All right, let's open our Bibles
again to Psalm 64. Psalm that we read just a few
moments ago. I titled the message this evening,
the righteous shall be glad. I took that from verse 10, which
says the righteous shall be glad in the Lord. But before we get
to the righteous being glad in verse 10, we've got to look at
the rest of the Psalm to find out why are they glad? Do they
have a good reason to be glad? Or are they glad just because
they ignore the things going on around them or they got good
drugs? Or do they have a good reason to be glad? Well, our
Psalm tells us that they do. The righteous are glad because
of what Christ accomplished for them when he was crucified for
their sin. This is the theme of the gospel.
Christ Jesus, the Son of God, came to this earth, made a man
to die for sinners. He came to be the righteousness
of his elect. Now that should make every sinner
glad. But you know it doesn't. It doesn't.
The self-righteous religious person has a completely different
reaction to that than the righteous do. And our Psalm begins in verse
one with the Savior. This is the Savior praying to
his father. He says, hear my voice, O God,
in my prayer, preserve my life from the enemy. Now, you know,
our Savior is not asking the father to spare him from dying
on the cross. That's why he came to earth in
the first place. He came here to die for sin. for the sin of
his people. So he's not asking to be delivered
from death. If he is delivered from dying
on the cross, his people will not be saved. So that's not what
he's asking for. He's praying as a man and he's
asking his father to strengthen him. He taught his preserve my
life from fear of the enemy. Don't let me fear going to the
cross so that I don't go. Now this is one of the many things
about our God and our Savior I do not understand. But the
Lord Jesus Christ feared suffering on the cross. He feared being
made sin. He feared the humiliation of
it. You and I can't understand the humiliation of sin because
it's all we've ever been. He's got a point of reference.
He knew no sin. He did no sin. And he knows the
humiliation of what it is, the wretchedness of it to be made
sin because it's contrary to his nature. He feared being separated
from his father's presence. He feared the agony of suffering
his father's wrath. Before he went to the cross,
all he ever knew of his father was love and union and unity. And he feared suffering his father's
wrath. I'm pretty confident we'll never
understand the full extent of the suffering of our savior,
the suffering that he feared. And you know, we haven't even
touched on his physical sufferings yet. The son of God being put
into the hands of the creature to do with him as they will was
so contrary to nature. The sun refused to shine upon
it. I mean, what a horrible thing. And the savior feared. that suffering. Now, all of us understand a little
bit about fear, don't we? Fear is a horrible, horrible
feeling to endure. And you know, many times the
fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself, isn't it? Often
we say, oh, fear of death, it wasn't near as bad as what I
was afraid it would be. Not for our Savior. that he knew
full well what he was going to suffer. He knew the full extent
of what he was going to suffer when he took the sins of his
people upon himself and undertook to save them from their sins
by dying as their substitute. He knew exactly how awful it
would be. And he knew that he could call
12 legions of angels. Stop this thing right now. All
he had to do is say the word. Those angels, you know, were
just perched, just ready, just waiting for the commandment.
And he could have said the word and they had to come and stop
this thing. But he prayed that the father strengthened him to
not let that fear overcome him and enable him to go to the cross
and glorify his father by saving his people in justice, by suffering
for justice and satisfying justice for them. This was the Savior's
heart's desire to glorify his father and to save his people
from their sins. Now that melts the heart of the
righteous and makes them glad to think that the Savior was
willing to suffer that. Everything he suffered for the
likes of you and me. Oh, that makes the righteous
glad. In verse two, he goes on and says, hide me from the secret
counsel of the wicked. from the insurrection of the
workers of iniquity. Now look at Matthew chapter 20.
You know, again, the Savior's not asking to be delivered from
the hand of the wicked. You know, he knew this must happen.
He knew he must be delivered into the hands of the wicked.
This was God's eternal will concerning the redemption of his people.
Matthew chapter 20, verse 18. So look at verse 17. And Jesus
going up to Jerusalem took the 12 disciples apart in the way
and said unto them, behold, we go up to Jerusalem and the son
of man should be betrayed under the chief priest and under the
scribes. And they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver
him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify him.
And the third day he shall rise again. Now, you know, the savior
is not asking to be delivered. from that, from being delivered
from the hands of the wicked. He fully intended. He said, this
is going to happen. I'm going to go. I'm going to
be delivered. I'm going to be mocked. I'm going to be scourged.
I'm going to be crucified and I'm going to die. And the third
day I'm going to rise again. Victorious. I've justified my
people from all their sin. He doesn't want to avoid that.
What he's praying to his father is, Father, don't let their secret
plans come to pass. Don't let their will come to
pass, cause your will to come to pass. And the desire of the chief priests,
of the Pharisees, of the elders, is the same desire that religious
people have today. They hear of a sovereign savior
who saves whom he will. Christ came to save God's elect
and only God's elect, only those people will be saved. And they'll
be saved by Christ alone without any of their works. No, I don't
care if they call them good works or they want to call them. Their
good works will never contribute one thing to them. This is all
the work of God alone. And the self-righteous person
hears that and hates it and says, I'm going to get rid of that
Jesus. I'm not going to have that. I will not have that man
to reign over me. Now I'll take the Jesus that
I've decided to accept. I'll take this Jesus that I'm
in control of, but I'm not going to take this one who's in control
of me. I'm not going to have that. And
that is so evil. That's so wicked. Did you notice
the word here in our text? God calls that insurrection. It's insurrection. It's trying
to overthrow the government of almighty God. That's a serious
matter. That's a serious matter. This
is what the Savior is praying, that their will, their purpose
not happen. You think what trouble we'd be
in if men could do what they want to do and take God off the
throne. And man's will would be done and God's will wouldn't
be done. You'd think what trouble we'd be in. Well, I'll tell you
what makes the righteous glad is to know that can never happen. The righteous are glad that our
Savior prayed that they fail in their insurrection. God's
purpose shall be done. God saw to it that salvation
is not going to be left up to the will of man. It's going to
be the will of God. And the righteous are glad. One
thing that is universally true when you find the righteous,
the righteous are glad God's on the throne. Oh, I'm glad of
that. I'm glad His will They cannot
be thwarted. They can't be turned in any way.
God's will is the redemption of His people through the obedience
and the sacrifice of His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and that
will is going to happen. Nothing can stop it because God's
on the throne. And you can take that pretty well as far as you
want in anything. Just take it as far as you want.
The righteous are glad God's on the throne. In our redemption,
we're glad God's on the throne. I wouldn't be saved otherwise,
I know that. And the righteous are glad that in every trial,
that in every sorrow, that in every painful experience, the
righteous are glad to know God's on the throne. Man's will's not
going to be done in this. God's will is going to be done,
even in this trial, and the righteous are glad. But the heathen rage,
the reaction of the wicked to Christ our Savior is in verse
3 in our text. Psalm 64, who wet their tongue
like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter
words that they may shoot in secret at the perfect. Suddenly
do they shoot at him and fear not. Now the wicked use their
tongues as weapons. Their tongues are like swords
and arrows that pierce and cut and devour. That's what the Pharisees,
the chief priest did. They tried to have the Lord Jesus
put to death. by their word, their lying and
their slanderous words. And they had to do it that way
because no true charge could be brought against him, could
it? No, he's sinless. He never did anything wrong.
This is talking about those Jews shooting their words at the Lord
Jesus Christ. They shoot them at the perfect,
at the perfect. Well, that can only be talking
about our Lord Jesus Christ. He's the only perfect man that
ever lived. And the nature of man hasn't
changed. one bit from then to today. People are just as guilty
when they use their tongues to speak against the God of the
Bible. People are just as guilty when they hear that Christ died
only for God's elect and he cannot fail to save those people. It's
not that he died for everybody and some people are going to
be saved and some people are not because it's up to them. Well,
that makes Christ a failure. He failed to save somebody for
whom he died. And people hear the gospel and
say, that's not so. Christ died only for his elect
and those people shall be saved. And what do they do? They open
their mouth and speak against it. Speak against it. When they
hear of salvation being the decision, not of man, but of God. And they
speak against that. Well, they're guilty of insurrection. against God's government. They're
trying to be done with God's Son and put Him to death. And
the righteous are glad that God has stopped their purpose from
coming to pass. God's will was done, wasn't it? In everything, but let's just
confine ourselves to the cross. Whose will was done at the cross?
Well, it was God's will. Instead of putting the Lord Jesus
to death so they'd never have to deal with Him again, They
put him to death and God raised him from the dead. Because the
death of Christ accomplished God's will. And all of God's
elect were saved from their sin by the death of Christ, their
substitute. And the righteous are glad. Oh,
nothing makes them more glad than that. And God has made this
same Jesus who the wicked crucified. He's made him both Lord and Christ.
Made him judge of all. Lord of all. Made him the one
with whom we have to do. Well, the wicked accomplished
the opposite of their will, didn't they? No, they didn't do away
with him. They made him the one with whom
they have to do. And the righteous are glad. I
read on in verse 5 here about the wicked. They encourage themselves
in an evil manner. They commune of laying snares
of privilege. They say, who shall see them?
And they get together and they encourage themselves, like they
whip each other up into a frenzy, you know, in this evil matter. They encourage everybody to keep
up these wicked desires. They were, the Pharisees, the
chief priests, they were utterly consumed with this man, Jesus
of Nazareth. I mean, every time they got together,
they were consumed with their desire to get rid of this man. He tells us about it in verse
6. He says, they search out iniquities. They accomplish a diligent search.
Both the inward thought of every one of them and the heart is
deep. When they accomplish a diligent
search, that means they're consumed by that which they have thoroughly
searched out. They're consumed by it. I mean, you just think how many
times did the Pharisees think, oh, we got him now. We're going
to lay out this trap for this man, Jesus, and we're going to
be done. All the traps that they tried to set, every single one
of them failed. And they thought, you know, we
cooked this plan up in secret. We thought, who shall see us?
Who's going to see us cooking this up? Nobody knows this but
us. One time, a lawyer thought, he didn't even talk about it
with anybody. He just thought it in his mind.
Who can know what's going on in my mind? And he was so surprised
to find out the Lord knew everything he was thinking, that nothing
is kept secret from him. And it made him so mad, it made
him so frustrated. But the righteous are glad. Aren't
you glad all their traps failed? The righteous are glad they're
not going to have to deal with the wicked forever. Verse 7.
But God shall shoot at them with an arrow, the arrow of his justice.
Suddenly shall they be wounded. So they shall make their own
tongue to fall upon themselves. All that see them shall flee
away. You know, one time they had all
these friends and everybody's running from them. They don't
want to be around them, don't want to be like them, because God's judgment
has come. God will come and suddenly destroy
them. Maybe he'll come and suddenly
take them off this earth. Maybe he wouldn't. It will seem
to them, though, the day of judgment will come suddenly, when they'll
be eternally destroyed. Now, remember how they used their
tongues as weapons against the Lord? Well, God's going to turn
their weapons upon themselves. He's going to turn their words
upon themselves and use the words of their own mouth to destroy
them. Remember when they said, we will not believe this Jesus. We will not believe him. There's
no salvation without faith in Christ. Then they won't be saved. They'll be damned. Remember when
they said, we won't have this man. We don't want Jesus. Give us, grab us and destroy
Jesus. Well, there's no salvation without
union with Christ. They said they didn't want him.
God said, all right, I'll give you what you want. And they were
destroyed by the words of their own mouth, cut off from the only
salvation that there is, from the only savior that there is. This is one I quote often because
to me, it's one of the most chilling statements. They said, let his
blood be on us, on our heads and on our children. Let the guilt of his death be
on us and on our children. And God said, all right. He gave
them what they wanted. And to this day, the Jews are
in blindness. His blood is still on the children. And unless God moves in grace,
they're going to die in that very guilt and perish eternally. And it'll be their own fault.
The words of their own mouth. Now, the damnation, the destruction
of the wicked is not what makes the righteous glad. In that day,
we read it in Revelation 19, in that day we'll rejoice. We'll
rejoice. But the righteous are not rejoicing
so much as making fun of the wicked when they're destroyed.
The righteous will be glad because in the end, God's going to be
glorified. In the end, God's going to be glorified in every
son of Adam. He'll either be glorified in
his justice, in Sin and Undel, or he'll be glorified in his
grace, saving them by his grace and satisfying justice for them.
And one day, now I know, Almost seems like almost nobody sees
that today. Nobody, nobody sees it unless
God gives them eyes to see. But one day all men are going
to see this. Look at verse nine. And all men shall fear and shall
declare the work of God for they shall wisely consider his doing. One day after, after the resurrection,
I reckon in the judgment one day, all men, All sons of Adam
are going to consider Christ's work wisely. They're going to
consider His work of redemption wisely. Then they're going to
see, oh, how wise God was in providing a salvation for His
people that's both just and merciful. That day, they're going to consider
it wisely. That day, they're going to see it. And they're
going to say, how could we have missed it? How could we have
missed it? Men have come up with so many different ways to be
saved. Man inherently knows, I've got
to do something to make God happy with me. I'm separated from God.
I've got to do, I've got to answer to him. I've got to do something
to make him happy with me. But here's our problem. Man's
not wise. We lost all of our wisdom when
Adam fell. So man cannot devise a way to
satisfy all of the attributes of God at the same time. Now,
man knows there must be mercy. I mean, it's just obvious. I'm
a sinner. If I'm gonna be saved, I've got
to have mercy. Man knows God's mercy must be
satisfied in saving sinners. His mercy's got to be satisfied
by not punishing that sinner for their sin. But this is what
man does not know. God's justice must also be satisfied. It's got to be. God's justice
has got to be satisfied by punishing every sin without exception. And man cannot find a way. Man
doesn't even try to find a way because he doesn't even know
that he should. He can't find a way to satisfy both God's mercy
and God's justice at the same time. The best man could come
up with is this. Well, now, y'all, let's just
do the best we can. If we all just do the best we can, then
God will take care of the rest. I was watching television the
other day and actually heard a person make that statement.
Let's just do the best that we can and then God will take care
of the rest. Let's just let God's mercy take care of what I can't
take care of. Now, I suppose that would be
mercy. It's not God's mercy, but that
would be a form of mercy, wouldn't it? But the problem is there's
no justice there, is there? There's no justice at all. If
God's going to save a sinner like that, you just do the best
you can. And God will take care of the rest. He'll just ignore,
you know, what you can't do right. There's no justice there. God's
going to have to ignore justice to show mercy to sinners. And
He can't do that. But I'll tell you what makes
the righteous glad. It's God today. Not in that day
when it's too late, but today in this life. He makes the righteous
see. God's wisdom in salvation. If
you want to see God's wisdom put on full display, you don't
have to look to a lot of different places. You just got to look
to one place. Look to the Lord Jesus Christ
and you'll see God's wisdom. Oh, the righteous see because
God's given them eyes to see Christ. They see how God can
be both just and justified. God can be just and justify the
ungodly. by punishing their sin in the
person of Christ our substitute, by making his son to be our substitute,
and making him bear the punishment, the penalty for our sin, and
giving him, giving his elect the righteousness that Christ
their representative worked out when he obeyed the law for them.
The righteous see that? Oh, nothing makes the righteous
gladder than that, nothing, because this is a salvation cannot fail. The righteous are glad. Now we
get to verse 10. Let me give you three things
that the righteous shall do here in verse 10, Psalm 64. The righteous
shall be glad in the Lord and the righteous shall trust in
him and all the upright in heart shall glory. And we've already
seen several different ways how the righteous are glad. that
God's will is always done. The will of wicked man is not
what is preeminent in anything. God's will is preeminent in all
things. But this gladness goes a whole
lot deeper than that. You see what David says here,
the righteous shall be glad in the Lord. That's the key to this
thing, in the Lord. The righteous are glad that all
of their salvation is in the Lord. The salvation from beginning
to end, all of it, is of the Lord. It began when God elected
the people unto salvation. Now election makes the righteous
glad. God's electing love makes the
righteous glad. Because I never would have chosen
God. Never would have. But he chose me. Oh, that makes
the righteous glad. It makes them thankful. It doesn't
make the others. I had a man tell me one time
the problem with election is everybody who believes in election
thinks they're better than everybody else. I said, then you're not
talking about somebody who believes in election. People who believe
in God's electing love don't think they're better than everybody
else. They think they're worse than everybody else. They're
thankful. They're thankful God chose them.
But they know they're not better than anybody else. The only reason
I choose God is because he chose me first. Then the righteous
are glad to know that Christ came as a man, as their representative,
and he made them righteous by his obedience to the law. Christ's
vicarious obedience, his righteousness given to his people makes the
righteous glad because this is what the righteous know. I couldn't
make myself righteous. I can't obey the law. But Christ
did for me what I cannot do for myself. He obeyed the law for
me and he made me righteous. He gave me a righteousness I
could never lose. Just suspend reality for a minute
and suppose, suppose you had the ability to keep the law. How long would you keep it? How
long would it take for you to rebel anyway? Didn't take too
long for our father Adam to do it. I don't think it'd take too
long for us to do it either. And then we lose that righteousness
and have no way to get it back. But Christ obeying the law for
his people and giving them his obedience and making them righteous
is giving them a righteousness that they can never lose. And
that makes the righteous glad. And it was Christ who went to
Calvary's tree to pay the sin debt of his people by the blood
of his sacrifice. And that makes the righteous
glad. Hearing of the sacrifice of Christ always makes the righteous
glad because this is what the righteous know. I've got nothing
to pay. But he did. And he paid it all
for me. Oh, that makes the righteous
glad. And the righteous know it's the Holy Spirit who came
and called them to Christ. I never would have come unless
the Holy Spirit called me with an invincible call that I couldn't
say no to. He called me. He revealed Christ
to me and in me. He gave me faith. He gave me
life in Christ. And that makes the righteous
glad. We never would have come unless the Spirit drew us to
Christ. We never would have seen Christ. Unless the Holy Spirit
gave us eyes to see Him and convinced us of Him, we never would have
been able to make ourselves live. The Spirit had to come and make
us live. It's just like that baby you
read. The Lord had to come and say, live! Or that baby would
have died. That baby in Ezekiel 16 would
have died. Unless God came and said, live!
All that makes the righteous glad. That's Hosme life. He came and said, live in His
power. All that makes the righteous
glad. The righteous are glad that Christ is their righteousness. Nothing makes them more glad
than that. It makes them so glad. Now, again, we've got to suspend
reality for a minute, but suppose that we could choose how it is
we're going to be made righteous. Am I going to be made righteous
by my obedience to the law? Or am I going to be made righteous
by Christ? Well, the righteous will choose Christ every day
of the week twice on Sunday, every day. Because Christ being
made sin for us, to make us the righteousness of God in Him is
so much more glorious than me keeping a law among myself. Oh,
that makes the righteous glad. It makes us glad because it is
impossible for a man to make himself righteous by his own
obedience to the law. It's impossible for us to make
ourselves righteous by all of our religious activity. That's
the question Job asked, wasn't it? He said, I know it's overture.
How can a man be just with God? How? Well, I can tell you this,
it's not by anything we do. Christ is the answer to the age
old riddle. Christ is the answer to Job's
age old question. Sinners are made righteous in
Christ. in His obedience for His people
and the righteous are glad. The righteous are glad because
now we have no reason to fear. No charge can ever stick against
them because Christ has made them righteous. They don't have
to fear the law. They don't have to fear dying.
They don't have to fear anything. They're innocent. Christ has
made them innocent. The righteous are glad that they're righteous
in Christ because there is eternal safety Christ our righteousness. There is therefore now no condemnation
to them which are in Christ Jesus. The righteous are glad. They're
safe from condemnation. They're safe from God's wrath. When God the Holy Spirit comes
and shows us that there is no hope of salvation in ourselves,
we're mighty sad, aren't we? But now we've got to start God's
got to cut out everything we stand on, everything we lean
on. He's got to show us there is no hope of righteousness in
anything that we do and makes us so sad, so filled with sorrow
and fear. Oh, but then when we see Christ
the Savior who makes his people righteous, we're glad. The righteous
are glad that Christ is their righteousness. They rejoice in
the Lord. All right, here's the second
thing the righteous will do. the righteous, every one of them,
shall trust in Christ. Almighty God, the Father, elected
a people unto salvation. God the Son came and he died
for the sin of those people. But there is no salvation without
faith in Christ. There's no salvation without
a new birth, where there's a new man born who trusts Christ to
be all of our salvation. To trust Christ simply means
this, that we trust Him to do everything it takes to save our
sinful soul, and we don't contribute one thing to it. We don't contribute
a single work to it, before conversion or after conversion. We trust
that Christ is enough. Now, if Christ is all, Christ
is enough. And that's trusting Christ. Faith
is just trusting Christ to do everything that it takes to save
me. But here's our problem. Man by nature cannot do it. Cannot
trust Christ. And man by nature refuses, will
not trust Christ. Our carnal mind doesn't have
the ability to trust Christ. Our nature doesn't even want
to trust Christ and we couldn't make ourselves trust him if we
wanted to. So how is it that the righteous
trust Christ? Because God gives them a great
gift. It's the gift of faith. God gives
the gift of faith to every one of His elect. For by grace are
you saved through faith. And that not of yourselves, it's
the gift of God. And the righteous are glad to
receive such a wonderful gift from God. You think who's giving
the gift and who's receiving it? God Almighty is giving this
glorious gift of faith in His Son to the most unworthy sinners. Oh, that makes the righteous
glad that he's given me faith in Christ. And here's proof positive,
the wicked did not accomplish their purpose when they crucified
Christ, but instead they accomplished God's purpose. When does a sinner believe on
Christ? You who believe, when is it that
you believed on Christ? When is it that you received
faith in Christ and you came to him? Look at John chapter
12. You may not know, and I don't,
many, I would say many believers do not, don't know the exact
moment that we first believe, but I can tell you when a sinner
believes on Christ. It's when we hear the gospel
preached. And in that preaching of the gospel, Christ crucified
is lifted up and God gives them an eye of faith. They see him
and they're drawn to him. They just are so drawn to the
one who would be crucified for me. John 12, 32. And I, if I
be lifted up from the earth, will draw all unto me. Now you'll
notice that word men is in italics. It was added by the translators.
The savior did not say he would draw all men unto him. He said,
I'll draw all unto me. Who's the all? It's all that
the father has given him. And when they hear of Christ
lifted up, crucified, oh, they'll be so glad to think that the
son of God was crucified. He was lifted up and he was crucified. He suffered and died for me. Then I'll never die. That sure makes me glad, doesn't
he? Oh, I'm so glad to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. All
the righteous will trust him. And then third thing the righteous
will do, they shall glory. David in the very end of this
verse describes the righteous as the upright in heart. Now
the righteous are righteous because they've been given a new heart.
They've been given a new nature. Christ's obedience and his death
for his people didn't just give them a righteous legal standing
before God. Christ's obedience and his death
for his people made his elect righteous, made them actually
truly righteous. It gives them a new righteous
heart, a new righteous nature, and they are righteous. David
says, those people shall glory. They should glory in the Lord. Now, I look that word glory up
and it's a rich word. It has many different definitions.
I'm going to give you three of them. That word glory means to
be clear. The righteous are crystal clear
about who it is that made them righteous. It's not, well, you
know, it's a kind of a hazy thing. It's me and Jesus doing our thing.
No, no, no, no. They're crystal clear about this.
It's Christ alone. He is all my salvation. And they
clearly, clearly praise Christ because he did for me what I
could never do for myself. They're clear about this thing
of the gospel. And then that word glory means to boast. They're
righteous. Now, they're a humble people.
But they boast. They do. They boast. But they
only boast about Christ. They only glory in the cross
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And it's not that they're glorying
in that piece of wood, whatever shape it was in. They're not
glorying in that. When they say that they glory
in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, they're glorying in what
it is he accomplished there. Man's will wasn't accomplished
there. God's will was accomplished there. And they boast. They rejoice. They glory. This is my salvation. What Christ accomplished there
of the tree for me. And then thirdly, and this is
why I read Revelation 19 to open the surface, this word glory
means to give in marriage and to celebrate. Revelation 19 talks
about calling those to the wedding, to the marriage of the Lamb.
And that's what heaven will be. It'll be this glory to be given
in marriage to God's only Son. And to celebrate the wedding
feast of the Lamb for eternity, and this is what we'll celebrate. As long as eternity lasts, we'll
never get over it. The Lord Jesus Christ chose to
marry me. Now, every once in a while, it
comes to my mind, I'm shocked that Janet would marry me. She
could have done a whole lot better, but she did, and I'm glad. but to think that the Holy Son
of God would choose to marry me. And all His people are just
like me. Choose to take His people and
make her His bride. That He would do everything it
took to redeem her. That He'd lift her up from that
muck and mire and awful sin that she was in, the deadness that
she... And He'd lift her up. He'd lift her up. And he doesn't
just rule over her with an iron fist. Not only did he do everything
it took to redeem her, he does everything it took to make her
go ahead. That's what we'll do in glory.
Nothing makes the righteous happy than to be married to Christ
and to be joined to him forever. And that's what we'll do. Heaven
will be an eternal wedding feast of the Lamb, rejoicing in Christ
our great Righteous shall be glad. Let's bow together in prayer. Our Father, how we thank you
for this blessed portion of your word. Father, I pray you'd apply
it to our hearts, that you'd open it up to our understanding
and our hearts. Enable us all to leave here tonight
rejoicing, to be in Christ our Savior, to be glad. Oh, how we
thank you the righteous will be glad. Even in all of our sorrows
and difficulties and trials and heartbreaks, the righteous shall
be glad. The righteous have good reason
to be glad in the Lord and Christ our Savior. Father, bless your
word as it's been preached tonight, to your glory, to the good of
your people. Let us be glad in the Lord, in
the Lord Jesus Christ. It's in his name and for his
sake, we pray and give thanks.