Alright, now back here in Psalm
35, verse 19 begins, Let not them that are mine enemies wrongfully
rejoice over me. And we've seen that this is Christ's
prayer for Himself when He walked this earth. And now that He's
risen to the right hand of God, this is His prayer for His people
as we are surrounded by enemies in this world. And he describes
our enemies here. And this is those who are outside
of religion and those who are religious for the sake of contention
and debate. He says, verse 19, Let not them
that are mine enemies wrongfully rejoice over me, neither let
them wink with the eye that hate me without a cause. They speak
not peace, but they devise deceitful matters against them that are
quiet in the land. God's people are quiet in the
land. That word quiet means restful. We aren't trying to stir up strife,
we're just resting in Christ and we send forth the gospel
and we're trusting the Lord to call out His people. But Christ's
enemies, he says, speak not peace. They devise deceitful matters
against them that are quiet in the land. He says, verse 21,
Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me. And they said,
Aha, aha, our eye hath seen it. This thou hast seen, O Lord.
Keep not silence, O Lord, be not far from me. When Christ
walked the earth, you know, Self-righteous Pharisees constantly had their
eye open trying to find something with which to accuse Christ.
They wouldn't just walk away and make it known that they didn't
believe the Gospel. They wanted to, in all things,
justify themselves before men, even in their reason for not
believing on Christ. So they wanted something to accuse
Christ with to say, that's why we don't believe on Him. They
were looking for something in Him. And they do the same thing
to the Lord's people. But we have this comfort. The
Lord, He says, This thou hast seen, O Lord. They say, Aha,
I have seen. But He says, This thou hast seen,
O God. He has His eye. on His people
and on the enemy. Verse 23, Stir up thyself and
awake to my judgment, even unto my cause, my God and my Lord. Judge me, O Lord my God, according
to thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over me. There
was one time when Christ allowed sinful men to have their way,
put Him on a cross, but now that He's fulfilled all righteousness,
God will not allow any to lay charge against His people. Christ
has justified us, and He won't allow it. And so Christ prays
the Father on our behalf and says, Judge me, O Lord my God,
according to Thy righteousness, and let them not rejoice over
me. Verse 25, Let them not say in
their hearts, Ah, so would we have it. Let them not say we've
swallowed Him up. Let them be ashamed and brought
to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt. Let them be clothed
with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me."
And because Christ intercedes with the Father on behalf of
His people, asking this very thing, that's how it shall be
for His people. He will put down our enemies.
God, speaking of, He had an elect remnant in that nation of Israel,
and for their sake, God said, I suffered no man to do them
wrong. Yea, he reproved kings for their sake, saying, Touch
not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. And so we can
have this comfort knowing that's how it shall be for God's saints
in our day. God's not going to allow the
enemy to snuff out his gospel in this earth. As long as he
has a people in this earth, keep us preaching His Word and going
forth with His Gospel. Now next is our subject. And
this is our subject. It's Christ's description of
His saints. And every sanctified child of
God has these things in common. All God's saints have these descriptions
in common. all of us do. First of all, all
Christ's saints joyfully favor Christ's righteous cause. All his saints favor with great
joy his righteous cause. He says, verse 27, let them shout
for joy and be glad that favor my righteous cause. And secondly,
all Christ's saints give all glory and all praise to the Lord
alone for all our salvation, every aspect of our salvation. We glory only in the Lord. He
says there, verse 27, Yea, let them say continually, Let the
Lord be magnified. And then thirdly, all Christ's
saints have pleasure in the prosperity of Christ Jesus, God's servant. He says, verse 27, Yea, let them
say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure
in the prosperity of his servant. And lastly, we'll see why all
this is so. Now first of all, all Christ's
saints joyfully favor Christ's righteous cause. This is so of
all his people. Let them shout for joy and be
glad that favor my righteous cause. Now Christ's righteous
cause is his righteousness. It's Christ's righteousness whereby
He shall save His people from our sins. This is His righteous
cause and He's going to do so through the preaching of His
gospel. And all God's saints favor this
righteous cause. All His saints do. Now Christ
successfully pled our cause when He went to the Calvary's tree
and He bore the fury of God's just wrath in our place as our
substitute. And by that He purged our sins
and made us the righteousness of God in Him. And that was His
righteous cause. He went and He pled our cause,
all the cause of God's elect, bore God's fury. So now Isaiah
51, 22, Thus saith thy Lord, thee Lord, and thy God that pleaded
the cause of His people. Behold, I've taken out of thine
hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury. Thou shalt no more drink it again. That's good news. You see why
we favor His righteous cause? He's made us the righteousness
of God in Him. God will not pour out His fury
on one for whom Christ died. When He makes you know Him, you're
going to favor that righteous cause. And then now that Christ
is risen as our head over His church, His righteous cause is
to bring each of His redeemed people under the preaching of
His gospel through which He's going to regenerate us and give
us faith in Christ and free us from all the oppressors, from
every hand of our oppressor. And Jeremiah 50, turn there with
me, Jeremiah 50. He did this for Israel, but it's
a foreshadowing of what he did for his people. And he does this
through the gospel. Jeremiah 50, verse 33, Thus saith
the Lord of hosts. Jeremiah 50, verse 33. Thus saith
the Lord of hosts. The children of Israel and the
children of Judah were oppressed together. And all that took them
captives held them fast. They refused to let them go.
Their Redeemer is strong. The Lord of hosts is His name.
He shall throughly plead their cause that He may give rest to
the land. That's the same word our Psalm
said when He said His people are quiet in the land. That word
is rest. He gives us rest in the land.
And disquiet, He brings to unrest the inhabitants of Babylon. That's
when He comes and sends the gospel and He brings us out from the
oppression of our sinful flesh and the oppression of the curse
of the law and the oppression of false religion. Anything that
was holding us captive, He brings us out. And when Christ sets
you free, He makes you free indeed. He sets you at liberty. And so
it pleased God now to save the rest of His lost sheep through
the preaching of this gospel. And so, and He pleased Him to
use His church to do it. And so, He makes you into me,
who He's called and freed and given faith in Him. He makes
us to favor this, His righteous cause. Sending forth this gospel. This is how He's going to free
His people. Now there's a lot of good causes in the world.
Some were so taken with these causes they gave their life for
the causes. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave
his life in the cause of civil rights. And that's a good cause
but that's not this righteous cause we're talking about because
That cause can never make a man the righteousness of God. And
that cause can never give a man a new heart and make him rest
in Christ and make him do that which Christ says is right and
just to his fellow man. It can't be done. You can't do that just working
on the outside. and changing outward things.
Only Christ can work this. This is the righteous cause for
which we're here now, is to send forth this gospel and He's going
to work this in His people. Many religious organizations,
you know, they read about where Christ says, feed the hungry
and clothe the naked and relieve the oppressed and do that which
is just and right. And so they engage in humanitarian
causes in the world. And physically they relieve the
oppressed, physically. Physically they give food and
clothing and shelter. But if there are religious organizations,
by preaching the false lie that men are saved by their will and
their works, they bring them into a worse oppression than
they had physically. They bring them into a famine
of food. and of true clothing and of true
shelter by the lie that men preach, the greater poverty they leave
them with is having no righteousness, no spiritual clothing, no spiritual
bread. The world thinks it's foolishness,
but the very thing we're doing tonight, right here tonight,
this is Christ's righteous cause. And He does more to right wrongs
in this world through what we're doing right here, right now,
than any other. Nobody else does that except
Christ. And He does it through the preaching
of Christ in Him crucified. This is the righteous cause of
Christ Jesus our Lord and our Savior. It's through this gospel
He's going to send the Holy Spirit. And He starts from the inside.
He's going to create a new heart and a new spirit within his people.
He said, I will give you a new heart. I will give you a new
spirit. I'll give you my spirit, he said. And you'll walk in my
statutes and my judgments and do them. And those statutes and
judgments are statutes and judgments of the gospel, the law of faith,
and the law of mercy, and the law of love, and the law of righteousness. the law of liberty. These are
the things He brings us to walk in. He declares to us that Christ
is our righteousness. And He declares to us that He's
delivered us from all the oppressive curse of the law. And when He
does that, brethren, He delivers you from all spiritual oppression
by working in your heart, that new heart He's given. He delivers
us from the oppression of the devil. from the oppression of
our own sinful flesh, from the oppression of false legal religion,
and from the oppression of the curse of the law. And He gives
us quiet. He gives us rest in Him. And
He feeds us. But He doesn't just feed us physical
bread. He feeds us with everlasting
bread. Bread that will never end. He
said, I am the bread of life, and he that cometh to me shall
never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. He's
talking about for spiritual bread. We'll never hunger for the spiritual
bread. We'll never thirst for Christ
the water of life. He clothes us in His everlasting
righteousness. We have garments that Christ
made that will never wear out, that will always be for everlasting. And He shelters us in Christ
our eternal refuge. These are eternal blessings.
These are everlasting blessings that He gives through the gospel.
And He not only does that, He makes His saints delight to do
what He says is right and just to our fellow man. No other cause
that men rally around in this world can do that. He makes His
people delight to do what He says is right and just for us
to do towards our fellow man. First of all, by preaching to
them this gospel. That's the first thing He brings
His people to delight to do in order to do what He says is just
and right. Preach the gospel of Christ to
lost sinners. And secondly, He gives His people
a heart to provide for those physical necessities of our fellow
man. I have no doubt about this. After
that last hurricane they had down there in the islands in
the Caribbean, Christ used His church to provide far more for
His people in that place than all other organizations combined
provided for the rest of the people. I guarantee you that.
Because His church not only provided for the physical needs, but He
provided through the preaching of the gospel and gave His people
eternal blessings. He sanctified that hurricane
for His people and the trials that they were going through
afterwards so that they beheld Christ's hand sovereignly working
and working for their good and teaching them, probably took
away some things that they were overly trusting in and were overly
taken up with, material things, and brought them back to His
feet. And these are eternal blessings that no other cause can accomplish
in addition to the physical blessings that were needed. If you want
to make a lasting change in a sinner, it's not going to come about
by the causes that this world are behind. The only lasting change is going
to be made by Christ. And it's made in the heart of
His people. And it's done through the preaching
of Christ in Him crucified. The world thinks that's foolishness.
The world thinks this is just, you know, all you folks are doing
is preaching. You're not helping anybody. And
they don't have any idea of the number of churches in Mexico
and in the Caribbean and in other countries. You look at those
reports we get from the preaching and you see people in the United
Arab Emirates that are listening to the gospel. There's people
in Australia listening to the gospel. And those churches are
being provided for by us churches that Christ has called
already. And those people are being used
to call out other of His lost people. He's doing more for His
people in this world through this gospel than any other cause
combined does for men. One day we're going to see it.
We're going to realize it so fully whenever we're in glory
and we're going to see what Christ accomplished through this gospel.
And we're going to stand amazed and see this was so. It's so
right now. So that's the first thing. When
He does this, when He does this, and He gives you all this new
heart, and He makes you to see that this is not foolishness. This is the means that He uses. He makes you to cease favoring
all of your old carnal causes, and all the weapons and means
involved in those causes whereby you try to oppress men into going
with your cause. He makes you to hate those causes. And He makes you now to favor
His righteous cause. Go over to Isaiah 2.4. I want
you to understand something here. Men are badly, badly abused in
Scripture. Isaiah 2.4. It's all about Christ. when he's risen,
seated at the throne of God, what he's doing through the gospel.
And it says, he shall judge among the nations and shall rebuke
many people. He's got an elect scattered throughout
the world in many nations and he rebukes his people. It teaches
us that those carnal weapons are not the weapons he's going
to use for his cause. And they shall beat their swords
into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nations shall
not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn at war
anymore. Now turn to 2 Corinthians 10.
Men preach on that text and they talk about how one day Christ
is going to make everybody in this world quit fighting and
quit war and what have you. That's not what he's talking
about. Look here. Here's what he's talking about.
When he gives you all these blessings through the gospel, He makes
you cease loving your old carnal weapons and your old carnal causes
and He makes you love Christ's righteous cause. Look here, 2
Corinthians 10.3, For though we walk in the flesh, we do not
war after the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare
are not carnal, but they're mighty through God to the pulling down
of strongholds, casting down imaginations, and every high
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing
into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. That's where He brings His people,
brethren. He brings us to no longer love
our old carnal causes. Now we love His righteous cause.
We use His gospel. But why are we so full of joy
in this righteous cause? He said, let them shout with
joy and be glad in my righteous cause. Why are we shouting with
joy? Why are we so glad in this righteous cause? Well, it's because,
well first of all, it's because He's made us righteous. He saved
us through this cause. And so we ourselves have been
saved by His righteous cause, by His righteousness. But not
only that, every single sinner that our Lord Jesus is going
to use you and me to preach this gospel to, Every sinner that
He's already predestinated that He's going to bring to this place
and make them hear the gospel, come under the sound of this
preaching. He's predestinated them to the adoption of children
by Jesus Christ to Himself. And there's a number that He's
already predestinated that He's going to use us to preach to
and He's going to call out. There's a set number. I don't
know how long we're going to be in this place. I don't know
how long we're going to be here as His church, this local assembly.
But I know this, as long as He has us here preaching His Word,
He's got a predestinated number of people that He's going to
use to call. Maybe He's already called them all. I doubt it. But He's going to call all that
He's predetermined. Remember he told Paul when he
was in Corinth, stay here, I have much people in this city. And
so Paul preached for a year and a half or something like that,
18 months I believe. So that means we cannot fail
in this righteous cause. Everybody he's predetermined
to call, he's going to call them. And he's going to use us to do
it. So that gives you great reason
to join. Not only that we've been saved ourselves and been
made righteous ourselves by Christ through his gospel, but we know
as we preach this word, there's a set number that he shall call
through our word, through our gospel. That's so of every local
assembly. So we can't fail. We cannot fail. Now that's reason
to rejoice. That doesn't make me want to
sit on my hands. That makes me want to spread
the gospel far and wide. That makes me want to redeem
the time and not rest and not loiter and be preaching and doing
what He'd have me to do. Doesn't it to you? He's going
to call His people. Now here's the second description
of God's people. We all continually magnify the
Lord. Psalm 35, verse 27. Yea, let them say continually,
let the Lord be magnified. Now, when you hear a religious
person and they're boasting that some part of their salvation
is of themselves, it is a sure indication that they have not
been created anew by our Lord and called to faith in Christ.
It's a sure indication of that. If they say God's choice of them
was based partly on something God foresaw in them, they're
saying, let me be magnified. That's what they're saying. They
would never use those words, but that's what they're saying.
If they're saying that their wisdom and understanding and
their faith is partly of themselves apart from the preaching of the
gospel, apart from the Holy Spirit regenerating them, apart from
God's gift of faith, they're saying, let me be exalted. That's what they're saying. God
said, ìHow then shall they call on Him in whom theyíve not believed?
And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard?
And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they
preach except they be sinned?î As itís written, ìHow beautiful
are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring
glad tidings of good things.î Thatís not just sometimes how
God saves, thatís always how God saves. If their righteousness
or their holiness is in part due to their works and their
will and their morality and their good deeds, they're saying, I'm
my justifier. I'm my sanctifier. Let me be
glorified. That's what they're saying. Sanctification
is Christ. of God as He made unto us sanctification. And good works are produced the
same way that Christ has made sanctification unto you through
the preaching of Christ's works, of His faithfulness. You can
preach morality and you can preach good works all you want to. That's
not the message God blesses to make His people do good works.
Listen, this only would I learn of you, received you the Spirit
by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith. Were you
hearing of Christ's faithfulness and what He's accomplished? Or
were you hearing what you ought to be doing when God saved you?
That's what He's saying. Are you so foolish having begun
in the Spirit? Are you now made perfect by the
flesh? Are you now going to be made perfect by going back to
hearing the works of the law? You'd be surprised how many people
do that. Some of you sat under people that did that. They'll
preach a little bit of Christ, and they'll get somebody to make
a profession, and they go back to preaching works. And you have
to wait a month of Sundays before they ever get back around to
preaching Christ again. And then they just halfway preach
Christ when they do. Turn over to Isaiah 43. You may
say, well, how can you be certain that this is so? That if a man's glorying in himself
He's not been called and created anew. I can tell you this is
a certainty because everybody God creates anew, glory in Him. Look at this. This is what God
said. Isaiah 43, 5. Fear not, for I am with thee.
This is what He is saying to you and me as we go forth in
Christ's righteous cause, spreading His gospel. I will bring thy
seed from the east, and I will gather thee from the west. I
will say to the north, give up, and to the south, keep not back.
Bring my sons from far, my daughters from the ends of the earth, even
everyone that is called by my name, for I have created him
for my glory. I have formed him, yea, I have
made him. Bring forth the blind people
that have eyes and the deaf that have ears. Look at verse 10.
Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord. What does a witness do? He speaks of somebody he witnessed. And that's what we are. We're
witnesses to speak of His glory and what He's done. You're my
servant whom I've chosen that you may know and believe me and
understand that I am He. Before me there was no God formed,
neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the Lord and
besides me there is no Savior. Now listen to this. I have declared
and I have saved and I have showed When there was no strange God
among you, therefore you are My witnesses, saith the Lord,
that I am God. Yes, before the day was I, before
the day was I am He. And there's none that can deliver
out of My hand. I will work and who shall let
it. So, mark it down. All who God created shall glorify
God. They're going to say, let the
Lord be magnified. When you're concerning God choosing us, we're
not going to say God looked and saw something in us. That's going
in me. We're going to say, God, I didn't
choose God, He chose me. Let God be magnified. Concerning
us being brought the gospel and being brought under the sail
of the gospel and God giving us life and faith, we say let
the sovereign God of heaven and earth be magnified. He had no
problem bringing us under the gospel. Concerning Christ, our
wisdom, giving us faith, we say, God did it all. Let God be magnified. Concerning being made righteous,
we say, Christ the Lord is our righteousness. Let Him alone
be magnified. I'll boast in no other righteousness
but Thine only, the psalmist said. Concerning a new holy heart,
we say, it's Christ in me, the hope of glory. Let Christ my
sanctification be glorified. Concerning perseverance in faith,
we say, I'm kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation,
ready to be revealed. Let my God be glorified. He's
keeping me. From A to Z, we say this, salvation
is of the Lord. That takes in all of it. Every
bit of it. A to Z. Let the Lord be magnified. And God said that's what His
people would do. Go to Isaiah 12. I'll show you another place
here. We're talking again here in Isaiah
12 about the day in which He calls His people to faith in
Christ. Isaiah 12, verse 4. In that day,
in that day, you shall say, Praise the Lord. In that day, you're
going to say, call upon His name. Declare His doings among the
people. Make mention that His name is
exalted. Go to Isaiah 45 and look at verse
25. In the Lord shall all the seed
of Israel be justified and shall glory. That means... You're not
going to find one that's truly been sanctified by God that's
going to glory in himself. He's going to glory in the Lord,
because that's what God created him to do. Paul said, as many
as constrain you to be circumcised, they're trying to glory in what
they got you to do. And he said, but God forbid that
I should glory, save in the cross of my Lord Jesus Christ by whom
the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world. And He
said circumcision avails nothing and uncircumcision avails nothing. It's a new creation that Christ
makes. And you think I'm being too narrow?
Paul said, and as many as walk according to this rule, peace
be to them. They're the Israel of God because
they glory only in the Lord. That's how you know, brethren.
This is what it makes us to know. Of Him, And through Him and to
Him are all things to whom be glory both now and forever. Amen. So first of all, God's people
are those that favor Christ's righteous call. And secondly,
God's people give the triune God in Christ all the glory for
our salvation. Now that's so. That's so of all
His people. They do it continually. And then thirdly, God's people
find all our pleasure in the prosperity of God's servant,
Christ Jesus, just like the Lord Himself does. He says in verse
27, Psalm 35, 27, He says, Let the Lord be magnified, He said, Let them say continually,
Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity
of His servant. Now there's three ways you can
look at that, and they're all true. The Lord has pleasure in
the prosperity of Christ His servant. That's one way you can
look at that. It could be, Let the Lord be
magnified, which the Lord who has pleasure in the prosperity
of His servant, Christ Jesus. And we know that's true. It pleased
the Lord to bruise him. He put him to grief. And this
is why, when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin,
he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure
of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. That means he's going
to accomplish it. And he has. He shall see of the
travail of his soul and shall be satisfied. By his knowledge
shall my righteous servant justify many, for he shall bear their
iniquities. Therefore I'll divide a portion with him and he'll
divide it with the great. I'll divide him a portion with
the great and he'll divide the spoil with the strong because
he's poured out his soul unto death. And He was numbered with
the transgressors, and He bared the sin of many, and He made,
He accomplished intercession for the transgressors. So, on
one hand, the Lord glories in the prosperity, the triumphant
victory of His servant Christ the Lord. And another way you
can look at that is in Christ, due to Christ, the Lord takes
pleasure in the prosperity of all His elect. who have been
made prosperous by Christ. We are all His servants. He said,
Thou shalt no more be termed forsaken, neither shalt thou
land any more be termed desolate, but thou shalt be called Hephzibah,
and thy land Beulah, for the Lord delighteth in thee, and
thy land shall be married. Look, I just saw this when I
sat down from reading a while ago. Listen to this. The Lord
taketh pleasure in His people. He will beautify the meek with
salvation. So it also means the Lord takes
pleasure in our prosperity, which is by Christ. But here's what
we're looking at. By God's grace, all God's saints
have all our pleasure in the prosperity of Christ and God's
servant. This whole religious world declares
a Jesus, their Jesus, that's not prosperous. He wasn't victorious. He wasn't triumphant. He made
it possible if you will make it effectual by something you
do for Him. That's not what we take pleasure in. Our pleasure
is in the prosperity of God's servant, Christ Jesus. We preach
a victorious Redeemer who didn't come and make it possible. He
came and accomplished the work. God said He shall not fail and
shall not be discouraged till He hath set judgment in the earth. and the Gentiles shall wait for
His Gospel. Christ said, I have glorified
thee on the earth, I have finished the work you gave me to do. I
finished it. And so this is our Gospel, Isaiah
40 verse 1. We preach this. So this is how
different this is from what you hear men preaching in this world.
And they're saying, Christ, He's made it possible now. If you'll
just believe on Him, then you can make His blood effectual.
Listen to this word right here from God. Isaiah 41, Comfort
ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably
to Jerusalem. Cry unto her that her warfare
is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned. For she hath received
of the Lord's hand double for all her sin. That means we have
nothing to do with it. He accomplished it. And that's
our message. All God's saints take great pleasure
in our Redeemer because God's servant is the successful, triumphant,
victorious Redeemer. We thank God who's given us the
victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. It's done. It's victorious. Now lastly, I didn't tell you
what this last poem was going to be because I told Willie Boy
he's home sick and I told him I'm going to ask him what the
last point is when I get back, so I want to make sure he's watching
to the end. This description is true of all
Christ's saints, not only by His works for us and in us, but
it's true because right now in the face of all our enemies,
Christ ever lives to make intercession for us. And this is what He's
interceding with the Father on our behalf. Verse 27. Let them
shout for joy and be glad that favor my righteous cause. Yea,
let them say continually, let the Lord be magnified, which
hath pleasure in the prosperity of His servant. And so God our
Father, for the sake of His Son, continually works this in His
people. He continually works this in
His people. And as He works this in His people, and brings forth
this fruit in His people so that we do these things. Christ continues
to magnify God in our hearts through the gospel like He's
doing tonight. He says in our hearts, verse
28, And my tongue shall speak of thy righteousness and of thy
praise all the day long. Have you heard Christ say that?
That's what we're hearing Him say in our hearts through the
preaching of this Word. All my praise is of thy righteousness
and all my glory is of you all the day long. And so what's the
result? What does He work? What's the effectual result in
His people? Number one, we shout for joy, we're glad as we favor
Christ's righteous cause. Number two, we say continually,
let the Lord be magnified. Our tongue speaks of His righteousness
and of His praise all the day long. And number three, we have
great pleasure in the prosperity of Christ, our victorious Redeemer. This is the description of not
just some of God's people, God's saints. This is a description
of all God's saints. I know that so because this is
Christ speaking. And this is Christ's description
of His saints. Now, here's the question. Is
this a description of me? That's what we all should ask
ourselves. Does this describe me? Am I joyful and rejoicing? in favoring Christ's righteousness
and His righteous cause? Do I say continually, let the
Lord be magnified? Not unto us, O Lord, but unto
Thy name give the glory. And do I have all my pleasure
knowing how prosperous Christ is, how successful and victorious
He is? Is this all my pleasure? That's
so of all His people. And I pray God make it so of
each of us. All right, Brother Eric.