We had good services at Ball
and brethren there say to tell you hello. With the time change and with
the fact that Brother Milton and Sister Claudia's house is
right there at the church building, I was able to watch just about
the whole service here. So I enjoyed that. It was good, but it sure don't
take the place of being there. That's a fact. Let's turn in
our Bibles to Psalm 20. Psalm 20. I'm just going to look at two verses
here, verses 7 and verse 8. Some trust in chariots and some
in horses, but we will remember the name of the Lord our God. They are brought down and fallen,
but we are risen and stand upright. Now there's no question that
you and I need to be saved. No question. We've broken God's
law, we need righteousness. By nature we're defiled in our
sin nature and we need holiness. Scripture says there's none righteous,
no not one. And it says, The heart's deceitful
above all things, and desperately wicked. Now, there's no question
that in Adam, by his disobedience, we all fell in sin. And there's
no question that the only way that we can be made righteous
and holy is by the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. The
scripture says, If by one man's offense death reigned by one,
Much more, they which receive abundance of grace and of the
gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ. Righteousness and holiness, eternal
life, is by the abundance of God's grace, by the gift of God,
given to us by the obedience of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now
there's no question we need to be saved. There's no question
that we need to be made righteous and holy by the obedience of
Christ. The question is, do you believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ? Or are you trusting in some vain
confidence? That's the question. Now I like
a simple illustration of salvation. And that's what we have here
in this text. The Lord here divides all men
into one of two camps. Into one of two categories. He
says some trust in chariots and some in horses. But we will remember
the name of the Lord our God. Now chariots and horses here
in that day would be the equivalent of tanks and jet airplanes in
our day. But what it pictures and what
it represents is all the vain things that men trust in other
than the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what's represented here
by horses and chariots. Now, of our works, God says clearly. He said in Isaiah 57-12, I'll
declare thy righteousness and thy works. They shall not profit
thee. The scriptures clear, Titus 3,
5 says, it's not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to His mercy He saves us. But the second half
of verse 7 says, but we will remember the name of the Lord
our God. Believers trust the Lord our
God. He's all our salvation. The thing
that differentiated Israel as God's peculiar people is that
in Israel they didn't have horses and chariots. They were forbidden
to have horses and chariots in Israel because they were to look
to God alone to trust them. Can you imagine a nation who's
told you can't have any tanks and any jet airplanes? You just
trust the Lord to deliver you. That's what God's teaching us
in this world. We have a far worse enemy than
foreign nations and foreign armies. We have invisible enemies. We
have powers and principalities and wickedness in high places
to deal with. The only way we can be saved
is to trust the Lord Jesus Christ. He alone is salvation. Some trust
in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember the name
of the Lord our God. And like Israel, we're to have
an absence of any works for salvation. Now, there are works of love.
that we do by God's grace, but we would have an absence of works
for salvation, just like they would have an absence of horses
and chariots. We would trust the Lord alone.
Now the question that you and I must ask is, am I trusting
the Lord Jesus Christ alone? Am I trusting the Lord Jesus
Christ alone? Now here is what we are going
to see tonight. All who trust in some vain confidence, some
vain refuge, are fallen and they shall fall. But all who trust
in the Lord Jesus Christ are saved and shall be saved. Some
trust in chariots and some in horses, but we will remember
the name of the Lord our God. Now, first of all, to remember
the name of the Lord our God, let's look to King Jesus. Let's
look to our King, the Lord Jesus. Now, in Israel, God gave a law,
and it was for the king that ruled in Israel. In Deuteronomy
1716, I'll just give this to you, but here's what the law
said. It said, of the king that reigns in Israel, he shall not
multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to
Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses. He shall not
do that at all. Now, we just look at this one
law as representing the whole law of God. Just look at that
one law. Scripture says if we've broken
one, we've broken them all. So let's just look at that one
law as the whole law of God. The king was to obey God's law.
He was to obey God's law, trusting the Lord God to provide and deliver
him. That's what he was to do. The
king wasn't to add anything to faith in the Lord. He was to
look to the Lord and he wasn't to multiply horses. The faithful king was under a
covenant to God and he was to fulfill his end of the covenant
and trust that God would fulfill God's end of the covenant toward
him. The faithful king was to save
his people by obeying God's law. And as he trusted God to protect
and to deliver him, so he would save God's people. But now if
he turns back and breaks that covenant and makes an alliance
with the king of Egypt and looks to horses and chariots, he's
not only going to plunge himself into all kinds of trouble, he's
going to cause the children of Israel to turn back so that they
won't be saved. Christ is that faithful king.
He's the faithful king. Christ came to this earth and
obeyed God, looking to God as a servant of God, trusting God. Christ came to fulfill His end
of the covenant before God, trusting that God the Father would fulfill
His end of the covenant toward Christ. And in doing so, he looked
nowhere else but to God. In doing so, he fulfilled all
the law and he saved his people from their sins. Now, we know
that King Solomon is a great type of Christ. King Solomon. Now, Solomon was the son of David
and he was the son of God. That's a type of Christ. Christ
is the son of David after the flesh, but he's the son of God
after the spirit. Solomon was the king that God
chose to build his house, to build his earthly temple. And
it pictured Christ, who God chose to be the king, who would come
and build his spiritual house. By saving us from our sins on
the cross, redeeming us from the curse of the law on the cross,
and by regenerating us and building us up as spiritual stones, his
house. That's Christ's work. But the
tide breaks down with Solomon. It breaks down. Solomon was not
the faithful king. The first recorded sin of Solomon. Do you know what it is? The very
first sin of Solomon. That's recorded. I'll just give
this to you. It's in 1 Kings 4.26. Solomon had 40,000 stalls of
horses for his chariots and 12,000 horsemen. He broke that law. He broke that law. Solomon was
a sinner saved by grace, just like us. God saved him. Because Solomon, we see ourselves
in that faith is mixed, unbelief is mixed with our faith. And
yet God saved him by his grace, even though unbelief was mixed
with his faith, just like he saves us by his grace, even though
unbelief is mixed with our faith. But, we only have to look one
place to see Christ fulfilled that law. Turn to John 12. The
Lord Jesus Christ fulfilled that law for His people, and He fulfilled
all the law of God for His people. That's what we see here in the
fulfillment of that law. He put away our sins, and He
brought in everlasting righteousness for His people. John 12. When Christ entered Jerusalem,
He came into Jerusalem to publicly declare that he is the king of
his kingdom, that he's the king of God's true Israel. Look at
how he came. John 12, 15. He didn't enter
on a horse or a chariot. Fear not, daughter of Zion. Fear
not, my people, God says. Behold, thy king cometh, sitting
on an ass's coat. sitting on an ass's coat. That
one scripture declares to us Christ obeyed the law of God
in every jot and tittle. In every jot and tittle. As the
representative and substitute of God's people. As the one typified
by Solomon. As the son of God and the son
of David. He was made of a woman. He was
made under the law to redeem them that were under the law.
He was equal with God, but he took the form of a servant. He
was made in the likeness of flesh, and when he was made in the likeness
of flesh, he became obedient. He obeyed God. That is, made
under that law, he obeyed the law. And he became obedient to
God, looking to God alone, obeying God, even until the death of
the cross. He perfectly fulfilled the law
in every point. Christ came in there riding on
an ass's coat rather than riding on a horse into Jerusalem. And
by that it shows that Christ was perfectly in subjection to
the law of God. It shows that He perfectly fulfilled
that law in every jot and tittle. He dotted every I and He crossed
every T. You would think a law like you
can't have a horse and a chariot. Does that law really have to
be fulfilled? Every law's got to be fulfilled.
And Christ fulfilled it. When he was formally presented
as the faithful king, he didn't come riding on this big golden
chariot and some big mighty stag and he came in there on a borrowed
lowly ass's coat. That's what he came into Jerusalem
on. And by that, this is what he's declaring. By one man's
disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall
many be made righteous. Look at Romans chapter 8 just
a minute. Romans chapter 8. Here's what I'm trying to tell
you. Romans chapter 8. This is what
that one text shows us in comparison with that law that said you could
have no horses and no chariots. This is what it shows us right
here. Verse 3. What the law could not do, in
that it was weak through the flesh, we could not come to God
by our obedience to the law. God sending His own Son in the
likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the
flesh that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled
in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit. That's
why He came. That's why He rode into that
land, obeying the law of God. He showed us that He was going
to the cross, and on that cross, He fully obeyed God. He took
the sin of His people, He bore the justice of God, and He purged
His people of our sins and made us the righteousness of God.
Now, turn over to Revelation 19. Revelation 19. Scripture says that He highly
exalted God. He declared God just and the
justifier. And Scripture says, Wherefore
God also is highly exalted him, and given him a name above every
name. At his name every knee is going to bow. Who do you bow
to? You bow to a king. He's the king. He's the king
of kings and lord of lords. Now look here at Revelation 19.
Do you remember how John saw Christ in heaven? This is him
having fulfilled the law for his people. God being pleased
with his work. Revelation 19, 11 says, I saw
heaven open, And behold, a white horse, a mighty stallion, and
he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True. That's the
Lord Jesus Christ. The white horse declares that
now Christ reigns as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. He's
the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. He's the Faithful and
True Redeemer of His people. Now He is on a mighty stag. Because
now He rules heaven and earth. He came and accomplished our
redemption by being humbled, in humility and shame. But now
He reigns in glory and honor. He came and He suffered on a
cruel cross, on a malfactor's cross, but now He reigns with
an imperial sword and with an imperial scepter, the King of
Glory. He reigns over all. Look back
at Revelation 6 and verse 2. He says, And I saw, and behold,
a white horse. And he that sat on him had a
bow, and a crown was given unto him. And he went forth conquering
and to conquer. He has conquered death and hell
and sin on the cross. Now he's going forth and he's
conquering death, hell, and the grave in his people, calling
us through this gospel. Now see, this is what our text
means in the script. Some trust in chariots and some
trust in horses, but we, we, who believe the Lord, we're going
to remember the Lord our God. Now sinner, are you trusting
anything other than the Lord Jesus Christ? Anything else that
you trust in other than the Lord Jesus Christ is like trusting
a horse or a chariot to deliver you from your enemies. That's
futile. That won't do. Christ is the
King of Glory. Look to Him alone. All right,
now let's go back to Exodus 14. Now I want to show you, as we
remember the name of our Lord, I want to show you now how we
experience His grace in our hearts. I want to show you three scriptures.
We're going to turn to three scriptures, and they're kind
of lengthy, but I'm just going to read them. I'm not going to
comment much on them. But this covers the whole life of the
believer. This we seek Christ. Are you with me? Did you see
this? Do you see what I was trying to show you with him coming in
there? All that as his coat. He obeyed God's law, fulfilled
it. Now he's the king of glory on
that white stallion. Not literally, but you get the
picture. He's reigning, he's the king, and he's going forth
conquering and to conquer. Now, the first thing he does
in our experience of grace is he delivers us out of bondage,
out of sin and death, and gives us life and faith to believe
like he delivered them out of bondage in Egypt and brought
them across the Red Sea and destroyed their enemies at the Red Sea.
This is what the Lord does for us right here now. Look here,
Exodus 14 verse 23. The Egyptians pursued and went
after them, that is, after the children of the Lord, to the
midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses and his chariots and his
horsemen. Egypt represents the world. Egypt
represents Satan. It represents all his devices. It represents the world and everybody
that's against Christ and his people. They went in with their
horses and their chariots and their horsemen. And it came to
pass that in the morning watch the Lord looked, the Lord looked. He looked unto the host of the
Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud. and
troubled the host of the Egyptians, and took off their chariot wheels,
that they draved them heavily, so that the Egyptians said, Let
us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them
against the Egyptians." That's Christ going forth conquering
and to conquer. This is what he does in the day
of regeneration. Look here. And the Lord said
unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the sea, that the waters
may come again upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, upon their
horsemen. Moses represents the law. Anybody
trusting in their works and their doings and their merit and anything
about themselves are going to perish when the law stretches
out its hand and will not yield and destroys them forever. Now
look here. And Moses stretched forth his
hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when
the morning appeared. And the Egyptians fled against
it, and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the
sea. And the waters returned and covered the chariots and
the horsemen and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the
sea after them. There remained not so much as
one of them, but the children of Israel walked upon dry land
in the midst of the sea. And the waters were a wall unto
them on their right hand and on their left. And thus the Lord
saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians. And
Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore. And Israel
saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians.
And the people feared the Lord and believed the Lord and His
servant Moses. The Lord, when He does this work
in our hearts, it's just like He conquered those enemies at
the Red Sea. He binds Satan, He binds all his devices, He
destroys all our wicked works before our eyes and shows us
they will not prosper us and He brings us to believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ to join with His people to follow Follow him
under the sound of the gospel. Moses was their minister leading
them along and he brings us to sing as he brought the children
of Israel to sing. Look at Exodus 15.1. Then sang
Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and
spake, saying, I'll sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed
gloriously. The horse and his rider hath
he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and my
song. He's become my salvation. That's
when we come into this thing faith when He's conquered all
our enemies and brought us to believe on Him. All right, let's
go to Isaiah 31. Isaiah 31. Some trust in the
chariot and the horse, but we'll remember the name of our Lord.
Now, as we go through this life of faith, it's Christ going forth,
our King, reigning and ruling everything around us to preserve
us and keep us believing on Him, to keep us persevering in faith.
Now, we're like Solomon. And as believers, sometimes we
get to look into our just-in-case helps. Just-in-case, you know. And a man will say, well, I don't...
I just trust the Lord. I don't look to anything just-in-case. We all do. Every believer does
foolishly. We look to things and think there's
safety in numbers. We look to earthly things that
appear strong to us and we think there's strength there. We look
to things that we can see and we begin to trust in those things.
Faith looks to the one true and living God that no man can see. And trust, He's ruling everything.
He's doing everything. Now, whenever the whole band
of Israel did that, there was some in their midst who was not
true Israel. They left Egypt for other reasons.
And the Lord said that when they turned from the Lord, it was
woe to them. Now look what he said to them.
Look here. Isaiah 31 1. Woe to them that
go down to Egypt for help. That's where he brought them
out of. That's where he delivered them from. You see, the Lord's
brought us out of this world. He's brought us out of Egypt.
And he says to us now, don't turn around and go back to Egypt.
Don't turn around and go back to the world. Don't turn around
and look for some earthly salvation now that he's brought us out
of the darkness into his light. But he says, and they stay on
horses and they trust in chariots. Why do they stay on horses and
trust in chariots rather than stay on the Lord God and trust
Him? Look, because there are many, safety in numbers, and
in horsemen because they're very strong. They look strong to the
natural eye. But they look not unto the Holy
One of Israel, neither seek the Lord. Yet, He also is wise. You think the Lord's wise? He's
wise. And He'll bring evil. He'll not
call back his words, but will arise against the house of the
evildoers and against the help of them that work iniquity."
Now, the Egyptians are men and not God. Anything we look to
in this world, it's fleshly. It's not God. Look, and their
horses are flesh and not spirit. You see, anything that we can
see that we think can help us and save us, that's fleshly. We need spiritual weapons. We
need the God who's spirit. We need the gospel that comes
forth the sword of the spirit. That's how we're going to win
this victory, not fleshly things. Look, when the Lord shall stretch
out his hand, both he that helps shall fall, and he that is helped
shall fall down, and they all shall fail together. For thus
hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young
lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called
forth against him, he'll not be afraid of their voice nor
base himself for the noise of them. You take a lion and a young
lion strong, And he's on his prey, and he's about to take
his prey. And you got a host of men that come out with their
guns and their rifles and everything, and they're going to try to scare
that lion? The Lord said he's not going
to be afraid of them. Look at this. So shall the Lord
of hosts come down to fight for Mount Zion and for the hill thereof. He's going to come down and save
his people. Now, he said that's woe to the
rebels. That's woe to those that turn
back to Egypt and go back after their idols and back after their
false securities. But whatever's woe for the wicked
is well to those that God has called and made righteous in
Christ. It's whatever's woe to the wicked is well to the righteous.
Now look back at Isaiah 30. And this is what he does for
his child. When we attempt to flee and turn
and look to our strengths, all we claim, you know, we're doing
everything for the glory of God and we claim that we're not unbelieving
and, you know, we got all our reasons to justify what we're
doing. Now listen to God speak. Isaiah 30 verse 15. Thus saith
the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, in returning, in repentance,
and rest shall you be saved. And quietness and confidence
shall be your strength. He's saying turn from every worldly
thing, turn from the trial and the tribulation and the trouble
and all the multitude that looks to you like it's going to conquer
you and all the things that would cause your faith to be shaken.
He says return from that and rest in me. That's going to be
your strength. And you would not. You would
not. Now, I've been in a trial before
where the Lord the whole time was preaching the gospel to me
through his gospel and saying, return and rest. And I thought
I was returning and resting, but I wasn't resting. I was fleeing. I was trying to make things happen
by my hand. And this is what he did, and
this is what he does for his child. You said no, for we will
flee upon horses. We're going to look to some other
strength. Therefore shall you flee. And we'll ride upon the
swift. Therefore shall they that pursue
you be swift. How is the one that pursues me
going to be swift? Because the Lord's going to send
one after you that's swift. Now look. One thousand shall
flee at the rebuke of one. And at the rebuke of five shall
you flee. till you be left as a beacon
upon the top of a mountain and as a flag on a hill. There's
a marginal reference in my Bible that says until you're left like
a tree that's got all its branches broken off. All its branches
broken off. Here we are, we're the strong
tree planted by the Lord. And we think we can stand. But
we find ourselves looking to other strengths besides the Lord.
And the Lord says, I'm going to let you flee. But I'm going
to let you flee and I'm going to let some pursue you that's
just as strong as you and just as strong as that strength you're
looking to till you're brought to the point to where you're
like a tree with all its branches broken off. Till you're like
a beacon on a hill, like a flag on a hill. Watch this. Why would
he do that? He says, And therefore will the
Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you. He's going to bring
you to the end of yourself that he might be gracious to you.
And therefore, will he be exalted? Therefore, the Lord will be exalted.
When you can't do anything but look up, then you're going to
see the Lord's exalted. Look, that he may have mercy
on you. For the Lord is a God of judgment. Blessed are all they that wait
for him. For the people. This is why,
this is another reason he's going to do this for his people. He
said, I'm going to let the rebel go. I'm going to let him flee.
It's going to be woe to him. He says this concerning his people.
But the people should dwell in Zion at Jerusalem. My people
are going to dwell in my holy habitation, God said. Thou shall
weep no more. He will be very gracious unto
thee at the voice of thy cry. When he shall hear it, he will
answer thee. And though the Lord give you
the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet shall
not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine
eyes shall see thy teachers. And thine ears shall hear a word
behind thee, saying, This is the way. walk ye in it when you
turn to the right hand and when you turn to the left and you're
going to do something else. He says you're going to defile
the covering of all your graven images of silver and the ornament
of your molten images of gold. You're going to cast them away
as a mistress' cloth and say unto it, get thee hence. Let me put it in as simple terms
as I know how. When we start turning from the
Lord, the Lord says to us, your strength is to return to me and
rest in me. But when we won't wait on the
Lord and trust the Lord to save us out of the trial, he says,
then I'm going to wait. I'm going to wait till you're
brought to nothing so that when you cry on me, cry to me, then
I'll be gracious to you. Then I'll save you by mercy because
you don't deserve it. You've proven you don't deserve
it. And when I do this, I'm going to show you your teachers, and
I'm going to make you hear your teachers, and I'm going to make
you hear them say, this is the way. Now walk in this. Don't
turn to the left, don't turn to the right. And when I've done
that, I told you in the very beginning, cast away your false
confidence, cast away anything false that you've been trusting
in. When I brought you to that place, he said, then you're going
to cast it away like it's a mistress cloth. You see, He's going to
save us, and He's going to keep us, and He's not going to let
us turn from Him. This is what He's going to do for His people.
And He says, goes on there, and He says, and after that, then
you're going to be fruitful, and your light's going to break
forth. You're going to see God high and lifted up. Has He done
this for you? He's done this for me. He's done
it for me over and over and over. And I can tell you, this is how
the Lord operates. This is how He preserves His
people. So, we trust in the Lord, we remember the Lord, while others
are trusting on horses and chariots. It's by His grace, by His power,
by His working, we will remember the Lord. Alright, thirdly, we
saw He begins by putting us in faith, destroying all the horses
and chariots that were against us. He keeps us in faith, destroying
all the horses and chariots that we would turn to. Now He's going
to continue keeping us until He brings us to final glory with
Him. Look at Joshua 11. Joshua 11. The Lord took Israel
across the wilderness. That's where we're going right
now. We're going across the wilderness. And He brought them to that land
that He promised He'd bring them to. And He's going to bring us
to the land He's promised to bring us to. He's promised to
bring His people into heaven's glory with Him, and that's where
He's going to bring us. But there was a great war that
took place before he delivered them into that land. And there's
going to be a great war take place before he delivers us into
that land. We're going to have to contend with his flesh getting
weak. We're going to have to contend with our health getting
bad. We're going to have to contend with hell and every enemy of
ours trying to prevent us from entering into that promised land.
But do you think that the horses and chariots of the enemy are
going to conquer us? Nothing's going to conquer us. because
our king is going to give us the victory. Look here now, Joshua
11 verse 1. It came to pass when Jabin king
of Hazor had heard those things. He heard about how Joshua was
conquering the enemies. It says that he sent to Jobab
king of Madon. and to the king of Shemron, and
to the king of Akshaph, and to the kings that were on the north
of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinaron, and
in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west, and to the
Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite,
and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains,
and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mishpah, And they
went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people,
even as the sand that's upon the seashore in multitude, with
horses and chariots, very many. These are all the enemies of
the Lord. These are all the enemies of
the Lord's people. And when all these kings were
met together, they all joined together commonly against the
Lord and against His people. They came and pitched together
at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel. And the Lord
said unto Joshua, God our Father is going to say unto Joshua,
Jesus, Savior, our Lord and Savior, be not afraid because of them
for tomorrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain
before Israel. Thou shalt huff their horses
and burn their chariots with fire. Joshua is going to render
their horses and chariots utterly useless. So Joshua came, and
all the people of war with him against them by the waters of
Merom suddenly, and they fell upon them. And the Lord delivered
them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them
unto great Zidon, unto Mishrafotham, unto the valley of Mizpah eastward.
And they smote them, until they left them none remaining. And
Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him. He huffed their horses
and burnt their chariots with fire. Look down at verse 23.
This was the end of it all. So Joshua took the whole land
according to all that the Lord had said unto Moses. And Joshua
gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions
by their tribes. And the land rested from war. That's going to be our end right
there. The Lord's going to conquer all our enemies. and He's going
to deliver us into the land He promised, and He's going to give
it to each one of His people, and we're going to rest from
war. Look over at Revelation 17. Revelation 17. Look at verse 14. It talks there in verse 12 about
them having ten horns, being ten kings which receive no kingdom
as yet but receive power as kings one hour with the beast and these
have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto
the beast. The picture is what we just saw. All the enemies
of God coming together against us. This happens every time a
believer comes to the point where God's going to bring him into
glory. This happens at the end when it's time for Christ to
return. And this is going to happen when
He brings us all together to deliver into the kingdom. Satan
is constantly trying to prevent us to be brought into God's presence
and for Christ to have the glory. But they all join together. But
look at this. Verse 14, These shall make war
with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them. For he is Lord
of lords and King of kings, and they that are with him are called
and chosen and faithful. Now that's our King. He calls
us in regeneration. First He conquered sin, death,
and hell for us at the cross. Now He's ruling all things in
heaven and earth, going forth on the white stallion because
He's the King over all. And He's conquering all. He conquered
us in regeneration and conquered all our enemies. He conquers
us and conquers all our enemies every time we turn, preserving
us in faith. He's going to conquer all our
enemies and deliver us into glory with Him at last. Now that's
what our Lord does and because that's the fact, look back now
at Psalm 20. Because that's our Lord and that's
His salvation. This is the current state right
now. I'm not talking about what's
going to be. Now listen to me, I want everybody to listen to
this. This is the current state right now of everybody who does
not believe and of everybody that does believe. This is our
current state right now. For those who trust in vain things,
and everybody that doesn't believe on Christ is trusting something
that's vanity. Those who trust in vain things
like horses and chariots, this is your current state right now.
Verse 8. They are brought down and fallen. Isn't that what the Lord Jesus
said? In John chapter 3, verse 18, He said, He that believeth
on him is not condemned, But he that believeth not is condemned
already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten
Son of God. Sinner, you don't stand right
now. You that don't believe the Lord, you don't stand right now.
You got nothing to stand on. You're just like trying to stand
in quicksand. You got no foundation. You don't
stand. And you shall not stand. You won't stand. You are brought
down and fallen. But, this is the current state
of everybody Christ is brought to believe. Verse 8, But we are
risen, and we stand upright. That's our current state. We're
risen in Christ, our risen Redeemer, and we stand in Him justified,
righteous, holy, complete, accepted of God. And the gifts and calling
of God are without repentance. That means it'll never change.
It'll never change. Now, let's end with this verse,
Colossians 3. We're risen and we stand upright. And so Paul tells us this. When
the enemy comes, when you're troubled on every side, A false
religionist is trying to allure you with his horses and his chariots.
When Satan is whispering in your ear, trying to turn you to different
kinds of horses and chariots and other powers to trust in.
All these false confidences. This is what the Lord says. Colossians
3 verse 1. If you then be risen with Christ. That's what He said we are. We
are risen with Him. If you then be risen with Christ,
seek those things which are above. Where Christ sits on the right
hand of God. He's saying, look to Christ only. We will remember the Lord our
God. Look to Christ only. Set your affection. Set your
affection. Plant your affection on things
above, not on things on the earth. Far. Now I said this is our current
state. You are risen and you stand upright. He says, you are dead and your
life is hid with Christ in God. And when Christ who is our life
shall appear, then shall ye also appear with Him in glory. Some trust in horses, some in
chariots, but we will remember the Lord our God, which one are
you? Which camp do you fall into? Amen.