Go back to Psalm 96 now. You may remember when we looked
at 1 Chronicles 16 a couple of weeks ago. David was bringing the Ark back
to Jerusalem and we read the Psalms he gave to sing as they
were bringing the Ark back. That included Psalm 105 and this
Psalm 96. It was a real blessing, I remember
reading that, with you. And since then, I went back and
read it again, and I thought, my, my, look at this. They were
bringing the ark back, and the ark represents the gospel, you
know. The ark is Christ, and the gospel
is good news to sinners, and they were dancing and singing. David was leading them all. And
they were feasting. You remember he dealt to every
man and woman, every person, what was it, a good loaf of bread,
a good piece of meat, lamb, and a flag and a wine. And they had a feast, and all
of that represents Christ. His body, His blood shed for
our remission of our sin. So, that's when he wrote this. And he begins by saying, Oh,
sing unto the Lord. A new song. Sing unto the Lord.
Oh, they are saying unto the Lord. Sing, sing, sing. It's a command. It's a command. It's for His glory. It's for
His honor. It's for our good. Singing is
for our good. It's for our joy. It's for our
strength. It's to encourage us in our God. It's to lift up our spirits unto
the Lord. We sing unto the Lord. Someone
may say, well, I don't feel like singing. Well, then that's when
you really need to sing. Just today, as I was preparing
this message, or looking over it anyway, something was going
through my mind. I was grieving over it. I was
so troubled by it. I couldn't get it out of my mind,
so I started singing. I just put my notes down and
just started singing. And the Lord lifted that black
cloud from me. See, the joy of the Lord is our
strength. We've got every reason to be joyful. And so many psalms,
150 psalms, they're all psalms. Every one of them are psalms.
And I thought about this. There are many psalms that are
sad and mournful and repentant. Psalms of repentance like Psalm
51, 38. So many prayers of David, a heavy
heart. But what you need to do, you
don't need to end it in sadness. You need to keep reading until
you've reached the Hallelujah Course. Because it's there. You know what I'm saying? Keep
reading until you find something to praise the Lord of. That's Isaiah 53. You know Isaiah
53? About our Lord's great Sacrifice
he made on the cross, you know. And Isaiah 54 begins, sing. After hearing that, sing. Brother
Scott used to say, I ain't heard no bad news since I heard the
good news. And believe me, well you know,
he's been through some real trouble. But Psalm 95, come let us sing
unto the Lord. Let us make a joyful noise to
the rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence
with thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise. See, there's
no reason for anyone not to sing. You can't carry a tune in a bucket,
you can make a noise. Right? Now, the Lord is great. Look at Psalm 98. Just on and
on it goes. Sing unto the Lord a new song.
He hath done a marvelous thing. His right hand, His holy arm
hath gotten Him the victory. Psalm 100, you know, make a joyful
noise unto the Lord. O ye lands, serve the Lord with
gladness. Come before His presence with
singing. Psalm 101. Oh, I will sing. David says, if you won't, I will.
David was a man of great sorrows, troubles, and griefs, wasn't
he? But he sang. He wrote most of them. He sang
them. He sang them. So, on and on it
goes. Unto the Lord. Sing unto the Lord. We're singing
unto Him. Unto the Lord. So, we've got
reasons to Him for all that He's done for us. My, my. Sing, oh, sing. Singing glorifies
God. It's a testimony to others. It helps us. It gets us out of
the bondage of fears and unbelief and doubting castle. Old Pilgrim
and his friend were in a doubting castle, and they were so downcast.
And they had a key in their bosom. They found, oh, I got this key
in there. What's that? Faith. And then
they start singing like Paul and Silas. And they were in jail,
Paul and Silas, in that dark dungeon. They start singing. What happened? Chains fell off. The door fell open. Freed them
from that captivity of sorrow and sadness. We get in a hole,
don't we? We get down. David said in Psalm
42, one of my favorites, He said, Lord, I'm cast down. Why art
thou cast down within me, O my soul? He said, Hope in the Lord. He said, I will yet praise him
for the help of his countenance. He said, I'll sing. I will. I'll sing again. Jehoshaphat
and Judah. You remember that story in 1
Chronicles 20, 2 Chronicles 20? Jehoshaphat and Judah. They were
Judah, the tribe. They were surrounded by the enemy.
And Moabites and Amalekites, they were surrounded by the enemy.
And God sent a, what was his name, Gehaziel, sent a preacher,
said, just stand still, see the salvation of the Lord. This battle's
not yours, it's the Lord's. Stand still. Behold the salvation
of the Lord. You're not going to fight this
battle. The Lord is. He's going to fight it for you.
So then Jehoshaphat believed him. He believed the Word. Scripture
says if you don't believe, you won't be established. You won't
be settled. You won't be strengthened. So
Jehoshaphat did, and so he appointed some singers. He said, you fellas
get out in front of us and just start singing, and we'll join
you. And they started singing, and
you know what happened? The Lord defeated their enemies. Smote
them all. Boy, did they sing then. So the
joy of the Lord is our Strength. And we have every reason to rejoice.
And Paul said that over and over again, didn't he? Wrote it from
prison. Rejoice. Again, I say rejoice.
In everything give thanks to the will of God in Christ concerning
you. Look at verse 1. It says, Sing unto the Lord a
new song. A new song. In Revelation 15,
it says they sing the song of Moses. That's an old song, isn't
it? Exodus 15. We heard a brother
sing, preach that. It was such a blessing. Brother
Larry Cribb. And that's what they're singing. Everybody in
heaven knows the psalm, a song of Moses, how the Lord cast the
horse and the rider into the sea and parted the Red Sea for
them and the great hand of the Lord brought them through and
all that. Well, the new song, the new song is, turn with me,
Revelation 5. This will tell you what the new
song is. That's an old song. We're going to be singing those
old songs. Don't you love the old songs? Well, he says, sing
a new song. In the Old Testament, the saints
were looking forward to the Christ who was coming. They skipped,
the Lord promised, He's coming, He's coming, He's coming, all
right? He came. That's His new song. He's here.
Revelation 5, look at verse 9, they sung a new song, same. Thou art worthy to take the book,
to open the seals thereof, for thou was slain, hast redeemed
us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and
people and nation has made us under our God's kings and priests,
and we shall reign on earth. This is the new song, song of
the redeemed, song of the lamb, unto him that loved us and washed
us from our sins in his own blood, a new song. Oh man, gospel is
good news. It's mercy. It's new every morning. He came. The new song is for
those who never knew Him. Those who never knew Him, when
they start, this is a new song that they learned, okay, when
He reveals Himself to them. The Lord saves a man. He teaches
him this new song. We used to sing songs of the
world, that the world sings, you know, about love and love
lost. Love lost, love found. Love lost again. And on and on
it goes. Crying in your beer and all that
stuff. But now, when the Lord saves a man or woman, we've got
a new song to sing. Praise this unto our Lord. We've
never sung it before. We didn't know it. Didn't know
anything about our God. And now we do. And only a new
creature can learn this new song. A new creature. And he says,
all the earth, all the earth, we'll see that in a moment. Spurgeon
called this the missionary psalm because it's to everybody all
over the earth, all people, not just Jews but Gentiles. All the
earth shall see his salvation. Verse 2, sing unto the Lord.
Unto the Lord. Unto the Lord. Unto the Lord.
Bless His name. Bless His name. Show forth His
salvation from day to day. Bless His holy name. Oh, how
we need to bless the name that men are blaspheming on. Let us
bless His name. Let every one of us say, Bless
the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Bless Him.
Bless His holy name. Honor His holy name. Verse 3,
declare His glory among the heathen. So this is, He tells us to show
forth His salvation and declare. And it tells us to show and to
tell. To show forth. How do we show forth His salvation? Well, by being a believing Grateful,
thankful, believing, grateful, and thankful attitude as opposed
to the world that does nothing but murmur and complain and find
fault and curse and blaspheme His name. We show forth His salvation. He saved us from a throat that's
an open sepulchre to give praise unto His name. You know, everyone
complains about everything, don't they? No one's got anything to
complain about. It's of the Lord's mercies that
we're not concerned. But we show forth His salvation
of us, how He saved us by exhibiting a grateful and thankful attitude. We show forth His praise. Psalm 144, look at this. David,
I love this psalm. I don't know if I've preached
from it before, but I certainly alluded to it. But Psalm 144,
verse 9, it starts out, Blessed be the Lord my strength. And
the Lord is his safety from all his enemies. This is a psalm
of the Lord's salvation from his enemy. Verse 9, he says,
I'll sing a new song unto thee, O God. Upon a psaltery and an
instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee. It
is he that giveth salvation unto kings. David knew it wasn't his
strength, his power, his ability, his sword that saved him. David
would never say swords save lives. Ever. The Lord. Salvation is of the
Lord. A horse is a fast horse is a
Savior. No, sir. You can't run fast enough
if God has purposed for the enemy to overtake you. No, no. Salvation is of the Lord. That's
what David said over and over, didn't he? He said, Lord, he
delivered, verse 10, you delivered David, his servant, from the
hurtful sword. And he went on to pray about
it. But look down in verse 12. He prays that the Lord will make
our sons plants grown up. Plants of the Lord's planting.
Our daughters stones in the building. And our garners full of what?
Of bread and of heathen. All manner of store. Down in
verse 14, the end of it, he says, let there be no complaining in
our streets. No complaining. In the end, happy
as a people. That's in such a case. No complaining.
You have any complaints? Shouldn't. Happy as a people. God is the Lord. Go back to the
text. So we show forth His salvation
and declare and tell His glory. See? Our God's greatest glory
is His salvation. Is His salvation. So we tell
it. We tell men how the Lord saved us, what wonderful things
the Lord had done for us. Peter said, dear, here's what
Peter said. Let me just read it for you.
Verse Peter 2. It says, we're a chosen generation.
Elect. Sovereign, God's sovereign election.
The world hates it, but we're going to just say it as loud
as we can say it. We know if God hadn't chosen
us, We'd forever be lost. We're a
chosen generation, a royal priesthood. That means God's sons and sons
of God, behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed
upon us. The whole world thinks God ought to love us. God loves
everybody we ought to. No, there's nobody, nobody worth
loving. Of those he chose, though he
set his love on, a royal priesthood. Minister unto him a holy nation.
He set us apart for his glory. A peculiar people. A peculiar
people. No complaints. Peculiar people with peculiar
beliefs, with a peculiar God to this world. Strange God. That's what they said to Paul
at Mars Hill. You're telling us about a strange
God. He's never been more strange
than today, has He? God who is God. And Peter says
this, that we should show forth the praises of Him who hath called
us out of darkness into His marvelous light. It's God that called us in. It's
God that chose us. It's God that loved us. It's
God that bought us. It's God that brought us. It's
God that taught us. And we tell how the Lord had
saved us. I keep using that illustration
of the man that told my wife I got saved. That's exactly what
he meant by that. That's exactly what I meant.
Amen. I went down, I made my decision. I let him be Lord.
I let him in my heart. I accepted Jesus. I got saved. Now, if the Lord really does
save you, that's what you'll say, won't you? The redeemed
of the Lord say so. Let's say, the Lord had mercy
on me. The Lord called me. The Lord
chose me. What'd you do? Nothing. I did
the sending, he did the saving. I did the running, he did the
catching. That's a fact. That's a fact
now. If my brother Kelly lost his
life saving me, I was drowning, he saved me from drowning. I'd
be singing Kelly Pendry's praises the rest of my life. I tell everybody
about Him. I want everybody to know about
that man that saved my life. Somebody did just that for me. His name is Jesus Christ, and
He's the Lord. Show forth His salvation. See,
His salvation. That's what we do. We tell others. Day to day. Day to day. Oh, that our conversation would
be in heaven, a heavenly thing. We do. God's people would rather
talk about heavenly things, about Christ, than anything else. I hate politics. I hate it. I hate it when it
comes up. I don't want to talk about it.
Somebody just the other day was talking about Biden and Trump,
and I said, just, there ain't no difference. Just forget it. I hate it. Social issue. I hate
talking about the weather. I hate talking about the weather.
It's all good in it, Stephen. It's all good. Oh, it's raining
too much. No. Yeah, it's raining way too much
than we deserve. And God ought to keep raining
and flood us all with that. But He promised. He's so good,
He promised He'd never do that again. I hate talking about this stuff.
I haven't got anything to talk to this world about. Nothing.
It's small talk, it's idle talk, it's useless talk. Sports. I'm
tired of it. There's one thing that's worth
talking about. Day to day. Day by day. Every
day. Declare His glory, verse 3, among
the heathen, His wonders among all people, the glorious wonders
of His creation. You know, we don't have to, you
know, somebody said, people don't want to hear it. I know that.
But we can exhibit an attitude and we can say things in season,
like when men start complaining about the rain. That's a good
opportunity to say, boy, we ought to thank the Lord for the rain.
We don't deserve this rain. We can't live with that rain.
It's the water of life, by the way. Christ is the water of life. We're going to die without Him.
That's a good opportunity. Glorious wonders of His creation,
the greatest glory and wonder is our God's great salvation.
While the world glories in man, his will, his works, this is
not doctrine, this is stealing God's glory. Men are glorifying
themselves when they talk about man's will and works. They're
glorifying themselves, and they're doing it in the name of God,
and it's blasphemy. Man's decision. Let us declare His glorious gospel,
the gospel of God's sovereign, electing, love, mercy, grace
in Christ. The wonder of wonders that God
Almighty would save anybody, let alone me. We can tell people
that, can't we? Verses 4 and 5. To
declare His glory, His wonders, for the Lord is great and greatly
to be praised, He is to be feared. Above all gods, all the gods
of the nation are idols. The Lord made the heavens. They made a laughing stock out
of God. Well, their God is a laughing stock. Like Elijah up on Mount
Carmel. He made fun of their God, didn't
he? Maybe he doesn't have his hearing
aids in. Cry louder. Barnard used to say,
men, try to get together and gang up on God and make him hear
them. He that made the ear, doesn't he? Our God is God. That makes Him
strange, doesn't it? Our God is great. Our God is
great greatly to be praised, to be feared. The God that men
believe in today, and I don't want to talk too much about Him.
We've got too much to say about our God. Their God. There's nothing
to fear about a God that can't even come into your house if
you won't let Him. I will, let me tell you this,
if you haven't heard it. There was this Armenian free
will preacher who was holding a revival and went around house
to house and inviting people to the meeting, to the revival,
you know. And he came to Farmer Jones' house, Farmer Jones, and
he came up to his door and said, Farmer Jones, I'm holding a meeting
down, straight tent meeting, I want you to come to the meeting.
He said, no, I don't want to. He said, Farmer John, Farmer
Jones, he said, you need to come, you need to come, let God save
you. He said, nope, don't want to.
He or the preacher said, well if you don't let him save you,
he'll send you to hell. And the old farmer said, nope,
won't let him do that either. Makes sense now. He can't save
you if He wants to. He can't damn you if He wants
to. That's how foolish. 1 Kings 18, boy, when you take
people there, that's the God of the Bible, God that answers
by fire. And the sacrifice, which is Christ.
Not this God being let do things, but the God who might let us
in His kingdom. He just might. The Lord is great to be feared.
Gods of the nations are idols. The Lord made the heavens. Over
and over again, he says, we look up at Psalm 95, verse 3, Our
Lord is a great God, a great King above all gods. In His hands
are the deep places of the earth. The strength of the hills is
His. The sea is His. He made it. Verse 6, Come, let
us worship. Bow down, let us kneel before
the Lord, our Maker. The dumb animals fear God more
than a new man. I mean, more than man fears God.
My, my. Oh, God is to be feared. Honor
and majesty, verse 6, are before Him. Belong unto Him. Strength and beauty are in His
sanctuary. Honor and majesty and strength and beauty are found
in Him and they're found in those that are in Him, in His place
of worship. Honor. God's people give Him
all the honor. There's just no doubt about it.
No ifs, ands, or buts about it. The true people of God give God
all the honor. Every bit of it. We meet in His
honor. We're not meeting here to see
one another. We love to see one another. But we're meeting here
to honor our Lord. That's a fact. Majesty. He's
our King. He's our Sovereign. And that
gives us great joy and gladness. Our God reigneth. Strength. Our God's able. He's able. Beauty. Beauty. You know, religion
is all about the externals. We're going to see how true worship
is in holiness. Look at verse 7. Give unto the
Lord, O kindreds of the people. Give unto the Lord glory and
strength. O kindred. You know, God has a people out
of every kindred, nation, tongue in heaven. Every family. Every family. He tells every
family, give unto the Lord. Give. He says it three times. Give unto the Lord. Give unto
the Lord. Give unto the Lord. That means a scribe. It means
a tribute. It means credit Him with everything. Give unto the Lord. Every kindred,
every family, every member of every family. Let all the Hudson's
give all the glory to God. Let all the Fanon's give all
the glory to God. Let all the Davis's. Let the
Mahan's. Let the Reddicks, all one of
you, let the Mannings, let the Pendry, let everybody in the
family, let the children do it. They say they don't know the
Lord. It's not an option to sing, is it? It's not an option to
sing. I love watching them sing. Looking
back there, Andrew was singing his song. I love that. I hope
and pray that the time will come and we'll sing it from here. Give all the kindreds, all kindreds. You know, every time we meet,
it's a family reunion. That's right. In heaven, there
are no families. There are no Mahans in it. Everybody
there just knows Henry. They don't think. He's that last
name doesn't matter. Joshua is the same as Henry.
Moses is the same as Scott. They're all the same. Christ
is up. Right? We're all His bride. We bear
His name. We're called Christians. That's
our name. It's every time we meet, it's
a family reunion. I've never had a family reunion.
My family at Mahan's, I've never, well, they have too, I've never
been to. But, you know, I suppose it'd be all right. And I love
my cousins and all that, but after you say so much about,
so much, then what you got to talk about? Nothing, got nothing
in common. I'm going to get home to my family. I want to get home to my family,
to God's house where my family dwell. Seriously. We're His kindred. We're His
kinfolk. Our Lord left His Father and left everybody to come down
here for the likes of us. To make us His family. He said,
Who is my Father? Who am I? This man. Give unto
Him all kindreds, the glory, the strength, the glory. Do unto
His name glory and strength. Give unto the Lord, verse 8,
glory. Glory. Glory. Give unto the Lord glory,
do unto His name. Verse 8. Oh, is this more needful
than ever. Glory do unto His name. Our God
is God. Don't take His name in vain. Our Lord is Lord. Our Lord Jesus. His name is Jesus because that's
what it means. Savior. Like Joshua. No helpless,
frustrated Jesus. He's like Joshua. Joshua went through the land.
If you didn't bow to him, he'd kill you. He was a man to be
feared, wasn't he? He was a merciful man, a gracious
man. He was God's man. He was a holy man. But you better
submit to Joshua. And you fear him. If you do,
you have nothing to fear. He'll protect you. You'll live
from then on. If not, because Joshua's going
to wipe them all out. Is that right? That's why God
raised up Joshua, to show everybody that Jesus Christ, His name is
Jesus, is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Remember
that passage our Lord said, fall on this stone and you'll be broken. You'll be broken hearted, but
you'll heal the broken hearted. Blessed are the broken hearted.
If the stone falls on you and grinds you to powder. He's talking
about Himself. Glory, doing His name, Jesus,
Savior, Christ, Savior. His name is Savior because that's
what He did. Because He's the only one. When
we say that, we mean it. Give the glory, doing His name.
Bring an offering. Now you know that our Lord made
that one offering to God forever for us. Obtained eternal redemption
for us. In that sense, turn to Hebrews
13. In that sense, we come by faith
in His offering. Come unto our Lord God by faith
in the Lord Jesus Christ. He that cometh to God must believe.
That He is God, that Christ is our sin offering, our sacrifice,
our righteousness, our everything. He is our offering. He's our
burn offering. That's how we come to God, in pleading His
offering. But now, in the context here,
this is what David is saying as well. Hebrews 13, verse 15. It says, By Him, therefore, let
us offer the sacrifice of praise. to God continually. That is the
fruit of our lips, giving thanks to His name. And David said the
same thing in Psalm 50. He said this, Psalm 50, offer
unto God thanksgiving. Offer unto God thanksgiving.
And verse 23 says, Whoso offereth praise, glorifyeth me. And to him that ordereth his
conversation aright, I'll show the salvation of the Lord. So,
come before Him, bring an offering of your lips. Thanksgiving. Praise. He'll accept that. We need not do anything, but
we do need to give thanks and give Him all the honor and glory.
Give unto the Lord a glory, bring an offering, come into His court.
Oh, worship the Lord, verse 9, in the beauty of holiness. Worship
the Lord in the beauty of holiness. And I read many men on this and
heard my pastor preach from it, and most of them agree. Number
one, we know that Christ is our righteousness, but the word holiness
The meaning of the word, right here, in most places, is this. Complete consecration and dedication,
something that is totally given to God and His glory, for the
Lord, and nobody and nothing else. You follow? So he says, worship the Lord. as unto the Lord. This is not
for anybody else. Don't give glory to anybody else.
This is all for Him. In the beauty of holiness, that
is, in total, complete dedication, consecration to His glory, to
Christ's glory. True people of God worship Him
in spirit and in truth, from the heart that's thankful to
Him for such great salvation, and in truth, really giving Him
the glory. I know we have trouble, you know,
worshipping with all our hearts and minds and soul. I know that.
I know we have trouble with our motives sometimes. I know we
have trouble with the flesh that enters into it. But God's people
truly, truly worship Him in spirit and in truth. They really do.
They really do. They want to give Him all the
glory. They're a holy people. God made them so. He made them,
He consecrated them for Himself. For His glory. Do you understand
that? And true worship is beautiful. It's beautiful to the Lord. Beautiful
to me. I love it. I hate fleshly worldly
religion. Don't you? I hate it. We went
to a recital, a piano recital. All the trappings of religion,
the big ban and all that. I hate religion. I hate it. There's so much external. There's
so much flesh. The world thinks they worship God with
the beauty of all their architecture and their buildings and this
and that. That means nothing to God. The reason why the temple
was as beautiful as it was, the tabernacle on the inside. The
tabernacle is really a better representation of Christ, because
it was no beauty about it on the outside. You had to be on
the inside to appreciate the beauty. And that was Christ as
a man on this earth, the temple of God on this earth. The only
reason it was so beautiful and glorious was to represent Christ,
because he's altogether living. Every facet, everything about
him is beautiful. Now. And he's glorified by it. So, worship the Lord in the beauty
of holiness. It's beautiful to God and it's
a beautiful thing to be a part of. Fear before him. There it is again. David can't
write very long without talking about the fear of the Lord, can
he? Because this separates God's true people from the world. He
really did. All the earth ought to fear Him. God's people do. Verse 10, say
among the heathen that the Lord reigneth. The Lord reigneth.
That's why politics shouldn't matter to us. You know, who's
going to be elected? Who the Lord puts in there. Yeah,
but I've got to vote. Go ahead. Yeah, my vote makes a difference.
Yeah, right. I know we've got this right,
and we've got this privilege and all, and exercise it, but
don't think for a minute that you're going to elect the next
president. Don't think for a minute you're going to change this world.
Don't think for a minute that it's going to change. It's not.
It's just going to get worse and worse and worse. I tell you what, let's do it.
No matter who's in there, let's pray for it. Let the Lord save
that man and sit on it, or woman. Say among the heathen that the
Lord reigneth, and the world also shall be established. Here's
what you tell the heathen. Tell them that our God reigneth.
Tell them that it's Him who's controlling this earth, got it
in His hands. It's He that has established
it, that it shall not be moved. The only reason it's spinning,
the only reason it stays put, the only reason it hasn't already
blown up is because God's kept it from us. That's why. You can't change the environment
that you keep global warming from happening. Can't do it.
Forget it. God is though. God's the one
that's holding back this and that and the other, establishing
it. Tell the people, verse 10, tell
everyone, a heathen, and everyone who's a heathen doesn't know
the true God. Be him Southern Baptist or whatever he is, he's
a heathen. Just like natives in a jungle. Tell them that God
shall judge the people righteously. Tell them that whatever God does
is right. Oh, I don't believe in a God
that'll kill babies. The God of the earth does right. Men are killing babies. Women
are killing their babies, aren't they? Huh? Is that right? No,
it's not right. I'll tell you how good God is.
He saves every one of them. Isn't that wonderful? And they
accuse God of being unfair and unjust and not right. No, the
judges are, tell them God does it right. Whatever happens, God
does it, and it's right. He'll judge the people righteously.
Verse 11, let the heavens rejoice. Let the earth be glad. He started
out by telling us, sing unto the Lord, telling us to rejoice
in Him, telling us to show forth His glory. Well, He says, let
the heavens do it. They do. The heavens declare
His glory. Firmly it showeth His handiwork. Day unto day,
unto earth it speaketh. Let the earth be glad. Oh, the
earth's glad that God's in control of it. Let the sea roar. It does. Wave after wave. Worship. Worship. That's what it's saying. Worship. Yeah, it is. The fullness thereof, the fish.
Those dolphins, those porpoises, singing of the Lord. They're
happy, aren't they? They're just happy. Whales are
happy. That's Job 42. Look, there goes
Leviathan. He's playing in the sea. Let the field be joyful, and
all that therein is. All the trees of the wood rejoice.
They do. They clap their hands, the leaves. The wind blows. The wind sings his praises. The trees clap their hands. The
birds sing his praises. And that creature is created in God's
image. They say that, Don, they think we're still in God's image.
No, we're not anymore. Don't even resemble Him at all. We're the only creature on earth
that doesn't give God glory. Even inanimate objects give God
the glory. We're the only creature. And so God has to save us. Has
to change us. Make a new creature. that we
might sing like the birds do. Wake up singing. It's not grumbling. Oh, my. Before the Lord. You
see that? Rejoice before the Lord. For
He cometh. Boy, here's good news. It's going
to end in good news. He cometh. He cometh. Says it twice. For He cometh.
For He cometh. That's not a mispronunciation.
Paul said, when the trumpet shall sound, and the trumpet shall
sound, he cometh. Come quickly, Lord Jesus. He
cometh to judge the earth. Judge the earth. I was going
to have you turn to John 12. Let me just read this real quickly
for you. I'm out of time. But here's what
the Lord said when He came. He said in John 12, He said,
John 12, He said, verse 47, He said, If any man hear my words and
believe not, I judge him not, I came not to judge the world
but to save the world. He came to make that sacrifice
for sin to save the people out of this world, not to destroy
it. He's coming again in judgment to destroy it. But he said about
his first coming, he that rejecteth me and receiveth not my words
hath one that judges him. The word that I've spoken, the
same shall judge him in the last day. The Father is going to judge
everyone that don't believe on the Son. Everyone that doesn't
believe on the Son is going to suffer eternal judgment.
Our Lord said this to him. He said, when he's heading to
the cross, he says, now is the judgment of this world, now is
the prince of this world cast out. Now, you all know what that
meant. On the cross, the judgment, you
know, sin, righteousness, judgment on the cross. Our Lord was judged
on our behalf and found guilty and suffered that punishment.
And the God of this world was taken, his head bruised, Christ's
head bruised and Satan's head crushed, Christ healed. And his
life judged man when he was on the earth, and when he comes
again, this is what Paul wrote in Acts. to Athens, he said,
God has appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness
by that man which He hath ordained, the Lord Jesus Christ. So, there's
a judgment to face when Christ comes back. There's a judgment
to face and all those that are not found in Him are going to
be cast into outer darkness. But those found in Him have already
been judged, He said, in Him. We're going to be either judged
standing beside Him, whether or not we measure up to His perfect
righteousness. We've come far short of that
now. Or we're going to be judged in Him. complete in him. That's the judgment
he's talking about. So, and he says he's coming to
judge the world with righteousness, the righteousness of Christ.
Do you need, and now once again, religion, they don't even use
the word righteousness, unless you're talking about right living.
Right? God's people all know. Surely
shall one say, in the Lord have I righteousness and strength.
Jehovah's Enkidu, God's people know. And it says he'll judge
the people with his truth. Oh my, the ones who truly need
a righteousness, truly believe that Christ's blood, that God
said, when I see the blood, I'll pass it on to you. Nothing else.
Those who truly believe, that's the truth. Here's the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Christ is all. All our righteousness, all our
sin payment, all our acceptance with God, that's all. There's
nothing else. Do you believe that? That's the
truth. He's going to judge His people by the truth. Who really
believes that? Who really believes on the Son?
I tell you what, that's why we sing this song. That's why we
sing. of our Redeemer and His wondrous
love. Okay, stand with me.