I guess. Good evening, everyone.
Let's open tonight's service with hymn number 199 from your
hardback temple, 199. Christ receiveth sinful men. Let's all stand together. ? Sinners Jesus will receive ?
Sound this word of grace to all ? Who the heavenly pathways leave
? All who linger, all who fall ? Sing it o'er and o'er again
? Christ receiveth sinful men Make the message clear and plain,
Christ receiveth sinful men. ? Come and he will give you rest
? Trust him for his word is plain ? He will take the sinfulest
? Christ receiveth sinful men ? Sing it o'er and o'er again
? Christ receiveth sinful men Make the message clear and plain,
Christ receiveth sinful men. Now my heart condemns me not
Pure before the law I stand He who cleansed me from all spot
Satisfied its last demand Sing it o'er and o'er again Christ
receiveth sinful men Make the message clear and plain, Christ
receiveth sinful men. Christ receiveth sinful man,
even me with all my sin. Purged from every spot and stained,
heaven with him I enter in, sing it o'er. and or again. Christ receive with sinful men. Make the message clear and plain. Christ receive with sinful men. Please be seated. Love that hymn. This is a faithful
saying, worthy of all acceptation, Christ Jesus came into the world
to save sinners, of whom I am chief. If being a sinner is a
qualification for being saved, then surely the chief of all
sinners is qualified. Very, very thankful. Let's open
our Bibles together to 1 Samuel. chapter 2, 1st Samuel chapter
2. I want to preach tonight from Psalm 75 and Hannah's prayer
in 1st Samuel chapter 2 is so similar to the
things that Asaph declares. I'm sure that Asaph when he was
writing Psalm 75 was thinking about Hannah's prayer in 1st
Samuel chapter 2. Sarah and Laura and Katie, so
good to have you guys with us tonight. Baby James around here
somewhere. It's a blessing to have you all
here. Digna, I tried to call her today. I saw her last night. She was
hoping to go home today, but she's been in the hospital all
week with the flu and it's been very weak and frail. So I don't
know if she went home today or not, but I want to remember Digna. And if you have her, that's her
cell phone number is on the church list if you want to give her
a call. I tried to call her today and she didn't answer. Also,
probably heard that Diane Etheridge's father in Mississippi passed
away Sunday night. And so she and Michael went to
the funeral and they're there now. Matter of fact, they had
the funeral today for her, or for him. All right, you have your Bibles
open to 1 Samuel chapter 2. You remember the story. Elkanah
had two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. And Hannah was barren, didn't
have any children. And she went to the temple in
1 Samuel chapter 1 and poured out her soul to the Lord. And
Eli thought she was drunk. And Eli rebuked her for coming
in to the house of worship intoxicated. And she said, oh, no, Lord. She
said, I'm not drunk. She said, my soul is grieved
that the Lord hasn't given me any children. And Eli blessed
her. She came back the next year with
Samuel. And in chapter two, she's thanking
the Lord for blessing her with Samuel. And Hannah prayed and
said, my heart rejoiceth in the Lord. My horn is exalted in the
Lord. My mouth is enlarged over my
enemies because I rejoice in thy salvation. Now we're going
to find this word horn in Psalm 75 a couple of times, three times,
I think actually, and it's a picture of strength. And what Hannah
is saying is my strength is in the Lord. And when I'm weak,
then I'm strong. His strength is made perfect
in our weakness. And so the way to know God's
strength is through humility. God gives grace to the humble,
doesn't he? Resist the proud. There is none
holy as the Lord, and there is none beside thee, neither is
there any rock like our God. Talk no more, so exceeding proudly. Let not arrogancy come out of
your mouth. For the Lord is a God of knowledge,
and by him actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are
broken, and they that stumble are girded with strength. They
that were full have hired out themselves for bread, and they
that were hungry ceased, so that the barren hath born seven, and
she that hath many children is waxed feeble. The Lord killeth
and maketh alive. He bringeth down to the grave
and bringeth up. The Lord maketh poor and maketh
rich. He bringeth low and lifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of
the dust and lifts up the beggar from the dunghill. to set them
among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory.
For the pillars of the earth are the Lord's, and he has set
the world upon them. He will keep the feet of his
saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness, for by
strength shall no man prevail. The adversaries of the Lord shall
be broken to pieces. Out of the heavens shall he thunder
upon them, The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth and he
shall give strength unto his king and exalt the horn of his
anointed. Now the Lord Jesus Christ is
the Lord's king and he's the Lord's anointed and he gave him
strength. In life and in death and in resurrection,
his strength was of the Lord. And Elkanah went to Ramah to
his house And the child did minister unto the Lord before Eli the
priest. Let's pray together. Our merciful heavenly father,
we do take comfort in knowing that. It is a faithful saying
that Christ Jesus came into the world to save centers. Lord,
you've stripped us of all of our righteousness and brought
us to depend upon. The Lord Jesus for all the hope
of our salvation. We pray Lord that you would strengthen
our faith. Forgive us Lord for the expressions
of pride that we have among men. And Lord, draw us into thy presence. Give us grace as we are humbled
before thee. Lord we pray for Digna and we
ask for your hand of comfort and peace and assurance to be
on her heart and we pray that your hand of healing would give
strength to her body. We pray for Diane and Michael
as they Grieve the loss of Diane's father and Lord as you give them
opportunity to witness of your gospel and of your grace to their
family members We pray that you give them wisdom and boldness
to speak We ask it in Christ's name for
his sake amen Let's all stand together once
again and we'll sing hymn number 239, 239. Art thou weary, art thou languid,
art thou sore distressed? Come to me, saith one, and coming
be at rest. Hath he marks to lead me to him,
if he be my guide? In his feet and hands are wound
prints, and his side. Is there diadem as monarch that
his brow adorns? Yea, a crown in very surety,
but of thorns. If I still hold closely to him,
what hath he at last? Sorrow vanquished, labor ended,
Jordan passed. If I ask him to receive me, will
he say me nay? Not till earth and not till heaven
pass away. Finding, following, keeping,
struggling, is he sure to bless? Saints, apostles, prophets, martyrs,
answer yes. Please be seated. Psalm 75. Titled this message, Grace to
the Humble. Grace to the Humble. Now we have
all perfected the art of feigning humility, but we're talking about
the kind of humility that God gives that enables you is to
stand in his presence, trusting him for his grace. That's what
Peter said. He said, God resisteth the proud
and gives grace to the humble. Grace to the humble. Humble yourselves
therefore under the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you
in due time, casting all of your care upon him for he careth for
you. Now, Asaph in this Psalm is recounting
the arrogance that the world has in terms of their pride before
God. Now, humility is a beautiful
thing to see among men, isn't it? Humility is kind. Humility is considerate. Humility is self-effacing. Humility is unpretentious. Humility
is easy to be around, isn't it? It's a beautiful thing. Sadly,
too often times in our relationships with one another we're We're
overly sensitive, aren't we, and easily offended and proud
and arrogant and hard to be around. And may God be pleased to forgive
us of that and give us the grace to be humble with one another. The truth is that if a man or
woman is proud in the presence of God, if they lift up their
horn before God, If they insist upon God's favor because of something
they have done, what is it to be proud? There's a good kind
of pride, and there's a kind of pride that, you know, take
pride in your work. You do something right, do it
the best you can, and step back and look at it, and you're proud
to put your name on it, proud to put your hand on it. That's
the way we ought to be. Not before God. not before God. No believer can come into the
presence of God with a spirit of pride, can they? And those
who would insist upon God's favor based upon the pride of their
work or the pride of their will are not standing before the God
that they will stand before in the day of judgment. Now that's
just the truth. So, as much as we struggle being
humble with one another, and this passage is primarily comparing
the pride of self-righteousness to the humility of faith. And pray the Lord will teach
us. to be humble in his presence
and cause us to be completely dependent upon his strength for
everything. Notice how Asaph starts out this
song. He says, unto thee, O God, do
we give thanks. We give thanks because we're
unworthy. We give thanks because it all
came from you. The breath that we breathe, the
life that we have in this flesh, we give thanks to God. It's his
life that he has loaned us for a very short period of time.
We give thanks to you for your salvation, knowing that Lord,
if you didn't save us, we wouldn't be saved. If you didn't elect
us, if you didn't redeem us, if you didn't call us, if you
didn't justify us, if you didn't keep us and glorify us, Lord,
we wouldn't be saved. We've got no one to thank but
you for that. We cannot thank ourselves and
we cannot credit ourselves in any way. Asaph saying, unto thee,
O God, do we give thanks. And we give thanks to God at
least as he reminds us for his providence as difficult as it
might be the Lord said be thankful in all things for and I'm interpreting
this passage I'm paraphrasing it but I'm giving you the interpretation
this passage be thankful for all things for all things are
the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you And you know that,
don't you? You know that. When you stand
in the presence of God, you can't be arrogant and proud thinking
that you know better than him, can you? You've got to bow. You've got to submit. You've
got to say, Lord, I know, I know that all things work together
for good for them that love you and those that are called according
to your purpose. I know that. And so we give thanks
to God. for all things. Unto thee do
we give thanks." Oh, this is the repetition of that which
is important, isn't it? Oh, might God make us to be thankful,
humble, submissive people before our God. For that thy name is near, thy
wondrous works declare. Now, a literal interpretation
of that, it seems kind of odd the way it's worded, but the
literal interpretation is, for your wonderful works declare
that your name is near. Your wonderful works declare
that your name is near. Now, what is more wonderful than
than the declaration of the gospel in the glorious person and finished
work of the Lord Jesus Christ. What's more wonderful than that
in this world? Nothing, nothing's more wonderful
than for Christ to be lifted up, for us to be drawn in faith
to Him. There's nothing more wonderful
than that. That is the wonderful work of grace that God does among
His people. And here's what Asaph's saying,
for your wonderful works, your wonderful works declare that
your name is near. So what do we learn from that? When the gospel is preached,
when Christ is lifted up, when sinners are called to believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, that's where He is. That's where His
name is. That's where His presence is
and that's where His power is. So what is it that we're most
thankful for? Most thankful for? the declaration
of the gospel or if it wasn't for the gospel I wouldn't be
saved. If it wasn't for your church I would have no hope.
Lord your wonderful works declare that your name is near and for
that we are thankful. We're thankful. Thanksgiving
before God can only be done in a humble spirit can't it? You
can't go into the presence of God arrogant and proud and be
thankful at the same time can you? now the Lord Jesus now for its
first one the church is speaking you and I are speaking to God
in prayer and first to the Lord Jesus Christ is speaking to us
and to the father when he says when I shall receive the congregation
I will judge uprightly that word uprightly is by righteousness
so what the Lord saying when I receive when I receive the
church into my presence, I'm going to judge them by the standards
of righteousness. That's how I want to be judged.
I don't want a God who compromises his righteousness in order to
save me. I want him to maintain his holy standards of justice
and righteousness, and I want to be judged in my righteous
advocate, my Savior, who pleads my cause for me. You know, Sunday
we looked at Psalm 74 and how Asaph is pleading his case with
the Lord, but really it's the Lord Jesus Christ who pleads
our case, isn't it? He's our advocate. We have an
advocate Jesus Christ the righteous one. He's our he's our attorney
He pleads our case and what we're saying is, you know, just like
when the attorney When the defense attorney meets with the with
the defendant before he goes to before the judge He's the
defense attorney has to be in agreement with the defendant
that this is what this is the case. I'm gonna plead I'm gonna
plead you guilty But here's the hope that you have, that the
court's gonna have mercy on you. You in agreement with that? And the child of God says, oh
yes, Lord, I'm in agreement. Yes, plead my case. I am guilty. Plead for the mercy of the court. And plead your righteousness
on my behalf. That I might find acceptance
before God in the beloved. And so the Lord says, when I
receive the congregation, when the whole church enters
into glory, I'm going to judge them by righteousness. The Lord
Jesus Christ is that plumb line, isn't he? He's that standard.
And all the other standards that men use in hope for their salvation,
the scripture says, are teetering walls. that are leaned upon by
men. And when you lean upon a teetering
wall, it's going to fall on you. And that's exactly what's going
to happen. The earth and all the inhabitants
thereof are dissolved. Before God, all the pride of
men, all the strength of men, all the accomplishments of men
in the presence of God. Like I said, we know better than
we should how evil pride is and how ugly it is. We hate seeing
it in others, but we hate most of all seeing it in ourselves,
don't we? And here's what Asaph's saying,
you stand in the presence of God and he judges by righteous
standards, the whole earth dissolves in his presence, just melted
into nothing before God. No pride, no arrogance, no self-righteousness,
not before God. I bear the pillars of it. Some
of these passages are exactly what Hannah said in her prayer
in 1 Samuel chapter 2. This is symbolic language. it's not a, it's not a pie pan
shaped earth on pillars floating somewhere. No, this is, the pillars
are the, are the, the, the, the strength of the earth. This is,
this is, this is symbolic language that saying that God, you, you
created the earth, you hold it all together. You're the power
behind it. And when you remove your strength
from, it's going to be dissolved. And the end of verse 3, you know
what that word sila means, don't you? This is a song. It says that in the title, doesn't
it? To the chief musician, a psalm
or song of Asaph. Asaph was the chief song director
for David. He was the chief musician for
David. And this was a song and that word Selah is a poetic rest
in the verses of this song. And so what the Lord saying is
just stop right there for just a moment, rest and think about
what you've just read and what you've just said. I said unto the fools, here's
God speaking, to the foolish. I said unto the fools, deal not
foolishly. And to the wicked, lift not up
the horn. Lift not up your horn on high. Speak not with the stiff neck. For promotion cometh neither
from the east nor from the West, nor from, you probably have it
in the margin of your Bible, perhaps the word south there
is the word desert. South of Palestine was a desert.
It is the word desert, actually, in the text. What's the Lord
saying here? He said, we must work while it
is yet day, for the night cometh when no man can work. And so
what's the Lord saying? From the rising of the sun to
the setting of the sun. If you work from the moment the
sun comes up to the moment the sun comes down, you're not going
to be able to do enough works to present your case to God and
be arrogant in the presence of God, insisting upon Him to reward
you. That's nothing but pride. And
if you go out into the desert and live a monastic, ascetic
life of sacrifice and toil and trouble in order to try to earn
favor with God, it's not going to happen. Not going to happen.
Promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west nor
from the desert. You're not going to be promoted
in the presence of God by anything that you do. Now, arrogance and
self-confidence and intimidation is the means by which the world
gets promoted, isn't it? You, it works that way a lot. You wanna, you wanna climb the
corporate ladder, you better learn how to step on some folks
and you better learn how to, you better learn how to be self-confident
and arrogant and, and, and, and you better learn how to intimidate
people. That, but you know, that doesn't work before God. That
might work in this world, but what's the Lord say? You thought
that I was altogether as one, such as one as yourself. You're
not going to intimidate me. You're not going to be arrogant
in my presence. Your confidence doesn't mean
anything. The world melts away in my presence. Don't lift up
your horn in my presence. Now, there's no greater arrogance
in this world. We think about the arrogance
that worldly men have in terms of promoting themselves in the
workplace. And child of God, I would encourage
you to know that though this is talking about spiritual promotion,
it's talking about every bit of promotion, whatever the Lord
provides for his children. We don't have to be arrogant.
We don't have to be self-confident. We don't have to be intimidating
in order for the Lord to provide for us what we need in this world.
He'll promote us as he sees fit and give to us what we need. But the truth is that there's
no greater arrogance than the outwardly humble religious person
who is trusting something that they did for their standing before
God. All the arrogance of this world
does not compare to the arrogance that the religious man has in
thinking that he's done something that's going to obligate God
to save him. He's going to present his decision. He's going to present
his works. He's going to present his wisdom.
He's going to present something that he's achieved. He's going
to show God the works of his hands and say, look there, God,
aren't you proud of me? Aren't you proud of me? That's
what the Lord said. Don't lift up your horn before
me. And we can't, can we? A believer
can't lift up his horn before God. You come into the presence
of God and you have nothing but humility and God gives grace
to the humble and he resists the proud. What does Zachariah? Grace, grace unto it. You see,
grace just continues to grow, doesn't it? He gives grace upon
grace. And with every measure of grace,
we're brought into the very presence of God, whereby he gives us more
grace, more grace. Lord, forgive us for our pride
before men, but you can't be proud before... Well, the same
thing's true. of us that's true of the unbeliever
in terms if we think that we've got something to be proud of
in the presence of God we're not standing in God's presence
if we that way. We're just not. Proverbs chapter 16 says pride
goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Pride goeth before destruction
and a haughty spirit before fall. We've all experienced that in
our lives, haven't we? Where the Lord had to knock us
off our high horses because we were proud and arrogant. The Lord had to, he knows how
to humble his children. Better it is to be a humble spirit
with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud. Now that's what the self-righteous,
the feigned humble, The religious are proud in the presence of
God. You ask them, what's your claim for salvation? And the
first word out of their mouth is going to be what? That's right,
I. I. Well, I got saved, or I accepted
Jesus, or I prayed this prayer. I did this and I did that. And
that's what the Lord's talking about, lifting up their horn
in the presence of God. There's no pride worse than that
pride. That's the pride that the child
of God cannot have. He can't have it. Herod had it. You remember after
he put James to death and he arrested Peter and saw that it
pleased the Jews and he's going to kill Peter now and the Lord
sent an angel to deliver Peter out of the jail and the next
day Herod gets up and gives this long speech. And the people said,
it's a God, it's a God. And Herod did not give praise
to God. He didn't shut the people up.
And the scripture says that he was eaten with worms and died. Now, I don't know what that means,
but I don't want to experience that. We're all going to die
and be eaten with worms, but I don't want to be eaten with
worms before I die. And that's what happened to the pride. Pride
goeth before destruction. Pilate, Pilate was proud in the
presence of God. You see, this is what a believer
can't hate. Can't have pride in the presence of God. Pilate
had it. Not self-righteous. Pilate said,
do you not know that I have the power? to deliver you or the
power to crucify you? What did the Lord Jesus Christ
say? He said, you have no power at all except for that power
which is given to you from heaven. Pilate to this day is still trying
to wash the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ off his hands. Pride goeth before destruction. What did the Jews say? Crucify
him, crucify him. Pilate tried to stop them and
they said, let his blood be on our heads that aren't our children's
heads. And for the last 2000 years, his blood has been on
the Jewish nation. Belshazzar, he took the symbols
of grace from the temple of God and brought them to Babylon. and brought them in to his pagan
religious whatever they were having. And you remember the
handwriting of God on the wall. They had to go get Daniel and
say, what is this? What is this? Well, the first statement is
God's numbered your kingdom and he's finished it. The second
statement is that you've been weighed in the balance and been
found wanting. And the third statement is that
he's divided your kingdom among the Medes and the Persians. And
Belshazzar elevated Daniel. It is God that promotes. God
promoted Daniel that night and God killed Belshazzar that night,
that very night. Pride goeth before destruction. Nebuchadnezzar knew something
of that, didn't he? God had elevated him and
given him the kingdom of the whole world, and Nebuchadnezzar
said, look at this kingdom which I have built. And God, that night,
turned him into a beast. And for the next seven years,
he crawled around the ground like an animal. Pride. Pride
before God precedeth. destruction. Pride in the sense of raising
up your horn in the presence of God. Now, you say, well those
were all unbelievers. Don't forget Peter. Don't forget
Peter. Lord, they may forsake you, but
not me. What did Peter do? He lifted up his horn in the
presence of God, didn't he? and the Lord cut that horn off
real quick, real quick. Just a few hours later, Peter
was dissolved into a pile of tears, a pool of tears, broken over what he had done
in forsaking and denying the Lord. Moses, Moses was proud. He was so fed up with the Israelites. And after they had drank water
from the rock once, the water had quit flowing and the people
began to, Moses said, I'll show you what I can do. I'll show
you what I can do. He's proud. And he struck the
rock with his rod after it had already been struck once. Now
that rock was Christ and that rod was the law. And the rock
was only struck with the law one time. One time, and the law
was fulfilled and satisfied, and the Lord told Moses, said,
you speak to the rock. But Moses proudly wanted everybody
to be intimidated by him, didn't he? He struck the rock with a
rod again. David showed his pride when he
numbered the people. Joab tried to get him not to,
don't do it, don't do it. Now David insisted, I'm going
to number the people. 70,000 men died of a plague the next
three days as a result of that. Pride. Pride precedeth destruction
and fall. What's the Lord say? Look at
verse five. Lift up not your horn on high. Speak not with a stiff neck.
Not before God. For promotion cometh neither
from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is
the judge. He putteth down one and setteth
up another. God's the one who chooses. He
said, you did not choose me, I chose you. He's the one who's
elected us. He's the one that gets all the
praise and all the thanksgiving and all the glory. He's the one
who foreknew us and predestinated us to be conformed into the image
of his son and everyone that he predestinated he called and
everyone that he called he justified and everyone that he justified
he's glorified so that there is an elect remnant according
to the election of grace. The Lord says, I'm the one who
judges. I put down one. I pass over one. I set up another. For in the
hand of the Lord there is a cup and the wine is red and full
of mixture. Now I want you to compare this
verse to Revelation chapter 14. Turn with me to Revelation chapter
14. Look at verse 9, and the third
angel followed them saying with a loud voice, if any man worship
the beast and his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in
his hand. Now what is it to receive the
mark of the beast in your forehead or in your hand? Well, in your
forehead is to believe. on the beast. It's to believe
on the Babylonian God of work salvation and to have it in your
hand is to trust your works, your hands, for your salvation. And the Lord says anybody that
believes this false gospel, anybody that's trusting the works of
their hands for the hope of their salvation, shall be cut off. The same shall drink of the wine
of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into
the cup of his indignation, and he shall be tormented with fire
and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and the presence
of the Lamb." So now the cup of judgment is without mixture. But Asaph sees a cup of red wine
that is full of mixture. You see, what is it to have a
cup full of mixture? Well, it's to have mercy and
truth to meet together. It's to have righteousness and
peace to kiss one another. That's the mixture. The mixture
of this cup that Asaph is rejoicing over, this cup that's red and
full of mixture, is the cup that the Lord Jesus Christ spoke of
when He prayed to the Father and He said, Father, if there
be any way this cup can pass from Me, let it be. Nevertheless,
not My will but Thine be done. And when Peter cut off the ear
of Malchus and the Lord stopped Peter and He said, Peter, shall
I not drink of the cup which the Father hath given Me? And
when James and John wanted to sit on the right and the left
hand of the Lord Jesus Christ, and he said unto them, can you
drink of the cup of which I'm gonna drink of? And can you be
baptized with the baptism which I'm gonna be baptized with? And
they said, we can. And the Lord said, you shall,
you shall. This is the cup of mixture. It's
the cup whereby the grace of God The grace of God is mixed
with the justice of God, where the righteousness of God and
the mercy of God are all met together at the cross of the
Lord Jesus Christ. when he drank of that cup of
our sin in order to satisfy God's holy justice. Mercy and truth
have met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other. That cup that we just read about
in Revelation is without mixture. There's no mercy. There's no
grace. There's no hope. There's no salvation. It's a cup of bitter dregs. It's a cup of God's wrath and
God's justice. Oh, child of God, drink from
that cup now. As often as you do this, do it
in remembrance of me. Drink of my blood. My blood is
the cup of mercy and justice, righteousness and peace, truth
and grace. All these things are mixed together
at the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ so that we don't have
to drink from that bitter cup that is without mixture. No mixture
in that cup. We're going to drink from one
cup or the other. All men will drink from one cup
or the other. When the Lord told James and John, you shall drink
of the cup that I'm going to drink of, when he drank of it,
we drank of it. And faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
is believing that when he died, I died. When he raised, I raised. That I might know him and the
fellowship of his suffering and the power of his resurrection. Union with Christ. For in the hand of the Lord,
there is a cup. And the wine is red and it's
full of mixture. And he pours out the same. That's
where we are right now. He's pouring out. He poured out his soul unto death.
He poured out his blood to put away our sin. And the wine that
he gives us now is a wine that's full of mixture. But now look
at the rest of this verse. The dregs thereof, all the wicked
of the earth shall wring them out and drink them. That's what
we just read in Revelation chapter 14. That's the bitter dregs of
God's wrath that is without mixture, without mixture. Verse nine, but I will declare
forever I will sing praises to the God of Jacob." Oh, Jacob. I love, you know, I love both
things, Jacob and Israel. There's our two natures. There's
our two natures, aren't there? Old man, the supplanter, Jacob,
the deceiver, the proud, the arrogant, the self-righteous,
and then Israel, the prince, who stands in the presence of
God, humbly depending and rejoicing in the Lord Jesus Christ. All
the horns of the wicked also will I cut off. And I'll cut
them off. Men raise their horns before
God in hopes that He's going to somehow be obligated to to
to save them. God says I'm going to cut them
off. They're going to drink of that cup without mixture. But the horns of the righteous
shall be exalted. What is our horn? Well Christ
is our horn. He's our strength. He's our strength. We have no strength outside of
Him. When I was yet without strength When we were yet without strength,
Christ died for the ungodly. For the ungodly. For the ones,
Lord, I have no strength. If having no strength, if having
no ability to save myself is the qualification for being saved,
then I'm qualified. I'm qualified. I have no ability. I cannot stand in the presence
of God and raise my horn and present to him anything that
I think would obligate him to save me. I'm completely dependent
upon the horn of His strength, the Lord Jesus Christ, for all
my salvation. God gives grace to the humble,
and He resists the proud. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we're thankful for Your Word. Lord, we. Can be so. Self promoting and so self righteous
and so. Arrogant. In our. In our relationships with one
another and Lord, we pray that you would make us. Truly humble. Humble first in thy presence. Or that we would find ourselves
without strength. Depending upon the Lord Jesus
Christ as the horn of our salvation rejoicing in him For it's in his name we ask it.
Amen Number 19, let's stand together enough spiral hymnal number 19 Yeah. Sovereign ruler, lord of all,
prostrate at your feet I fall. You are holy, wise, and just. I'm a creature of the dust. All things move at your command,
governed by your mighty hand. Heaven, earth, and hell I see,
Fulfill all your wise decree. Dares a man resist his Lord,
Stand against the sovereign God? I will bow before your throne,
Seeking grace in Christ your Son. ? Through his blood and
righteousness ? Lord, I plead with you for grace ? If you will,
you can, I know ? Grace and mercy to beshow ? Will you, Lord, my
soul forgive ? Grant this sinner grace to live I've no other hope
but this, Jesus' blood and righteousness. Now I'm conquered by your grace. In the dust I hide my face. Give me Christ or else I die. I upon your grace rely. ? Oh for mercy now I plead ?
Grant me Lord the grace I need ? Turn oh turn to me and say
? All your sins are washed away ? In my son your debt is paid
? He for you the ransom made Thank you.