Good morning, brethren. Good
morning. We will again turn to Psalm 24. Psalm 24. This may be the longer message,
but this is absolutely needful for us to get the second message.
These are going in order. I did it that way. I tended to
be real short in the first one and long in the second one, but
I got some new tools in my toolbox today. I've been here a long
time watching men of old with their toolboxes and I'm learning
how to Which hammer do you use? Sometimes you need a claw hammer,
sometimes you need a ball peen, right? Different things do different
ways, so hopefully this'll work out good for us. In your bulletins,
you'll notice there's another bulletin. I like to have an article
that just spoke to me. I needed to hear that. I need
that encouragement to me from Brother Paul's bulletin, that
instead of trying to piece, mill, and get it in there, I just put
the whole thing in there. It's good for you. Read it. It's good
for you. Apply it to yourself, it's good
for you. I applied it to me, it's good for me. Gave me some
much needed confidence. And to do what the Lord's put
in my hand to do, like Jeremiah said, fear not the faces. That's
because he's afraid of the faces. And he told that, there's things
I need to be told. Just do what you're supposed to do, Kevin.
It'll be fine. I woke up yesterday and I thought,
well, there's half of me, 50% of me, exactly, that just, I
really feel like I got two messages burning in my bones. to get out
of me to put in your heart. And the other 50% of me wanted
to change up my mustache, shave my head, change my name, and
go down to Costa Rica and go high. Go on to land. But it don't matter what I want.
The Lord's gave us something to do. We'll see it in the second
hour or two. We need this first. Psalm 24, verse one. This is
a Psalm of David here. It begins, the earth is the Lord's
and the fullness thereof, the world, and they that dwell therein. he hath founded it upon the seas,
and established it upon the floods. Who shall ascend into the hill
of the Lord, or who shall stand in his holy place? We have an
answer. He that hath clean hands and
a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor
sworn deceitfully, he shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and
righteousness from the God of his salvation. is the generation of them that
seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob, Selah. Lift up your
heads, O ye gates, and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors,
and the king of glory shall come in. Who is this king of glory? The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord, mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
even lift them up the everlasting doors and the king of glory shall
come in." Who's this king of glory? The Lord of hosts. He is the king of glory, Selah. Here in this song that the church
used to sing and we'll sing again. There's five parts to this song,
five divisions there. The first two verses here declare
who the Lord is. You're gonna have to come face
to face with that. All mankind, either in this earth or in eternity,
is gonna find out who the Lord is, not who you think he is,
not who your sweet little grandma thought he was. You're gonna
find out who the Lord is. That's what this is about, who
the Lord is, the true God of heaven and earth. And then we
have a question, and thankfully we have an answer. Verse three
asks, who shall ascend with that? Who shall ascend to the Lord?
And with that, who shall stand in the presence? of this true,
holy, sovereign God. Not just happen to be up on a
mountain where He is. Who's gonna stand in front of
Him? We have the answer in verse four. Who will sin and stand
in His presence? And then in verse six, we have the elect
of the Lord, the bride of Christ. Where He is there, we will be
also. We're made one with Him. We're
made like Him. We're made joint heirs with Him. And it finishes
with eternal praise. to Christ our King. Verse one
begins, the earth is the Lord's. And I thought about not moving
past that today. I'm going to spend some time
there. This needs said, it needs said. We're going to camp out
here just for a minute. Mankind lives on the earth. We're all on this ball, same
as everybody else is. We just saw there in England
this week, a new king was crowned. That has right and owns a whole
lot of land now. We got some dime store kings
in this country buying up all the farmland they can get. They're
big landholders, they own a lot of it. That's what mankind worries
about, isn't it? We have countries. We divide up continents. On those
continents, we got countries, we have borders to those countries,
and then we split that up, and we divide it down to states or
territories up in the north. We have states and territories,
then we divide that down. We get counties and towns and villages,
and then we divide that down. We put a fence around that, and
we say, this is mine. And we got a deed, our properties don't. Some people have land, they own
it, they call it their own, and they do with that as they please,
and no one can tell them different. This is my land. Let me tell
you something, that's God's land. We saying that this is my land,
this is your land, it ain't your land. You don't, you take it,
go look at your deed, if you got one in a safe deposit box,
go look it up, it ain't yours. That's God's piece of property.
You're a tenant. You happen to be living there.
And the sooner we find out we're trespassing, the better. He owns
everything. This earth is his because he
made it. He made it. He said, let there
be light. You know what that means? He
owns the light. SDG&E and that little LED bulb does not, I don't
own that, you don't own it. That's his light. That's a good
perspective to start getting at. That'll change your whole
life. It'll change your whole life.
It's his life, not Thomas Edison's, God's life. He told Job, in your
spare time, go read Job 38. When the Lord answered Job out
of the whirlwind after Elihu just straight got a hold of him,
and that young fella got all him old crusty fellas and just
chewed him up one side and down the other and told him who God
was, then the Lord spoke to Job. And he said, who's that that
darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Who's piping off at
the mouth because they don't know nothing? You, Job. Me, that's
how the Lord had to come to us, didn't he? He's God, we're not.
He said, gird up now thy loins like a man, for I will demand
of thee an answer, and you're going to answer me. Where was
thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou
hast understanding. He said, you tell me, where were
you when I made this earth? Is that your land? Do I own that
patch of land up in Lawson? That's God's land. He made it.
Where was I? Where were you when I made this
earth? And it says there, and all the fullness thereof. The
earth is His. The dirt that we're standing
on is His. He made it. And all the fullness
that's on this earth, everything in it, whatever comes out of
it, He made it. It said in Genesis, right? And the waters were there
and He parted the waters and the dry land come up. That's
His land. He made it. He established it.
in the sea, and he established it after the flood, he says,
and the fullness thereof. All the fullness of it. Turn
over Psalm 50. That means anything that grows on. Anything that's
produced by it, in it, or around it, it's his. He owns it. Psalm 50. We'll begin in verse 7. Hear,
O my people, and I will speak. O Israel, I will testify against
thee. I am God. even thy God, I will
not reprove thee for the sacrifices or thy burnt offerings to have
been continually before me. I will take no bullock out of
thy house, no goats out of thy folds, for every beast of the
forest is mine." Not just the dirt that we're walking on, every
beast of the forest is mine. And the cattle upon a thousand
hills, that's his. I know all the fowls of the mountains
and the wild beasts of the field." They're mine. They're mine. Does
that mean, well, what about the thousand and first hill? Is that
man's? No, he's saying every hill, every
valley, anything you see on this earth that he made, that's his,
he owns it. It's his earth. Everything on
it, the increase thereof, it's his. He owns it. What does man
do? We brand cattle, don't we? That what cowboys do? You own
horses? You're a brand of horse? Why? People know it's yours.
He don't have to. Why didn't he brand his animals?
They're all his. They're all his. That seems simple.
That's important. Mankind ought to know about these
things. What about them fowl flying through the air? Them
buzzards up there in the valleys and the hilltops? They're his.
He owns them and he knows them. Verse 12 says, if I were hungry,
I would not tell you, for the world is mine and the fullness
thereof. He said, well, I ate the flesh
of bulls and drank the blood of goats. What can you give the
Lord that he didn't give you? Well, I'm going to give my time
to him. The only time you got to what
he allows you to have, I'm going to give my money to him. The
only money you have is his money. You want to render under Caesar,
what's Caesar's? That's the easiest thing on the
face of the earth, pay taxes. doing what you're supposed to
do. Whose money is that? Well, it's the Lord's money.
He gave it to me. Well, Caesar says that he is. Well, he gave
me Caesar too, so you just give it to him. He turns his heart. Why does man get upset? They
don't believe God. That's why. Why do I get upset and frustrated
with the government or the taxes or the... I know a man one time
who wouldn't do the census. And he said, I don't want them
knowing where I live. They know where you live anyway. And I said, y'all
be thankful to do a census. That's why our Lord was born
in Bethlehem, Ephrathah. Is that right? Herod wanted a
new boat. He's gonna have a census and draw taxes. Maybe we ought
not complain so much. If we know who God is, that starts
changing how we act in this world. I owe extra money on my taxes. Well, write him a check. Take
it. You start handling things with
an open hand, because that hand that's open ain't your hand neither.
It's his. He owns it. We'll get to that
in a minute. What ought we to do knowing this one? We can't
feed him. We can't give him nothing he
ain't already gave us. We can't sing praises without using his
air in the lungs he gave us. What ought we to do? Verse 14.
Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most high
and call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee
and thou shalt glorify me. Somebody calls on the Lord. that pigeon holds you, just cry
out for mercy. Save, Lord! Save! He will hear you, and you
shout, glorify me. The earth is His, and if we have
thanksgiving in our hearts, He put that there too, and He's
gonna sustain it with the fullness thereof just like everything
else. We ain't run out yet, you know that? The oceans, they call
them fish, we've ate out of it. formerly the tuna capital of
the world. How many tuna has been caught out of there? How
many tuna has been ate by other tuna or other fish or whales
or sharks or something? That's a whole lot, ain't it?
Has it run out yet? No. All that water evaporating to
rain on us. Has the salinity got out of whack
and we all died? No. The fullness thereof. He
controls all these things. Think how many trillions of barrels
of oil we pulled out of the oceans and underneath the earth, like
a bunch of leeches and parasites on his land. robbing it and thieving
it and doing ill things with it. It ain't run out yet, has
it? The fullness is his, and if he decides to dry it up, that's
his doing. He's also said there in Job, he said, who provided
for the ravens his food? When his young ones cry unto
God, they wonder for lack of meat. Those birds on a hillside,
we think we control everything. We think we can do something.
We think we can stop somebody else from doing something. That's
foolish. Lord feeds the ravens. You fed one of them lately? There's
a bunch of them. You ever counted them? No man
can. This earth's his, the fullness thereof is his, and he sustains
everything. That's his doing. Now back in our text, Psalm 24.
It says, the earth is the Lord's
and the fullness thereof. The fullness. He's kept it full
from creation. This cursed earth. provides mankind's
entire needs. We're all alive. That's why he
said, whenever he cursed the earth, he said, that ground,
she won't produce the fruit, the strength of her fruit like
she did before. Vegetarians in glory, nothing's gonna die, but
them fruits gonna take a whole lot better than what they taste
now. Fullness is also, he is an understanding. and any increase
is his. Any wisdom we gain that he gives,
that's his. Any increase at all is his. Think
about that, he must make it grow. We chop down trees, we cut them
up for firewood, we chop down his trees, we cut his trees up
for firewood, we burn it, and then we eat his beans and potatoes. I said we're tenants, aren't
we? We start learning who he is, we start learning who we
are. We start seeing we're trespassers, we're thieves and robbers, and
we are subject to eviction at a moment's notice. You know,
life's His, He gives it. Is it a vapor? Can He take it
at the point of time it pleases Him? Right now. Chop you down
like a tree. The earth's the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. A young man one time said, I
ain't gonna die. Don't argue with a fool. They'll
bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
You can't talk sense to them. You can't argue with a fool.
You can't explain it to them. You can't make them understand
God has to. He said, I'm not gonna die. I'm not gonna die. I'm gonna live forever. I'll
never die. A minute, guess where he was about two weeks later?
Funeral parlor, having formaldehyde pumped through his veins. You're
the Lord's. It says, "...and the fullness
thereof, the world, and they that dwell therein." Every person
that has ever been, is, or shall ever be on this earth that the
Lord has provided for by the fullness that's His, they are
His. And they'll either be His children
or they'll be His servants. You'll either be sons or slaves,
but you're His. People say, well, no, they're
sheep and they're goats. That's right. His sheep are His sheep, and
the goats are His goats. What about Satan? That's his
devil. That's his dog, isn't it? The vessels of mercy and
the vessels of wrath. Absolutely. He's the potter and
they're both his vessels. He owns them. Every knee shall
bow. And I pray today somebody will see his rightful glorious
throne and they'll bow to it today and not in judgment. It
don't matter what happened yesterday. People find out I preach, they
say, well, I remember my experience. And they start telling me something
happened 20 years ago. I don't care if you believe 20 years
ago. I don't care if I believe 25 years ago. Do I believe him
today? I'm breathing his oxygen today. I need that mercy today. Not something happened when I
was 14 years old. Ain't that right? I need him today. Every knee shall bow, and every
tongue's gonna confess he's Lord. And I pray we can confess it
now. Bow and beg for mercy against
that holy God we've sinned against. Not the man upstairs. I hear
flippant titles given to a God that owns everything. If the
landlord here, that's where we got that term from, he's the
Lord over all the land. If the landlord here came by,
you wouldn't just toss him aside and talk ornery to him, would
you? Well, I'd hope you not. Fools would. I hope you wouldn't.
Evict you. I pray we can call it on the holy
God of heaven and earth. That's called salvation because
he said he will hear and we shall glorify him. Verse two says,
for he hath founded upon the seas and established it upon
the floods. This is the Lord. He founded
the dry ground upon the seas when he first did it. Then he
established his holy justice. He said, this is mine and I'm
going to do with it as I see fit. He sent the flood. That's
when justice was established. He will punish sin. It's his right to do so. This
is his by Christ owns this world and rules it. It's his by creation,
he made it. It's his by donation, he said,
the Father's given me power over all things. And it's his by administration,
he governs every little eyelash that's ever flapped that pleases
him according to his will. He established that covenant
of the rainbow. We remember that, don't we? He told Noah, he said,
I'll never flood this earth again like this. And he said, when
I see the rainbow, I'll remember the covenant I made with you.
What's that top color on it? Red. When I see the blood, Noah,
I'll pass over you. This mighty, holy, all-wise,
all-powerful, all-present God of all things, who in the world
can be in His presence? It's got to be perfect and holy
to be in His presence. Look at verse 3, who shall ascend, who
shall go up into the hill of the Lord? Who's going to climb
that hill? Or who shall stand in His holy place. Who's going
to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and climb up to His
holy hill and then stand before Him? Moreover, somebody did climb. Who's going to stand on their
hind two legs and look God in the eye? There's a whole lot
of people in this world think they're good and they deserve
it. I'm going to heaven. Oh, really? Why? Well, I'm good. You might be good in my eyes,
but you ain't good in God's eyes. You ever heard of His law? People
worry about how, we'll look at that next hour, Abraham's gonna
sacrifice Isaac. And there have been a lot of
arguments I've read this week over how he was tied up and this
and that. Law hadn't been given yet. Maybe
the willingness of the heart's a whole lot more important than
the letter of the law, hadn't it? Have you not heard the law?
We have an answer. Verse four, who's gonna sin,
who's gonna stand? He that hath clean hands, Verse
four, and a pure heart who hath not lifted up his soul to vanity,
nor sworn deceitfully. I'll just jump the gun and tell
you who that is. We read that in John 3. People say, oh, Nicodemus.
They quote John 3.16. Y'all ought to be worried about
John 3.13. No man hath ascended up to heaven,
but he that came down from heaven, the son of man which is in heaven.
Who's gonna ascend? Christ is. How's he going to
sin? He came down, but he's still
there. How's that possible? I don't know. You better ask
him. Better cry to him. Better beg for him. He's the
one that has clean hands. What's that mean? Someone that's
never sinned indeed. They never took their hands and
went and did something wrong. Ever. They've never done anything
amiss ever. Is that you? Is that me? Well, being honest with ourselves,
I've never done anything outwardly wrong. That's a lie. You've done
something amiss. Folks, I'm a good person, maybe
in your own eyes or somebody else's, but it's how God sees
it that matters. Pure heart. Every motive was,
we have words for this, we don't, we can't enter into that. Every
motive intent of His heart was pure and devoted to the Lord
His Father in every aspect. I can say that, it gives me goosebumps
and I don't know what it looks like. We're the complete opposite
of that. We drank iniquity like water.
His heart was pure. How do I measure up? Can I ascend
on my motives? Can I stand in front of the holy
God I've trespassed and offended on my pure heart? Our phrase and common usage in
our days, well, they got a good heart. Do they? Does anyone I know or you know
have lived their whole lives seeking the absolute perfect
will of God? Not my will, Lord, but your will.
Know once he needed to serve his father and he did. He that
hath clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not lifted up his soul
unto vanity. I've had good motives in everything
I've set out to do. My hands are clean, I've never committed
a sin of omission or coercion. That's laughable. But on my spare time, when I
was off the clock, I sure would like me a new sailboat. I'd like
a new car. Oh man, I don't want just a water
heater, I want one of them tankless ones. That'd be nice, wouldn't
it? Is that gonna burn? Is that gonna disappear when
this earth disappears? I bet it is. You ever made yourself
look good in a situation? Is that lifting up your soul
to vanity? Woman, I did it. I was contractor of the year.
I got a cup that proves it. Maybe I ought to, I mean, hell,
it happened. Lord did it for me. Lifted my
soul up to vanity. You ever like something in this
world? You think, you think that once in a lifetime, you've had
clean hands and a pure heart and everything's been great,
and one time, You thought, I think I'm gonna do that for me. You're
guilty of the whole law. The moral law, the Levitical
law, the Mosaic law, any kind of law you can think of. Ordinances,
everything. You're guilty. Guilty. Solomon begins Ecclesiastes 12
with, remember now thy creator in the days of thy youth. When
you were young, remember your creator. Remember who we're dealing
with. Holy God that owns everything. Remember Him and do it when you're
young. You young people, remember Him when you're young. Life will
be a whole lot easier. And he finishes there in Ecclesiastes
12, vanity of vanity, saith the preacher, all is vanity. Outside
of the Lord, it's vanity. Have I ever kind of liked something
other than Him? Be honest with yourself. This
eternal life and death, you might want to get serious about it.
nor sworn deceitfully." You ever told a white lie to a child?
I used to tell my kids, I said,
I invented the question mark. I said, you did? I said, well,
I mean, no, I didn't. But I did the upside down one
for Spanish. I invented that one. I'm just teasing them, you
know. Or maybe you ever been fishing? How big is that fish? When I caught it, it was this
big. Ten years later, oh man, that fish just keeps... Or you
hold it out, if you catch a fish and it's little, and somebody
takes a picture, stick your arms out as far as you can. It'll
be closer to the camera, it'll look bigger. I saw adults try to one-up little
tiny children. Tell them about their experiences.
Being vain. And in a clean heart, they said lies. Not him. Every word that came out of the
Holy One of Israel was truth. That's all that was in him. That's
all he could ever say. Truth. Truth. He always told the truth. He
that hath clean hands and a pure heart, who hath not lift up his
soul into vanity, nor sworn deceitfully, he shall receive the blessing
from the Lord and the righteousness from the God of his salvation,
the Holy One of Israel, the Lord Jesus Christ, born of a virgin. We didn't do that, did we? He
wasn't conceived in sin like you and I were. He was born of
a virgin. He fulfilled every jot and tittle
of the law in complete perfection. He had a pure heart for the glory
of almighty God. Absolutely every nanosecond of
the day. And he never lifted his soul
into vanity. And he only ever spoke truth
because he is the truth. He is true. We have the true
God. We have the requirements of approaching
Him in eternity and standing in His presence. And that requirement's
Christ. Only He's worthy. He ascended. He stands. What about us? We see who we've offended, how
easy that is. I was just writing that down
the other day. I thought, man, as soon as I
start a fire this fall, it's raining, you know. And I'm like,
thank you, Lord, for that fire. That's your wood, thank you for
letting me burn it. Thank you for the oxygen to light the fire.
We see who He is. We see we've offended Him, and
we can't do nothing about it. We see Christ is the only one
that's acceptable. He's the lamb that the Lord provided. We'll
see that next time. We need to get that. What about us? I'm
a trespasser. Are you a trespasser? Have you
ever been at war with God? Ever? You are if you think you
ain't. What about us? says in verse
6, this is the generation of them that seek him, that seek
thy face, O Jacob. Who's going to seek him? How
are we going to seek him? That blind fellow, he asked that
in John 9, didn't he? He said, who's the Lord? I might
believe on him. Where is he for me to seek him? Which way? Man don't know. There's a way
that man thinks is right and it ain't. I've been looking for
God my whole life. No, you ain't. You've been looking
for a God, looking for a golden parachute to get you out of something.
You ain't seeking this God. How are we going to find him?
How are we going to seek him? Where does a sinner even begin to seek the
face of God? It begins with God. A friend of mine wrote an article
real short. He said, a sinner crying to be
saved already is. If you're crying to be saved,
Lord, save, you already are. Why was he saved? Like I said,
what about today? You sure about that? Do you still
need him? Or you got this in the bag? You got a corner on
God? The Lord told Jeremiah, he said, for I know the thoughts
that I have towards you. How are we going to seek him?
He said, it all begins with him. I know the thoughts I have towards
you, saith the Lord. Thoughts of peace and not evil,
to give you an expected end. Expectation, a hope. I'm going
to save you. I've thought about this. I'm
going to save you. That's what the Lord's saying. Then, after
he has his thoughts, after he determines in his good counsel,
this Lord does anything he wants. Everything's his. He said, I
know my thoughts to you and I'm going to give you an expected
end. Then, then, shall ye call upon me. You choose Jesus. Then, when
he works, then you shall call upon me, and ye shall go and
pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me,
and ye shall find me, when ye search for me with all your heart,
and I will be found of you, saith the Lord. He starts it, he makes somebody
seek him, and he says, I will be found of you. Why? Because he made you seek him.
You going glory in seeking him? He did too. That almighty God
that provided himself as the lamb and provided himself a lamb,
he shall save his people from their sins. We shall seek his
face, we shall find him, and we shall follow him. I've said it a bunch of times.
He go to that sheep way out there in the desert and say, oh, there you are. I
found you. Well, good luck, buddy. Rub him on top of his head and
head back to the barn. No! Break that thing's leg if he
needs to. Put it over his shoulder and he takes it back to the other
sheep. They're herd animals, ain't they? People say, Kevin, that ain't
right. I wouldn't have it any other way. And God's people wouldn't
have it any other way. And they give Him all the praise
for just the way He decided to do it. Christ gets every bit
of the praise. We didn't have anything to do
with ascending, but we ascended in Him. We have no merit to stand
in the presence of the Lord, but we stand in Christ, in a
place where God is, where He put us, in His Son. And a believer
thanks the Lord for that. What makes the body of Christ,
His seed, His generation? He's speaking up here. What makes
them so peculiar? We looked at that the other day,
didn't we? 1 Peter 2, 9. But you're a chosen generation, a
royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people. Semi-colon,
that's important. That, ye should show forth the
praises of Him who hath called you out of darkness into His
marvelous light. What's so weird about these people? This generation,
they give God all the glory. I said, I ain't nothing but a
sinner saved by grace. That's it. I'm nothing. He's everything. That's weird. I thought you founded
15 churches, and I thought you did this, and I thought you fed
the poor, and I thought you handed out Bibles, and I thought you prayed
over people, and put your hands on people, and I thought you
shared a whole bunch of Facebook memes. Knock that junk off. Praise God.
Give Him all the glory. It's His, just like everything
else. Then there's eternal praise.
Lord shows us, He reveals Himself to us. He reveals Christ in us
that's already accomplished everything for us because we can't accomplish
nothing ourselves. We're His generation. I'm His
son. I've been adopted and born and
bought and whatever angle you can get it. I'm His in totality. I'm not my own. I'm bought with
a price. What's left? Eternal praise. Look here in
verse 7. Lift up your heads. or sleep on, O sluggard." I don't
care. Here's the command. Lift up your heads, O ye gates,
and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory
shall come in. Here he comes. You want to see
Christ? Here he comes. Now here's another voice. Can
you ascend? You can't. Do you ask questions
from his holy hill? No, you don't. The Lord, the
Father asked, who is this King of glory? We're singing a song,
remember? King of glory's coming. Who is he? The Lord strong and
mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Who's coming? The victor, the
captain of our salvation. Somebody's asked me the other
day, so I don't know when to war and when to lay down my shotgun. I said,
well, you need a captain, don't you? I don't know when to wound
somebody and when to heal them. I need a great physician, don't
I? Where does that leave the warriors and the physicians or
the medical staff? Us needing him. Who's the Lord? The Lord mighty in battle. Lift
up your heads, O ye gates, verse 9. Even lift them up, ye everlasting
doors, and the King of glory shall come in again. Who's this
King of glory? The Lord of hosts. The Lord of
multitudes. The Lord of armies. He's the
King of glory. Host. He's the captain. Captain has army, don't he? A
position, better have some patience. This seed as of one, Christ,
He brings in the many seeds He produced from Him being put in
the ground, don't He? He's the Lord of hosts. He ain't the Lord
all by Himself. And everybody else is dead. He came here, He
won that battle. He accomplished something in
that battle. He saved His people, honored His Father. Thankfully,
it's not just Christ and a handful of Jews of Old Testament. Thankfully,
it's not Him and a couple of those particular Baptists. Thankfully,
it's not him and 144,000 of Jehovah's Witnesses. One of them got kicked
out, and a friend of mine said, how do I get his spot? He said,
that's y'all's logic. Thankfully, it's not just the
Catholics. Thankfully, it's not just Christ and the frozen reformed
folks. It's just not this denomination or that denomination. That's
every bit hogwashed. Do you think you've got a handle on this?
You think you've got a market? You can copyright God, copyright
his gospel. This isn't a doctrine, this is
the Word of God. We can't copyright that, can we? It's His Word,
on His book, in His paper, on the tree that He grew, on the
earth that He gave the fullness thereof, and He owns. It's His. The Lord said in Revelation 5,
They sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book,
to open the seals thereof, the Lord of our hosts, for thou was
slain. and has redeemed us to God by
blood, by thy blood. Lord, you've done all this. You're
the victor. You're the Lord of hosts. You're
mighty in battle, because you shed your blood. And he did it
for a people out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation. You want to cure racism? Let
God save you. You want to cure sexism? Let
God save you. Christ and Him crucified, that's
the answer to everything, isn't it? My pastor used to say that. You
all have heard his messages a whole bunch. Black or white, it don't
matter. That was pre-65. He was a radical back then. What
about nowadays? He saved me, he could save anybody.
bow to him, run to him, sing his praises out of every kindred,
and tongue, and people, and nation, and has made us unto our God
kings and priests." Who's going to enter those courts? You better
be a king or a priest. How'd I get that way? You've
made us unto our God kings and priests. The earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof. Anything grows out of it. Salvation
comes out If it happens on this earth, it's His. Everything's
His, ain't it? Now, trials are coming. How are we going to act
in them trials? I want to act like a child of
God. Don't you? How do I want to conduct my daily
affairs in this world? At the gas station, or on the
internet wires, or whatever else. How do I want to conduct myself?
I want to conduct myself like a child of God. Because I know
him. You see how that escalates everything
through here? That's called a new creation.
That's what that is. That's wonderful, isn't it? Let's
pray together. Father, forgive us for what we are. Lord, we're
trespassers. We're thieves and robbers. We're
at war with you, Lord. Curb this old man. Save us. We'll put your seed in us. Reveal
Christ in us. Allow us to see him. Oh, and
we desire to uphold your law. Oh, we want to be profitable
servants. Glorify your name and be representative in this world
that we live in. Not bring reproach on the gospel
that saved us. Not bring reproach on the Lord.
Our Lord, our King that laid down his precious blood, his
life for us. Oh, forgive us, we're so prone
to wonder, Lord. Thank you for your mighty hand.
We're thankful you've made us your children. You protect us,
you guard us, hedge us about, and you keep us, Lord. Give us
thankful hearts and kind hearts. It's in Christ's name that we
ask it, amen.