Alright brethren, let's go in
our Bibles to Psalm 93. Psalm 93. This Psalm is entirely declaring
the good news of our Lord Jesus. And I'll give you my outline
sort of as we read it. But it begins here, turning us
to Christ, seated victorious, having returned from the battle,
there he sits in glory. It says, the Lord reigneth. He's
clothed with majesty, the Lord is clothed with strength. Wherewith
he hath girded himself, the world also is established that it cannot
be moved. And then to remind us that that
he didn't just become a king when he finished his work, he's
been the king from eternity. Verse 2 says, Thy throne is established
of old. Thou art from everlasting. And
then he turns us now to the cross to see what he did for his people. The floods have lifted up, O
Lord. The floods have lifted up their
voice. The floods lift up their waves. And then we turn back
to Him in glory to see Him victorious, that He's overcome the waves. The Lord on high is mightier
than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of
the sea. Thy testimonies are very sure. Holiness becometh or adorneth
thine house, O Lord, forever. So this psalm is turning us to
Christ. He's right there seated in glory
now. He's our victorious King. He's returned triumphant. He's
reigning over His new creation which cannot be moved. So as
we look around us and we see the waves below of sin and sinners
and living by the sword and dying by the sword and the dog-eat-dog
world we live in and all the things going on in this world,
We have this assurance that our king is reigning in glory, that
he has established his house. He's actually established the
world. His new creation. And he's ruling
everything. And because of that we have sure
testimonies. He said there that his testimonies
are very sure. And this is what I want to get
to is these sure testimonies by what he's accomplished. Now
let's begin by turning our eyes to Christ above. See him seated
there now. The Lord reigneth. He's clothed
with majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength,
wherewith he hath girded himself. The world also is established
that it cannot be moved. The Spurgeon's Treasury of David
said on this verse, it would seem as if the Lord had for a
while appeared to vacate the throne. But on a sudden, He puts
on His regal apparel and ascends to His lofty seat, while His
happy people proclaim Him with new joy, shouting, The Lord reigneth."
And that's exactly what we see. He's returned victorious. He's
the King of glory. It's just like our great David.
He's our great David. It's just like David when David
returned from the victory. and ascend to the throne. And
that's the picture we have here. The Lord reigneth. The Lord reigneth. You know what that means? To
make that proclamation, the Lord reigneth. When we say that, you
know what you're doing? You're publishing peace. You're declaring He has accomplished
peace. And you're declaring that He's
accomplished salvation. It's publishing salvation. Go
to Isaiah 52 and look at verse 7. Thy God reigneth, that's what
we declare, that's our gospel. And when we say that, we're saying
Christ has accomplished peace, he's accomplished salvation for
his people. We don't just mean that He's
ruling the leaves on the trees, though He is. The hairs on your
head. Something greater than that.
He's accomplished peace for His people. He's accomplished salvation
for His people. Look at this. Isaiah 52.7, How
beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of Him that bringeth
good tidings, that publisheth peace, that bringeth good tidings
of good, that publishes salvation. What does He say to Zion? Thy
God reigneth. That's what we're saying. He's
accomplished peace. He's reigning. He's reigning. He's accomplished salvation.
He's ascended. He's clothed with majesty. He's
clothed with strength wherewith He's girded Himself. God the
Father girded Him with strength for this warfare when He made
a body. He said, A body hast thou prepared
me. And the Son of God came down
and He girded Himself with that human flesh to be made like unto
His brethren. But now he's accomplished redemption,
he's come to the battle, he's fought the war, he's accomplished,
he's won the victory for his people, he's defeated all the
enemies, his enemies and the enemies of his people, and now
he's ascended to heaven, declared to be both Lord and Christ. He's the Savior, the anointed
Savior, and he is our sovereign King reigning right now. And
God is so well pleased, He's crowned him with glory, He's
crowned him with honor, and there he sits clothed with majesty. You try to think of a, you know,
you think of like England and the king, and you think of like,
you know, if they have a royal wedding or whatever you see where
they just really have all the pomp, you know. Man, I guarantee
you that's nothing compared to our Lord, our King is seated
in majesty. I can't wait to see what that
looks like, but it's going to be something we ain't ever seen.
Seated in majesty. Clothed with majesty. The glorified
God-man mediator. That's the good news. It's a
man who's God, who's one with our nature that's there, without
sin. the King Messiah, the King Lamb. That's who He is. Remember John
in Revelation said he saw the throne and he saw sitting in
the throne was a lamb. This is the King Lamb right here,
King Jesus. God over all, God blessed forever,
and there he sits clothed with strength. He has all power in
heaven and earth. The Lord thy God reigneth in
absolute omnipotence. That's who He is. Go read the
end of Ephesians 1. All power, all power, in all
places, above all, that's Him. All power in heaven and earth
and all places. And then look at this next word.
And the world also established that it cannot be moved. Cannot
be moved. Christ established the world. What's He talking about? I thought
this world He's talking about is going to be burned up. the
world we live in now. But the world He's established
is His new creation. His new creation. His kingdom
which cannot be moved. That's what we've received. A
kingdom that cannot be moved. There's going to be a shaking
going on. But we've received a kingdom that can't be moved.
It's established. It's established. And it's made
up of you that believe on Him. Psalm 103.19 speaking in the
past tense said, The Lord hath prepared His throne in the heavens. and his kingdom ruleth over all."
Now that's the first thing. You get a good visual of him
seated there with all power and all his majesty ruling over all. Now, to make certain that we
understand that this king has been from eternity, he's been
the king of his people, He points us immediately back to the very
beginning, before there was any time. He says in verse 2, Thy
throne is established of old, thou art from everlasting. Oh,
so he didn't just start being a king, he's been the king of
old. Christ is the Son of God set
up as the king from everlasting. Thy throne is established of
old, thou art everlasting. Listen to Proverbs 8.22. Christ, our wisdom, said, The
Lord possessed me in the beginning of His way. Before His works
of old, I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the
earth was. Look at Micah chapter 5 verse
2. Micah 5 verse 2. You're going to be hearing a
lot about Bethlehem this month. Let's know what this says about
the king born in Bethlehem. Micah 5.2 says, Thou Bethlehem
Ephratah, though thou be little among the thousands of Judah,
yet out of thee shall he come forth unto me, that is to be
ruler in Israel. He's going to be the king. whose
goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." From
everlasting. Christ is our Melchizedek. He's
our Melchizedek, King of Righteousness, King of Salem, which is King
of Peace, without father, without mother, without descent, having
neither beginning of days nor end of life, the Son of God,
who abideth a priest continually. That's who He is. King of righteousness. He has been from the beginning.
The word of His power. You know Hebrews 1.3 says, He
upholds all things by the word of His power. The word of His
power by which He has upheld all things from the beginning
is the covenant of redemption. It's His covenant of peace that
God entered into with God. He entered covenant and the government
of His kingdom has been on His shoulder. from of old. That kingdom made up of His elect,
it's always been upon the shoulder of God our Savior, Christ our
King. Before any of His elect sinned,
before we ever failed, God had already chosen our King and chosen
our Savior and purposed the whole thing from the beginning. He
created this world. That's what Colossians tells
us. Christ created the world. He created everything, it was
created by Him and for Him. And our Lord, our King has been
reigning over it throughout the Old Testament dispensation. He's
been ruling everything in it the whole time. Not one thing
has come to pass without Him bringing it to pass. Not one
thing. I create good, I create evil, darkness and light, peace,
all these things. He said, I do. The fall of Adam
and all mankind in Adam, was under His complete dominion as
our King, that He might manifest His glory in saving His people
from our sins. It was all under His dominion.
He raised up kings in the earth. He put down kings in the earth.
He has raised up nations in the earth. He has put down nations
in the earth. Ecclesiastes 8 verse 4 says, Where the word of a king
is, there is power. And who may say unto him, What
doest thou? He is that King. The power of
God unto salvation, Christ the King. All the inhabitants of
the earth are reputed as nothing, and he doeth according to his
will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the
earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto him, What doest
thou? He's been the King from of old.
He's the one who gave all the holy scriptures. He gave them. Now think about it. There's only
one mediator between God and men. And if He gave these scriptures
to men, He's the mediator that gave it to them through the Spirit.
And He gave these scriptures declaring the King's coming and
prophesying of the King that's coming. He's the King that gave
them and He gave them being the subject matter that He's the
King that's coming. And he ruled everything and brought it to
pass. And then he came and he was born
king in human nature. Remember that king said, where
is this one that is born king? King of the Jews. And now he
is going back to his throne. He is ascended back up. And Thy
throne is established of old, Thou art from everlasting. He
said unto the Son, Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever. That doesn't mean just forever
and ever in the future. That means no beginning, no end. The scepter of righteousness
is the scepter of Thy kingdom. In the end, you know what He's
going to tell us? Remember what our Lord said in the end when
He's gathered up His people and separated the sheep from the
goats? Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand,
Come ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared
for you from the foundation of the world. It's been of old. It's all been
settled in order and sure in Christ from the beginning. Since
the fall, it appears like this world's been in chaos. That's
what the waves, some of this aspect of the waves we see is
just sin, foaming and crashing and men just rebelling and doing
everything against God from the very beginning. Just imagine
if for one second he took his hand off of it. It'd be hell. But he's been ruling
the whole thing from the beginning. And he's still ruling the whole
thing right now. All of it's being ruled by Him.
Now, He's gonna turn our eye to the cross. Here's where we're
gonna get some good news right here. I hope it's been good news
already, but we're gonna listen to real good news right here.
Listen to verse three. The floods have lifted up, O
Lord. The floods have lifted up their
voice. The floods lift up their waves. What a King that we have. What a king! This one who has
been a king from of old, this one who created all things and
rules all things, he descended from his throne and he took the
form of a servant, became a man, took the form of a servant to
save his people from our sin. We see David doing that many
times throughout the Scripture. coming down from his throne to
go out and fight for Israel, for his people, to preserve his
kingdom. That's what Christ came to do
and did. But no king ever did it like
Christ did it. David never did it anywhere close
to what Christ has done. On behalf of his people, he went
to the cross to bear what his people deserve. That's the floods
we're talking about here. The floods have lifted up, O
Lord, the floods have lifted up their voice, the floods lift
up their waves. Our King knew no sin, He's righteous,
He's holy, but for the sake of Christ, to manifest God's righteousness,
God purposed for sin to enter in and death by sin. Since Adam's
disobedience in our fall, the storm has raised with these mighty
waves. And God's justice is mighty waves. And the devil's venom is mighty
waves. And the raging of evil wicked
men is mighty waves. And all these waves, our great
King willingly came and took flesh and became a servant on
behalf of his people to obey God, to faithfully walk before
God, representing His people, and go to the cross and bear
our sin and the waves of everything that we deserve to put away our
sin and to do it in perfect faithfulness to God, to make us perfectly
accepted of God. That's what He came to do. Now,
look with me over Jonah. Now, Christ knew no sin. Jonah,
we know, rebelled. Christ knew no sin. But everything that took place
since the fall was for Christ's sake. It was for His sake for
Him to go to the cross. And what Jonah says here, He
very much pictures Christ our King, what He willingly did.
In Jonah 1.12, Jonah said, you know, that sea was raging and
it was because of Jonah's disobedience. But this sea Christ endured by
His willing obedience, that He went to the cross. But here's
what our Lord was saying when He presented Himself spotless
to the Father. He was saying, take me up. and
cast me forth into the sea. So shall the sea be calm unto
you, for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you."
It's for his sake. It's for his glory. For his sake
of saving his people and getting all glory to himself. And look
at the faithful obedience of our King. Stay there in Jonah.
As he bore the floods of justice, and the floods of ungodly men,
and the floods of hell, He looked steadfastly to God the entire
time. That's what our Lord Jesus did
the whole time He was suffering on the cross. He was looking
steadfastly to God. He never ceased looking to God. And look here in Jonah 2 and
verse 1. When Jonah is cast into the sea,
and you know the Lord, the last verse of chapter 1 says, Jonah
was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
Our Lord said that's a picture of Him. That was what He was
going to be in the earth. But look at this. Here's a picture
of Christ on the cross when Jonah's in that sea. It says, Then Jonah
prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish's belly, and
said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and
he heard me. Out of the belly of hell cried
I, and thou heardest my voice, for thou hast cast me into the
deep. Get that right there. It was
God who cast the Lord Jesus into the deep. It was His purpose.
It was for His glory. It was to manifest His righteousness.
It was to save His people. It was to honor His justice.
He cast Him into the deep. Christ willingly endured it.
In the midst of the seas, the floods compassed me about. All
thy billows and thy waves passed over me. Then I said, I'm cast
out of thy sight. Our Lord Jesus said, My God,
my God, why hast thou forsaken me? These were billows and billows
and billows of justice rolling over our Redeemer. You just picture
the worst sea, the worst storm you've ever been in on the sea. This right here was just a tumult,
a raging sea like we can't imagine. The wrath and justice of God
pouring over our Redeemer. and cast out of thy sight, yet,
look at this faithfulness, yet I will look again toward thy
holy temple. The waters compassed me about
even to the soul. The depth closed me round about.
The weeds were wrapped about my head. I went down to the bottoms
of the mountains. The earth with her bars was about
me forever." Now hold your place right there just a minute. We
hear Christ's faithful cry to the Father. He says here, yet
I looked again to your temple. While Christ was cast out on
the cross and barren of the ways of God's justice, we hear Him
throughout the Psalms declaring how He continued to look to the
Father. That was a requirement. If He's going to satisfy justice,
He had to be made sin for us because God He will not clear
the guilty and He will not pour out justice on the innocent either.
Both are an abomination to Him, He said. And He laid on Him the
iniquity of His people so that He's just to pour out His wrath
on Him. He's manifesting righteousness.
And at the same time that He's putting away the sin of His people,
Christ has to perfectly love the Father and love His people
at the same time with a holy heart. That's what He's doing.
So He's accomplishing putting away our sin and justifying us
and fulfilling the perfection of the law all at the same time.
And listen to these fateful cries to the Father in Psalm 18.4.
He said, The sorrows of death compassed me. The floods of ungodly
men made me afraid. There were also these floods,
the floods of sinners, of ungodly men. The sorrows of hell compassed
me about. The snares of death went before
me. He said in Psalm 69, 1, Save
me, O God, for the waters are coming to my soul. I sink in
deep mire where there is no standing. I come into deep waters where
the floods overflow me. He said in the same psalm in
verse 14, Deliver me out of the mire and let me not sink. Let
me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters.
Let not the water flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow
me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Hear me, O
Lord, for Thy loving kindness is good. Turn unto me according
to the multitude of Thy tender mercies. And our King bore this
in our room instead. I just wish we could... I just wish we could enter into
this more. You know, whatever you suffer,
anything you suffer, no matter how bad it is, you know, we have
a tendency to say things like what Jonah said I've gone down
to hell and I've been through hell. No, we haven't. No, we
haven't. Not even remotely. Christ did. He did. He suffered the hell his people
deserved. I'm not talking about a place.
I'm talking about the justice, I'm talking about the separation
from the glory of God that we deserve, the gnashing of teeth,
just the hell that we deserve. He suffered it. He suffered it. And He gave God faithful obedience. He glorified Him in perfection
while He did it. He magnified His loving kindness. He magnified His tender mercies. He waited on Him. And He did
all of that to put away our sins, the sins we've committed in doing
nothing like that toward God. In Christ we see everything God
demanded and requires of you and me as we see Christ putting
away our sins for never doing what God requires of us. You get that? You get what I'm
saying? That's what he was doing. He was putting away the sin. And as he's putting away the
sin, he's doing for us what God requires of us, what we have
to be in order to come into God's presence. Perfect love, perfect
righteousness, perfect fidelity. That's what we have to be. And
He's doing that, showing that, manifesting that as He's putting
away our sin for having never been what God requires of us. And now God says, He's what I
require of you. You believe on Him. You come
robed in Him. You come in His obedience. You
come trusting Him to bring you to the Father. Trust Him to rule
everything in your life. Trust Him to rule this world
for you. Trust Him who's already born the waves for His people. Trust Him to take care of the
waves here where we dwell. He's already taken care of the
storm. And just like Noah and his family,
when they were in that ark and that storm was going and they
were being tossed and the waves were crashing and that ark was
submerged in that water, Noah and his family were safe inside
that ark. And all God's people, when Christ was bearing this
flood, we were all safe in the ark. We were in Christ. That
ark was pitched within and without, within and without. That word
pitched means atonement. He made complete atonement of
bearing the whole thing himself. And God heard him. When he called
on God, he magnified God. He showed he feared God more
than he feared men, more than he feared the devil, more than
he feared the wrath he was bearing, the separation, all the things,
the cross. He feared God because he called
on God and kept calling on God. And God heard him. He magnified
God's righteousness. He satisfied his law. He satisfied
his justice. He put away the sin of his people.
He brought in everlasting righteousness for his people. And God was so
well pleased with his son. Jonah 2.6 says, He said, Yet
hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God. When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the Lord, and my prayer came unto Thee, unto Thine
holy temple, and You've brought up my life from corruption, O
Lord my God." That's what God did for our Savior. Our Savior
said, just like John was three days and three nights in that
fish's belly, He said, I'm going to be the Son of Man three days
and three nights in the belly of the earth. And now He's raised,
He's victorious, He's conquered sin, He's conquered the waves,
He's conquered the storm. Verse 4, And the Lord on high
is mightier than the noise of many waters. Psalm 93, verse
4, The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters,
yea, than the mighty waves of the sea. You remember that day
in the ship. The mighty tempest came and it
was storming all around them and the disciples got so afraid. And our Lord was in the hinder
part of the ship asleep. They came to Him and they woke
Him up. And He woke up and He arose and He said, Peace be still. And the sea just became like
glass. He went into that grave, he cried,
it's finished, and he went into that grave. Three days later
he awoke and he ascended to the Father and all this majesty we're
seeing right here. And he spoke, peace, be still. And God's justice is completely
satisfied toward his people. There's peace like a glass ocean. smooth as glass, between God
and His people. The Lord on high is mightier
than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of
the sea. By this work He by Himself has
purged the sin of His people forever. By His one offering
He hath perfected forever them that are sanctified. What a word! By one offering, He hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. When He enters His redeemed in
Spirit, He stills the storm of our sin nature, creating a new
man to make you and me behold. It is finished. And He's mightier than every
enemy. Every enemy that arises with His mighty waves. Our Lord's
mightier than the waves. Mightier than the lusts of our
flesh. Mightier than the enemies in this world. Mightier than
the devil himself. And Christ is able to still the
waves. He's able. By His Spirit turning
us to Him. When He's come and revealed Himself
and what He's accomplished. This is what He makes you know.
This is what He makes you rejoice in right here. Here it is. Verse
5, Thy testimonies are very sure. That means they are established,
very sure, they are established. Now what does this mean, thy
testimonies? Well, the testimonies of His law, the statutes of His
law, They are established and they are very sure. He has made
His people perfectly righteous in Him. When He obeyed that law
and established it and dotted every i and crossed every t and
fulfilled everything that was written, His people were in Him
and we fulfilled it all in Him. Everything. Very sure. Well, the testimonies of His
gospel, His promises are established and they are very sure. They're
yes and amen in Christ. This is what He makes you know
when He comes and steals the waves of that old fleshly man
and gives you a new heart to see Him. He makes you know His
testimonies, His sure promises of His gospel are very, very
sure. They're established. We're about
to partake of the Lord's table and you remember what Our Lord
said when He gave them the wine, He said, this is the New Testament. This is the New Testimony. This
is my sure established testament established in my blood. That's
what we are made to know. All His promises are yes and
amen in Him. And here's something else. This
brings it on closer even to home now. We saw this morning, he
that believeth, he hath the witness in himself. And that's what this
word testimony means, the witness. Every believer is his testimony. You're his witness. And all his
testimonies, all his witnesses, all his people are established
very sure, very sure by him, accepted and complete in the
Beloved. And then we're brought to see and rejoice. Holiness
becometh thine house, O Lord, forever. Holiness adorneth thine
house, O Lord, forever. It's His holiness. It's His holiness. It's His holiness. It's His holiness
that has made His house beautiful. It's made it beautiful. He's
beautified it. He's adorned His house forever.
Each of those that He sanctified, each of you that are an earthen
vessel, a clay pot that He has entered into, Here's what He
promised. In that day shall there be upon
the bells of the horses holiness unto the Lord, and the pots in
the Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea,
every pot in Jerusalem and Judah shall be holiness unto the Lord
of hosts. That's what He's made His people.
And when He enters in Christ our holiness, when He dwells
in those that He sanctified, His servants, and He creates
a new man in you, think about this. The new man is created
in righteousness and true holiness. It's Christ's righteousness before
the law that's made you righteous, and it's Christ our holiness
that is the essence of that new man by which you're holy. And
when He enters in, this is what He says. The same holiness without
which you shall see the Lord, the same holiness the thief on
the cross had that day with his hands nailed to a cross, is the
holiness of his people right now. This is how we've been made
meet, fit to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints
in light. It's Christ! It's Christ our
holiness. It's Christ our holiness. He's
got to get the glory. It's Him. If I'm trying to get
the glory for some holiness, I'm not separated unto Him yet.
I'm not sanctified yet. When you are, you're going to
give it all to Him. Because you see something about what you
are. The light that's shining in you makes you see you're a
proud, polluted sinner. And you've got to give it all
to Him. You wouldn't have that holy nature if it wasn't for
Him. You give it all to Him. All the glory to Him. And He
says to you what He said to that thief on the cross. Same thing
He was saying to him. He said, Lord, remember me when
you come into your kingdom. How did the Lord describe His
kingdom? Today you're going to be with me in paradise. And how
could He enter in that day? How could He? If a man's not
going to have holiness, he can't enter in the kingdom of God.
How could he enter in there? Because when Christ, our holiness,
is formed in us, He says to you, Thou art all fair, my love. There is no spot in thee. You see, the spots we see, that's
not entering in. That's going in the grave. That's
going back to the dust. Only what He's made, what He's
created, which is perfection of holiness, is entering in. And then He's going to raise
us with a perfect body that's going to enter in. You know what
this word holiness means? It means separateness. That's
what it means. Separateness has made His house
beautiful. If you want to see how separated
and holy we are in and by Christ, read verse 1 again. Read verse
1 again. That's how separate and holy
we are right there. You see this? Look at this. The Lord reigneth. He's clothed
with majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength. He's girded wherewith He's girded
Himself. The world is established and
it cannot be moved. Now listen. After you read that,
then hear Colossians chapter 3 verse 1 through 3 or 4. This
is what Paul said. If you're risen with Christ,
here's how separated you are. Here's how beautiful you are
before God. You're seated where Christ sits
on the right hand of God. You're dead. You're dead. You died with him. Your sinful
man died with him. You still have a sin nature,
but he's been taken care of. But your life That righteousness,
that holiness, that is really life, who has no sin whatsoever,
is hid with Christ in God. And when Christ our life shall
appear, then shall you appear with Him in glory. That's the
separateness, the separateness that He has made His house beautiful
with. It's Him. It's Him. And His people are that world
He's established that can't be moved. The Lord reigneth and
let the earth rejoice. Let the multitude of ours be
glad therefore. And His rule in our heart makes
us constantly ask the Lord. First of all, it makes us look
away from ourselves to Him who is of God, made unto us righteousness
and sanctification. And here's what it makes us do.
It makes us ask the Lord to reign and rule in us and for us. Do you ever pray that? Do you
ever go to him and say, Lord, would you please subdue this
old man I'm carrying around? Will you rule in me? Will you
rule for me in this world? Keep me separated? What would
you do if he took his hand off you for just a little while?
What would you do? Who really is your separateness
in this world? Who? If we keep ourselves, there's
only one way you're doing it, He's keeping you. He's keeping
you. We ask Him to rule all our foes. We ask Him to rule the floods
of the ungodly, whether it's the sin of our own lust, or it's
Satan, or it's this world, and we're begging Him, Lord, give
us more desire to know You. Give us more light to know You.
Give us more strength to walk after You. Give us more ability
to see how much You've forgiven us, that we might love You much,
and that we might forgive much. Lord, help us, keep us, keep
us separate. This is what true sanctification
is all about, brethren, and we're thanking Him. We're thanking
Him. We're living under Him and thanking
Him for every day that we keep believing Him. Do you not sometimes
just think it's amazing that you still believe Him? I find it's amazing that I believe
Him. And I find it amazing too that,
I mean, I'm full of unbelief, I understand that, I just think,
I want to think negative, you know, this is not going to turn
out good. When he's told me it is. But at the same time, I can't
stop believing it. I can't stop just leaving it
in his hands. And this is what his people say,
Revelation 11, 17, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty,
which are, and was, and are to come. Because thou hast taken
to thee thy great power, and it has reigned. What does that
mean? Accomplished peace, and he's
accomplished salvation. It means what Jonah said. Salvation
is of the Lord. That's who we're going to remember
here. All right, brethren.