Go with me, if you would, to
Psalm 89 again. Psalm 89. A brother read this
psalm, the verses that we just read for our scripture reading.
in my study last Wednesday night and it blessed my heart so much.
It just blessed me so much. So many of these verses stood
out to me as being deep pondering verses. So many of them just
jumped out at me. Verse six says, who in the heaven
Can be compared unto the Lord. Who in the heaven, you think
about that of all that is in heaven, who in the heaven, heaven
is a glorious place. Who in the heaven can be compared
unto the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty
can be likened unto the Lord? Who can you like unto him? Verse
eight says, Oh Lord, God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto
they, who is strong like you or to that faithfulness roundabout
day. Verse 13 says thou hast a mighty
arm. Strong is thy hand and high is
that right hand. And verse 18 says, for the Lord
is our defense, and the Holy One of Israel is our King. Now those are just glorious thoughts
to dwell on. They are just wonderful, wonderful
thoughts to dwell on, and we will for a moment. But two verses
have gotten my attention for this message, and I feel like
they go together so beautifully. just so beautifully. Verse 15
says, blessed is the people that know
the joyful sound. They shall walk, O Lord, in the
light of thy countenance. Blessed is the people That no,
the joyful sound that means the Jubilee, the shout, the alarm,
the cry of rejoicing, the joyful noise, that joyful, joyful noise
blessed. Oh, how blessed. That's all you
can say about them. Blessed. If they know the joyful sound,
they were given the joyful sound. If they know it, if they truly
do know it, they didn't learn it on their own. They didn't make it on their
own. It was made for them. It was put in them. It was taught
to them. Men and women naturally don't
come forth knowing the joyful sound by nature. We're all dead to the joyful
sound. You know, that scripture that
said we piped, but you didn't dance. We're all by nature dead to this
joyful sound. We're ignorant of this joyful
sound. We come having no heart for this
joyful sound. And no tongue for this joyful
sound, no ear for this joyful sound. We're not worthy of the
joyful sound. You enter into that. We're so
unworthy just to hear the joyful sound. We have no right to the
joyful sound. Therefore blessed. blessed. That's all you can say. Blessed is the people that know
the joyful sound. Those who have been given this
sound made to know it, given an ear to hear it, given a tongue
to sing it, given a heart to love it. We were just singing
a moment ago. I really enjoyed that song service. I enjoyed
it so much. I, uh, And so glad my tongue
wanted to sing it. And that that's what came out
of my heart. I'm so glad for that. What a blessing that is
in spite of us blessed, blessed is the people that know the joyful
sound. And what is it? What is the joyful
sound? Verse one, this is the other
verse that they go together. So, so beautifully verse one
says, I will sing. of the mercies of the Lord forever. That's what we just sang about.
We just sang three songs and we were singing about the mercies
of the Lord. I will sing of the mercies of
the Lord forever. What a joyful sound that is. Make a joyful noise. Good news, the gospel. It's the
mercy that God has shown to us in, by, and through the person
of the Lord Jesus Christ. I enter into that more and more
worship preaching and worship is all about him. It's all about him. It's all
about what he has done for us. Blessed is the people that know
the joyful sound. of the mercies of the Lord forever. Mercy, mercy. David said, that's
what I'll sing of. I had a dear brother tell me
this week, we were talking about these things and he said, you
know, if, if we could earn our own righteousness and earn our
own salvation, why does God's word keep talking about mercy? Why does it keep repeating mercy? Why would we need mercy? David
said, I will sing of your mercy. That's the sound I'll make. That's
the song that I'll sing forever. And so will we. Our rejoicing
is in his mercy. And it's gonna be forever. What
we rejoice in right now, that's what we're gonna rejoice in forever.
Forever. That's going to be our song.
That's going to be our sound forever. It's going to go like
this. Thou art worthy for thou was
slain and redeemed us back to God by thy blood. That's going to be happy. That's
going to be so happy. David said, I'll sing that by
God's grace. I'll make that joyful sound forever.
Turn with me over to Psalm 13. Psalm 13, verse five says, but I have trusted in thy mercy. My heart shall rejoice. It'll be joyful in thy salvation. I will sing unto the Lord because
he hath dealt bountifully with me. Can we not say that with
David? That's a joyful sound. Can we
not make that joyful sound with David? No matter what our lot
in life is, no matter what our lot in life
is, no matter what the condition
of our health is, expect this sinful body to produce bad results. Don't be shocked. when bad news
comes. They're gonna break, they're
gonna rot, they're gonna fall apart. Dying, we shall die. No matter what the condition
of our health is, no matter what the condition of our wealth is, no matter what the condition
of our stress is, and our worry, and our weariness, when we enter
into salvation, when we enter into what Christ has done for
us, honestly, you enter into eternity. Think about this life,
it's but for a moment. Compared to eternity, we keep
crying, how long, how long, how long? Compare this to eternity. That's how long it is. In that
span of time, we're crying, how long, how long? compared to eternity
with Christ. No matter what our condition
in life on this earth is, can we not honestly say the Lord
hath dealt bountifully with me? He has dealt bountifully with
me, so bountifully in his mercy. Brand new every morning, he's dealt so bountifully with
me in his mercy. So bountifully in His grace,
where our sin has abounded, His grace has so much more abounded. He has dealt so bountifully in
His love toward us, so bountifully. I love this poem or this song. It says, could we with ink the
ocean fill? And where the skies of parchment
made, where every stalk on earth a
quill, and every man a scribe by trade, to write the love of
God above would drain that ocean dry. Nor could the scroll contain
the whole, though stretched from sky to sky. Oh, how blessed we
are, so blessed to know this joyful sound. The Lord has dealt
bountifully with us. In Christ, in the blood of Christ,
sometimes I preach the gospel and think this is just too good
to be true. It's just too bad on our end
and too good on His end, but according to this word right
here, it is true. It is true. The Lord has dealt
so bountifully with us. Look with me at Psalm 57. Psalm
57 verse seven says, My heart is fixed, oh God, my
heart is fixed. I will sing and give praise. I'll make this joyful sound.
Awake up my glory. All of God's people say, if any
man glory, let him glory in the Lord. God forbid that I should
glory save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. So David said
in verse eight, awake up my glory. Awake, psaltery and heart, I
myself will awake early. I will praise Thee, O Lord, among
the people. I will sing unto Thee among the
nations. For Thy mercy is great unto the
heavens, and Thy truth unto the clouds. Be thou exalted, O God,
above the heavens. Let thy glory be above all the
earth. He said, I'll sing praise with
everything that has breath. I'll make a joyful sound with
everything that has breath, psaltery, harp, myself. I'll give all the praise to you.
I'll give all the praise to you. This is my joyful sound. I give
all the praise to you because of your mercy, he said, because
of your truth, because of your glory, because you are exalted. Look right here at Psalm 59.
It's just across my page. Psalm 59 verse 16, it says, but
I will sing of thy power. Yea, I will sing aloud of thy
mercy in the morning, for thou hast been my defense and refuge
in the day of my trouble. Unto thee, O my strength, will
I sing, for God is my defense and the God of my mercy. We think
that we have trouble here, but we really don't. We really don't. We think that we know days of
trouble. We do have trials and things,
but considering the mercy and the salvation that we have in
Christ, we really don't. Trouble comes in that day to
men and women. That's when trouble comes. And that was the day of our trouble. It was the day that God judged
us for our sin. The day came due. Every man has
an appointed time. It's appointed unto man to stand
before God and be judged for his sins. And our day came. It was the day that Christ hung
on the cross in our sins. That was the day of our trouble.
And on that day, Christ was our defender. He was our redeemer,
and he was our friend. For that reason, David said,
I will sing this joyful noise, this joyful sound, I'll sing
it unto him. Go with me back to Psalm 89. This whole psalm is a joyful
sound unto the Lord. The whole psalm is. We're gonna
go to verse 18 because that's what our brother read and that's
what blessed my heart. This whole Psalm is a joyful
noise unto the Lord. All of it is. As we read down
through this, let's read it in that way. Realizing that if God
has revealed this to us, and if he's caused us to know this
to be so, we're a blessed people. So blessed. Psalm 89, verse one
says, I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever. With my
mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations. I will sound
out thy faithfulness. It was his faithfulness that
chose us. It was his faithfulness that
paid the price to redeem us. It was his faithfulness that
called us. It is his faithfulness that will
keep us. All the way to the end. David
said, I'll sing because of your faithfulness. I'll make a joyful
sound because of your faithfulness. Verse two says, for I have said,
mercy shall be built up forever. Thy faithfulness shalt thou establish
in the very heavens. What he has done for us cannot
be undone. It cannot. Now just think about
that. What he has done for us cannot be undone. When I really enter into that,
that creates a joyful sound in my heart. What he has done for
us cannot be undone because of his faithfulness, not mine. Aren't
you so glad your salvation is not dependent on your faithfulness?
Because of his faithfulness, what he has done cannot and will
not ever be undone. What God does is forever. The gifts and the calling of
God are without repentance. The covenant that he made, that
promise, it'll never be broken. He made a promise and it'll never
be broken. Verse three, this is the Lord
speaking right here. He said, I have made a covenant
with my chosen. I have sworn unto David, my servant,
thy seed will I establish forever and build up thy throne to all
generations. Who is that seed of David that
this covenant was established on? Christ, the Lord, the son
of David. He said, I'm the root and the
offspring of David. Blind Bartimaeus, he cried, Jesus,
thou son of David. Because of that covenant of mercy
you made. For that covenant's sake, have
mercy on me. This is a joyful sound right
here. Look with me at Luke one. I love this. Luke chapter 1, verse 30, And the angel said unto her,
Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found favor with God. And behold,
thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt
call his name Jesus. He shall be great, and shall
be called the Son of the Highest. And the Lord God shall give unto
him the throne of his father David. And he shall reign over
the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom, there shall
be no end. That's a joyful sound. The Redeemer is coming. The son
of the highest is the one who's coming. And he's gonna reign
over the house of the sinner, Jacob. That's who he's chosen.
And he's gonna sit on that throne forever. Forever. Go back to Psalm 89. Psalm 89 verse 4, it says, thy
seed will I establish forever and build up thy throne to all
generations. And the heavens shall praise
thy wonders, O Lord, thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the
saints. For who in the heaven can be
compared unto the Lord? Who among the sons of the mighty
can be likened unto the Lord? God is greatly to be feared in
the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all
them that are about him. O Lord God of hosts, who is a
strong Lord like unto thee? Or to thy faithfulness round
about thee? Lord, who can be compared to
you? That's the cry of the whole assembly
of the congregation of the saints. Who is like you? Lord, there is no more joyful
sound to hear than to hear of You." And that's so, isn't it? Just to hear His name. Just to
hear His name. Precious name. Oh, how sweet. Hope of earth and the absolute
joy of heaven. At the hearing of that name,
our knee gladly bows. Right now, we do it in heart.
And in that day, we're going to do it with our whole being. Verse nine, it says thou rulest
the raging of the sea. When the waves thereof arise,
thou stillest them, those literal storms of the sea, the actual
storms of the sea and the storms of these trials throughout our
life. He said, you're the one who raises them up. You're the
one who calms them down. Verse 10, thou has broken Rahab. That means Egypt. who represents
our bondage. We're in bondage. That represents what we're naturally
in bondage to, our sin, our adversary. Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces
as one that is slain. Thou hast scattered thine enemies
with thy strong arm. What that means is through all
the vacant cells, the song of triumph rings, this joyful sound. Christ has broken in pieces all
of our bondage. Every bit of it. Everything that
we're naturally in bondage to. He said, you shall know the truth. And the truth, Christ himself
is gonna make you free. Totally make you free. Happy
is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help. Verse 11, it says,
the heavens are thine, the earth also is thine. As for the world
and the fullness thereof, they're yours too. We're yours too. The heavens are thine, the earth
also is thine. As for the world and the fullness
thereof, thou hast founded them. The north and the south, thou
hast created them. Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice
in thy name. Thou hast a mighty arm. Strong
is thy hand, and high is thy right hand. I love hearing that. What that means is, Lord, you
don't need anything. You don't need anything. You
don't need any help. You're able to accomplish everything
that needs to be done alone. And that's a joyful sound to
hear. There's nothing that I can do to help him. There's nothing
I can do. Verse 14 says, justice and judgment
are the habitation of thy throne. Holiness, righteousness, justice. You're going to do right. Mercy
and truth shall go before thy face. They're gonna meet together
right there in you, right there in Christ, the Lamb that was
slain for our sin. Verse 15 says, blessed is the
people that know the joyful sound. They shall walk, O Lord, in the
light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice
all the day. And in thy righteousness shall
they be exalted For thou art the glory of their strength. And in thy favor, our horn, or
our strength, shall be exalted. For the Lord is our defense,
and the Holy One of Israel is our King. Now let me leave you
with this joyful sound. Every time that I hear this sound,
it leaves me feeling joyful. It's what happened when the queen
of Sheba went to see Solomon. Don't you love this sound? She
went to go see him and Solomon is a picture of Christ. What
she said about him, that's a spiritual, joyful sound about what is said
concerning Christ. And she went and brought her
things and and thought she was going to do for him until she
saw who he was. And when she saw who he was and
when she saw what all he had, she brought her little wagons.
But then when she saw that table and she saw all that he had and
saw how happy his servants were, don't you love that part? She
looked at all of his servants in everything they were wearing
and she said, they're so happy. They're all so happy. This is
what she said. Saw him ascend his throne and
this is the conclusion she came to. She said, because the Lord
loved Israel, he made you king. Because he loved Israel with
all of his heart, He set you on the throne to reign over them. And that's the joyful sound of
absolute truth. Because God the Father loved
His chosen people, I love them so much, this is what I'm gonna
do for them. I'm gonna set my son on the throne
to reign over them. Because he loved them, he made
Christ to be our king. I tell you honestly, that's about
as joyful a sound as our ears will ever hear. Because he loved
us, he made Christ to be our king forever. Of his reign, there'll
be no end. Verse 18 says, for the Lord is
our defense, and the Holy One of Israel is our King. It's good news. It's a joyful
sound. Pray the Lord will tune our ears
to it. All right, let's all stand together.