I was thinking there as we sang
that song a moment ago written by Philip Doddridge.
Grace first inscribed my name in God's eternal book. It was
grace that gave me to the Lamb who all my sorrows took. You
know, when John saw his vision of the Lord, And he saw him, he saw a book,
he said inscribed on the front and on the backside. In other
words, what he was saying was this was a completed book. It
was a book that was written and ordained and nothing could be
added to it or taken from it because it was the book. of God, it was the purpose of
God. And there was one, no one, he
said there was a lament that went up, who's worthy to open
this book? And he said there was one that
came forth who was worthy to open that book and to unfold
the purpose of God in the earth, and we know that was the Lord
Jesus Christ. But the thought that I had about
that as I thought on those words, Grace first inscribed my name,
there was no pen in the hand of the one that opened the book
because he'd already written the book and he laid the pen
down. And there was nothing left to
be written in that book. And what a glorious thing it
is to realize, by the grace of God, when He gives us eyes to
see, that grace did indeed first inscribe our names in God's eternal
book. And when He opened that book,
He opened that book for the purpose of manifesting the redemption
of the people whose names He had written in that book. What
a glorious thing. brings about two emotions in
us. One is what a glorious thing
that he would write the name of sinners in such a book as
that. And then the other is that we desire that our name be written
there. And it's only by the grace of
God that he can give us comfort and as we go, as we grow, You
know, as I get older, I can't say that I don't from time to
time wonder if my name is written there. I do. But I can say that
I have more comfort that my name is written there, not because
of anything I know about myself, because the more I know about
myself, the less likely I think that my name would be written
there. But when I contemplate the mercies
of God that have surrounded me and brought me on this way and
has given me a desire to know the things of God. Where else could such a desire
come from? It couldn't come from within. I mean a man can't stir himself
up to seek after God. The scripture says there's none
that seeketh after me. But it's a comforting thought,
is it not, that the Lord will not abandon those whom he causes
to seek him. He will draw them unto himself. Because the fact that a man seeks
the Lord is evidence that the Lord is working in him. Because
men don't seek the Lord. They're not interested in the
Lord. They could be less concerned
about anything in the world than that. But those whom the Lord
loves, He causes to desire to know Him. And He doesn't play
games with people, but He draws them with cords of love. and
He causes them to find a place, a resting place in Him. What a glorious thing it is.
And how we can, by the grace of God, as He gives us understanding,
we can sing, Grace first inscribed my name in God's eternal book. What a glorious thought that
is. Well, we're going to look at Psalm 145 today. And I want us to notice that
this psalm begins with a title that no other psalm in all of
the psalms has. It says, David's Psalm of Praise. Now there are other titles that
are similar, but this is the only one that's actually titled
this way, David's Psalm of Praise. thought that actually, you know,
these Psalms, the last six Psalms here, all have that similar theme,
and they all, many scholars, for what that's worth, believe
that perhaps all of these Psalms are to be taken as one. But in,
as we look at this Psalm, another thing that those that have knowledge
of the original language, which I do not, point out that this
is a Psalm that, much similar to Psalm 119, that the first
letter of each verse in this Psalm, in the original language
in the Hebrew, begins with one of the letters of the alphabet,
and they're in alphabetical order. Now those are things that, don't
mean a lot in one sense, but they do mean something in another
because we see the order of God in all things. These things don't
just happen. I mean, this wasn't just a happenstance
thing that David sat down and wrote, but God gave it to him.
And it is in the order that God saw fit to do, just like this
Bible is in the order that God made it. Now, it's just a book.
And it was put together, no doubt, by men. It's been printed by
men. It's been, you know, different
things done to it by men. But the thing that cannot be
overturned is the truth of the Word of God that's in these pages
here. I mean, you can burn this, but
you can't burn the Word of God. You can't do it. And the Lord
will raise up uh... testimony to his grace and implant
the word of god in their heart according to the good pleasure
of his will uh... but it will never be any different
than what's in here see there's no new revelations there's no
I mean in fact the book of the revelation says this is this
is it if anybody adds to or takes from the prophecies of this book
well he didn't just mean the prophecies of the of the book
of the revelation, but of the entire Word of God. I mean it's
not by happenstance that the book of the revelation is the
last book in the Bible. That's not just a random thing. It couldn't have been first,
it had to be last. Because it is the revelation
of Jesus Christ. And so that, that is the end
So you hear people talk about, well, I wonder if this is the
end times. Well, yes, this is the end times.
John said, this is the last time. They're not coming another time.
This is the last time. This is the day of salvation.
This is the day when Jesus Christ has come into the world, has
been revealed. We're not looking for something
beyond that. That is that to which the world
in all ages have looked and now it's been revealed unto us. What
a glorious time in which we live. The last time. These are the
last days. And so we come To sing a song
here along with David, that is a psalm of praise to exalt the
name of the Lord. And the exaltation of the name
of the Lord has been the same from the very beginning as it
will be unto the end. There's never been any other
God that the scripture knows anything about. It is about the
one God who calls men to write these words upon these pages
so that we might have them. So this is David's psalm of praise. I will extol thee, my God, O
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. One generation
shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty
acts. I will speak of the glorious
honor of thy majesty and of thy wondrous works. And men shall
speak of the might of thy terrible acts, and I will declare thy
greatness. They shall abundantly utter the
memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.
The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, slow to anger,
and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all, and
his tender mercies are over all his works. 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 raiseth up all those that
be bowed down. The eyes of all wait upon thee,
and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine
hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing. The Lord
is righteous in all His ways and holy in all His works. The
Lord is nigh unto all them that call upon Him, to all that call
upon Him in truth. He will fulfill the desire of
them that fear Him. He also will hear their cry and
will save them. The Lord preserveth all them
that love Him, but all the wicked will He destroy. My mouth shall
speak the praise of the Lord, and let all flesh bless his holy
name forever and ever. Now, we could close that up and
just leave it as it is and certainly would not be any the less blessed
by it. But the Lord has given us, you
know, a desire to extol his name. I will extol thee, my God, uh... okaying that there's a what a
blessing it is for the sites of god those who've been born
again by the spirit of god to be able to praise the name of
the lord now we can't really praise the name of the lord uh...
because we're we're our terms are tied but yet by the grace
of god he gives us the ability to praise even if by physical
birth or whatever, we might not be able to speak words. Yet the
Lord is able to give us a desire to praise Him. I think of Helen
Keller. You've all probably read about
her, known of her, and how the Lord gave her a desire to praise
the Lord. She couldn't speak, she couldn't
hear, but yet It was the mercy of God that gave her a heart
to desire to praise Him. And so it is. I will extol Thee,
my God, O King, and I will bless Thy name forever and ever. Now,
that's quite a prospect, is it not? He didn't say, I'll praise
Thee next week, but He said forever. Because at which God works in
His people, He works forever. So he doesn't do things temporarily. He doesn't cause his people to
desire to praise him and then he moves away from them. Now
sometimes men get worked up in the flesh and they think that
they desire to praise God, but what they really desire is they
like the excitement of what it is they're doing. And so you
get that modern religion today is designed to get men hooked
on excitement and feel good so that they just go through the
motions and they mistake that for a desire to praise the living
God. But the desire to praise God
doesn't depart from us when we are away from the congregation
of the saints, able to put our voices together, what a glorious
thing, and praise the name of the Lord. But our desire is to
praise Him In the nighttime, in the morning, it doesn't make
any difference. That is the desire of the saints of God, is to extol
him every day. Well, I bless thee, and I will
praise thy name forever and ever. There it is again. There is no
end. Great is the Lord, and greatly
to be praised. And that phrase is found several
times throughout the Psalm. Great is the Lord, and greatly
to be praised. Why? Because he is that great
and mighty God. His greatness is unsearchable. Now, ofttimes men think they
know. God. I mean, you have people
that write books about God and they describe Him and all these
things. Well, the way of God is unsearchable. Now, I'm not
saying we can't know things about God, but when you get to thinking
that you know everything there is to know about God, you're
showing your total ignorance because you don't know. The Lord's
ways are past finding out. It's impossible that a man could
ever know all the things there is to know about the Lord. What he's been pleased to send
us and show us is in the person of Jesus Christ, who come as
the revelation of God. And what God has done, we can't
say, but we do know what he's shown us, can we not? I mean,
that's all that a man can know is what the Lord's shown him.
You can't know what the Lord has shown me and I can't know
what the Lord has shown you. Now, we can tell each other,
but until the Lord shows it to us, you know, we can't see it.
I mean, think about it. Isaiah, we read of him, he said,
I saw the Lord high and lifted up as train filled the temple.
Now, we can read about that and we can rejoice in it, but there's
no way that we can know that, can we? I mean, we can't really
grasp everything it was that he saw because that was for him.
And the Lord's pleased to give to his people such things as
he would have them to know. And so, what a glorious thing
it is when we consider the unapproachableness of God. Now some people would
say, well that's a terrible thing to think about that. But God
is not like your puppy who's out in the yard and you just
know where he is and you're glad to see him and you go out and
you play with him when you get ready. Because you see, God is
inapproachable. He dwells in the light to which
no man can approach. And it's impossible that a man
could come to know the Lord except the Lord is pleased to show himself
to a man. See, it's not up to us to find
Him out. I mean, can thou by searching
find out God? I mean, can you do that? What
can you know? I mean, is that not what the
Lord told Job when He appeared to him in Whirlwind? He said,
Job, He said, who are you that darkeneth words, or darkeneth
counsel by words? He said, you're talking all this
talk, but He says, you don't know where were you when I created
all these things. And so it is, let us not be lifted
up with pride in any way in those things that we know about God. But let's be humble, because
the more that we know about Him, the less we realize that we do
know. And so there's no place of boasting
that a man can ever reach. No place of pride. Because we're
always, as Paul said, we don't know anything as we ought to
know. all that the Lord might give us such knowledge but always
understand his greatness is unsearchable. You can't, it's past finding
out. You cannot search it out. One generation shall praise thy
works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts. Now that's a
glorious thing that the Lord has made it so that he raises
up men to bear the testimony to other men because The truth
of God will never pass away in the earth. The Lord will always
have a witness to truth in the world. There's never going to
come a time when the Lord has forsaken the earth because he's
seen fit to send forth his son into the world to save sinners. And he has men in every kindred,
tribe, and tongue on the earth and he will bring them forth
and he will send men with his word, and one generation shall
indeed bear witness to another." What a glorious thing, you see.
And I believe this is a true thing. I believe that churches as organisms have a life span
just like people have a life span. And so churches having
that life span, they will ultimately die. Now, if you don't believe
that's true, tell me where the church at Ephesus is. You know,
we're all, I mean, the church is in the Bible. Now, what we
have done as religion, religiously oriented people down through
time, is men think that they can organize religion in such
a way that they can perpetuate it. But you can't perpetuate
the truth of God through the works of men. It can't be done.
And when the Lord's finished with the people, He'll be through
with them. And that'll be it, but He'll raise up another according
to the good plans of His will. And so we're not trying to perpetuate
the church, the gathering here, what we're trying to do is exalt
the name of Christ in the midst of those who are gathered here,
knowing that one day, no doubt, If the Lord tarries and time
goes on, this building will fall into disrepair. Nobody will be
here. That's just the natural course
of life. But the Lord will bear witness from one generation to
the next. He'll raise up others. And the
word of God will never pass away. In my lifetime, I've known of
many churches as far as what at one time were vibrant organizations
of people coming together who have, they're no longer there. I mean, you can go where they
used to meet and there's nothing there. Now, does that mean that
God failed or people failed? No, it's just the purpose and
way of God because he won't give men anything they can glory in. Now you see me and glory in denominational
Christianity, do they not? Well I'm a this or I'm a that.
You know, well we've been here for 200 years, meeting right
here in this same building. Well, so what? I mean, is the
spirit of God there? I mean, or has Ichabod been written
over the doors? You know, what we desire is to
know the presence of God. And the Lord is pleased to cause
one generation to bear this praise, His praise, to another. And He'll
preserve His Word and shall declare thy mighty acts. I will speak
of the glorious honor of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous
works. And men shall speak of the might
of thy terrible acts, and I will declare thy greatness." Is that
not true? Is not Brother Albin teaching
us here about the terrible acts of God? They are terrible. I
mean, you look at the things. I mean, look at the things that
are unfolding in Ukraine. Is that any less the hand of
God at work in Ukraine? I don't know why He does the
things He does. I don't know why He raises up
wicked men to do the things that He does. I don't know. But one
day, if the Lord's pleased, we'll see the unfolding of His grace
that arises out of these things. And no doubt, Those saints who
are in Ukraine right now are seriously seeking the Lord, are
they not? I mean, you know the calamities
that Lord, when the calamities came upon Israel, those who were
the children of God, they cried out to the Lord, did they not?
Because that was the work of the Lord. These are terrible
acts. You see, when men look at such
things, they say, well, I just don't know how God could do that. That's because they don't have
an understanding of the wickedness of men. See, why wouldn't God
destroy us all? Why would we not always be in
a situation of having death and destruction raining down upon
our heads? If it wasn't for the mercy of
God, we would. Because left to ourselves, that's
what we would be. And so we're not surprised when
we see a man like the leader of Russia do what he did. We're not surprised at that.
But we're seeing the manifestation of the depravity of men and the
hunger and thirst for power. That's what all this is about
as far as humanly speaking. It's just somebody wanting power,
somebody wanting money. It's really when if you get right
down to it, didn't Paul say the love of money is the root of
all evil? And that's exactly what's happening there as they
want the money. See, and power is money. I mean,
that's, you see, that gain that men hunger and thirst after.
But these are the terrible acts of God, because he'll judge men. See, He brings that judgment
upon men, even unbeknownst to them. See, all the men that are
brought under the judgment of God, they don't necessarily know
it at the time. Now, I believe this is true,
that the people of God, He will cause the judgments of God to
bear witness in their conscience, and they will seek the Lord.
But you remember reading in the book of the Revelation about
those whom the Lord sent the hailstones upon and said, and
they raised their fist to God and they cursed God. because
of this. And so it is that these judgments
come upon men and they don't even see them or know them as
the judgments of God. They just think it's just the
way of, it's just like this COVID thing. Some people think, well,
it's just, you know, just one of these things. No, it's the
work of God. Now what his purpose is in it, I don't know, can't
tell you, but I can tell you this, that none of these things
occur outside of the realm of God's almighty purpose. And he
will bring judgments on the earth. And he will continue to bring
judgments on the earth. And the reason that he will is
because he will not allow his people to rest in the comforts
of the flesh. He'll bring us, I believe, I
mean, it's fearful to think of, but I believe that troubles are
coming upon our land. Because we've had it too good
too long, brother. I mean, we've grown fat and happy
and, you know, we've got our goods laid up for many years.
I mean, what do we need? You know, people say, well, we're
not afraid of any nation because we've got the biggest army. Well,
Russia had a pretty big army theirself, but they kind of found
out that maybe things were not working out like they anticipated.
They thought they would go in in about a week's time, they'd
have this thing all wrapped up and that'd be it. Well now, they've
got themselves into something and the same thing can happen
to us. Because the wheels can come off of the chariots. You
know, according to the Lord's purpose. His acts, his wondrous
works, they're terrible. The honor of his majesty, I will
declare thy greatness. They shall abundantly utter the
memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness. The people of God shall indeed
praise the righteousness of the Lord, the goodness of God. See,
even in the midst of these things, we can see the goodness of God,
because if God is pleased to cause His people to seek after
Him, is that not a manifestation of the goodness of God? Regardless
of what the thing is that brought that to pass, it's the goodness
of God. The Lord causes all things to
work together for good. To them that love God, who are
called according to His purpose, The Lord is gracious, full of
compassion, slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good
to all, and his tender mercies are over all his works. Because
even in the midst of his judgment, his goodness is always present. Now the men of this world don't
think so. Because they look around and say, well, how could a good
God do these things? Well, God's goodness is manifested
in drawing his people unto himself, that they might escape destruction. You know, ultimate destruction.
I mean, not killing of the body. I mean, the Lord said, don't
be concerned about those that can kill the body. He said, be
concerned about him who's able to destroy both soul and body
in hell. That's the Lord. He's that one
who kills and makes alive, but He is gracious, full of compassion,
and slow to anger. I mean, our nation is a testimony
to the slowness of God to anger, is it not? I mean, look at how
far we have come from the basis of the things that, I won't say
every one, but the majority in our nation, the foundational
things that our nation has stood for are all cast out the window. I mean, men have abandoned the
Word of God. I remember going in school every
day. Now, this didn't mean a whole
lot, but it's just an evidence of how far we've come. And the Bible was read every
day. I mean, you know, it was the
thing that it was just there. Nobody thought to denigrate the word of God or
mock it or anything else. It was just there, it was what
it was. Now, we didn't pay much attention to it, but nonetheless,
we knew what it was. And we're living in a day now
when men don't even care anything. I mean, men fight against such
things as that. How far we've come. I mean, that's
just a minor thing. I mean, think of the perversions
of men in their consideration of what's proper and good. Anything
you want to do. You can just be anything you
want to be by just saying you are that. You know, it's just
a ridiculous thing. I'm just surprised the Lord is
slow to anger, brethren. It's the only reason we haven't
been snuffed out. I mean, Sodom and Gomorrah were no more wicked
than we are. I mean, you see it upon, I mean,
that is the judgment of God that's come upon us. But He is slow
to anger. And His mercy is over all His
works. The Lord is pleased. to preserve
his people. He's good. 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.
Is that not what we desire? To exalt the power of Jesus Christ
as the reigning king. We desire that. See, we want
to lift up Christ. We want men to see who he is. Now I was thinking about this
the other day. You can read through the scriptures and you will not
find anybody who ever pled with anybody to believe the truth
of God. But you will find ample evidence
of those that declared the truth of God to men. Ye men of Israel,
consider this man whom you crucified. I mean, He is that Lord of glory.
And you took Him and by wicked hands you crucified Him and you
slew Him. And you see, it is the declaration
of the glory of God that this man, Christ Jesus, is raised
up high and lifted up and He has the power. And that is that
message which we desire to declare to the earth. That He is a triumphant
Savior, a glorious Redeemer, that one who saves sinners. What
a wonderful thing. All thy works shall praise thee.
They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom. What is his kingdom? It's a kingdom that shall never
pass away, shall endure forever. Whose kingdom? The Lord Jesus
Christ. He is the king. Yet if I set
my king upon my holy hill of Zion, he is that reigning king,
and his kingdom shall not fail. Thy kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations, not
just starting at some point in the future, but thy kingdom is
eternal. You see, the Lord Jesus Christ
has reigned from the beginning. Now, He has manifested His reign
as the King of kings and Lord of lords when He came into the
world, born of a virgin. But he's been the king of kings
and lord of lords. He's been that one whom all the
prophets testified of and the people of God glorified. And that city of which he is
the king is that one which they testified that they sought. They
confessed that they had here no continuing city, but they
looked for one to come. He has come, and He is that King,
and His kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and His dominion endureth
throughout all generations. The Lord upholdeth all that fall,
and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. My mind went to
that passage of Scripture that says that man that falls upon
the Son of God, this rock, shall be delivered. But that one upon
whom the rock falls, he'll be destroyed. And so the Lord is
able to uphold all those that fall and raiseth up all those
that be bowed down. When the Lord is pleased to break
the heart of a sinner, he's also pleased to raise him up. See,
the Lord doesn't give a man a contrite heart and one that weeps before
God because of the sin that he sees within himself. He does
not give a man such a heart and then abandon him. But he uses
that in order to bring that man to call upon his name because
the Lord is good unto them. They call upon his name and they
call upon his name because he is that one that causes them
to do so. The eyes of all wait upon thee and thou givest them
their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand and satisfyest
the desire of every living thing. The Lord's gonna give men exactly
what they want. Now, it might not come in the
fashion that they thought, but you see, men that don't want
God to rule over them, they're going to get the exact thing
they want, because those that do not want God to rule over
them are going to be destroyed. They won't have God to rule over
them, because they will be, the scripture says, the name of the
wicked shall rot. they'll be cast out into utter
darkness. But those that desire His presence,
those that desire the righteousness of Christ, those that desire
to be found walking among the people of God, they shall have
their desire also. So it is that the Lord does satisfy
the desire of every living thing. The Lord is righteous in all
His ways and holy in all his works. The Lord is nigh unto
them that call upon him and to all that call upon him in truth. Oh, what a glorious Savior he
is. He is near to them that call upon him. He's not hiding. See, the gospel
is a mystery, but it's a mystery that's been revealed. And Jesus
Christ is the revelation of that mystery. And the Lord is near
unto those that call upon Him. And He waits upon them. And when He's brought them to
the place He wants them to be, then He reveals Himself to them.
What a glorious Savior He is. He said, Come unto Me, all you
that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take
My yoke upon you and learn of Me. Well, my yoke is easy and
my burden is light. Why is the burden light? Because
he's the one, he's born it. See, that's the place that the
Lord pleased to bring his people to realize that Christ has done
that which we stand in need of. I can't be righteous enough to
come into the presence of God. I can't do anything about my
sin that has already taken place, much less that which will probably
befall me before I die or from this point forward. Can't do
anything about it. It's there. It's right out in
front. It's nothing. You can't hide it. But Jesus
Christ is that one who is the Savior of sinners, and He's that
one who has taken away the sin of His people. The Lord is righteous
in His ways and holy in all His works. The Lord is nigh unto
them that call upon Him, to all that call upon Him in truth. Remember when the Lord told that
woman at the well, He said, the Father seeketh such as worship
Him in spirit and truth. Now, just because, you know,
I grew up in a religious tradition that said, well, if you just
say these words, and you'll call upon the Lord, He'll save you,
and that's it. You got it. But that's not what
He says. He didn't say that He would come
to them that call upon Him, but those that call upon Him in truth.
Because there are many that are going to say, well, Lord, Have
we not done many works in thy name? Have we not been religious? Have we not walked among the
religious? He said, depart from me, I never
knew you. Because it's not about calling upon the Lord, it's about
calling upon the Lord in truth, in spirit and truth. As the spirit
of God works in us to will and to do of his good pleasure. He
will fulfill the desire of them that fear him. He also will hear
their cry and will save them. The Lord preserveth all them
that love him, but all the wicked will he destroy. Now all that love the Lord, he said,
will be preserved. Why? Because he loved them before
they loved him. Now what it said, we love him
because he first loved us. And so if we can confess this
morning that we love him, Peter, do you love me? Yea, Lord, thou knowest that
I love thee. Peter, do you love me? Lord,
you know that I love you. Peter, do you love me? Lord,
you know all things. Oh, that the Lord might give
us a love for him, because he will preserve those whom he loves. And they love him because he
first loved them. But the wicked he will destroy. Now I don't, you know, there's
a lot of things. Some people have all this stuff
down pat and they know exactly what's gonna happen when people
die and this one's gonna go here and this one's gonna go there.
I don't know about all that. I know this. The scripture says
that he will destroy the wicked. Now what form he will use to
destroy the wicked? I'm not going to stand here and
describe to you. I know what the scripture says,
many things. I know that there is a lake of
fire into which the devil and his angels and all those whose
names are not written in the book of life shall be cast. I
know that to be true. Now, beyond that, you know, I'm
not going to go into any great detail because I don't know.
But I know there is a destruction that awaits the wicked. from
which they cannot escape. My mouth shall speak the praise
of the Lord and let all flesh bless his holy name forever. Oh, that he might give us forever.
What do you want to do forever? I've heard people talk about,
you know, this is the carnal thoughts of men. Well, oh, so
and so, you know, he really liked to fish, so he's gonna be up
there fishing. Well, how long could you fish,
huh? I mean, you don't read in the
scripture anywhere where it says we're gonna fish forever, huh? What are we gonna do forever,
praise the Lord? Because you see, that's the one
thing that we desire to do, is it not? is to praise His name. I mean, all the things of this
world you grow weary of. But see, praising the Lord's
not of this world, because it's that which comes from above.
It's what the Lord bestows upon His men is a desire to praise
Him. Oh, that we might praise the
Lord. May the people of God praise His name forever and we will
praise Him forever, and not just forever. He didn't say we're
gonna praise Him forever. He said we're gonna praise him
forever and ever. That adds it on. That's like
my old driver's ed teacher. He used to talk about if you
get in a wreck doing 40, he says it'll kill you. But he says if
you get in a wreck doing 70, he says it'll kill you dead.
And so that's kind of like that ever and ever. That's just an
added thing on it. That's forever and ever. There is no end there, brethren.
to the bliss and blessing of the sons of God who are in Christ. Christ is eternal, and those
who are in Him are given eternal life. Now again, I don't have
all the explanation for what that is. The scripture says there's
a new heaven and a new earth, and we shall reign with Him forever. a glorious thing to be sure to
praise the name of the Lord forever and ever.