I'm sorry, Psalm 145. Psalm 145. I'm just gonna read the first three verses. You'll notice there at the heading, this is the only Psalm with this title. It's called David's Psalm of Praise. David's Psalm of Praise. And when we read this, we hear the true David, our true David, we hear our King, the Lord Jesus, praising the Father. And He's the one that makes us praise Him. He has preeminence in everything, even in glorifying the Father, praising the Father. And our praise is accepted by God only through our Lord Jesus. Remember, he said in Hebrews 2, he said, where it says that Christ who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all of one, and he quotes a psalm and he says, Lord, I will declare thy name unto my brethren. In the midst of the church will I sing praise to thee. He did that when he walked this earth, but he does it now too. It's Christ who glorifies and praises the Father. He did it by all his works, but he does it also by bringing you and me, who are his people, to praise him. Through the preaching of the gospel, it's Christ speaking, it's Christ turning our hearts above, and it's in Christ that our praise is presented perfect to God. Let's read these three verses. Verse one, I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name forever and ever. Every day will I bless thee, and I will praise thy name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. Our great God and Savior, in the church of God, and this is to the glory of our Lord Jesus, in the church of God of which he's the head, he fills all in all, so he fills his house with glory to God, with praise to God. He gives the message to be preached, he blesses it in the hearts of his people, and he leads us in turning all our focus and our affection on God and causing us to worship God, and it's only through Him that God receives us in perfect praise and perfect glory to God. I just want to show you three things from these verses. First of all, when you hear our Savior here, and read this hearing Him first, always start with looking to Christ. Hear Him speak to the Father. And this is what he works in our heart. I will extol thee, O my God. That means to exalt, to lift up. I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless. That means to adore, to praise. I will bless thy name forever and ever. I will extol thee, my God, O King, and I will bless thy name forever and ever. That's why the Lord Jesus came. He came to glorify God. He came to glorify God and God sent him to glorify his son. He will have his son have all preeminence. And it's only by the Lord, by him being formed in us that we're brought to own God to be my God, personally to call him my God. Aren't you thankful by God's grace that you can say the Lord Jehovah is my God? He's my God and he's my king. That's what he brings his people to say. You know the difference, the difference in a sinner from all other centers in this world, the difference that's made is all entirely by God's grace. It's all of God that makes his people to differ. We didn't make ourself to differ. It was the greatness of God. It was his goodness to his people that made us to differ. Naturally, We come into this world as unregenerate sinners, and we want praise. We want glory for ourselves. Nobody had to teach us that. That's the depraved heart in every person born into this world. We want praise. We want glory. That's what carnal religion is teaching poor sinners to do. By teaching sinners there's something they can do to save themselves or even just contribute to their righteousness or to their holiness. By putting it in the sinner's hand, they're teaching sinners to glory in themselves. You know, the Lord, remember, I think it's Isaiah 43 where the Lord said, I created you for my glory. I created my people for my praise, for my glory, but we won't So, you know, and we think we know God by nature. And when the Lord comes and when he quickened and called us and converted us, he had to make us unlearn what we thought we knew. He had to make us blind to our carnal sight and looking upon things with these eyes and thinking we were righteous by our works and thinking that that these carnal things we can see in the form of religion, thinking that was our righteousness, going through the motions, going through the form and the ceremony, thinking that's what made us righteous. God had to blind us to that. Remember Paul on the road to Damascus? When the Lord revealed himself and his light shined, Paul hit the dust and he was blinded. The Lord blinded Paul. His carnal sight, he blinded him. And it doesn't appear that the Lord ever returned his sight to him, his carnal sight. You know, you read the epistles, and at the end of those epistles, Paul will say that some of the few of the brethren that were with him wrote the epistle. The Spirit of God gave Paul what to write, and he dictated it, and they wrote the epistle. And then at the end, he'd say, I signed it with my own hand. And it appears that he used somebody else to actually write the epistle, pen it, and then he signed it. Remember how the Galatians said, he said, you would have given, plucked out your own eyes and given them to me. I was so dear to you. And Paul never, he never, Lord never gave him his physical sight again, it appears. But that's a good example of what has to happen to us. The Lord has to blind us from seeing a sign, from wanting to see something with these eyes. He has to blind us to what we thought we knew, what we thought we understood about God, what we thought we had done, we thought was righteous, we thought it was pleasing to God. He has to blind us to all the things that we learn in our vain understanding, in our vain works, our dead works, that he might give us spiritual sight, true sight, the sight of beholding by faith and knowing by faith and having spiritual discernment. Remember that, remember that, the blind man that the Lord gave sight and he first put, he took the dirt, spit in the dust and he made mud and put it on his eyes. Again, another illustration, he blinds, he has to blind you to what you see with these eyes and give you spiritual sight. And he sent him to that pool of Siloam. What's that picture? That pool of Siloam, that was the, I believe that was the lower pool, there was an upper pool by the Fuller's Field, and it came from the same source The water flowed into that pool, and it flowed down into the Pool of Siloam. And that upper pool, that's where the Lord sent Isaiah, and he met Ahaz there by that pool, by the fuller's field. A fuller was somebody that washed clothes and got them wiped. He met him there by that pool in the fuller's field. He has already had made up his mind. He was going to make a covenant with a earthly king to try to help him deliver him out of this enemy that was attacking. And the Lord sent word through Isaiah and said, Judah's not going to be destroyed. And here's the sign. He said, behold, a virgin shall conceive and bring forth a son. And they should call him his name, Emmanuel, which is God with us. The reason Judah was spared is because Christ was coming through them. And the reason you and me are spared is because we were in Christ from before the world was made. But that pool of Siloam, he blinded his eyes and sent him to that pool of Siloam. What a beautiful illustration of the gospel, of washing in that fountain filled with Christ's blood, coming to Christ and being purged from our dead works. The Lord given you spiritual sight to see Christ as our only righteousness. He's the only acceptance we have with God. Turn us from all of our sins, all of our self-righteousness, all of our religious form, and he did that by making you experience the power of the Lord Jesus, blinding you to what you thought true religion was, and making you behold Christ. What a great God. That's why we only praise Him. That's why we only extol Him. That's why we bless His name, praise His name. It's because this is what He's done for us. That's when somebody will truly, truly bless the Lord. And you know, when we don't see, we don't see the same from then on. When the Lord gives you spiritual sight, you don't see the same way. We still have our carnal side because we got our flesh. And usually when the trial or trouble starts, our first response is to look at it with these eyes and try to fix it with these hands and get ourselves in a mess. And if we would have just looked to Christ from the beginning, we'd have peace like a river, he said. But we end up trying to fix it with these hands. And the Lord once again, renews you inwardly and makes you remember you still have Christ as my God and my King, and He's ruling this, He's ruling all these things come in the past, and even when the trouble came, He did it to show you He is your God and He is your King. And so, what I'm saying is, when you've experienced this, called you, quickened you, converted you, made you see He's the only one that made the difference. And then through every trial you go through, He keeps showing you over and over and over. This is why the Lord's people give Him the glory. This is why we praise only Him and nobody else. He's the only one that deserves to be praised and honored and glorified. Because we know that it's our Savior and His power and His grace It's our God who's come and ruled in our heart as the king. The true church of God that he assembles, that he gathers, we wanna hear Christ declare. We wanna hear Christ preach. I don't like this saying we have a Christ-centered gospel or a Christ-centered ministry. It's not Christ-centered. It's Christ, Christ, only Christ. And we don't want to hear Christ preached sometimes. We want to hear him preached in every message because he is the gospel. He is salvation. He really is. In scripture, he is salvation. We don't contribute anything to it. We don't contribute anything. We didn't contribute to being born again. We don't contribute to continuing in the faith. We didn't even have faith. He gave us that. Everything is of Him. Our righteousness, we have to have to stand before God. Holy God, He gave that. He worked that out. And a new heart to worship Him, He gives that and sustains that. So He gets all the glory and all the praise. And we're worshiping one God. When we say my God, we have one God. The Lord, you notice there, it's capital L, capital O, capital R. capital D on down the page there. That's Jehovah. That's God. God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. And where do we see him? How do we know him? In the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. All the fullness of the Godhead bodily. That's who Christ is. And he makes you know you're complete in him. This is why we give him the glory. This is why we give him the glory. Somebody asked me if I could give one verse that summed up the gospel. And I probably could, but this is what came to my mind. I said, not one, but three. And you know what they are. I quote this just about every time I preach. And I preach the message of these verses. I try to every time I preach. And these are the first verses I remember the Lord revealing Christ to me. and the gospel right here, 1 Corinthians 1. Look here, 1 Corinthians 1. I know you know this is where I was going. I just, this is, if you ask me, I don't like to make one verse of scripture more than another, but if you ask me what is a verse that's dear to me, this is it. This is it right here, 1 Corinthians 1, 29. This is the Spirit of God declaring why please God to save through the foolishness of preaching. We're talking about glorying only in the Lord, glorying only in God, and here's why we do. Verse 29, this is why he saves through preaching, that no flesh should glory in his presence. We don't have anything to glory in. But of him are you in Christ Jesus. chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world, and it's of God that you're now in Christ, experimentally, that you know you're in Him. Who of Him, who of God, is made unto us. Here's where our discernment came from. God made Christ unto us. What did He make Him? Wisdom. All the treasures of wisdom and knowledge, He made Him wisdom to us. He made Him righteousness to us. The perfect righteousness of the law is the God-man Christ Jesus, the Lord our righteousness. He made him sanctification to us, holiness. He is the holiness without which no man shall see the Lord. That's not talking about without which no man will see the Lord in you. They didn't see the Lord in Christ. Brother Don used to say, they didn't see the Lord in Christ when he walked this earth. You think they're gonna see him in you? It's without which you won't see, enter into glory and behold Him. He is that holiness. And He is our redemption. God made Him redemption to have freed us from the law by being made a curse for us, and then freed us from this sin nature by coming and dwelling in us, and one day gonna free us from this world. Redemption. Christ is our redemption. That according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. Paul's message, the Lord's message from Jeremiah 9 that I read before we started. Let not the rich man glory in his riches, let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, the rich man in his riches, the mighty man in his might. Let him that glories glory in this, that he understands and knows me, God said. In Christ's church, that church that Christ has assembled, it's not just where two or three are gathered. Two or three gathered in a lot of places where they worship in a stump, but it's where two or three that Christ has gathered. He's in the midst and he's going to get to glory. He's going to get to glory. No flesh is going to glory in his presence. That's the difference in a sinner truly saved. We say verse one, I will extol thee my God, O King, I will bless thy name forever and ever. Now, secondly, By God's grace, God's saints do not worship the Lord just when we assemble. We don't worship him just on one day. We worship him every day. We give him the glory every day. He says, the next verse there, every day will I bless thee and I will praise thy name forever and ever. Because of Christ being formed in us, giving us the wisdom, the mind of Christ, discernment, setting judgment in our heart, Now we see the Lord Jesus, and this is the resolve of our new man. Every day will I bless thee. Every day I'm gonna give you the glory and the honor, and I'll praise your name forever and ever. But let me ask you something. We don't even give ourselves praise and credit that we praise the Lord and glory in the Lord. We don't give ourselves praise and glory even in that. Let me ask you this. Can you say, can we say, can you say that you have praised the Lord every day without fail? I spent about a week one time unconscious in a hospital. I didn't praise him that week. Can you say you've praised him every day? Certainly that's our heart he's given us. But listen, Our Lord Jesus glorified God to the highest and he did it every day. He did it every hour of every day. He did it every second of every day. Our Lord gave him the perfect glory and praise that the holy God must have and deserves. And he did it on behalf of his people. And that's how we're perfect. And that's how we've praised God in perfection and gloried in God in perfection. Listen, if you can't even take credit that you glory in God only and praise God only, then you can't take credit for anything else. That's what I'm trying to say. Our perfect praise and glory is through the Lord Jesus only. Every day will I bless thee. Hear Christ say that. And every day I'll praise thee. You know, he's still doing it because Like I read Hebrews 2, in the midst of the congregation, I will praise thee. I think Miriam, you know, I'll try to look when we was going through Exodus, who does Miriam, I know she pictures Christ somehow, how? The Lord used her to lead the singing. The Lord used her to teach the women to sing. And that's what Christ is doing. He's making his people give all the praise to God. That's what Christ did. He came to honor and magnify God, to honor and magnify his law, to bring a people to him that honor and magnify him. That's Christ's work, and that's what he's doing. You know, when you don't know what to pray, and you're troubled, and you're down, and you're cast down, Start thinking about God's greatness and start speaking to God about His goodness and His greatness and thinking about who He is and what He's done and how He's ruling everything now. And just start just speaking of His goodness and His greatness and recounting and speaking to Him what He's done for you And you will find the Lord blessing your heart, strengthening your heart, comforting your heart. And if you can do that, you know why you did it? Because the Lord, the spirit of the Lord, we don't know what to pray as we are, the spirit of the Lord giving us the word. Here's the last thing I want to show you. This is why we glory in the Lord. He's worthy of it. He is worthy of all praise and all glory. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. And his greatness is unsearchable. It says there that last verse, we're gonna praise him forever and ever. By his grace, we're gonna spend eternity learning of God's greatness and praising him forever and ever. The Lord God is great. You know why we need a great Savior? We need a great God who is a great Savior because we are great sinners. In Noah's day, what the Lord said is true of our day is true of me and you by nature. The Lord, God saw that the wickedness of man was what? Great in the earth. The wickedness of man was great in the earth. How great? Every, I love the totality of this, every imagination, of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. When Paul said, I know that in me, that is in my flesh dwells no good thing, that's what he meant. In my flesh, every thought of the imagination of my sinful flesh is only evil continually. The more we behold God's goodness, the more we see that. We see Christ's righteousness, we see our sin. The more we see our sin, the more we see how great our Savior is. Listen to David, go with me to Psalm 25. I want you to listen to David here. He's gonna speak, he's glorifying God, and he's gonna speak about how that God is good to them that keep his covenant and his testimonies. And, oh, a legal man will jump on that. Oh, see there, God's great to them to keep his covenant, keep his testimony. And what he said in his heart is, I do that. I keep his covenant. I keep his testimony. That's not what God's saints say. Look at what David said, Psalm 25, 8. He said, good and upright is the Lord. Therefore, will he teach who? He'll teach sinners in the way. What did we see Sunday? This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, Christ came into the world to save sinners. Those he's made to know they're sinners. He teaches sinners in the way. Now look, the meek will he guide in judgment, and the meek will he teach his way. All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth, unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies. As soon as he said that, listen to the next word. For thy name's sake, O Lord, Pardon mine iniquity, for it is great. Who keeps God's covenant in his testimonies? Christ did. And you know what he teaches you? You know how you keep his covenant in his testimonies? He gives you faith to cast it all into Christ's hand. And at the same time, you're begging God, Lord, for thy namesake, for the sake of Christ Jesus, your namesake, Pardon mine iniquity, for it is great. We need a great God because we're great sinners. Psalms 57 9, I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people. I will sing unto thee among the nations, for thy mercy is great unto the heavens. See, we're great sinners, but God's a great Savior, and he gives great mercy. Thy mercy's great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds. Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens. Let thy glory be above all the earth. We're great sinners, but what do we sing? God saves us by grace that's greater than our sin. Grace greater than our sin. You know, by God's grace, Abraham wouldn't take those spoils. He gave enough for his men after they won that battle. He gave enough for his men, but he wouldn't take the spoils unless that enemy king say, I made you rich. And you just put yourself in Abraham's place. That was like, for us, we think in terms of money. You think of an opportunity come your way for you to have a million dollars, and you turn it down, and you turn and watch that walk away. Abraham watched those riches walk away. And the Lord spoke from heaven, and he said, Abraham, fear not. Fear not. I am thy shield. I'm going to save you. I'm going to protect you. I'm your shield. And I am thy exceeding great reward. I said, Jeremiah 9 goes with this, because not only does it tell us to glory only in the Lord, but when you read Jeremiah 9 and 10, it says the Lord The Lord's people, his true Israel, are his portion, his inheritance. And he's our portion. He's our reward. He is our inheritance, Christ is. You can't get greater. I'm your exceeding great reward. I'm your exceeding great inheritance. That means in this life, he's gonna provide you everything that you need. Now what you want, what you need, And he's gonna give you more than you could even think in glory. More than you can even imagine. Oh, how shall we escape if we neglect so what? So great salvation. Great God, great salvation. Look at Revelation 15. Revelation 15. What are we gonna sing about? We gonna praise the Lord forever and ever in heaven? What are we gonna sing? Revelation 15. Verse three. You let this world preach on man's works. You let them point sinners to sinners, and religious folks to religious folks, and let them glory in how good they are. Here's what God's people are gonna glory in right here. Revelation 15, three. And they sang the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the lamb, saying, great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty. Great are thy works, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou only art holy. For all nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are made manifest. Oh, great is thy goodness. Great is thy goodness, Lord. Think about his person, he's holy God. Everything God does, he does it because he's holy, in accordance with his holiness. He loves, God is love, but he loves in a way that's holy. That's his chief attribute. Everything's got to be holy with God. He's perfectly righteous, perfectly holy, so everything he does is holy. When he saved us, he did it in perfect justice. When He shows you mercy, that mercy is in strict accordance with His holy justice. And His faithfulness, He's perfectly faithful. God cannot lie. He's perfectly faithful, fulfills every promise. That's how great He is. That's how good He is. He's perfect in grace, perfect in long-suffering, perfect in forbearance, in preserving you and keeping you. In all His offices, He's great. He's the captain of our salvation. He's the prophet, he's the pastor who is God, the shepherd, that's what it means, the shepherd. His rod and his staff comfort us, that's his gospel. He's the prophet, he's the priest, representing us to God, representing God to us, making us one, and he's the king who's able to rule everything and bring it all to pass. Prophet, priest, and king. And not only that, he's the lamb, You can't come to God without a lamb. You gotta have blood. Without shedding of blood, there's no remission of sin. He's the lamb. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his holiness. Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth is Mount Zion, on the sides of the north, the city of the great king. Is that, is that that place over there across the pond? No, no. You've not come to the mouth that might be touched. Hebrews 12 says, you've come to Mount Sinai. You've come to heavenly Jerusalem. You've come to an innumerable company of angels, to the spirits of just men made perfect. You've come to God. You've come to Christ Jesus, the mediator of covenant. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised in the city of our God and the mountain of his holiness. And this assembly right here and every other little local assembly, wherever he has his people, his little remnant scattered in this earth, we're inseparably united with Mount Zion, heavenly Zion. We're one with them. All worship in Christ the King. Job said he does great things, unsearchable, marvelous things without number. He does great things past finding out, wonders without number. Go with me to Romans 11. It says his greatness is unsearchable. I love this verse right here too. Look here, Romans 11. Listen to the totality of this statement, Romans 11, 33. We can't plumb the bottom of God's greatness. We can't reach the height of God's greatness. It's unsearchable. Listen, Romans 11, 33. Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. Who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counselor? Or who hath first given to him? You ever first given God anything? That just demolished every message any preacher's ever preached where he said if you'll take the first step, if you'll make the first move, you've never given God anything first. No sinner ever gives God anything first. Who hath first given to him, it'll be given back to him again. That's what he's saying. He'll recompense it to him again. It's give it back. David said, Lord, everything we're offered, you gave it to us first. We're just giving you what belongs to you. Look, now here, get this statement. For of him and through him and to him are all things. To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. To whom be glory. Everything, brethren. It's of Him. It's through Him. It's to Him. You know why Paul said we give? He said this is the unsearchable gift of God. This is His unsearchable gift to us. By God giving to you, giving you the abundance, giving you the opportunity, giving somebody a need, and giving you to give to them. Lord Paul said it all redoubts back to God's glory. Everybody involved gives God's glory. Oh, what an unsearchable gift. To know everything's of Him, and through Him, and to Him. That's why God's people glory in just one, our great God and our Savior. I pray, Lord, don't ever let us glory in anybody but Him, just Him, just Him, forever and ever. All right, Brother Adam.