Go with me, if you would, back
to Psalm chapter one. I told you in the Bible study
that we were in the Psalms all day
today, and the moment that it dawned on me that was gonna be
the case, I got so excited, just so excited. Psalm one, I love
this psalm. I truly love this psalm. My love
for this psalm skyrocketed. My love for this psalm, you know,
I told you in the Bible study, this is the biggest understatement. Well, this one's a pretty big
understatement too. This one may be bigger. My love for this
psalm skyrocketed the first time it was preached to me. A man
stood in a pulpit and I listened and it was preached to me that
this blessed man is the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, you talk about a light
bulb moment, that was an atomic bomb. You talk about a relief. Well, I think the one thing that
I can say that the gospel has done for me the most is relieve
me. Just relieve me. This is Jesus
Christ. If you've never realized this
or heard this before, prepare for an atomic bomb to go off.
This is the Lord Jesus Christ, okay? Verse one, Psalm one, verse
one, it says, Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel
of the ungodly. Blessed is the man. You think we're gonna be crying
that in glory? Can you imagine us crying that
for all of eternity? Blessed is the man. I love knowing that while our
Lord was here on this earth, he never walked in the counsel
of anybody. Never. Search the scripture. I love knowing that while our
Lord was on this earth, he never walked in the counsel of anybody. but Himself, His Father, and
His Spirit. And these three are one. All
the fullness of God dwells in person of the Lord Jesus Christ. Isaiah 9, verse 6 says, His name
shall be called Counselor. He didn't receive counsel from
anybody. He didn't receive counsel from
anybody. He gave it. but he received it
from no one. Isaiah 40 says, with whom took
he counsel? Who instructed him and taught
him? Don't you love knowing that? Verse one says, blessed is the
man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth
in the way of sinners. This blessed man never stood
in the way of sinners, not one time ever. Not one time ever. Don't you love knowing that our
Lord is sinless? He's sinless. Doesn't it give
you so much confidence and assurance in the God we believe in, knowing
that He never committed one sin, not one transgression of the
law, never. He stood in the way for sinners
on the cross of Calvary. He stood in the way for sinners,
but he never stood in the way of sinners. Verse 1 says, Blessed
is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor
standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the
scornful. He never sat in the seat of the
mocker. That's what the word scornful
means. He had every right to. He had
every right to, but he never did it. He never did it. That's amazing. And I'll tell
you what's more amazing than that. Not only did he never sit
in the seat of the mocker, He allowed himself to stand before
the seat of the mocker. He allowed himself to stand before
mockers. Turn with me over to Psalm 22.
Psalm 22, this is Christ. This is the Lord Jesus Christ.
This entire Psalm here, Psalm 22, this is the event of the
cross. These are the events of the cross.
Verse one says, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? This
is the cross. Verse six, this is our Lord Jesus
Christ. He said, but I am a worm and
no man. How did he say that? That's what
me and you are. He said, fear not thou worm,
Jacob. I'm going to help you. How did
he do that? He made himself to be the worm in Jacob's place. And he said, I am a worm and
no man, a reproach of men and despised of the people. Hear
him saying this from the cross. All they that see me hanging
here on this cross, naked, beaten, torn. All they that see me laugh
me to scorn. They shoot out the lip. They
shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver
him. Let him deliver him, seeing he
delighted in him. What he's saying is, they're
all mocking me. Father, my God, my God, they're all mocking me.
You know, all he would have had to do is say, come. And legions upon legions of angels
would have come down here and torn this place apart. Peter, put your sword up, don't
you know that I could right now call down 12 legions of angels? This blessed man never sat in
the seat of the scornful, never. Look back at Psalm 1. Verse 1 says, blessed is the
man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth
in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful,
but his delight is in the law of the Lord. And in his law,
does he meditate day and night? You know, the scripture says,
pray without ceasing. Have you ever read that verse?
You ever read it and thought, man, how do you do that? He did. I'm always in communion with
my father. He did. The scripture says, obey
every single commandment. He did. The scripture says, delight yourself
in nothing. But God, his word, his people,
he did. He actually did. Verse three
says, and he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water
that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. And that's exactly
what happened. He was brought forth as a root
out of dry ground. He grew up before man in the
stead of man as the tree of life for man as the tree of life. And then he was cut down and
planted by the rivers of God's overflowing wrath on the sin
of his people. And all of that happened that
he might bring forth his fruit in his season. That's why all
that happened. Verse three goes on to say, his
leaf also shall not wither. His blessed body never saw corruption. And his work, his own work, it
never faded. You know, when Adam and Eve sinned,
When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden, they covered themselves
in fig leaves. Fig leaves represent man's works,
man's own doing to cover himself, to make himself acceptable before
God. And while our Lord was here on
this earth, he cursed the fig tree. He cursed man's works. That's what he cursed. Man's
works. Those big leaves on that fig
tree withered and died. And that's man's leaf. That's
man's works. That's all they're going to come
to. That's all that's going to happen. They're going to wither and die. But
his leaf, his work, the covering of his righteousness, the payment
of his blood, verse 3 says, shall not wither, it shall never
wither, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. I love how not
only does Isaiah 42 say he shall not fail, it also says nor be discouraged. He won't be discouraged. Lord, don't you realize what
all they're gonna do to you on that cross? set his face like
a flame. Whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
Verse 4 says, The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff
which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not
stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way
of the ungodly. shall perish. And that's true
for every soul outside of Christ. Every soul that this blessed
man was not mocked for and was not planted in the rivers of
wrath for. Every soul that this blessed
man did not prosper for is going to perish. Everyone that he didn't
do that for is going to perish. All right, but let me show you
something in Romans 5. Everything I just said is true.
Every soul outside of Christ is going to perish. But let me
show you something here in Romans 5. Romans 5 verse 6. It says, For when we were yet
without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. The ungodly. In Psalm 1, we read about the
ungodly, and this is what everybody naturally thinks. Well, that's
not us. That's them. I don't want that
to be us. That better not be us. That better
be somebody else. No, the Apostle Paul said right
here, that's us. That's us. You got the blessed man, that's
Christ. And you got the ungodly, that's me and you. The ungodly,
that's me and you. But you know who Christ died
for? The ungodly. The ungodly. Go back to Psalm
1. Verse 4 says, the ungodly, that's
me and you. The ungodly are not so. We're nothing like him. Don't
read Psalm 1 and try to put yourself in the place of the blessed man.
The ungodly are not so. Have you ever read that and thought,
oh, I got to do better? Uh-uh. Don't put yourself in
the place of the blessed man. The ungodly are not so. We are
not so. We're nothing like him. All we
have done, I'm going to tell you the truth right now. All
we have done is walk in the counsel of ungodly men, starting with
our fathers and our grandfathers, our fathers before us. All we
have done is walk in the counsel of ungodly men, literally. That's what we've done. You realize
how many bad decisions we've made because of bad advice from
bad men? And if you want to take that
one step further, forget about everybody else. Just think about
your own decisions that you've made in your own counsel of your
own self. Ungodly. That's all we've done. All we have done is stood in
the way of sinners. Literally. I want you to do something, okay? And try not to deceive yourself. Try to be honest. Just for the
rest, starting right now. I was gonna say all day tomorrow,
and then I thought, no, let's do the rest of the day. How about
till the end of this message? You decide to not be a sinner
till the end of the message, and don't have a sinful thought,
or a, okay, see how that goes for you. Just see how that goes
for you. All we do is stand in the way of sinners. Literally. All we have done is sit in the
seat of the scornful. These mouths are mockers. Mockers. We mock and mock and
mock. I do it too. Still. And I hate myself for it. Our delight has been in this
flesh. That's where our delight is. It delights in the flesh. Why
is it that you can be so enthralled with YouTube for hours upon hours
upon hours, and you can't listen to a message about Christ for
five minutes without... Why is that? It's because we're
just so enthralled with the things of this... Our delight is the
things of the flesh. All we have done is wither and
fail. That's it. Our Lord said, do this and you
can be saved. All we've done is fail. Our leaf
has withered and failed, but blessed be God, blessed be God,
all of the chaff of this flesh, all of the chaff of this flesh,
the wind of God's Holy Spirit is going to drive it away. It
was actually all driven away on the cross that that blessed
man suffered for ungodly sinners. Now the ungodly are not so. They're
going to be like the chaff. They're going to be blown away. Verse five says, therefore, the
ungodly shall not stand in the judgment. nor sinners in the
congregation of the righteous. And we didn't. Do you know where the judgment
of God's people was? Do you know where the judgment
of God's people is or will be? Do you know where the judgment
of God's people was? The cross of Calvary. And every
soul outside of Christ still has a judgment coming. But all
of God's people Their judgment is over and they hung in the
person of their Savior on that cross before God. This was their
judgment and they didn't make it. They did not survive it. God was not pleased and he slew
all of his people in his own son in judgment. They did not survive the judgment
of God. Christ died in our stead in the
judgment. Christ died the godly for the
ungodly, but he died as the ungodly in the place of the ungodly.
Now this is the blessed man. He knew no sin, but he took upon
himself. Oh, what he made himself to be,
that he might suffer the judgment of God. the day of judgment for
us, in our place, in our stead. That's our hope. That's our hope. Our hope is in the blessed man,
not in us doing better, straight, boy, I really need to clean up
my act. That's not my hope. My hope is the blessed man. If He did not die in the judgment
as us, then we could not stand in the judgment as Him. In that day, well done. You know that can only be said
to Christ. That can't be said to me. But because He became
me, because He was made to be what I am, what am I? Ungodly. What is He? Godly. That's the
only, that's my only hope that the father will say, well, here,
stand right here. You come stand at my right hand. He made him, the father made
his own son to be sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness
of God because Christ was made sin. We were made to be the righteousness
of God in him. That is our only hope. Look at
verse six. It says, for the Lord knoweth
the way of the righteous. All those who've been made to
be righteous in the righteous one, Christ. He is our way. He knows every soul who's been
placed in the way. The Lord knoweth the way of the
righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish. And every ungodly soul outside
of Christ is going to perish, and everything ungodly in his
people did perish when all ungodliness has been dealt with or is about
to be dealt with. Now, because Christ is that blessed
man, Every man and woman that the Father placed in Christ is
a blessed man or woman in him. With him. Because of him. Because of Christ. With Christ. In Christ. We can say blessed is the man. Blessed is the woman. And I have some scriptures that
tell us what makes us such blessed men and women in him. Such blessed
men and women in him. All right, let me just go through
these here and we'll be done. Give me just a minute. Psalm
1 verse 1 tells us we're blessed because he delivered us from
false religion. We don't walk in the religious
council of the ungodly. He literally does deliver his
people from the council, the false religion council of man. Blind leaders of the blind. By
his grace, because of his doing, we don't stand in the religious
way of sinners. Now we're still sinners, hopefully
I've made that clear. But our Lord said, all sin shall
be forgiven but the sin of unbelief. And by his grace, he's caused
us to believe. He's caused us to believe on
the Lord Jesus Christ. Do we still have moments of unbelief?
Absolutely. But we don't stand in those moments.
We don't stay in that unbelief. He delivers us out of that. And
by God's grace, we don't make a mockery out of Him. And again,
we're looking to Him. It's not unto us. But by His
grace, we don't make a mockery out of His worship. We don't make a mockery out of
who He is and what He's done. We've been delivered from false
religion. What blessed men and women we
are, blessed. Turn with me to Psalm 65. Verse
4 says, blessed is the man whom thou choosest and causest to
approach unto thee. You know what makes us so blessed?
God chose us. How do you know? He drew us to
Christ. He chose us and drew us to himself. He caused us to approach unto
him. Not false religion, not the law,
not works, him, Christ. Had he not done that, we all
would have perished in our ungodliness. But he chose us, he caused us
to approach into him for mercy. And then he gave to us what he
caused us to ask for, mercy. How blessed we are, so blessed.
He started it, he finished it, we ended up with it. Blessed. Turn over to Psalm 94. Psalm 94 verse 12 it says, Blessed
is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out
of thy law. Why is that a blessing? Chastenest,
why is that a blessing? Because it means we're his children.
That's the reason why. It means he loves us. Whom the
Lord loves, he chastens. Through his word, his word, his
word does not prick the heart of those who do not belong to
him. It doesn't prick the heart of those who don't belong to
him. If his word makes us cry, oh, wretched man that I am, then we're blessed. If his word
does that to us, we're blessed. Turn over to Psalm 112. Psalm 112, verse 1, it says,
Praise ye the Lord. Blessed is the man that feareth
the Lord. We're so blessed because God
has put a fear, honestly. So blessed because God has put
a reverence, a holy respect and love in us for God. The holy God, the true God of
heaven, we're so blessed because He made us bow. The message of God's people and
the attitude of God's people is not, you know, lift up higher
ground, get as big and tall as you can get. It's bow down, bow
down, bow down, get low. And that's what he's done for
us. He made us bow. Thank God he made us bow. What
a blessing. Turn to Proverbs 8. Proverbs 8, verse 34. Blessed is the man that heareth
me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. Who's saying that? Verse one
says, Wisdom is crying that. That's Christ. That's the Lord Jesus Christ.
We've been given ears to hear Christ and eyes to see Christ
and a heart that waits on Christ. We're so blessed. Turn to Jeremiah
17. Jeremiah 17 verse 7. Blessed is the man that trusteth
in the Lord and whose hope the Lord is. We have someone to trust in. We've been given someone to trust
in. Outside of Christ, there's nobody in this world that you
can truly trust. You can't even trust yourself.
You know, people say, I don't trust anybody but myself. Well,
you can't even trust yourself. But we have been given someone
that we can truly trust. Truly trust. And we rest in him. We fall back on him. He eases
our worry, he settles our heart, and to have that makes us blessed
because we have that. We're a blessed people. Turn
over to Romans 4. Almost done here, Romans 4. As I read this, go ahead and
put a smile on your heart, okay? Romans 4 verse 8, it says, blessed
is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin. It's Christ that died. It's the
Lord Jesus Christ that died. We're so blessed because God
imputed our sin to him and not us. Not his elect, not his chosen. He will not impute sin back to
us. That means acknowledge the condition
of it to be back on us. Are we not so blessed? So blessed. All right, we're gonna close
with this one, okay? Revelation 1. Revelation 1, verse 3, it says, Blessed is he that readeth, and
they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things
which are written therein, for the time is at hand. We are so
blessed Because we have this word to tell us all of these
things. We have this word that tells
us how Christ kept all of these things for us. We're so blessed
to have this gospel. These are spiritual blessings
from God. These right here are spiritual
blessings in heavenly places. And they're all found in Christ.
They're all freely given to us in Christ. and we're so blessed to have
been notified of it. So blessed, what a truly blessed
people we are. Thank God for the blessed man,
Christ Jesus the Lord, and thank God for making us blessed men
and women in him.