Sovereign Grace Chapel, located at 135 Annabel Lane in Beaver, West Virginia, invites you to listen to a gospel message concerning Jesus Christ our Lord. If you'd like to follow along, I'm gonna be in Psalms 145, the 145th Psalm. And I'm gonna begin reading in verse 10. All thy works shall praise thee, O Lord, and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power. To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations. The Lord upholdeth all that fall, and raises up all those that be bowed down. I'm just gonna stop right there. Now this is a Psalm of David. Okay, and actually, my Bible, at the beginning of it, right underneath Psalm 145, it says this, it says, David's Psalm of praise, of praise. I like that. And then as you look at verse one, two, and three, it says, I will extol thee, oh my God. My God, oh King, and I will bless thy name forever and ever. Every day will I bless thee and I will praise thy name forever and ever. Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised and his greatness is unsearchable. That's the truth of it, folks. The greatness of God is unsearchable. You can't figure it all out. I can't figure it out. John Gill, who wrote a commentary of this Bible that was probably, if you put it in one book, it'd be about yay thick, about a foot thick. He couldn't search through all the praises of God and the greatness of God. But that don't mean we ain't supposed to try. We are, we are to praise his name, what does it say? Forever and ever. That's the truth, that's what it is. It brings me to a quote by John Newton. I like this one because it's true. When I was young, I was sure of many things. Now, there are only two things of which I am sure. One is that I'm a miserable sinner, and the other is Christ is an all-sufficient Savior. That's the truth. I remember being young, and I remember being sure of a lot of things. I ain't so sure anymore. I'm not so sure anymore. But those two things I know are true. I am a miserable sinner, and Christ is an all-sufficient Savior. So, today, what I wanna preach to you, this is my title, Paul, is Christ's kingdom. Christ's kingdom. Because that's what I wanna talk to you about from, where is it? Well, verses 11, 12, and 13. You'll see three descriptive phrases of the kingdom of God. I have no great mysterious secrets of the kingdom to reveal today. We're not gonna go to the book of Revelations and go on, because we don't have to. The kingdom is described right here, and listen folks, this is in the Old Testament. This is the Old Testament talking about Christ's kingdom, God's kingdom. And I wanna praise him when I do this. because he's worthy to be praised. I do want to declare his greatness and I want to bow before him in worship and in thankfulness. Because without him, we'd have nowhere to go, folks. But, just starting in verse 10, all thy works shall praise thee, O Lord, and thy saints shall bless thee. They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power. All thy works shall praise him. All his works shall praise him. All God's works will praise him. Because you understand, everything God does is good. And it's God good, not people good. It's perfect. There's no hint of failure in any of God's works. We fail, we may fall, but he lifts us up. It says that. He's promised it. And God will lift up those who? That bow down. But you understand, all his works shall praise him. Let me see. Let me tell you one thing about the works of God. This is not the subject, but I do want to point this out, okay? Known unto God are all his works from the beginning. And you know what? All those works praise him. Understand, God knows what he's doing in this world. I don't. And you don't either. And God help you if you watch the news, I don't know what's going on anywhere. Other than things are falling apart and evil men and seducers are waxing worse and worse. That's about all I can learn from the news today. And I do feel bad for them, where they're shooting at each other over there in Gaza and the Middle East and Israel. It's a mess. But you understand, all his works praise him. all his works. He knows what he's doing. We don't. We do not. Oh my. Because God does everything according to his own will and purpose. I still remember Henry yelling out, I was listening to a sermon he was talking about where, you know, Rolf Bartard asked him to quote Romans 8.28. And he said, God does everything he does on purpose. And all his works praise him. All thy works shall praise thee. All of them. Oh, God always knows what he's doing, God knows what he's doing, and God knows what he is going to do. Matter of fact, Psalm 76 verse 10 says this. Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee. Now that's something to think of. The wrath of man shall praise thee. What else did he say? The remainder of wrath thou shalt restrain. There ain't gonna be that much wrath of man except what God allows. He'll restrain what he wants to restrain. He's capable of it, he's willing to do it at times. Oh my. The wrath of man praises God, and the rest he restrains. All thy works shall praise thee. Oh Lord, oh Lord. But here we go. Verse 11, he says, they shall speak. Thy saints shall bless thee, and they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom. Now, I looked it up in the Hebrew. The base meaning of this word bless, because I've been talking about the blessings of God toward us, where God has blessed us. Well, when it says, thy people shall bless thee, what that word means is kneel, bow down. That's how we bless God, we bow down to him. You understand? You're Lord, he's Lord, and we're not. That's a hard thing for some people to learn. You understand? They want what they want, and they want it now. What I used to tell people, instant gratification takes too long. When the Lord's people, thy people, speak, they bless thee, they're kneeling. And that's a kneeling in submission to God. That's what it is. Oh my, the saints, thy saints shall kneel in praise to thee. And, I like this part, and they shall speak. Saints are not to be quiet. Now granted, I mean, it doesn't mean everybody talks at once or anything, but here it is. It says, thy saints shall bless thee and they shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom. The first thing about Christ's kingdom is that it's glorious. It's glorious. It's so glorious we can't comprehend it. Oh my. Praise his name and thank him for his glorious work and his blessings. but believers are to speak of this in praise, in honor, in submission to God. They are to speak of the glory of his kingdom, thy kingdom, the kingdom of God spoken of by believers. And I looked up that word where it talks about the glory. It means the weight, the splendor, honor, and it means glorious. That's what it means, it's glorious. Oh my, what am I saying? Here's the thing you wanna know about the glory of God's kingdom. It's all good. It's all good. God good, I'm saying. It's perfect. Oh my. The weight of it. Understand, these are heavy things we talk about. This is the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, the kingdom of God itself. It is glorious, and that don't mean it's just all shiny and everything else, although it may very well be. For what it means, it's honorable and it's good. Oh my, it's everything we're not, if you really wanna know the truth about it. It's everything we're not. Understand, there's no evil, no sin, no iniquity, no transgression in his kingdom. Why? Because it's glorious. It's glorious. Oh my. And thy people, thy saints, thy believers shall speak and tell of his kingdom, the kingdom of God. Because here's the thing. Believers like to speak of their king and his kingdom. Believers like to speak of their family. You like to tell people about your family. And folks, knowing the kingdom of God, knowing Jesus Christ, we are his family. Not that we're good or anything, he born us into it. He born us into this family. He put us in his family. And by gollies, I wanna tell somebody about it sometimes. They like to tell people about Jesus Christ and what he's done for you, what he's done to you, and what he's continuing to do. Oh my, they're gonna tell of the kingdom of God. Matter of fact, they're gonna speak of their federal head in awe and in love. And what's it say? Talk of thy power. Understand, one of the reasons why his kingdom is glorious, because he has all the glory. We don't have any glory. We don't have any glory. All the glory is his. All the praise and the honor go to him. All of the majesty, which is the next thing. They speak of his power, his splendor, his honor, and his glory. And here's the thing, his glorious kingdom is where believers wanna be. That's where we want to be. And verse 12 says this, to make known to the sons of men, again, his mighty ax. Oh, I like that. And the glorious majesty of his kingdom. the majesty of Christ's kingdom. That's the second thing. Now, it does say, they speak to make known to the sons of men of his mighty acts. You understand? There's a reason we tell people that God saves us and we don't save ourselves. Because it's true. That's why. It's true. What is it? Salvation to God who sits on the throne. Let all sing aloud and honor the Son. That's the facts. That's the way it is. Make known unto the sons of men his mighty acts. Matter of fact, that's one of the things we'll say. Known unto God are all his works from the beginning. His mighty acts. Oh, I like that, I do. the magnificence, the beauty, the honor, or the majesty of Christ's kingdom. Because you understand, the believer speaks of the majesty of his kingdom. Understand, this is a real kingdom I'm talking about, with a real king. Understand, I've been around years ago, back when I was, More ignorant than I am, I've heard people, they talk about the kingdom this, they talk about the kingdom that, and usually what they were talking about then is the kingdom in the future. This is the Old Testament. Talking about its kingdom. What, 700, 800 years ago, whatever it was. I don't know. 700, 800 years before Christ came, they're talking about his kingdom. Oh my. But we're talking about the majesty of his kingdom. His majestic, what's that mean? It means there's a ruler. It's beautiful, it's splendorous. Splendorous. It's splendid. Matter of fact, the beauties of holiness is his kingdom. The power of his kingdom has no equal and the magnificence of his kingdom is unmatched and unsurpassed. The honor of his kingdom is glorious. His kingdom is majestic grace and majestic mercy, mercy, because his kingdom is full of grace and mercy, just like the king is. And the last one here is the kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. And thy dominion endureth through all generations. What's that? Forever and ever. The duration of Christ's kingdom, it's everlasting. That's what it says. And that's that same Greek word that I really like so well. It means perpetual. It's a perpetual kingdom, everlasting kingdom. It's an eternal kingdom. And what does that word mean? You can look it up. I did it online, it's not hard to do. It means it had no beginning and it has no end. I mean, Christ has always had a kingdom. That's exactly what I mean. That's exactly what I mean. Oh my. Oh, that's a good Hebrew word, perpetual. I like that, I do. This kingdom has no beginning and no end. And how is that possible? Well, with men it's not possible. Oh, but with God, it's not possible either. It's certain. It's certain. Oh, everlasting is certain. Eternal is certain. Perpetual. is certain. Oh, I like that. Now, let me tell you one more thing here. I know what some may have heard some years ago, but let's be very, very clear here. The kingdom of God, the kingdom of Christ is singular. There's but one kingdom. Now there may be different aspects of it manifested at times. There's a time coming in the book of Revelations, which I'm not going into, where it talks about the kingdom. It's still this kingdom. It's still this kingdom. What? Glorious, majestic, and eternal. That's what it is. It doesn't go anywhere, it hasn't changed, and he hasn't changed, because here it is. The kingdom may not be seen by the world. And as a matter of fact, I can tell you this right now, the kingdom is not seen with your eyes. It is only seen by the eye of faith, in believing in our Lord Jesus Christ. Right now, believers see by faith. And the world doesn't see. The world does not see because it can't. You understand, if our gospel is hid to them that are lost, his kingdom is hid to them that are lost. And that's just the truth of it. But his word tells us of his kingdom. And we believe him. That's the thing. then thy saints shall speak. Oh my, I like that. His saints believe him and his saints speak of him and his kingdom. Now, the glory of Christ's kingdom, the majesty of his kingdom, the duration of his kingdom, and I'm gonna tell you something, there's even something more glorious, more majestic, and more eternal than that. What do I mean? What is more important than the kingdom of God? Well, it's not a what, it's a who. It's a who. Because I'll tell you this, there's one thing that a kingdom must have to be a kingdom. And that's the king. If there is no king, there is no kingdom. But we have a king. We have a king, oh my. Understand, the reason the kingdom of God is glorious and majestic and eternal is because of the king of that kingdom. The Lord Jesus Christ. The reason for its perfection is because of the perfect king of kings and lord of lords. Oh my, he's the reason for the kingdom in the first place. Lots of people, like I said, wanna talk about it, they wanna speculate about the kingdom, and I've heard them, they go on and on and on, but they never mention the king of the kingdom. They leave that out. You know why? Because they don't know it. They get all wrapped up in what they think are future events. They have conferences on future events, you know. Oh my, we're gonna tell you about the beast and the whatever, and the false prophet. Tell me about the king. Tell me about the king. Because you look at that book, the book of Revelation, and it's the revelation of Jesus Christ. So if you're in the book of Revelations, and you're not talking about Jesus Christ, you've missed the point. And you don't know what you're talking about. Because understand, there is no kingdom without the king. Oh my. Because the glorious kingdom has a glorious king. The majestic kingdom has a majestic king. And the eternal kingdom has an eternal king. Oh, I like that. And what do we know about him? Well, he's the child that was born and he's the son that was given. And he is Emmanuel, God with us. He was God manifest in the flesh. Who is it? Our Lord Jesus Christ. He's the king of the kingdom. Oh my, I'm gonna tell you something. There's nobody in his kingdom without the permission, I'm not gonna say that, without the express act his mighty acts of the king. Every one of his subjects in his kingdom is someone whom he put there. What's he say? He's our head and we're his body. And he puts us in this body, members, all of us members of his body where he wants us. Whether you're a finger or a big toe or an eye or a nose or a mouth or ears, guess what? He puts us in his kingdom exactly where he wants us. Oh my, and we're only in his kingdom because he put us in it. He is the well-beloved Son, the only begotten Son. He's the Lamb of God who was slain from before the foundation of the world. And he now lives forever and ever. And he ever liveth to make intercession for us, for us. Oh, I like that. He took away the sins, all the sins, of all of his people forever and ever. Oh my. The perfect sacrifice and offering for sin to the Father is our King. He's our King. Oh my. You understand? He's both Son and King. and he's both alpha and omega, the beginning and the end. Oh my. He's the eternal king of God's eternal kingdom. Matter of fact, and it tells us this, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. What's that mean? Well, if he is king, He was king. If he is king, he'll always be king. He's the same, yesterday and today and forever. Oh my. You understand, Jesus Christ was king when he said, in the beginning, let there be light. He was king. He was king when he said, my God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? He was king when he said it's finished. And it was finished also.