Let's open our Bibles again to
Psalm 45. I believe I have a message tonight
that will be a real blessing to us. Messages, when we preach
them, that are filled with Christ, that we don't talk about anything
but Christ. Those are the messages that cause
the most joy and excitement in God's people. And the title of
the message this evening is A Heart bubbling over with Christ. You think about the messages
that you've heard that's just caused your heart to bubble over,
just to be left so blessed, so encouraged. Your heart didn't
bubble over with the message about the law. I promise you
that. It didn't bubble over with the message of technicalities.
It might have been impressive, but your heart didn't bubble
over with it. Your heart didn't bubble over hearing about history
or the five points of Calvinism. Your heart bubbles over when
you hear of Christ. And that's what this psalm, that's
why this psalm is going to be a blessing to us. It's all Christ. Charles Spurgeon made this statement
about this Psalm 45. He said, some, when they read
this psalm, only see Solomon and Pharaoh's daughter. Those
people are short-sighted. Some see both Solomon and Christ. Those people, he said, are cross-eyed,
but the well-focused eye. that well-focused spiritual eye
sees Jesus only. And that's what this psalm, it's
all Christ. He begins in verse one, my heart
is indicting a good matter. I speak of things which I have
made touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready
writer. Psalmist begins right from the
very beginning. He says, my heart is gushing
over. When he says his heart is inditing
a good matter, that word inditing means bubbling over. His heart
is gushing over with Christ. God's blessing, if you find God's
blessing, it's found in the heart. When God gives spiritual life
to a sinner, what does He do? He gives a new heart. When God
blesses His people and He speaks to His people, where does He
speak? He speaks to the heart. The best messages are preached
from the heart of God, to the preacher's heart, to the heart
of the people. This is a heart matter. Now,
we must be doctrinally sound. I'm not talking about just saying
things that are going to make us leave here with a warm, fuzzy
feeling. We don't dare say things to make people feel good at the
expense of God's Word. We don't say things to make people
feel good that are not found in God's Word, because if we
do that, people are going to go to hell feeling good about
themselves. We don't want that. So we've got to be doctrinally
sound. But we've also got to remember this. Salvation is not
memorizing all the right facts. Salvation is a heart work. Scripture
describes salvation as Christ being formed in you, as God giving
you a new heart of faith. So I don't want to just preach
to the head. I don't want to preach where your head can understand
what I'm saying, but I want to preach to the head. I don't want
to impress you with, you know, some mystical thing or obscure
thing I've looked up. I want to preach to the heart,
to the heart, because out of the heart are the issues of life. That's what Solomon said. And
David said his tongue is ready to write, is ready to declare
these things concerning Christ the King. If you find somebody
with their heart bubbling over with Christ, they got something
good to say. They got something worth listening
to if their heart is bubbling over with Christ. I'll give you
a few reasons here David's heart is bubbling over. And I pray
the Lord will make our hearts bubble over for the same reasons.
First of all, our hearts bubble over at the beauty of Christ.
Verse 2. He says, Thou art fairer than
the children of men. Grace is poured into thy lips.
Therefore God hath blessed thee forever. Now there's none like
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the fairest among the thousands.
You know, we read in Scripture about people who Scripture says
were beautiful. Sarah was a beautiful woman.
Her husband, he didn't want anybody to know, he doesn't want her
to know that she's my wife, she's going to kill me. That's what
Abraham was afraid of. Rebecca, David, Absalom. They said there's
none like Absalom. He's just a handsome, beautiful
man. But I tell you, there's none. None is beautiful. as the Lord Jesus Christ, if
we see him in the beauty of holiness. Now, there's no beauty that the
flesh sees in Christ, but his people, the spiritual man, sees
Christ in his beauty, his beauty, in his obedience, his perfect
obedience, his righteousness before God. We see the beauty
of his sacrifice. His sacrifice is the only way
sinners can be made holy, pure and clean. We see the beauty
in the risen Savior. He's risen again for our justification
to send Him back to the Father, to sit upon the throne of God,
ruling and reigning, ensuring the salvation of His people.
Oh, He's beautiful. There's none like Him. The title
of this psalm, it says to the chief musician, upon Shoshanim,
if I'm saying that right, Shoshanim, that word means upon the lilies.
Spurgeon says, the title given by the ancients to the most noble
songs. That's what this song is, it's
all about Christ. Our hearts bubble over with the
beauty of Christ. He's the lily of the valley. He feeds among the lilies. There's
no rose as beautiful as Christ, the rose of Sharon. Now, I love
y'all. Y'all are in my heart. I think
about y'all all the time. But I tell you what, I need Christ. I need Him. No flesh can compare
to Him. And I tell you where the beauty
of Christ is seen and heard. It's in what He says. It's in
what He says. It's His Word. You know, we can't
see Christ physically, don't know what He looks like physically.
The only thing we see and hear of Him is from His Word. David
says grace is poured into his lips. So much grace has been
poured into Our Lord Jesus Christ, that grace just flows out upon
everybody that hears him. It's like a honeycomb that's
full of honey. That honey just drips on everything
around it. Those who are around Christ can't help but have his
grace just drip upon them. He's full of grace. That's the
passage of scripture we read to open the surface. Never man
spake like this man. Nobody ever spake like this man.
because the Lord Jesus Christ didn't come speaking about the
law. You know, they heard the Pharisees, the scribes, the priests,
they all talked about the law, didn't they? They heard Christ
speak. He didn't speak of the law. He
spoke of grace. He spoke of grace that satisfied
the law for sinners. I mean, he didn't ignore the
law. He told how the law was fulfilled in grace and mercy
to sinners. Just think of some of the times
our Lord spoke. When he spoke, he didn't talk
about everything you have to do to please God, did he? He
said, you don't have to do anything. Come unto me and rest. Come unto
me and rest. I finished the work. Sinners
flocked to him all the time, didn't they? Constantly surrounded
by sinners, publicans and sinners. And he never one time beat them
up for being without righteousness, being thirsty of righteousness
because they didn't have any righteousness in them. Instead,
what did he say? And he didn't try to keep sinners
away from him. He didn't always try to keep them at arm's length
like the Pharisees did. You know, the Pharisees are supposed
to be the religious leaders. And they were out looking at
everybody saying, stay away from me. I'm holier than thou. The Lord
Jesus is holier than thou. He's holier than all of us. We're
unholy. We're completely unholy. He is
holier than us. But what did he say? to come
unto Me. Suffer the little children to
come unto Me. That poor leper that came to Him, said, Lord,
if You will, You can make me whole. The Lord in compassion. The priest would have gone away.
He would have gone across to the other side of the street
like the parable our Lord told. Instead, the Savior touched him. That's the law. But He touched
him. He said, I will. Be thou clean. Oh, that's what drew sinners
to Him. is He drew them to Him. And then
He didn't condemn sinners for their sin. Now He condemned the
self-righteous for their sin, didn't He? For their self-righteousness.
But He didn't condemn sinners. Remember that poor woman caught
in the very act of adultery. Brought to the Lord. They thought
they'd trapped her. What do you do now? Our Lord dealt with her
accusers. Then He looked up and they're
all gone. This woman taken in a very active adultery. He said,
woman, where are those unaccused? She said, there's no man. He
said, neither do I. Oh, grace, neither do I. His
grace that was poured in him had dripped all over her. Go
and sin no more. His poor disciples. Oh, he had
so many. They did so many things wrong.
He had so many opportunities to beat those fellows up, didn't
he? Remember that time they'd just been with the Lord. Oh,
just what a wonderful blessed day they had. And they took off
on the ship and just in a matter of hours after they'd been with
the Lord, they're so full of fear. They're sure they're going
down to the ship. They're all going to die. And the Lord comes
walking to them on the water. I mean, here's the master. They're
not overjoyed. They're afraid. What did He tell
them? Be not afraid. It is I. Oh, so gracious. And Peter, Peter
denied he even knew him. Next time the Lord saw him, what
did the Lord say? Peter, do you love me? Yes, Lord. You know all things. You know
I love you. So gracious. And then that dying
thief who'd been both thieves railing on him, suddenly that
one thief quit railing on him. In his dying agony, he still
dripped with grace to him. Today, today, thou shalt be with
me in paradise. Oh, what grace. David said he
blessed forever, blessed forever because of the covenant of grace.
There was another time the Savior spoke. In eternity, the Father
spoke of a people he'd chosen to save. But those people will
be lost, they'll be sinful, they'll be rebels, they'll leave God.
And Christ the Son spoke, His words dripping with grace, saying,
Father, I'll be sure to forgive you. You require their salvation
at my hand. I'll do everything it takes to
save them. I'll make them righteous. I'll offer the sacrifice that
puts their sin away. I'll make them whole. I'll bring
them to you. In grace and truth, He came and did just that. He
accomplished all of their salvation so that there's nothing left
for the sinner to do. There's nothing more beautiful to a sinner
than that. There's none that can compare
to the beauty of our Savior. Your heart just bubbles over
with His beauty. And second, our heart bubbles
over because Christ is the mighty conqueror. Verse 3, gird thy
sword upon thy thigh, O Most Mighty, with thy glory and thy
majesty. The sword of Christ, His might,
His glory, His majesty is His word. Look over at Hebrews, Hebrews
chapter 4. This sword is the word. The word
reveals Christ's might and power and glory and salvation. Hebrews
4 verse 12. For the word of God is quick
and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword. piercing even
to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints
and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of
the heart." It's the Word of God that kills the flesh by revealing
our sin nature. When we say kills our flesh,
it means kills any hope in the flesh. This Word kills any hope
that there can be anything good found in this flesh. And at the
same time it kills the flesh, takes away hope in the flesh.
The Word of God gives life to His people, gives spiritual life.
So the prayer of His people is always, Lord, gird on your sword. That was my prayer this evening
before we came over here. Lord, gird on your sword and
go forth to conquer. Go forth to conquer the hearts
of your people. Go forth to conquer, especially
go forth to conquer me. If He does, He's going to do
it through His Word. In verse 4, He says, In thy majesty, ride
prosperously. because of truth and meekness
and righteousness, and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible
things. Now there's some words here in this verse that we would
expect to see describing Christ our King. The first one is prosperously. Christ our King rides prosperously. Everything he does prospers.
The pleasure of the Lord's going to prosper in his hand because
he didn't come trying to do anything. No, he came and did exactly what
he came to The pleasure of the Lord prospered in his hand, and
he saved his people from their sins. And our Lord prospers through
his word. Isaiah 55, 11. So shall my word
be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not return unto
me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I send it. God sends his word. in the saving power. He sends
his word forth to give life, it gives life. He sends forth
his word to comfort the hearts of his people. It prospers, it
comforts their heart. He sends his word to instruct,
it prospers, it instructs the people of God. He rides prosperously. Second word is truth. Christ
our King prospers because of truth. He is the truth of God. This one dripping with grace
at the same time brought truth. Grace and truth came by Christ
Jesus. And he did that by accomplishing
the salvation of his people. That's done in grace, wasn't
it? But it's also done in truth because he satisfied God's justice
for them. He accomplished the salvation
of his people in truth by making them righteous. So God satisfied
with them. Now there cannot be any salvation
without this truth, without justice. And that's the one thing every
false religion lacks. They have yet to come up with
a way to solve the problem of sin and sin nature. Salvation
in Christ saves in grace and truth. It's the only way a sinner
can really be saved because of truth. The third word is righteousness. Christ our King prospers in righteousness. Because He is the righteousness
of His people. His obedience to the law was
perfect. And His obedience to the law
is our actual obedience, if we believe it. The obedience of
His people. It's not like it's theirs. It is theirs. Because
His people were in Him. They did what He did, so we're
righteous in Him. And anyone who's righteous will
be accepted of God. In the next word, terrible things.
Christ, the right hand of God, teaches his people terrible,
terrible things. The word has two meanings. It
means to frighten. And it means to be held in reverence.
Now, grace drips from the lips of our Savior. But don't ever
forget, this one who speaks is King. He speaks of terrible things. He teaches us frightening things
of God's holy justice. what he suffered. Look at the
sacrifice of Christ. Look what he suffered in order
to save his people from their sin. Terrible things. God's holy wrath against sin
is terrible. It's frightening. It's at the
cross where we learn God's holy hatred of sin, even when it's
found upon his son. He'll not spare his son, but
give him the full wrath of God against that sin. Those are terrible
things. And that leaves me frightened. It leaves me frightened to be
found outside of Christ because I need Him. I need to be in Him.
I'm frightened to stand before God in my own goodness. So I
need grace. I need Christ to be my substitute. At the same time, I'm frightened.
I'm frightened to be without Christ. I'm frightened to stand
before God in my own goodness. How I hold that dear Savior in
reference. reference and worship. He ought
to be worshiped. He ought to be revered, shouldn't
he? Look who he is. Look what he's done for his people.
Oh, he teaches his people terrible things. But there's another word
here. It seems to not go with the rest
of them. It's meekness, meekness. This
king who is righteous in truth, who reveals these terrible truths
about who God is, is also meek. When He came as a man, He came
as meek and lowly, so that He could come to save the meek and
the lowly. He's so meek, He won't quench
the smoking flax. You know, smoking flax is that
wick, it's just barely burning. That flame is not producing any
heat, it's not producing any light. Really, all it's doing
is just annoying everybody. All it's doing is just producing
smoke. There's just no flame to it. It's not really burning.
And that's just a picture of the faintest hint of life and
faith in somebody like us. Just annoying, really. He's putting
out a bunch of smoke. And you know what you and I would
do? Snuff that out. Get a new one. But not our Savior. Unique and lowly. He won't snuff
out just that smallest bit of faith and love, but He'll fan
it into a flame of faith and love for Him. Look over at Matthew
chapter 12. Matthew 12 chapter. Verse 14. Then the Pharisees
went out and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence and great
multitudes followed him and he healed them all. and charge them
that they should not make him known, that it might be fulfilled
which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Behold, my servant,
whom I have chosen, my beloved, and whom my soul is well pleased,
I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall show judgment to
the Gentiles. He shall not strive nor cry, neither shall any man
hear his voice in the streets. A bruised reed shall he not break,
and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment
unto victors. And in his name shall the Gentiles
trust. This is Christ, the Savior of
sinners. Now, he was severe with the Pharisees,
wasn't he? Severe with the self-righteous.
But he was so meek that sinners felt comfortable flocking to
him. And they all came to him. And he healed everyone of them.
Everybody that needed healing, he healed. And then, you notice
what he told them? Don't make it known. Don't make
it known. He wasn't healing these people,
wasn't going about doing good to make a name for himself. That
was his meekness. He wasn't trying to puff himself
up and get a name for himself. He was going out not to promote
himself, but to help others, to save sinners. That's his meekness. And because of his meekness,
how he prospered in God's will, because of his truth and righteousness,
his meekness, the Father did promote him in due time, didn't
he? He promoted him in due time. That's our Savior. Look back
at our text, verse 5. Here's our mighty conqueror.
Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies,
whereby the people fall under thee. Every son of Adam, one
way or another, without exception, every son of Adam is going to
fall under the Lord Jesus Christ, Christ our conqueror, Christ
our king. His arrows of justice will find the mark of every enemy,
find the heart of every enemy and slay Everyone who doesn't
believe in Him, bow to Him. Or His arrows of grace are going
to find the mark every time and bring His people to fall before
Him in worship. One way or another, we're going
to fall. My heart bubbles over at the thought of that. I think of that, the parable,
the shepherd going out, leaving the 99 in the wilderness, going
out to find that one and wandered off. I can always identify with
that one. that wandered off. Aren't you
thankful His arrows of mercy always find the mark? That you
can't outrun Him? That you can't get too far away
from Him? Christ, the mighty conqueror, always gets His man. Always. He conquers the heart
every time of His people. That's the Savior I need. My
heart bubbles over at that. And thirdly, our heart bubbles
over because Christ the Savior is our King. Verse six, thy throne,
O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of thy kingdom is
a right scepter. Thou lovest righteousness and
hatest wickedness. Therefore, God, thy God, hath
anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows. God is sovereign. Thy throne,
O God, is forever and ever. God is sovereign. He's on the
throne. And how I wish we'd learn that. God's sovereign. God does as
He will. He always does His will and never
fails to do it. But God's not some third world
dictator, you know, who always does what He pleases and other
people suffer because of it. No, God's suffering. He always
does His will. Whatever He wills, that's what
He's going to do. You know what He willed to do? He willed to
save the people. He willed to have mercy on sinners. Now, my heart is bubbles over
at that to know his will shall be done. Every sinner who needs
saving will be saved. Everybody who needs mercy is
going to get it because that's God's will. And this one who's
sitting on the throne is our Lord Jesus Christ. That was that
verse is applied to him. This is the Lord Jesus Christ
sitting upon the throne of God. How did he get there? Father
told him to sit there. Well done, he told him. You sit
here till I make your enemies your footstool. Our Savior is
sitting on the throne of God and His reign is forever. It
will never end. Christ is never going to leave
His throne. So there's nothing that can stop the salvation of
His people. Because Christ the King is always there ruling to
guarantee their salvation. My heart just bubbles over at
that. At the rest that we find because our Savior is the King.
And again, our King, unlike some third world dictator, he can
do what he wants, even if it's wrong. Everything Christ our
King does is right. It's right. Everything he does
is done in righteousness. It's right for him to save a
people. It's right for him to choose
to save a people and to pass others by. Nobody deserves it. It's his right to choose. It's
his right to show mercy to whom he will. And it's right. It's
right because God did it. It's right for Him to save His
people. It's right because He made them
righteous. It's right for Him to take those
people, whatever path He chooses to bring them home, it's right.
It's right for Him to try their faith. It's right so that they
learn to trust Him more, so they learn to love Him more, so they
see more of His power and His glory. And it's right for Him
to damn those that don't believe on Him. It's right. That's the
way it ought to be. Everything he does is right.
Here's something I believe. I think I got something here
that helped. I think it'll make your heart just bubble over. Look
at verse 8. All thy garments smell of myrrh and aloes and
cassia out of the ivory palaces whereby they have made thee glad.
Now, David here is describing the king and he knows what the
king smells like. And you know what, the way my
mind works, what occurred to me, I don't know what any president
of the United States has smelled like. Do you? I don't know what
they smell like. I don't know what kind of cologne
he wears. I've never smelled it. I don't know if he smells
like pipe tobacco. I don't know if maybe he likes
to smoke a big old cigar. At the end of the day, he smells
like a cigar, but I don't know it. Do you? He might have bad
breath. I don't know. You know why I
don't know? I've never been allowed to get
close enough to him to smell him. Ever. I can never get that
close to the President of the United States. But God's elect,
sinners so far beneath him, know what Christ our King smells like.
They know the smell of his breath as he's next to him. He's close
enough to them so they can smell him. He's always near his people
and he smells best spices, the best aromas. He smells of grace. He smells of love and pity for
sinners. He smells of compassion. He smells
of holiness and righteousness. And those are the smells that
make his people glad. And fourthly, our heart bubbles
over because Christ has made his people just like him. Verse
nine, King's daughters were among thy honorable women. upon thy
right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir." And the psalmist
here, all the rest of these verses are probably referring to the
bride, but he speaks of her as the daughter. You know, this
time, sometimes a husband would use the term daughter as a term
for his wife, a term that showed a very tender love that he had
for her. You remember Boaz called Ruth
his daughter to show a tender love for her. God's people are
his wife and they're his children, both. And they're loved with
a tender love from our Savior. God's daughters here are called
honorable. They're honorable because they've
been made honorable in Christ. They've been born with the nature
of their heavenly father. When they're born again, they're
born with the nature of their heavenly father and they're honorable. They're righteous. Both inside
and out. Look at verse 13. The king's
daughter is all glorious within. Her clothing is of wrought gold.
Her clothing is of wrought gold. That's the righteousness worked
out by the Lord Jesus Christ for his people. But that robe,
it's not just a righteous robe that goes on the outside. She's
all glorious within. She's been made holy through
and through. That's why she stands at the
king's right hand. She stands at the place of acceptance
because she's accepted in the blood. She's been made just like
him. And these daughters, every one of them, they leave all others
and they cling to Christ their husband. Verse 10. Hearken, O
daughter, and consider and incline thine ear. Forget also thine
own people and thy father's house. A saving faith involves a commitment. commitment to Christ. There's
a commitment to Christ that forgets your own people and clings to
him, turns your back on all those things that they used to bring
you such pleasure and joy and cling to Christ. And I'm not
talking about leaving your, you know, you come to Christ and
leave your family and hate your family. And that's all I'm talking
about. You can talk about spiritual things. Saving faith. forgets the doing of the flesh,
forgets the following the law and the ceremonies. Saving faith
forgets those things. It trusts Christ, clings to Him.
Saving faith forgets about all the religious traditions and
ceremonies that we used to think made us holy, made us feel so
good. It just worships Christ, clings to Him. Saving faith forgets
about thinking that all God's blessings are found in the comforts
and blessings of this life that He gives to people and trust
Christ. Trust Him regardless of these
circumstances because we know these things are spiritual things.
That's verse 11. So shall the King greatly desire
thy beauty for He is thy Lord and worship thou Him. See, that's
His commitment. If we know Christ, we greatly
desire His beauty, not our beauty. We greatly desire to be in His
presence and to worship him. Look here, verse 12. This is
God's grace. God's grace is seen where he
finds his children. Verse 12. And the daughter of
Tyre shall be there with a gift. Even the rich among the people
shall be treated by favor. God's daughter is from Tyre.
I don't know a lot about Tyre. I tried to look it up and I couldn't
really find out a whole lot about it that seemed helpful. But this
I do know. Tyre must have been a very, very
wicked place. Our Lord said, I say unto you,
it should be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of
judgment than for you. So Tyre must have been a very
wicked place where those religious Jews expected Tyre to be having
horrible, horrible punishment for how wicked the place is. Yet God's daughter that stands
in his presence accepted, that's all glorious within, is from
Tyre. You know why? Because God's gracious. Because God saves sinners. He
chose to save the worst of sinners. And he did it. And he saves them. And he doesn't leave their salvation
up to them. He doesn't leave this up to their
decision. He doesn't leave it up to happenstance,
whether they'll come to him or not. No. God the Father chose
them. The Son died for them. The Son
put their sin away. He made them righteous. I can
tell you what the Holy Spirit's going to do. I guarantee it.
He's going to bring them to Christ. Bring them. Verse 14. And she
shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework. The
virgins, her companions that follow her, shall be brought
unto thee. The daughter is brought. Brought to the king. The Lord
never leaves it up to her decision whether or not she'll decide
to come to him or not. He doesn't wait on her to decide. If he
does that, she'll never come. We'll see. So what does he do?
He brings her. He brings those that he chose
to himself. And the day he comes to bring
her, she comes willingly because he comes in the day of his power.
He comes as that mighty conqueror with his sword gird on his thigh,
comes in power. So she comes willingly. I'm telling
you, my heart just bubbles over with that, the power and graciousness
of our Savior. Verse 15. Gladness and rejoicing
shall they be brought. They shall enter into the king's
palace. They're going to come with gladness
and rejoicing. They shall enter the king's palace. I love to think about that when
I preach. I love to think about that for
myself and I love to think about it as I preach. I want God's sheep. It's going
to be lost. Because I'm not eloquent enough.
Because I'm not powerful enough. Because it's not in the messenger,
is it? No, it's in the power of the Savior. And He will bring
every one of you. That gives me such confidence
to just preach the gospel. To not try to talk somebody into
doing anything. Just preach the gospel. God's
going to bring them. They're going to come into the
palace. And He's going to have a people there forever. Verse
16. Instead of thy father should be thy children, whom thou mayest
make princes in all the earth. Here's one generation of believers.
They've been faithful. They've been brought to the king.
They stood at the right hand of the king. They stood serving
him and worshiping him. They stood preaching his gospel.
They've done that here on earth. And then that generation dies.
What's going to happen to God's kingdom? What's going to happen
to the gospel? What's going to happen to God's people? God's
in control. He's going to raise another generation.
They're going to do the same thing. They're going to take
their place. They're going to rise up. They're
going to stand in the king's court. They're going to preach
the gospel. They're going to worship him. Their hearts are
going to bubble over with him. I was going over these notes
today, and I thought in my lifetime of a generation of believers,
I've seen God call home. When I was a little fella, I'd
have thought, what's the church going to do without all these
giants in the faith? He raised up a new generation.
Giants in the faith. He raised them up. Still here. Still in the king's palace. Serving
him. Worshipping him. One generation
of believers dies and the next one rises up to take their place.
Verse 17. Here's what they preach. Here's
their determination in this earth. I will make thy name to be remembered
in all generations. Therefore, shall the people praise
thee forever and ever. The thought of having the opportunity
to praise the Savior and worship Him just makes my heart bubble
over. He's going to keep providing
it. There's going to be a place on this earth where the Gospels
preach until the Savior returns. He's just going to keep raising
up generation after generation after generation until He returns. Let's bow together in prayer. Our Father, how we thank You
for this glorious description of Christ our Savior. Father,
I pray that You'd apply Your Word to our hearts. That You'd
give us faith to believe Him. That all these glorious attributes
of our Savior Cause our hearts to bubble over with faith and
love and joy in Him. Cause our hearts to bubble over
and rest, to rest in Christ our Savior. Father, help us to praise
Him. Help us to worship Him as He
ought to be worshiped. Cause His name to be lifted up
in this place for years and years and years to come. You promised
us you'd provide a place for your Gospels preached. cause
this to be one of those places. We beg of thee that this would
be a place where we can constantly come and hear of the Savior,
to have our hearts bubble over with him, worship and praise
and honor our great Savior. It's in his precious name we
pray and give thanks.