We thought since it's snowing,
we might sing one hymn so we can get out a little sooner than
we normally do. Let's turn now to Psalm 137.
Psalm 137. Now we looked at the first half
of this psalm, and we saw the darkness that the Lord's saints
were in. Due to their sin, the Lord had
turned them over to Babylonian captivity. And you know, like
the Apostle said in Romans 7, due to our sin, we come into
captivity sometime. Believers do. God's saints do.
But we saw last time from this psalm that the Lord chastens
those He has everlastingly loved. He corrects His people, chastens
His people, teaches us, We saw that this world's not our friend.
Babylon represents all falsehood, especially false religion. And
they took them in bondage, took the children of Israel in bondage,
the children of Judah, and rejoiced in it, and then tried to make
them sing by the rivers of Babylon. But then we saw that the Lord
will keep Christ preeminent in our hearts. They said, how? We
desire Him above our chief joy, and that's what the Lord's gonna
keep in our heart. This is why He chastens His people, why He's
kept us in this world, He's teaching us, weaning us from this world,
and He's teaching us we need Christ. And so, He's gonna keep
us having a need for Him, preeminent in our hearts. Now, I wanna talk
to you this time, our subject's the day of Jerusalem. the day
of Jerusalem. Now, I'll deal with that when
we get to the end to our last point. So I want you to stay
with me. We'll get to that. But this time,
here's what we're gonna see. The Lord's people trust our enemy
to the Lord. We trust the enemy to the Lord.
We do so knowing there's a day coming called the day of Jerusalem. That's the day of the Lord's
people. And we trust the enemy to the Lord. Now look at what
they say here. This is the children of Judah
trusting their enemies to the Lord. They pray in verse 7, Remember,
O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, who
said, Raise it, raise it, even to the foundation thereof. See,
they're trusting Moab to the Lord. Remember them, Lord. O
daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed, happy shall
he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us." They trust
in Babylon to the Lord. Vengeance belongs to God. It's
not our place to take vengeance. They trust the Lord will deal
with them. And this sounds like some awful
hard judgment, this verse 9, but I'll tell you this, it's
nothing compared to the judgment of God. toward sinners who meet
Him without Christ. But this is what Babylon did
to the children of Judah. And they know the Lord is going
to do something to them like this and far worse if you meet
God without Christ. He said in verse 9, Happy shall
he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones. Now, first thing we see here
The Lord may use enemies to chasten us, just like He used Edom and
Babylon. The Lord may do that. Everybody's at His disposal,
the whole world. He's sovereign. He may use enemies
like He used Edom and Babylon. But we trust the Lord to deal
with the enemy. We trust the Lord to deal with
him. And once he's chastened you, showed you Christ and your
need of Christ, then we don't try to take vengeance on those
he used to chasten us. We trust them to the Lord. They
said in verse seven, remember, O Lord, the children of Edom
in the day of Jerusalem, who said, raise it, raise it, level
it, even to the foundation thereof. Now the Edomites were the children
of Esau. That's Jacob's brother. Esau
and Jacob were brothers. The Moabites were the children
of Esau. Edomites were the first cousins of the children of Judah. These were their first cousins,
their family. And the Edomites, though, they
joined in with Babylon to attack the children of Judah, their
own family. They did that. Turn over to Obadiah. It's two books before Micah.
And I'll show you what the Lord said about what Moabites did. This whole book of Obadiah is
devoted to the Moabites, what they did, God's judgment upon
them. It's just one chapter, but look,
I'm just going to read some of it. But verse 3, this was the
problem. This is the problem with all
natural unregenerate sinners. He said, the pride of thine heart
hath deceived thee. Now look down at verse 10, we'll
see what they did. Look down at verse 10. For thy
violence against thy brother Jacob, shame shall cover thee,
and thou shalt be cut off forever. In the day that thou stoodest
on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away
captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates and cast
lots upon Jerusalem, even thou was as one of them. But thou
shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother, in the
day that he became a stranger. You shouldn't have even looked
upon him, the Lord said. Neither shouldst thou have rejoiced
over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction.
Neither shouldst thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress.
Thou shouldest not have entered into the gate of my people in
the day of their calamity. Yea, thou shouldest not have
looked on their affliction in the day of their calamity, nor
have laid hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.
Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway to cut off those
of his that did escape. Neither shouldest thou have delivered
up those of his that did remain in the day of distress. For the
day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen. As thou, now
watch this carefully, as thou hast done, it shall be done unto
thee. Thy reward shall return upon
thine own head. Now look at verse 17. But upon
Mount Zion, that's his people, his church, his elect, upon Mount
Zion shall be deliverance. and there should be holiness.
And the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. And
the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau for stubble. And they shall kindle in them
and devour them, and there shall not be any remaining of the house
of Esau, for the Lord hath spoken it." Esau and Jacob were brothers
after the flesh. Even though they weren't brethren
in the gospel in spirit, they were brethren after the flesh.
And the Moabites turned against their own family, their own flesh
and blood. God declared they acted like
the heathen. They acted like unregenerate heathen people,
Babylonians. That's who they picture. They
were one with the world. They rejoiced in this. They rejoiced
in the calamity that came upon the children of Judah. The Lord
said they should have not even looked on their brethren's calamity.
much less rejoiced in it, much less do all the malicious things
they did. And he says here, as thou hast
done, it shall be done unto thee. Thy reward shall return upon
thine own head. Now brethren, let's be turning
over to Luke chapter six. Now, as brothers and sisters
in Christ, We see what these family relations did, what Esau's
children did to Jacob's children. But as you and me, as brothers
and sisters in Christ, in the family of God, let's learn from
what our Lord is teaching right here. The children of Judah had
sinned. There's no doubt about that.
They had sinned. The children of Judah had. And
the Lord was chastening the children of Judah. And He was using Edom
and Babylon to do it. Particularly he was using Babylon
to do it. Edom just jumped in. But Edom
and Babylon rejoiced in this. They rejoiced to do harm to the
children of Judah. Now, the Lord may use you to
speak a word of correction to one of your brethren. He uses
his people to teach the word to one another. He may use you
to speak a word that your brother needs for correction. But when
you do it, you do it with grace, and in mercy, and in loving kindness,
in forgiveness, even as God has done to you for Christ's sake.
You deal with them the same way the Lord's dealt with you. Now
let's hear the word of our Lord Jesus. Luke 6 is the clearest
of the Gospels on this account to me, and I want you to see
it right here in Luke 6. Verse 35. The Lord says, Love
ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing
again. and your reward shall be great,
and you shall be the children of the highest, for He is kind
unto the unthankful and to the evil. Now I included that for
this reason. If that's how the Lord teaches
us to deal with enemies, then we certainly know this is how
we should deal with brethren, right? All right, look what he
said, verse 36. Be ye therefore merciful, as
your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and you shall not
be judged. What does that mean? Always read
the next phrase. Condemn not, and you shall not
be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven. Now the next word speaks of giving,
but brethren, this also applies to what he just said. He's saying,
be merciful and forgive in abundance. Verse 38, give and it shall be
given unto you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken
together and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For
with the same measure that you meet with all, it shall be measured
to you again. Now, not only did Edom condemn
the Lord's people, they took delight in seeing them suffer.
And they took part in all this maliciousness against their brethren.
They wanted an eye for an eye. That's what they wanted. Well,
the Lord declared in Luke 6, with the same measure that you
meet with all, it shall be measured to you again. The Lord told the
Edomites, as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee. Thy
reward shall return upon thine own head. You know James 2.13. Let's look over there real quick.
James 2.13. James 2.13. He says, He shall have judgment
without mercy that has showed no mercy. He shall have judgment
without condemnation, without mercy, that has showed no mercy.
And mercy rejoices against judgment. Now in our psalm, let's go back
to our psalm now. The same is said of Babylon.
The Lord says the same thing about Babylon. As they meted
out this judgment, The Lord's going to return the same to them.
Now, we saw this in Isaiah 47. And if you want to look there,
Isaiah 47 verse 6, this is what the Lord said. Now, Judah had
sinned. You know, this is what people
use as an excuse. Well, that brother sinned. That's
why I dealt so harshly with him. Judah had sinned. They had sinned. The Lord was chastened in His
people, His true people among them. And listen to what the
Lord said. Verse 6, Isaiah 47, 6, I was wroth with my people. I have polluted my inheritance
and given them into thine hand. Speak it to the Babylonians.
Thou didst show them no mercy. Upon the ancient hast thou very
heavily laid thy yoke. Unregenerate religion. They did
the same thing to our Lord Jesus. Turn with me to Psalm 69. Psalm
69. Unregenerate religious folks.
Now, they did this crying on the name of God. They did this
claiming they were doing it for the glory of God. They crucified
the Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of Life. Our Lord made our substitute
sin for us. He made Him to be sin for us
who knew no sin that we might be made the righteousness of
God in Him. And for that reason, God was
justly smiting our substitute. He justly poured out wrath upon
the substitute. And He used the Pharisees to
put Christ on the cross to do to Him what God had determined
before to be done. They were doing what God determined
to be done. But listen now, they rejoiced
in condemning Christ. The Pharisees rejoiced in it,
and they showed Him no mercy. And listen to what the Lord Jesus
says. This is Christ speaking from the cross. You can read
the whole Psalm when you get home, and you'll see, you can
recognize that this has got to be the Lord speaking. But look
at Psalm 69, verse 25. He said, let their habitation
be desolate and let none dwell in their tents. Now listen to
what he says right here. For they persecute him whom thou
hast smitten. And they talk to the grief of
those whom thou hast wounded. Now you seeing what our Lord's
teaching here? He said, I did turn my people
Judah over to your hand, oh Babylonian. but you didn't show them any
mercy. I said to you, if the Lord uses you to speak a word
of correction to one of your brethren, you do it with mercy. Do it with mercy. You're not
the judge, do it with mercy. But they didn't show any mercy
to our Lord. Now you remember, if a brother
suffers affliction, you see some calamity come upon him, and he's
afflicted. And the Lord's obviously, we
know he rules all things, the Lord's doing it, the Lord is
correcting him, chasing him. And maybe he's gonna use you
to speak a word to him, to point him to Christ, to remind him
of what Christ has done for him. That's what's gonna do the most
rebuking in the heart of God's child, is remind us what Christ
did for us, how he laid down his life for us. That's what
smites the heart of God's child when we've sinned or whatever
it is for which the Lord's chasing us. So when you're there doing
that, brethren, You remember, this is God chastening one that
he's everlastingly loved. This is God your Father, that
brother is one he's chastening who he's everlastingly loved.
And you don't want to be guilty of adding your hand to one that
God is chastening. That's what Christ said on the
cross, Lord, they persecute him whom thou hast smitten. He's
saying they're persecuting me when you're the one that smote
me. You see, you get that? Do you
understand that? So you see your brother suffering, chastening.
Don't put your hand to that. Know that the Father's doing
that, even if He uses you to speak to Him. We don't want to
be guilty of talking to the grief of those whom our Heavenly Father
has wounded. The Lord may be chastening His
child, but you don't want to go around talking behind their
back about that, and you don't want to talk to them to their
grief. That's one the Lord's dealing
with. Now this is what James said,
let's listen to it again. He shall have judgment with no
mercy that has shewed no mercy. That's what the Lord said of
Babylon and of Moab. And mercy rejoices against judgment. Mercy rejoices not to condemn. Now that's true of God's people.
We rejoice to be merciful rather than to condemn and pour out
wrath and take vengeance. We rejoice in mercy. Now, so the first point I'm trying
to make here is looking at what they did and what God said about
Moab and Babylon. If the Lord uses you, you deal
mercifully. You deal mercifully with your
brethren, even your enemies, the Lord said. And you'll be
a child of the highest. That's what the Father does.
That's how he deals with us. Now secondly, I want to see this.
What makes God's child rejoice to be merciful? What makes us
rejoice against judgment? What makes us rejoice to prefer
being merciful to a brother who's fallen rather than condemn him?
What makes you do that? It's due to God's abundant, abundant
grace and His abundant mercy and His abundant forgiveness
toward you and me in Christ and for Christ's sake. That's what
makes you do it. We fell in Adam, brethren. You
know, we became totally, thoroughly guilty before God. In Adam, when
we broke that one commandment in Adam, we were in him. And
when he sinned, we broke every commandment God would give. We
broke them all in Adam. Guilty. And then when we came
forth, we came forth corrupt sinners. I mean corrupt sinners. And we sinned ourselves against
God. James said if you break one law,
you've broken them all. We've broken them all. Every
law there is. And even when the Lord regenerated
you and gave you a new heart, we still have an old man of sin. Our old nature is sin. And the
Apostle Paul said this in Romans 7, as one of God's saints, as
a holy saint sanctified by the Lord, he said, when I would do
good, evil is present with me. That means, brethren, we're saved
entirely by God's grace. He's been gracious to His people
every hour of every day. We're saved by His tender mercies,
abundant mercies. It's our God being forgiving
toward us because Christ put away all the sin of His people
and justified us before God, so God's just to forgive us.
This is what makes you want to be merciful. You remember this.
God chose a people before this world was made and predestinated
you to the adoption of children by Jesus Christ. He chose us
in Christ and He predestinated us to the adoption of children
by Christ. That means He predestinated the
very hour Christ would send the gospel to you and open your heart
and make you believe on Him and see that you're a son of God.
And you know why He did that? You know why God did that? To
the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein we're accepted
in the Beloved. God began to be gracious to us
before He made anything. Before the world was made, or
man was made, or you were born, God was being gracious to you.
Our Savior came into this world and He redeemed every elect child
of God. Our Savior redeemed every elect
child of God in whom we have redemption through His blood,
the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace. How could we be anything but
gracious to anybody when we see the grace that God has shown
us in sending His Son and redeeming us? And then the Holy Spirit
regenerated us to life and gave us faith to see what Christ had
done for us because he had justified us, because the Father had chosen
us before the foundation of the world. Not by works of Christ
as we've done, but by his mercy he saved us by the washing of
regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, which he shed
on us abundantly. Because Christ justified us and
we should be made heirs because it's just, it's right because
Christ justified it. But it wasn't by our works, it
was by God's mercy. It was to the praise of the glory
of His grace. Paul said, God who's rich in
mercy. For His great love wherewith
He loved us, even when we were dead in sin, He quickened us
together with Christ by grace, are you saying? And He raised
us up in Christ and made us sit down together in Christ in heavenly
places, that in the ages to come, He might show us the exceeding
riches of His grace and His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
Brethren, we're saved by God's mercies. We're saved by God's
grace. We're saved because Christ came
and laid down His life for us and redeemed us. There we were,
just as sinful as Babylon was. And you can be sure when we were
dead in our sins, we had shown judgment without mercy. We had
been condemning the other people and showed them no mercy. Just
like Babylon, just like Moab, why didn't God cast you off?
Because of grace, because of mercy, because God would save
those he chose in Christ. And because Christ justified
his people, God came and quickened you and had mercy on you and
called you to faith in Christ. We stand amazed like Micah. Like
I said, who is a god like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity
and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?
He retaineth not his anger forever because he delighteth in mercy.
Now, our Lord told the Pharisees, I'll have mercy, not sacrifice.
That's why I read Micah to you. I wanted you to see in Micah
6, this is what the Lord requires of you. What am I going to do
for my transgression? What am I going to do for my sin? How
am I going to come before God? You're going to come loving justice
with your God. You're going to come and do justice.
You're going to come and confess to the Lord, I'm the sinner.
You're going to come and love mercy with God. Lord, I love
your mercy. I have to be saved by your mercy.
and you're gonna walk humbly with God. And when he's called
you, brethren, that's how we walk from then on. You know,
all our days, as we go through this life, the reason God continues
to save us and keep us is all by his mercy. It's all by his
mercy. The Lord said through in Lamentation,
or Jeremiah said, it's of the Lord's mercies that we're not
consumed. His compassions fail not, they're
new every morning. Great is His faithfulness to
us. Even now, as believers, every single day, God is being merciful
to us and compassionate to us in everything He's doing for
us, constantly. You know, God's more merciful
than man is. He's far more merciful than man
is. You remember when David numbered
the children of Israel? And the Lord chastened him and
smote him in his heart. And the Lord gave him three choices,
three choices of what the Lord would do to chasten him. He said,
number one, I'll give you seven years of famine. Or, number two,
you'll flee for three months while enemies pursue you. Now
that would run the risk of him falling into the hand of man,
is what that would be. And the Lord said, or three,
I'll give you three days of pestilence. You choose, David. And David
said to Gad, he said, I'm in a great strait. And he said,
let us fall now into the hand of the Lord, because his mercies
are great. And let me not fall into the
hand of man. And so the Lord sent him pestilence. He's merciful, merciful, merciful,
merciful, when man is not merciful. Reverend, the Spirit of God has
taught you and me because of what Christ accomplished at Calvary.
He's taught you and me. God is just to show you mercy.
God does everything in perfect holiness, and he can show us
mercy and do it justly because Christ honored God's justice. He bore the justice. He bore
that cutting off that we deserve. and satisfied the justice of
God, so God could be merciful to us now and do it justly. Mercy
and truth are met together in Christ. Mercy and truth. He's
the only one that could be merciful and do it in a way that's absolutely
truth. A human judge can't do this.
A human judge, if he's going to be just, he can't show mercy.
If he shows any mercy, he's not just. He can't make mercy and
justice meet. But God has made righteousness
and peace kiss each other in the Lord Jesus Christ. What does
that mean for you and me? What does that mean when a brother's
fallen, when a brother's sinned, when he's afflicted? What does
that mean for you and me? It's just for you to be merciful
to him. It's just for you to be merciful.
It's just for you to forgive him because Christ has justified
his people and God's just to show us mercy. When a brother
or sister falls, when they just flat out sin, give them the benefit
of the doubt that they are a child of God. Don't let this stop coming
in your heart, oh, they can't be a child of God. Give the benefit
of doubt they are, and here's why. Treat them as one that's
been justified before God, justified by God. Because if there is,
God justified them. Treat him as somebody that Christ
laid down his life for, and that he now intercedes for, because
if there he is, that's what he did, and that's what he's doing.
What we do to Christ. What we do to Christ's people,
we do to Christ. What we do to His people, we
do to Him. That's what He said. Remember
that? What we do to Him, what we do to them, we do to Him.
So you give a brother or sister the benefit of the doubt that
they're really Christ. Because you know you can do some
pretty serious things. You can sin pretty bad. You can
mess up pretty bad. Me and you, we ought to know
that. This is what makes God's people love mercy. And also we
know this, our God is sovereign, He's sovereign, He's able to
teach His child in the heart sovereignly, and He's able to
deal with our enemies. We know that. He said, let him
that glorieth glory in this. You see, when we fear man, and
we try to take vengeance on man, or we start trying to work in
this world to make our will come to pass, and to make what we
want happen to happen. When we start doing that, we're
glorying in man. We're glorying in ourselves,
and we're giving the glory to a man that we're fearful of a
man. But the Lord said, He that glories, let him glory in this,
that he understandeth and knoweth Me. that I am the Lord which
exercise loving kindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth.
For in these things I delight, saith the Lord. In other words,
glory in the Lord. Trust that the Lord is working.
He's exercising loving kindness and judgment and righteousness
in the earth. He's going to do that for the brother that's fallen.
He's going to do that for you. He's going to do that for every
one of his people. And as far as the enemy is concerned,
he'll deal with the enemy. You trust the sovereign God who
laid down his life and saved us. So lastly, Leave vengeance
to the Lord. Leave vengeance to the Lord.
We just have this old sin nature, and we just want so badly to
get back when somebody has harmed us and injured us. But you see
here what the children of Judah are praying. They're praying
to the Lord to remember Moab and Babylon. They're trusting
them to the Lord for the Lord to deal with them, and they're
not doing it. Now, here's why we do this. There is a day coming called
the Day of Jerusalem. Look here in verse 7. Psalm 137,
7. Remember, O Lord, the children
of Edom in the Day of Jerusalem, who said, Raise it, raise it,
even to the foundation thereof. Now, That was the day of Jerusalem
when they came there and they were crying, raise it, raise
it. That means level it to the ground. That was the day of Jerusalem
right there when they came and did that and they were trying
to level it to the ground. Well, when Christ was on that
cross and He laid down His life for us, that was the day of Jerusalem. That was the day of God's elect
Jerusalem. That was the day of His people.
Christ answering justice for us and satisfying justice for
us. And there's coming a day when our Lord is going to call
all his people home and gather all his sheep together and set
them on his right hand. He's going to gather up the goats
and set them on his left hand. And that's going to be the day
of Jerusalem. That's going to be for his people.
that while it's going to be the day of wrath and judgment for
those that meet God outside of Christ, for His people, that's
going to be the day of Jerusalem. You know what Jerusalem means?
It means the teaching of peace, or to set double peace. That's
what the Greek Greek is. The Hebrew is, it means to teach
peace. Our Lord Jesus Christ came. He's
the Prince of Peace. He came, laid down His life for
His people and brought in peace for His people. He reconciled
us to God. And then He taught us what He'd
done and made us to lay down our weapons and be reconciled
to God. And we're at peace with God now.
And in that day, it's going to be the day of peace for God's
people. And that day, He will vindicate His people. He will
vindicate His people. And so we trust the Lord, and
we don't try to take vengeance. They might say, level it to the
ground, level it to the ground, but the Lord's people will never
be leveled to the ground. will never be raised by the enemy. Here's why. As the whirlwind
passeth, so is the wicked no more. But the righteous is an
everlasting foundation. You know why? Because we're founded
on Christ the foundation. We're one with Christ the foundation.
And they couldn't level Christ. He bore the death his people
owed, satisfied justice, and arose to God's right hand. And
they'll never level his Jerusalem, his church. You found it on Christ. Now, we can't talk about God's
mercy in Christ without talking about God's judgment. And it's
going to be serious. It'll be righteous judgment to
those that meet him outside of Christ. It will be righteous
judgment. God only does what's just. Men
earn damnation and it'll be just. Now look at verse nine. They
said, happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little
ones against the stones. You say, oh, that sounds rough. Well, that's nothing compared
to God's fierce judgment, brethren. That's nothing. God promises
to give to men and women what they've given to others all their
life, but double, double. He said in Revelation 18, 6,
speaking of spiritual Babylon, the mystery Babylon, the enemy
of his people, the enemy of Christ, he said, reward her even as she
rewarded you. and double unto her double according
to her works. In the cup which she hath filled,
fill to her double. That's what the Lord said. And
that's going to be righteous judgment, brethren. Now here's
what I say to you on that. Anybody that doesn't know Christ,
flee to Christ. And love justice with Christ. Come to Him confessing your sin.
Love mercy with Him. Come telling Him, begging for
Him to give you mercy and confessing to Him that the only way you
can be saved is if He has mercy on you. And from that day forward,
walk humbly with your God. Trust the Lord to lead you and
guide you and direct you and bring you to glory. And deal
the same way with brethren. Be just with your brethren. Know
that God's already justified His people. So it's just for
me to be merciful to His people. And so you love mercy with them.
And that's walking humbly with God, trusting God is doing the
chastening work. I don't want to put my hand to
those that He's smitten. I don't want to talk to the grief
of those He's wounded. That's the Lord's work. But here's
the other thing. God's going to be righteous in
giving His people glory with Him. We saw this in 2 Thessalonians
1. Let's end with this. 2 Thessalonians
1. He's going to be just in punishing
the wicked, but He's going to be just in giving you rest and
peace in the Lord. Look here in 2 Thessalonians
1 and verse 6. See? It is a righteous thing with
God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you. That's
what he says to his saints. It's a righteous thing with God
to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you, and it's
a righteous thing to God to you who are troubled to grant you
rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven
with His mighty angels. God does everything justly, brethren. Everything. So here's the takeaway. Rejoice in mercy rather than
judgment. Rejoice in mercy rather than,
even towards your enemies, brethren. Number two, trust every enemy
to the Lord. Trust your brethren to the Lord,
of course, but trust your enemies to the Lord. Vengeance belongs
to the Lord. And number three, do everything
knowing there is a day of Jerusalem coming, a day of peace for God's
people coming, and God, will be righteous to give you that
peace and that rest, because Christ is your righteousness.
And He'll vindicate His people. Just trust Him. And in that day,
you won't even care about it. You won't even care about the
trouble in that day. You'll be so happy with the Lord
and Christ, the rest of that day's gone by won't even matter.
Look to the Lord. All right, brethren. Brother
Greg.