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Paul Mahan

Let Me Tell You About The King

Psalm 45
Paul Mahan October, 8 1989 Audio
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Someday we'll be able to sing
as we should, won't we? Someday we'll sing and mean it. Turn with me to Psalm 45. I earnestly request your prayer,
your prayers, I'm preaching this message. Psalm forty five. The writer of this home says
in verse one, my heart. Is indicting a good matter. He said, I've got something to
say to you. The Lord had laid something or rather someone on
my heart, my emergence says it's boiling
up, it's bubbling over. I've got to tell you. I've got
to tell you something. I can't help but speak the things
I've seen and I've heard. It's good news, he says, a good
matter. It's good news because it's about a person, he said.
It's about a person. I speak of the things which I've
made or the things I've experienced touching the King. I speak of
the King. I can't control myself any longer.
I've got to talk about the King. I can't keep it in. I've got
to tell you, he says, about the King, my King, our King, your
King, the Lord Jesus Christ. Let me tell you about him, he
says, because my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Verse
2, he says, Thou art fairer than the children of men. He's fairer
than anybody else. He's fairer than any man ever
been born. You've heard of Solomon, haven't
you? And all his wisdom, all his glory, all his strength,
all his power, the most powerful king in all the world. Solomon,
greatest man to ever live. You've heard of him, haven't
you? The scripture says a greater than Solomon is here. A greater
More powerful king than Solomon is here. Solomon was wise, yes,
but this man, he's wisdom itself. Solomon was powerful all right,
but this man, this king, he's all powerful. He has all power. He's God himself. He's more glorious,
more magnificent, more majestic, more splendid than any man ever
been born. It was said of him that he was
the only man ever approved. by God Almighty, the only man
that God ever said He was well pleased with. Oh, He's fairer than the children
of men, all right. Much fairer. Much fairer. Look at this. Grace is poured
into His lips. Grace is poured into His lips. Poured so full, He's full of
grace and truth. Yeah, He is the grace of God
Himself. He's the gift of God. He's a
gift of God's love. You know, when you say of someone
that they're gracious or that they have a real grace about
them, that they speak and they move with grace, you've heard
that term, haven't you? What you mean by that is they're
good, they're kind, they're compassionate, and they speak with eloquence
and they walk about with authority as one in control of themselves
and the situation. Well, the psalmist says, let
me tell you about the king, then. He's talking about grace. He's
talking about grace. Let me tell you about the king
of kings. Let me tell you about the gracious air of this king. He's full of grace, all right.
He's holy. He's righteous. He's just. He's
true. He's good. He's kind. He's compassionate,
all right. He's tender. He's kind. He's
loving. And, oh, how he speaks. You're talking about someone
who speaks graciously. Grace pours from his lips. Every
time he speaks, it's full of grace. Full of grace. His speech
is always seasoned with grace. And how he moves, you're talking
about a gracious heir. He moves as one having all authority. Why? Because he does. That's
why. full of grace, and he speaks. He says his words are spirit.
You're talking about eloquence. He speaks with a spirit of God
Almighty. That's how he speaks. He moves
with such grace and such poise as one in authority of himself
and everybody else, because he is. He's king. He's king. Let me tell you about the king.
Let me tell you about him. Grace is poured into his lips.
It says, therefore God has blessed thee. God has blessed him forever
and ever because of his glorious character, because of his person.
God has blessed him. Let me tell you about the King.
God has blessed him because he's so well-pleasing to the Father,
because he always delights to do the will of the Heavenly Father.
That's what this King does. He's holy, he's righteous, he's
true, because he glorifies God in his heart, in his mind, in
his soul, in his spirit, in his life. He glorifies God in every
way, and God's well-pleased with him. because he delights to do
the Father's will. He always does those things which
are well-pleasing to the Father. Therefore, God has given this
man a name which is above every name. He's king, all right. God has blessed him forever with
a blessing that he'll never give to anybody else such as his son,
the king. God has blessed him. God has
given him a name which is above every name, that the name of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth, every name will bow. And every tongue
will confess that he is King, he's Lord. Look at verse 3. He says, gird your sword, put
on your sword, O most mighty, gird your sword. As with every
monarch back in ancient days that was in full royal dress
and apparel, every one of them wore a gleaming sword as significant
of their power, showing that they were Truly the king. And this king has his sword,
all right. He wears his sword. It's the sword of the Lord. It's
his word. And it's more powerful than any
other sword. It's bigger. It's more powerful. It's absolutely
effectual, Terry. It gets the job done. This king's
sword. It's sharper than any two-edged
sword, even. It's quick and it's powerful,
the Scripture says. He uses it skillfully, too, as
one who knows what he's doing. He uses it skillfully, like a
surgeon's knife, to operate on the hearts of men, to give life,
eternal life, power, power. And his word, it pierces even
the hardest of hearts. It divides the old man from the
new man, and it discerns and probes the very thoughts and
intents of the heart. You're talking about a sword.
This king's wearing one. The all-powerful sword of the
Lord, that's what it is. And he says, put it on, O Most
Mighty, O Most Mighty. He can kill with his sword or
make alive, it's his to do. He uses it with such skill as
if it were an extension of his very arm, and that's what the
Scripture says, we read it. It's the arm of his salvation,
that's what it is. It's such an extension of His
person that the revelation says it comes out of His mouth even,
like a two-edged sword, His Word. All-powerful. And He's most mighty,
all right. He's the Almighty, for none can
stay His hand and say unto Him, what are You doing? He's the
King. He's the Almighty King. Look at it. It says He's full
of glory. He's got glory and majesty. And He reveals this
glory and majesty by this sword. That's how He reveals it. That's
what we're looking at right now, this mighty sword. He's the glory
of God. In his face is the glory of God
himself, and we see it in this sword. We see it gleaming. We see it reflected in this sword,
don't we, Terry? The glory of God. And the majesty,
this word majesty means magnificence, can't rightly be used with anything
on this earth. It can only be used in reference
to this king, magnificence. Majesty, awful majesty, the scripture
says. Majesty, his glory, his majesty
is his person, and it's his work. That's what it is. I've told
you about his character there. Now, let me tell you about what
he's done. Let me tell you about this magnificent
work of this king. Look at verse four. It says,
In his majesty he'll ride prosperously. This glorious king came down
to this earth with a mission to complete, with a mission to
do, with a job to do. He came down with a mission to
accomplish with this mighty sword. He had a work to perform. He
had a covenant to fulfill that he made with the Father. He had
a battle to win, a war to fight. This king did. The Scripture
said he prospered. He got the job done. He accomplished
his mission. What was his mission? It was
to save God's people. He did it. He didn't come to
attempt to save, try to save, to make them savable. He came
to save, to seek and to save. He did it. He's prosperous. This
king does. He does what he sets out to do.
He's almighty. You see, he's majestic. He's
sovereign. He had a work to do. What was
that work? To establish righteousness as a man, to impute it to these
people he was about to save. And he did it. He perfectly fulfilled
God's holy law. Yeah, he magnified God's holy
law. For whom? For himself? No, he
didn't have to. He did it for his people, that
he might impute that righteousness to them. He got the job done,
you see. He fulfilled that covenant that he came to fulfill. He became
our surety. He took our punishment in his
body upon the tree and took our judgment, our hell, our death,
our just due. He took it and put them away.
put our sins away, bore our penalty, and he won the victory, and he's
crowned with the honor, all honor, all glory, all crowns. We don't
have one. This king has all crowns. We
cast our crowns at his feet. Little princess, we cast our
crowns at his feet. He's the king, and he did it
all. Look at verse 4 again. And he did it because of truth. Because of truth. Because thus
it is written, because it must be fulfilled in the scriptures,
because God's word endures forever, and it will accomplish what he
sets it out to do. It will not return forward. Because
of the truth of God's word, because God said he'd come and do it,
he came and did it. Because of truth, that's why,
according to God's will, according to God's plan, according to God's
word, according to God's way, he did it perfectly. He got the
job done because of truth. And look at this, because in
meekness, in meekness by being obedient and humbling himself,
humbling himself so much, becoming obedient so well unto death itself,
even the death of the cross. Obedience and righteousness,
look at this, and righteousness, the only truly righteous man
ever to live. Because of righteousness, because
righteousness must be established. Righteousness must be fulfilled.
You and I must be righteous in order to get before this holy
God, in order to be accepted by this God. We have to have
righteousness. So we had to come to fulfill righteousness. That's
what he told John, wasn't it? Thus it is required of us to
fulfill all righteousness. Righteousness. So he did it for
truth. He did it for his Word. He did
it in the only way, out of meekness, obedience. And he did it for
righteousness' sake, to establish righteousness as a man, as a
man. But look at this. He says his
right hand shall teach the terrible things. He is the right hand
of God. The right hand signifies the
power of God, the place of authority, doesn't it? The place of power.
Success, the right hand, the son of the right hand, and he's
the right hand man of God. He's God's right hand man. And
by God's right hand man, the Lord Jesus Christ, he's gotten
the victory for us, for God's people. He saved his people from
their sins, from the evil one. And the scripture says this is
a great work, so great salvation. This is biblical language to
say so terrible. So wonderful, so marvelous, so
fearful, this thing that he did. So great salvation, and he did
it to save us from so terrible damnation. Look at verse 5. His arrows are sharp. His arrows
are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies. Who might that
be? That's every man, woman, boy, and girl ever been born
unto the face of the earth. Carnal mind. The natural man
is the enemy of God, right? That's us. We hate God. We fight
against his authority. We reject the king's dominion,
the gospel of the kingdom. We will not have this man to
reign over us, we say by nature. But God's arrows are sharp. His
sword sharp. It pierces. It pierces. This word never returns void.
He doesn't wound an animal, only have it scurry off. It's never ineffective. It always
accomplishes what he sent it out to do. His arrows, his word,
his sword says, here, look at it, whereby the people fall under
thee. If the king draws his bow at
you, his bow of damnation, you're gone. If he draws his bow of
mercy and love and grace and points it at your heart and lets
it fly, you're coming. You're going to fall under that
arrow, under that sword. It's going to pierce your heart.
Say what you may, be a hypocrite, all you will, but when the king's
heart hits you, when his arrow hits you, you're coming to Christ. Mark it down. Oh, there's plenty
of hypocrites all right, plenty of people going to church, not
the king's people. His arrows are sharp. When he draws it at you, and
I hope he has, I hope he will, all his people come down. They
come down under this king. Some by his grace and by his
mercy, that arrow of mercy and grace, some of them become his
children sitting at his feet. But the scripture says also that
some of them become his footstool to be ground under his feet. That's what he does. That's who
this king is. He's all powerful, full of grace
and truth. That's what he does. He saves
to the uttermost. He gets the job done. He does
as he pleases, with whom he pleases, how he pleases. That's the king.
That's what he does. Let me tell you where he is now.
Look, verse 6. This is where he is now. By a
throne. Oh, God is forever and ever. He's on the throne. That's where
his king is. He's not standing up, leaning
over the banister. Oh, no. He's seated. He finished
the work. When he said he meant it, it's
finished, nothing to do, nothing for anybody to do. He got it
done. He's seated in regal repose, you see. This king's on the throne
in regal repose, relaxing till it's all, till his spirit brings
them all in, enemies and children alike. Brings them all in to
accomplish what he determined to do. And you know, He's got
something in his hand. Look at it here. It says, Our
throne, O God, is forever and ever. And he's got a scepter
in his hand. The scepter of thy kingdom is
a right scepter. He's got something in his hand,
Terry. It's a scepter. And it's called, in another place,
the scepter of his righteousness. Righteousness. It's the password
to his kingdom. Enter. It's the only way you
can get in. Open that door. It's the only
way you're going to come. Righteousness. It's his scepter,
you see. It's the only way you're going
to be counted worthy. Counted worthy. He dubs his people,
you see, with his righteousness. Saint Roberta. It's in his hands. It's not in our hands, it's in
his hand, this scepter. Sir John, enter into the blessed
peace of your Savior. Oh, you need to be dubbed. Sir Paul, we need to be dubbed, don't we?
We need to be hit over the head with it's what we need to be
done to. Hit between the eyes with it. You must be righteous. But we're all together sinful
and ungodly. But this scepter's in his hand,
and he delights to show it. He delights to give it. He delights
the dead people. So why won't we come? Where will you die? This scripture
says. It says here in verse 7, he loves
righteousness. He loves righteousness. Not only
perfect holiness, but he loves that righteousness he's provided.
He's zealous for it. He hates wickedness. The Lord delights to show mercy,
yes. He delights to save, yes, but
only by his righteous scepter, as proof of his kinghood, kingship,
as proof of his monarchy, as proof of his reign, as proof
that salvation is in his hand, you see. Oh, he delights to save,
yes, but only his way. And if anybody enters in, tries
to enter in, they're a thief and a robber, aren't they? They
must be dubbed, must be accepted, must be granted entrance only
by his scepter of righteousness, you see. He hates wickedness,
the Scripture says. Lord, we've done many wonderful
things. Out of my kingdom, you're going
to bow to my righteousness. You're going to receive my righteousness.
You're not going to wear your filthy robes, your filthy rags. My righteousness. Is that unreasonable? Oh no. Oh no. It's his kingdom. It's his kingdom. God says to us, we dare to come
in without a wedding garment. He says, how do you get in here?
We won't make it that far. But he'll say, cast him out.
He doesn't have this righteousness of Christ upon him. Cast him
out. Well, he casts those out that
don't smell good, too. We studied that story of Jacob coming before Isaac, having
to smell like Esau in order to be accepted. Well, look at this. It says, God has anointed him,
this king, with the oil of gladness above all his fellows, because
he Because he did what he did, the Lord is well pleased with
him. God is well pleased with his son because he did what he
did. What did he do? He ensured that all the people that the
Father gave him are going to get into heaven. He ensured,
he got the job done, he paid the penalty, paid the price,
that every one of them that God chose will be saved. The Father, this holy, this perfect
God, this God who does things perfectly, he couldn't be satisfied
with his son's work if he didn't get the job done, could he? If
the Son comes before him in the ear and says, Father, here they
are, almost all of them are here. I couldn't get him, he was too
strong for me. He resisted my will, but there's
a bunch of them here, you ought to be delighted. Oh no, that
won't do with this Father, this Holy Father. Uh-uh. The Son must
come before this Father and say, they're all here, every one of
them that you gave me. Behold, I and the children that
you gave me, they're all here." Well done, son! Sit down on this
throne right here and get a good job. Get a good job. So God, because of this work,
He anointed him with oil. That's the full measure of the
Holy Spirit. That's what that is. The oil of gladness. God's glad in His Son, glad in
His work. pleased with his son. And he
did this, he topped it all off by giving him a name that only
God himself bears. You see, in another place he
said, I'm the Lord. There's none else. I'm the Lord. But it says in the end that he's
given this man a name. He's calling him Lord. He's calling
him Lord. He's given him his very name.
That's the highest honor. It's the highest honor a man
could give to a woman. The highest token of love a man
could give to a woman is to give her his name. And God has given
His Son, anointed Him with His very name in the full measure
of the Spirit, because He's loved supremely above all else. Look
at this, verse 8. All His garments, all His garments,
they smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia. All his garments smell like perfume. You see, his righteousness is
his own. It's his own doings, his righteousness. Ours is borrowed. You know, ours,
we smell good to God. We're a sweet smelling savor
to God because Christ took his jacket off and put it on us.
And when we go before the Father, the Father, you smell good as
well. But it's not ours, you see. It's
His. This righteousness, this perfume,
this perfect smell, this sweet-smelling flavor to God. It's Christ's
very person. His person smells good to God. He smells of the fruit of the
Spirit. He smells of holiness, of righteousness, of justice,
of truth. He smells of love, joy, peace,
long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.
He smells of all these things. And it's sweet to God. And we've
got to smell just like it. And look at this. And God has
set Him in an ivory palace. Set Him in an ivory palace. You
know, this perfume of His, this righteousness, we can't buy it. You know, there's
some expensive perfumes out there, $100 an ounce, $200 an ounce,
$300 an ounce, expensive perfume. We can't buy this, this righteousness. Too expensive. It takes the blood
of God's Son to establish this righteousness. It has to be given.
You can't earn it. You can't buy it. It has to be
given. And it's too precious for him
to just throw it out there to whoever wants it, to just open
the bottle and spew it out there. It's too precious. Costly ointment
is what this is. It's righteousness. And he gives
it to whomever he will. But not in a small measure, though.
Oh no, he dips us down in a whole tub of it, washes it. And we've
got our mouths open, our eyes open, our ears open. It permeates
our being, this righteous perfume. Permeates our bedipsis in the
blood and washes us in the blood of Christ. Doesn't sprinkle us?
He washes us. Purge me throughly with hyssop,
the psalmist said. And he lives in an ivory palace,
the scripture says. And look at this. He says, verse
8, whereby they've made me glad. This makes me glad. How about
you? It makes me glad to know that
this King's on the throne. It doesn't make everybody glad.
It makes some people mad, doesn't it? Make you glad? Makes me glad. That's right where I want Him.
Right where I want Him. And I'm glad. I'm glad to know
Him. And I'll sure be glad to see Him someday, as He is. Yeah,
I will. My King. Well, that's who he is, and that's
what he does, and that's where he is now. Now, let me tell you
about his family. Look at this, verse 9. King's daughters are among his
honorable women. This king has family. This king
has children, and they're honorable. They're honorable people. They're
highly favored among people. Why? Because they've done something
special? Oh, no! Oh, no! Not the king's people. He died
for the ungodly. The king's daughters, they were
like Gomer. They were whores. They were runaways,
the king's daughters. They were like that infant in
his own blood out in the field. They were ugly, the king's daughters. They're not highly favored and
honored because they're honorable and favorable. Far be it. They're
the opposite. But they're highly favored and
honored because the king made them so. That's why. Because
he came down. He stooped down. He reached down.
He fetched them like old men fetish. Brought them up here
and put robes of righteousness on them. Dressed them. Set them
at the king's table. That's why they're here. King's
daughters. Honorable. Honorable women. They're
so honorable that the king makes little kings and priests out
of them, and queens. Kings and priests. He's a bride.
He even marries them. He even marries them, these people.
Well, upon thy right hand they stand, the queen in gold of Ophir. She stands at the right hand
of the king. The place of, again, the place
of acceptance. They're accepted. They're accepted. All the past is plum forgotten.
They're accepted, they're honored by the king, they're highly favored
to sit there in this royal palace. And verse 10. So he says, this
is one talking to little children, and can we receive it as such?
He says in verse 10. You ought to listen to this.
Oh, daughter. Harken, listen. Consider. And climb your ear, even at the
near to hear. Let him hear what scripture says. Look what he says here. Listen,
old daughter, I want to tell you who your father is. You want
to hear about your daddy? He's the king. That's who he
is. Let me tell you what he did. Yeah, tell me. He did the job. He got he's all powerful. He
conquers. He has all strength. Hey, that's
my father. Tell you where he is now, he's
on the throne. Yeah, he's higher, he's mightier, he's bigger than
anybody else. My daddy, my king, my father. Look at the exhortation here
in verse 10. Forget your own people and your father's house. Forget
them. Isn't that the sense of what
Christ said? Except you hate father or mother,
wife, children, your own self also. You can't be my disciple?
Forget them! I'm talking about the king here!
Daughter? Are you a daughter? You'd like
to hear about this king? You want to hear about yourself? You want to hear about mama,
meeting mama in heaven? You want to hear about your family? Oh, no. Tell me about the king.
That's what his loyal subjects want to hear about. Tell me about
the king. Tell me every time you get up,
tell me about this king. Tell me what he's done for me.
Forget everybody else. None can compare to him. He's
all you need anyway. Old things have passed away.
Old things have become new. Your affection set on things
above, on him. For Christ sits at the right
hand of the Father. Forget your problem. Forget your family.
Forget everybody else. Think about the King. That's
who you're going to see. Verse 11. Look at this. The King
greatly desired that beauty. Me? Oh, now wait a minute. The king desired me? Yes. With loving kindness. With loving
kindness, he desired you. He loved you with an everlasting
love, Terry, before the foundation of the world he loved you, set
his affection on you, set his coming to get you. That's how
much he desired me. Me? How could this be? Me? I've done
nothing that... It's not my beauty that he desires.
No, it's not. But he made you beautiful in
Christ. He made you righteous in Christ,
you see? But he set his affection upon
you so that he could make you righteous. So that he could make
you like his Son. In mercy and grace, he's made
us beautiful. Look at this. He's thy Lord. He is thy Lord. Worship Him. This is not an option if you're
a daughter. It's a desire. It's not an option,
though. It is a command for everybody.
He's commanded every man everywhere to repent, hasn't He? To bow
down. Worship Him. You want to remain
a daughter? You call yourself a daughter,
a child, a bride? He said, Worship Him. Every opportunity
you get, you come worship this King. You act like you worship
Him in your life. Worship Him. You ought to be
thanking Him. You remember where you were?
Listen, old daughter, he said, hearken to me now. You remember where you were?
In the gutter? In the field? You ought to be worshiping Him. You
ought to be thanking Him. I ought to be thanking him. Verse
12, and the daughter of Tyre, let me tell you about what's
going on in this family. The daughter of Tyre, she'll
be there with a gift in this final dwelling place. Even the
rich among the people and treat Thy favor. You don't realize
it, but you're admired by all. You're admired by all. Envied
by all the bridesmaids. Envied. Many people wish they
could be where you were. Many people suffering eternally
wish they could be where you were. Verse 13, the king's daughter
is all glorious within. Her clothing is of wrought gold.
You know, she looks just like the king. Looks just like him
with her glorious royal robes on. It says here, a fine needlework. Her clothing is of wrought gold.
She shall be brought into the king in raiment of needlework. And it's all the work of the
king's fingers. The king, he put this together, this royal
robe himself. Nobody else had their hand in
on this royal robe. He put it together by himself.
And the virgins, her companions, look at this, verse 14. The virgins,
her companions that follow her, they'll be brought unto thee.
That's the angels that watch over us. They watch over our
lives, and they'll usher us into the heavenly Father someday.
Verse 15, "...with gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought
in." Look at this bride. Look at this daughter coming
in here. She's giggling, like a bride, all blushing, you know,
giggling, happy, glad to be where she is, glad to be a son of the
king, glad to be a bride of the king's son. happy, just blushing
all over, giggling, bubbling. She ain't asleep. She's giggling,
she's laughing, she's glad, rejoicing to be here. That's how she comes in. And
she shall enter into the king's palace, and verse 16, instead
of fathers shall be thy children, whom thou makest whom thou mayest
make princes in all the earth." See, the king, by virtue of his
power and his glory, he has many grandchildren through this daughter. He's worked, his Holy Spirit
has worked in her life as a witness unto himself, and he's brought
forth, and this person's life has brought forth much fruit,
you see. Verse 17. So, I will. I don't know about
you, he says. But I will make his name to be
remembered in all generations. Let me tell you about my king. Let me tell you about my king.
I'm going to make his name remembered in all generations. I'm not going
to talk about myself. God's people aren't talking about
themselves. They're talking about the king. They're not talking
about what they've done. They're talking about what he's
done. They're talking about where he is. They're not even talking
about where they're going so much as where he is right now.
That's their subject. He's their subject. He says,
I'll make thy name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore,
shall the people praise thee forever and forever. His name is wonderful. Counselor, the mighty God, the
everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. Let all the people praise this
King. I hope the Lord give us grace to praise Him. Give us a heart and a life to
praise Him right now. Right now, before it's too late. We're going to praise Him someday,
but it'll be unwillingly. in oppression, it will be under
forced obedience. Every knee shall bow someday. But that won't lead anybody.
That fear of hell, damnation, warning you of the wrath is not
going to save anybody. Only a side of this king. That's
the only thing. He could tell me all you wanted
to back when I was in the gutter. Tell me all you want to. You
can warn me all you want to when I was a young rebel. I wouldn't hear you. It's not
until I saw the King. And I can warn you all I want
to. The Word of God warns us every time we open it of the
wrath to come, but that's not going to save us, is it? On this
side of the King. And if you've got the speck of
interest If you've got the slightest speck of interest, if God's created
in you just one little tiny bit of interest, ask Him for more. You've got to. You've got to. Ask Him. If you're interested. If not, go on then. Go on. God help you not to. Goodness gracious. It's. Christ is the only hope. I mean. How will you die well you can
use it. You better buy a key. To come
to Christ. course, too late. He doesn't
have to put up with us any longer. He ought not. He ought not. Old people, come to Christ. Goodness gracious,
for your soul's sake, come to Christ. Come to Christ. It's about a prayer. Stand with Our Lord and our Redeemer, our
King, forgive us for what we are. Forgive our rebellious hearts.
Oh, Lord, like the prodigal, would you bring us home? Would you bring us to yourself? Would you show us that we're
wallowing in the mire, that we're eating husks, And as a son of the King, we
can have peace and joy and happiness. Lord, help us. We know you're
coming. We pray for some of us, it won't
be too late. In Christ's name we pray, and
as He sang, for His glory and His honor, amen. You're dismissed. So, I'm going to go ahead and
do that. Thank you very much.
Paul Mahan
About Paul Mahan
Paul Mahan has been pastor of Central Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, Virginia since 1989; preaching the Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace.
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