and he's a king of the southern
kingdom. And as he seeks the face of God,
the northern kingdom has ended. They've been taken into captivity. Their king, who was Hoshea, he
was the last of the kings of the northern kingdom, all of
them were ungodly. It's an awful thing, and every
king was ungodly. They never had a man that led
them in the worship of God. They never had a man who looked
forward to Messiah. They never had a man who insisted
that they worship God by means of a blood sacrifice. They never
had a leader who led them to honor God. But this man, Hezekiah, He did
believe the Lord. He's a king of the southern kingdom. Every king of the southern kingdom,
they weren't all godly, but several of them were. And this man is
a man who believes God. He leads them in worship. He
leads them in the recognition of the goodness and the greatness
of God. So that kind of brings you up
to date a little bit now. So you know what we're talking
about when we talk about Hezekiah as the king of the southern kingdom,
and he's a man who feared God greatly. And in this context,
he's seeking God's face because Judah's in trouble. They're in
trouble because of their own foolishness. And they're under
severe attack. They have not been faithful to
God just like the Northern Kingdom had not been faithful to God.
But God left a remnant according to the election of grace in the
Southern Kingdom that He didn't do in the Northern Kingdom. You
see, God is sovereign in His favors. God is sovereign in His
grace. He has a remnant according to
the election of grace in the southern kingdom, and one of
them is this man, Hezekiah. And so as we get here into chapter
19, he's seeking God's face. And this is what he has to say
in 2 Kings chapter 19 and verse 15. And Hezekiah prayed before the
Lord and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between
the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms
of the earth. Thou hast made heaven and earth. Now here's the title of the message.
The God of all kingdoms. Because that's what he prayed.
He says, Thou art the God, even Thou alone, of all the kingdoms
of the earth. Who do the kingdoms of the earth
belong to? Who owns them? God does. He's
God over all the kingdoms. Gonna back up just a little bit.
In the context of this entire two, three chapters, 17, 18,
19, in this context, one of the kings of Assyria, he has already
taken into captivity the northern kingdom. And the way they did
it, the way the Assyrians did it, they'd come in and they'd
take a people captive and then they'd divide them and send some
of them over here and some of them over there and some over
there. And the idea was to defeat any idea of patriotism or them
ever getting back together. And this is what this king did,
the king of Assyria. So he's already taken the Northern
kingdom into captivity. He's already attacked their capital
city of Samaria. And he's taken their king, Hoshea,
he's taken him into captivity as well. Look at chapter 18 in
verse nine. Now, by the way, Hezekiah, he's
the king who, he broke in pieces the brazen serpent. That's been stated in chapter
18, verse four, because up to this time, they had burned incense
to it. They relished it, they worshiped
it as an idol, as a god. And Hezekiah recognized that.
He broke it in pieces. This is worthless. He said, it's
nehushtan. It's just a worthless piece of
brass. Worship God. Worship God through
Christ Jesus. Worship God through the Messiah
who's going to come. So we get down to verse nine. And it came to pass in the fourth
year of King Hezekiah, chapter 18, verse nine, which was the
seventh year of Hoshea, the son of Elah, king of Israel, that
Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, he came up against Samaria and
he besieged it. Now, you know the picture now.
He's attacking the northern kingdom. And he's gone to the capital
city and he is totally, all of his army is surrounded there.
And at the end of three years, they took it. Even in the sixth
year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hosea, king of
Israel, that's when Samaria was taken. And the king of Assyria
did carry away Israel into Assyria and put them in Hala and Habor
by the river Gozan and in the cities of the Medes. And here's
the reason. because they obeyed not the voice
of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant. And all that Moses
the servant of the Lord commanded and would not hear nor do them,
they would not hear the word of God. Therefore God judged
them. And God took them, He took them
all the way away. The kingdom is going to be dissolved. That's the end of it. If you
want to see the fullness of the reason for this, go back to chapter
17 in verse six. Chapter 17, verse six, and I
won't take a lot of time on this, but we would do well to read
this, and I would like you to read the rest of the 17th chapter. I'm just gonna kinda read a few
verses here, but this is the reason they fell. In the ninth
year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria, he took Samaria. carried Israel
away into Assyria and placed them in Hala and Habor by the
river Gozan and in the city of the Medes. And for so it was
that the children of Israel, they had sinned against the Lord
their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt
from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had feared
other gods. They walked in the statutes of
the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children
of Israel and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.
And the kings of Israel did secretly those, or the children of Israel
did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord
their God. And they built them high places
in all their cities, from the tower of the watchman to the
fence city. They set them up images in groves
in every high hill and under every green tree. And there they
burnt incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom
the Lord carried away before them, and wrought wicked things
to provoke the Lord to anger. For they served idols, whereof
the Lord had said unto them, ye shall not do this thing. Yet the Lord testified against
Israel, now watch it, and against Judah, by all the prophets and
by all the seers saying, turn ye from your evil ways and keep
my commandments and my statutes according to all the law which
I commanded your fathers and which I sent to you by my servants,
the prophets. Notwithstanding, they would not
hear, but hardened their necks like the neck of their fathers
that did not believe in the Lord their God. And they rejected
his statutes and his covenant that he had made with their fathers
and his testimonies, which he testified against them. And they
followed vanity. They followed useless, empty
things. and they became vain and went
after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the
Lord had charged them that they should not do like then. And
they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and they
made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove,
and worshiped all the host of heaven. And they surveilled,
and they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through
the fire and use divination and enchantments. They sold themselves
to do evil in the sight of the Lord to provoke Him to anger.
Therefore the Lord was very angry with Israel and removed them
out of his sight. There was none left. There was
none left but the tribe of Judah only. Now watch this. Also Judah kept not the commandments
of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel, which
they made. And the Lord rejected all the
seed of Israel and afflicted them and delivered them into
the hand of spoilers until he had cast them out of his sight.
And he rent Israel from the house of David. And they made Jeroboam
the son of Nebat king. And Jeroboam drove Israel from
following the Lord and made them sin a great sin. And on and on. You can read the rest of it.
I don't want you to read it now, but the Lord brought judgment
upon them. Now listen. God's going to bring judgment
upon all those who do not worship Him the right way. There is a
way to come to God, but it's just one way. It's by way of
a blood sacrifice, not an idol, not a rock, not a tree, not a
stone, but to come to God through, we know Christ Jesus. You see,
every sacrifice that God had ordained, the morning sacrifice,
the evening sacrifice, the sacrifice on the day of atonement, all
of those animals that died, all of them pictured our Lord Jesus
Christ. They pictured redemption. They
pictured the substitution. They pictured the satisfaction
of God's justice in the death of an innocent on behalf of the
guilty one. And Israel said, we're tired
of this. We're not gonna do this anymore.
And what they were doing, they were turning thumbs down on God's
way of salvation. It's always by grace and always
by a substitute. And they said, we're not going
to do this anymore. We're not going to follow the
ways of God anymore. We're gonna live like the heathen
out here. We're gonna have us gods. We're
gonna fall down and worship them. And God was angry. Let me tell
you something. If you want God to be angry with
you, you ignore his son. You try to come to God some other
way than Christ Jesus and Him crucified, I'll guarantee you
God's gonna be angry. And He'll get you. He'll get
you. And Israel just persisted in
their rebellion against God. It's like no matter what you
said, Lord, in your face, we're going our own way. And God grew
very angry. And he said, I'm done with you.
I'm done with you. And he removed Israel out of
his sight. Out of his sight. So they were
carried away into the land of Assyria
unto this day. They ceased to be a nation. Well
now later, now I gotta go further now. Later, God moved another
Assyrian king and his name was Sennacherib. It moved him to
go against Judah and this is to punish them. You see, they were also guilty
of falling into idolatry. They were also guilty of avoiding
the right way of worshiping God. Yes, they had a few godly kings,
but there was still much idolatry within the nation of Judah. And
in many ways, they were just as guilty as the northern kingdom. Why was it that God spared the
Southern Kingdom, but the Northern Kingdom, He judged them. There's
the sovereignty of God's grace right there. It's the sovereignty
of grace because you see in the Southern Kingdom, there was a
lineage that flowed right on up to Messiah. And there was a remnant according
to the election of grace. In fact, when you get to chapter
19, you'll find the word remnant used three times. God had a remnant. That's the reason He spared them.
He didn't have anybody in the northern kingdom. Can you imagine
that? Out of an entire kingdom of people,
nobody believed God? Nobody worshiped God? And God
judged them all. but in the southern kingdom,
he had some people. Now the whole nation's gonna
suffer some from this king, Sennacherib, because of their apostasy and
because of their idolatry. And this Assyrian king, he's
a different king now, his name is Sennacherib, he attacked Judah. And he actually took captive
several of the fenced cities of Judah. And now he's got his
eyes set on Jerusalem. Now remember, that's the capital
city. He's going after the capital city, now he's going after the
king. He's going after King Hezekiah. And so, this man, King Sennacherib,
he sends one of his representatives. He sends a representative. His
name is Rabshake. And he meets with three men of
Judah who represent King Hezekiah. And boy, he's got some harsh
words. It's like, you'll join in with
us. You'll pay us silver and gold
or else. We'll do to you what we've done
to everybody else. We'll do to you what we did to
the Northern Empire. You'll either fall in line, and
you'll pay us tribute, or you'll be gobbled up like they were. And this is very disturbing. to the men, the men who represented
King Hezekiah. And they listened while Rabshake
gave his speech. And as he spoke with them, he
said, now don't you think that you can fall back on Egypt, because
that's going to be a very flimsy reed for you to lean on. They
can't help you. And then he said this to them.
Look at chapter 18 in verse 22. Look at chapter 18, verse 22. He also said, this is Rabshakee
now. He's representing the king of
Assyria. He says, but if you say to me,
well, we trust in the Lord, our God. Well, he says, is not that
he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away? And hath he said to Judah in
Jerusalem, you shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem? Now, therefore, I pray thee,
give pledges to my Lord, the King of Assyria, and I'll deliver
you, I'll give you 2,000 horses. We'll take care of you, but you
gotta give us the money. And he asks in verse 24, how
then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least
of my master's servants and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots
and for horsemen? Am I now come up without the
Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, go up
against this land and destroy it. Now he says, God told me
to destroy your place. That's what he said. And then, kind of an interesting situation here,
he had been speaking in the language of the Assyrians, which was the
Assyrian language. And these three representatives
told him, said, now, don't speak Hebrew, because we don't want
people in the city to be disturbed. Well, doggone, that rascal could
speak Hebrew too. And so his idea is to get the
whole city upset. Look at verse 27. But Rabshakee said unto them,
hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these
words? Hath he not sent me to the men
which sit on the wall, that they may eat their own dung and drink
their own piss with you? In other words, here's what he's
saying. If you guys rebel against us, you'll eat your own waste. You won't have any food to eat
at all. You go ahead and revolt against
my king, Sennacherib, you'll starve to death. That's what
he said. Verse 28, then Rabshakeh stood
and cried with a loud voice, in the Jews' language, so everybody
could hear. He said, hear the word of the
great king, the king of Assyria. Thus saith the king, let not
Hezekiah deceive you. for he shall not be able to deliver
you out of his hand. Neither let Hezekiah make you
trust in the Lord, saying, the Lord will surely deliver us,
and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of
Assyria. Hearken not to Hezekiah. But thus saith the king of Assyria,
make an agreement with me by a present, money, pay me. and come out to me. And then
eat ye every man of his own vine and every one of his own fig
tree and drink ye every one of you the waters of his sister."
In other words, it'd be fine. You won't be in need. You won't
be hungry and you won't be thirsty. We'll take care of you. We'll
make sure you're fed. We make sure you got plenty to
drink. And he says, until I come and take you away to a land like
your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and
vineyards, a land of oil, olive, and of honey, that you may live
and not die. And a hearken not unto Hezekiah
when he persuaded you, saying, the Lord will deliver us. Don't
you listen to him. That's what Rabbi Sheikhe says.
Don't you listen to him. Well, these three men that Hezekiah
had sent out to talk with Rabshakee, they go tell the king what Rabshakee
has said. Rabshakee has brought the message
of the king of Assyria to them. And so verse, chapter 19, verse
one, and it came to pass when King Hezekiah heard all that
was said, He rent his clothes. He covered himself with sackcloth. He went into the house of the
Lord, and he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna,
the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth,
to the preacher. First mention of Isaiah, the
prophet, the son of Amoz. And they said unto him, thus
saith Hezekiah, this is a day of trouble. It's a day of distress
and of rebuke. It's a day of correction. God's
chastising us. Hezekiah recognized that. And
he said, it's a day of blasphemy. They're blaspheming in the name
of the God of Israel. for the children are come to
the birth and there's not strength to bring them forth." He said,
we're like a woman who's pregnant and she's ready to give birth,
but she doesn't have any strength. What he's saying is Israel, the
southern kingdom, we're absolutely weak. We have no strength. Our walls are surrounded. We're
cut off from the outside. No supplies are getting in. No more foods coming in. No more
waters coming in. We're in a desperate situation
here, he says. And he says in verse four, it
may be the Lord thy God will hear all the words of Rabshake,
whom the king of Assyria, his master, had sent to reproach
the living God, and will reprove the words which the Lord thy
God hath heard. Wherefore, lift up thy prayer
for the remnant that are left. O preacher, pray for us. That's
what he said. That's what the king says, O
preacher, pray for us. So the servants of King Hezekiah
came to Isaiah. Now verse six. And Isaiah said
unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus shall you
say. Here's the answer I want you
to take back to King Hezekiah. Thus saith the Lord. Don't be
afraid. Be not afraid of the words which
thou hast heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria
have blasphemed me. That's what God said. Don't you
be afraid of them. Behold! God says, I will send
a blast upon him. I'm gonna send a storm. I'm gonna
send a severe storm. And he shall hear a rumor of
other nations rising up against him and shall return to his own
land. And I'll cause him to fall by
the sword in his own land. That's what Isaiah said. God
said, tell you, don't you worry about anything. I'm gonna take
care of you. Nothing to fear. Well, the King of Assyria gets
word of what's going on, and he's got another message he sends
to King Hezekiah. Look at verse 10. Thus shall
you speak to Hezekiah, king of Judah, saying, let not thy God
in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall
not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria. Now,
don't you believe that? Don't you believe the word of
your God? Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have
done to all lands by destroying them utterly. and shalt thou
be delivered. You think you're gonna be delivered
from our power? We got the most powerful army
on earth and we got your city surrounded. You're cut off. Verse
12, have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers
have destroyed? Have any of their gods helped
them? All these nations we've conquered,
they just fall in like dominoes. We're just taking one nation
after another. And they all have their gods
that they worship, but their gods were useless and powerless. And he says, your god be the
same way. And then he gives some illustrations. Where are all
these kings that stood up against Assyria? Now we get to verse
14. And Hezekiah received the letter
of the hand of the messengers and he read it. And Hezekiah
went up into the house of the Lord and he just spread it before
the Lord. Here's the letter, Lord. Here's
what they say. And Hezekiah prayed before the
Lord and said, O Lord God of Israel, which dwellest between
the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms
of the earth. Thou hast made heaven and earth.
Lord, bow down thine ear and hear. Open, Lord, thine eyes
and see. And hear the words of Sennacherib. which hath sent him to reproach
the living God. Of a truth, Lord, the kings of
Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands and have cast
their gods into the fire. For they were no gods. They're
just the work of men's hands, wood and stone. Therefore have they destroyed
them. Now therefore, O Lord our God, I beseech thee, save thou
us out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may
know that thou art the Lord God, even thou only. And Isaiah sends word back, verse
20, Isaiah the son of Amos sent to Hezekiah saying, thus said
the Lord God of Israel, that which thou prayed to me against
Sennacherib king of Assyria, I've heard. And this is the word
of the Lord, the word of the Lord has spoken concerning him.
The virgin, the daughter of Zion, hath despised thee and laughed
thee to scorn. The daughter of Jerusalem hath
shaken her head at thee. Let me tell you something. God's
people are to him as a virgin people. Did you know that? Pure. Righteous. Sinless. Well, how can that be? How can that be? We're ungodly
by nature, but in Christ, in Christ, we're the virgin daughters
of God. In Christ, we're made the righteousness
of God. In Christ, all of our sins have
been purged. All of our sins have been washed
away. And then the Lord begins to speak,
continues to speak through Isaiah to the king. And he says, this
is the Lord's word to Sennacherib, verse 22. Whom hast thou reproached
and blasphemed? And against whom hast thou exalted
thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? Against Judah? You think you're just speaking
against Judah? You think you're just speaking
against King Hezekiah? I'll tell you who you're speaking
against, the Holy One of Israel. That's who you're speaking against.
Because you go on the attack against God's people. You're
attacking God. And then from verses 23 through
26, the Lord is saying in essence, to King Sennacherib, you've exaggerated
your great achievements. You're not as great as you think
you are. That's basically what verses 23 through 26 say. But here's what God says in verse
27. But no matter how much you flaunt yourself and you think
you're the cat's meow, you think the sun rises and sets on you,
you're the greatest thing, greatest king that's ever ruled in this
world. No matter what you think, God
says in verse 27, I know where you live. I know your abode. I know you're
going out. I know you're coming in. I know
everything you do. I know every word you speak.
I know every action you perform. And I know your rage against
me. I know you hate me. That's what
God says. Verse 28, because thy rage against
me and thy tumult has come up into mine ears, I'm gonna put
a hook in your nose and my bridle in thy lips and I'll turn thee
back by the way by which thou camest. The same road by which
you came to Jerusalem, you going back home. But he's going back
home by himself because God's gonna do something with that
mighty army that's surrounding Jerusalem. And God shows His
sovereign authority over this heathen king. Because see, I
know everything about you. and I'm gonna put a hook in your
nose. I'm gonna put a bridle on you. Let me tell you something.
All of the enemies of God, God's got a hook in their nose and
a bridle on them. Don't ever forget that. All the
leaders of the world, every person in this world has a hook in their
nose and a bridle on them because God Almighty rules over all. Never forget that. And I know there are ungodly
men and ungodly women throughout this world in positions of power. They've got a hook in their nose
and there's a bridle around them. And you look, it's in the hands
of King Jesus. That's comforting to know, isn't
it? That all the kingdoms of the earth, they belong to God. And God says to Hezekiah, verse
29, this shall be a sign to you. You'll eat this year such things
as grow themselves and in the second year that which springeth
the same. The third year sow ye and reap
and plant vineyards and eat the fruits thereof. In other words,
God says, I'm gonna take care of you. I'll provide for you. Is he not
Jehovah Jireh? The Lord will provide. He provides
salvation. He provides forgiveness. He provides
righteousness. And he provides for all of our
spiritual needs, all of our eternal needs. And he provides for our
temporal needs as well. Because he says this, look at
verse 30, and he brings up this remnant again. And the remnant
that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take
root downward and bear fruit upward. They've got to because
this is the lineage of Messiah. They must. Don't think King Sennacherib
is gonna put you out of business. It will never happen. Because
I have a remnant, God says. And he always has a remnant.
And it's always according to the election of grace. And he
says in verse 31, for out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant
and they shall escape. God's got people in this world. A people out of every nation,
kindred, tribe, and tongue. He gave to Christ Jesus our surety
and the covenant of grace. They shall be saved. They shall
escape. Ain't no way they can perish.
God gave them to Christ for sake keeping. Well, how do you know it's gonna
come to pass? Well, you mark the last part
of verse 31. The zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.
Hey, you can just rest easy about this. You don't have to worry
about it at all. The Lord is zealous for his people. And he gonna watch after them. Now, verse 32. Therefore, thus
said the Lord concerning the king of Assyria. Well, what about
him? Get back to King Sennacherib. God says, he shall not come into
this city, verse 32. In fact, he won't even shoot
an arrow, nor come before it with a shield,
nor cast a bank against it. By the way that he came, by the
same shall he return. And he shall not come into the
city, saith the Lord. God protects his children. And
the evil one, though he would snatch us away and though he
would do us everlasting harm, it's never gonna happen. Because
our great Savior has saved us. We've escaped. We've been brought
by effectual grace to trust him. We're the virgin daughter of
God. We're robed in the righteousness
of Christ Jesus. Ain't nothing gonna happen to
us. Oh, it may happen physically, but that can't do a thing to
the soul. Because you see, look what God
says in verse 34. For I'll defend this city. I will defend this city to save
it. Why are you gonna do that? For
mine own sake. I'll do it for my glory. And for my servant David's sake. For my servant Christ's sake. Let's put his name in there.
David's son and David's Lord. Well, what about this king? Oh, okay, let's get to him, verse
35. It came to pass that night that
the angel of the Lord went out. Who is the angel of the Lord?
Well, I think this is Christ the Savior. But on this occasion,
he's not Christ the Savior, but he's Christ the warrior. He's
Christ the avenger of his people. came to pass that night that
the angel of the Lord went out and smoked in the camp of the
Assyrians, and a hundred, four score, and 5,000. And when they arose in the morning,
King Sennacherib got up, stretched, thought, okay, this is the day.
I'm gonna take Jerusalem today. The walls are coming down today.
I'm gonna conquer Jerusalem. He got up. And he looked around,
verse 35, the end of it, and behold, they're all dead corpses. 185,000 soldiers dead. And so, verse 36, Sennacherib
king of Assyria departed. Yeah, he going on. He's whipped. Judah didn't do it. The Lord
says to his people, I'll fight your battles. Listen, the war
was won at the cross of Calvary. I'll fight your battles, what
God says. He departed, he went and returned,
he dwelt at Nineveh. And he's done with it. Verse 37, it came to pass as
he was worshiping in the house of Nisroch his God. You know,
if you want to see man's depravity, God brings this man's army to
nothing. God just wipes them out. You
would think a man with any degree of intelligence, and he is a
king, you'd think he'd say, I'm gonna fall down and worship this
king because if he can kill 185,000 of my finest soldiers, Well, he can get me anytime he
wants to. But he goes to Nineveh and resumes
worshiping his false idols. Let me tell you something. You'll
never give up your false idols unless God snatches them away
from you. and he opens up your heart, and
he gives you spiritual life, and he shows you his glory, the
glory of his grace, and the glory of redemption in Christ Jesus
the Lord. He'll have to show you salvations
of the Lord. This is an excellent illustration
of a man who remains adamant against God. And he goes and
he worships his own little God in the house of Nisroch, his
God, that Adrammelech and Sherezer, his sons, killed him with a sword. His sons. And they escaped in
the land of Armenia. And one of his sons reigned in
his stead. I tell you what, our God reigns.
He's a God of all the kingdoms. He's a God of the kingdom of
creation. He's a God of the kingdom of
providence. He's God of the kingdom of grace.
And He's God of all the kingdoms of the world. I don't care what
the country is, what language they speak, God is the God of
all of them. And this is our God. This is
our Savior. And I wanna give you one more
verse and then I'll let you go home. We'll sing and then we'll
go home. Look back at that passage that Bill read to us in 1 Chronicles
29. Let me just show you this. 1 Chronicles chapter 29. And
I just wanna show you one verse. This is where all things are
ready, all the money, supplies and stuff are ready to build
the temple. David can't build it, but Solomon will. And this is David's prayer. He
says in verse 11, 1 Chronicles chapter 29, this is
the last chapter of 1 Chronicles, 29 verse 11. Thine, O Lord, is
the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and
the majesty. For all that is in the heaven
and in the earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O Lord,
and thou art exalted as head above all." Now, exalted? Can God be exalted? The God-man has been exalted. And you know why he's been exalted?
Because it says up here earlier in verse 11, thine is the victory. He got the victory. That's why
he's been exalted. And the one who rules over all,
the one who's the head of all the governments, The one who
sits upon the very throne of absolute sovereignty is our King
Jesus, who has been exalted because he won the victory, and he won
the victory at the cross. That's where the war raged. All
the enemies of our souls ganged up on our Savior, and he defeated
them all, all of those Spiritual Assyrians lay dead at the cross. And through Him, we're more than
conquerors, because He's the one that loved us, and He's the
one that gave Himself for us. Well, this is our Lord. Yeah, the victory is His, and
He's been exalted. He's not gonna be exalted. But
this, when I was in Bible college, and I give this to you, this
is no extra for this. This is kind of a PS, but I was
thinking today, when I was in Bible college, they used to say
things like, the Lord's gonna reign one of these days. He's
gonna come back and he's gonna be in charge. You better let
him have his way. I get so tired of hearing that. I was glad they said, why don't
you leave? Just get out of here. I said,
that's a good idea. I don't wanna hear that junk
anymore. It isn't that he's gonna reign, he does reign. He reigns
over all the kingdoms of the world. And he reigns in your
life. And like he said to King Sennacherib,
I know when you come in, I know when you go out. I know all about
you. And for those of us who are the
people of God, it's very comforting. That's very comforting. They'll
take care of us. Well, I expect that.