Good morning, brethren. Good morning. If you will, let's
turn to Psalm 21. We've got an update on D. Parks. He had done a CT scan several
days ago, and the results were not as man would hope. His cancer is spreading and growing. It's popping up in other areas
they didn't see before. And so they'll continue chemo
and change a different line of medication. But he is strong. Has the Lord strengthened him
and thankful. And his children and his wife
is too. Who gave that to him? I'd say,
oh, the Lord does that until you got the cancer in you. Until
I got it in me. Oh, that's what we tried and
proved. He gave it, and Lord strengthened
him. What an example. That's for him, obviously. It's
in him. That's for those brethren there
in College Grove, and us here. Him to walk in and say, Lord
did this, it's right. It's good. That's a good attitude to have
in all things. Also, equally as glorious, because
the Lord did it, our brother Rob Keller, His wife, Kristen,
they visited with us. They had a baby last week. And
I'm gonna tease Kristen over it. Cody Henson, they had one
in the living room. We called him Dr. Henson. He
delivered the baby. Well, literally, Dr. Kristen,
Dr. Keller, she's a nurse practitioner
with a PhD. She delivered her baby in the
van on the way to the hospital. And so his robbed sister, Sarah
Moyer, is due any day now. And I said, Sarah, you may want
to go ahead and check into the hospital, honey. Times are unique, aren't they?
All right. Psalm 21. The heading in Psalm
21 tells us it's Psalm 21. We got it? Everybody there? Alright,
the heading tells us this is a psalm of David. It is written
by David to the chief musician. It was concerning David personally. He knew what he was talking about.
The Lord gave it to him. And it's concerning each member
of the body of Christ throughout time. This concerns you and I. That's important. But this is
a messianic psalm. Most importantly, it concerns
David. It concerns me and you. We need to hearken to it. But it concerns Christ our King. I spoke with those. He said, these words which I
spake unto you while I was yet with you, that all things must
be fulfilled which were written in the law of Moses. Every jot
and tittle. We like to harp on that, don't
we? We're like a, you know, I'll get to it later. We like to find
our benefits, don't we? Instead of the one that's the
benefactor. We like to be beneficiaries. All things written in the law
of Moses and in the prophets. That's miraculous. And in the
Psalms. Oh, that's the blessing. That's
the sweet part concerning me, he said. First, let's look at
this just briefly as you and I, as our brother, King David,
and as us. It says in Psalm 21.1, the king
shall joy In thy strength, O Lord, and
in thy salvation, how greatly shall he rejoice. Because of
the cross of Christ, because of what he accomplished at Calvary,
you and I are made kings. We can say this, David was a
mythical king, wasn't he? We are made kings. That's what
we read in Revelations 5, it said they sung a new song, a
psalm. That's a song, isn't it? It's
what we're reading now. saying thou art worthy to take the book
and to open the seals thereof for thou was slain and has redeemed
us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and
people and nation and has made us unto our God kings and priests
and we shall reign on the earth. This is King David and us who
believe we are lowercase kings and our joy is the Lord's strength
in him. His strength has made witness
to us in our weakness. Like our brother Angus told us
the other day, I've heard that my whole life, T and P, tried and proved. The Lord tells us something and
we say, I get that. And then he's going to try us
with his word. Trials are coming and he's going
to prove to his children what he says is true. That hurts sometimes. That chasing sometimes is grievous. Those trials are hard trials.
But boy, they're sweet when we say His word's true. He's right
100% of the time. You can take it to the bank.
We greatly rejoice in His salvation. We rejoice in Lord's strength
and we greatly rejoice in the salvation of the Lord. It says
in verse two, thou hast given him his heart's desire. The king
has received his heart's desire and has not withholding the request
of his lips. What was David's desire? We read
that in Psalm 27. We'll sit here in a few weeks,
won't we? One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek
after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days
of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in
his temple. A child of God desires to be
in the Lord's temple. A child of God desires to be
with other people that the Lord dwells in. I want to hear a word
from Him. I want to rejoice in Him and
His strength and His salvation. I want to proclaim His name.
And then on David's deathbed, he said, Although my house be
not so with God, yet hath He made with me an everlasting covenant,
ordered in all things and sure, for this is all of my salvation
and all my desire. That's what he desired. David
could pray this, can we? Can we pray this? Just like Paul,
just like David, just like us, isn't it? Oh, that I may win
Christ and be found in him. Is there something more important? A position, a title, a crown,
some riches, a location, sunny weather, Snowy weather, when
it's pretty, is something more important than being with God,
than worshiping him. Verse three, for thou preventest
him with the blessings of goodness, and thou settest a crown of pure
gold on his head. Prevent here means proceed, prevenient
grace, as some people call it. Blessings of goodness before
that go ahead of us. What went ahead of us? We were
chosen before the world began, weren't we? In him, he knew us
from our mother's womb. He's loved us with an everlasting
love. David writes in Psalm 23, truly
goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. And
I would dwell in the house of the Lord forever. That's what
old brother Spurgeon said, that's the Lord's watchdogs. Goodness
goes before us. The grace goes before us, preparing
the way and mercy's right behind, blotting out sin and transgression.
That's what we need. that crown of pure gold on our
heads. What's that? Knowing the Lord. He told Jeremiah,
he said, if man's going to glory, let him glory in this, that he
understandeth and knoweth me. And he knows God. Verse four,
he asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of
days forever and ever. Believers asked the Lord to save
them. Peter did, didn't he? Lord, save
me. If we're gonna get saved, we're
gonna have to have something we're saved from, isn't it? Lord's gonna have to show us
what sin we are, and when we do, when He shows us that affection,
not what's on a piece of paper, not what's in a contract, not,
well, that's in Webster's Dictionary, I understand, but no, when He
shows us that that's me, we're gonna cry out. Lord, give me
life, I ask Thee of life. and thou gavest, not just for
a moment, but eternal life, everlasting life. It says forever and ever.
We ask him, he gives it. Verse five, his glory is great
in thy salvation. Honor and majesty hast thou laid
upon him. We have the privilege, the right
and the honor to be called the sons of God, because he's laid
that on us. He's given us life. Verse six,
for thou hast made him most blessed forever. Thou hast made me exceeding
glad with thy countenance. I'm blessed forever, and ain't
nobody can take it away. My mind might be gone, but I'm
his. That's a blessing, isn't it?
And I'm exceeding glad with the countenance of the Lord. Have
you ever just showed up to a worship service, a church, a conference,
whatever, whatever people want to call it? You show up where
Christ is proclaimed. Have you ever heard Him proclaimed
and heard that He shall accomplish what He said He's going to accomplish?
And He has and He always will. And He's going to receive all
the glory. Have you ever heard that walkway sad? It bums some people out, I tell
you. Not His children. They make people sad. That's
a shame. They're going to die and perish
in their sins forever. It's horrible. But not the child
of God. We're exceeding glad with His
countenance. with His presence, with His glory. I wouldn't have
it any other way. Our gospels hid that are lost. But He's revealed
it to us. He's revealed it to us. Verse
7, For the king trusteth in the Lord, and through the mercy of
the Most High he shall not be moved. Every child of God trusteth
continually in the Lord. They don't start trusting other
things. I trust in Him. Now I'm going to shore up my
bets just in case. I'm gonna go down and get me
a rosary, and I'm gonna get me some holy water, and this, that, and the
other. No. When you trust Him, you only trust Him. You don't
trust in nothing else. You don't look to this flesh.
You don't look to carnal reasoning, or what some other person says.
You look to what His Word says. And we trust in the Lord. And
that's not because we are just so steady. Well, my faith's so
strong, I just can't be moved. Negative. That's not it. But
rather, because of the Most High's mercy, we are not moved. and
we're preserved eternally. What keeps me looking to Christ?
The mercy of God does. He doesn't punish me and turn
me to myself and let me go off on my own like a sheep out in
the wilderness going to starve to death, freeze to death, and
die of malnutrition. He keeps me. That's merciful,
isn't it? Not for our enemies. That's a good thing, too. You
got some enemies? You got some woes? Are you mad? You spend seven verses praising
God and then worry about your enemies. That's a good way to
start, isn't it? Isn't that a good thing? You ever gonna have a
hard conversation with somebody, it's good to start out praying
to God to forgive us, be merciful to us. Here for the enemies,
verse eight. Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies. Thy
right hand shall find out those that hate thee. Thou shalt make
them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger. The Lord shall
swallow them up in his wrath and the fire shall devour them.
Their fruit shall thou destroy from the earth their seed from
among the children of men, their fruit and their seed, that's
the fruit of their bowels, their children. That's the product of the bond
woman, we'll see next hour. For they intended, didn't say
they accomplished it, they intended evil against thee, they imagined
a mischievous device which they are not able to perform. These enemies, they of thine
old household, they are not able to do the evil they intended. They're not. I'm going to fix
him. Not if the Lord don't allow you,
Nate. What did the Lord tell Moses?
He said, "...the children of Israel shall not a dog move his
tongue against the man or beast, that ye may know," this is going
to happen, "...that you can know how the Lord doth put a difference
between the Egyptians and Israel." He's tried and proved. Tried
and proved. Therefore shalt thou make them
turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon
the strings against the face of them. Then, like when we first
were saved, when the Lord first converted us and gave us life,
after all of our enemies are defeated, we rejoice and praise
the Lord still. That doesn't change, does it? When we see him, we know who
he is, we have a heart that cries out to him, that doesn't change,
it doesn't stop. Be thou exalted, verse 13, Lord.
Be thou exalted in thine own strength. That's where it started.
So will we sing and praise thy power. David, he was made a king
by God on this earth. He can sing each line of this
psalm. And you and I who are made kings by God, we sing this
too. We sing it too. Psalm 21 is not just about a
king and it's not about The many kings that the Lord makes, it's
about the king. The king of kings is whose this
concerns. Pilate asked the Lord, he said,
art thou a king then? Are you a king then? And from
the lips of the Almighty brought his answer. Jesus answered, thou
sayest I'm a king. You're saying it now, but you're
really gonna say it in eternity. You don't even know what you're
saying, Thou sayest I'm a king, to this end was I born, to be
king. And for this cause came I into
the world to perform the functions of king, that I should bear witness
unto the truth. And everyone that is of the truth
heareth my voice. Everyone that's in my kingdom,
oh, they hear me. His kingdom's an everlasting kingdom, and it's
without boundaries. That's unlike any kingdom we
can talk about, isn't it? We don't have words to describe
these things, do we? Look here in verse one, we'll start again.
Psalm 21, 1. The king joy and thy strength,
O Lord, and thy salvation. How greatly shall he rejoice?
Hear our Lord speaking as the Messiah, as a man on this earth. He was the whole Godhead manifested
in an earthly body. But as a man, he found strength
in Jehovah and the self-existent one. Remember, our Lord was being
tempted by Satan in the wilderness. It says, And Jesus said unto
him, Get thee hence, Satan! For it's written, Thou shalt
worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Then
the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto
him. Here's God Almighty in human flesh, and the Lord sent, his
Father sent angels to serve him, to strengthen him, to minister
unto him. Our Redeemer's a man. And as
a man, as it must be with me, so it was with him. His strength
was from above because I must receive all of my strength from
the Lord. He received his strength from the Lord. Christ prayed
in the Mount of Olives before going to the cross. He said,
Father, if I'll be willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless,
not my will, but thy will be done. And then there appeared
angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. strengthening him. That's impossible for me and
you to fully comprehend. We can't enter into it. Well,
I got a good handle on it. No, you don't. No, you don't.
How did the entire Godhead manifest in one human body and an uncomely
body at that? It says our Lord, who was the
God-man, he grew in stature and in wisdom. How could he be strengthened? He had to be tempted in all points
like we are, as a man. He had to be tempted in all points
like we are. He got tired and had to sleep.
He got hungry and had to eat. He wept. He laughed. He was a
person. He was not a figment of people's
imagination. He was a God-man. And he had
joy in his Father's strength. Brother Henry said, More joy,
the more we rely on the Lord's strength and not our own. And
that's a fact. A bunch of sad people in this
world. If you would look to the strength of the Lord, you're
going to be a little bit happier. You're going to have some joy.
I don't have to worry about it. All of a sudden, boy, his shoulders
come up because there ain't a burden on it no more. Look to his strength. Verse one says, The king shall
joy in thy strength, O Lord. And in thy salvation, how greatly
shall he rejoice? The God-man rejoiced in the power
of the Lord, the strength, and in what is accomplished by the
power of God. His salvation. He rejoices greatly
in the salvation of the Lord. The Father purposed this salvation
before time was. Way before, preveniently, right?
The Son purchased it, the Spirit proclaims it, and applies it
to the hearts of those that Christ shed blood for. I greatly rejoice in that. And
Christ does. And Christ does. Verse 2 says,
Thou hast given him his heart's desire and hast not withholden
the request of his lips. Selah. Pay attention to that. What was
Christ's desire? What was our king's desire? The
will of his father? He prayed, not my will, but thy
will be done. Not that their will was any different, not that
their intent was any different, but his desire was to honor his
father, to fulfill his father's law, to give him all the glory,
to praise him, to honor the father and perform his will. His desire
was what he came to do, to be born for his people, to live
for his people, to lay down his life for the sheep. With the
joy set before him, he endured the cross. That was his desire,
that was his joy. We read in Isaiah 53, yet it
pleased the Lord to bruise him. He hath put him to grief, when
thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed,
he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the Lord shall
prosper in his hand. He shall see the travail of his
soul and shall be satisfied. Why would he be satisfied? He
desired that. By his knowledge shall my righteous
servant justify many, for he shall bear their nick ways. That
has to come to pass, doesn't it? Turn over to Luke 22. This stuck with me. The Lord's
desire. We know what He desired before
the world was because He came. He came to perform His Father's
will. What happened? Why is here? Luke
22. Verse 14. Luke 14. And when the hour was
come, He sat down twelve apostles with Him. And he said unto them,
with desire, I have desired to eat this Passover with you before
I suffer. His desire is going to be fulfilled.
He said, I have desired to eat this Passover with you before
I suffer. For I say unto you, I will not
any more eat thereof until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of
God. Until all these things come to
pass, I ain't going to eat this no more. He said, I ain't going to drink
of the fruit of the vine. I'm not going to drink any wine until
you're with me and I'll drink with you. He desired to come and have this
Passover, have his table. Turn back to John 17, to the
right, John 17. Christ the king desires his people
be with him and behold his glory. He desired to do the father's
will. He came to this earth. He desired to have that Passover
with his people. to show his death, to suffer
for them, to lay down his life for them. And he wants us to
be with him. He desires to be with him. But
he words a little different than man does. John 17, verse 24. John 17, 24. Father, I will,
I desire, I will, that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with
me where I am, that they may behold my glory. which thou hast
given me, for thou lovest me before the foundation of the
world. If an earthly king wants something,
the queen right now in England, or kings in other countries,
if an earthly monarch wants something, it will likely happen. Did you
know that? If queen shows up in some building
and says, I like this building, paint that wall red. Somebody's probably gonna go
paint that wall red, isn't it? If she wants tea and crumpets for
dinner, that's probably what she's going to get, isn't it? Listen
to me. If King Jesus, the King of kings
and Lord of lords, if he desires something, if he wills something,
it shall happen. There's no possibility it cannot
happen. And he said, I've desired to
eat this meal with you before I suffer. And Father, I desire,
I will. It's going to happen. They go
hand in hand. that my people be where I am, and they see my
glory, and he shall not lose one. His people shall see him
high and lifted up. And back in our text in Psalm
21, verse two. Psalm 21, two. Thou hast given
him his heart's desire, and hast not withholding the request of
his lips. What did he ask? I immediately
thought of Psalm two. west of his lips the father's
told him there in psalm 2 verse 8 he said ask of me ask of me
son and I'll give you the heathen for thine inheritance and the
uttermost parts of heaven and earth for that position I'm are
you are you a heathen news to a heathen isn't it there's more
and more homeless folks going up in this this part of the county
they're all over And there's more and more drug users and
prostitutes and everything else moving. It's growing and growing
and growing. The heathens, do I have good
news for them? Or do I want to kick them out of my way? Don't
look at them. Don't feed the bears. Don't give
them nothing. Stay away from them. That's the heathen. Am
I any different than them? Do they need a different bloodshed
for their sins than I did for mine? That might ought to clean
out our uppity attitude, shouldn't it? So I've given thee the heathen
for thine inheritance. He desired me. I can't believe that. You
that are his, he desired you. He sought you out. How did he
seek you? You's lost. You didn't even know
it. He sought you out. He found you.
He bought you with a price. He gave his life for you. And
you're going to be with him in glory. He desired it. He said in John 17 verse 9, I
pray for them, I pray not for the world, but for them which
they have given me. For they're thine, and all mine
are thine, and thine are mine. We're one, Paul. These are my
people, and I'm glorified in them. I'm glorified in them.
If a man stands up and tells you that God's trying to do something,
or God wants to do something, he is lying to you that's a false
gospel. You'll die and go to hell listening
to that. That's not God. That's somebody that's something
like a man. That's a vain imagination of the mind. That's not the king,
the king of kings. This is the king. He's desired
something that's coming past period. And his kingdom has no
boundaries. He and the father are one. And
he said, this is the father's will, which he has sent me that
of all which he has given, I should lose nothing. That's throughout
time. Imagine that from Adam, the last
saint. east, west, north, south, through
time, eternity. That's his people, and he shall
lose nothing, but shall raise up again that last day. And this
is the will of him that sent me, that everyone that seeth
the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life, and
I'll raise him up the last day." There's a falsehood going around
where I grew up, and it's probably coming to this side of the country
before too long, that the people believe in election. They say,
well, the Lord had a people he chose before time, and they don't
ever have to hear him. They don't ever have to see him.
They don't ever have to follow him. They can go down around
and live like a heathen their whole life, go off by themselves,
do what you want. You're going to wake up one day
in glory. Well, I guess that's fine and
good to follow, except that's against the Word of God. Are
you making stuff up as you go? Where did you get that? He said,
this is the will of him that sent me to everyone which seeth
the sun. He gives us eyes to see and believes
on a heart that believes may have everlasting life. And I'll
raise them up the last day. Verse three, for thou preventest
him with the blessings of goodness. Thou settest a crown of pure
gold on prevent this to go before. Some people call that provenient.
And I don't know why people like to divide God's grace and mercy
up into categories. I don't understand that. I never
did experience that, but it's prevalent. It's prevalent. As if one is more glorious than
another. You have to have, well, if you
don't ask for mercy from this category, you won't get it. What
kind of works based junk is that? Blows my mind. But prevenient
grace. This is a grace that goes before.
God's grace is eternal. His mercy is eternal, just like
his love is eternal, just like he's eternal. There was a body
prepared for the king. But before he came in the flesh,
he had a kingdom. Before the world was, he was
blessed with his people already. That's what Paul told us in Ephesians
1, wasn't it? According as he hath chosen us in him before
the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love. As he looks upon his people in
love, eternally. Before time, Christ was blessed
with glory. A body was prepared for him,
was intended and prepared for him. People was prepared for
him and his glory was before he came. He said, Father, I glorify
me in thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before
the world was. Before he came to the earth,
a great number had already believed on him. Isn't that amazing? Abraham rejoiced to see my day
and he saw it and he was glad. Job said, I know my Redeemer
liveth. How could they be saved? He hadn't showed up yet. Well,
if you don't get that, you don't get that what he desires comes
to pass. He said, I'm going to save that people. They're plumb
safe right then. Take it to the bank. It's done.
It's done. For thou preventest him with
the blessings of goodness. Thou settest a crown of pure
gold on his head. That crown of pure gold. That's
not the 24. This is pure gold. This is deity. The gold of deity. Who crowned him? This is heavenly
gold. Who crowned him? The Father did.
The kings of this earth, they crown themselves. Or someone
else crowns them, don't it? They lay hands on a king. Oh,
now you're a king. Y'all playing with fire. Those
kings, they got a loose fitting crown, don't they? One good pop,
it comes off. or one close of the eyes and
you're dead, you don't wear the crown no more. This is an eternal
crown, a pure gold crown of deity that the Father placed on Him.
It says in Revelation 19, His eyes as a flame of fire and on
His head were many crowns. And He hath on His vesture and
on His thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. Because that's who He is. Who
does that? Who crowned Him? Who accomplished
this? Make Jesus your king. Have you
made him Lord of your life? Hush. Hush. We'll look at it
briefly next hour. Those malefactors, don't you
know who you're talking to? Don't you know who you're speaking
of? This is the king. This isn't any king. This is
the king. Who accomplished these things? Who crowned him? Not
man. We didn't make him king. The Lord told Isaiah, instead
of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no
end. Upon the throne of David and upon his kingdom, to order
it and to establish it with justice and judgment from henceforth
forevermore, the zeal of the Lord of hosts to perform this. Make him king, the zeal of the
Lord of hosts to do this in his strength, in his power, in his
desire. That's what's gonna happen. Verse
four. He asked life of thee and thou
gavest him even length of days forever and ever. Christ asked
for life to give to his people. He asked the Father, you give
me life to give to them. Was he living? Yeah. How's that
work? I don't really know, but he did.
He's the giver of it, isn't he? He asked of life to give to his
people. It says in John 17, thou hast given him power over all
flesh that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast
given him. He's going to give the life. And this is eternal
life. They might know thee the only
true God in Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent. For the Father
raiseth the dead, and quickeneth them, even so the Son quickeneth,
gives life to whom He will." That's in His hand. He's asking,
I'll give life to them, Lord. That's your job. That's gifts
to Him. He says, I am come that they may have life, and that
they may have it more abundantly. All this life we hear, He gives,
this life He puts in us. Well, it's just a foretaste. It's just a shadow of what's
to come. life more abundantly. And that's
not just in the quantity or the extent of life for eternity.
That's the quality of it. It's his life that he gives.
Verse 4 says, He asked life of thee and thou gavest him even
length of days forever and ever. His glory is great in thy salvation. Christ receives all the glory
in salvation. Honor and majesty hast thou laid upon him because
he deserves it. Can you think of anybody that
deserves him more glory than he does? Thou hast made him most
blessed forever. Thou hast made him exceeding
glad with thy countenance. For the king trusteth in the
Lord, and through the mercy of the Most High, he shall not be
moved. He's seated on his throne forever
and ever. Now the enemies. That's the problem
with mankind. You know why we ain't packed
to the gills this morning? Mankind don't think God's gonna punish
sin. Why? Because they're proud and they
don't think they're really sinning. They think they've done something
bad. Well, nah, I kind of, I did 56 out of 55. Let it go. Just let me talk to the judge. God will punish sin, either in
you or in a substitute, in the king himself. Verse 8, Thine
hand shall find out all thine enemies. Thy right hand shall
find out those that hate thee. His right hand will judge the
earth. Thou shalt make them a fiery oven in the time of thine anger.
The Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and a fire shall
devour them. Their fruit shalt thou destroy
from the earth, and their seed from among the children of men.
For they intended evil against thee. They imagined a mischievous
device, which they were not able to perform. Where's that most
paramount at? Man meant something evil, as a calvary, wouldn't
it? Satan thought he'd won. That serpent said, I got him.
Mankind's evil, wicked heart put him on that cross and said,
I got him. I won't have this man reign over us. Loose the
reins. Won't have it. And boy, what
time mankind and Satan and everything else thought they had him whooped,
what we intended, his glory shone through. He accomplished it. He crushed the serpent's head.
It was finished forever. Done, clean done. Verse 12. Therefore
shalt thou make them turn their back, and thou shalt make ready
thine arrows upon the strings against the face of them. Where
do we end? Same place we started. Be thou
exalted, Lord, in thine own strength, so we will sing and praise thy
power. This is our king speaking, and
he says, we We will sing thy praise and thy
power. People mess that up so bad. They
say, as for me and my house, we're going to serve the Lord.
What are you going to do? That's the Lord speaking still. The
quotations had not ended. He began speaking, and after
that, then the children of Israel replied to what the Lord said.
The Lord said, as for me and my house, you go do what you
want. Me and my children, the constituents of his kingdom,
we're serving the Lord, because he is Lord. That's his desire.
Told John, John said, Baptize me, John. John said, I need to
baptize you. He said, this behooves us. This benefits us. All of
us. And he says, we will sing his
praise and his power. Do you think there's a doubt
that his child won't sing his praise and his power? Not possible,
is it? Let's pray together. Father,
thank you for this word. Thank you for our brother, David,
that you used to pen this, Lord. Allow us to be your strength,
your power, your salvation. Allow that to be our desire to
see Christ our King on his throne and what he's accomplished and
the power of his hand. Lord, let that be on our lips.
We have many enemies in this world, in our own houses, in
our own bodies. We know you'll handle it. You're
our defender. You're our shield and our exceeding
great reward. us to sing praises. Allow us
to sing from a joyful heart that you've put in us for Christ and
that finished work. Forgive us for what we are, Lord.
Forgive us our fear and our doubt and our wandering and keep us. Give us that life eternal as
you've promised you will. Thank you for this hour. Lord,
be with those that you've sent trials to and part of your family
and the others. Allow them to see your mighty
hand in it, your strength, your power, your salvation. It's in
Christ's name that we ask these things. Amen.