Psalm of praise. And the Spirit
of God here commands all God's people, all those that have been
regenerated by God and brought to believe on Christ, He commands
us here in verse 1 and says, O clap your hands, all ye people. Shout unto God with the voice
of triumph. He's declaring to us that our
Savior's victory over all our enemies. He did not leave one
enemy that he has not conquered for his people. And knowing that,
he's declaring that it demands our wholehearted praise unto
God with zeal, with zeal. He's triumphed over our enemies.
He says so, shout unto God with the voice of triumph. Now we
can't ever equal this, but in proportion, the frame of our
heart in worship and praise should reflect the greatness of the
subject that we're speaking about. The way we speak, the way we
sing, it should reflect our subject. Psalm 150 verse 2 says, Praise
Him according to His excellent greatness. Praise Him according
to His excellent greatness. Give me one second. I got to
fix something here. This is going to bug me until
I finish this. Hold on one second. Okay. God's gift, he gives us, let's
say he gives us, we're speaking on the subject of God's gift
of a broken heart. Broken in a contrite spirit.
Or suppose we're talking about the suffering and the shame that
our Savior bore in the room instead of his people. It would be a
mockery to get up and preach or sing about that subject with
the pride of a peacock. That would be absurd. But now
when we're talking about the triumph that Christ accomplished,
it would be just as much a mockery to preach or sing on this subject
with the monotone voice of a professor that has no interest in the subject. You get what I'm saying? Whatever
the subject is we're preaching on, that should be reflected
in our attitude and our zeal for that subject. We don't speak
about every carnal subject the same. When we speak about something
that excites us, we speak with some zeal. When we speak about
something that's sad, we have sorrow in the way we speak. Or
if it's something that rejoices our heart, we speak with joy.
So how much more when we're talking about the triumph of our Redeemer. He says, oh, clap your hands
and shout unto God with the voice of triumph. But at the same time,
our worship and our praise of our Redeemer is with understanding. He says
there in verse 7, sing ye praises with understanding. You know,
an outward form of religion with great zeal that's just senseless
or just with the senses and just with the bodily members, that's
not worship at all. To truly worship God and praise
God is a gift of God that He gives us when He's created an
inward man and He's given us spiritual discernment to know
what it is. we're singing about or preaching
about in our worship. So, in this psalm, the Holy Spirit
is commanding His people to praise our triumphant Redeemer, to praise
Him as God and as King with the understanding and with our whole
heart because our Savior has ascended triumphant to His throne
where He reigns supreme. That's reason to shout and clap,
isn't it? Christ is reigning triumphant. He's conquered all our enemies
and He's reigning. That's reason to shout. That's
reason to clap in here with our heart and to sing loud and to
rejoice in what He's done for us. Now there are three things
the Spirit declares here for which we praise our risen God
and Savior. Three things He gives us here.
First of all, we praise Him for His character. He says, verse
2, for the Lord Most High is terrible. We praise him for his
character. The Lord Most High is terrible.
Secondly, we praise his reign as king. We praise him reigning
as our king. We praise the triumphs of his
gospel. Verse 2 says, the second part,
he is a great king over all the earth. He shall subdue the people
under us and the nations under our feet. And then thirdly, we
praise his grace and his goodness to us. Verse 4 says, he shall
choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob, whom
he loved. Now first of all, it's the character
of the Lord Jesus that produces fear in his people. It's his
character, the revelation of his character that produces fear
in us which makes us submit and worship and serve Him willingly. When He reveals His character
in our hearts so that we see Him holy, high, lifted up, that's
what creates fear in the heart, reverence in the heart. That's
what causes His people to submit to Him and serve Him, worship
and serve Him. He says here, verse 2, he's speaking
of his character. The Lord Most High is terrible. Now the name Lord means Jehovah. Capital L, capital O, capital
R, capital D. That means Jehovah. Jehovah,
the existing one. The I am. God. God. And we behold the invisible
Lord. Where? in the Lord Jesus Christ. That's where the man, Christ
Jesus, who is God. Colossians 2.9 says, In him dwelleth
all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. All the fullness, God
the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit is seen in The Lord Jesus Christ who took
a body, a fleshly body and came as the God-man. That's where
we behold the Godhead. The Lord Jesus is the Lord Most
High. He is the Great I Am. He is Jehovah
Most High. He's the Great God and our Savior
Jesus Christ. The Hebrew writer said He is
the express image of God. The express image of God. Without
controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest
in the flesh. That is a great mystery, without
a doubt. But it's so. God was manifest
in the flesh. And Christ Jesus, it says here,
the Lord Most High is terrible. He's terrible. Now to us that
means something negative, but here's what it really means in
the Scriptures. It means He ought to be feared
and reverenced and held in awe by everybody. When it says holy
and reverend is His name, it's the same word. Holy and terrible
is His name. Over the most insignificant things
in this world, The world will say, oh, that's awesome. That's
awesome. He's the only one that's awesome.
Awesome means it inspires awe. He's the only one. He's the only
one. We really ought not say that
about anything, just like we wouldn't call a man reverent.
There's only one that's terrible. There's only one worthy of reverence,
and that's him. He's awesome. And at the same
time as we call just whatever insignificant thing awesome,
this world takes the Lord's name in vain with every other word. Every other word. He's awesome. And His holy and reverent is
His name. Now, the Lord's performed mighty
and terrible acts throughout time which ought to strike fear
in the heart of every man. It ought to make us fear Him
and dread Him and have some trembling before Him. You think about the
flood in Noah's day. God destroyed all living things
except for that which was in that ark with the flood one time. Then you think about the destruction
of Sodom and Gomorrah. Here's a city, a couple of cities
that were living like this whole world's living right now. And
God destroyed them because of it. Once He called out His elect,
redeemed child out of there, He destroyed it. That ought to
strike fear in us, especially when we behold what's going on
in this world today. You think about the destruction
of Israel. They rejected the gospel. They
rejected Christ. They wouldn't have it. Oh, they'd
have religion. They'd have the law. They'd have
their works. They would exalt themselves and
they were zealous, Paul said. But it was all in ignorance. And God destroyed that nation. And all of that judgment is just
a foretaste. of the great and terrible day
of our Lord when He's going to judge this world in righteousness
and He's going to cause everything in this world and this world
itself to melt with a fervent heat in great judgment. The Lord Most High is terrible.
It ought to strike fear in our hearts. And I tell you, in that
day, there's not going to be this flippant attitude toward
God that there is now. In that day, men are going to
tremble in fear and cry out for the rocks to fall on them, to
spare them from God. But no sinner can create this
fear of God in our heart. We can't make ourselves have
this reverence in our heart. So how does a stout-hearted,
stiff-necked sinner come to fear God so that we willingly will
submit to Him and worship Him and praise Him with reverence
and godly fear? How's that brought to pass? Be
sure to get this. It's by the revelation of His
character. When He reveals to us His character
that the Lord Most High is terrible, that's when fear will be created
in our heart and we'll submit and worship Him. Let me show
you this. Go to Isaiah chapter 6. This is the best way I know,
the best illustration of this that I know of is Isaiah chapter
6. Isaiah said, In the year that King Uzziah
died, I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne. I saw His character. I saw Him sitting upon a throne,
high and lifted up, and His train filled the temple. Above it stood
the seraphims, each one had six wings. With two he covered his
face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he did fly.
And one cried unto another and said, Holy, holy, holy is the
Lord of hosts. The whole earth is full of His
glory. And the posts of the door moved
at the voice of Him that cried, and the house was filled with
smoke. Now our text says the Lord Most High is terrible. He
creates fear and reverence and awe in our hearts. Now look at
what happened when the Lord revealed His holy character to Isaiah.
Verse 5, Then said I, Woe is me. for I'm undone, because I'm
a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean
lips, for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts."
What created it? What made him see himself as
a sinner? For mine eyes have seen the King,
the Lord of hosts. And then flew one of the seraphims
unto me, having a lie of coal in his hand, which he had taken
with tongues from off the altar, and he laid it upon my mouth,
and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, thine iniquity is taken
away, and thy sin is purged. And here's the result. He saw
the Lord as holy, holy, holy, just, And he saw the Lord as
merciful, a savior who had forgiven his sin. What was the result? Also I heard the voice of the
Lord. Here it's the little L-O-R-D. Here it's Him who is the capital
L-O-R-D. Him who is Jehovah, the Lord
Jesus. And he's speaking. And he says,
whom shall I send and who will go for us? Then said I, here
am I, send me. That was the result of God revealing
His holy, righteous, just, and merciful character to Isaiah. He hid his knees. He saw himself
a sinner. and he was made willing to worship
and serve the Lord Jesus. Now brethren, no sinner can educate
himself into having a fear of God. You can't do it. You can't
just study doctrine and educate yourself into having this fear
of God. God's got to reveal himself.
Have you seen him? Have you seen Him with the eye
of faith? Has this fear come into your heart so that you fear
and tremble before God? I fear and tremble before Him.
There's times, brethren, when I sit and think about God and
I know I'm forgiven, I know He's put away my sin, but He's still
my Father who chastens His people and children and corrects His
children. And when I see my sin, just like a child would tremble
in reverence before his father, I tremble before him. And I'm
not just saying that, I do tremble before him. We're gonna stand
before him one day. I pray he will reveal himself.
It's not the power. You know when the Lord said,
thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. It's not
just mere force. It's the revelation of him. The revelation of his character.
Holy, just, and merciful. Every time anybody ever saw him
and had his character revealed to them, what'd they do? They
hit their face. They hit their face. And that's
what we'll do in our heart. Now secondly, we praise Christ
our sovereign king. We praise Him as king. We rejoice
that He reigns and that through His gospel, He's conquering.
His reign is supreme. It says, verse 2, He is a great
king over all the earth. Now as He's doing right here
in these Psalms, throughout the scriptures, throughout the prophets,
Just like in the Psalms, throughout the prophets, God declared His
Son, Christ Jesus, the Messiah, is the King. In Jeremiah 23,
verse 5, He said this, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord,
that I will raise unto David a righteous branch. I'm going
to raise from David's family, from David's lineage, I'm going
to raise up a righteous branch. And a king shall reign and prosper. And he shall execute judgment
and justice in the earth. And in his days, Judah shall
be saved and Israel shall dwell safely. In his days, he's going
to save Manalek. And this is the name whereby
he shall be called the Lord our righteousness. Now God the Father
would have all to know that this is that great King. That His
Son is that great King. And so whenever our Lord Jesus
was born into this earth, God provided some men who came. And
what did they say they were looking for? We're looking for Him who
was born King. That's who we're looking for.
We're looking for this one that was born king. We're looking
for that king Isaiah spoke about. God is going to have this world
know Christ is a king so much that he even had his enemies
write, when they were crucifying him, they wrote up above the
cross, this is the king of the Jews. And that's who he is. The king of his people who he's
made spiritual Jews. You've heard me say before that
the way up with God is first down. Well, whoever heard of
a king like this, brethren? Scripture says, now that he ascended,
what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of
the earth? You think about this in light
of a king. You know the pomp and the majesty
of a king. We've seen the weddings they
have over in England and just how majestic it all is. You think
of a king. The king is great. This king
is great in that he's unlike any other king in this world.
Any other king that ever lived in this earth. They sit at meat. They sit at the table expecting
to be served. But this king, this one who is
God, he made himself of absolutely no reputation. and he made himself
a servant to serve for the sinful, guilty people of his kingdom. You picture an earthly king doing
this? You can't even imagine an earthly
king doing something like this. This king took the form of a
servant with no reputation to serve for His sinful, guilty
people in His kingdom. How did they expect Him to come?
They expected the king to come in great majesty and a big stallion. Listen to this. Rejoice greatly. That's what our Psalm says. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem.
Behold, thy king cometh unto thee. He's just and having salvation. and riding upon an ass and upon
a colt, the foal of an ass. They didn't expect him to come
like that. Who would? When you hear word of a king,
who would expect a king to come like this? This is why he's the
great king. He reigned and he prospered just
like the prophet said he would. He executed judgment and justice
in the earth by obeying his own law. Here's a mighty king who
makes the laws in his kingdom. And here's our king who makes
the law in his kingdom. And he made himself under the
law of his kingdom. And He executed judgment and
justice in the earth by obeying His own law. Even to the point
of laying down His life under the wrath of His own justice. He made the law that said, the
soul that sinneth, it must die. And then He put Himself under
that law. Now you consider how great. Scripture
says God will not impute sin where there is no law. That means
God will not impute sin unless there's been a law broken. He
won't do it. That tells you how God imputes.
That tells you the definition of imputation right there and
how God imputes. He will not impute sin where
there's no law that's been broken. He just won't do it. But this
king, who himself is sinless, he's sinless, he broke no law,
he never would break a law, and he never did himself break a
law. He submitted to be made sin for
each member of his kingdom. He took all the offenses of all
the people in his kingdom He took all their offenses. Can
you imagine a king who's got all these subjects in his kingdom
and here they all are, they've all broken his law and they're
all worthy of death. And he makes himself to be the
only one out of all of them that's guilty of those offenses. Now,
with man, it's impossible to take somebody's offenses. We
can't do that. But we're not God. That's what He did. To put away
our offenses, He bore the offenses. There was one offense that brought
us under this judgment, but the redemption from it is many offenses
that He bore, that He was made guilty for. And the king was
made guilty under the law of his own kingdom that he might
make his people, all these guilty people in his kingdom, that he
might make them all righteous. That's a great king, isn't it? This king honored his own law
and his own justice by suffering its penalty until the cruel death
of the cross so that the subject of his kingdom would live forever. That's why this is the great
King. He is the Lord our righteousness. And so God manifests to the whole
world that He is the great King over all the earth. Do you know
how He manifested? He raised Him from the dead and
He ascended to His throne and He sat down. Somewhere, our God,
in the third heaven, Paul said, is seated on a throne. The man
Christ Jesus, they saw him go up. They watched him go up. A
man go up and go out of this world. And the angel said, as
you see him go, he's coming again. And the scripture says he's coming
with a shout and with the sound of a trumpet. And our text says
that's how he went. Look here, verse 5. God is going
up with a shout. The Lord with the sound of a
trumpet. That means He went victorious.
He went triumphant. He came to put away the sin of
His people, He put it away. He came to accomplish our redemption,
He accomplished it. He came to fulfill the will of
God, He fulfilled it. He did everything He came to
do. God has made that same Jesus whom you've crucified, both Lord
and Christ, Him hath God exalted with His right hand to be a Prince
and a Savior for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of
sins. He's on the throne, seated, Jesus our God, and He's the sovereign
King over all the earth. Look here in verse 6. Sing praises
to God. Sing praises. Sing praises unto
our King. Sing praises. I believe God wants
us to praise Him, don't you? Verse 7, for God is the King
of all the earth. Look at verse 9, the second part.
For the shields of the earth belong unto God, He's greatly
exalted. The Lord Jesus is the only King. He's the only King that's ever
existed with sovereign and universal dominion over heaven, earth,
and hell. That is a powerful King. That's a powerful king. The shields
of the earth, what does that mean here? That means the protectors
of the earth. Now, it includes whatever he
uses to protect. He's the Lord of Hosts. He uses
everything at his disposal to protect. But here it's talking
about kings, every king, and president, and emperor, and dictator,
and despot, and governor, and mayor, and police chief, and
superintendent, principal, and teacher, and boss, and manager,
Anybody who's ever held a position of rule in this earth, Christ
our King put them in place as shields to protect His people. to protect his people. You go
home tonight and you can read Romans 13. We're going to come
to that real soon. And that's what it said. He put
them there to protect his people. He said, by me, kings reign and
princes decree justice. By me, princes rule and nobles,
even all the judges of the earth. I think I'm going to shut my
mouth next time I get ready to criticize the president. He said,
by me, kings reign and princes decree justice. By me, princes
rule and nobles, even all the judges of the earth. By me, princes
decree justice. That means it's only by Him that
they rule well and they rule justly. It's only by Him. The
laws that Congress and the Senate pass, they're passed to protect
Christ's people in this country. and laws passed around this world.
It's him doing it to protect his people, to shield his people.
He sets up the ruler, he preserves the ruler, and then he disposes
of the ruler. Daniel said, he changes the times
and the seasons. He removeth kings and setteth
up kings. He giveth wisdom unto the wise
and knowledge to them that know understanding. The king's heart
is in the hand of the Lord. As the rivers of water, he turneth
it whithersoever he will. Have you ever wondered what that
will is? He's got the king's heart in
his hand. He's turning it wherever he will. What's his will? to
protect His people. That's it, to shield His people.
That's what He's doing. And so Christ is sovereignly
sending His gospel anywhere in this world that He has a lost
sheep and He's sovereignly, effectually calling out those sheep. Verse
3 says, He shall subdue the people under us and the nations under
our feet. Verse 8 says, God reigneth over
the heathen. This is why we praise him. We
praise him because he's a great king and he reigns supreme and
he's accomplishing his will through his gospel. He reigns and He's
going to subdue the people under us and the nations under our
feet. He's ruling and reigning over
the heathen. That means He's going to put down the reprobate
under our feet, those who are enemies, who hate our gospel
and oppose us and will try to get us to stop preaching and
probably before it's over with, they're going to tear down the
churches just like Israel tore down the altars. but they won't
do anything but what He and His sovereign purpose and will permits
them to do. He's going to put down the reprobate
under our feet, but here's the good news, it also means He's
conquering the hearts of His people and He's drawing them
to us and making them unite with His people. He rules justly too. Look at verse 8, the second part
says, God sitteth upon the throne of His holiness. It's just for
Him to destroy the guilty. They reject God. He left them
to themselves. He left them to the will they
boast of. They reject God. It's just for Him. And He rules
justly in holiness. And it's just for Him to call
those that He's justified. Because He justified. And then
He gathers all those who He promised the Father to save by everlasting
covenant grace. Look at verse 9. The princes
of the people are gathered together, even the people of the God of
Abraham. Who's He talking about? The princes
of the people are gathered together. They're gathered by God, by Christ,
our King, just like He promised the Father. He said in Isaiah
49.23, Kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy
nursing mothers. Now there are some literal kings
and queens that He saves, that are His elect people. There are
some. There are not many, but there
are some. King David was one. King Solomon
was one. There are some. But all those
that Christ gathers together We know this, they're kings and
princes under God by his precious blood. Everybody he gathers,
me and you. who are paupers compared to the
rich leaders and rulers of this world. We're kings unto God.
We're priests unto God by Christ's blood. Unto Him that loved us
and washed us from our sins into His own blood and hath made us
kings and priests unto God and His Father. To Him be glory and
dominion forever and ever. Amen. And he says here, even
the people of the God of Abraham. That means God's elect Gentiles
are the people of the God of Abraham. You and I who he's gathered,
we're saved by the same covenant grace as he saved Abraham. That's what he's talking about.
It means God's covenant people. That's who it is. God entered
covenant with Abraham promising to save all Abraham's spiritual
seed, all God's elect, and by the same covenant promise in
Christ as He saved Abraham, He saved you and me. Same covenant
promise. It's an everlasting covenant
of grace. It's all fulfilled by Christ
our head and nothing can change it. Go to Galatians 3. I want
you to see this. I'll be just almost going to
wind this up. Galatians 3, look at verse 13.
This is what he means when he talks about the people of the
God of Abraham. It's the covenant people. Look
here. Verse 13, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
Galatians 3.13, Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law,
being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is every
one that hangeth on a tree. Here's why He did it. That the
blessing of Abraham might come on you and me who are Gentiles
through Jesus Christ. That we might receive the promise
the covenant promise that he made to Abraham. He said, I'm
going to save all your children, Abraham. He's talking about his
spiritual children, God's elect. Christ redeemed us so that that
promise might be given to us. It's the promise of what? Of
the Spirit. through faith. He promised to
regenerate us and bring us to faith in Christ. Brethren, I
speak after the manner of men. I'm going to give you an example
using men. If a man makes a covenant, though it be but a man's covenant,
yet if it's confirmed, no man disannulleth or adds thereto.
Once you've entered into agreement with somebody, covenant agreement,
nobody can take away from it or add to it. It's done. Now
to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. You could
say was the covenant made. Same thing. He said not into
seeds as of many but as of one and to thy seed which is Christ. And this I say. In other words,
God made this covenant promise with Christ. And it's in Christ
that God promised Abraham he was going to save all his people
and make him a blessing to all the nations in the earth. Now
watch. And this I say, that the covenant
that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which
was 430 years after that, cannot disannul that it should make
the promise, the covenant of none effect. For if the inheritance
be of the law, then it's no more of covenant promise. It's no
more of grace. But God gave it to Abraham by
promise. The law wasn't given for 430
years later. The law didn't have anything
to do with it. He gave it to him by promise. Now look down
at verse 29. And if you be Christ, then are
you Abraham's seed and heirs according to that promise. What
makes me know I'm a child of Abraham? What makes me know I'm
the child of God's covenant promise? If you be Christ. That's it. If you believe on Christ, trust
Him alone. You're Abraham's child. You're
of the seed of promise. When our King Jesus called us
effectually, me and you who are Gentiles, He called us into the
same spiritual body with Abraham. That is the church and kingdom
of King Jesus. He called us and made us partakers
of the same inheritance of Abraham, and he did it by the same everlasting
covenant promise. That's what Paul said in Ephesians
3.6. Listen. The Gentiles shall be
fellow heirs, same inheritance as Abraham, of the same body,
church and kingdom of Jesus Christ our King, God's Israel, and partakers
of His promise. And where is all this to be found?
In Christ. In Christ. And how is it brought
to us? By His gospel. And so that's
what our Lord's doing. He's sending this gospel as the
King and He's calling every one of His elect according to that
covenant promise into the body, one with Abraham, one with all
our elect brothers and sisters who were Jews by nature. and
we're all of the same body, we all got the same inheritance,
all saved by the same covenant promise. He's gathering the people,
the people of the covenant of Abraham. Now, lastly, So we rejoice
in His grace and His favor to us. We rejoice that He's in His
character, He's holy, He's just and righteous and merciful. We
rejoice that He's king and He reigns supreme and He's conquering
with His gospel. and we rejoice in His grace toward
us. Look here, verse 4. He shall choose our inheritance
for us, the excellency of Jacob whom He loved. When He says He
shall choose it, that means it's by free unmerited grace. You
and I can't merit this. He's choosing it and choosing
whom He's going to give it to. And it says here, He's choosing
our inheritance, that is our reward. Right now in this life,
go to Mark 10. I'm going to end with this. Right
now in this life, we don't preach rewards in heaven because I'm
going to show you there's one reward of heaven. But we do have
rewards in this life. We're given rewards in this life.
And they're all rewards of grace and mercy given freely, chosen
by Christ and given freely. Now look here. Mark 10 verse
29. Jesus answered and said, Verily
I say unto you, there is no man that hath left house, or brethren,
or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands
for my sake and the gospels, but he shall receive a hundredfold
now in this time. Right now. in this life, houses
and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands
with persecutions. Now brethren, knowing all this
we've seen tonight, sometimes you and I, we get in our flesh
like the Apostle Peter and the other disciples did right here.
And we foolishly start trying to keep score of all that we've
left and all that we've sacrificed and all that we've suffered for
the Lord Jesus. And when we start keeping score,
we become proud and we start thinking we've really sacrificed
and we've really suffered a lot. But Christ assures us right here,
whatever little, whatever little that we've sacrificed and suffered
for Him, He's chosen for us. freely by His grace, far, far
more than we've ever given up. He's chosen for us and rewarded
us in this life far more than we've ever sacrificed for Him.
A hundredfold in houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children
and lands. That ought to make us ashamed.
If we think we've sacrificed some great thing, He's given
you far more than we've even thought about sacrificing to
Him. Right now, right now, in brothers and sisters, spiritual
brothers and sisters, and fathers and mothers, and lands, and everything's
ours. And then, in the life to come,
our eternal inheritance is chosen freely by God's grace and it's
freely given. He said there, and in the world
to come, here it is, eternal life. That's what He's chosen
for us, eternal life. And He's that life. Christ is
that life. Scripture says, He spoke to Aaron. It's like He's speaking to you
and me, the priest. And He says to us, you shall have no inheritance
in their land. Don't look for one in this life.
You're not going to have an inheritance in this land. Neither shall you
have any part among them. Why not, Lord? I'm Thy part. I'm Thine inheritance among the
children of Israel. You want anything else? When we've sacrificed and sacrificed
and sacrificed, look how much more He's given us than we ever
thought about giving to Him. And He's our inheritance. And
we're sure we're going to have it because Scripture says the
Lord's portion, the Lord's inheritance is His people. Now brethren,
His character, His reign, His free grace toward us, that's
reason for us to wholeheartedly, zealously worship and praise
Him and to know. We haven't suffered. We haven't
sacrificed. And what we have, He's given
us far, far, far, far above anything we've done for Him. Isn't that
right? Amen.