Good evening. I'm glad to be here. Thank you.
It's a great honor and privilege. I've heard that my whole life.
I grew up in a faithful church. Many of y'all heard of Brother
Henry Mahan. He was my pastor when I was growing up. And my
whole life, I've heard men like Angus come and preach, and they
say, it's an honor and a privilege to be here. It's my pleasure.
And I say, well, it's just a greeting and salutation. That's the thing
you're supposed to do. I mean it. Now I understand. For your pastor to have me here
and for you to have me here, it's a great honor and to preach
to you. Thank you for having me and what
wonderful guests. hosts we have. I hope we're good
guests. That's to be determined. But
the hospitality we've had and tour guides, we've really enjoyed
ourselves so far. I'm thankful for Angus and Lisa. They're top notch. And as I try
to always encourage people, we've had Angus preach a few times
for me. Our Lord is risen. When he came from that grave,
he ascended on high to ever make intercession for us. He gave
ascension gifts. That's serious. If the king came
by, there's a king now. If there's a king come by and
said, I want you to have this watch, will you tell you? Look
what I have. The king gave me that. The king. gave Australia a continent,
Angus Fisher. And I'm thankful you're here.
God's choice man. So it's a privilege for me to
be here. If you want to turn in your Bibles, we'll be looking
at Psalm 29 this evening. I hope to, while I'm here tonight,
tell you who God is. And I hope I don't yell with
joy. It's in me. It makes me very happy. And then
tomorrow night, Describe more of what he's done and what he
did for me. And then I hope I don't cry with joy too much, but I
probably will. So Psalm 29, many believe that
David wrote this during a thunderstorm. And all the proportions here
in this text are perfect. I don't have to worry about concentrating
too much on one thing. The Lord's gave us here in perfect
proportions. We've preached Christ and Him
crucified, the person and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And it's so easy for me to focus on the work, because that's what
I've experienced. That's what I need, and that's
what must be done for His people, but our substitute That's important. Substitution's absolutely, eternally
necessary. But if I'm your substitute, that
ain't gonna do you any good. If just some other person's my
substitute, that won't be any help to me. So who is the substitute? Almighty God is. He's provided
Himself as the Lamb. What he requires, he's provided.
And so, we're gonna see some different things here. It's necessary
for us to see what Christ has done, and it's necessary for
us to see who he is. It's comforting for us to see
everything he's done for his people. But for me, and I'm sure
it's no different where it happens to be another culture and another
degree of latitude, it's comforting to me to know who he is. who
I've been made one with, who my representative is. The proportions
here are good. They're in the right amount for
today. We'll see in these first two versings what we call in
America a call to worship. People didn't have clocks a long
time ago, so when they heard the organs playing or the piano,
sometimes they'd ring a bell. That was so people knew it's
time to come. It's time to come to worship. So the first two
verses are a call to worship. And then verse three through
eight, we'll see there's the power and the might of the holy
God. This is who we came here to worship. This is who he's talking about.
This is a must. We must see who it was that laid
down his life. And then we see in verse nine,
he's given us life. For his people, he comes to them
individually, he gives them life where there was no life. Verse
10, judgment satisfied. We've been given life, we see
what we are, we're discovered. And then we see judgment satisfied,
and in verse 11 we see why. All of this is because of the
Lord Jesus Christ. All of it is because of the one
who is our strength, and his people are blessed with peace.
When we see him, we see all that he is, and it'll take eternity
for us to get a fix on him. It ain't gonna happen. When we
see how magnificent he is, and gracious and powerful, And we
see what he's done for undeserving common things, like us. Oh, we'll have peace. We'll have
peace. Verse one says, give unto the
Lord. Give unto the Lord, oh you mighty.
Give unto the Lord glory and strength. How? How can anyone give the Lord
something? You don't have anything. That's
plain talk where I come from. You're nothing and you have nothing.
Well, I can give my time. It's not your time. I can give
my possessions. They're not your possessions.
I can give my children. Well, those aren't my children.
They're His. Everything is the Lord's. The
Lord said in the Psalms, He said, the earth is His and the fullness
thereof. So everything we see, that's
His. And if something comes from that, a fullness has grown out
of that field, that's His too. If I thank Him, I'm thanking
Him out of lungs He gave me and a mouth He gave me and with His
air. It's His, isn't it? We read over in Psalm 50. He
says, Here, O my people, and I will speak. Here, Israel, and
I will testify against thee. I am God, even thy God. He said,
I will not reprove thee for the sacrifices of burnt offerings.
that are continually before me. He said, I'll take no bullock
out of the house. I don't want a cow out of your house. I don't want
your goats out of your folds. He said, all the beasts of the
field, they're mine. They're mine. And the wild beasts
of the fields. He said, if I was hungry, I wouldn't tell you.
Cat on a thousand heels are his, aren't they? He said, offer unto
God thanksgiving. You pay thy vows unto the Most
High. Thank Him. Have we ever done
that? If it rains, Oh, thank you, Lord. And if it's cold and windy, thank
you, Lord. And if you're happy about it
or sad about it or hurt or feel good or bad, thank you, Lord.
He gave it to his hand, didn't he? He said, call upon me in
the day of trouble and I'll deliver you. And thou shalt glorify me. So what does that word give me?
There's nothing we have to give him. It means a scribe. A scribe. That's to credit, to impute,
to declare what's already there. Give Him, accredit Him, ascribe
to Him glory and strength. All glory is Yours, Lord, and
all strength, all power, all everything is Yours. It's in
Your hand. It says, verse 1, Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty.
Who's that? Who's the mighty? Three things
come to mind. The first one is the mighty ones
of this earth, the rulers, the kings and the governors and those
in power. You are where you are because
the Lord put you there. There ain't nothing special. Your heart's in His hand just
like everyone else's heart is. And thank the Lord and give Him
glory and strength. Ascribe it to Him. Who made you
to differ? That's what Paul asked. The Lord
did. That's the mighty people of this
earth, those in power. And that's all the way down, not just kings,
it's easy for us to talk about that, until presidents. My president
ought to ascribe all his position and the glory to God for where
he is. That goes down to governors and local people, local politicians
and business owners, small business owners, if you own a coffee shop,
the Lord gave you that. What about mommies and daddies
in our homes? What about pet owners? You have
a pet, you're over that pet, give glory to the Lord, don't
you? The mighty ones of this earth and the mighty hosts of
heaven, the angels, they all, they ascribe glory, they ascribe,
they credit strength to the Lord. They're His. But what about those
that's made strong and made mighty in Christ? You. We have a little
different experience than that, don't they? The people of the
earth, they can give a lip service to the Lord. The angels can properly
and morally innocents give credit to the Lord, give glory and strength
to Him, but we've experienced His glory. We've experienced
His strength. So we praise Him. Watch this.
It says in verse two, not as we ought, give unto the Lord
the glory due unto His name. What do His people say? Do you
worship God the way He ought to be worshipped? No. No, we
don't. Do you want to worship Him the
way we ought to worship Him? I sure do. I do. The day will
come. You prayed for that. Lord, we'll
be with you, be made like you, and give you the glory that you
rightfully deserve. Give Him the glory due to His
name and worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. What's
worship? There's been books without end.
That's all I'm gonna say that goes on and on, just more books.
Stop writing books all the time. What's worship? There's a lot
of books about it. We say often in the, all around the United
States, and I'm sure here in the world, we're gonna go to
worship service, we're gonna worship God. But people say that without
understanding. They don't know what this, what
is worship? A few things I know. Worship equals adoration. Adoration. It means sacrifice. That's what
Isaac was told. Where we going, daddy? In Abraham's
summer we'll worship God. We'll sacrifice unto God. But
it means reverence, a deep appreciation, a thankfulness. Adoration. We had a lady in our congregation
who had a baby. My pastor told us growing up,
he said, if you want to see adoration, you go see a new baby. Don't
look at the baby. When you go there, look at mama.
Look mommy in the eyes, and you'll see how she looks at that baby.
That's complete adoration, complete giving of oneself to another.
That's what worship is, and it's beautiful. It's lovely when we
gather together, when we're sitting outside, the breeze is blowing,
the Lord's sun is setting back over us. And I'm here with my
brothers and sisters. You have the same father I have,
the same God I have. That's beautiful, isn't it? You
know how many people I flew over to get here to see you and drove
past? How many did you drive past?
How many take care of you, the Lord's servants, firefighters
and the people paving the roads just so you could come and worship
him and complete that oration, giving him the glory and the
strength that he is already in? We just get together and say
the same thing. That's our call to worship, isn't it? We're gonna
give all the glory and the work, the person and the work to him.
It's his work. He said, you're my workmanship.
Mighty folks, come and credit the Lord for who he is and what
he's done. And some might say, well, who
is he? He tells us plainly. Verse three, the voice, he keeps
saying the voice, the voice, the voice. The voice of the Lord
is upon the waters. He declares of himself. This
voice tells people something. and he is upon the waters. And
I thought, what is, I wonder where he's going with that. There's
a lot of different waters in the scripture. Genesis 1, it
said, the earth was void without form, darkness was upon the deep,
and the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters. And the
Lord said, let there be light, and there's light. That's what
waters, he's on the trouble we're in all by ourselves when he comes
to us and says, live. His voice does that. It's the
execution of his will, and that also handles destruction. There
in Genesis 7, the floods came. He told Noah, get an ark. Get
an ark. There's a picture of Christ.
He told him, make yourself an ark. Christ has made our ark. He set upon the floods, and our
ark was risen above the highest peak. exalted above the entire
earth, and his people in it, sealed with pitch, inside and
out, in it, in him. What a picture he is. He said
he's the Lord upon the waters. And then in Psalm 107, it says
those that go in deep seas and ships to do business in great
waters, they see the works of the Lord. They go way out in
them oceans, out in that Pacific Ocean, and these rogue waves
coming, and boy, they see the Lord's doing this. The Lord's
doing this. He commands, He raises the stormy
winds. Does that mean I have to be a
fisherman to know God? Of course not. What's your deep waters?
What's your stormy waters? How many buckets have you filled
with tears? That's our stormy waters, isn't it? He sends those,
the Lord sends those tears. He sends the trials that bring
those tears. Why? So we'll ascribe to Him
His glory, His strength, won't we? And then, that's for life
he gives, destruction that's his, the instruction, when we
see it in the storms of life, to look to him, and justification
and sanctification. And the Lord was hanging on that
cross, they come by. They said, break all their legs,
we can hurry up, because we've got to keep our law. The Jews
pass over, not the Lord's Passover, Jews' Passover is at hand. They
said, hurry us up. break his legs. And they saw
he was already dead. He'd given up the ghosts. Well,
don't break his legs. That way the scriptures could be fulfilled.
Not a bone shall be broken. And so they took a big spear
and pierced his side. And water and blood came out
of it. They voiced the Lord's upon the waters. With their wicked
hands, they crucified him. It was the determinate counsel
and foreknowledge of God that put him there, wasn't it? That
water and blood come out. It was a young fellow. who died
at 38 years old. Y'all probably heard of him,
Augustus Toplady. He had a pretty good understanding
of what that was. He wrote, rock of ages, cleft for me, let me
hide myself in thee. Let the water and the blood from
thy wounded side which flow, be of sin the double cure. Save
from wrath and make me pure. Speak comfort unto my people.
Tell them their warfare is accomplished. They receive double. for all
their sins. They've been washed clean from
all their sins, and they've been made holy. They can't sin. Just to have a clean slate and
be in front of a holy God ain't gonna cut it. The ability of
failure cannot be there. You have to be made holy, like
he's holy. Be ye holy as you're God's holy,
is what he said. God's voice is on the water.
When we hear his voice command those waters of judgment and
the waters of cleansing, we say with David, he makes us lie down
in green pastures and he leads us beside still waters. They're
still waters. Not stormy waters no more. Oh,
a trial's still gonna come? Oh, that's gonna happen. Rebecca
said, Lord, if I'm so, if there is life in me, and that's what
you say, that's what I say. The old man and the new man.
If there's life in me, why am I thus? He said, there's two
nations in you. I put creation in you, my creation. And Rebecca
understood that she's still pregnant. Them babies were still fighting
at her belly, wasn't they? But we know those waters are His
waters. Verse three says, the voice of the Lord is upon the
waters and the God of glory thundereth. He thunders. I love thunder. I always have. I was hopeful
it was gonna rain this morning. It don't rain much in San Diego
County, and it sure don't thunder much. And normally, if we hear
thunder, that means a fire might be getting ready to happen, so
we get nervous. But my whole life, I've heard these thunderstorms
and just, oh, it's marvelous, marvelous, isn't it? Turn back
just one book, if you got your Bibles. I heard of Job. There's
a man by the name of Maurice Montgomery. He was preaching
one day, and all of a sudden, Maurice wasn't speaking, and
the Lord was speaking to him. He was reading out of Daniel
4, but he had just read Job 37. We're in verse 2. Elihu's talking. He says, Hear
attentively the noise of his voice and the sound that goeth
out of his mouth. Listen to it. He directeth it
under the whole heaven and his lightning unto the ends of the
earth. After it, a voice roareth. He thundereth with the voice
of his excellency. He will not stay then when his
voice is heard. God thundereth marvelously with
his voice. Great things doeth he which we
cannot comprehend. When the voice of the Lord speaks,
it thunders in a marvelous way. And we can't understand it, dude.
Just like the wind, we can't tell where it's coming from,
where it's going. We see His providence, what brought us here.
Every molecule that's ever moved throughout creation, throughout
time, has been perfectly ordered by the will of God to bring all
of us here right now. Isn't that amazing? Can you understand
that? It's so? I can't explain it,
can I? That's marvelous. Marvelous. And it thunders in
this stuff. The blind, they don't have to see light and they can
hear the thunder, don't they? What about the deaf? They can
feel it. They can feel the thunder. And
the Lord speaks. It's marvelous. And it thunders.
Our Lord prayed out loud. He said, Father, glorify thy
name. There in John 12. And then a voice came from heaven.
He said, I've both glorified it and I'll glorify it again.
I have, son. And people around me, some said
it thundered. It thundered. There's times people
walk around this earth and all they hear is just It's just natural
things. It's just thunder. And sometimes
the Lord shakes them. And they hear Him. And it's marvelous. What comes with thunder? Lightning
comes with thunder. It comes with it. As a child,
I always heard about these high-speed cameras. They just come out with
them. And they realize that lightning came from the ground and went
up. There's science behind it, the charge of particles and distribution
of energy and things of those natures. If they'd have just
read Job, they'd have had a good handle on that. Did you know
that? People talk about spectrum analysis,
and light makes noise. Did you know that? In Job, the
oldest book there is, the Lord says, the stars sing to me. We
just listen in. Turn over one page here in Job
38, verse 35. Job 38, 35. The Lord's speaking
to Job, and He's asking him so many things. He said, do you
know how much how much snow I have reserved in the storehouses to
turn a battle. Do you know how much is there?
That'll shut us up, won't it? Here in verse 35, Job 38, canst
thou send lightnings that they may go and say unto thee, here
we are. The Lord said, lightning, go
over there. And from the earth, the lightning says, Lord, I'm
here. Yes, Lord. It comes up, doesn't it? The
lightning obeys him. That's power, isn't it? We can't
do that. Man said that one time, those
are just natural things. You can't do it. You can't. Who are you going to give the
glory to? The Lord. Whose strength, whose power is it? His power.
Verse 4, back in our text, Psalm 29. Psalm 29, verse 4, the voice
of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full
of majesty. Paul said, knowing, brethren beloved, your election
of God. He wrote to that church at Thessalonica.
And I can say to you, brethren, I know your election of God.
You don't. You worry and fret and oh. Lord,
keep me. And I said, oh, that's the Lord's
election. You look at me whenever I say there's no way in the world
I'm a child of God. That man that shaves my face
in the mornings, wicked and evil, and there's no way I could be
his. I'm the accuser of this, brethren.
And he said, well, Kevin, of course you're the Lord. Paul
said, brethren, I know your election of God because our gospel came
to you not in just word. They just come giving you some
cold dead letter doctrine, and this isn't a theological standpoint
that you agree with. He said, our word came to you
in power, dynamis. We get the word dynamite. I hope
I can light it and just throw it and get out the way. Our words came to you in power
and in the Holy Ghost and in much assurance. Those birds are
singing to the Lord. That wind's His wind blowing.
Does that give you assurance or make you nervous? That comforts
me. It's His power, isn't it? The
voice of the Lord is powerful and it's majestic. We'll go in
verse five. The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars, yea,
the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. Those big hundred
foot tall trees, old, big, strong trees, they're shattered with
His thunder and lightning into little tiny toothpicks. You ever
see a tree hit by lightning? One of two things happen. The
tree breaks and it bows, doesn't it? Or it burns. Stays right
where it is and is scarred up. It's burnt to death. I know there's
a still small voice. I'll quote that to you in a minute.
That still small voice that comes to us, it's like thunder and
lightning. There's power in that voice when the Lord speaks. And
there's going to be evidence it was there. There's gonna be
evidence it was there. When I was a little tiny boy,
I asked my pastor one time, and he said, if Christ is in me,
I'm little and he's grown up. Wouldn't he stick out? And the
parents said, yeah, son. If he's in you, he's gonna stick
out. It's gonna be obvious. If he comes with that lightning
and that thunder in the heart of his people, it's gonna be
obvious. Well, what about those that didn't? Those that are burnt? So the scripture saith unto Pharaoh,
even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I may
show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout
all the earth. You mean the Lord put Pharaoh
up there and made him say no? All those plagues came and then
he had to chase that and his army had to be drowned in the
Red Sea so the Lord would know his name? We know that story,
don't we? We know it. Every knee will bow. It's only
a matter of when. We'll either bow in this slur
or we'll bow after, won't we? Verse six, Psalm 29, verse six.
He makes them also to skip like a calf. Those big old trees. Lebanon and Syrian like a young
unicorn. What's Syrian? That's Mount Hermon
in Lebanon. You can read it over in Deuteronomy
three, but that's a mountain. He makes big old trees and mountains
to skip like a little calf, the voice of the Lord, His word,
His will, make them skip like a little antelope. They bounce
around with joy. How could that happen? The faithfulness
of Christ. What can make an old, stony,
dead mountain like me, or an old, stiff, unmovable, bendable
tree, Dance, the faithfulness of Christ. He can move mountains,
can't he? Or Matthew 17, it says, the disciples
ask him, they couldn't heal that boy that's possessed that's throwing
himself in the fire. And they ask him, said, Lord,
why couldn't we cast that demon out of him? And he said, because
you were unbelief. He said, verily I say unto you, if you'd had
a faith as a grain of mustard seed, sitting right there on
the table, itty bitty, a grain of mustard seed. He said, you
can say to these mountains, go yonder, and it'll remove. You
can say, jump in the ocean, that mountain will go jump in the
ocean. If you believe. Well, who has the faith to do
that, to make mountains dance like little calves? The Lord
does. Only Him. His voice makes a bunch of old
stiff trees and dead rocks leap for joy. Leap. I thought of John
the Baptist there in the womb. Don't you just, it doesn't make
you happy when you hear him, when he comes close, you hear
about, not my faith and how good I've done, his faithfulness.
My faith is his faithfulness. When we hear about him, John
the Baptist is in the womb, there in Elizabeth, and Mary come in
the same room, and that baby started leaping. He had the Holy
Ghost from the womb, didn't he? Oh, as it says, Lord was in the
room. He knew who that was, didn't he? Couldn't keep from him. And
in verse seven, the voice of the Lord divideth the flames.
There's a whole lot of commentaries on this. And I was thinking,
as I was reading all these different ones, the commentaries we have
on the scriptures, as my pastor said, the scriptures can shed
a whole lot of light on those commentaries. But the commentaries
they had, that was God's man for that generation in that time,
their thoughts on a particular passage of scripture on one day.
This is the living word, isn't it? That's right. That'll hit
me where I live at some point. That's right. That was at that
one time and one day. That's when the Lord says, oh
ye of little faith. There's times I crawl underneath rocks and
mountains and go hide. Oh, don't you just feel so horrible
sometimes? Why don't I believe this holy
God that rules and reigns the universe? Why won't I walk through
this town acting like somebody that believes God? I'm so little
faith. Now the next day I'll read that
and he'll say, oh ye of little faith. And I'll say, you hear
that? He said, we had faith. That's saving faith. He gives
it, it's saving faith. It's eternal. It can't be taken
away. His gifts are without repentance. It lives, doesn't it? The voice
of the Lord divideth the flame. I thought of those three Hebrew
children. Old Nebuchadnezzar said, burn them up. And those
men that cast them into the furnace, they burn up too. And then Nebuchadnezzar
looked, and he said, looks like there's four in there. And he
said, one of them looks like the Son of God. Hmm. And they come out. And I thought,
they didn't smell like smoke, we know that, right? And the
three of them walked out, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out.
They was missing one thing. They was with the Lord, and he
divided that flame. They was missing their bonds,
weren't they? The ropes that bound them. He
loosed them and let them go. He divided the flames from us,
didn't he? The Lord took all the flame I
deserved, I earned, that eternal punishment and justness. I broke
his holy law and he put that on his son. This whole world
went black. God turned his back on God because of my sin. He
looked on his darling son and saw Kevin Thacker. He saw you. And he killed him. And now, he
looks at you and says, well done, my good and faithful son. Wonderful. Come, I got a place ready for
you. I'm gonna feed you. There's a
table set. Isn't that amazing? He divides
the flame. Verse eight, the voice of the
Lord shaketh the wilderness. And Lord shaketh the wilderness
of Kadesh. The earth quakes where others
don't feel it. Out in the wilderness, bare wilderness, I hope y'all don't get offended
when we say it's an island. We say it's a big island. North
America's an island. Every continent's an island,
I guess. But way out in the middle of nowhere, all alone, ain't
nothing going on out there. The Lord's shaking there. The
Lord's shaking this place up for years now, a couple decades,
15 years. The Lord's been shaking now Australia. Can you imagine that? Shakes
in the wilderness. Over in 1 Kings 19, we read the
Lord had come to Elijah, and oh, he sent so many things. The
wind came and the earthquake, but the Lord wasn't in the wind.
And the earth shook. The wind came, the Lord wasn't
in it. And the earth shook, and the Lord wasn't in the earthquake.
And the fire came, and the Lord wasn't in the fire. And then
that still, small voice came. What's that teach us? The Lord's
not just in things, is he? I hope I never preach election.
I don't ever want to preach election. I want to preach the God of election.
I don't want to just preach a man that preaches sovereignty. I
want to preach a God who is sovereign. You get that? I don't want to
preach the attributes. I want to preach the person,
who he is. When he speaks, when his voice
comes, Elijah heard it and he wrapped his face in the mantle.
Oh, and then what happened to a few other ones? When they hear
the Lord, they fell on their face as a dead man. They hid
their faces. Those people want to hide their
face, don't they? We know who he is. We see his holiness and
his glory and his strength and his powers on display. We bow. Then what happens? Verse 9. The
voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to calf. He makes the deers
to have babies. Does that seem out of place to
you? He thundereth marvelously. He
rules and reigns this whole world. And then life comes. He makes
the wilderness to shake. Life comes. Life comes. He discovers the forest, and
in his temple doth everyone speak of his glory. He gives life in
the midst of what everyone else in the world calls chaos, doesn't
he? The earth's shaking, the wind's
blowing, the storm's coming, the thunder and the lightning's
crashing, and a deer, I don't know how jumpy kangaroos are,
but they're the same family, if you ever shoot a deer and
you're bow hunting, you gotta aim a little low, gotta call
it drop, and so as soon as you let go, just a small sound, And
that deer will drop about two inches. They're scared little
animals. They're frightened over every
little thing. And they'll jump. And the Lord comes in all that
chaos to a frightful little deer and puts life in it. He's their
midwife. He's with it in the wilderness.
And they have children all over. Kangaroos having babies all over
this place, ain't they? The Lord's with them. He gives life. Life's given, and then he discovers
the forest. What's that mean? He sees the
forest as it is, all the leaves fall. Whenever you have life,
you realize your fig leaf ain't gonna cover anything. You get
that? The Lord gives life, you must be born again, he told Nicodemus.
We see his power and his might, we bow to him, and we realize
we're nothing, we're convicted of sin. The Holy Spirit's gonna
come, that comforter's gonna come, it's gonna do three things.
Three things, I can remember that, can't you? Convict the
world of sin, because they didn't believe on me. Lord, my doctrine
was straight as a gun barrel and just as empty when I was
growing up. And the Lord put life in me,
and I said, I'm a man of unclean lips. I bore myself. I saw I
was naked. I needed covering. He discovered
my forest. And everyone in His temple declares
His glory. In heaven they declare, the mighty
declares His glory, and we do, don't we? Why? Because He's righteous.
We're convicted of His righteousness. He's the only one that is righteous.
He's the only one that deserves glory and strength and power and might.
He is. Always has been. Or what about the conviction
of judgment? Holy Spirit comes, speaking of Christ, convicting
of sin, convicting of His righteousness, and convicting of judgment. Look
here in verse 10. The Lord sitteth upon the flood,
singular. Yea, the Lord sitteth king forever. Judgment's accomplished. That
flood of judgment, He sits on it. I thought about that a long
time this past week. Can you sit on water? I can't
sit on water. I can't sit. A flood comes, it
washes everything away. He sits on it. Why? He's steeled
it. It's been satisfied. Completely is. Judgment's accomplished. And the king sits there forever. How's all that done? Verse 11
says, the Lord will give strength unto his people. David said in
Psalm 28, one book over, the Lord is my strength and my shield.
And he said he's the saving strength of his anointed. That's a person,
isn't it? The Lord will give strength.
He'll give Christ unto his people. The one that's accomplished every
bit of this. The one that was the substitute. He and the Father
are one. That's who was sent. He'll reveal
Christ to his people. He'll give strength to his people.
And the Lord will bless his people with peace. with peace. This one who stood in my place
was the almighty God of everything and always will be. He rules
and reigns forever. And that's the one that said
it's finished. Everything he's declared is going
to happen and his will is set forth. That hour came and he
said it's finished. What do you add to something
that's finished? You don't. It's done. That's where he says, my people's
gonna have peace. What must be a way to have peace? War must
be over. The battle must be done. If you're
still putting out some skirmishes, there's no peace, you're still
fighting. The war's accomplished. The battle's over. Christ laid
down his life. This one who rules and reigns,
this triune God manifested in a body. came to this earth, was
made like me, was made like you. The substitute has to be the
same. And he lived a perfect, holy life. Never a smirk, never
a thought that was ever not perfect in honor of his father. Because
that's what's required of me. Never wavering, because that's
what's required for us. And he hung on that tree. Go
read Matthew 27 sometimes and tell me how you feel. Chris asked
that one time. How do you feel after you read
that? Oh, he hung on that tree willingly, willingly laying down
his life for the sheep. He died, he ascended, sat on
his throne. That was our substitute. That
last verse in Habakkuk said, the Lord God is my strength.
And he will make my feet like hinds' feet. He's gonna make
my feet like deer feet. And he'll make me walk upon high
places. That's a high place, isn't it?
He'll make me walk on Christ. Just like a deer. And I'll jump
marvelously. That's a joyous thing. That's a joyous thing. Thank you. Thank you, Kevin.
What a great saviour. I thought we might teach our
good friends our closing doxology. Do we want to sing it? Have some
songbirds willing to sing? We sing the last verses of Jude
at the end of our service. So here we go. I'm not going
to do it. Who's going to lead? Now, yeah, come on Beth and Dawn,
quickly. Now unto Him who is able to keep,
able to keep you from falling, and who sent you faultless before
the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. To the only wise God, our Saviour,
be glory and majesty. Dominion and power, both now
and forever. Amen.