Good evening, everyone. I am so thankful to be here. I'm so honored to be here. And I'm so glad that he is here. And I'm so thankful you're here. I truly love to be with the Lord's people. And my hope, my sincere hope is that none of us are here out of habit or something on the calendar or I pray that the Lord would let us really enter in to his word. I pray that the Lord would send his spirit and would speak to us through His word and would apply it as He sees fit according to His will to whoever needs what. I pray He would do it all and we would do nothing. And I pray He will truly, truly help us to worship Him this weekend.

I'd like to open with this word from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Turn with me if you would. to Psalm 46. Psalm 46. I want to look at one verse. It's verse 10. Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the heathen. I will be exalted in the earth. Be still and know that I am God. That's the message that I have for us tonight. That is what I pray the Lord would cause us to truly do. Be still and know that He is God.

Quite often, false religion tries to get men and women worked up. They try to get men and women pumped up. But God says, God's Word says to God's people, be still. And I got to thinking about that. I know that sounds strange for a Bible conference. You know, people call these revivals sometimes. Aren't you supposed to start a revival? Yes. Be still. Be still. And know that He is God. Do you need salvation? I pray the Lord would put us in a place where He would cause us to realize, I need salvation. I am a sinner against God, and I need salvation. Do you need salvation?

Be still. Be still. While false religion cries, get up, come down here, run over there, run over here, run, run, the law demands. While false religion cries, work, do. God's Spirit to the heart of God's people, He says, be still. Be still. The lie and error of man is work. But the truth and the gospel of God is be still. Be still. Trust. Rest in the fact that He is God. Do you need salvation? Be still. Do you need deliverance? Be still. Do you need forgiveness? Be still. Do you need redemption? Be still.

In being still, we acknowledge that the work is not ours, but the Lord's. When we, spiritually speaking, are working, talking about for salvation, people think They want to be saved and so they want to go to work and they want to do and they're running and acknowledging. All they're saying is the work is mine. But the thing about it is the work is not ours. The work is the Lord's and if the work is the Lord's. Then it's finished because he said it's finished. And if it's finished. Then there's nothing else for us to do, but be still. Be still.

When Moses was leading the children of Israel out of Egypt, and Pharaoh sent his soldiers to chase after them, and the children of Israel, they got hemmed up against the Red Sea, and they started crying to Moses, what are we going to do? They're coming after us, they're going to kill us, what are we going to do? This is what Moses said, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. He said, the Lord shall fight for you and you shall hold your peace.

That's what will happen. And that's what happened on the cross of Calvary. That is a declaration of God's salvation, not man's salvation, but God's salvation. That's a declaration of the only way that a man or a woman can be saved from the wrath to come. All have sinned, and wrath is coming for this sin, and there's only one way of salvation. It's in the finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not in my work, not in your work, it's in His alone.

We are all naturally caught, we are all naturally hemmed in, and we have an ocean of sin on one side of us, and we have the judgment of God on the other side of us. And the only hope is to stand still and look to the salvation of the Lord Jesus Christ. Look to the cross of Christ. Look to the cross. They cried, Moses, what are we going to do? And this is what he said. Don't do anything. Don't do anything.

Do you know that is still relieving to me every time I get a hold of it? It is still relieving to me. If the Lord, by His Spirit, would apply this Word, I pray He would let each one of us get a hold of this. I pray He would cause each one of us to understand what this means. This is all I want to get across tonight. Be still. Be still. Stand still and look to Christ. Wait on Him. Wait on Him.

Here's another story that's similar to that one. This is also a declaration salvation to God's people. Turn with me, if you would, to 2 Chronicles 20. 2 Chronicles 20. I love this story so much and as we read this, Let's enter into the fact that this is a picture of salvation. This is a picture of the cross. Did I tell you 2 Chronicles? Okay, 2 Chronicles 20, look at verse one.

It says, it came to pass, after this also, that the children of Moab and the children of Ammon and with them other beside the Ammonites, and that's the children of Mount Seir, three different nations, They came against Jehoshaphat to battle, king of Israel. Three nations came against Israel. And the next few verses go on to say that Jehoshaphat proclaimed a fast and he gathered all the people together. And as they were all gathered together, Jehoshaphat prayed on their behalf and begged and pleaded the Lord God to have mercy on them and to save them, to spare them, to deliver them from this great destruction that was coming. Three nations coming against them. Look at verse 12.

He said, O our God, wilt thou not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that cometh against us. Neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon thee. He said, Lord, the only thing that we can do is stand here and look to you. All of God's people will know that position. That's all we can do. We can just stand here and look to you. And I want to tell all of us concerning our salvation, that's all we can do is look to Christ. God has to give us eyes to look to Christ. God has to reveal Christ. But if he does, we'll see that's all we can do.

As we're all gathered together like this, begging God for mercy, and I just want to say, I hope we're begging God for mercy. We're all gathered here like this. But I hope he causes us to beg him for mercy, I hope he causes us to beg Him to spare us and to deliver us from this great destruction that's coming. A destruction that's coming because of our sin.

But as we're gathered, all we can say is, Lord, we have no might against this judgment. All we can do is look to You. Verse 13, And all Judah stood before the Lord with their little ones and their wives and their children. They all just stood there. They were all still.

Verse 14, Then upon Jehaliel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Madaniah a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit of the Lord in the midst of the congregation. God's Spirit moved and spoke through this preacher.

Verse 15, and He said, Hearken ye all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou King Jehoshaphat, thus saith the Lord unto you, be not afraid, nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours, but God's. Now this is the cry of the cross. This is what was cried on the cross of Calvary. The battle is not yours, it's God's.

Are you at all thankful for that? I am. Verse 16, tomorrow go ye down against them. Behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz, and you shall find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness of Jeruel. You shall not need to fight in this battle. That's called the gospel. Good news. Set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation of the Lord with you. O Judah and Jerusalem, fear not, nor be dismayed. Tomorrow go out against them, for the Lord will be with you.

And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground, and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the Lord, and worshipped the Lord. And the Levites of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korites stood up to praise the Lord God of Israel with a loud voice on high.

They cried, thank God, thank God. They knew they were dead. And they started praising God, praise the Lord for full salvation. God still reigns upon his throne. Verse 20. And they rose up early in the morning and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa. And as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, believe in the Lord your God, so shall you be established. And that's what I have to say to all of God's sheep tonight.

If God has given you faith, faith is not of yourselves, it's the gift of God. If God has authored faith, if God has wrought faith in you and given you the ability to believe His Word, believe on His Word and you'll be established. Believe His Word. You believe that the death of the Lord Jesus Christ is all the payment that God requires and you'll be established. You believe that there is remission in the shedding of His blood alone, payment in full, and you'll be established. You believe that there is now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, in God's election of God's particular people. You believe that if God be for us, nothing can be against us, not even our own sin, not even our own selves. You believe that it is finished. It is finished. Complete in thee. No work of mine may take, dear Lord, the place of thine. Complete in him. Verse 20.

And they rose early in the morning and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa. And as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem. Believe on the Lord your God, so shall you be established. Believe His prophets, so shall you prosper. And when he had consulted with the people, he appointed singers unto the Lord, and that should praise the beauty of holiness, as they went out before the army, And to say, Praise the Lord, for His mercy endureth forever. Jehoshaphat said, Singers and musicians, front line. You're going into battle first. Swords, go to the back. Shields, behind them.

Verse 22, And when they began to sing and to praise, The Lord set ambushments against the children of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, which were come against Judah, and they were smitten. For the children of Ammon and Moab stood up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir, utterly to slay and destroy them. And when they had made an end of the inhabitants of Seir, everyone helped to destroy another. And when Judah came toward the watchtower in the wilderness, they looked unto the multitude, and behold, they were dead bodies fallen to the earth, and none escaped."

That's our sin. That's our sin. That's what was left after the Battle of the Cross of Calvary. All gone. Verse 25, and when Jehoshaphat and his people came to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies and precious jewels, which they stripped off for themselves more than they could carry away. And they were three days in gathering the spoil. It was so much. Boy, that's a different outcome than they originally thought, isn't it? Well, that's how it is with God in Christ for sinners like you and me. That's how it is. And I'm going to leave you with these three things.

In Genesis 35, the Lord said to Jacob, he said, I am God almighty. To be still and know that He is God is to know that He is God Almighty. If we don't know He's God Almighty, we don't know He's God. All-powerful, all-controlling, all-reigning, all-ruling. Who are we talking about? Jesus Christ, God.

To be still and know that He is God is to know that He is the God who does what He wants, when He wants, with who He wants. Now that's God. In Isaiah 45, He said, I am God and there is none else. To be still and know that He is God is to know He is the only God.

There's only one. Well, I have my God and you have yours. No, there's one. There's one. No other God but Jesus Christ. There's no God at all. No God at all. There is one. Be still and know that He is God and there is none else. He's subject to no one. He's in a cooperation with no one. Me and Jesus have a good thing going. No. He's doing it all. And I'm doing nothing. He answers to no one.

He's the almighty, he's the only, and along with those two declarations, he said in Psalm 50, I'm your God. I'm your God. I am God, even thy God, the almighty God, the only God, your God. And I want him to be my God. I want him to be all of our God. If you don't know God, ask God to reveal himself to you. I want him to reveal himself to me right now. Amen. Thank you.