Kingsport Sovereign Grace Church,
located at 2709 Rock Springs Road in Kingsport, Tennessee,
would like to invite you to listen to a message of sovereign grace
by their pastor, Gabe Stoniker. For information and service times,
visit www.ksgc.church. And now, Gabe Stoniker. If you would like to follow along
with me, I would like to bring a message to you today from Mark
chapter 7. Mark chapter 7. At the end of this chapter is
the story of a deaf man who was healed. The Lord opened his ear
and loosed his tongue and the man was healed. And I do not
want to look at that story today. But I do want to consider one
line in it, just one line from this particular portion of Scripture.
It's in the middle of verse 37, Mark 7, verse 37. Right in the middle of that verse,
it says, He hath done all things well. He hath done all things
well. That is speaking of Christ. Christ, our God, Christ, our
sovereign. We're going to see something
of the sovereignty of God today. We're going to see the sovereignty
of Christ, our God, Christ, our king, Christ, the almighty. When we speak of the almighty,
we're speaking of Jesus Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ. hath done
all things well. I want us to consider three things
together, and I pray this will really reach our hearts and truly
bless us. Number one, he hath done. That's the first thing I want
us to consider. He hath done. He is the one who
has done. He hath done. The second thing
is all things, all things. I want us to truly consider all
things, whatever it is, whatever has been done, whatever has been
done. He hath done all things Well,
that's the third thing. Well, everything that he has
done, he has done it well. It's all well. It is well. That's the basis
of our salvation. That is the basis of all of our
hope. That's our message. That is our
gospel. He hath done. That's where it
starts. He hath done. Not what we have
done, but what He has done. He hath done. It's His work,
not ours. It's His doing, not ours. This
is our comfort. This is our confidence. He hath
done. Over in Psalm 115, verse 3 says,
Have we ever really realized that? He hath done whatsoever
he hath pleased. Verse 1 right here says, Not
unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory. for thy mercy and for thy truth's
sake. Wherefore should the heathen
say, where is now their God? Why should the unbeliever say,
the outcast say, where's your God? David said in verse three,
our God is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever he hath
pleased. Whatsoever he hath pleased. That's
what he did in creation. That's what Jesus Christ did
in creation. All things were made by Him and
without Him was not anything made that was made. And that's
what He did in creation. Whatever He pleased. And that's
what He did in salvation. Whatever He pleased. That's what
He did. It pleased the Father, based
on the scripture, it pleased the Father to choose a sinful
people to save and He did it. It pleased Him to do that, to
select a sinful people to save, and He did it. It pleased the
Son, Jesus Christ the Son, to give Himself. It pleased the
Son to give His life and to give His body and to give His blood
in order to actually save those sinful people. And He did it. It pleased Him to do that and
He did it. It pleased the Lord to bruise Christ in their place. It pleased the Father to lay
the sin of all those people on Christ and to judge Christ in
their place and to punish Christ in their place. and to condemn
Christ in their place. It pleased the Father to do that,
and He did it. It pleased the Father to make
Christ who knew no sin, He was spotless, sinless. It pleased the Father to make
Christ to be sin. What a statement. 2 Corinthians
5.21, it pleased the Father to make Christ to be sin for His
people. that they might be made the righteousness
of God in him. And that's exactly what he did.
That's exactly what he did. Verse three right here says,
but our God is in the heavens, he hath done whatsoever he hath
pleased. Now that's our comfort. That
is our comfort. The absolute control of the sovereign
God, that's the believer's comfort. In Psalm 135, It says in Psalm
135, verse six, whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he in
heaven and in earth, in the seas and all deep places. Whatever
the Lord pleased, that's what he did everywhere. He said, I am alpha and omega. I start the work and I finished
the work. He said, I work and none can
let me. That means none can stop me.
No one can stop me. Think about this, Deuteronomy
32. He said, I kill. Have you ever read that verse
of scripture? Have you ever realized that? God Almighty said, I kill. Life is in His hands. Life is
in His hands. All life is in the hands of God
Almighty. He said, I kill. I make alive,
I wound, I heal. He said in Isaiah 45, I form
the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I the Lord do all these things.
How the Lord do all these things? In Acts chapter four, when Peter
was preaching to the very ones who crucified the Lord Jesus
Christ, that's who Peter was preaching to. And this is what
he said to them. He said, you only did what he
predetermined to be done. He said, that's all you did.
He said, you by wicked hands took the Lord of glory and you
crucified him. And he said, all you did, the
only thing that you did was what God Almighty predetermined before
the foundation of the world to be done. Peter told them, he
hath done. That's what the message was.
He did it. He hath done this. A king in the Old Testament named
Nebuchadnezzar, he got a little too focused on himself one time.
And he started looking around Babylon saying, I have done. Look at everything that I have
done. I did this. This is the result of my hands.
And the Lord brought him down. If you know his story, you know
that the Lord truly brought him literally down and taught him
some things. And then after the appointed
time, the Lord raised him back up and restored the kingdom to
him. And Nebuchadnezzar said, after
the Lord raised him back up, he said, I was wrong. I was so
wrong, I hadn't done anything. He hath done. He did it. Nebuchadnezzar said, his dominion
is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation
to generation. And all the inhabitants of the
earth are reputed as nothing. and he doeth according to his
will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the
earth, and none can stay his hand or say unto him, What doest
thou? He hath done." He did it. He does whatever he's pleased
to do in heaven, and I believe most people know that and believe
that. He does whatever he's pleased to do in heaven, And guess where
else he does whatever he's pleased to do? Right here on this earth. The armies of heaven and the
inhabitants of earth. He does all things. And that's
our comfort. That is our comfort. If we want
to have a correct view of all things concerning us, here it
is. He hath done. He hath done. Our text went on to say, number
two, all things. All things. He hath done all
things. All things. You know, everyone
is willing to acknowledge him in the good things. You know
that? Everyone is. When great things
are happening, just amazingly great things are happening, it
is so easy for us to say, the Lord has done this for me. Boy,
the Lord has done great things for me. But the greater honor
to Him and the greater glory to Him and the greater comfort
to us is when we as His people know and acknowledge His hand
in even the things that appear to this flesh to be bad things."
Bad things. Let's look at a few examples
of this, okay? Over in 2 Samuel 16, 2 Samuel
16, in this account right here, David is traveling with his soldiers. This is an amazing account. If
you've never read this or never heard this, This is just so amazing
and so wonderful and I'm so encouraged by what I hear in this passage
right here. David is traveling with his soldiers
and a man named Shimei comes to the top of a ridge and he's
following along with David and his soldiers and Shimei starts
cursing David. He's just hollering from the
top of this ridge. He's just cursing the king, David.
and he's throwing rocks at him and he's throwing dust at him
and he's just being a nuisance. And one of David's soldiers asked
David, he said, do you want me to go up there and take his head
off? And this is how David responded. Second Samuel 16 verse 10, the
king said, What have I to do with you, you sons of Zariah? So let him curse. He said, no,
don't go take his head off. So let him curse because the
Lord hath said unto him, curse David. Who shall say then, wherefore
hast thou done so? Who shall say, why are you doing
this? He said, the Lord said to him, you go curse David. David
said, leave him alone. Leave him alone. The Lord has
done this. Doesn't that give so much glory to God's sovereignty? The Lord has done this. The Lord
told him to curse me. This moment in the sovereign
hand of God, we're going to acknowledge his hand. He hath done all these
things. He hath done all these things.
All right, look with me at Job 1. Job chapter 1, we know this
story. I'm sure you know it well. Everything
that happened to Job, just indescribable things, unimaginable things. Oh, this man suffered so much. And in Job chapter 1, verse 20,
it says, then Job arose and rent his mantle, that's his robe,
his clothes. and shaved his head and fell
down upon the ground and worshipped." That's what he did, he worshipped.
Verse 21, and he said, "'Naked came I out of my mother's womb,
and naked shall I return thither. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath
taken away.'" The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away."
Isn't that amazing? Job said, the Lord did this. The Lord did this. He hath done
this. No matter how bad this seems,
no matter how chaotic this seems, the Lord hath done this. The
God of heaven and earth is sovereignly in control of this. The Lord
has allowed this to happen. The Lord is the one. Proverbs
16. Proverbs 16, verse 1, it says,
the preparations of the heart in man and the answer of the
tongue is from the Lord. All the ways of a man are clean
in his own eyes, but the Lord weigheth the spirits. Commit
thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established."
Verse 4 says, "'The Lord hath made all things for Himself,
yea, even the wicked, for the day of evil.'" What an amazing
verse. That means everything is in His
hand. Everything is sovereignly in
his hand. He leaves nothing up to chance. Nothing. Everything is according
to his purpose. Everything. Chapter 21 says,
Even the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord. As the rivers
of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. Even the man in charge,
he turns it however he wants it to go. everything that has
ever been done, He has done it. He has allowed it. He has ordered
it. Everything that happens, He's
the doer of it. He hath done all things. He hath done all things. And
thank God, thank God, to the praise of His glory, He has done
all things well. all things well." That word,
well, it means completely. When you look it up, it means
completely, to the fullest, excellently, rightly, with no room for blame. honorably." That's what it means.
He hath done all things well. All things. Psalm 34, in Psalm
34, it says in verse 1, I will bless
the Lord at all times. We bless the Lord in the good
times, don't we? We ought to bless the Lord in
the bad times too. I will bless the Lord at all
times. He said, I'll bless the Lord
at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. My
soul shall make her boast in the Lord. The humble shall hear
thereof and shall be glad. Verse 3, he said, O magnify the
Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. No matter
what it is, let us exalt his name together. Verse 7 says,
The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him. and delivereth them. Oh, taste
and see that the Lord is good. Taste and see that the Lord is
good. Blessed is the man that trusteth
in him. David in this psalm is talking
about being down and crying out for deliverance and needing mercy
and having a broken and contrite spirit and all of these things.
And what he's saying in this psalm is trust the Lord. In whatever you see happening,
trust the Lord. The Lord is in control of this.
The Lord has ordered these things. The Lord is the sovereign God.
Trust Him. Trust Him. Blessed is the man
that trusts Him. Just trust in the Lord. Verse
19 right here says, Many are the afflictions of the righteous,
but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. He delivers His
people out of them all. All of His chosen people, His
hand is on them. He said, in this world, we're
going to have tribulation, we're going to have suffering, we're
going to have trial. I love how when the Apostle Paul
was writing to the Philippians from prison, he wrote to them,
these things have happened to me, these things that have fallen
out. me being put in prison. He said,
all this has happened for the furtherance of the gospel. He
was saying God did this and he did it all well. And this is
all good. And he delivers his people out
of these things until the day that he delivers his people out
of this world. He may deliver us out of a situation or he may
deliver us out of this world, but he will deliver us. He said,
the Lord has redeemed his people. and he has redeemed them well."
Let's magnify him for that. We will magnify him for that.
Psalm 139 verse 14, it says, Oh, spare me that I may recover
strength before I go hence and be no more. Spare me, Lord, keep
me before you call me home, because I know that you're going to do
well. You're going to do right. You're
going to do right. Psalm 139, verse 14, it says, I will praise thee, for I am
fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are thy works, and
that my soul knoweth right well. Everything you've done from birth
till my last breath, everything you've done is so perfect. It's
so well. I'm fearfully and wonderfully
made. Marvelous are all your works." And he said, I know that.
I know that. You've caused me to believe that.
Isaiah chapter 44, verse 21, it says, Isaiah 44, 21, it says, Remember
these, O Jacob and Israel, for thou art my servant. I have formed
thee. Thou art my servant, O Israel. Thou shalt not be forgotten of
me. I formed you, I made you, I will
not forget you. How wonderful is that? He said,
I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions and
as a cloud thy sins. Return unto me for I have redeemed
thee. Sing, O ye heavens, for the Lord
hath done it. Sing, heavens, the Lord hath
done it. Shout, ye lower parts of the
earth. Break forth into singing, ye mountains, O forest, and every
tree therein. For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob
and glorified himself in Israel." I love that verse of Scripture
so much. He said he has redeemed his people. and glorified Himself in the
process. And He has, hasn't He? Oh, we
glorify Him. We glorify Him for everything
He has done because He has done all of it so well. The Apostle
Paul said, He has saved us and called us with a holy calling
not according to our works, but according to His own purpose
and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world
began. Glory to God in the highest.
Glory to God in the highest. Job's ending comment. We just
read Job chapter one. talked about how everything that
happened to him was just so horrible and we read what he said, naked
came I into this world and naked shall I leave this world. The
Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away and this was his final comment
right after that. We didn't read it but I'm going
to say it now. After everything that happened to him he said,
blessed be the name of the Lord. After all that happened to him,
he said, the Lord gave, the Lord has taken away, blessed be the
name of the Lord. I pray God will give all of us
a heart to say that with Job. He hath done all things well. All things well. In closing,
I want to read something to you here. A man named William Cooper
wrote this poem or song and you may have heard this before but
this is so true. It's just so true. He wrote,
God moves in a mysterious way. His wonders to perform. He plants his footsteps in the
sea and rides upon the storm." When he comes, it may be a storm
that comes. It may be a raging storm that
comes, but his foot is planted in it, and he's the one riding
on it. Mr. Cooper went on to say, "'Deep
in unfathomable minds of never-failing skill, He treasures up His bright
designs and works His sovereign will. Ye fearful saints, fresh
courage take. The clouds you so much dread. We're so worried about what's
coming, what's coming around the corner, what dark skies and
dark days may be ahead of us. He said, ye fearful saints, fresh
courage take. The clouds you so much dread. are big with mercy and shall
break in blessings on your head. Judge not the Lord by feeble
sense, but trust Him for His grace." Don't judge what he's
doing wrongly and say, the Lord shouldn't do this. Trust Him
for His grace. Behind every frowning providence,
He hides a smiling face. His purposes will ripen fast,
unfolding every hour. The bud may have a bitter taste,
but sweet will be the flower. Blind unbelief is sure to err
and scan His work in vain. God is His own interpreter, and
He will make it plain. Just wait on the Lord. He will
make it plain. In the end, every child of God
will see He hath done all things well. Amen. You have been listening
to a message by Gabe Stoniker, pastor of Kingsport Sovereign
Grace Church in Kingsport, Tennessee. If you would like a copy of this
message, or to hear other messages of sovereign grace, you can call
or write to the number and address on your screen, or visit www.ksgc.church. Tune in at this same time next
week for another message of God's free and sovereign grace.