Well, that next verse, Pete,
I was reading from that next chapter and that next verse says,
And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
receding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. One river of life, one throne,
one God, one Lamb. That goes right along with our
passage today in Isaiah chapter 32. In order for a kingdom to prosper,
it has to have a righteous king. A king that has the power and is right to govern that kingdom
in a right way. And such a king sends forth his
princes to rule his people with the word of their king in a right
way. In a right way. And the work
of the righteous king shall be peace. Shall be peace. The midst of all the storms and
all the adversity The people who are under such a king trust
and are assured that they shall always have sure dwelling places
because their king shall provide. And they know that. They trust
that. The Lord had who used the kingdoms
that are now, well, it's one kingdom originally, but it's
now split, the kingdoms of Israel and of Judah, to show us what
happens when an unrighteous earthly king reigns. And when unruly
rebellious princes reign, they totally, completely led the people
to err. and there was no peace in the
kingdom, there was no righteousness in the kingdom, there were no
sure dwelling places for the people in the kingdom. All was
chaos and a mess and just never any rest, never any assurance
for those who followed those unrighteous kings and their unruly
princes. But the Lord declared through
Isaiah that it would not always be that way. And this was the
assurance and the quietness and the rest of all God's elect remnant
in Isaiah's day, and it's the quiet and assurance of all God's
elect in our day. Everyone who believes the gospel.
Here's what he said in Isaiah 32.1. Behold, a king shall reign
in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment. Now Hezekiah was a king that
came along a little after King Ahaz, and he was a king who was
righteous in Christ the Lord. That's his surety. And he was
a king who governed in a right way. And he had princes under
him who executed what he commanded in a right way. But Christ is
the king spoken of here, brethren. Christ is the king we're talking
about here. The kingdom spoken of here is
His kingdom. And the day that's spoken of
here is the gospel age. The age that began when Christ
entered this world, born a king, and began reigning and establishing
His kingdom on earth and sending forth His princes upon this earth. Christ is the King who reigns
in righteousness. His messengers are sent forth
to declare, Behold, thy God reigneth. Our King is our God and He reigns. He reigns. Christ is the Lord
our righteousness. He reigns in righteousness. He's
the Lord our righteousness. The righteousness of God is manifest
in Christ Jesus. The whole righteousness of God
is established by him, the whole law of God on behalf of his people.
He's that king who did that. The King who purged the sin of
His people. He's in righteousness perfected
them forever. This King, Christ our King, He
is the wisdom of His people. He is the righteousness of His
people. He is the sanctification of His
people. He is the redemption of His people. He is the King who reigns in
righteousness. Now we know we can look at this
text is declaring to us this is a spiritual reign. And by
that we mean simply it's not a reign that's of this earth.
This earth was made by Him. This earth is cursed by sin. He's going to make a new heaven
and a new earth, brethren. He's going to create His people
new in the inward man. And He's going to raise our bodies
new. So that in that place, just as
Brother Pete just read, everything that's going to dwell in that
heavenly city, that new heaven and new earth, will be by the
righteous rule of Christ our King. He is the King who rules
in righteousness. But He rules now in righteousness. He rules right now in righteousness.
But it's not, his kingdom's not of this earth. It's not gonna
be an earthly political nation in this earth. It's not gonna
be that. It's something far, far greater than that. He said,
when Pilate said, are you king of the Jews? He said, who taught
you this? And he was saying, yes, I am.
Yes, I am. But who is a true Jew? Paul said
in Romans 2, he is a Jew which is one inwardly. Circumcision
is that of the heart in the spirit. Wherein a man's created anew,
whose praise is to the glory of God. It's not to man. It's not to natural things. And
the Lord said to Pilate, He said, My kingdom is not of this world. He said, Your people delivered
you here. Your nation delivered you to
me. And he said, No, no, you're wrong about that. He said, My
kingdom is not of this world. It's not of this world. If my
kingdom were of this world, And I was trying to establish a political
earthly kingdom in this world. My servants would fight right
now just like nation rise up against nation and fight to establish
their earthly kingdoms. But he said it's not that way.
And that's why they don't fight because my kingdom is not from
him. Christ's thrones in the heaven.
Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost and he said, David
is not ascended into the heavens, but he said, the Lord said unto
my Lord, sit thou on my right hand until I make thy foes thy
footstool. And he said, let it be known
therefore that this man, Jesus Christ, God has made him both
Lord and Christ. He's the King Savior. That's
who He is. He's reigned in righteousness.
We have such a high priest who sat on the right hand of the
throne of the majesty in the heavens. And don't misunderstand
brethren, I read that that chapter 22 verse 1 out of Revelation
to you, because don't misunderstand when you see He's at the right
hand of the throne of God or the right hand of the majesty
in the heavens. It's to declare the equality of this King who
is our God with God in His throne. There is one God and one Lamb
and one throne. And He is that God and that King
seated upon that throne. Not going to be, He is right
now. and shall forever be. He must
reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet. And he shall. Let me give you another example.
He's king of those who are born of his spirit. That's how you
get in this kingdom, is to be born of his spirit. He's king
of those who right now walk this earth, who are born of his spirit, and he's also king over those
who have died in this earth and are now with him in glory. For this cause he both lived,
he both died and rose and revived that he might be Lord both of
the dead and of the living. That tells us plainly this is
a spiritual kingdom. It's not hindered by the things
of our flesh, by carnal things, by political things, by fleshly
things. This is an everlasting kingdom,
an eternal kingdom. All power belongs to Christ the
King and he governs his kingdom in righteousness and truth. Here's
the second thing we see here. His princes shall rule in judgment.
This is, we can say they do, because this is so in our day. His princes rule in judgment.
Christ's princes are his preachers that he sends forth to rule his
children with the word of their king. We saw it in our Bible
lesson this morning. He's the son of man that sows
the good seed. He had some servants, didn't
he? He had some servants, didn't he? They're his princes. The Lord God used this earthly
King Ahaz and these earthly princes, rebellious princes under him,
to show us how the effects of an earthly carnal man who's not
born of the Spirit of God is sent by Christ the King. Let's
look at this. Isaiah 1, 21. This is so very, very important. So very important. Isaiah 1, 21. How is the faithful
city become a harlot? It was full of judgment. Righteousness
lodged in it. You know when it did? When Joshua
led them forth. when he sent forth Moses, and
when he sent forth Joshua, and he was leading them forth. But
now what did he say? But now murderers are lodged
in it. That's what it had come to in this day. Thy silver is
become dross, dull and plain, thy wine mixed with water. The
silver is the gospel, the truth of God, the righteousness of
Christ our King, the wine, the blood of Christ our King, the
gospel of Christ is the gospel wherein the righteousness of
God is manifest. He said it's become plain and
it's become watered down. Why? Thy princes are rebellious. and companions of thieves. Everyone
loveth gifts and followeth after rewards. They judge not the fatherless,
neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." The fatherless
and the widow throughout Scripture is an illustration of what the
children of God are. They're helpless. We need a king. We need his princes
to teach in truth. But he said, and that's not the
case here. That's not the case. That wasn't
the case in there. Therefore saith the Lord of hosts, the
mighty one of Israel. Ah, I will ease me of my adversaries
and avenge me of my enemies. He is this king. And he says,
and I'll turn my hand upon thee and purely purge away thy dross
and take away all thy tin. That which is common and that
is just watered down, and I'll restore thy judges as at the
first your princes. He's the king that said, I'll
do this. I'm going to give you princes, true princes, as at
the first, like Moses and Joshua and the men. He's always sent
his messengers in truth, always, always. And he says, and thy
counselors as at the beginning, and afterward thou shalt be called
the city of righteousness, the faithful city. Here's why. Zion,
His people, His nation, His kingdom, His church shall be redeemed
with judgment. And her converts, them that are
given repentance in turn to Him, it shall be done with righteousness.
With righteousness, truth, judgment. His princes shall rule in judgment.
Look over to Isaiah 2 verse 6. What had they done? Therefore
thou hast forsaken thy people in the house of Jacob, Isaiah
2, 6, because they be replenished from the east. They didn't see
any harm in joining. The Lord said, don't join yourself
with those who are liars and idolaters. And they looked upon
them. The king Ahaz did this, and his
prince is under him. They've done it for years, and
now they're doing it again. And they said, we don't see any
problem with joining in with them. Just like folks in our
day don't see any problem in joining with those who are not
princes, who are not declaring the king. And he says, and because
you have done that, look, you're soothsayers just like them. Wicked,
false, just like them. Exactly like them. and they pleased
themselves in the children of strangers. And here's the result. Trusting in all carnal, fleshly
riches and all idolatry, God himself being man himself making
himself a God. That's what's... their land's
full of silver and gold, neither is there any end of their treasures.
Their land's full of horses, neither is there any end of their
chariots. Their land's full of idols. They worship the work
of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made.
And from the least to the greatest, the mean man boweth down and
the great man humble his self, therefore forgive them not. Look
at Isaiah 9. Isaiah 9. He's given us an example,
an earthly example, to show us the opposite of how it is in
his kingdom, in his church. The opposite of what this king
is like and what, how he rules in truth and converts his people
with the truth through his princes. Isaiah 9 14. Or for 13, the people turneth
not unto him that smiteth them, neither do they seek the Lord
of hosts. Therefore the Lord will cut off
from Israel head and tail, branch and rush in one day. The ancient
and honorable, he's the head, and the prophet that teaches
lies, he's the tail. For the leaders of this people
cause them to err, and they that are led of them are destroyed. Therefore the Lord shall have
no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless
and their widows, on those that follow them, that are helpless
in looking to these unruly princes and to this unrighteous king. He won't even have mercy on those
that need mercy. For everyone's a hypocrite, an
evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. The king says in our text, he
says there we saw that he redeems in judgment in truth, and he
says he also converts in truth. The king reigned in righteousness.
Let me ask you something. Does God in Christ receive all
glory for electing a people into salvation in Christ? Sure he
does. Does he receive all the glory
for predestinating them unto the adoption of children by Jesus
Christ to himself? Yes. Does he receive all the
glory? Christ, this glorious King, does
he receive all the glory for redeeming them in righteousness? Does He receive all the glory
for regenerating His children who are dead in trespasses and
in sins? Does He receive all the glory
for preserving them throughout their life in this treacherous
world so that they abide in Him and are preserved in Him? Does
He receive all the glory for raising them from the dead and
resurrecting them to be with Him in glory forever? Yes, He does. And our King says
He receives every bit of the glory for sending forth His princes
who shall rule in truth. Does He receive all the glory
for those other things and not the glory for this? Is He able
to do all those other things and not able to do this? God says He is. Behold, a king
shall rule in righteousness and princes shall rule in judgment.
When he redeemed in righteousness and led captivity captive, when
he ascended in righteousness to the right hand of the throne
of God, he gave gifts unto man. He gave some apostles and pastors
and teachers and evangelists for the work of this ministry,
for the work of his body. Now, you be turning to 1 Corinthians
Chapter 1. We find in Scripture words like
this, ambassadors of the princes of Babylon. Isaiah warned of
Pharaoh's princes and his ambassadors. That's who the children of Judah
were looking to. They were going to him. He said,
you're going to be ashamed of his princes. Because what they're
promoting is shame. Shame. In 1 Corinthians chapter
2, the apostle Paul is telling us that those who come in the
name of Christ, the scent of Christ, they're different. They're
different from this world's princes. 1 Corinthians 2. He says, And he's telling them not to
glory in the princes. This is what the Corinthians
were doing. They were glorying in the preachers. And he said,
we just receive what we have from God. He's teaching them
the glory in Christ. That's his whole point. But look
what he says here, 1 Corinthians 2, 6. Howbeit we speak wisdom
among them that are perfect, Them that are born of the Spirit
of God and have spiritual discernment and understand, yet not the wisdom
of this world, nor of the princes of this world that come to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God
in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom which God ordained before
the world under our glory. He's saying we. He's not calling
himself a prince, but he's saying as opposed to the princes of
this world, he's saying Apollos and Paul and Cephas as princes
of Christ. He said, we don't speak as the
princes of this world speak. Not by the same power, not the
same gospel, not at all. He says, but we speak the hidden
wisdom in a mystery. Even the hidden wisdom which
God ordained before the world unto our glory, which none of
the princes of this world knew, for had they known it, they would
not have crucified the Lord of glory, and they wouldn't continue
to crucify him, making his blood common and ineffectual, not able
to save anybody except it be by the will of a fickle, fumbling,
foolish man. And He says, But as it is written,
I hath not seen nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man the things which God hath prepared for them that
love Him. He's saying, this is how His princes get the message. This is how they get it. But
God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit. For the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. And He says,
And because of this, look at verse 13, which things also we
speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teaches, but which
the Holy Ghost teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
Now look over chapter 3, verse 5, Corinthians 3, 5. He's saying
the princes that Christ the King sends, we don't want for you
to be looking at the princes. We're not pointing you to you,
and we don't want you looking to us. That's what they were
doing. He says, but here's how you're
to account His princes, and here's what His princes want. Chapter
3 verse 5, Who then is Paul? And who is Apollos? But ministers
by whom ye believe, even as the king gave to every man. Do you see that? Do you see who
gets the glory in this? Paul said over in Corinthians
5.20, Now then, we are ambassadors For Christ, as though God did
beseech you by us, we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled
to God. This is what he said. The Savior,
the King said, just as God the Father sent me, he said, I'm
sending my princes into this world. And he said to the 70
this, he that heareth you, heareth me. And he that despiseth you
despiseth me, and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me. Alright, here's the third thing
we see about this glorious reign. First we see this king reigns
in righteousness. Secondly, we see he sends his
princes who rule over his church, his house, in his house, in truth,
with his word, with the word of the king, wanting the king
to receive all the glory. Here's the third thing we see
about this rule. He shall reign in the hearts
of his people so as to make his children trust him. This is all
spiritual. This is all these things are
talking about what he does spiritually. Notice these blessings are not
maybes, they're shalls. Verse 2, Isaiah 32, 2. And a man shall be as a hiding
place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as rivers of
water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary
lane. There's three dangers in a desert.
Storms, dryness, and a scorching sun. You ever see those old westerns? You know, some man gets caught
out in the middle of the desert, and a storm blows, and he doesn't
have any water, and he can't get out from under the heat of
the sun, and he gets all dried and parched, and he wants an
oasis. He wants a place where he can
hide himself. He wants a place where he can
find water. He wants a place where he can be shaded from that
heat of the sun. This world and our flesh is the
desert. There is nothing but storms. The storm of Satan and his liars
and his lies. The storm of our own deceitful
heart. The storm of sin that's in us.
There is nothing in us but dryness. Nothing in this world but dryness.
No river. No water. And there's no covering
for us in ourselves, by ourselves, of ourselves, or in this world,
or of, or from this world. We need these things, and these
things are Christ Jesus, the God-man, our righteous King.
That's what He is. He's a storm shelter. A man shall
be as a shelter, a covert from the tempest. In my side of my
house, At home, there's this little, it's old now and dilapidated,
but there's this little shit, this little built into the side
of a hill. There's just this little front
of a door and a little bit of a roof. And you can open that
and go into that hillside and enter into that hillside because
where I grew up, When you, by the time you found out the tornado
was coming, it was usually already there. And you had to have a
place right there near that you could run in there and get in
that place. Christ is that place. He's that
covert from the storm. He's the rivers of water in a
dry place. Throughout this passage, throughout
this scriptures, Isaiah's been saying, see she from man whose
breath is in his nostrils. He gonna perish, he gonna die.
But Christ said, if a man come unto me, as the scripture says,
he that believeth on me, out of his belly shall flow rivers,
never ending, never ceasing, eternal life. Water, life, forever
and ever and ever. He's a covering. He's a shadow.
Back in Isaiah 30, if you read the first, I don't know, three
or four verses, you'll find He said, you're going to go down
there to Pharaoh and to Egypt and look to those things and
trust in a covering, but it's not of My Spirit. And He said,
and you're going to be ashamed of that covering. But here He
says, a man. The man Christ Jesus is that
covering. The covering of righteousness.
The covering of perfect righteousness. Sheltering us from all harm and
all... from the scorching heat of God's
wrath. Here's the third thing this one's
going to do. He's not only... He's going to
be the cover. He's going to be everything to us. This man Christ
Jesus. This King when He reigns through
His princes, through His gospel. In your heart, this is true.
And then here's what He's going to do. He's going to do this
because He's going to give spiritual senses. He's going to create
everything new in His children. Look at verse 3. And the eyes
of them that see shall not be dim. They won't be. The Holy
Spirit enters and He gives spiritual eyes, Christ's delight. And the
ears of them that hear shall hearken. He said, My sheep hear
My voice and they follow Me. No possibility they won't. Verse
4, he says, the heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge. He creates this new spirit. He
gives a new heart, a clean heart, an understanding. And you, once
were quick to believe a lie, tossed to and fro by every wind
of doctrine. He said, now they're going to
understand knowledge. And he says, the tongue of the
stammerer shall be ready to speak plainly. Don't get the idea that
by the word princes is anything about the one who preaches. Or because he says to you who
are his witnesses that you're his witnesses. Is there anything
about you? You're stammerers. Base things. Things which God
hath chosen. The foolish things of the world
God has chosen to bring to nothing the things that are. That no
flesh shall glory in his presence. You know what this word plainly
means? White. White. clearly, brightly. You remember
when he was talking to his apostles just before he went to the cross
and he said, up to now I've spoken all these things to you in parables,
but after this I'm going to speak to you plainly. And he was talking
about pouring out the Spirit, the Holy Spirit. That's what
he's talking about here. What he did when he baptized
the church in the Holy Spirit and began teaching his children
from his throne of grace in a more full, clear manner, clear revelation
so that his children see he is all and worship him and no longer
follow after the huckster. And here's another thing he's
gonna do. Our king shall give spiritual discernment to know
a fool from a true prince of God. He says he will do this. Look
at verse five. The vile person, nabal is the
word. It means fools, fools. Nabal is the word. Remember Nabal, the prince of
Belial, the ambassador of Belial? Nabal, fools, shall be no more
called liberal, nabib, princes. Won't be, it won't be. nor the
churl withholders, misers, covetous men who hold back the riches
of Christ so as to gain the riches of men, the natural carnal riches.
He said that's why your water became mixed with wine in the
first place. The princes are companions of
thieves and they go after rewards. Everywhere you find a man that
won't preach Christ and Him crucified plainly, you find a covetous
man who's going after the riches of men. He wants yours and not
you. And he said, but when he gives
this spiritual understanding, you won't cause those men bountiful,
generous, and beneficial. Won't do it anymore. Why? How you gonna know? Verse six,
for the vile person will speak villainy. The word means disgrace. He won't speak grace, he'll speak
disgrace. That's what shame is. and his
heart will work iniquity, it means nothingness, to practice
hypocrisy and to utter error against the Lord, to make empty
the soul of the hungry and he'll cause the drink of the thirsty
to fail. Paul summed it all up this way.
Christ sent me not to baptize, not to try to convert people
by some wisdom in me and some appeal in me, as the Corinthians
were looking to. He said, He didn't send me to
do that, not for that purpose, but to preach the gospel, not
with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made
of none effect. We speak wisdom among them that
are perfect, yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes
of this world that come to naught, nothing. nothingness, that work
nothingness and preach nothingness and practice hypocrisy to cause
the meat and the drink of the hungry and the thirsty to perish,
to be taken away. He's the power and wisdom of
God, Christ is. Our King is the bread and our
drink. If the cross of Christ is not preached, the righteousness
of the King is not preached, our King is not given, our bread
is not given, the hunger and thirst of our souls is taken
away. Verse 7, he says, and the instruments,
it's the weapons also of the churl, of the withholder, that
covetous man, they're evil too. Because he diviseth, he counseleth
wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words even when
the needy speaketh right. How many times have you ever
heard of folks going to their pastor and saying, preacher,
This is what I see this word mean here in Romans chapter 9. It wasn't based on any good or
evil in us that God chose us. Well, but that's not exactly
what He means. Even when the man comes and speaks
rightly to Him. No, but don't say that to anybody. That's family doctrine. Don't
go talking about that in the church to the people. You're
going to mess things up here if you do that. You're going to mess
up my income and you're going to mess up my pocketbook that
I've covered just far, if you can say that. And I'll have to
trust Christ the King and prove that I'm a fool and not a prince
and of God. And I can't do that. So let's
handle this a different way. Let's don't talk about that. the weapons of our warfare, the
princes of God and the servants of God. You can go and read this
in Isaiah 2, when this day in this gospel age when Christ the
King reigns, our weapons aren't the same as they once were. Now,
we sow with the seed of the word. Now, we've beaten our carnal
swords into plowshares. Now, we've beat our spears into
pruning hooks. Now we're not learning the old
manner of war anymore. Not trying to rise up like nation
against nation does anymore. We practice husbandry. Don't we? And wait patiently
for the king to give the increase. Look at verse 8. But the liberal,
the true princes of God, diviseth, counseleth, preacheth, gives
liberal things. The true prince speaks and he
gives and he holds not back the riches of his king. He wants
you to know the unsearchable riches of his king. And by giving
these things, these liberal things, he'll be established. and his
children will be established, the brethren will be established.
Let me ask you something. Is the Pope preaching the gospel? Did Joseph Smith of the Mormons,
did he preach the gospel? Are the Pentecostals preaching
the gospel? Is the free willer preaching the gospel? Is the
man who says Christ died for everybody and makes the blood
of my King common, is he preaching the truth? The man with the label
conservative and evangelical and fundamental and reformed
and so on, is he preaching the truth? You see that restaurant
across the street right there? They could call themselves a
house of the Lord and the chef there could say he is giving
eternal bread and they could give themselves all the labels
that men give them. You know how Christ the King
says his people are gonna know the difference? The bread. The gospel. They're gonna hear
his voice and they're gonna know. A prince from a fool, they're
gonna know. Do you know? Do you know? He said, my sheep hear my voice
and they know me and they follow me. Well, but, you know, there's
a lot of good preachers. I had somebody tell me recently,
well, my preacher preaches Christ 50% of the time. Let me ask you
this. If you knew of a restaurant that
was serving poison only 50% of the time, would you eat there?
Let's get more personal. Let's get to the heart of what
might be the heart of the matter. If your banker you knew was dealing
deceitfully with you only 50% of the time, would you continue
to bank with him? I don't think so. And God's sheep,
he said, they not only hear my voice and follow me, he said,
when they hear the voice of a stranger, they will flee from it. So, I
don't know if you know, but he says this is what his people
will, his people will know. They will no longer call that
man a prince and bountiful, beneficial at all. Well, the natural sons
of Abraham, they were too proud to need this message. Too proud
to need God's prophet, God's Isaiah and his prince that he
sent. They could see, they could hear.
That's what they said, we see, we hear. And so, they proved
it. by watering down the wine, joining
in with the Philistines, and God took everything they had
away from them. And he says in verse 10 and 16,
or he says, you can read that in verses 10 through 16, but
he says here, rise up ye women that are at ease, hear my voice,
you careless daughters, give ear unto my speech. Are you the
bride of Christ? Are you one for whom he died?
If you are, you're rejoicing in what you hear in this day
because it's declaring the King reigns in righteousness and truth.
If not, you're basing what you say, you're basing your whole
foundation on some erroneous statement that maybe some faithful
preacher said in the past. Or maybe some man, you're basing
it on something that's a lie. rather than the king of glory
and the truth of what he does in judgment and righteousness.
You really and truly, if you don't believe he's able to send
his gospel and save his people, you don't believe he really redeemed
his people in righteousness either. I guarantee you, you don't. A
man who believes in universal redemption believes free will.
He don't believe he's to pray. He believes God chose him because
he saw something good in him. He believes every lie. The gospel
of God is the doctrine of Christ, the doctrine, the truth of Christ. And the doctrines of men are
the doctrines of men. That's right. Paul didn't believe
the Gospel under Gamaliel and then hate the Gospels, the doctrines
of grace and then come to them on the road to Damascus and say,
well I decided I'd accept them. but I saved back yonder. No,
God saved him in power on the road to Damascus. And if you
came to the doctrines of grace and those doctrines you hated
and by your carnal reasoning and understanding decided now
you'd save him, you ain't heard him yet. You ain't rejoiced in
the king yet. He saves in righteousness and
judgment and power. This is the sovereign king of
glory. And what shall be the result of this King who reigns
in righteousness, who redeems in judgment, and converts sinners
in truth? Verse 17. And the work of righteousness
shall be peace. And the effect of righteousness,
quietness and assurance forever. And my people shall dwell in
a peaceable habitation, in sure dwellings, in quiet resting places. That's the confidence That's
the peace of a kingdom. They have a king that will see
to it they're going to reign in dwelling places forever. And
he does. And that's the peace of his people.
That's why we don't practice the methods and the manners of
the fool. That's why. Because we got a
king that reigns. And we speak plainly of him and
want everybody to see him. And he says this, if you are
that way, if I am one that he sent and if we are his witnesses,
his servants that he sends forth for this gospel, his servants, his witnesses are
like ox and asses that plow the field. that sow this seed. They spread plainly. No matter
who they're with or where they are or who the people are, they
sow this seed. And He says, if that's the case
with you, know this, it's because your King reigns. Verse 20, blessed
are you that sow beside all waters that send forth thither the feet
of the ox and the ass. Amen.