Let's go back now to Psalm 97. And I want to focus again right here
on verse 12 to begin with. Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous. The title of this message is
the rejoicing of Zion. The rejoicing of Zion. Rejoice
in the Lord, ye righteous, and give thanks at the remembrance
of his holiness. Let's read down to verse 6. That's where we'll begin, but
let's just begin here in verse 1. The Lord reigneth. Let the
earth rejoice. Let the multitude of isles be
glad thereof. Clouds and darkness surround
about Him. Righteousness and judgment are
the habitation of His throne. Look there in your margin if
you have a King James. It says, establishment. Righteousness
and judgment are the establishment of His throne. That's what we
saw in the first hour. He established His throne and
His righteous judgment on the cross. A fire goeth before him
and burneth up his enemies round about. His lightnings enlightened
the world. The earth saw and trembled. The
hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the
presence of the Lord of the whole earth. By Christ's holiness on
the cross, He has established righteousness by His judgment,
answered judgment for His people and ascended now and He reigns. He reigns in His throne because
of His righteous judgment. He established it in righteousness.
That's His holiness. That's His holiness. We see it
at Calvary. Now, verses 6 and 7 declare the sin, the evil,
of all who reject Christ. And verses 8 through 12 declare
the rejoicing of the Lord's people. And that will make up our sections
here this morning. Now, first of all, what is the
sin, the evil, of those who reject Christ? What's the evil of those
who reject Christ? Look at verse 6. The heavens
declare His righteousness, and all the people see His glory.
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves
of idols. Worship Him, all ye gods. Now, whenever Paul was writing
the letter to the Romans, he said in Romans 1, Every sinner
in this world is without excuse for not bowing and worshiping
God because the heavens declare Him. That's what our psalmist
says, the heavens declare His righteousness and all the people
see His glory. Paul said in Romans 1.20, the
invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are
clearly seen. Everything that's made is clearly
seen all around us, being understood by the things that are made,
even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they're without excuse.
Men can't claim they just are ignorant because the scripture
says everybody beholds in creation His eternal power and His Godhead. The heavens declare God's righteousness. The heavens declare he's eternal
in the power of his Godhead. But Paul went on to say that
these Gentiles outside of Israel, everybody outside of Israel,
how they worshipped idols. They worshipped idols. They worshipped
the works of their hands. They made all kind of images
of four-footed beasts and of the sun and the moon and just
whatever, all the things in creation, they made images and called it
a god and bowed down and worshipped those things. And God turned
men over to a reprobate mind. When they didn't know God, they
didn't glory in God, and He turned them over. And so the whole world
just went further and further into sin. And He lists all that
category and that long list of sins in Romans 1. I mean, it's
just what we see all around us. It's what we see in the world.
It's what we know about ourselves when we were dead in sin. But
Paul was building to an important point. The Lord says here in
our psalm, the reason this is so, they went into all manner
of sin and worshiping idols and he said that they're confounded,
confounded, confused, they have no discernment, no spiritual
discernment. Confounded be all they that serve
graven images, that boast themselves of idols, And God says, worship
Him, all ye gods. All that going about, men and
women, worshiping the work of their hands, claiming they're
like their little gods. And He says, worship Him. Worship
Him. But when Paul wrote that in Romans
1, he was building to an important point. Let's go over to Romans
2. You know, the Pharisees They had the law and they were
not worshipping idols. They weren't making any graven
images because when God gave the law, he commanded, don't
make any graven images. He told them, when I bring you
into Canaan, he said, take heed lest you corrupt yourselves because
You know, lest you make some image of a beast, male or female,
or lest you make an image of the sun or moon and fall down
and worship them. And he said this is why, God
is jealous and God is a consuming fire. Meaning God will be worshipped
and him alone. Him alone. Him alone. And those that will not worship
Him, God will consume in fire. Now we saw this morning in our
psalm that that fire, that devour came down and devoured Christ
in place of His people. Devoured Christ in place of His
people. So there's no more fury in God toward His people. That's
the message we're sent to preach. But when Paul wrote that in Romans
1, and he lists all these sins and this idolatry and He was working toward this point
because the Pharisees who had the law, these were religious
folks, they were brought up in religion, they studied the law,
they studied the scriptures, and they were fine keepers of
God's law, so they thought. despise Gentile dogs. We despise
those idolaters out there. Those men who make graven images
and all those sinners out there. We despise them. We're not like
them. And Paul gets to Romans 2 and
Paul says to the Pharisees, they were exactly like them. They
were exactly like them. Why? This is what confounds the
unregenerate man. The unregenerate man hears the
law and thinks that he's to take that law and come to God and
God will receive him because he don't make a graven image.
That's what he thinks. And yet, by trying to come to
God by the law, he's worshipping the idol called himself. He might not steal outwardly
and he's condemning everybody that steals outwardly, but by
thinking he can come to God because he does not steal outwardly,
he's stealing the glory that belongs to Christ alone. Oh,
he doesn't commit adultery and despises those that commit adultery
and condemns those that commit adultery. And by putting his
confidence in the fact he doesn't commit adultery, he's committing
adultery against God because he's trying to come to God by
the works of his hands. And Paul said in Romans 2.1,
therefore, thou art an inexcusable old man, whosoever thou art that
judges. For wherein thou judgest another,
thou condemnest thyself. For thou that judges doest the
same things. Now look down at verse 13. For
not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers
of the law shall be justified. What does it take to be a doer
of God's law? It requires perfect obedience
at all times. Not even a thought that is not
perfectly obedient to God all the time. If you have a dream
that's not righteous, you're guilty. Perfect righteousness all the
time. And I pray God give us discernment
to hear His word. No sinner, no son of Adam can
keep God's law. The reason Paul spoke about them
being confounded and worshipping graven images who were Gentiles,
who were outside of Israel, is to come to this point, to turn
to the Pharisees and say, you're no different than they are. All your religion is idolatry. You're worshipping yourself.
That's what he's telling them. And he gets to that point down
in Romans 3, And he says, what then, are we
better than they? He's saying, we Jews, are we
better than those Gentiles? No and no wise, we've proved
before both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin. As it is written, there is none
righteous, no not one. You know what that means? What
I just said, no sinner born of Adam has ever kept the law. before
he's converted or after he's converted. That right there,
that statement right there, anybody who thinks they keep the law
just became infuriated. You know why? Our text says they're
confounded. They're confounded. They don't
know God. That's why. They're worshiping
themselves. That's why. That's why. There's only one, only one, only
one who ever kept the law. And the doer of the law is justified.
God justified Christ when he raised him from the dead and
declared to the whole world, here's the one who kept my law
right here. That's what our Psalms say and
that's why he reigns. That's why he's seated in glory.
And verse 11, Romans 3.11 says, there's none that understand
it, there's none that seeks after God. That's what our Psalms say,
and they confound it. They have no spiritual discernment.
That was you and me too. That's every sinner that's born
into this world in Adam. Why did God give the law then?
Verse 19, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world
may become guilty before God. That does not leave out anybody. That doesn't leave out anybody.
that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become
guilty before God. By the deeds of the law there
shall no flesh be justified in His sight, for by the law is
the knowledge of sin. But now here, listen to this.
Now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested,
being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness
of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ. It's by His faith,
by His doing, He did the law. And His righteousness is unto
all and upon all them that believe. That believe. It has to be this
way for everybody He saves because there is no difference. All have
sinned and come short of the glory of God. We're justified
freely by His grace through the redemption that's in Christ Jesus. It's through faith in His blood.
Now look at verse 28. Therefore, we conclude that a man is justified
by faith without the deeds of the law. That means without us
doing anything. It's by Christ. Verse 31, do
we then, are we really antinomian? Are we making void the law through
faith? No, we're saying we establish
the law one way. That's through faith in Christ.
Just like Abraham did when he was a Gentile 430 years before
God gave the law. That's what he says in Romans
5. In Romans 9.30 he says, the Gentiles which followed not after
righteousness have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness
which is of faith. They believed unto righteousness.
But the Israel, he said, which followed after the law of righteousness,
hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore,
because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the
works of the law, for they stumbled at Christ the Rock. So this is
what our psalm is saying. Here's the offense, the evil
in men who are worshiping the works of their hands. They're
rejecting Christ. They're rejecting the one righteousness. They're rejecting the King who
reigns in holiness, who is the only one who's made his people
righteous by his doing. And why are they rejecting him?
Confounded. Confounded. Have no spiritual
discernment. Confounded. Confounded. That's
the case of every one of us as we come into this world. That's
how we all came into this world. There's not a person in this
world. I know that people today act like they don't make idols
and nobody today is bowing down to idols. I mean, there's a lot
of people that are bowing down to graven images. But we all
have idols. We have a bunch of idols. You
and I have idols right now. our expensive cars and our children
and our money. All of those things are idols.
We treat those things like we can't live without them and we
treat some of them like it's our salvation. But how are we going to be saved
from that? How is a sinner saved from being confounded and not
being able to hear God speak and understand that Christ is
truly all? How are we saved from that? Look
back at our text. God quickens and gives faith
to behold Christ. Here's what he says in verse
8. Zion heard. Zion heard and was glad. And the daughters of Judah rejoiced
because of thy judgments, O Lord. For thou, Lord, art high above
all the earth. Thou art exalted far above all
gods. the holiness of God that has
been manifested in Christ. Righteousness and judgment are
the habitation of His throne. They're the establishment of
His throne. He went to Calvary's cross and He bore that devouring
fire for His people and He accomplished the judgment of His people. He
settled it. It's done. And He arose and He reigns now
as the God-man because it's finished. It's finished. But He has to
bring you and me to see that. Zion heard. Who's Zion? That's
God's elect. That's those Christ died for.
That's those God chose in Christ before the world was made. That's
who Christ laid down His life for and redeemed by His precious
blood. I said to you Hebrews 12.18 says
to the believer, you're not come to Mount Sinai that burned with
fire, you're come to Mount Zion. You are Mount Zion. You're the
children Christ has justified by His grace. If you hear Him,
you believe Him, that's who you are. Don't let anybody tell you
different. That's who you are. You've come to Christ the mediator
whose blood has purged your sin. Verse 8, Psalm 97, 8, Zion heard. How do we hear? by the Spirit
of God quickening us, by the Spirit of God making this word
effectually in our heart and giving us ears to hear. We were
dead in sin. Paul said in Romans 2, he made
us true Jews. How? He circumcised our heart.
He gave us a new heart. He came and did what we couldn't
do for ourselves. He circumcised our heart and
made us hear the word in spirit, in truth, and believe on Christ. That's what he did. We heard
the good news that Christ has established righteousness for
us. And he says this to us, he that
believeth on Christ shall not be confounded. The scripture
says that multiple times. The problem with men who are
worshipping anything else but Christ only is this, they're
confounded. But here's the truth about God's
people. They will not worship any but Christ because they shall
not be confounded. And that's by the Spirit of God.
That's by the Spirit. That's by Christ Jesus, that
King who's reigning from His throne. Because that's how real
He's reigning. Right now in this earth he is reigning and he is
doing it. He is bringing down kingdoms. He is calling his people
out of this world. He is breaking down the gates
of hell. If Satan can have his gates up and have one of God's
elect, one of Christ's redeemed in some church steeped in religion
or wherever he is, he will not be able to keep Christ from penetrating
that gate and getting his child and bringing him out. Because
Christ is reigning. He's reigning. We don't worship
a God who's trying to do anything. We worship the King of glory,
brethren. We worship the King who is on
his throne, who's ruling everything in this world. Everything. And
the effect is always the same when he makes Zion hear. It says,
Zion heard and was glad, and the daughters of Judah rejoiced
because of thy judgments, O Lord. self-righteous men. The Pharisees
were always trying to scare men. They were always trying to cry
down fire on men, use the word to just stick it in their heart
and just twist and twist and grind them down to powder. That's
what they were always trying to do. God's people delight to
hear God's judgments. We delight to hear them. What
does judgments mean? Judgments means the act of deciding
a case. That's what it means. The act
of deciding a case. God, our judge, calls his child
to behold Christ like he did Isaiah. brings you to his feet
to say, woe is me, I'm undone, I'm a sinner, I can't come to
God, I'm lost. If he sentenced me to hell, it
would be just to do it. I've done nothing to commend
myself to God. And the Lord Jesus Christ, when
he sends that fire from off the altar and puts that word in your
heart, he declares to you, God the judge hands down the verdict. into the court of your conscience,
that conscience that was guilty and plagued and troubled over
your sin and your guilt and thinking you were going to hell because
of your sin. And he comes into the court of your conscience,
and he makes the verdict sound effectually, and he declares,
justified. Justified. Righteous. Righteous. That's all by Christ doing. Therefore,
being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our
Lord Jesus Christ, by whom also we have access by faith into
this grace wherein we now stand and rejoice in the hope of the
glory of God. We're looking for Christ. We're
waiting on Christ. We have a good hope. He's coming.
We're going to be with Him. Each believer is glad and rejoices
because we behold the Lord reigneth. We behold the Lord reigneth.
Verse 9, For thou, Lord, art high above all the earth. Thou
art exalted far above all gods. You see there, that's what they
heard and that's what made them glad. That's why the daughters
of Judah rejoice because of God's judgments. because thou, Lord
Jesus Christ, art high above all the earth, thou art exalted
far above all gods. I was trying to show you this
morning that we're so glad God is sovereign. This is what offends
self-righteous religion, that He's sovereign. But the thing
that offends men is this, He's sovereign in salvation. That's
what offends men. There's a lot of men who claim
they believe God's absolutely sovereign, and what they mean
is over things that are happening in the world. They don't mind
that. But now you tell him he's absolutely sovereign in salvation,
that he really did accomplish the salvation and made his people
righteous at Calvary. Not everybody. He wasn't trying
to do it for everybody. He did it for his elect. He made
his people righteous by his blood on the cross. That's why he's
exalted far above all. That's what Ephesians One says
at the end, it says, because he pleased God, God has exalted
him high above all and given him a name above every name and
made him the head over all things to the church. That's why we
rejoice, because we see that he accomplished what he came
to do. He redeemed his people. He redeemed his people. And now
we hate. every vain confidence that we
once loved. We hate our sin. We hate what we are in our flesh. We hate our self-righteousness.
We hate everything about what we are in our flesh because He
has shed His love abroad in our heart. Look at verse 10. You
that love the Lord hate evil. That's what He speaks. God is
love. God is love. That's what the
scripture says. He is love. And by Him dwelling
in His people, we love the Lord. We love the Lord. Now we say
what John Newton said. John Newton said, I don't love
Him as I ought. I don't love Him like I would,
like I want to. I don't love the Lord like I
will one day. But I do love the Lord. And his
people love the Lord. And he says, ye that love the
Lord hate evil. And this is so of all God's people. This is so of every one of God's
people. Now, all sin is evil. When we hear that word evil,
you know, you immediately think of some atrocities that have
been committed in the world. No. Evil is anything that is
not in perfect harmony with God. Evil is anything that is not
as holy as God is holy. The Lord said to his disciples,
when he was teaching us how to pray, he said, if you, being
evil, know how to give good things to your children, don't you think
God will? You see, our sin nature is only
evil. That's all we are in our sin
nature is evil. It's sin. It's sin. Nothing good
comes from the sin nature that we were born with, with Adam.
Nothing good comes from it. Anything and everything that's
contrary to holy God is evil. And that's all our flesh is.
And that's all it produces in thoughts, in words, in deeds,
that's all it produces. But by God's grace, because He
shed His love abroad in our heart now, He's made you love Christ
and hate evil. And He won't let our sin nature
have dominion over us. He won't let us fall away in
apostasy. He keeps us by His grace. But let me say this first now. Christ is love. And in the heart
where Christ dwells, love reigns. Love reigns. Christ teaches us
to hate no man. He teaches us to love even our
enemies and do good to them. To do good to them. He said, you've heard that it's
been said by them of old time, thou shalt love thy neighbor
and hate thy enemy. I say unto you, love your enemies. Do good to them that hate you
and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you. We're
not to hate any man. We're not to hate any man. We're
to have no malice, no wrath, no anger, no harshness, no uncharitableness
toward even our enemies and certainly not toward our brethren. Now,
knowing that, is there anybody here that wants to try to come
to God based on how you've loved your enemies? I don't. I don't want to come to God based
on how I've loved you. Do you? But we do love the Lord
and we do hate evil. We hate that about ourselves.
We hate that about ourselves. We hate evil because it's for
our evil that Christ went to the cross. It's because of the
evil of our sin that Christ suffered the cross and it's beholding
Him, like I said this morning, it's beholding Him on the cross,
suffering in the room instead of His people that makes us mourn
our sin. It makes us abhor any goodness
in us and cease all boasting that we've done anything that
would merit heaven. It makes us cast all our care
on Him. Evil made our nature deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked. We still have that that
desperately wicked and evil deceitful nature in us. It's still there. Our evil would have destroyed
us if Christ hadn't intervened for us and come and by His blood
purged our sin at Calvary and then come and created a new man
within us. We would have died in sin if
it wasn't for Him. So we hate evil. But now by God's
grace We fear the Lord and we hate evil that God hates. He
said in Proverbs 8.13, the fear of the Lord is to hate evil.
And what does he list first? Pride. Pride. Arrogancy. And the evil way and the froward
mouth. The forward mouth is the one
who gets alone in private and runs down others, as well as
does many other wicked things that are just arrogant and proud.
And God says, the pride and arrogancy and the evil way and the fraud
mouth do I hate. That's what the Lord said. And
He makes His people hate it. But you know, here's the thing.
This is where He keeps you. You know, just like he did Isaiah
in the first hour there, where Isaiah was woeing everybody else. Woe is this one, woe is that
one, woe is the other one. And that's nothing but pride
and arrogancy. And the Lord brings you to behold
Christ on Calvary, and risen to the right hand of the Father,
accomplished redemption in His holiness there, who is all the
righteousness of His people, and He makes you behold Him.
And he makes you hate the very pride you are in yourself. That pride of woeing others. Of woeing others. Paul said this,
that which I do, I allow not. This is a regenerated believer
and he's speaking about what he is still in his sinful nature. He said, that which I do, I allow
not. For what I would do, that do
I not. And what I hate, that do I. God's people say, that's me. God's people don't say, yeah,
that's you. No, God's people say, that's
me. That's what we say about ourselves. We're so prone, now
here's what we are prone to do, and this is what, here's the
paradox of this thing of hating evil right here. We hate this
fact that we are so prone to hate evil in others. and be so lenient with it in
ourselves. We'll climb right up into the
judgment seat of Christ and get on his throne and start crying
down fire on somebody else for their evil. And just be as lenient and excuse
that and justify that when that is far worse evil than anything
we could do. We have to say of evil what John
Newton said of love. I don't hate evil as I ought. I don't hate evil as I will or
as I would. I don't hate evil as I will one
day. But I do hate evil. I do hate
evil. Let love be without dissimulation. That means don't be divided in
our love. Abhor that which is evil and
cleave to that which is good. Cleave to it. Depart from evil
and do good. Seek peace and pursue it. That's what the gospel, that's
what beholding Christ on his throne makes us want to do in
our heart. That's what he, that's the constraint
he gives you in your heart. And that's so in every one of
God's people. And anybody who's condemning
God's people and trying to convince brethren that one of their so-called,
somebody else is not a believer, that's evil. That's evil. And they ought not give an ear
to it. It's evil. And if that's a believer doing
that, God will bring them down eventually. God is going to make
them see Christ just like he did Isaiah, and they're going
to be brought to the dust of their depravity to see they are
the depravity, and they're going to say, woe is me. That's coming. You mark it down. If a believer, one of God's children,
now he won't do this for a reprobate, but if it's one of God's children,
because he loves his children, they come into that place. He
bringing them there because they're going to behold Him and give
Him the glory. That's right. But we're kept by Christ's keeping
grace. Now here's what He does. When
He shows you Christ, this is how He restrains us, and restrains
that sinful nature, and makes you trust your brethren to Christ,
and makes you trust your enemies to Christ, and makes you trust
your own self to Christ. Here's how He does it. He reminds
you of this. Look at our text. Psalm 76 verse
10. Here's why he says, love the Lord, and here's the evil
he's saying depart from. Remember this, he preserveth
the soul of his saints. Don't forget that. Don't forget
that. Don't forget about yourself.
Don't forget about your brethren. He preserveth the soul of his
saints. He delivereth them out of the
hand of the wicked. That ETH means he doesn't do
it just once. He keeps doing it. He preserved
the souls of his saints. He delivered them out of the
hand of the wicked. Light is shown for the righteous
and gladness for the upright in heart. Every sinner that's
born of God is a saint. I've heard people say, well,
I'm no saint. You better be. You got to be. You got to be.
And everybody that's born of the Spirit of God is a saint,
is a saint. What does that mean? You're sanctified
by God the Father in divine election. when He called, elected you in
Christ, set you apart in Christ, sanctified by the blood of Christ
at Calvary when He perfected forever them that God sanctified
in Him, sanctified by the Spirit of God by Him creating a new
man in you and making you look out of yourself to Christ your
holiness on the throne of God. That's what true sanctification
is. And by His grace, He preserves the souls of His saints. The
souls of His saints. The new man, the soul of His
saints. Your body is going to die. He
raised Lazarus from the dead, but a little while later, Lazarus
died. Well, your body's going to die. You're going to die.
It's going back to the dust. But your soul, he saved. He's created a new spirit, a
new man in you, and you're going to be with the Lord immediately
when you die. And then later, he will raise
a new body, incorruptible. And it'll all be by Him. But
right now, it really don't much matter what happens to these
bodies as far as what wicked people try to do to us. He's
preserving our souls, brethren. That means nothing's going to
separate you from the love of God in Christ. Christ redeemed
us. He's not going to let sin destroy
us. He's not going to let sin separate
us from Him in apostasy and reprobation. He's not going to allow that.
You shall not be confounded, He said. He preserves the souls
of His saints. He delivers them out of the hand
of the wicked. Aren't you glad for that, brethren? We occasionally suffer at the
hands of wicked men, you know, somebody says something or whatever,
but we don't in our day really suffer from the hand of wicked
men who would actually try to destroy us. But we don't even
have to worry about any wicked men. The Lord will preserve his
people from the hand of the wicked. He will. He's going to preserve
each of his people. And he does it by continuing
to shine his light into our hearts. Light is sown for the righteous,
gladness for the upright in heart. Look back at Psalm 93. This is
just what he did for Isaiah. We saw this earlier in the first
hour when he makes you behold Christ. Here's how he preserves
you. Here's how he saves you from
the hand of the wicked. Here's how he shines his light,
keeps you looking to Christ right here. Psalm 93.1. The Lord reigneth. He's clothed with majesty. The
Lord is clothed with strength wherewith he hath girded himself.
The world also is established by his righteousness that it
cannot be moved. He's going to call out all His
people. Thy throne is established of old doubt from everlasting.
But then we become shaken because of evil in us or evil in somebody
else or wicked hands or something. And we cry out, the floods have
lifted up, O Lord. The floods have lifted up their
voice. The floods lift up their waves. But He turns you again
to Christ just like He did Isaiah in verse 4. You see His righteous judgment
accomplished. He puts that live coal on your
tongue. And you see the Lord on high is mightier than the
noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
And again you fall on your face and worship Him, rejoice in Him.
You say, Thy testimonies are very sure. Holiness becometh
thine house, O Lord, forever. His holiness, He's made His people
holy, brethren. It's not going to be undone.
It just is not. And this is what He keeps making
us see. This is the light He shines for us. And so He settles
us at His feet, verse 12, Psalm 97, 12, and He speaks into your
heart, and this is what you do. This is how you keep loving the
Lord. This is how you keep hating evil.
This is how He keeps bringing you right here, speaking affectionately
in your heart, saying to you, Rejoice in the Lord, ye righteous.
Give thanks at the remembrance of His holiness. And that's where
He keeps you. He keeps you there. Brethren,
it's His holiness by which we're saying. His holiness, God's holiness,
is what you see on the cross. God establishing His throne in
judgment, in righteousness, pouring out the fire we deserved on Christ,
and saving us from our sin. That's what you see there. He
reigns because He's holy. He reigns in holiness. He's made
all His people holy, perfected forever by His one offering.
And the Spirit of God now is sending this word to you and
me from His throne in Zion into our hearts and teaching us this
in our hearts and keeping us the whole walk through this wilderness.
He's teaching us this in our hearts and keeping us looking
to Christ, trusting Christ, bowing to Christ. using this gospel
to help one another look to Christ. This is the word he blesses,
and he's going to keep doing it. And nothing else is going
to change it. Nothing's going to interrupt
it. Nothing's going to hurt it. For each and every one of his
people, he's going to save his people. Mark that down. He's
going to save his people. That is the, as Paul Harvey used
to say, that's the rest of the story. He shall save his people. He won't lose one. Amen.