We saw how that the power and grace of the Lord Jesus is why the gospel has continued to go forth over generations. And verse 10 and 12 are a certainty. I'm gonna read these here. And these are a certainty because our Savior's working effectually in power.

This is what distinguishes the Lord's people from all the religions of the world, even from those who profess to believe Christ while they're preaching their works, having experienced his power and his grace, having known something of the power of Christ, our prophet, priest, and king who called us. We bear witness of him. We bear witness of his mighty acts. We're his workmanship.

So look at this, verse 10. All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord. We're his workmanship, and we're gonna praise him. because he did all the work. We've been made holy, been made saints by our Savior. Verse 10, thy saints shall bless thee. Verse 11 says we speak of the glory of his kingdom and we talk of his power.

Now here's why, here's why. Now listen carefully to this, verse 12. To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Just like our king sent the gospel to us and gave us life and called us, he's using us to preach and he's gonna do that for his lost people. He's gonna call them.

Now, some of you that are hearing this tonight have never believed on the Lord Jesus. And as much as we're here to comfort those that do believe, we're here praying to our king that he would call into his kingdom some of you that have never believed. Anybody hearing this, that's our prayer. You're gonna hear us preach right now. We're making known to you his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. That's what we're preaching. Us believers here together preaching to you. You're about to hear the mighty acts of our king and our savior. You're gonna hear the glorious majesty of his kingdom. And our prayer is that he would be pleased to regenerate you, call you, give you faith, to trust him. We pray that's you, that you're the lost sheep that he's calling.

And for the brethren that do believe, it's to comfort us. This is how he keeps calling us. This is how he keeps comforting us and strengthening us and working the very things we're gonna see declared in this psalm. This is how he keeps doing it through this gospel.

I want to preach about the glorious, majestic kingdom. The glorious, majestic kingdom. They'll speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Every saint that's been sanctified by our Lord, entirely the work of our Lord. You're a citizen of a spiritual kingdom, a kingdom over which Christ is the king that endures forever and lasts forever.

I want to show you this now. We're gonna begin here. First of all, how do sinners enter this kingdom? How do we enter this kingdom? Only by the grace and power of our Lord. That's how you enter this kingdom. Look here in verse 13. He says, thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. Christ our king is everlasting, and so his kingdom is everlasting. It's not bound by time. Everlasting reaches back, and it reaches to the future. It takes in the past and it takes in the future. Our king is God. He's God and man. That's who our king is in one person. And he is, as God, he's the everlasting God, who is from everlasting to everlasting. He's the everlasting father of his people. Listen to this from Psalm 41, 13. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting. It says, before the mountains were brought forth, wherever thou hast formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

See, we're not talking about just lasting forever. Everlasting is, means there's no time involved, having no beginning, no ending. God the Father chose his son and he made him king before there was time. He chose his son, he made him king before time existed. And he's always been the king, always been the king of his people.

When our Savior came into this world, the wise men came saying, where is he that is born King of the Jews? He was born King. He's always been the King. Listen to Micah 5, 2. Thou Bethlehem Ephratah. This is a prophecy concerning Christ. It's replacing the place where he was born with him. Thou Bethlehem Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that's to be ruler in Israel, whose goings forth have been from old, from everlasting. Thy throne is established of old, thou art from everlasting.

When the Lord calls us, he makes Christ our wisdom. He makes him wisdom unto us. and wisdom speaking said this. He said, I was set up from everlasting from the beginning or ever the earth was.

Now why am I saying this? Why am I declaring Christ has been the King from eternity before time? Why am I telling you that? Because the way a sinner becomes a citizen of this kingdom is by the grace of God our Father choosing us in Christ our King before the foundation of the world. That's how you become a citizen of this kingdom.

You remember when our Lord gave the parable of the end, when he sets the sheep on his right hand, the goats on his left. He said, then shall the king say unto them on his right hand, come, you blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. See, when the Lord chose His people, when God our Father chose His people and trusted us to Christ to save, He prepared the kingdom for us right then. Because there's no possibility that Christ will fail.

When He calls you, you learn what Jeremiah learned. He said, speaking of God's love to His people, His love is in Christ. That's where God's love is. who shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. And it's been in Christ toward his people from before time. So Jeremiah said, the Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love. Therefore, in loving kindness, I've drawn thee.

Well, everlasting, and not only precedes time and has no bounds by time, it does also look to the future. It looks to the future. In other words, it won't ever end. Come with me to Isaiah 9. Isaiah 9. You know, it struck me recently. One of the political parties, their campaign they were running right before this election we just had was no kings, no kings. Did that strike you? That struck me, that men in this earth are running around saying, we want no king. God's people want a king, and we have a king.

Look here, Isaiah 9, verse 6. Unto us a child is born, and unto us a son is given. He's the God-man. As a man, He's the child born. As God, He's the Son given. And the government shall be upon His shoulder. We're talking about Christ our King and His kingdom. The government is on His shoulder. And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Thee Mighty God, the everlasting father, the prince, the king of peace. Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. Upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom to order it and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even forever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

How did our king, how did our king order and establish his kingdom with justice and justice forever? How did he do that? Well, God the Father did it by trusting his son, Christ our king. And Christ did it by taking flesh. He took the flesh of his people without sin, and by his precious blood, he ordered and made it sure. by laying down his life, and what a king, brethren. Who ever heard of a earthly king taking the place of his subjects in his kingdom and dying for them? That's what our king did. That's what our king did. He took the place of his people and died. The zeal of the Lord of hosts has performed this. He's done it.

Now, as God and man, He has all dominion. His kingdom's everlasting, and it says in his dominion, our text says his dominion. Look here in verse 13, thy kingdom is everlasting, an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion, your rule, your sovereign rule, endure throughout all generations. I've said this to you many times. When that voice was walking in the cool of his day in the garden, that was the mediator. because Adam had fallen. And there's one mediator between holy God and a fallen sinner, and that's Christ. That was Christ the King. See, his power and his dominion has been in every generation. Everybody that's ever been called has been called by the King, Christ Jesus.

And when he laid down his life for us, he arose, and we've seen We've seen it many times in scripture, Ephesians 1 at the end, it says all power is His. All dominion is His. That's the God-man. He's ruling everything. Everything. From the leaf that falls off the tree, to the sparrow that falls, to the hairs of your head. They're all numbered. He rules. And He rules everywhere, all the time, continually. And He does it for His people. This is His kingdom.

We're not only elected, that's how you get in this kingdom. You're not only chosen by the father, you had to be redeemed. Because nobody can come into this kingdom except the righteous people, the holy people. And we're only righteous and holy by our redeemer. He has to get the praise and the glory. That's the whole purpose of the gospel is to declare him and show his glory. and the majesty of his kingdom. And because he has all dominion and power, he sends the gospel and quickens and calls, and he does it with success, births us into this kingdom.

That's another thing, you've chosen to be a citizen of this kingdom by grace, you're redeemed and made righteous and holy by Christ's one offering, and then you have to be born into this kingdom. It's the only way to enter it, you have to be born into it. Just like you were born into this country. What'd you have to do with that? What'd you do to be born into this country? Nothing, you were born into it. Born into it. Unless you immigrated here, you're born into it. And that's how all his people enter his kingdom, had to be born into it. Had to be born into it.

Ephesians 2.17. After he laid down his life for us, it says, he came and preached peace to you. Christ did. He came and preached peace to you, to his people that were far off and to them that were not. He started with his lost sheep of the house of Israel. Most people think he's gonna do that at the end. He started with them. And then he turned and started calling out Gentiles. And when he's called the last of his late Gentiles out, then all his spiritual kingdom will be formed. Israel, the true Israel. And then we'll go and we'll see this kingdom.

But he came and he preached peace to you that were far off and to them that were nigh, and it's through him that we both have access by one spirit to the Father. Now you're no more strangers. Now you're fellow citizens with saints. We're in this kingdom together.

When he made the kingdom, when he made Israel, earthly Israel and put David on that throne. The Lord, he did that just like when he made that tabernacle. He called Moses up and he said, you see that you make it after the pattern I showed you. That tabernacle was made after the pattern of our Lord Jesus. Our Lord Jesus is represented in everything in that tabernacle in shadow and type. Well, when he made Israel and he put David on that throne, he made that kingdom after the pattern of Christ our king and his holy kingdom. And he did it to show us and picture his kingdom.

But David knew that. He taught David that. Peter, on the day of Pentecost, he said David was a prophet. And he said David knew that when he wrote, you won't leave my soul in hell, neither suffer your holy one to seek corruption, he said he knew he was writing about Christ. Because God had promised him that of his loins, after the flesh, he would raise up a king to sit on the throne. And his kingdom would be forever. And so Peter said, so know assuredly that that same Jesus whom you crucified, God's raised Him and made Him both Lord and Christ.

So, you know, a lot of people put a lot of significance on political Israel. And if you, oh, you gotta do good to them or God's gonna get you. God's done with any earthly nation, being a picture. He's saving all His people by His grace. because Christ the King has come, and He's established His kingdom, and He's calling us into this spiritual kingdom, and that's the kingdom we belong to. It's an everlasting kingdom, and He's doing it by the dominion of His power, His power ruling throughout all generations, and everything about it's everlasting.

Think of this, I just went today And this was sort of an afterthought, but I went back and I just got thinking about everlasting. And I went through the scriptures and just wrote down a few things. This is what the Lord gives you when he calls you. Everlasting life. Everlasting righteousness. Established on Christ our everlasting foundation. An everlasting covenant ordered in all things insure. David said, this is all my salvation. That covenant written in his blood. He's given you an everlasting name. The Lord shall be your everlasting light. He's our everlasting consolation and good hope. He saved us with this everlasting gospel. That's what it's called, the everlasting gospel. He's given you everlasting joy. He shows you everlasting kindness, and underneath you are his everlasting arms. Everything about it's everlasting.

Now that brings you to this point right here. Every citizen of this kingdom is still a sinner, but we're upheld and kept by Christ our King. Look here now, verse 14. The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. What a king, brethren. He laid down his life for us, sent the gospel and called us, and now he's upholding us, taking the weight off of us when we're bowed down.

Now, stay with the context. He's not talking about all mankind. He's talking about his kingdom. He's talking about you, he's called into his kingdom. It's true, all mankind fell in at him. And we can't, we're not lifted up unless he lifts us up. That's what he did for each one of you, he's called. We fell in at him. And the only reason we believe is he brought me up out of a horrible pit. Out of the miry clay and set my feet upon a rock and established my going. And certainly he does that for all his people he redeemed, he brought us up.

But brethren, after he's called us by his wisdom, he left us in this flesh for a reason. Because our body of sin is still dead due to sin. That's Romans 8. If you have life, the spirit is life because of righteousness, the body's dead because of sin. So we got this warfare, gonna have it. and you're gonna fall. We're gonna have afflictions, trials, falls. I'm talking about just flat out sin.

Every morning when you get dressed before you leave the house, every morning, when God's saints get up and get dressed before you leave the house, you're manifesting, you're a sinner. Before sin entered and death entered, Adam and Eve were naked, And they didn't even know it. They knew it, but so what? There was nothing to be ashamed about. No sin. But as soon as they sinned, they started covering their nakedness because they knew they was naked and they were shamed. So every day when you get dressed before you go out public, just be reminded, you know why you're doing that? You're a sinner. That's why. Everybody in this world and its people But born of God, we have a holy nature because Christ is in His people. That's how come we can see our sin. That's how come we know we're naked and sinful and that Christ is our only clothing. He's our only robe of righteousness spiritually.

But our King, by His dominion, by His power, by His grace, the same power and dominion and grace that called us, He gonna uphold us when we fall. He does it because He's our King and He's righteous. He is our righteousness. He's our propitiation with the Father, our advocate with the Father, our intercessor with the Father, so He's gonna keep upholding you even though you fall. He's gonna keep upholding you.

Come with me to Psalm 37. Psalm 37. This notion that the Lord's people don't sin after. I'm so thankful He used David to write this. Aren't you? Because I like a man who knows God's grace and he's proven it by experience. And he's proven his power by experience. That's David, because he sinned. But that tells me, that encourages me to know our Lord is going to keep us. He's going to uphold us.

Look here, Psalm 37. Look up here at verse 17. The arms of the wicked shall be broken, but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. He upholds the righteous. How'd you get to be righteous? He made you righteous, and he's gonna uphold you. Look down here at verse 23. The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way, though he fall. be utterly cast down. What does that mean? Though you fall and sin, you are not going to utterly fall away. He's not going to let you cease believing on him. You will fall. You're going to go through the waters. You're going to go through the fire. You're going to, you're going to, we don't want to sin. We're not thumping our nose at God and just sinning with a high hand. We don't want to sin. Sin not, brethren, but you're going to. And when you do, he's gonna uphold you. Though you fall, you will not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

Look back at Psalm 34. Psalm 34, verse 18. Well, let's begin in verse 17. the righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. See there, if we read this book honestly, God made you honest, given you a true heart, you read this book, it's amazing that we would ever even enter and have this thought that we're not gonna have trouble, because he tells you all the time. You're made righteous by the Lord, but he's gonna hear you and deliver you out of all your troubles.

The Lord's nigh unto them that are of a broken heart, and save us such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He's made us to be one with him, bone of his bones. And look here, he keepeth all his bones. Not one of them is broken. He's gonna keep, just like our Savior went to that cross and not one of his bones were broken. They came to break his legs, but he fulfilled the script. He gave up his spirit so they didn't break his leg. But now listen to that in regard to his people. Your bone of his bones, if you're his, your bone, he's not gonna let you be broken. Brokenhearted, yes, but not broken, not separated from him in any way, not at all.

David said, when I said my foot slippeth, thy mercy, O Lord, help me up. And by him delivering us. Now, couldn't he just stop you from having any sin? Yeah. He could stop you from sinning like that. The sin's all our fault now. Don't think I'm blaming God and his sovereignty. I'm not. The sin's of us. But he could stop you from sinning and you'd never have another sin in your life ever. For his own purpose and his own wisdom, this is how he's done it. And when you do sin and he delivers you out of it, and you keep seeing he's the only one that can keep you and hold you up, here's what it makes you do. I know this is one reason why he does it this way. Because this is what you do, Psalm 145, 15. The eyes of all wait upon thee. There's one reason he does it this way. Keep your eye looking to him.

The eyes of all wait upon thee, and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing. Now, he certainly does provide for all his creation. Every living thing looks to him for him to give them their meat. And he declares that plainly talking about creation in Psalm 104. but here he's talking about his kingdom. He's talking about his people in his kingdom. We're saved by his grace and by his power. He's provided us with all spiritual blessings, and Christ is our meat. He said, my flesh is meat indeed, my blood is drink indeed. We're living by faith upon Christ. He's our life, he's our bread, he is, he is, He's life, He's meat, He's the bread from heaven.

And so when we go through anything that we go through, because you know you're only saved by the Lord, by His grace, by His power, because you know that, He's gonna keep you waiting on Him and looking to Him. That's so of all His people. There's places in scripture where all never means everybody without exception. But when He's talking about in His kingdom and those He's called into His kingdom and He uses all, this is so of all His people. All His people wait on Him. All His people are going to look to Him only to save us. And He gives us our meat in due season. When the time is set and He's worked His will in the trial, He's going to give you the bread from heaven. He's going to give you Him. You're going to see Him. You're going to be upheld by Him. He's going to open His hand of grace and He's going to satisfy you. He's going to give you the desire that you desire. What do you desire? Him. He's made our desire to be Him.

That's not just a blank check that He's going to give you your desire. No, He makes His people, I want to be found in His righteousness. That's my desire. I want to know Him more. That's your desire, isn't it? You want him to work his will. You want him to save his people. You want Christ to be glorified and get all the glory. You wanna see his kingdom complete, him calling in all his people. That's our desire. He's going to give you the desire. He puts the desire in your heart, and then he's gonna fulfill the desire.

Behold, the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear him. Why do you fear him? Why do you reverence Him? He gave it to you. Why do you have the eye of faith to look to Him? He gave it to you. And the eye of the Lord is upon them that fear Him. Just like you're looking to Him, He's looking to His people. And upon them that hope in His mercy. He put the hope in your heart to hope in His mercy. And he's looking and guarding his people at all time to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.

David said, I've been young and I'm old. And he said, I've never seen the righteous forsaken. I've never seen a seed begging bread. You're gonna have Christ the bread. You're gonna have Christ the bread. That's our desire.

Now lastly, our assurance in all of this to know that he's gonna surely do this is because the Lord is righteous and holy. Look at verse 17. The Lord is righteous in all His ways and holy in all His work. That's why the Son of God took flesh. That's why He came down. It's because He's righteous and holy. We couldn't obey His law. We had to die. He came and honored His own law for His people. He came and brought in an everlasting righteousness justified us from all our sin because he's righteous and he's holy. And he did that on behalf of his chosen people.

And so now that he's called you because he's righteous and holy, he's going to do what he says right here. Look here, verse 18, the Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth. We just read in that Psalm before, he said, he's nigh them that are of a broken heart and a contrite heart. Where'd you get it? He gave it. Gave you a new heart, broken heart, humble heart. A humble heart's trust in him. A humble heart's looking to him. A humble heart has a desire for him only. And he's near them. How near? How near? Christ in you, the hope of glory. He's in you. He said the kingdom's within you. He's in you. Christ the King is in his people. And when you call on him, he's near. He's near.

He made us fear him because he forgave us. There's forgiveness with God that he may be feared. He forgave you to create a reverence in your heart. Now that he's righteous and forgiving you because he brought you righteousness to you, gave you a righteousness you couldn't create. And he's holy. And because he's taught you this, he's going to be righteous and holy in all his dealings with you. He's going to save you because it's the right thing to do. It's the holy thing to do. Well, look down here at verse 19. He will fulfill the desire of them that fear him. That's what he's gonna do. He's giving you a desire for him. He's gonna give you what you desire. Something else, he also will hear their cry. He's gonna hear his people. Something else, and he will save them. That's what he's gonna do.

Verse 20, the Lord preserveth all them that love him, but all the wicked will he destroy. Here's what Paul said, he said, God's able to make all grace abound toward you, that you having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good work. He's gonna see to that.

But now listen, take this word right here, now listen, any who have not believed on Christ, any who have not followed him in baptism, Don't try to come to God in your works. Don't try to look to yourself and just hope God's gonna receive you. He won't. He's only gonna receive his people in his son. That's it. Don't look to you, look to him and trust him.

He said this, he said, anybody that's ashamed to confess me, they're ashamed of me and my words right now. He said, when I return and come in my glory, I'm gonna be ashamed of them before my father. Believe on him now. Seek him now. I'm not saying that to scare you. I am, but I'm not. I'm just saying that today's their grace. Seek him today. And I pray give you that heart to seek him.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. He that believeth not shall be damned. As surely as he's righteous and holy and will save all his people and uphold us and give you him, give you your desire and keep you all your days and bring you to glory with him, as surely as he'll do that, he's also gonna destroy the wicked by the same righteousness and the same holiness.

But look at this now. This is where he brings you and me, his people. Verse 21, my mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord and let all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever. That's gonna be so in his kingdom. All his people are gonna bless his holy name forever and ever. Our mouth's gonna speak of the praise of the Lord.

Now listen, this is what Paul said to you who believe. Our conversation, our citizenship, it's not here. Don't get caught up in this mess of arguing over Democrats and Republicans. I got a brother down in West Virginia that has had to go to Washington to do some lobbying. He works for the state. And he said when the cameras turn off, they at the same table, drinking from the same bottle, patting each other on the back. When the cameras come on, they're acting like they're against each other. They want to keep you divided. That's what they want to do. Don't get caught up in it. Let the pot shards, the broken pieces of pot, let them strive with each other. Your kingdom's in heaven. Our citizenship is in heaven from whence also we look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he's able to subdue all things to himself.

Look to Him, all eyes waiting on Him. Let's pray, brethren. Our Father, thank You for providing Your people with a gracious, righteous, holy King that does everything righteous and holy. Lord, thank You for saving us by Your grace. Thank You for ruling this world for us. Thank You for ruling in our hearts. Upholding us when we fall. Lord, thank you for hearing us when we cry. Lord, keep us looking to you, waiting on you, believing you, and depending upon none other. Lord, we pray you bless this word. Call out those that are yet lost, those you chose, redeemed. Lord, we pray you call them out in your time. Give us grace, Lord, we beg of you. Make us know your presence. For your glory and your honor, in Christ's name we ask it, amen.

All right, Brother Adam.