So, our text verses today comes
from Psalm 89, if you turn there, and we kind of came to this in
a roundabout way last week, and Norm asked me to fill in for
him, and I was looking at my calendar, and Friday was a Jewish holiday called
Rosh Hashanah. And it's called, that means head
of the year. It's the Jewish new year. And
by, I guess by their calendar, it's the year 5,871, I believe.
So we don't care about that. unless you're into some kind
of dispensational eschatology or something, we don't care about
that. What drew me to it was some of
the things, the origins of it, where it came from and found
in Leviticus, the book of Leviticus, and some of the things that it
talked about that clearly have a spiritual application and that's
where we want to look at today. Because clearly Jesus said, search
the scriptures, they are they that testify of me. And beginning
at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded to them the things
concerning himself in all the scriptures. So that's the position
that we take here, is that all the scriptures are talking about
Christ and his redemptive work for the church. So in Leviticus
23, we'll be looking at some scriptures there, and then we'll
read from our text verse in Psalm 89, Psalm 89 in particular, we want
to read verse 14 through 16. We'll kind of take a look at
the rest of the chapter kind of in a summary form here in
a minute. But in Psalm 89 verse 14, it
says, justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne.
Mercy and truth shall go before thy face. Blessed, blessed the
people that know the joyful sound. They shall walk, O Lord, in the
light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice
all the day, and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. Now kind
of at the beginning of this chapter in Psalm 89, it talks about the
Lord's covenant with David and now David being a type of Christ.
And then it talks about him in creation and the heavens are
thine, that earth also is thine for the world and the fullness
thereof thou has founded them in verse 11, the North and the
South. Thou has created them. Tabor
and Herman shall rejoice in thy name. Thou has a mighty arm,
strong as thy hand and high as thy right hand. And then we go
into our text verse where it talks about justice and judgment. merging with truth and mercy. So again, as we looked at Friday
being the celebration of Rosh Hashanah, the head of the new
year, I was just kind of reading up on it a little bit and talk
about something that's just been polluted by the traditions of
the elders. It's just You know, the original
purpose of it, the original scriptures that it was based on just turned
into, it just devolved into more of the same thing that Norm's
been bringing out of the Old Testament. You polluted my offerings. You polluted the meaning of the
sacrifices. They've all been taken and turned into something
that they were never meant to be, and most of that is kind
of a works-oriented philosophy. Well, we have this feast that
the Lord talks about, and we can do that. It's just one more
feast that we have to knock out during the year. It's one of
the feasts that's talked about in Leviticus 23, where it says,
these are the feasts of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord, these are
my feasts that you are to observe during the year. So let's kind
of turn over there. While you're turning there into
Leviticus chapter 23, this Rosh Hashanah, this head of the new
year is a celebration of creation as described in the beginnings
of Psalm 89. And in the Jewish traditions,
the name for the celebration is Yom Teruah, day of shouting
or blasting. And we'll come to why that is
here in Leviticus chapter 23 and the basis for that. And the
chapter which outlines these feasts of the Lord, which were
to be kept each year. There was the Feast of Passover,
unleavened bread, first fruits, Pentecost. And then every 50
years, as we'll see here, was the Feast of the Jubilee. So
let's turn to Leviticus 23 and starting in verse one, and the
Lord, spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel
and say unto them concerning the feasts of the Lord, which
you shall proclaim to be holy convocations. Even these are
my feasts. Six days shall the work be done,
but on the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest and holy convocation. You shall do no work therein. It is the Sabbath of the Lord
in all your dwellings." And we've been constantly dwelling on that
meaning of that Sabbath, the Sabbath of rest of Christ's finished
work on the cross that Brother Craig brought up in the Bible
class this morning. We're to cease our own works and to trust
totally in Christ for salvation in his works. Six days shall you work, but
the seventh day is the day that it talks about in Genesis. And
the Lord rested from all his works. He ceased. These are the
feasts of the Lord in verse four, even the holy convocation, which
you shall proclaim in their seasons. And the Lord spake unto Moses. We're going to skip down to verse
23 now, which deals with the ones that we're talking about
here today. Leviticus 23, 23. The Lord spake unto Moses saying,
speak unto the children of Israel saying, in the seventh month,
in the first day of the month, you shall have a Sabbath, a ceasing
of works, a ceasing, a resting in the finished work of Christ
is what the spiritual message there is. A memorial, a blowing
of trumpets. a holy convocation. You shall
do no work therein, but you shall offer an offering made by fire
unto the Lord. And the Lord spake unto Moses,
also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be
a day of atonement." So you have the first day of this feast is
a blowing of the trumpets, a declaration of the gospel of Christ, a declaration
of resting in the finished work of Christ, proclaiming what he
has done for his people. And then on the 10th day, you
have the day of atonement. It shall be a holy convocation
unto you, and you shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering
made by fire unto the Lord. And ye shall do no work in that
same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement
for you, before the Lord your God. For whatsoever soul it be
that shall not be afflicted in that same day, he shall be cut
off from among his people." That word afflicted is interesting
and it's It can be viewed in kind of two ways. From the work
standpoint is, oh, here's some stuff that I got to do on this
day of this feast. I got to go get me some sackcloth,
some burlap, make myself a little costume. I got to sprinkle some
ashes on my face. Probably should do a little fasting
there and rub some stuff on my face to make me look skinny and
so forth. And, oh, I'm so afflicted. And
that kind of thing. In the spiritual sense, one that's
afflicted is made to know their condition. As Brother Craig brought
out, before we're regenerated, we think our condition is fine,
but after the Holy Spirit takes our old heart out, our stony
heart, and gives us a heart of flesh. We recognize our situation,
our condition before the Lord. We're just dead in trespasses
and sins. We recognize that Christ took
care of that problem for us. this affliction here. And if
you don't have that, then you're cut off. If you don't have that,
then it says, He shall be cut off from among his people, and
whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, I
will destroy from among his people." So, a real strong message there
about trying to do your own works for your own righteousness. You
can't do it. It equals death. Works equals
death. You shall do no manner of work. Not any kind. Not a little bit. Not any kind, as far as your
spiritual condition is concerned. Not, well, I'm here at church
every day. I do this. I give tithes of all
I have. I do this. Just like that Pharisee. It just works. It shall be unto
you, the purpose of this feast of atonement is to recognize
the finished work of Christ in your behalf, the sacrifice that
he made for his people. It shall be unto you a Sabbath
of rest. And you shall afflict your souls
in the ninth day of the month from even to even shall you celebrate
your Sabbath. You're going to celebrate what
Christ did for you, not woe is me, not oh I'm so afflicted. He saved me. Hallelujah. And every 49 years on this same
day, this 10th day of the seventh month, they had the Feast of
Jubilee. And let's turn over to Leviticus
chapter 25, verse 8. And thou shalt number seven Sabbaths
of years unto thee, seven times seven years. And the space of
the seventh Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee 49 years.
And then shall thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound. On the 10th day of the seventh
month, in the day of atonement, shall you make the trumpet sound
throughout all your land. And you shall hallow the 50th
year and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof. It shall be a jubilee unto you,
and you shall return every man unto his possession, and you
shall return every man unto his family." The trumpet of the jubilee
was an acclamation of joy. Can you imagine those people
that were set at liberty? Hallelujah. a joyful sound of rejoicing.
That's what that word Jubilee means. It means an acclamation
of joy, of rejoicing, a joyful sound throughout the land. Proclaiming
liberty is a picture of the atonement made by Christ for the sins of
the Lord's people. And that word atonement means
expiated. It means forgiven. It means canceled. It means made clean. It means
pardoned. All those wonderful words that
we can say. I didn't get what I deserved. I got these things. I got liberty. And maybe you'll remember back
in our lesson from Luke chapter 4, where the Lord, He went into
the synagogue on Sabbath day, and He stood up for to read,
and they brought Him the scroll, and He opened it up. And verse
18 of Luke chapter 4, He said, The Spirit of the Lord is upon
Me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
poor." Not just the poor people, the ones that are poor in spirit,
the ones that have been made poor in spirit, the ones that
have been made to know that they have no righteousness of their
own, that their works were nothing, that they were sinners. He sent me to preach the good
news the blasting of the trumpet, the jubilee, the liberty, sent
me to preach to the poor, sent me to heal the broken hearted,
to preach deliverance to the captives, recovering of sight
to the blind, and set at liberty them that are bruised." This
is a direct reference here back to that year of jubilee, this
liberty. It wasn't just a, well you need
to keep track on your calendar, set itself an alarm that we need
to do these things on that day. It's just we need to remember
them. And they were there for the purpose of a spiritual picture
of what the Lord did. And so our text in verse 13 through
18 of Psalm 89, the reason for this glad celebration is revealed. Now in Psalm 89, 13, thou has
a mighty arm. He's speaking of the Lord. Strong
is thy hand, high is thy right hand. Justice and judgment are
the habitation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before
thy face. And all those things go before
his face in the person of Christ. And blessed then, because of
that, blessed is the people that know the joyful sound. They shall walk, O Lord, in the
light of thy countenance. In thy name shall they rejoice
all the day long, and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted."
Brother Craig brought that out in the Bible class this morning
from Jeremiah chapter 23. And again, I think it's in Jeremiah
23, he says, Here is the name by which he shall be known as
the Lord, our righteousness." And then later on in Jeremiah,
he says, talking about the church, this is the name whereby she
shall be known, the Lord, our righteousness. They'll be exalted
in him because of what he did, what he has done. In thy name
shall they rejoice all the day, and in thy righteousness shall
they be exalted. For thou, Christ, art the glory
of their strength, and in thy favor our horns shall be exalted. For the Lord is our defense,
And the Holy One of Israel is our King. And that's what that
trumpet blast sounded, that the King is coming. The King is going
to deliver us. The King is going to make us
free. The King is going to pay the
price for our sin. The King is going to pardon us. All these things that are done
by Him for us, And there's a celebration because mercy and truth are met
together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other is what it says in Psalm 85 verse 10. I think Norm brought that out
here some weeks ago in one of his messages. Isn't that a wonderful
thing? Mercy and truth are met together
in the person of Christ. Righteousness, the righteousness
of God, and peace with that righteousness have kissed each other. Isn't
that a beautiful allegory of that, a metaphor of what that
spiritually means. He is satisfied as Craig said,
he satisfied all the requirements of God. The wages of sin is death
and Christ satisfied that in the place of every one of us.
He satisfied everything as he read from Isaiah chapter 53.
He'll look at the travail of his soul and be satisfied. And
it doesn't say, well, he's going to look at so-and-so and saw
that they had perfect attendance at church. He doesn't look at
so-and-so and say, well, they tithed all their mustard seed.
He doesn't look at so-and-so and say, well, he knocked 800
doors this month or whatever. All those things that people
would try to present in the place of Christ's righteousness those
things are not listed in the things that satisfies God. It's only the travail of the
soul of Christ on the cross is the only thing that satisfies
him. So justice and judgment. He's just and the justifier of
them that believe. He combines those things for
us. And so blessed means happy. Happy is a people that know that
sound. that sound that brings joy, that proclaims the mighty
works of God in salvation, that He's taken care of all their
issues, and who died for our sins according to the scriptures.
Craig read that from 1 Corinthians 15. I believe he read all those
things concerning the gospel. He died for our sins according
to the scriptures, was buried and rose again the third day
according to the scriptures. That's just a direct statement
about it, but the Old Testament is all of that. All the things
that said that here's what he would do, and there's some rather
graphic accounts of it all the way from Genesis The 22nd Psalm
describes the agony that he went through hanging on the cross
and all those things. The 53rd chapter of Isaiah, those
are just the well-known ones. But all the scriptures speak
to his redemption of the church there. When people come to know
that, It's a happy sound to them. It's a blessed sound. You know
these, I was reading on this Rosh Hashanah thing. Okay, here's
what you're supposed to eat on Rosh Hashanah. You're supposed
to have an apple dipped in honey because that symbolizes the sweetness
of this or that. And you eat this, and you don't
eat that. And here's some other stuff you
gotta do. And it just more works. just
more works that people can't do and do successfully and continuously. As Craig said, the law is just
there to show us that we can't do that, but we never really
come to that that conclusion until the spirit takes away our
stony heart that's content with our position in the law and replaces
it with a heart of flesh, a heart that loves God and says, I could
never do that. It was useless for me to try
even. I'm a failure at it. I might want to, I might have
the best desires in the world, but as Paul said, you know, the
things that I want to do, I don't seem to be able to do those all
the times. And the things that I don't want to do, that seems
to be what I'd managed to accomplish. And so he, he had the same affliction
as we all have in our relationship there with, with sin. He just
says, you know, we, we have this, this in earthen vessels, you
know, and we're subject to that. Thank God he takes care of all
that. If we sin, we have an advocate with the Father, the man Christ
Jesus. So this blessedness to know that. This happiness that you know
that. Blessed are the people that know the joyful sound. That's just not knowing it in
a, well, I read that or I heard it. Knowing it in a spiritual
application by the Holy Spirit is an entirely different animal.
To know the sound of the gospel applied to you. It was to be
a Sabbath of rest to the people that they rest in the finished
work of Christ and ceasing of their own works as it says in
Hebrews 4.10. You know, I was reading a commentary
on this and Jonathan Edwards wrote There's a dreadful sound
from Mount Sinai. But there is a joyful sound from
Mount Zion. They're just complete opposites
of each other. The law just condemns you. The
law just makes you know that you can't keep it. Christ pointed
that out many times. He said, well, if you think in
your mind about this, It's the same as if you physically
committed it. There's no difference. But there's a joyful noise, a
joyful sound from Mount Zion that said, I've taken care of
that. Tell the church that her sins
are forgiven, that they've been paid for double. There's a joyful
sound in hearing thy sins are forgiven
thee. As we learned in Luke chapter
5 verse 20. There's a joyful sound in neither
do I condemn thee. From John chapter 8 verse 11
with that woman taken in a sin. There's a sound of joy in Lazarus
come forth. Lazarus, I don't think he, he's
such the good picture of how we are in our natural state,
dead in trespasses and sins, laying there on that old rocky
slab there in his shroud, wrapped in his burial. What do you suppose was on his
mind? And if he had something on his
mind, what could he do about it? But when the Lord spoke to
him and said, Lazarus, come forth, by the Spirit, he was able to
hear that. And it had its effect. And he came forth. And those
bones that Norm talked about, in Ezekiel. Those dry bones. It makes a big point to tell
us those bones weren't like fresh bones that maybe you could just
put a band-aid on and bring them back to life. They were dried
bones. They were a pile of bones that was dried almost to dust. And he said, can these bones
live? And he said, thou knowest, Lord.
And he said, and I said unto them, bones, live. To those bones, that was a joyful
sound. And he put this cartilage back
on them and the skin and all the muscles and all the everything. And those bones lived. The sound, the joyful sound of
he's not dealt with us after our sins, nor rewarded us according
to our iniquities. That is a joyful sound. That's
something to rejoice in. That's something to sound the
trumpet of Jubilee over. He's not rewarded us according
to our iniquities. or dealt with us after our sin.
If the Lord marked iniquities, who shall stand?" I think Norm
brought that out last time he spoke here. In Psalm 103.11, The joyful sound is for as the
heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward
them that fear him. As far as the east is from the
west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us." That
is a joyful sound. That is a sound like the blowing
of the trumpet. That's the sound of proclaiming
the gospel of what the finished work of Christ for us. Blessed
are the people, they're happy that know that joyful sound.
And there's a difference, as I mentioned earlier, there's
a difference between merely hearing a sound and knowing the sound. There's a difference. You can
hear a lot of sounds, but know it. There's this word knowing
means it's an experiential word. It's a, it's a word that, that
gets to the, what we'll say is the heart of it. It's a word
that's applied and it can only be applied by the Holy Spirit. It's a, this knowing, blessed
are the people that know. the joyful sound. They know it
because they've experienced it. Thomas Redkin wrote, thousands
hear the gospel sound, but sometimes not ten in a thousand know it. And we find that to be a true
statement. It's the work of the Holy Spirit
that causes us to know this joyful sound. The hearing ear and the
seeing eye, the Lord has made them, made them both. And without
that, we don't hear and we don't see. Jesus said, my sheep hear my
voice and they follow me. When he put forth his own sheep,
he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know
his voice." They know it. They know something about him
now because the Holy Spirit has revealed that to them. They know
it because the Spirit has put that knowledge in their heart.
And it says, A stranger they will not follow,
but will flee from him, for they know not the voice of strangers."
They don't have an intimate relationship with the voice of strangers.
A stranger that says, well, here's the kind of apple you need to
eat on Rosh Hashanah. Here's a sacrifice you need to
do. Don't bring your old crippled
up lame lamb for the burnt offering because you can sell the good
sheep for a profit and you can't do nothing with that one, so
it'll do good enough. Don't pollute that. Don't pollute
the Lord's gospel with useless, worthless stuff. And this voice of strangers really
boils down to one who assigns useless works, contrary to God's
word. And those are not a joyful sound. It's not a joyful sound for someone
to say, well, here's a bunch more stuff you got to do. Anybody
that doesn't show up here for the assault on the town next Saturday
and hand out tracts as gets nine demerits in heaven or you lose
your reward. Or, you must be circumcised. You must be baptized. You must
do this. You must do that. You can be
saved, but you must do this. Or, all those things that we
are so familiar with. Say this prayer after me. sign
here, fill out this card. So one who assigns more useless
work contrary to God's word is not giving you a joyful sound.
It's not a sound that you can be happy in because there's no
end to it. You just have to keep doing it.
It's like the priests that could never sit down. They had to keep
doing it over and over and over again. There's no end to works. And as he pointed out in the
Bible class this morning, if you commit to doing works, then
you have to do all of them. And if you don't do all of them,
then you're just cursed. You're cut off from among the
people, and it leads to death, spiritual death. And in our text
in Leviticus, it makes clear that works by man is not to be
introduced or tolerated regarding the finished work of Christ because
it pollutes it. It makes it of none effect because
it's in effect saying that that work was not enough or that my
works are equivalent in some manner to that. And I only need
a little bit of Christ to make up my difference. So for them,
it's not a joyful sound. It's just, oh man, I got more
stuff to do. It's never finished. And when
you cease your own works and enter into the rest of Christ,
the works were finished from before the foundation of the
world, it tells us in Hebrews. You shall do no work. It is a
day of atonement. It's a day your atonement has
been made. You didn't atone for yourself.
You can't atone for yourself. It is a day of atonement to make
an atonement for you, the scripture says. The atonement has been
made for you, not you yourself making your atonement. It's been
made for you before the Lord, your God, Leviticus 23, 28. So
the joyful sound is hallelujah. He made an atonement
for me. My sins have been expiated. My
sins have been forgiven. My sins have been paid for. My
sins have been canceled. And they're so far away, they're
as far away as the east is from the west. And to some, the joyful
sound, we're sitting here in this room and the gospel to us
is a joyful sound. We love it. And we can't wait
to hear Our pastor come back and tell us more joyful sound
news from the scriptures. We can't wait till Lance Heller
comes and brings us another edition of the joyful sound that he always
brings. The few times he's been here,
we just have just loved him so much and is bringing the gospel
to us. But to some, the joyful sound
of the gospel is not recognizable. In John chapter 12, verse 27,
the Lord says, now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say?
Father, save me from this hour, but for this hour came I unto
this hour. He said, I'm here because of
the covenant of grace. I'm here to redeem the people
that you gave me. He talks about in John chapter
17. And he says, Father, glorify
thy name, Then there came a voice from heaven saying, I have both
glorified it and will glorify it again. And here's the interesting
thing. The people therefore that stood
by, and as we always find, there's always a multitude of people
near the Lord. Some are His disciples, some
are His apostles, some are just people there for the show. The
people therefore that stood by And heard it, said, it thundered. And others said, an angel spake
to him. It's interesting how people can
hear the exact same thing and have two entirely different opposing
ideas and knowledge about what just transpired. Isn't that interesting? I just heard some thunder. I
heard the word of God saying, this is my beloved son in whom
I'm well pleased. Hear you him. The gospel is not
a joyful sound to those who think their works, their doing should
count for their position before God. They don't want to hear that
their best works are useless. I hope my good works outweigh
my bad. That is not the measure of satisfaction
that Craig talked about in the Bible class. The measure of satisfaction
is he shall see the travail of Christ's soul, and that will
satisfy his righteousness and his justice, and at the same
time apply mercy and truth to his people. As Zechariah declared
the gospel, and we're talking about people
that they hear the same thing that we hear, but to them it's not a joyful
sound. And Zechariah 7-11 says, they refuse to hearken. And they
pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they
should not hear. It was not only did they not
hear a joyful sound, it was repugnant to them and evil to them. And
as we learned in our chapter six in Luke, they were maddened. They were so angry that they
were beyond angry. They were just livid. They stopped
their ears. that they should not hear. I
don't want to hear anymore of that. I don't want to hear that
the card I signed in 1972 is not valid in the kingdom of God. I don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear that I just
have to trust in the finished work of Christ and cease my own
work. I don't want to hear that. Stephen proclaimed the gospel
from the law and the prophets of the Old Testament in Acts. He started at the beginning and
he went right on through. I'm not going to read the whole
thing because of time here, but to get to the nuts and bolts
of it at the end in Acts chapter 7 verse 57, they cried out with
a loud voice and stopped their ears and ran upon him with one
accord, not for a good purpose. But you notice it's the same
thing as we found back in Zechariah. I don't want to hear that. I
don't want to hear that I can't just pretend like I'm keeping
all the Law of Moses. I don't want to hear that I can't
pretend that I've been circumcised and that counts for me being
in the family of Abraham. I don't want to hear that all
of my my sacrifices and all those things that I did that were supposed
to be pictures of the lamb slain from before the foundation. I
don't want to hear that that was no good. It was just a picture. I actually did some things and
those should be reckoned to my account. They didn't know the joyful sound
of liberty from sin that the gospel preached. Blessed are
the people that know the joyful sound because they know that
it's God that has made it so. Blessed is the man. It's interesting how many times
that word comes up in connection with the church. It's always
talking about, whenever you see that, it's always talking about
something God has done. He's accomplished. He mentioned
Ephesians and he says, blessed be the Lord God. And then he
lists all the stuff that he did for the church. And then by imputation,
we get all those blessings. In Psalm 65 verse four, blessed
is the man whom thou choosest and causes to approach unto thee
that he may dwell in thy courts We shall be satisfied with the
goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. We're going
to recognize that we can rest in the finished work
of Christ. We can be satisfied that we don't have to try and
come up with anything else. We can be satisfied that based
on his merits, while we were yet dead in trespasses and sins,
Christ died for us. know and rejoice that everyone
whom the Father gave the Son to redeem will hear and know
the joyful sound." And we, our mission here is just to declare
that. Our mission is just to blow the
trumpet, say, here's the gospel, the King, the Lord, what He's
done. All the Father giveth me shall
come to me, He said. I can't tell you how often I've
taken comfort in that because there's been so many people that
have come to this building and heard the gospel. And I mentioned
this to Norman many, many times that, you know, I don't ever
have to worry about them leaving this building and not having
heard the gospel. They'll have heard it. After
that, it's kind of out of our hands. It's up to the Holy Spirit
to apply that and make it effectual in their life. But they will
have heard it. When they have come here, they
will have heard the gospel. All the Father giveth me shall
come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast
out. And he's about the business of
intersecting his people with the joyful sound. That's his
mission. I must needs go through Samaria.
I must abide at thy house. I must talk to this person. I
must go and nab old Matthew the publican. Peter, follow me. All those examples
we have of the Lord going about, I have to go through Samaria
and meet up with this woman at the well and tell her about the
living water and give her the joyful sound. And when she walked
away from there, she knew the joyful sound because she says,
Come hear a man that told me all things I've written. Is this not the Messiah? To some the sound is thunder
only. To some it's foolishness, as it tells us in the New Testament. The preaching of the gospel is
foolishness to them, but to us who believe, Us that know the joyful sound,
we know that it's the power of God unto salvation, that God
chose by the foolishness of preaching He could have done it any way
he wanted to, but he chose by the foolishness of preaching
the gospel of the death, burial, and resurrection of his son to
save them that believe. And he supplies that. Isn't that
a joy? That's what it tells us in Ephesians
chapter 119. We believe according to the working,
his mighty power. We don't, we're like old Lazarus,
dead there saying, Before the Lord rolled back that stone and
walked in there, he was probably trying to figure out what he
was going to do the next day. Not. That joyful sound. that God is
pleased to reveal himself. It's a power of God unto salvation. Now, in Psalm 89, it says, thou
has a mighty arm, strong is thy hand, high is thy right hand. Justice and judgment are the
habitation of thy throne. Mercy and truth shall go before
thy face. And blessed is the people that
know the joyful sound. They shall walk. O Lord, in the
light of Thy countenance. That's just a wonderful thing.
And in Thy name, they're going to rejoice all day long. And in Thy righteousness shall
they be exalted all day long. In Thy name. For Thou art the
glory of their strength, and in Thy favor our horn shall be
exalted. For the Lord is our defense.
Who will lay anything to the charge of God's elect? There
is no condemnation to them that are in Christ. That's a couple
of things that would fall into the know the joyful sound and
to blow that trumpet. I don't have to worry because
there's no condemnation. If I'm in Christ, there's no
condemnation and there's nobody that can condemn me. Nothing
can separate me from the love of God and Christ. That's a joyful
sound. So blow those trumpets of the
Jubilee that says, He came to set at liberty those that were
captives. Those that were, all their lives
were subject to sin. So rest in the joyful sound.
For while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. And that will conclude our message
for today. And as always, my friends, be
free. Good to see you folks. There's
Jean. I see Jean Dam there in TV land. Turning off my thing here.