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Our Defender, Advocate & Judge

Psalm 58
Clay Curtis March, 12 2020 Video & Audio
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Clay Curtis March, 12 2020 Video & Audio
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Psalm 58. Now the heading we see is to
the chief musician, altus gift, that again means destroy thou
not. This is one of the Destroy Not
Psalms. The last one we saw was, I think the next one is. It's
a mictum of David. That means a golden psalm. These
were special psalms that David rejoiced in, that he considered
to be golden psalms. Now, have you ever been charged
by someone and maybe it was unjust, maybe it was just. But you're
charged and men have spoken things about you that are unrighteous.
David experienced that. He was experiencing that. He
wrote this about Saul and the unjust judges who had, Saul had
robbed them and they, they were willing to charge David with
treason and make him leave Israel. So he knew what that was about.
He experienced that. But David was speaking prophetically. He's a prophet. God gave him
these words to speak as Christ's words. Our Lord Jesus Christ
was unjustly charged when he walked this earth. He's the perfect,
righteous, sinless man who is God. And when He walked this
earth, we sinners charged Him with sin. And we unjustly sentenced
Him to die the cursed death of the cross. So He knows what this
is to be charged and slandered unjustly, unrighteously. Now, I want you to read this,
and as we go through this, you're going to notice this speaks of
two people. It speaks of the wicked, and it speaks of the
righteous. Two people, the wicked and the
righteous. Now, the wicked, in this Psalm,
are all who reject Christ, who go through their life rejecting
Christ, and at last meet Him in judgment. Now this is not
just speaking about the last judgment, it's talking about
judgment now. Right now, as well as then. But
the wicked are those that reject Christ. They go through life
rejecting the gospel. And then the righteous, spoken
of here, is Christ. And those that he's made righteous. Those that have been brought
to faith in Christ. They're the righteous, because
Christ made them righteous. Now this psalm is Christ speaking. It's Christ speaking. And the
first thing we're gonna see is Christ is our defender. He's
the one who defends us in the God's court of law. He's the
one that defends his people. And then we're gonna see Christ
is also our advocate with the Father. He's the one who, he
is our lawyer, our advocate with the father in this whole matter
of justice. And then we're gonna see Christ
himself is the judge. He's the one to whom God has
committed all judgment who will carry out that judgment. Who
is right now carrying out judgment for his people. So if you can
remember those three words, you have our title. Our defender,
our advocate, and our judge. And that's our point, our defender,
our advocate, and our judge. Now first, we see Christ our
defender. Now, if you've not believed on
Christ, if you've not trusted Christ, then you should hear
Christ speaking this and asking you these questions. And if there's any that are unjustly
accusing any of his people, any of Christ's people, then hear
these questions from Christ asked of you. And here's what he says
in verse 1, Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?
Do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? You and I can ask ourselves this,
and hear Christ ask us this, do you speak righteousness about
your own self before God? Just between you and God, do
you speak righteousness about your own self before God? Do
you speak and judge that which is just about your own self before
God? Let me show you what it is. Turn
to Psalm 51. Here's what it is to speak righteousness
about ourselves with God. Here's what it is to judge justly
about ourselves with God, no matter who you are. This is so. Listen to this. Psalm 51, 1,
David prayed, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness. According unto the multitude
of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly
from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge
my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against thee,
thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight,
that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear
when thou judgest. We judge uprightly, and we speak
righteousness when we take sides with God against ourselves. Now
that's a man who's speaking righteousness. That was a man who was judging
uprightly. He's saying, God, I've sinned,
I've done this evil against thee, thee only have I sinned and done
this evil in your sight. That you might be just when you
speak. When you judge me, God, you're
just because I've sinned. Now that's to speak righteousness,
that's to judge uprightly. Now, have you spoken uprightly
between you and God? Do you speak righteousness between
you and God? To deny sin and to deny that
we're as undone and as ruined and as sinful and vile and wicked
as God says we are, to deny that is not to speak righteousness.
That's not to judge uprightly. In the day when Christ walked
this earth, rather than the wicked taking sides with him against
themselves, the wicked took sides with each other against Christ. And they did that in an attempt
to justify themselves. That was the whole point of it,
to justify themselves before men. Now in every generation,
the wicked exalt themselves as judges over Christ's people.
You read it all through the scriptures. The wicked, unregenerate, natural
sinners always exalt themselves over Christ and over Christ's
people. Christ taught us that he came
to fulfill the law and that except your righteousness exceed the
righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you can in no
wise enter the kingdom of heaven. And there's whole churches of
people that take sides with each other against Christ and say,
speak unrighteously and say, no, we have to keep the law. Well, then why did God send his
son? Is that judging rightly? He sent his son because we couldn't
keep the law. He sent his son because he's
the only one who could keep it. But in every generation, they
rise up against Christ. You declare Christ as the end
of the law for righteousness. Watch men rise up against Christ
using the law. What do the Pharisees say? We
have a law! That's what they always say. And they're speaking
against Christ. And they speak against Christ's
people. So Christ prosecuted his own accusers. He was the
prosecuting attorney against his own accusers in this psalm
right here. And not only that, he's prosecuting
David's accusers. And he's prosecuting our accusers. He's our defender against the
wicked. Now, no wicked sinner shall escape
the righteous, just judgment of Christ, our defender. Nobody's
going to escape his just judgment. He says to the wicked, Do you
indeed speak righteousness? Do you judge uprightly, O ye
sons of men? Now I'm going to show you here
in just a moment that verse 4 came from Romans 3. Or he quotes verse
4 in Romans 3. But I think what Brother Greg
just read, I think this Psalm is what Paul was referring to
when he wrote Romans chapter 2. Look back over there again
to Romans chapter 2. Brother Greg just read. He says
in our psalm, Do you judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? Then he says
this, Romans 2 verse 1, Thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever
thou art that judgest. For wherein thou judgest another,
wherein you judge another sinner, thou condemnest thyself. for
thou that judgest doest the same things. But we're sure of this,
the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit
such things. And do we think, oh man, that
judgest them which do such things and doest the same that you'll
escape the judgment of God? You see, when a sinner, when
a sinner exalts himself to Christ's throne, and decides he's going
to be the judge. And he's going to condemn another
sinner for his sin. That's not just. That's not upright. Because I don't care what sin
it is, that person that's charging this person with it is doing
the same thing. As they're charging that sinner
with sin, they're committing the same sin. But when God judges, it's according
to truth. And now nobody will escape that
judgment. And the only place that God's going to judge you
and me to be the righteous is in Christ the righteous. Trust
in Christ the righteous. It's the only way that we're
going to stand before God and have the just judge of heaven
and earth judge us to be righteous is in our Lord Jesus Christ the
righteous. You don't want to try to come
and stand before Him and have, you just imagine, you see Christ
here asking wicked sinners, do you speak righteousness? Do you
judge uprightly? Imagine there's a day coming
and we're going to stand before Him. And if we're not in Christ,
if we're standing there because of something we think we can
stand on our own because of something we did, He's going to ask us
that. When you're standing here saying
to me that you've earned a righteousness apart from Christ, do you speak
righteousness? Are you judging uprightly? It's
one thing for us to sit here and hear this and I hope the
Spirit of God will bless us enough to enter into what we're hearing
and it be real to us. But it's going to get real that
day. When you're standing there face to face with the God of
glory and He asks you, are you speaking righteous? I don't want to stand there speaking
for myself. I want to be one he's defending.
I want to be one he's defending. I want to be one that he's saying,
oh, you're going to accuse him of sin? Are you speaking righteousness? I've made him perfectly righteous.
Are you speaking, are you judging uprightly to judge him to be
a sinner? And that's what Christ is doing here. Don't just hear
David say this. Hear Christ saying this. Of his
own accusers, of David's accusers, and of our accusers. Are you
speaking righteous? Are you judging uprightly? This
is one I've redeemed. This is one I've robed in my
righteousness. This is one that I've accepted. And you're going to condemn him? Christ defends his people by
convicting the wicked of heart wickedness. He says here in verse
2, Yea, in heart you work wickedness. Read that again. In heart you
work wickedness. You commit wickedness in the
heart. Ye weigh the violence of your
hands in the earth. He is saying in the heart you
work wickedness by weighing the violence. You are going to commit
with your hands. You do that in your heart. Before
you ever commit it, you are committing it in your heart. Wicked sinners
are quick to condemn the outward acts of other sinners. Quick
to judge outward acts that they can see other sinners commit.
They don't judge sinners that commit outward acts of sin that
they themselves are committing, because then they would say,
I'd never. But they judge outward acts of
sin that they're not committing, that they don't think they're
committing, outwardly. But God says, you work in wickedness
in your heart. Our omniscient God sees the sinful
acts that men commit in our heart. Just like you could look at somebody
with these eyes and see somebody that's really committing an act
of sin. It's that open with God. He sees
our heart. and all the sinful acts that
we commit in our heart. He says you weigh the violence
of your hands in the earth. Let me give you this in Isaiah
26, 7. You don't have to turn there,
but it says God weighs the path of the just. God weighs the path
of the just. Here's what it means. God observes
it. He considers the path of the just. He approves of the
path of the just. He takes delight in it as being
right and as being agreeable to his mind and to his will.
It means the same thing right here. In a wicked man's heart,
he weighs the violence that he's going to commit with his hands
in the earth. In his heart, he weighs the violence. That means
he thinks on it. He purposes it. He approves of
it. He commits it with delight in
his heart. For it's ever done in the hand.
Because it's agreeable to his nature. And God sees it. Every bit of it. For it's ever
committed with his hands. He sees that. He sees that. The proud, self-righteous, religious
sinner who works wickedness in his heart He's working sin far
worse than the outward acts of those He's condemning. Why do
you say that? Because if He's condemning somebody
for their outward acts, the sins He's committing in His heart
is to usurp God's throne, it's to say He's righteous by Himself
in what He's done, it's to be proud and arrogant. I mean, there are far worse sins
going on that he's committing in his heart when he's condemning
someone outwardly that hadn't even committed a sin nearly as
bad as what he's committing in his heart. And God sees it. The Lord seeth
not as man seeth. Man looks on the outward appearance.
You could fool a man. The Lord sees not as man seeth.
Man looks at the outward appearance, the Lord looks on the heart.
Back in Psalm 51, David said, Thou desires truth in the inward
part. It's in the inward part that
you're going to make me to know wisdom. Christ had mercy on sinners
who were struggling with outward acts of sin who he had given
a new heart who rested in Christ as their righteousness, who were
constrained by Christ's love in their heart, who loved their
brethren, who delighted in mercy and forgiveness, but they struggled
with outward acts of sin. And Christ dealt very mercifully
with them. But He dealt very strictly with
the self-righteous whose outward acts appeared to be perfect before
men. But in their heart, they had
a heart of stone, and they hated Christ, and they hated His people,
and they hated mercy, and they hated justice, and they hated
forgiveness in their heart. He dealt strictly with them.
Men would look on the two, and the one that's committing outward
acts of sin, think, oh boy, he's a sinner. And this one over here,
that's just straight as a gun barrel. They think, oh, he's
such a righteous man. I'll tell you what. I'd rather
have a heart made new by God that rejoices in Christ and rests
in Christ and struggle with outward sin than I would be straight
as an arrow on the outside and hate God on the inside. Because
God looks on the heart. And then Christ declares that
wicked Sinners are wicked from the womb. Verse 3, the wicked
are estranged from the womb. They go astray as soon as they
be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison
of a serpent. Now, we sinned in Adam. And so
we were conceived in sin from Adam. And so we all are estranged. Estranged from who? Estranged
from God. From the womb. And we go astray. Go astray from who? From God.
From the womb. As soon as we're born. By one
man sin entered the world and death by sin. And so death passed
upon all men. For that all have sinned. We got that from Adam. And a
lie is what we are. We come into this world and we
are a lie. And so what do we do? we speak
lies. But when he says there that we
speak lies, where do the lies come from? Christ said out of
the heart the mouth speaks. It's from this poisonous nature
of sin that the mouth speaks lies. Unregenerate wicked sinners
lie about their righteousness, they lie about their sin, they
lie about their guilt, they lie about what they really think
of God and what they really think of themselves. They speak lies
on Christ, the message they preach are nothing but lies against
Christ. Well, he just doesn't say that
Christ died just for his people. Now, he says Christ died for
everybody, but he says a lot of good things. No, he doesn't.
He speaks lies. That's all he speaks. They're
not a good thing coming out of his mouth. Just lies. but the wicked won't hear God's
gospel. They speak these lies, but they
won't hear the truth. Look here in verse 4. The second
part says, they're like the deaf adder, or like the asp. It's
a type of snake that stoppeth her ear, which will not hearken
to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. You've seen
them in the movies and things where they have a charmer that
can blow the little whistle and a snake will come up and he can
just charm that snake. This gospel is the charm. This gospel, and Christ is the
charmer. He charms his people. He makes
his people hear. He makes you hear about divine
election, how God chose his people by free grace. It makes you see
you're a sinner. And without God choosing you
by grace, you wouldn't have any hope. charms those in whom He's
given a new heart. He declares how Christ came forth,
the Son of God came down and took flesh and went to the cross
and put away the sin of His particular people making us the righteousness
of God. And that charms a believer. We
hear how the Spirit of God comes and regenerated us and drew us
to Christ and wouldn't take no from us, brought us to Christ.
And we rejoice in that song. We hear the glorious grace of
God, that keeping grace, that preserving grace, and that resurrecting
grace, and that glorifying grace, that it's grace from beginning
to end. And that's a charming sound to God's people. But a natural man, an unregenerate
man, a wicked man, he won't hear that. He stops his ears to it. He works hard to stop his ears.
He don't want to hear that. The natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto
him, neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned. He's like the deaf adder. Now
brethren, go to Romans 3. I want you to see. This is so
of all sinners, including God's elect, before as yet God regenerates
us. As we are, as we come into this
world, everything that Christ is saying to the wicked, it's
true of us too. But look here at Romans 3 verse
9. And our Psalm back there, he
said that we're like the deaf adder, we're like the asp, got
poison, the poison of snakes. And look what he says here, Romans
3 verse 9. What then? Are we better than they? You
believer, are you better than the wicked? No and no wives. So we've before proved both Jews
and Gentiles that takes in everybody on the top side of the earth. They're all under sin. As it's
written, there's none righteous, no not one. There's none that
understandeth. There's none that seeketh after
God. They're all gone out of the way.
They're together become unprofitable. There's none that doeth good,
no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues they've used
deceit. What'd he say? We go astray as
soon as we be born, speaking lies. The poison of asps is under
their lips. We're worse than that really
because a poisonous snake will just kill your body. Our poison
kills you spiritually. Whose mouth is full of cursing
and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed
blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways. A way of peace
they have not known. And here's what it's all about
right here. There's no fear of God before their eyes. Well what
makes some remain the wicked And what makes him call others
in our psalm the righteous? If that's all of us, and that's
all of us, why does he call some the righteous and he calls the
rest the wicked? Read on, verse 19. It wasn't
the law. We know that what things serve
of the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law that
every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty
before God. Therefore by the deeds of the
law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. By the laws of
knowledge of sin. It wasn't the law by which we
made a difference. How then are some made the righteous?
It's by Christ's work of faith for us. And then God gives us
the gift of faith to believe on Him and Christ gives us His
righteousness through faith. Read on, verse 21. Now the righteousness
of God without the law is manifested. The righteousness of God without
your doing the law and my doing the law. And it's witnessed by
the law and the prophets. This is what the Old Testament
taught us from the beginning. Even the righteousness of God
which is by faith of Christ. It's by His faithfulness. How
do I get it? How do I get the righteousness
Christ worked out for His people? It's unto all and upon all them
that believe on Christ. You quit working. You quit trying
to keep the law to get it. You believe on Christ and He
gives you His righteousness. But that righteousness came by
His faithful doing, not by mine. Look, why does it have to be
that way? Because there is no difference. There's no difference in any
of us. That's why all have sinned and come short of the glory of
God. We're justified freely by His grace through the redemption
that's in Christ Jesus who God set forth to be a propitiation
through faith in His blood. So I can't stand up and condemn
another sinner. The only thing that makes me
different from that sinner is God's grace. It's what Christ
did for me. That's the only difference. What
do I have that I didn't receive from God? Am I going to glory
then like I didn't receive it? Am I going to glory by condemning
some other sinner and try to make myself look more just than
them? That's all it's about is condemning somebody else to make
yourself look righteous. I don't have anything but what
I was given. Why glory? Why glory? I have nothing to
glory in. So Christ speaks to wicked sinners who spoke unrighteousness
of Him and who speak unrighteousness of those for whom Christ died.
And He defends us, brethren. And that's why you and I don't
ever want to be found guilty. of laying an unjust charge to
one of his people for whom he died. Christ is the defender
of his people. And Christ said what you do to
them, you do to me. And if you and I unjustly judge
one another, Christ is gonna come to us through the preaching
of this gospel in the court of our conscience. And he's gonna
speak loud and clear to you and me and say, Are you speaking
righteousness? Are you judging uprightly? And He'll do that in mercy to
those that are His. But to the wicked? Now read on. I'm going to go quickly now.
I spent that whole time on my first point. My second two are
going to be real fast. Secondly, we see Christ our advocate
with the Father. He defends His people against
the wicked. Look here in verse 6. This is
Christ praying to the Father. Break their teeth, O God. He's
speaking about the wicked. Break their teeth, O God, in
their mouth. Break out the great teeth of
the young lions, O Lord. In the Psalm before this, we
saw how the teeth are represented as often as being the words they
speak. It tears you up like teeth bites
and devours you. That's what he's talking about.
He's saying shut their mouth, God. And Christ advocates for the
wicked to be taken away so they won't do any harm to his people
and his kingdom. He says in verse 7, let them
melt away as waters which run continually. When he bendeth
his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be cut in pieces. as
a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away, like the
untimely birth of a woman that they may not see the sun. You
see the election of grace in that? This hit me like a ton
of bricks when I was studying it this week. He's praying for
somebody to protect somebody and he's praying against somebody.
He's praying for God to break the teeth of the wicked to protect
His people that He's made righteous. You see election in that? He's
praying for His elect people. He's praying against the wicked
who aren't here. We see the sovereignty of God
in this. Who can do those things that Christ is praying the Father
to do? Who can do those things? Only
a sovereign God. He can do all those things. He
can make the wicked melt away like a snail. He can cut their
heirs so that the heirs do no harm. He can make them as useless
as if they had never been born. Brother Rob read about David
and Saul over there in, I forget where we were, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel.
And right after that, you keep reading, a couple of chapters
later, God took the throne from Saul. Just took it from him.
and all his men that were with him and boy they had him a good
thing going. He just took all their power
away and he made David the king. God can turn things around for
his people and that's because Christ is our, he's our defender,
he's going to defend his people from unjust accusations and he's
also our advocate. He's going to pray the Father
to stop the wicked. Don't let them harm my kingdom.
Don't let them harm my cause. Don't let them try to stop my
gospel. And who do you think God's going to hear? He's going
to hear his son. So wait on the Lord to defend
you against the wicked and wait on the Lord to be your advocate
with the Father and he'll turn it around. And here's the last
thing. Wait on Christ our judge to execute
judgment. Now He prays this to the Father
and then Christ our Judge, He spoke to the wicked first. Then
Christ our Advocate spoke to the Father and now Christ our
Judge is fixed to speak to us. And look what He says. He tells
us three things about judgment. One, He says my judgment is going
to come upon the wicked very speedily. Verse 9, before your
pots can fill the thorns. I read about two dozen commentaries
that argued on what that means. Let me just tell you what it
means. Before you can boil a pot of water. That's how fast I'm
going to do this. He shall take them away as with
a whirlwind, both living and in His wrath. That means He's
going to do it in this life for those that are alive and trying
to work mischief against His people, and He's going to do
it in wrath one day in final judgment. You take Korah, for
example. Korah rose up, decided he's going
to get Moses cast out. And he stands up and he says,
Moses, you take too much on yourself. We're all holy. We can all serve
like you can serve. God said, get away from him.
And God opened up the ground and swallowed him up. He was
alive, working passionately and had all his men with him and
he had 200 and some princes with him on this thing. God opened
the ground and swallowed them all and closed the ground back
up. Back like that, fast as you can go up out of water. And two, God's judgment upon
the wicked will be thorough. He said in verse 10, the second
part, He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. If you got that much blood, it's
going to take a lot of blood. He's talking about how thorough
God's judgment is going to be. If you meet God outside of Christ,
I guarantee you, you're going to be slain in judgment. And
there will not be any enemy of Christ's people left when God
gets done. They're going to be all slain.
It's going to be thorough judgment. And then here's the third thing.
His judgment upon the wicked is going to cause His people
to rejoice. Verse 58, sorry, verse 10. Let me find my place. Hold on. Verse 10, now watch the wording
here. The righteous, and let me just
remind you that's Christ. The righteous shall rejoice when
he seeth the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the
blood of the wicked so that a man shall save. He's going to do
this and he's going to make me and you say, verily, there is
a reward for the righteous. Verily, he is a God that judgeth
in the earth. What's he mean by all that? We
don't rejoice in God's vengeance as a vendetta. We're not praying
for God's vengeance to, or looking for God's vengeance one day so
we can rejoice. Ah, you got what was coming to
you. It's not that kind of thing at all. We would much rather
see God grant repentance to the wicked. We'd much rather see
God reconcile the wicked. That's what we want to see. That's
what we pray for. But God's people rejoice in the
justice of God. It was God sending His Son, making
His Son worthy of divine justice by making Him sin for us. And
then pouring out wrath on Him in justice and making us worthy
of eternal life by making us righteous in Him. That's justice.
That rejoices my heart. And I'll tell you this, when
David saw Saul put out of the throne and when he saw all his
men put down, David was rejoicing not that Saul was put down, he
was rejoicing that God is the judge who's judging in this earth
for his people doing what's right for his people. That's what he
rejoiced in. And God's going to make you and
I know this. We don't have to wait for final judgment to see
this happen. He's going to make you know in this life that God
is judging right now in this earth. Making it work out just like
God purposed for it to work out. for the good of His people and
the glory of His name. And when He makes you see that,
you're going to see this reward He's talking about. It's all
of grace. It's not anything we merited. It's fruits, what it
is. And you're going to see verily, oh, this is true. Our religion
is real. Our God is real. Our God's alive. And our God is judging for His
people right now in the midst of this earth. And He's not going
to let anything stop His gospel. He's not going to let anything
break up His church. He's not going to let His kingdom
suffer in the least bit. And when we get to the other
side and we look at this thing, we're going to realize no matter
what the wicked did, it did not hurt Christ and His cause at
all. All it did was further it. In
the early church when they tried to shut down the gospel and they
would persecute the church, they would split apart and they just
went in more directions. And preached the gospel everywhere
they went. And he blessed everywhere they went. They tried to stamp
it out and get rid of these and they just split, took off and
preached it more. In more places. And nothing is
going to stop it. And he does these things in our
lives to make you understand God's on the throne and He's
a just God. Everything God does is justice
and righteousness. That's what His chief attribute
is holiness. And He's showing us everything
He's doing for us in this world is righteous and holy. And He's
doing it because it's the right thing to do. And He makes you
rejoice in it. He makes you to know that this
thing is real. It's not a doctrine, it's not
a theory, it's not just something we come in here and we just have
Sunday go to meeting religion where we have it while we're
here and then we go out and we don't have it. He makes you know
it's real, it's with you all the time because He's with you
all the time. So, here's what I say to you. If
you're a sinner, if you're the wicked, believe on Christ right
now. Cast all your care on Him and
come to Him, bow down and ask for grace and for mercy. He'll
give it. But now if you're too hard-headed
to do that, you won't win. You're not going to win. Kiss
the Son lest He be angry and you perish from the way when
His wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put
their trust in Him. And for you and me, Redeemer,
for you and me, believer, who He's redeemed, Trust Christ to
be your defender when you're persecuted. You know, you can
rail back and you can throw mud back at them and they'll throw
mud at you and y'all just gonna end up muddy. Both of you. Trust
Christ to defend you. He's gonna defend His people.
Trust Christ to be your advocate with the Father to do what's
right for you in the earth and to prevent anything from happening
to His kingdom. And trust that Christ is the
judge. He's not only the one that's
going to pray for it to be done, God's given all judgment into
his hand and he's going to execute it. And in the last day, he's
going to be the one men stand before. He's going to be our
defender, our advocate, and our judge in that day. And everything's
going to be fine. But you don't want to meet him
being the wicked, because it will not be fine. It will not
be fine. I pray God will bless that. Thank you.
Clay Curtis
About Clay Curtis
Clay Curtis is pastor of Sovereign Grace Baptist Church of Ewing, New Jersey. Their services begin Sunday morning at 10:15 am and 11am at 251 Green Lane, Ewing, NJ, 08638. Clay may be reached by telephone at 615-513-4464 and by email at claycurtis70@gmail.com. For more information, please visit the church website at http://www.FreeGraceMedia.com.

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