Looks really pretty in here,
doesn't it? Really nice. Psalm 146. Psalm 149. I had 46 on my mind. The title of this message is the high praise
of God. The high praise of God. I got
that title from verse 6. In this psalm, we have the call
to praise, to sing as we just done, to rejoice, to be joyful,
This is the attitude and conduct of God's children who are debtors
to the grace of God. Are we not debtors to the grace
of God? The Lord has made us saints in
the congregation of the saints. I'm preaching to saints. You
don't feel like a saint, but you are. who believe you're a
saint. God has made you, you're sanctified,
set apart, consecrated. That word has been on my mind
this week. I have been consecrated to God
to nobody else. I'm consecrated to Him, set apart
for Him, by Him as all His children are. We are not our own. Are you not glad of that? I'M
GLAD I'M NOT MY OWN. I'M GLAD I'M HIS. I'M GLAD HE
RULES OVER ME. I'M GLAD HE KEEPS ME IN CHECK.
WE ARE NOT OUR OWN. IT SAYS WE'VE BEEN BOUGHT WITH
A PRICE. AND BECAUSE OF THIS, HE IS DUE HIGH PRAISE. HIGH PRAISE. THAT IS BEYOND ORDINARY
PRAISE. Back over in Psalm 148, ALL OF
CREATION WAS CALLED UPON TO PRAISE GOD. THE SUN, MOON, STARS, ANIMALS,
THE BEASTS, THE FOWLS, FISH OF THE SEA, ALL WAS CALLED UPON
HIM. BUT THIS IS HIGH PRAISE HERE. THIS IS PRAISE THAT IS
BEYOND ORDINARY. THIS IS PRAISE THAT COMES FROM
THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN BOUGHT BY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST. WE'VE BEEN
REDEEMED. WHO ARE GOING TO WALK ON A NEW
EARTH IN A LITTLE WHILE. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A NEW BODY
AND WE'RE GOING TO BE RID OF SIN. THAT'S OUR FUTURE. THAT
DESERVES HIGH PRAISE AND THAT'S ALL OF GOD. WE HAVE NOTHING TO
DO WITH IT. WE HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT SECOND CREATION
NO MORE THAN WE DID WITH THE FIRST ONE. IT'S ALL OF GOD. OUR SALVATION IS ALL OF GOD.
OUR REDEMPTION IS ALL OF GOD. THAT DESERVES HIGH PRAISE! THAT'S
SPECIAL! THAT'S SPECIAL PRAISE! THAT'S PRAISE EVEN ABOVE WHAT
THE ANGELS CAN GIVE GOD! THE ANGELS THAT FELL NOT, WE
ARE FALLEN! AND YET, WE ARE BORN OF GOD,
PARTAKERS OF THE DIVINE NATURE, AND WE ARE GOING TO PRAISE GOD
IN A WAY THEY CAN'T! THEY DESIRE TO LOOK INTO THE
THINGS YOU AND I KNOW! THAT'S WHAT THE WORD OF GOD TEACHES! THAT DESERVES HIGH PRAISE! THAT'S
SPECIAL PRAISE! Brethren, this is special praise
tonight. And God takes pleasure in this
service tonight. I'll show you in a little bit.
He says He takes pleasure in His people. God is taking pleasure
in you right now, His children, tonight in this service. Can
you imagine God, as great as He is, would stoop to take pleasure
in us, but He does. I'll get to that in a little
bit. Praise ye the Lord, singing to the Lord a new song, and His
praise in the congregation of saints. Seeing His mercies are
new every morning, so our songs of praise should be new every
morning. You know one thing about when
all this is over and we stand in glory, nothing will ever be
old. Every time we sing, it'll be
new. EVERYTHING WE DO WILL BE NEW. NOTHING EVER GROWS OLD.
ONLY THAT WHICH HAS TIME ATTACHED TO IT GROWS OLD. THAT WHICH HAS
ETERNITY TO IT NEVER GROWS OLD. AND EVERYTHING IS NEW. EVERY
SONG WE SING IS A NEW SONG. EVERY TIME WE SING IT. BUT HERE
IN THIS WORLD, NOW OUR LORD'S MERCIES ARE NEW TO US EVERY MORNING,
AND EVERY MORNING SHOULD BE LIKE A NEW SONG, SINGING IT FOR THE
FIRST TIME WITH A NEW HEART AND A RIGHT SPIRIT. EVERY DAY IS
A NEW DAY. I LIKE TO THINK ABOUT THIS, THIS
IS A THOUGHT I LIKE TO HAVE. EVERY DAY IS AN UNUSED DAY, IT'S
BRAND NEW, IT'S NEVER BEEN USED. never been used. You get up in
the morning, that whole day is in front of you. Lord, direct
my step, this is a brand new day. Let me use it in a way that's
glorifying to you. It's a new day and deserves a
new praise and new song. And our Lord Jesus Christ has
promised, listen, He's promised to be with His people when they
gather together, only if it's two or three, and that's worthy
of praise. THAT'S WORTHY OF PRAISE! THAT'S
WORTHY OF HIGH PRAISE! THAT JESUS CHRIST! DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE HE'S HERE
TONIGHT? DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THE LORD
IS HERE TONIGHT? HE SAID HE WOULD BE. TWO OR THREE ARE GATHERED
TOGETHER IN MY NAME. THERE AM I IN THE MIDST. HE PROMISED
THAT. THIS IS A VERY SOLEMN SERVICE. OUR LORD IS WITH US. WE ARE TO DO THIS HERE, LISTEN,
WE ARE TO SING, WE ARE TO SING A NEW SONG IN HIS PRAISE IN THE
CONGREGATION. THIS IS TELLING US THAT WE ARE
TO GET TOGETHER AND WE ARE NOT TO FORSAKE THE ASSEMBLING OF
OURSELVES TOGETHER. THE LORD HAS PROMISED WHEN HIS
PEOPLE ARE GATHERED TOGETHER TO BE THERE IN THE MIDST OF THEM.
THIS IS WHY I SAID IT'S SPECIAL. HE SAYS HIS PRAISE IN THE CONGREGATION
OF THE SAINTS. THERE'S A CONGREGATION OF SAINTS
HERE TONIGHT. AND OUR LORD IS IN THE MIDST
OF US. AND I'LL TELL YOU THIS, WHEN
WE GATHER TOGETHER, IT'S AS CLOSE TO HEAVEN AS IT'S GOING TO GET
HERE BELOW. I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT TODAY BEFORE
I WROTE IT DOWN. I THOUGHT IT WAS AS CLOSE AS WE CAN GET to
glory and heaven is right here when we gather together, open
God's Word and hear His Word preached and sing His praises. This is as close as it gets until
we finally leave here and we're actually there. But this is as
good as it gets right here in the congregation of His saints.
Now let Israel, let the elect of God rejoice in Him that made
Him. LET THE CHILDREN OF ZION BE JOYFUL
IN THEIR KING. WE REJOICE IN THE LORD WHO MADE
US A NEW CREATION. You know, the new birth of God,
which is born of the Spirit of the Spirit, I didn't help Him
out. I didn't do anything to be born of God. Faith does not
cause the new birth to happen. It's the evidence of the new
birth. It's not the cause of it. WE
REJOICE IN THE LORD WHO MADE US, AND WE REJOICE IN THE LORD
WHO IS OUR KING. OUR KING IS OUR MAKER. Who ever
heard of such a thing? Who ever heard of a king making
his subjects, creating his own subjects? Only the Lord can do
that. Only God who's our king can create
and make His own subject, His own kingdom, and that's exactly
what He has done. Psalm 100 says, Know ye that
the LORD, He is God. Know ye that Jehovah, the Lord
Jesus Christ, He is God. It is He that hath made us and
not we ourselves. We are His people and the sheep
of His pasture. Who made you a believer? Did
the preacher do it? Did he convince you? Was I convinced
by the preacher? God made us believers. God made us believers. He granted
us faith and repentance. Every last one of us who believe,
believe because we can't help it. God made us believers. He has made us. He made us. And what did He make us? HE MADE
US SONS OF GOD! I'M LOOKING AT SONS AND DAUGHTERS
OF GOD! I think about that when I prepare
messages. Now think about that when I'm
in my study that I'm about to preach to God's children. I'm
about to preach to some people who've been bought by the blood
of Christ. I'm going to preach to some people for whom Jesus
Christ hung on a cross for, suffered and died for, rose again and
ascended into glory FOR YOU! I'm going to preach to you, God's
children. Now are we the sons of God? Do
we look like sons of God? No, we look like sons of flesh,
don't we? but we are we are you know when
the disciples well as peter james and john went up on the mount
of transfiguration and they saw the lord and he and he just glistened
it says he glistened you and i gonna do that one day we'll
be just like him we're gonna be just like you this old flesh
is gonna drop off We're going to get rid of this dying, aging,
decaying flesh and we're going to have a new body. It's going
to be a powerful body like His and it's going to glisten like
His. Whatever glory He has, we have. Whatever He has, we have. We're sons of God. What does
He make us? What did He make us? THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING TO
A SINNER UNTIL GOD SAVES THAT SINNER. RIGHTEOUS, YOU KNOW WHAT THE
RIGHTEOUS IS? RIGHT WITH GOD. WE ARE RIGHT WITH GOD. GET RIGHT
WITH GOD! WELL, YOU CAN'T DO THAT, AND
YOU KNOW THAT. I CAN'T DO THAT. BUT THE LORD MADE ME RIGHT WITH
GOD. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST MADE ME RIGHT WITH GOD BY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. Something else He made us ACCEPTED. Ephesians 1, He has made us ACCEPTED
in the Beloved. We're not just acceptable. You know, something can be acceptable
and you don't want it. So what's that? I don't really want it.
But now if it's accepted, that means received. He's received
us in Christ. then let them praise his name
in the dance in the and over in the margin it says the pipes
let them sing praises unto him with a timbrel and harp someone called it a sacred dance
of joy you know first of all this is very expressive but they
used to dance david did didn't he david danced before the lord
Miriam, after they crossed the Red Sea, she danced, she danced,
she danced. Now we don't get up and dance
now, but I tell you what we do spiritually, don't we? I'm telling
you, I'm telling you, there have been many times I've sat in the
pew and I've listened to preaching and I've danced. My heart has
danced. I mean, it was hard for me to
just sit still in the pew. I'm telling you, just hard to
just sit there. Because my heart was so lifted
up and rejoiced that God saved me, that I'm part of God's family. For some reason, the Lord is
just impressing that upon me more and more lately than ever
before in my life. I'm part of God's family. Wow! I mean, that's just unimaginable. But now, here's the reason for
such exuberant High praise for the Lord taketh pleasure in his
people. God takes pleasure in you, in
Christ he sure does. He will beautify the meek with
salvation. The Lord takes pleasure in his people because here first
of all because they're his people, there he is. Do you not take
you know you had some children some of you have children had
children, YOU TAKE PLEASURE IN THEM, DON'T YOU? YOU TOOK PLEASURE
IN THEM WHEN THEY WERE GROWING UP. YOU'VE TAKEN PLEASURE IN
THEM. GOD TAKES PLEASURE IN HIS. HE
MADE THEM HIS PEOPLE. PLEASE GOD TO MAKE YOU HIS PEOPLE. PLEASE GOD, IT WAS A PLEASURE
TO GOD TO MAKE YOU HIS SONS AND DAUGHTERS. to make you that way,
to make you HIS. He takes pleasure in them because
He purchased them. God came into this world, took
upon Him flesh, and shed His own blood for His people, for
you. God shed His blood for you. That
s what it says over in Acts 20, I think it s chapter 20. HE TAKES PLEASURE IN HIS PEOPLE
BECAUSE THEY ARE BORN OF HIS SPIRIT AND PARTAKERS OF HIS DIVINE
NATURE. THAT'S NOT WRITTEN OF ANY ANGEL.
IT IS NOT WRITTEN OF ANY ANGEL THAT THEY ARE PARTAKERS OF THE
DIVINE NATURE. BUT YOU ARE. YOU ARE. HE TAKES PLEASURE, HE TAKES GREAT
DELIGHT. HE TAKES GREAT DELIGHT IN HIS
PEOPLE. He not only saves them but He
adorns them also. Whom He justifies, He glorifies. But listen to this, He takes
pleasure in His people and here's one of the evidences of His pleasure
in His people is that He BEAUTIFIES, He MAKES BEAUTIFUL. We haven't
even seen, we can't even imagine what's coming. BEAUTIFUL. He will beautify them with salvation. Salvation. Here's a promise we have relating
to this life and the life to come. He'll beautify His people
with salvation, now and forevermore. He'll beautify His people. I
thought of the prodigal son. How the father beautified him
with a robe. Remember that robe he came down and put the best
robe on him? He's coming up the road. He looks
like a vagabond. He has no shoes on because they
put shoes on his feet. They took the best robe and put
it on him. But he's coming up the road and
he's all worn and tattered. He looks like a hobo. HOMELESS! And he was! He was homeless! And the father went down and
what did he do? He took the best robe and put
it on him. Did not the father put the best
robe on us? The righteousness of his son?
Is that not the best robe? It's the best robe. He put shoes
on his feet. Are not our feet shod with the
preparation of the gospel? Does it not say that? Got the
best shoes. What about that baby cast out
into the field? He put the skirt over and he
said, live thy time is love. And he said, live. And he said,
I'm paraphrasing, her beauty's of me. Her beauty's of me. Listen to Isaiah 6.3, 61.3. TO APPOINT UNTO THEM THAT MORNING
ZION, TO GIVE UNTO THEM BEAUTY FOR ASHES, THE OIL OF JOY FOR
MORNING, THE GARMENT OF PRAISE FOR THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS,
THAT THEY MIGHT BE CALLED TREES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE PLANTING
OF THE LORD, THAT HE MIGHT BE GLORIFIED. HE WILL BEAUTIFY THEM
WITH SALVATION, NOT ONLY OF THEIR SPIRIT, BUT OF THEIR BODY." THAT NEW BODY. HE BEAUTIFIES
THEM WITH THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT. LOVE, JOY, PEACE. YOU'RE NOT
GOING TO FIND THAT IN HUMAN NATURE. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FIND THIS
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IN HUMAN NATURE. BUT YOU'RE GOING TO FIND IT IN
HIS PEOPLE. HE'S GOING TO BEAUTIFY YOU WITH IT. HE'S GOING TO DRESS
YOU UP WITH IT. HE'S GOING TO DRESS YOU UP WITH
A GARMENT OF PRAISE. THAT'S WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO. HE'S GONNA BEAUTIFY, AND HE'S
GONNA BEAUTIFY YOU WITH A MEEK AND QUIET SPIRIT. HUMBLE SPIRIT
IS WHAT THAT IS. A HUMBLE SPIRIT. REALLY, IT TAKES
GOD TO REALLY GIVE US A HUMBLE SPIRIT. A BROKEN SPIRIT. CONTRITE HEART IS OF GOD, AND
IT'S BEAUTIFUL. THERE'S NOTHING MORE UGLY THAN
PRIDE. PRIDE OF PLACE, PRIDE OF RACE, PRIDE OF GRACE. THERE'S
NOTHING MORE UGLY THAN THAT. let the saints be joyful in glory
let them sing aloud upon their beds let them let the saints be joyful
in the in this let them let them be joyful in the glory of their
relationship to god sons as i've already mentioned it sons I think
if we really, really looked at each other and understood, you
and I are brothers and sisters in Christ, we wouldn't say another
negative word about anybody, would we? That's my brother! That's my sister! Or that we would understand what
this means. Let the saints, the sanctified, set-apart ones, be
joyful in glory. Let them sing aloud upon their
beds. Some read it like this. Let them be joyful in HIS glory,
in the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ as our Mediator, as our
High Priest, as our Prophet, Priest, and King, as our Sacrifice,
as our All-in-all. Let us glory in HIS glory. Paul said, God forbid that I
should glory save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. Let's
glory in Him. WHO WAS CRUCIFIED FOR US, HE
WAS EXECUTED FOR US. EVERY ONE OF US WAS ON DEATH
ROW, SOME STILL ARE, AND SOME WILL STAY THAT WAY, SOME WILL
STAY THAT WAY. But brethren, God took us off
death row and Jesus Christ stepped in our place. You really ever see yourself
that kind of criminal? Have you ever really seen yourself as
somebody on death row? You know when someone's on death
row, when they're on death row, you know, they have committed
the worst of crimes. You know that. Every one of us
was on death row. And the Lord set us free. He
set the prisoner, the prisoner on death row free. WE GLORY IN HIM AS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN
SON OF GOD. FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH. AND THEN LISTEN HE SAID LET THEM
SING ALOUD UPON THEIR BED. BEDTIME IS REFLECTION TIME. YOU FIND THAT OUT MORE AND MORE?
I DO. I LOOK FORWARD TO BEDTIME. I
DO. TURN THAT TV OFF. night is quiet except for our
family I go I can lay there for I most of the time I lay there
for a minimum of an hour and I'll wake up probably an hour
an hour and a half before I actually get up and I lay there and I
think in the quiet of that room I lay there and I think upon
the Lord. I think of this message. Once
I start thinking of the message, there is no going back to sleep.
Now listen, bedtime is reflection time for the blessing of the
day. Isn't it? God blessed you today. He blessed
me today. Bedtime is a good time to reflect
upon that. Worship does not stop when the
sun goes down. It doesn't stop when the sun
goes down. You lay down, you thank the Lord, you just sing
to Him from your heart. And we will rest, someone said
this, I like what he said. We will rest from our labors
one day, but never from our praise of the Lord. That's a beautiful
statement. We're going to rest from our
labors, but never from our praise of the Lord. And then this thought
is really the one that really hit me. When the saints lie down
on their deathbed, when they take the deathbed and they're
not going to get up, let them sing aloud for they're
about to enter paradise. Today shalt thou be with me in
paradise. I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT IT'S LIKE
TO BE ABOUT TO ENTER PARADISE. AND HE SAID WHEN THEY'RE UP ON
THEIR BED, LET THEM SING ALOUD. WE DON'T HAVE TO SCREAM AND CRY
AND CARRY ON LIKE I'VE HEARD. IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU WANT TO
HEAR. BUT TO SING HIS PRAISES, SING
HIS PRAISES. MARVIN TOLD ME, MARVIN STONICER. At their last conference, I was
in Kingsport. He's telling me when his wife
passed away, it was several years ago when she died of cancer.
He said, I've never seen anybody in my life so happy and so giddy. And she said, Marvin, and I'm
going to have to paraphrase, but she said, I just feel so
bad for you. I feel so bad for you having
to stay here. I'm getting to leave. He said it was an experience
for him and he'll never forget that she was so happy and joyful
as she was getting ready to leave but sad for him that he had to
stay. Or that God give us such a death. And then to close this out, until
then, WE ARE IN A HOLY WAR, WE ARE IN A HOLY WAR, SPIRITUAL
WARFARE IS WHAT WE'RE IN. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST IS OUR
COMMANDER IN CHIEF AND HIS WORD IS OUR WEAPON OF CHOICE. LET
THE HIGH PRAISES OF GOD BE IN THEIR MOUTH AS WE GO OUT TO BATTLE,
AS WE PREACH THE GOSPEL, AS WE PREACH THE GOSPEL. LET THE HIGH
PRAISE OF GOD BE IN THEIR MOUTH AND A TWO-EDGED SWORD IN THEIR
HANDS. Praise and power go together. Praise and power, praise and
work, praise and battle, praise and worship, they all go together.
And the believer s weapon is God s Word, that two-edged sword. Our weapon is not carnal. The
Word of God is not carnal, it s mighty to the pulling down
of strongholds. israel was told i got to read
let me read this to you jehoshaphat you remember him jehoshaphat
getting ready to do battle second chronicles 20 verse 21 22 i believe
it's the syrian army and he's praying and seeking the lord
and here's what the lord said and when he had consulted with
the people he appointed singers unto the lord that should praise
the beauty of holiness they're about ready to go out to battle
okay you're gonna you're gonna go out and fight a a large army
the syrian i think it's syrian army army and here's what you're gonna
do you're gonna sing you're gonna sing THAT SHOULD PRAISE THE BEAUTY
OF HOLINESS. Can you imagine being laying sick on the bed
and here you are singing at the battle? You're standing there
struggling, sick, and you're going to sing. THAT SHOULD PRAISE THE BEAUTY
OF HOLINESS. And they went out before the army and to say, PRAISE
THE LORD. This is how you're going to fight
the battle. You're going to say, PRAISE THE
LORD. FOR HIS MERCY ENDURETH FOREVER."
And when they began to sing and to praise, the Lord set ambushments
against the children of Ammon, that's who it was, Ammon, Moab,
and Mount Seir, which were come against Judah, and they were
smitten. What were they told to do? Just
sing and praise the Lord. This battle's not yours, He said,
it's BUT I WANT YOU TO DO SOMETHING, I WANT YOU TO GO UP, I WANT YOU
TO WALK UP IN FRONT OF THIS ARMY, I DON'T WANT YOU TO GO HIDE BEHIND
TREES, I WANT YOU TO WALK UP IN FRONT OF THIS ARMY, AND I
WANT YOU TO START SINGING. I HAVE TO IMAGINE THAT AT FIRST,
THE ARMY IS LIKE, BOY, IN THE WORLD THEY DO IT, AND GOD KILLED THEM. BLESSED IS HE THAT SINGS IN HIS
WORK. And the two-edged sword here,
as I said, is the Word of God. Now let me read Hebrews 4.12.
For the Word of God is quick and powerful. See, I don't need
to beg people to come down here to the front. I don't need to
beg anybody to accept Jesus as their personal Savior. I don't
need to beg you to do anything. Because the Word of God is powerful,
and if He sends it to you in power, you can't resist it. It's going to conquer you. All he needs to do is speak,
speak Lord. For the word of God is quick
and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing
even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the
joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart. I can take a sword and I can cut your heart open
and all I'm going to see is blood. God takes His word, cuts it open,
He sees everything. Every thought, every intent. He sees exactly who you and I
are. And He does it with His word.
I can't tell you how many times, and you who believe, you've experienced
this, how many times I've sat in the service and Henry's preached
and it felt like it was just me. There was nobody else in
that room. It was just me and I went home just like i was slain
i mean just paul speaks of it as the word
of god which worketh effectually in you god's words a living word
it's not a dead book he says to the thessalonians he says
the gospel came to you not in word only but in power and demonstration
of the Spirit. And you know what happened? They
forsook their idols and they followed Paul. They followed
the apostles. Revelation 1.16 And he had in his right hand
seven stars, and out of his mouth, this is the Lord Jesus Christ,
out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword, and his countenance
was as the sun shining in his strength. But out of his mouth
went that two-edged sword. Who'd he spoke? That's his word.
I'm telling you, if he speaks to you and me tonight, his word
will get the job done. His word will. If he ever speaks
to you, it will. in verse 7 and to execute vengeance
upon the heathen and punishment upon the people. Now this happened
physically when Israel went into the promised land, they ran out
all those people, they conquered those people that were in Canaan.
But spiritually when the gospel was preached, judgments executed,
sinners are saved, Satan is cast out. John is the Lord said in
John 12 31 now is the judgment of this world now shall the prince
of this world be cast out it could be Because there's several
pieces people that listen to this live stream it could be
That God's could send forth his word and he could cast Satan
out of somebody tonight And you and and they believe they believe
God they fall at his feet they seek the Lord they repent and
Boy, I tell you, we're in a spiritual warfare and our weapon is the
Word of God. And if He speaks, I tell you
what, the power of darkness will be broken. It'll be broken. You can't break it. I can't break
the power of darkness. I didn't want to. I didn't even
want to. But He gave me the want to and
He broke it. He broke it. like he cast those
demons out he said come out of him and don't enter him no more
satan had me and everyone here satan had us we were children
of darkness we were children of wrath by
nature even as others ephesians chapter 2 and he broke that power he commanded satan to leave the
house he's mine this one's mine and i also know this that rejection
of the gospel bring in eternal damnation to some it's gonna
bring eternal damnation to some They said, Let His blood be on
us and on our children. Now brethren, the blood of Christ
could be on you to save you or it will be on you to damn you.
It will be one or the other. To bind kings with chains and
their nobles with fetters of iron. When I read that, I read it several
times. BUT I THOUGHT HOW BINDING THE
GOSPEL IS, THAT'S THE FINAL THOUGHT THAT CAME TO ME, HOW BINDING
THE GOSPEL IS. MATTHEW 16, 19, NOW THE CATHOLICISM IS MESSED
UP, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST TAKE IT COMPLETELY OUT OF PROPORTION,
BUT LISTEN TO WHAT THE LORD SAYS, I BELIEVE IT'S TO PETER, I GIVE
UNTO THEE THE KEYS OF THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, AND WHATSOEVER THOU
SHALT BIND ON EARTH SHALL BE BOUND IN HEAVEN, AND WHATSOEVER
THOU SHALT LOOSE ON EARTH SHALL BE LOOSED IN HEAVEN. THE GOSPEL
THAT I PREACH WILL EITHER BIND YOU OR LOOSE YOU. IT WILL BRING
YOU INTO JUDGEMENT AND IT WILL RISE UP IN JUDGEMENT AGAINST
YOU OR IT WILL SET YOU FREE. THAT'S HOW IMPORTANT IT IS PREACHING
THE GOSPEL. THIS IS NO LIGHT MATTER. YOU
HEARING THE GOSPEL IS NO LIGHT MATTER. NO LIGHT MATTER. I BELIEVE WHAT
ROLF BARNHAM SAID, IF YOU NEVER BELIEVED THE GOSPEL if you you'd
be better off to get on the plane go to the far farthest side of
the earth go to the darkest part of the earth get in the darkest
cave you can get in and stay there because the gospel is a
saver of life and the life to some and a saver of death under
death to some i give you an example Paul standing before King Agrippa.
Who is the prisoner there? King Agrippa. Paul has got shackles,
iron shackles, but Agrippa has shackles of darkness. Paul standing
there a free man in the Lord even though he's got chains on
him. Agrippa standing there a man under judgment. Paul standing
there preaching, Agrippa sitting there shaking, trembling. Felix trembled. Agrippa said, Almost thou persuadest
me to be a Christian. I believe it was Felix that did
the trembling. Herod, John said, It is not right for
you to have your Brother's wife, who's the real prisoner there?
John or Herod? He cut John's head off, he had
him beheaded. John lost his head but he didn't
lose his life. Herod ended up in hell, died
a miserable death, ate up with worms. and to execute upon them the
judgment written. This honor have all his saints.
We will be there, I do believe this, we will be there at the
judgment seat and give full agreement to the condemnation of those
whom the Lord cast into hell. You know Paul said this, no you
not, let me see where I wrote that down, 1 Corinthians 6. Do you not know that the saints
shall judge the world? They'll be right there with the
Lord at the judgment. And if the world be judged by
you, then are you unworthy to judge in the smallest matters?
That's having a problem, but he said, Saints won't judge the
world. They won't judge the world. Turn over to Revelation 20, and
I want to close. Revelation 20, to execute judgment. And this, he said, is an honor. You know, grace or the execution
of grace or the execution of God's justice is an honor. It's
an honor. Let me see what verse I've got
written down here. 11, let me look at what am I at here? Verse chapter 20. Verse 11, And I saw a great white throne,
and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the
heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. I saw the dead, small and great,
stand before God. And the books were opened, and
another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the
dead were judged out of those things which were written in
the books according to their works. And the sea gave up the
dead which were in it, and death and hell delivered up THE DEAD
WHICH WERE IN THEM, AND THEY WERE JUDGED EVERY MAN ACCORDING
TO THEIR WORKS, AND DEATH AND HELL WERE CAST INTO THE LAKE
OF FIRE. THIS IS THE SECOND DEATH, AND
WHOSOEVER WAS NOT FOUND WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST
INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE." Judgment will be executed and God's people,
God's people will be right there with the Lord Jesus Christ who
is the judge of the quick and the dead, and when He casts the
wicked into hell, HIS PEOPLE ARE GOING TO SHOUT HALLELUJAH,
HALLELUJAH. THE HIGH PRAISE OF GOD, HE DESERVES
THE HIGHEST PRAISE THAT WE CAN GIVE HIM. I MEAN THE HIGHEST,
THE UNORDINARY, SPECIAL, SPECIAL PRAISE.