Let's open tonight's service
with hymn number 62 in your hardback timbrel, number 62, crown him
with many crowns. Let's all stand together. ? Crown Him with many crowns ?
The Lamb upon His throne ? Hark how the heavenly anthem drowns
? All music but its own ? Awake my soul and sing of Him who died
for thee, and hail Him as thy matchless King through all eternity. ? Crown him the Lord of love ?
Behold his hands and side ? Rich wounds yet visible above ? In
beauty glorified ? No angel in the sky Can fully bear that sight
But downward bends his wandering eye At mysteries so bright ?
Crown Him the Lord of life ? ? Who triumphed o'er the grave ? ?
Who rose victorious to the strife ? ? For those He came to save
? ? His glories now we sing ? Who died and rose on high, Who died
eternal life to bring, And lives that death may die. Crown Him the Lord of Heaven,
One with the Father known, One with the Spirit through Him given,
From yonder glorious throne. To thee be endless praise, for
thou for us hast died. Be thou, O Lord, through endless
days adored and magnified. Please be seated. Good evening. Will you turn with
me in your Bibles to Psalm 11, please. Psalm 11. I look forward to preaching from
this Psalm next Wednesday night. In the Lord put I my trust. I'll say you to my soul, flee
as a bird to the mountain. For lo, the wicked bend their
bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string, that they may
privately shoot at the upright in heart. If the foundations
be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Abraham looked for a city
which hath foundations, whose builder and maker was God. The
gospel's destroyed, we've got no place else to go. The Lord is in his holy temple. The Lord's throne is in heaven.
His eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men. The Lord trieth the righteous,
but the wicked and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth. Upon the wicked he shall rain
snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest. This shall
be the portion of their cup. But the righteous Lord, for the
righteous Lord, I'm sorry, loveth righteousness. His countenance
doth uphold the upright. like to ask you to pray with
me for Jennifer. She's going to be having that
procedure tomorrow. She meets with a doctor at 10
o'clock in the morning. I think they've planned the surgery
for 11. And then we'll be leaving Friday
to go to Lexington for the conference up there. And Robert and Michael
will be bringing messages to you here. So let's pray together. Our merciful Heavenly Father,
we're thankful that no other foundation can be laid than the
one that has been laid. And that we're to take heed on
how we build on that foundation. Lord, we pray that the building
that's done tonight would be as true and faithful as is the
foundation. We pray that you would give us
the ability to speak faithfully and truthfully about the Lord
Jesus Christ, who not only is the foundation, but who is the
building itself. We pray, Lord, that you would
give to our souls hope and safety in him and that you would give
to us the faith to flee to him and rest in him. Father, we pray for the doctors
tomorrow. We thank you for the way that
you've directed them in the past, and we ask, Lord, for your mercy,
for your guidance, and for your help as they perform this procedure
on Jennifer. We pray for your hand of strength
and healing to be upon her. We ask, Lord, for the meeting
in Lexington, that you would give each of those men preaching
the ability to speak with with clarity and with conviction that
Christ will be lifted up. Pray for Michael and for Robert
and ask Lord that you would bless them as they finish their preparations
for Sunday and that you would be pleased to manifest your glory
and your grace here among your people. We ask it in Christ's
name. Amen. Number 23 in the Spiral Gospel
Hymns hymnbook. Let's all stand once again. Number
23. Pass me not, O gracious Father,
sinful, wretched though I be. Though you might in truth condemn
me, let your mercy fall on me. Love of God so everlasting, Blood
of Christ so rich and free, Grace of God so strong and saving,
Magnify them all in me. Pass me not, O blessed Savior,
let me hear your gracious call. I'm a guilty, helpless sinner,
Savior, at your feet I fall. Love of God so everlasting, Blood
of Christ so rich and free, Grace of God so strong and saving,
Magnify them all in me. Pass me not, O mighty Spirit. You can cause the dead to live. Speak the word of saving power. Give me faith and make me live. ? Love of God so everlasting
? Blood of Christ so rich and free ? Grace of God so strong
and saving ? Magnify them all in me ? Pass me not a poor lost
sinner ? If you will Reach down with your hand of
mercy, saving others, Lord, save me. Love of God so everlasting,
blood of Christ so rich and free. Grace of God so strong and saving,
magnify them all in me. Please be seated. Will you turn with me in your
Bibles to Psalm 9, please. Psalm 9. The title of this message is,
How Can I Know God. How can I know God? And the answer
to that question is given to us in verse 16. The Lord is known. By the judgment. Which he executed. Now it's vitally important that
I know God. The Lord Jesus Christ himself
said in John chapter 17 verse 3 and this is life eternal. that they might know Thee, the
only true God in Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent." There's
no salvation apart from knowing God, having an understanding,
a faith in Him, a trust in Him. And here the Lord tells us the
means by which we know Him. It's His judgments which He executes. And the word judgment here is
a verdict. We have judges, and we know we
make judgments about our judges, if you will, based on their judgments,
don't we? We might have a fair judge, an
unfair judge, a liberal judge, a conservative judge. We have
judges that offer their opinions, and then their opinions have
to be weighed with the opinions of other judges before judgments
can be made. Not so with the Lord. All of
his judgments are executed. He doesn't consult with anybody.
He doesn't have an opinion about anything. We could even say that
a judgment is a decision and yet the word decision has as
its understanding a choice to be made. You know, God never
makes a choice. He doesn't have to. He acts according
to his nature and everything he does is right. He doesn't
have to weigh the consequences of different opinions and different
positions. He just acts. Everything he does
is the execution of his judgments. And as we As we find out what
those judgments are, and as we see how God has executed those
judgments, we know something of Him. We know something of
Him. How can we know God? The Lord
is known by the judgment which He executeth. Lord, I want to
know something about the judgments of God and what His his ordained
purposes, that's his judgments, what his decrees are. Now, the
Lord also tells us in Romans chapter 11 that his judgments
are unsearchable and his ways are past finding out. So the full truth of the judgments
of God which is who He is, are beyond our ability to comprehend. When we talk about knowing God,
we're not talking about having a full understanding of Him. Our God is unsearchable. His
judgments are past finding out. Paul said in Romans, in 1 Corinthians
chapter 13, we know in part. And then, We will know even as
we are now. We look through a glass dimly
now, but then we'll see him face to face and be made like him. In that day we'll know the fullness
of his judgments right now. We see as he's pleased to reveal
himself in the judgments that he's given us in his word. The Lord is known by the judgment
which He executes. Now this psalm is full of judgments.
The Lord tells us in Revelation chapter 19 verse 2, true and
righteous are thy judgments. All the decrees of God, all the
judgments of God, all the decisions, if you will, of God are true
and righteous. And in Revelation chapter 15
verse 4, who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou art holy. All nations shall come and worship
before thee, for thy judgments are made manifest. So the Lord says that his judgments
are made manifest. They're made known. How are they
made known? They're made known in his word
by his spirit to the hearts of his people through faith. And
so the Lord is known by his judgments. Now, what does God judge? What does he... Look at the rest
of this verse. The wicked is snared in the work
of his own hands. By your words, you will be justified,
and by your words, you'll be condemned. The wicked believes
that somehow what he's producing with the works of his hands are
gonna make him acceptable to God, and he's going to be snared
by the very things that he's hoping and trusting in for the
hope of his salvation. That's God's judgment. Now look
at the next word in this verse. It's unusual to have a word in
our English Bible in the Hebrew, but here it is, hegeon. This word's only used two other
places in the scriptures. One's in Revelation chapter,
I mean, I'm sorry, Psalm 19, verse 14, and it's translated
meditation. And the second place it's used
is in Psalm 92, and it's translated a solemn sound. And you know
the word selah is rest. That's what that word means.
And so the significance of this verse is the Lord God is known
by the judgments which he executed. Meditate on this and rest. Think about this. This is your
hope. This is your life. This is your
salvation. Apart from this, there is no
salvation. Now, what does God require? What are His judgments
in terms of His requirements? And we've seen over and over
that the Psalms, when David speaks, he's speaking prophetically for
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the son of David. He's the
type of Christ. And the first and foremost way
of understanding all the Psalms is to see them as the words of
the Lord Jesus Christ. What does David say in verse
1? I will praise Thee, O Lord, with my whole heart." With my
whole heart. And Luke chapter 10, a certain
lawyer, tempting the Lord, came to the Lord and said, Master,
what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And the Lord asked him,
what does the law say? And this lawyer knew the law
and he said, the law says that you shall love the Lord your
God with all of your heart and all of your mind and all of your
soul and love your neighbor as yourself. That's a summary of
the whole of the 10 commandments. And the Lord said, you have spoken
rightly. Do this and you shall live. Do this, love God with all of
your heart, all of your mind and all of your soul and you
shall live. Now the child of God with a new
spirit and a new heart does love Christ. We love him because he's
first loved us. We hang all the hopes of our
salvation on him. We're brought by his spirit to
seek him every day. We rest in him. But every child
of God knows that they've never done anything with their whole
heart and with all their mind and with all their soul. And
yet that's what God requires. That's what the law says you
must do. The Lord Jesus himself said to that lawyer, you do that
and you'll live. Now, who is it that God judged
faithful to keep the law? The son of David. And if we're
found in Christ, that's what that word, that's what that word
Selah means, rest. The wicked are gonna be caught
in the snares of their own hand, but those who know Him, those
who know Him, they're going to rest in the finished work of
the Lord Jesus Christ. They're gonna rest in Him. They're
gonna rest in Him as the one who satisfied all the demands
of God's law. You and I have never been able
to have a truly holy thought, not one single time. The Lord
Jesus Christ never had anything but truly holy thoughts all the
time. He loved God with all of his
heart and all of his mind and all of his soul all of the time. And God looked at him and said,
that's my beloved. And him, I'm well pleased. I'm
well pleased. I judge him faithful to have
kept the law. And I'm satisfied with him. Hear
ye him. Follow after him. Look to him. Look to him. Because my judgments
are not opinions. My judgments are decrees. And
you will know the Lord your God by the judgments which I have
executed the Lord Jesus Christ executed faithfully in his life
everything that God required of us so that we can say Lord
whatever look to the Lord Jesus Christ for everything that you
require don't look to me for anything These are His judgments, which
He executed. I will praise Thee, O Lord, with
my whole heart. I will show forth all Thy marvelous
works. Now we see in part, we speak
in part. Paul said, when I was a child,
I thought as a child, and that's where we are right now. We just
see glimpses of His marvelous works. the marvelous work of
redemption. We believe that he was successful
in executing the judgments of God in redeeming those whom he
came to save. And we know him by his faithful
execution of his redemptive work. He says, I will show forth all
thy marvelous works." Everything we know about the marvelous work
of God, we find it in the Lord Jesus Christ. Beginning with
the covenant of grace, that was His judgment which He executed
when the Lord Jesus Christ struck hands with the Father as the
charity of His church. They executed their judgment
to save a people. God executed his judgment to
choose whomsoever he wills. Before the foundation of the
world, God executed his judgment to place those whom God chose
in Christ as the lamb slain before the foundation of the world.
Now that's the execution of God's judgment. This is not an opinion. This is a one-judge court. And He reigns sovereign, and
when He drops the gavel, whatever He says stands, and God's people
say what? Amen. Amen. Lord, I'm not here
to question you. I'm not here to call you into
doubt. Just to say, Lord, I know you
by the execution of your judgments. And the execution of your judgment
is that the Lord Jesus Christ loved you with all of his heart
and he showed forth all thy marvelous works. All the marvelous works
of redemption, all the marvelous works of election are shown forth
in the Lord Jesus Christ. All the marvelous works of adoption
that God would make us to be his people through faith. He
came into his own and his own received him not, but as many
as received him. How do we receive him? Receive
him by faith, by faith. or by grace through faith. To
them, to them, God made the children of God. What a marvelous work. We were talking Sunday about
adoption and what an amazing thing adoption is. For Jerry
and Mary Ann to travel to China twice and go into an orphanage
and pick out Rachel and Rebecca and bring them home. Those little girls didn't have
anything to do with that. Not a single thing that they have
to do with that. That was all Jerry and Mary Ann's
decision, wasn't it? And what a marvelous work when
God is pleased to come into a world of an orphanage People who have no parent, they
have no relationship with God, they're without God, they're
strangers to the covenants of grace, and that the Lord would
be pleased to pick out certain individuals and adopt them. And
the Lord Jesus Christ said, I'll show forth all thy marvelous
works. I'll show forth what your law
really looks like. Purpose of the law of God is
to make sin utterly sinful, and the way it does that is it demonstrates
the perfection of God, doesn't it? That's the purpose. The law was never given as a
rule for Christian living. The law was given in order to
show the excellence of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what it
was given for. And when we look at the law,
we come to some understanding of how far we fall short of His
glory. Scripture says the law was given
in order to make sin utterly sinful. I will show forth thy marvelous
works, this is how we know God, by the judgments which He executed. I will be glad and rejoice in
thee. Now God requires, God's judgment
is that you rejoice in the Lord always. And again, I say rejoice,
let your gentleness be known unto all men, for the Lord is
at hand." How many times do we fall short of that? And yet the
Lord Jesus Christ was glad. The scripture says that He was
anointed with the oil of gladness above His fellows. He had the
full anointing of the Spirit of God. Never, never had a hint
of of depression or uncontrolled anger or impatience. He was glad and rejoiced in the
Father all the time. All the time. I will be glad
and rejoice in thee. I will sing praise to thy name,
O thou most high. Now the judgment that God executed,
the decree that God requires is that we worship Him. We worship
Him. That's what the Lord told the
woman at the well. The Lord seeketh after them who worship Him in
spirit and in truth. Remember she said She said, you
know, she wanted to debate with him about where to worship. Our
fathers say you should, we should worship here at Garazin. And you Jews say we should worship
in Jerusalem. And what is it? They're still
having that debate, aren't they? And the Lord said, no. The father
seeketh them who worship him in spirit and in truth. You've come here tonight because
you want it. God has put into our hearts a
desire to worship Him. And yet our worship is so fraught
with distractions and unbelief, isn't it? We can't give Him our
undivided attention and worship Him in the fullness of His Spirit
and according to the full impact of His truth. We just can't do
it. We're not capable. The Lord Jesus Christ did. One
day we will. One day we'll worship him without
any of the hindrances of sin that we now experience. But here's
his judgment. His judgment is that you worship
me and praise me and be glad and rejoice in me perfectly. And the Lord Jesus Christ executed
that judgment. And so what do we do? Hegeon, Selah. We meditate on
the hope that we have by resting in Christ. That's what we do. That's what faith does. And the
Lord is known. The Lord is known by the judgment
which He executed. Look at verse three, when mine
enemies are turned back, they shall fall and perish at thy
presence. Oh, and they did. Satan fell
and perished at the presence of God. And we read the end of
the story about Satan, don't we? When he's going to be chained
and cast into the lake of fire. And that's the judgment of God. That's the decree of God. That
yet has not been executed in Satan's experience, but it will
be, it will be. And faith believes that whatever
yet has not been executed will be executed because it is the
judgment of God. It is the decree of the judge
who has said, this is the way it's gonna be. And faith just
believes everything the judge says. Everything he says. That's
how we know God. We know Him by believing Him. Look at verse 4. For thou hast
maintained my right and my cause. Thou saddest in the throne judging
righteousness. Now that's That can only be understood
as the words of the Lord Jesus Christ and their fullness, can't
they? He's saying to the father, you, you upheld my cause. What was his cause? What was
his cause? To save his people. That's what
his cause was. That's what he came to do to
save sinners and to glorify the father. And now he's saying,
Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit. You're going to uphold
my cause because I've been faithful to execute your judgments. You're
going to maintain my right. I have a right. It goes all the
way back before time to that covenant of grace when you gave
to me a bride and I agreed to lay down my life for her. And
she's my right. She's my beloved. And I've made
her comely through my comeliness. And now, Father, you uphold my
cause because you sat in your judgment seat and you judged
righteously." Now, judges today don't always judge righteously,
do they? They make mistakes. Parents make
mistakes, don't they? God never does. He sat, he sits
on his throne and he executes his judgment with righteousness. And he upholds the cause and
the right of his son. Thou hast rebuked the heathen.
Thou hast destroyed the wicked. Thou has put out their name forever
and ever. Now the Lord Jesus Christ, he
conquered death, he conquered the grave, he conquered Satan,
and he won to himself those whom God chose to give him. in election. And now he's saying the enemy's
been destroyed. The book of Hebrews says that
Jesus Christ came into the world to destroy the works of the devil. What are his works? What are
his works? To try to stop the execution
of the judgments of God. To try to blind men, to keep
them in unbelief, and the Lord Jesus Christ destroyed him. He came to lead captivity captive. He came in order to make us more
than conquerors through Christ Jesus. And so he's saying here,
thou hast rebuked the heathen, thou destroyed the wicked, thou
put out their name forever and ever. You have executed the judgments
of God faithfully. How do we know God? The Lord
is known by the judgments which He executed. Look at verse nine. The Lord also will be a refuge
for the oppressed, a refuge in time of trouble. Oh Lord, my
unbelief, my sin is such a trouble for me. The circumstances of my life,
I don't understand them and I try to control them and I try to
fix things and I'm just a mess all the time. I'm in trouble. And the Lord said, come to me,
come to me. Lord, I've got a sin problem
that I can't fix. That's our real trouble, isn't
it? That's our real trouble. Circumstances, they'll change.
They'll change. But the problem with our sin,
that's something that neither time nor money can fix. Nothing's
going to solve that problem. We need a savior. We need an
advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous one. We
need one who is able to execute the judgments of God in offering
himself up for our sin. and putting them away once and
for all by the sacrifice of himself. And that's exactly what he did.
And so he says, the Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed. Lord, my sin is an oppression
to me. I need a place of safety. I need a... I need a city of
refuge. I need a sanctuary city. I need
a place where I can flee to and find deliverance from this oppression. Come unto me, all ye that labor
and are heavy laden. Learn of me. Take my yoke upon
you. My yoke is easy. My burden is
light. Come to me. I'll give you rest
for your soul. And that's what he's saying here.
I executed the judgments of God. And that's how we know the Lord.
We know him by the judgments which he executed. Look at what
else he says in verse 10. And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee.
We looked at that last Wednesday night, didn't we? The names of
God, they reveal his character. All the I am's of scripture,
all the glorious names that the Lord takes to himself are just
ways for the Lord to reveal himself to his people by his name. And
they that know his name will put their trust. The Lord Jesus Christ executed
the judgments of God. you and I are not capable of
executing any of his judgments. And the Lord says, the wicked,
they're going to be taken snare by the very hand that they're
trusting in. For thou, Lord, hast not forsaken
them that seek thee. I'll never leave you nor forsake
you, ever, ever, ever. What a promise. I love that passage where the
Lord, Paul's speaking of knowing God, and then he almost corrects
himself and said, or rather that he knows you. Because when we're
not faithful, he remaineth faithful. He remaineth faithful. I say,
you keep turning from me, I'll never forsake you. I'll keep
bringing you back. I'll keep revealing myself. I'll
keep showing you how it is that I executed the judgments of God. Sing praises to the Lord, which
dwelleth in Zion. Declare among the people His
doings. His doings. You know, we looked
Sunday about the self-righteous hypocrite, the pharisaical spirit. It's always boasting in what
they're doing. And I used the illustration of
crickets and worms. And one of the things I didn't
make about crickets in that illustration is just how loud they are. But
they are, they're very loud, aren't they? I mean, you get
on certain nights when the crickets start, you can't even carry on
a conversation sometimes, they can get so loud. Isn't that the
way the world is? Climbing on top of each other,
trying to see who's, and they're boasting in themselves, loving
the praise of men more than the praise of God. And that's what
he's saying here. Sing praises to the Lord which
dwell, declare among the people, Not what you've done, but his
doings. What is his doings? He's executed
the judgments of God. That's his doings. God made decrees. God made judgments. God, as the
one and only judge, decided how things were gonna be. And the
Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled all those judgments. And what do
we do? We declare His doings. We declare
His faithfulness to have kept the law. We declare His accomplished
work of redemption at Calvary's cross in satisfying God's divine
justice and putting away our sins. We declare Him as the only
righteous one before God. He is our righteousness. when he maketh inquisition for
blood, he remembereth them, and he forgeteth not the cry of the
humble." Now, every time God makes an inquisition, it is for
blood. Now, this is a reference to God,
well, it goes all the way back to Cain. who was held accountable to God
for the blood of his brother. He said, your brother's blood
cries out from the ground to me. And I'm making inquisition
for his blood against you and you're guilty. And the Lord Jesus Christ now
shedding his precious blood, God makes inquisition of that
blood and his blood cries out from the ground to those who
were responsible for the shedding of His blood. But rather than
saying guilty, rather than saying guilty, that blood cries out
free. Free. Forgiven. Forgiven. Perfectly forgiven. When He maketh
inquisition for blood, He remembereth them, and He forgeteth not the
cry of... Do you see that word humble?
It's the word afflicted. Afflicted. or that's what I am. I'm just,
I'm afflicted. I've got an affliction I can't,
I can't cure. I've got leprosy. I don't, I
don't pretend to understand the full horror of it, but I know
there's no clean flesh on me. And, and, and the reason I know
that is because you've executed your judgment in my heart to
reveal to me that I'm a sinner. and that everything about me
falls short of your glory. And so I'm afflicted. Lord, make
inquisition of the blood of Thy Son for me. Let His blood cry
out on my behalf, forgiven. Have mercy upon me, verse 13. O Lord, consider my trouble which
I suffer of them that hate me, that Thou lifteth me up from
the gates of death. Now that's the believer's cry,
but that's the cry of the Lord Jesus Christ, isn't it? He's
crying out to the Father, don't allow me, don't allow me to see
corruption. He's pleading with the Father
to execute the judgments of God in finding Him faithful to raise
from the dead. How do we know God? We know the
Lord by the judgments which he hath executed. Do you believe
that the judgments which he executed are true and faithful? It's the
means by which we know him. verse fourteen that I may show
forth all thy praise in the gates of the daughter of Zion I will
rejoice in thy salvation the execution of his judgments
is to make his grace and his glory known to his people so he's he's he's praying to
the father father If you'll raise me, you'll not allow me to see
corruption. If you'll execute your judgments
on my behalf and finding me faithful, then I will lead your people
in Zion to show forth your praise and to declare that salvation
is of the Lord. It's all of Him. I didn't have
anything to do with it. He did it all. And He did it
all by Himself. The heathen, verse 15, are sunk
down in the pit that they made. That they made. They're looking
into the pit. It's a broken cistern. It's polluted waters. They have
no understanding of the fountain of life that flows from the from
the Lord Jesus Christ, the river that's clear as crystal, they're
digging in the ground a pit that they're going to be in. Verse 15, the heathen are sunk
down in the pit that they made, and in the net which they hid
is their own foot taken. Oh, I'll I'll do this or I'll
do that. What can I do to inherit eternal
life? And they're always scheming.
They're always promoting themselves. It's like we said Sunday. There's
two kinds of people in this world. There's the righteous and the
wicked. And all the righteous believe themselves to be wicked
and all the wicked believe themselves to be righteous. Yeah, they do. Every one of them. Every one
of them. doing something, offering God something. And the Lord said,
they're gonna be taken, they're gonna be ensnared in their own
net. And they're going, and the works of their hands, the wicked
is snared in the work of his own hand. You see, the grounds
on which you come to God is the one he will receive you on. You come to God, on the grounds
of anything that you've done, on the execution of His judgments
that you've accomplished, and that's how I receive you. And
that ground will become your judgment. That's the way it is. That's
what the Lord is saying here. Meditate on this. Higeon. Silah. Rest in Christ. Think about the importance of
this. The Lord is known by the execution of His judgments. Who executed His judgments? The wicked. Here's one of His
judgments. The wicked shall be turned into
hell in all nations that forget God. There's no purgatory. There's
no in-between. There's those that are in Christ
and those that aren't in Christ. Those who have the judgments
of God executed in the person of their substitute and those
who are attempting to execute the judgments of God on their
own. That's it. There's no in-between. For the needy, shall not always be forgotten.
The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever." Lord, your
people just seem to be so poor and needy. They seem to be so behind everybody else in this
world. They're not always going to be
that way. This is one of the judgments
that God's going to execute, isn't He? One of the judgments
that has not been yet executed is when the Lord Jesus Christ
lifts up his bride and parades her before all of his creation
as the trophy of his grace. And every knee will bow and every
tongue will confess that Jesus is the Christ to the glory of
God the Father. And faith believes that. This
is a judgment that's yet to be executed. And so what does the child of
God say? Arise, oh Lord, let not man prevail. Let the heathen
be judged in thy sight. Execute your judgment. You see,
one of the reasons why we refuse to accept Any works gospel as
the hope of salvation is because it destroys our hope. It destroys
our hope. If a person says, well, you know,
what about this? What about that? No, you can't
have it that way. I can't consider that. That takes
away my salvation. Verse 20, put them in fear, O Lord, that
the nations may know themselves to be but men. That's all we are. And man at
his very best state is altogether vanity. Our Heavenly Father, we're thankful
for the revelation of Your judgments that You've made to us in Your
Word. And we ask now for Your Holy
Spirit to make them true to our hearts and our experience. For
we ask it in Christ's name, Amen. Number 232, let's stand together. sing this a cappella. Christ our Redeemer died on the
cross, died for the sinner, paid all his due. Sprinkle your soul
with the blood of the Lamb, and I will pass, will pass over you. When I see the blood, when I
see the blood, when I see the blood, I will pass, I will pass
over you. Chiefest of sinners, Jesus will
say, promised that he will do. Wash in the fountain open for
sin and I will pass will pass over you. When I see the blood
of When I see the blood, when I
see the blood, I will pass, I will pass over you. Judgment is coming, all will
be there, each one receiving justly his due. Hide in the saving, sin-cleansing
blood And I will pass, will pass over you When I see the blood
When I see the blood ? When I see the blood ? ? I will
pass, I will pass over you ? ? O great compassion, O boundless love
? ? O loving kindness, faithful and true ? ? Find peace and shelter
under the blood, and I will pass, will pass over you when I see
the blood, when I see the blood. When I see the blood, I will
pass, I will pass over you. Yeah.