But it's a blessing to us, wasn't
it? Open your Bibles now with me,
if you would, to Psalm 139. Psalm 139. I've titled our message
tonight, Christ Our All. I'm very confident that the Lord
has given me a message for you tonight that will be of great
help to you, no matter who you are. This message should be of
great help To those here who are lost and do not know the
Lord, if the Spirit will take this message and let you see,
Christ is all. He's all that you need. All that
you need to stand accepted before the Father. This message should
feed the souls of those of you who believe. By making you see
one more time, Christ is everything that you need. Enable your soul
to feast on Him. This message should comfort the
heart of God's suffering saints by making them see Christ is
all. He's everything that you need,
and that'll comfort your heart when you see Him. This message
should encourage the discouraged saint. We should never be discouraged,
but we are from time to time, aren't we? This should encourage
the discouraged saint by making us see that Christ is all that
you need. I know, I know the way is hard
right now, I know. But Christ our Savior is all.
And He'll give you the strength that you need. I've told you
often in our study here in the Psalms that the way to get the
most blessing from each Psalm when you read it is to look first
at the Psalm as the words of our Lord Jesus Christ. Some of
the old writers say there are 15 to 20 Messianic Psalms. A messianic psalm is a psalm
that has Christ as its subject. It's a psalm that maybe there
are the words of Christ that he quoted or a prophecy concerning
the person and the work of Christ. But I say there's 150 messianic
psalms. That's how many psalms there
are, all of them. Every one of them is a messianic psalm. And
I understand some might be clearer to see than others, but it's
crystal clear in our text tonight. Only the Lord Jesus Christ could
say these words. And hearing this should make
the unbeliever look to Christ and trust Him because you know
what? These words can be our words
if we're in Christ, if we're trusting and believing in Him.
And this should encourage and comfort and edify the believer
by saying again that sinful men and women like us can actually
say these words and mean them and they'd be true. because Christ
is all. If we're in Him, we can say these
words. These can be our words and they
be true. Now, I'm only going to look at the first six verses
tonight, and I have four points to show us that Christ is our
all. Number one is this. Christ is my righteousness. Verse
1, O Lord, Thou hast searched me and known me. And you know, the last verses
of this psalm, the psalmist says, search me, O God, and know my
heart. Know my thoughts and see if there
be any wicked way in me." Now, I'll tell you what this is talking
about. This is talking about the Lord knowing our nature.
The Lord sees everything that's in our hearts, that's in our
nature. And if we know anything at all
about ourselves, this makes us mighty uncomfortable. Do you
really want to tell God, search me and see if there be any wicked
way in me? Search me and see if there be any sin in me? That
makes me mighty uncomfortable, doesn't it, you? Because our
nature is nothing but sin. Our nature is fallen in sin and
dead in sin. Our nature is the opposite of
God in every way. But these are the words of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Christ can say this in complete
confidence. Search me. Know me. And know
that the Father will accept Him. Because the nature of Christ
is perfect. He did no sin. He didn't even
want to do any sin because His nature is perfect. His nature
is sinless and perfect, and I can tell you why. It's because He
was born of the seed of woman. He didn't partake, when He was
born, didn't partake in Adam's sin because He wasn't conceived
from the seed of a man like you and I are. When the Lord Jesus
Christ was conceived, He did not receive Adam's sin nature
like you and I did. Adam was not the representative
of Christ. He's our representative by nature,
but he's not the representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He
bore the seed of woman and Christ stands on his own. Two men in
human history stood on their own. Adam and Christ, the second
Adam. Christ stood on his own. And
since he is sinless in nature, the father can inspect, can search
his nature and find no sin and accept him. And He did, didn't
He? That's why He raised Him from the dead, He sent Him back
to glory, because He's perfect. He accomplished what He came
to do and the Father accepted Him. Now here's good news for
sinners. Christ is a representative man.
He's the representative of His people. And a believer, when
they're born again, now when they're born the first time into
the world, they're born with the sin nature, just like every
other son of Adam. And if God examines us, in that
nature, in the nature in which we're born, we're going to be
found guilty. But God's people have been born again. God, the
Holy Spirit, gives His people a new nature in the new birth,
and that nature is the nature of Christ. We're made partakers
of the divine nature. That new man is perfect. He's
sinless. He can never sin. So in Christ,
the believer can say this. The Lord has searched me. He
has known me. And He's accepted me in my nature. The nature I have in Christ.
Now that is good news for my soul. To be seen in Christ's
nature. Not in mine. Not in Adam's nature.
That is rest and comfort and assurance for my soul. And that'll
keep me, that'll make me trust Christ and it'll keep me trusting
Him. So that I'll never leave Him.
Because the one and only way I ever want God to see me is
in Christ. I want him to see me only in
Christ. That's how he sees his people.
And to be seen in Christ, we have his nature. That is how
he is our righteous. Christ is my righteousness because
God has given me the sinless nature of Christ, the new birth.
Then Christ is also my righteousness in his obedience as my representative. Verse 2, thou knowest my down
sitting and my up rising. Now again, we know God sees everything.
God knows everything. We can't do anything and hide
it from God. God sees everything we do. He sees everywhere that
we go. And that makes a sinner mighty uncomfortable. Think about
God seeing me everywhere I go, everything I do. Because everything
I do is sin. Everywhere we go, we're sinning.
We're sinning when we get up. We're sinning when we sit down.
Everything. And if the Lord will judge us
on our actions, we're going to be found guilty and be condemned.
But the Lord Jesus Christ could tell His Father, Father, You
know everywhere I went. You know my uprising and my down
sitting. You know everywhere I went, I
went pleasing You. Everything I did was fulfilling
Your will. Everything I did was perfect
and sinless. Everything I did was well pleasing
in Your holy sight. The Lord Jesus Christ could say
that and it would be true. Now look back at Psalm 32. Here's
good news for sinners. The Father has imputed the obedience
of Christ to his people. He imputes righteousness to them
because Christ has made his people righteous. Psalm 32, verse 1. Blessed is he whose
transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the
man Under whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit
there is no guile. Now why won't the Lord impute
sin to his people? Why won't he charge his people
with sin? Aren't they guilty? Oh yeah,
they're guilty. They committed the sin. But you
know why God won't charge them with that sin? Because he charged
Christ our substitute with it, and punished him fully for that
sin. And God's elect have been given
new life. They've been given the life of
Christ. I'll tell you what that means to be given the life of
Christ. It means His life. His life as a man on this earth
is our life. Everywhere Christ went, His people
went. Every uprising, every down sitting that He did, we did too
because His people are in Him. Everything Christ did, His people
did too. They did it in Him. So God's
people, God's elect are perfect in Christ. There's no reason
that God would condemn them, because they're perfect. They've
been made perfect in Christ. You see, the Lord Jesus Christ,
who did no sin, did that as the representative
of His people. And since He did no sin, His
people did no sin, because they're in Him. I tell you, that's the
best reason I can think of, to come to Christ and begging Him
for mercy, begging Him to be my righteousness, because in
Christ, I'm perfect. Spotless. Obeyed God's law perfectly. And that's a mighty good reason
to believe Christ and to keep believing Him. To rest in Christ. Because in Him, I'm sinless. There's no reason for me to ever
doubt Him. In Him, I'm perfect. Because
He is my righteousness. Then Christ is my righteousness
because Christ is my mind. At the end of verse 2, The psalmist
says, thou understandest my thought afar off. Now we know that God
looks on the heart. God knows all of our thoughts. We might be able to hide our
thoughts from one another. Janet, she thinks that I'm an
open-booked or that she thinks she can always read my mind.
Sometimes she can. Sometimes she can't. Sometimes
I might be able to fool her. He knows our thoughts are far
off. He knows our thoughts before
we think them. He knows them before we do. And all of our
thoughts are sinful. Sinful thoughts. And you know
what our Lord said? Even if you don't act on that
thought, but you just think it. You just think about doing something
sinful. You just think it. You're guilty of it. Even if
you don't act on it. God knows all of our thoughts.
And this is what I know from Scripture. I know it from my
experience. My thoughts are not God's thoughts. My ways are not
God's ways. And that truth fills a sinner
with fear, doesn't it? Fear of God's judgment. But the
Lord Jesus Christ could tell his father, Father, you know
my thoughts. You know my thoughts are far
off and you know they're perfect. The Lord Jesus Christ did no
sin because he thought no sin. I mean, he never even thought
about sinning because he's perfect. Now here's good news for sinners.
In the new birth, God the Holy Spirit gives His people a new
mind. You who believe have been given
the mind of Christ so that His thoughts are our thoughts if
we're in Him, if we believe Him. And this is so comforting. When
my actions sometimes make it appear that I do not know Christ,
that I do not trust Him, that I do not love Him, that I do
not believe Him. I show myself to have such a bad attitude and
I do wrong, and you think, how can a believer do that? Does
he even know Christ? Does he love Him? Does he even
trust Christ? Well, my actions sometimes make it appear that
I do not know Him. That I do not trust Him. I could say with Peter, Lord,
you know all things. You know I love you. You know
my thoughts are far off. You know because you gave me
that mind. Now, you understand that's no excuse for sin. You
understand that, don't you? But that's the reality of the
believer's life in this flesh. We're flesh and spirit. And all
you can see of me is the flesh. That's real. But the spirit is
too. And we can honestly say to the Lord, Lord, You know all
things. You know I trust you. You know
I believe you. You know that I love you because
I've been given the mind of Christ. Then Christ is my righteousness
because Christ is my words. Verse four. There is not a word
in my tongue, but lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether. Now
the Lord hears all of our words. By nature, what are our words?
Scripture says we come forth from the womb speaking lies.
That's our words. Our lips are full of guile and
sin and lies. I just couldn't even tell you
how many things that I've said that I wish I could take back. We pop off and you know what
comes out? It just flows out. Sin, vileness,
it just flows from us like lava erupting from a volcano. You
know why that is? Because we've got a heart of
sin. I mean, a volcano, all it can do is spit out lava because
that's what's in it, right? You know why when we open our
mouth, all that comes out is lies, guile, sin? Because that's
what our heart is. And out of the abundance of the
heart, the mouth speaketh. And that thought fills a sinner
with fear of judgment. I might say something to you,
maybe you forget it. Maybe you're getting hard of
hearing. You didn't hear quite good. You know, we're wearing
masks. You know, sometimes you can't hear because you can't
read lips. Maybe you forgive me. Maybe.
But the Lord doesn't forget. He hears every word. And if the
Lord charges me with every careless word, I will surely be damned.
But here's good news for sinners. The Lord Jesus Christ never sinned
in thought, word, or deed. Never. Now, the Father, remember,
has put all of His elect in Christ, our representative, so that we
said what He said. Now, let me show you something
I think will be a blessing to you. Look first at 1 Peter 2. 1 Peter 2. God gives His people
a mouth just like the mouth of the Lord Jesus Christ that says
the same thing. 1 Peter 2, verse 22. who did no sin, neither was guile
found in His mouth." Every word was perfect. There's no hypocrisy,
no sin, no guile ever found in His mouth. That's the perfection
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now look at Revelation chapter
14. Revelation 14. Verse 3. Now these are those
in glory. These are saved people. These
are God's people. Redeemed by the blood of the
Lamb. Verse 3 says, and they sung as it were a new song before
the throne and before the four beasts and the elders. And no
man could learn that song but the 144,000. That's, if you remember
from our studying Revelation, that's a definite number for
an indefinite number of people. It's the number of perfection.
All of God's elect gathered together They're the only ones that can
learn this song, which were redeemed from the earth, redeemed by the
Lord Jesus Christ. These are they which were not
defiled with women, for they are virgins. They are they which
follow the Lamb, withersoever He goeth. Now, does that mean
that they are perfect in themselves? Absolutely not, because look
what he says next. These were redeemed. They're not perfect
in themselves. They had to be redeemed from
among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb, and
in their mouth was found no guile, for they are without fault before
the throne of God." In their mouth was found no guile. Sound
familiar? That's the mouth of our Lord
Jesus Christ. God's people made just like Christ. Now, I understand
that they're in glory. It will be perfect. But, you
know, the same thing is still true on this earth today. This
is what believers do. They say what Christ said. That's
exactly what they do. When we preach, we just say what
the Word of God says. Preach the Word, Paul told Timothy. Just take God's Word and tell
people this is what God says. Thus saith the Lord. This is
what that means. Let me take your Scripture and point you
to Christ. That's what we do. Preach the
same what God says. But that's not just preachers.
That's every believer. Every believer says, I believe
God. I believe Christ. He is my all. And we testify, just like we
are in court. When you go to court, you testify,
you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
but the truth, so help you God. We testify that we believe God. And that word testify, you know
what it is? The word means to say the same thing. It's just
to say the same thing that God says. That's what believers say.
God says, I'm a sinner. God says, I'm lost, I'm defiled,
I'm helpless and hopeless to save myself. And I say the exact
same thing. I'm a sinner, I'm lost, I'm defiled,
I'm helpless to save myself at all. There's no hope in me whatsoever.
That's what God says. By God's grace, that's what I
say. I say the same thing. God says that the Lord Jesus
Christ is the savior of sinners. And by God's grace, I say the
same thing. The only hope that I have is that the Lord Jesus
Christ came to save me. Because He did indeed save His
people from their sins. I believe God. Do you believe
God? I believe God. By God's grace,
the believer says that without guile and without hypocrisy. It's an amazing thing, but I
really do believe God. Now that's a good hope. Christ
is my righteousness. Thought, word and deed. Nature.
I have a good hope. All right, number two, Christ
is all. Christ is all my way. Verse three, back in our text,
Psalm 139. Thou compass my path and my lying
down and art acquainted with all my ways. Now, all my ways
by nature are sinful ways. By nature, my ways are not God's
ways. Our way by nature, our Lord said, is the broad way that
leads to destruction, and many find it. And the Lord knowing
our ways, knowing our sinful ways, that fills the sinner with
fear of judgment. But the good news of the gospel
is this, my sinful way does not have to be the way I enter into
eternity. Doesn't have to be. God sent the Lord Jesus Christ
to be the way of His people, the way of righteousness, the
way of salvation, the way of forgiveness, the way to enter
into life, the way to enter into glory. God sent Christ to be
the straight and narrow way that leads to life. And the straight
and narrow way is plenty wide enough for you. Don't think,
well, it's so narrow, I can't fit. It's so straight, I can't
fit. It's plenty wide enough for any
sinner who will come naked. who come carrying nothing. You
can't come carrying a suitcase now. You can't come carrying
a suitcase full of these things you think will recommend you
to God, all these things you think you've done. You can't
come wearing a backpack now and think you're going to have some
provisions along the way. No. You've got to come naked. You've got to come empty. You've
got to come carrying nothing. And if you'll come to God that
way, the straight and narrow way, it'll be wide enough for
you. The way is wide open to any sinner that will come to
God in Christ, pleading nothing but Christ. But God knew that
by nature His people would not do that. That His people would
be in a sinful way of death and destruction and rebellion. So
you know what God did? God didn't leave it up to them
to change paths. God put His people in Christ. He put them in Christ, the way
of life. And as a man, the way of the
Lord Jesus Christ was perfection in life. And by God's grace,
the way of God's people is the way of Christ our representative. What He did, we who believe did
too. So our way is the way of perfection.
It's the way of life because we're in Christ. And the way
to God is through the Lord Jesus Christ. You come to God in Him,
you'll be accepted. And you know that believers are
in that way. God put them in that way. Put
them in Christ's way. And do you know believers will
never fall out of that way. Some folks might hang around
the doctrine for a while and leave. But nobody who's in Christ's
way will ever leave it. Job said this, Job 17 verse 9. The righteous also shall hold
on his way. Now that's the Lord Jesus Christ.
He's the righteous one. The Lord, our righteousness,
He shall hold on His way. He has brought in everlasting
righteousness. He brought salvation to His people
and He'll hold on to His way. He'll not lose one of them. No
man can pluck any of God's sheep out of His hand. And none of
God's elect will ever become unrighteous. Ever. They'll never
come out of the way. Because the Lord Jesus Christ,
the righteous one, shall hold on His way. And because Christ
is our way, the believer can also say this with absolute assurance. The righteous shall also hold
on His way. The believer will hold on His
way. And he'll not leave Christ. He'll
not depart from faith in Christ. He won't do it. Can't do it.
You know why He'll hold on His way? And He'll never leave Christ. Do you know why? Because Christ
the Savior won't let us. He won't let us leave Him. He
won't let us leave the way. The psalmist here says the Lord
compassed our path. And at first I thought that meant
like He surrounds us and won't let us leave the path. That's
not exactly what it means. The word compass there means
winnows. Like they would winnow the chaff
from the wheat. You know, they get the wheat and the chaff and
the whatever they... threshing floor, whatever, and
they have big fans and they blow and the chaff is light. The air
just blows it away. It blows the chaff away and leaves
the weed. That's what God does with His
people. He winnows us. He blows the chaff away and stops
that chaff, the chaff of the flesh, the worthless husk of
the flesh, stops it from taking control and making us leave Christ. Now the Lord is acquainted. with
all of our ways. And when you think of that in
terms of being a sinner, that frightens you, doesn't it? But
when you think about just being a believer, the Lord is acquainted
with all of our ways. This will comfort your heart.
He knows all of our ways. He'll never let us fall out of
it. He knows where we're going before we do. And stops us from
departing from Him. the righteous also shall hold
on His way." Our Savior, Christ the way, the truth, and the life,
He'll see to it for us. It's not that we've got to be
so strong, we're going to hang on ourselves. No, Christ is all.
He's my way, and He'll see to it I stay in it. All right, number
three, Christ is all. Christ is all of my sin offering. Verse five. Thou hast beset me
behind and before, and laid Thine hand upon Me." This word, beset,
it means besieged. Like an army would come and lay
siege to a city and they'd surround it, they wouldn't lay anything
out. They're trying to starve them out. They're trying to destroy
them. And when the Father made Christ to be sin for His people,
the Father beset His Son. He laid siege to His Son with
the intention of punishing Him fully and destroying Him. Putting
Him to death for that sin that became His sin. The Father laid
His hand of justice upon His Son. He laid a heavy, heavy hand
of holy wrath upon Christ our substitute. He stretched out
His hand and He plunged the sword of justice into the heart of
His fellow. And in that great sacrifice,
The Lord Jesus Christ paid the awful, bloody price for sin. He suffered until there was no
more sin. He suffered until His blood washed
away all the sin that was laid upon Him. He suffered until His
agony put all of that sin away. So the sin of God's elect is
gone forever. It does not exist. So you know
what the result of Christ's sacrifice is for God's people? Now God
lays His hand. Not His hand of justice. Not
His hand of wrath. He lays His hand of mercy and
grace on His people. He reaches way down for me. Way down. And pulls His people
up out of the deep miry clay and saves them by His grace.
By His justice. His hand is not short and it
cannot save. It reaches His people where they are. Every last one
of them. because he took his hand of justice
and smote his son with it as our substitute. And Christ our
Savior has completely eradicated this problem of sin for his people. Earlier in the psalm, we saw
how the Lord sees our sin nature. Well, you know, no one knows
better than the Lord that the power of our sin nature was destroyed
when Christ died as our substitute. Earlier we saw how the Lord sees
all the sin of His people. The sin of action, the sin of
thought, the sin of word, the sin of their way. Nobody knows
better than the Lord that all of the sin of His people, all
of the sin of thought, all of the sin of word, all of their
sin of deed, all of the sin of their way has been put away under
the blood of Christ. No one knows better than Him
because He's the one that did the transaction. So the believer can say, Lord,
search me and know me in Christ. Not in myself, not in Adam, but
search me and know me in Christ. And the all-seeing eye of Almighty
God. Everybody knows God sees everything.
He sees everything that exists. Everybody knows that, right?
But the all-seeing eye of God can't find even one speck of
sin in His people. because the sacrifice of Christ
completely and fully put it away and washed His people white as
snow. Now there is such good news there
in the sacrifice of Christ for His people. Now it's awful. It's awful to think what He suffered. I mean, you just try to imagine
the sufferings of Christ. I promise you, we haven't scratched
the surface. I mean, the sufferings are so much greater than we can
imagine and what we imagine is horrible. It's awful what he
suffered. But what good news in that sacrifice. That's good news to me. I tell
you, I am so sinful. The only way my sin could be
put away is in the blood of the Son of God. The blood of the
Son of God is so powerful, it washes his people white as snow
and makes them accepted by the thrice holy God. Because Christ
is all of our sacrifice. He doesn't need us to sacrifice
anything to help Him out. By His one sacrifice, He has once
and for all put away the sin of His people. And then fourthly,
last, Christ is all. He's our only object of worship. Verse 6, David says, such knowledge
is too wonderful for me. It's high. I cannot attain unto
it. This is what David actually wrote
that word attain is in italics. It's been added by the translators.
This is what David actually wrote. Such knowledge is too wonderful
for me. It's high. I cannot. I cannot undo. He just couldn't
find the word. I cannot undo it. He couldn't find the words
to describe the glory of the Savior. He couldn't find the
words to describe how glorious Christ is to me. He couldn't
find the words to fully explain how it is that when I look at
myself, all I see is sin. My actions, my uprising, my down
sitting, my thoughts, my way, my words, my nature, all I see
about myself is sin. Yet when God sees me, I have
no sin. I'm white as snow. How God could
take my sin and make that sin to be Christ and put Him, I cannot. The human words don't exist to
describe the glory of that. David just said, I cannot. I
can't find the words to say how amazing it is that God would
sacrifice His Son. That He'd slaughter His Son.
That He'd humiliate His Son to be made flesh. and dwell on this
earth as a representative of his people. He'd humiliate his
son to be curiously wrought in the lower parts of the earth.
We'll get to that here in a couple of weeks. To be an embryo in
the womb of the Virgin Mary. To be born and be under the rule
of parents who he created, who he's giving life and breath to. to grow up under that system
of the law, his own law, and keep it perfectly. To be humiliated
when his hour finally came to give himself to both the Jews
and the Gentiles, to be humiliated, stripped naked, to be tortured,
having his beard plucked out, to be mocked and made fun of,
to be wearing some old a Roman soldier's blanket as a king's
robe, a crown of thorns on his head, a reed as a scepter in
his hand, be mocked and made fun of. Be blindfolded and have
them soldiers just hit him in the face with their fists and
say, you're a prophet? Prophesy and tell me who hit
you. And then for the Holy Son of
God to be made sin. Now, the Father loves the Son. And still yet, he made his son
sin for his people. And in an absolute justice with
no hint of love, no hint of mercy, no hint of kindness, no hint
of, well, he didn't do it. It's the sin of somebody else.
No, it is his sin. Put him to death for it in the most painful,
horrible way that we can imagine. I say with David, I cannot. I can't find the words to say
what it is that somebody as wonderful and as precious as the Lord Jesus
Christ would do something so awful for a vile wretch like
me. But He did. I'm thankful. I can't find the words to say
how gracious God is to sinners like me. I can't find the right
words. to express the right amount of
thanksgiving? How can we ever thank God for what He's done
for us? How can we ever? How can we ever find the words
to praise God for His grace as He ought to be praised? How can
we find the human words to praise God for His character? How can
we ever praise Him the way He ought to be praised? How can
we find human words that are sufficient to worship God as
He ought to be worshipped? All we can do is say with David,
I cannot. All we can do is fall before
Him in silent heart worship and awe. I cannot. All I can do is beg Him, Lord,
save me. Save me. Save me. See me only
in the Lord Jesus Christ. This is my great prayer every
day, as I prepare to preach messages here Sundays and Wednesdays,
this is my great prayer, that the Lord would show us His glory. Lord, show us Your glory. Reveal
Your glory to us. Because this I promise you, if
we ever see His glory, we'll fall down in worship. We won't
be hunting around for the right words. We won't be concerned
about, oh, do I have all the right words? Do I have the right
order of service? Am I doing this right? If God shows us His
glory, we'll worship. And it will be heart worship. And the only thing I know to
do in light of such a Savior, in light of such a salvation
for sinners, the only thing I know to do is to worship the Lord
Jesus Christ, to worship God our Savior. The only thing I know to do is
keep preaching Him. I drive down this road, and normally,
I've got Janet with me to talk me off the ledge. I'm depressed. I didn't say that right. I didn't
say that well enough. And brother, if you're depending
on my words, on my ability to show you the glory of Christ,
you're going to be sorely mistaken. I know they're not sufficient
to His glory. I know. But could be. Could be. I'll take His word. and the stumbling, bumbling words
of a man and apply it to the hearts of His people. Enable
them to see Christ. Could be, because you know why
I have hope? Because He said it's by the foolishness
of preaching God saves His people. So while part of me says, I cannot. I can't find the words. This
is what I'm determined to do. Keep trying. Keep preaching Him. Keep pointing you and me both
to Him. Because nothing else is worth talking about. Nothing
else will do your soul any good at all. If God the Holy Spirit
gives us faith to see our need, to see we're nothing and that
Christ is all, we'll have no problem worshipping Him, will
we? No problem. No problem resting in Him. That's
what I pray. God will do for us tonight. Alright,
let's bow together. Our Father, how we thank You
for the precious words of this psalm, showing us how in any
way we can look at it, Christ is all. He's all that we need. Father, I beg of You that You
take Your Word as it's been preached tonight and use it to reveal
Your glory to the hearts of each one here Cause each one of us
here, by a miracle of your sovereign grace, to leave here with a gift
of faith, believing, trusting, and resting in the Lord Jesus
Christ as our all in all. Father, how we thank you. How
we thank you for him, and how we pray you'd bless your word.
All these things we ask and we give thanks in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ for his glory, And for His sake we pray, Amen.