Go with me back to Psalm 30. Psalm 30, we just read this Psalm for our scripture reading. And if you're like me, more than likely, you probably heard it or read it as David speaking. That's how I read it the first time I looked over it. Most of the time, that's what we do. If not all the time, we read a psalm as David saying it.

Let's read this one more time as our Lord Jesus Christ saying it. That's how we're going to spend this message. We're just going to read it one more time as our Lord Jesus Christ speaking. We're going to hear his words to the father after being resurrected from the dead. Gethsemane is finished. The cross has been endured, death is done, resurrection to life, and an exit from the tomb has been given.

And in verse one, our Lord Jesus Christ cries, I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hast lifted me up. and has not made my foes to rejoice over me. I will extol thee, O Lord. I will extol thee. That word extol means lift up. It means honor. It means exalt. Father, I will lift you up. Verse 1, I will extol thee, O LORD, for thou hast lifted me up. I will extol you because you've extolled me.

Now is that not just like the Father and the Son? Is that not the conversation of the Father and the Son? That's exactly how it is between the Father and the Son. The Father bestows all honor on the Son. I love this relationship between them. The Father bestows all honor on the Son, and the Son in turn bestows all honor on the Father.

Verse one, I will extol thee, O Lord, For thou hast lifted me up and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. Our Lord went into the grave with the faith and the hope and the expectation that that is what the Father would do. Raise him up, lift him up, not allow his foes to rejoice over him.

Look at Psalm 16. Now, this is our Lord Jesus Christ speaking. Psalm 16, verse seven. He said, I will bless the Lord who hath given me counsel. My rains also instruct me in the night seasons, the darkness. I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore, my heart is glad and my glory rejoiceth. My flesh also shall rest in hope.

I'm going to enter into this night season, this darkness. resting in hope, dwelling confidently. That's what that means, resting in hope. Verse 10, for thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. I know you won't. Neither wilt thou suffer thine holy one to see corruption. Thou wilt show me the path of life. In thy presence is fullness of joy. At thy right hand, there are pleasures forevermore.

That's why our Lord set his face like a flint to the cross. That's the reason why. He had the promise of the Father that the Father would deliver him from that horrible pit. He had a covenant promise. And with that covenant promise, he boldly entered into that saving work.

Turn over to Psalm 40. Psalm 40, now this is the Lord Jesus Christ speaking. Hebrews 10 confirms that to us. This is Christ speaking. Verse one, he said, I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined unto me and heard my cry. He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay. and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings. And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord. Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to usward. They cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered. Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire. Mine ears hast thou opened. Burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required. Then said I, lo, I come in the volume of the book it is written of me. I delight to do thy will, O my God. Yea, thy law is within my heart.

He said, I delighted to endure that death for my people. He said the sacrifice and offerings of bulls and goats, they could not satisfy God's justice on the sin of his people. So I announced to God, I announced to the law, I announced to everything. In the volume of this book, I announced, I'll do it. I'll do it. The blood of bulls and goats can't do it. But my precious blood can do it. It's the only blood that can do it, and I delight to do it. I delight to give it, and he did it. He kept his covenant promise in dying for his people, and the Father kept his covenant promise in raising Christ from that redeeming, atoning, saving death.

Verse one right here, he said, I waited patiently for the Lord, And he inclined unto me, and heard my cry, he brought me up. I waited patiently for the Lord, and he brought me up. He fulfilled his covenant promise to me. Now go back to Psalm 30. Verse one says, I will extol thee, O Lord, For thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me. O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave, thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks.

The whole reason we're here is because of thanksgiving. This is the reason I wanted to come here. And this is the first time he mentions this in verse four. And he says, sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. Give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness. There is something that we need to give the Lord our God thanks for that we don't often think to give Him thanks for. This really occurred to me. There's something that we need to give the Lord our God thanks for that we don't often think to give Him thanks for, and that's His holiness. is holiness.

It was God's holiness that caused God the Father to justly kill His Son. How holy is God? How holy is God the Father? The fact that God's justice is so holy. He is so holy. You know, is there any question that God the Father loves the Son? Is there any question That the father loves the son? Absolutely not. The son is the apple of the father's eye. The son is the well-beloved. The only one. In thee am I well-pleased. All of the father's favor and love is in the son. It's all in the son.

But even though the father loved the son with an everlasting love, because the son was bearing our sins in his body on the tree, the holiness of God's justice would not spare him. I mean, you think about that. Would you spare your own son? People say God is love, and that's true, God is love. But God is holy. God is holy. His love cannot undo his holiness. God is holy. And even though the father loved him with all of his heart, his holiness had to punish him for our sin. Had to. And because of that, Because of that execution of His holy justice, we're saved. That's the reason we're saved. It was God's holiness that saved us. It was love, and it was grace, and it was mercy in holiness that saved us. We give thanks for that. I'm so thankful God is holy. He could not clear the guilty. You know what that means? You know what the flip side of that is? He cannot punish the innocent. If Christ made his people to be innocent, he cannot punish the innocent. He was made to be guilty in our place.

Verse four says, Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. For his anger endureth but a moment. In his favor is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

Our Lord is speaking from his own dark experience. The experience of the night span of his death, his time of darkness and weeping and suffering and pain and anguish, he comforted himself through that time knowing that joy was coming in the morning. And that's what he now says to his people who are enduring the darkness of this world and the darkness of the sin that we still have to put up with and live with, the sorrow and the suffering from sin in this world. His promise of comfort through his death is that joy is coming in the morning.

Verse five says, for his anger endureth But a moment in his favor is life, in his grace, in his love, in his kindness is life. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy in my center margin says singing is coming in the morning. Singing cometh in the morning. I love singing. I love what we just did. I just enjoyed those songs. And we're going to sing in the morning. I can't wait.

You know, our Lord, after they observed the table together, they sung a hymn. And I can't wait to hear him sing, hear his choirs of angels and people and heavenly hosts. Why is everybody going to be singing? Joy. Joy.

Verse six, he said, and in my prosperity, the prosperity of my accomplishment, the prosperity of my success in delivering my people from death in my prosperity, I said, I shall never be moved. I'll never be moved. I am the Lord, I change not. What's done is finished. It'll never be undone. What I have done is forever. That is something I truly love about our God. What he has done is forever. It cannot be undone. Nobody can come in and undo it. No one can come in and change it. It is a firm foundation. It is a solid rock. What I've done is done.

Verse seven, Lord, by thy favor, thou hast made my mountain to stand strong. What is Christ's mountain? That's his kingdom, Mount Zion. You know, Mount Sinai, condemned. Mount Calvary, Redeemed, therefore Mount Zion shall stand forever. In Christ they are a people, they are a city that cannot be moved. They cannot be moved.

Turn over to Psalm 46. Psalm 46 verse 1, it says, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Boy, that's comforting. Not a help later on, not a help down the road, not a help in the world to come, a very present help.

Verse 2, Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof? There's a river. The streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God shall help her. And that right early. Right early. She shall not be moved. Why? The Lord her God will help her. He'll keep her.

Turn over to Psalm 93. Verse 1 says, The Lord reigneth. You ever get tired of hearing that? He is clothed with majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself. The world also is established that it cannot be moved. Thy throne is established of old. Thou art from everlasting. The floods have lifted up, O Lord. The floods have lifted up their voice. The floods lift up their waves. The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Thy testimonies are very sure. Holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, forever. They're kept, none of them are lost. No man can pluck them out of his hand.

Turn over to Psalm 125. I remember the first time I saw this Psalm. I remember where I was, I remember the moment, and I have loved it ever since. The first two verses here, Psalm 125, verse one, it says, They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth forever. As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth, even forever. That is good news to me. That is good news to me.

Go back to Psalm 30. Verse 7 says, Lord, by thy favor, thou hast made my mountain to stand strong. And I have a center margin for made my mountain. It says, settled strength for my mountain. You've done that for my people. By thy favor, thou hast made my mountain to stand strong. Thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled. What he's saying is, you hid your face from me. I endured the trouble so my people wouldn't have to. In the time of trouble, I hid them in the secret of my tabernacle.

Verse eight, I cried to thee, O Lord, unto the Lord I made supplication and this is what it was this was my supplication verse 9 what profit is there in my blood is there is in italics it was added by the translators it was originally written what profit in my blood we could read that as a statement What profit there is in my blood? But this is set forth as a question. It's a humble, meek, lowly, non-assuming, servant's question. What profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth? Will this payment of my blood be enough? Will you be sufficed with this? Will they be accepted in this? Will our people live again? Can these bones live? Man that was made from the dust, from dust we are to dust we'll return. The dust of the ground, verse nine says, what profit is there in my blood when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise thee? Shall it declare thy truth?

Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me. Be thou my helper. Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing. Thou hast put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness. to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent. He said my tongue, my soul, that's what the margin says for my glory. It'll sing praise to thee for everything that was done in the saving transaction of our people. My glory will sing praise to thee and it will not be silent. Let this be declared from the rooftops. Let the voice be lifted up with strength. Let glory be published wherever it's due.

Verse 12 says, Oh Lord, my God, I will give thanks unto thee. I'll give thanks unto thee. And as our Lord Jesus Christ says this to his father, do we not say this to our Lord Jesus Christ? Everything He's saying to His Father, we're saying that to Him. And are we not also saying that to the Father? In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. For the sake of giving us the Lord Jesus Christ. The unspeakable gift. In the honor and the praise and the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The end of verse 12 says, Oh Lord, I will give thanks to Thee. We give thanks to you. Oh Lord, we give thanks to you. And I'm so glad it ends with forever. Forever. We don't ever want to stop thanking him, do we? Forever. Now to eternity. Forever.

We have so much to be thankful for right now. We have so much. I just wish for one moment, one time, I could really enter into everything that I have to be thankful for. You know, I get so caught up in foolishness, like, oh, woe is me, poor pitiful me. Why? Why do I have to be, you know, pitiful about. Lord, let me enter into everything I have to be thankful for, not only in Christ and in eternity, but in all the goodness and the kindnesses and everything you've done for me in this life.

He's been good to us now. He's good to us right now. We have so much to be thankful for right now. And because of Christ, we will for all of eternity. We're gonna get to cry, thank you, thank you for all of eternity. Lord, because of your grace and your mercy, I will give thanks to thee forever. Amen. Amen.