I'm gonna ask you to take your
Bibles and turn with me to the book of Proverbs. Proverbs 29. Proverbs 29. Brother Bryant read that passage
of scripture. All scripture is given by inspiration
of God. And it is profitable. It's profitable. Reproof, rebuke, correction. The Spirit of God moved upon
a man named Solomon. We've been looking at Proverbs
now for many years. Verse by verse. We're now in
the 29th chapter and I'd like to read verse 14. And may we remember, be made
to remember, God wrote this. The Spirit of God wrote this
for our instruction. Proverbs 29, 14, the king that
faithfully judges the poor, his throne shall be established forever. Our passage this evening begins
with the description of the King who is number one, holy, honorable,
glorious, and faithful. The King, the King that is none
other than the Lord Jesus Christ, the king who is God. Hold your place there and turn
with me to Jeremiah 10, 10. Jeremiah 10, verse 10. The spirit of God through the
prophet Jeremiah revealed unto us this precious truth. Jeremiah 10, 10. But the Lord, Jehovah. The Lord is the true
God. He is the living God and an everlasting
King. At His wrath, the earth shall
tremble and the nations shall not be able to abide His indignation. This is what the Spirit of God
has revealed unto us concerning the King, who is God. It says in Jeremiah 10.10, but the
Lord, Jehovah, the King that we worship is the God of particular
electing grace, the Lord, L-O-R-D, all caps. He is the king. He's the Lord of electing, particular
electing. He is the Lord of particular
redeeming grace. He shed his blood for his people
and his blood satisfied and finished and answered. He is the Lord
who is the redeeming king. He is the king. Jehovah is, the
scripture says in verse 10, the Lord is the true, he's the God
of truth, is what my margin says, the God of truth. He is the true God, he's the
true God. Turn with me to Isaiah, Isaiah
45, Isaiah 45. I was reading over this verse
of scripture right here, and if you've got words in there
that are italicized, you know that those were added to help
to understand. And sometimes they seem to me
to not give as good a, an understanding is just reading
the words that the Spirit of God there, I'm gonna read Isaiah
45, and I'm gonna just try to read just verses five to seven,
and I'm gonna read what the Spirit of God wrote there, and what
the men that added for our help, the italicized words, I will
hold off. Isaiah 45, verse five, I, the
Lord, and none else. no God beside me. I girded thee,
though thou hast not known me, that they may know from the rising
of the sun and from the west that none beside me, I, the Lord,
and none else. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I, the Lord, do all these things. There's none else. He said, I,
the Lord. All other so-called little g-gods don't exist. He said, I, the
Lord, none else. There is figments of men's imaginations. They're vapors, they're imaginary,
they're play-like. And they are called by those
that know not the true God, they call their little G gods, they
call him God. But it's a God that is not found
in this book. There's one God, and he's sovereign,
and he's God, and he's the true God. The scripture says that
he is, back in Jeremiah 10.10, concerning the king who is God,
Jeremiah 10.10. But the Lord, the true God, he
is God. the living God. He is the fountain
of life. He is the fountain from which
all life is. Life that remains on this earth
until he decides, he determines it's no more on this earth. God's people worship him who
is God, the spirit. Now, he thinks, he wills, he
speaks, he remembers, he directs, he works, he is the living God. He said, I am that I am, the
self-existent one. Hold your place there in Jeremiah
and turn with me to Revelation 1.18. Revelation 118. Now this is what the Lord says. Revelation 118. I am he that
liveth and was dead and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And have the keys of hell and
death. So the King that we worship,
the Lord, the King, back in Jeremiah 10.10, the Lord is a true God. He's the living God and an everlasting
King. He's eternal, unchanging, immutable. He doesn't change. And he's active. He's present. This may sound
so as if to say that's just absolutely understood. Everybody knows that.
But he's real. He's real. I'm telling you, that is a revelation.
God is. He is an everlasting king. He's active. present. He's not only the creator of
all things, but he rules all things. He orders all things.
I've heard not a leaf falls from a tree. And someone says, well,
you know, there is a limit on what? No, no. He worketh all
things. Not a breeze blows, not a sparrow
falls, except your father knows it. He's ever present, ordering all
things for the accomplishment of the salvation of His people.
That's what the Lord said. Thou has given Him power over
all flesh. Everything that's going on in
this world that I foolishly allow to upset me. When I say how in
the world could they do that? How could they do that? All things are working together
for good to them that love God, to them who are of the called
according to His purpose. Our God is the everlasting King,
the living God, and all worship of Him that is born to our hearts
to have the respect and honor of that which He's done, who
he is and that what he's doing for us and through us through
the Lord Jesus Christ, revealing that to us by the grace of God.
He's God. And then Jeremiah, the last part
of Jeremiah 10.10 says this, and at his wrath, the earth shall
tremble, the nation shall not be able to abide, that is to
sustain or endure his indignation. At last, part of that verse,
turn over to Revelation 6. Revelation 6. Revelation chapter 6, verses
16, 17. I'm going to read, start at 15. 15, 16, 17 of Revelation 6. And
the kings of the earth, and the great men, the rich men, chief
captains, the mighty men, every bondman, Every free man hid themselves
in the dens and the rocks of the mountains and said to the
mountains and rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face
of him that sitteth on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb. For the great day of his wrath
has come and who shall be able to stand? This portion Feels to us that there's coming
a day when men, women who have looked to their hope of life
in an imaginary God for hope in their works, they're going
to realize in that moment that all of the wickedness of their
works, self-righteous, works will not answer for them before
God. They won't. I've told you before
the very phrase, there'll be weeping and wailing and gnashing
of teeth. I don't know the depth of that.
I don't, I don't know. I can't enter into that because
it's going to be so horrible that men will not be able contained
a weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. I mean, the Spirit
of God moved on the writer to make that statement, the grinding
of the teeth, the gnashing of teeth, the horror of realizing
I am standing before God who is going to cast me out forever,
forever. They find all their hope false
hope, was nothing more than a mirage, just evaporating. They cried
to the mountains and rocks of that which they thought was their
security, being able to hide themselves from the wrath of
God. They always heard about the wrath
of God. They knew that it was coming.
They've heard about the judgment of God. that there was gonna
be a day when they were gonna stand, men are gonna stand before
God when they realize the day is here. And they realize that they have
no hope. They have no cover for their indignation against the
living God. Proverbs 29, 14 says, I mean,
Jeremiah 10, 10, I'm sorry, that the nation shall not be able
to abide his indignation. Our God is king, he's the king. But not only is he the king,
now back in Proverbs 29, 14, the king that faithfully judgeth
the poor. Not only is he revealed by the
spirit of God to be king, but he's the judge, he's the judge. The king that faithfully judgeth
the poor. Turn with me to Genesis 18, Genesis
18, 23. Whenever the Lord sent two angels
into Sodom to spy out, to see the state of that city, Abraham,
who was standing with the Lord, knowing that it was the Lord
before whom he stood, the judge of all the earth. And he asked
this question to the Lord, who he knew to be the judge. And
he asked him about judgment, the judgment of a case. He was
going in there to see, and this is what Genesis 18, 23, 25 says. And Abraham drew near and said,
will thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure,
there be 50 righteous within the city. Will thou also destroy
and not spare the place for the 50 righteous that are therein?
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous
with the wicked. and that the righteous should
be as the wicked, that be far from thee. Shall not the judge
of all the earth do right? Shall not the judge of all the
earth decide a case in righteousness? The king who is the faithful
judge shall judge all men according to the scripture. faithfully,
reliably. It's gonna be reliable. When we stand before the Lord,
it's gonna be a reliable judgment. Based on what? You've seen this
one. We've quoted it. Turn with me
to Revelation 20. This is gonna be the standard. Now, here's what's gonna happen. We've considered this passage,
read this passage, heard this passage. And this is what's gonna
happen. Now, don't ask me if there's
gonna be actual physical books. I'm gonna tell you what scripture
says. I think the books are the remembrance
and the knowledge of God. Revelation chapter 20, verse
11 and 12. I saw a great white throne. And
him that sat on it from whose face the earth and the heavens
fled away, and there was found no place for them, no place to
hide. You've heard me say that so many
times. You know, it just amazes me, even as I read that passage
right now, the face of the one that sits on that great white
throne, the face of him, the earth, they don't want to deal
with him. They don't want to deal with
him. He's the judge now. The earth, those without God,
they don't want to deal with him. They don't want to, but
they're going to, they're going to. And I saw the dead, small
and great, stand before God, and the books were open, and
another book was open, which is the book of life. And the
dead were judged out of those things which were written in
the books according to their works, the dead. Now, listen
to me. Let me listen to me. Let me say
what this book says. Everything about us is recorded. Everything about us is recorded
and known, remembered, everything. Every thought, every attitude,
every word, everything, everything, everything. When we stand before
God, there's no disguises. Nothing's gonna be swept under
the rug. There's not gonna be any deceptions
concerning man's character before the omniscient judge. Every man, every woman that leaves
this world spiritually dead in trespasses and sins. Now, what
do I mean by that? You know, but I want to say it
again. Spiritually dead. They have never bowed in heart
to Christ. They've never bowed before him. They've never trusted him. They've
never loved him. They've never longed after him.
They've never sought him. All that they do, those that
do, do so by the grace of God. You gotta give them a new heart.
They're not gonna do it from a dead heart. They're dead. But those that have left this
world, left to themselves, they've heard the gospel, they've seen
nature, but they've left this world. And they've rejected,
denied, despised the Lord Jesus Christ. And now they stand before
God. And this, it's gonna be a real
day. It's gonna be a day in which
this is gonna happen. And a day that God's people are
gonna remember. I remember hearing about this
day. And here we are. And the books
of God's omniscience concerning men's works are gonna be opened. And I think, what a day this
is gonna be. This is gonna happen and every
person that's ever lived on this earth and left this world without
Christ, everything is going to be exposed about every one of
them. And there'll be how many? No
man can number. God knows. And all of the books
of man's rejection of the glory of Almighty God, rejection of man's conscience,
he knows right from wrong. He knows right from wrong. Every time that he ever heard
the gospel, I think about that passage of scripture when the
Lord says, you know, oh, Bethsaida, oh, Chorazin, The mighty works
done here had been done at Sodom. Sodom would have remained until
this day. That's at passages. I can't even enter into the depth
of that except the Lord says if they had heard it, they would
have repented and it would have remained until it had been at
Sodom right now. All of this, all of this is gonna be opened
up. And every thought of rejection
My man, every time someone heard the gospel and refused to bow,
and the whole of man's refusal, everything, it's going to be
opened up. Turn with me to Matthew 10. Matthew
10, 14, 15. Matthew 10. Isn't it amazing that Almighty
God would tell us all this beforehand? Matthew 10, 14 and 15, whosoever
shall not receive you or hear your words when you depart out
of that city or that house or city, shake off the dust of your
feet. Verily, I say unto you, it shall
be more tolerable to the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the
day of judgment than for that city. It's gonna be more tolerable
Sodom and Gomorrah, who went through the wickedness of that
city and experienced the judgment of God. God rained down fire
and brimstone from heaven and burn them up, burn them up. And
then those all left to themselves, I know a lot, a lot came out.
There was a few. Not only do they suffer that
immediate judgment, now they're gonna stand before God and God's
gonna put them in hell. And he says it's gonna be more
tolerable for them in hell than it will be for you. Those that refuse to hear, it
is dangerous. I think about people that have
come and sat here and left. I'll not hear that anymore. I'll
not hear that anymore. Do you realize how dangerous
that is? How eternal that is if you leave
this world? But there's going to be another
book. There's going to be another book. Praise the Lord. And it's
from that book that those referred to back in Proverbs chapter 29,
verse 14, the poor, the poor. Now that word poor right there,
I looked it up. If you're looking at poor in
verse 13, we dealt with this last time I was in Proverbs,
the poor and the deceitful man meet together and the Lord lighteneth
both their eyes. I looked up that word poor in
verse 13, and it's talking about those that just don't have much
in this world. That's what that word poor means. The word in 14, the king that
faithfully judges the poor, it's a different word. It's not the
same word poor. It's translated poor in English, but it's not
the same word. The word in verse 13, actually it's a noun. And the poor, in verse 14, is
an adjective. I'm sorry, the first one is a
verb. In verse 13, it's a verb. And the one in verse 14, that
king that faithfully judges the poor, it's a descriptive word. It's describing somebody. In
verse 14, that's where we are right here. It's an adjective
that describes the character of those that are being judged,
faithfully judged. These are the poor in spirit.
These are they that have been made to see themselves as helpless,
spiritually helpless, low, reduced in ability and weak. Those that's
been made to see Christ, the book of life himself, to be their
only hope. This is all the hope I have.
And they lay all their hope in one, one man, the king, who is
the judge that's gonna judge them. And when he judges them,
when he faithfully judges them, he faithfully, and they're found
in him, written in him from before the foundation of the world,
he's gonna judge them in absolute reliability. This is gonna be
reliable. The book are open, the book's
open. And all found written in that book, for them, this is the record,
for them. He who is the king, who is God,
who is the judge, and here's a reliable verdict. All of their sin was born by the judge. by the king himself, the redeemer,
the Messiah, one and the same. He took all of their sin and
he made it to be his own. And he went before God and laid
down his life. He bore himself toward the law,
before the law of God. making himself answerable. And
the law that beheld him where sin was found, not a sinner was
found, sin was found. And the law demanded justice,
judgment. And the law's demand for justice
was satisfied. He suffered the penalty. Here was the marvelousness of
his sacrifice. All that eternity would never
pay for those that left without Christ. Eternity, the fires of
hell will never pay the debt. Never, never. Men, women that
leave this world sinned against an eternal God, and eternity
is their due, separated from Him. And it'll never be paid. It'll never be paid. Never be
paid. But by one sacrifice for sin. One sacrifice. The Father said, when I see the
blood, I'll pass over you. And this is all recorded and
written in the book of life himself. He who paid their debt suffered
their due. Now here's the verdict. He's the king that faithfully
judges the poor. They have no record. There's no record. Here's the
book and it's Christ himself. And here's his faithfulness.
Here he paid all the debt. His righteousness was earned
and satisfied the law's demand for righteousness and all that's
written in him. Here's what God sees. The book
of life himself. No record. There's no infraction
here. They're justified before God. Scripture says this concerning
them. There's therefore now. Oh, in
that day, there'll be no condemnation then. There's no condemnation
now. No condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who
walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. Ephesians 1,
I'll hold your place there, and I'm gonna, again, wrapping this
up. Ephesians chapter 1. Here's what the scripture says.
Concerning those that almighty God has everlastingly loved and
chosen, Ephesians 1, 4. According as he has chosen us
in him before the foundation of the world, that we should
be holy and without blame before him in love. No blame. No debt. No charge. Those who die in the faith, they
make no claim for any works on their part. By what the scripture sets forth
is the work of faith, labor of love. patience of hope in the
Lord Jesus Christ, they shall be saved. Saved. The judge who is also the king,
the high priest of the people, is everlastingly loved. When
he faithfully judges the poor, it's reliable. He faithfully
did it. There was nothing unfaithful
about it. He gave himself for him, his
blood answers for him. Here's what it says in closing
in Proverbs 29, 14, last part. His throne shall be established
forever, forever. His throne is set, it's fixed,
it's firm, the throne of the king who faithfully judgeth his
throne, all the subjects of his kingdom
to whom eternal life has been given, those to whom the Lord
has given his word, I give them eternal life. They will never
perish. They will never perish. You think
about this. That's all we got. He got his
word, his word. And that's all we need. His word's
not gonna return void. It's gonna accomplish the purpose
for which it was sent. He said, I'm not gonna, turn
over to John 10, and I'll stop. John 10. John 10, 27, 28, 29. My sheep hear my voice. 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. My father which gave them me
is greater than all and no man is able to pluck them out of
my father's hand. I and my father are one. His throne is established. He's gonna judge, he's gonna
do it. Faithfully, it's going to be right. It's going to be
according to the books of his remembrance and the book of his
beloved son. And he's going to judge the poor,
those that have been made to cast themselves upon him. It's
going to be fair, fair. When he died, he died fairly. He bore their sins and God was
fair. Read this, and I really will
close. Psalm 72, 4. Psalm 72, verse 4. He shall judge the poor of the
people. He shall save the children of
the needy, and shall break in pieces the oppressor. Beloved,
If the Lord given you a heart of need, I need for God to save
me. Don't wait on me. I need him to save me. Save me
by grace. Save me forever. Save me for
your glory and my eternal good. For Christ's sake, amen. Okay, Gary.