This is my glory, this is my
song, praising my Savior. Matthew chapter five. Matthew chapter five we continue
this study. From our Lord's Sermon. On the
mountain. Our Lord began his marvelous
sermon on the mount with blessings. He said himself in one place,
he said, I have not come to destroy men's lives because men's lives
are destroyed by nature. We're condemned already. We're
in a mess to begin with. And he came not to destroy men's
lives, but he said to save them. The Old Testament, if you want
to look back just a few pages at Malachi chapter four, you'll
notice the last The very last word from the Old Testament,
the very last word written, is curse. Curse. John wrote in John chapter one,
the law came by Moses, but grace and truth came through our Lord
Jesus Christ. The law cannot give life. The law curses us. It condemns
us to death who do not keep it perfectly. So if we are under
the law, we are under the curse. So Christ came to bless rather
than curse. The Old Testament ended with
a curse. Christ the Lord comes to earth with his blessing. But they are blessings of a different
sort. than the world looks for. Blessings of quite a different
sort than the world is yearning for. And blessings upon the unsuspecting. Paradox that we talked about
last week or last Sunday. Let's review a little bit just
the first two Beatitudes. We'll read starting with verse
one. See, in the multitudes he went up into a mountain, and
when he was set But when he was seated, his disciples came unto
him, his immediate disciples, the apostles, and they gathered
about him, and a number of people gathered all over the mountain
to hear him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
Blessed are the poor in spirit. for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven. Blessed are the poor in spirit. The word blessed is used eight
times here, and the word blessed means supremely blessed, and
only God can supremely bless anyone. No man can really bless
us. No priest, earthly, so-called
earthly priest, Pope can bless us. Only the Lord can bless us
supremely with eternal things because only He has them within
His power. The blessings of salvation and
all spiritual blessings are in Him. They're His to give. No
man can impart those blessings or impute those blessings. But
blessed are the supremely blessed and happy are the poor in spirit. Remind you of what the Apostle
Paul wrote in first Corinthians chapter one when he said you
see your calling brethren how that not many wise men after
the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called or are
blessed with the spiritual blessing but God have chosen the foolish
things of the world to confound the wise and God have chosen
the weak things of the world, to confound the things which
are mighty, and the base things of the world, and things which
are despised," and he goes on to say, "...things which are
not, that no flesh should glory in his presence." Now, he said,
not many of these are chosen, not many wise men after the flesh
But it's sad to say this, too, that there are not many spiritually
poor people to be found either. Not many. Not many. They asked the Lord one day,
they said, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said, many are called,
but few are chosen. Why is that? How is that? Well, our Lord said, blessed
are the poor in spirit, because only the poor need what Christ
has to give. The gospel is for guilty people. Mercy is for the guilty, and
it's hard to find very many guilty, hell-deserving sinners today,
isn't it? The gospel is for the poor, beggars, spiritual bankrupts. The gospel is for the wretched,
the vile, the hungry, the thirsty, the nobodies, the nothings, the
no goods. It's hard to find somebody like
that today. So there are not many poor in
spirit even today. But the gospel says this, when
Christ came preaching, it was said that the common folk heard
him gladly. Common, just old, common, ordinary,
everyday, no good. sinners or worms. They heard
him gladly. And if you can take your place
with the publicans and sinners, you clamored to hear this gospel.
They did. They clamored to hear the Lord
speak. They clamored to hear about this
forgiveness with God. They knew what they were. The
harlots, they knew what they were. There's no mistaking, no
doubt in their mind that they were sinners and they needed
forgiveness. And when they heard that he could actually heal souls
as well, they clamored to hear him, to sit at his feet and listen
to him. And sinners do the same today,
but there's not many to be found. But he said the poor are heirs
to the kingdom of heaven. Poor sinners receive an everlasting
portion. They don't receive this earth,
but they receive an everlasting portion. joint heirs with Christ,
the poor, the poor in spirit. They get the king and all that
is his, the unsearchable riches of Christ. Then he says in the
second place, he says, blessed are they that mourn. Blessed
are they that mourn over their sin, their sinfulness. They shall
be comforted, supremely blessed and happy. are these poor sinners
who mourn their sin and their sinful lives, those who truly
desire forgiveness, truly desire forgiveness and pardon and freedom
from sin and a change of heart and life, truly sincere. True seekers, they're the ones
that find, those that truly seek forgiveness and know they need
it and truly seek it, they're the ones that find it. Those
that truly seek freedom from sin, they're the ones that find
it. Those that truly seek a change
of heart and life, they're the ones that find it. Because Christ
said they shall be comforted. Blessed are they that mourn,
they shall be comforted. That word comforted comes from
a Greek word which says parakaleo, parakaleo. That may ring a bell
with some of you. The word means to call near,
to call near or beseech or call for. to beseech, to call for. Blessed are they that mourn,
they shall be called for. Blessed are they that mourn,
they shall be brought near. They shall be beseeched, they
shall be called to come near. The Holy Spirit, he's called
the paraclete. You've heard that term, some
of you. He's called the Comforter. And those that truly mourn their
sin and their poverty of spirit, they see their desperate need
of all the things they need to be with God, but they don't have
it. Then Christ sends his Comforter
to supply all those things that they need. Christ sends his Comforter
to call them near by the gospel, which says, of God are you in
Christ, who of God is made unto you, all those things you need.
All those things you know you don't have, but you need. He
says, come here, I've got good news for you. I'm giving all
this to you. And they hear, they hear that
message of wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, redemption, all
of these things, justification, complete and free pardon, and
they're comforted, supremely blessed. of God, made happy in
the Lord Jesus Christ. And then that brings us to our
next one, and that's where we left off. Now, like I said to
begin with, I want you to notice as we go along here, notice in
the Lord's divine wisdom, notice an orderly development of God's
work of grace in someone who is experiencing this thing of
salvation. I say is experiencing because we have been delivered.
We are being delivered. We will yet be delivered. This
is a we are to whom coming. We are being saved and will not
be totally completely saved until we be with him to we awake with
him in that great day. But notice this orderly work
of God's grace, this orderly development that everyone experiences
in this work of God's grace. First of all, there's a poverty
of spirit. We see our nothingness. We see our unworthiness. We see
our unprofitableness. We see how we have nothing. We
can't get to God by our best deeds because even they are filthy
rags. And they stink in God's nostrils,
and they increasingly stink in our own. And then we mourn. Secondly, after having this poverty
of spirit, we mourn our sinful condition. We mourn our lost
estate. And that produces That produces
brokenness, humility, or what the Lord calls here meekness. Look at it. He says in verse
five, blessed are the meek. Blessed are the meek, for they
shall inherit the earth. Blessed are the meek. I'm going
to have you turn to four verses of Scripture here that I think
are absolutely necessary for you to look at in light of this.
Isaiah chapter fifty-seven. Two in Isaiah and two in the
Psalms. Isaiah fifty-seven. Look at Isaiah fifty-seven in
light of this word meekness. or humility is another word for
meekness, brokenness, contrition. See if this doesn't say the same
thing. Isaiah 57 verse 15, For thus
saith the High and Lofty One, that's God, that inhabiteth eternity,
whose name is Holy. He says, I dwell in the high
and holy place. Well, who are his companions?
With him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, broken spirit,
meek spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble or the meek, to
revive the heart of the contrite or broken one. Look over at chapter
sixty-six. Chapter sixty-six, verse two.
Look at verse one and two. Thus saith the Lord. The heaven
is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. Where is the house
that you will build unto me? Where is the place of my rest?
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things
that have been, saith the Lord. But to this man will I look,
or come down to dwell with, abide with, as Christ said, even to
him that is poor. and of a contrite or broken spirit,
and trembleth or even mourneth at my word." Now look back at
Psalm 34. Psalm 34. Trying to show you
that Christ says the meek are going to be God's children. The meek are joint
heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ, because they and they only will
be those whom the Lord will dwell with, the meek or the truly humble
or broken or lowly. Look at verse 18 of Psalm 34. The Lord is nigh or near unto
them that are of a broken heart, and saveth such as be of a contrite
spirit. Look at Psalm 138. This is the
last one. Psalm 138. Psalm 138, verse 6. Though the Lord be high, yet
hath he respect unto the lowly. Let the proud he knoweth afar
off. In other words, though the Lord
be high, yet he will dwell with, he will be with, he will reveal
himself unto the lowly. But that man who's proud, the
wise, the mighty, the noble, somebody, the Lord holds him
at bay and never knows him intimately. Like Christ said in that great
day, I never knew you. Oh, I knew you, but it was a
far off. I never had intimate fellowship with you. We never
became one. So true meekness, true meekness
is God Almighty taking a rebel, and it's none of us who are meek
or lowly or humble or broken by nature. We're all by nature
wild asses, Colts, and we have to be broken by God's Word. True meekness is God taking one
of those rebels, one of those wild ones, one of those children
of the devil. And making them humble, making
them broken, making them submissive, making them teachable, making
their heart malleable or softening of heart of flesh, making them
peaceable, not fighting against God and His Word and God's will
and purpose, but believing and receiving it, making them lovable,
making a child, an obedient child, not a rebellious one. Meekness,
listen to this, meekness is not only the opposite of pride, which
we're all so full of by nature. But it's the opposite of stubbornness,
it's the opposite of fierceness, it's the opposite of vengefulness. And all of these principles,
stubbornness, fierceness, vengefulness, these are in us by nature. That's
the principle of the flesh and they have to be subdued by God. They have to be subdued, and
they're subdued when we are born from above, new creatures. When we are regenerated, when
the old man is put out of the way and a new man created. When
we are, as Paul said in Romans 8, led by his spirit. These things are subdued and
put out of the way. Now this meekness, stay with
me. Christ said, blessed are the
meek, supremely happy. You want to know if you're meek?
You want to know if you have this spirit within you, this
work begun in you? Listen. This meekness or humility
or lowliness or brokenness or teachableness is, first of all,
toward God. Meekness toward God. We're humble toward God. We no longer question God's Word. This is one of the first evidences
of a true saving work of God in a human being, in a human,
is that God makes him agreeable to whatever he says. He may not
like, I mean, he may not understand it, but he likes it. He may not
understand it, may not be able to bring it all together, It's
God's word and he or she says, it's got to be so. And God eventually
opens the understanding. But they no longer question God's
word. You give me somebody, I run into somebody who questions God's
word upon hearing it or reading it. I'll show you a rebel. Can two walk together? We're
not walking with God unless we be agreed with God. Agreed about
what? Everything God says. everything
you say, but I don't understand it. No, no, but it's Lord, I
believe and I just don't understand that. Would you open it up to
my understanding? It's not Lord, I believe, but
I just don't like this. No, it's not it. It's we put
down our own lack of understanding to our own ignorance, not to
God's Word being going against it or contradicting
itself. So we're no longer questioning.
Those who are truly broken and meet toward God no longer question
God's Word. They're no longer gainsaying.
Paul talked about quieting the gainsayers. And that's somebody
who wants to constantly argue God's Word and not to delve into
the truth of it. You run into them all the time.
They're not interested in really knowing the truth of what God
says, but they'd rather just show you their point of view.
How many people do you run into like that? They're really not.
You know, if you find someone who really and truly is interested
in sitting down and looking into God's Word and finding out the
truth about God, about salvation and so forth, they'll find it.
They'll find it. But gainsayers? No. Argumentative
people? No. No. No guile. No guile. Unbelievers? God we're we're not no longer
unbelieving but believing. Self-willed we're we're no longer
self-willed but we say that I will be done not my way or not anything
that has to do with me or me but that way they said see how
that everything has to do with God's way even though it may
cross my way. Even though it may be against
my will and my wishes and my desires in this life, if it happens,
it's God's will, and that's fine with me. That's being meek and
humble and toward God. Believing all God says about
himself, about ourselves, and being meek toward God is being
totally reliant upon God's Word, God's will, and God's ways. So,
first of all, we're meek toward God. This meekness is manifested
in our life, in our outward life, toward men. We're going to see
down later on where the Lord said, blessed are the peacemakers,
and this is going to convict us all greatly. Blessed are the
meek toward men. Toward men. God Almighty, by
His Holy Spirit, turns a wolf, makes a wolf lie down like a
lamb, or a lion like a lamb. God Almighty, through His Holy
Spirit, takes a fighter. Now, old Peter and several of
these fellows who were fishermen, you know that those type of fellows
were brawlers, right? Ready to fight at a moment's
notice, you know, over who caught the biggest fish. No matter what
it may be, slightest little provocation, you know, I'll take you down.
God changes that. Not brawlers. That was Paul's,
he said that's the Lord's requirements concerning a bishop or a preacher. And that was changed in old Peter,
I'm sure. You know, in the garden, I think it was Peter that cut
that man's ear off. That changed later on. That changed. A fighter
now becomes a pacifist. A pacifist. Vengeful. Those who are once
vengeful. And you know that's within us
all. To take vengeance. I'll get you. I'll get you back.
Oh, it changes. It's got to. The Holy Spirit
of God works on a man. That changes. He ceases to be
vengeful, but becomes forgiving. Forgiving. The hard-hearted. become old softies. The older
they get, the softer they get. Not the harder. You show me a
man who's under there, a woman who's under the gospel for any
length of time, and if they're not growing sweeter as the days
go by, I'll show you a man or woman who's never experienced
the grace of God. The grace of God is like a meat
tenderizer. Salt. Hard-hearted become soft-hearted.
The merciless, those who were once merciless, become merciful. Terry and I were talking about
that, and this is another blessing our Lord gives, verse 7, the
merciful. When we've experienced mercy,
how much mercy have we experienced, Terry? A lot. It's new every morning, right?
It talks about our cup running over. If our cup runs over, if
we're so full of mercy our cup runs over, what does that mean?
Spills out on everybody else, doesn't it? So the merciless,
those who are once merciless, become merciful. And then here's
another way we become meek and lowly and humble. Another evidence
is we become easily instructed and admonished, first of all,
from God's Word. The Word of God, rather than
cause us to rise up, it causes us to break down. You know, when
you first heard the message of God's grace, which is God's sovereign
grace, which says God's on the throne and you're in a dust and
you're a maggot and you're at his sovereign disposal and he
can save you or damn you if you will. In that old rebel, he says,
well, he gets indignant and rises up against you, right? But once
the grace of God begins to work on that man, he doesn't rise
up and pride and anger, what does he do? He breaks down in
the dust and contrition and lowliness, and he becomes easily instructed
and admonished by God's Word and by others, by others, faithful
to the wounds of the friend. And then this humility manifests
itself, and we esteem others better than ourselves. We look
on the things of others. And this humility ascribes all
that it has, this meekness ascribes all that it is, all that it has
to God and to God alone. Meekness, truly meekness, takes
no credit for anything that they do or are, no credit whatsoever,
but all credit, all praise and honor and glory belongs to Him
who gives these things. Meekness was ascribed to Moses. You remember our message from
Matthew 11, 29, the heart of Christ, when Christ said, Take
my yoke upon you and learn of me. Meekness was ascribed greatly
to two men. The first was Moses. That which distinguished Moses
above every man who walked the planet, it was said of Moses,
Moses was more meek than anybody, any man upon the face of the
earth. Moses was used more greatly, wasn't he? It was more written
by Moses and about Moses than any other man, save our Lord
himself. Meekness. Moses, when he died, the Lord
took him up on a mountain and talked to him face to face, told
him what was going to happen and so forth. And when he died,
they don't know where his body went. The Lord took care of that
personally. The man Moses was a great man.
God used Moses more than any other, except The one who Moses
wrote about. Jesus Christ. And what did He
say about Himself? I just quoted it to you. He said,
Take thy yoke upon you. And He said, You learn of Me.
You become a disciple. You're going to be a disciple
of Mine, Christ said. You're going to be in a school of Christ,
a student of His. You're going to sit at His feet
and learn of Him? Okay. This is the first lesson.
Lesson number one. I am meek and lowly. You see, all of these things
we were talking about a while ago, Christ willingly humbled
himself. Because he humbled himself, Terry,
and took upon himself the form of a servant, what does God say
about him? Say he's highly exalted in him
and given him a name which is above everything. Why? Because
he was the lowest of the low. He was the meekest of the meek.
And he that abases himself, humbles himself, God will highly exalt. And he that humbles himself the
most, God will exalt the most, right? Has anybody ever humbled
himself like the Lord of Glory did to come down here on this
earth, huh? For maggots, for worms, to wash
the feet of filthy, wretched, vile, God-hating sinners, huh? Because he did that. and even
die for one. Some would die for a righteous
man, for a good man, for a righteous man, but for sinners? Christ
did that. So God has highly exalted him
and given him a name which is above everything. So Christ willingly
humbled himself to the will of God, the Word of God. God said,
if I'm going to save a people, you have to go down there. Did
that cross the Son's will? Well, in a sense, everything,
this thing of becoming sin, this thing of becoming separated from
his father, was against, repulsive to his very nature, wasn't it?
I don't want to leave the father. I certainly don't want to become
sin. And it'd be such a wretched and vile place to dwell among
these maggots. Nevertheless, not my will, but
thy will. Now there's meat in this, right?
I don't want to do what I want to do. I want to do what God
God tells me to do it. So Christ did that perfectly.
And he resisted not God's judgments and these other things we're
talking about. When he was reviled, he reviled. Was he vengeful? Thank God he
wasn't. Thank God when they struck him
on one side of the face, he didn't say, that's it, and rise up in
arms and call those twelve legions names. Thank God he turned the
other one. In all of these things, Christ
exhibited true meekness. True meekness. True meekness
is not weakness. That's what the world says, isn't
it? They say true meekness is weakness, but not so. Think about
this. True meekness is not weakness,
but true meekness is real strength of character, real The man who rises up in arms
and gets mad quickly has no control over his temper. He's a weakling,
right? Oh, he may be strong, he may
be able to punch you out and knock you down and inflict bodily
harm to you, but he's a weakling. If he can't control his own temper
within him, that little rage within him, he's a weakling. true meekness is strength of
character, to be in control of yourself by the grace of God. The patient, the patient, those
are truly strong in character, right? Try it. The patient, those
who are able to quietly wait on the Lord, quietly wait for
things. You know, the older you get,
the more patient you ought to become, because you realize over the
years that It didn't do you any good to fret and worry and get
all upset about it, because you had to wait anyway. No matter
how much fretting and worrying you did, it didn't hasten what
was coming to you. So you're supposed to learn a
little patience, aren't you? So that's true strength of character,
right? A quiet spirit. You know the strong or usually
the silent type? What was it said about Christ?
His prophecy said about Christ over in Isaiah chapter 42, he
said, he'll not cry, don't lift up his voice, cause his voice
to be heard in the streets. In other words, he wasn't running
around saying, I'm the Christ, you better believe on that. He
said it to some select people. But when they came to him, remember
Terry, when the Pharisees came to him a couple of times, they
said, if you be the Christ, tell us plainly. He said, I told you,
but you don't believe. As I said, my sheep hear my voice.
They know me and they follow me. But he said, if you don't
believe me, my words, you can believe the works I do. They'll
bear witness of me. You know, a strong man, strength
of character, he doesn't have to go around spouting off and
boasting of who he is, proving himself to everybody, does he?
No. The same holds true with a spiritually
strong man. He knows whom he has believed.
Not going to let the gainsayers and all this that goes on in
the world upset him. He's grounded and settled in
the truth of the gospel. Let the potsherds of the earth
strive with the potsherds of the earth. I believe God. That's
true meekness, and that's Christ. All of these things, that's Christ,
and that's Christ's likeness, isn't it? That's Christ's likeness. I've got to hurry. Can you believe
that I had one message prepared with all eight Beatitudes, and
I was going to give it last Sunday? And I've had to rework, and I'm
just going to get through one tonight. I had two. I was going
to get through two tonight, and I'm just getting through one.
I'm breaking my promise. I told you I wasn't going to
bog you down here, but this is too important. It's too much
here. He says they shall inherit the earth. Look at it again.
And we read that in Psalm 37, didn't we? Several times. The
land, the earth. The meek shall inherit the earth.
Now listen carefully, OK? I want to read something to you
by Arthur Pink that could not be improved upon. Now listen
carefully. All right? Listen carefully. The meek shall inherit the earth.
And Mr. Pink says this. The earth and
the land, of which it speaks of in Psalm 37, interchangeably. They shall inherit the earth.
They shall inherit the land. They're both Hebrew and Greek words,
and they possess this double meaning, the land or earth. All
right? Now, this promise is taken from Psalm 37, verse 11, which
says, The meek shall inherit the earth and shall delight themselves
in the abundance of peace. Now, that's the last part of
that verse. They shall delight themselves in the abundance of
peace that this meekness gives them. All right? Now listen. The spirit of meekness is what
enables that man or woman who is meek to get so much enjoyment
out of his earthly portion of this earth. Like that old woman
who said over an old dry loaf of bread, And Christ, too. This is just great. True meekness
gives a peace and a contentment with what one has, and it makes
you enjoy what you have so much more. I'm paraphrasing some of
the things he says here. Be it small or large, true meekness
is enjoying your earthly portion. Delivered from a greedy and grasping
disposition, he's satisfied with such things as he has. There
in that same psalm, it said, A little that a righteous man
hath is better than the riches of many wicked. Contentment is
one of these fruits of meekness. Contentment. The haughty and
the covetous. They don't inherit the earth,
though they may own many acres of it. The humble Christian,
though, is far happier in a cottage than the wicked is in a palace.
Prison would palaces prove if he dwells with me there. Better
is a little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure
and trouble therewith, and there will be trouble. Christ said,
How hardly shall they that have riches or trust in riches inherit
the kingdom. So spiritually speaking, there's
a peace that comes. with this meekness or this resignation
to God's will in all things is a peace that comes, is peace
that passes mere knowledge. Secondly, literally they shall
inherit the earth. Literally. You have to pay careful
attention here. I had to. I had to read it a
couple of times. The meek inherit the earth in regard to their
rights. They're members of Christ who's
the Lord of all. And Paul said to the saints in
first Corinthians three he said all things are yours whether
the world or life or death or things present and things to
come all of yours and your Christ and Christ is God's all things
are yours. Now he and he illustrates it
the right in the title to the earth. Some of you have acreage
or the bank has it. You think you do. Some of you
have property and so forth. You have a deed a title to it.
OK. The right to the things of this earth. The right to the
things of this earth. Is twofold. And one is spiritual
or civil I mean what number one is civil and number two is spiritual
number one. That which holds good before
men is these deeds, these laws, and so forth that we have. Okay?
I've got a deed with my house, 518 Avon Street on it, and it
is recorded at the courthouse, and that says legally, civilly,
it says according to the earth's laws that that belongs to Paul
and Mindy Mahan and Crestor Bain. No, another man. Okay? All right, that's the title,
Before Men. All right? But secondly though, that title's
no good. Is that any good to God? Huh? That's like an aunt coming in
my yard and sticking down a toothpick with a little piece of cloth
on it and saying, I claim this, this is mine. And going down
to the bank and borrowing money or borrowing breadcrumbs to pay
for it, and he sets up home. Well, if I've got a good... He's subject to eviction at a
moment's notice. That ain't it. He's subject to
eviction at my discretion, right? If I get tired of him being around,
I just... That's what God Almighty does to us, right? So these civil
laws are nothing before God Almighty, but secondly now, spiritually,
these rights and titles, spiritually, that which is approved before
God, his mind. Adam had this spiritual right
to the earth. Adam, the first man, was created
in the image of God and he put him in the earth and said, it's
yours. You're king of it. It belongs to you as long as
you're obedient to me. The earth belongs to you as long
as you belong to me. The earth will be submissive
to you. You'll be able to subdue it and
so forth to you, as long as you're submissive and in subjection
to me. All right? Adam had that right. He had that claim spiritually.
God gave it to him. Adam lost it. He forfeited it. The minute he rebelled and said,
I don't like this arrangement. I don't like God being on and
everything. I want to own it. I want to be God. And I want
to do whatever I want to do. God says, it's no longer yours. It's mine. All of it. You don't get any of it. And
thorns and thistles and everything, you're going to have a hard time
with it. And you're going to have to rent it from me from now on.
But the second Adam came down. And because he did a work, because
of what he did, he both lived and died that he might be Lord
over the dead and the living. Because what he did, it says
all things were created by him and for him. God gave it to him,
said now here it's yours. It's the son's. He's the heir
of all things. Psalm 2, I'll not turn over there
to it, but Psalm 2 says he gave Christ the heathen for inheritance
and the people, the wicked, the earth and all that's in the earth
for his portion. And he can give that and dispense
that to whom he will. And Terry, what does it say about
us as far as just being heirs? He says we're what? Joint heirs
with Christ. OK? If everything belongs to
Christ, the earth is mine. Right? It's mine. The world is
Christ's and his joint heirs. And it exists for Christ's sake
and for my sake. You believe that? He said it
several times. He said, I gave Ethiopia and
Egypt for your ransom. He wiped out whole nations in
the path of his people. And he does the same thing now
for his elect sake. The whole world is standing and
existing because of the elect sake. Believe me. Don't believe
me. Believe God. They shall inherit
the earth. It's ours. It's ours. But what
do we get in it? Riches and land? No, that's not
what we're looking for. We read there in Psalm 37, it
said, Give the desires of your heart. What's the desires of
our heart? Not the earth. I mean, love the world and the
things of the world. Love the Father is not in it. Where's
our affection set? Things above. Nevertheless, this
is mine. But I don't want to let the pot
church, let the richlings have it. And they do. Let them have
it. I've got enough. It's enough.
It's enough what I've got. But if riches increase, the scripture
said, set not your heart on them. Thank God for them. Go on about
your business and set your heart on those unsearchable riches.
Don't ever trust these. They're fleeting. They increase.
Thank God for it. Thank you. Enjoy them. Give him
all the praise. If they go, so will the Lord
gave. Lord, take it away. Blessed be the name of the Lord.
And the heavens The new heavens and the new earth are Christ's. He said He's going to dwell there
with us. And they're ours, too. The new earth is going to be
ours. And ain't nobody else going to be on it but God's people. And finally, He's going to wipe
this whole mess out. And I've got to quit. And give
us this planet to use every bit of it. And there won't be any
unbelievers. Any wicked, anything that loveth
a lie, Scripture says, on that new earth, but righteousness
and peace and meek. Will we still be meek? You better
believe it. We'll always be His servants. We'll always be humble before
the Lord because of what He did. We'll always be singing that
song unto Him, unto Him, unto Him. Oh, thank you, Lord. We
will be without sin. But we'll be meek before him,
and we'll inherit that new earth. This is ours, but we don't want
it. Right? That one's ours, and we want
it. And we'll have it, along with Christ. Blessed are the
meek, and all that that implies, for they shall inherit the earth.
Christ, ultimately, supremely, is the meek one live that righteous
life and shed his precious blood, that he might be Lord. And he
did inherit. He did become the heir of all
things. And us in him, we inherit the earth. All right. Stand with
me and I'll dismiss them. Father, we thank you that you
sent Christ down here, that he condescended to take upon him
the likeness of sinful flesh, be made under the law, made of
a woman, made under that law, and be made a curse for us, that
we might be blessed, supremely blessed, by God himself. Forgiveness of sins, pardon,
free justification, righteousness, sanctification, redemption, all
the many, many blessings, and the spiritual blessings, enjoyment
of God, communion with God, the love of God, fellowship with
God. all the things of God, yea, things that I hadn't seen or
heard nor entered into our heart, the things He's prepared for
us that love Him because He first loved us. And we do thank you
because it's all because of Christ, because He came and wrought that
great work on this earth for us and now is seated at the right
hand of the Father, ensuring as our surety, making sure we
get what's coming to us. We thank you. Praise be to the
name of Christ. In his name we pray. Amen. You're
dismissed. That's right.