JOB 35:10
BUT NONE SAITH, “WHERE IS GOD THY MAKER, WHO GIVETH SONGS IN THE NIGHT?
1. WHAT IS NIGHT?
PSALMS 91:5 & 6
THOU SHALT NOT BE AFRAID FOR THE TERROR BY NIGHT; NOR FOR THE ARROW THAT FLIETH BY DAY; NOR FOR THE PESTILENCE THAT WALKETH IN DARKNESS; NOR FOR THE DESTRUCTION THAT WASTETH AT NOONDAY.
2. SOURCE OF SONGS IN THE NIGHT
A. NOTHING ELSE TO SING OF LIKE DURING DAY
B. GOD IS YOUR ONLY SONG
C. “ALTHOUGH THE FIG TREE SHALL NOT BLOSSOM, YET I WILL REJOICE IN THE LORD, I WILL JOY IN THE GOD OF MY SALVATION”
D. ‘TIS PARADISE, IF THOU ART HERE; IF THOU DEPART, ‘TIS HELL.
3. SUBJECT OF OUR SONGS
A. SING OF THE DAY THAT IS OVER
1. ETERNAL ELECTION
2. SALVATION
3. OTHER MILESTONES
PSALMS 77:6
I CALL TO REMEMBRANCE MY SONG IN THE NIGHT: I COMMUNE WITH MINE OWN HEART: AND MY SPIRIT MADE DILIGENT SEARCH.
4. WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR OTHERS
B. SING CONCERNING THE NIGHT ITSELF
1. IT IS OF THE LORD’S MERCIES THAT WE ARE NOT CONSUMED, AND BECAUSE HIS COMPASSIONS FAIL NOT.”
2. LORD, I THANK YOU THAT IT IS NOT ALL DARKNESS
C. THE DAY THAT IS TO COME
ISAIAH 40:3-8 & 28-31
THE VOICE OF HIM THAT CRIETH IN THE WILDERNESS, PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD, MAKE STRAIGHT IN THE DESERT A HIGHWAY FOR OUR GOD.
EVERY VALLEY SHALL BE EXALTED, AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND HILL SHALL BE MADE LOW: AND THE CROOKED SHALL BE MADE STRAIGHT, AND THE ROUGH PLACES PLAIN:
AND THE GLORY OF THE LORD SHALL BE REVEALED, AND ALL FLESH SHALL SEE IT TOGETHER: FOR THE MOUTH OF THE LORD HATH SPOKEN IT.
THE VOICE SAID CRY. AND HE SAID, WHAT SHALL I CRY? ALL FLESH IS GRASS, AND ALL THE GOODLINESS THEREOF IS AS THE FLOWER OF THE FIELD:
THE GRASS WITHERETH, THE FLOWER FADETH: BECAUSE THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD BLOWETH UPON IT: SURELY THE PEOPLE IS GRASS.
ISAIAH 40:28-31
HAST THOU NOT KNOWN? HAST THOU NOT HEARD, THAT THE EVERLASTING GOD, THE LORD, THE CREATOR OF THE ENDS OF THE EARTH, FAINTETH NOT, NEITHER IS WEARY? THERE IS NO SEARCHING OF HIS UNDERSTANDING.
HE GIVETH POWER TO THE FAINT; AND TO THEM THAT HAVE NO MIGHT HE INCREASETH STRENGTH.
EVEN THE YOUTHS SHALL FAINT AND BE WEARY, AND THE YOUNG MEN SHALL UTTERLY FALL:
BUT THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH: THEY SHALL MOUNT UP WITH WINGS AS EAGLES; THEY SHALL RUN AND NOT BE WEARY; AND THEY SHALL WALK, AND NOT FAINT.
PSALMS 30:5 & 11
4. EXCELLENCES OF SONGS IN THE NIGHT
A. HEARTY SONGS
B. LASTING (WORLD’S SONGS ARE OVER THE NEXT MORNING)
C. SHOW WE HAVE REAL FAITH IN GOD
D. TRUE COURAGE
E. TRUE LOVE TO CHRIST
5. USES OF OUR SONGS IN THE NIGHT
A. IT WILL CHEER OURSELVES
B. GOD LOVES TO HEAR PEOPLE SING IN THE NIGHT
C. IT WILL CHEER YOUR BROTHER
D. IT IS ONE OF THE BEST ARGUMENTS IN ALL THE WORLD IN FAVOR OF YOUR RELIGION
PSALMS 134:1
BEHOLD, BLESS YE THE LORD, ALL YE SERVANTS OF THE LORD, WHICH BY NIGHT STAND IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
ACTS 16:25
AND AT MIDNIGHT, PAUL AND SILAS PRAYED, AND SANG PRAISES UNTO GOD: AND THE PRISONERS HEARD THEM.
