So good to be here. Open your
Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 79. Psalm 79. Name of the message is Thy Name's
Sake. Thy Name's Sake. This message came about talking
to our dear brother in Christ about how we're saved for God's
namesake. Wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. Psalm 79, O God, the heathen
are come into thine inheritance, thy holy temple they have defiled. They have laid Jerusalem on apes.
The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto
the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of the saints unto the
beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like
water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision
to them that are round about us. How long, Lord, Will thou
be angry forever? Shall thy jealousy burn like
a fire? Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen,
that they have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms that have
not called upon thy name. For they have devoured Jacob
and laid waste his dwelling place. Oh, remember, not against us,
former iniquities. Let thy tender mercy speedily
prevent us, for we are bought very low. Help us, oh God of
our salvation, for the glory of thy name, and deliver us and
purge away our sins for thy name's sake. Wherefore should the heathen
say, where is their God? Let him be known among the heathen
in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants
which is shed. Let the singing or let the sighing
of the prisoner come before thee according to the greatness of
thy power. Preserve thou those that are appointed to die. and render unto our neighbors
sevenfold unto the bosom their reproach, wherewith they have
reproached thee, O Lord. So we, thy people, in the sheep
of thy pasture will give thee thanks forever. We shall show
forth thy praise to all generations. Again, the name of the message
is thy namesake, thy namesake. Now God's name, is a name of
highest honor, highest honor, absolute highest honor. His name
is above all names, above all names. Jehovah, the self-existent
one. Jesus, the name above all names. God in the flesh, right? The
Lord Jesus Christ. And oh my, scripture declares
at the knee, at the name of Christ, every knee shall bow Right? And
every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory
of God the Father. Everyone, believers and unbelievers,
one day will bow their knee and say, Jesus Christ is Lord. He is Lord, Lord of all things,
Lord of heaven and earth, Lord over all things visible and invisible. In our great God reigns. He reigns supreme. He reigns
supreme. He is king over all. My oh my. I want to touch on two verses
in this psalm we just read. Speaking of thy name's sake. We see in verse nine there, purge
away our sins for thy name's sake. for thy name's sake. What wondrous words these are.
Speaking of our great God, and note the psalmist, this is asked,
note he cannot purge away his own sins, so he's crying for
God to purge away all their sins. God's taught him something, hasn't
he? He's taught him. He's taught him that he can't
save himself. But who does he call out to? The one who can
purge all our sins, beloved. And what a title. What a title
we see here as well. Oh God of our salvation. That's our God. He's not just
the self-existent one. He's the God of our salvation.
See, people cry out to wooden stones that can't do anything.
Right? Statues and idols. You see them
all over still. See them in people's front lawns.
You see them in people's houses. You see them in places you go
to eat. They can't do anything. Nothing. But beloved, we cry
out to the God of our salvation. We cry out to the true and living
God. The one true living God. That's who we cry out to. Abba
Father. Yeah. He's the one true living
God. So what wonderful words. Asp
knows that he can't cover his own sins, so he cries out to
the God of our salvation, to purge all my sins. And that means
expedite. That means to cover them. So they're not visible anymore. Oh my. Isn't that wonderful,
brother? That's wonderful, isn't it? Covered.
So we can't see him, and God can't see him. When I see the blood, I'll pass
over you. Oh my, I love it. So wonderful. What a message of grace and glory
all through the Lord Jesus Christ. So let's read verses 8 and 9
together again. Psalm 79. Oh, remember not against us our
former iniquities. Let thy tender mercy speedily
prevent us, for we are but very low. Help us. Oh, what a cry. This is every believer's cry.
Help us, oh God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name, and
deliver us and purge away our sins for thy name's sake. So this is a cry of ask, and
he's saying, Lord, please don't remember our former iniquities. He's speaking as a nation there
too, but he's also speaking of himself as well. Don't remember
our former iniquities. And he pleads for the tender
mercies of God, doesn't he? What did that publican say? God,
be merciful to me, the sinner. He pleaded to God for his mercy. That's what we do too. Even when
we fall into sin, we cry, oh God, please be merciful to me. I'm in this mess again. And he has mercy on us, doesn't he?
Oh, he's so merciful, beloved. And this is the cry of every
born-again, blood-washed believer asked, who's asked looking to?
He's looking to God. Now he sees the desolation that
occurred, but who's ultimately he's looking to? Help us, O God
of our salvation. You're the only one who can help
us. That's why we pray for our nation. That's why we pray for
our leaders. That's why we pray for people we know who are lost.
Friends and family. We know that God is the God of
our salvation. He saved us, not us ourselves. He by his mercy and grace saved
us. Oh my. And he fiddly gives our
God the great title. This is a wonderful title. Oh
God of our salvation. Oh my goodness, what a title.
God is the God of our salvation. That's Elohim, the strong and
mighty one. Oh Elohim of my salvation. My. The one who has all power
and might. He is my salvation. He is my
salvation. In these prayers, of Asp are,
they're directed, John Gill said they're dictated, oh no, actually
it was Robert Hawker said they're dictated by the Holy Ghost because
they are founded on God's promise. In Isaiah chapter 43 verse 25
says this, I, even I, am he that blotted out thy transgressions. So he's praying a promise of
God. For mine own sake, for his name's
sake, right? And I will remember thy sins,
and I will not remember thy sins. They're covered. I won't remember them. Man, if
I could just live in that, right? If we could just live in that.
God doesn't remember my sin. I confess them still. And he's
faithful and just to forgive me for all my sins, right? Forgive
us. and we're washed in the blood.
He says I will not remember your sins. So truly our great God
in the perfect sin atoning work of the Lord Jesus Christ has
forgiven us of all our former iniquities and purged us from
all our sins. My oh my, for His name's sake. And what do we say? Bless the
Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Bless His holy
name. He's wonderful. He done that
for me. My oh my. And why does God do this? Well,
Ezekiel chapter 36 verse 22, it says this, Therefore say unto
the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God, I do not this for
your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my
holy name's sake. He promised that he saved a people
in Christ, right? He keeps his honor. He keeps
his word. Isn't that wonderful? He says,
not for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for my holy name's
sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither they
went. He says, even though you profaned my name, those who are
my elect, I'm saving you for my sake, he
says. For my holy name's sake. My. As we go through this study,
mark the blessed cause of our redemption. It's the glory of
Jehovah first. It's the glory of God. Christ
came, he said, not to do mine own will, but to do to do the
Father's will, right? For the glory of God. And when it says that, when it
says there, help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory
of thy name. See, it's God's glory first. And deliver us and purge away
our sins for thy name's sake, for the glory of your name, God.
O God, O Elohim of my salvation. My. Jesus had an eye to his,
had an eye to his people in redemption. Psalm 69, nine says, for the
zeal of thine house hath eaten me up and the reproaches of them
that reproach me, they are fallen upon me. He came not to do His
own will again, He came to do the will of the Father, didn't
He? To glorify God, that's why He came. And how did He do that? In the saving of His people from
all their sins. Saving sinners, such as we. Now look at the beginning of
verse 8 there. Oh, remember not against us former
iniquities. In the Septuagint, former iniquities
there is translated our ancient iniquities. are ancient iniquities. When I saw that, I was like,
what? And then John Gill brought it forth. That's the fall of
Adam. That's Adam falling in the garden.
We're all Adam's seed. We're born dead in trespasses
and sins. Every human being who ever lived upon the earth, except
the Lord Jesus Christ, is born dead in trespasses and sins.
And that of our first parents falling in the garden, of which
all Adam's seed are now born again, dead, spiritually. So
by the fall of Adam, we were all made sinners. All of us. All of us. For which judgment
comes upon all men. And from our fall in nature then
flows the corruption, which is sin. Right? Remember Scripture says, Zane
and I were talking about this too this week, it's not what goes
into the mouth that defiles a man, but what comes out. And that
comes out, what comes out, comes out from either an unregenerated
heart or a regenerated heart, and for the believer, the flesh
too. Right? Oh my. Because we fell in Adam, we were
all conceived and born transgressors of the law, all of us, right
from the womb. And think about the iniquities
of our former time. Think of the iniquity of our
youth. Think of the iniquity when we
were teenagers. Think of the iniquities when
we were young men. Sin, an iniquity. Think of all the way up to our
present day, through adulthood and to our present day. Even
though we're saved, we who are born-again, blood-washed saints
of God, even though we're saved, we still sin, don't we? My. It's a plague that'll plague
us until we go home, and then there won't be no sin. No sin
at all. Now let's consider the next portion
of verse eight. Let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us.
Oh, this is wonderful. Thy tender mercies, God's tender
mercies. Do you know God's tender mercies
are so much more than our mercies that we show to other people? Look at this. Let thy tender
mercies speedily prevent us. Oh Lord, keep us from sin. Keep us from besetting sin. Please,
Lord. And look how rich and plenteous
the mercy of God is. It is more than abundant to cover
all our sins, beloved. All our sins. We know that to
be true, don't we? We who have trusted Christ. It's
more than enough to cover all our sins. And also all the instances of
our sins. Right? Sin's great and small. Sin is sin, right? My. In God's grace and His blood,
the blood of Christ is enough, abundant to cover all our sins. All of them. And our great God
is full of compassion to His people. So much that even though
we're sinners, God sent His Son to die for us. That's compassion, isn't it?
That's mercy. Think if we have sons, would
we send our son to die for our enemies? Not one of us, right? Be honest, not one of us. What
great love. What great compassion. What mercy
we've received in and through the Lord Jesus Christ. He's so
full of love and compassion to his people that he sent the Lord
Jesus Christ to die for us. And these speedy mercies, they
do not come by anything we do. Aspen isn't saying, well, because
I prayed 15 times a day to cover my sins, Lord. He's not saying
that, is he? What did the publican do? Remember the Pharisees? Oh,
I did this and I did all these things, Lord. And I thank you
that I'm not like that little publican over there. He's just
such a nasty fella. And then here's the publican.
He won't even lift his eyes up and he says, God be merciful
to me, the sinner. And God says that man went home
justified. That publican went home justified,
fit for heaven. Oh my, isn't it wonderful? Because
he trusted in the mercy of God. And merciful there, when he cries,
God be merciful to me, several commentators brought forth, he's
saying, God be atonement for me. Have mercy on me, be propitiation
for me. That's important in what we're
going to see. And oh, what a great God we have. So these speedy mercies don't
come by anything we do, no cause in us that God would show us
mercy. It all comes from the free grace
and mercy of God, the sovereign grace and mercy of God, that
these mercies come speedily to us, speedily to us. And it all flows, here's the
key, it all flows to us through the conduit of the Lord Jesus
Christ. Again, it's all Him. As I said in Sunday school, it's
all Him. It's all about Him. You miss Christ, you miss salvation. You mix man's works with Christ,
that's not God's salvation. God's salvation is in and through
the Lord Jesus Christ, plus absolutely nothing we do. It's by grace alone. through God-given faith alone,
not of works, lest any man should boast. My. Let's look at the latter part
of verse 8. For we are bought very low. When God was drawn to Christ,
what happened? We were bought very low, weren't
we? We were bought to see ourselves as sinners. And we still see
ourselves. That hasn't changed, has it?
We rejoice that we're safe sinners, but we were bought to see ourselves
as sinners with no way to save ourselves at all. And think of the lowest state
that we're in when the Lord finds us. We're bankrupt. We can't pay for the debt of
our sin. We're absolutely bankrupt. That's the dreadful state that
we're in. And then what does He do? We're born again by the
Holy Spirit of God, given faith to believe on Christ, and He
exalts us. He exalts us. We don't exalt
ourselves. You see someone exalting themselves,
there's trouble there. There's trouble. Because God's
people, we don't exalt ourselves. God puts us in that position,
right? He lifts us. Now, what I'm saying
is He lifts us from the dunghill. and sets us upon the rock. And
that rock is Christ. I'm not talking any lofty spiritual
thing for us. I'm just talking, here we are.
We are in the dung hole. Brother Henry Mahan used to say,
we're maggots crawling around in the garbage pile. And the
Lord reached down, picks up one maggot and says, you're mine.
You're mine. That really brings it home, doesn't
it? That really brings it home for us. My, oh, my. So we're, by nature, weak and
helpless. We're unable to save ourselves.
Sin strips us of our strength. It really does. Think about even
as believers. We can be going along. We can
be doing really well, just rejoicing in the Lord, and then we go and
do something that we shouldn't do. Because we all do it, right?
Let's be honest, we all do it. I'm not going to, right? And
what happens? We get sapped, don't we? It's
like someone just took all the strength out of us. You ever
feel like that? I've felt like that before. Oh my. So when we're weak though,
when we're bought low, Then Christ is exalted. So what always happens
when we're in that state? We cry out to God, don't we?
Oh Lord, please be merciful to me. And what's he do? He's always
got us. He's faithful. Song of Solomon
talks about how it's the bride who withdraws. Christ is always
there. So when we're sinning like that,
we're withdrawing. I'm just being honest. That's
what we do. And he draws us with loving cords, draws us near and
close, doesn't he? We say, thank you, Lord. You're
so wonderful. So by nature, we're weak and
helpless, unable to save ourselves. And again, sin strips us of our
strength and leaves us without any help, incapable of helping
ourselves out of even the estate that we find ourselves in. and
we're guilty before God's law, before we were saved, without
any comfort except being poor, wretched, and miserable. Now,
with that in mind, let's read verse 79. Oh my. Help us, oh God of our salvation,
for the glory of thy name, and deliver us and purge away our
sins for thy name's sake. For your name's sake, Lord. For
your name's sake. Look at the first section of
this wonderful verse. Again, we see Asp crying out.
And remember, remember too, these words are inspired by the Holy
Spirit of God. Asp is penning these words or
singing these words, but they're inspired by the Holy Spirit of
God. Help us. O God of our salvation,
O Elohim of our salvation, for the glory of thy name and deliver
us. O Lord, help us in our troubles.
Think of the manifold times the Lord has delivered us from our
troubles. Think of it. We can be down in the gutter
one minute and he can lift us right up. Can he? He can. My oh my. He's wonderful. And we're so
thankful that he does that because we're unable to bear our troubles
on our own, really. Our troubles would crush us if
it wasn't for the Lord bearing us along. Think about that too. Think about how merciful he is
through our whole lives, before we're saved and after we're saved.
Think of how he bore us. You know that footprints in the
sand thing, you've heard me say, it's not two sets of footprints, it's
one set of footprints my whole life, and the Lord's carrying
us, right? That's what it is, right? He's carrying us through
it all. He does it all. So help us, O
Lord, to bear, now this is hard, help us, O Lord, to bear our
troubles and patience without murmuring. All right? It's in us to murmur. But help
us, Lord, not to murmur. against thy sovereign will. Protect
us and deliver us. We see here, help us, O God of
our salvation for the glory of thy name and deliver us. So Israel
just being overrun by enemies. We read about the desolation. And he's saying, protect us from
our enemies who are against us and strengthen us in our service
to you, Lord. My, oh my. And Lord, please give us fresh
supplies of grace. His mercies are new, what? Every
morning. The manna that fell was only
good for that day, right? They had to collect new manna
every day, right? God's mercies are new every morning, beloved.
Isn't that wonderful? Grace upon grace, pressed down
and overflowing. In Christ Jesus our Lord. It's
absolutely wonderful. And again, note this wonderful
title of our great God. The God of our salvation. Our great God is continuously
delivering us. Do you know that? He's continuously delivering
us. from our troubles, from our enemies, even when we do not
know they're against us. People could be conspired against
us and we have no clue, but he knows, and he's protecting us. Isn't that amazing? He does that
for every single one of his children. And this title belongs to our
great God because he's the author of our salvation, he's the planner
of our salvation, and he's the executor of our salvation. planned
and purposed in time, or in eternity past, executed in time and space. And we are saved, what? To glorify
His name. That's why we're here, to glorify
His name. And I'll tell you what, if you're
truly saved, you will willingly glorify His name, won't we? for what he's done for us. You
can't keep it in, it'll come out. It'll come out. Oh my, what a great God. And we're saved again to glorify
his name. And in saving us, he does it for his name's sake.
So beloved of God, who are we trusting in right now? Are we
trusting in ourselves? Or are we trusting in Christ?
Are we trusting in our own works? Or are we trusting in the God
of salvation? Good question for all who are
listening or will listen. My oh my. Above God, we who are
trusting in Christ, we trust in Christ. But who is Christ?
He's the Son of God. second person of the Trinity.
That's who we're trusting in the God, right? God of our salvation. Christ is God. Just as much as
the Father's God. Just as much as the Holy Spirit's
God. He's the God of our salvation. There's no other name under heaven
whereby we must be saved, right? Except for Christ Jesus. No other
name. Note this verse again. Let's
read it again. Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory
of thy name, and deliver us. Notice the psalmist, along with
every true believer here, again pleads no merit of his own. Ask
doesn't say, help me, O Lord, because of what I've done for
you. Not at all. What he's done, he's not even
mentioned except for help me. And that's what we cry out, even
when we cry, Lord, help me, save me. Save me. We're crying out for
help, aren't we? Help me. Look and live, the scripture
says. Look to Christ and live. It's
wonderful. Now, two things can be found
here. Two things. He's pleading no merit of his
own, and he's also crying out to the only one who can save
him, the only one who can deliver him, the God of his salvation. He's the only one that can deliver
him from his sins, and he's the only one who can deliver him
from all his enemies. And I ask you this, are not our
sins our enemies? Oh yeah. You know who's our worst enemy? Right here. Spurgeon, he said
that so many times and I just keep repeating it. It's true,
isn't it? Right here. Right here. Myself. So two things are brought forth
here. God's name and honor would be greatly injured if he did
not deliver his people. If he did not save his people,
then his name and his honor would be blemished. would be blemished. And the second thing is that
God's name and honor would be greatly advanced if he did deliver
his people. Now think of that, think of that.
His name would be greatly advanced if he did deliver his people.
Here we are, what, like 4,000 years later? We're glorifying
his name. His name is being greatly advanced,
isn't it? through time by his people. He's been greatly advanced because
he's delivered his people from the miserable and helpless state
we were in, dead in trespasses and sins. He's delivered us.
And he does this by making his arm bare, beloved, his everlasting
arm. And in doing so, we praise his
name. We glorify his name. We praise him for what he's done
for us. temporal deliverances as well as eternal deliverances.
And God magnifies His everlasting name in the deliverance of His
people. And how does that happen? Only in Christ. Not being delivered
from our sins, only in Christ. He delivers us from our temporal
enemies by bearing His arm and delivering us from those. But
I'll tell you what, the only way for us to be delivered from
our sins is through the precious blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
No other way. My oh my. And he does it for
the glory of his name. Does it for the glory of his
name. How can our sins be purged away? How can our sins be purged
away? Look at the latter part of Psalm
79. We'll read the whole verse and
then we'll focus on the latter part there. Help us, O God, of
our salvation for the glory of thy name, and deliver us, and purge away our sins for thy
name's sake. Look at that, purge away our
sins. How can our sins be purged away?
Turn, if you would, to the book of Hebrews chapter 1. Hebrews
chapter 1. This can only be done in and
through the Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews chapter 1. We'll read verses 1 to 4. God,
who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in times past unto
the fathers by the prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Obadiah,
right? Hath in these last days spoken
unto us by his son. Do you know everything God has
to say to us is in this book. There's so much more about him
we don't know, but all that he has for us to reveal to us is
in this book of himself. And he speaks to
us through his son, who is the shepherd, right? And the preacher
hopes that when I'm preaching the gospel, you don't just hear
my voice, because my voice won't profit you, but you hear the
voice of the shepherd speaking to you through his word. The
Son. God, who at sundry times and
in divers manners spake in the past unto the fathers by the
prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son,
whom he hath appointed heir of all things. He is the King of
kings and the Lord of lords, by whom also he made the worlds.
Who is the creator? Christ, oh my, who being the
brightness of his glory and the express image of his person and
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he hid by
himself, look at this, purged our sins. Well, that's similar
to over here where we're asked the same here. Help us, oh God
of our salvation, for the glory of thy name and deliver us and
purge away our sins for thy name's sake. He says, purged our sins. Christ did it. That's a statement
of fact, right? That's not a what if. That's
not God's done all he can do, now the rest is up to you. Right? It says here, very plainly, and
upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by
himself, no help of man, by himself, purged our sins, he sat down
on the right hand of the majesty on high, being made so much better
than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent
name than they. Look at that. who being the brightness
of his glory, in the express image of his person, and upholding
all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself
purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the majesty
on high. You see that word purge there in verse 3? It means a
washing off, expiation, cleansing, purification. Again, a washing
off, that's by the blood of Christ, expiation, cleansing, purification. And expiation means the act of
making amends or reparation for guilt or wrongdoing, and also
it means atonement. Oh my. This is what the Lord
Jesus came to do. He came to purge our sins. He
came to save us from our sins, right? And how did He do that?
By purging our sins with His precious, precious blood. He
paid all the demands of God's law and justice for our eternal
souls, and He purchased us, beloved. We are purchased people. We're
not our own. We're purchased by God. We're
His. And you know, He made an end
of our sin. He made an end of our sin, beloved.
God don't remember it anymore, does He? Where is it? It's gone. It's covered. It's washed. Do you mean everything? Every
single sin? Even the ones come to haunt us? When they do, you just say, oh
Lord, it's covered under the blood. It's under the blood of Christ.
It's under the blood. My, oh my. He made the end of
our sin. He put away hell by the sacrifice
of Himself. That's what He did. And He did
it before God, too. He offered Himself up to God,
beloved. Always remember that. Who did we sin against? God.
So Christ offers Himself up to God as a sacrifice for us. On
our behalf. And He's covered all our sins
by His precious, precious blood. So much so that God, he don't
remember our sins no more in Christ Jesus, our Lord. And we
say, wonder of wonders. This is amazing grace. Is Sister
Jill saying, but this is amazing grace. This is wondrous grace. What's that song? Grace, grace,
wondrous grace, grace to cover all my sins. Oh, ones I remember,
ones I don't remember. Oh my. We have been fully and
freely forgiven by the God of our salvation for his name's
sake. For his name's sake. Let's go
back and read Psalm 79 again. Help us, O God of our salvation,
for the glory of thy name, and deliver us and purge away our
sins for thy name's sake. One point I'd like to bring up
Before we look at some other verses with this statement in
it, is the word purged here in our text. Remember in the Greek
it mean to expiate, purge there. I think this will bless us. This
word in purged in Hebrew means to cover, to forgive, to expiate, to reconcile. I'm going to read that again.
So we see it both in the Hebrew and in the Greek. Same meanings. It means this, to cover, to forgive. How much forgive? All our sins.
Cover how many sins? All our sins. To expiate? Gone. To reconcile? Reconciled back to God. We fell
in Adam, we're reconciled back to the Father. What a Savior. And in verse 9,
we see two statements which bring forth the same theme. Look at
this. Help us, O God, of our salvation,
for the glory of thy name, and deliver us. And then in the latter
part, we see, and purge away our sins for thy name's sake.
Purge our sins, cover our sins, expiate our sins for your name's
sake, Lord, for your glory. honor and praise now we're going
to do a little run through some scriptures here if you want to
keep along and turn them we're going to start in Psalm 25 but
if you want to write them down I'll give the I'll give the addresses
to as we go here first one is in Psalm 25 verse 11 we're going
to look at some verses in the Old Testament and in the New
Testament which bring this theme forth Psalm 25 11 It says, for
thy name's sake, O Lord, that's Jehovah, pardon mine iniquity,
for it is great. Look at that, for thy name's
sake, for your glory, God, for your glory, for your honor, for
your praise. Now turn to Psalm 31, if you would. Psalm 31. We'll look at verses one to three. In thee, O Lord, do I put my
trust. Oh, I love that. Let me never
be ashamed. Deliver me in thy righteousness.
Bow down thine ear to deliver me speedily. Be thou my strong
rock, for in a house of defense to me. For thou art my rock and
my fortress. Therefore, for thy name's sake,
lead me and guide me. Now go to Psalm 109. And then
put your finger in Psalm 143. I put these in order so we won't
have to go backwards and forwards, so. Psalm 109.21 and Psalm 143 verses
10 to 12. And there's more than this. This
is just a short little look at this. Psalm 109, 21, but do thou
for me, O God, the Lord, for thy name's sake, because thy
mercy is good, deliver me. Now, have you noticed something
through all these? The plead is not about the person, the
plead is about for thy name's sake, for your glory, God. Do
this for your glory. Deliver me for your glory. Save
me for your glory, right? For your praise, for your honor.
Because whoever's saying this, by inspiration of the Holy Spirit
of God, know they can't save themselves, just like we know
we can't save ourselves. Now go to Psalm 143, if you would. Psalm 143, verses 10 to 12. Teach me to do thy will, for
thou art my God. Thy spirit is good. Lead me into
the land of uprightness. Quicken me, O Lord, for thy name's
sake. Well, quicken me, in the New
Testament there, is be born again. Oh, my. For thy name's sake, for thy
righteousness' sake, bring my soul out of trouble. And of thy
mercy, cut off mine enemies and destroy them all that afflict
my soul, for I am thy servant. Now go to Isaiah 66, and then put your finger in Jeremiah
14, and that's all the Old Testament ones we'll look at, and then
we're gonna look at some in the New Testament. Isaiah 66, verse five. Isaiah 66 verse 5 hear the word
of the Lord ye that tremble at his word Your brethren that hated
you and cast you out for my name's sake said let the Lord be glorified
But he shall appear to be your joy and they shall be ashamed
So all that all that fell out to them fell out for the glory
of God Let's remember that too in our lives, right? All things
work for our good It also works for the glory of God. More so. More so. Turn if you go to Jeremiah
chapter 14. And then we'll go to Matthew
chapter 10. Jeremiah 14 verses 20 and 21. Scripture declares We acknowledge, O Lord, that's
again Jehovah, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers,
for we have sinned against Thee. Do not abhor us for Thy name's
sake. Do not disgrace the throne of
Thy glory. Remember, break not Thy covenant
with us. My, oh my, again, for Thy name's
sake. Now go to the New Testament,
Matthew chapter 10. Why are we hated of men? Why
does the natural man hate the believer? They might not come
out and say it. But why is there enmity between
we who are the Lords and the world? And think back before
we were saved. Why did I have enmity with God's
people before I was saved? Right? But now I don't. That's because of the grace of
God, right? The mercy of God. But here's a, here, look at this.
Look what it says here in Matthew chapter, Matthew chapter 10,
verse 22. And ye shall be hated of all
men for my name's sake. Because of Christ. Because of
Christ. But he that endureth to the end
shall be saved. Now, a lot of people will take
that, he that endureth to the end, and they'll say, see, you
have to keep yourself. No, we're kept by the power of
God. You got to bring scripture with scripture, right? God is gonna keep us. If we were
left to endure on our own, we would be doomed, right? And in Matthew 19, It says this
in verse 29, Matthew 19, 29. I'll wait for you to turn there.
Matthew 19, 29. And this is talking about giving
up. It says, and everyone that hath
forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother,
or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive
an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life. A lot of the
Jews, when they were born again and converted, their families
just disowned them. Wanted nothing to do with them. My oh my. Then look at Matthew
24. Matthew 24. Verse 9. Very similar to the
other verse we read earlier. Then shall they deliver you up
to be afflicted and shall kill you. And ye shall be hated of
all nations, what, for my name's sake. Again, see the theme, both
Old and New Testament, for the glory of God. Now this is turned
out here where the world will hate us because of Christ. Turn, if you would, to John chapter
15, verse 21. Now here, Here we see an answer to why,
what motivates people to have those feelings against Christ
and against His people. John 15 verse 21, but all these
things they will do unto you for my name's sake, because they
know not Him that sent me. Now that, we know that was our
state before the Lord saved us, don't we? My oh my. Acts 9, 16, I'll just
read that one. For I will show him how great
things he must suffer for my name's sake. Speaking of Paul,
that's when the Lord was talking to Ananias and said, go and get,
go and see Paul. He said, so I've heard of him.
He's killing Christians. And the Lord says to him, he says,
for I will show how great things he must say, suffer for my name's
sake, for my glory. First John, if you would. First
John. Oh, I love this verse. First John chapter two, verse
12. Do you know we're fools for Christ's
sake, the scripture says? But you're wise in Christ, you're
weak, but you're strong. You're honorable, but we are
despised. That's in 1 Corinthians 4.10.
Look at this though, in 1 John 2, verse 12. I write unto you,
little children, because your sins are forgiven for his name's
sake. Look at that. For Christ's name. Now turn,
if you would, to Ephesians 4.31, last verse I'd like us to look
at. Or 4.32, the last, but we're gonna read 31 and 32 together.
Because 31 and 32 are bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit,
too. At work in the believer. And
we can't muster those up. Those are the Holy Spirit working
this in us. But we see Paul here saying, you know, put away all
these other things. Look at this in verse 31. Let
all bitterness and wrath, anger and clamor and evil speaking
be put away from you with all malice. That's hard for us to
do, but let it be so, right? pray for the grace. We need to,
we all need to pray for the grace of God to put away, to put away
any bitterness or wrath or anger or clamor. And evil speaking. But look at this. I love this.
Oh. And be kind one another, or one to another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath
forgiven you. Hath forgiven us. God has forgiven us for Christ's
sake. for the glory of his name, beloved. For the glory of his name. Our
great God has fully and freely forgiven us of all our sins. And he says here, be kind to
one another. This is talking about the brethren,
right? Tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath forgiven you. Sister
Diana, that's like that verse we were talking about on Thursday
that you brought out. about forgiving our brethren,
forgiving those who trespass against us, right? It's hard for us to do that,
isn't it? Especially in the household of faith. And it says here, this is especially
to the household of faith, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath
forgiven you. Isn't it wonderful? That's how
we have unity. I believe that's why we have
the unity we have now. We're one. We're tenderhearted
to one another. We're kind to one another. We
forgive one another. Because we look and see what
great transgressions, all my sin, Christ has forgiven me for
it. It should be, it should be, but
it's hard. It should be easy for me to forgive
someone who sins against me. And by the grace and mercy of
God, see what Paul says, put this before us, right? By inspiration
of the Holy Spirit of God, this is what we need to do. Just be
tenderhearted with one another, forgive one another. And this
is, again, this is all the fruit of the Spirit. This is God working
in us. This is Him working in us. The only way we can forgive
people is by God working in us. Because normally we'd be shaking
our fist at the person, wouldn't we? Isn't that wonderful? And note
here in this verse here, and be kind to one another, tenderhearted,
forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ's sake, hath
forgiven you. Note in this verse, the reason why God has saved
us and forgiven us is for Christ's sake. That's the only reason.
The reason God has had mercy on us is for Christ's sake. Isn't
that, that's wondrous. No merit, no merit, no merit. in ourselves, freely forgiven. And our text
proclaimed in Psalm 79.9 this wonderful truth, didn't it? Because who's the Lord Jesus
Christ? Well, He's God. Help me, O God
of my salvation. Help me, Lord Jesus, who is the
God of our salvation. Right? He is. He has glory to
his name. Honor and praises and blessings
to him.