The name of the message today
is The Lord Reigns. The Lord Reigns. Turn, if you
would, to Psalm 93. Psalm 93, and we will look at
this psalm. It's a psalm with five verses,
five verses, Psalm 93. And the theme throughout this
psalm is that the Lord reigns, that he reigns. Psalm 93, verses
one to five, we'll read those. The Lord reigneth. The first
declaration in the psalm is the fact that the Lord reigns. This is not up for debate. This
is not up for argument. It is a fact proclaimed in the
Holy Scriptures. The Lord reigneth. He is clothed
with majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength. Wherewith he hath girded himself,
the world also established that it cannot be moved. Psalm 93,
verse two. 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. Now in times like we find ourselves
currently in, with a global pandemic occurring, and many of us having
to stay indoors, or unable to meet in the churches that we
usually meet in, How much comfort and how much peace can we who
are the people of God glean from this short Psalm? Note how in
the first verse, the sovereignty of God, the absolute sovereignty
of God thunders forth. Just in the first three words
alone, Psalm 93 verse one, the Lord reigneth. He is clothed
with majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength.
Wherewith he hath girded himself, the world also established that
it cannot be moved. Now think upon this. Let this
discomfort your soul, beloved. During this time of global pandemic,
this time of an epidemic of anxiety with people, let this discomfort
your heart. The Lord reigneth. It's a fact. It's a statement. Again, it's
not up for debate, the Lord reigneth. It does not matter what opposition
may arise. His throne is unmoved, beloved. He has reigned from eternity. He does reign right now through
all these circumstances that we're going through, and he will
reign forever and ever. So let the people of God rejoice
at this wonderful truth. Whatever turmoil, whatever rebellion,
there may be beneath the clouds. The eternal King sits above in
all supreme serenity and everywhere and over everything he is master. He is master over all. Let his
earthly foes rage and they do. Let his spiritual foes rage. Let them rage as they may. We
who are the people of God, we find great comfort in the fact
that our great God has ordered all things that are occurring
according to His eternal purpose and according to His wise decrees. His will will be done. And we who are the born-again,
blood-washed saints of God, we proclaim the truth of this verse
from regenerated hearts. We proclaim the Lord reigneth. We proclaim this with joy in
our hearts, don't we? With joy in our hearts, the Lord
reigns. He reigns. What can give greater
joy to a loyal subject of a king than a sight of the king in his
beauty? Than just the sight of a king
in his beauty. And may we who are the people of God by faith
behold our great king, behold our great redeemer upon his throne. Behold our great God sitting
upon his throne, reigning and ruling. And may we shout aloud,
especially at times like we're currently in. May we shout aloud
as the Lord opens a door of utterance for us with other people. May
we shout aloud, the Lord reigneth. He reigns. And then note the
verse continues. It says here, he is clothed with
majesty. It says, the Lord reigneth, he
is clothed with majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength.
Wherewith he hath girded himself, the world also established that
it cannot be moved. Note that our Lord is clothed
in majesty. Not with the emblems of majesty,
no. But with majesty itself, everything
which surrounds him is majestic. He is not the semblance of sovereignty,
but the reality of sovereignty. He's not just a picture of sovereignty,
but he's the reality of sovereignty. And this is true in nature. He's
sovereign over all. This is true in providence. He's
sovereign over all. And this is true in salvation.
He's sovereign over all. Salvation is of the Lord, the
scripture proclaims. That speaks of his sovereignty.
Our Lord is infinite in majesty, beloved. And this makes the people
of God rejoice. And think of how our Lord appears
in all his glory, of his grace, conquering his people's enemies.
and subduing all things unto himself. Have we not seen even
in our lives our enemies conquered? It's not us who's done it, it's
the Lord who's done it for us. Are enemies subdued? It's not
us who's done it, it's the Lord who's done it for us. He is absolutely
sovereign. And do we not see our great King
in the circumstances of our lives as sovereign over all things?
When we look back at certain things in our life, when the
Lord brings them to remembrance to us, too, because he often
does that. Things that we didn't think of, maybe, and then we
look back now as believers and go, my oh my, look how the Lord
protected me. Look what he got me through.
Times in our lives of heartache. Times in our life of great sorrow.
He always takes his people through it, beloved. He'll never leave
us nor forsake us, the scripture says. And he is clothed with
majesty. He is sovereign and majestic. I ask you these questions here.
Would God be God if he was not sovereign? No, he wouldn't be,
would he? Would God be God if he was not
all powerful? No, he wouldn't be. Would God
be God if he were not all knowing? No. He wouldn't be. Would God be
God if he did not do things according to his own will and purpose?
No. We know the answer to all those
questions. The answer is no. Therefore, we can know that the
God which religion professes, which religion proclaims, which
cannot do anything unless man lets him, or cannot keep those
he supposedly saves, unless they keep themselves, Or, as religion
says, God's not totally sovereign over all things. He's sovereign
over a lot of things, but not quite over all things. And especially,
they say, not over the will of man. Well, we can conclude, therefore,
then, that that's not the God of the Bible. Because the God
that they proclaim does not reign unless man allows him to. My,
oh my. We see from this verse alone,
the Lord reigneth. And we also see that he's clothed
with majesty. When it says he reigneth, that
means he's absolutely sovereign, beloved. And he's clothed with
majesty. He's clothed with strength, beloved.
He's all-powerful. He's all-powerful, beloved. All-powerful
over all things, everything, whether people believe it or
not. That doesn't change the fact that the Lord reigneth. He reigns. And think upon this
great truth when you hear these words of Paul, when he writes,
of all who have ever lived will one day stand before the great
King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn, if you would, to Philippians
chapter two. We get a little glimpse of this
in Philippians chapter two. And we see the sovereignty of
our great God on full display. Philippians 2, verses 10 and
11. And then we'll go back to Psalm
93, verse one. Philippians 2, verse 10 and 11.
That at the name of Jesus, that's our Lord, beloved. That's our
Savior. That's our Redeemer. That at
the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow of things in heaven
and things on earth and things under the earth. And that every
tongue shall confess Even the ones that say he never existed. Even the ones that despise his
name. Every tongue. Oh, and this is at the command
of God. Every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. He's
Lord. That's a fact. You always hear
us grace preachers say, we don't make him Lord. He's already Lord. And we see it proclaimed here.
Jesus Christ is Lord. God made him Lord. He's God. And look at this. Every tongue
should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. What? To the glory of
God the Father. God will be glorified. Look,
let's go back to Psalm 93 verse one. And we see again, the Lord
reigneth. There's the statement of his
sovereignty. He is clothed with majesty. There's a statement
that he's all powerful. All-powerful. And it says again,
the Lord is clothed with strength, which again speaks of His power
again. He's majestic, He's sovereign, He has all power. And it says,
wherewith He had girded Himself, the world also established that
it cannot be moved. Now note in verse one, that our
Lord, that's Jehovah, where it says the Lord, that's Jehovah,
that's the self-existent one. It says, he is clothed with strength. He's clothed with majesty, and
then the Lord is clothed with strength. My, now the underlying
Hebrew word for strength, there is strength and power. It depicts
the one, it depicts the one true God, the Lord. It depicts that
he's all powerful. And think of this, I want us
to think of this, the very God that's proclaimed here is the
very God, the very God who led his people out of Egypt, the
very God who right now is sitting upon the throne ruling and reigning
in majesty. The same God who with a strong
arm of power delivered the Israelites from Egypt. The same God who
with a strong arm of power parted the Red Sea so that his people
could walk through on dry land is the same God who's on the
throne right now and in full control right now. In full control
right now over all things, including this virus. in all the affairs
of the world. He's over them all. He's in control
of them. Beloved, our Lord Jesus Christ,
our Savior and our Redeemer, is clothed with strength, wherewith
He has girded Himself, just as He was when He came to this world,
traveling in the greatness of His strength and His power, God
incarnate in the flesh, mighty to save, and then bearing the
sins of His people on Calvary's cross, the sinless one, dying
for sinners, And He spoiled princes and principalities. And He obtained
eternal redemption for us, His people, how? By the shedding
of His precious blood. So truly, we can say with the
psalmist, the Lord reigneth, He is clothed with majesty. The
Lord is clothed with strength, with strength. Has he not proved
to us, to we who are the people of God, that he's girded with
strength, having found the strong man, which was Satan, and disposed
him, and taking his place, regenerating the saints of God by his almighty
power? We, at one time, were under bondage
to Satan, and the Lord has destroyed his power, and we still struggle
with his body of flesh, but he's disposed the strong man, hasn't
he? And as a result, we who are the people of God are strengthened
inward man. And he keeps us. How? By his
almighty power. And he gives us faith to believe
on him. God-given faith to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And
then we live a life just trusting the Lord, don't we? Through all
circumstances. Even though we're going through
this situation where we can't go outside, we're trusting the
Lord just like we did a year ago, just like we did six months
ago. And if the Lord allows us to
live, allows us to continue in this life, we're trusting until
the day we breathe our last breath, the same way. So truly God's
born-again, blood-washed people can say with the psalmist, the
Lord reigneth. He is clothed with majesty. The
Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself. The world also established that
it cannot be moved. And we see in this text that
the world established by the Lord. The Hebrew word for this
means it is fixed. Marvel that the same Hebrew word
is used in verse two, speaking of the throne of God. Let's read
verse two. Thy throne is established, same
Hebrew word there, is established in the first verse. Thy throne
is established of old. Thou art from everlasting. God's throne, beloved, has been
prepared for eternity. It's a fixed throne. The Hebrew
word established again in verse one and established in verse
two, the same Hebrew word is used. It means to make firm,
to establish, to prepare, to cause, to stand in an upright
position. And thus the word also means
fixed or steadfast. My, so God's throne again has
been prepared, fixed for eternity. Also Christ was, set up an anointed
king from everlasting. He's the lamb slain from the
foundation of the world. His kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom and he has been appointed and prepared from eternity to
rule it. And this is also true of his
throne, which is spoken of here. It is from everlasting, from
eternity. Never forget that our redeemer
is God. He's God the Son. He's as much
God as the Father, and He's as much God as the Holy Spirit.
The three are one. So God's throne was prepared
in the heavens. It's a fixed throne. It's an
established one, beloved. And it is forever and ever, just
as his kingdom is what? An everlasting kingdom. And of
his government, the scriptures say, there'll be no end. Our
great God is from everlasting. Our great Redeemer is a divine
person, is God, the Son of God. He had glory with the Father
before he even came to this world. He was already a king. So we
see this verse speaks of our great God's eternal existence. Verse two, thy throne is established
of old, thou art from everlasting. Speaks of the eternality of our
great God, his eternal existence. And remember, the Father is God,
the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God. The three are
one. So again, let us have our eyes
to the Lord Jesus Christ. Let us have our eyes to our great
God, because it's he who reigns. It's he who is the glorious head
of his church, who is here spoken of. And also we see reference
to his meditatorial kingdom, and it's evident that he is alone
the one who is clothed with majesty and strength. It is God the Father
who has girded Christ with strength. For the warfare and the human
nature which the Son of God put on was of Jehovah's providing. Turn, if you would, to Hebrews
chapter 10, or see that here. We know this truth from scripture.
Hebrews chapter 10, verses five to seven. Wherefore, when he
cometh into the world, he saith, sacrifice and offerings thou
wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me. In burnt offerings
and sacrifices for sin, thou hast no pleasure. Then said I,
lo, I come in the volume of the book. It is written of me to
do thy will, O God. Let's read that one more time.
Hebrews 10, verses five to seven. Wherefore, when he cometh into
the world, this is speaking of Christ, he saith, sacrifice an
offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me.
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast no pleasure.
Then said I, this being Christ, this being the Son of God, lo,
I come. In the volume of the book it
is written of me. This book is written all about Christ. The
volume of the book speaks about Christ. speaks about our great
Redeemer. And why did he come? To do thy
will, O God, to do that for his people, which we could never
do, to fully satisfy the law of God in our place, and then
to appease the justice of God, oh, which demanded that we must
die. And then the Lord Jesus Christ,
the sinless, spotless Lamb of God, dies in the room and place
of his people. Hallelujah. What a Savior. What
a Savior. So rejoice, Zion. Rejoice, you
who are the people of God. Behold thy King. Behold thy King,
the Lord Jesus Christ. He reigns in Zion, and not only
does he reign in Zion, which is the church, he reigns over
all. Rejoice that the Lord thy God
reigneth. Now And every day that the Lord
gives you on this earth, rejoice that our great God reigneth.
All power in heaven and earth is in his hands. Oh my, how this
can comfort the mind of the believer under every event that may arise
in our lives, how this could comfort us. And that's why That's
why Paul said to keep your mind set on things above, being Christ. That's why he said that. Set
your mind, set your affection on things above, Christ, and
not on the things of this world. Again, you've heard me say this
many times. Everything we see is gonna one day be gone, except
we look above. We look to Christ who reigns
right now. The scripture says the Lord reigneth, and that's
right now, right this second. He reigns, oh my. The Lord himself
is eternal. Let the believer in Christ rejoice
that the government under which he dwells has an immortal ruler. The government in which we dwell,
which is, we're under God's dominion, aren't we? This government has
an eternal ruler, an immortal ruler at its head, who has existed
from all eternity. And of his kingdom, the scripture
says, there shall be no end. And that's the Lord Jesus Christ.
In one day, we who are the beloved of God, the born again blood-washed
saints of God, will spend eternity with our great God in heaven,
where there be no more sin, oh my, no more struggle with the
flesh, and we will love one another with a pure love, beloved, with
a pure love. Let's now look at verse three,
where we will see vain are the rebellions of mortals against
God and his kingdom. Think of this, kingdoms come
and kingdoms go in this world. There have been many kingdoms
that have rose up. Greece, Sparta was Greek city
state, but they had a great kingdom. Greece at one time conquered
much of the world under Alexander. Then the Roman Empire rose up.
Oh my, Persians once had a great empire, but all these empires
are gone. And there's countries that rise
up and then they'd be overthrown. and a new leader rises up. My,
oh my. Vain are the rebellions of mortals
against our great God and His kingdom. Kingdoms come and kingdoms
go on this earth. But all through time and into
eternity, the kingdom of God is not shaken. The kingdom of
God is not shaken. Look at verse three now. Look
at this. The floods have lifted up, oh
Lord. The floods have lifted up their
voice. The floods lift up their waves. Now the floods here spoken
of are the enemies of Christ. The enemies of Christ. The enemies
of his kingdom. The enemy of his interests. We
see they're lifting up their voice. They're lifting up their
voice. The opposition made by them was
fulfilled in the Jews and the Gentiles who raged like foaming
waves of the sea against our Lord. They lifted up their voices
and they cried, crucify him, crucify him. And this also occurred
in the Roman emperors and in the 10 persecutions under them.
It also occurred in floods of errors and heresies, which have
come against the church all through the ages. Even today, the enemies
of the church still rage against him, against Christ. We see that
the wicked's voices are like waves, the scripture says, which
brings forth the frequency and the violence of wicked assaults
against the government of God. And we know this brings forth
the repeated defeats also that they sustain at the hand of the
Lord. Sometimes men are furious in
words. They lift up their voice, and
at other times they rise to acts of violence against the church
or God's people, which is a picture of them as these waves, beloved. They lift up their waves, but
the Lord has full control over them in either case. The ungodly
are, I like what Spurgeon said, the ungodly are all foam and
fury, noise and bluster. During their little hour upon
this earth, And then the tide turns or the storm is hushed
and we hear no more of them. Oh, how many times has that happened
with the enemies of God? They rise up and then they're
hushed. My, the kingdom of the eternal
abides in greatness still and abides in almighty power, no
matter who comes against him. And the enemies of God open their
mouths in blasphemy against our great God, against His blood-bought
church, but they have no effect, do they? Now they can kill the
body, but they can't take the soul, can they? And we're told
to fear Him who can destroy both body and soul in hell, that being
God. The enemies of God open their
mouths in blasphemy against our great God, against His blood-bought
church, but they have no effect. We see in verse four that our
great God is mightier than them all. They're like gnats against
him. No effect. Less than gnats. They're less than gnats. And
he will deliver them to eternal torment. He will deliver them
to eternal torment where they will be heard of no more. Let's
read verse four now. The Lord on high is mightier
than the noise of many waters. yea, than the mighty waves of
the sea. So we see here a contrast between
the enemies of God and our great God. The Lord is high above all,
higher than the heavens. Oh, we see here in verse four,
the Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters,
yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. Man in the mountaintop
of his power is nothing to the Lord, nothing to the Lord. Now,
men and women, they strive to have power in this world, influence
in this world. And some people don't care who
they step upon to get that. But look at this, all the power
that they get is nothing. And we know that the scripture
says in Psalm 2, turn there if you would, in Psalm 2, that those
who come against the Lord, here have them in derision, beloved.
Psalm 2, verses four and five. He that sitteth in the heavens,
and where is he sitting? Well, he's sitting on the throne,
isn't he? He's sitting on the throne. He that sitteth in the
heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision
out of their minds. Then shall he speak unto them
in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure. Aren't
you thankful, you who are the people of God, that he doesn't
speak to us in his wrath? Because that wrath has been appeased
at Calvary's cross. in our mighty Savior, the Lord
Jesus Christ, in our place. Oh my, what a Savior we have. What a Redeemer is Jesus Christ,
our Lord. When men combine to overthrow
the kingdom of Jesus, when they plot secretly or rage against
Him openly, the Lord thinks no more of it. It's like noise of
the sea on a beach. My, when a storm rises in the
Atlantic, the wind will drive the weather on with magnificent
force, doesn't it? And yet the Lord is still able
to restrain those winds. So too with sinful men and women
who are haughty and self-righteous and full of rage against the
Lord. The Lord is able to subdue them and overrule their wickedness. Kings or mobs or emperors or
wicked men are all in the Lord's hands. And he can forbid their
touching a hair of the heads, a hair on the heads of his people.
And let us never lose sight that our great God is God over the
survivors. He's God over all, He's in full
control. And it will accomplish what He
has set it to accomplish. And does it not show us, does
it not reveal to us our utter dependence, we who are the people
of God, our utter dependence upon the Lord Jesus Christ? It
does, doesn't it? It reveals to us our utter inability
to save ourselves, to keep ourselves, we are totally reliant on the
Lord Jesus Christ in him alone. And we say, glory be to God,
because we know the Lord reigneth. We know the Lord is clothed with
majesty. We know the Lord is clothed with
strength. We know his throne is established, it's fixed. And
what comfort that can bring us. Oh, what comfort that can bring
us. Let us never lose sight, beloved of God, that our great
Redeemer, the Lord Jesus Christ, is the most high God. He's God
over all. He's higher than the highest.
He is King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He's higher than the
kings of all the earth. He's higher than all the rulers
of this earth. And he's far wiser than the wisest
man in this world. He is highly exalted. The Lord
Jesus Christ is a mediator of his people. He's at the right
hand of God, ruling and reigning in majesty. He is the mighty
Savior. He is the mighty God. He is the
Almighty. Therefore, he is mightier than
all his enemies. The noise they make and the force
they use, he is stronger than all of them. He's stronger than
the strong man. He's stronger than Satan and
all his princes and principalities. He's stronger than them all.
They are under his dominion, all of them. Princes, potentates
of this world, he's over them all. There's nothing in this
world that he's not over. The Lord, he reigns. In majesty, he's clothed with
majesty. He's clothed with strength and
power. And he sits upon, again, a fixed
eternal throne. And let's look at verse five
now. Thy testimonies are very sure. Holiness becometh thine
house, O Lord, forever. Look at this, thy testimonies
are very sure. This speaks of our Lord's word,
the Bible, the scripture. Oh, just as the throne of God
is fixed beyond all risk, so in revelation, his truth is beyond
all question, beyond all question. The teachings of men are uncertain,
but the revelation from God in the scriptures are infallible,
beloved. They come from He who is the
Eternal One. The author of the Holy Scriptures
is the Holy Spirit of God. He moved holy men, penned the
words that they penned. And the only reason they're called
holy men is because they're in Christ. Outside of Christ, there's
no one who's holy, no one. But all in Christ, all were holy,
set apart, forgiven fully. freely by the grace of God. It's magnificent. It's a wonder
of salvation. The teachings of man are uncertain.
Oh, but the word of God is infallible. Because again, it comes from
he who is the eternal one. As rocks remain unmoved amid
the tumult of the sea. We used to go to the coast out
in Oregon and you'd see these huge rocks out in the water and
they are unmoved. The waves are crashing against
them. and they are unmoved, unmoved. Oh, and this is true of divine
truth. It resists all the currents of
man's opinions, doesn't it? Someone starts to give your opinion,
say, I don't want your opinion. What does the word of God say?
I say that all the time when I'm talking to people about Christ.
They start to give me their opinion, but absolutely no scripture.
And I try to be nice and try to be kind and try to have grace
with them and say, I want it from the word of God. If I can
see it in the word of God, I'll believe it. And that's where
we should take people. When they start talking, what
does the word of God say? Where does it say that in the
scriptures? Where does it say that? Show me. And then you can
show them the truth and pray that God will reveal it to them.
Pray that God will take those words and use them to reveal
the truth. of his absolute sovereignty to
them, of salvation is of the Lord. Oh my, because this word
is like those rocks, it's immovable. No matter what the opinions of
men, no matter what men say, it doesn't change that this word
is like those rocks amidst the crashing sea, unchanging, immovable,
immovable. The word of God, beloved, is
not just sure, it's very sure. Look at what it says here in
verse five, the testimonies are very sure. Very sure. God's people, and God's people
are taught this, aren't we? By the Holy Spirit of God. We're
taught this by the Holy Spirit of God. We have not been taken
away by cunningly devised fables, and that's all by the grace of
God too, because it's he who teaches us and guides us into
all truth. Oh my, no, the born again blood-washed
believer in Christ. Our faith is grounded upon the
eternal truth of the Most High is grounded upon the Word of
God. Thus saith the Lord." Again, what does the scripture say about
that? What does the scripture say?
And we are to be like the Bereans. We're to search the scriptures
to see if these things are true. Oh my. God's testimonies and
faithfulness are ever sure, beloved, just as his throne is. Now think
of that. God's testimony and God's faithfulness
are ever sure. just as his throne is. He has
loved us, the scripture says, with an everlasting love. Oh
my, my. Our Lord said, you've not chosen
me, but I've chosen you. That was fixed in eternity, beloved.
The verse closes here, verse five closes, with holiness becometh
thine house, oh Lord, forever. We see, truth does not change
at all. And his testimonies are very
sure, the scripture says here. And we see His holiness does
not change either. Holiness becometh thine house,
O Lord, forever. We see in this verse that the
teaching and the character of God are both unaltered. God has
not admitted evil to dwell with Him, and He never will. He will
not tolerate it in His house. He is eternally its enemy, and
he is forever the sworn friend of holiness. Aren't you thankful
that God makes us holy in Christ? The church is precious to the
Lord. His blood-bought people are precious
to him. They are clothed in his perfect,
spotless righteousness. And he who is their king, her
king, her bridegroom, they are made holy by him and he will
preserve us. He will preserve his bride and
she shall be kept forevermore by he who reigns, by he who reigns. And note, the psalm starts off,
Jehovah reigns, that's the Lord. The Lord reigns is Jehovah. The
underlying Hebrew word Jehovah. Note the first of this psalm
starts off with the very words Jehovah reigns. And that's the
main doctrine we've seen through this whole psalm. And in what?
Holiness. It ends with the holiness of
God. Divine sovereignty confirms the promises of God. And just
as the testimonies of the Lord are sure, so are his promises
to his people. They're sure. Search the promises. Grab them. Lay hold upon them.
For they are for the people of God. And they will bring great
comfort to your soul. They will give great strength
to God's people. We see how fitting this Psalm
is with our current events which are occurring. How fitting this
Psalm is to the saints of God in all ages and in all circumstances. It's written by inspiration of
the Holy Spirit of God to comfort the distressed, to calm the fearful,
and to give strength to the people of God. Paul wrote again for
us to set our hearts and minds upon Christ And this is he who
reigns. This is he who is spoken of in
this psalm who reigns, beloved. This is he who is great and gracious. This is he who is a king over
all his people. Our great God has all power. And we who are his people rejoice
that it's so, don't we? We rejoice in that truth. We
rejoice that it's so. The Lord reigns. Hosanna in the
highest. Hosanna in the highest. May God
be glorified through the preaching of his word. Amen.