In this 98 Psalm that I read,
I want to give you seven notes,
seven notes in a new song. And that's all it is, seven notes,
ain't it? Yeah. T, re, do, la, fa, mi, so, so. A, B, C, D, E, F, G. I don't know. But I think there's
seven. But in this psalm, There are
many psalms that tell us to sing unto the Lord, a new song. Look over in Psalm 101, right
there where we're at. Look what the psalmist says here.
I will sing of mercy and judgment unto thee, O Lord, will I sing. He talked about he was gonna
sing. And he gonna sing of the mercy of the Lord. Look back
in Psalm 96 in verse 1. A lot of things just talk about
singing a song. Oh, sing unto the Lord a new
song. Sing unto the Lord all the earth.
Sing unto the Lord, bless His name. Show forth His salvation
from day to day. Declare His glory. So that's
got to, those are things in the song that we sing. Declare His
salvation. Declare His glory. Show His glory. And I tell you, you know, David
says this, he hath picked my feet up out of a horrible pit,
set my feet upon a rock, established my goings, and hath put a new
song, a new song in my heart. And you all know very well, Revelations
5, 9 says this, and they sung a new song, worthy is the lamb
that was slain and has redeemed us to God. by his blood. And so, we're gonna talk about
a song. And there's many, many psalms.
Many psalms where there's groaning, where there's weeping, where
there's suffering. And then, you know, David said
in a couple places, why art thou disquieted within me, O my soul? He said, my soul's troubled.
Why is it disquieted? And he said in one psalm, he
said, hath the Lord clean for God his mercy? So there's lots
of psalms that deal with suffering. Lots of psalms that deal with
weeping. Lot of psalms that deal with suffering. But here I'm
talking about rejoicing, singing unto the Lord. You know, in the
last verse it says here, in the last verse of Psalm 98, look
what it says. The Lord cometh, for he cometh
to judge the earth. The Lord hath cometh to judge
the world in righteousness. And he says the very same thing
in Psalm 96. Excuse me, not Psalm 96, I think
it is. He says, for the Lord cometh to judge
the earth. He shall judge the world with
righteousness, the people with his truth. So he's going to judge
the world. He's going to judge the world
in righteousness. He's going to judge the world in truth.
He's going to judge. He's going to be the judge. And
then the Lord reigneth. So he's the one who reigns. He's
the one who's going to come to judge. And then he said in this
psalm, O sing unto the Lord a new song. He had done marvelous things. You know, when he talks about
singing, He says, His holy arm hath begotten Him to victory.
So that means that He came. Talks about His coming. And it
talks about He comes and His arm brought Him victory. That
shows that He's reigning. He's got the power to do what
He will in this earth. His own arm. He says His arm
and His hand. And then His reigning, He's gonna
come to judge the world. But I wanna talk about these
seven notes in the new song, in this new song. Sing unto the
Lord a new song. You know, we always trying to
learn a new song, and Brother Gary Spracker, he knew music
so well, and he'd try on Sunday nights and Wednesday nights always
to teach us a new song. We love to learn new songs. But when he says here, sing unto
the Lord a new song, a new song. What in the world could we say
new unto the Lord? But he knows everything. But
he knows all the notes, he knows all the thoughts, he knows all
the hearts. And Shirley was telling me on the way to services, or
told me this morning. Yeah, I guess he's on the way.
But about a woman where she's at the getting her hair fixed
the other day, and the woman says, you know, she said, Lord,
I can't sing. I can't sing a bit. So she said,
I'm praying that, Lord, when I get to go to heaven, at least
I'll be able to sing up there. Everybody will be able to sing
up there. People who couldn't carry a tune in a bucket down
here as they sang, they'll all be able to sing in tune up there.
I guarantee you, when they sang there, they all began this new
song. The 420 elders, 10,000 times
10,000 thousands, and the four beasts, every one of them started
that new song, saying, worthy is the Lamb. And that's the start. You gotta start with the right
note, and the note is the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the number
one note, and that's, you know, but I'll tell you what, today
I wanna talk about seven notes in this new song, and then here's
the first thing, he says, sing of the Lord a new song, for here's
the first note, for he hath done marvelous things. Marvelous things. You know, Some of the things
that our Lord Jesus Christ has done, that God has done, first
and foremost, the most glorious, the most marvelous thing that
God ever did was to send His Son into this world. That the
Lord Jesus Christ was born of a virgin, that He was incarnate,
the Word was made flesh. Is anything more stupendous that
God ever did than send His Son into this world? and made Him
like sinful flesh, that He had to come to the womb of a virgin
begotten of God Himself, the only begotten Son of God, and
our Lord Jesus Christ, and the reason He was made incarnate,
the reason He come in the flesh, was that He should save His people
from their sin. And here's the next thing about
it. And this is one of the most marvelous things that God ever
did. Not only did He create His Son, make His Son, and He was
born of a virgin, but this man, the Lord Jesus Christ, is a man.
As that man, that infant that was the Ancient of Days, that
Creator of this universe, hanging on His mother's breast, grew
up. And from the day He was born
to the day He was on a cross, He never ever sinned. No way, no how, no time. That's an amazing thing to me.
That's the most marvelous thing. That there was a man on this
earth. Sin is so part and parcel to us. that we sin and we're
not even conscious of it. It's just so much a part and
parcel of us. But our Lord Jesus Christ, everywhere He went, I
don't care what He was doing, how He was doing, what He was
saying, where He was at, on His mother's breast, or on the cross,
He never, ever sinned. Sinless. And I tell you, then, then, what
a marvelous thing He did. Our Lord Jesus Christ willingly,
willingly, gloriously, obediently, joyfully went to the cross. And this is the most marvelous
thing that you've ever heard in your life, that our Lord,
our sinless man, That son of God, that perfect man, when he
went to that cross, he went there not for himself, not for anything
he did, not for any disobedience he ever had, but he went there
to bear sin in his own body on that tree. And this is something
people think they got the handle on this, but I ain't got it yet,
that God made him to be sin. That's one of the most awesome
statements I've ever heard in my life. God made him the sinless
one to be sin. How in the world can that be?
A sinless one made to be sin. Whatever sin is, David said, it's against you
and you only that I've sinned. I was shapen in iniquity. I was
born in sin and conceived in sin. And God made him to be sin. And
then when he made him to be sin, Christ cried out, my God, my
God, why have you forsaken me? And the answer come back, because
you're holy. You're holy. And you know why
he said he laid down his life? He said, I laid down my life
for the sheep. I laid down my life to put away
the sins of my people. He said, I gladly bear the wounds. I gladly bear the transgressions. I bear the sin of your people,
my people. And God made him to be sin. And
then he turns around, and because of his obedience, and because
of his righteousness, because of his debt, because him buying
our sins, and him honoring God in his justice and holiness,
God turns around. When he gives us faith, when
he gives us faith to believe on Christ, God says, you're righteous. And he said, you know how righteous
you are? It's my son. You are the righteousness of
God. How in the world can He kill a man, punish a man, and
punish all that is elect in that man and then turn around and
not charge their sins to Him and make them, declare them to
be as righteous as His own son? I can't explain it, but that's
what the scripture. That's the best I do with it. That's the best I do with it.
I can't do it. How else can you deal with it?
What a marvelous thing. What a marvelous thing. Oh, my. I want to show you something
over at Exodus 15. Then I'll go over some of these
marvelous things. Look at Exodus 15. And then I
want to show you something else. This is a song. when they came through the Red
Sea. And here's what Moses, then in verse one, then sang Moses
and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake,
saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously. And oh, my, I throwed the horse
and rider. The Lord's my strength and my
song, my salvation. And then look what he said down
in verse 11. He's still singing, and all of
Israel's singing with him. Who is like unto thee, O Lord,
among the gods? Who is like thee, glorious in
holiness, fearful in places, doing wonders, doing marvelous
things? I got another one I want you
to look at. Revelations 15. Now look at this
over here. When we're talking about singing
a song, it's just the first note. I got six to go. Oh my, look what he said here. Revelations 15, three. And they
sang the song of Moses, the servant of God. And the song of the Lamb,
listen, this is what they say, great and marvelous are thy works,
Lord God Almighty, just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Oh, marvelous is his ways. And
so back over here in Psalm 98, our Lord went to the cross, and
here's proof that we're justified. Proof that we're accepted of
God. Proof that God has accepted His
Son and justified us by His Son. They went to His tomb early on
Sunday morning after they took Him down from the cross and buried
Him. He had His own grave. And He
went there and there's two men and a wife. Mary went there and
said, where's the Lord, where's the Lord? He said, you're looking
for Jesus? Yes. He's not here. Where's he at?
He's risen. He said, I'll tell you what he
told us to tell you. He said, you tell his brethren
that he's gonna see them over in Galilee. He's gonna see them
over in Galilee. And so when our Lord was raised
from the dead, That means that God accepted everything He did
and accepted all in Him. Huh? Oh my. And all these are
such wondrous things. And I tell you what, after all
these years, I'm still filled with wonder. Wonder of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Wonder that he would die for
sinners. Wonder that he died for me. Wonder that he'd shed his blood. Wonder that he would even give
me grace and even think about me or look in my direction. And
this is the most wondrous thing of all, that he'd saved me and
do something for me. And who it was that did it. And
I tell you what, and I tell you, oh, and how thankful it makes
us. Lord, thank you. Bless your holy
name for the marvelous, marvelous things you have done. Oh, wouldn't
you love him to do a marvelous thing for you? He got the power. He's already done everything
that I said. He don't have to do anything more than what he's
already done. Well, what am I gonna do, preacher?
Believe, just believe. Say, I believe that, I believe
that. All right, that's the first note,
look at the second note. In verse one again. His right
hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory. Second note
is victory, first note's wonder. Second note's victory, his right
hand His holy arm has gotten him to victory. Now this is another
thing that God does. He describes Himself, and of
course as the Lord Jesus Christ, He had a hand, He had an arm,
and He had a holy arm, and He got victory through His arm.
And I tell you what, Christ is God's right hand, and God's right
hand. Everything God's done, He done
through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ. You know, He said, who
has believed our report? To whom, to whom has the arm
of the Lord been revealed? Now, when we talk about God's
arm, He said, is my arm too short? to save. Is my arm too short
to reach where you are? Is my arm too short to reach
down to get you? Is my arm too short to go down
into the mirey clay and get you? Is my arm too short to beat the
ground down and bring you out of it? Is my arm too short to
get in your heart? And you know we sing that song,
He reached way down for me. Is there anybody in here you
didn't have to reach way down for? Is there anybody in here
that God saved by His grace that He hadn't reached down, had to
reach down to the lowest place in the world in this universe
to get you? How far down did He have to reach
to get you? How far down? I can't think that deep. That's
how deep I was. But that's where it was. And
His right arm, His God, He's God's right arm. Set that in
my right hand, till I make the enemies your footstool. And I
tell you, His right hand, God's right hand, the Lord Jesus Christ. And I tell you, the Holy Spirit,
He brings us the things of Christ. And I tell you, he comes and
he uses his right hand, uses God's right hand. You know, I
hear preachers say it. I've heard a couple of preachers
say it here recently. And this is a language I don't understand.
I do not understand it. But they say, you know, so-and-so
is my right-hand man. That means that's somebody they
can depend on. But now, I don't understand a preacher saying
that a man's his right hand. Because he's got confidence in
him, he can confide in him, and he can trust in him. Listen,
I love every one of you fellas in here. I do. But you know who? I don't need a right-hand man.
I've got the Lord Jesus Christ. And just as sure as I had somebody
I utterly and absolutely depended in, after about two or three
weeks, I found out they couldn't depend in me and I can't depend
on them. That's just the way we're made.
But when Christ And He reaches forth His hand, reaches forth
His arm. And here's what the Holy Spirit
does. He brings us the things of Christ, the power of Christ,
the glory of Christ, the righteousness of Christ, the salvation of Christ.
And He shows us this thing. And I tell you, His right hand,
you know what it done? It accomplished salvation. It
accomplished salvation. Let me tell you something. Our
Lord Jesus, when He was nailed to that cross in this way, I
believe He was nailed. I don't believe He was nailed
like this. I believe He was nailed this way. I've looked at it,
I've considered it, I've thought of it, I've read a lot about
it. But anyway, to make a long story short, when His hands was
like that, His arm and hand was still working
in this world and in this universe. And His hands was numb like that?
You know what He is doing? Bringing salvation. Showing salvation. And how salvation is. Huh? Oh, look over here in 1 Corinthians
15. Look at 1 Corinthians 15, 57. You know, His arm accomplished
salvation. And I'll tell you something right
now. His arm is still accomplished
in salvation. You know, he said, he told his
disciples, he said, no man, I give unto them eternal life and no
man is able to pluck them out of my hand. And then he says, and no man's
able to pluck them out of my father's hands. So here he's
talking about the right arm and the right hand. And so if he's
got us in his hand, and nobody can take us out of
him, how secure is our salvation? His hands still accomplish salvation.
If he ever opens his hands to let us go, what's gonna happen? But look what it said here in
1 Corinthians 15, 57. But thanks be to God, which giveth
us the victory. How? Through our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh, Christ is our Redeemer. The
Holy Spirit quickens us and gives us life. And Romans 8.35 says
we're more than conquerors. Through Him. What's ever overcomes
us in this world. Because Christ already won all
the victories. He's done defeated every enemy. And let me give
you another note. Let me give you another note
here in Psalm 98. Verse 2. The Lord hath made known
His salvation. Huh? This is a note of mercy. His third note, the note of mercy.
The Lord has made known His salvation. made known His salvation. Look
what He said there in Psalm 101, I will sing of mercy. I will
sing of mercy. You know, He hath made known
His salvation. Now look what that, you see that
in your Bible, His righteousness hath He openly showed. I've got
a little four by that word openly in my Bible. And when you look
in the margin, you know what it says? He hath revealed His
salvation. Now how is she going to get it?
If He didn't make it known, who would know it? If He didn't make
it known, who would know it? Would you know it if He hadn't
made it known to you? I wouldn't have known it. I didn't know
it. I thought you'd be saved by making
the right choice. I thought you'd be saved by living
right. I thought you'd be saved by living a holy life. I thought
you'd be saved by dressing right. I thought you'd be saved by not
going to certain places and staying away from certain places. Not
doing this and not doing that and doing this other thing. I
thought that's the way. And then God comes along and
he said, I'm gonna make you know what my salvation is. I'm going
to make you know it. I'm not going to ask you if you
want to know it. I'm not going to ask you if you'd like to know
it. I'm not going to ask you if you want to search and find
it out. I'm going to make it known. If he hadn't of made it known,
nobody would know anything in the world about it. You know
how many people in the world does not know anything? You know
how many preachers that don't know how to do it? Anybody that
preaches that you can be saved by a decision, he ain't got the
gospel made known to him yet. Anybody that tells you you can
be saved by your free will, God ain't made no salvation to him
yet. If your man tells you that you know that you do the best
you can and God will be able to get you through some way somehow,
he ain't made the salvation known to that person yet. But here's
how, you know, Our Lord said it this way in John 6, verse
44. No man, no man cometh unto the Father. No man knows the
Father. No man can come unto the Father.
Nobody, nobody. But everyone who comes to me,
or comes to Him, he comes because the Father hath drawn him, the
Father hath revealed him. And that's the only way, you
know, they shall all be taught of God. and to whom the Lord
reveals it. When God teaches a man, He teaches
him salvation by Christ, by grace, by mercy. And I tell you what,
how did He make His salvation known? He made it known through
His blessed Son. But here's the first place He
made it known. In His Word. In His Word. You know, without
this Bible, without a Bible, you would not know who God is.
you would not have a clue who God is. Without this Bible, without
the Word of God, you wouldn't have a clue who Jesus Christ
is. Without this Bible, you wouldn't
know anything about sin. You wouldn't know where our creation
started, where man came from, where man's gonna go, and how
in the world man's gonna be saved while he's in this world, and
what's gonna happen to a man after he leaves this world. If
we didn't have this Bible, we wouldn't know nothing. And so
how's God make it known? He pleased Him by the foolishness
of preaching to make His Word known. And it says He openly
showed it. You know, Paul said He didn't
do this thing over here hidden in a corner. He made it known.
And He made it known it's of grace. And I tell you, that's
why it's so imperative. You know how God gives faith?
And how God saves people? He does it with His Word. You
can't find any place in the Scriptures where God did not, even Abraham,
God sent a prophet. God sent, everywhere God's ever
done anything for anybody, He done it by His Word. God said,
being born again, not a corruptible seed, incorruptible by the Word
of God, which liveth and abideth forever. Faith cometh by hearing. God said that the gospel was
an incorruptible seed. How important is the word of
God? I tell you what, and I've said this before and I've said
it just here recently, the word of God, this Bible, these words,
they're black and white. People have a red letter Bible,
everything God says ought to be in red because it's blood.
And here's the thing about it, that this word, It's a living
word. What makes it living? I'm a living
man, but the words that I say are just words. They're vehicles
of communication. What I think and what I've got
on these pages here are just words, vehicles of communication. But if it's put in your heart,
put in your soul, put in your understanding, then it has to
be a living word. And who can the world make the
word living but the Holy Spirit and the Word of God? Who can
make it living? How can it get in your mind and get in your
heart and get in your understanding and bring tears to your eye or
a laugh to your soul? Without the Spirit of God. Who
can do it? And I tell you, it's a joyful
sound to those who knows this note of mercy. And how many times
in the New Testament Did they say, Lord, have mercy? Woman said, Lord, have mercy
on my daughter. Blind bottomed mess, Christ was
coming by and said, Lord, have mercy on me. Jairus comes, said,
Lord, come to my house, my daughter's sick, have mercy. How many times does somebody
go to Christ and say, that's what the public endear, said,
be merciful to me, the sinner. Oh my, it's a note of mercy. Ain't you grateful for that note?
Oh, what a wonderful note that is, the note of mercy, the note
of mercy. Then here's another one. I got
to hurry. Here's another one, verse three. He hath remembered his mercy
and his truth toward the house of Israel. This fourth note is
this, faithfulness. He remembered. But he uses words to accommodate
us. He hath remembered, what do they
say here? His mercy and truth toward the house of Israel. Well,
who in the world is the house of Israel? That's his people.
That's His elect people. That's the people He redeemed.
That's the people He brought out of Egypt. That's the people
He brought out of bondage. And oh, He was faithful to Israel,
true to the Israel of God. And oh, 1 Thessalonians 5.24,
this is a wonderful little thing you can put at the bottom of
a letter or something. It says, faithful is he who calleth Faithful
is He who calleth you. How faithful is He? We sang that
song this morning. Great is thy faithfulness. Oh
God, my Father, how great is His faithfulness. And I tell
you what, I do know this, that what He promised, He is able
also to perform. You know, Let me show you something,
Matthew 9. I've just seen that here. Look
in Matthew 9 with me. Matthew chapter 9. Let's look
together at this. Matthew 9, I think it's verse
28. Look in verse 27. Matthew 9, 27. And when Jesus departed thence,
two blind men followed him, crying, and say, Thou son of David, here
we go, have mercy on us. And when he was come into the
house, the blind men came to him, Christ went in the house,
and the blind men came into that house, wherever he was, and Jesus
said unto them, Believe ye that I'm able to do this. Do you believe
I'm able? He said unto him, oh yes Lord
we do, we really do. Oh by, is he able, is he able
to do what he promised? Abraham was strong in faith,
believing that God was able to do what he promised. And I do
know this, that he is faithful. Oh, he is so faithful. You know,
I'm faithless sometimes. Absolutely faithless, much less. But he's always faithful. Never,
ever not been faithful to me. When I have no life about me,
no down, discouraged, depressed,
whatever. You know what he is? He's still
faithful to me. Still faithful to me. Oh my. And he told, Paul told the Corinthians, he said, faithful is he that
calleth you into the Lord Jesus Christ. They called you into
the Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful. All right, let me give
you another note. I love this note. This is a fifth
note. Here's the fifth note. The note
of grace. Look what it says there in verse
three again. All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation
of God. All the ends of the earth have
seen the salvation of our God. There's no place that you can
go right now, no place you can go where the gospel has not already
been and is not going right now. You know, on Sermon Audio, I
can go in there and find out how many sermons people listen
to and where they listen to them at. I don't know how many messages
are downloaded into Russia. Saudi Arabia, where they're one
of the worst Muslim nations in the world. China. All over the world. Mexico. All over the world. There's no
place you can go. And that's what, you know, see,
God blessed us with the internet. He done that for His elect. The
world gets to enjoy it. God created Sermon audio for
God's elect and they could create this Social media for God's elect
and the world takes everything God does for his people and messes
it up But he created this this disability for us to be able
to be right here and my message is preached here today may end
up in Russia or China or Saudi Arabia or Ukraine or some other
way far out country and And I'll tell you, there's people
in China that's taking messages by American preachers and translate
them into China so that Chinese people who don't understand English
can listen to the gospel. They say, well, the Lord said
when this gospel's been preached, then the end'll come. Well, the
end's just probably about that close. I wish it'd happen right
now. Come on, Lord, amen. Even so,
come, Lord Jesus. But here's the thing that's scary
about that. If he come today, would he get you and take you
with him or leave you here for the judgment? Oh, I'm looking forward to him
coming. Are you? You think about that. If he comes,
Are you going to watch all of us go up and be changed in a
moment at twinkle of an eye? And you going to be left in your
body and Christ bring you up to judgment? Oh, no place where the gospel
hasn't been preached. And you know in no place it's
going now. But you know what's the sad about it? It's rejected
by men, it's rejected by nations, it's rejected by leaders. And
it says, all flesh shall see the salvation of God. That's
what our Lord said. Oh, I pour my spirit upon all
flesh. And he said, whosoever shall
call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Oh, call on him,
call on him, call on him, call on him. Let me give you the sixth
note here real quick. The sixth note. A note of praise,
look in verse four. Make a joyful noise unto the
Lord. Rejoice and sing praise. Rejoice, make a joyful noise
unto the Lord all the earth. Make a loud noise, rejoice and
sing praise. Oh my, note of praise. You know
he didn't say you had to sing in tune, he just said make a
joyful noise. That's why, oh my. And I do, I make a joyful
noise. I get so full of joy sometimes
I can't understand myself. Then some of you do that to do
that the same thing. Sometimes I've had people tell
me, said, I don't know how in the world I sat still. I didn't
want to sit still, I wanted to get up. But you know why you
didn't? You say, well, people think I'm just a nut. Well, I'll
tell you what, we're fools for Christ's sake, ain't we? But
oh my. And I tell you what, we sing
songs of praise. What a wonderful Savior is Jesus,
my Lord. What a wonderful Savior to me.
Huh? Oh, He hideth my soul in the
depths of His love. Hideth my soul in the cleft of
the rock. Hides my soul in the depths of
His love. Huh? Oh, the bliss of this glorious
thought, my sin, not in part but the whole, is nailed to His
cross. I bear it no more. Praise the
Lord, praise the Lord, oh my soul. Oh, we sang songs of praise,
we did this morning. To God be the glory, great things
He hath done. Oh my, He alone is worthy. His salvation is marvelous. One
day our singing will be perfect. We sing that little old hymn. Jesus Christ is made to me, all
I need, all I need. Oh, he's my wisdom, righteousness,
sanctification, and redemption. He is all I need, he is all I
need. Under the blood of Jesus, safe
in the shepherd's fold. Safe though the world may crumble,
safe while the ages roll. Safe though the stars grow dim,
under the blood of Jesus, I am secure in Him. Oh, our songs
are songs of praise. Our songs are praise. And I tell
you what, I've done this so many times.
I started leading a song and I'd be in a whole other place
than you all are. You all sing one verse and I'll
be singing another. But I tell you what, we'll certainly
be in tune one of these days, perfect tune. Then last of all,
let me give you this one. In verse 9, it's my seventh note. Before the Lord, for he cometh
to judge the earth with righteousness, shall he judge the world and
his people with equity. Now he comes to judge the world,
the whole world and everybody in it. He said the sheep will
be on the right, the goats will be on the left. And He comes
to judge this world. And judgment begins right here
in the house of God. And it says here, judge in righteousness.
God can't do anything but judge in righteousness. He judges righteously,
perfectly, absolutely right in every way. Righteousness. And
what kind of righteousness will He judge and find us in? Either
we have His righteousness or we'll have none at all. And then
look what He says, He'll judge the world, His people, with equity. I mean, He's going to treat His
people just perfectly, rightly, truly. And let me show you this,
and I'll quit with this. 2 Peter 3.13. 2nd Peter 3.13. Look what he says over here.
2nd Peter 3.13. Oh, you're talking about a hope.
He comes to judge the earth. And this is something, you know,
talking about over 2nd Corinthians 5, that the Lord Jesus Christ
He's going to be the judge. Now here, the one who saved us
is going to be our judge. The one whose righteousness we
have is going to be our judge. The one who died for us is going
to be our judge. Why would anybody be afraid to
stand before Him? But look what He says here in
verse 13. Talking about hope, blessed hope, glorious hope.
Nevertheless, We, according to His promise, look for new heavens
and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. Oh, we're going
to have a righteous... You know, it's going to be so
much better than what Adam had. It's going to be 10,000 times
10,000 better than what Adam had. We're, for beloved, seeing
that we look for such things. We look for this new heaven,
look for this new earth, look for this promise. that we may
be found in Him, found in Him, the peace that goes with Him,
without spot and blameless. And oh my, so this is what we're
looking for, a new hope, new heaven, new earth. Ah, righteousness dwells therein. Well, that's the best song I've
sung in a while. Y'all like them notes? Like them notes? Marlene can't
play them notes. Doc can't play them notes. But
every one of us knows them, don't we? And we rejoice in them. And
they're good notes. Oh, good notes. Good notes. Our Father, Bless your holy name
for allowing us to meet here today, for allowing us to have
this glorious gospel, to have these precious truths made alive,
real, and vital to our souls. And Lord, please, for Christ's
sake, open hearts, open understandings, bless your dear people. Be with
those who are not with us and be gracious and merciful, kind
and pitiful. Forgive us so, Lord. Forgive
us of everything that's unlike You. Make Your Word today. Do with it what You will. It's
Your Word. You use it as seemeth good in
Your sight. For Christ's sake. Amen. It's
saying number 51. 51. 51. stand together and we'll say
this and then when we get done, you'll be at liberty to go. Praise the Savior, ye who know
Him, who can tell how much we owe Him, that we may render to
Him all we are and have. Jesus is the name that charms
us. He for conflict fits and arms
us. Nothing moves and nothing harms
us while we trust in Him. Trust in Him, ye saints. He is faithful, changing never,
till the day of the Lord. God can sever those he loves
from him. Keep us, Lord, oh, keep us cleaving
To Thyself and still believing Till the hour of our receiving
Promise joy with Thee Then we shall be where we would
be. Then we shall be what we should
be. Things that are not, never could
be, soon shall be our own. See you tonight, 6 o'clock.