Psalm 146 now. Psalm 146. The title of this
is Praise Ye the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. I sent the
title from verse 5, Happiness, Health and Hope in the Lord.
And that is certainly a reason to praise Him. But this Psalm
begins and ends with praise ye the Lord. As do all the Psalms
to the end of the Psalm. Every one of these Psalms begin
and end with praise ye the Lord. And I thought so should every
day that we live. It should begin and end with
praise ye the Lord. Praise. Praise means honor, glorify. Praise means give thanks. Praise
means to worship. Praise means to call, to sing
unto the Lord. We've got great reason to praise
the Lord, don't we? From the beginning of the day,
His mercies are new every morning. Throughout the day, end of the
day, His mercy endures forever. And it starts all over again
the next day. And if He gives you sleep, you
go people, He giveth his beloved sleep, and that's a blessing
in itself, to be free from the worries of this world. Psalm 145 verse 3 says this,
God is great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. Greatly
to be praised. We have great reasons to praise
the Lord, don't we? Innumerable reasons. Innumerable
reasons. No reason to complain. We have
nothing to complain about and everything to praise him for.
I was looking for that. Remember me bringing up no complaining
in our streets? If I just look down, it's right
here on this page. Psalm 144, verse 14. Look at it. Verse 14. I preached on this,
and even the preacher forgets where it is. But it says he's
praying that our children, verse 12, our sons and daughters grow
up to be like stones polished our garters full, and all this
spiritually speaking. But verse 14, the last line says,
no complaining in our streets. That there be no complaining
in our streets. If we would consider all the
blessings, or just some of the blessings the Lord has blessed
us with, there'd be no room for complaining. No murmuring, no
complaining. We have great reason Praise the
Lord. It's the reason why we're here.
You know, we need no other reason for coming here than to just
thank Him. And He set aside a place and
brought people together for that very reason. To give thanks unto
the Lord. You remember Psalm 65 verse 1,
Praise waiteth for thee in Zion. That's why we're here. We come
here to to wait on the Lord, a word from the Lord, and to
sing these praises. I hope you can't wait to sing
these hymns. Maybe you can wait. Maybe you're
not looking forward to playing them or leading them. But don't you enjoy singing these
hymns if the Lord has blessed you? I'm telling you. Look at
verse 1. Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye. Who's he talking to? Ye. It's you. Praise ye the Lord. Do you have reason to praise
the Lord? Each of you. Ask yourself. Let
us ask ourselves. Do I have good reason to praise
the Lord? Do I have anything to complain
about? Oh my. I was sitting there today studying. A warm study. A hot cup of tea. Looking out at the blue sky.
Men like Kelly out there training horses in the dust and the dirt,
and I'm sitting there in all comfort. I'm the most blessed
man on earth. Got good health. People that
love me. And more than all that, that
Lord's gospel. So blessed. So blessed. And this
is a command, though. It's not a suggestion. The kings
don't give suggestions. Kings don't give requests. Kings
give commands, though. David commands us, but it's the
Lord. This is the Lord's Word. He commands it. Over and over
again. Praise ye the Lord. Over and
over again. You. Talking to you. The Lord said,
you praise me. To whom much is forgiven. Praise much. To whom much is
given. How much mercy has He shown you?
How much grace has He shown you? Everything we are. That's what
Ron prayed in his prayer, didn't he, man? Everything we are. By
the grace of God, I am what I am. I have what I have. I know what
I know. I'm not what I'm not. I'm an unbeliever. I'm a rebel. I was, but not now. By the grace of God, I have what
I have. I know what I know. It's all
by His grace that's in Christ. To whom much is given, much praise
should be given." Right? To Him. Much praise. The One
who's shown the most mercy and grace. We all argue about who's
the Chief of Synod. Somebody once said there's only
going to be one argument in glory. It's about who's the Chief of
Synod. Not who deserves the Chief seat, but the last. We all feel
like we're the Chief of Synod. We all feel like the thief on
the cross. We all feel like Mary Magdalene, don't we? Huh? Well,
we all ought to be singing. Every one of us ought to be singing
at the top of our lungs. Praise you, Lord. He says in
verse 1, Praise the Lord, O my soul. He's talking to himself
here. Praise the Lord. Let each of us say in our hearts,
Praise the Lord, O my soul. Bless the Lord. My favorite Psalm.
Psalm 103. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and
all that is within me. Bless His holy name. Bless the
Lord. So David says with all his heart,
verse 2, while I live will I praise the Lord. I will sing praises
unto my God while I have any being. That's not boasting. That's not bragging. That's just
a grateful heart out of the abundance of the heart and the mouth speaketh
it. He says while I live, Well, I praise the Lord. You know,
you've got to have life to praise the Lord. I mean spiritual life. He that hath the Son hath life.
And he that hath this life praises the Lord for everything. Takes
no praise to himself. Gives no glory to himself. Gives
no glory to man. He knows he's not born of the
will of the flesh, the will of man, of blood, but of God. And he gives God all the glory.
He knows it's not His righteousness, it's not our will, our works,
it's not our anything, but it's the Lord Jesus Christ who gives
Him all the praise. You've got to be alive spiritually
to know that. You've got to be alive spiritually
to give Him the praise that's due His name. I mean praise for
everything. Salvations of the Lord. One hundred
percent. From start to finish. It's His
will. It's His work. It's Him. You have nothing to do with it.
You have nothing to do with it. Praise ye the Lord. Is that who
saved you and how he saved you? And you praise the Lord. Oh my
soul. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah is what
this is. Praise the Lord. That's what
that is. Hallelujah. That's heart language. You hear that word often. And I hate it. I hate how people
throw that around. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Don't
you do that. Do not say that unless you mean it. Unless you're
saying it to Him and giving Him all the glory. Don't say that
now. Or you're taking His name in vain. That song, you know,
became popular and it's a pretty hymn. Pretty tune. Hallelujah. Remember? Came very popular.
Everybody and his brother and sister were singing it. People
that had no thoughts of God were singing it. And it made me sick.
It's noise in God's ear. For somebody to sing that doesn't
mean it. Our Lord said, Well doth Isaiah the prophet say of
this generation. They draw near to me with their
lips when their heart is far from praising me. Don't say Hallelujah
unless you mean it. Hallelujah. Praise Jehovah. Well, this is a resolution of
sorts. While I live, will I praise the
Lord? I'll sing praises unto my God
while I have any being. Resolutions usually are vain.
I'm going to lose weight, or I'm going to quit this, or I'm
going to quit that. They're usually vain, and they usually last about
24 hours. Certainly New Year's resolutions
do. But this is a good and a godly resolve, isn't it? While I live,
I'm going to praise Him and I'm going to sing. You know, we looked
at this when the Lord first sent that plague in 2020, didn't we?
Remember that? When we were told we should not
gather, we were told we should not meet, we were told we should
shut our mouths and not sing, the Lord seemed to tell us on
every page that we turned, You sing. Let the world stop their
mouths. You sing. And we did, didn't
we? By God's grace, we did, didn't we? And on every page of Scripture,
it seems, the Lord tells us to sing. We need to sing if we're
well. We need to sing if we're sick.
We need to sing when He takes away the sickness. We need to
sing when we don't have the virus. We need to sing when we do. It
won't do you harm, it will do you good. It's health. It's health. Listen to these scriptures. Okay? It's a command. Dare not stop
doing what the Lord commands us to do. Speaking to yourselves
in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Singing and making melody
in your heart to the Lord. Giving thanks always for all
things. Well, I got the virus. Thank
you Lord. That's a real opportunity to
tell men, God did this. Nobody gave it to me but God.
Who believes that? All of God's people. They're
the only ones that do. When Job, everything that happened
to Job, he didn't say it was the Chaldeans, he didn't say
it was the Sabeans, he didn't say it was the winds, he said
it was God that did it. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
He praised the Lord. even though the Lord wiped out
everything he had, killed all of his family, and struck him
with sickness when he was lying in the dust and ashes. He said,
Bless the Lord. Though he slay me, I'll trust
him. Now that is faith. And that honors God, doesn't
it? What did God do? Huh? What did God do through
all that? He brought him through it. What
happened at the end of it is better than the beginning. God's
good. He's true. Sing if you will. Sing if you're sick. Sing when
you will again. Sing. It's not harmful. It's
helpful. It's health. Sing of His mercy. It's medicine. It's myrrh to your soul. I was
going to show you several. I had ten verses about singing. You can't read this. The Psalms
are songs. How can you deal with the song
and not sing it? John, would you tell me that?
Sing, sing. This next verse is very fitting.
Look at it, verse 3. Put not your trust in princes. Don't put your trust in rulers.
Oh, that sure is needful right now, isn't it? Always has been. You know how
many bad rulers that Israel suffered under? I was just reading today,
back through 1st Kings, 2nd Kings, some of these bad men. It's because of idolatry. It's
because of false religion covered the land, like ours. Oh, put not your trust in Princeton.
The leaders, the rulers. Now who said this? David. He's
a ruler. David's king. He's a godly man.
He said, don't put your trust in me. Didn't he? He said, my help comes from the
Lord. I looked up the word trust, and
I think it's 50 times throughout the psalm, 50 or 70, something
like that. Every time but three or four, he talks about trusting
the Lord, trusting the Lord, trusting the Lord. Throughout
the Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, all these, every mention of trust
tells us to trust the Lord. The other mentions are some trust
in riches, some trust in chariots, don't trust in Pharaoh, don't
trust this, don't trust that, and every other mention says
trust the Lord. Trust the Lord. Put not your
trust in rulers. Verse 3, in the Son of Man, what's
that man? In His Son of Adam. Man means
Adam. Not any man. As said, David was
a prince, a king, and a ruler, and a good one at that. But he
said, don't trust me. I'm just a man liable to fall. And he did. Didn't he? He did. He said in verse 3, there's
no help. In Him there is no help. How
much help? No help. Was there anybody we can trust?
Yeah, the Lord. But here's the thing, and I wrestled
with this all day long today. Can we trust God's people? Now
you can't live in a state of distrust and suspicion, can you? We put a certain amount of trust
in people and things. You get in your automobile, you're
trusting General Motors a little bit, aren't you? You put your
kids in school. You know what all goes on out
there today. But in reality, we're not trusting
in a vehicle or trusting in the police department or trusting
anything or anyone, but we're trusting in the Lord. You come
here to sit and listen to me and a certain amount of trust.
I wouldn't listen to a man you didn't trust. But how do you
know you can trust me? You want to put me to the test
by this. You're trusting that the Lord
is going to enable me to preach the truth. You're not trusting
me. You're trusting the Lord, you
see? There have been many good men fail and fall David took
400 men down to Ziklag to the Philistine, to live with the
Philistine. He had no business going there. It can happen. Here's the thing. Here's the
thing. If we trust anything implicitly,
and go around telling people about it and preaching it and
advocating it. You need to do this. You need
to do that. God will try you on that. If you're a believer,
God will try you on that. He'll bring that down. He'll
show you. Don't trust anything. God might use means. He might
not. If you're trusting the means
or the medicine or whatever it is, God will test you on that.
Yes, He will do. God's people. He'll send strong
delusions to unbelievers. See? This works. See? You know what that means? It's the Lord. Do you hear me? I didn't say that. He said, I
kill, I make a life. I what? If you get sick, where'd
you get it? God says, I won't. If you get
well, what did it? In a what? A who? He might use
a means, he might not. Don't despise a means, but don't
trust them. He trusted the Lord. There was
a man named Ahaz. One of the kings sought doctors
and not the Lord. It doesn't mean you don't go
to doctors. But he just trusted in doctors and never sought the
Lord, never called on the Lord. And the Lord killed him. Gave him a disease in his feet
that he never recovered from. If you trust people, if you trust
people too much, the Lord's going to bring them down in front of
you. And they're going to die every
time. Does he mean that when he says
don't put? And trust, by trust he means All your hope, all your
confidence, your salvation, the salvation of your children, the
salvation of your soul, your well-being, your safety. Don't
trust anybody or anything. They're not protecting you. God
is. They're not going to save you.
I put a seatbelt on. I get in my car. And I trust
the seatbelt. No, I just don't want to get
a ticket. For 6,000 years, there were no seatbelts. Seatbelts don't save lives. God
does. Get that through our heads. Quit
trusting things. See? That's so dishonoring for
a believer. Put not your trust in rulers
nor anything. There's no You say, I come to
you for help. You know what I'm going to do? You know what I'm going to do
if you come to me for help? I'm going to say, help. Give me a
word to help them, because I can't help them. I can't do one thing. I can't help myself. That's what David said. You've
read the Psalms. He's crying and the Lord crying.
Well, this is the man that everybody's following. A good man to follow. I'll just take you where your
help is. He said, I'll lift up mine eyes
to the hill from which cometh my help. Where's your help come
from, David? The Lord. He talks about man, his frailty. Verse 4, his breath goeth forth.
He returns to his earth and that very day his thoughts perish,
his breath goeth forth. Do you know it was God that first
breathed into man and he became a living soul? Remember that?
Where does man get his breath? How does man get his life? God
gives it. The first man and the last man.
Anybody lives, God breathes into them. When do they die? Listen. Psalm 104 verse 29, you
hide your face, they're troubled, you take away their breath, they
die. Now that ventilator's keeping
them alive. No it's not. No it's not. No it's not. God is. Okay. Put not your trust. So, go back to our text now,
it says in verse 4, we have to go with 4th, God takes it, he
returns to his earth. You know, we all, I had a few
acres and some of you had several acres and you know what, none
of us have anything. Our lot, at the end of this life, is 6
feet in the ground. That's our earth. That's our
dirt. That's where we came from and
that's where we're going back. That's where we're going to be.
The average height of a man today, I guess, is about six feet tall.
Well, isn't that something? You've got a six foot hole in
the ground waiting. That's it. The dust you are, the dust you'll
return. And that day, verse four, his
very thoughts perish. It doesn't matter what anybody
thinks. It doesn't matter what the wisest man on earth said.
It'll be forgotten. Nobody bring it up. What did
Einstein, give me a quote by Einstein, somebody, anybody.
Come on, quick. Who was the 12th president of
the United States? Mike, you're smart. Who was it?
Quick, come on. Quick. Most powerful man on the earth.
You don't even know him. Did it matter? Who's reigning in earth and heaven?
Somebody tell me. That's what matters. It doesn't
matter who's in power in Washington. I don't want my children or your
children to be under a bad man. And we pray, Lord, whoever it
is, restrain him. But whoever it is, it's the Lord. We trust the Lord. Good man,
bad man. So, verse 5, here it is. Listen to all this. Now the rest
of this is just marvelous. You want happiness? Here it is. You need help? You need hope?
Here it is. Happy is he that hath the God
of Jacob for his head, whose hope is in the Lord his
God. Happy is he that hath the God
of Jacob for his head. What does that mean? The God
of Jacob. Have you read the story of Jacob?
Who is Jacob? He's a sinner through and through.
Sinner. Well, what's the story of Jacob? God chose him. God loved him. Jacob didn't choose God. Jacob
didn't first love God. He ended up loving God because
God first loved him. God said, Jacob have I loved. What does that mean? Whoever
God loves, He saves. Whoever God loves, He loves forever.
God doesn't love everybody. But whoever God loves, He loves
forever. Love never faileth. Love saveth. Love is effectual. God's love
is forever. And whoever God sets His love
on, He saves. He loves forever. Oh, happy is
he that hath the God of Jacob for their help. Just a sinner,
saved by grace, chosen. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, according as He hath chosen us in Christ
before the foundation of the world, that we should behold
Him without blame before Him, and have Him predestinated us.
of the adoption of children. By Jesus Christ. Go on, John.
Go preach to one another. Blessed. This is happiness. Happiness. Blessedness. Happy as a people
whose God is Jehovah. God of covenant mercy. Covenant keeping God. He didn't
make it with you. He didn't make a covenant with
you. God the Father made a covenant with His Son, with the Holy Spirit.
You and I weren't around. Oh, happy is he that hath the
God that made a covenant concerning them before they were born. Purpose
determined to save them before they were born, before they'd
done any good or evil. Like Spurgeon said, I know he
had to choose me before I was born, because if he had waited
till afterwards, he never would have chosen me then. Good or bad. He chose that we
might be holy, to make us holy, to give us to Christ, to send
Christ to die for us. All happy, blessed is he that
hath the God of Jacob for his help, constant help, present
help, whose hope is in the Lord his God. We sang that hymn, didn't
we? Did you mean it? My hope is built
Say it with me. On nothing less than Jesus' blood
and righteousness. Can you believe that? Y'all be happy. Because that's
a good hope. That's a good hope, a sure hope
through Christ. Our hope is within the veil in
Christ, His blood, His righteousness. Verse 6, He's the God who made
the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that therein is. He's
the God that made everything. Made heaven. Made everything.
Ruler over all. Gives us all. Promises us all.
Does all for us. God over all. Forever blessed.
Our God is God. Our God is the living and true
God. Our God's not trying to be God. Our God's not running
for election. He does the electing. Our God's
not hoping we choose Him. We need to hope He chose us.
Our God is in the heaven. You know what He does? Whatsoever he pleases. That's
what the scripture says. It says that to David, here's
our God, he does what we let him. He does what we let him. What about your God? He says
he doesn't. I do what he lets me do. My enemies
do what he lets them do. That's why I pray to God about
my enemies. He said, I don't trust me or
the armies of Israel to protect me from my enemy. I call on the
Lord. That's what you read, didn't
you? My salvation. You know, David, when you were
reading that, he said, though a host shouldn't camp against
me. They did. Brother Kelly, all the time. Brother Stephen, all the time. Everybody around Israel wanted
David dead. He's my rock, he's my fortress,
he's my high tower, he's my refuge. Thou only makest me to dwell
in safety. David knew that better than anybody
that ever lived, because everybody wanted him dead. The only one who knew it better was
Jesus Christ. He said, no man taketh my life
from me. Now who killed him then? God
did. That's it. The happiest man who knows these
things. Go to bed. Go to bed. Made the heavens and the earth
and the sea and all that's in it, and rains and rules over
it all, which keepeth the truth. Don't you love this? Verse 6,
he keepeth the truth. Notice down through here, and
I've got to hurry. This always happens. Notice how everything he says
is in the present tense. You notice that? Are you still
with me? It says, he keepeth, he executeth, he giveth, he looseth,
he preserveth. It's ongoing. It's continual.
Never stop in everything. See that? He keepeth the truth
forever. We need the truth. There's never
been a time where more liars and more lies have been told
in our generation. Everybody believes everybody
about everything. I don't. And don't you. Let me tell you
who to believe. He can't lie. He's truth. Christ is truth. Trust Him. Trust
Him. He keeps that truth. He keeps
the gospel for us. We'll never... He will never
take His gospel from us. Thank God. We need it now more
than ever. Verse 7, He executed judgment
for the oppressed. That is, He deals He deals with
God's people well, no matter if they're oppressed. There's
no justice. If you're looking for justice,
this is not a land where justice is served. It is not. It is not. It is not. You're not going to
find justice anywhere with any man, because man, there's not
a just man on the earth that doeth goods. But I tell you,
that's why we need to know who's running this earth. God is. And He's just. And His judgments
and His dealings are right. Whatever He does is right. While
it's wrongly accused, it's going to turn out all right. Because
God did it. Hence, listen, the greatest example
of that. Calvary. Man meant it for evil. And everything
done against him was wrong. But God made it for right and
righteousness. You know, you judge is right. For the oppressed, to giveth
food to the hungry. Oh, blessed are they, the hungry
and thirsty. He'll fill you up. The Lord looseth the prisoners. You know, when Christ hung on
that cross, He crushed the serpent's head.
He took captivity captive. And he loosed the prisoners and
loosed us from the law. And when we hear the gospel,
the truth makes us free. But we still often feel like
we're bound, don't we? Bound by sin. This body of death
we carry around. Bound by unbelief. Well, he keeps
loosening. You come here, you don't know
how to be loosed again and again. Keep coming to hear the gospel. You feel like your chain is falling
off all over again. Read on. Open up the eyes of the blind.
Oh, we ought to live by faith. We ought to walk by faith, shouldn't
we? But oh, too often we look around us. And it blinds our eyes and blinds
our minds to the truth. That's why I keep telling you,
turn it off. Don't look at it. Listen to what
they say. But sometimes I do. Seriously. There's a serious national security
threat coming from Russia right now. You need to go hide in a cave.
I'm telling you. Brothers and sisters, we are
in a cliff to the rock. We are. Don't listen to them. All right?
He opened up the eyes of the blind. Lord, you remember that
servant of Elijah? He went out there and looked.
The hills are full of people that are going to kill us all.
Germs, it's going to kill us all. We're all going to die. Lord, open his eyes. Show him
that they that are with us are more than they that are against
us. And he went out again. He looked, and the hills were
full of chariots of fire, angels, all surrounding one man. Lord, open our eyes over and
over again. The Lord raises them that are
bowed down. Oh, like that woman with an infirmity that lived
a long time and it just bowed her down. It just bowed her down. You know, gravity is taking its
toll on us, isn't it? Everything is sagging. Everything is bowing. Our bodies
are drooping. And sin brings us down, doesn't
it? It just brings us down and down
and down and down. But the Lord raiseth them that
are bowed down. We come here and hear the Gospel
and He raises us up. He's quickened us together with
Christ. And every time we hear the Gospel, we feel like we've
been quickened all over again. We come in here dragging. We
come in here bowed down by the burden of sin and the world and
responsibilities and all that. We hear about who's reigning
and who's ruling and trusting the Lord. We go out here skipping,
leaping over a wall, Running through a tree. And it starts
all over again. And you come dragging back. So,
our help comes from Zion, doesn't it? We'll see that in the last
verse. It says, The Lord loveth the righteous. He loveth the
righteous. Who are the righteous? Let me ask you this. What is
your righteousness? What? Really? Noah, what is it that's going
to keep God from killing you with this flood? Shem, Ham, Japheth,
the wives? What is it? What is your hope
of not being destroyed by God who's angry with the wicked every
day? What is your hope, Noah? The
ark. What is your righteousness? How
are you going to get to heaven? You've got to be as holy as God,
Christ. 1 Corinthians 1.30. I bet everybody
in here can quote that by now. Of God, like that ark, of God
are you in Him. In the Ark of Christ. Who of
God is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. That, according as it is written,
He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. You're not going
to get to heaven by anything you've done. You're not going
to miss heaven because of anything you've done. You're going to
get there by the righteousness of Jesus Christ. You like that?
Happy, happy, happy. Blessed, blessed, blessed. Blessed
blood and righteousness. The Lord, verse 9, preserveth
the strangers. This is so good. You're going
to love this. Look at Exodus 12 real quickly.
The Lord preserved it, the strangers. You know, when I, when the Lord
brought this prodigal son back, I went out there as an alien
and a stranger and out there, you know, in the highways and
the hedges and the Lord sent and fetched me, compelled me
to come in. But when I came back, I didn't
feel like I was a part of anybody or anything. But the Lord was
bringing me back. I felt like a stranger. Look
at this. Exodus 12 verse 48. Now when
the stranger sojourns with thee, when he comes into camp and keeps
the Passover, Exodus 12 verse 48. When he comes into camp and
he keeps the Passover, when he hears the gospel of Christ our
Passover, And he's circumcised by the circumcision not made
with hands? Let him come near. Let him do it. He'll be as one
born in the land. Verse 49, that's the law to him
that's home born and to the strangers. I don't feel like I'm part of
it. Do you trust Christ? Yes, I do. Come on in. You're
family. But I'm the biggest sinner. Join
the family. That's what Mary said. Thief said to Mary, I don't deserve
it, neither do I. Come on, join the family. He
takes in the strangers. We're all strangers until they
took us in, aren't we? Go back to the text. He relieveth
the fatherless of the widow. I had a good father. Some of
you didn't. I have a good wife. I hope she
thinks she has a good husband. Some of you don't. Now hold on. Hold on. Your maker is your husband. God
is your father. He's your father. He's your Father. He's your Father. He'll not let
His little child perish. He cannot. He cannot. He cannot. Your husband will
never divorce you. The Lord Jesus Christ will never
leave you or divorce you. You will leave Him. He'll come
after you. That's the kind of husband you
need. You'll be unfaithful to Him. He will never be unfaithful
to you. You're not the breadwinner. He
is. You got a good husband. Yes, you do. The only one you
need. Verse 9, in the way of the wicked
he turns upside down. The Lord turned this world upside
down. Inside out. Looks like men see
it. They don't. They don't. They're
blind. Alright, let's end with this.
The Lord shall reign forever. Thank God. Praise His name. Even thy God, O Zion, Is this
your God? Is this your God that we've been
reading about? Is this your God, man? You know,
Buddhist gods are animals and cows and stuff. You know? The Hindus' gods are animals
and cows and stuff. The Buddhist God is a big chubby
fellow. He's dead. His bones are over
there somewhere. The Muslim's God is a monster. He doesn't love anybody. He hates
everybody. He's going to kill everybody,
but a good Muslim. The Catholics' gods are men, saints, dead saints,
a woman, a sinner just like that, an antichrist. That's their gods.
Our God is God. Jehovah is God. God of Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob. This God, thy God, reigns forever. He's thy God. Is this your God? I've got good news for you. God
will make you happy. He's reigning. How long? This government, there's no end.
Christ's reign. So what should that make us do? Praise you, Lord. Well, we could
sing that song and mean it, couldn't we? You're dismissed.