Alright brothers, Psalm 104. In verse 34, Simon says, My meditation of
Him shall be sweet. My meditation of Him. My meditation
of Him shall be sweet. We need to get in a quiet place and we need to read this Word. When we hear the Gospel preached,
we need to take the things we've heard and we need to get in a
quiet place. The Lord said, go into our closet,
commune with our own heart, and meditate on the Word of the Lord. Meditate on the Word of the Lord. I told you this before. I went
in one time to Brother Bruce Crabtree's office. He had all
these books on the wall from the floor to the ceiling, just
bunches of books. I walked into his office and
he sat at his desk and he had his Bible open. and there wasn't
another thing on the desk but his Bible. And he said, Clay,
we have to get these words down in our heart. That's what the
Psalm is talking about. Meditate on him. Meditate on
him. John Barry wrote Peter Pan. And he wrote another book about
his mother and about what it was like growing up in Scotland.
And he said in this book that his mother read John 14. We've
been going through John 14. She read that passage so much
and he said she would sit and read it and she would just sit
and close her eyes and just think on what it was she read. And
he said she read it so much that when you opened her Bible it
would just fall to that passage. And said when she got old and
she couldn't see, he said her Bible would be open to John 14.
And she said she'd be sitting there mouthing the words to it. And said she'd lean down and
kiss the page. We have a lot of things in this
world that keeps us busy. Young people are trying to get
an education and we leave that and things ease up and it's just
busy with a career and jobs and what have you. Got every kind
of form of communication and everybody's talking and all the
talking heads. It's just noise. Always noise. Always something pulling us to
this earth, to this flesh, to things that really are not going
to profit us eternally. We need to get in a quiet place,
read the Word of God, and meditate on Him. On Him. Not just read the Word. It's
not about the volume of scriptures we read. It's not about how many
sermons you listen to. Take a phrase and read it. And think about what it said. What is God saying? And really endeavor to get the
Word in our heart. Can't do it but by the grace
of God. You know it takes God's grace. to give us the patience. When everything else is going
on and we've got all these things pulling at us, all the things
we know that we've got to do, it takes the grace of God to
have the patience to stop and take this Word and read it and
concentrate and think on, pray about, ask God to give you an
understanding of what it is you read. Somebody that sees you doing
that, they'll think you're doing nothing. Oh, they're just not
doing anything. It's the most important activity we could do,
is to stop and meditate on this Word. And it takes God to give
us grace to do it. It takes God to give you the
spiritual understanding to enter in to what He's saying. But this is our need. And what
a blessed effect it has. He said there, My meditation
of Him shall be sweet. I will be glad in the Lord. This world can make us bitter. This world can make us bitter. But He said, My meditation of
Him shall be sweet. There's many things in this world
that can make us very sad. But he said, meditating on Him,
I will be glad in the Lord. I will be glad. I will be glad. Whatever passage we hear, whatever
passage we read, this is what we need to meditate on. Him.
And specifically His glory. This book is all to the glory
of God. It's God's Word. And it's all
concerning His glory. And whatever you're reading,
whatever you're hearing, true meditating on the Word, true
profit from the Word is beholding how God gets all the glory in
that Word. And it being applied to our heart
so that we believe Him and we walk after Him. So I want to
do that this morning, God giving us grace to do it. We'll try
to look at some things to meditate upon this morning. First of all,
meditate on His glory. Whatever you're reading, whatever
you're hearing, look for the glory of God in it. He says here,
verse 31, the glory of the Lord shall endure forever. The margin says, shall be forever. The glory of the Lord shall endure
forever. The Lord shall rejoice in His
works. The second part tells us what
the first part means. That's often the case. The Lord, His glory, the glory of all the
works of His hands, the glory of the Lord and what He's created,
it shall endure forever. It shall be forever. Now, the
glory of man, this glory we're seeking and this glory that we
think we have when we've accumulated and accomplished things, this
glory is not going to endure forever. Listen to this, 1 Peter
1.24, all flesh is its grass. Later we'll read the scripture
where Peter's quoting is from. All flesh is as grass and all
the glory of man as the flower of grass. All man's glory, all
man's accumulated glory, all his riches, all his accomplishments,
all his honors, everything that you get in this world, the glory
of man is as the flower of grass. What happens to the flower? It
wilts, it dies, it fades, it blooms out, And as soon as it
bloomed out, and next thing you know, you look up and it's gone.
We had all these beautiful blooms out here. And you look out there
now and they're gone. That's the glory of man. We're
here, we bloom, it passes. The grass withereth, and the
flower thereof falleth away. But now listen, but the word
of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the word which by
the gospel is preached to you. The word of the Lord. The glory
of God. We see the glory of God in creation.
One of the reasons I took so much time in this psalm is when
I was growing up, I spent almost more time than any in the woods
and in the fields working and in a garden working. I was always
out in creation. And by God's grace, as the Lord
gave me spiritual sight, you just start seeing His glory in
things in His creation. And that's what the scripture
says. The heavens declare the glory of God. The firmament shows
His handiwork. You look around you. You just
can't deny God. You look around you. Paul said
in Romans, man's without excuse. The heavens declare Him But it's the glory of His new
creation. This is what's going to endure
forever. This creation, God made it, we see His glory in it, but
it's serving a purpose that God purposed from eternity. And when
He's done with it, this creation and everything in it and all
the works in it are going to burn up. That's what Scripture
clearly said. But there is a new creation that
God is making and it is why He made this creation. He purposed for eternity to make
a new creation. And that new creation, He calls
it a new heaven and a new earth. That is what He calls it. I take
that to mean what it means. It will be a new heaven and a
new earth. And it is going to be made up of His people. that
He chose in Christ, that Christ came forth and made perfect in
His blood and His righteousness that the Spirit of God creates
anew in the heart. This is why He said you must
be born again from above. A man cannot see the Kingdom
of God unless he be born from above. Not only can you not enter
into it and spiritually comprehend it, you can't enter in at all
unless you're created anew by the Lord. And in the end, He's
going to raise our bodies and they're going to be made new
and glorious. And everything in that new creation
will be all the workmanship of the Lord Jesus Christ, the triune
God in Christ, so that nobody but God gets the glory. He did
everything. A to Z. And everybody there is
going to give Him the glory because that's what we want now. That's
the acid test where you know a man's really been born from
above because he doesn't want glory. He wants his God to have
the glory because he sees God's the only one that deserves to
be praised and honored for this. It's all of Him. And it's that
glory making His people new by Christ's blood, by Him laying
down His life for us, by Him being formed in the heart. This
is the glory of God that shall endure forever. It shall be forever. It shall be forever. And those
that are with Him, those that are there in this new creation,
just like it is right now, by His grace, Forever, we just sang
it, we're going to cast our crowns at His feet and we're going to
give Him all the glory and honor. This is why God did it. He said,
I won't share my glory with another. God's not going to let man boast
about how we made ourselves be born again. I mean, that's foolish
anyway. You didn't make yourself be born
the first time. He's not going to boast about something we did
by our will and by our works to make ourselves accepted of
God. He's not going to receive that because that's not of God. God doesn't create that in His
people. God creates in His people a desire for Him to have all
the glory. I was born by His will. Of His own will begot He
us. How so? With the Word of Truth.
But the Gospel, this Word which by the Gospel is preached unto
you, by Him blessing this in the heart, this is the incorruptible
seed, born the first time by corrupt seed, polluted, defiled,
depraved, sinners. This is the incorruptible seed
by which we must be born again so that there is a new man created
in His righteousness and His holiness that you and I didn't
have any part of creating. He did it all. So he gets all
the glory and this is what all his people are going to declare.
And look at this now, and the Lord shall rejoice in his works. Just like he created the first
creation and Genesis says he looked at it and he said it's
very good, it's good, everything that he made. This new creation
is his people that he created. Paul said in Ephesians 2, we
are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus. He created us. And He looks upon His works that
He's created, and what an amazing thought, rejoices in His people,
the works of His hand, what He created. Just like He did in
that first creation, He looks upon this new creation and He
says it's very good, but it's good only in and by the Lord
Jesus Christ, by His Son, by His Son. He rejoices. Our Father rejoices in Christ.
Christ rejoices in His redemption that He accomplished. He rejoicing
in what He did for His people, and He's rejoicing in what He's
made His people, a redeemed people, a righteous people, all by His
doing and dying on Calvary's cross. And he's going to rejoice
in the Spirit of God and His works of sanctification and how
that He came to us and made us to be born again by His power
and created anew so that we look entirely out of ourselves to
Him alone and follow Him alone and are kept by Him alone and
preserved by Him alone so that we go through this life with His everlasting arms underneath
us, carrying us, keeping us. Do you hate sin? How do you hate
it? How is it you have a hatred for
sin in your heart? It's only by Him. It's only by
Him. But we can't even put any confidence
in our hatred of sin because we don't hate it as we ought.
Can we? But it's all of Him. You believe
Him? How so? It's of Him. You want
to honor Him? Where'd that will come from?
Where'd that motive of your heart come from? Because you beheld
Christ who laid down His life for you, and now you know that
He didn't do all this for us to make us to be born again,
to live to ourselves, but to live to Him. You love your brethren? Why? He put that love in your
heart. Why? Because when you see them,
you see Christ who laid down His life for them and made them
righteous. And you want to serve Christ, and the best way you
can do it is by serving them. All of Him. And He's going to
rejoice in His works. And His glory is going to endure
forever. Listen to Romans 11.36. I want to read it to you. I only
have verse 36 written down, but let me go over here. I want to
read something else to you that's in this passage. Listen to this. Let's go to verse 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! For who hath known
the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor? With
whom did He counsel in eternity? Did He ask you and me how to
do anything? Listen to this. Or who hath first
given to him, and it shall be recompensed to him again. Man,
that's a broad brush. He says if there's anybody that
ever lived on the face of this earth that first gave anything
to him. You hear men every day, I decide
to give Jesus my heart. I decide to let him be my Lord. There's no man that ever first
gave anything to him. He said, if so, I'll give it
back to him. For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things
to whom be glory forever. Amen. And that's what our text
is saying. His glory shall endure forever.
It's all of Him, through Him and to Him. Ephesians 3.21 says,
unto Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all
ages, world without end. And this is what Paul said. The
Lord shall deliver me. Paul was in prison when he wrote
it. He was going to be slain for
preaching Christ. He knew that. And here's what
he said. The Lord shall deliver me from
every evil work and will preserve me unto His heavenly kingdom
To whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. He's saying he's
going to do this and he gets all the glory. Every bit of the
glory. And his glory shall endure forever.
And in that day he's going to rejoice. He's going to rejoice
in his glory. Rejoice in his works. And his
people are going to rejoice in him. Now that's something to
meditate on. You want to read this book and
you want to find out what it's really teaching. When you read
anything or hear anything preached, here's the thing to look for.
Who gets all the glory? God. He gets all the glory. It's
all of Him. It's all through Him and it's
all to Him. Glory forever. Now here's something else to
meditate on. Go back to Psalm 104 verse 32. Meditate on God's ability to
accomplish His will in every sinner. Think on this, God has the ability
and the power to accomplish His will in every single person that
ever walked the face of this earth. There is not a person
on this planet who ever lived that did not do exactly what
God willed for him to do. He may have in his own heart
been the biggest rebel against God there ever was, but he accomplished
exactly what God purposed to be accomplished. And God did
it. God worked it. God overruled
His rebellion. Just look at Calvary's cross.
Men did exactly what was in their heart to do. And the Scripture
says they did exactly what God determined before to be done.
Now where do you get that in this text? Look at verse 32.
He looketh on the earth, and it trembleth. He toucheth the
hills, and they smoke. When you see volcanoes, you hear
of earthquakes, and you know, Mount St. Helens erupts, and
it's just a giant volcano. Now, science has got its causes,
but our text right here tells you what the first cause is.
God looks on the earth, and it trembles. He touches the hills,
and they smoke. You think how stable, you think
how movable this earth is to us. It's pretty steady. It's pretty solid to us. The
mountains and the hills, we have to use great machines and take
years to go through a mountain. I was talking to a brother the
other day that was just out west, drove out west, He went through
a big mountain pass, four-lane highway, and he said he read
that when that started, it was a footpath that just went through
that mountain, and he said, and the pass was so narrow that men
could touch each side of it when they walked through it. Now it's
a four-lane highway. But it took years and years and
years of trying to tunnel through that rock to do that. And then you hear of an earthquake
or see an earthquake in the news where all of a sudden the ground
just opened up. Just like that. How did that
happen? God did it. God did it. He rules everything. God did
it. Well then if that's the case, what's God able to do with a
sinner? Scripture says we're dust. He
created us out of dust. He formed a body out of the dust.
He breathed into us life. What is God able to do with a
sinner who is just dust? By nature, in our pride, man
thinks ourselves a mountain. We think ourselves a solid rock.
We can't be moved. Christ, our Lord, laid the foundation
by His finished work on the cross. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the
Rock. He is the Rock. He is God. His work is everlasting. His glory endures forever. And
He laid the foundation, the foundation on which all His people are planted,
the foundation by which His people stand, the foundation on whom
all His people shall be saved. He laid that foundation by His
perfect obedience to the Father on behalf of His people unto
the death of the cross. He is that foundation. He is
that foundation. And by His gospel, by the Spirit
of God, our Lord is able to come to His people and speak this
gospel into our hearts. And we might be a mighty mountain
and we're not going to have the Lord reign over us, but when
He speaks into the heart, He brings the mountain down. He
makes the mountains melt before Him. That's what He's able to
do. He can show us the Law and what
the Law says about us and when He says that, speaks that to
you, it's just like when He came down on Mount Sinai and they
saw it quaking and they saw it on fire and He makes that Law
speak to you in a fiery thundering judgment so that you see, I can't
come to God. I need somebody to represent
me to God. I need somebody to go between
me and God to represent me to God. That's what He can do and
He brings the mountains down when He does that. He touches
these little, we think we're a mighty mountain, and when He's
done with you, we were down, we come down, we
come down. And He keeps doing this work.
He continues this work in His people, keeping us low. And every
other mountain in this world, every other mountain, every other
center in this world, Every enemy, every obstacle that to us looks
insurmountable like just a giant mountain that we can't go through,
every other mountain, He shall bring it down. And it will not
be an obstacle to His people. The Lord used Zerubbabel, a man
named Zerubbabel. He used him to begin building
the second temple. And he pictures the Lord Jesus
Christ. He's the builder of the temple. He's the builder of God's
house. That's what the temple pictured.
It pictures the Lord's house, all those he saves, made up of
living stones. just like a temple is made of
stone, but He calls us living stone, quarried out of the mountains
of this earth and out of the mountain of sinners in this earth
and made alive by His Spirit. And He builds us up into His
house and makes us His house to offer up spiritual sacrifices
which are acceptable to God one way, by Jesus Christ. This is
what He does for His people. But when they started building
that second temple, they got very discouraged because there
were great mountains in their way. First of all, there was a bunch
of brethren with them who looked upon this, they got the foundation
laid, and they looked at it, and here was the first mountain
they faced. The people looked at it and started crying and
said, oh, this house is so small compared to the first temple.
And it greatly discouraged the whole congregation. I was talking
to Brother Gabe the other day, and I don't think he'd mind me
telling you this, but he was telling me that several of the
brethren there have come to him and said, they're happy, you
know, obviously, but they're just kind of sad in a way, because
they said, we just all were so compacted in that little building
we were in, and now we're in this big building, we just got
so much space between us. And we don't want to lose that
closeness we had. You know, we don't want to be
lost in this big building. And I thought of that passage
from Haggai and I said that's the opposite problem they had
in Haggai's day. They were pining because the
building was smaller than the first temple. But that was a
discouragement. That was a great discouragement
to the Lord's people. And then they ran into some other
mountains. They were being persecuted by Persia, Babylon
being the capital, and all the enemies of Babylon. They were
trying to stop the work. They were trying to discourage
them from the work, because when the Lord's people would let them
join with them, they wanted to just stop the work. And then
they were faced with this mountain. Because they had all these obstacles
and all these mountains in their way, the Lord's people started
saying, well, it just must not be time to build the Lord's house.
That's what happens when we start looking at providence. Things
get tough, things get hard, and mountains seem insurmountable.
Well, it's just not the Lord's will. But they didn't have a
problem saying, but it's the Lord's will for us to build our
houses. And they started building their houses. And the Lord, that wasn't a problem
to the Lord. He gave them another, He gave
them, you know what He did to remove these mountains? He blew
upon all their crops and made their crops fail. He made the
economy fail. Why? He did something else. He sent two of his prophets to
him to preach the gospel to him. And he began to declare to him
all this that I'm saying to you. He began to declare it to him.
What was the Lord doing in all that? He's removing the mountains.
He's making the earth tremble. He's making the mountains come
down. He's doing all this by His Word, by His Spirit. And here's what He said. Look
at Zechariah 4. He showed Zechariah a candlestick
with those two olive trees on either side of it. And you know
that's a picture of Christ and the gospel of Christ. Him using
His church to preach the gospel for which He's going to save
His people. And here's what he said, Zechariah
4, 6. This is what our Lord was showing
through all of that He was doing. Then He answered and spake unto
me, saying, This is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel. Now He's saying this to the man,
but Zerubbabel was also a picture of Christ. But listen to what
He said. He said, Night by night, nor
by power, not by man's might and man's power, but by my Spirit,
saith the Lord of hosts, who art thou, O great mountain? You can apply that to ourselves,
our own discouragements, any enemy, whatever it is, whatever
mountain that's insurmountable to us, our Lord says, who art
thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel, before the
Lord Jesus Christ, thou shalt become a plain. And he shall
bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace!
Grace! Unto it! Moreover, the word of
the Lord came unto me, saying, The hands of Zerubbabel have
laid the foundation of this house, Christ has laid the foundation
of his house, and his hands shall also finish it. And thou shalt
know that the Lord of hosts has sent me unto you. For who hath
despised the day of small things?" That's what they were doing.
They were despising this little second temple so small. Who despises
the gospel? He said, it's foolishness to
the world. This is the power of God unto
salvation. Why? Not by might or power, but
by His Spirit in the hand of the Lord Jesus. He says, "...for
they shall rejoice, all his people shall, and shall see the plummet
in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven. They are the eyes
of the Lord which run to and fro through the whole earth."
He's saying to us, the Lord has laid the foundation. He's gone
to Calvary's cross. He's accomplished the work of
redeeming His people. There is no mountain, no matter
how insurmountable to you and me, and He puts them before us
and they're insurmountable to you and me to show us they are
insurmountable to you and me. Your flesh, the flesh of your
enemies, whatever it is He puts in the way, it is insurmountable
to us and it's to show us it is. For what purpose? To make
us know. It's not by might and power.
It's not by our wisdom and our ingenuity and our cunning and
our craftiness and our doing and our scheming and our trying
to make things happen. It's by the Spirit of the Lord
through this gospel He's preaching. That's how He takes down the
mountains. He takes down the mountain. This same gospel comes
into the mountain who is not His, that child that is not His,
that sinner that is not His, and it makes His blood boil,
and He hates God to worse, and it just hardens Him worse than
His sin, and whatever God's purpose for Him to do, that's what He's
going to do. And usually it's depart and go out into the world. And just like the Lord did with
Korah, Dathan, and he opens the earth and looks upon it and makes
it tremble and opens up the earth and swallows them up. You see
it every day. People go into the world and
just get swallowed up in it. But for His people, that same
Word comes in power and goes into the heart and brings the
mighty mountain down and makes Him a plain. It makes you behold
Christ Jesus the Lord, the plumb lines in His hand. He's laying
each stone in the building. He's putting each stone where
it needs to be. And you've heard that illustration from Brother
Don Gill. They didn't put a tool on those stones. They brought
those stones already quarried out and they brought them to
the temple and they had to slide them down in there between them
other stones so that they rubbed on each other real good. And
he's gonna let you rub on one another real good. And get real
close that way. And He fitly frames us together
and puts us right where we need to be. And when it's all done
by Him and it's done by His Spirit, what's the end going to be? They
shall rejoice and they'll know the Lord has sent the Word to
them. He sent the Gospel to them and He's worked the works in
the hearts of His people and He gets all the glory. So there's
not a mountain. He just looks upon it. Go over
to Isaiah 40. Now here's where Peter was quoting
from. Peter said, Our glory is like a fading flower, but the
word of the Lord, now that's the word by which He's going
to do this mighty work. It's just a look. He just looks
on the earth. It's His Spirit. It's His presence. He just looks and it's by His
word. He just touches and makes the
mountain come down. Look at this. I was just going
to read a part of this, but I can't. I've got to read the first 11
verses because it's just too good not to read. Isaiah 41,
Comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to
Jerusalem, and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned, for she hath received of the
Lord's hand double for all her sins. The voice of Him that crieth
in the wilderness. Now here He is speaking. Here
is the prophet's sin of God. The voice. He is just a voice
and He is crying in the wilderness. That is what is happening here
today. We are just crying in the wilderness. Prepare ye the
way of the Lord. Make straight in the desert a
highway for our God. How are we going to make this
highway? Like trying to go through those mountains out west. How
are you going to get through those mountains? Every valley shall be exalted,
and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked
shall be made straight, and the rough places plain, and the glory
of the Lord shall be revealed. That's who's going to do it.
His glory is going to do it forever. He is going to rejoice in His
works. He is going to just speak and
look and touch the mountains by His Word, and they are coming
down, and the valleys are coming up, and the crooked will be made
straight. This is all the glory of the Lord, and all flesh will
see it together. Everybody is going to one day
acknowledge the Lord did that for His people, for the mouth
of the Lord has spoken it. The voice said, cry. The preacher
said, what am I to preach? He said, what shall I cry? Here's
the answer. All flesh is grass. This is what
Peter quoted. All flesh is grass and all the
goodliness, all the glory thereof is as the flower of the field.
The grass withers, the flower fadeth. Why? Why did, when they
were looking to themselves and looking to the work of their
hands and their wisdom and said it wasn't time to build the Lord's
house and they were, had that insurmountable mountain of their
own wisdom and their own flesh and their own ideas in their
mind of how, what they ought to be doing, so they were devoting
everything to themselves. How come God said you're putting
it in a bag with holes in it? How'd the holes get in it? How
come all their crops fell? The grass withereth, the flower
fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it." On purpose. Surely the people's grass The
grass witherth, the flower fadeth, but the Word of our God shall
stand forever." What He creates by His Word will stand forever.
His glory is going to endure forever. Oh Zion, that bring
us good tidings, my church, my people that are preaching the
gospel, get up into the high mountain. This is the mountain
of His making right here. This is His church. Get up there. Get up there to that mountain
where Christ sits at God's right hand. Get up there to Mount Zion.
Get up there where He's at and preach and declare the truth
of God. Oh Jerusalem that bring us good tidings, lift up thy
voice with strength. Lift it up, be not afraid. Say
unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God. It's a two-part message. The first part is, me and you
are worthless grass. The second part of that message
is, Behold God. Behold your God. His Word endures
forever. Who He saves shall be saved.
Behold, the Lord God will come with a strong hand, and his arm
shall rule for him. That's the Lord Jesus. Behold,
his reward's with him. He's got his own righteousness,
and he's giving it to us. He's not coming to try to get
you to give him something first. His word's before him. He shall
feed his flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with
his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead
those that are with young. So if you want to meditate on
something, Meditate on Him. Meditate on His glory. See His
glory in all this. And meditate on this right here.
He will accomplish His will with every sinner walking this earth.
Whatever mountain is in your way, it's not a mountain to the
Lord. By His gospel, He's going to
bring it down. Whether it's our own flesh, our own vain ideas
and vain way, He'll bring it down. Or it's an enemy outside
of us. He will bring it. He will accomplish
His will with it. So you can rest in Him. So what
are you going to do when you start meditating on these things
and knowing the glory of the Lord shall endure forever? He
shall rejoice in His work. He's not frustrated. Little sinners
who are dust are not frustrating God and His purpose. Not me,
not you, not anybody. His work's going to endure. He's
going to accomplish His will and He's doing that with every
little mountain in this earth. What's that going to make you
do when you meditate all day and it really gets down in your
heart? I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live. That's what
the psalmist says, Psalm 104.33. I'll sing unto the Lord as long
as I live. I'll sing praise to my God while I have my being.
My meditation of Him shall be sweet. I'll be glad in the Lord.
Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked
be no more. That's going to be the case with
God. If we try to come to God any other way but His Son, we
think of the wicked as being the vile sinner. But if we're sitting here today,
going through all of this, and we're sitting here thinking we're
something, and we're better than somebody else because of something
in us, it's going to be rooted out. Either that mountain is
going to be brought down in grace and brought to the feet of Christ,
or it's going to be rooted out altogether. One of the two. But
His will is going to be done. He said, but when the Lord does
that, I trust Him to do it. The mountains are not mountains
to Him. What are you going to do? By His grace, bless thou
the Lord, O my soul. Praise you, the Lord. Here's what it is right here.
And this is the case. This is the case. This is what
you'll do. You remember Habakkuk? Remember how the Lord said what
he said he was going to do? He said he was going to take
the nation in which Habakkuk lived and he was going to just
destroy all prosperity in it completely. He's going to make
everybody in that land a hobo. Beggars. That's what we are anyway. But he's going to make them see
it. And you know what Habakkuk said he's going to do while that's
going on? Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall
fruit be in the vines. The labor of the olive shall
fail, and the field shall yield no meat. The flock shall be cut
off from the fold, and there will be no herd in the stalls.
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. That's what he's going to keep
in the hearts of his people. Bless the Lord, O my soul. Bless the Lord. Amen.