I took my title from verse 23,
which says, this is the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our
eyes. Now throughout this psalm, it
is our Lord Jesus Christ speaking. And he begins the psalm speaking
about God's mercy. And all through this psalm, we
see God's mercy. We see the many different ways
God's mercy is marvelous in our eyes. The first thing we see,
we see God's mercy confessed. Verse one, O give thanks unto
the Lord for he is good, because his mercy endureth forever. Let
Israel now say that his mercy endureth forever. Let the house
of Aaron now say that his mercy endureth forever. Let them now
that fear the Lord say that his mercy endureth forever. Let everyone everywhere, it seems
like the psalmist is saying, say, His mercy endureth forever. And we give thanks. The psalmist
begins, oh, give thanks unto the Lord. We give thanks unto
the Lord for His mercy, don't we? God's people should be known
as a thankful people. We've got so many things to be
thankful for. You just think of the countless
many things that we have to thank God for. our families, our homes,
our jobs, our health, our food, our clothing, our shelter, every
provision of this life. I thank God for all those things,
don't you? Well, he's the one who gave them. But most importantly,
a sinner is thankful for mercy. Now, mercy is God not giving
us what we deserve. Well, what do we deserve? We
deserve God's justice, don't we? We deserve to be condemned
for our sin. The only way a sinner can be
saved is in mercy. It's the only way that it's possible
because we can't do anything to deserve mercy. We can't even
do anything to deserve less punishment. The only thing that we can earn,
the only thing we can deserve from God by what we say, do,
and think is eternity in hell. The only thing we can deserve
because everything we do is sinful. So the only way we can be saved
is in mercy, if God does not give us what we deserve. Now
we've seen this a number of times in the Psalms, where the writer
says, God's mercy forever. You'll notice that the word endureth
there is in italics, it means it's been added by the translators,
and maybe that helps someone understand, but what the psalmist
actually writes, is God's mercy forever. God's mercy is eternal. That's what he's saying. It doesn't
have a beginning and it doesn't have an ending. And if you think
about it, that's the only kind of mercy that can save a sinner. Mercy that doesn't have a beginning
and it doesn't have an ending. If God waited until he saw what
I would do and see if I could deserve mercy, I'd never have
it. No, the only way I could have mercy is if God, before
time began, chose to save a people. And that's what He did. Before
God created anything, He determined, He purposed to have mercy on
a chosen people. God's mercy is as old as God
is. It doesn't have a beginning. There's no beginning point. God
chose to save a sinful people for one reason. God's merciful. Not because they deserve it,
but because God is merciful. And every saved person, I don't
care who they are, where you find them, every saved person
will confess, I'm saved by God's mercy alone. No reason, but by
God's mercy. The Psalmist here says, let Israel,
let spiritual Israel confess, I'm saved by God's eternal mercy.
Unearned, undeserved mercy. Let the House of Aaron, the priests,
the preachers, let them confess, I'm saved by God's eternal mercy.
No other way. Let every believer, anyone who
fears the Lord, let them confess, I'm saved by God's eternal mercy. See, we all have the same, I
don't care who you are, what it is, what role you play in
God's church, how it is that you might serve the Lord. Every
believer says, I'm saved by God's eternal mercy. That's the only
thing I can hope in. And I'm thankful for God's mercy,
aren't you? I'm thankful for salvation by
mercy. I'm thankful that I don't have
to do anything to deserve salvation, because I can never do it. I'm
thankful that God in his mercy provided a way not to give me
the punishment that I deserve. That mercy has no beginning. And it has no end either. And
I'm thankful for that. If I'm saved by God's mercy,
you know why I can never lose my salvation? People, I don't
hear that that much anymore, but I remember being a boy and
hearing people argue about that. You know, once saved, always
saved. That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. If I'm saved
by God's mercy, I can never lose my salvation. Because God's mercy
has no ending. Oh, that's marvelous in my eyes.
Isn't it yours? Oh, this is the Lord's doing.
This is God's mercy. And it's marvelous in our eyes.
All right, number two, we see God's mercy purchased by the
sacrifice of Christ. Verse five. I called upon the
Lord in distress. The Lord answered me and set
me in a large place. Now you know it throughout our
Lord's earthly ministry, he was a man of prayer. At times he
would pray all night. But I believe what he's talking
about here, this time of distress was at Calvary, when he would
cry to his father. And you know there at Calvary,
the father would not hear the cries of his son. And that shows
you and me how serious sin really is. You know the father loves
his son. He spoke from heaven audibly.
He said, this is my son. This is my beloved son. I love
him. This is my only begotten son.
But when the son of his love, his only begotten son, was made
sin, sin was found on him, the father wouldn't accept him, wouldn't
hear him, wouldn't show him anything but his unmitigated wrath. Now
that shows us how serious this matter of sin is. And at Calvary,
the father punished his son fully for the sin of his people. You
know why? So he can show mercy to his people
in justice. You see, in order for God to
have mercy, mercy is not giving us what we deserve. In order
for God not to give his people what they deserve, He had to
give Christ our substitute what we deserve. Sin had to be punished
somewhere. If God's not gonna punish you
and me for it, there's one reason. He punished our substitute for
it. Now that's the Lord's doing. Only the Lord can do that. That
is God's mercy. Only God would make his son sin
for his people. Only God would cause his son
to suffer everything sin deserved so he could show mercy to his
people. Only a holy God would do that. Now that is the Lord's
doing. That is a purchase made by the
Lord. And it's marvelous in our eyes.
But you know, later on, most of that time on the cross, the
father would not hear the son. But later, when the sacrifice
was complete, when sin was put away, the transaction is done,
mercy is purchased. Then the father did hear the
son again. The savior cried, father, into thy hands I commend
my spirit. And he gave up the ghost in full
assurance the father would accept him. And he did, he did. And the father delivered his
son from death. And he said, the psalmist says,
in a large place, And what that refers to is, it means an open
space, a wide open space. A lot of times when scripture
speaks about a trial, it speaks about being in a small, confined
space where you're just crushed. That was Christ at Calvary, wasn't
it? He'd be crushed under the weight of the justice of God.
But now the Father's delivered him. He's not being crushed by
God's justice anymore. He's in a wide open space. And
the father delivered his son because the sin of God's elect
was gone. It's been washed away under the
blood of Christ. Now, if you're a sinner, you
know that you have no hope in yourself. Nothing you can do
can earn you salvation. There's nothing you can do to
get less punishment than what you deserve. Hearing that your
sin has been put away by God's own son, by the blood of God,
will make you start shouting. That's the Lord's doing, isn't
it? Only God could do that, and it's marvelous in our eyes. Verse
six, he goes on, he says, the Lord is on my side. I will not
fear. What can man do unto me? The
Lord taketh my part with them that help me. Therefore shall
I see my desire upon them that hate me. Now I know man was very
active in doing everything that their our, I shouldn't say their,
I should say our wicked hearts, wanted to do. But really, it
was the Father who punished the Son. It was the Father who executed
judgment upon Christ at Calvary. So, the Father was against Christ
in that way, wasn't He? In that He would not have mercy
or pity upon His Son. But all He would give Him was
the full wrath of God against sin, the fury of God against
sin. But the father was for Christ
in this way. He was accepting his sacrifice.
And the father is against those who refuse to believe on his
son. They all gathered together. They gathered together against
God's Christ. They gathered together against
this man. And they thought they finally, after three and a half
years of plotting and planning and trying to get him, they thought,
We finally got him. We finally got our way. They
thought they had accomplished their mission, didn't they? I'm
sure those fellas went to the Passover saying, mission accomplished. They were shaking hands, well
done. And they were complete failures. They completely and
utterly failed to accomplish their purpose. And a little while
later, Peter's going to tell them about it. You didn't accomplish
your purpose at all. You accomplished God's eternal
purpose to save his people by the sacrifice of his son. See,
they put the Lord Jesus to death, but they didn't accomplish their
will, did they? No, they accomplished God's will. They accomplished
God's will and salvation through the sacrifice. And that sacrifice
is what enabled God to show mercy to his people because Christ
satisfied justice for them. And I hate to even talk about
this, but there is a flip side to that coin. God's gonna, that
sacrifice of Christ completely, utterly, eternally saved God's
people from their sin. Gave them nothing but mercy from
God. But the flip side of that coin
is what God's gonna do to those enemies of his son. Those who
do not believe on him. One day God's gonna destroy him.
Look at verse 10, he talks about that. All nations compassed me
about, but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them. They
compassed me about, yea, they compassed me about. There was
no strength in numbers, was there? Because in the name of the Lord,
I will destroy them. They compassed me about like
bees. They're quenched as the fire of thorns. For in the name
of the Lord, I will destroy them. Thou hast thrust thorn at me
that I might fall, but the Lord helped me. The Lord delivered
me from your hand, and I'm gonna destroy them. So we see that
no men could do real harm to the Savior. They caused him unimaginable
bodily sufferings, but they could do no real harm to the Savior.
They could do no harm to God's will and purpose. And since Christ
put away the sin of his people, since he arose from the dead,
men can't do any real lasting harm to anybody who's in Christ
either. They can't do any real lasting harm to any of God's
people. Their soul is secure, secure
in Christ. Now that's the Lord's doing.
It's marvelous in our eyes. Now think about this. The psalmist,
the savior lays out before us God's mercy, God's mercy for
his people. And on the opposite side of that
is man, man's will, man's way. God's will is to save his people
by the sacrifice of his son. God's will and way is to save
his people in mercy. Man's way is to earn my own righteousness,
to be good enough that God will accept me on my own. That's the
two ways of salvation. Now, since man can't do anything
to harm God, I mean, they tried and they failed. Since man can't
do anything to change God's purpose, I mean, not only can that stop
God's purpose, they can't change it. They can't even delay it.
Since man cannot accomplish his own salvation, I mean, the very
best of men gathered together and encompassed our Lord about
what happened to them. They're all destroyed. Well, then it's
foolish to trust in even the best of men, isn't it? Verse
eight. It's better to trust in the Lord
than to put confidence in man. It's better to trust in the Lord
than to put confidence in princes, and even the very best of men.
Oh, I'd a whole lot rather trust my soul to God's mercy than my
doing, wouldn't you? Whole lot rather trust my soul
to God's mercy. We can't trust our soul to anything
that we do, because everything we do is filthy with sin. So it's better to trust in the
Lord There's forgiveness with the Lord. It was better to trust
in Him, isn't it? There's salvation in Christ.
It's better to trust in Him. There's no salvation in us, but
there is in Christ. It was better to trust Him. If
we trust the Lord, this is what you'll say. That's the Lord's
doing. God had to be the one to even
give me the faith to trust Christ in the first place. That's the
Lord's doing. He enabled me to trust Christ
and not trust in myself, and that's marvelous in my eyes.
You see, God purposed mercy for his people. In his eternal covenant
of grace, that was God's purpose, to give mercy to his people.
But somebody had to actually come in time and purchase that
mercy for his people. God ordained a sacrifice, but
somebody had to come and actually offer that sacrifice. God ordained
to pay for the sin of his people, but now somebody had to come
make the payment. Somebody had to come and put away the sin
of God's elect so that God could accept him. And that is what
God's own son did. He left the glories of heaven
and came to this earth as a man. And he didn't even come as a
prince, as a mighty man, as a respected man. Everybody who was anybody
turned thumbs down on him, despised and rejected. He came as a hated
man for this reason, to come purchase mercy for his people.
He came to purchase mercy for a people by sacrificing himself
for a people who had done nothing but sin against him. who would
spit in his face, who would lie on him in a mock trial, who would
drive nails through his hands and through his feet, who would
shake their fists in the face of Almighty God and say, I'll
not have this man reign over me. Just like that parable, we
read and marked, opened the surface. The father sent us a prophet.
We start throwing rocks at him. Sent us another one, we killed
him. Sent another one, we beat him, put him down in a ditch,
and finally sent us his son. The father said, surely they
reverence my son, and we did. First thing we did when we got
our hands on him was put him to death. Yet that's who Christ
came to save. That's the most marvelous thing
I have ever heard. That's just the most marvelous
thing that can be on human tongue. The son of God came to sacrifice
himself to put away the sin of people who hated him. And I tell
you what, God's church rejoices in that mercy. Look at verse
14. The Lord is my strength and song and has become my salvation.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the
righteous. The right hand of the Lord doeth valiantly. The
right hand of the Lord is exalted. The right hand of the Lord doeth
valiantly. The Lord Jesus Christ has done
valiantly, hasn't He? In the salvation of His people,
He's done valiantly. He is the mighty conqueror. And all the adoring shouts of
His people, this is my Savior. He is my salvation. He's my strength. He's my rejoicing. He has become
my salvation. The Lord Jesus Christ is exalted
because of His purchase, because He satisfied His Father in every
way, because by His blood, He blotted out the sin of His people,
the Father highly exalted Him, giving Him a name which is above
every name, and that's just exactly the way I like it. By God's grace,
that is exactly the way I like it. That's the way it should
be, isn't it? That's the way it should be. He purchased mercy
for me. That's the way it should be. That's mercy purchased by
the blood of God's Son. And thirdly, we see this. We
see the effect of God's mercy. It is to make God's people righteous.
Verse 17, I shall not die, but live and declare the works of
the Lord. The Lord has chastened me sore,
but he's not given me over to death. Now this is still Christ
speaking. I know he says here, I shall
not die. And we know Christ did die, but this is what he means.
I'm not going to die and stay dead. The father did chasten
him sore, didn't he? Oh, he put him to death. But
the father didn't give Christ over unto death. No, three days
later, the father raised him from the dead. He raised Him
from the dead because the sin that had been charged to Christ
had been put away. It was paid in full, all by the
sacrifice and the death of Christ. Death couldn't hold the Savior
because there was no sin. There's no power of death to
hold Him because sin was gone. And when the Lord Jesus Christ
arose from the tomb, He gave us the evidence. His sacrifice
justified His people, made them without sin, made them righteous.
The resurrection of Christ declares that the mighty work of the Lord
and the salvation of His people is complete. God's elect are
delivered. They're delivered from sin. They're
delivered from death. They're delivered from the power
of sin because Christ died in their place. Now that's the Lord's
doing. Only God could do such a thing. Only God could put away sin And
only God would do that. Only God would do that for sinners. Isn't that right? If it was left
up to you and me, who would we save? Sitting back here, right
there's one of them. That's the first one I think,
well, maybe I could myself, honey. I got some daughters. I got some
sons. But those are all people that
love me. Those are close to... Only God would save sinners. Oh, that's marvelous in my eyes.
Is that marvelous in your eyes? It's marvelous in my eyes that
the death of Christ took away any reason for his people to
die. The death of Christ took away
any reason that God would condemn his people because he made them
righteous. Verse 19, he says, open to me the gates of righteousness.
I will go into them and I will praise the Lord. Now I can just
imagine, this is our Savior speaking after His resurrection. He's
ready to send back to the Father. He's gonna go back into glory,
this hated man, Jesus of Nazareth, is gonna go back to glory as
the Prince of Glory. And the Father's gonna tell Him,
you see here, on my right hand, oh the homecoming, that must
have been. And the Lord Jesus Christ, the mighty conqueror,
can go ascend into heaven, and He can demand that the gates
of righteousness be opened to Him. He can walk right through
them any time He wants. He's not going to enter in to
some back door now. He's not sneaking around back
and coming in some side door and sneaking in. No, he's coming
right in front door. He's coming through the gates
of righteousness. And it's only right that he do
it. He is righteousness personified. He has satisfied the Father.
He's won the victory. It's only right that he enter
and that he rule. He bought that right by his substitutionary
death for his people. and all of God's elect are gonna
enter the exact same way. Verse 20, he says, this gate
of the Lord into which the righteous shall enter. All of God's elect
are gonna enter into glory the exact same way that Christ our
righteousness did, through the gates of righteousness. You're
not sneaking in, you're not getting in by the skin of your teeth,
it's not like a maybe thing, no sir. You're entering in the
front door. Righteousness is open to God's
people because Christ made them righteous. Christ made his people
righteous by his life. Christ came as a man, and he
obeyed God's law, and he did it perfectly. Now, he didn't
do that to give you and me an example. What would Jesus do? I ask you, does it really matter? Can you do it? No. We can't keep the law. Christ
kept the law as the representative of his people. He did that for
his people so he could give them his obedience and make them righteous.
And then Christ made his people righteous by trading his perfect
obedience for their disobedience. He traded his righteousness for
the sin of his people. He traded it with them. And he
suffered and died the death that sin deserves. It satisfied justice
for them. Now they're righteous. Christ
who knew no sin was made sin for his people so that his people
would be made what? The righteousness of God, the
righteousness of God in him. Now that substitution, that's
the very heart of the gospel. You can't preach the gospel without
that stuff. That substitution and satisfaction
is the heart of the gospel. That's how God's elect are made
righteous. That's how God's elect are made
what God can accept. Perfect righteousness. And since
Christ justified His people and made them righteous, they enter
into God's presence accepted. Perfectly righteous. Now that's
the Lord's doing. That's marvelous in our eyes.
And then lastly, we see God praised for his mercy. Verse 21, he says,
I will praise thee, for thou hast heard me and art become
my salvation. Now like I said at the start
of the message, there are lots of reasons for us to be thankful. There are lots of reasons for
us to praise the Lord. But the chief reason that we
praise the Lord is salvation. Salvation in Christ. The chief
reason we praise God is mercy. Mercy for sinners that comes
to us through the sacrifice of Christ. I don't even know how to say
this just right. I wish we could get our minds
off of things. I'm not even talking about worldly
things. I'm talking about spiritual things and positions and doctrines
and ideas. And that we get our hearts and
our minds settled on Christ. My friends, the gospel is a person. It's a person. It's all about
a person. Salvation is a person. Salvation is not a state of being
before God. Righteousness is not a legal
document that says, yeah, I'm righteous. It's a person. It's a person. I've used this
illustration before, but I thought about it recently. After almost
30 years, Not long after Jane and I were married, for a present
from somebody, I got this two-drawer filing cabinet, fake wood filing
cabinet. It's really a miracle that it
lasted this long, and the thing finally fell apart. Had to get
me a new one. Now, I've used this illustration
before. I married that pretty lady. Now, to me, marriage is
a person, it's her. And I've told you before, somewhere
I've got a legal document to prove it, but I have no idea
where it is. I found it just the other week
when I had to change out that filing cabinet. I thought, you
know, there's probably junk in here I don't need. I was throwing stuff away
and shredding stuff. I found that document, legal document,
all signed and sealed and fancy and everything, you know. And
I just put it in the envelope and put it, you know, I didn't
run out and tell Jen, hey, guess what? We're married. Marriage is not that legal document.
It's a person. It's a living union with a person. I hate to compare that. forgive
me, to salvation. But I want you to see, salvation's
a person. The gospel is a person. The gospel
is a living, vital union with the person. The psalmist says
here, thou art become my salvation. David wrote that. David knew
salvation wasn't a thing. David knew. He knew righteousness
is a person. The gospel is a person. He, the
person, God's own son, died for me. He saved me. He loves me. He keeps me. Salvation is all in Christ because
salvation is Christ. That's God's doing. God made
it that way. That's marvelous in our eyes. And every one of God's elect
says, I'm gonna praise the Lord. I will praise the Lord because
he saved me. Me. Of all people, me. God had mercy on me. The father sacrificed his son
so that he could show mercy to me. Now that's the Lord's doing.
It's marvelous in our eyes. It's marvelous. Because the only
way a sinner can believe on Christ is if the Lord reveals Christ
to us and gives us faith to believe. He sent His Spirit to do that
for me. For me. That's marvelous. That's astonishing. But you know, the other side
of that coin is true too. It's marvelous. Not marvelous in a good sense,
because I hate this is true for anybody, but it's astonishing.
Who does not believe on Christ? The most religious, most orthodox,
smartest people you can find reject Christ. You've got to
leave them alone. Look at verse 22. The stone which
the builders refused is become the headstone of the corner.
And we read a reference where our Lord quoted that to open
the service. So you'd see that verse there refers to the Pharisees. The builders are the religious
leaders. The stone is Christ the chief
cornerstone. Christ is the chief cornerstone
because he's the foundation of salvation. It's all built upon
him. And these religious leaders, they're the most learned in scriptures.
They memorized the scriptures. They wrote the scriptures. They
are steeped in religion. I mean, you think you're orthodox.
I mean, these guys, their entire life, seven days a week, was
just religion. They were so orthodox. You couldn't
find any, they were doctors of religion, doctors of the scripture.
And they rejected Christ who came and fulfilled every single
Old Testament prophecy of the Messiah. And they rejected Him. They hated Him. That's the best
man has to offer. Don't put your trust in princes.
Don't put your trust. They'll fail you every time.
The best men left to themselves are foolish and blind and ignorant
of salvation in Christ. And they'll never see Him. Not
unless God works a miracle for them, they won't. So it's marvelous,
it's astonishing who it is that rejects Christ. Those people
who reject Christ, that's the best righteousness man has to
offer. God says it's not good enough. That's astonishing, isn't
it? But look at Matthew chapter 21. It's also marvelous or astonishing
who it is that believes Christ. Matthew 21. Verse 42, here's another place
where our Lord quotes this verse from our text, Matthew 21, verse
42. Jesus saith unto them, did you
never read in the scriptures the stone which the builders
rejected? The same has become the head of the corner. This
is the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes.
Therefore say unto you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you
and given to a nation, bringing forth the fruits thereof. You
rejected God's Christ. You rejected the only way of
salvation. So God's going to take the gospel from you. He's
going to give it to somebody else. He's going to give you
judicial blindness so that you can't see. That's amazing, astonishing. This is the very best man has
to offer. They can't see. They cannot believe.
They hate Christ. But look at verse 44. And whosoever
shall fall on this stone shall be broken. But on whomsoever
it shall fall, it will grind him into powder. Now whoever
rejects Christ, the chief cornerstone, they're gonna be ground to powder
under the feet of Christ. But whosoever falls down before
Christ, whoever falls on the stone, whoever falls at his feet,
begging for mercy, they will be broken. They'll be brokenhearted. But that's all right, that's
who God came to save, isn't it? They'll be broken. Broken in
the sense that they see, I can't do anything, I'm broken, I can't
do anything. So I can't trust in myself. That
person who's broken, they'll receive mercy from the Lord.
Now that's the Lord's doing, isn't it? It's marvelous in our
eyes, marvelous to see who the Lord has mercy upon. Now look
back at Matthew chapter 11. It's marvelous that the Lord
hides his mercy. from the self-righteous, from
the arrogant, but he reveals himself in mercy to the worst
of sinners, and the Savior himself found this astonishing, and thanked
God for it. Matthew chapter 11, verse 25. At that time, Jesus answered
and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because
thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and you
revealed them unto babes, not because they deserve it, because
even so, Father, for so it seemed good in thy sight." Now that's
astonishing, that's marvelous, marvelous in our eyes. Right
now, quickly, look back at our text, Psalm 118, verse 24. The psalmist says, this is the Lord's
doing, it is marvelous in our eyes. So from here on out, what's my
reaction gonna be? This is the day which the Lord
hath made, We will rejoice and be glad in it. For almost 30
years, I woke up to go to work at a warehouse or a convenience
store or something along those lines where I typically worked.
And I'd get up about 5 o'clock in the morning. And I can't tell
you how many of those mornings I quoted this verse to myself,
trying to convince myself to get up and be happy about the
day. This is the day which the Lord hath made. I'm gonna be
glad, I'm gonna rejoice and be glad in it. Tough to say that
meaning when you got sleep in your eyes. And that's a good
thing for us to say, that's a good thing for us to be determined.
Every single day is a day God has made. He's given it to us
to rejoice and be glad in it. But the psalmist really is talking
about a specific day here, a specific day, the day of Christ's sacrifice. Now I rejoice in that. I rejoice
in that day that my sin debt was paid in full. I rejoice in
that sacrifice, that day that justice was satisfied for me.
I rejoice in that day of mercy where Christ purchased mercy
for me with his precious blood. Whatever else has gone wrong
and gone against you in this life, that day's for us. It's really all that matters.
All that matters. I rejoice in that day that God
let me see that by faith. That he let me see Christ by
faith. And that's what God's people
have been seeing forever, by faith. Remember our Lord told
those Pharisees, Abraham saw my day and was glad. This is
the very exact thing he was talking about here. Abraham, by faith,
you know what he rejoiced to see? He saw by faith Christ crucified
as a substitute for sinners. And Abraham said, that's the
Lord's doing. That's marvelous in my eyes.
And we say the same thing, don't we? And because of that day,
Christ died as the sinner's substitute. We can cry verse 25, Lord save
me. Christ died for sinners and Lord
save me. I beseech Thee, O Lord. O Lord, I beseech Thee. Send
out prosperity. I'm poor, I'm bankrupt. Lord,
send prosperity. I'm empty of anything You require. Lord, save me. Send prosperity.
We can cry that in hope because Christ died for sinners. The
death of Christ is what lets us beg God for salvation for
Christ's sake in the first place. And it's all in Him. All spiritual
blessing, really any blessing of any kind comes, but I'm talking
here about spiritual blessing. What is most important? What
is most needed? It's all in Christ, the blessed
man. The blessed man who came to save
his people. And that blessed man who comes
and reveals himself to his people. Verse 26, he said, blessed be
he that cometh in the name of the Lord. We blessed you out
of the house of the Lord. Oh, blessed is he that cometh
to reveal himself to you. God is the Lord which has showed
us light. Bind the sacrifice with cords,
even under the horns of the altar. Thou art my God, I will praise
Thee. Thou art my God, I will exalt
Thee. In case you forgot how he started, he says, oh, give
thanks. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord for His good, for His
mercy forever. That's the Lord's doing. It's
marvelous in our eyes. How I pray, I'll make that marvelous
in our eyes. Let's bow together in prayer.