Alright, Psalm 132. Now this
could be, David could have written this psalm, but we're just going
to look at these first 10 verses. David could have written it,
but the one who is speaking is Solomon. And Solomon is praying
in the last, in verses 8 through 10. And he says the same words
in 2 Chronicles 6. So we know it's Solomon that's
speaking. And this is at the time when
Solomon is dedicating the temple that he built. And he's asking
the Lord to bless him and the people. But he's doing it asking
the Lord to remember David. And remember David's afflictions
and David's works and what David did to restore worship in Judah. And so, when we read this, the
first seven verses are gonna be Solomon speaking, but he's
saying, remember David, and he's speaking of what David did. And
then he gets down to verse eight, and then Solomon is at the temple,
dedicating the temple, and he's praying now what his prayer is
to the Lord. now that he's asked the Lord to remember him. Now,
in Solomon asking the Lord to remember David and to bless his
people for David's sake, David's a picture of Christ. That's the
only way we can come to God, is asking God to bless us for
the sake of his son, the Lord Jesus. Let's read it one more
time and see if we can hear it a little better now that I've
told you that. So Solomon prays and he says, Lord remember David
and all his afflictions. how he swore unto the Lord and
vowed unto the mighty God of Jacob, saying," this is what
David vowed, "'Surely I will not come into the tabernacle
of my house, nor go up into my bed. I will not give sleep to
mine eyes or slumber to mine eyelids, till I have found out
a place for the Lord and a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.'"
This was when he's speaking about the ark being gone. It's taken
the ark. And David, at this point, he's
just trying to find the ark and bring it back. And he wants to
set up a tabernacle for the ark to be in Judah so they could
have worship again, restore worship. So David said, lo, we heard of
it at Ephratah. They heard the ark was taken
to Ephratah. We found it in the fields of
the wood. That's the name of Kirgathrum.
The fields of the woods is Kirgathrum. And that's where they ended up
finding the ark. It had been there for over 20 years. David brought it back and he
pitched a tabernacle for the ark. Brought it up, put it in
the holiest of holies. And then this is what David said,
we will go into his tabernacles, we will worship at his footstool.
Now, having recounted all that, what David did, Solomon said,
Lord, remember David, remember his afflictions, remember his
vow and the works he did for you. And now Solomon is at the
dedication of the temple he had built, and the ark is about to
go up into the holiest of holies, and Solomon prays and he says,
Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, thou and the ark of thy strength. Let thy priests be clothed with
righteousness, and let thy saints shout for joy. For thy servant
David's sake, turn not away the face of thine anointed." You
see, King David was an eminent type of our Lord Jesus, and Solomon
here praying, asking the Lord to hear him and remember David,
And so bless him and his people. It's a picture of us coming to
the Lord, asking Jehovah to remember us and receive us for Christ's
sake. Our prayer, the prayer of every
regenerated child of God is, Lord, remember Christ Jesus. Remember your son. Remember the
Lord Jesus. Remember His afflictions. Remember
His covenant and His zeal and how He finished the works. Lord,
remember Christ. That's our subject. And God is
holy. He can only receive us if we
come through faith in Christ. But coming through faith in Christ,
holy God will receive His people and bless His people because
He remembers His Son. He remembers Christ and He remembers
what His Son accomplished on our behalf. We're going to look
at David here first of all as a type of Christ in his afflictions. Then we'll see David as a type
of our Lord in the vow he made, in the work he did. And then
we'll look at our prayer to God for the sake of Christ. First
of all, David is a type of our Lord Jesus in his afflictions.
In his afflictions. Solomon prays in verse 1, Lord,
remember David and all his affliction. God chose David. He chose David. He delighted in David. He anointed
David with the oil and made him the king. Well, God our Father
chose His Son. Before this world was made, He
chose His Son and He anointed Him king over His elect spiritual
Israel. Back in Psalm 89, 19, we hear the Lord's Word concerning
David. We saw this was a type of Christ
as well, but this is what God said of David. He said, Then
thou spakest in vision to thy holy one, and said, I have laid
help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chosen out
of the people, I have found David my servant, with my holy oil
have I anointed him, with whom my hand shall be established,
mine arm also shall strengthen him. You see how David is a picture
of Christ right there. In Hebrews 1, the Hebrew writer
quoted Psalm 45, and he said, unto the Son, he said, thy throne,
O God, is forever and ever. A scepter of righteousness is
a scepter of thy kingdom. David the king is a picture of
Christ the king, who is God in human flesh. Thou hast loved
righteousness and hated iniquity, therefore God, even thy God,
hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
God chose his son, he anointed him king, and sent him to be
the savior of his people. And you know, David's name means
beloved. That's what his name means, beloved.
Paul said, when the Father chose us in Christ and blessed us with
all spiritual blessings in heavenly places before this world was
ever made, we were accepted in the Beloved. That's who Christ
is, the Beloved. Now, remember David. We prayed,
oh Lord, remember Christ. Remember your Son. Remember David
in all his afflictions, Solomon said, and we see Christ Jesus
in all David's afflictions. David was despised and rejected
by his own family. He was despised and rejected
by his own family. David's son orchestrated a coup
against David and tried to have him taken off the throne, tried
to have him killed. His own son did that. A member
of David's own cabinet, one of his closest companions in his
own cabinet, betrayed him. Some of His nearest subjects
that were nearest to Him as He served as King, they betrayed
Him, just flat out betrayed Him. Our Lord Jesus came unto His
own. He came to His own family, His
own kindred after the flesh, children of Israel. He came to
His own and His own received Him not. He was betrayed by His
family. He was betrayed by Judas, who
was nearest, closest to Him. He was betrayed by him. David
was pursued by men who held powerful, powerful positions. King Saul began pursuing David
right away, and many others did throughout David's life. We see
Christ in that. Our Lord Jesus, when it was announced
to Herod that the King was born, He that was born King of the
Jews, Herod sought to kill Him right away. Kill Him and all
the children under two years old, trying to kill the Lord
Jesus. And then the established rulers
in religion, the scribes and the Pharisees, they sought to
take Christ and destroy Him from the very beginning of His ministry.
We see in David's affliction, he was accused of treason and
accused of other crimes. Our Lord Jesus Christ established
religion. The men who claimed they were
holy, men who claimed they were righteous, men who looked to
their works and trusted their works, these men accused our
Savior of being a winebibber. They accused Him of being a gluttonous
man. They accused Him of casting out devils by the devil. and his judgment was taken away.
That kangaroo cup court they threw together and brought before
the Romans, that was all just his judgment was taken away,
despised. David lived most his life in
the wilderness. Almost all his life he lived
in the wilderness as a fugitive on the run, wanted by men. Our Lord Jesus is the Son of
God, and He came to this wilderness, and He lived His entire life
here as a stranger, opposed by the devil and his seed the whole
time He walked this earth, as so of our Lord Jesus. Remember
Christ and His afflictions. That's what we're remembering.
Remember when Solomon said, remember David, Lord, and remember his
affliction, is remember Christ, remember His afflictions. You
remember when David brought the ark to Judah? And here's the
point I'm making in this. There's nothing you and me will
ever suffer in our affliction as God's saints. David is one
of God's saints. He's a man after God's own heart.
But the Lord ruled all providence so that David suffered everything
we're talking about here. And there's nothing you're gonna
suffer that our Lord Jesus didn't preeminently suffer more than
me and you. That's just so. If we suffered
something that he didn't suffer, we'd be preeminent in suffering,
and he has all preeminence in everything, including affliction. Our Lord Jesus, well, remember
when David brought the ark to Judah? and what this psalm's
talking about. And he brought that ark to Judah,
and he came before that ark, and he was dancing and shouting
with joy, and I mean dancing with all his might. And his wife,
Michael, Saul's daughter, she looked out the window and saw
David. And Scripture says she despised him in her heart. She
despised him. You know our Lord Jesus Christ's
own bride, God's elect, forsook him. God's elect bride forsook
the Lord Jesus Christ. While dead in our sins, our hearts
were enmity against Him. He was an enemy in our mind. In our mind, we considered Christ
to be an enemy to us. The bride, the elect, you know
when our Lord Jesus was hanging on the cross suffering for His
people, there were some of His elect bride at the foot of that
cross spewing venom upon Him. for whom He was laying down His
life. For whom He was laying down His
life and redeeming and saving by what was taking place. Nothing
you suffer, don't ever let anybody tell you like Job's friends did. They said, you can't be a child
of God. You've done something or you would be suffering. Listen,
God has no child. Hebrews 10 says God has no children. that do not suffer affliction
in this world. If you be without it, if your
life's just, you got ease and Zion, God's not gonna let his
people have ease and Zion. You got ease and Zion. The Hebrews
said, you're a bastard, not a son. Every one of his children he
loves, he gonna chase him. He's not gonna let us have ease
and Zion. That's what our flesh wants. And if he did that, we
wouldn't serve him. If he let us suffer too much,
we wouldn't serve him. That's what Solomon prayed. Don't give me riches, lest I
be exalted and forget you, Lord, and don't give me poverty, lest
I curse your name. That's us by nature. But the
Lord knows just how to keep us and he brings us through all
this affliction just like he did David. But there's nothing,
absolutely nothing you're going to suffer that Christ hadn't
suffered. Try it in all points like as
we are. Now David suffered a lot due to his own sin. But while there was a man of
flesh that sinned, that had many wives, I don't know why we speak
about David only committing adultery one time. He had a bunch of wives. And a bunch of people was murdered
by David and he was the cause of a whole lot of people dying
in Israel when he numbered Israel. But for all of that and all of
his sin and all of his backsliding, David had a new heart in which
Christ dwelt and he was continually seeking the glory of God and
he was continually kept by the Lord so that he was looking for
the good of God's people. And in all that, he's a picture
of Christ. Our Lord Jesus knew no sin. He
was tried in all points and he never sinned. But our Lord Jesus
Christ willingly The spotless, holy Lamb of God willingly gave
Himself and was made sin for us. And He owned that sin to
be His own sin. And it truly was made His. And He confessed those sins before
God, and He was ashamed of those sins before God, and He bore
the wrath and curse of God in place of His people. And that's
what it took for God's justice to be satisfied. And when David suffered affliction,
his family, his home, his friends were all taken from him, and
David was alone in the wilderness. Think about that affliction as
it pertains to Christ. Our Lord Jesus Christ went to
that cross alone. All the disciples, all the apostles
that boasted they wouldn't leave him, left him. He cried out,
my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He was alone on
that cross. And yet he remained faithful
to the Father, trusting the word of the Father, and he prayed
in the same Psalm, Psalm 22, where he cried, my God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me? In the same Psalm, he prayed,
be not far from me. Trouble is near, for there is
none to help. None to help. He suffered while
he tread the winepress alone. And then David, he was afflicted
when he suffered and fought many battles. Many wars David fought. But here's the difference between
David and the Lord Jesus. David fought battles. Well, Christ
came and he fought the war and he won the victory for his people. He won the victory for his people.
Cry unto Jerusalem and tell her warfare is accomplished. The
Lord has rewarded her double for all her sin. Comfort her,
comfort her with those words. Speak to her and tell her there's
now no condemnation. Speak to her and tell her, we're
more than conquerors through Christ that loved us. How was
David a conqueror? How was he able to suffer all
that affliction? Nearly him and Paul are the two
that just almost, I mean, they suffered above other men with
the exception of our Lord Jesus. How were they able to suffer
those things and that affliction and continue, believe in God
and worship in the Lord and not be turned away? only by the Lord
Jesus Christ being their strength. We have one strength, one power,
it's Christ. We don't have power, brethren.
We just don't. David didn't. You see David on
one hand seeming so valiant, so courageous, serving the Lord,
and you know, when he could have killed Saul that time, and Saul
confessed and said, the Lord is gonna bless you, David. You're
more righteous than I am." The next word, I mean the very next
verse is the very next thought, and David's thought was, I'm
going to die, Saul's going to kill me, best thing for me to
do is leave the land that God put me in and go to the enemy's
land and try to make a covenant with the enemy. On one hand he's
so valiant, courageous, and on the other hand he acted like
he didn't even know who God was. That's us by nature. And the only way
David would be brought back to his right mind and keep serving
the Lord is the glory, the glory, the glory. Don't go to David,
and it don't go to me and you. It goes to God, the Lord Jesus.
So Solomon here, he knew that about himself. And he wasn't
pleading his own merit. He wasn't pleading anything about
himself. He didn't come before God and
say, Lord, do this for my sake. No, we don't plead our own merit.
We don't come to God saying we deserve anything. We need an
intercessor, we need a mediator, we need God to remember the Lord
Jesus, who is all our acceptance with the Lord, and do what He
does for us for His sake. So we come before Him and say,
Lord, remember Christ Jesus, Your Son. Now, let's see David
here as a type of our Lord Jesus in the covenant works he did. Solomon asked God to remember,
verse 2, how David swore unto the Lord, and vowed unto the
mighty God of Jacob, saying, Surely I will not come into the
tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed. I will not give
sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to my eyelids, till I have found
a place for the Lord, and a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob.
David vowed to find the Ark and to build a tent for it so that
he could restore worship to the land of Judah. And so Solomon's
asking God, remember David, how he made that vow and how he would
not give himself rest until he had restored worship, until he
brought the Ark of the Covenant back to Judah. Don't you see
Christ in that? In eternity, our Lord Jesus entered
covenant. He vowed to God. He swore to
God and bound himself with an oath to God that he would be
surety for his elect. That he would come forth and
do all the works necessary. He would live the life that you
could never live. You take his elect, me, you,
every elect child. We could never live the life
that would be required for God to receive us. And because we
had sinned, we had to die the eternal death for justice to
be satisfied. And Christ in eternity, knowing
the end from the beginning, knowing we would sin, knowing we would
despise and reject Him, He entered covenant to come forth and live
the life of righteousness and holiness that you and me could
not live. And then go to the cross and die under the justice
of God, like he was the one who committed every sin you ever
committed in your life and every vile thought you ever thought. Why was the ark so important
to David? Why is David wanting to get the
ark and bring it back? What's the big deal about this
ark of the covenant? That ark held God's covenant. It held God's law. Whenever Moses
came down from the mount and they were already sinning, they
said, oh, we're going to keep the law. He comes down with the
law. They're already built an island and were dancing around
it. And Moses threw those tablets
down and broke them. Well, God said, come back. And
he went back up there, and God wrote the law on tablets of stone. And this time, he said, now you
put them in the ark. And that unbroken law was in
the ark, under the mercy seat. That's exactly what Hebrews 10
is telling us, brethren. Christ said, I came to do thy
will, O God. He said, I came to fulfill your
law. And it's by His will, by Him
fulfilling the will of God, by Him doing what we couldn't do,
that we're sanctified. He had a holy heart and he did
all righteousness and justified his people so that he's our holiness
and he is our righteousness. He is our perfection. That art
was was where God promised his presence would be. His presence
would be where that ark was. And he said, and I will meet
you one place, these children of Israel. Not everybody, he
said, these children of Israel whom I've chosen, this nation
I chose to represent my elect people. He said, I'll meet them
in one place over that mercy seat. That's where he said he'd meet
him. This is what he said in Exodus 25, 22. He said, There
I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above
the mercy seat. There's only one place God will
meet with me and you. It's Christ Jesus, our mercy
seat. That's what the word propitiation
means in the New Testament. It's the seat of mercy. He's
the vicarious, sin-atoning sacrifice. And it's only in Him, through
faith in Him, that God will meet you. He won't have a thing to
do with us anywhere but in Christ. And here's something else about
that Ark of the Covenant. Whatever place that Ark of the
Covenant was, that's where God's presence was. This is what he said in Deuteronomy
12.5. He says, "...unto the place which
the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put
His name there, even unto His habitation shall you seek, and
thither shalt thou come." But you see that ark was taken away
in one of those battles they had. The ark had been taken away.
And they hadn't had that ark of the covenant for 20 years. People were assembling wherever
they wanted to. They were worshiping however they wanted to because
God's presence wasn't with them. And God said, the place that
my ark is, that's where my presence will be, where I've put my ark,
that's where I'll be. And he said, you leave wherever
you are and you drive or you ride your camels or whatever
all the way to that place. You've got a symbol there. That's
what the Lord told him. So when the Lord made David king,
David, he saw this, he knew this, and he swore that he would not
go into his house, he would not sleep in his bed, he wouldn't
give sleep to his eyelids, verse 5, until I found a place for
the Lord, a habitation for the mighty God of Jacob. And he said,
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah, and we found it in the fields
of the wood. You know what 1 Chronicles 16.43
says? David honored that vow. David
did not go back to his house until he found that ark and brought
that ark back to Judah. And then he went home. That's
what 1 Chronicles 16.43 said. After he got there and he set
up the priest and all of that and restored worship, then he
went back home. Went to his house. What a picture
of our Lord Jesus. The Son of God took flesh and
he would not rest until he finished the work the Father gave him
to do. He came down and in David's zeal we see a picture of the
Lord Jesus. He said, I must be about my Father's business. God
was in Christ. He said, this Ark of the Covenant
is the habitation of the God of Jacob. And where I bring this
Ark to, He said, that's going to be the habitation of the God
of Jacob. Christ is the habitation of the
God of Jacob. God was in Christ. He's the fullness
of the Godhead bodily. He said, if you've seen me, you've
seen the Father. And Christ came to finish that
work the Father gave Him to do, not only to make a habitation
for God in Himself, where God would be, but to make
a habitation for His people in Himself. His people are the assembly. His people are the church. The
habitation of God. Ephesians 2.21 says, In whom
all the building is fitly framed together and grows unto a holy
temple in the Lord, in whom ye also build it together for a
habitation of God through the Spirit. The habitation of the
mighty God of Jacob. There's one, there's one, there's
one. It's His people. Now you see
the picture here, when the ark was in the tabernacle in the
city of David, David brought all the children of Judah to
assemble and worship God over the mercy seat and God met with
them and His presence was known to them. He said in verse 7,
after he brought in the ark and he pitched a tent and took the
ark into the holiest of holies, he called it a tabernacle of
curtains. because it was just a flimsy
tent is what it was, but it was a place that he put together
and he brought that ark back there and then David said, we
will go into his tabernacle, we will worship at his footstool. Now I want you to get this, this
word is so important. You see David assembled the children
of Judah. Well, our Lord Jesus assembles
His church. He calls one from the north,
and the south, and the east, and the west, and He assembles
His people. Every local assembly, the true
church, it's not everybody, it's who Christ has assembled, in
whom He abides, who He's regenerated, who He's sanctified. David said,
we will worship at His footstool. Now get this, the local assembly
that Christ has assembled, in whom Christ dwells, who He's
made the habitation of God. God's dwelling in you. He's habitating
in you. He's living in you. That assembly
of saints is Christ's footstool. It's His footstool. King Solomon,
later you can read this in 2 Chronicles 9.18, but King Solomon's footstool
was covered in gold, and it was inseparably connected to his
throne. And it had lions guarding it. You know, Christ our head, he's
in heaven, and his church in the earth that he's assembled
is at his feet, like a footstool connected to a throne. And our
Father is in Christ, And He meets with us in Christ in the mercy
seat where He's assembled His people. That's where you're going
to find the presence of God. That's where you're going to
know the presence of God through the preaching of the Word. He
is assembled with His people. That's His footstool. And you
know how we were enemies in our mind by wicked word. We thought
Christ was our enemy when we were lost. But you remember what
God declared when He raised Christ? He said, sit here at my right
hand till I make your enemies your footstool. And He's going
to make every one of His elect who were enemies in our mind,
He's going to regenerate each one of us and show us where He
is and He's going to make us His elect, His footstool, in
grace. That's what He's going to do.
Everybody in the end is going to bow to Him. Some are going
to bow in judgment. but you're gonna be his good
footstool covered in the pure gold of Christ's righteousness.
Exalt ye the Lord our God and worship at his footstool for
he is holy. Men don't realize what they reveal,
how they treat the public worship of God. This is his word, Psalm
99.5. Exalt ye the Lord our God. That's what David was, that's
all he was concerned about. and worship at his footstool.
That's what he did all of that for, was to assemble Judah where
God said, I will meet with you and there worship God in Christ,
which they hadn't done for 20 years. And that's what he accomplished. So after Solomon built that more
permanent temple, now let's get to Solomon. He's there now and
he said all of this prayer as he's dedicating that permanent
temple, and they're taking that ark into that temple, into the
Holy of Holies. And Solomon prays this, verse
8, he says, Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, thou and the ark of
thy strength. Now do you see the picture here?
After Christ did all the work in this earth, in that tabernacle,
in that tent that was like David's little tabernacle of curtains.
He came in our flesh, in the weakness of it, and he accomplished
all the work for us. And then He arose in a glorified
body, perfect as the God-man mediator, and He entered the
holiest of holies, and He's entered into His rest. He entered in
and He sat down at the right hand of God. Somebody, I've heard
men say, I wish we could find the Ark of the Covenant. I wonder
what happened to the Ark of the Covenant. The Ark of the Covenant
is at God's right hand. I ain't talking about that box
of wood. God destroyed that thing. Christ is at God's right hand
and He's who the ark pictured. That's the ark of God's strength. Christ is the ark in whom God
has all power to be a just God and to save His people. The ark
of His strength is Christ Jesus. God promised to meet with His
people over the mercy seat, through God's high priest, through the
blood of the Lamb. That's where He said, that's
the only way He'd meet. You know what Hebrews 10, 19
says, having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter the holiest
by the blood of Jesus. There's the Lamb. By a new and
living way, which He consecrated for us through His flesh. And
having a high priest over the house of God. There's our high
priest. There's the mercy seat, there's the blood, there's the
high priest. He said, let us draw near with a true heart and
full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an
evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Now,
very quickly, we're going to look again at this next time,
but very quickly, here's Solomon's threefold prayer, and this is
our prayer. Verse 9, Let thy priests be clothed
with righteousness. First, he blessed the Lord and
he said, Arise, O Lord, into thy rest, the ark of thy strength. And then he asked this, Let thy
priests be clothed with righteousness. That's what we're asking. I purposely
prayed at the beginning of the message exactly what Solomon
prayed. You can go back and listen to
it on the recording. Let thy priest be clothed with
righteousness." Look who does the letting. Sinners in this
world are preaching, won't you let God. God's people pray, Lord,
would you let your priest be clothed with righteousness. You
who the Lord has filled with His Spirit and given faith in
Christ, He clothed you. And He clothed you with Christ's
righteousness. You know why? Because He made
you priests unto God by His blood. He made you priests unto God.
And therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus,
who are born of His Spirit and led of His Spirit and believe
on Him alone. Some are yet lost. Some, he made
priests, are yet lost. And we pray to him, Lord, call
them, give them faith, and let your priests be clothed with
righteousness. And we pray that he would clothe
us in righteousness in everything that we do. everything that we
say, that we might have zeal like he gave David. David didn't
have that zeal of himself, God did that. That was the right
thing to not worry about his own house, not worry about anything
about himself, till he got that ark and restored worship in Israel. I pray the Lord would clothe
us in righteousness to make us that zealous for the Lord's house
and the Lord's people over our own things and stuff that we
spend all our time going after. To have our constraint of our
heart be nothing but the love of Christ for us. No other motive. Not because we're offended, not
because we're trying to get glory, none of that. Just constrained
by the love of Christ for us. Done in faith, trusting the Lord
to be our strength and all our righteousness. 2. We ask God,
verse 9, and let thy saints shout for joy. You notice that conjunction
there. And these petitions are joined. It's Him clothing you in the
righteousness of Christ that lets His saints shout with joy. That's what causes us to shout
with joy. When David saw that ark coming back into the holiest
of holies in the land of Judah where the Lord's people were,
David danced and shouted with all his might. And Solomon is
praised and he says, oh Lord, let your people shout with joy. We're asking God, let us see
Christ our righteousness. Let us see us seated there with
him at your right hand, Father. Let us see that he is all our
righteousness and all our holiness and all our redemption. Let us
see him so that you'll let us shout with joy. That's what's
gonna make you shout with joy in your heart. knowing Christ
is everything. And three, three, and you know
that's why he made you a pretty son of God. is so you offer up
the sacrifice of your lips, giving all the praise and all the glory
to the Lord Jesus. Sometime when I'm not out of
time, I'll show you that in the Scripture. That's exactly why
He saved us. And so, as priest, you come into this house and
give Him all the glory for saving you and doing it all. You give
Him the glory for getting you through this hour. He's doing
it all, all the time. All right, lastly, and we end
right where we began. We pray, Lord, do it all for
Christ's sake. Verse 10, for Thy servant David's
sake, turn not away the face of Thine anointing. That's how
it began. Lord, remember David. Remember
his afflictions. Remember all that he vowed and
all that he accomplished. And we pray, Lord, we're coming
to You in Christ's name only. Remember him, remember his person,
remember his works, remember what he did for us. And then
we speak of those works. In that whole psalm, Solomon's
praying and all he's speaking about is David's works and what
David accomplished. We pray and we brag on the Lord
Jesus as we're praying about everything he accomplished for
his people. And then we end right where we began. Lord, for your
Christ's sake, turn not away the face of the unanointed. Lord,
for Christ's sake, don't leave us to ourselves. Don't turn your
face from those you've anointed. Lord, save us for Christ's sake.
That's our prayer. And next time, We're going to
see the Lord's promise, and I'll just read verse 11, the beginning
part. This is how God answers. The Lord has sworn in truth unto
David. He will not turn from him. And
that's what God's promised. He will do everything for the
sake of His Son. That's our prayer. Lord, remember
Christ. Save us for Christ's sake. Alright. Brother Greg,