If you take your Bibles now and
turn with me to Psalm 45. Psalm 45. We have been studying. We started
this study in 1 John chapter 3. Whosoever believeth that Jesus
is the Christ is born of God. And we've been over the word
Christ. It's the anointed one of God.
And if Jesus is the Christ, He must of necessity fulfill all
the prophecies of the Old Testament. And three of those types, three
of those pictures are the high priest, the prophet, and the
king. Christ is our high priest. Christ has made an acceptable
offering unto God for the sins of His people. Whoso that believeth
that Jesus Christ is the High Priest of God, that person is
born of God. Whosoever believeth that he is
the Prophet of God, he is the one sent with the Word of God, he is born of God. And this last
one we've been dealing with, especially out of Psalm 45, concerning
His kingship, His kingship. In Psalm 45 and verse 1, God
says by His prophet, My heart is overflowing with a good matter.
It's indicting a good matter. I speak things which I have made
touching the King. The King is Christ. The King
is His Son. He said, My tongue is the pen
of a ready writer. Then He describes Christ, Thou
art fairer than the children of men. Grace is poured into
Thy lips. This speaks of His person, His
humanity. Fairer among what? Men. He came as a man. The King. The One who created
all things. He came as a man. He is the fairest
among men. Holy and without sin. And grace
is poured into his lips. This speaks of his being prophet.
He spoke only what God told him to. He was the prophet of God. Grace is poured in. Much better
than the law. Moses' lips were full of works. Do and live. Don't do and die. Christ's word was grace, mercy,
forgiveness of sins through the offering of another. through
the work of another, what grace was poured into His lips. Therefore
God hath blessed Him forever. And now in verse 3 we went over
this, His majestic ride, the majestic ride of Christ. He said,
Gird on thy sword, thou on thy thigh, O Most Mighty, with thy
glory and with thy majesty, and in thy majesty ride, what, prosperously,
Victoriously, God is declaring His ride, His work is going to
be successful. You know the difference between
a false Christ and the true Christ is this, success. If Christ only
made salvation possible and left it up to you, He is not successful. He will fail. This Christ rides
prosperously. He actually accomplishes redemption. A victorious king. He is most
mighty. He is most mighty. "...Ride prosperously because
of truth, meekness, and righteousness in thy right hand, and thy right
hand shall teach thee terrible Now, our texts are going to be
verses 4 and 5. The last part of verse 4, and
thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. Thine arrows
are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies, whereby the people
fall under thee. These are going to be our texts
tonight. The first thing I want you to
know is this, the Scriptures clearly teach us, plainly teach
us, that because of Adam's sin, because of Adam's sin, he and
his entire race were taken captive by the enemies of God. The day
Adam ate the forbidden fruit, darkness covered his heart. Death
overshadowed his soul. He was lost. He lost all spiritual
ability. He lost all will and affection
for God. Darkness covered the face of
his soul. Adam. When Adam sinned, darkness
fell on his soul. He became dead. He died. Spiritually died. And so great
was this darkness. Consider the darkness of Adam.
So great. This man, Adam, I cannot tell
you, he was the perfect creation. When God made him, he was perfectly
intelligent, perfectly knowledgeable of God. He communed with God. But when he failed, consider
the greatness of this, that he thought he could hide his sin
by fig leaves. He thought by covering his physical
naked body, he could hide the nakedness of his soul. He thought he could hide from
an omniscient God. He went into the woods. He tried
to hide. Listen, even as Adam fell into
depravity and deadness, so did we all. You got that? How great was his
fall that it covered the entire human race. Wherefore, as by
one man, sin entered into the world, and the result, death
by sin, and death passed. So death passed upon all men.
Listen, for all have sinned. When Adam sinned, we sinned.
The Scripture hath concluded. I don't care what man says. It
doesn't matter what men think. The Scripture hath concluded.
What? All under sin. That little baby you've got right
there. That little baby looks precious, full of sin. full of
sin. Why? He inherited from his father,
which he inherited from his father, and so on, all the way back to
Adam. Therefore, no man can free himself
from sin. We cannot obey the law. We will
not obey the law. This one thing is true of us
all by nature. Listen, all of us. We love sin. By nature, we love sin. Men love darkness rather than
light because their deeds are evil. We may not like the consequences
of sin. Nobody likes the consequences.
But truly, in our nature, sin is what we love. Job said men drink iniquity like
water. How easy you drink water. That's
how easily you see it. You could see it in so many different
areas. You take somebody who's addicted
to drugs or alcohol. They got to have it. It is an
obsession that no matter how much you reason with them, you
can't reason with them. It doesn't matter even if they
know they're going to die, they can't do it. Let me tell you
a worse addiction. Religion. Religion's an addiction. Men by nature are addicted to
religion. And it's the worst of them all.
Jesus told the religious men of His day, He said, publicans
and sinners will enter into heaven before you would. A man may try to cover his guilt
before God by reforming his life, reforming his outer man with
religion. He may try to become moral and
leave the very appearance of evil. He may get a good religious
education. He can learn about redemption.
He can learn about Jesus. He can learn about righteousness. He can put on a good show. That's
what man can do. Natural man does this all the
time. He can put on a good show. But unless he's been delivered
by the gospel of Jesus Christ, by the power of God, listen to
me, unless the King Himself comes and delivers you, you will always
be in bondage to sin. I cannot deliver you. You cannot
deliver yourself. There is only one person capable
of delivering the sinner from his sin and death. It is the
King. It is the King, Jesus Christ. He alone can deliver sinners
and destroy their enemies that enslave them. Only He can do
it. But in this psalm, I would remind
us of this good matter of God's heart. This was the good matter
that God gave Adam. God gave Adam a good matter.
When Adam sinned, God came to him. Who comes to who? It's the king coming to you.
The King has to come to you. You'll never come to the King.
He has to come to you. And when He comes to you, He
gives you a good matter. Here it is. The seed of the woman
shall crush the head of the serpent. God purposed to send His Son
to be the seed of the woman. That Jesus, the second Adam,
the second representative, should come And for his people, he should
deliver them from sin, from Satan, and from the justice of God. That's what the king was sent
to do. He was sent to deliver, gird on thy sword. For what? Battle. He came to do battle,
friends. And God swears he shall ride
prosperously. to deliver His people. Jesus
is the good matter of God's grace towards sinners, to all you that
are enslaved, to you that are dead in trespasses and sins.
He has come to set you free. You know who needs to be free?
Captives. Well, I've never been enslaved
to anybody. Well, He didn't come for you,
did He? He came for captives. He came for the blind. He came
for sinners. That's who He came to save, sinners. This is a faithful saying and
worthy of all your acceptation. Jesus Christ came into the world
to save sinners. He came to ride prosperously.
He rides prosperously in truth, in meekness, in righteousness.
Even so, by these things, Jesus triumphed over His enemies. Now, God's purpose was that Christ
should be victorious, and by faith, Christ trusted that His
success was sure. When you look at the words of
Jesus Christ, do they seem ambiguous or vague? When He speaks, does
He speak like we do? Now, I may want to do something
for you, but I really have to say, if the Lord will. Because
I don't know. I have no power to make sure
that I can do anything for you. I can try. The Lord may give
it to me. I may be able to do something.
The Lord Jesus never spoke like that. Matter of fact, his enemy
said this, never a man spake like this man. Why? He was sure
of everything. He said, this is the will of
Him that sent me, that of all He hath given me, I should lose
nothing. That's majestic talk. That's majestic language. He shall not fail. nor be discouraged." He's king. He rides prosperously. Now, he was sure. Now, look at
verse 4 and the second part of verse 4. He said, "...thy hand
shall teach thee terrible things." When Christ was to come, this
is a prophecy. Thy right hand shall teach thee
terrible things. Now, Jesus, listen to this. Jesus
learned obedience. Jesus learned obedience by the
experience of His suffering for sin. He learned obedience. Now, Jesus was not taught of
any man to be obedient to God. He received His truth, meekness,
and righteousness directly of God. He is God. Now you think,
how is it possible for deity to learn anything? When Jesus was 12 years old,
you remember, He was teaching the doctors. Nobody taught Him.
Nobody needed to teach Him anything. He knew everything. He was teaching
the greatest minds of the Jewish religion at 12 years old. And yet, when His parents came
to Him, what did He do? When His parents came, Oh, we've
been looking for you. Where have you been? He said,
I've been about my father's business. I've been doing what I'm supposed
to do. You know what his mom and dad got mad at him? What
did he do? He subjected himself. Can you imagine this? He subjected himself to his parents,
his sinful parents, his wicked parents who had sin in them. They were thinking about themselves.
They weren't thinking about the salvation of His elect. They
weren't thinking about expanding the gospel of God. They were
thinking about themselves. And what did He do? He learned
obedience by suffering Himself under their authority. In humility and subjection to
the will of God and the suffering of the flesh, He learned obedience. And he learned obedience also
by the terror of sin and the justice of God. Go to Hebrews
5 just to make sure that you know that I'm not just making
this up. I don't ever want you to think
I'm making anything up. I don't. I'm just not that smart. Hebrews
chapter 5 and verse 7. Scripture says who in the days
of his flesh. when he had offered up prayers
and supplication with strong crying and tears unto him that
was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared. Though he were a son, yet learned
he obedience by the things which he suffered, and being made perfect,
He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey Him. Oh, Jesus Christ was truly the
Son of God. He learned obedience by suffering. He experienced suffering. God, who cannot suffer, became
a man and as He suffered, He learned. by experience what it's
like to be a man. So that he might represent you. He condescended in humility,
became the lowest of men. Can you imagine the suffering
of Christ, the sinless man being surrounded by sin? All the time. Suffering in the body yet having
no guilt. He learned obedience by the things
He suffered. It's not that He didn't have
knowledge of these things, but He willingly, personally experienced
them. And especially upon the tree. Especially upon the cross. He's
there for us in order to ride prosperously. He Himself must
learn terrible things. What did he learn? He learned
the justice and wrath of God by experience. When God made him to be sin for
us, he knew the terror of God more than any other man ever
would. Can you not say the king learned
terrible things? He learned the terror of sin.
But yet by His strength, by His might and righteousness, He was
sustained. His deity sustained His humanity
as He suffered the full measure of God's wrath. This is something that Not any man in this life or the
next could ever understand or know. It was not something that
we could learn by our power. The terror of sin under the strict
justice of God. This is what Christ endured.
So that you might be saved. He bore our sin in His own body. And it was by this suffering
alone for the sins of His people that He has brought, that's what
Paul says in Hebrews 5, when He was made perfect, when it
was done, what did He do? He became the author of something.
Eternal salvation. He is the author of our salvation. Why? By the things He learned. By the things He suffered. He
is the author and finisher of all our salvation. Secondly,
we see the experience of every child of God in verse five. Look
at this in verse five. He says, Thine arrows are sharp
in the heart of the king's enemy. As Christ by experience learned
the terror of the Lord, He bore the weight of our sins, even
so must every child of God learn obedience of faith by experience. Just as true as God purposed
the salvation of the elect, just as true as Christ died for the
elect, even so it is true. Every chosen sinner shall be
set free through faith in Christ. That's true. Did God choose His
elect? Yes. Did Christ redeem them? Of course. Therefore, every one of them
must be set free. In fact, the justice of God demands
it. The justice of God demands that
they be set free. Remember, we were born what?
Captives. We were born captives. In World
War II, the Japanese, when they surrendered, you know that some
of those soldiers, they lived in caves, and they didn't even
know that the war was over. They lived in caves for months,
and they were finding these soldiers all over the place, and they
had to tell them, what? The war is over. You no longer
need to serve that evil master that put you into this war. They
were set free. They were set free. Even so, Christ has defeated
our foes before we knew it. He's defeated our enemies. He
set us free even before he what? Set us free. So in time, he must come and
set every one of the elect free. That's what pictured in these
verses here. Now, the arrows of Christ. What
is this? The arrows, the arrows of the king. This is nothing
less than the gospel of Jesus Christ. The gospel of Christ
is the arrow that strikes into the hearts of the king's enemies,
this message. Now this message of the gospel
of Christ, I want you to know, is the most hated thing in the
world. That is a true statement. When Jesus fed the 5,000, you
remember He fed them, they followed Him across the sea. They wanted
to make Him king. But when the king began to preach
his gospel, what did they do? They all left. What was this gospel that was
so offensive that they would leave a man that fed 5,000 men
with just a few loaves? What is so offensive? Go to 1
Corinthians 2. Look and see what the first thing
is so offensive here to the natural man is this, what I've stated
earlier. 1 Corinthians 2, it says, But the
natural man receiveth not. What does that mean? He is not
willing to receive it. He receiveth not. He rejects
it. He hates it. What does he hate? 1 Corinthians
2, verse 14. He hates the things of the Spirit
of God. What is the thing of the Spirit
of God? It is this, that salvation is all of God. That salvation
is something that is not part man and part God. Salvation is
all of God. And what does a natural man say?
The natural man rejects that. The natural man still desires
to do something. He wants to do something. Why does he want to do something?
So he can receive some glory. That's our natural tendency,
is to rob God of His glory. Men hate this gospel. Matter
of fact, it's foolishness unto them. Neither can they know it
because they're spiritually judged. They're spiritually judged. Men
hate this. They naturally reject it. Listen,
they will not receive it, neither can they know it. They don't
have the will or the ability. I'm preaching the gospel to you
tonight, but natural men, they don't want it. They despise it. It's foolishness. Why do you
spend all You believers, they look at you and think you're
the greatest fools that ever walked the face of the earth.
You spend all your time and all your money and all your energy
listening to the same message over and over and over again. I'm not preaching anything new
to you tonight than I preached before. All of this is the same
gospel. They think it's foolishness.
I think a good illustration of this is David and Goliath. Even
in Goliath. If you want to see this, go to
1 Samuel. 1 Samuel. Look, 1 Samuel chapter
17. 1 Samuel chapter 17. And look at
verse 4. David came out to face Goliath,
and he was mocked. He was mocked of that giant.
Goliath was the man of war. He was a man of war. He had killed
thousands of men. He was a strong man. and he had
challenged Israel, and Israel was to send their champion, and
here comes this little boy, young teenage boy out there. What does
Goliath do? Look at verse 4. He said, There
went out the champion out of the camp of the Philistines,
named Goliath of Gath, whose height was six cubits in his
span, over nine feet tall. He had a helmet of brass on his
head, and he was armed with a coat of mail. And the weight of his
coat was 5,000 shekels of brass. And he had greaves of brass upon
his leg, and the target of brass upon his shoulders. And the staff
of his spear was like a weaver's beam, and his spearhead was 600
shekels of iron. And one bearing the shield went
before him." Now get this, his armor weighed 270 pounds. His spear was in proportion 26
feet long. The spearhead weighed over 18
pounds. And not only did that, he had
a shield. That sounds like a pretty fortified
man, don't you think? He's a pretty big, fortified
man. He was well defended. Well, so
does natural man think they are well defended. They're well defended
against this gospel of Christ. The natural man is defended,
he is well armed, and he hates it, he mocks it. And in verse
41, the Philistine came out and drew near to David, and the man
with the shield went before him, and the Philistine looked about
and saw David, and he disdained him. He was a youth and ruddy
and fair and countenance. The Philistine said to David,
am I a dog that you would come out with sticks? And the Philistine cursed David
by his gods, and the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and
I will give thy flesh to the fowls of the earth and the beasts
of the field." How bold he was against God's man. You want to see how natural men
feel about you and this gospel, this is exactly how they feel. You come with the gospel and
what do they think? Am I a dog that you would come
with this foolishness? It's foolishness. Men mock the
gospel of Christ as though it's nothing but foolishness. They
mock God's Christ and God's Savior of Israel. They mock His message,
His servants that preach it. They despise those who oppose
all freewill, false works religion. They despise you. You are less than nothing and
your gospel is contemptible. to their souls. And David, being
a type of Christ here, he trusted God. God was his armor. God was his armor against to
slay his enemy, and David ran to his foe in faith. And it was
only that smooth stone that defeated that well-armed foe. And even
so it is with the gospel. The gospel seems so small to
man, but listen, it has the power of God behind it. Just like that
stone. The stone, what was that? Without the power of God, it
was nothing. But with the power of God, it slew Goliath. And so it is with this arrow
of the gospel. Men are well-armed against this
gospel. You and I were well-armed against
this gospel. Until when? Until the king shot
his arrow and it pierced through our armor, it pierced through
our flesh, it pierced through our bone and went right, what,
to the heart. The king's arrows are sharp in
the heart of his enemy. The gospel is sharp. The arrow
of Christ's gospel pierces the heart. The gospel seems in appearance
powerless, but is like David as he ran toward Goliath with
a sling and a rock. But when the arrow is in the
hands of Christ, the skilled archer, listen, it always hits
its mark. This is why preachers are confident
that we triumph every time we preach. We're not confident in
our ability to preach. We're not confident in our writing. We're not confident in our work.
We're confident in this. The arrow is sharp in the heart
of God's enemy so long as Christ is the marksman. Christ always
hits his mark. He always accomplishes his will
in his gospel. It always does his work. Before any sinner comes to life
and faith in Christ, listen, you must be struck by this arrow. The arrow of the gospel is sharp,
and it cuts through the armor of man's wisdom, through the
weakness of the flesh, it breaks the bones of man's pride, and
when he is struck by Christ, that man lays dead at his feet. What's the first thing you learn
when you were struck by this gospel? What's the first thing
you learn? You're dead. That's the first thing you learn.
You learn you are incapable of saving yourself. You learn that all your righteousnesses
are as filthy rags. You learned the holiness of God
and you fell dead. You fell dead. at His feet. You were like that public and
you said, Lord, have mercy upon me, the sinner. I don't know
if anybody else is a sinner, but I know I am. When that arrow
pierces your heart, that's the first thing you learn. You're
dead and you need life. Once the law and religion seemed
to protect us, But when that arrow pierced our heart, we knew
this, the law could do us no good. It only condemned us. The Gospel in the hands of Christ
strikes through kings and servants of light. It strikes through
the heart of God's enemy. Because that's what we were.
Isn't that right? Before the Gospel came to us, what were
we? We were enemies of God. Haters of God. And thirdly, the
target is the heart. Not the mind. Not the will. See, that's the target of religion,
isn't it? The target of religion is trying to change your mind.
Trying to convince you. They use parlor tricks. They
use all kinds of entertainment and all kinds of things to stimulate
your mind. Listen, if I can change your
mind, somebody else can change it tomorrow. Isn't that right? If I bend your will today, somebody
else will come along and bend your will tomorrow. But see,
Christ doesn't start with the mind and He doesn't start with
the will, He starts with the heart. Why? Because that's the
problem. Out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornication. You've got a heart
problem. You know what you need? You need
a new heart. That's what the king gives. When he slays a sinner, he gives
them a new heart. Matter of fact, that's the covenant
of grace, isn't it? Ezekiel chapter 36 and verse
25, Then will I sprinkle you with clean water, and you shall
be clean. When? when He comes in power
and kills you, when He strikes you down and you've got nothing
else. Listen, as long as you've got
somebody else to go, you'll go. As long as you've got some work
to lean on, you'll lean on it. When He takes away everything
and you've got nothing, that's the best place to be. It's then
He sprinkles you with clean water and you're cleaned. What's this
water? It's the blood of Christ. He's
cleansed you from all your filthiness, from all your idols. He said,
I'll cleanse you. A new heart will I also give
you. And a new spirit. Isn't that
right? Your spirit changed. When you
got a new heart, what changed? Your spirit changed. Now listen,
I didn't know much about this. I knew... I knew when the Lord saved me,
that either I changed or the world changed, but something
changed. Everything was different. I knew what I was. But I also knew who He was. And
I had an affection to Him. I knew Him. I didn't know about
Him. I knew Him. And my spirit had changed, my
mind had changed, my will had changed because I had a new heart. That's what the king gives. He
gives a new heart. A new spirit will I put in with
you. I'm going to take that other
one out of you. When God strikes you down, I'll
tell you what, you feel deflated. You feel you lay out. You've got nothing left. What
does he do? He takes that old nature and
he puts it down. And he sets the new nature above
it. He doesn't take it out completely. He gives you a new heart. A heart
of flesh, he said. A heart of affection. This is not cold doctrine, is
it? You who believe this is not cold
doctrine, I'm talking about somebody you know. You know the king. And you have affection for the
king. Why? Because he gave you a heart of
flesh. You had a heart of stone. Now you have a heart of love,
not for sin. You love him. You believe in him. You trust And He said, I'm going
to put My Spirit within you. I'm so glad for that, that He
just didn't give me a new heart and left me to myself. I'm so
thankful that His Spirit resides in every one of us. When the
King comes and His arrow strikes into us, we fall as dead, but
notice this. Go back to your text and look
at this. This is the result. The arrow
of the King is sharp in the heart of the King's enemy. And what
is the result? The people fall under him. Isn't that what you
did? You fall under him. Who's your
king? Come unto me, all you who are
weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my, what? yoke upon you. Listen, you serving
somebody, isn't that right? You have a yoke whether you like
it or not. You either have a yoke of sin or Christ. We gladly take His yoke and learn
of Him. Why? He is meek and lowly in
heart and we find rest unto our souls. We fall under him. You know, I can't imagine a better
place to be than at the feet of Christ, can you? I can imagine that woman just
trying to grab a hold of his hem of his garment. She knew there was power in the
hem of the garment. Listen, there's power at his
feet. If you fall at his feet, he'll pick you up. Every time
you read that, John, when he said, I saw him, I fell at his
feet as what? Dead. I think Ezekiel was the
same way. When he saw him, he fell at... No, it was Daniel. Daniel saw
him and he fell as dead. And you know what he did each
time he lifted them up? Isn't that what he did? He said.
Live. Live. Fall at his feet, that's
the result of the gospel, every sinner that is pierced by Christ,
they fall at his feet and his people are willing subjects,
willing subjects. And the point is this. God's gospel is always victorious. He said, My word shall go forth
out of my mouth, and it shall accomplish the thing whereunto
I sinned. If God ever intends to save you,
you're going to hear this. He said, Let the wicked forsake
his way. What was your way? Works. You forsake that way? Yes. Let
the wicked forsake his way. Your way was sin. Your way was
abomination. Your way was wickedness. He forsake
your way. Let the unrighteous man forsake
his thoughts. Remember old Naaman? He said, I thought. I thought
it should be like this. Didn't we think? We thought until
when? Until Christ pierced us? And
sure enough, we gave up our thoughts. and let him return unto the Lord,
and he will have mercy. You need mercy? Forsake your
way. Forsake your thoughts. Return
unto the Lord, and he will have mercy. He will abundantly pardon. Why will he do that? Have you
ever thought of why God would do that? Why would God take a
rebel, pierce him with the gospel, and then save him? Well, God
said this, My thoughts are not your thoughts. Surely you're
not going to understand. My thoughts are not your thoughts.
Neither are My ways your ways, saith the Lord. They're higher
than your thoughts, as the heaven is above the earth. Let us be
confident of this, believers, that the Word of God, the Gospel
of Christ, is powerful. It's powerful. And we'll give
you four things in close here. If you've been slain by the Gospel,
have you been slain by this Gospel? Has Christ conquered you? Well,
there'll be four things that are very clear. Everyone he conquers
produces fruit. Before, we were barren. We had
no fruit. What is the fruit? It is the
fruit of the Spirit. Love, joy, peace, meekness, temperance,
faith, gentleness. These are the fruits of the Spirit,
and every one of God's people bear these fruits. Some 60, some
30, some 100. but all their fruit." And the
main fruit is this, faith and love. Do you believe on Christ? The second one is, His people
are at liberty. Are you set free? Are you free from the law? That's
a mark of His people. Mark of His people, if the Son
shall set you free, you shall be what? Free impartial. That's not what it says. Partially
free. That's not what it says. That's
religion. Religion has you partially free. Christ sets you completely
free. Free from the law, oh happy condition. Jesus had bled and there is remission. Cursed by the law and bruised
by the fall, Christ hath redeemed us once more. You're at liberty. Liberty to
do what? believe on Christ, love Christ,
love his brethren. Thirdly, his people have joy. His people, I know in this world,
suffer. But yet, even in our suffering, Christ is our joy. He said, He said He gives us His joy,
His peace, His joy. Rejoice, because salvation's
accomplished. And fourthly, His people have
peace. Christ gives us His peace. What peace is that? The peace
with God that He made at the cross. You have peace with God.
Do you have peace with God? Well, who made your peace? If
you did, you have no peace with God. But if you've been slain
by Him, He has made peace. And we're no longer enemies of
God. Matter of fact, John says we
have fellowship with Him. Fellowship with the Father and
with His Son, Jesus Christ. Therefore we who have been pierced
by Christ do gladly fall under him." Daily, constantly bowing
to Christ. Have you been pierced? If you have, you've fallen under
him. And what can we say? He has ridden prosperously. He has ridden prosperously, just
like God said he would. I pray that God bless this to
your hearts. Let's be dismissed in prayer. Gracious Father, I
pray for your mercy upon us. Dismiss us with your blessing. O King of Kings, I pray as you
have ridden prosperously and accomplished our salvation, even
now I pray that you would cause your people, that you would take
those who are And by the arrow of your gospel, pierce their
hearts so that they should believe. And help us who have fallen under
thy feet to give thee thanks and praise. Cause our hearts
to rejoice in the liberty that Christ has accomplished for us.
I pray you would cause us daily to adore him and bow before him
as king. In Jesus' name, amen.