Open your Bible, if you would, to the book of Psalms, where we see this wonderful verse. We're going to read two verses in this in this Psalm. Psalm chapter 72. Psalm chapter 72. And these words are written by the psalmist under inspiration of the Holy Spirit of God. And These words proclaim our wonderful Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

The psalmist is looking to the Messiah, looking to the coming one, the one who will save him from all his sins, the one who's pictured in all the sacrifices. And the Lord God in our text is the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the Messiah who was sent by God the Father for one reason, to save his people from their sins. That's why he was sent here. And you can find that in Matthew 1, verse 21. The scripture declares, and thou shall call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.

And in doing that, he fulfilled the law perfectly as our substitute in our room and place, and established the righteousness in which we can stand before God, and then he shed his precious blood to redeem us from all our sins. He died and was buried, three days he, later he rose again for our justification and right now he's seated at the right hand of the father interceding for all his people right because that that scripture said he shall save his people from all their sin from from their sins and he saved his people from all their sins isn't that wonderful oh my my look at this in psalm 72 verses 18 and 19 And verse 18 is our text, but I wanted to read verse 19 along with it.

Blessed be the Lord God, that's Jesus Christ, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. My. And blessed be His glorious name forever. Well, His name's the name above all names, isn't it? And let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen. Look at that. I can say when I say amen and amen, it's from the Bible. Isn't that wonderful? My.

These verses speak of our Lord Jesus Christ, our Redeemer, who is the Lord God. It's He who declares, I am the Lord and there's none else, right? It's Him who says that. And all who know Him and in the sweet experience of His grace, we delight in who He is. We delight in the fact that He is the one true living God. We delight in the fact that He's our Redeemer, that He saved us from all our sins. We delight in these wonderful, wonderful things. And we also delight to ascribe all blessedness to Him, all glory, all honor, and all praise. It's wonderful.

And He is distinctly the Lord God of Israel. The God of His chosen covenant people. The people chosen in everlasting covenant before the foundation of the world. And all who know Him, all who are saved by His redeeming blood, all who are born again by the Holy Spirit of God, All who trust in His blood and righteousness and cast our works as filthy rags say, oh, nothing I can do can save me. Only Christ can save me. He's our God. He's our Savior.

And those people who the Father gave Him in eternity are comprised of both Jews and Gentiles, a people that no man can number. It's amazing. And they were redeemed by His precious blood that was shed at Calvary's cross as a ransom to purchase the souls of His people, to save us from our sins, to save us from under the law, the curse of the law, beloved. Scripture says He was made a curse for us. Isn't that amazing? He died in our room and place. Our sins were imputed to Him. And he bore all the wrath of God. The unmitigated wrath of God was poured out upon him in our room and place. Oh my, what a Savior. And can we not say with the psalmist, he only doeth wondrous things. He only doeth wondrous things. He's got our Savior. He's the only one who it can be said, who only doeth wonderful things. He does wondrous things.

As all the works of our great God in creation, providence, redemption, and grace are wondrous wonders of grace. Wondrous things that cannot be explained by human reason. No. Wondrous things to behold. Wondrous things by faith to behold. Wondrous things to be believed. Wonderful things to be rejoiced in and about and to be declared but never explained. Never explained.

Every attempt of man to explain these wondrous things performed by our great God and Saviour diminishes the wondrous work and diminishes the great glory of God in performing these wondrous works. We're going to look at a few. Here are some wondrous things which our Lord God, our Lord Jesus Christ, has done that we can ponder in awe and that we can give Him all the glory and honor and praise for.

The first thing is creation. Creation. Creation is a wonder that that no one can either comprehend or explain. And note the scripture simply makes, the scripture makes absolutely no attempt to prove it. You ever think about that? People are always trying to defend the fact of creation. Scripture says it happened. We don't have to prove it, it happened. We don't have to explain it. Rather, in the book of God, creation is simply revealed and admired. Nothing begins to show the wonder of the work like the plain statements of scripture.

Now, listen to this plain scripture, plain statement of scripture. This is wondrous. This is wondrous. The problem with man is man doesn't believe what the Bible says. They try to explain it with their puny minds. Listen to this. Creation. Wondrous work. Look at this. In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. That's a statement of fact. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. So in the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. That's a statement of fact. And who did it? It was the Word of God. All things were made by him, and there was nothing, nothing. And without him was not anything made that was made. Nothing. My.

And he created this world and everything out, just spoken out of his word. Created out of nothing. My. See, but man can't understand that. Because they don't have faith to believe that. And the reason we believe it is because we're born again by the Holy Spirit of God. We've been given faith and we believe this truth because the Holy Spirit who regenerates us, who lives within us, is the author of these words. And see what he said, remember the last message? Here, send a comforter to reveal Christ to us. My, oh my.

Another thing we can ponder, another wondrous work of God is God's divine providence. It's wondrous. All these wonderful truths, we do not attempt to explain. If you're trying to explain these things to people, don't attempt it. Just quote it. Just quote it. We simply proclaim these wondrous truths. the wondrous workings of God's providence in our life. We can look in our lives and see God's hand all through it, can't we? Before we were saved and even after. Well, before we were born again and even after. It's amazing. Listen to this. And we believe these scriptures. That's amazing in itself. Marvel at the simplicity of God's word. It says, all things work for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose. Good things in our life, what we consider bad things in our lives, just in our lives. No matter how we feel about the situation, the Scripture declares that God's providence is at work, and all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose.

And do you know when we see that, beloved? After we're through the storm. After we're through the storm. And we see God's hand of providence just protecting us and guiding us and taking care of us. And it's wondrous, isn't it? It's wondrous. And then the scripture declares this. For of him and through him and to him are all things to whom be the glory forever. Amen. He's the absolute ruler over all. Our God is the God of divine providence. Ain't that wondrous? And this is the one who saved us from our sins.

This is the one who became a man, the Lord Jesus Christ, the Word of God, became a man, dwelt among us, lived the perfect life. in the room and place of his people, and then died a substitutionary death before God to save us from our sins, shed his blood to purchase our eternal souls. And now scripture says he's obtained eternal redemption. Isn't that wonderful? It's his, it's his, by purchase.

The third thing I'd like us to ponder, the third wonderful truth is the incarnation. Now, theologians have tried to explain the mystery of the incarnation throughout church history. In 431, the Council of Ephesus was called to settle the disputes of various theologians. The union, one of the topics was the union of divine and human nature of Christ. And in the end, they came up with a term, a theological term called the hypostatic union.

that we who are the born-again, blood-washed people of God, the saints of God, not try to explain the incarnation. No, we don't have to, because the Word of God declares it. The Word of God declares it. And we're to declare it. We're to declare it. My. And listen to these simple scriptures that tell us that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. He's holy man, 100% man. And he's 100% God. I like to say he's the God man. If I go around saying a hypostatic union, people look at me, what? What are you talking about, man? The God man. He's God and he's man. He's fully God and he's fully man. It's a mystery, isn't it? Oh, yeah, but listen to what the Scripture says. Listen to the simplicity of the Scriptures. John 1, 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Okay, and then it tells us further down, verse 14. Marvel at this. This is what the Scripture says. We don't have to explain it. This is true. This is truth. The Scripture says this. The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. Oh, praise His mighty name. The word the word the word wasn't was in heaven with God the Father and the Holy Spirit. He became a man Why he was made flesh Beloved he's God manifest in the flesh and the whole reason he's here. I Oh, the whole reason he's here is to save his people from their sins. And we say, hallelujah. What a Savior is my King. What a Savior is Jesus Christ, my Lord.

Next thing I'd like us to ponder is the wonderful truth of redemption for sinners by the blood of Christ. By the blood of Christ. So let us marvel over this fact. Again, we don't have to explain it. We just proclaim it. Oh my, this is wonderful, I'll tell you why. God himself became a man. In Luke chapter one, verse 68, it says this, blessed be the Lord God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people. My, God himself. Listen to that again. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel. For he hath visited and redeemed his people." How? By giving his life, by shedding his blood to save his people from their sins.

I love what the Beroean Greek Bible says for verse 68. It says this, "'Blessed be the Lord God of Israel, because he hath visited and performed redemption.'" Marvel at that! He performed redemption. He did that which we could never do. We could never redeem ourselves. He performed redemption. How? By living the perfect life, by shedding His precious blood, and rising again on the third day. Right now, He's seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding for His people. And again, we say, praise His mighty name. Praise His mighty name.

How were we redeemed from the curse of the law? Only by the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. It says this, now in Christ Jesus, you who were once far away have been brought nigh, nigh, near by the blood of Christ. Isn't that wonderful? Turn, if you would, to Ephesians chapter 2. This is wonderful truth. And we don't have to explain it. We just proclaim it.

Earlier in chapter two, Paul said we're dead in trespasses and sins. We have no hope. This is where God found us. We're spiritually dead. We fell in Adam. We're born sinners from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet. And look at this one. And then he says, but God, in verse five, I believe it is, or four, he says, but God, he's rich in mercy. Oh, God had mercy upon his people in Christ.

Now look at this. This is wonderful. Oh, this is absolutely wonderful. And remember, Paul's writing to the Ephesians. These are Gentiles. These are Gentiles. And marvel here at the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. We were dead in trespasses since, and now we're brought near to God by the blood and righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Look at this, Ephesians 2, verse 11 to 13. Wherefore, remember that ye being in past times Gentiles in the flesh. That's what we were. born dead in trespasses and sins, who are called the uncircumcision by that which is called the circumcision in the flesh made by hand. So he's telling us there that the Jews called Gentiles the uncircumcised ones. But look at this. That at that time you were without Christ. My. Being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenant of promise. having no hope and without God in the world.

Do you remember before we were saved? Do you remember how hopeless we were? I do. Oh, I remember how hopeless I was. I was terrified of death. My. Now what a hope we have, beloved. What a hope we have now. My, look at verse 13. But now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometimes were far off, we fell in Adam, we were dead in trespasses and sins, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. but near to God, clothed in the perfect spotless righteousness of Christ, redeemed by the precious blood of God Almighty in the flesh, the Lord Jesus Christ." Isn't that wonderful? Oh, I'll tell you, it's so wonderful. It's so wondrous. It's so wondrous.

And then the last point I'd like us to ponder is the truth of regeneration by the Holy Spirit of God. We must be born again, the Lord Jesus Christ. And Brother Zane brought forth that in the Greek, in John chapter three, the word must there in the Greek is necessary. It's absolutely necessary that we're born again. Well, we can't be born again ourselves, can we? No, we don't have the power to regenerate ourselves. We don't have the power to take ourselves from our dead spiritual walk and make ourselves alive spiritually. We don't have that power.

People are pumping a lie saying, well, if you pray this prayer, bow your head, and if you're praying this prayer, now you're part of the family of God. That's called decisional regeneration. There's absolutely no Holy Spirit regeneration there. No, you must be born again from above. And like Spurgeon said, God can, he can regenerate you. You can be born again without you moving a muscle. Why? Because it's a heartwork by God. It's a heartwork by God.

But listen to this. In the new birth, the Word of God tells us plainly that the regenerate person, the person who is born again, is a new creature. Isn't that wonderful? A partaker of the divine nature. We have Christ in us, the hope of glory. A new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness, Isn't that amazing? That's the work of God. That's the work of God, the Holy Spirit.

And this is truly a wonder of grace, a mystery that we cannot explain, and it cannot be explained. No. We just declare what the Scripture says, that if you're born again, you're a new creature in Christ. And you're purchased with the blood of Christ. You're not your own. Isn't that wonderful? This can't be explained in human terms or by human reason. But that doesn't mean we cannot believe it. It does not mean that we can't rejoice in it, but by the power of God, the Holy Spirit, when we are born again, we're given faith to believe everything the Bible says, even the stuff we don't know.

My. I don't argue with the word of God. I'll read the word of God and there might be something I go, I don't understand that. And I'll just leave it there because I just don't have any light on that right now, but maybe God will give me some light later. But I still believe what it says, even though I can't understand it. My oh my.

Here's the blessedness of this fact that God does wondrous things. And what are we told? What did Christ tell that gathering demoniac? Go and tell the wonderful things that God had done for you. We declare the wondrous works of God. Why? I can't explain it, but I can declare it. I'm born again. I can't speak about something that not happened to me. I'm born again. I'll tell you. God did that. God regenerated me. God gave me faith to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. God made me well in the day of his power.

I had prayed the prayer and all that stuff. I thought I was saved, but I was nothing but a religious lost man until I was born again by the Holy Spirit of God. My. And now all I want to do is proclaim Christ. He's the only one who can save you from your sins. He's the only one. My, if you trust Christ, then He came into this world in human flesh to lay down His life for you. Isn't that wonderful? That's wonderful.

If you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ by God-given faith, then His blood was shed for you to wash you from all your sins. My, and if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ with saving faith, Oh, that means your sins were imputed to Christ and he paid for them all. He died under the unmitigated fury and wrath of God. He took God's holy wrath so that it would never touch us. That we might be made the very righteousness of God in him.

So let us rejoice, beloved. You trust God, my Savior, who only doeth wondrous things, it is because he hath performed a wondrous work within us. A work of his grace, beloved, making you a partaker of the divine nature, a new creature born again by the Holy Spirit of God in power, in righteousness, in true holiness. And what do we say? Oh, we say, we say, praise the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen and amen.