Let's turn to Psalm 29. What he just read, I just want
to look at something. I've been looking at this all
week and I think I just saw something from listening to him read that
passage in Nahum. I saw something I think I want
to preach from this. Psalm 29. Let's read the psalm and I'll
make some comments on what appears here upon the surface. And then
we'll go back and we'll look at this and get the spiritual
lesson in it. Psalm 29 verse 1, Give unto the
Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength. Give Him honor. Give Him the
honor and ascribe to Him the strength. That word give means
ascribe. Ascribe to Him. Now He says this
to the mighty. And as we read, we are going
to see here that He is speaking to the great waters. And He is
speaking to the cedars of Lebanon. And He is speaking to the mountains.
the Mount of Lebanon and Mount Horeb. He is speaking to natural
things, those things He created. He is calling them mighty. He
is saying, ascribe unto the Lord, O ye mighty. Ascribe unto the
Lord glory. Ascribe unto the Lord honor.
Ascribe unto Him strength. Ascribe unto the Lord the glory
due unto His name. all the glory due unto His name. All honor is due to the name
of our Lord. And it says, Worship the Lord,
bow down, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness. Now if you have a margin, it
says in His glorious sanctuary. in His glorious sanctuary. So
as we read this, you're going to see the picture here is of
creation and of the oceans and the cedars and the mountains
all being His sanctuary where He's saying to these mighty ones,
He's saying, now you bow down and you ascribe all the glory
and all the honor to the Lord to whom it's all due. You worship
Him in this sanctuary. and do this in the beauty of
holiness. The only thing beautiful to the
Lord is holiness. And that truly is the only thing
beautiful, is holiness. And he said, do this in my sanctuary
in the beauty of holiness. Now watch this. The voice of
the Lord. Now that was the introduction.
That was the call to worship. That was calling all these mighty
trees, and these waters, and these mountains, these mighty
pieces of His creation to worship Him. Bow down and worship Him.
Now He is going to talk to them. He is going to say something
about them. The voice of the Lord. Now three, I mean seven
times here He is going to say the voice of the Lord. Seven
times. Seven times. The number of perfection. When the Lord speaks, He speaks
in perfection. The voice of the Lord. The voice
of the Lord is upon the waters. The God of glory thundereth. The Lord is upon many waters. Now if you have a margin, you'll
see it says upon great waters. This is one of those mighty ones
that He's calling. When He says, O ye mighty, back
there in verse 1. Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty,
a scribe unto the Lord, glory and strength. He says, the voice
of the Lord, verse 3, is upon the waters. The God of glory
thundereth. The Lord is upon great waters. We saw this just a few weeks
ago and we've seen it two or three times recently out there
on great waters. God, with His voice, thundered. And God with His voice summons
the hurricane. and gathered up those great waters
by His voice. That's the voice of the Lord
that did that. Natural men want to ascribe it
to natural things. That's the voice of the Lord
that rules that great waters, those waters of the deep. He
rules those and causes them to do what He'll have them to do
by His voice. Then He says this, the voice
of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full
of majesty, full of majesty. The voice of the Lord breaketh
the cedars. Now, this is another one of those
mighty ones He is calling to. He said there, Give unto the
Lord, O ye mighty. Now He is speaking to the cedars.
The cedars of Lebanon were like the giant redwoods out in California. They were huge, huge trees. This is where, you know, David
sent and the king, I forget his name now, but he sent the cedars
of Lebanon to David and David used them to build the temple,
the inner part of the temple before it was overlaid with gold
and with silver. And those were huge, huge cedars. But look what he says here, the
voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars. Yea, the Lord breaketh
the cedars of Lebanon. You see the lightning come down.
It doesn't come down on its own. That's the voice of the Lord.
The voice of the Lord speaks and the lightning goes forth
and it strikes those mighty cedars and He breaks those mighty cedars. He'll break them like a toothpick.
And it says, He maketh them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon
and Syrian, like a young unicorn." The young unicorn he's talking
about here, the lion, I mean this young bull he's talking
about here, that was an old type of of a, like a buffalo, but it
was like a, it was a steer. But it was an old, old, extinct
steer that was like big, giant horns and on their back, they
say they measured from the bottom to the back of one of these things
was about six feet tall. Most men would stand by one and
it would just be huge. But he says, he says he makes
He makes Lebanon and Sirion, he's talking about the Mount
Lebanon and Mount Hebron, which was Mount Sirion. He's saying
he makes those mountains to skip like one of these calves, like
one of these young unicorns, one of these young unicorns that
are wild and bucking and running. He makes those mountains to skip
like that with his voice. He can break the mountains. Just
like He breaks those cedars, He can break the mountain, the
mighty mountain. This is another one of those
mighty He is talking about. Oh ye mighty, ascribe glory and
honor to the Lord. These mighty mountains. He makes
them to skip like a calf. The voice of the Lord divideth
the flames of fire. Lightning is fire. That's what
lightning is. And you see lightning go across
the sky at night and it splits and it goes across the sky. Well,
it says here, the Lord divideth the lightning. He divides the
flame of fire. He divides it. The voice of the
Lord shaketh the wilderness. The Lord shaketh the wilderness
of Kadesh. There is another one of those
mighty the mighty wilderness of Kadesh. The Lord sends forth
the lightning and the Lord speaks and the Lord shakes that wilderness
with His thunder. And that's the voice of the Lord.
Literally, when you see the lightning go forward, you see it split,
and you hear the thunder, and you hear it vibrate the earth. He said that's the voice of the
Lord speaking. The voice of the Lord. And He
shakes that mighty wilderness. And here's what He does when
He does that. Verse 9. The voice of the Lord maketh
the hinds to calve. The hind or wild deer. And He
makes the hinds to go into labor. He makes the mother deer go into
labor by His thunder in the wilderness. And it says, and He discovers
the forest. He makes it light up. You know
how when the lightning goes forth in the wilderness, it just lights
up. So what do you have there? You
have His voice bringing forth life and making everything to
be light by His voice. And in His temple, now that's,
remember back up there in verse 1 it said, I mean verse 2, He
says, Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness in His glorious
sanctuary, in His temple. And He's describing this wilderness
here now of all His creation as His temple. And He says, The
voice of the Lord makes the hinds to calve, He discovers the forest,
and in His temple does everyone speak of His glory. all His creation,
all His personifying creation here. And He is saying, all these
mighty ones in His temple, in His sanctuary, in His creation,
all give Him the glory. They answer the call, don't they?
He started out saying, ascribe ye glory and honor to the Lord,
O ye mighty. And He ends up and He says, and
every one of them in His temple speaks of His glory. Now here's
the application now. Here's the lesson. The Lord sitteth
upon the flood. Yea, the Lord sitteth king forever. That means He's the Sovereign.
He's the Sovereign King. When He speaks, He brings these things to pass. When He speaks, there's an effectual
result when He speaks. Because He sits upon the flood. He's not running here and there. It's not out of His control.
He's seated in control. And He's seated as the King.
He has sovereign power over all His creation, over everything
He's made. And look here, He says, Here's
the spiritual lesson now. The Lord will give strength unto
His people. The Lord will bless His people
with peace. Now, let's see the spiritual
application. So we all come in here to this
place. And what is this? We together
as the Lord's people are His temple. We're His sanctuary. We're the ones He separated by
His grace. sanctified and made holy, His
holy place where He dwells in His people. Ephesians 2 said
that Christ not only worked peace for His people and accomplished
peace and broke down the middle wall of partition between His
people by fulfilling the law for His people, but He also came
and preached peace to us. And He's built us up together
and made us to be fitly framed together and made us a holy temple
in the Lord, in whom He abides and in whom He dwells. We are
His temple. We come in now, we come here
and we come to His house. We are in His temple. And we
come here and as the gospel is being preached, we sit here and
we preach the gospel. As the gospel is being preached,
what the gospel is, is a call to worship. The gospel is a call
to worship. That's what you have here in
the first two verses. Give unto the Lord, ascribe unto
the Lord, O ye mighty, ascribe unto the Lord glory and strength.
Ascribe unto the Lord the glory due unto His name. Worship the
Lord in the beauty of holiness in His glorious sanctuary. Now that's the call that goes
forth as we're preaching the gospel and I'm declaring to you
that when I'm preaching the doctrine of election and saying God chose
His people in Christ before the world was made, didn't look at
anything in you or me, didn't do anything or look upon us and
find any merit in us or anything that made Him choose us. He did it freely by His grace.
When I'm preaching this, The call that's going forth to everybody,
that message going forth to everybody is saying to everybody on whose
ears it falls, ascribe unto the Lord glory and strength. That's the call going forth.
That's the general call going forth. Ascribe unto Him glory
and strength. The call going forth is give
unto the Lord the glory due unto His name. Fall down, bow down,
worship the Lord and His holy sanctuary in the beauty of holiness. When I preach to you how that
Christ came forth and laid down His life, and He laid down His
life for His particular people only. He didn't lay down His
life for all men in some sense. He laid down His life for the
sheep. He said, I lay down my life for
the sheep. And He told those people that
day, He said, you're not my sheep. You don't believe me because
you're not my sheep. And when I'm declaring this,
when I'm telling you that Christ, when He laid down His life, He
laid down His life for a particular people and He accomplished their
redemption. He didn't try to, He didn't try
to make it possible, He accomplished the redemption of His people.
As that's being declared, it's a call to worship. The call is
going forth saying to everybody here, ascribe unto the Lord,
O ye mighty, ascribe unto the Lord glory and strength, ascribe
unto the Lord the glory due unto His name. Worship the Lord in
the beauty of holiness. So everything we preach concerning
the Gospel, when we declare the necessity of regeneration, you
have to be born of God, must be born of the Spirit of God.
You can't do it yourself, you can't muster up faith or love
or repentance or a new heart or can't quicken yourself, nothing. God's got to do it. When we preach
this, that's that call, that call to worship, calling to worship. But you see there's a difference
between the general call that's going out, calling all to worship,
There's a difference between that general call and the effectual
call. There's an effectual call. And
in that effectual call, what happens is the voice of the Lord
actually speaks particularly to somebody. And that's when
you hear. He speaks particularly to somebody.
So we all come in here, even if you're a believer. You come
in here. And we've been through our week,
we've done what we've done all week, and we've got a thousand
things on our mind, and our heart's going in different directions,
and we can't get settled, we can't pay attention, and we're
sitting here trying to worship, but you know, we can't just come
in here and sit down and doing what we're doing here. That's
not worship. We can't worship unless God makes
us worship. So just like the call goes forth
and we depend on Him to make it effectual to make a sinner
actually have life and believe the first hour, we depend on
Him to speak His voice and make us be able to worship Him every
hour. All things are of God. Even worshiping
God is of God. If we're going to come in here
and worship God, that's of God. So He calls on us and He says,
Verse 1. Ascribe unto the Lord, O ye mighty.
Now if you see in the margin, it says, ye sons of the mighty. Ye sons of the mighty. What are
God's people? What are God's people? We're
sons of the mighty God. That's what we are. We're sons
of the mighty God. Who is He going to make to effectually
hear this? Who is He going to speak to effectually
and make to hear this? The sons of the mighty. The sons
of the mighty God, His people, that's who He's going to do this
for. So here we are, we're all here and here we are in this
temple, just like we just looked at the whole creation as a temple,
as a sanctuary, God's place, His sanctuary. Well, here we
are, we're in God's sanctuary, we're in His temple. And we come
in with all these different thoughts, we can't concentrate, And though
we are the mighty sons of God, when our flesh is ruling us,
and that's what's happening when we can't concentrate, when we
can't focus, when the world's got our minds and our heart and
we can't sit down and worship. When that's going on, our flesh
is ruling us. We're mighty. We're mighty in
sin. We're mighty in our flesh. We're
mighty in that sinful flesh. Just like that mighty Just like
that mighty water, those great waters. Just like the mighty
Cedar of Lebanon. Just like the mighty mountain.
Just like that mighty wilderness. That's what we are. We are the
mighty. Just like this wild creation
right here. So how are we going to be made
to hear? How are we going to be made to worship God? How are
we going to be made to enter in and worship God? Well, verse
3, The voice of the Lord is upon the waters. The God of glory
thundereth. The Lord is upon great waters. You have somebody who's a mighty
man in business and he's a mighty man out on great waters. He's
out every day in the world and he's got a sea of people he comes
in contact with and all this business he has to do and he's
like the sailor out on these great waters and he's the He's
the one pictured here in the great waters. And the voice of
the Lord, as the gospel is going forth, the voice of the Lord
is upon the waters. He comes upon these waters and
the God of glory thundereth. He thundereth. Sometimes He thunders
so much and so strong that it doesn't matter what's on your
mind, it doesn't matter what you're thinking of or what business
you've got to do that's so important. When He thunders, when He thunders,
you hear Him. You hear Him speak. You hear
Him in here. You hear Him in the heart. You hear Him in that
new man. You hear Him speak. You hear
Him thunder. And He's upon that great water. And I'll tell you,
no matter how mighty a man he is or how mighty a man thinks
he is, you look at that hurricane. That's what we're talking about
here when it talks about him being upon great waters. That
hurricane didn't form until the second God wanted it to form.
And He spoke and it formed. And it didn't go anywhere but
where God directed it to go, when God directed it to go there,
for just as long as God would have it to go. And then he spoke
and it started dying out. And just like that, that same
power, God speaks to the man who is the great waters and God
thunders. And God takes him and turns his
heart with us wherever he will, just like that hurricane. He
is upon the waters. And then you have here, it says,
the voice of the Lord. Why does He do that? Because
verse 4, He is powerful. The voice of the Lord is power.
He speaks in power. The voice of the Lord is full
of majesty. He speaks in majesty. And you
can't resist it. It is irresistible. And then
look in verse 5. Then you have a man, he is like
the cedars of Lebanon. He's tall and He's mighty and
He's broad and He can withstand the winds, He can withstand the
elements and all the various things and He's like a mighty
cedar of Lebanon. Like a mighty cedar of Lebanon.
But the voice of the Lord, the voice of the Lord breaketh the
cedars. Yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars
of Lebanon. You know what we are going to
have to have? We have a hard heart by nature and we won't
listen, we won't hear God, we won't bow to God, we don't have
anything to do with God. It takes the voice of God to
break us. And only God can break us. But
when He speaks, the voice of the Lord breaks the cedars. He
breaks the cedars. I have a, there was a big, big
oak tree beside my parents' house where I grew up. My great-grandfather
planted this tree. Very large tree now. He planted it when he was a young
man and he's been gone for a long time. And this was my great-great-grandfather. And so this tree is huge. It's
old. And the Lord spoke. The Lord spoke. and lightning
struck that tree and it split that tree just like a strong
man takes a little piece of wood and just splits it right in two
with an axe. It split that old mighty oak and just split it
right in two. We're talking here about a cedar of Lebanon. We're
talking about those big mighty redwoods out there. If God can
split those, He can take care of me and you. We don't have
to worry about that. And He does. He speaks, that
voice speaks, and it doesn't matter how mighty, strong, tall
the man thinks he is, the Lord breaks him. He breaks him just
like a cedar of Lebanon. And then look here, and it says,
He's speaking now with the mountains. He makes them also to skip like
a calf. Lebanon, Syrian, like a young
unicorn. He's talking about the Mount
Horeb, and Lebanon. Horeb, you know, is where He
gave the law. Now, you know, whenever they
went to get the law, they looked up there at Mount Horeb. God
said, you wash yourselves, you come out here tomorrow to receive
this law. And they said, boy, we are going
to be ready, whatever the Lord commands, we will do it. So they
got washed and they got ready and they went out there. The
Lord told Moses to come up there, told them to stay back. And they
looked and beheld and that mountain was on fire and it was quaking. This is the same mountain we're
talking about here, Sirion, Mount Horeb. And it was on fire and
it was quaking. And they jumped back and they
said, Moses, you go up for us. We need a mediator to go up for
us. We can't go up there and talk
to God. Who is going to make that mountain skip? Who is going
to take care of that mountain for me and for you? Who is going
to take care of that mountain for His people? He said He makes
that mountain skip like a calf. The Lord Jesus Christ came forth
and everything the mighty mountain of the law demanded of you and
me. Everything the mountain of the
law demanded of all God's elect, Christ came forth and He gave
that law everything the law demanded. everything the law demanded. Romans 3 says, we're not justified
by the works of the law. The law was given, it wasn't
given to justify men. That law was given to declare
us all guilty before God. That's why it was given. But
Christ came forth, the righteousness of the law, It is manifest without
the law, but it is witnessed by the law and by the prophets.
And everything the law and the prophets bore witness to is Christ,
the faithfulness of Christ. And there is where the righteousness
of God is manifest. He came forth to declare the
righteousness of God. He came forth to honor God's
law, magnify God's law, in that He fulfilled everything that's
written in the law and gave it all that it demanded, full righteousness,
a perfect obedience. But He also came forth to show
that God's righteousness will by no means clear the guilty.
And so He went forth and was made sin for us so that God poured
out. God did by no means clear the
guilty. When He made Him sin for us, God spared not His own
Son. That's justice. That's having
no respect of persons, not even when it's your own son. And God
will have no respect of persons. We think we're going to come
to God and He's going to have mercy on me. God's no respecter
of persons. He wouldn't have mercy on His
own son when He made sin for His people. That's justice. That's because God's right and
He's just and He does what's right and just. And so He satisfied
that justice so that now, That same justice demands everybody
He died for must be shown mercy. They must be called out and given
life and faith in Christ. And so they shall. So He handles
that mountain. He takes care of that mighty
mountain. Just like He takes care of the
sea, He takes care of the mighty cedar, He takes care of that
mountain. And He causes it to skip like a calf. And He is able
to come to you and me who have that stone heart like that mountain.
And He is able to speak in our heart and make it a heart of
flesh. Pliable, moldable by His hand
so that He can speak now and we will say, yes Lord. And we
will bow to Him. Now look here, verse 7. The voice of the Lord divided
the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shaketh
the wilderness. The Lord shaketh the wilderness
of Kadesh. When the Lord does this work,
He divides the flames of fire just like He divides the lightning
and it goes across the sky. When the Lord speaks, His word
is like lightning. It comes forth like lightning.
How does lightning come forth? It's quick. It's quick. If you blink, you'll miss it.
And it goes across the sky and it's quick. What does the Lord
say the Word is like? The Word is quick and it's powerful,
just like the lightning is powerful. The Word is quick and it's powerful
and it divides asunder the soul and the spirit. It reveals the
thoughts and intents of the heart. And this Word goes forth by the
voice of the Lord and the Word goes forth quick and He speaks
into the heart. just like He divided the flames
of fire, and the voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness, just
like He shook the wilderness of Kadesh. And when He does that,
He brings forth life. The voice of the Lord makes the
hinds to calve, just like He makes the hinds to calve, just
like He speaks. And this is true. The Lord does
this. You have a deer out in the woods. about spring time of the year
and she is ready to throw her young and the thunder, the Lord
thunders and it will make them go into labor and they will have
their young. It is not an accident that, you
know, in this part of the world and down through the south when
the time for a deer to throw her young is the time of the
year when you have, you know, April showers and there is a
lot of thunder and all that, it is that time of the year.
That is when they have them. And He speaks the thunder and
it makes them calve. But when He speaks this word
and He shakes the wilderness, that sinner who is like a wilderness,
who is a wild wilderness, He shakes that sinner in his heart,
He brings forth life just like He does makes the hinds to calve. And just like He speaks and the
lightning discovers the forest, that lightning brights everything
up, discovers the forest, That's what he does. He speaks and he
lights it up. He gives you light and he discovers
the forest. Remember, when I read that, I
think about Adam. Adam sinned against God, so he
makes him his little patchwork fig leaves, you know, righteousness.
He's got it worked out there. And what does he do? He goes
and hides in the trees. And the Scripture says, you know
what the Scripture says? What happened? The voice of the Lord
The voice of the Lord came walking. The voice came walking in the
day. What are we talking about here?
The voice of the Lord. And the voice of the Lord came
and said, ìAdam, where are you?î Just like that lightning goes
forth and lights up the forest. ìAdam, where are you?î Adam said,
ìI hear you.î ìWhy did you hide, Adam?î ìDid you eat of the tree
I told you not to eat of?î He's giving light. He's opening everything
up, giving light. Well, the woman you gave me,
she gave me to eat. That's why I ate. Adam, you obeyed
the voice of your wife. You obeyed her voice. He's lightening
it up a little bit more. He can't blame Eve. Got no place
to hide in the trees. The Lord's giving light. He's
lightening, just like the lightning just makes the forest bright.
He gives light now and you start seeing your sin. And you try
to cover yourself and justify yourself with something and He
takes that away from you. Lights that little corner of
darkness up. Nope, you can't hide there. You
try to hide. Well, I've tried my best. Lights
that up. Your best is not good enough.
Everywhere you try to hide, everywhere in that forest, that wilderness
you try to run back into, He keeps speaking His voice and
the lightning goes forth and just lights that dark corner.
What our Lord say, this is the condemnation. Light has come. And men love darkness rather
than light because their deeds were evil. But he that doeth
truth, what does he do? He comes to the light. You know
why he comes to the light? He has got no choice. He has
got no choice. Christ speaks and He makes it
light everywhere. When He makes it light, He says,
you are going to hear that still smile voice and the light is
going to come on and you are going to realize you have got
a lie in your hand. And you're going to see that everything
you thought was righteousnesses are just filthy rags. I had somebody
write me this week and they were concerned about that verse in
2 Corinthians 5 where it says, we're going to all stand before
the judgment seat of Christ and every man receive the things
done in his body whether good or evil. They want to know what
that meant. And I could tell right away what
they thought. I'm hoping my good outweighs
my evil, outweighs my bad. When Christ begins to make you
see and gives you the light to see, He makes you see that what
you thought was good is in the same side with the bad. It's
on the same side of the scale with the wicked. Everything you
thought was good is on the same side of the scale. And it's all
just lesser degrees of wickedness. That's all it is. We can't stand
on our own. But He lights it up. And when
He does that, now look here in verse 9, and here's the result
at the very end. And in His temple does everyone
speak of His glory. That's where He brings you. What
did He call you to do? What did He call us to do? Here's
the call. Go back to verse 1. Give, ascribe unto the Lord,
O ye mighty, ascribe unto the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe
unto the Lord the glory due unto His name. Worship the Lord in
the beauty of holiness in His holy sanctuary. And when He's
done this work, the voice of the Lord makes the hinds to calf,
He gives you light, He discovers the forest, and in His temple,
in His holy place, in that heart He's made holy, Everyone speaks
of His glory. Everybody speaks of His glory.
Now here's the application the Lord gives us. Verse 10. The
Lord sitteth upon the flood. Yea, the Lord sitteth king forever. Brethren, don't ever despair
about your children that don't believe the Lord. Because did
the Lord save you? Did the Lord call you? Did the
Lord take control of you, O great waters? Did the Lord break you,
O mighty cedar? Did the Lord make the mountains
to skip that we thought we were? Did He light up our wilderness?
And He is able to do it with them. How come? He sits on the
flood. He is a King. Everybody that
He is determined to save, He shall save. There is nothing
that is going to stop Him from getting the gospel to them. There
is nothing that is going to stop Him from speaking His voice in
their heart and bringing them to give Him all the glory. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. And you and
I, there are times when you and I get to feeling bad and we get
to thinking that we are going to fall away or that we have
fallen away or do a debt I didn't even know Him to begin with.
I guarantee you this, if we are His, There is nothing, no one
that is going to stop Him from doing this work right here in
our heart and speaking to us and bringing us to give Him all
the glory and keep us there. Because He is the King. Christ
was the King in eternity when He created everything. He was
the King when He came into this earth. They said, where is he
that is born king? He was king when he came here.
He was king when he ruled his people from Adam all the way
till now. He has been the king. And he
is the king right now on his throne in glory. And he will
be the king forever. And everybody, everybody is going
to come to him and bow their knees. and they are going to
confess that He is Lord of Lords and King of Kings. You don't
have to worry about anything. We don't have to worry about
the government. We don't have to worry about anything going on in our lives.
We don't have to worry about our jobs. We don't have to worry
about our homes. We don't have to worry about
anything. He sitteth upon the flood. Anytime you start worrying
about things going on in your life, you just remember this.
Remember what a rebel you were. Remember where He found you and
how He called you and what He did in bringing you the gospel
and bringing you to where you are right now. You just remember
that next time you worry about whether or not you're going to
have a bologna sandwich. If He did all that, He'll take care
of the bologna. You don't have to worry about
it. He sits upon the waters and He's the King forever. And look
at this, it's the next thing. The Lord will give strength unto
His people and the Lord will bless His people with peace. You just guarantee that's going
to be so. When He calls you to worship
Him, you know what's going to happen? He's going to give you
strength and you're going to worship Him. That's what happened
through this whole psalm. And when He gives you the strength
to worship Him, you know what He's going to do? He's going
to give you peace. the peace that Christ worked out, the peace
that Christ accomplished between God and His people. He is the
one who reconciled His people. He is going to call His people
and have us to enjoy that reconciliation. Go to Colossians chapter 1 and
we will close with this. Look here, verse 20. He just
got through talking about Him being the Creator and being over
all things in creation. And now look at verse 20. And
having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him He
reconciled all things unto Himself. By Him, I say, whether they were
things in earth or things in heaven. He's talking about His
people. Those that are in heaven now and those that are yet on
the earth are yet to be born. He has reconciled all His people
already. And you, not only did He reconcile you, He came and
He gave you strength and He gave you that peace that He had accomplished
for you. That reconciliation is peace. Now look what He did.
And you that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked
works, yet now hath He reconciled. in the body of His flesh through
death, to present you holy and unblameable and unapprovable
in His sight, if you continue in the faith, grounded and settled,
and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel which you
have heard." How do you have that faith? Because not only
did He reconcile you on the cross, He came to where you were, alienated
an enemy in your mind, and He gave you this peace in your heart.
Gave you strength to believe Him, spoke His voice, gave you
strength to believe Him, and gave you that peace of heart.
Made you to see that peace is accomplished. So He's going to
do that for His people. That's the voice of the Lord. That's the voice of the Lord.
Who is the voice of the Lord? It's Christ. Christ Jesus the
Lord. He's the voice of the Lord. That's
who speaks to us. God speaks to us through a mediator.
It's Christ the Lord. The voice of the Lord. Amen.