Again, open your Bible to Genesis
chapter 49. The name of the message is until Shiloh comes. Until
Shiloh comes. Let's read verses 8 to 12 together. Now here before us, we have the
text by the mouth of a dying patriot, Jacob. Point of the
time of when he who Moses and the prophets spoke
of should appear, that being Shiloh being the Messiah. And again, the law and the prophets,
they testified of Christ. Our Lord told the two on the
road to Arimaeus. He said, Then he said unto them,
O fools and slow of heart, to believe all that the prophets
have spoken. Ought not Christ to have suffered these things,
and to enter into his glory, and beginning at Moses, and all
the prophets? He expounded unto them in the
scriptures the things concerning himself. Now remember, there's
no New Testament at this time, is there? There's none. There's
no New Testament. He's preaching from the Old Testament,
beloved. He expounded to them from Moses and all through the
prophets the things concerning himself. And the scriptures that
Peter and James and John and Paul preached from was the Old
Testament scriptures. And they preached Christ, didn't
they? They preach Christ Jesus our Lord. Well, we're going to
look at one instance here of where Christ is proclaimed. Genesis chapter 49 verses 8 to
12. Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren
shall praise. Thy hand shall be in the neck
of thine enemies. Thy father's children shall bow
down before thee. Judah is a lion's whelp. from
the prey, my son, thou art gone up. He stooped down, he crouched
as a lion, and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up? The scepter
shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his
feet, until Shiloh come. That's the Messiah there, Shiloh.
And unto him shall the gathering of the people be, Who are we
drawn to as God's people? When God the Holy Spirit's drawn
us, who are we drawn to? Shiloh, the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Messiah. God incarnate in the flesh, beloved. So there's a prophecy of him,
and it comes true, right? He came, and he's drawn his people
still. And when the last sheep of God
is saved, it's all finished. It's all done. It's all wrapped
up, beloved. Oh, it's wonderful. It's wonderful. Binding his fall unto the vine
and his ass's coat unto the choice vine, he washed his garments
in wine and his clothes in the blood of grapes. His eyes shall
be red with wine and his teeth white with milk. Now the sword of God's justice
was going to fall upon the man of God's own choosing. And that's
the Lord Jesus Christ. And again, we are chosen in Christ,
aren't we? We are chosen in Christ. And
before the written word was given, God spoke to the fathers in various
ways about the coming Messiah. Abel, by faith, he bought the
blood, right? He bought that which God required.
He bought the blood of a lamb. Cain, what did Cain do? Well,
Cain bought the fruits of his labors. He bought vegetables,
right? And he offered them up to God.
But there's a problem there, isn't there? There's no blood.
And the scripture says, without the shed and the blood, there's
no remission for sins. So who taught Abel? Well, Adam
taught Abel to bring the proper sacrifice, didn't he? And Abel
did. He bought a blood sacrifice,
which pictured, again, the Lord Jesus Christ. Pictured him dying
for our sins. Abel, by faith, again, bought
that which pictured the Lord Jesus Christ, the forgiveness
of sins through the shed precious blood of the Lamb of God. And it was accepted by God. God
accepted Abel's offering, didn't he? He accepted it. But God didn't
accept Cain's offering, did he? No. See, there's only two religions
in this world. You can boil every single religion
down There's two religions. There's grace and there's works. I'm telling you, you can borrow
every single one down. There's salvation by grace alone
through Christ alone and then there's works. There's works. Every other religion requires
something you do. The gospel says the king did
it all. The king did it all. He died
for his servants. You imagine the king dying for
peasants? That's what I am, I'm a peasant. Now I'm a rare peasant. I'm precious
in the eyes of the Lord and so are you. And we're not peasants
in his eyes, we're his children. And he loves us, he loves us
so much he went to the cross and died for us and shed his
precious blood for us. Isn't that wonderful? But we
see ourselves as peasants, don't we? And you know, I like what Scott
Richardson said, we're a bunch of zeros until you put the one
in front of us. That's Christ, right? Yes, sir. He's the one. He's
the one. He's the one who paid for all
our salvation. He's the one who left. Do you
know he was sent by the Father? He left heaven, right? He was
sent. Do you know one of the meanings for Shiloh is sent?
Oh man, remember going through John 17? Sent, sent, sent. And then you read the Gospel
of John, sent by the Father, sent by the Father. God loves
us so much, beloved. He loves his people so much,
he sent his only begotten Son into this world to bleed and
die for us. To offer himself up as sacrifice
for our sins. He's sinless, isn't he? He's
perfect. Offers himself up for our sins,
beloved. We, and the wrath of God that was due us, fell upon
him. Remember the great rock? And
we're safe in him, aren't we? And Paul said, I'm crucified
with Christ, nevertheless I live. We were in Christ when he was
crucified, beloved. Isn't that amazing? We don't
understand that. Again, I'm not going to explain
it, because I can't explain it. But that's what the scripture
says. I'm done explaining stuff, I just believe it, right? In
religion, I try to explain stuff. I just read it and I repeat it. And we believe it by God's grace,
don't we? We say, yep, that's true. And
we all get together and go into this marvelous, it's wonderful.
It's absolutely wonderful. Oh my goodness. So Cain, Cain,
his offering was rejected, which pictured, again, man trying to
justify himself before God by their works. But Abel, he bought
the right offering. And his offering speaks death
for sin, right? The substitute died for him.
See, when he slit the throat of that lamb, that lamb pictured
Christ. It could never take away his
sins, could it? No, scripture says that. All those lambs and
bullocks couldn't take away sin, but they were pointing to the
great sin bearer, the Lord Jesus Christ, the sinless one dying
for sinners, who offered himself up without spot before God, sinless
before God. Even though our sins were putrid,
he offers himself up, is the great sacrifice, the great substitute. And by faith, Abel offered unto
God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, it says in Hebrews
11, 4, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous. Well,
not righteous by anything he did, right? No, he's looking
to Shiloh. He's looking to the Messiah. And the very fact that
he's offering a blood sacrifice tells us he's looking to the
Messiah. He's looking to Christ. So by which he obtained witness
that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being
dead yet speaketh. And Enoch, Enoch walked with
God by faith in Christ and even prophesied, even prophesied of
Christ's glorious return, his second coming. It says this in
Jude. Turn if you would, Jude, Jude, let's turn it. Keep your
finger in Genesis because we'll be going back there. Let's turn
to Jude. Let's turn to the book of Jude. Jude verses 14 and 15. It says, In Enoch, also the seventh
from Adam prophesied of these sayings, saying, Behold, the
Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints. He's coming again,
beloved. He's coming again. How do we
know that? Because the scripture says he
is, right? And we believe it by God's grace
to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are
ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds, which they have
ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches, which ungodly
sinners have spoken against him. My, what mercy. It says there,
spoken against God. What mercy that God has forgiven
us. forgiven us. What mercy we've
received, beloved. My. And Abraham, it is said by Christ,
rejoiced to see my day. He rejoiced to see my day. And
he saw it and was glad. What does that mean? It means
he was looking to Christ by faith. He rejoiced. He looked at the
great I am. He looked at Shiloh. He looked
at the Messiah. And we were told in scripture
that his faith was counted for righteousness. Well, do you know
what? His faith is the same faith we have. It didn't change. The faith that God gives is,
you know, you get people say, well, they were saved in a different
way in the Old Testament than the New Testament. No, they weren't.
They were born again by the same Holy Spirit of God, and they
were given the same faith that we have. There's only one faith,
right? There's only one object of our
faith, and that's Christ, right? There's only one Spirit. How
did they believe on Christ? They're born again, just like
you and I. Isn't that wonderful? It's wonderful. By faith, Abraham
believed God. What do we do by faith? We believe
God. There was a time when I didn't
believe anything in this book. Now I believe it all by the grace
of God. I don't understand it all. No,
no, I'm not even close. But I believe it. When I read
something, I'm like, yeah, well, that's what God said. You can't
argue with God, can you? It's fruitless. It's like beating
the air, right? You can't argue with the Almighty.
Who shall say unto him, what doest thou? Who says, what are you doing,
Lord? My, he laughs. He laughs. My, our God is sovereign. Our God is a great God. You know,
Job, Job confidently professed both redemption and resurrection
by the Lord Jesus Christ. He said this, for I know my Redeemer
liveth. I mentioned this in Sunday School.
I'm going to read it again. For I know that my Redeemer liveth,
and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. I
know this. I know this by God's grace and mercy. I know this.
We know that too, don't we, by God's grace and mercy. He's coming. Don't worry about what mockers
say. He's coming again, beloved. He's coming. And he says, and
after my skin worms destroy, after he goes into the grave,
yet in my flesh I shall see God. That's true of all of us. One
day we're all going to end up in a grave. But all we who are
trusting and resting in Christ, we're going to see him. We're
going to see him face to face. Our faith will become sight. Woo, my, it'll be amazing. I'll tell ya, you know how your
heart gets full of joy about something happens on this earth?
Our hearts be ready to explode when we see Christ. Oh, it'll
be amazing. It'll be absolutely incredible,
I'll tell ya. And every believer, every believer
can profess this next verse with Job, whom I shall see for myself. Every believer says, I'm gonna
see him myself. I see him myself. And mine eyes shall behold, and
not another, though my reins be consumed within me. Every born-again blood-washed
believer can say, I'm going to see him with my eyes. Now by
faith we see him, right, with spiritual eyes. But then face
to face, just like we see each other, Tom, we're going to see
Christ. Just like we're looking at each
other. We're going to look. Can you imagine? I hope we're
all in the same area in heaven. I don't know. I don't even go
into that. But it wouldn't be nice to sit there with our brothers
and sisters in Christ who we knew and go, look. Look at our
King. Look at the one who's the lover
of our souls. Oh, my. Isn't that wonderful?
Oh, it's wonderful. In this chapter that we read for our text, Jacob's dying and
he's called his 12 sons together for the purpose of prophesizing
future things relating to the 12 tribes of Israel. And he had
a word for each one of his sons. And I like to consider the prophecies
of the Messiah through what he said to Judah. Let's go back
to Genesis chapter 49. He tells Judah that Shiloh, being
the Messiah, should spring from him. We know one of his names
is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. So he's telling Judah that the
Messiah is going to spring from you. And let us remember, from
the tribe of Judah came David, Solomon, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Look at this in verse 8. Judah,
thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise. Thy hand shall
be in the neck of thine enemies. Thy father's children shall bow
down before thee. Judah's name means praise. It
means praise in the Hebrew. This name was given to him by
his mother. Her heart being filled with praise to God, that's in
Genesis 29, 35, where it says, and she conceived again, and
bare a son, and said, now will I praise the Lord. Therefore,
he shall be called, she called his name Judah, and left bearing. Praise. His name means praise. My. And the Lord Jesus Christ,
our Messiah, our King, what is he? He's the object of our praise,
isn't he? He's the only one worthy of our
praise. No one else is worthy of our
praise. He's the only one worthy of our
praise. He's well deserving of our praise. And when we think about his eternal
love for his people, when we think of his sacrifice for his
people, saving us from our sins, what happens? Our lips are filled
with praise, isn't it? Filled with praise. Our hearts,
we don't even have to say anything. Our hearts are filled with praise.
You know, you can be right down here. You can be so low. Let's go way down. You can be
all the way down. You can be so low, and the Lord
will just pick you up, put you on his shoulders. You gaze into
his face, and your heart becomes filled with praise. and your
lips start to praise Him. And all those things that were
keeping you way down here, they're still there, but they just kind
of fade away, don't they? And when we start to think about
the fact that God is unchanging, and that He's loved us with an
unchanging love. See, our love can go like this,
can't it? Unchanging. Eternal. Perfect. Doesn't change because we go
into the gutter and back out. Still like this. When we're on the mountaintop,
still like this. When we're in the valley, still
like this. It doesn't change, beloved. Oh, what comfort that
brings our souls. What comfort that brings our
souls. And so he's the optic of our praise. And what's the
opposite of murmuring? We're good at murmuring, aren't
we? We're professional murmurers, humans. We're professional murmurers.
But what's the opposite of murmuring? Praising. Praising God. Being thankful. Praising Him. So that's why the Holy Spirit
has Paul pen, set your minds on things above. None of the
things in this world. It don't take long for me to
get murmuring. I'll tell you why. I don't know how it is for
you, but I can get murmuring real fast. Really quick. But when you start looking at
Christ, that just starts to fade away, doesn't it? Just starts
to fade away. Oh my. So the opposite of praise
is murmuring. It appears here that Judah had
great authority and was highly esteemed among his brethren from
what we see here. But this is pointing to the Savior.
This is pointing to the Lord Jesus Christ, our great Redeemer,
who's highly esteemed. Now, think of this. He's highly
esteemed among his people. We're his brethren, aren't we?
And he's highly esteemed among we who are the born-again blood-washed
believers. He's our elder brother, beloved.
Oh, and he's highly esteemed among us. And think of this,
we're his by divine purchase. He purchased our eternal souls.
He purchased us with his precious, precious blood. God incarnate
in the flesh. And then we praise him for his
glory. We praise him for the fact that he was sent from heaven
and he came. And he redeemed us from all our
sins. And again, as I mentioned in
Sunday School, that work is perfect. Nothing can be added to it. Man
tries to add works. It's no longer grace. Any kind
of works, that's works of thought, word, and deed. Because that's
what works is about. I remember Jacob telling me,
works is defined as anything you can think that you need to
do, anything you actually do. and things you say you have to
do. It covers the whole spectrum. We are not saved by grace. No,
I'm sorry. We are saved by grace, not works. We're not saved by works at all. It doesn't even enter the equation,
beloved. It doesn't even enter the equation.
We're saved by Christ and his finished work, his perfect work. Our text continues here, it says,
thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies. This illustrated
the life of David. He passed through severe conflicts. He gained great victories, didn't
he? He founded a peaceful empire. And he only crushed the forces
of his foes. He broke the neck of all opposition. But how? All by God's power.
not by might nor power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord. How
do we overcome our enemies? By God. How do we overcome the
enemies in our flesh? By God, and by His grace alone,
and His mercy, by trusting and resting in Him. My, this was proved in Psalm
1840, it says, thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies,
David wrote this, that I might destroy them that hate me. My. And then our text says, thy
hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies. Think of this
and the fact that our wonderful Savior triumphed over all our
enemies. Self, sin, The law of God, which
had a claim on us, the justice of God. And he conquered all
his enemies too, didn't he? He crushed Satan at the cross.
He triumphed over him. Princes and principalities. They
never had a chance against him. See, I remember Sister Diane
mentioning this. And I love how she brought it
out. She said, you know, Satan's just a created being. Just like
we are. I said, yep. God is almighty. He's just under the Father's
hands. Just like we are. All them fallen
angels, all of them, they're all under God's hand. They can't
do anything unless God allows. See, people give way too much
power to Satan. He can only do what God allows.
He can't do nothing else. Now, we're no match for him.
I'm going to tell you that. I remember hearing a friend of
mine one time, he said, I'm going to whip that old Satan. I said,
oh my gosh, and walked away, just shaking my head. Because
none of us, none of us can stand against him. But we have an elder
brother who crushed his head. And Spurgeon wrote a great little
book. It's called Satan, a Defeated Foe. Wonderful little book. If
you get your hands on it, it's just so good. He's defeated. He's been crushed. Christ has
triumphed over him. His hands shall be in the neck
of his enemies. He's got them down. One of his hands securely on
the neck of his enemies, he can stop the breath and destroy them,
can't he? And Christ will be victorious over his enemies and
all our enemies. Think of this, our Lord took
all our sins, all of them. He conquered them all. washed
them in his precious blood. He conquered them. So much so
that they're gone from God's sight. Blotting out the handwriting
of ordinances that was against us, that were contrary to us.
He took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross. Gone. All those ordinances. Remember
I told you before they used to write ordinances on a piece of
paper, all these things that were against the prisoner? Think
of ours. Oh, how long mine would be. How
long ours would be. Oh, just full of transgressions,
right? Gone. By the blood of Christ. Gone. Whitewashed. Gone. Praise be to God. That's all
we can say. Praise be to God. In Christ we're
more than conquerors. It's through Christ that loved
us. And Christ is the almighty leader and the commander, which
Jehovah has given to all his people. All power is given to
him. And He can give eternal life
to as many as thou has given Him, as many as the Father has
given Him. See, the Father's given Him a people. And those
He went to the cross and redeemed, didn't He? It's wondrous. And it's Christ who was raised
for our justification. It's Christ who died for our
sins. It's Christ who's right now seated at the right hand
of the Father, mediating for you and I. It's Christ who's
done all this. And by His power, And by His
grace, all things consist, visible and invisible. Everything is
under His domain. And think of this, one day He's
going to take us to the Lord. How? By His almighty power. According to His mercy, and according
to His grace, He has saved us, beloved. Oh my. It says here, In the text, thy father's
children shall bow down before thee. That means they would bow down
before kings that would spring from this tribe. David, Solomon, but with our
eyes to Christ, we see all those whom the father gave to Christ,
all those who are the father's children by choice, And by adoption,
they will bow and worship their king, Shiloh. We bow, and we do that in our
hearts, don't we, now? We used to go like this. I'll
tell you, by our actions, we might not have had early said
things, but by our actions, we were shaking, saying, I'm going
to have this man rule over me. And now we bow in submission
to our great king, don't we? Oh, what mercy I've received
through Christ. Oh, what grace God has shed upon
his people through Christ. Undeserved and unmerited, and
yet by his love and according to his will and purpose, he saved
us. In Christ Jesus our Lord. And
we bow down to him in our hearts, don't we? We submit ourselves
to him in our hearts and in our lives. He's our Messiah. Look at verse 9 now. Let's consider
verse 9. It says, Judah is a lion's whelp. From the prey of my son,
thou art gone up. He stooped down, he crouched
as a lion, and as an old lion, who shall rouse him up? What
is one of the names of our great King? Turn, if you would, to
Revelation chapter 5. Again, keep your finger in Genesis
49, you see there, it says there, he stooped down, he crouched
as a lion, as an old lion, who shall rouse him? Our Lord is being compared to
a lion. Why? Because of a lion's great
strength, great power. They're the top of the food chain. I'll tell you why. Look at this,
Revelation 5, 5. And one of the elders saith unto
me, weep not, behold. Behold, look at this, the lion
of the tribe of Judah, the root of David. Look at this, might
prevail, may prevail, has prevailed. He has prevailed, beloved. to
open the book and to loose the seven seals thereof. He hath
prevailed. He prevailed over our sins, beloved.
He prevailed over us. Right? He made us willing in the day
of his power. He prevailed over us. He prevailed
over Satan. Oh, my. And he's compared to
a lion because of his great strength and power. He's the mighty God,
the able savior, the strong redeemer, the protector of the church,
and the savior of his people. That's what he is. He's the avenger
of his people. And it is he who died in our
place upon whom the fierceness of God's wrath and fury just fell upon him in our room
and place. And one old commentator said,
the sword of God's justice was unseathed and was plunged into
Christ. Oh my. And it says there, it says, he
stooped down. He stooped down. This lion stooped
down. Oh, he stooped down when he became
a man, didn't he? When God the Word, the second
person of the Trinity, when he became a man, he stooped down,
beloved. He humbled himself and became
a man. My. He left the glories and splendors
of heaven to die for us. So let us rejoice, beloved. The
Lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed. He's prevailed. It's wonderful. Now let's consider
verse 10. It says, the scepter shall not
depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh
come. And unto him shall the gathering
of the people be. We see this prophecy and its
fulfillment in Christ. Turn, if you would, to Daniel
chapter 9. Daniel chapter 9. And I'm going to read a verse
from 1 Chronicles 5, verse 2. It says this, for Judah hath
prevailed above his brethren. Of him came the chief ruler,
that's Christ, but the birthright was Joseph's. The chief ruler,
the one upon whom the government shall be upon his shoulders.
His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God. the
prince of peace, the ancient of days. Look at this in Daniel
chapter 9. Christ is a chief ruler, a prince. The Hebrew word here is naged,
which is the same as translated Messiah in Daniel 9.25. Look at this. Seventy weeks are
determined upon thy people and upon the holy city to finish
the transgression and to make an end of sins. Who made an end
of sin? Christ did that for his people,
didn't he? He made an end of sin. Look at this. And to make
reconciliation from iniquity. Who did he make reconciliation
for? We, who had sinned against God. Right? He was praised for our iniquities.
For our iniquities, beloved. Oh my. And it says here, and
to bring in everlasting righteousness. Whose righteousness are we clothed
in? The everlasting perfect righteousness of Christ Jesus our Lord. Isn't
it wonderful? It's absolutely wonderful. and
to seal up the vision and the prophecy to unite the most holy.
Know therefore and understand that from going forth of the
commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah,
the Prince, there he is, he's Messiah and he's the Prince,
he's the Prince, shall be seven weeks and three score and two
weeks. The street shall be built again and the wall even in troublous
times. And after three score and two
weeks, Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself. Look at
that. Cut off. He died on Calvary's
cross, but not for his sins. He had no sins. He's perfect.
He's sinless. He's cut off, but not for himself. And the people
of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the
sanctuary. In the end thereof shall be with
a flood. Until the end of the war, desolations are determined. He's sinless. He died for our
sins, beloved. And so we see there. that Messiah
will make an end to sin, will bring in everlasting righteousness.
Who made an end of our sin? Christ Jesus the Messiah. Who
brought in everlasting righteousness? Christ Jesus the Messiah. He obtained eternal redemption
for who? For us, the scripture says, for his people. It's wondrous,
absolutely wondrous. My, And the scepter shall not
depart from Judah, or a lawgiver from between his feet, until
Shiloh should come. And this was literally the case
in the royal line going on with Judah until Jesus came. We see that predicted. Let's
look at Genesis 49.10. The scepter shall not depart
from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh
come. And unto him shall be the gathering
of the people be. My, oh my. The scepter did not
depart until Jesus came. For in the family of David, it
was continued. Even when Judah became a province
under the Roman government, the scepter shall not depart from
Judah till Christ's coming. Judah possessed authority, but
shortly after the crucifixion of Christ, According to what
Christ foretold, Jerusalem was destroyed in AD 70, just wiped
out. Now Shiloh means sent. It means
sent. Isn't that amazing? Turn if you
want to John chapter 17. It means sent. Look at this. John chapter 17
verses 1 to 3. It means sent. Who sent him? The sovereign ruler of the universe,
the Father sent the Son. The King who reigns supreme,
the Eternal Father, sends the Son, sends the Eternal Son, who's
called in our text Shiloh and revealed to us before us by the
eternal spirit. Look at this in John 17 verses
1 to 3. These words spake Jesus and lifted
up his eyes to heaven and said, Father, the hour has come. Glorify thy son, that thy son
may also glorify thee, as thou hast given him power over all
flesh. Look at that. He has power. No matter what
man says, he has power over all flesh. That he should give eternal
life to as many as thou hast given him. There's the elect
of God right there. And this is life eternal that
they might know thee. So he's revealed God to us through
the Holy Spirit of God. The only true God and Jesus Christ,
look at this, whom thou hast sent. He's the sent one. Shiloh means sent. Isn't that
wonderful? There it is. Right there. He's
Shiloh, beloved. He's Shiloh. Oh my. Scripture says this. Awake, O
sword, against my shepherd, that being Shiloh, and against the
man that is my fellow, that's Shiloh, that's the Messiah, saith
the Lord of hosts. Smite the shepherd, and the sheep
shall be scattered, and I will turn mine hand upon the little
ones. Oh my. Christ is truly the sent one
of God. He's the sent one of God. And
by the shedding of his precious, precious blood, he obtained eternal
salvation, eternal redemption for his people. He lived as our
substitute. He died as our substitute. He's
all of our salvation. For we who are the born-again,
blood-washed believer, he's all of our salvation. Shalom also
means son. He's the true son of God, the
son of David. and the son of man. Shiloh also
means the one to whom it belongs. And beloved, the scepter and
the crown belong to him. It's always been his, hasn't
it? It's always been. You know, he was king when he
was in glory. He was king while he was on this earth. He's born
king. He's king while he's on this earth. And he's king again,
isn't he? He never stopped being king. He never stopped, it's
amazing. And lastly, Shiloh means tranquility,
tranquility or rest, also peace. And all these only come for the
believer in and through the Lord Jesus Christ and by his death
upon the cross. Christ alone is the peace bearer
and Christ alone is the peace giver. He'd given his people
peace, hasn't he? Peace that passes all understanding. He's the rest maker of his people
too, isn't he? Come unto me all ye that labor
in the heavenly, and I'll give you rest. He does. Oh, he gives us rest. He gives
us rest from our labors, trying to work our way to heaven. And
then he gives us rest, rest for our souls, knowing that we're
eternally secure in Christ. And that's not presumption either.
That's what the scripture says, right? Oh yeah. All that the Father hath given
me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no
wise cast out. No way. Oh, it's wonderful. And after he came, and the scepter
was departed from Judah, the gathering of both the Jews and
Gentiles was to him. Who are we drawn to? Again, we're
drawn to Christ. We're drawn to Shiloh. We're
drawn to the Messiah by the Holy Spirit of God. He's our King and He's our Savior.
He's our Redeemer. He's everything for us. And notice
part 10, the last part of verse 10. And unto him shall the gathering
of the people be. It doesn't say, might the gathering
of the people be or according to their will it may be. No,
no it doesn't say that, does it? No, praise God it says, and
unto him shall the gathering of the people be. By the invincible,
irresistible call of God, the Holy Spirit, sinners are born
again, given faith to believe on Christ, who is Shiloh, and
gathered unto Him. Gathered unto Him. And these people here are the
Gentiles. The Gentiles, beloved. And as the promised shallow,
it's Christ again, who the Lord's people gather around. We gather
around him. We come here to worship him.
We come here to hear about him, don't we? And God's people, they're brought
from the north, from the south. Oh, south, that way. From the
south, from the north, right? From the east and from the west,
aren't they? And he gathers his people as
it pleases him. How? By the preaching of the
gospel. By the preaching of the gospel.
And at God's appointed time, at the time of love. Remember,
when you were saved, it was a time of love, beloved. When God manifests
his love for you, through Christ Jesus our Lord, by the power
of God the Holy Spirit. And we're given faith to believe
on Christ and repentance before God, and we're never the same
again. We're never the same again, are
we? Our friends and family say, what happened to them? And we pray that God would save
them too, don't we? Oh, we pray for them. My, oh
my. Scripture says this about God's
people, but as many as received them, to them gave he power to
become the sons of God. If you're saved, according to
John 1.12, it says, but as many as received him, have you received
him? Have you received him? He gave you power to do that. become the sons of God, even
to them that believe on his name, which were born not of the blood,
not according to ancestry, nor the will of the flesh, not by
our will, nor the will of man, not because
someone coerced you into it, but of God, who is rich in mercy. Right? But of God. And these people spoken of in
this text, they come to Christ, obtaining through his blood,
in his work, a pardon for all their sins, past, present, and
future. And they are justified by God
in Christ, and they are made righteous by God in Christ. according
to his perfect, glorious righteousness. And they are sanctified in Christ.
We are made fit for heaven, beloved. Now we're being conformed to
the image of the Son, but in Christ we're made fit. Scripture
says that Colossians made neat, which means qualified in the
Greek. Qualified, we're qualified for heaven. Not in ourselves
at all, but in Christ we are. Isn't that wonderful? And he's translated us from the
kingdom into the kingdom of his dear son. We were in darkness,
darkness of our sin, and he translated us into the kingdom of his dear
son. Now we want to hear about Christ. We want to hear about
Christ. And we've obtained redemption
through the precious blood of Christ, the forgiveness of all
our sins. And we were scattered abroad at one time. Look at all
of us here. We come from all different places. We were scattered
about, here we're gathered here to this place. Isn't that amazing?
Isn't that amazing? That's by God's decree, and that's
by God's will, beloved. It's wonderful. It's absolutely
wonderful. And in Christ, the believer is
saved fully, freely, and forever. Yep, forever. Let us rest in that, right? Fully. freely, by God's grace and mercy,
and forever in Christ. Oh my! Oh Lord, help me just
to enter into that rest, right? Fully, freely, and forever saved
in Christ. And we keep coming to Him, don't
we? For all we need. For all we need. Shiloh, what
a wonderful, wonderful title. Shiloh means scent, Shiloh means
peace, and Shiloh means rest, tranquility, peace that passes
all understanding. So let us remember the completeness
of his rule. He is absolutely sovereign right
now. There has never been a time when our God has not ruled over
all, and there never will be. and praise be to God, we are
in His hand. My, my. Brother Brian, can you
close us in prayer?