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All right, let's go to the Lord in prayer before we begin the message. I do want to remember those that have needs in the body, remember Terrence and Miranda, they're feeling sick, and others who, I think Audrey, a friend, was sick today. She spent the last night with Audrey, and I told them to stay at home and watch. I don't want to spread any more sickness. We've been dealing with it. Pray for those that are and ask God's mercy upon them, bring them back to us again. Ask your prayers for me. I want to preach. I want to preach the gospel. I just don't want to preach. That's not what I want to do. I want to preach the gospel. Paul said, woe is me if I preach not the gospel. No good preaching. If you don't preach the gospel, it's worthless.

I desire to preach the gospel to you, and we enter into the subject of Christ's death, the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. And sometimes we have to just wade out into the waters, because sometimes these things are deep, but to a child of God they're wonderful. This is all my hope. All my life, all my strength is founded in His death. And all my confidence and justification is found in His victory.

You see, His death was not... Christ was no victim. I want you to understand that. He was no victim. laid down his life. When he laid it down, he said, I have power to take it again. And he did. That's what I want to preach. And I want to preach what he said he would do. Because what he said he'll do, he'll do. That's my hope, my confidence. And I know if you believe, that's yours. And this is what I want to preach to you, and ask God's mercy to give me that. Give me that ability. And then give yourselves the heart to receive it.

I don't know about you, but my heart becomes so hard. So cold and indifferent. And it don't take much. It don't take much. cause our hearts to rejoice and give thanks for His death and His resurrection.

Let's go to Him in prayer.

Gracious Father, we beg You for grace. Our only hope of being heard is that You have not despised nor abhorred the affliction of Christ but that you, by him, have removed our sins from us so that we could be heard. It is the heart of everyone who is born of the Spirit to glorify you, to praise you, to honor you, to reverence you, through the preaching of this message of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection. Comfort our hearts today. Strengthen us. If there be anyone who does not have the interest in the things of Christ that you would even today give life, It is only in thine hands to give life. It is only the gift of grace to give faith. And I ask you that you would open the eyes of the blind to see Him who was crucified and is risen again. Bless your people wherever they are. Those that are sick, heal their bodies. Those that are dead, give them life. Those that are living, give them strength and comfort, even as you have promised to do. We pray these things in the name of Jesus Christ, for His sake. Amen.

Psalm 22. Psalm 22. entitled this message, The Declaration of a Successful Savior. The Declaration of a Successful Savior. In verse 22, it says, I will declare thy name unto my brethren. in the midst of the congregation will I praise Thee." Now this whole psalm written by David surely was in a time of affliction. It was a time where he was very greatly afflicted, but yet we know that David was not just writing of himself, he was writing as a prophet here. This entire psalm is the very heart and soul of Jesus Christ as he suffered on Calvary's tree. It is a picture into his very soul. Words that are not said in the Gospels are here declared by the prophet. And some of these things were said. Many of these things were said, but we get a deep insight into the agony of our Lord Jesus Christ.

As He bore our sins in His own body on the tree, the divine wrath and justice of God rolled over His soul as our substitute Divine justice He endured by Himself on that tree. We see Him as our suffering substitute. Behold the sinless Son of God as He was made sin for us, who Himself knew no sin. It was then the justice of God forsook Him The first verse are the very words of our Lord on the cross, My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me? He forsook Him even because Christ was made sin for us. Therefore the sinless Son of God bore the guilt of all those the Father gave to Him.

In these verses 3 and 4, He argues, He says this, You have heard the fathers, He said, Our fathers trusted in Thee, they trusted, and Thou didst deliver them. They cried unto Thee and were delivered. They trusted Thee and were not confounded. Those wicked men, those evil men, they trusted in you and you delivered them. But yet now, He says, you have forsaken Me. Why? He tells you why in verse 6. But I am a worm and no man. The Lord Jesus Christ here cries that He is as defenseless as a worm. He is the prey of every bird. helpless to defend himself, forsaken of God and despised of men. And as he suffered, he cried, I am poured out like water, all my bones are out of joint, my heart is like wax, melted within my bowel. Oh, our Lord Jesus Christ suffered as no man ever suffered. Even a one who is in hell has never suffered so as Christ suffered on the cross. A man in hell suffers for his own sins. Our Lord Jesus Christ suffered the multitude of his people's sins.

And yet, this is the distinguishing factor, yet Christ did not fail to trust in God Yet, look at verse 3. He even defends the justice of God. Look at this. But, you have forsaken Me. You have despised and you have not heard Me. Listen. But you're holy. That's not what Job did, did he? When Job suffered, he didn't say that. When we suffer, that's not what we say. But when Christ suffered, who was the sinless Son of God, and yet bore our sins, what did He say? You're just to do it. You are just to do it. Therefore, we can see that God imputed our guilt to Him when He made Him sin for us. 2 Corinthians 5.21 declares what is happening here. For He, God, the Father, hath made Him, Christ, to be sin for us.

And the mystery, who knew no sin? Oh, here's the mystery. You know, Proverbs 17 declares this, it says, You cannot justify the wicked, nor can you charge guilt to the innocent. You understand that? It's an abomination. God could not punish Christ unless He was guilty. And yet, God says that you should never punish the innocent. And He was! How Christ was made sin, now listen, some men they say, well I understand that, well you just, ok go ahead, you're just far above me, I don't have any, I can't find any footing here. This is just how it is. God made Him to be sin for us, and He was actually guilty, because God didn't pretend. I don't understand that. Yet, at the same time He felt no sin, thought no sin, did no sin, He was sinless, without sin. And God, This could only be a divine transaction. In Psalm 69, over there, it's the same thing as Psalm 22. In Psalm 69, verse 5, he says, O God, thou knowest my foolishness, and my sin is not hid. This is what Christ said. Our sins became His own. And yet He did no sin, knew no sin, thought no sin. He still was holy.

Now, if you can understand that, okay. I don't. I believe it with all my soul. It is the only hope for me. It's substitution. That's what it is. It's divine substitution. When God poured out His wrath on Christ, He forsook Him. And when it was done, when justice could ask for no more, Christ had extinguished the justice of God for our sins. He said these words, It is finished. It is finished. What does that mean? That means who He redeemed, He redeemed. Who He saved, He saved. The salvation of His people was accomplished. It was done. It was not made possible. It was finished. It was done.

Matter of fact, in the last verse of this text, that's what every believer is going to declare. Look, it says, They shall come and shall declare His righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that He hath done. That word, this, is gone. He had finished. He had done. It's done. All the righteousness that Adam lost, Christ restored. All the sin that Adam's race could not pay, Jesus paid. by His blood offering forever. And what was the result of this blood offering? What was the result? The result was that God raised Him from the dead. Look at Acts chapter 2. This is what Peter declares. In Acts chapter 2, and look at verse 23. It says, Him being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. This was no accidental death. This was determined by God. This was Christ, as I told you before, He laid down His life. He was no victim. He willingly laid down His life. And by wicked hands you have crucified and slain, listen, whom God raised up, having loosed the pains of death. Why? Because it was not possible that He should be holden by it.

You see, Him having removed our sins, Him having glorified God, Christ is now highly exalted and given a name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ, listen to this, is Lord. To what? The glory of God the Father. He is Lord. Why? God crowned Him Lord. God crowned him Lord in Christ. Again, how foolish is it, man, to say, make Jesus your Lord. God beat you to it. God hath crowned him who suffered for our sins. God hath raised him from the dead, and now my Savior is seated upon the right hand of God, and every knee shall bow to him.

So when God did hear his cry, the faith of Christ well established in the love and grace and justice of God. Trusted God. When he suffered, he trusted God in every way. Look at Isaiah chapter 53. What did he trust in God for? Look at Isaiah 53. Verse 10, Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him. That crucifixion was pleasing to God. Why? Because He was actually paying for sin. Pleasing to God. This is what He trusted. He had put Him to grief. Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin. And this is what He trusted. He shall see His seed. He trusted that God would see His seed in His death. He trusted that God would save His people. that he would save his people by his death, that his offering would save his people. He trusted that God would prolong his days, that he would rise again from the dead. This was what Christ trusted. He trusted that God would save him. When everything else opposed it, he believed it. And that the pleasure of the Lord should prosper in His hands.

What's the pleasure of the Lord? Is it not the salvation of His people? Is that not the will of God that His people should be saved? It is the will of God! And what did Christ believe? He believed that the pleasure of the Lord would prosper where? In His hands. Even the full salvation of all that the Father gave Him, Christ trusted that His throne would be forever established and that he would be a king, that he would destroy his enemies and save his people. That's exactly what happened, isn't it? What he trusted God to do, listen, God did. God did.

Now then, go back in your text. We see His suffering, we see His death, we see the cause, the reason He was made sin for us. Who knew no sin? Why? That we might be made the righteousness of God in Him. We see His victory here now in verse 22. He's declared something, even in the midst of His agony, even in the midst of His suffering. Listen to what He said, I will declare Thy name unto My brethren. Where in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee?

Our Lord here declares, tells us something. Even though in the midst of his death and dying, he knows this, that when he is raised from the dead, he promises, I will declare thy name. To who? My brethren. Now this word, my brethren, should instill in us a sense of awe and wonder that Jesus Christ would call us brothers. How could this be? How could Christ declare us brethren? Even because Christ was made bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, the Son of God became a man. That's what this is declaring. He said, I'm going to declare it unto who? My brethren. My brethren.

Go to Hebrews chapter 2. Now the Apostle Paul clarifies this verse here in Hebrews chapter 2. Look at verse 9. He said, But Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels, made a man. For what? For suffering of death. That's why He was made a man, that He might suffer death, crowned with glory and honor, that He by the grace of God should taste death for every man. Not every man without exception, but this, every man without distinction. It doesn't matter what race, creed, color, age, wealth, poverty, there's no distinction here. It's not every man without exception.

Now notice this, for it became Him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory. Listen, it was just proper. That's what the apostles said. It was proper for Him to be made lower than the angels. It was proper for Him to suffer death. Why? That He might bring many sons to glory. I want you to realize the death of Jesus Christ is the only way to bring you or me to glory. There is no other way. There is no other way. It was the only way. Paul said, if there was another way, surely God would have done it. But this was it. The only way that he could bring many sons to glory is this, that he himself become a man. It was only fitting.

that he might make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. You see, behold, he is the captain of our salvation, who hath made us holy, look at this, the captain of our salvation through suffering, for both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one. What is sanctification? It is holiness. They that are sanctified. They that are made holy. You see what His suffering did? His suffering made His people holy. Acceptable to God. It's the only way we could have been made acceptable to God. There's nothing you can do to make yourself acceptable to God. This is what religion tells you, is that there's always something you can do. Nothing you do. Sorry. God declares it's impossible for you to do it. But this man, you see, they that are sanctified and he that sanctified, they're all of one. We're all of Christ. It's all because of him we are made holy.

Therefore know he that is a captain of our salvation has made us holy and notice this, he sits in the heavens. He that sanctified, they're all of one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. He is not ashamed to call them brethren. You who believe. You who trust in His death. Listen to me. He is not ashamed of you. Isn't this astounding? You know, we've all got somebody in our family we're ashamed of. We've got somebody, somebody in our family is just like, oh, don't talk about that person. They bring shame on this family. How much shame have I brought upon the name of God? How much reproach have I brought upon His name by my rebellion and my sin? And yet because of His death, He is not ashamed to call me His brother.

Matthew is Jesus was inside teaching and the place was full and His mom and His brother were outside. And somebody said, Hey, your mom and your brothers are outside. They can't get in. As though He would give them preferential treatment because they were His family. And you know what He said? He said, He that doeth the will of My Father, the same is My mother, My sister, and My brother. You that believe on Jesus Christ, that's the will of the Father, that you should believe on Him. Listen, if you believe on Him, He's not ashamed of you. Why? He sanctified you. He made you acceptable. Therefore, He is not ashamed to call us His brethren.

Behold, the Son declares to us then the name of the Father. Go back to your text. This is what He says He'll do. to His brethren, to everyone who is His brethren, to everyone who He came to save. Listen to what He said, I will. This is without excuse or there's no if, ands, or buts here. I will do something for My brethren. I will do what? I will declare Thy name unto My brethren.

How do we know we are His brothers? How do we know He represented us? How do we know He's the captain of my salvation? Because this, He declares the name of God to His brothers. Over in John chapter 17, this is exactly what our Lord Jesus Christ said in John 17. He said, Glorify thy son that thy son may glorify thee. as Thou hast given Him power over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as Thou hast given Him. And this is eternal life, listen, this is eternal life, this is what Jesus declares to His brethren, that they might know Thee, the only true God and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. That's what He declares. He declares salvation. Purpose by the Father. Salvation accomplished by the Son. Salvation given and received by the power of the Holy Spirit. That's what He declares to His brethren. He says, come to the Father. How? How can you come to the Father? Through Me. That's how you come to the Father. You can't come to the Father any other way. You can't be saved any other way. There's no other hope for you but through Him. So how do you come to the Father? Believe on Him. Trust Him.

Now listen, to the Son of God as He calls His brethren. Now, look at verse 23. This is what He declares to His brethren. He said, You that fear the Lord, praise Him. I'm going to give you some characteristics of His brethren. First of all, they fear Him. And so I'll ask you, do you fear Him? Do you fear the Lord? Now what does that mean? I want you to understand that there are two types of fear. There is a terror that's natural. Any man can have terror of the Lord. And then there is a fear that is called reverence.

Now listen, if you are outside of Christ, I'll tell you this, you should fear the Lord in terror. You should fear the Lord in terror. Why? Because God knows your every thought. He knows your every word, your every deed, your every motive, and they are all sin, all of it. You should fear the Lord because you cannot escape His judgment. Hide though you will. Run to your pleasures. Run to the things of the world. Try to hide if you will, but eventually He'll find you out. You won't escape. You won't escape His justice and His judgment. No man will. Behold the darkness of Sinai. Remember that? When God came down on that mountain and it was on fire and Moses said, okay, go on up. Go up and talk to God. You know what they said? They said, we can't go up. They were very afraid.

Now listen, if you're outside of Christ, now you should be afraid. Now, because your life, you don't know if you're going to leave this building. You don't know if you'll go out this door and never come back. You don't know! Remember that rich man, he said, Oh, tomorrow Bill Barnes, and I'll do this, and I'll do that. And God said, Thou fool, this night thy soul is required of thee. Who shall these things be then, that you worry so much about? Oh, you should fear God. But I'm going to tell you this, this type of fear never leads to repentance. This type of fear never leads to repentance. Now, I warn you of hell because it's real. And I warn you to flee to Christ because you should. But I know this, none of that fear is ever going to lead you to believe on Christ, none of it.

I'm going to give you these two and I'm not going to go there, I don't have time, but in Revelation 9 and Revelation 16, after all those plagues, after all that killing, you know what the Scripture says? And it said they repented not. Why? Because it's impossible for you to repent. The reason you don't like Christ, the reason you don't want to come to Christ, is because it's impossible for you to. You can fear Him all you want. I remember once, there was this lady, she was in a car accident. And I remember vividly that it was reported to me that she cried out, fearing death. She feared to go to hell. She didn't want to go to hell. And she prayed, she prayed, God save me! I don't want to go to hell! And you know, God did. God did save that woman and she endured it as long as she could. She came to church as long as she could. Until when? Until she just forgot. That's what James said, they look in the mirror and they see who they are and they turn and then they forget what they saw. That kind of fear is not godly fear. That's just natural. If you fear God like that, don't worry, it'll go away. It'll go away.

But this fear that the Lord has here is a fear of what we call reverence. A reverential fear. When we're convicted of sin, when Christ speaks to His brethren, we are convicted of our sin. We feel the guilt of our sin. And yes, we feel terror. We feel terror. We feel that the judgment of God is upon us. And we understand there's nothing we can do. There's no way to save ourselves. But the difference is this. God always brings this kind of fear to Christ. Godly fear works repentance. And that fear brings me to Christ. That shows me Christ is all my hope. That His blood alone can atone for my sins. His righteousness alone can clothe me before God.

So when God speaks to His brethren, He speaks to them of Christ and His blood and righteousness. And so we sing in fear, in reverence, Thy grace alone, O God. to me can pardon speak. Thy power alone, O son of God, can this sore bondage break. No other work save thine. No other blood will do. No strength save that which is divine can bear me safely through.

That's what godly fear brings you to. The fear of the Lord is what? The beginning of wisdom. Whose wisdom? Christ's wisdom, isn't it? Has God brought you to Christ? Well, see, that's what he said he'd do to his brethren. He said, I'm going to declare your name and listen to what your people are going to do. They're going to fear you. And all who fear him, what do we do? We praise him. For what? Salvations of the Lord. That's what we know. This is what we know, who fear Him. Salvations of the Lord.

Now listen, if salvation is part you and part Him, that's no reverence there. That's natural religion. But to His brethren, we know this, all the praise belongs to God. And so how sweet is it to a believer, to one who is made to feel his guilt, Have you sought Him? Do you seek Him? If God ever puts this fear in your heart, you'll say, Oh, that I may be but a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to serve in the tents of wickedness. Just make me a doorkeeper. You can put me in the lowest part of your house that you want to, as long as I'm in your house. I'm not worthy of anything else. I'm not worthy.

Remember that prodigal son, he came back and he said, Father, I'm not worthy to be called the least of thy servants. Just make me a hired hand. I know you treat your servants better than I've been treated. Just make me one of those. I'm not worthy. You know what's good about that? Christ came to save the unworthy. He came to save those who cannot save themselves. You can't save yourself? Good! Christ came to save those who cannot save themselves. Are you helpless to save yourself? Well, that's good, because that's who Christ came to save. Those who cannot save themselves. He said, I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. Christ came to save sinners. And this is one who fears Him as He confesses this, that all I am is a sinner. If I'm going to be saved, it has to be only by You. There's no other place to go.

I love what the disciples said when the Lord said, Will you go away also? You remember what Peter said? He said, Lord, to whom shall we go? You've got the words of eternal life. We've got no place else to go. I may not understand what you're doing, I may not know what you're doing, I may not feel good like it's good for me, but what do I know? Where else am I going to go? That's reverence. That's faith. That's trust.

Scripture says it's not the fear of God that leads to repentance, but the goodness of God. See, when I preach Christ, I'm preaching what? The goodness of God. How good was God to forbear with you until He saved you? How good was God to care for you in your rebellion until He brought you to Himself? How good was God to send His Son to die in your place? This humbles us, doesn't it? Isn't this what He desires to do to His brethren? He humbles us and causes us to bow in reverence before God.

Notice this, Christ calls also His brethren to glorify God. He says this, all you seed of Jacob glorify Him and fear Him, all you seed of Israel glorify Him. It is our desire to give glory to God. You that believe, is it not your desire to glorify His name, to honor and magnify His name?

Now when have you ever done that enough? When have you ever done that perfectly? Just one instance that you've ever glorified Him perfectly.

Now listen, if you are trusting in your fear, if you are trusting in your reverence, if you are trusting in your glorifying God, now that's our desire, But it's not our trust. Why? Doesn't that fluctuate? At times, I was talking to my niece, there are times I remember as though I could touch heaven. He just elevates me, and he elevated me so much that I felt like he was in my presence, and I loved that feeling. I loved it. You know what happened after that? Went straight to the pits. It's always fluctuating, isn't it? My heart is always fluctuating. Sometimes I want to glorify Him, and sometimes I can't even squeeze out a prayer out of my lips. My heart is so hard. See why I don't trust my praise and my adoration of Him?

What's then my hope of His constant acceptance of me? What is my hope? Listen to this. Here's how we fear and trust Him. Look at verse 24. This is how. Listen. This is why. We should fear and glorify and magnify him, for he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted." Who is the afflicted? In this psalm, who is the afflicted? You and me? No. It's Christ. The reason we glorify and magnify his name is because of this. he hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of Christ. In fact, he rejoiced in it. He rejoiced in the affliction and the sufferings of Jesus Christ.

Herein we may know we have reverenced and glorified God because of Christ, because of his offerings. He had not despised his sorrows and his afflictions. Though all his sheep went astray, yet Christ died for them. And behold, God is glorified in his death. Isaiah 53, It pleased the Lord to bruise him. He shall see of the travail of his soul and be satisfied.

What's my hope? My hope is this. that God was satisfied with his death. As my substitute, as my redeemer, God was forever satisfied with his death. That's the object of my faith. God forsook him for a moment, turned his face from him, he suffered, he died, yet God heard his weeping, God heard his cries,

How do I know? When he died, what was the first thing that happened? Remember, in the temple, what happened? The veil was rent in twain. Knowing this now, the way is open. It's not for a specific group. It's open. Come in. The door is open. How do you come? You come by His blood. You come by His righteousness. And you believe on Him.

The way is open. Why? because His death has removed our sins. This is my confidence. This is my hope, that when He was made sin, He bore my sin, and then as He died, it's gone! It's removed! How far, believer, is your sin removed from you? What does the Scripture say? As far as the east is from the west, so far hath He removed our sins from us.

This is what it means that He hath not abhorred or afflicted the affliction of the afflicted, is that He removed our sins. His death accomplished our redemption. Because God hath not despised Him, here's my hope, He will not despise me. You that believe, do you despise yourself? Don't worry, that's part of the covenant. I think it's in Jeremiah, he said, and you shall loathe yourselves. We do! Constantly! And it doesn't get better, does it? We loathe ourselves. But that's not my hope. My hope is this. He doesn't loathe me. Why? He hath not despised the affliction of the afflicted. He has accepted us in Christ. Therefore, the scripture says, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. This is what Christ declares to his brethren, you that fear him.

Listen, he's not despised my offering. He's not despised my offering, therefore, he does not despise his people. I know this, you are children of two natures. When God saved you, he didn't do anything with that old man but put him down. He took him off the throne and put him down, but he didn't fix him up. Didn't make him better. Instead, he gave you a whole new, brand new nature. A holy one. And therefore, you are at warfare with yourself. You that believe, you're at warfare with yourself. And when you're in this warfare and you get cast down, what's your hope? Here's my hope. He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted. but he heard him when he cried. Turned his face to him and he heard him when he cried.

Now look at this, in verse 25, he said, My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation. I will pay my vows before them that fear him. This is the promise of Christ, that he's going to declare himself, his name, where? in the midst of the congregation. It's a wonderful thing that the Gospel, when it's preached, what it does. And this is a mystery. It's a mystery. I don't know what God's going to do with this. I don't have a clue. It's not my business. I don't have any power to make this effectual to anybody. I can't make you believe this. And if I could, I wouldn't want to. But the Spirit of God does this. And when He speaks, I'll tell you this, you'll hear Him. There won't be any question about it. You'll hear Him. You'll know Him when He speaks.

Now if it's just me, you'll go out just the way you came in. Nothing will affect you. But I know this, when He speaks in the midst of His congregation, it's powerful. It's effectual. And He said this, I'll pay my vows. Whatever I promise to do for you, I'll do. Take my promises to heart because I swore to do them.

What does He swear to do? Look at this in verse 26, The meek shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise the Lord that seek Him. In other words, the meek, those He brings to the end of themselves, those who know their sin and need, what do they do? They eat of Christ. Isn't that what He said in John 6? He said, I am the bread of life, whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood shall never hunger or thirst. What does that mean? It means to believe.

The meek, what do we do? We believe. And what do we do after that? We believe. What do we do tomorrow? Believe. Can you help it? You that believe, can you help believe? You say, man, I'm just tired of this believing. I just don't want it anymore. Someone says that because they never believed to begin with. Why? He said, They shall praise the Lord that seek Him. You seek Him? Do you seek Him?

One thing about faith, if it's given of God, is it never stops. Oh, it ebbs, it flows. It may be strong, it may be weak, it may be low, it may be high, whatever, but it never ceases. You always are made to seek Him. Why? Because this is what Christ determined to do. This is His vow. You'll eat me. You'll eat my flesh. Which would mean you'll believe on me. And then what? You'll keep seeking me. Is that true? You that believe on Him? Has He not paid that vow? Is He not this morning still paying that vow? That you would seek Him and believe on Him?

Listen, all the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord, and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee. Why? For the kingdom is the Lord's, and He is the governor among all the nations. What does this mean? It means this, that all His people are going to come and they're going to bow to Him. He's the governor! He's the ruler! He's the king, the one who was humbled at Calvary's tree, who died, who was buried, is now ascended, and he said, I'll pay my vows. My children will eat of my flesh and drink of my blood. They shall seek me. And your soul shall live forever.

Who? All the ends of the earth, wherever I go, whoever I choose. And all they that eat Listen, verse 29, all they that be fat upon the earth shall eat and worship. In other words, we're gonna eat not just little bits. He said, you're gonna eat till you're fat. You'll eat so much till you eat like kings. He's not talking about physical stuff, it's spiritual stuff, and they shall worship. They shall worship. All they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and none shall keep alive his own soul.

You keep yourself alive. You that believe, do you keep your own soul? Well, thank you, Jesus, for starting this. I got it from here on out. No, we can't keep our own souls. We can't keep nothing. This is what he said, I'm going to keep you. You ain't going to keep you, I'll keep you.

Look at the seed shall serve him and shall be counted to the Lord for a generation. The elect. His seed shall serve him. Is this a question? Is this questionable? No. A seed. A remnant. I would that everyone in this place would believe on Christ. I really would. I would hope that God would save everyone. Most likely that's not the case. Most likely, only a remnant of the people here. A seed. But here's what they'll do. They'll serve Him. They'll serve Him. They shall come and should declare His righteousness. Isn't that what we're doing? Isn't that what I've been doing here? Declaring His right... Have I declared your righteousness? I don't declare your righteousness. I declare His righteousness.

unto a people that shall be born, this is the spiritual birth, his seed shall be born, not of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, and this is what we're going to declare, this is what we declare, because this is what he declares, listen to this, that he hath done. That word this is in italics not there, he hath done. The religion of the world is two letters. Do. Do this! And you'll be saved. Do that! Don't do this! Don't do that! That's religion. Our religion is four letters. D-O-N-E. Done. That's what this text declares. The death of Christ hath done it. The word of Christ in power hath done it. And therefore, we who are his brethren, we fear him. We reverence Him. Why? He hath not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted. He despised Christ. And if I'm in Christ, He will not despise me. And that's what I say to you. It's done.

Listen. It's done. Why would you not come? Why would you not believe? Why would you want to add your works to it? It's done. This is what they that believe rest in. This brings us joy. This brings us peace. This brings us contentment. Christ will pay his vows. He'll do what he said he'll do. And listen, his seed's gonna come and they're gonna say this, it's done. Is that what you say? You that believe, is that what you say? Is it done?

I'm so thankful for his death. Oh, I can't imagine the horrors he faced for us. But I'm so glad he did. And I'm so glad God honored his death by raising him from the dead. And I'm so glad that he made a vow that he was going to save me, and he did.

I'm so glad that there's still people out there. There's still some of His left. How do I know? He hasn't come back. If He comes back right now, I know there's no more. When He comes back, there ain't no more. But there's still some there because we're still here. And so I'm going to tell you it's done. Come to Christ. Come to Christ now. Believe on Christ now. And then what? Believe on Him now. And now? And now? And now? Then what? It's done. No more left to do.

What a glorious Savior. What a successful Savior.

Let's stand and be dismissed in prayer. Our Father, honor Your Word. Magnify Christ in the hearts of Your people. Exalt his name and his work, testifying again that all is finished. I thank you that he is seated upon the throne ruling all things after the counsel of his own will, to save his people from their sins, to deliver us into eternal glory. Father, forgive us our sins. Break our hard hearts. Give those who have no faith, faith. Give those who have no life, life. And comfort those that are living. Strengthen us. Even as you promised to do in Christ's name. Amen.

You're the only one I can trust to save me.