if you went to Psalm 103. Psalm
103. Now, we who are the redeemed
of the Lord, we praise our great God, don't we? We praise the
Lord. And, you know, saying praise the Lord is something
that we do as believers. And just because certain groups
have taken the word hallelujah in the words, praise the Lord,
and use them in a different way, don't ever let that affect us
from saying, praise the Lord. Because it's scriptural. You
know, bless the Lord is praise the Lord. And we as believers,
we bless the Lord, don't we? We bless the Lord for the wonderful
things he's done for us and in us. My, it's absolutely amazing. And when we consider the great
salvation, the great salvation that Christ wrought out by His
work, in His work alone, dying as our substitute at Calvary's
Cross, giving His life and shedding His blood, to redeem our eternal
souls. When we consider that as believers
who are born again by the Spirit, what does our heart say? Praise
the Lord, right? Praise ye the Lord. This is wonderful. This is more wonderful than anything
I could have ever imagined, that God would save a worm like me
from all my sins. My, oh my. And then when we consider
that we are justified by God in Christ, that the very one
who we broke his law, now it's like we kept his law in Christ,
and that we can stand before him clothed in the righteousness
of Christ. What else can we say but bless
the Lord? Hallelujah, Lord, for what you've
done. This is amazing. And then when we consider that
our great God drew out salvation's plan, that in eternity, before
there ever was a world, we were chosen in Christ. Before
there was ever angels, we were chosen in Christ. What else can we say but bless
the Lord. Oh my soul and all that is within
me. Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. Oh my soul and all that is within
me. Bless his holy name. He's a born
again man. And he's blessing the Lord. Then
he says, bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his
benefits. Do you know scripture says that
we're daily loaded down with benefits, right? We looked a
little bit or talked a little bit about in Sunday school, how
his mercies are new every morning for us. So his benefits are new
all the time. And David says, Lord, don't let
me forget your benefits to me. Don't let me forget. Oh, please. And think of that with us with
Christ, right? That's why again, as I said last
week, we need a steady diet of the gospel, right? Oh Lord, don't
let me forget the benefits. I was putting together a message
and I put it aside for this week and I'll probably preach it down
the road called Benefits Through Christ's Death. Benefits that
we have through Christ's death. It's wonderful. So don't let
me ever forget those, Lord. Don't let me forget the benefits
that I have. Look at this. Look at this. Who
forgiveth all thine iniquities. Now, all there means all. Isn't
that wonderful? It doesn't mean some. It doesn't
mean, as some say, you confess Christ and if you don't confess
all your sin to him and you go and get hit by a car, then you
go to hell. What a horrible, what a horrible, horrible thing
to say to people. No, this is here, it says, who
forgiveth all their iniquities. A-L-L, all. What a little word,
but so much power in that word, isn't it? All. Their iniquities. Who healeth all thy diseases.
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction. We were on the road to destruction,
beloved. Even though we were vessels of
honor, we were still walking in that path with the world,
weren't we? Enemies in our minds, although we've always been God's
friend in his mind. But in our minds, enemies with
God. And the world couldn't tell a sheep from a goat. That's why
we preach the gospel to everyone, right? And we couldn't tell,
we can't, we can't even tell a sheep from a goat, can we?
No. Until God reveals them. My oh
my. Who redeemeth thy life from destruction,
who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies,
who satisfy thy mouth with good things so that thy youth is renewed
like the eagles. The Lord, that's Jehovah, executed
righteousness and judgment for all that are oppressed. He made
no one his way unto Moses. Now look at that. He revealed
his way to Moses, didn't he? Just like he reveals his ways
to you and I, beloved. Isn't that amazing? Oh my. His acts unto the children of
Israel. The Lord is merciful. We could just sit right there,
couldn't we? Oh, how merciful is our great God. How merciful
is our great God. We tasted that mercy, haven't
we? We who are the redeemed Lord. Oh, how merciful He is. And gracious,
slow to anger. Think of how long-suffering He
is with us before He saves us. All we do is shake our fist at
Him. Dave, you and I have talked about that. Just shake our fist
at Him before He saves us. I'll not have this man roll over
me. And for his lack, he's slow. He's slow to anger. Oh my. You know, his anger for we who
are the people of God, there's no anger towards us. Do you know
when God chastens us, it's not an anger. You remember when our
parents used to chasten us, it was an anger. Not an anger, but
Sometimes it was an anger. I said, I said, I said a. I don't know if I ever told you
guys this, but I set the state fairs or the the provincial fairs
grass on fire and My dad he disciplined me in anger that day Mike my
oh my and he said to me don't you tell anybody you did that
That was that was that was a big fire, but anyways I Oh my, I'll tell you why. But see, God is slow to anger,
isn't he? He's slow to anger with us. He
doesn't, and he's plenty, look at that, he's plentiless. Plenty
is in mercy. He's so full of mercy. He will
not always chide, neither will he keep his anger forever. See,
his anger towards us for our sin, it's all gone. Do you know
it was extinguished at Calvary's cross? Isn't that wonderful? His wrath and his anger towards
our sin is gone. And that was done before we were
even born. So when someone says, well, how can you say all your
future sins are forgiven? Every one of them was at Calvary.
My, it's amazing. And look at this. He has not dealt with us after
our sins. Remember, I quoted in Sunday
school, if the Lord should mark iniquity, who shall stand? So
if the Lord marked our sin, which one of us would stand? None. See, He doesn't give us what
we deserve, does He? He's not dealt with us after
our sins, no. Nor rewarded us according to
our iniquities. Christ suffered what we would
have. That wrath of God that was due you and I fell upon our
King, and like a great stone in the desert, right? When a
sandstorm comes to life, we are tucked under that stone. That's
Christ, beloved. And that storm's just raging
and beating upon that rock, right? And we're untouched. My, it's a wonderful gospel. For as the heaven is high above
the earth, now we cannot even measure that, can we? We can't even fathom that. For
as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy
toward them that fear him. That's his people. Right? The fear of the Lord is what?
The beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction,
right? My, and then look at this, look
at this. You know if you keep going east,
you'll never make west, right? And if you keep going west, you'll
always be going west, right? If you go north and south, you're
eventually going to hit north and south, right? But if you
continue around this globe east, you'll always be going east.
They don't meet. Look at this. Let this just,
beloved of God, let this just Make your heart sing. As far
as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions
from us. So if you keep going east, you
never meet west. It's always the same. So far. He don't remember our sins anymore,
beloved. He's removed our transgressions
from us. Isn't that wonderful? Our sins
are removed from us. Remember we were redeemed out
from under the law in Galatians? This tells us that our sins are
gone. Perfect holy law could only be fulfilled by a sinless
one. In the eternal everlasting covenant
of grace, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit covenanted
that Christ would come to this earth. to completely fulfill
that perfect law, the God-man, the perfect man, that he would
come to perfectly fulfill that law in our room and place. And
that which they covenanted in eternity come to pass in time,
right? See, time is for you and I, isn't
it? God lives outside of time and space. He does not exist
in time and space. Time is for his plan of salvation
to be executed in. And when that's finished, when
the last sheep is saved, this is all going to just roll
up like a scroll, isn't it? And there'll be a new heaven
and a new earth. What? Wherein dwelleth righteousness. No sin. We'll be a bunch of people who
will have our new bodies, It's wonderful. And we'll be with Christ forever. Oh my. As for man, his days are
as grass, as the flower of the field he flourishes. For the
wind passes over it and it's gone, and the place thereof shall
know it no more. I was thinking about when we
die, right, the people who remember us are our immediate family and
friends, of course. But after a few generations,
unless someone's doing genealogy or something, there's no one
who knows us. We're just a vapor. We're just gone. And so the scripture says here,
man's grass, or man's days are like grass. The grass grows and
it gets mowed down. And it grows again, right? My. There's a flower of a field.
Flower comes up every year. And then it dies. And it's gone. You got annuals
and preannuals, right? Annuals are the ones, aren't
they, that you plant and they die, right? But the preannuals
come back every year. But even those preannuals come
up, they bloom, and then they die. My. So we have a picture of all
that even in our own gardens and such and all around us. Of
how short our days are. But see, man has no care for
that. Natural man has no care for that.
They don't redeem the time, because they think they've got all time.
Somehow they think they're going to escape death. But death is
coming for everyone, isn't it? The wages of sin is death. But all the salvation in Christ,
to have this salvation while we are alive, to know that all
my sins are forgiven, that God's removed all my transgressions
from me as far as the East is from the West, is absolutely
amazing. How does that come about? Just look to Christ. Just look
to Christ. Look to him and live. My daughter asked me, is that
simple? Yes. Just look to Christ. And if you
look, we know it's the Holy Spirit of God that's regenerating you.
And we're looking at it because we're given faith, faith to look
to Christ in faith. My. And we so ever will let him
come. Let him take of the water of
life freely. You know, the Lord is able to
save to the uttermost all who come to Him. And I've not seen,
have you ever seen Him cast away one who come to Him? All my life as a believer, I've
never seen Him cast away one who's come to Him for salvation.
Not one. As a matter of fact, that sinner
like me, It ends up looking to Christ
and rejoicing by the grace of God. Isn't it wonderful? It's absolutely
wonderful. Look at this about man, for the
wind passes over it and it's gone. And the place thereof,
she'll know it no more. Again, a few generations down
the road and no one will know us. Except someone starts digging
into our genealogy, maybe, and it pops up, and they might tell
two or three people about us, and then they'll forget about
us. But oh, Christ never forgets
about us, does he? Amen. We won't be on this earth
anymore. We'll be in glory, singing praise.
We will be singing, bless the Lord, I'll tell you that. When
we're in glory, we will be saying hallelujah. We will be. Oh, look at this though. But the
mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that
fear him and his righteousness unto children's children. His
love, his eternal love has been set upon us from everlasting
and will be set upon us to everlasting. That means it has no end. That
means it just keeps going. From everlasting to everlasting,
no end. No end. Isn't that amazing? My oh my. Mercy of the Lord is on us, is
upon us, beloved. And it'll never cease to be upon
us. Because it's been shown to us in Christ Jesus our Lord. In and through him alone. And
in his righteousness unto children's children. My goodness. Look at
this, to such as keep his covenant and to those that remember his
commandments to do them. The commandments of God aren't
grievous to us, are they? Not at all. They're wonderful.
We know that we're not under the law. As believers, we're
free from the law, but those commandments aren't grievous
to us. They're absolutely wonderful. The Lord, look at this. Now,
I'll tell you what. Our God, He is an eternal, everlasting
God. Look at this. The Lord hath prepared
His throne in the heavens. It's already there. He's never
abdicated His throne, has He? You know, there's a story of
a guy who was a God-hater in Europe. I can't remember who
it was. But he was a God-hater, and when he died, his home was
turned into a place where they printed Bibles. And the word of God went out
from there. Oh, my. Can anyone thwart the
Lord? Can anyone have him come off
his throne? Now he sits upon his throne in
majesty. That's our God, beloved. And
He rules and reigns as He pleases. And that's what makes His salvation
in Christ, His mercy to us, so great for we who believe. To think that the one who sits
upon the throne needs nothing, needs no one. Right? Has angels falling down before
Him and worshipping Him. And cherubims, they're worshipping
Him. All the saints of God up there just falling down and worshipping
Him. He don't need any of us, does He? And yet what great mercy is shown
to us in Christ Jesus our Lord. What great mercy is manifested
to us through the salvation of our souls. The Lord hath prepared his throne.
It's fixed, beloved. That means it's fixed. It ain't
moving. His throne is prepared in the
heavens. And look at this. In his kingdom
ruleth all. Well, somebody says, well, I
don't believe in God. I don't, I don't believe. You're
still under his dominion. Whether you believe it or not,
he ruling and he's reigning and he's upon his throne and it's
a fixed throne. It's unmovable. He will never
abdicate his throne, beloved. He will never come down from
his throne. He will never give it to another. He rules over
all. And that's the one. who saved
our souls. The King of glory, the Word of
God, came down to this world. The one who rules over all. Remember, he said, I could ask
my father for six legions of angels. That's 30,000 angels. You've heard me say one angel
killed over 100,000 men. So what he's saying there is
I could call enough angels to destroy this whole world. But he didn't, did he? Because
he must go to the cross, right? His face was set like a flint,
the scripture says, to go to Jerusalem. In the Hebrew, that
flint there is a stone, and it's an immovable stone. It means
an immovable stone. He was so set to go. His whole mission was to save
you and I as believers. And to save his sheep. All those
the father gave. That was his whole reason for
coming to this world. To live the perfect life for
us and to save you and I. So that the scripture can say,
right? And think of this. The scripture
said this before he even came. This psalm we're reading is before
he even came to this world. And God tells us, I'm going to
forgive you of all your iniquities. As far as the east is from the
west, they will never be found again. Before Christ has even
come. You see, this shows us what the
truth of the scripture that says he knows the end from the beginning.
Right? Isn't it amazing? Brother Daniel,
it's like you were saying about the land of Israel. The land
was already theirs. So the Father here is saying
through the pen, the Holy Spirit here is saying through the pen
of David that God's already planned and purposed their salvation.
And notice it says, I will remember their sins no more. So at the
death of Christ, when Christ pays it all, right? Now we know
Christ is a lamb slain from the foundation of the world, but
that which was planned and purposed in time must come to pass in
time and space, right? So Christ comes into this world
and redeems our eternal souls. And then it says here, look it,
and it says, so far hath he removed our transgression from us. In
God's mind, it's already done. Isn't that amazing? That's absolutely
incredible. But again, that which God has
purposed and planned must come to pass in time and space. So
Christ comes to this world, and he... Do you know he was king
before he came? We know that from Isaiah 6, right?
He's sitting upon the throne, high and lifted up, right? High
and lifted up. He's sitting upon that throne.
My oh my. High and lifted up. Let's turn there. Isaiah chapter
6. We're gonna read this here, this
is amazing. I'll tell you what, our Lord's throne, it's a fixed
throne, beloved. It'll never be moved, it'll never
be... But yet, Christ left the glory
and splendor of heaven. As some old commentators used
to say, He set His glory aside to become a man. See, again, no man would ever
think this up, would they? No man would... Some people say,
well, that's just a fable made by men. No man would ever think
this up! See, because the old gods of
the Romans and all them, they were always angry at people. And you always had to do something
to appease them. Think of that even today. People
have to do stuff for their supposed gods to keep them happy. And
that little rock, they gotta leave something beside the little
rock. There's a Thai food place Vicky
and I love. And they got a giant guy in there,
right? And money stuffed in there. I
said to Vicky, wouldn't it be fun just to go and take some
of that money out and say, okay, I'm gonna pay for my meal now.
Just for fun. They wouldn't appreciate it,
right? But he can't do nothing with it, can he? And they don't
even take it out. I wouldn't do that to them because
these folks are really nice, but it's just foolishness. It's foolishness. You say, he can't spend it, so
I will, right? I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Oh my. Yeah, pray for me. So the Lord's
on the throne, right? Look at this in Isaiah. I'll
tell you what. What a picture. What a picture
of Christ here. Isaiah chapter 6. The year that
King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting upon his throne. So he's
sitting on a throne. That throne is set, beloved.
That's a set throne. That's a prepared throne, like
here in Psalm 103. It's a set, prepared throne.
High and lifted up. Well, we already read that he's
high and lifted up, right? As far as the heavens is, he's
higher than the heavens. Above it stood the seraphims.
Each one had six wings. Now remember, I believe this
is Christ on the throne. I personally believe this is
Christ on the throne. Several commentators say the same thing, but think
of this. This is Him before He came to
this world. Remember back where I said He didn't need nothing?
Right? Nothing at all. Here He is on
the throne. Look at this. Above it stood the seraphims.
Each one had six wings. With Twain, he covered his face.
And with Twain, he covered his feet. And with Twain, he did
fly. So whoever they're flying in front of, and again, I believe
it's Christ, they had to cover their eyes. He's so holy. He's
so glorious. Holy angels covering their eyes. He's so glorious. And remember,
now we got a little glimpse of that, didn't we, on the Mount
of Transfiguration? Remember? A little glimpse of
that glory when Moses and Elijah appeared to him. And what were
Moses and Elijah talking to him about? His death on the cross. It says, if you look up that
section, can't remember exactly where it is, but in one of the
Gospels, and it says they were talking about his decrease, which
means his death. His death. So here He is. What do these angels do? Well,
they cover their face, right? And they cried one unto another
and said, Holy, holy, holy Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. There's
three holies there, isn't there? Holy, holy, holy. is the Lord of hosts. The whole
earth is full of his glory. And the posts of the door moved
at the voice of him that cried and the house was filled with
smoke. So they were, the posts were
shaken. Then said I, so here's Isaiah,
right? He's been saying, woe is this
fellow over here, and woe is that one, and woe is this guy
over here. And now what does he say? See, he gets a glimpse
of the Lord. He's not saying woe about that
fellow over there anymore, is he? He says this, he says, woe
is me. Remember the publican? God be
merciful to me, the sinner. Woe is me. For I am a man undone,
because I am a man of unclean lips." So he sees his own sinfulness
first, right? And then what does he see? He
sees the total depravity of man then. But first of all, he sees
himself. That's important. Because that's
what we do. We see ourselves before anyone else as sinners,
don't we? When God reveals himself, oh Lord, it's me. It's me. Look at this. And I dwell, I'm a man of unclean
lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
For mine eyes have seen," who? Who has his eyes seen, beloved? The King, singular. The King. His eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts. There He is. This is our Lord
before He came to this world. Does He need anything? Does He
need anybody? He's got these angels that are
holy, sinless too, covering their eyes and crying out to Him, Holy,
Holy, Holy, which again represents the Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit, right? Holy, Holy, Holy. And they're falling. My goodness. And then Isaiah
says, mine eyes have seen the King. The King, the King of glory. The one who our text back here
says, the Lord, that's Jehovah, hath prepared his throne in the
heavens, and his kingdom ruleth over all. And look what he says
here in that. My eyes have seen the King, the
Lord of hosts. Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having
a live coal in his hand, which he had taken from the tongs from
off the altar. And he laid it upon my mouth
and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips, and thine iniquity
is taken away, and thy sin purged. So that means atoned for or covered. That word purged means atoned
for or covered. You know what that picture is?
The blood of Christ. That's exactly what that picture is, the blood
of Christ. Also, I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom
shall I send, and who will go for us? Now, there's certain
sects out there that deny the Trinity, say that this is a perfect
verse to take people to. I took a Jehovah Witness here
one time, and out of their own Bible, they did not know what
to say. Because look what it says. Look
at the little words in this. And I heard the voice, in verse
eight, and I heard the voice of the Lord saying, whom shall
I send and who will go for what? Us. Well, who's the us? The Father, the Son, and the
Holy Spirit of God. The great three in one. And remember, they're one in
perfect will. They're one in perfect purpose.
Right? Who will go for us? Then said I, and he says this
by the grace of God, here am I, send me. And he said, go and
tell this people, hear ye indeed, but understand not, and see ye
indeed, but perceive not. make the heart of this people
fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes, lest they
see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand
with their heart, and convert, and be healed. Then said I, Lord,
how long? And he answered, until the cities
be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and
the land be utterly desolate. And the Lord hath removed men
far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the
land. But in it shall be a tent, there's always a remnant. See
that? God always has a remnant. You
know, God's always had a remnant of people. in this world. Always. There'll be a tenth.
And it shall return and shall be eaten as a teal tree and as
an oak, whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves.
So the holy seed shall be the substance of thereof. Shall be
the substance thereof. Oh my. So we saw there then the
Lord on the throne. He don't need nothing, does he?
He don't need anybody. No one at all. In His kingdom,
beloved, whether men and women believe it or not, His kingdom
ruleth over all. And God's people say, amen. Don't we? Praise the Lord. I am so thankful that God rules
over all. I'm so thankful that He hasn't
left this world in the hands of fickle men. Now, we destroy one another,
don't we? What would we do if He wasn't in control? Think of
this. What would this world be like if God didn't restrain?
You know, we live in a world where He's restraining things.
You imagine what this world would be like if He didn't restrain
anything or anybody? We couldn't even imagine what
this world would be like. Praise God for His restraining
hand, eh? See, he's in control. You know, man say, well, we're
going to do all these great things over here. Not if it's not God's
will. I'll tell you what, since the
Lord saved me, I've seen people in power and just normal folks
too, like you and I, say, well, we're going to do these things.
And not if the Lord don't. And you see them, they're making
all kinds of noise to go, we're going to do this. And it just
falls to naught. It wasn't in the will of God.
It wasn't in the will of God. And look at this now, here we
go. Now, we're gonna finish with these, look at these. Bless the
Lord. Oh, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord, right? Praise
the Lord. Ye his angels that excel in strength. Oh, one angel,
one angel killed 100,000 men. How strong, these are just created
beings. How strong is our God? How powerful
is our God, beloved? And these angels are God's servants.
Do you know they minister to we who are the elect? Hebrews
talks about that. That the angels of God, the holy
ones, minister to God's people. Look at this. Bless the Lord,
ye his angels that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening
unto the voice of his word. They hearken. When God commands
them to do something, they hearken to those words. But so now, first
of all, David's saying here, bless the Lord, ye angels. Those things we don't see. And
then he goes, verse 21, Bless ye the Lord, all ye his hosts,
ye ministers of his that do his pleasure. It ain't hard for a true preacher
of God's grace to say bless the Lord. Because I'm just a safe
sinner like all of you. It's not hard. Do you find it
hard to say bless the Lord? Not at all, do we? Not at all. even in times of sorrow, in pain
and suffering, that's actually when we need Him the most, isn't
it? And that's when He manifests Himself the most to us too. Not
in the mountains, because in the mountains we think, well,
I'm good. It's in the valleys. It's in those valleys where He
shows us our need. Oh, what great need I have. I'm
sure you feel the same way. My, Bless the Lord, all ye his
hosts. All the angels, all the ministers,
all his people that do his pleasure. We serve
God now, don't we? We used to serve self. Now we
serve God. We do his pleasure, and we do
it willingly now, don't we? Even though we're sinners, we
still serve the Lord, don't we? We're safe sinners, aren't we?
We're redeemed sinners. We're the ones who God says,
your sins are removed from you as far as the east is from the
west. Your transgressions are gone by the precious blood of
Christ. And then he closes this wonderful
psalm. Bless the Lord, all his works
in all places of his dominion. Now look at that, of his dominion.
Is there anywhere where he is not in charge? Nowhere, right? He rules over all, right? His
dominion is over all, everything. And think, he just spoke this
whole universe. I'm still in awe. I see those
pictures. I like looking at them pictures from those new telescopes
and stuff that they put up. And it's incredible, some of
these pictures and stuff. And then you look at, Nikon did
a thing called Small World, where they took pictures of all these
small things. And they have a competition every year. And you can see the
pictures online. They're incredible. They take
pictures of like butterflies close up their faces and everything.
It is absolutely incredible, the intricacy of these insects
and stuff. God has dominion over all these
things, beloved. All these things. And this is our King. This is
the one who saved our souls, beloved. Bless the Lord, all
his works in all places of his dominion. Bless the Lord, oh
my soul. I'll tell you what. We have great cause to say, bless
the Lord, O my soul, don't we? We have great cause to rejoice,
beloved of God. We who are the redeemed of the
Lord, we who are the born again, blood-washed saints of God, we
have great cause to rejoice. And you know how we rejoice now?
From a regenerated heart. I didn't bless the Lord when
I was dead in trespasses and sins, did you? Yeah, to our shame
we did that. Now we bless him. What a miracle of grace, beloved.
I'm looking at a bunch of people, God's done a miracle of grace
to you. And me too. Isn't it wonderful? What do we
say? Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord.
Oh my. Brother Daniel?