I'm gonna ask you to take your
Bible and turn with me to the book of Psalms, chapter 145. I've been taking a few verses
of this blessed psalm at a time, and I'd like to look at a few
more this morning, verses 11 to 13. The last time we looked at this psalm
We had stopped in verse 10. And that precious revelation
given by the Spirit of God to David, he said, all thy works
shall praise thee, O Lord. Everything that God has created,
heavens, upon the earth, everything, animate or inanimate, things
that are alive, that grow, things that, like mountains, everything,
everything gives testimony, evidence to God's wisdom and power by
its very existence. It praises the Lord. The universe, the stars, these
flowers, just fish, four-footed bees, birds, everything praises
the Lord in its appropriate way. It praises Him for His might
and His wisdom to create it and then to keep it. Everything praises the Lord for
His unity. It's just everything works in
harmony. Just look around. All of this, God created it like
this. He keeps it like this. He just
maintains it. As long as He's pleased to, He's
gonna leave it just like it is. And it praises the Lord. But
then also, verse 10, the latter part says, and thy saints shall
bless thee. There's something especially
marvelous rendered unto the Lord. Everything praises him. Like
I said, mountains, last time I said mountains praise him just
because they stay there. He put that foundation down for
those rocky mountains and they just stay there. They're just
there. They praise God by being there
in their magnificence. But his people are said to bless
him. They blessed, only the saints
of God bless. Everything praises, but the saints
bless Him. Those who have been everlastingly
loved of God, chosen by the Father in Christ, effectually powerfully
called out by the Spirit of God, all of them that were redeemed
by the precious Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Spirit of
God came to them in time and removed the heart of stone rebellion. Gave them a new heart. Gave them
a new will. Gave them a new spirit. Sealed
them. Put a mark on them. These are
the Lord's. That's what it means to seal
them. Stamp. Put them. And he keeps them. And he teaches them. And he leads
them and guides them through this world. The steps of a good
man are ordered by the Lord. And those, they bless him. That means they give thanks. They adore him. Actually, it
means adore with a bended knee. They love him. They respect him. They give respect unto him who
loved them and gave himself for them. Now I want us to just pick
up from that thought right there for a few minutes and just consider
the heart and the speech. This is what these three verses
right here, they're talking about. These saints that bless the Lord,
they want to talk about it. They want to express it. Verse
11 says, they shall speak of the glory of his kingdom. Now you know we've heard, we've
heard the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God. The Lord spoke
of his kingdom. My kingdom, he says, is not of
this world. What is meant when we say the kingdom of God? Well, the kingdom of God is his
church, his bride, his elect. A kingdom has a king, and the
Lord is the king. He's the king. And we are his
subjects. We're his people. We're his bride,
his sheep, he's the head, and we're the body. He has a kingdom. Now this is an amazing thing.
The Lord Jesus Christ is God Almighty. He is God, he's God. Who is he? He's God. God Almighty. He is one with the Father and
the Holy Spirit. Father, Son, Spirit. One God. One God. Set forth in the scriptures in
three persons. One God. Now, I've heard people try to
describe that and try to analyze that. Don't, don't do that. Don't
do that. He's one God, three persons. One day, by the grace of God,
we may, we may understand that. But for right now, we believe
it. By faith, we believe it. So the Lord Jesus Christ being
God, one with the Father and the Son, What's going to be given
unto him? He's God. He owns it all. The earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof. But as being the Christ, he who
submitted himself, God, man, mediator, according to the everlasting
covenant of God's grace, He had a kingdom given unto him. As God, he owns everything. It's
his, it's his. But in this marvelous humility
of the Lord Jesus Christ, he humbled himself. He made himself
of no reputation. And as a submissive servant of
Jehovah, A kingdom, a kingdom was given. Turn with me to John.
We've read these verses before, but I want to make a point concerning
something being given unto him who is the Christ, God, man. Look at John 6, 37. We've read
this, but look, the point I want to make is the gift that's been
given to him. John 6, 37, all that the Father and him that giveth me shall
come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast
out. Look at John 10, John chapter
10, verse 27 to 30. John 10, 27, my sheep hear my
voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give unto them
eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any
man pluck them out of my hand. gave them me is greater than
all. And no man's able to pluck them
out of my Father's hand. Look in his high priestly prayer,
John 17, verse 2. John 17, 2. As thou has given him power over
all flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou
has given him. Here is the Lord Jesus Christ,
He who submitted Himself to be the Redeemer. He had a people given unto Him. You think, aren't they His? Yeah. As His being God, He made
them, created them. All things were made by Him and
without Him was not anything made that was made. And He submitted
Himself unto the Father and had a kingdom given unto Him. The kingdom of Christ is His
beloved bride and He possesses her. as his bride. He's her husband. And being his bride and him being
her husband, everything belongs to him now belongs to her. She's
an heir of God and a joint heir with Christ. So the scripture
says back in Psalm 145 concerning Christ's kingdom, Verse 11, they
shall speak of the glory of his kingdom. Those to whom the Lord
has given a new heart, given a new mouth, new eyes to see,
new ears to hear, those who have been born from above, those who
love the Lord, those to whom the Lord has shown mercy and
compassion, they love to speak of the glory of his kingdom. What does that mean? The glory
of his kingdom. What is the glory of his kingdom? Well, Moses asked that question. Show me your glory. Show me in
revelation of what we're looking at, show me the glory of your
kingdom. He said, here's the glory of
my kingdom. I had mercy on her. Here's the glory of the kingdom.
This is what she glories in. God has shown mercy to me in
the person of my husband, in the person of my savior, the
person of my redeemer. This is all of my glory that
was bestowed upon me. His glory to show mercy and compassion
to me. I want to talk about that. They shall speak of the glory
of thy kingdom. Tell me, bride, what is the glory
of your kingdom? I'm his and he's mine. That's
my glory. That's all the glory I've got.
Everything that he's shown me, he just speaks out of the abundance
of her heart. I just want to be honest with
you, she says, I am my beloved, my beloved is
mine. They love to speak of him who's
sovereign in creation. They love to speak of him who's
sovereign in providence. That's what she says. He's running
everything. He's running everything. Everything we see going on in
this world right now, I'm telling you, he's in complete control
of it. Aren't you glad? I am. I'm glad. I don't know how many times I've
said here recently in the last few weeks, months, whatever.
I've said, well, this is not the United States I grew up in.
But I can tell you one thing. I know who's running it. And
I'm glad. I want to speak of his glory. I want to speak of his glory
in salvation. He has mercy and compassion on
a people, and He is the just God. I want to talk about Him.
He will by no means fail to deal with sin. He's not going to sweep
it under the rug. I want to talk about Him who
is the Savior of sinners. They shall speak of the glory
of thy kingdom. and talk of thy power. Oh, I'll tell you something. Our
God is not a little G God. He's not trying to do anything. What's he doing? I'll tell you
what Nebuchadnezzar said after God put him out in the field.
for seven years and let him graze a little bit for seven years
out there like an animal. I tell you what he said, after
he stood on that porch and looked out at Babylon and said, oh,
oh, look what I have done. Look at this great Babylon that
I built. Look at this, y'all look at this.
What Scripture says, while the words was in his mouth, God took
his mind away from him. I'm so thankful that at this
moment right now, God still has given me the ability to allow
my mouth to express what my brain is just thinking. Brian, he can
take this away from me in one second, and I'm just a babbling
idiot. Don't even know what's straight
up. I'll tell you what he's doing.
I'll tell you about his power. He is doing, Nebuchadnezzar says,
according to his will, in the army of heaven and among the
inhabitants of the earth. And I'll tell you what else.
Nobody stays his hand. Nobody. All of this bragging that's going
on around here and arguing about this, that, and the other about,
you know, God, making fun of him, I'm telling you, I'm telling
you, he is in control. David was asked one day, where's
your God, David? He said, I'll tell you where
my God is. He's in the heavens. And he hath done whatsoever he
hath pleased. They speak of the glory of thy
kingdom, Talk of the, of thy power, verse 12, to make known
to the sons of men his mighty acts. His power. His power, that is the source
of our joy and peace and comfort. He supports He's holding all this world together,
but he's holding it together for the good of his people, for
the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ and the good of his people. Everything's
going on in this world today. I can prove that one. Romans
8, 28. How many times have we looked
at that? All things, all things, all things
work together for good. How's that? I don't know. I don't
know. But I can tell you that everything
that's going on right now, no matter what, no matter what,
is working together for good to them that love God, to them
who are thee called according to his purpose. His saints, latter
part of verse 11, talk of thy power to make known to the sons
of men his mighty acts. Isn't it amazing how the power
of God has ordered this, all this, to get his people, look
at his power. He raises up this and puts these
two together and this one marries this one and they have this child
and moves them from Louisiana and puts them all the way in
northern West Virginia. I was doing good to even realize
that there was a West Virginia. And did God Almighty would put
me here? How did you get here? I'll tell
you how you got here. Here's how, I'm gonna tell you
about how the saints, by His power, were moved upon by the
Lord that He might make known to them His mighty acts. You're here today, and I'm here
today by divine appointment, I can tell you that, we're here.
Almighty God has allowed us to bring us together. And not only
has he put us all together by his power and wisdom and his
might. I love this. Jude 1 24 says he's able to keep you from
falling and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory
with exceeding joy. Not only did he get us here, but he keeps us here. He's able
to keep us from falling. If he left it up to me, I've
told you before, I'm telling you, I'm telling you right now,
if he left it up to me, I quit. I quit. If he left it up to me
to do what my old flesh wanted to do, I'm gone. I'm gonna go
do something else. but that I'm still here. And
you're still here. I got pictures on my wall over
there. This church years and years and
years ago. I got pictures of some of y'all
that were that big. And you're still here. That's
amazing. Amazing. And God's people want
to talk about that. How the Lord has kept me. They,
verse 12, They talk, verse 11, they talk of thy power to make
known to the sons of men his mighty axe and the glorious majesty
of his kingdom. The majesty. They love to speak
of his victory to his people. Oh, his mighty axe. They love
to speak of his mighty axe. God was going to destroy this
earth, this world, going to flood it. There wasn't a man or woman
in this world. And God looked down. He didn't
see anything but rebellion, wickedness. Every thought of the imagination
of men was nothing but evil, evil, evil. And it repented him
that it made man. He was going to destroy man from
all the earth. But, one man found grace in the eyes
of the Lord. One man. Name was Noah. Noah. God instructed him to build
an ark. Picture of his blessed son. Put
him in there. Picture of being hidden in Christ. He loved to talk of his mighty
axe. He took his people out of Egypt, let them walk around the desert,
came to a little point of ground, Pi-hi-hi-rove, and in front of
them was the Red Sea, and behind them were Egyptians coming. And
let me tell you what he did. He caused the wind to blow, and
it blew all night. And that wind blew so hard, it
split that water. And the water stood up on its
side. And as people walked across on
dry ground, he got them to the other side,
Egyptians came in, water came down, he flooded, killed, drowned
them all, led them through the wilderness there, gave them manna,
quail, water out of a out of a rock that followed them the
whole time. Oh, they make known, they love
to talk about the power of God to make known to the sons of
men His mighty acts. Oh, and the glorious majesty
of His kingdom. They like to talk about His acts,
but oh, the majesty, the majesty. They love to speak. of the majesty
of the Lord. What does that mean? Hold your
place there. Turn to Song of Solomon 5. Song of Solomon, chapter
5. Let me tell you of the majesty
of the Lord. Here's what they won't talk about.
Song of Solomon, chapter 5, verse 9 to 16. The daughters of Jerusalem had
asked them, asked the bride, What is that, Song of Solomon
5.9, what is thy beloved more than another beloved? O thou
fairest among women. Tell me something about the daughters
of Jerusalem. I'm convinced that the daughters
of Jerusalem are the, they're professors that profess to know God that
don't know him. These daughters of Jerusalem
are talking to the bride, and they're asking the bride of Christ,
what is it about your beloved that's more? What's different about your beloved? Don't you think if the daughters
of Jerusalem knew her beloved, they wouldn't be asking her?
These daughters of Jerusalem. What is thy beloved more than
another beloved, O thou fairest among women? What is thy beloved
more than another beloved that thou dost so charge us? And the
bride says, now here's the majesty. Here's what the bride wants to
talk about. Oh, my beloved is white and ruddy, the chieftest
among 10,000. His head is as the most fine
gold. His locks are bushy. Black as
a raven, his eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of
water washed with milk, fitly set. His cheeks are as a bed
of spices and sweet flowers, his lips like lilies. dropping
sweet-smelling myrrh. His hands are as gold rings set
with a barrel. His belly is as bright ivory
overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble
set upon sockets of fine gold. His countenance is as Lebanon,
excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet. Yea,
he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved. This is my
friend. Old daughters of Jerusalem. She
loves to talk about his majesty. When we went through Song of
Solomon, we went through those verses and looked at them in
detail. But you can just read them right
now, and you know what, she's just, oh, the speech of the bride,
she likes to talk of the majesty of him. And while the saints
speak of him and his magnificence, they make known to the revelation
to this world, speak of the magnificence of what he's done for her. And
they love to speak, they love to hear, they love to repeat
what the Spirit of God has also taught them concerning what he
says about her. I know what we just read, what
she said about him. He's just altogether lovely.
He's eternal youth. There's black. Lips are sweet. But what did he say about her?
Let's talk about the magnificence of what he said about her. Turn
back to Song of Solomon 4.8. Listen to what he says about her. Song
of Solomon 4.8, come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with
me from Lebanon. Look from the top of Amenah.
from the top of Sheener and Herman, from the lion's dens, from the
mountains of the leopards. Thou hast ravished my heart,
my sister, my spouse. Thou hast ravished my heart with
one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck. How fair is thy
love, my sister, my spouse. How much better is thy love than
wine and the smell of thine ointments and all spices. Thy lips, O my
spouse, drop as the honeycomb. Honey and milk are under thy
tongue, and the smell of thy garments like the smell of Lebanon,
as she's robed in his righteousness. A garden enclosed is my sister,
my spouse, a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants
are as an orchard of pomegranates with pleasant fruits, camp for
spikenard, spikenard and saffron, calamus, cinnamon, with all trees
of frankincense, myrrh, aloes, with all the chief spices, a
fountain of gardens, a well of living waters and streams from
Lebanon. You know, man and his wife, they always speak
kindly, affectionately, lovingly to each other. This is how the
Lord speaks to his bride, and this is how she speaks of him.
This is that, back in Psalm 145, Oh, they love to make known to
the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his
kingdom. We're one with him. And then lastly, they love to
speak of the never endingness of his kingdom. Verse 13, thy
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom in thy dominion endureth throughout
all generations. The Lord's kingdom is without
beginning and it's without end. Now there was a time when the
Spirit of God called his kingdom out of darkness and made known
unto her And at that time, she then began to realize something
of his kingdom, beauty and the majesty of his kingdom. And he's
been teaching her, but as far as the beginning of it, it never
started. There's never been a time when
he was without a kingdom. She's always been his bride. He was given unto the Lord Jesus
Christ before the foundation of the world. I've always loved
you. I've loved you with an everlasting
love. He's always known her. Oh, what peace and comfort to
the saints of God. Thy kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom and thy dominion endureth Throughout all generations, he
who is God reigns, and reigns forever. Psalm 2910 says, the
Lord sitteth upon the flood. Yea, the Lord sitteth king forever. But in closing, I want you to
notice something that was so sweet. I want you to notice intimacy
that was allowed by the Spirit of God to be spoken of in the
conversation between the psalmist and the Lord. Now here's the
Spirit moved David to pin this just exactly the way that it
is and how we're to hear it. Look at, it says in verse 11, They shall speak of the glory
of thy kingdom, and talk of thy power. Look at verse 13. Thy kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. Now,
when she's using those pronouns, she's talking to somebody. Thy
kingdom. If it would have said his kingdom,
the Lord's kingdom, we would understand that, but that's not
how the Spirit of God moved him to say it. The Spirit of God
moved it that David would say these words, Lord, your kingdom,
thy kingdom. David uses that word of intimacy. How wonderful that we can know
that we speak to the Lord. I wanna speak of him. I wanna tell you what the scripture
says about him. But you know what, Mitch? I wanna
talk to him. Lord, your kingdom, your kingdom
endureth forever. Your dominion, The Lord is from
everlasting to everlasting. I pray that God bless our hearts
with these words today. And as he blesses our hearts,
may we bless him and praise him, not only as we do for his mighty
acts, but for the majesty of his kingdom, speaking to us and
us to him. weak communion for His glory
and our eternal good. Amen. All right, let's take a
quick break.