Good evening. Let's open tonight's
service with hymn number 24 from your Spiral Gospel Hymns hymn
book. Hymn number 24, Jehovah Sid Canu, the Lord our righteousness. Let's all stand together. Jehovah, Sid, can you? The Lord, our righteousness. We love to call you by that name,
our Savior Christ Jesus. Jehovah Sidkenu, the God-man
lived for us, bringing eternal righteousness which God imputes
to us. Jehovah Sidkenu, our substitute
who died. Your blood has put away our sin,
and we are justified. Jehovah Sidkenu, Your love has
won our praise. Trusting your blood and righteousness,
we're saved by your free grace. Jehovah Sidqeinu, we stand in
you alone. Our only fitness before God is
in our Lord, His Son. Jehovah Sidqeinu, the Lord our
righteousness Christ Jesus you alone we call the Lord our righteousness
Please be seated Good evening We open your Bibles
with me to Psalm 20 for our call to worship, Psalm 20. A Psalm of David. The Lord hear
thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob
defend thee. Send thee help from the sanctuary
and strengthen thee out of Zion. Remember all thy offerings and
accept thy burnt sacrifice. Selah. Grant thee according to
thine own heart and fulfill all thy counsel. We will rejoice
in thy salvation. And in the name of our God, We
will set up our banners. The Lord fulfill all thy petitions. Now know I that the Lord saveth
his anointed. He will hear him from his holy
heaven with saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in
chariots, some in horses, but we will remember the name of
the Lord, our God. They are brought down and fallen,
but we are risen and stand upright. Save Lord, let the King hear
us when we call. God add his blessings to the
reading of his word. I want us to pray for Cyril. He's having surgery first thing
in the morning at Winter Park Hospital. So let's pray together. Our merciful heavenly Father,
we do rejoice in being able to come into thy presence, knowing
that we have the Lord Jesus Christ as our righteousness, recommending
us and enabling us to stand in thy presence. Lord, we pray that
you'd be pleased in this hour to reveal more of his glory to
our hearts and We ask, Lord, that you would increase our faith
and forgive us, Lord, of our sin and enable us to find our
hope, our comfort, our life, and all our salvation in the
Lord Jesus Christ, thy dear Son and our Savior. Would you pray for our brother,
Cyril, and we ask, Lord, that you would direct the hands of
the physicians and that you would enable doctors and nurses that
minister to him to perform a good task that will result in a healing
for him. We pray that you would comfort
his heart and enable him, Lord, to rest in Christ as he waits
on you. We pray the same for Lenore. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. Let's stand together again and
we'll sing hymn number 352 from the hardback hymnal. Number 352,
Jesus, lover of my soul. Jesus, lover of my soul, let
me to thy bosom fly. While the nearer waters roll,
while the tempest still is high, hide me, O my Savior, hide. till the storm of life is past. Safe into the haven guide, O
receive my soul at last. Other refuge have I none, hangs
my helpless soul on thee. Leave, ah, leave me not alone. Still support and comfort me. All my trust on thee is stayed. All my help from thee I bring. Cover my defenseless head with
the shadow of Thy way. Thou, O Christ, art all I want,
more than all in Thee I find. Raise the fallen, cheer the faint,
heal the sick and lead the blind. Just and holy is thy name. I am all on righteousness. False and full of sin I am, Thou
art full of truth and grace. Plenty as grace with Thee is
found, Grace to cover all my sin. Let the healing streams
abound, make and keep me pure within. Thou of life, the fountain art,
freely let me take of Thee. ? Spring thou up within my heart
? Rise to all eternity Please be seated. I like that hymn. Jesus, lover
of my soul. Will you open your Bibles with
me to Psalm 18. Psalm 18. We're very thankful and encouraged
by those of you visiting with us tonight. I want to say to
you that we've been dealing with a Psalm each Wednesday night,
starting with Psalm 1 a few weeks ago and going through the Psalms. And the more I study these Psalms,
the more convinced I am that they are all, all about Christ. This book's not about David.
It's about the Lord Jesus Christ. And David is a type of Christ. And when David prays and when
David speaks, he's speaking prophetically as the Lord Jesus Christ would
speak. Jeff, that's a little bit loud, I think, if you could
turn it down just a hair. Thank you. Notice in verse 50
of Psalm 18, grant deliverance, I'm sorry, great deliverance
giveth he to his king and showeth mercy to his anointed, to David. and to his seed forevermore. I've titled this message Great
Deliverance. I guess you could say it's a little bit of a continuation
of Sunday morning when we were talking about being delivered
from the deluded ideas that we come into this world with. But
here the Lord speaks of David being a deliverer. And we know
who the deliverer is. Turn with me to Romans chapter
11. Romans chapter 11. Look at verse 26. And so now Romans chapter 11,
the Lord's talking about how he's, reaching outside of Israel to
the Gentiles, and that the gospel is for the Gentiles as much as
it is for the Jews. It's for those who are under
the law as the Jews, and it's for those who are without the
law, the Gentiles. And so when he says, so all Israel
shall be saved, that's all God's elect, all God's elect, whether
they be Jew or Gentile. all that God chose in the covenant
of grace before the world ever began will be saved. As it is
written, there shall come out of Zion the deliverer and shall
turn away ungodliness from Jacob for this is my covenant unto
them when I shall take away their sins. So the first question I
wanna ask in reference to our text in Psalm 18, is what is
it exactly that we're delivered from? And we're delivered from
sin. We're delivered from the penalty
of sin. The wrath of God, the judgment of the law, death, all
has been conquered by our deliverer. We're delivered from the power
of sin. There was a time when sin had
us captive and we were unable to believe, unable to see, unable
to trust, rely upon the Lord Jesus Christ, unable to have
faith. And the Lord Jesus Christ came as the deliverer to put
away that inability and to give to his people faith in him. And we're delivered from the
power of sin, from the very presence of sin. We long for that day. when sin will no longer have
any influence whatsoever on us, but sin has been put away. And
because of the deliverance of the Lord Jesus Christ, we have
the hope of knowing that one day we will be without sin. And so this Psalm is all about
what the Lord Jesus Christ did in delivering himself and his
people. Let's go back now to our text
and look at verse 50 again. This is a great deliverance. In another place, the Lord Jesus
Christ said, I restored that which I took not away. So everything
that we lost in our father Adam was restored by our deliverer. Fellowship with God, union with
Christ, acceptance before a holy God, the putting away of our
sin, the satisfying of the law of God, all of that was accomplished
through the deliverance of the Lord Jesus Christ. And so he
says, great deliverance. Verse 50, great deliverance giveth
he to his King and showeth mercy to his anointed." The Lord Jesus
Christ being the anointed one, being the Messiah, the Christ,
the one who came in the full anointing of the Spirit of God
in order to accomplish the deliverance of his bride. Notice in the last
part of this, not only to David, but to his seed. Now, who is the seed of David?
Well, his bride is. God saw the travail of his soul
and was satisfied and God saw his seed. In Isaiah chapter 53,
the church of the Lord Jesus Christ, his bride is the seed. Now, if David represents the
Lord Jesus Christ, then we have to conclude that his wives represent
the church. And the three wives that I was
thinking about that are mentioned at length in scripture, David
had several other wives that are only mentioned once or twice
in passing, but the three wives that are mentioned at length,
the first one you remember is Michael. And Michael was the
daughter of Saul. And when David came back with
a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, Saul rewarded him with his daughter. And Saul said, I'll give to him
Michael for she will be a snare to him. She will be a snare to
him. Now, Michael, you remember then
after David was exiled, Saul gave Michael to another man. And years later, David comes
back and God gives him the throne of Israel and so David says,
I want Michael back. Well, she came back, but she
came back a different person. She came back resentful. She
showed some affection for David at the beginning when Saul first
gave her to him. She even warned David when Saul
threatened to kill David. She went to David and said, you
need to get out now. If you stay until tomorrow, you're
going to die. And so she lowered him out of
the window and David escaped. But when David comes back and
Michael is brought back to be David's wife, That's when David
comes back from the victory of war and he has the Ark of the
Covenant and he's dancing before the Lord. And the scripture says
that Michael despised him in her heart and she never bore him any children. Now, Michael represents the tares
that are within the church. You remember the servant came
to the master and he said, he said, someone has cast tares
out into the field. And the master said, leave them
alone. Don't try to take them up. If
you try to take up the tares, all you're going to do is mess
up the wheat. Leave it. At the harvest, we'll separate
the tares from the wheat and the weed will be garnered into
the barn and the tares will be cast into the fire. So in the
church, in every generation and in every church, there are tares
that the enemy has planted. And Michael, as the wife of David
who despised him in her heart, when he came back dancing and
rejoicing because of the victory that God had given him, Now,
what is it that the Tares resent and despise the Lord Jesus Christ
for? They despise him for the victory
that he has accomplished in saving his people. in satisfying the
demands of God's holy law, in putting away the sins of his
people once and for all. The Tares despised that. Why?
Because it robs them of their glory. They want to have something
to say about their salvation. Michael despised David in her
heart. The second of David's wives that
we read of in the scripture is Bathsheba. Now, what David did
with Bathsheba and Uriah is indefensible. It was evil. It was, there's no justification
for what David did at all. But this book's not about David.
In the same way, before we get to this point, in the same way
we could look at Adam and say that Adam, What Adam did was
wrong. It was evil. It caused the whole
human race to fall as a result of his disobedience. But Eve
was deceived. And Eve being a type of the church
and Adam being a type of Christ, Adam went into that sin with
his eyes wide open. He wasn't deceived at all. He
knew exactly what he was doing. And when the Lord Jesus Christ,
had Adam not eaten of the fruit, Eve would have been separated
from God for all eternity with no hope of redemption. And we
see in Adam's sin a type of the Lord Jesus Christ saving his
bride, delivering his bride, going into the sin with his eyes
wide open. He knew exactly what he was doing
when he went to the cross. When he prayed to the Father,
Father, if there be any way this cup can pass from me, nevertheless
not my will but Thy will. He knew exactly what he was going
to be drinking of. The bitter dregs of his bride's
sin and the punishment that he was going to suffer was the only
way that his bride was going to be delivered. Now in the same
way, in the same way, what David did to Uriah is indefensible. It's wicked. There's no justification
whatsoever for it. But if in the church of the Lord
Jesus Christ, There are tares. There are also believers that
are under the law or that were saved from under the law. We
just read that in Romans chapter 11 that some Jews which represent
all of those who God delivers out from under the law and the
Gentiles which represents all the irreligious that God brings
into the fellowship of his church that have no clue of the law.
A young man asked me one time, and this is strange for my generation
to think of, but 25 years old and came to me after a service
and he said, he said, what is the 10 commandments? What is,
I've never heard of them before in all my life. I've never heard
of the 10 commandments. And, you know, the Lord was pleased
to save him. And, but you know, There are
people who God saves out of a completely irreligious background. And then
there are those whom the Lord brings to himself out of a religious
legalistic background, the Jews and the Gentiles, Jews and the
Gentiles. And Bathsheba, Bathsheba represents
that believer who's brought to Christ from under the law. And
Uriah was a noble man. Uriah was, you remember when
David called Uriah back from the battlefield and David told
Uriah to go back down to his house and got him drunk one night
in hopes that he would go sleep with his wife and that David
would be delivered from the sin that he had committed. But Uriah
wouldn't do it. He said, no. He said, the ark
is in the field. He said, the men are in the field.
Joab's in the field. He said, I can't go and be home
with my wife. I've got to, you know, I've got
to sacrifice for them. And David sent Uriah's death sentence
by the hand of Uriah, didn't he? And Uriah died in battle. And as a result of that, Bathsheba,
Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon. Bathsheba's
name means daughter of the covenant. Bath means daughter and Sheba
means covenant. So Bathsheba is the daughter
of the covenant and Uriah had to die in order for Bathsheba
to become David's wife, didn't she? And in that sense, Uriah,
David delivered Bathsheba as a type of those who are brought
to Christ out from underneath the law. And then who's the third
wife that's mentioned of David? You know who it is, Abigail.
Remember David and his men were out in the field and Nabal, whose
name means fool. The scripture says he was a churlish
man. He was hard. He was difficult
to deal with. And David asked him kindly, he
said, you know, we protected your shepherds and we need some
supplies in order to provide for the men and Nabal wouldn't
do it. And so David in wrath went to
wipe out Nabal and his whole family and Abigail stops him. And Abigail pleads with him.
And as it turned out, Nabal has a, a drunken party that night
and God strikes him with a stroke and Nabal dies I think ten days
later after being given a stroke and Abigail. David sins for Abigail. You know the difference between
Michael and Abigail and Bathsheba is that David didn't pick Michael. Saul put Michael on to David
and he said she's going to be a stumbling block for him, but
David picked Bathsheba and David picked Abigail after Nabal died
David sent for Abigail and Abigail came and she said oh that I could
just wash the feet of my master's servants. She didn't ask to wash
the master's feet she said if I could just wash the feet of
my master's servants I'd be satisfied. And Abigail's a picture of those
believers that are brought out of the Gentile world, they have
no law, there's no... And so here's the three wives
of David, and it really makes up the whole church, doesn't
it? You think about the Tares, you think about those who were
the Jews who came out from under the law, and those who had no
law, the Gentiles. David delivered them all, didn't
he? You remember the story when David and his men were in a battle
and they came back and found the city that they left the wives
in was up in smoke. And David's men were about to
kill David. And David found a young man who
knew where they had taken him and they went and they They got
all of them back. And the end of that story, the
end of that story is beautiful. The end of the story is, and
David recovered all. He recovered every one of them.
All of his wives, all their children, not one was lost. Now that's
the deliverance. And that's the picture of David. David, this book's not about
David. David's not about David. David's about Christ. And his
wives are about the church. And here the Lord says, I have
come to bring a great deliverance to my anointed David and to his
seed. And I'm gonna bring them out.
I'm going to deliver every one of them. Now, go back with me to the beginning
of Psalm 18. Because that's who this deliverance
is for. Who did the delivering? The Lord
Jesus Christ. He is the deliverer of all Israel,
Gentiles and Jews. And the seed of David is his
church. And that's who he came to deliver.
Now I need to be delivered, don't you? Delivered from sin, delivered
from the penalty of it, delivered from the power of it, delivered
from the very presence of it. And that's what Christ came to
do. And so here's a prophetic promise about the Lord Jesus
Christ who came to deliver his wife, a faithful husband. Now, the first question that
I want to ask is what is the evidence of our deliverance? What is the evidence of it? A lot of people would look at
their lives and try to figure out if they're getting any better
or they're not doing some things they used to do or they're doing
some other things they didn't used to do. And they take hope
and comfort in those things in order to get evidence of their
salvation. But that's not evidence of salvation. People change their lives and
turn over a new leaf and reform their behavior all the time.
Religion will do that for you. A 12-step program will do that
for you. The only true evidence of salvation
is faith. That's what the scripture says.
Faith is the evidence of things hoped for. It's the substance of those things
that are not seen. So we don't look to what we're
doing or not doing or haven't done or we're gonna do. Do I
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ? Is all the hope of my salvation
in Him? Is He all my righteousness before
God? Or am I looking to an experience?
Am I looking to a decision that I made or a work that I performed? And that's where this psalm starts
out. Notice in verse 1, I will love Thee, O Lord, my strength. I want you to notice the I wills
in these verses because this can only be seen as the Lord
Jesus Christ saying, Lord, I'm gonna love you. I'm gonna love
you with all my heart and all my mind and all my soul. And
the Lord Jesus Christ, the only one that ever did it, loved God
with everything he had all the time. And so he was the one with
perfect faith, wasn't he? And yet we do love him. We do
love him. We love him because he first
loved us. We don't look to the depth of our love or the commitment
of our love or the evidence of our love, but God puts in our
hearts, Lord, we do love you. We desire to know you better.
The Lord is my rock. Here's faith. The Lord is my
rock. And he is my fortress and my
deliverer. My God, my strength in whom I
will trust, my buckler and the horn of my salvation and my high
tower. He's all I've got. He's all I've
got. You remember David's the one
who said, although it be not so with my house. And these words
you can see as being spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord
Jesus Christ praying to the father Father, my house is not like
it's going to be. It's not like it ought to be.
But the hope of my salvation is that you've made an everlasting
covenant with me. And that covenant is ordered
in all things, and it's sure. Everything necessary for ratifying
the covenant, the shed blood of the Lord Jesus Christ to satisfy
God's justice, the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ to present
before God That's what God required for the covenant to be fulfilled.
And this covenant is ordered in all things insure. And David
said, again, speaking for Christ, this is all my salvation. And this is all my desire, though
we make it not to grow. We don't look to our lives and
progressive sanctification is such a, it's contrary to the
gospel. He is all my salvation. He's
the horn of my salvation. Now the horn in the Bible, if
you're around a wild animals got horns, the horns are the
things you want to stay away from. Those are the weapons.
And the horn in the scripture is a picture of strength. And
so The Lord said, he's the, David said, he's the horn of my salvation. He's the strength of my salvation.
And he's my high tower. I will call upon the Lord who
is worthy to be praised. So shall I be saved from my enemies. The sorrows of death come past
me and the floods of ungodly man made me afraid. The sorrows
of hell come past me about and the snares of death prevented
me in my distress. I called upon the Lord. and I
cried unto my God. He heard my voice out of the
temple and my cry came before him even to his ears." You know
there's no salvation apart from calling on the name of the Lord.
Now, the self-righteous will make that call the cause of their
salvation. The self-righteous will make
their faith the cause of their salvation. No. Calling upon the name of the
Lord is the result of salvation. Faith is the result of salvation.
But there's no salvation apart from it. Turn to me to Romans
chapter 10. What I'm saying here is that
The evidence of salvation is faith, is faith. David said in Psalm 116, I believed,
therefore I have spoken. I believed, therefore I have
spoken. And Paul quotes that verse in
second Corinthians chapter four. He said, I believed, therefore
I have spoken. You see, faith that's in the
heart expresses itself in words, doesn't it? Look what the scripture
says in Romans chapter 10 verse 6,
but the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise,
say not in thine heart who shall ascend into heaven, that is to
bring Christ down from above. Perish the thought that you can
do something to bring the Lord Jesus Christ down to you, that
you can obligate Him to come to you. So he said, don't even
think that way. Or who shall descend down into
the deep that is to bring Christ up from the dead? What can I
do to make the death of Christ work for me? That's not faith. That's religion. That's works
religion. That's man-made free will works
religion, it's not faith. But what sayeth it? The word
is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thine heart, that is the
word of faith which we preach. You say, well, what do I need
to say? When the gospel is preached,
the word of faith is amen. Amen. That's what I believe. That's who I believe. He's the
hope of all my salvation, that if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth, the Lord Jesus Christ, and believe in thine heart that
God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with
the heart man believeth under righteousness, and with the mouth
confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, whosoever
believeth in him shall not be ashamed, for there is no difference
between the Jew and the Greek. No difference, Bathsheba and
Abigail. For the same Lord over all is
rich unto all that call upon him for whosoever shall call
upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Faith always cries
out. Faith always calls. Faith always says, I believe
that Jesus Christ is the son of God. Oh, I do believe. He is all my hope and all my
salvation. I've got no place else to go.
When God shuts you up to Christ, you've got Christ alone for all
your salvation. That's the evidence of your salvation. How do I know if I've been delivered?
If my David has delivered me, how do I know that I'm part of
the body of, that I'm part of the bride of Christ and that
I'm not a Michael? I'm not a tear. Michael despised
David in her heart. When he rejoiced in the victory
of his work, she despised him. Bathsheba, she was the daughter
of the covenant, wasn't she? The mother of Solomon. Go back
with me to Psalm 18. Oh, here's faith. We believe,
therefore, We speak. Verse six, in my distress, I
called upon the Lord and called upon my God. He heard my voice
out of his temple and my cry came before him, even unto his
ears. Now this is this deliverance, verse 50 of this Psalm. This
deliverance is for David and his seed. So is this David, is
this Christ praying on the cross to the father? Yes, yes. Father, forgive them for they
know not what they do. And to thy hands, I commend my
spirit. This is Christ praying to the
father in the garden, praying to the father on the cross. And
it is the prayer that God puts into the hearts of everyone,
his children, when they call upon the name of the Lord. Then
the earth shook and trembled and the foundations also of the
hills moved and were shaken because he was wroth. What is the evidence
of salvation? The cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. When the Lord Jesus Christ hung
on Calvary's cross from 12 noon to three o'clock in the afternoon,
the Bible says that the sky was black. It was darker than any night
dark had ever been. The Roman soldier said, surely this
is the Son of God. God demonstrated throughout all
the world that that eternal union that God the Father had had with
His Son for all eternity was severed. And when the Lord Jesus
Christ cried out, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? There's the picture. There's
the blackness. There's the darkness, there's
the wrath and the judgment of God for the sins of his bride
that we might be delivered. Look at verse 8, there went up
a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured,
coals were kindled by it. What did Isaiah say? Woe is me
for I am undone. I'm a man of unclean lips and
I live among a people of unclean lips. My eyes have seen the king
and I'm going to die. And the Lord took a coal from
off the altar and touched his lips. That fiery coal, I mean,
it's just painful to think about that, isn't it? To have a hot
red coal taken off the altar and put on your lips. But there
it is. There's the fiery wrath of God's
justice falling from heaven on the Lord Jesus Christ. And just
like Elijah's sacrifice that he made on Mount Carmel, when
the fire fell, the fire consumed the sacrifice and the sacrifice
quenched the fire, didn't it? It quenched the fire. And so
here, David's writing about the cross and here's the evidence
of salvation. Here's the evidence of deliverance.
I'm looking not to my experience, I'm looking not to my feelings. Every child of God knows there's
times when they don't feel saved. But you know what? Before the
Lord saved you, you didn't feel lost, did you? Feelings are not the evidence
of salvation. We're not looking to our feelings.
We're looking through the eyes of faith to the work that the
Lord Jesus Christ accomplished on Calvary's cross. And that's
the only hope of our deliverance. He bowed the heavens also, verse
9, and came down and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub and
it did fly. Yea, he did fly upon the wings
of the wind. And he made darkness his secret
place. His pavilion round about him
was dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. Oh, there was a
mystery that took place in those hours on Calvary's cross that
we can't enter into. It's a secret place. A secret
place. When God was doing business with
God, We can't even begin to imagine it. We're so accustomed to having
periods of time where we're out of fellowship with God. We can
be out of fellowship with God and be happy. We can be enjoying
ourselves and not even be thinking about God. When the Lord Jesus Christ was
forsaken of the father, There's a deep, dark mystery that's taking
place here that you and I are not capable of entering into,
but it's what was necessary in order for our sins to be put
away. In order for the deliverer to do his work, he had to be
cut off from his father. At the brightness, verse 12,
that was before him, His thick clouds passed, hail storms and
coals of fire. The Lord also thundered in the
heavens and the highest, gave his voice, hail stones and coals
of fire. Yea, he sent out his arrows and
scattered them. And he shot out lightnings and
discomforted them. All of his friends forsook him.
All the disciples fled, trying to save their own skin. Then, then the channels of waters
were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered
at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. All that which is made shall
be shaken. You know, we looked at that word
exist someday, to stand out of. The reason why the natural man
can't have any understanding of God is because he thinks everything
has to be physical. God doesn't stand out of anything. He stands within himself. That's
what I am means. When the Lord gave us his name,
Jehovah, We just sang that hymn, Jehovah said, can you, when he
gave us his name at the burning bush with to Moses, he said,
tell him I am hath sent thee. I am the self existent one. I'm not created. I'm not derived
or dependent or contingent on anything. You are, but I'm not. I'm not. And when the Lord reveals
himself We see him for who he is and we realize that he's the
only one that really exists. He's the only one that's pure
existence. Everything else, all the foundations
of the earth are discovered at thy rebuke. Lord, my hope is
not in anything that's made. My hope is in that which is not
made. Look at verse 16, he sent from above, he took me, he drew
me out of many waters. What a picture of the resurrection.
Here's the Lord Jesus Christ saying, the father was pleased
with me and he drew me out. He delivered me from my strong
enemy and from them which hated me for they were too strong for
me. Now here's a mystery. But the
Lord Jesus Christ was dependent upon His Father in order for
Him to be able to defeat Satan and accomplish the deliverance
of His people. He had to depend upon the Father
in His humanity. He had to depend upon the Father
to raise Him from the dead. They prevented me in the day
of my calamity, but the Lord was my stay. The Lord was my
stay. The Lord Jesus Christ relied
upon his father to his dying breath. He brought me forth also
into a large place. He delivered me. Why? Because
he delighted in me. This is my beloved son. In him,
I'm well pleased. God the father delights in his
son. And he delights in all those
that the Lord Jesus Christ delivered. All of his wives, every one of
them. Now look at these next verses.
Robert, you preach from these verses a few months ago. The
Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness, according to
the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me for I have
kept the ways of the Lord and I have not wickedly departed
from my God. Let me show you a passage of
scripture. Turn back with me to 1 Kings chapter 15. David can't speak honestly about
himself in those terms. I have... He's rewarded me according to
my righteousness? You want God to reward you according
to your righteousness? Look at 1 Kings chapter 15 verse
5 and this brings in This brings in Uriah again. Verse 5, because
David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord and turned
not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days
of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. Almost sounds like it's the only
sin David ever committed, isn't it? But it's not about David. It's not about David. It's about
Christ. When did Christ, when did Christ
become sin? When he bore the penalty of Uriah
the Hittite in order to deliver his Bathsheba from out from under
the law. He suffered the full penalty
of the law of God Men go about trying to establish their own
righteousness. Why? Because they are ignorant of
the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the
law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. You see, Uriah
was that husband who was very legalistic, wasn't he? Now you
know I'm not justifying what David did. This is a type, this
is a picture of what Christ did. The only time that he was guilty
was when he bore the sins of his people. to satisfy the demands
of God's holy justice on Calvary's cross. Otherwise, what's said
there about David is true of Christ. And what's said here
in our text, go back with me to Psalm 18. What's said here
in our text about David is speaking of Christ. Look at verse 22.
for all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his
statutes from me. I was also upright before him,
and I kept myself from mine iniquity." David can't be talking about
himself. David was a prophet. He's pointing
to Christ. And here's the cause of our deliverance. Faith is not the cause of our
deliverance, it's the evidence of it. The righteousness of the Lord
Jesus Christ and the accomplished work of redemption on Calvary's
cross is what's described here in Psalm 18. That's the cause
of our salvation. And he's the one in whom we put
all our faith. that we might be delivered, delivered. Let's read verse 50 one more
time before we close. Gray deliverance. God has given to his King and
showed mercy to his anointed, to David and to his seed. forevermore. This wasn't a trial thing, this
wasn't a temporary thing. No, this is forevermore. Eternal
life. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father,
we're thankful for the revelation that You've given us in Your
Word of Thy dear Son and oh how we pray that Your Holy Spirit
now would cause us to rest all the hope of our salvation on our David, the sweet psalmist
of Israel, the King of Kings, Lord of Lords, thy dear son and
our savior, the deliverer of all of Israel, the Lord Jesus
Christ, for it's in his name we pray, amen. 291, let's stand together, number
291. Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah,
pilgrim through this barren land. I am weak, but Thou art mighty. Hold me with Thy powerful hand. Bread of heaven, bread of heaven,
feed me till I want no more. Feed me till I want no more. Open now the crystal fountain,
whence the healing stream doth flow. Let the fire and the pillar
Lead me all my journey through Strong Deliverer, Strong Deliverer
Be Thou still my strength and shield Be Thou still my strength
and shield ? When I tread the verge of Jordan ? ? Bid my anxious
fears subside ? ? Bear me through the swelling current ? ? Land
me safe on Canaan's side ? ? Songs of praises, songs of praises
? I will ever give to thee. I will ever give to thee. Yeah.