall and unwavering, offering
eternal hope and security.

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As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about
His people from henceforth even forever.

PSALMS 125:2

HOPE it may be the happiest year of your life, as I think each
succeeding year of everybody's life should be, if only everybody were
wise enough to see things as they are; for it is certain that there
really exists, laid up and ready to hand, for those who will just lay
hands upon it, enough for every one and enough forever. I am quite sure
that the central mistake of all lives that are mistaken is the not
taking this simple unchangeable fact for granted, not seeing that it is
so, and cannot but be so, and will remain so "though we believe not." I
think I can trace every scrap of sorrow in my own life to this simple
unbelief. How could I be anything but quite happy if I believed always
that all the past is forgiven, and all the present furnished with power,
and all the future bright with hope, because of the same abiding facts,
which don't change with my mood, do not crumble, because I totter and
stagger at the promise through unbelief, but stand firm and clear with
their peaks of pearl cleaving the air of Eternity, and the bases of
their hills rooted unfathomably in the Rock of God?

JAMES SMETHAM

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