Thank you. Go to Deuteronomy
again this evening, Deuteronomy chapter 32. As we looked in the first service
or the service this morning, we considered our subject for
our subject, the scribe greatness to God. And I'd like to just
sort of pick up where we left off earlier. And if you don't know the text,
it's the 32nd chapter of Deuteronomy. The last statement of verse 3,
ascribe ye greatness unto our God. Now, let me give you the
setting of this statement. Back in the 31st chapter, and
Brother Joe read a good bit of that chapter to us this morning. That was the inauguration of
Joshua to be the leader of Israel. This is God's man who's going
to take the Israelites into the land of promise. And God gave undeniable evidence
that Joshua is his man, the man that would take over from Moses. sent word to both Moses and Joshua. He summoned them to the tabernacle. God did. And then God met with
them. Back in chapter 31, He met with
them in the pillar of cloud. And He gave Joshua his authority. And that was most encouraging
to Joshua And it was definitely an indication to Israel that
God had given this position to this man, and they were to follow
him, this man Joshua. And the Lord in this speech or in this talk that he
had with both Joshua and Moses, he says to Moses, I'm going to
take you up on the mountain, you're going to die. And then
Joshua's going to take the people over into the land of Canaan. And Moses couldn't take them
over. And we know that he couldn't take them over, and there are
two reasons why he couldn't take them over. Reason number one
is because He disobeyed God in an act of great rebellion. We
don't have the time to look at these scriptures, but you know
Israel, when they came out of Egyptian bondage and they crossed
over the Red Sea, they got thirsty. They got thirsty and they murmured
against God. And Moses went to the Lord on
their behalf, and Moses said, Lord, they need water. In fact,
he said, they're ready to kill me, and they need water. And the Lord said, you go to
such and such a location, and there's a rock there. You take
the rod of judgment, the rod that you extended out over the
Red Sea, and it opened. for the Israelites, and the same
rod that he lifted up over the edge of the Red Sea, and then
the waters came back upon the Egyptian army that was seeking
to follow after Israel. You take that rod of judgment,
you go to a rock in Mount Horeb, and you hit the rock, you smite
the rock. And when you hit that rock, water
is going to come out. And we know from reading 1 Corinthians
that that rock was Christ Jesus. Moses hit the rock just like
God told him to do. And there came out a river of
water, a gusher of water. Oh, what a vast amount of water
it was to feed over a million people and all of their animals.
And they could wash with it, they could bathe with it, all
their animals could drink and that river just, it followed
them through the wilderness. And that speaks of our Lord Jesus
who was wounded, who was smitten by the rod of God's justice for
us. I said this morning that Israel,
they killed the Lord Jesus. And yet they were doing God's
will. Because it's really God Himself who put His Son to death. Because the wages of sin is death. The soul that sinneth shall die. And our Lord Jesus had all of
the sins, all of the iniquities, all of the transgressions of
all of His elect, of all of the ages, they were all imputed to
Him. And justice had to smite Him
in order for us to go free. In order for Him to pay the debt
of sin that had become His own debt. You know it's been His
debt even before the world began. Isn't that right? He is our eternal
surety. And the debt that He paid was
our debt. It was our debt way back in the
beginning, but then it was shifted over to Christ Jesus who said,
I'll be surety for them. I'll answer for them. I stand
good for them. Whatever they owe, put it to
my account. Just like the Apostle Paul said
to Philemon concerning Onesimus in the book of Philemon. Whatever
he owes you, you put it on my account. That's what Christ Jesus
said. Whatever they owe, in its entirety, put that on my account. And our Lord Jesus, then, He
had to die. And the rod of God's justice
smoked Him. It smoked Him, the rock of our
salvation. Oh, that blessed rock! And God
dealt with Him in the severest of judgment. And the wrath of
God fell on Him. And it'll never fall on those
whose sins He bore. We get off scot-free. And our Lord Jesus, He paid the
debt in full. He was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities. Oh, the chastisement of our peace
was on Him, and with His stripes we're healed. We were healed
in His stripes. Moses smoked the rock. Then later,
they were at a location called Kadesh. And according to Numbers chapter
20, Israel got thirsty again. Moses, why did you bring us out
here in the wilderness to die of thirst? So Moses goes to the
Lord on their behalf and the Lord said, well you go, you take
your rod with you, but this time speak to the rock. Speak to the
rock. as though the rock were alive,
as though the rock were listening, as though the rock was intelligent,
and as though the rock was all sufficient to meet their needs,
to speak to the rock. And Moses, he walked up to that
rock and he said, must we, him and Aaron, Must we fetch water
for you rebels? And he hauled off in anger, and
he hit the rock, and evidently maybe just a dribble or two came
out, and he just whacked it again. Well, water did come out, and
everybody drank. But God said, Moses, you didn't
sanctify me before the people. You didn't honor me. This wasn't
about my holiness. This wasn't about my glory. You're
mad. You were angry. I told you to
speak to the rock. You hit the rock. Because you
did that, you can't take the Israelites into the promised
land. It's forbidden. God said forbid
it. What's that speak to us about? Now you read the various men
who've written commentaries, there are numbers chapter 20,
and you'll find that they give several reasons why God, the
significance of this is why God wouldn't let Moses leave them
in the promised land, and what this spiting of the rock there
the second time, what it meant. But here's what I think it means. You see, our Lord Jesus has been
smitten with the rod of justice one time. One time. Listen to the Scriptures. And
as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment. So Christ was once offered to
bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him shall
he appear the second time without sin and the judgment. How many
times was the rock of our salvation smitten? Once. I Peter 3.18,
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,
but quickened by the Spirit. And then Hebrews chapter 10 and
verse 14, For by one offering he hath perfected forever them
that are sanctified. Now let's understand this redemption. Redemption and reconciliation,
the removal of our sins and the bringing in of everlasting righteousness
was a one time act. It happened at the cross. In
that marvelous, miraculous, mysterious transaction between the Father
and the Son. When the Father exacted from
the Son all the debt that had to be paid. That was a one-time
transaction. And right then and there, Jesus
paid it all, all the debt we owe. He was smitten, the rock
of our salvation was smitten by the rod of God's justice one
time. And once was enough forever to
put our sins away. Now you listen to me. If you want God's salvation,
you hunger for the bread of life, you're thirsty for the water
of life, you long for righteousness, life, salvation, everlasting
life, God's acceptance of you, I tell you what you do, speak
to the rock. Speak to the rock. That's what
the leper did. He spoke to the rock. Our Lord
Jesus had been up on the mountain, and as He came down, there was
a leper who fell down before Him. And he said, Lord, if Thou
wilt, Thou canst make me whole. If You will, You can cleanse
me of my leprosy. If You will. That's speaking
to the rock. speaking to the rock. Old blind Bartimaeus. He sat
by the roadside begging. He is a blind beggar. Our Lord
was on His way to Jericho and got passed through Jericho. He
wasn't coming back that way again. He was on His way to Jerusalem
to die. In Jericho He is going to address
a little chief of the tax collectors, Zacchaeus. And he's going to
call to him unto himself. So our Lord, He's making His
way toward Jerusalem, but He's got to go through Jericho. And
before He got to Jericho, He heard somebody, somebody crying
out, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me! And the disciples
told that blind beggar, why don't you be quiet? The Master doesn't
have time for you. But he cried out all the more,
Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me. What's he doing?
Speaking to the rock. And that which all the disciples
couldn't do, stop the Savior? That's what nobody else could
do, stop the Savior. Here's the cry of a desperate
sinner who needs help, who needs mercy, who needs salvation, who
needs righteousness, who needs forgiveness. He cried out, Lord,
have mercy on me. The Savior stopped. He stopped
right in His tracks. His ear is always open to hear
the cries of those who need Him. Listen, who is it that put the
cry in the heart to begin with but the rock? Isn't that right? It's the rock who puts the cry
there and it's the rock who answers the cry. Simon Peter walking on the water
and then he began to go down. And nobody had to write out some
kind of prayer for him to recite. Nobody had to tell him what to
say. Three words. He spoke to the
rock. Three words. Lord, save me! That's all he said. And I tell you what, if there's a
sinner in the crowd tonight, Somebody watching on the internet.
Somebody listening to this. And God shows you who He is and
what you are and who Jesus Christ is. Come to the rock. Come to
the rock. Nobody's going to have to tell
you what to say. I'm not going to have to write
out some kind of prayer. Well, you need to read this sinner's
prayer. Nobody's going to have to tell
you. when you're sinking beneath the vindictive waves of God's
justice and judgment, and you see the jaws of hell opening
up to swallow you whole, and you find out that there's mercy
with the Lord of glory, and that His specialty is saving sinners,
you'll turn to Him and you'll cry out from the depths of your
soul, Lord, save me! And guess what? When you cry
that out, you already saved. The reason you cried out is because
He has already saved you. He saved you from before the
foundation of the world. He saved you at the cross. And
He brings salvation to your soul. He makes it a reality to you
by the power of His quickening spirit in regeneration. Lord save me. Speak to the rock. That poor old publican in the
temple. Listen to that loudmouth Pharisee
talk about what a great man he was. Probably the publicans over
there said, yeah, he's a whole lot better man than I am. That
old Pharisee said, Lord, I thank Thee I'm not as other men are.
Poor old publican. He just standing at the outskirt
just shaking his head. He starts beating on his chest
and says, God, be merciful to me. Be a mercy seat to me. Be
a propitiation to me. I'm the sinner. I'm the sinner
here. I'm the one that needs mercy. Oh, be the mercy seat for me.
Oh, God, see the blood on the mercy seat and save this poor
sinner. That was his cry. What's he doing?
Speaking to the rock. Nobody can help you but the rock
of our salvation, Christ Jesus. That old thief on the cross.
Oh, he was belittling God's son right with his buddy, right from
the beginning. They had been cohorts in criminal
acts. Something happened to him. It wasn't by His will, that's
God's sovereign will. God's Spirit got a hold of His
heart. In fact, God gave Him a new heart.
That's what He does. He gives us a new heart. That's
a heart of faith to believe. He said to that one on the middle
cross, that rock who was being smitten right then, He said,
Remember me when you come into your kingdom. Lord, remember
me. Remember me, this poor old sinner. I'm getting what I deserve. That's
what he said. I'm getting what I deserve. And
he told his buddies, he said, you are too. But this man, oh,
this man, he's done nothing amiss. He's done nothing wrong. Well,
who is that man who's done nothing wrong? Listen to that believing
thief. He's the Lord. He's the Lord. Lord, remember me when you come
into your kingdom. Speak to the rock. Moses can't go into the promised
land. He can't lead Israel in because
he messed up the picture. He messed up the typology. Because
our Lord Jesus, He's smitten one time. See, that's what's
wrong with the mass. The mass. You know what the mass
is? Killing Jesus Christ all over
again. That's what it is. He died into
sin once. And bless His name, when He died,
we died. We're dead to sin. Sin shall not have dominion over
you. Moses couldn't take them in because
of that act of rebellion. I'll tell you another reason,
the second reason why Moses couldn't take them in and Joshua's got
to take them in. Joshua will take them into the
land of promise, not Moses. Here's the reason, Moses couldn't
take them in because he represents the law. Whereas Joshua, he represents
Jesus Christ the Savior. You see, the law of God, it can't
bring a sinner into the land of promise. The law can't save. The law exposes guilt. The law
strips us. Here's what the law does, it
condemns. It doesn't make alive, it kills.
It can't show mercy. God's law can't show mercy. God's
law can't give life. God's law can't forgive sin. God's law must punish sin. Wherever
God's law sees sin, it's got to strike out against it. It
must do that because God's a holy and a just God. And sin is a
violation, the transgression of God's law. And when God's
law is broken, there's a penalty to be paid. Moses represents
the law. The law can't take you into the
land of promise. The law can't take you to the
Lord. The law can't take you into heaven.
The law can't give you eternal life. By the deeds of the law
there shall no flesh be justified in God's sight. Not by the law. You hugging up to the law is
like a moth hugging up to a flame. It will destroy you. It will
absolutely kill you. The law has no feeling. The law
is unbending. The law is rigid. The law says
be perfect or die. That is what the law says. The
law says it shall be perfect to be accepted by God. That is
what the law says. And any infraction, any disobedience
of the law, the law says death for you. That's it. It's cut
and dry. With the law, there's no gray
area. That's the way, you know, our
laws today say, well, it's kind of a gray area. With the law,
it's black and white. It's real simple with the law.
Disobedience means death. Moses can't take the end. See,
this was the issue with those Jews in our Lord's day. They
said, we have Moses! The Savior said, if you'd have
believed Moses, you'd believe me, because he wrote of me! That's
what the Lord said. They said, Moses gave us bread.
The Lord Jesus said, Moses didn't give you that bread, my Father
gave you that bread, and I'm the true bread come down from
heaven. Moses can't give you a life. You think by your morality, by
your deeds, by your doing, you're going to win God's favor? You're
going to earn salvation? death to you. You've got to die. You're going to have to die.
Now, as long as that's your attitude, well, I know, you know, God knows
I give, God knows I tithe, God knows I attend, God knows I try
to pray, God knows I try to read, God knows you're a sinner. That's
what God knows. And God's law looks at all of
your good deeds and the God's law says, it's all dung. And
that's what you better say too. That's exactly right. That's
what the Apostle Paul said. He said, all those things I did
before, it's all dung. It's just a stinking mess. Because
nothing was done for the glory of God. Nothing was done by faith. Nothing was done with the glory
of Christ Jesus and love for Christ Jesus in the heart. It's
all dung. That's what Paul said. And you
better say that too. And me too. That is right, isn't
it? We better say that. All my Bible
reading, all my prayers, all my sermons, they don't count
for a thing. See, all that counts with God
is His Son. This is my beloved Son in whom
I'm well pleased. He's well pleased with one person,
Christ Jesus, and everybody who's in Him. Everybody who's in Him. Joshua. Ah, he's the man that
can take us into the land of promise. Joshua means Jehovah the Savior,
or Jehovah is salvation. What's our Savior's name? His
name is Jesus. Jesus is the Greek form of the
Hebrew word Joshua. He's Jehovah who saves. And just
like it says in Joshua chapter 6 verse 25 about Rahab the harlot,
It says, and Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive. Even so, our
great Joshua saves all of his Rahabs alive. He saves us by
his grace, he saves us by his blood, he saves us by his righteousness,
he saves us by his power. He saves his people from their
sin. That's what his name means. Thou
shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from
their sins." Moses. God says you can't take them
in. Joshua will take them in. Joshua will take them in. Now really this section in Deuteronomy
chapter 31 that was read to us this morning is an introduction
to a song. And I wonder if, as our brother
read this this morning, and if you were to hear this morning,
I would advise you to read Deuteronomy 31, 14 through the end of the
chapter, but as you read through, I wonder if you notice this word,
song. It's a song. Look at verse 19,
31, 19. Now therefore write you this
song. for you, teach it to the children
of Israel. Put it in their mouths that this
song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
Get down to verse 21. It came to pass, and it shall
come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befalling them,
that this song shall testify against them as a witness. Look
at verse 22. And Moses wrote this song the
same day and he taught it the children of Israel. This song. And then look down at verse 30.
Look at verse 30. And Moses spake in the ears of
all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until
they were ended. And here's the song. It starts
in chapter 32 verse 1 and goes through verse 43. There's the
song. And when you get home tonight,
read the song that they were to sing and that which their
children were to sing and their children after that to sing the
song. And now look at chapter 32 and
verse 44. And Moses came and spake all
the words of this song. Chapter 32 verse 44. And Moses came and spake all
the words of this song in the ears of the people, he and Hosea
the son of Nun." Who is Hosea? Joshua. That's just another name
for Joshua. It means the same thing, Jehovah
who's saved. So here's the song. And I'll
tell you what the song is about. It's about, number one, the greatness
of God. Sing about the greatness of God.
Number two, the sinfulness of men. Sing about the sinfulness
of men. The rebellion of men. The idolatry
of men. And number three, the mercy of
God. That's three good verses to a
song, isn't it? I try to write the lyrics to
a song every once in a while, but I never... This is God's
song. God gave this song to Israel
to sing. And they are going to sing about
His greatness, and then they are going to sing about their
failures. His greatness, their failures,
and of His mercy, they will endure it forever. Three verses to this
song. Well, we don't have time to look
at the whole song, but I do want to point this out to you. Here
in the first part of the song, it's about the greatness of the
Lord. Look what it says in verse 1
in chapter 32. Give ear, O ye heavens, and I
will speak, and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. It's like
Moses speaking the Word of God in this song. He calls upon all
of creation to listen to this. And God says, My doctrine shall
drop as the rain, My speech shall distill as the dew. In what way
is God's doctrine and God's speech like rain and like dew? Well,
it's from heaven. It refreshes. It's absolutely
necessary for life. And it's irresistible. Boy, did
it ever rain last night. What did you say we got an inch
and something? Just a short time. Our son David
lives over in Hiroshima, Japan. He was telling us about those
floods in northern Japan. That's about 450, 500 miles north
and a long ways away. I think he said that they got
the same amount of rain in one day that they usually get in
two months. And I expect you saw on the news just awful, awful
floods. Rain is irresistible. You can't
stop it. You can't make it rain. Go ahead
and do your rain dance. I'd like to watch. Do your rain
dance. But you can't make it rain. And
when it does rain, you can't stop it. That's the grace of
God. That's the grace of God. You
can't make Him pour out His grace. But when God's of a mind to pour
out His grace, you can't stop it either. It's going to pour
out like a flood. and flood the soul of some needy,
empty-hearted sinner. That's what's going to happen.
That's what God says about His doctrine. I don't like that word
doctrine. Man, I do. I sure disagree with
you on that. I love doctrine. Because it's
God's doctrine. It's God's doctrine. Look what
He says in verse 2. My doctrine shall drop as the
rain, my speech as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender
herb, showers upon the grass, that's God's doctrine. Because
I will publish the name of the Lord, ascribe ye greatness unto
our God. He's the rock. He's the rock. Our God is great. You know, Moses
has come forth from meeting with the Lord. And he's been told
by God, you're going to die. You're not going to leave the
children of Israel into the land of promise. And this servant
of the Lord, when he came out, he's been in the cloud. Oh, the
awesome presence of God. He and Joshua have been in the
presence of God. God has spoken with him. God's
given him this song. He says, give it to Israel. I
want them to learn this song. Sing this song, you sing it,
your children sing it, your grandchildren sing it. Of the greatness of
God, the failures of men and the mercy of the Lord. And when
Moses comes out, I tell you, he's not talking about himself.
He's not going to tell Israel now, I want you all to know how
faithful I've been for these past 40 years. I've been your
pastor for 40 years, I sure have been faithful to you. He's not
talking about himself at all. Who's he talking about? The great
God of Israel. And I tell you what, when a man's
been in the presence of God, when he's seen something of God's
glory, Moses did. Back in the book of Exodus, he
said, Lord, show me your glory. Show me your way, he said. First
of all, he said, show me your glory. And when God showed him
his glory, Moses has been talking about God ever since. And if
we ever see his glory, that's who we'll brag on. We're going
to stop bragging on the flesh. We're going to stop talking about
what good people we are and what wonderful examples we are to
everybody else. We're going to say, all flesh
is It's the Lord who's great. Look
unto the Lord. He ascribed greatness to God.
Now, I'll tell you this. We live in a day, you know this
is true, we live in a day of super aggressive, big business,
religion, and mega churches. That's the day we're living in.
When churches are really just entertainment centers. This is
a day of religious darkness, isn't it? Sad day. We hear talk
about worship centers. In fact, a lot of people don't
even like the word church anymore. I don't go to church, I go to
a worship center. A worship center. And these religious
hucksters, they're everywhere. And they got great preachers,
they got great churches, they got great groups of people, great
crowds. They're doing great works. They're
building great hospitals across the ocean somewhere. They're
building great orphanages. They have great healing services. They have all of those things.
You know what the only thing that's not great about them?
Their God's not great. You listen to the God that they
talk about, the God that they preach. Everything else that
they do is great, but their God, He's not great at all. He's a
little God. He's a pathetic God. Oh, His followers are great, but their God is needy. The God
they set forth can only do what folks let Him do. Their God is a pathetic failure. You say, well, you shouldn't
speak ill about other religions. Let me tell you something. I
mock that God that can't do His own will. I mock that God and
I mock every preacher that preaches Him too. They're not your friends,
they're liars. You say, Jim, I thought you was
a nice person. Well, I am being nice and I'm
being honest too. They are a bunch of religious
hucksters who are lying on God. They are lying on God. I am telling
you the absolute fact now. And their God is little. Their
God is not great. You see, the God of the Bible
is great. Our brother read to us there
in Psalm 115. He said, their God is just like
the people. Just like the people. They're
gods or figments of their own imaginations. Right here in this passage in
front of us. In this passage of scripture,
the word rock is another key word that's used down through
here. The rock. Look at verse 4. He is the rock.
The Lord is the rock. His work is perfect, for all
His ways are judgment, all of His ways are lawful and according
to justice. He's a God of truth and without
iniquity. He's just, that is, He's righteous
and right. You know what that means? He's
straight. No perverse, no crookedness in God. He's the rock. Look at verse 16. after talking
about what the Lord, the Lord's faithfulness and His greatness
in verse 15, but Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. Thou art waxed
and fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness.
Then he forsook God which made him and lightly esteemed the
rock of his salvation. Y'all be circling this word rock
now. This is a key word in the song
Look at verse 18. I'll read 16, 17 and 18. They provoked him to jealousy
with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger. They
sacrificed unto devils, not to God. to gods whom they knew not,
to new gods that came newly up, whom your fathers feared not,
of the Rock, capital R, that begat thee, thou art unmindful,
and hast forgotten God that formed thee." You've forgotten the Rock.
Drop all the way down to verse 30. Look at verse 29. Oh, that they
were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider
their latter end. How should one chase a thousand? and two put 10,000 to flight,
except the rock had sold them and the Lord had shut them up.
Now earlier in the book of Deuteronomy, the Lord talked about how just
a few Israelites would put to flight all of their enemies.
But now the tables are reversed. And the rock sees to it that
just a very few enemies will put the Israelites to flight.
Well, who's doing that? The same rock. The same rock. Look at verse 31. For their rock,
little r, watch it now. For their rock, little r, is
not as our rock. They've got a rock that's not
like our rock. Our rock is a rock of salvation.
Irox, the rock that was smitten by the rod of God's justice,
and salvation flows from him. But they've got a rock, they've
got a God, but he's not the God of salvation. Drop down to verse 36. To me, God says, the rock says,
to me belongeth vengeance, verse 35, and recompense. And Jonathan
Edwards preached from this, his famous sermon, their foot shall
slide in due time. I read that. Remember, sinners
in the hands of an angry God? I read that when I was in school.
Did you? That's in our literature book. Isn't that amazing? We read that. Had to read that in literature.
For the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that
shall come upon them may case. For the Lord shall judge His
people and repent Himself for His servants when He seeth that
their power is gone, and there's none shut up or left. And He
shall say, Where are their gods? Their rock in whom they trusted.
Where are your gods now? They can't help you, can they? See, nobody can help but the
rock of salvation, Christ the Lord. Which did eat the fat that
is their rock, their little God. He ate the fat of their sacrifices
and drank the wine of their drink offerings. And the Lord says,
let them rise up and help you if you need protection. Where
are they? And listen to what God says in
verse 39. See now that I Even I am He, there is no God with
me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. Neither is
there any that can deliver out of my hand. For I lift up my
hand to heaven and I say I live forever. Verse 41, if I wet my
glittering sword and mine hand take hold on judgment, I will
render vengeance to mine enemies and will reward them that hate
me. I will make mine heirs drunk with blood. My sword shall devour
flesh, and that with the blood of all the slain and of the captains
of the beginning, from the beginning of revenge upon the enemy. Rejoice,
O ye nations, with his people. For He will avenge the blood
of His servants and will render vengeance to His adversaries
and will be merciful unto His land and to His people. He will
be merciful. Thank God He's got a remnant
according to the election of grace and He's going to be merciful
to us. And we ought to be judged. We
deserve to fall with all the rest of the heathen. But God
is merciful to His people. The Rock. You're talking about a great
God. Here's our great God. He's the rock of our salvation.
And the rock of our salvation, He says at the very end of the
song, because this is the end of it. Because verse 44 says,
And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the
ears of the people. There's the end of the song and
I'm so thankful for those last few words of the song. Oh, sing
it out, children of God! He will be merciful unto His
land and unto His people. That's the greatness of God.
Everything about God is great. Great mercy, great power, great
name, great glory. Oh, how great the Lord is. Is
this the rock of your salvation? He's the only one that can help
you. These other little rocks, these little stones out here,
Men trying to build on, they can't help you. The Lord says,
I'm God now. I'm God. I save. King Darius said, Daniel, is thy God whom thou servest
able to deliver thee? Daniel said, oh, King lived forever. Yeah, he's able. He's a God who
saves. And if your God can't save who
he will, when he wills, and where he wills, if he can't overcome
the free will of some poor lost sinner, if your God is held in
checkmate by the feeble will of man, you got the wrong God. You've got a God that can't save
you. You've got to deal with the God
of glory. The God who is great. And the
only way you can deal with Him is to rock Christ Jesus the Lord. Well, I'm going to change the
song again tonight. And I know the number already.