Turn back to Psalm 98. I'm going
to look at seven reasons to sing unto the Lord, to praise Him. We can come up with more reasons
than that, I must hope. I'm going to pick all seven out
of this psalm tonight. before us is titled a psalm. It is a psalm written no doubt
by David because David his name was the last one written on the
psalm and then the psalms after that that have no name are referred
back to David. And he just titled this a psalm.
It's a fitting psalm. This psalm can be used in every
worship service. It can be used in every worship
service. It's a very fitting psalm. It's a beautiful psalm. It's a psalm that glorifies our
Lord as our psalms and our praise is to His glory. I want to learn
how to praise God here. I want to be a happy I want it
to be a habit and I just want it to, I want it to increase
when I enter into his presence. But I want to do it here. And
I want, I really and truly, I want to, and I want you, I want this
for you too. I want you and me to be able
to honestly, in truth, to praise God from the heart. I mean to
sing, to sing praises unto him from the heart. And then one
day when we go into his presence, it'll just be that much better. It'll be that much better. But
this psalm glorifies our Lord and it comforts. It comforts
and it encourages God's people. For he has gotten the victory. It says he has gotten it. He's
not trying to get the victory. You know, the Lord is not trying
to subdue all things unto Himself. He is subduing all things unto
Himself. And I was thinking of that today. And I was thinking He is subduing
all things to Himself. Even me. Even now. I have believed the Gospel for
over 40 years now. And the Lord is still subduing
me. He's still bringing me underneath His wing. He's bringing me around
to see and understand more and more of His will in any matter. In any matter, it's better that
His will be done. Not my will, but Thy will be
done. Now that's easy to say when the sun is shining. When
the sun's shining, that's easy to say. But now when you're about
to When you're looking into the face of a loved one that the
Lord's maybe about to take, that's not so easy. Well, let me say
it this way. That puts a lot of weight to
it. When he's taking from you, the Lord giveth and the Lord
taketh. Now that has a lot of weight
when he's taking. When he's giving, it's like, you know, it's like
we like receiving, don't we? But when he's taking, That puts
the weight to it. Thy will be done. But this psalm
is a comforting psalm. It's an encouraging psalm. And
it starts on a good note. Oh, sing. Oh, like the oh my
soul. Sing unto the Lord a new song. I was driving today. And as I was driving, I noticed
the trees. just waving back and forth. And
I thought about the latter part of this psalm where they thought
about clapping their hands and let the trees and the sea and
the whole of creation that God made praise Him, worship Him. And that psalm, our first psalm,
This is My Father's Word, I just started singing it out loud in
my truck because nobody's there so I could do that. But I did, I started singing
it out loud in my truck as I drove down the road. This is my father's
world. And as I sang it, the comfort that I was getting from
that was just of the Lord. It was of the Lord. It was just
great comfort to me to know that I'm driving on my father's road. I live on my father's earth.
You know, I'm not, I thought, my, what a blessing. And what's coming? What's coming,
I mean, this is a blessing, even with all the sin in this world,
with all the sin in it, it's still a beautiful earth, isn't
it? It's still beautiful. And He still gives us sunshine.
And we still have great days. We do, we still have great days.
But look at, think of the day that's coming. Think of the day
that's coming. If this is, if we're having a
good day today, think of what's coming. Oh, sing unto the Lord
a new song. Sing praises unto the Lord. We should always, listen, this
new song here that we sing, it's the song of the redeemed, worthy
is the Lamb. It's the songs that we sing unto
the Lord. It's the songs of redemption. It's the songs of praise to Him.
They should always be fresh. And we should always sing them
enthusiastically. One of the fears that I have,
and I have a few fears, and one of the fears that I have is growing
cold. I have a fear of growing indifferent.
I have a fear of getting, that song we sing, we get too easily
taken up with the toys of this world, the toys of this life.
They get our attention. And I know, I had a business
for 25 years, I know how I can get absorbed in it. I could. I could get absorbed in it. And
I fear this. I fear this for me. And I fear
this for you because you have the same nature I have. You have
the same old nature I was born with. And if we're not careful,
we can just grow cold and indifferent and singing these songs with
just words on a page. They should never be words on
a page. No more than the Bible is just words on a page. These
are not words on a page. This is God's Word. The psalm
I just read to you, did you realize that God is speaking to you?
God Almighty is speaking to you through His Word. If I wrote
you a letter and I smelled it to you and you opened it up and
you're reading it, that's me speaking to you. This book is
God speaking to us. So we should always sing with
enthusiasm unto the Lord. The songs of redemption should
always be new to the redeemed. Always knew. The Word of God
is. You say, well, I've read that
before. I like what Henry said one time when a man told him.
He said, I heard that message before. I heard you preach it
before. I've told you this. Henry said, no, you haven't.
He said, ah, yes, I have. I heard you preach it. I heard
you. Henry said, no, you haven't.
I just preached it. I could preach from the same
scripture over and over again. I'm going to say some of the
same things. You know why? Because they don't change. But boy, I
see things new all the time. I couldn't tell you how many
times I told my pastor, first time I've ever seen that. Or
if I had seen it, it was new to me again. It was fresh. It
was like the Lord just, you know, like, you know, there's some
food I never get tired of. I grew up on fried potatoes and
pinto beans. You can make that for me seven
days a week. I did have Vicki when we were
first married, making that seven days a week. She said she got tired of it.
I'm tired of this. I'm not. And that's the Word
of God. We never get tired of it. Because
it's always fresh. Now here's, I'm going to give
you seven reasons. First of all, for he hath done
marvelous things. Marvelous, great. The word marvelous
here is great things. He has done wonderful things. Has God saved you? Boy, I had
to sit back and think about this one. This one settled in on me.
I said, John, do you believe God has saved you? What a wonderful
thing. God saved my soul. Do you know
what he had to do in order to do that? He couldn't just say
you're saved. You know what he had to do. He
had to come into this world, take my place, die in my place,
die in my stead, under the curse of the law that was on me, his
law. He died under the curse of his
own law that was on me. Hell. Whatever hell is, he took
my hell. Marvelous. Marvelous. We ought to stand in awe. We ought to stand and marvel
at the grace of God that chose us, loved us, chose
us, called us, died for us, redeemed us, saved us, got the victory
and is going to take us home. It's all of Him. And I don't
have to do a thing. It's all of God. He has done
marvelous things. When you look at God's creation,
does it make you marvel? You know, it baffles scientists. Scientists look at creation and
they're baffled with it. They go back and they'll try
to explain things away. They'll grab a few billion years
here, a few billion years there, because they know you can't check
that out. But you know what I see? I see
a marvelous creation. Marvelous. Great, wonderful. Now, what do you think that new
creation is going to be like? I'm excited. You know, I feel
an excitement about it as I get older. This is more real to me
than ever. It's literally more real to me
than it ever has been before. His providence. Now, he makes
it work out, how he makes him providence work everything together,
prior good, everything. But that's just amazing. But
most of all, He's given us a marvelous Savior. God, David said, God has become
my salvation. God is my Savior. In Psalm 118,
22, the stone which the builders refused has become the headstone
of the corner. This is the Lord's doing and
it is marvelous, it says, marvelous in our eyes. It is great. It
is wonderful. It is marvelous in our eyes.
Unto us a child is born. Unto us a son is given. The government's
upon His shoulders. His name is wonderful. Counselor
of the mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
What a wonderful, marvelous person He is. And He's my Savior. He's my Savior. Listen to 1 Samuel
12, 24. Only fear the Lord. Only fear the Lord and serve
Him in truth, in sincerity, and in the truth according to the
Scriptures. With all your heart. That's been on my mind lately.
Seek the Lord with all your heart. Serve Him with all your heart.
And I'm thinking, Lord, have I ever really done that? Have
I ever really done it with all my heart? Give me a heart to
do it. That's my prayer. That's what
I do. I ask Him to give me a heart to do it. For consider, Samuel
said, for consider how great things He hath done for you.
He put away your sin. You didn't ask Him to put your
sin away, did you? You didn't ask God to choose you. You didn't
raise your hand. You didn't raise your hand and
ask God to choose you. You didn't ask God to have mercy on you.
Not at first. No. Oh, consider how great things
He's done for you. He put your sins away. He's made
you a son of God. Now are you the sons of God? Now. We need to keep that in our minds
and in our hearts when we walk out this door. When we walk out
of our door in the morning, wherever we go, we are children of God,
wherever we go. Consider how great things he's
done for you. Put your sins away, made you
his son. Now listen, you have a great
future ahead of you. Isn't that what all these commencement
speeches, you know, here we have these graduations in these colleges,
especially these college graduations. And what is it? They tell every
one of them, you have a great future ahead of you. If you don't
know Christ, you do not have a great future ahead of you,
period. That wouldn't get me on a commencement stage, would
it? They wouldn't ask me to give a commencement speech. Apart
from Jesus Christ, you do not have a great future. You don't
have one. You don't have one. But with Christ, you have a great
future, you have a new life, a new body, a new heaven, a new
earth. Our Lord said, Behold, I make
all things new. All things. Here's a second reason
to praise Him and sing praises unto Him. His right hand and
His holy arm have gotten Him the victory It's not me and Him. Me and Him didn't do this. I didn't help Him at all. Zero
help. He got zero help from me. His right hand and His holy arm
has gotten Him to victory. His right hand and holy arm is
Jesus Christ to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed in Isaiah
53. The arm of the Lord is Jesus
Christ. He got the victory. He has, listen,
He's not trying to get it. He's not still trying to get
the victory. He's not still trying to win the battle. He's won it.
It's over. He's subduing. He's gotten the
victory over sin. There was no other way in heaven
or earth to put away sin except by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. He has put away all the sins
of all his people, all the elect, he's put them away, they're gone.
And one day he's gonna cast sin, Satan, the ungodly, the wicked,
he's gonna cast them into hell and they will never, ever be
released. That'll never come up again.
Sin will never ever be a problem again. Satan will never ever
tempt again. He'll be locked up into that
lake of fire. He'll never come out of it. Ever,
ever, ever. He never will. The Lord Jesus Christ hath gotten
the victory over sin, over Satan, over the curse of the law, over
death. What's the one thing hanging
over everybody's head? I mean throughout this whole world,
every person on this world, in this world. Death. Everyone on this earth knows
one thing. Sooner or later, they're going
to die. But you who believe don't have
to. He's gotten the victory over death. Ours is a transfiguration. Ours is a translation. We get to just leave here and
go there. We will never taste of death because He has tasted
death for every man. That's every man whom He represented,
He has tasted death for them. He's gotten the victory over
death. Listen, in Romans 8, 37, They in all these things we are
more than conquerors through him that loved us Because he
has gotten the victory that's why we're conquering more than
conquerors He's loved us. He said in Isaiah 42 1 my servants
shall not fail He'll bring forth victory under just victory Here's the third reason In verse
two, the Lord hath made known his salvation. Not only did he
come into this world and he accomplished salvation, he accomplished redemption. He cried, it is finished. It's finished. But that's not
all. I mean, it's finished. It's nothing
for us to do, but listen, he's also made it known. What He finished,
He has made known. Has He made it known to you?
Has God made it known to you? Has He made His salvation known
to you? Has Jesus Christ really been
revealed to your heart? As Paul said, in me. The Lord has revealed His salvation
by the incarnation of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
The Son of God, listen here, in 1 John 5, 20. And we know
that the Son of God is come. He's come in the flesh. And hath
given us an understanding. You understand the gospel. You
understand how God can be a just God and a Savior. You understand
it. That we may know Him that is
true. Now listen, that's more than
knowing about Him. That's more than just knowing
about this man named Jesus Christ. You know Him. There's a relationship. That we may know Him, that is
true. And we are in Him, that is true. We not only know Him,
we are in Him. Spiritually in Him. Even in His
Son, Jesus Christ. This is the true God and eternal
life. And then we know, listen, He
has made it known to us by the Holy Spirit in revealing Christ
in us, not just to us, but in us. And I want you to listen
to what Paul says, and this is interesting how he said it. But
when it pleased God, Galatians 1.15, but when it pleased God,
who separated me from my mother's womb and called me by His grace
to reveal His Son in me. That's why you cannot help but
believe. That's why you cannot help but believe because the
Spirit of Christ is in you. And you can't help but believe.
You understand it because the light, Christ said, I am the
light and the light is in you. The light's in you. That's why
you have been illuminated. Your understanding has been illuminated.
Your eyes, you've been given spiritual eyes to see. Ears to
hear. You're going to hear, not just
me, you don't hear just me, but you're going to hear the Lord
speaking to your heart. It's real conviction. You know,
when you hear a message, it thrills your heart, and sometimes it
really convicts you. It pricks your heart. That's because He's revealing
Himself to you. He's revealing truth to you.
He's making Himself known to you. Listen to what our Lord says
about the Holy Spirit in John 16, 15. All things that the Father
hath are mine. They're all mine. Therefore said
I that He, the Holy Spirit, which is God, shall take of mine and
show it to you. You know what? He's still showing
it to me. He's still showing it to me. And it's sad that I don't see
more of it, and that's my fault. I realize this. I could know
more than I know if I would seek the Lord more. I know that. And
that's sad that we don't do that. We should be totally obsessed
with knowing Him. And then listen. He's made it
known to us through the preaching of the gospel. You have the preaching
of the gospel here every week. What, three times a week? You know how merciful God is
to do that? He does it, first of all, for
the honor of His Son and for the edifying and good of His
children that are here. You have the gospel every week.
You're fed the bread from heaven every week. Here's a fourth reason His righteousness
hath he openly showed in the sight of the heathen his righteousness
hath he openly revealed You know, there's still people
many people out there going about to try and trying to establish
their own righteousness You got a whole nation over there called
Israel trying to establish their own righteousness that whole
nation is trying to But you're not. I'm not. Because God has revealed that
righteousness by which we are saved and by which we are accepted.
And it's the righteousness of God which is in Jesus Christ. It's His righteousness. God has
revealed His righteousness. Now listen, to the heathen. Have
any of you heathens seen the righteousness of God? I, this
heathen has. I tell you what, before God saved
me, I was a heathen. I believe I could say that. I
believe I could say I was a stinking heathen. And I believe you could
say it too. If not, then you're just stinking
self-righteous. You're just one or the other. You're either a
heathen or self-righteous. But God has revealed His righteousness. That righteousness that Jesus
Christ brought out by His life and death, that righteousness,
Righteousness by which we are justified. And some of us have
seen it. God has revealed it to us openly,
clearly, not in a corner, not in secret, but openly revealed
it to us. Paul said this in Romans 1 16,
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power
of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it, to the Jew first
and also to the Greek. For therein In the gospel, the
gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ is the righteousness of God revealed. It's revealed from faith to faith,
one degree of faith to another. It is written that just shall
live by faith. But in the gospel is the righteousness of God revealed.
That righteousness by which we are saved, by which we are accepted,
and no other place is it revealed. You cannot know it and understand
it anywhere else. You can't understand it in the
law. You can't understand it out there in nature, walk around
in the woods. You can only understand it through
the preaching of the gospel and the Holy Spirit reveals it to
you. You're in need of it. And that there is a righteousness
of which we can be saved. And it's His righteousness. The
righteousness of the Son of God. And then here's the fifth reason.
Here's a fifth reason. He hath remembered his mercy
and his truth toward the house of Israel. What God has promised,
he will perform. He will perform. Now, sometimes
it seems like, sometimes it seems like that he's forgotten. I believe
it was David said, is your mercy clean gone? No. No, God would have to cease to
exist for his mercy to be clean gone. He has remembered his mercy and
his truth. The promises he made to Abraham,
the forefathers, he remembers those. He remembers them in that
he brings them to pass. God remembers his promises. He sent the gospel to Israel
first, didn't he? Did he not send it to them first?
To the Jew first and also to the Gentile? It was preached
to them first and many, think about this now. You know, we
see Israel over there now that has nothing to do with the Lord
Jesus Christ. They hate him as much as they
did then. But you know thousands of them
were saved at Pentecost? There was 3,000 of Pentecost.
And then there was over 5,000. Thousands of them were saved. Thousands over there in Israel
were saved. There was a strong church there
at one time. God remembered His mercy and His truth to Abraham,
to Israel, to Jacob. He remembered that. God is faithful. Whatever God has promised, God
will do. Just take God at His Word. One
of the best ways to pray, and I'm no expert on prayer, but one of
the best ways to pray is to take His Word to Him. Lord, You said,
You said, He that comes to You, You will know why it's cast out.
You said, Come unto Me. Lord, You said, Come unto Me. All ye that labor and heavy laden,
And I'll give you rest. Lord, I come. Upon your word,
I come. Oh, he's remembered his mercy.
God, he's faithful to his promises. He's faithful to his people.
And listen. Here's another reason. It says
he has remembered his mercy and his truth toward the house of
Israel. And all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation
of our God. He's also sent the gospel to
us. He sent the gospel to us. How long the gospel will be here?
I don't know. Only God knows. Only God knows. All you got to do is look at
history. Just look at history. It's like a wave in the ocean.
It comes and through and then it just moves on. But the gospel never leaves a
place. It never leaves a place without
it being the fault of that place. Just go over and read the letters
of the seven churches. Salvation has come to the Gentiles. The gospel has gone throughout
all the earth. Many have seen it with eyes of
faith. He says here, and all the ends
of the earth have seen the salvation of God. I thought about this
when I read that again just before coming out here. All the ends
of the earth have seen the salvation of our God. There were some who saw the salvation
of God lying in a manger. There were some who saw Romans
and Jews, Gentiles and Jews, Samaritans. They saw God. Think about this. They saw God
in human flesh walking down the street. Over there in Jerusalem,
God Almighty walked down the streets of that place over there.
They saw. Now some of them actually saw
the salvation of God. Simeon did. Didn't he hold him
up in his arms? He said, now let thy servant
depart. I have seen thy salvation. I brought a message one time
with this title. I looked for it here some time ago and I couldn't
find it. When is it a good day to die? When is it a good day to die?
I'll tell you when. When you see the salvation of
God in the face of Jesus Christ, that's a good day to die. Simeon
said, now let me depart. I have seen thy salvation. Let
me die. All the ends of the earth have
seen it. They saw him in a manger. They saw him walk down the streets
of Jerusalem. They saw him hanging on a cross. They saw the God-man, Jesus Christ,
hanging on a cross 2,000 years ago over there in Jerusalem,
over there outside the gates of it, on a hill called Golgotha. They saw that man, Jesus Christ,
hanging there. They saw him. God's salvation.
But some really saw him. That thief on the cross did,
didn't he? Lord, remember me. when you come into that, when
you come into your kingdom. He saw him. There were some who
saw him and they didn't know it, but there were some who saw
him and they knew it. God gave him eyes. They gave
that thief right there one of them. Mary Magdalene's another
one. I mean, you can just go on, the
apostles, the disciples, and you know, when our Lord raised
from the dead, there was 500, you know there was 500 other bodies
that came up out of the grave? There was 500 other people. that
believed, and I thought to myself, this, this was, this astounded
me. When he rose from the grave,
only 500, only 500 rose up with him. I thought surely there'd have
been more than that, but only 500. I don't know. It was a thought. Those are the
things that go through my head. I thought that's a small number
for all those all that preaching that went on over there and all
this tights and all the everything they've ever had and then they
only 500 in that area. I'm not going to make anything
out of just to me, it just seemed like a small number. And then listen, they saw him
in Jerusalem, they saw him hanging on a cross and throughout the
world. Some have seen Him in the gospel,
in the preaching of the gospel. He's been revealed. He's been
revealed. Now, make a joyful noise. Has
God saved you? Has God saved you? Make a joyful
noise unto the Lord, all the earth. Make a loud noise, sometimes, and rejoice and sing praise.
Now listen. I know we have to have order
in our service. I know that. I know that. Sometimes I think we might be
just a little too dead. See, I'm serious. We might be
just a little too reserved. I'm reserved. That's the way
I was raised. I was raised by my parents to
be seen and not heard. So you don't hear me saying things
out loud because I was just raised, you know, they could take all
seven of us to anywhere and you wouldn't know we were in the
house. And, you know, train a child up in your way, you'd have them
to go and they don't depart from it. There's a lot of truth in
that. There's truth in that. When I was reading this, this
is those who, those who, even if we don't, If we don't do it
out loud, and we keep order, surely to goodness we can do
it in our hearts. Surely our hearts ought to be rejoicing,
be like Elizabeth when Mary walked in the room, John the Baptist
leaped in her womb. I'm telling you, there's been
some times I wanted to stand up and clap. I wouldn't dare
do it, but I wanted to do it. David danced before the Lord.
If David came into this room right now, dancing, what do you
think we'd think of him? We'd think, well, get that nut
out of him. We'd probably think like his wife. Oh, he just showed
himself off before the women. He said, I'm just gonna... He
was so happy. He was so thrilled that he literally
danced before the Lord. Let's be careful that we don't
become too so reserved that we that we can't really rejoice
Now we can't really you know afraid to make a noise right
to say amen Salvation has come look over
an Isaiah 44 I Think I marked that's over. Yeah Isaiah 44 Listen
to this Isaiah 44, 23, Sing, O ye heavens,
for the Lord hath done it. He's not going to do it. He hath
done it. Shout. What did they do when they marched
around Jericho? They blew the trumpet. What did
they do? They shouted. They shouted victory. 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. My soul! I
wonder, God, if we can get a hold of what Christ has done for us. My! I hope I don't grow older
and less interested. I hope that doesn't happen to
me. I've seen it happen. And listen, verse five, sing
unto the Lord with a harp, and with a harp, and with the voice
of a psalm. Use all the gifts and talents
that the Lord has given to us to praise Him. Use them all. Use them all in a worshipful
manner to praise Him. I know a lady that left the gospel
church. She left it because they played
the guitar. Well, this will really make her
Go nuts. The harp, the flute, the horn,
my soul. And listen here, it was the voice
of a psalm. How many times do we read throughout
the scriptures of psalms being sung in times of trouble or in
times of worship, in times of praise? Listen, when Israel returned
from exile, what'd they do? They sang psalms. When Jesus
Christ was betrayed, the night he was betrayed, what did he
do with his disciples? He sang a song. When Paul and
Silas, when they were chained in the dungeon, what did they
do? They sang a song. What did Paul tell the church
to do at Ephesus in Colossae? He says here, teach and admonish
one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Roll the window up in your car
and sing a song. Sing a song. I had mine rolled
down. Just the wind, just the wind,
it was God's wind. It was His air and the trees
were, I just, it just made my day. It made my day. Listen, admonish one another
in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. And listen, do it with praise
that is worthy of the King of heaven and earth. In verse 6,
with trumpets and sound of cornet, make a joyful noise before the
Lord the King. You know, back in, especially
in those days when the king was coming in, it was loud. It was
loud. They were blowing those trumpets.
They were, they were, I mean, it was a, it was a to do. It
was a to do. We are to make, we are to make
known with joyful sound the triumphs of Zion's king. I'm, I'm, I'm thrilled to be
preaching here tonight. I'm thrilled to be able to tell
you this tonight. I am I'm excited about it. It's all about King Jesus And then listen now he's it was
it was let Israel praise him Let the earth pray and let all
the ends of the earth praise him now. It's let creation praising
Let all of creation join in the praise of our Lord who has brought
us salvation You know it says over in Corinthians that creation
itself groans waiting for the manifestations of the sons of
God to be delivered? Creation itself is going to be
delivered from the bondage of sin that Adam brought in and
we have perpetuated. Let the sea roar and the fullness
of it, all the fish and all the whales. You ever hear those whale
songs? You reckon they're like the birds?
They're singing to the Lord. They're trying to figure out
all these... Why are they singing this? Why do they sound like
that? The Lord gave them a tune. Let the sea roar and the fullness
thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. Let the floods
clap their hands. Oh, let them clap their hands.
Let the hills be joyful together. Here's what I see. Harmony. Can you imagine the harmony on
that new earth when this is over and we're standing in glory and
all the redeemed are singing in harmony? You're not thinking
about work, you're not thinking about this, you're not thinking
about that. It's just harmony singing with a full heart. One writer said, sing lustily. That's what he said. Sing lustily. With all the heart and fiber
of your being. Let the floods clap their hands.
Let the hills be joyful together. The deliverer has come. before
the Lord, for He cometh to judge the earth with righteousness,
shall He judge the world and the people with equity. He's
coming to judge. That's a cause of celebration
for us, isn't it? I'll be glad. I'll be glad when
I quit, when I don't do no more funerals. I'll be glad not to
do that again, whenever that day comes. As Henry said, I'll
be glad when we quit dying. We don't have to do this no more.
But I'll be glad when all sin, all that hate God are gone. They're
gone. It's over. There are times I
catch myself saying with the scriptures, come quickly Lord
Jesus, come. Put an end to this. Put an end
to this God-hating world. Put an end to it. The church looks forward, and
I'm gonna close. The church looks forward to his coming. To his
coming and to him to judge, to wrap this up, and to do so with
in righteousness. In righteousness. Who with righteousness
shall he judge the world? That man, Jesus Christ. All judgment's
been committed to him, and he's gonna judge the world in righteousness.
And the people with equity, equity. Charles Spurgeon said this, and
I close. This is the joy of it. No tyrant, no weakling is he
to oppress the good or to indulge the vain. His law is good, his
action right, his government the embodiment of justice. And
we rejoice in it.