Psalm 93, if you wanna turn to Psalm 93. It's a very short psalm, and when I looked at this, I jokingly said on Sunday, there's only five verses, there'll only be five parts to the Bible study. It turns out that that may be true. I'm gonna look at the first verse especially tonight, but I wanna read the whole psalm with you, and we'll look at this in a very overview way, and then we'll dive right into the first verse, okay?

So Psalm 93 says, The Lord reigneth, 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.

All right, so it's very short, but it's very, very powerful. The first thing I want to show you in this psalm as we go through our study tonight is that the Lord, spoken of here, who reigns, is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the One who is the Sovereign. And it says He is clothed with majesty, He is clothed with strength, wherewith He hath girded Himself. The world also is established that it cannot be moved.

The majesty is what we want to think about tonight. The glory of the Lord Jesus Christ in his majesty. And then it says in verse 2, His throne is established of old, thou art from everlasting. God's throne is an everlasting throne because God is everlasting. The floods in verses three and four refer to the opposition to the Lord's reign. The reign of the Lord Jesus Christ has much opposition, but he will not allow that opposition to overthrow or even to minimize his purpose in the earth. He will have his way. And then the last verse says his testimonies are very sure because he will prove that his testimonies are sure in the consummation of his reign. And it says, holiness becometh thine house, O Lord, forever. And that includes not only his own person and his work, but it includes his people. The Lord delights in holiness and he will make his people holy.

Okay, but let's look at this first verse, and one of the things that I would say at the outset is that there's oftentimes words that we use that we're so familiar with in our speech, but we don't really understand, and I'm speaking personally. It's easy for me to use words like are used here in verse one, the Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty, without really realizing what is being said here. And so, for that reason, I want to look at this with you.

The word majesty, and I want you to consider this as I would entitle it if it were a sermon, the majesty and the glory, or we could say this, the glory of his majesty. And that's the way scripture uses these words, the glory of his majesty. Now, I want to first look at this in the way that it appears to us in the unfolding of the revelation of Scripture. In Isaiah chapter 2, it uses this phrase, the glory of his majesty. In Isaiah chapter 2 and verse 10, it reads this way, enter into the rock and hide thee in the dust for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty. All right, so this is a revelation from God in scripture, speaking of the glory of his majesty and the results that it has on men. And what he's saying here is that the glory of his majesty, for fear of the Lord, for the glory of his majesty, causes men to run and hide and puts them in terror. In the same chapter, in Isaiah chapter 2, verse 19, it says this, and they shall go into the holes of the rock and into the caves of the earth for fear of the Lord. There they are, running and hiding. They will do this for the fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

So when God reveals the glory of his majesty in this way, it causes men to run and to hide and tremble in fear. Terror takes hold upon them. It grips them. What strikes people in their mind and in their heart when God reveals his majesty in this way is they tremble and they hide. And then in verse 21 of the same chapter, to go into the clefts of the rock and turn into the tops of ragged rocks for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Same idea. So here what we see in Isaiah chapter 2 is the terror that results from the revelation of God's majesty. And so that is also seen in Isaiah chapter 6. If you want to look at Isaiah chapter 6, it says in the first verse, In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw also the Lord, sitting upon a throne high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Okay, so what does Isaiah see? He sees the Lord high and exalted, lifted up on a throne. And then in verse two it says, above it, above this throne, stood the seraphims, each one had six wings. With twain he covered his face, with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly, And then the next verse says, in verse three, and one cried to another and said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord, Lord of hosts, the whole earth is full of his glory.

All right, so in this vision that Isaiah sees of the Lord, he sees the Lord high, exalted, lifted up. The whole earth is full of His glory, and it says the seraphim are crying, holy, holy, holy. What's the result of this vision, of this sight of the glory of God, the Lord? This is Jehovah. He says in verse four, And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. So it seems like it's obscuring things. The house was filled with smoke, the doors, the posts of the door are shaken. Then said I, notice the response of Isaiah, the man. Woe is me, for I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Jehovah of hosts, the Lord of hosts.

The one who is Jehovah, he's the Lord of heaven and earth, and he rules over all the armies of heaven and earth. The hosts are in his control. He reigns, he's on the throne. And what we see here is the majesty is seen by the glory. The vision reveals the glory of the Lord and the glory reveals his majesty. So now we need to talk a little bit about these two words, majesty and glory. So majesty in scripture, as it's used here, is the quality of God's excellence, if you could say it that way. It's God's person and his His being, His perfections. It's who God is, His majesty. And it's the excellence of His person. And the glory, when God uses it this way in Scripture, is the visible splendor. It's what emanates from Him. It's the radiance. It's like when you look at the sun, you don't actually see the sun, do you? What you see are the rays of light that are radiated out from the sun. And that's the way that compares these two things. If you could see the sun in its raw essence, you would see this extremely, unbelievably powerful ball of gas and fire. It has thermonuclear events happening constantly. And it seems to never run out of energy. But you can't see that. All you see is the brightness. And you look up, and of course you have to shield your eyes. You can't look directly at the sun. But you see the rays of it. So the rays of the sun, the brightness, the light that comes from the sun, is the glory of what the sun is in its essence.

And so when Scripture speaks of the glory of His Majesty, it's talking about the glory is the perceptible understanding that God gives of himself, and he gives it in different ways, but it's often true, and it is true, that God reveals his glory at times, not at all times, and we don't see it at all times, even though it's there. And so majesty, therefore, is this quality of God. It's the quality of excellence, his exalted being, his perfections of his person. And majesty produces this glory that we actually see. Majesty is the quality of God. He's great. That's his majesty. He's full of what would cause awe in us. But we can't see that until he reveals himself. And that revelation of his majesty is his glory.

OK, so hopefully that that gives you a sense of the difference between these two words, majesty and glory. His glory produces in us awe. It inspires awe in us. It puts us in a state of wonder, so much so that we can't stand. We are overwhelmed by it. It says in Psalm 33, in Psalm 33, verse 8, it says this, Let all the earth fear the Lord. Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For he spake, and it was done. He commanded, and it stood fast. The Lord bringeth the counsel of the heathen to nothing, to naught. He maketh the devices of the people of none effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

So you can see here that God is commanding every person on earth to fear the Lord in this chapter, in Psalm 33. And therefore, all on earth are inferior to the Lord. The Lord is exalted above everything on earth. Obviously, He made it. No one in earth or in heaven can be compared to the Lord. He's exalted above them. That's His majesty, His greatness.

How is he great? How is his greatness seen? How is his greatness known? Well, he gives it in Psalm 33, he says, he spake and it was done. So that's the glory revealed. That's His majesty revealed in the glory of His word, His command. It says, He commanded and it stood fast. In creation God spoke and whatever He said was done. Whatever He commanded to be done stood fast. It was firm and certain and unmovable. because God said it and established it. That's his glory. That reveals something about God. It reveals the eternal power of God, doesn't it? And his word is the revelation of himself. That's the revelation of his majesty.

So in creation, God makes his greatness known because he created all things by his word. He spoke, it was done, he commanded it, it stood fast, and it was done because he spoke it. Nothing can change it. As soon as God speaks, it's history. That's what scripture says. He calls those things which be not as though they were. It's history as soon as God says it. And so this is true also in all the affairs of men. He speaks here in the same chapter in Isaiah 33. He says, the Lord brings the counsel of the heathen to nothing. So he brings their thoughts and their best wisdom to nothing. Yet unlike them, he brings his counsel to pass. Every thought of his heart is brought to pass. That inspires awe in us when we understand that the Lord is that great. His thoughts are done all the time. Nothing that He thinks, nothing that pleases Him is left undone. It becomes necessary because God thinks it. And because God speaks it, then we know it's certain. We know it then.

And so this Psalm, Psalm 33, teaches us many things about God. His thoughts are fixed, they're certain. His thoughts and His word are unalterable to every generation, therefore we are to stand in awe of Him. And that's a revelation of God's majesty.

but it's not the entire picture. And that's why in Isaiah 2 and Isaiah 6, what we see is that the majesty, the glory of God's majesty puts the earth in fear. It puts them in terror because they run and they hide. And in Revelation, they actually call on the rocks to fall on them, to hide them from the Lord.

So another example in scripture is the Queen of Sheba. Remember the Queen of Sheba? She had heard in her own country, she heard the fame of the wisdom of Solomon. So she wanted to go find out if it was true. And she went there. It says in 1 Kings chapter 10, when the King of Sheba had seen all of Solomon's wisdom and the house that he built and the meat of his table, And the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his assent by which he went up into the house of the Lord, there was no spirit in her." No more spirit in her. She fainted, in other words. She had no strength.

Why? Because Solomon's greatness was so much more than anything she had ever seen before. And that greatness overwhelmed her. It was as if she was breathless. Her breath was taken away by the awe that overwhelmed her because of what she saw. And she said to the king, it was true. It was a true report that I heard in my own land of thy acts and thy wisdom. How be it? I believed not the words until I came and my eyes had seen it, and behold, the half was not told me. Thy wisdom and prosperity exceeds the fame which I heard." She didn't believe it till she saw it. And when she saw it, it was much more than she'd ever heard.

And so that's an example of how the glory of Solomon's majesty revealed how great he was in his wisdom and in his riches, all of which God had given him. and all of which was really a pre-figure of what the Lord Jesus Christ would be when God would bestow this honor upon Him. That's what we're looking at in Psalm 93, is the Lord reigneth He is clothed in majesty and the Lord Jesus Christ is the one we're speaking about here.

Now turn to John, the Gospel of John in the New Testament. The Apostle John was very familiar not only with what the Lord Jesus said and did when he wrote the gospel. Obviously he was inspired by not only having heard Christ's words himself, but the Spirit of God moved him as he wrote these things. But John was also familiar with Isaiah, very familiar with Isaiah. So what he said here in John is going to take what God said in the Old Testament concerning the glory of his majesty, And He's going to unfold it to us in its fulfillment. And this is very important to us in understanding what the glory of His Majesty is.

In Isaiah chapter 2, we saw that the glory of His Majesty caused men to hide and run and hide. and they feared the Lord so greatly, they caused them terror. And that's appropriate. Why is that appropriate? Well, if you remember when God gave the law at Mount Sinai, the mountain quaked and the people too. Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake. And so the revelation of God's glory in the law because of our sin causes us to see that God cannot look upon sin. And we're sinners, that means God can't bear to look upon us. So there's a glory in that majesty in that it puts us in fear, but that's not the full revelation. That's not the... That's just a small part of it and it's necessary for us to have a sense of that fear in order for us to understand the true, in order for us to have this striking awe that comes upon us by the light of the glory of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

So he says this, Look at John chapter 1. We'll start there. In John chapter 1, notice this. This is the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ. He's called in John 1, the Word. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. No question about it. The Lord Jesus Christ, the Word, is eternal God. with God the Father, and He was God. The same was in the beginning with God, from eternity. All things were made by Him. He's the Creator. And without Him was not anything made that was made. So that means everything was created by Christ. He Himself could not have been created because He created all things.

And then look at verse 14. And the Word, this is the eternal God, the One who created all things, the Word was made flesh and tabernacled, dwelt among us. And we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, notice this, full of grace and truth.

Now turn to John chapter 12. In John chapter 12, he says this in verse 41. In John 12 verse 41, this is John describing what this setting here is in John chapter 12. He says, these things spoke Isaiah, or said Isaiah, when he saw, when Isaiah saw, his glory, Christ's glory, and spoke of him. Who did Isaiah see when he saw his glory? Well, he saw the Lord. And how did he see him? Well, he was high, exalted, lifted up. Seraphim crying, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. And the whole earth trembles, the pillars of the temple shake, and it's filled with smoke, and there's terror all around. Isaiah says, woe, woe is me. I am undone, a man of unclean lips. I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. Mine eyes have seen the Lord. And so, in Isaiah, according to John, saw the Lord Jesus Christ. You see, that's what it says here. These things said Isaiah when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

Notice in verse 38. John 12, verse 38, actually verse 37, he says, but though he, Jesus, had done so many miracles before them, they didn't believe him, yet they believed him not. They didn't believe on him. Verse 38, that the saying of Isaiah, the prophet, might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report, and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed? That's a quotation from what? Isaiah 53, verse one. So Isaiah 53 is quoted here in John, Isaiah 6 is quoted here in John, and John applies both of them to the Lord Jesus Christ. Do you see that? It's important that we see that. So therefore we can say that when in John chapter 1 and verse 14, when he says, and the word, the God of Isaiah chapter 6, the God of Psalm 93 verse 1, the one who is the eternal word, the one whose glory of his majesty strikes terror in the hearts of sinners and causes them to run and hide from his presence, that God, in all of his majesty, became flesh and dwelt among us. So the immensity of God's, the weightiness of God's infinite, eternal being in all of his perfections, the greatness of God. He spoke and it was done. And all the counsels of his heart always come to pass while he turns the counsels of the heathen to nothing.

That God now, in John, unlike in Isaiah, not on his throne, with Seraphim crying, holy, holy, holy, high and lifted up, but here now descended, dwelling as a tabernacle in a human life in the Lord Jesus Christ.

And then in John chapter 12, notice this, if you go back to John chapter 12, look at this in verse 23. or actually, I'll start reading in verse 20, John 12, verse 20 says, there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast. The same came, therefore, to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and desired him, saying, Sir, we would see Jesus. And Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, and again, Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.

Notice what he says, verse 23. Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come. that the Son of Man should be what? Glorified, glorified. What does that mean? It means the shining forth, the radiance of his majesty, the glory of his majesty. But remember what it was in Isaiah chapter two and chapter six and other places in the Old Testament. It was the glory of his majesty that caused sinners to run and hide and flee. They were terrified, quaking, trembling.

But notice here, the glory, he's going to be glorified. What is this hour? It's the hour of the cross. He says in verse 24, verily, verily, I say to you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone. But if it die, it brings forth much fruit.

Look at verse 27. Now is my soul troubled. This is the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the one who was on the throne in Isaiah six. Now is my soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify thy name." Then came their voice from heaven saying, I have. Both glorified it and will glorify it again.

Notice he's shining forth. The radiance is shining out, the radiance of his majesty. The glory reveals the majesty. The majesty is what shines forth in glory, okay? And so the father is saying, I have glorified it and I will glorify it. And he's speaking of the cross. He's speaking of the son of man being glorified in going to the cross. You see.

Well, how is that? Well, notice, keep going on. In chapter John 12, he says, the people therefore that stood by and heard it said it thundered. Others said an angel spoke to him. Jesus answered and said, this voice came not because of me, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world. Now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And notice, and if I, I, if I be what? Lifted up. from the earth. You know what that, it's the same words that were in Isaiah 6. He was high and lifted up. What's he talking about here? Well he says, if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men to me. This said he signifying what death he should die. He's talking about the cross. He's talking about being lifted up in order to be glorified on the cross.

Now that's significant. It's shocking. It's shock and awe, really, to the sinners who were running and hiding in terror in Isaiah 2 and in Isaiah 6 when Isaiah said, woe is me. I'm undone. I'm a man of unclean lips.

So let's look now at Revelation. The book of Revelation, chapter four. I want you to see this so we can see how these things tie together. We see now something so significant in the glory of his majesty. Isaiah described the throne. Isaiah hears Seraphim saying, holy, holy, holy. Isaiah responds. He's absolutely leveled. He's brought to nothing in himself. He has no strength. Just like the Queen of Sheba, her spirit within her. It just fainted.

In Revelation 4, notice what the Apostle John, same one, sees. Revelation 4, 1, After this I looked, and behold, a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard was as it were a trumpet talking with me, which said, Come up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit, and notice, and behold, a throne was set in heaven. And one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper, and a sardine stone. And there was a rainbow about the throne, in sight like unto emerald. And round about the throne were four and twenty seats. And upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment. And they had on their heads crowns of gold. And out of the throne, notice, proceeded lightnings, and thunderings, and voices. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. And before the throne there was a sea of glass like crystal, and in the midst of the throne and round about the throne were four beasts full of eyes before and behind, and so on, describes the beast. And notice in verse 10, I'm sorry, in verse 8, and the four beasts had each of them six wings about them, they were full of eyes within, they rest not day and night, saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty.

Doesn't that sound like Isaiah 6? It does. And when these bees give glory and honor and thanks to Him that sat on the throne who liveth forever and ever, the four and twenty elders fall down before Him that sat on the throne and worship Him that liveth forever and ever. And they cast their crowns before the throne saying, Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power, for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.

That's the revelation that we saw in Psalm 33 and in Isaiah 6 and Isaiah 2. But notice chapter 5. This is very, very significant. And it parallels what we just saw in the Gospel of John. He said, and I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne. Notice, in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book. written within, and on the backside sealed with seven seals. And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof? And no man in heaven nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book, neither to look thereon. And I wept much."

I can see why no one could open this book. And that leaves sinners completely undone before God. And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. And one of the elders saith to me, Weep not, behold." Notice what he describes here. The elder is saying, behold, the lion, that's a powerful one, of the tribe of Judah, one who reigns, the root of David, hath prevailed victorious to open the book. and to loose the seven seals thereof. So we're talking about a huge victory by a powerful king, prophesied in the Old Testament. But notice, and I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders stood, what? A lamb, as it had been slain. The glory of God's majesty is revealed here. in the one who is on the throne, who is prophesied to be the king in his glory and his victory. And notice what is emphasized, the lamb. He's the lamb that had been slain, as it had been slain. It's evident. His wounds, his sufferings, his death, his sacrifice, his obedience, it's evident. he had been slain. And guess what? He is on the throne. The Lord reigneth. He's clothed in majesty and the glory of his majesty, the eminence, the radiance of his perfections are seen in the lamb that was slain.

And this is what happens. And he came and took the book. Verse seven, out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and the 24 elders fell down before the Lamb, every one of them having harps and golden vials and odors, which are the prayers of the saints. That sounds like Psalm 92 last week. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof. For thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation."

So in Isaiah 2 and Isaiah 6, Isaiah's first response is, I'm undone. My lips are unclean. I'm an unclean man. And these people I dwell among are unclean. He's like Paul, oh wretched man that I am. And Isaiah 2, the people fear the Lord, are terrified, they run, they hide because of the glory of his majesty. But here, the fulfillment. The unfolding of the glory of His Majesty is seen in the Lamb, the Redeemer, you see. It's not so much that God, because Christ laid down His life, exalted Him in order to give Him glory, but rather it's this. It's that God, in exalting Christ, manifested forth what was His true glory. You see, the glory of Christ is exalted by God. And what is that glory? It's the cross. It's the stooping of Christ. It's the humility of Christ. It's taking He who was in the form of God. He didn't exploit that. He didn't take what He was as God and use it in a way that would destroy His enemies. Rather, he says, he made himself of no reputation in order to save sinners. You see, and this is the majesty. This is the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ shown in the cross. The glory of the cross shines forth in the majesty of his person. We just don't understand it, do we? It's too much for us. It strikes us with awe as sinners, because we were the ones who deserved to be thrust away in terror, and the law created that quaking and exceeding great fear in us.

But then God, in His glory, made known His truth and His grace in the tabernacling amongst us in the Lord Jesus Christ. The fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him, the majesty is in Christ, and that majesty shines forth in the cross, and the glory that we see when we look at the cross is the low stoop obedience, the willing sacrifice of himself. He who was high made himself of no reputation. He who was rich made himself poor. He who His faithful became the one who was reproached by men. He who knew no sin was made sin for us, in order that He might make us the righteousness of God in Him, that He might lift us from the dunghill and set us among princes, in order that He might bring us to God by His blood."

You see, He did it. This is God. This is his majesty. This is who he is. This is the glory of his majesty set before us by his word, the gospel in the cross of Christ. And so we can see that Psalm 93 is celebrating Christ exalted and made known in his majesty by the glory of what he did in order to take that place as the Lamb of God on the throne. He's not behind it, he's not beside it, he's on it. He's not like God, He is God. And what He said and what He did in unfolding God's mind and will and His purpose to save sinners, to reconcile them to God by the death of His Son, shows us who God is.

If you've seen me, he tells his Philip and Thomas, you've seen the father. You've seen him. And how did they see him? Well, Thomas saw his nail prints. He saw that wound in his side. And he said, my Lord and my God. And the thief on the cross said, Lord. Remember me when you come into your kingdom, the one hanging on the cross, shine forth the glory of God in his saving grace. And it was grace in truth, grace that fulfilled the truth of God in all of his perfections, grace that upheld and magnified God's law and established his righteousness and gave that to sinners. This is the glory of God, isn't it? the glory of God, and this is how we know him. This is the way we know him.

And look at Philippians chapter two, this one more thing, I've pretty much given it to you in reference to it, but he says in Philippians two, he says, let this mind, verse five, let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus. This is the way he thinks. This is who he is. This is what's in his heart. This is the thoughts of his heart that are always done. This is what motivates him, who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. It wasn't robbery. He was equal with God, but made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of a servant. You see the dissent? God, he didn't use his Godhead in order to intimidate, but in order to save. He made himself of no reputation. That's the way he would do it. He was made of a woman, made under the law. He took upon him the form of a servant. And he was made like men, in the likeness of men. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself even as a man. And he became obedient unto death. He submitted himself in all of the vulnerability of being exposed before God and before his law and by the reproaches of men, his enemies, who falsely accused him and beat him and all that. And there he is before God, like a sacrifice laid open. He puts himself into the hands of his father and he says, thy will be done. He became obedient. He entrusted himself to God in death. And he became obedient to death, even the death of the cross.

Wherefore God has highly exalted him and given him a name which is above every name. This is my son, hear him. In him God is well pleased.

And one more verse of scripture. Look at 2 Peter chapter, 2 Peter chapter one. I want you to see this. Remember, we're trying to show what the glory of His Majesty is, but also that it's the Lord Jesus Christ that Psalm 93 is speaking about here. So in 2 Peter 1, verse 6, Verse 15, he says this. Moreover, I will endeavor that you may be able, after my decease, to have these things always in remembrance, for we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you, notice, the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. We saw his majesty. He says, for he received from God the Father honor and glory when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased. And this voice which came from heaven we heard, and we were with him in the holy mount.

So he's talking about the transfiguration, isn't he? But he says, he doesn't use the word but, but he goes on to say, we have also a more sure word of prophecy. Not just our eyewitnesses of his majesty, we have scripture, the very words of God spoken. So obviously the word of God is the glory, it's the revelation of his majesty.

Where unto you do well that you take heed as unto a light that shines in a dark place. That's the eminence of the majesty, the glory of it. Until the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts. That's the illumination that's given to us by the spirit of God of Christ in the gospel.

Knowing this, first, that no prophecy of the Scripture is of any private interpretation, for the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, no, no, no, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost. And what was that? The revelation of God's Son.

in the cross. The lamb slain is the one who's on the throne and it's his glory that all of those gathered around that throne are singing about the redeemed of the Lord.

Let's pray. Dear Lord, we pray that we might know the magnificence of your person the weightiness of your majesty in the glory that we see in the Lord Jesus Christ, who stooped to save his people from their sins, who loved us and gave himself an offering and a sacrifice to God for our sins, for a sweet-smelling savor.

who is the one who purchased us by his own blood, who redeemed us to God by his own blood, who gave himself for us, who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood. This is the one, Lord. He is the one who is the brightness of your glory, the express image of your person, and he by himself has purified, he has purged our sins.

from us that we might enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus and enter there with boldness and openness and not considering anything necessary to make ourselves acceptable, but because the blood of Jesus alone can do that. Help us, Lord, to come and worship you in awe at your grace and your truth in the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.