It is there right at the beginning. It says,
David's psalm of praise. And indeed it is a psalm of praise
from beginning to end. And as I said, the remainder
of the psalms in the book of Psalms are psalms of praise. A good reading if you want something
to read the rest of this week or the next few days. This is
indeed a psalm of praise and this psalm from beginning to
end speaks of our Lord's, one word was prevalent to me, greatness. God's greatness. The title of
this message, great is the Lord and greatly to be praised. It needs no introduction. It
just needs to be read and expounded. Let's look at it. Verse 1, Psalm
145, he says, I will extol Thee, my God, O King. True worshipers worship God. That's why they come. That's
why they gather. It's in His name to worship God. The word extol means to lift
up high. to praise, to honor, to speak
highly of Him, to honor Him. I will extol Thee, O God. We are not here to recognize
and honor one another or mankind or anyone but Him. I will extol
Thee. This is a true worshiper of God
is one who extols and honors his God. His God, His glory,
His honor, His virtue. Read it. He says, I will bless
thy name forever and ever. There's only one name worthy
of mention. There's only one name in times
like this. We gather together to worship
God, to worship Christ. There's only one name that needs
to be mentioned. We don't recognize one another.
We don't recognize visitors. Why? because it's our honor and
our privilege to come and worship Him, not vice versa. We're not
to be honored and praised for coming to worship God. It's a
high honor and a privilege to be able to come and worship God.
So it's Him we worship. It's His name we bless. Brother
Todd Nyberg told me about an upcoming conference, if you want
to call it that, a conference down in Florida, and he told
me some of the subjects that they would be dealing with in
those few days of that conference. One of them, one night, some
preacher, so-called, is going to get up and and speak on the
life and legacy. Of some fellow named. William. Sent us something I don't even
know his name never heard the fellow but that's what they're
going to devote that whole night to the life and legacy of some
dead fellow. Well let the dead praise the
dead let the living praise the living God. Right? He said, David said, I'll bless
thy name forever and ever. God's name. Every day, verse
2, every day will I bless thee. Every day will I bless thee,
since his mercies are new this morning and every morning. It's
of the Lord, the scripture says, it's of the Lord's mercies that
were not consumed. Since his mercies are new to
me this morning, I'm going to bless him today. He's the one. Every day, I'll bless thy name.
I'll bless thee. Since by the grace of God I am
what I am, have what I have, know what I know, can do what
I can do, it's all of grace from start to finish. Since everything
is by the grace of God, today I'm going to bless his name.
Every day will I bless thee. Since every good and every perfect
gift comes from above, What do I have that I have not
received? Since that's the case, every
day I'm going to bless him. Every day will I bless that.
Read on. Forever and ever. Because forever and ever it's
going to be mercy and grace. Surely goodness and mercy shall
follow me all the days of my life. So it's him I'm going to
praise from here on. Ever and ever. Great is the Lord,
and greatly to be praised. Great is the Lord, and greatly
to be praised. How great is it? Read on. David said his greatness
is unsearchable. You know, any time a man stands
up to preach, he's bitten off more than he can chew. If you
read the word, he's bitten off more than he can chew. A man
takes a message and he entitles it, The Greatness of God, whew,
he might better sit down right then and there. It's unsearchable. Can a man by searching find out
God? Job asked. His ways are past
finding out, Scripture said. I've been to the ocean. I've
been to the Atlantic Ocean. Trying to think if I've been
to the Pacific. I don't think so. But I've been to the Atlantic.
I've been to the Gulf of Mexico. I've stood on the shore of the
Atlantic Ocean. Now, can I say I know something about the Atlantic
Ocean, the vastness of it? I've waded into the waters down
on the east coast of Florida. Can I say I've fathomed the depths
of the Atlantic? Oh, I know something about the
ocean. You know, I've gone ankle deep.
Even if I've gone waist deep. Stand there's some portions of
it that are miles deep, the ocean. And what about the length of
it? The breadth of it? The depth of it? The vastness
of it? The fullness of it? The life
that's in it? Huh? The earth is two-thirds
water. That's the last, that's the frontier
that man has not and fathom the depths of it. The ocean. That's the greatness
of our God. Infinitely more than that. Infinitely more than that. It's
about like mankind flying to the moon and walking around on
it, and he says, I know something of the universe. God. You see, we know in part. We prophesy, we preach in part.
But when that, which is perfect, is come, then I'll know. That's
the reason it's going to take eternity to sing and worship God. Too great. Too great. He's greatly to be
praised, I tell you. This thing of worship It ought to be more than a fleeting
thing with us. He's greatly to be praised. Love so amazing,
so divine, demands my soul, my life, and all. Demands my soul,
best song. God is great and greatly to be
praised. Greatly to be praised. Sincerely
to be worshipped. Greatly to be praised. Verse
4. One generation shall praise thy works to another. One generation shall praise thy
works to another, not this generation. Look over at Psalm 14. This generation,
this is it. I believe this is it. This one's
not going to tell another one. This is an evil and adulterous
generation. This is an evil and wicked generation.
This is the last one. This is it. That's what our Lord
said. This generation shall not pass
away till all these things come to pass. This is it. Psalm 14,
what generation is he talking about? Look at this, Psalm 14. Look at it, verse 5. It says,
There were they in great fear, for God is in the generation
of the righteous. Psalm 24, turn over there. The
generation of the righteous are the ones that will praise His
work. Psalm 24, verse 6, look at this. The generation of them
that fear him. This is the generation of them
that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob, or O God of Jacob. One of the brethren read Psalm
146. One of the verses, happy is the
man who has the God of Jacob for his help. The sons of Jacob
are the generation that praise him. They're the generation,
the regenerated. You see, the generation of Christ,
Christ being the regenerated, shall praise Him. Are you listening? The regeneration, the regenerated,
shall praise Him. Shall praise Him. Look at it,
verse 4 in our text. One generation shall praise thy
works to another. Who's going to praise God? Who
is praising God? There's a lot going on in religion
today that they say is praising God, don't they? Let's all praise
the Lord, praise God, praise God. What does a generation of
them that fear Him, one thing they're fearful to say too much. Scripture says, God is in the
heavens, we're upon the earth, therefore let your words be few. Be not hasty to utter anything,
especially praise the Lord so flippantly and carelessly. Well, the generation that praise
him, though, here's what they're praising. Read on. Verse 4. They praise thy works one to
another. His works. Anybody, any people
that are praising the works of man, they're heaping praise one
on another. That's not the generation of
the righteous, is it? The generation of the righteous
praises his works. That's all they're talking about.
God's people, God's children, the sons of God are praising
what He's done. They're not talking about what
they have done, are they? They're not talking about what
their church is doing. They're talking about His works.
Read on. One to another it said, they
shall declare, one generation to another shall declare thy
mighty acts. One to another. What did the
prophets say? What were they prophesying of?
What were they speaking? What was Isaiah and Jeremiah
and Ezekiel writing about it? Daniel? What was the message
and the theme of their prophecy? Greg is the Lord. His works. What's David writing about here?
God's work. Christ's work of salvation. Not
men's works. So the prophets said this to
the apostles, didn't they? The apostles got their message
from the prophets. What did the apostles write about?
What were their epistles about? God's work. His work of righteousness. One generation to another, he
said. What did the prophets, what did the Reformers, or the
martyrs, what did the martyrs talk about? What was their message? The Reformers, the early Reformers,
John Knox and Martin Luther, what was their message? What
man can do for God? No, they got their message from
the apostles. It was his words. All right,
we get our message from the reformers and the martyrs. What are we
going to talk about? The generation of the righteous.
Talk about his words. His words. One to another. Verse 5, he says, I'll speak
of the glorious. Maybe we ought to take our shoes
off when we read this verse. Or maybe like Job, put my hand
on my mouth. I've spoken things too wonderful.
That's what we ought to do, maybe, Rick, when we read this. This has come out of thy lips. I will speak of the glorious
honor of thy majesty. I will speak, if any man speak,
let him speak as the workers of God. Well, I will speak of
the glorious honor of thy majesty." All right, here a man has one
message. It may be his only message. It
may be his last message. Like Baxter said, I preach as
a dying man to dying men, as one who may never preach again. fell over here and asked me to
preach at that church. I might have one shot at it, but what
am I going to say? I'm going to talk about the glorious honor
of His Majesty. A king sends an ambassador to
a country. You say you've got one message.
You're going to stand up before all the people to bring one message.
Go. What's he going to say? He's going to speak of the glorious
honor of his majesty. Glorious honor. Glory. He's going to speak of his glory.
Honor. He's going to speak of his honor.
Majesty. He's the only one who deserves
that title, isn't he? He sat down at the right hand
of the majesty on high. The king. His majesty. We stand before judges and say, As Virgie would do. Your honor. I tell you, there's only one
that we stand before who deserves that. Oh, your honor. He's worthy of all honor. To
him, that's what they say all the way through the Revelation.
To him belongeth honor and majesty and glory and strength. Your
majesty. You have that dedication to King
James in the front of your Bible? If you do, rip it out. It's blasphemous. This thing is not dedicated to
King James, it's dedicated to King Jesus. His Majesty. His Majesty. Read on. It says in verse 6, And men shall
speak of the might of thy terrible acts. That's just, you know,
to us it's given, these things. Psalm 47. Turn back there. Psalm
47. To us, it's given. To the world,
evidently, it's not given to see these things. Terrible, me
as your speaker, terrible acts of God. I hear them talking about
the terrible things the devil does. I never once ever heard a twentieth-century
preacher or most people speaking about God using this word, terrible. But you know, this is the language
of Scripture. Look at Psalm 47. As I said, this thing is not
given to them. It's given unto us. Verse 2,
The Lord Most High is terrible. Now, I like that. Stan, whatever language makes
God just beyond my comprehension, I like that. Don't you? Like Spurgeon said, if I could
understand all the Bible, I wouldn't believe a word of it. That means
God didn't write it. It means a man did. If I could comprehend God, I
wouldn't believe him. If God is like men say he is,
like a man, I don't want him. I need a God who is infinitely
higher than I am. Beyond my comprehension. Terrible! Terrible means to strike terror.
Terrible means to strike. Look at Psalm 66. Psalm 66, verse
3. Psalm 66, verse 3. Our generation
hadn't read. This is not the language of modern
man, is it? Psalm 66, verse 3. Saying to God, how terrible art
thou in thy work. Through the greatness of thy
power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee." Read on,
Psalm 68, verse 35. Oh, God, thou art terrible. Psalm 99, read over there. I'm
reading God's Word. Psalm 99, verse 3. Psalm 99,
verse 3. If men want to know what the
God of the Bible is like, read Psalm 99. Psalm 99, verse 2. We ought to read the whole thing. We don't have time. Verse 2,
the Lord is great in Zion. He's high above all the people. Remember when Christ came? The
Catholics call Him gentle Jesus, meek and mild. He said, this
Jesus stood on, he said, I'm from above. You're from beneath. Gentle Jesus making, I'm from
above. The Lord is high above all the
people. That's what it said. Read on. Let them praise thy
great and terrible name. It's holy. He liked that language, Terry
Kinsley. And maybe you're one of the generation of the righteous.
They fear him. Their hearts are united to fear
him, and they speak of his terrible acts. David says, verse 6 in our text,
I will declare thy greatness. Well, my, my, thy greatness. Read on, verse 7, Psalm 145.
They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness. They shall abundantly utter the
memory. Psalm 34 says, Taste and see
that the Lord is good. Have you tasted the goodness
of God? When Moses said, Lord, show me
your glory, the first thing he said was, I'm going to make my
goodness Remember that? I'm going to make
my goodness pass before you. I'm going to declare the name
of the Lord, and I'll be merciful to whom I will be merciful, and
be gracious to whom I will be gracious. But he said, I'm going
to make my goodness pass before you. God's made his goodness
pass before me. I've seen his glory, the glory
of God's goodness to this fellow. How good has God been to you?
How good has God been to you? Oh, let me tell you something
about how good he's been. No, I can't. Oh, that men would praise the
Lord for his goodness, for his wondrous works to the children
of men. Barbara, could you stand up and say a little bit about
God's goodness to you? If given the opportunity, how
good has God been to you? The memory of that great good,
when you think back over your past life, the memory of all
these years, how good has God been to us? That's just heat,
goodness on goodness. Just goodness on goodness on
goodness. My goodness gracious, he's been good to us, hasn't
he? God is good to us. Read on. They shall sing of thy
righteousness. My hope is built on nothing less
than Jesus' blood and righteousness. Jesus, thy blood and righteousness,
my beauty or my glorious dress. When he shall come with trumpet
sound, O may I then in him be found, dressed in his sparkling
righteousness." He shall sing of his righteousness. Can you
sing of that righteousness? Of his It is essential righteousness. Holy, holy, holy. Don't you love that song? They
shall sing of his essential righteousness. They'll sing of his imputed righteousness. That's my dress. That's my dress
for heaven. That's my wedding garment. More
than a doctrine. They sing of his righteousness. Verse 8, the Lord is gracious.
The word grace means gift. He's gracious. He giveth. There's a song that says, He
giveth and giveth and giveth again. He giveth and giveth and
giveth and giveth and giveth, doesn't he? How gracious has
the Lord been to you. What do you have that he hasn't
given you? Every good and perfect gift. come from above. What do you
have you have not received? He's gracious isn't he? Huh? Gracious. Read on. He's full of compassion. Oh my. Compassion. That means considerate, tender,
kind, like as a father pitieth. That's what the word means. God
is pitiful. Not like we that use the word.
We use it wrong. That's wrong English to say that's
a pitiful fellow. No, pitiful means to be full
of pity. Pitiable is a person that needs to be pitied. But
God is pitiful. That's the language of Scripture.
That's what it says in the Scripture. God is pitiful. He's full of
pity. Like a father pities. I just
look at my daughter and I just pity her. I told her, I said,
Honey, I'd love to trade places with you right now. Every day
is not a day I don't see her walking through on those crutches.
I pity her. I have compassion on, I'd take it away if I could.
And there's nothing! Our God is full of compassion,
and he pitieth them that fear him. He pitieth. The fancy part
is God's full of compassion for you. He's your kind, merciful,
heavenly Father. He looks on you when you're in
bed at night with compassion. He says, my little darling! Like
you do your own chillings. Compassion, tender, gracious,
caring. He careth for you. Read on. Slow to anger. Slow to anger. Oh, my. How often have we provoked Him
to anger, the Scripture says? Every now and then, and Hannah
will admit this, I get angry every now and then. I don't know
Hannah. She hates to see it. Fur on my brow. That's the reason
all these wrinkles on my brow. I get angry. I get my patience
wears thin. God is slow to anger. How slow? He never gets angry. He puts up with a child for seventy-some
years. He hadn't been angry yet. You've
provoked him from the day you were born to anger. He's slow to anger, though. And
he hadn't been angry yet, and he never will. But I'm here to tell you, God's
anger was vented on his son at Calvary because of you, Charles.
It's not that God is not angry with what you have done. He vented
it on Christ. God poured out his wrath and
his anger on Christ because that is you, Charles Ross. You deserve,
for God Almighty, to get angry and say, you ungrateful,
disobedient, unworthy wretch. All the years I've brought up
a rebellious children, but God poured on him, laid on
him the iniquity of Charles Ross. Slow to anger. He's of great
mercy. How great? Exhaustless. Great mercy. That means he has
a lot of it. A lot of it. We don't ration water. We have
plenty of it. Oh, we can't exhaust God's mercy. And it's great mercy. It reaches
a great way down, doesn't it? When Christ reaches down for
you, how far do you have to go? How great is his mercy? How low
does it go? How far does he reach? How long
is his arm? Scripture says the Lord's arm
is not short. Have you ever thought about it in that sense, John?
The Lord's arm is not short that he can't save. Well, there's
old John David. He's as far down as he can go. As Don Bell would say, he's lower
than a snake's belly. He's in the gutter. He's farther
down. He's in the sewer. He went down the storm. It's not short. He reached down
the sewer, Joe, and blew us out. That's where he had to go to
get me. That's what great mercy means.
It goes a long way. And how great is it? It endures
forever. Verse 9, the Lord is good to
all. Good to all. Tender mercies over
all. You know, that big storm came
through, didn't it? People, oh, what a storm. Let's call up Gary Shepherd and
ask him what a storm is. We didn't experience any storm.
The eye of the hurricane went over Jacksonville, Florida. It tore Gary's house apart. They sat in the house all night.
He said, I never see anything like this. Never. The next morning, the
sun comes up. The sun comes up. That night,
the moon comes out. The rain falls, waters our crops.
The sun comes out, makes them to grow His tender mercy. God's
tender mercy. Mercy. He's going to burn this earth
up someday, isn't He? That's what the Scripture says.
He's going to burn it up. It deserves to be burned up.
Like Barnard used to say, men better be glad I'm not God. Joe,
I'd have burned her up a long time ago, wouldn't you? About
the beginning of 1962, somewhere around in there. Stan, wouldn't
you? I'd have burned her up. And the revolution, you know,
and all this. You know what I'm talking about. When this country
started just going wild. I'd have destroyed it like Sodom,
wouldn't you? Tender mercy, it's tender, tender. Verse 10, it says, All thy works
shall praise thee, O Lord, thy saints shall bless thee, all
thy works shall bless thee, the heavens declare thy glory. All
the works praise his name. The animals, the ox knows his
owner, the ass his master's crib. Bird, when you wake up in the
morning, what do you hear? Birds wake Isn't that pitiful? Is man a
high creature? I'm telling you, he's the lowest
of the low. Birds wake up singing. They work all day, too. But they wake up singing. His works praise him. They praise
him. Saints will bless him. Saints
ought to wake up in the morning and not say, Oh, Monday morning.
They ought to say, Oh, Monday morning. Bless God, his mercies
are moved. every morning. It's of the Lord's
mercies, and I'm not concerned. It's a saint's blessing. Verse
11. They shall speak of the glory
of thy kingdom. We're not up here. You don't
hear me talking about Jerusalem and Israel, do you? Have I ever
preached a message on Jerusalem and Israel? Have I? The kingdom of the Jews? Christ
said, My kingdom is not of this world. And the saints, they know that. They don't talk about some peanut
kingdom here on earth. They're talking about the most
glorious kingdom on earth. Or the most glorious kingdom
of all. Not on earth, it's in heaven. Thine. Christ told us to pray. Thine
is the kingdom. Thy kingdom come. I'm not wanting
there to be another kingdom in Israel. I couldn't get there,
could we? Sure, if Christ came and sat
on the throne in Israel, we wouldn't, there wouldn't be a crowd, we
couldn't get there, could we? But he's on the right hand of
the majesty on high, and we all get there. He's big enough for
all of us to gather around, you see? There's not a little throne
over there in the midst of a temple that's only seating room for
a hundred and fifty. It's only seating room for eternity. People wish no man had a seat
in the room. He said, I got a front row seat. Now his kingdom, that's what
Christ said, pray thy kingdom come, thy will be done, thine
is the kingdom, the power and the glory. Verse 12, to make
known to the sons of men his mighty acts. And here it is again,
the glorious majesty of his kingdom. The glorious majesty of his kingdom. You know Sheba, you remember
the queen of Sheba? She may have thought at one time
she was She thought she was a pretty
high-mucking-him-up queen, didn't she? Ordering her little servants
around. You know, she had a hundred and
three servants, and she had seventy-eight chariots, and, you know, a pretty
big palace. And she went to see Solomon,
and she said, when he saw him, I saw thee. There was no more
spirit in her. She said, I've heard, it's all
true, the majesty of thy kingdom, thy wisdom. She saw his table,
remember, all that? This spread, and his ascent up
to the throne. I'm nothing, she said. I'm nothing.
I'm nothing. Make known his glorious majesty
of his kingdom. Our kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom. Hurry with me. Our kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom. We're going to see it. It's an everlasting kingdom.
Isaiah said this in that glorious Isaiah 9, verse, read on there,
it says, "...thy kingdom everlasting, thy dominion endureth throughout
all generations." Isaiah said this, "...of the increase of
his government and peace there shall be no end."
Upon the throne of David," you see, their preacher, there he
is on the throne of David. Yeah, there he is on the throne
of David. The scriptures do not teach he's
going to come down, he's too big to sit in one chair. But on the throne of David, upon
his kingdom, to order it, to establish it, his government,
there's no end. We're going to see him. as he
is. You know Solomon, Stan Solomon, is there now. And you know what
he's saying? He's saying what Sheba said.
He's saying, there's no more spirit left. He's saying, I thought
I was something. I thought my table was something.
I thought I had a lot of service. I thought my palace was something.
I thought when I walked up to the throne, I was something.
And now, man, I see it there. And I'm nothing. Solomon's saying, Sheba, that's
the king of kings. That's the king of kings. Oh, man. Read on. The Lord—I love this verse. Verse
fourteen, the Lord upholdeth all that fall. He upholdeth all
that fall. Oh, my. Have you fallen? How many hours are there in a
day? Will you fall tomorrow? Will
you fall tonight? Listen to Psalm 37. Listen to
this. Psalm 37 says, The steps of a
good man are ordered by the Lord. He delighteth in his way. Though
he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down. The Lord upholdeth
him with his hand. How many times? Though the righteous
fall seven times, he's going to be aware of it. Why? Because
he picks them back up. He picks them back up. Again
and again and again and again. How many times has he picked
you up? How many times? Seventy times seven. Infinite
number of times. Well, back to the text. In verse
fifteen and sixteen. The eyes of all wait upon thee.
Thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine
hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing." I turned
over and read Psalm 104, that blessed psalm. David said, There
goes the Leviathan. David was sitting on the shore
and said, There goes the whale. A willy was swimming out there. Big sperm whale or blue whale,
you know. There he goes, he said. He gets
his meat from God. The lions, he said, the young
lions do roar. Everything gets their meat from
God. Everything. You remember what the Lord said
to us? Man does not live by bread alone. but by every word that
proceeded from the mouth of God. Man lives. Christ said, I had
meat to eat when he wasn't eating. It says there, he says, the eyes
of all wait upon thee. You give them their meat in due
season. I love in the morning. I go out in the morning to feed
the animals. Stan feeds them for me when I'm
gone. I think he enjoys it. I know I do. But I go out there
in the morning, and there's a whole bunch of eyes looking at me. Horses and ducks and chickens
and cats, and they all come running to me. All of them come running
to me. Horses and ducks and chickens
and cats. They're waiting on me. The eyes
are all looking at me. And I say, hello, Barley. No,
not first. Hello, Molly. Hello, my chick,
chick, chick. Yeah, I do. I say, I talk to
the chickens even. Hello, Wheeler. I talk to all
of them. And they're waiting on me. And
I get a big bucket of grain, nothing I love more than, here,
honey, Molly, here's another. Don't tell Barbara. Here, Emmett,
here's chickens, here's cats, here's ducks. I love to feed
those animals. God says, open your mouth, and
I feel it. First thing in the morning. That's
what we ought to do when we wake up in the morning. Not yawn. give us this day." Didn't Christ
say, pray that, give us this day? Didn't He say, hee-chick-chick-chick-chick? Didn't He say that, Nancy? Oh,
Jerusalem, how often I've gathered thee as a mother hen does gather
her brood. Chick-chick-chick-chick. They
come running. You know, we've got a couple
of chickens now that are brooding. Some of you country folk might
know what that's talking. Rebecca knows. She won't admit
this, but she was born in chicken coop. Brooding hens, you know what
they are? They're old biddies. That's what they are. They're
old biddies. They just lay there. They just sit there and know
nothing. They're not sitting on eggs.
They're just sitting there. Mad. Go up to one of them. We've got
a red one. She's about to become meat for
our table. She's not giving any eggs. She's
not producing fruit. She's not mingling with the other
chickens. He's just sitting there. And you go up to her and you
reach on her looking for some eggs and she'll pick you. And
every now and then I'll pick her up and say, come on, honey,
now, come on. Now you get down here with the
rest of them and act right and just eat and give us some eggs.
Oh, she gets all mad and she goes right back up there and
sits and broods. And I'm telling you, even Mindy
said it the other day. She said, we need to kill that
old gal. Even Mindy said that. Right,
Hannah? She's mean, isn't she? She needs
to be a fire. What about us? We ever brood?
Ladies, your bid is you. You ever brood? Seriously now,
we don't need to be brooders. We need to be layers, produce
fruit for the glory of God. We need to mingle with the rest
of the flock, don't we? And come running. Give us this
day and just give a little back in return. Don't sit around and
brood. There's a real lesson there.
Don't be a hermit crab. Verse 17, the Lord is righteous. in all his way. Righteous. The judge of the earth will do
right. I'm telling you, I'm not telling you, he's telling you.
He'll do right. Whatever happens to you, if you
have your chest split open, Barbara, he's doing it right. If you don't,
it's right. If you do, it's right. Right? Right. He doeth right, the righteous
Lord. He doeth right. He's righteous
in all His ways. He's holy in all His works. He's
holy in His love. He's holy in His justice. He's
holy. He's holy. He's holy. The Lord
God of hope. Read on. The Lord is now unto
all them that call upon Him, and all that call on Him in truth. You know, every message is about
the brooding hen. That was a little message of
rebuke, and we need this. And a message, we need not only
comfort, but we need rebuke, reproof. The Lord is now unto
all in a call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.
Verse 19, he will fulfill the desire that fear him. I hear
people pray for things sometimes, such as, O Lord, open our hearts,
open our ears, And. How can I say this tactfully? And. And that person can't hardly. Can't hardly pay attention for
about 10 minutes to the gospel, and I and I think either they're
not calling sincerely. They're not calling in truth.
Because it says he's going to fulfill the desire of them that
fear him. They're not calling sincerely and truth from the
heart. Or their God's just not strong
enough. We ask God for peace and comfort
in times of trial. If we go through one, if we don't
have peace and comfort, God's hand's not short. God's
not weak. He says he'll fulfill the desire
at the end of the period. Now I feel we just don't, we're
not really asking like that importunate widow when he said you have not
because you ask not. He means that. He means you not
asking. Not one time. Not in the presence
of others. But all the time. Asking. Oh Lord, help me. Save me Lord. I perish. Save me Lord. I perish.
Save me Lord. Open my eyes, quicken me according
to your word." Daily, daily, like that importunate widow who
kept coming, kept coming to the Lord and wearied him almost,
or to that judge, wearied him. He said, I'm going to avenge
her. Shall not God avenge his very elect that cried unto him
day and night? He said, yes, I tell you, I'll speedily avenge.
He'll give them the desire of their heart. Lord! What is it,
Ron? What is it? That's our God. He's a prayer-answering God.
If he doesn't answer it, in some way or another, either he's not
going to give us, or we're asking the wrong thing, asking the wrong
spirit, asking the wrong way. In truth, there, is in Christ. Lord, I believe. Help my unbelief. Verse 19 says, He fulfilled the
desire of them that fear him. What's the desire of them that
fear him? David said, One thing have I desired. You know what that one thing
is, don't you? One thing about desire. Paul
said in Philippians 3, Oh, that I might have, that I might know
him. Oh, that I might be found in
him. Oh, that I might win him. One
thing. He'll hear their cry. He'll hear
their cry. That's what he says here. God
who can't lie. He will hear their cry. He will
save them. Lord, I'm in a mess. I'm down
in a pit. I'm in a bad way. Lord, I've
been like David for nine months now. Lord, save me or I perish. He'll hear their cry. He'll save
them. He'll awaken them as one out
from the dead. He will. Verse 20 and 21, and
we'll quit. The Lord preserveth all them
that love him. He knows who loves him. Why?
Because he first loved them, and he put this love in them.
And he preserves all them that love him. All the wicked he's
going to destroy. Self-seekers. Not just openly wicked, but self-seekers. Self-righteous. So what's our
map? What is our word from our mouth? What is our message from our
mouth? David says, My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord. Let all flesh bless his holy
name forever and ever, ever and ever. Great is the Lord, and
greatly to be praised in his greatness over all his works. Especially
us. My, my. How great the Lord has
been to us. How good. Blessed are our eyes
to see the things we see. Our ears to hear the things we
hear. All right. Let's stand to be
this meeting. Heavenly Father, thank you for
this great word, this great psalm, Psalm 145. It's a great song, one among
many, and we thank you for it. It speaks of thy greatness. Lord,
forgive us for murmuring, complaining, and in thought, when we should
be greatly praising thee. Lord, forgive us. Don't let us
be like the children of Israel. Don't, don't. Lord, you've warned
us over and over in the scripture. that we be not like them, that
we not harden our hearts as in the provocation, just like the
children of Israel. For a mere forty years, after
seeing all the great works of God, something of his glory,
yet they did not enter in. Lord God, we pray, we call upon
you in truth, in Christ, from the heart, we pray, that you
don't let us, lead us not into temptation. Deliver us from evil. She calls your great face to
shine upon us. Keep us by your great power.
It's going to take great power to keep great sinners. Forgive
us of our sins. Through Christ we pray, in his
name. Amen.