Alright, brethren, Psalm 125. Let's read it again together.
Verse 1, They that trust in the Lord. That's our title. That's so important to get. They that trust in the Lord shall
be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth forever. As the mountains are round about
Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from henceforth
even forever. For the rod of the wicked shall
not rest upon the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous
put forth their hands unto iniquity. Do good, O Lord, unto those that
be good, and to them that are upright in their hearts. As for
such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall
lead them forth with the workers of iniquity, but peace shall
be upon Israel." They that trust in the Lord.
It's simply by trusting in the Lord that Christ saves His people. Through simple faith in the Lord
Jesus is how we're saved. Trusting Him, trusting Him, looking
to Him alone, our confidence being Christ alone. That's the
first thing that we're told here. Salvation is only through faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation is only through faith
in Christ. They that trust in the Lord,
shall be as Mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth
forever." When the Lord first begins to teach us, He teaches
us what sinners we are. What sinners we are. So that
we no longer have confidence in our flesh. We no longer have
confidence in our own selves, in what we do, to save ourselves. That's not our confidence. That's
not our trust. He says, they that trust in the
Lord should be as Mount Sinai. Not they that trust in their
will. Not they that trust in their knowledge of doctrine.
We're talking about simple, childlike trust in the Lord. Not they that
trust in their understanding in providence. The Lord will
bring us into providence and we don't have any understanding
of what He's doing. Not they that trust in their
works. Not they that trust in other sinners. But they that
trust in the Lord. They that trust in the Lord. Philippians 3. We are the circumcision. When God has sent the Spirit,
He circumcised us in the heart, given us a new heart. Here's
the three characteristics of the circumcision. The true Jew,
God's true people, the Israel of God, the elect that He's called
out and given an understanding. We are the circumcision which
worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no
confidence in the flesh. No confidence in the flesh. The
Spirit of God has taught us from the beginning. He taught us from
the beginning, in my flesh dwells no good thing. And He'll let
you ever so often, He'll let you see that's still so. In my
flesh dwells no good thing. We're learning it more and more.
We're learning it time and time again. In our flesh dwells no
good thing. And through many afflictions
and through many distresses, as we go through this world,
this is an ascension psalm. This is a psalm they sing as
they're on their way up to Jerusalem to worship the Lord. This is
us, God's people, as we're on our way to heavenly Jerusalem.
This is us as we pass through this world and through many afflictions
and through many stresses and distresses, the Spirit of God
convinces His child of this thing over and over, I am the sinner. You know, we start out and when
we are unregenerate, the sinners are those other bad people. And
when you start out even as a believer, you still start thinking, you
know, the real sinners are out there. No. The Lord makes you
know right away and He keeps making us know it more and more.
He makes His child say personally, I am the sinner. I am the sinner. Lord have mercy on me, the sinner. That's where He has to bring
us. The only thing that comes from
a sin nature, my sin nature, your sin nature, is sin. He teaches
us it's true of all men from the lowest degree to the highest
degree. Listen to Psalm 62, 9. Surely
men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a
lie. To be laid in the ballots, they are altogether high, low,
in between. All men are altogether lighter
than vanity. That's so of everybody in this
world. We fail, we came into bondage
and we have a sin nature from Adam. So God tells us, see she
from man whose breath is in his nostrils, for when is he to be
accounted of? Don't trust in yourself, don't
trust in others. There's some folks in this world
that thinks the Pope is, they think he's the vicar. There's
just one vicar. Christ is the one whose vicarious
sin-atoning sacrifice saved His people. We trust in Him. Repentance. Really when you get
down to it, repentance is the Spirit of God convincing us we're
such wretched sinners that we can't trust in ourselves. We
can't trust in our works. We're not saved by trusting in
ourselves. Not for eternal salvation and
not even in providence, brethren. Scriptures are so clear on that. Not even in providence. The Lord
will shut you up. He'll give you providence to
where He'll show you you can't save yourself. He'll put you
in places sometime where there's no way you can save yourself.
But He gives faith so that we trust in the Lord. We're looking
away from self to the Lord. We're trusting in the Lord. That's
what faith is. Faith is trusting in the Lord.
And the Lord honors the faith He gives. Where He's given faith
to trust Him, He's not going to betray that trust. Psalm 37.40,
The Lord shall help them and deliver them. He shall deliver
them from the wicked and save them because they trust in Him. He said this, "...I will surely
deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, because
thou hast put thy trust in Me, saith the Lord." He promised,
he said, "...Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting
salvation. You shall not be ashamed, nor
confounded, world without end." When He gives you faith to trust
Him, you won't be ashamed to trust Him, you won't be ashamed
to confess Him before men, and He'll never put you to shame
for trusting Him. He'll never betray that trust.
He will honor that faith He's given. Make good on every word
He's promised. Look over at Jeremiah 17. I want
you to see this, Jeremiah 17. Here they are side by side now. Side by side, Jeremiah 17, 5. Thus saith the Lord, this is
the Lord speaking. Thus saith the Lord, Cursed be
the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and
whose heart departeth from the Lord. He shall be like the heath
in the desert, shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit
the parks, places, and the wilderness, and a salt land, and not inhabited. But blessed is the man that trusts
in the Lord, whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree
planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the
river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaves shall
be green, and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither
shall cease from yielding fruit. But now look back here in our
text in Psalm 125 and see where the emphasis is here. Now the
world puts emphasis on your faith, but that's not the emphasis of
this psalm. The emphasis of this psalm is
the Lord who our faith is trusting in. Listen, Christ is the strength. He's the salvation of each sinner
who He gives faith to trust in Him. That's the message in our
psalm. Listen, verse 1, they that trust
in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion which cannot be removed
but abideth forever. As the mountains are round about
Jerusalem, so the Lord is around about His people from henceforth
even forever. That earthly mount An earthly
Mount Zion, it couldn't be removed. Well, His heavenly Mount Zion
can't be removed. The Lord's church is Mount Zion.
You've not come to the Mount that might be touched, that mountain
that was on fire and quaked. He said, you've come to heavenly
Mount Zion. You've come to heavenly Jerusalem,
the city of the living God. You've come, been drawn to God.
You've been brought to Christ, our Mediator of the everlasting
covenant. The Lord's Mount sign can't be
removed because God our Father chose us and trusted us to Christ. You know, that's what Ephesians
once said. He saved us to the praise of
His glory who first trusted Christ. Who first trusted Christ? It
wasn't the apostles. It wasn't even Adam. You know
who first trusted Christ? God the Father chose him and
said, Behold my servant whom I uphold, mine elect, and whom
my soul delighteth. I put my spirit upon him. He
trusted, he chose a people by free grace and he trusted them
to Christ. He's the first one. And after
we heard the gospel, then he gave us faith to trust him. The
Father's the first one to trust him. That's why his people can't
be moved. He trusts us to his son and his
sons go honor the Father. We can't be moved because the
Lord Jesus came and He laid down His life for His people and He's
the righteousness of His people. He has justified His people from
all our sin. He has honored the law on behalf
of God. His righteousness is round about
us like the mountains. His intercession for us with
the Father is our protection surrounding us all the time.
And His sovereign power, the God-man mediator has all power
in heaven and earth and under the earth, above every name that
is named. And He's the sovereign power
and it says that underneath are His everlasting arms. He said
through Isaiah, He'll put His cloud upon every assembly and
upon every dwelling place and His glory shall be the defense.
It's our Lord Jesus, and we can't be moved because the Spirit of
God has quickened us and given us faith to trust Christ, and
He's going to keep His people trusting the Lord Jesus. The
Lord said when the Spirit of God has come, He will not speak
of Himself. He said, He'll glorify Me. He'll
take the things that are mine and He'll glorify Me. And when
you know you're here in the Spirit of the Lord, it's when Christ
is getting all the glory and His people are being turned to
Christ and shut up to Christ to trust Christ alone. Because
that's who the Spirit gives the glory to, and He makes His people
give Him the glory. That's why we can't be moved.
God the Father chose us, Christ redeemed us, the Spirit regenerated
us, and our God, our one triune God is going to preserve His
people and keep us all the way to the end. He's round about
His people. Look there. Earthly Jerusalem
was surrounded. It's surrounded by earthly mountains.
Well, it's the Lord that's surrounded about His people, His Jerusalem.
Read verse 2 again. As the mountains are round about
Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from henceforth
even forever. Now, I want you to turn over
to Psalm 62. And I want to show you this. Now, when we read these
Psalms, You always do well to hear Christ
speaking first. And I want you to hear this word
we're about to read as first being Christ, looking to God
His Father, believing God His Father. You know the rod of the
wicked fell upon our Lord Jesus. He fell upon our substitute.
Scripture says His vision was more than any man. I know it
was the justice of God that was the greatest suffering that He
endured in place of His people, but He also endured the rod of
the wicked. But who did He trust when that
happened? Who was He looking to? How did
He save His people? How did He fulfill all righteousness
for us? He trusted the Father. He looked
to the Father. And then you hear this as being
what He brings His saints to do. We trust Him. Now hear Him
trusting the Father, and then hear David trusting Christ. Listen to this. Psalm 62, verse
1. Truly, my soul waiteth upon God,
From Him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation. He's the mountain surrounding
us. He's the rock, our only rock and our only salvation. He's
my defense. I shall not be greatly moved.
How long will you imagine mischief against a man? You shall be slain,
all of you, as a bowing wall shall you be and as a tottering
fence. They only consult to cast him down from His excellency.
They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth,
but they curse inwardly. Selah. Do you think about that
regarding our Lord Jesus? The Pharisees, smiting with the
rod of wickedness, and they would come and speak such smooth things
to Him, but in their heart they wanted to curse Him. They wanted
to take Him down from His excellent glory. What did he do? Verse 5, My soul wait thou only
upon God, for my expectation is from Him. My expectation is
from Him. Hear Christ say that. And you
do that, you look to Christ and you say to your soul, my soul,
wait thou only upon God for my expectations from Him. He only
is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. I shall not
be moved. In God is my salvation and my
glory. The rock of my strength and my
refuge is in God. You see, that's how Christ saved
us. He had perfect faith, trusting
the Father in perfection, obeying the Father in perfection for
His people. Even to the death of the cross,
even while the rod of wickedness is upon Him on that cross, He
looked to the Father. and He commands you and me, now
you trust Him. You look to Christ and trust
Him to do all the saving. He has justified His people.
He has saved us. He is saving us and He shall
save us. When any time you suffer, you look to Him now. Do you trust
the Lord? Do you trust the Lord alone?
Is He your only confidence? I mean, trust Him like a little
child. I mean, knowing whatever providence
He sends, but the Lord sent it, the Lord has ruined it, the Lord
will teach me in it, the Lord will deliver me in it, all my
expectation is from Him. And trust the Lord. They that
trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion which cannot be removed
and abideth forever. The Lord drowned about His people
henceforth even forever. So this is the first thing. Don't
miss this now. This is for those that trust
in the Lord. We're not looking to ourselves, we're not looking
anywhere else. It's trusting in the Lord. Alright,
now secondly, it's only trusting in the Lord and it's only going
to be by the Lord that we're going to be saved from the rod
of the wicked. Now look what he says in Psalm
125 and look at verse 3. For the rod of the wicked shall
not rest upon the lot of the righteous, lest the righteous
put forth their hands unto iniquity." Now, the Lord does not say here,
He does not say that the rod of the wicked will not fall upon
the righteous. Our Lord, He suffered the rod
of the wicked. The Pharisees, they didn't look
like the wicked to men. They looked holy to men. They
looked righteous to men. But they smote him with the rod
of wickedness. They called him a blasphemer.
They called him a gluttonous man, a wine-bibber. They went
looking for ways to condemn him. They bore false witness against
him. Told the half-truth about him. turned him over to the Roman
government and they wanted him crucified. The Lord doesn't say
the rod of the wicked should never touch you. He is saying,
He said, the servant is not greater than his master. They persecuted
me, they will persecute you. Ishmael persecuted Isaac. What
did Paul say about that? In Galatians 4.29 he said, As
then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was
born after the Spirit, even so it is now. And that's always
the order. God's people are sheep. Sheep
are not lions. Sheep are not predators. Sheep are defenseless creatures. And that's always the order.
You're not going to find it the other way around. Those born
after the Spirit are not smiting with the rod of wickedness those
that are fleshly and certainly not smiting our brethren. It's
always those born after the flesh smiting those that are born after
the Spirit. You think about this. The Lord
didn't say that you won't be touched with the rod of wickedness.
The king of Assyria He smoked with the rod of wickedness, the
elect in Judah, when he came up against Judah. But what did
the Lord say? He said, the king of Assyria
is the rod in my hand. The king of Sennacherib was the
rod in the Lord's hand. He was using that king to chasten
his children in Judah, correct them, bring them to trust in
the Lord. That's what he was doing. And
that gives us comfort, brethren, if you do experience the rod
of wickedness. Remember, it's the Lord. He's the first cause. He's doing it for the good of
His people. He's doing it to bring us to trust in the Lord,
to keep us trusting in the Lord. We think about Job. The rod of
the devil fell hard upon Job. But the devil could not do one
thing without the Lord's permission. I tell you what, that gives me
comfort. That gives me great comfort. Because what I see in
Job is, I see a man who though he was a man who eschewed evil,
though he trusted the Lord, you read Job, you see a man who is
yet a sinner in himself. But what was the end? It was
all for Job's good. He increased Job in faith, he
brought Job to trust the Lord more, and it was for his good.
And that, brethren, that's only if the Lord permits the devil
to smite with the rod of wickedness, it's only for the good of his
people. That comforts me. Whatever comes my way, I know
my Lord is ruling this, and it's gonna be for my good. It'll be
good for me that I've been afflicted, like David said, Psalm 119. But
our Lord promises this, though you may be smitten with the rod
of wickedness, He promises the rod of the wicked shall not rest
upon the lot of the righteous. It won't rest upon you. It won't
be forever. Lest the righteous put forth
their hands unto iniquity. The Lord remembers we're dust.
He knows what we are. We can't take too much and He
knows that. The righteous are made righteous
only in and by the Lord Jesus Christ. He's our only right.
Jehovah said he knew the Lord our righteousness. That's how
we're made righteous is in Him. The Lord gave us faith to know
Christ is our only righteousness. So the Lord will not permit the
rod of the wicked to rest on us because the pressure from
that, the pressure from that would turn us from the Lord and
make us put forth our hands to iniquity. And He won't let that
happen. He's not going to let that happen.
Doesn't mean you're not going to sin in the trial, doesn't
mean you're not going to sin when the pressure comes. But
what it is to put forth your hand to iniquity is to be turned
away from trusting Christ alone. To be turned away trying to save
ourselves, that's wickedness. And the Lord is not going to
permit it, lest the pressure of it make you submit to the
world works religion, to those that have smitten you with the
right of witness, and make you compromise and make you turn
from Christ and start partially looking to the work of your own
hands to make you righteous or to make you holy. Is that not
what the Pharisees were doing? When the Judaizers came, they
were saying, it's okay to trust Christ, but now except you be
circumcised, you can't be saved. They were trying to mix law and
grace. And unless that pressure from such affliction, unless
that make you put forth your hand to iniquity. Iniquity, brethren,
is spoken of in scripture as those that are trying and thinking
by the works of their hands that they are righteous and holy.
The Lord at the end of His Sermon on the Mount, He started that
sermon and said, ìExcept youíre righteous and exceed the righteousness
of the scribes and Pharisees, you canít be saved.î And He ends
it talking about men who are just like the scribes and Pharisees.
They say, ìLord, didnít we do many wonderful works? Didnít
we cast out devils in Your name? Didnít we preach in Your name?î
And he'll say, depart from me you workers of iniquity, I never
knew you. Because all their works didn't
measure up to the righteousness God demands. It will never measure
up to the holiness God demands. And unless the pressure, and
it's a lot of pressure when men try to get you to submit and
get you to compromise on the gospel. And sometimes it's people
that you don't want to hurt their feelings. But brethren, the Lord
won't let that pressure go forever because He's not going to let
His people turn and put forth your hand to iniquity and turn
from Him and cease trusting Him alone. He's not going to permit
that in His people. There's other ways this will
happen too. You take somebody He puts pressure on you at your
job, and they're going to give you a promotion, but now you're
not going to be able to go to the house of the Lord. You're
going to have to skip. It won't be all the time, just
sometimes. That's how it always starts. Just sometimes. Then
it will be more times, and the next thing you know it will be
all the time. And in turn, the next thing you know, you've gone
after the world's riches. The end motive of the oppressor
is always to oppress others into submission to them. That's always
the motive. That they make glory in your
flesh. So the Lord, He's not going to
permit the rod of the wicked to let His child be turned from
trusting in the Lord alone. Alone. Alone. He's not going
to permit that. Now, here's the way. This is
how we're going to be saved. This is the way. This is the
last thing. Christ is going to turn His child.
When the rod of the wicked comes, it has a purpose. The Lord's
purpose. And here it is. He's going to
bring you to cry out to the Lord to save. This is the prayer He
puts in our heart. Verse 4. Do good, O Lord, unto
those that be good. To them that are upright in their
hearts. Those that be good. are those in whom the Spirit
has created an upright heart, a new heart, an honest heart,
so that we confess our only goodness is the Lord Jesus Christ. An
upright heart is a heart that's been, you know, he calls all
the workers of iniquity and the self-righteous religion as turning
things upside down. God has to turn your heart upright. to look up to Him. God makes
Christ's wisdom unto us. And so when the rod of the wicked
comes, and it would pressure you to look to your own wisdom,
to lean to your own understanding, to try to deliver yourself out
from under the pressure and out from under the oppressor, and
it would try to make you figure out a way that you can fix it.
That's just looking to the iniquity of our own hand and results in
iniquity. And so the Spirit of our Lord,
He will make you turn from leaning to your own understanding. And
He'll make you cast all your care on the Lord. And call out
to Him, Oh Lord, do good, oh Lord. Save your people, oh Lord.
He'll bring you to call out to Him to be your wisdom. Lead me
in the right way. Those that God's made upright
in heart, He's made us to know there's none good but God. Because
He's made Christ's righteousness to us. He made us see what it
took for God to look upon him and say, this is my only son,
my servant, whom I'm well pleased. You see what it takes for God
to call somebody good? It takes the perfection of Christ
Himself is. And He's made you see He's your
only righteousness. So when the rod of the wicked
would pressure you and they would pressure you into looking to
the iniquity of your own hands and to your works to make you
righteous, The Lord will bring you to cry out to Him to be your
judge. Cry out to Him to plead your
cause. Cry out to Him who is your righteousness, who settled
judgment at the cost for you. Call on Him to work righteousness for you. God
made Christ's sanctification to us. And so when the rod of
the wicked would pressure you into sanctifying yourself and
looking to the works of your hands to sanctify yourself, and
you'll, you know, that's what the word Pharisee means, separate
ones. And you'll start to think, and
you're separated yourself, and you did this yourself, and you'll
become proud of yourself, and you're not separated at that
point. You've run in, you've gotten
tangled up in that bondage again. Who's the sanctifier? Christ
is. And how does He do that? He comes and He speaks into your
heart, and He brings you out of that, and He brings you to
partake of His holiness and trust Him, and know He's your perfection. And so He calls you to cry out
and say, Lord, do good, O Lord, to them that You've made to be
upright in heart. Be the mountain around us and
protect us, Lord, and keep us separated unto You. Don't let
us be swallowed up with the workers of iniquity. God made Christ's
redemption to us so we know when we're brought into this rod of
the wicked, And you can't deliver yourself from it. And there's
nothing you can do to get free from it. But you know Christ
is the one who redeemed you from the curse and condemnation of
the law by being made a curse for us. And you know He can deliver
you from it. He's already delivered you from
the curse. He can deliver you from the rod
of the wicked. And He brings you to cry out to the One who
is your Redeemer. And you say, Lord, deliver us
from this. We cry to our sovereign Savior,
do good, O Lord, to those that be good and are upright in their
hearts. Upright to admit, to be honest, that in our flesh
dwells nothing good. Upright to admit that we're not
the wisdom and the righteousness and the holiness and the redemption.
We're not our Savior. Upright to admit that we need
Christ to save us. That's uprightness. Christ sends His child, He rules
the rod of the wicked. Now listen, nothing happens in
this world that our sovereign Savior is not in total absolute
control of. He's God. That is the very definition
of God. He rules all. And our Lord sent
the rod of the oppressor and He does it for this reason. He
does it to manifest those who are His. He does it to manifest
those that He's preserving. He does it to manifest those
that He has approved by His righteousness. And what He said, there must
needs be heresies that they which are approved might be made manifest. Those that He's approved. Those
that He's made righteous. Those that He's born again by
His Spirit. Those that He's keeping trust
in Him alone. Now if Christ be not the root
within us, Then the rod of the wicked will
turn men aside to their crooked ways, and they'll make you be led away
with them. But now listen, if that happens,
the Lord is leading them away. Listen, read it. Verse 5, As
for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, this is the rod
of the wicked, this is the result of it. He turns men aside to
the wicked's crooked ways. Now you think about the Pharisees
when they crucified the Lord. They didn't think they were the
wicked. He was the wicked. They went right on in their religion.
What did they do for many? Turn them away to their crooked
ways. But if that happens, the Lord shall lead them forth with
the workers of iniquity. The Lord did it. It's sinners
fault. The sinner has no one to blame
but himself, but the Lord led him away. You know, in his parable,
the Lord declared three out of the four hearers, this happened
to three out of the four hearers, the sower that soweth the word,
and these that are by the wayside, the wayside hearer, the word
was sown, but when they heard, Satan came immediately. Here
comes the rod of the wicked. He came immediately, took away
the word that was sown in their heart. Then you have those that
were stony ground hearers, and when they heard the word immediately,
they received it with gladness. They sprung up, but they have
no root in themselves. And so endure but for a time.
Afterward, when affliction or persecution arises for the word's
sake, immediately they are offended. The rod of the wicked comes and
they are offended. And these are they which are
sown among thorns. The thorny ground here, where
they hear the Word and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness
of riches, and the lusts of other things in their end, choke the
Word and it becometh unfruitful. And they are led away. They are
led away. Peer pressure. Don't want to
offend. Men. Rather offend God than men. Submitting to men, trusting men,
rather than trusting in the Lord. But the Lord said, if they're
led away, He said, I'll let them away. But look at verse 5, Psalm
125, 5. But peace should be upon Israel. Christ is the peace of His people.
When God our Father sent the rod of the wicked upon our substitute,
And it was only by the permission of God. It was men with wicked
hands doing what God had before determined to be done. That's
what it is with you and me too, brethren. Don't forget that.
If it was so of our Lord, it's so of you. But these men came
upon our Lord Jesus doing what the Lord had determined before
to be done. To save His people. To glorify
His Son. And what did our Lord do? He
did one thing. He trusted in the Father. That's
what He did. Listen to Psalm 22.13. Actually,
go over there and look at it. Psalm 22.13. I want you to see
it. Listen, I'm trying to show you.
This is how we were saved, brethren. This is how all God's living
was saved. It was by the faithful one, the Lord Jesus. And look
what He did now. Psalm 22.13. They gaped upon
me with their mouths as a ravening and a roaring lion. Verse 15,
he says, ìMy strengthís dried up like a potsherd, my tongue
cleaveth to my jaws, thou hast brought me into the dust of death.î
He knew who was ruling it. Down at verse 15, ìBut be not
thou far from me, O Lord, O my strength, haste thee to help
me.î You know what heís doing? Heís trusting in the Lord. Our
Savior trusted the Father to fulfill His covenant word. He
was fulfilling the covenant word He promised the Father, and He
trusted the Father to fulfill the covenant word to Him. And
look down at verse 22. I'll declare thy name unto my
brethren in the midst of this congregation while I praise thee.
Christ is praising the Father. Ye that fear the Lord, praise
Him. All ye see of Jacob, glorify Him and fear Him. All ye that
see of Israel, for He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction
of the afflicted. Talk about Himself. He hath not
abhorred my affliction, neither hath He hid His face from Him,
but when He cried to Him, He heard Him. You see that? He heard
Him. The Father heard Him. He heard
Him. Now you mark this down. Back
in our Psalm, in Psalm 125. Mark this down. I'm telling you
something. I know. I'm telling you this. There is
only one thing His people do by which we are saved. One thing. One thing. How are you going
to be saved from the rod of the wicked? There is only one thing
His people do. Verse 1, they that trust in the
Lord shall not be moved. There be as Mount Zion which
cannot be removed, but about it forever, as the mountains
are round about Jerusalem. Here's why they won't be moved.
So the Lord is round about His people from henceforth even forever. Remember that night when our
Lord was going to the cross, and His disciples were so afraid,
they were so troubled. You know what they were afraid
of? They were afraid of the rod of the wicked. That's what they
were afraid of. And what did our Lord tell them? He said,
let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also
in Me. Trust Me. Trust Me. He said, Peace will be upon Israel.
Christ is at peace. He told them after He said some
other things, He said, Peace I leave with you. My peace I
give unto you. Not as the world giveth, give
I unto you. How does He give this peace?
He said, let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
What did He tell them at the beginning? Believe in Me. Trust
in Me. You say, faith, that's just such
a simple thing. Well, if it was so simple, everybody
would be doing it. Now, it takes the grace of God,
it takes God giving you faith, it takes Christ sustaining your
faith. You see, the only way you're going to trust in the
Lord is the Lord keeping you and preserving you. And the reason
He sends the rod of the wicked is to show you we can't trust
ourselves. We'll put our hand forth to iniquity
just to try to get out from under the pressure. But He sends that
rod to show you, trust Me. And He gives you the faith to
trust Him. He puts the prayer in your heart to cry to Him.
And He keeps you trusting Him. And that's how you'll never be
moved. That's how you'll be saved. He's round about His people all
the time. Trust Him. Trust the Lord. Trust
the Lord. I pray God bless that.