I've never preached from this
psalm myself. I know there's, it's obviously
about our Lord Jesus Christ. I've heard other men preach.
I've heard Rupert Reibenbach bring a wonderful message from
it at dawn several years ago, one Saturday morning. But I never
have. But it talks about speaking about
the King. He said, I speak of the things
which I have made touching the King. Speaking of the King. The King. You notice up in the
title, it's called a Song of Loves. A Song of Loves. And that's what it is. It's a
song of love between Christ and the love that He has for His
Church, His Bride. And we'll see that. This is all
about the King and what He does for His Bride, how much He loves
her. And then it says there, to the chief magician upon Shoshanim. Mr. Spurgeon says that Shoshanim
means upon the lilies. It's a song of love upon the
lilies. It's as if the king's upon the
lilies and he's out there among the lilies or upon the lilies
and he's singing this song and he's writing this glorious song.
about the king and about the relationship that he has and
that's what our Lord says you know consider the lilies says
Solomon all of his glory was never dressed up like these lilies
are so the lilies have some significance and then he says to the sons
of Corrie Muskell that means an instructive song like I said
last week this is not a romantic ballad This contains teaching,
teaching concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, full of doctrine,
full of truth, full of things that would instruct us and teach
us concerning our Lord and His blessed bride. And I do so know
this, it has to be spiritually understood. Only the Spirit of
God can give you understanding of what this is talking about.
And that's why Paul, you know, in the psalmist says, blessed
are the people who know the joyful sound. When you hear that sound
of the gospel, that sound of the Lord Jesus Christ, blessed
are the people who know that joyful sound when they hear it,
when they hear it. And let me tell you something
else about before I get started. The king that he's talking about
here is God himself. Look down in verse 6. Thy throne,
O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of thy kingdom is
a right scepter. So the King he's talking about
is God. God Himself is the King. And
I noticed that a lot of preachers preached on this, and they call
it the Royal Wedding. And there's nothing wrong with
that, for we have the King, we have His Bride, we have His Church.
But even the Church, the Bride, the Lord Jesus Christ the King,
dresses her, brings her to Himself, Brings her into his palace. Everything
that's done for the bride, the king done it. The king done it. And let
me tell you how, first of all, let's see how he speaks about
the king. Look what he says in verse 1. He says, My heart, my
heart. The first thing he talks about
is my heart. He says, My heart. These things that we talk about
when we talk about Christ and this man's doing here. David
is doing this, he says, my heart, my heart's in this. It comes
out of my heart, comes out of my birth heart. And then he goes
on to say, my heart is indicting a good matter. And as now, you
know, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh,
will avert this heart. Heat that's in this man's heart,
good matters is going to come out of that heart. Good things
is going to come out of that heart. Good words is going to
come out of that heart. And that's why when we deal with Christ
is within our hearts. Nothing cold in life is about
it. And when it says in dieting, that means Look what it says
over in the margin. Boileth up or bubbleth over.
His heart is overflowing. Just bubbling up on fire, filled
up. Bubbling over with things concerning
the King. And all the good matters concerning
the King. And all the things touching the
King. What is, what would touch the King? All the things that
are about the King. And I tell you what, His heart
is running hot. His heart is on fire and He says,
I'm speaking. And he said, I speak of the things
which I have made touching the king, all the songs that I have
made, all the thoughts that I have had. All the words that I've
said, all the things that I've considered, all the things that
I've meditated for. He said, that thing that's touching
the king that's in my heart, in my mind, in my thoughts. He
said, that's what I want to speak about. That's what I want to
talk about. In my heart, in my mouth is ready to go. And that's
what he says, my tongue is the pen of a ready writer. He says,
his tongue is like his heart. My tongue's, my heart's ready.
My tongue's ready, but when it says here that his tongue is
ready, the pen of a ready writer, that doesn't mean that he's going
to talk fast. That means that what he is, he's
going to be exact and precise, and he's going to talk deliberately
in exactness as touching the king. He said, what I write down
here, and what I say, and what I speak from my tongue, that
comes from my heart, that comes from these good matters, He said,
I'm going to be exact about it. I'm going to be deliberate about
it. I'm going to be precise about what I say about this blessed
king. And what is the first thing he
says about the king? He talks about his beauty. Look
what he says in verse 2. Thou art fairer than the children
of men. There's a lot, a lot of people
in this world that aren't fair. David was fair. David was a handsome,
handsome man. Solomon, I mean, they came from
all over the world to see Solomon and his glory. And I tell you
what, in Absalom, David's son, oh my, people thought this was
the greatest thing since, oh, Absalom was somebody. And David,
the woman he married, said to Abigail, she was the fastest
woman in the land. And look at Abraham's wife. Abraham
was scared to tell people. He said, what? Because she is
so beautiful. All the beautiful people in this world. And I said
about the king, I said, put them all together. Take the best in
the world. And he says, you're better than
all of them. All of them put together. Look over here at Song
of Solomon. Now just go right back to your
right. You'll go to Proverbs. And then you'll go to Song of
Solomon. And oh, I tell you, look what he says here at Song
of Solomon about the Lord Jesus Christ. I tell you, he's fairer
than the children of men. Fairer than any man's children
of men that they are. Look at the three Hebrew children.
Look what it said, how fair they were. They want to feed them
what they fed them in Babylon. They said, no, we're not going
to do that. Most of them were smarter and better looking. And
then all the things that they fed all the other people down
there, they stand astonished. Look at them. Look how well they
look. Look how good they look. Look
how healthy they look. Look how their cheeks are ruddy.
Look at them. Well, look what he says here
about the Lord Jesus Christ in Song of Solomon, chapter 5, verse
9. They asked the woman that was
looking for him. The Shulamite maiden, what is
thy beloved more than another beloved? You keep on going about
how lovely he is, how beautiful he is, and what fair he is, and
oh thou fairest among women. What is thy beloved more than
another beloved that thou doest charge thus? Now listen to this.
This is why it says my beloved is white and ruddy. Listen to
it. The cheapest among ten thousand. He uses a number to show you
that he's without number. Fast among 10,000. And look what
else it says about over here. Look at all fast among 10,000.
Oh, and then look what else it says about Him there. Not only
is it fairer than the children of men, but grace is poured into
thy lips. Grace. If grace is poured into
His lips, and grace from the covenant of grace, and grace
from God, and grace is so in Him that it pours from His lips,
you just imagine, you go through the Scriptures, and look at the
grace that came from our Lord Jesus Christ. Grace is poured
into thy lips and comes out of His lips. And all grace is poured. You think of all the times, when
they came to get Him, He says, no man ever spake like this man
before. He's talked in a way that nobody
ever heard him talk, nobody ever, when he was 12 years old, he
confounded the doctors, and the lawyers, and the wise men. And
you think about all the grace that comes, that was poured in
his lips and came out of his lips. To all the people you look
in the scriptures, you look at Zacchaeus up on the tree, and
our Lord called him by name and said, Zacchaeus, today I must
Today salvation is coming to your house. That's great! And oh, when Simon Peter denied
him three times, and the Lord Jesus Christ calling out there
on the scene, she'll not hear any means. And Simon Peter came
just running as hard as he could to get to the Lord Jesus Christ.
And then he asked him, instead of chiding him, getting angry
with him, he said, Oh, Simon Peter, do you love me? Yes, Lord,
you know that I do. Oh, Mary Magdalene, when she
stood weeping, he came to her and says, Mary! Can you imagine
the grace that came out of his lips and how it just brought
her, Oh, Master, Master, Master, it's the Lord himself. Oh, a woman at the well. He's reproving her for her sin. And that's when Grace had done
that. Because you know what she said? She threw her water pot
away. She forgot about water. She forgot about taking water
home to wash the dishes and to cook with and take baths with.
She just forgot about that. She threw it away. Who needs
water? And she went and ran and said,
come see a man that told me. Oh my, even on the cross, even
on the cross while he was dying, there stood John, there stood
his mother, and three other women, and our Lord looked at his mother
and says, now he's on the cross right before he says it's over.
He looked at her and says, Woman, behold your son. Son, behold
your mother. And he took her home. And then
to us, how much grace has he given us? Moses, the law was
given by him, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. And the
fullness of grace is in him. And how many times has he come
and he's poured out his graces, poured in that he might pour
it out. And oh how he's poured out. And then look what it says
about him. Therefore God hath blessed thee
forever and ever. Since your bearer, since grace
is poured in your lips, and all his grace is there, he said,
God's blessed you forever and ever. Oh, you know what he says? He's the brightness of his glory,
the express image of his person, and the fullness of the Godhead
dwells in him bodily. He's the image of the invisible
God. And he says, God's blessed you.
Forever and ever. That's why you're fairer than
everybody else. That's why you have this grace.
God's blessing you. You're the apple of God's eye. You do always please Him. He's
full of truth and full of grace. And look what else he says about
it. Not only his beauty, he speaks of his beauty. But look what
he says there in verse 3 about his sword. gird thy sword upon
thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and with thy majesty.
He calls him mighty. And he said, put on your sword.
Kings wear swords. Kings rule and kings have swords
and he says you're the most mighty one and you put it on with glory
and majesty when you put on all and you're such a king when you
put on your garment when you put on this sword he said you're
mighty and you put it on with glory and majesty that sword
that he puts on it's not just like somebody putting a sword
he is glorious and majesty when he girds himself with his sword
And I tell you what, in Revelations it talks about, I believe it's
in Revelations 19, I think that's right, let me look and see. And
read this to you. On his thigh. Let me see if that's
right. Let me see. Oh yeah, yeah, look what it says.
In Revelations 19, 15. It talks about his sword. Out of his mouth goeth a sharp
sword. And what's he going to do with
this sword? He's riding on a white horse now, coming out of heaven.
And he shall smite the nations, and shall rule them with a rod
of iron. And he shall tread at the winepress of the fierceness
of the wrath of God. And on his vesture and on his
thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords. Oh,
he puts on his thigh. And he's got a sword. And I'll
tell you something about our Lord Jesus Christ and his sword. And he puts it on his thigh.
And I'll tell you, there's two ways. As he's full of grace,
day of grace, he gives grace. But also, he also inheres a sword. He either gives grace or he gives
judgment. And he can pierce that heart
with the sword. And his sword divides. His word
is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword dividing
asunder. And I mean, it lays us barren.
And He carries that sword on His thigh. He carries that sword
as a sword of judgment. He carries that sword as a sword
that only He can yield it. Nobody else can do what He can
do. If He brought that sword out on you, I wouldn't have it. You'd be better. You'd have never
been born. He's full of grace. But He also
carries a sword. You want grace? You want a sword.
You want salvation or you want judgment? Whichever way it goes,
He's got that sword. And one of these days, He's going
to pull that sword out. And with that sword in one hand,
a rod of iron in another, nations and by nation, by nation, whole
nations are going to bow. Not just a few, whole nations
that He's going to bring back up. All Babylon's going to bow. America one of these days as
a nation. God will raise it up as a whole
nation and all of its leaders and bow everyone that's not in
that grace. And I tell you, beloved, and
that's what it is to look at your sword. Oh, it's glorious
and majesty when you carry that on your side. Carry that on your
side. And then look what else, look
what he's called. He said, oh, he said, I'm speaking concerning
the King. Look about our Lord Jesus Christ
in verse 4. And in thy majesty, ride prosperously
because of truth and meekness and righteousness, and thy right
hand shall teach thee terrible things. Oh my. because of thy truth, meekness,
and righteousness. Is that not a description of
our Lord Jesus Christ? Is that not a glorious characterization
of our Lord Jesus Christ? Is that not a description of
His character? And that's why He rides in majesty
and prosperity, because He's truth. If you're truth, then
He is truth. He rides in majesty, and He rides
prosper the truth, where He blesses and it prospers. Let me show
you something over in John 18, just a minute. John 18. Did somebody turn the air conditioning
off? Maybe it will kick on here in
a minute. Look what it says here. Our Lord Jesus Christ. verse 37 Our Lord talks about
he's a king you know and that if he had service would fight
if his kingdom was this world. And Pilate therefore said unto
him, Art thou a king then? Our Lord answered him, Thou sayest
that I am a king. To this end was I born and for
this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto
the truth. Everyone that is of the truth,
heareth my voice. Now listen to what Pilate says
back. This is the voice of a scorner. This is what scorning means.
Setting in the seat of the scornful. Pilate saith unto him, What is
truth? What is truth? You talking about
truth? You being crucified. But that's what our Lord said.
He said, I came to bear witness unto the truth. And oh beloved,
He Himself is truth. And He bore witness to the truth.
And everything He bore witness to the truth of God, the truth
of His Word, the truth of man. He didn't ask anybody to tell
Him what about Him. He didn't say anything about
people. He did not need anybody to tell
Him about any man or testify of any man. You know why? Because
He knew man. He said, don't tell me about
any man. I know man. Don't tell me how bad that one
is or how good that one is. I know him. Because he's truth. And then look what else it says
about him. And meekness and righteousness. Oh, he is meek and lowly in heart.
That's why he told us to come and learn of him. Because he's
meek and lowly of heart, nor to learn of Christ. And then
he says, Thy key cometh meek and lowly, upon a riding on a
coat, the fold of an ass. So he's meek. And that's why
he rides prosperously. Oh, and then righteousness. He's righteousness. He is the
Lord, our righteousness. He is righteousness himself.
And he is the Lord, our righteousness. There in verse 4. And oh beloved,
he's prosperous in his work, prosperous in his character,
prosperous in the truth, prosperous in righteousness, prosperous
in meekness, prosperous in everything that he does. And he rides in
prosperity. God said he'd cause everything
that he'd done to prosper in his hands. And then look what
he says, thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. And
what is he going to teach him terrible things about? Thy right
hand shall teach thee Terrible things about your enemy and terrible
things that you'll do to your enemies. Terrible things that
you'll do to them. Who don't love truth, don't love
meekness, don't love righteousness, don't love lowliness, don't love
Christ. That's what he says. And he'll
come to bow. And then look what he says about
our Lord Jesus Christ the King. Look what he says about him there
in verse 5. Talks about his arrows. Verse
5. Thine irons are sharp in the
heart of the king's enemies, and the people fall under thee.
Oh my, thine irons are sharp? And you know, they're sharp in
the heart of the king's enemies. And I'll tell you something about
this king. He knows all of his enemies. All of his enemies. I mean he knows every one of
them and that God Scott himself said he wet his sword and drawed
back his bow. And all of his enemies and his
arrows are sharp. They're sharp and you know where
they go? It says they go straight to the heart. And I tell you
if his arrows are sharp and he strikes into our heart and he
strikes in our heart as we were his enemies It's like in Acts
2.37, He says, You by wicked hands have crucified and slain
the Lord of glory. And God hath raised Him up, Jesus,
and has made Him both Lord and Christ. And the men cried out
who were pricked in their hearts. It says, Men and brethren, what
must we do? Christ struck them in the heart. Lydia was down
by the riverside, and what did the Lord Jesus Christ do? An
arrow hit her heart, and the Lord opened her heart. Now he
could be an enemy, that his arrow will destroy you, or an enemy,
and that his heart, when it hits you deep, it will cause you to
cry out, men and brethren, what must I do? What must I do? And I'll tell you what, he knows,
and his arrows are swift, listen to this, I got this out of Spurgeon
today, his arrows are swift as light, straight as truth, and
unerring as the wisdom of God. swift as light, straight as truth, and unerring
as the wisdom of God. They ain't gonna miss the mark.
We miss the mark, but he certainly don't. He certainly don't. And
then look what he says, what he speaks about the king and
his throne and his scepter. In verse 6, Thy throne, O God,
is forever and ever, ever, thy scepter, Thy kingdom is a right
scepter. You know, that's why Paul quoted
this in Hebrews chapter 1. When he was showing that the
Lord Jesus Christ was God. Opened up talking about God.
That Christ was God. That He was the true God. And
He had a kingdom. And this kingdom had a scepter.
And that's what he says, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and
ever. When he said to the Son, Thy throne, O God, is for ever
and ever. God's throne is forever and ever. Christ's throne is
forever and ever. And God gave him a scepter. And you know what
a scepter is? That's the thing that the king
holds in his hands. And you remember how, that Hazaruas,
when he'd hold forth his scepter, that means that somebody was
allowed into his presence. And if he didn't, if they come
into his presence, he didn't hold forth his scepter, they
come and got him and took him out and killed him immediately.
And that's why I call the Lord's kingdom His scepter. It's a right
scepter. And that means it's an equal
scepter. That it's always exactly right. Oh my. And then you know what His throne
is? That's the seat of power. That's the seat of authority.
That's where the seat of government is. It's the throne. And it's
eternally the same. It was the same yesterday, today,
and forever. And His throne, it shows His
eternal dignity and His scepter of an everlasting righteousness.
And look what it says about it in verse 7. This throne, this
scepter. And oh bless His name, He stretched
forth that scepter to us. We have access to it all the
time. I mean, we know when we go to
Christ, we go to a throne. We go to a king on a throne.
We go to somebody that's got all the authority and all the
power and the government of the world upon his shoulders? That
the government of everybody and how he deals with everybody in
this world is in this man's hands? And his scepter is a scepter
of righteousness? It's not capricious. It's not
like, well, I like this bunch over here and I don't like that
bunch so I'll put my scepter over there and I won't. No, no.
His scepter is equal. Always right. Always fleshed
out right. Eternally right. And then it
says here, look what it says, Thou lovest righteousness and
hate wickedness. And that means what is sitting
on His throne. He loves righteousness. Oh, He loves it. He is righteous. His thought is righteous. His
word is righteous. His way is righteous. His truth
is righteous. He gives righteousness. And He
hates wickedness. Hates it. And He's on His throne. His governing,
His judgments are forever. And look what He says, what God
says about Him. And there's verse 7. Therefore,
since ye love righteousness, and hate wickedness, and your
throne is a right throne for ever and ever, he says, Therefore
thy God hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows. God gave him the spirit of without
measure, poured on him the oil, poured on him the spirit without
measure. And of all the men that had the Spirit of God, God gave
him the Spirit above more than all the prophets ever. Elijah
said, give me a double portion of Elijah's Spirit. Christ was Elijah's God. He's the one that gave him the
double portion Christ is just God anointed him the Spirit of
God's on him with the gladness above everybody in glory above
every angel above every principality above everything in heaven and
earth he anointed him and then look at his garments here look
at his garments going down in verse 8 he's speaking about his
garments all thy garments smell of myrrh, alloys, and cassia
out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad. All
thy garments smell, and all mine, they smell good. They got this
wondrous perfume about them. Alloys, and myrrh, and cassia,
and it comes out of the ivory palaces. And these fragrances
and these garments have made you glad. You know His garments
have a heavenly smell to them, a heavenly fragrance to them.
And you know what gives them a heavenly fragrance? Our Lord
Jesus Christ dwells in them. That's what gives them the fragrance.
He's in them. He's the one that wears them.
And that's why we call Him the sweet-smelling Savior. His presence
gives a sweet-smelling Savior wherever He's at. You know, and
when Mary came to anoint His body, and Mary opened that that
spikenard and that smell that we are going to know at the body.
Everybody in that room, when he put it on us, he put it on
the body of Christ. Everybody in that room enjoyed
the fragrance. Smell it. And that's the way
it is with our Lord Jesus Christ. His garments, His garments has
His heavenly fragrance to us and because He gives us His own
garments, we got a heavenly smell to us. Oh, bless his holy name. And all the doctrines of his
word are sweet smell and garments. You ever found a truth in his
word that didn't smell good to you, didn't taste good to you?
Sovereignty, election, purpose, calling, righteousness, justification,
forgiveness, good, redemption, The offices of our Lord, prophet,
priest, king, all these blessed doctrines, they speak, all of
them speak of the fullness, the freeness, the riches of our Lord's
grace. All these blessed doctrines do.
And look here, look what else it says here, just in a minute. And he goes down in verse 9,
then he talks about, he ain't going to talk about the bride
for a while. King's daughters were among thine honorable women.
Upon thy right hand did stand the Queen in gold of Ophir. You
see how the Queen there is in small letters? Now if she was
a Queen equal to Christ being a King, her name would have been
capitalized. But it's not. His Queen upon
the right hand And then look what it says, up on the right
hand, there stands a queen in gold. At his right hand. Now God takes his children, his
bride, and puts her at his right hand. She's right here, she's
in the side, she's right here by my side. Like Adam, he was
sat at his right side, sitting there at his side. And look what
he said, and she's in gold. Gold is the most precious metal
there are. Gold is so precious. And then
look what it says, not only is she gold, but it's the gold of
Oprah. That's the very purest gold that they are. So she's
dressed in gold, and she has the purest gold. And the queen
of the king, the son of God, is the church, the bride of the
Lamb. And He has destined her. He has destined her to be in
His right hand. He adorns her with the gold of
His deity. and he will present her to himself
look what it says here about how he is going to present her
to himself Ephesians 5 verse 27 how our Lord is going to present
the church to himself Queen and he says that he might present it to himself,
the church. He gave himself to the church
in verse 25. That he might present it to himself,
a glorious church, not having a spot or wrinkle or any such
thing, that it should be holy and without blemish. Now that's
what he's going to do. That's what we're looking at
right now. He's got the sheep dressed in the purest gold, standing
at his right hand. And oh my, and she's in gold! And oh, our one with our Lord
Jesus Christ is so perfect that as He is, so are we right now. Then look at his daughters. And
his daughters, now his daughters is also here, the bride, and
I'll show you what I mean. Hearken, O daughter, and consider
and incline thine ear. Forget also thine own people
and thy father's house. Daughters? You leave your mother
and your father, you come into my place, you come into me. You
forget your own people. You consider, you're inclined,
forget your own people in your father's house. And look what
he says here, So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty, for
he is thy Lord, daughters, and you're going to worship him.
He sees a beauty about you. He sees glory about you. He sees
holiness about you. He sees everything when He looks
at you. He sees nothing but beauty. Do you see beauty in yourself? Christ
said He sees beauty in us. He beholds the beauty. And He's
your Lord. Forsake father, mother, land,
houses, and offspring. Come to Me and worship by Him.
And the daughter of Tyre. She's going to come down with
a gift at this marriage. Even the rich among the people
shall come and ask help from you. Now listen to the king's
daughter now. He said, this is the king's daughter.
How did she become a daughter? Because she's born of God. She's
a queen because she's seated with Him in the heavenly places.
The king's daughter is all glorious within. Did you hear what that said?
It said nothing about how she looked on the outside yet. She's
all glorious within. He's purified her heart. She's
purified her soul. He's made her spotless. He's
made her perfect on the inside. Made her heart pure. Made her
mind pure. Made her without sin. Everything
about her is right. Perfect. He said she's all glorious
within. And then her clothing is raw
gold. Who do you work out that gold at? On the cross, to give
it to her. And then look what else it says
about this church, about this daughter in this grave. She shall
be brought into the King and Raymond of Needleworth. Who's going to bring her? But
she don't be brought, she ain't going to do do-si-do in there
in these places. She's going to be brought into
the King. And right into the presence with
Raymond of Needlework. I mean, they're going to take
these fine needles and they're going to make these beautiful garments,
these glorious garments. And we know, listen, who the
companions are. You know, all of us are called virgins in the
heavenly raiment and the heavenly train in glory. And the virgins,
her companions that follow her, shall be brought back in whole
witches. Boy, she walks in the King. She's got the most glory.
She's glorious within and she's glorious without. And look what
it says about it. With gladness and rejoicing shall
they be brought. Who's glad? Who's rejoicing?
The king and the daughter. They're both rejoicing. King's
rejoicing that he's got her and she's rejoicing that she's been
brought. And look what they do. With gladness and rejoicing shall
they be brought. They shall enter into the king's
palace. Go enter into the very presence
of the Lord Jesus himself. Oh my! The bride is both queen
and daughter. He calls her my sister, my spouse.
She's a daughter because she's born of God. She's a queen because
she's seated at the right heavenly places. And I tell you, look
what it says over here in Song of Solomon 1. Just a minute.
Let's look at that just a minute. Song of Solomon chapter 1. I
want you to see this. And look what it talks about,
how our Lord looks at this bride of His and why she looks after
Him. So they'll come in with gladness.
So look what it says in verse 4. Draw me. Song of Solomon 1.4. Draw me and we'll run after you.
Listen to it now. The King hath brought me into
His chambers. She hath brought him with gladness,
she hath brought him with happiness, with rejoicing. And then look
what it says, when the king bring me into his chamber, hath brought
me into his chamber, we will be glad and rejoice in thee.
We will remember thy love more than wine, the upright love thee. Look in chapter 2 and verse 4,
talking about being brought into the king's place. He brought
me to the banqueting house. Marriage Supper of the Lamb.
We are going to eat a banquet. Not just anything, a banquet.
And look what it says. And His banner over me. He put
a banner over me. Love. Love. And then last of all, look what
it says in verse 17. I will make thy name to be remembered
in all generations. Do you reckon there's ever been
a generation on top of God's earth that won't remember the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ? There will always be a people,
every generation that comes, And every generation has to be
taught the gospel for themselves. When we pass away, God's going
to have to bring the gospel to somebody else's. And we can't
pass it on to ourselves. God's got to do it. But I do
know this, that as not from Adam until the last soul on this earth,
there'll be people that will remember the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ. I said, I'll make thy name to
be remembered. What are you going to remember
about it? that his name is Jesus and he shall save his people
from their sins that he's got a name above every name and every
knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess that
he's the Lord and I tell you what, we'll remember
this about his name that there's no other name under heaven among
men whereby they must be saved And I'll tell you this, remember
this, whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved. And I've called and I'm calling
on the name of the Lord. And you, I remember his name.
And there's people that, they may not remember anything else
when they get ready to leave this world, but they remember
that. Oh my, and then look what he
says, and therefore, now listen to this, Those that he'll make
his name to be remembered, therefore because they do remember your
name, and know what your name means, shall the people praise
thee forever and ever. You know why? Because we remember
when we get to glory, all these folks who remembered him are
going to praise him forever and ever and ever and ever. Our Father, in the blessed name
of our Lord Jesus, thank you for your word. Oh, what a blessed
word it is. How can anyone ever do, even
come close to dealing with words like these, the way they should
be? Who can hear them, who can rejoice
in them the way they should be? The Lord, I bless you for him.
Bless you for the King. And my heart rejoices in you
as I knew all your people do. God, meet the needs of your saints
as they go from this place to meet and worship you again. Continue
to bless and heal and strengthen and encourage the weak Teach
us, instruct us, and cause our hearts to go out after you. Cause
our hearts to run after you. We ask you in Christ's name.
Amen. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. There's just something about
that name. Master, Savior, Jesus, let Him
take us after the rain. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, let all
heaven and earth proclaim, And He knows we'll all pass away
But there's something about that day